Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1883, Page 6

SAM-OHU. What is in Store for the Washington ‘Templars. SXPERIENCES OF EASTERN CHINESE GIN. TOURISTS WITH From the Sen Frane:s:o Call. “Did you ever arink any of that Chinese gin?” asked a daged-looking young man who was consuming reat apollinaris water and time Juice over a prom- Anent bar. The reporter was complied to contess that he sampled the sain-chu. sose not. Hi ys people never Bostonian wii FLU monument. “Whieh does 1 resemble. the falls or reporter asked. an ae effect nie ent. fails man Fi his throbb ng tempiesin a manner whieh 3 ed what od tne he must have had Do y Featiemnen sitting at that table there?” he suddenly asked. The reporter saw three looking mid ing close but 1 of brandy asd s« THRE’ SODA DRINKERS. “One of thew is a Boston retired tea mer- chant, one is a wealthy w York fancy farmer, @ supervisor of Jefferson county, and the third is a professor in a western college; they were all classmates at Harvard. Don't they look to be what I have told you?" The serious scription pericetly. pw they don't look [ke men who would on the balcony of the Chinese resiurant howling ce songs and making hideous ire a street Jhinamen, do enduently respectable- “i zeatlewen ata table pay: attention to long gi “ia drinkers answered the de- ly. w-chu did it. Do Took like a chap ie tom on that sane bal- those men and seven or eight more need a crazy war dance, declaring themselves very bad men from the headwaters of Bitter Creek? Do we look like men who Would Join hauds around that restaurant table singinse: Drink sam! drink sam! drink sam my friends with me! I woutda’t cive a sou for any hoo-doo Who wou:d’s drink chu witu me. Bs goat tak Saal” The Joyless younz man concluding this sur- prising question with a deep gro n. and ordered tome more apollinaris. He appeared to be Unhappy. a3 weil as dazed. SAM-CHU. “Sam-chu,” he continued, ‘‘was new to us. We did not even know it by reputation, but as it was Chinese we took it. Shortly atterwards it teok us.” The said-eyed stranger paused, ily, and after a silence, during which and even weird scenes appeared to move in resumed. and to!d the foliowing “re were about a dozen in our party, started out to have @ genuine ¢ hinese x that was one of the correct to during our visit. T may remark of one opinion now that it is about as incorrect a thing as it vssible to do— and hve. Wed ‘hing should be a la € that the Chinese dra served. we orde cities. sts, Or some- thing very like, cuiated to give te impression that it was something The glasses in which chu were green and not than athimble. of they had been cor would indeed have been Of course, every one drank the ) rum and notwo ly we had to drink ment on each opinion. n to pass upon, down after the ¢ prospect of tat e World is a black and hope- al misery. My friend, 1 am about the size of m A e; neither do T jur tealns as it passes down my WHat T AM UNHAPPY about is something different something so unlike any thing else that I am afraid—were you ever Knocked silly! No? If you had been I co: hope te sive you some comparative idea of the Operatioa of thatsam chu upona highly re- spectalle party of eastern tourists. “I dont know how many of the cichteen swe had sampled. or whether it was Le- er the shark’s finthat one of our the wall of our private ne. room. | wily know they were discovered, and I believe nearly every one in Chinatown knew of the discovery within afew minutes. I should like to have you seen us as we marched out on the balcony. the professor playing a wind in- strawent that ave forth a sound of gruesome disnalness and every one else supplied with some strane and awtul instrument. The excitement of that serenade caused us to fly to more sam-cha. but | was gong to tell you about the dinner itself. Oue is enough for a lifet We had fish and fowl cooked in eizlitcen different ways. three or four of the courses being served in birds’ nest soup, and all givin; the Impression of havin been cooked in dishw There were two or three courses fit to eat. but most of them had flavers that were not appetizing. We were all possessed with the same idea at the start. of learning all about each dish as it was served. but the interpreter had little todo after the Introduction of the sam-chu [should like to give you an idea of what the effect of sam-chu is—it miht be use- ful to you—but if you have never been knocked out I can't explain. Good-bye.” — ee An Observation ef Life. From the Troy ‘Telecram. How much more graceful, elegant and sn- perlor does the man on the bicycle look than the man with the wheelbarrow! But wait until they come Into collision and see which pro- cession turns up in the most handsome con- dition. Se ee Tue Ixavpiciovs use of Paris green furnishes @ text of warnin: for the New Enyland farmer. ers should remember, it cautions, that this is a poison that is as dangerous to man and ani- mals as to insects. and that too great caution cannot be observed In its use. And first, it should be known that an almost infinitesimal amount. if eaten by an insect. will cause death in a few hours. When using ‘the poison upon Potato vines. or upon uit trees, the aim should be to make the green go over as mach ground as it will effectually cover. We have known of several potato fields being Badly in- Jared the present season by too free use of the dust upoo the leaves. A leaf killed by the green !s as useless to the plant «sone eaten by the buz. We have generally applied the poison ry, and mixed with very flue plaster of paris at the rate of one part In weight to 100 parts of the plaster. and then, without making a very heavy —— the beetles have been thoroughl; eaned out. It is only necessary to have the poi- s0n remain on the leaves two days to destroy all that partake of it. Later hatchings may re- quire subsequent application. As the insects are found upon the tenderest leaves, those whicn grew last. there is no necessity for dusting over ie whole of a large hill of vines, buta little poison shaken into the central portions of the stems will be quite as effectual. If one hasa large fleld to treat, it would be well to cover the mouth and nose with a thin cloth wet in cold water. while doing the work, and special cau- tion should be taken against getting a particle of the dust into any flesh wounds or sores on the hands, feet or face. The past season we have applied the poison in water, through a email sprinkler, which worked better than any- thing else previously tried. One teaspoonful ofthe pure vreen in two and a-half to three | poy of water, was found sufficiently power- to destroy all the weevils within two or three days after the application, ——__o.