Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1883, Page 6

THE EVENING. STAR: ste PALACE CAR ODDITIES. Hodjesk pletely Appointed Bou- on Wheels—How English Tour ists Delight to Travel. y From the Philadephia Press. “It would take a day in the recital, and then fill a big book to tell of the incidents that enter into the daily life of a Pullman car,” raid J. W. Smittley, the resident superintendent of the company in Philadelphia, “and then it would take another and a larger book to contain what hadn't been told. seems almost inexhaustible. thousand and one stories about fat men falling through upper berths; yelping poodle dogs awakening passengers at night; maiden ladies losing their false teeth and curled wiss: timid | travelers shrieking for the porter at every stop- | ping piace, and the numberless stories that conid be woven from the side issues of these happenings the half wonid not be told. “A sleeping car, you must understand, is, for the time being, the home of the occupant It is occupied fora lonzer time than the ordinary railroad car. and its passengers are brouz' into closer contact. It is, to make a rather far- fetched simile, a sort of French flat on one floor, on wheels. Take a Pullman car running | from Philadelphia or New York to pan Fran- } cisco and you will find something of the same of temporary sociability that exists on board an ocean steamship. Friendships are formed and sometimes there are attachments formed that—but.” said Mr. Smittley. inter- Tupting himself with a smfle, “I did not intend to go into the question in the abstract. I was trying to think of acase or two that would have something newsy about it. Let me see. I don't think The Press has ever said anything about that latest caprice of Modjeska, has it? The madame is to travel through the country in palace car which will probably eclipse any- thing of the kind ever seen before, not ecept- ing the well appointed cars ot’ Mile. hardt or Mrs. Langtry. Modjeska is to hi @ palace car, in every sense of the word. {twill be upholstered in crimson plush, and t’ > cur- tains of the berths will be of raw silk. The berths will be occupied by the maids. Madame Mod- Jeska herself will have a folding bed, so inge- niously constructed as to be used as a secretary when ‘not required for sleeping purposes. Be- sides this the car will be supplied with a nickel- plated bath tub—something entirely new—and the great artist 1 wash her face in water drawn from silver-plated spigots. There is to be a buffet in the car comp! in every detail, and ingeniously economical in the matter of space. The dining tabies and the service will be the same as found in any first-class hotel, and the parlor a dream ot soft carpets and costly bric-a-brac. Taken all In all, Madame Modjeska will travel from city to city with an elezance of appointments and acompleteness of comfort that €annot be excelled, afloat or ashore. “It is gradually becoming to be the proper thing,” continued the superintendent, ‘for per- sons who can afford it to travel with the same comfort on the rail as they find at their homes, Nearly all foreigners—Englishmen especially— are surprised at the magnificence of American sleeping cars, and eagerly take advantage of them. We often have distinguished gentlemen from the other side of the water—many of them traveling incog.—enzage a car fora two weeks’ se in the west, and their ignorance of western habits is sometimes decidedly amusing. Nearly all of them imagine that every man west of the Rocky mountains carries a brace of revolvers, a bowie knife and a ceck of cards, and spends his time in shooting gentlemen who refuse to drink with him, or in chewing tobacco and making speeches. I remember very well an English lady who was going through to Chicago in Pullman car, who left her maid in New York | because the maid was afraid she would be sealped by the Indians on arriving in the Garden | City of the west. Yes. sir, she refused posi- | tively to run the risk of being captured by those *orrid savazes, and begged her mistress not to undertake the journey. “During the early part of the year, a party of Englishmen started west to hunt buffalo in one of our hunting cars, the Davy Crockett, I think, and actually began getting into their rough ; clothing and loading their rifies before the train had reached Pittsburg. They could hardly be made to believe that they were still a thousand niles away from the hunting grounds.” “Are any of these storiestrue ot fat men tell- ine horrible tales about crashing throuzh upper berths in order to secure lower bertis?” was asked. “Itis true that facetious heavy-weichts tell the stories In the hearing of timid persons,” was the reply, “and it is equally untrue that any up- ad berths ever break down. A well-known New ork Toppeter eee tips the beam at 300 pounds —suppore you know him—can be credited with being the originator of that yarn. He loves a joke, and, as he is known to almost every palace car porter in the country, manages to carry out the sell very successfully whenever necessary. In case the gentleman reaches the train late and finds the lower berths occupied, he hunts around Until he finds a nervous traveler inaplace where he would like to be himself. Then he calls the colored porter, and asks him if he has heard any further news of Rev. Mr. Smith. The porter. who is posted, replies: ‘You mean de po” gemman what you mashed dat night you fell froo de berth? “Yes.’ replies the ponderous traveler. ‘I've often thought of that poor man, Jim. I think I broke one of his ribs and one of his arms, didn’t 1?” ‘Two ribs and bofe arms, sab,‘replies Jim, solemnly, ‘And it was some- where about this part of the car wasn’t it, Jim?’ asks the heavy man, loudly. ‘No sah,’ says the porter, ‘you'se thinkin’ ob de two orphans what you fell on dat night when we was near Buffalo. _ If youremember, sab, one of de boys died, an’ de oder had his eye squashed out. De preacher, sab, was in de upper end ob de car. He wouldn't get outen de lower berth, sah.’ ‘Unfortunate fellow,’ sighs the fat pas- senger, ‘and I wasn’t as heavy by fifty pounds as | am now, either.” “By this time you can depend that the nery- ous traveler is getting his pantaloons on. Usually he peeps out, and when he sees the mountain of flesh that is talking he is morethan willing to take the upper berth than to run the Tiak of being crushed to death in the middle of the night. It's a pretty good scheme and gen- erally works to the fat man’s sutisfaction. As soon as the other fellow finds out that a joke has been played upon him, he forms the joker's acquaintance. and, in almost every Instance | that I've heard the friendship so strangely made is lasting, because the fat man is une of those Jelly. good-natured fellows that nobody could stay anzry at for more than ten minutes. There are lots of other incidents that, if strang to- gether, might make a good story, but, as life is short and time precious, I think we had better leave the best ones for another day ‘The Pretzel and the Mode of } From the Cleveland Press. “Gimme ein pretzel!” said a newsboys as he approached a spring wagon on Superior street, containing one German with a ruddy face and a ¢igar. one little girl ina maroon dress with a hat to match, one cotton umbrella and one large weather-stained box. The rig was an un- assuming affair, but an air of prosperity haunted it. The sleek coat of the horse Indicated a good stable. Another evidence of fortune’s tavors was the ruddy face of the driver. “How much do you pay for pretzels?” was asked of a newsboy who was stowing away the last of four big brown ones. “We boys get ‘em two for a cent, but he'll eharze you a cent apiece.” was the cruel reply. The reporter smothered a desire to consult the lawyer who ts conducting a suit against the Lake Shore road for alleged discrimination in freight rates in favor of the Standard Oil com- pany, with reference to tnis discrimination in favor of those bioated monopolists, the news- boys, and sought out a baker, who explained the structure and composition of the pretzel. Pretzels are made of the best yeast dough, such as is used in bread. The dough is rolled into a wide plastic expanse, apiece is cut off,and rolled into a long cylinder about the diameter of a bologna sausage. Then the strips are cut into section about three inches long, ing off at each end. Seizing each end of this sec- tion of dough with the thumb and forefingers the pretzel baker crosses his hands, presses the ends of the section into the middle of the mass, and lo! the pretzel is shaped. Then it. with a dozen or more of its fellows, is dropped into a kettle of boiling lye, from which they are fished in tess than half a minute. That half minute, however, suffices to give them that brown cast of countenance and — texture which makes them so agreeable, while just enough ot the lye clings to them to Improve their flavor. Pretzels are said to be aids to digestion, the lye that remains on them stimulating the gas- tric juices. As soon as the pretzel is taken from the lye it is sprinkled with salt and baked rapidly ina very hot oven. The steam pretzel differs from the regulatiom German craknel (for the word pretzel means craknel) in that it is made of cracker dough, and after being boiled in lye, baked and placed in box, is dried by inedible after