—__ The English post office savings bank con- tinues to be a most successful institution. A quarter of a million additional depositors Opened accounts tn the bank during the year 1882. The total number of depositors at the end of the year was thus nearly 3 000,000, the Amount of their deposits being over £39.000,000— and increase of nearly £8 000.000 during the year, the largest annual increase yet received, quantities of | eS lll THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. p | trom de ‘ole lot w PROVIDENTIAL PIGS. “Oh, missus, missus! Somefin’s done hap- | pened.” Biank horror and dismay were depicted upon the tace of my sinall African, as she stood upon mny threshold with upraised hands and eyeballs | that seemed starting from their sockets. Her fa n-ehu, | pause was one of preparation, for with the in- nate consideration of her race she sought to break the news gently to me, but the burden of it was too great for her, and with the next breath she exciaimed: “Dem pigs done chawed up Miss Lyddy’s wed- din’ gown!” “Glory.” Lexclaimed (sie had been plously christened Gloriana), “Glory, how did it hap- Yanno!” said Glory. has got Sutan infem. “Pears to me dem Guess dey’s 'scended Tun down a steep place intu the sea. Til go an’ fetch ye a piece.” sped out and instantiy returned with a tattered sired of India mull that had once been. white, and still bore sowe resemblance to a gown. Poor Miss Lyddy! This was all that rema ned of her dream wedding splendors. li was too pitiful! I felt at once that the bonds of good neighborhood had been irretrievably broken, and that Major Hawthorne must be warle aware of this last and worst depredatiun of his unseemly pics. “But who would break the news to Miss Lydely?” ory,” said I, “where is she?” “Gone over to de buryin’ place ob her an- cestors,” answered Glory. Poor, faithful soul; even in those last days of her maidenhood, with the vague terrors of mat- rimony and the still more appalling responsibitl- ties of unsaved heathen souls hanging over her, she did not forget the ancestors. Long lines of Ludkinses lay buried in little sunken hillecks in the family burying-place, which lay just in sizht of her sitting-room window. She her- self was the last of her race, and until within three weeks it had seemed that the only tate which awaited her was to live out her little space under the ancestral roof-tree, and then | take her in the silent ranks of those who had gone before. But a chanze had come. It came Ja the person of a returned misstonary from the Micronesian Isiands, who had buried the first and second partners of his Joys and sorrows somewhere uader the palm trees of those tropl- cal lands and had come back to the scenes of his youth to recruit his health, serve his cause and lvok up partner No. 3. He met Miss Lyddy at a wowan’s inisslonary meeting. He ealied the next afternoon and was invited to Stay to tea. He aceepted the invitation, and next morning Miss Lyddy came into my room— for I, too. domiciled under the Ludkins roof- tree, for a consideration—and with much hesi- tation and many faint and delicate blushes, informed me that she had promised to share the mture lot of the Rev. Nehemlah Applebloom, totake care of his six children, and to support hin in his arduous labors among the heathen of the Micronesian Isiands. I was struck duinb with amazement. ‘Miss Ly T said at length, “have you duly con- sidered this project ?” Her thin figure quivered, and her white face, that had yet a delicate remembrance of youth In it, grew tender In it, crew tender with feeling. Yes.” she sald; “I think I have. I have always had a presentment that I should marry a minister or a missionary.” Admirable and prophetic faith! -‘And Mr. Applebloom aays he knew the moment he set eyes upon me that I was ordained to be his wife: so you see It is not the surprise to either of us that it is likely to be to our friends.” I knew that her mind was fully made up. I demurred no longer. but lent myself at once to discussion of the wedding. which I plainly saw was what Miss Lyddy desired of me. You will be married in church, I suppose?” “Oh, no,” said Miss Lyddy, with gentle dect- sion. “I am the last of the Ludkinses. All the Ludkinses have n married at home. I will go out trom under my own roof-tree. If 1 must seem to forsake the ancestors”—she paused to rezulate a little choking in her throat—*I will at least not forsake their traditions. I shall leave a little money with the parish clerk, that he may see that the graves of my dead are kept in proper order, as T always have loved to keep them, and I hope they will forgive my depar- ture; but I will at. least go as a Ludkins should. Itismy desire to be married in my grand- mother’s wedding gown.” Miss Lyddy’s voice trembled, and there was a humidity in her ey at which I did not won- der, tor it was much like a funeral, after all. “I thought. perhaps,” went on Miss Lyddy, “df I brought the erated relic to you, you would tell me if anything were necessary to be done to fit itto me. Idon’t care for the fash- you know. and my wrandmother, as I re- er her, was about my height, but still, you know—something—some chaages might be advisable.” ‘ertuinly.” I sald, “do bring it tome. I should so like to =ee it.” “It 13 sprigzed_lilia (she called it Ingy) mull. My grandfather, Capt. Simon Ludkins, brought it home from over the seas. I'll bring it.” Like some pale and gentle ghost she rose then and went to the burean drawer and un- rolled trem rolls of linen that smelt of lavender, ii il relic of Mrs.Capt. Simon Ludkins’ wed- e. It was fine, embroidered mull,the un- doubted product of Indian looms. “It is lovely.” I said, “and eo well kept that it will be just the thing for you. Will you try it on? We can tell then just what it needs.” Miss Lyddy proceeded to disrobe herself and put on the spider-net gown. As she did so the changes in fashion’s mandates became only too evident. It had no walst to speak of, and just a little lace-trimmed puff for sleeves. iss Lydauy was evidently surprised. She had not thought of this. I knew well what the troubled look upon her face meant, and I pitied her malden sensibilities. Could it be possible that her grandmother, Mrs. Capt. Simon Ludkina, had ever worn such a gown as this? She sald not a word that could indicate the depth of her mortification—but her tace was a study for an artist. “There niust be sleeves,” she murmured, after a few moments of silent and embarrassed con- templation. “Yes,” I replied, cheerfully as my con- strained gravity would allow. ‘And you might have a fichu and a flounce on the bot- tom.” She looked down. She had not before realized that the skirt of the venerated relic lacked a full quarter of a yard of touching the floor. ~ However could they!” she ejaculated in an undertone. But she quickly recovered herself, aud looked up to me cheerfully over her specta- el “How ingenious you are!” she said, with an alr of sweet reilef. “I knew you would help me out.” We went out together and bought the requl- site mull that day, but when we came to put it beside the ‘venerated relic” of Mra. Captain Ludkins it was evident that time had so enriched the color of the latter that the two were most unfortunately unlike. “Wecan lay It out on the grass,” I sald; “these June days — the thing forit, gnd as it will be evening, nobody will in the least no- tice.” ‘Again Miss Lyddy smiled gratefully, and de- clared that my saygestion should be carried out. in the most faithful manner. The Rev. Nehewiah Arplebloom—“A lovely name, don't 7 think so?” said Miss Lyddy, and she blushed and smiled like a school-girl Ta her teens—had but a short furlough, and the marriage was to transpire the next week, 80 the relle was put out to bleach forthwith.’ It had already been put upon the grass three days and nights, and had been religiously watered by Miss Lyddy at morn and noon and dewey eve, and the next day it was to be taken up early and put into the dresemaker’s hands tor the necessary alterations, when the dreadful event occurred with which this narrative opens. “Glory*” I sald, “do you keep watch for Miss Lyddy when she returns. Say nothing about at has happened unless she misses the gown from the grass. In that case tell her that I thought it was bleached enough and took it up ta dry, and you don’t know where I have put it. Tam going out now, but if she asks where, tell her you don't know.” Glory was taithfal, and had besides the natu- ral craft of her race, and I knew that she could be trusted. As for me, I swiftly donned m: bonnet and set ont to find Major Hawthorne. It wasa bright June evening, and my walk through the meadow and the grove that skirted Haw- thornedean would have been a more delightful one it I had borne amind more at ease. The major was a gentleman by birth, but he lived out his fifty bachelor years in a gay and careless way that had seemed ‘to set the gentler ot creation at. defiance. In the lifetime of his parents Bawthornedean had been a beautitul estate Tt still retained many marks of wealthy and cultivated owner- ship, but it was sadly ran down, ag the home of 8 bachelor is apt to be. The grove, which had once been the pride of the place, was grown up with brush now, and the gere leaves of many summer's growth rustled under my fect as I walked throughit. At one point, com- ing suddenly around a thick clump of under- growth, I heard a chorus of tiny snorts and the scampering of numberless hoofs, and I knew that | had invaded a haunt of the ‘3 Inst agricultural freak, the very brood of Berkshire pics that were the source of all my borrowed Woes. Away they scampered, their anouts*well raised in the air, and each, with a curl in his tail that seemed too ornamental to be wholly the product of nature and to justify the village ru- mor that the major’s own man put those tails in curl-papers every night. They had the air of spoiled children, every one, and were, evidently, the major’s pets. But that didn’t matter; they had rained Miss Lyddy’s wedding gown, to say nothing of other aggravating exploits which do not belong to this story, and I was determined to have satisfaction out of their owner. I found the major sitting on his piazza with an after-dinner look upon his handsome, good- humored tace. He rose’ to t me with an air of old-school politeness, dashed with a faint wonder that I, a woman, should have had the hardihood to approach a place so little frequented by women. “Good evening, Misa Grace. I am happy to see you. In what can I have the honor to serve you?” “ He had read my face and knew that I had come on a mission. “Major Hawthorne,” I said, paying no atten- tion to his offer of a chair, “I have come ona very painful errand.” “Sit down, madam,” said the major, politely. “I cannot possibly permit a lady to'stand on my piazza. I ought, perhaps, to ask you to walk in, but it is rather stuffy inside, this even- ing.” “No,” I said, “I will sit here, if you please.” To tell you the truth, indoors, as seen through the windows, had not the most inviting look, and I was glad to compromise. “You have no doubt heard”—planging in me- dias res, “that Miss Lydia Ludkins is about to be married.” “Married Miss Lydia! No! Hadn't heard 8 word of it,” said the major, In genuine amaze- ment. ‘Who is the fortunate man, pray?” “The Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom, a mis- sionary to the Micronesian islands, ‘who has come home to recruit his health and find a wife.” . “I know hi said the major. “Saw him down at the station—a long, lean, lank indi- vidual—just fit for his vocation; no temptation whatever to cannibals! But what the deuce is he going to do with Miss Lydia? What will Balaam's Corners do without her?” “Balaam’s Corners must do the best it can,” T saide-I fear a little sharply—for my mind was still in a most aggressive state toward the major. “They are to be married next week, and—” “What will become of the ‘ancestors?’” inter- polated the mafor, in whom surprise seemed to have gotten the better of habitual politeness, “Oh, she las made arrangements with Mr. Crow about that.” “Just like her. Dear, faithful girl.” The major had all his life loved all the sex— not one—and I was not to be beguiled by this show of feeling. “She had set her heart upon being married in her grandmother's wedding gown.” “Old Mrs. Captain Simon? I remeber her well. A mighty fine woman. She never we .ld have gone to the ends of the earth with a ris- sionary. It’s the craziest acheme I ever hear” of” T began to fear I should never get to my er- rand. “It was put out on the grass to bleach, bely -a little yellow with age. It was a lovely em! 61- dered India muslin that the old captain brought home from India himself.” “‘How well I remember him in my boyhood! A Jolly old soul! A granddaughter of his go off to the Cannibal islands to be eaten up by savages! 