two or three days, while the hard steam pretzel is as imperishable as hard tack, and isa delicacy even atthe mature age of six months. An advertisement in a West paper severe, good teach See ee As we see it here the subject | Even after the} THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE. Exciting Ride on a Train Amid the Hivsing and Crackling of Blazing Woods, Portiand (Orezon) Lettar. Through Idaho and down the mighty Colum- bia is a journey worth a pilgrimage around the world. We have seen its wonders, but ran a gauntlet of fire at its portal, where, in an hour, nature's labor of ahundred years was being ; Swallowed up in smoke and roaring flames. | All day yesterday the air was blue with smoke. The mountains looked dim or drew their jagged peaks clear out of sight. Fora day or two it had been hazy toward the west, and we had beard stories of the forest fires. Yester- day, however, the smoke grew thicker and rolled upon the westerly winds in dense clouds. Last night. we ha glimpse of the Inferno. We had left Montana to cross Idaho, when about 9 o'clock the train came to a stop {without a moment's warning in the midst | of a wilderness. We hastened to the plat- form and looked forward. There was spread out @ panorama such as seldoin greets the eye ofman. The forest was one mass of seething flame. The engine panted atime or two, and then, gathering courage, crept nearer. A few hundred yards, and it again came to a stand- | still. It was impossible to pass. The heat made the paint on the cars crack. The glass of the | windows grew feverish under the heated breath | from the fire. There was, amid all the glare, the rear of an approaching tornado. crackling and popping like a giant's whip. This was ac- companied by a hissing like the sound of frying salt, as the green foliage of the living pines was consumed with a white flash. This roaring and crackling and snapping, terrible as it was, only set off the grand accompaniment of “falling trees. Every five secondsa giant. with thestrength of a score of centuries, measured his 200 feet across the fiery bed to which he had been felled. He stood still, seared to the core, and his hoary top was crowned with fire. As he yielded, the mountains rolled back the booming of cannon from one height to the other. We hold our breath and gaze at the sky, overcast with leaden smoke, tinted here ani there with a rosy hue. The crashing of the falling giants is still fora moment. The fire breaks through the gloom of the forest in a new place. The flames go racing like demons up tall trees and quiver in their top like ruddy lanterns for a moment. The fol- jiage melts away with the first hot breath, and then the crashing and booming goes on again. For the moment the rash and crackle is drowned and the very crags of the moun- tain side seem to be roiling upon us from their seats above our heads. We ask the conductor when we can goon. He says two hours. Long piles of woed stored all about the track have caught fire, and scores of Chinamen, with long poles in their hands, are hurrying up from the nearest stationto save the track from ruin. Two hours pass, and still the infernal pandemo- nium of hissing. roaring, cracking, booming. crashing devastation goeson. The conductor and engineer are afraid togo on. They fear the heat will fire our train. Should it yield to the first spark it would melt away like tinder in a furnace. For over four hours we watched the scourge till it drew away from us and let us go. ——_~+-e-____ A Snake Story. Phil Robinson, in Harper’s Magazine for October. I was staying at the time on the shore of Salt Lake. and every morning after breakfast used to take a stroll with my pipe through the sage- brush that stretched from my door to the foot of the hills about a quarter of a mile off. I gener- ally had my botanizing tin on my back, my in- sect forceps in my pocket, anda short alpen- stock, fitted with a geological hammer, in my band. Thus equipped, I was sauntering ng one day. when I heard a soft rattlingat my feet, and looking down, saw that I had brushed against a plant which bore abunech of dry pods filled with ripe seeds. I stooped and picked it, and as I went along I kept rattling the pods in an idle way. All the time.too, I was birdnesting, tor the sage-brush abounded in the nests of three species*of birds, which from the eggs I knew to be of the linnet, pipit and blackbird kinds. I used to find some every day, for not only have I been an expert from my youth up at birdnesting under any circumstances, but the ground here was particularly favorable. Your footsteps, as they fell upon the carpet of last year’s sage leaves, were muffled, while the bird sitting on its nest could not see you, owing to the density of the sage bushes, until you were close upon it. Sometimes, indeed, the hen bird would fly startled off her nest as I'was actually stepping over the bush where her treasures were. So, as I went along, I was examining the roots of the sage brush, and groping about with ad hands among the leaves, picking up an insect here or a flower there, and, as I have sald, rattling the seed pods in my hand from time to time. Suddenly I heard a responsive rattie, and looking down found that I was walkin; through quite acluster of the same plants. 4 picked a handful, thinking they would amuse my host’s children, and soon after turned to saunter homeward. I had taken only a step or two when again I heard thesame sound, and, in- stinctively looking down, was justin time to see the last few inches of a dark-colored snake slip- ping under a tuft of sage-brush. I turned back the tuft with my alpenstock, and as 1 did so the ominous rattle of the dan- gerous reptile sounded its warning, and there, curled up at the root of the bush, was the first rattlesnake I had ever seen, and the largest I have ever seen alive. My experience of snakes: of all kinds In Asia and Africa had long ago cured me of any su- perstitious dread of them, so I proceeded to experiment upon the “worm” before me. I gave it my alpenstock to strike at. The second time I did so it struck with such viciousness that one tooth pierced the wood, and I lifted the snake nearly off the ground by its imbed- ded fang. The tooth broke off, however (I cut out the tiny point afterward with my knife), and the rattlesnake recoiled itself, and again sprang its rattle. In reply I rattled the seed-pods, and the snake responded immedi- ately, attempting after each rattle to make its escape. But { jerked it back again, and con- tinued my experiments, offering it my alpenstock to strike at. It struck at it seven times in suc- cession, and then, exhausted, refused to be irri- tated into retaliation any more. During all the time the rattle was kept sounding without any Intermission. though sometimes in a lower and lazier tone than at others, so that there seemed to be almost a recular cadence. a rise and fall, in the sound. But at last the snake grew weary of even rattling and hopeless of escape, and lay obstinately knotted up, with its head flat on the ground, peering up from under its coils, Thad half a mind to let the creature go with its life, such is my aversion to needless killing, but remembering how favorite a spot this was for pleasure seekers from Salt Lake City, and what numbers of children are brought out on holidays to wander about among the sage brush picking flowers, I killed the incautious reptile, and carried off the rattle—“‘twelve rat- tles and a button”—as a reminder for the future that all that rattles {s not seedpods. How often, I wonder, during my walks had I innocently heard the snake at my feet and thought it was the plant? During my stay I killed thirteen rattlesnakes, and alt near the same spot; so the chances are that I made the mistake more than once. But, after all, the rattlesnake, from the very facts of its rattle, must be considered one of the least dangerous of the venomous reptiles. How many thousands oflives would be antiually saved in India if the cobra had a rattle at the end of forbes Ae ee terrors of the ‘orait woul lessent o ve warning of its presence! nt ae In the case of the rattlesnake there must be stupidity or deafness as a factor in every acci- dent, for it is hardly ible to disregard so distinct a sound. While on the subject of snakes, it is worth saying, perhaps, that one of the most universally accepted superstitions in the world is that of the jumping snake. Wher- ever you go you are assured, even by so-called eye-witnesses, that snakes can leave the ground and leap up at the victim's face. In America 1 believe the error to be very wide-spread, for Sociand Gas Sera turned upon the sub- , and the company begins exchanging snake stories, the makes that “ eens on the ground” is sure to come to the front. Now. as a matter of fact, no snake can leave the und to strike; it hird of its total length off the und at a time. A six-foot snake, fore, has a strik- ing radius of only two feet. At point within that circle is probable death, but one inch beyond that circle is complete security. - A six-foot snake of any venomous species is, how- ever, a rarity, and though I had been often as- by those who thought they had seen them six-foot cobras and ten-foot rattlesnakes that other persistent fiction the testous Goce er nt lon, the ten-foot tiger. ‘The largest rattlesnake I