1 won't have it!” “Her heart is set upon going,” I continued. “The wedding gown was put out to bleach, and this very afternoon those little Berkshire pigs of tae —they are a nuisance to the whole nelgh- rhood,major—trampled and rooted it to pleces, 80 that it is utterly ruined. “Little black rascals!” said the major, with a chuckle behind his neckcloth. “and I have come, without her knowledge, to tell you of It, because I was sure that. underthe circumstances, a gentleman of your breeding would feel in honor bound to make some repar- ation to Miss Lydia.” ed and looked at his boot fora “Miss Grace,” he sald at length, “I thank on for the service you have rendered me in his matter. Will you have the goodness to say to Miss Ludkins, with my compliments, that I shall do myself the honor to wait upon her to- morrow at 10 o'clock, to adjust this untortunate matter? I beg in the meantime that she will give herself as little solicitude,for, though I can- not restore the ancient and venerated dry goods, I will do the best that is possible under the clr- cumstances to make the loss good.” He bowed over my hand and the audience was evidently concluded. Was I satisfied? No, indeed! What woman would not have felt wronged to be left at the end of a mission of disinterested benevolence in such a state of doubt and unc-rtathty as this? But I was obliged tu go home. Nevertheless, and walt as patiently asl could tor the stroke of 10 next morning. Glory had been in hearing when the message had been delivered to Miss Lyddy, and she, too, was on the watch. At last she scudded in from the hedge, her tyories all aglisten, and her eyes wide open and full of a rather incomprehensible mirth. “He's a-comin’,” she gaid, ‘“‘and such a sighti” At that minute the gate clicked, and up the walk strode, indeed, a most astonishing ficure. The major had gotten himself up into a conti- nhental suit, which he must have fished out of the unknown depths of the ancient attics of Hawthorndean; black velvet coat, with lace ruf- fles at the wrist, knee-breeches, white satin waistcoat, slippers with shoe buckles, powdered wig and cocked hat. He was six feet tall, portly and well formed, and he looked every inch a signer of the declaratien at the very least. He was followed by his colored man, who carried a large brown paper parcel, “He's come a-courtin’ missus,” said Glory; “ye can see it in his tace.” I had not the instinct of Glory, and doubted; but what his errand was I was dying to know. But he disappeared into Miss Lydia's parlor and I was left outside to temper my impatience & best I could. Presently Glory entered on tip- 08. “‘Missus, missus,” she whispered, ‘‘de do's swung open Jes’ de leas’ crack, an’ it’s jes’ oppo- site de big murror; an’ if ye come out here in de hall ye can see tt allinde murror as plain as ce ‘an’ it’s a heap better’n a p ay.” it was a temptation, but belleve me, dear reader, I resisted It. Only as Glory ran back to her peeping I followed to pull ler away and send her out of doors—that was simply my duty—and there he was full on his knees before her, and she with that rapt, seraphic look upon her face which no woman ever wears except on the most vitally interesting occasions. But, Glory disposed of, I went back to my sewing and waited.as best I could the conclusion of the momentous interview. The major came out at length, as smiling asa May morning, leaving the brown paper parcel behind him. It was very still in Miss Lydia’s room tora quarter otan hour, and then she, too, emerged from her retreat. Spread over her hands was a gown of cream-colored brocade embellished with the loveliest roges in full bloom, with blue forget-me-not trailing here and there among them. It had an ample waist, elbow sleeves, and a train a yard and a half long. “My dear Grace,” said she, “the major has brought me his mother’s wedding-gown to be married in.” = em—Fuan fer the Small and Uatritiéal Communities. From the Philadelphia Timds. e Twenty or twetity-five years ago the actors Now classified as variety performers were com- paratively scarce, und'the gymnasts, tumblers, wire-walkers and dontorfionists had to content themselves with aces under canvas, for in no regular theater wotlld thelr performances be allowed. Now, according to the best informa- tion attainable froth old and experienced drama- tic agencies, there are oyér five thousand variety actors In the United Stafbs, and they have thea- ters to play in where'the legitimate drama is utterly ignored, and where naught but feats of strength and agility can be seen and naught but gay and popular songs and misic heard. The office of the Amusement Exchange and Dramatic, Variety and Minstrel Agency, of this city, where large numbers of amusement makers live, is one of the busiest places in the city in this abnormally dull season that can be con- ceived. The corps of clerks are at work day and night, and at all hours the managers are in cyn- ference with managers and performers. both male and female, as to the making up of the ps ills everywhere for the coming season. E. Harland, of the managers, is an old min- strel himself, and J. Z. Magee's boast is that he knows more variety people than any man in Amerioa, He classifies them as Irish, Dutch, Ne and Chinese song and dance men. and women, as musical mokes, sketch artiste, gymnasts, athletes, equilibrists, pole-balancers, mesmerists. trick artista, serio-comics, balladists, song and dance ladies. first-part ladies (who have nothing to do but to look pretty and draw their salaries), ballet dancers, jig dancers, trapeze performers, skatorial artists (who per- torm on parlor skates), tight-rope walke: character change artists (who assume different guises with lightning-Iike rapidity), topical vocalists (who compose their own songs and hit the follies of the day), Indian-club swingers, rifle shots, and 80 on without limit. If there is any- thing that has not been utilized as a variety act it may be safely asserted that it will soon be seized and brought before the public by some enterprising performer. Sald Mr. Magee: “We deal only with the higher grade of variety artists—men and women who can ordinarily be depended upon—and we charge acommisaion of five per cent for our ser- vices on all salaries below #100 a week and gent Tates where larger salaries are ob- ned.” RANGE OF SALARIES. “How do variety salaries range ?” ‘That's according to grade and reputation, Neat Irirh come‘ians, li'.e the Murphys (Paddy and El'a) and Frank and Clara Mara and Dan McCarty and Kitty Coleman, John and Maggie Fielding, John E. Kline and Sadie McGill, can commaud from $125 to $150 per week per -ouple. Out of this they have to pay their hotel aud rallior ~ expenses, and our aim Is to reduce these as .anch as ,ossible. We must have an eye on *nem nll the time, and we have a wide- by Pgs system that reaches all places where they play. “‘Banjoiste, such as the Dobeons, Bogan, Andy Collins, Gus French and E. M. Hall, of New York, Joe Rickett and Frank Gosha, of Philadelphia, and Jim Bohee, the only real colored bantoist, of New York, receive from sixty to ,seventy-five dollars a week and are immengely popular, especially in the sonth and west. Ordinary banjoiste are thrown in at about thirty or thirty-five dollars a week. The banjoist has the hardest work of the show, for he must make new local pe: every day or revamp old ones, and his pro- ession calls for brain, wit and originality. Those who possess a good share of these and a little power of facial contortion can never fall of success. Among the good, rough Irish teams, as we call them—the people that come out in broad burlesque of Irish peculiarities—are’ Fer- guson and Mack, Kelly.and O’Brien, Needham and Kelly and the Four Shamrocks (Mat Daly, John Daly, Mike Thompson and Jack Conroy), who do a funny sketch called the ‘Working- men’s Strike;’ Murphy, Miles, Kelly, Ryan, Don- nelly and Drew aud Harrison and Mullen are the most popular, and therefore get the best pay. They make from one hundred and fifty to two hundred a pair a week and are worth the money. POPULAR DIALECTITIANS. “A good ‘nigger’ like McAndrews is worth from $80 to $100 a week.” continued Mr. Magee, “but a good ‘nigger’ accent is somewhat rare. They can all dress the part, but a majority over- do the lingo. Bonnie Runnells is good. The Dutch comedians get good salaries. Joe Em- mett, before he became a star, got #150 a week; Oofty Gooft (Gus Phillips) earns a salary of $150 when he plays, and Charley Gardner, Henry Wateon, Charles T. Ellis and Charley Loder also get good incomes and have plenty of work. The best of the musical blokes, who carry a line of comedy Into their singing, are Wood, Beasly, the Weston brothers, Shields and Hansom, San- ford and Wilson, Bryant and Saville, Bryant, Hoey and Evans, and they make from €40 to 875 @ week each. Prof. John Theur, who is the “It Is beautiful,” I said; “but who is to be the bridegroom?” She smiled as angels do, and looked afar; a delicate flutter of pink hung out in her cheek to deprecate her recreancy, as she whispered in a tone of gentle but consummate triumph: “The major himself! Didn't he look grand in his knee breeches?” “And Mr. Applebloom?” “Major Hawthorne will adjust that matter.” “That matter, indeed?” She spoke as though it were already as remote from her as the pyramids. &) (oa etter you, Miss Lydia,” I said, conn formal, for she had behaved shame- lly. “Don't blame me,” she murmured. “Major Hawthorn declares he has loved me since I was a child, but never thought himself worthy of me, the gay deceiver; and Mr. Apple! you know, is only the acquaintance of a day,” I wanted to ask* her how she had disposed her presentment, but I did not dare. Major Hawthorne subscribed $50 tothe Mi- cronesian mission, and sent Mr. Appleboom elsewhere to look for a wife, and the verdict of Balaam's Corners was that he had done the handsome thing. “Fore goodnesal” sald Glory, “ef dare weren't a clar relation between dem pigs an’ den I don't know nothin’.” Miss Lydia took the same pious view ot the matter, and made the major the most dainty and dignified of wives. Providence, Two of our belles, while walking out the other day, came to a ditch near the railroad pane at Montclair, which they did not know w to get over. Seeing a young man coming along the road, they appealed to him for help, wherenpon he pointed behind them with a startled air and yeiled out “Snakes!” The way those girls crossed that ditch was a sight to be- hold, and the young man lives. ee ‘The idea that bghtning is not so destructive ‘as it used to bein the United States, because the network ot railroada and telegraph wires lessens the number of accidents, is met by the record of the summer. Fatal thunderbolts have never been more common. only tight-rope walker who can stand on his head on the wire and juggle and cat and drink, commands $100 week and isa good country card. Good balladisis get from $25 to 875 a week, according to beauty, ability (and ward- robe. sometimes, for that enters into the val- uation,) and ballet dancers range all the way trom $20 to $300 a week. The higher class premieres are rarely employed in variety shows, but sometimes it pays to get a stunner, and then $250 or #800 a week is not grudged to such a pirouette as Mile. de Rosa. Trapeze and athletic performers earn from @50 to €' up to $125 or $150 each couple per week, ani always in demand. They are not always in prime condition, however, and that bars their making fall seasons. The pyramid men, Hulmes, Orville and Malton, make big money, and al- ways Keep) their_engagements, and Barney Judge and Rob Hansom do beautiful und and lofty tunbling—almost a lost art in this country. First-part ladies in variety shows get $10 or $15 a week, and skatorial experts, such as Oscar Steele, Ackley and Hess, Landen Brothers and Powers Brothers, draw salaries that range from $60 to $125 each pair. The bicycle is turning up as a great show-plece, but no very extraordinary pertormer Is yet in the market. When he comes he can demand his own terms. The pugilistic element is flocking largely to the variety stage lately, and Jem Mace as yet has the lead. He is going todo a club act and a eparring act, and no doubt the local celebrities everywhere will be brought out to show their science. All these things betoken @ lively season. A New Thing f From the Hartford Courant. It used to be the correct thing to guess on the weight ofa hog at the agricultural show, and on the cake at the church fair, and later, folks have named their “futures” or the numbe of beans or pills ina glass Jar, generally at a quarter a guess, withabout a millionth chance of winning a sewing-machine or a cook-atove. Now the smart yeung man takes out a $20 gold piece, and asks his friends how many dollar bills will balance it in the open and offers to treat any one who will guess Within one hundred of the number. The thing was tried in one of the large insurance cMces oh Main street yesterday afternoon, and the range uf human Jaaement was never better astrated. One clerk thought it would take 800° bills to counterbalance the fon coin, ect hee 1,000, nie re on perp ly present placed, is judgment in jeo) ardy. The lowest'guess’ was 350 bills. When the guesses were all led the double le was placed on the scaled and new dollar bi were counted into the other side until the beam went down with 34 in the tray, @ Guess, —————____ A Priceless Dinmond. Mr. Porter