killed es three feet in length. largest have killed a considerable number) was four and a half, we acquaint- dabois, black-snake, whi e, coral-snake, or vij Seghaed rHoapieiercryre im- although abundantly roked to of irregularity by, before : LOVERS WHO COULD NCT WED. A Married Man Goes Crazy Because His Sweetheart Had Drowned Her- self. A telegram from Chicago, September 14, says: Two years ago a young painter named Schilling and his wife came here from Vienna. He heard of an evening school where he could study the English language free of cost, and he attended it regularly. There he met a girl from Vienna, named Paula Hills, and invited her to call upon his wife. SMe became a favorite guest, and soon made her home with the young couple. Mrs. Schilling adds: “She was not long in our house before I no- ticed a change in Johann. He who had been always so affectionate to me during the five years of our married life, all at once began to be cross with me and neglect me, while he seemed to be most happy in the company of Paula. I charged Paula with trying to get my husband away from me, and she became indignant, called me cruel for trying to impeach the honor of a poor helpless girl, and I, fool that I was, be- lieved her and pitied Johann forloving a woman not his wife. who didnot want him. Paula never remained any length of time at service, and always returned to our shelter when she had lost a situation. “I felt all the time that Johann thought more of her than of me, and that made me nearly fran- tic. He always told me how he pitied Paula, who came from a good family, but had fled from home to escape marriage with an old man whom she did not love. [ again spoke to Paula, and told her that sne had destroyed my happiness. She aamitted that Johann thought more of her than of me. but that wasnot her fault, nor would she ever permit Johann tu leave me on her ac- count, and as far as she was concerned I would not be disturbed in the possession of my hus- band. She would leave the house and never come back. “Johann treated me as cold as ever until about the middle of last month, when heall at once asked me to forgive him, caressed me and swore he would be a good husband again. The same day l’aula came to tell us that she was going to leave Chicago to go to Dakota with the family who employed her. She told us to be happy with each other, and swore she never had wished us to be otherwise than happy. This was about noon on August 20. My hus- band was profuse in his love talk@o me. He would not suffer me to work any more making trousers, and igsisted on my taking the work I had got only @aturday back to the shop un- finished. He pleaded so hard that I went with him to the factory. Hethen asked me to re- turn home, where we had left Paula packing her trunk, while he went down town. He bade me an affectionate farewell, and showered me with kisses. “He had not done that for years before. I would not leave him out of my sight, becanse he acted so strangely. He succeeded in getting me on board a west-bound car. I got off the car again before1 had gone two blocks, and ran after my husband as fast asi could. I did not overtake him, however, until I came to the Madi- son street bridge. Two men had just fished out @man who, a few minutes before. had jumped over the railing into the river. This man was ay poor husband. I took him home as fast as I could, but when I got there Paula was gone, and the next morning her body was found in the lake near Hyde Park. “T found lots of letters of hers in my room after she was gone, and among them some that announced her intention to drown herself. My husband would not believe that Paula would do such a thing. When we heard of the finding of the body we went out to Hyde Park, and, sure enough, it was Paula. My poor husband’s mind could no longer bear it, and now he is in the insane asylum. She died because she loved him and Knew she could not have him, and he went crazy for love of her;and Iam sure of this, that their love was pure.” Johann Schilling was found Insane yesterday by the county court,and taken to the insane asylum in Jefferson. ee One of Seven Foundlings. From the London Telegraph. ° But by far the most remarkable child of this lot was a boy on whom the authorities had be- stowed a name suggestive of sweetness and fra- grance—Allspigg. Not, however, because of any cherub-like attributes developed by the young gentleman in question during the earlier days of his bereavement. On the contrary, little Allspice, whose Christian name was Tobias or Toby, had, from his first admission to the establishment— which was at a period of his existence when his age was guessed by competent