Rhodes, the furtunate owner of the priceless diamond that bears his name, is at present in Paris awalting the result of a com- petition between‘two millionaires desirous of Possessing the Jewel. The stone was’found in his mine at Kimberley, South Africa, in the be- ginning of 1880, and made a great sensation among the diggers when the discovery was made known about four months later. Mr. Porter Rhodes was obliged to satisfy their cu- Thosity by exhibiting the diamond. Accord- ingly he placed it in 8 friend’s office, charged a sovereiga for admission, and in this way re- ceived £100 within the firat two hours. Alto- gether he made by the exhibition £500, which 1e «ave to the local hospital. On his arrival in England he was honored with an invitation to Osborne, in order that Her Majesty might in- spect the stone. He was afterward taken to Osborne cottage and had an interview with the Empress Ei :, Porter Rhodes con- siders that ses the Suggested Changes in the Present Sys- |- tem—Becogali ition of the Territories. ‘From the New Tacoma (Washington Territory) News. Whether in view of the continental propor- tions of the United States andits vast extent of territory its grand departmental divisions should not be rectified in accordance with phy- sical facts is a question worthy of discussion. In the revolutionary era there were the New Eng- land, the middle, and the southern states, and the present recetved grouping, which, however, 1s not followed by the press or people to any great extent, divides the states into six grand divisions, New England forming the north At- lantic states; New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; the middle Atlantic states; North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the south Atlantic states; Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, the Gulf states; Ten- nessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Kanaas, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Low Nebraska, Col- orado, Michigan, Wisconsin; and Minnesota, the central states, and California, Nevada, and Oregon, the Pacific states. The weakness of this division ts its ignoring the territories of the United States. which con- tain at least three quarters ofa million ofsouls and comprise one of the most important and in- teresting portions of the American continent, covering an area of 934,310 square miles, or more than one quarter of our entire limits, ex- cluding Alaska, which, if added, would bring the total to near 150,000,000 square miles of territorial possessions outside of state lines. Any geographical division of the United States which excludes so large a portion of its terri- tory must be Inadequate to express a fair idea of A extent or to properly group its political units. The terms north,south,southwest, and north- west are still applied to various localities simply from habit, without regard to the relative po- sitions of the various states upon the continen- tal map. When the northwest territory was ac- quired by Jefferson the Ohio river country was appropriately culled the northwest; but this term was extended successively to the states admitted from that purchase, and still lingers about a group of lake states—Illinois, Wiscon- sin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota—beyond which the title of northwest does not_prevail until Washington and Alaska are reached, where the real northwestern portion of the United States is to be found. Before and during the late war the country was divided into two grand sections, the north and the south, but the ces- sation of civil strife robbed this designation of its significance, and the terms north and south are gradually belng eliminated as conveying an idea of distinctive policies and institutions. The country has outgrown ita old sectional landmarks, and the terminology conveyed in the above classification has become practically extinct. It will be found extremely difficult to divide the 48 states and territories into groups #0 that they can be appropriately defined and located by the points of the compass. Neither can such division be a representative one in re- gard to productions, physical conformation, or climates. But is such a representative group- ing of states at all eae It may be a difficult matter to fix and assign these geo- graphical departments satisfactorily to the ma- Jority, but it is time that an effort was made to rectify the limited and meaningless designa- tions which are now thoughtlessiy employed. In order to call attention to this subject, the News, without much deliberation, suggests the following arrangement: Allantic States—The New England states, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina. Georgia and Florida. Gulf States.—Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. Mississippi Valley States.—Minnesota, low: Wisconsin, Illinois, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana. and Michigan. Central States.—Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Pacific States.—Callfornia, Oregon, Wash- ington, and Alaska. Mississippi, whose principal commercial inter- ests are connected with the Mississipp! valley rather than the Gulf. should be placed with the foriner group, though it borders on the Gulf of Mexico. It may be objected that some ot the states and territories classed as Mississippi val- ley states are not strictly In this category; but it Is thought all of them will come more appro- priately under this designation than any other, as their waters are a part of the dominating Mississippi system. The central states, as they are called in this classification, extend from our extreme northerly tothe -ex- treme southerly boundaries, and hold a cen- tral position as between Alaska and Maine on the north. The bounds of the Pacific states are as clearly detined as those of the Atlantic or the Gulf states. When additional territory shall be acquired, If any, on this coast, it will corres- poudingly ent of the Pacitic states. 8. Negotiations have been going on between the French Electrical Power Storage company aud the General Omnibus company, of Paris, in reference to the substitution of electricity for horse traction, and a practical experiment was made recently to test the efficacy of the system. One of the ordinary train cars of the company, fitted up with the’apparatus, was timed to start from the Place de la Concorde about five o'clock. The motive power'selectricity.stored in Faure’s accumulators. These are placed under the seats, which have to be raised for the purpose, and feels Weigh us much as two tons and ahalf. The car is lighted within and without, by electric light. In order to mark the Imn- portance of the event M. Cochery, the minister of posts and telegraphs; M. Ferdinand de Les- seps, M. Rouvier and a number of engineers at- tended and took their seats in the vehicle. The first ran wasa few hundred yards up the avenue des Champs Elysees, when the car was turned round (it can be guided everywhere with extra- ordinary ease) and taken back again into the Place de la Concorde. At one time a stoppage had to be made to allowa@ number of the occu- pants to dismount, since the weight of the ac- cumulators and of the passengers combined was found to be too much for the springs. This, of course, will be provided for when special ve- hicles are built. The car was then run on to the train lines that pass through the Place de la Concorde, and went at a quick pace along the Quai de ta Conference in the direction of the Trocadero. Even along this slight incline the speed could not have been less than eleven miles an hour. At the Place de l’Alma another turn was made, and the car taken quickly back to the Pont Royal. In every way the experi- ment wus a success. It is at present proposed to run the electric tram cars to Versailles, and a contract to this effect is on the point of being signed. Indeed, if there had been any objection it must have been removed by the experiment. The arguments in favor of these electric cars are many and convincing—the one fact that the cost is less than half that of the old system should alone suffice. Uncle Remus on Courtship. From the Atlanta Constitution. “I know’d a nigger one time.” sald Uncle Remus, after pondering a moment, “w’'at tuck @ notion dat’ he want a balt er ’simmons, en de mo’ wat de notion tuck "im de mo’ w’at he want um, en bimeby hit look lak he des natally er- bleedz ter have um. He want de ‘simmons en dar dey isin de tree. He mouf water. en dar hang de ‘simmons. Now, den w'at do dat nigger do? W'en you en me en dish yer chile yer wants ‘simmons we goes out en shakes de tree, en ef deyer good en ripe, down dey comes, en if deyer good and green, dar dey stays. But dis yer yather nigger, he too emart fer dat. He des tuck’n tuck he stan’ und’ de tree, en he open he mouf, he did, en wait fer de ‘simmons ter drap in dar. Dey ain’t none drap in yit,” con- tinued Uncle Remus, gently knocking the cold ashes out of his pipe; “‘en w’at’s mo’, dey ain't none gine ter indar. Dat des zackly de way wid Brer Jack yer, *bout marryin’; he stan’ dar, he do, en he hol’ bofe han's wide open en he speck de gal gwine ter drap right spang in um. Man want gal, he des got ter grab ‘er— dat’s wa't. Dey may mare en dey may flutter, but flutter’n en squallin’ aint done no damage yit ez I knows un, en ‘taint ter. Young chaps kin make great ‘miration "bout gals, but. wren dey gits ole ez I Is dey ‘ull know folks is folks, en w'en it come ter bein’ folks, de wim- men aint got none de vantage erde men, Now dat’s desde plain up en down tale I'm atellin’ un you.” M ATCHES Dowx 1 BEsT LFesaiceies 4 120. OG. WITMER, Grocer, 1018 Pennayivenies $$ even prormcr YOUB FURS AND WINTER CLUiB: ING AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF MOTH. REFINED GUM CAMPHOR, - %0, PER POUND. 1. C. BISHOP, Drugwist, e522 T000th street. corner H strest northwest. FAMILY SUPPLIES. ‘THE PALA KT = POTOMAC RIVER BOA’ OW FAKE! TOPULAN STEAMER L ° daity Sto taken ve sesh sd eee = a s MFRS GONG? LYARY AN} 5 oc. | 10 "AUBFOLR, CFORTAI NS igs Ase Oe. POINT AND CORNFIFLD 5 ot 7 Talat =< > eo Bi DK J. Tik a = sa ARK J. TRS TS myl0 comer 14th and New York aveuse. ‘Steamer leaves 7th street wharf daily, EXC. ET SUNDAYS, NOTICE TO HOUSEKERPERS: 85:30 p.m, SATURDAYS AT 6 P. M. at oT BSSSy, pufeterday ¥ Acursions a special feature. Retura mz Fass, Noun tr Lockets rood om either Leary or Excelsior, g e Recs > 1g iusive connection with the Boston and Providenge - ftecmers. Fare from Warhineton to New York, 92. EO FESR RSSG | S_Boston, 415.75. “imctuding stateroom, berth and ARENG Treight received dai une 8 Pm ax HF RN GSS > WM. P. WELCH, Agent. ” rk Rove Loo* 41 bow Panes. xc Do POLK, 50 Ctx. KIVFR LANDINGR, 25 Cts. = ox oleae LXCU_S'ON RIPS to Biackistine Inland, 25 Ota. sa SUNDAY PERK Ale dra, 6 Om. a oO L 78 Ss 2 Sveamers LAK” SULEY $ Sot bi Rae SEE Fe Foie Lookout, Fortress Monroe and Norfolk Saad $ Se q MONDAX, WED ©) ADAY and Ft 10AY, at 3:90 phy ace “oo! Bow Exe et hd SATURDAY, at 6-30 p. Hon E Returning, pre N rok N11 UAV ab ep. m. ROH TW TL POTOMAC RIV! R DING~.—~ 11 - “en Hut Tiss - SION Tit P.—Steamer MORELFY, Lan? AD o} to % esale I. corner ist street aod In liana avenue, ae goes “ee te. W AL) XANDRIA FERRY. ¥ RUNDAT 3 M. M. GALT & Co. Stesmer THOMPSON, leaving ber nM 3 aan ee VEN R. KELLY, Draven 4 * Haile VEAL MESTOR, co: Conneporer Eee eo On the Haif Hour, o mimencng at 9:308."m., aud andria, cn the Hour. Fare, 6 Genie, thames akiowsMTit Leaves 7th street wharf atTs. m. for Laverty Marker or Address ‘qilanlioling delivered{res+: change to sipertact tu POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, itr tt aw s = = Tere." cleo, at Alexenart with 7 0 aCe Bercy pera. a jexandria ma. RAILROADS. trop Wantineton. - Un M for Nomint and invere ———— = nidict landit returning \ tuesdays. © i) NHEGHEAT for Corricman, homini. St. Clement's Bes. whe PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE, stays for Garrone, Lee sy ; TO THE Noa Win OT EN EAY. ‘Woalge resuming Sands 7 LOUBLE TRACK. SPLED ERY. Strke natiss MAGNIFLC QUIPMENT. ECT JULY ra, 1 vA, J.B. PADGETT. Act, Teams Leave Washiveron. PeOwCLATION, CORNER yer That. whard, Woe to. ForPitucbure aud the Nest chicago Lesitel oa - : : or Pittcburg at vat, « hic SON ERNONI gt alas, Biceniog, Cart at 9:80 re | MT VERNON! MT. VERNON! we, 9: . sl Hareiabarg f3 fine ana Westor prove 7:39 p. _ tu. dail. with 1a.ace Oars to Pitisbur. aud «in. dentin net. Also, connects, >aturday for Chica- STFAMTR W. Ww. - AN Fo, via Coinulnee thie St dn CPA, with | Zeeven TET Nae, Sally Concert Bandar) for BR, teeming Car Vittsbure to Chicavo. Mail F Pprean, on at it Ove ‘© B.; returning reaches Warhing- $40 p.m. dai y. for |attsbury and the West. with | t® sbout 3:80 p.m. 1 . Enlace "conti Car Woah: © = re. © AND P.TOMAC RATLROAD, daigua, Rochester, Buffalo, N Potomac TRANSPORTATION Line. ‘excep! Saturday, with Palace Ca — a daigua, aud Harrisburg ‘Ihe stermer “Ur. Capt _W.C. Geoghecan, ror Paria a nea ee ogo | MIgiurmean's what tout O€ rth atree every SUNDAT. ‘or ne ‘port, Lock and Ee stdok p. more a! wer Laut a.m. dally exeert Sunday zane Eeturuine. wea Baltimore every