juges at ten days or thereabouts—earned for himself an unenviable reputation. The nurse in charge tersely epito- mized his general behavior as being that of a Tartar. The infant Toby Gattte | his aromatic cognomen from the circumstance of his being found wrapped in brown paper that was odorous of spices. His discarding had been as ignomini- ous as it well could be. Naked as when he had come into the world, he was discovered packed at full length in a sheet of stout brown paper, that enveloped him, head and all, so that he would inevitably have been suffocated but for a hole in the paper in the region of his mouth and his mite of a nose, which aperture had seem- ingly been made—perhaps after a brief consul- tation of the conspirators as to whether he should live or die—by pinching a bit out with the finger and thumb. The ircel was tied about with a piece of strong cord, and either by accident or by way of a heartless joke an old printed label, ‘‘This side up,” was affixed to the parcel at the breast part. So well provided for, the naked, nameless little creature was hung by & loop in the string to thg area rallings in front of a house in a genteel iharer and there it was found, after midnight in frosty January, by a policeman, and carried first to the station-house and then tothe workhouse. No clew had ever been obtained as to who had 80 exposed the child, and it had now been in re- ceipt of parochial relief for upward of two years andahalf. ‘Who was his father, who was hia mother? Had heasister, had he a brother?” are questions that are shrouded in mystery; but this much was apparent at a glance: that, as a bud of unfair promise, master Allspice probably had not his match in that workhouse or any other. Young as he was he seemed to be aware of the mean and dastardly advantage that had been taken of his helpless babyhood, and to nourish a deep-seated hatred against his fellow creatures in consequence. He was a sturdily- built little fellow enough, and bad thriven apace. He was, as I was informed, possessed of a bushy head of hairatan age when most babies are bald, and before he had attained his sixteenth month he had a mouthfal of teeth, which, though possibly a great advantage to infant Toby, was a sore affliction to his orphan companions, owing to a ma- licious propensity he had of biting them in their plumpest parts whenever they gave him offense, and he could conveniently fix onthem. When I beheld him he was sitting apart fromtheothers who were at play, on his little stool, with his elbows on his knees, and his chin in his hands, scowling at the fire ‘with as evil an expression on his face as though he were meditating incen- diarism. He never played with the other chil- dren, the nurse informed me, but compensated himeelf for his distaste for that sort of amuse- ment by destroying or mutilating every toy he could lay his hands on. He had large out- standing ears, a heavy under jaw, and small dark eyes, deep-set in their sockets. His infant lips were thick, and his mouth wide, and he was p pcanceees of an appetite so voracious, com- bined with an unpleasant habit of bolting his food, that seldom a day passed without his shoulders bearing the imprint of the nurse’s hand, it being n to apply that sort of corrective to save him from choking. I ob- served as he sat brooding by the fender that his Saaplexion ‘was not indicative of perfect health, but it was explained to me that its sallowness was probably due to his having that morning masticated and swallowed the greater portion of a necklace of wax beads belonging to one of the little orphan girls. ‘It may be wicked to Bay so, sir,” remarked the nurse to me in & whisper, as we stood at the far end of thé Tout I’ dont believe that such ‘an impish eulld was ever born before.” * “Hardly a day passes,” said Health Omicer Ashmun to-day, “that somebody doesn’t come here and complain that their children have been poisoned by eating red pop-corn. I have been investigating the matter thoroughly, and have come to the conclusion that the aniline used in Sascpe the corn is the cause of all the trouble. Taken in small quantities it 1s only an irritant, but when taken ly it results in constitu- tional poisoning. morning I went around and notified @ number of the that they must not use the ani also the sanitary same. colored i WASHINGTON. HORSE FMPEBEECTIONS. ‘What Amateur Stiyers Muct Guard Against when Making © Purchase. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘The man who can buy a horse and feel sure of his purchase is necessarily an expert. There are more chances for deception in a horse trade, likely, than there ‘are in any other traffic. A successful dealer in horséfiesh generally learns his trade by years of‘experience, which is usually quite expensive. Then, too, he must be very familiar with the horse, its habits and its ailments. Few men who haye attempted it can say that they were never beaten at a horse trade. There seems to be no exact standard by which to® judge a good horse. Long horses have been speedy, and short horses have been speedy. Tall horses have shown good quali- ties on the road, and so have short-legged ones. There are, however, certain rules and laws of hygiene which may be studied and consulted in making an equine purchase. The horse-buyer must remember that horse- flesh is subject to exactly the same diseases that man is. ‘He has neadache, earache, tooth- ache, fever and all other ailments,” as a vet- erinary surgeon expressed it to the writer. In- ternal ailments can seldom be discovered by any other than a veterinary surgeon. There are sur- face indications, however, which are eastly dis- cerntble, and should always be looked for by a horse-buyer, whether an amateur or a profes- sional. One point the amateur might make in purchasing a horse is this: “Never buy a horse from a man you do not know, unless he comes to you highly recommended’ for honesty and fair dealing.” “In buying @ hore,” said a pro fessional In the business, “always take him when he is cold—that fs, when the animal is fresh from the stable. In this wayyou may dis- cover lameness, which will pass away when the horse warms up, but which, nevertheless, is a very bad point. No man willbuy a lame horse if he knows it. If there are an too great curves about the animal, sucl ag a sway-back, a man who is at all familiar with the horse will easily discover them. String-halt or a depressed hip will also be discovered. The eyes must always be examined, for while a blind horse is not useless, one with perfect vision is much more desirable. The teeth, too, always come in for their share of inspection, but they are not always a guide unless the buyer is well up in his business, for trader who so wisbes can make them very deceitful. By filing and a process known as bishoping, an oid horse that has seen nearly @ score of years can be givenaset of teeth wun wie pass with many as those of a five- year-old.” “There is no way of judging the wind and the speed of a horse except by trying him. A horse with broken wind, or what is vulgarly called ‘the heaves,’ is not desirable. Hitch him up, and drive him a mile or more sharply, and if he stands it well his wind is good enough. Horses can stand as much as a half mile without show- ing any evidence of the imperfection. “In buying a horse look particularly at his legs. See that he is not splintered in the fore legs or spavined behind. These diseases are those of the bone, and aftect a horse about the back Joint. The bone goes through a proceas of malformation, causing a swelling and stiffness, which are usually very evident to the horseman. horse, which must also be looked for, is ring- bone.’ This much resembles spavin, and is found hee above the hoot on either the fore or hind legs of the animal, and also produces swelling, and in time lameness. “Another thing that must be looked for in buying a horse Is the glanders. A horse that is afflicted with tat plague you mightas well kill. He is incurable and will transmit it to all the animals with which he comesin contact. Fort- unately it is not a very common disease. The symptoms of It are very cancerous sores in the nostrils and at timesa very disagreeable dis- charge. As stated above, there is no criterion by which to buy a horse for speed. In proof of this I will cite you a couple of instances. Some time agoa horse was bought in the 5th street, market for street car purposes. He was driven on the Elm street line fora long time, and no- thing unusual was noticed about him until one day, when having been accidentally hitched to a buggy, it was discovered that he could spin his mile in about 2:50, and was much too valuable to be driven to a street car. Iremember, too, a very large horse, seventeen bands high, which fora long time was driven to a transfer wagon as one ofa four-horse team. He was given easier work and better quarters when it was found that he could do a mile in better than three min- utes. : ———— The Mivsing Correspondent. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Now blows the breeze, now shines the sun, For Arthur’s back in Washington.