FRIDAY at b e “mm. F ‘. | accommodations strictly first- 9:60 an , HgEntied Fares ofteiirer Touat be prepatd,end will be reoetved oa ariot Car ‘mn. dally, except Sunday. cay. Bost nit change, 1:36 p. m.eve:y week day. SiEPHENBON & BRO., re Sindy gt a a = sand vy | M16-Fm_Fthstrect wharf and 22th et. Seve. for Brookiyn, N.Y", ail throueh trans connect at | as 4 Jersey City with boats of Bro dyn Ann ‘afford, Kr STEAMER MATTANO LEAV}® WASHING. ine ect tranefer to Fut rcreck avoids double | A ten ‘cm Muntaye: eataye, and Tusaredays, at 7 {ohn dea witari Sunda: and Tueeinys dowp, Wosnest 9.50 . Prent’s wart a4, Cheval Powat Ti csdare ‘and Mondays and. Wed Th, bation (destination) Sundays, I uesdays and uredays. iterhuation wivey at fers af end 1llé Pepusylvania avenue ‘th atreet wharf. m and 10:20). mm < = = ser cre _ 40 — and 4:40 p.m. daily, STEAMERS. Seenege eee 6 pm. Oey, ene (ALAS Line SUaMKE BEMVIOE ALEXANDUIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- WAL ASD AMD ZaRDILA AND Wate TON - RAILRO»D. Fer Alexa: 6: ae a Qnebee to Liverpool every Saturday, making the sh rtest ocean v yare. Only five days from land to land. Accommodations unsurjeesed, Cabin—§70 amd 360 single; $136 and $260 Excurion. Baltimore to Liverpool every ulternate Tuesday, via Hajuax and St. Johna, N. F, Intermediate Pasnage, $40. Prepaid Steerage, $21, LEVE & ALDEN, General Agents, 207 Broadway, New York; om, At Washington, D. ©.: 2:90, 3.08, ., and 12:00 mdm 8 a. znd 9:10 p. Ticl and information at the «flice, northeast cor De: of 13th street and Penuaylveni avenue and atthe ftation, where orders can be eft for the checking of Larnaye to dertinaticn frow bots ences. a », General Passenger Agent CHAS. E. PUGH, General Manager. ETS) nil Feri ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. SIE Behedule to take effec ‘DAY, MAY 33th, 1883, Leave Wishingt n trom station, Corner ot New Jecacy C etree Lonisville and St. Louis 5 a. m., 10:10 p.m. with Pai co hexping Care to avove 10:5. ni daly to Chicaco, “ Creveland and, Detroit at 8:30. m. daily ; 8:40 p. m. is weolid train to Pitt: etcoit via Monroeville, 10:15 a.m. © for Detroit. Nis and New York at 8:10 a.m. dail; (cusanD Line xovite. Parlor and Sleeping Cor attached. TEE conarn et faMsii? COMPANY LIMITED, For Baitmore ee 4 BETW N LA A nd 10:05 ii ALLING AT CORE HARBOR, FEOM PIEK 40.8. 8 NEW YC im... We. Aus. 29. “Servi mY ea. ‘Wed.. Oot. 1. FROM NEW YOtn. according to Become | ttoerage at very low rates. Pteerage from Liv~ ero 2 Queenstown and ali ouher parts dowest race, Europes “Through bills of Jaden Bi sve. Autworp aud odser forts Ou the Coulinent*aad -» daily except Sunday, 5:45 ly. te: Mediterranean ports. from the West daily, 6:20, 7:35a.m., | “For fret und passage ‘at the Company** office, ‘00, 9:2 Ro. 4 Bowling Green, or in ‘and cabin to y hor ZiS5- $90 am. | 18 led -Uw 8 UU., (uo Tiare W dally, 8:10 p.m. x L From Anvapote, 8:20a.m., 1:90, 637 P-m.; bunday, VLENON H. BROWN & 00. York, 10:40 ape (rte Messrs. O1 fy BIG: we ©O., From >taun! 15 p.m., daily exeept Sunday. Jani? (605 Tih street, Washington. From Fred erd ini toi - — = E 2.15, 4 and 8:00 EW YORK, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM.— 2 10:00 au, 5:00 p-m. ‘The fret. foil de Di locks. teamships of. ny Line, Abb: AM. iT PAM, SCBIEDAM. 1 ECKDAM. ZAANDAM. P. CA- AD. WA QCHULTEN. MAAS, carrvigu ty U- Mev® to the Netheriands, ypc “. r, foot iussex atroot, Jersey City, N.J.. Te every SsbA ier Monk Nas caliim, $70: second cabin, $50: $26. pt 4:30pm. AUR, Genetel Agent, 27 Sov Fer further tuformat'on apply st the Baltimore ana ; pier bananas apply to W. Ob:o Ticket Office—War hington Ststion, 6°9 and 1451 . 925 Penn. ave.. Wi ecto. Pennsyivina avenue, corner 1éth -treet, wh re or tere — fed and received a} will Le taken for bascaye to be cl = einen the z _ _ MEDICAL, «e. RS. BROTHERS AND GR. ————— GIVE NO FR USEFURN ueriet who iivite: prods with the sector HOUSEFURNISHINGS. __ | orerovi asaya See med EFKIGELATO. 8 (ASD WATEH COULLS | {1h Turaih matic, womens areas ge nae: Fruit Jars, Jelly Tunbiers, meee Wee capeneeete. te ‘Tin Fruit Cans xud Wax, WwW HO 18 | HE MOBT RELIABLE AND LO>.G! (Crockery. larsware, ond Kitchen Utensil, «etaldishid Specialist in the city? Why, Glray's Lace Curtuin . bi OTH efaro AG. hikatke teat 906 Bate. GEO. WaTTs, Sworn to before A. C. ‘FUstioe of the Peace, 3y2%6 814 7th street, 5 doors avove Penna. avenue. 3.3 '-Am' ADAME DE FORPST HAS REMEDY FOR LA: Mie iultemae tu quickly cured. Can' ‘ouvulted datly st 240 teh atrectuoetisae Obioa Epvy Revnrorratons suarkaseaece, ee a3 With Blate Stone Shelves. TAST TO LADIFS.—LADIES MAY a eg gy SD ASH RE! » edica) ‘Trestmen: . WALNUT AND ASH REFRIGERATORS. tt nye WATLRE COOLEKS AND FILTERS COMBINED. atzect, Baltimore, Dr. Silos: rative Orvans, §1 per Mf 48H00D KESTORED.~ victim of cary {mpruaence, crusting ete., having Tm which hen wil sor Toes, Geis Saoae 3 which be wil sard’ Be puller ‘alldross J: HY REEVES, 49 Chatham street WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER3. SODA AND MINERAL TUMBLERS, IOE PIACHEKS, CiEAM AND BERRY SETS, M. W. BEVERIDGE a 328 No, 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. i! from ‘weakness, lors ‘Ac, Twill senda recipe that wi son, FREE OF CHALGE. Tins erent Remedy tas Daxrorrrs Fim, cnered by a, mieniomacy 2nd, het goalty of GAOLINE, wwe a» VaPOT Muation D. New York City. ofa tu thea ly 5 takes ‘©-patan an — Guband.” Thsmocet varod umortucstin thecins J ShQUERTRON, THE MORT RELIABLE 4: PAIGE ° i +478 experience, Will ‘9 cure in all REFVIGSBATORS and WATS CUULILUS at re | 3 Ur ex i Weak s COCKING STOVES, RANGES, BRICK SETT and | 4#3* snd ae irom 2 to 9 p.m., at hisoffice, PUKTABLE SLATE MANILLS, LATKUBES, FUu- | St to $0 the cadine of a tS ee, more, Maun otioe. 80 8 ag arn eS W. & JENKD & 00. AREA! Beavee se TIT 7h atest mortnwweat, DE, NOTTS Fai = = Certern cure forall Urinary a GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. ‘corner 15h eixectond S. w sitouy, . rocarsson = DUBPEUIL BroTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE DRESS SHIRTS, GENIS’ FURNISHINGS, 1112 F Srxeet Noxtawestr, Wasumoron, D.C. ‘of the Finest Dress Shirts to Order eoovsseeees 812-09 FE Soctee Fine Ruta to soir ry 5 eens = Tuoursows ‘HIRT FACTORY axD MEWS FURNISHING EMPORIUM, £16 F Street, Opposite Patent Offics, ‘Dress Fhirte to order a . Bix bent Shirts POR ay pod Jeme BDEmished, vo aiebed, 60 cts,” Full line of assorumeut of bearfs, Gloves, Hosiery and Underwear. WOOD AND COAL, Coa, Axo. Woon. Sheceeccaa eee met STEPHENSON & Bt. ‘th ot. wharf and 13th st, and Pa. ave, “~"