* But where is Michael Sheridan? Yes, where ts Mike? And did he strike For Gotham or for Meriden? ‘Now shines the sun, now blows the breeze, But all the nation’s tll at ease, For where is the American Who wrote so grand From Wilderland? Say, where is Michael Sheridan? ‘The breeze and sun together come; The girls keep on a chewing gum; But will our Mike e’er scare a den Of bears again, ‘Or write for mén? Ho! where is Michael Sheridan? *-This line does not refer to the President's spine, but to his return, a _______se-__ Sleight and Woight. From the Buffalo Commercial, “You aska very practical question: ‘How much should a person of given height welgh? Is there a standard between height and weight? A healthy child, male or female, grows in length by more than one-half its size during the first two years; It increases from 50 per cent (19.685 inches) to about 79 per cent (31.10 inches.) It trebles or quadruples its weight; that is to say, it weighs 3to4 kil. at birth (equals 71g to 10 ounds); 10 kH. @ pounds) in the first year; 12 il, (80 pounds) in the second. On the average achild (from6 months to 8 years) grows in length about 6 per cent each year (equal 2.4623 inches); the weight of the body goes on increas- Ing to the eighth year, rising in boys to 20 kil. oo pounds) and in girls to 19 kil. (473¢ pounds.) ‘rom this age (8 years) until puberty boys in- crease in height 55 per cent (2.165 feet) each year, reaching at the age of 12 years a height of 188 cent. corer 4.52 feet) ‘and girls 135 cent. (4.421 feet) on an average. Boys gain about 9 kil, (5 pounds) in weight por year, girls a little more, so that in the 12th year children of both sexes weigh, on an average, about 30 kil. (% pounds). From 18 to 20 years youths grow some 30 per cent, (11.8) girls 20 per cent (1.8 inches.) The increase of weight is even more fapid than before, reaching 58 kil. (145 pounds) in boys 18 years old, and in girls of the same age 51 kil. (12734 pounds.) In the 25th year the man fs 168 cent. (over 53¢ feet in height), and weighs 68 kil. (1573¢ pounds), while the woman is 157 cent. (5.15 feet in height), and weighs 58 kil. (42% pounds). Man in the 40th year attains his maximum weight, 68.6 kil.(150 pounds), and then begins to lose tesh. Women continue to grow heavier, reaching about 56 kil. ae pounds) until the 50th year. Between 45 and 60 men be- come more corpulent and women rapidly grow older; in both size of the body diminishes.” ragner, It is desirable for all persons, whether suffer- ing jn health or otherwise, to know as near as posSible what the normal weight should be. We are indebted to the late Dr. Hutchinson for agg alone 2,600 men of various atin There is, indeed, an obvious relation jween the height and weight eo Derpcaierly welghed and measured. Starting with the lowest men in the tables, it will be found that the increased weight was as nearly a8 possible five pounds for every inch in height beyond sixty-one inches. The following show the relative height and weight of individuals measuring five feet and upwards: Five feet inch should be.... Five feet wo inches should be. An Octopus Kills a Boy. From the Hlogo (Japan) News, tures. We hear that some few days about 14 of age birder gd Kamara, cme} and grasped him the A similar disease or affliction peculiar to the wi ‘Wasmrearom Crry, DerasrMexr or Ji ie | a aA EEGERDY eton ot ea oat cE ws sai q the Virginia shore: and when surveys and mays shail havo been made, the Necretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States shail Snoaeizn to and for the Unit ‘tates the ding tit any. P'Now. therefore. in accordance therewil the ‘shore requirements thereby nokice several paresis of land and water Bave been taken for the uses above tet, 125 TOR EETENSION OF AQUEDUCT. st. Iti to tak t of way for a tunm 5 Propused to take a right of way for 8 Ms At Foundry Branch, working eae Scat Seren @) acres, mi ie Ie located in the vy Found: Braneh south of," and frouting on, the * At tte Stre Jot 502100, fronti Fayette Street, air shaft, a x) ing on ‘At Kock Creek, working shaft, about two and one-half PH) acres on thie left bank of the creek, extending about , 000 feet down stream from the lower mill dam, and bounded on the east by the mill race. At an Air Sha/t, located about 1,400 feet nest of the bia road, on tunnel line, a lot comprising about 000 square feet, more or lean, and a right of road 30 fect wiae, leading trom the nearest thoroughfare to eaid lot. At Champlain Av-nué, working shaft, a lot fronting in avenue and comprising 40,000 equare ide, and about 1,350 feet Jong, distributing resor- Itis to take and acquire title to about 618.10 acres of hand Tsing in ‘the de} jon east of Howard Universi to and upon the ‘the large reinforcing mat ¢ large reinforcing mains az y through TeDrolt Pack hee Trim there f the Howard U from lor Uni- yersity grounds. ‘This will leave @ length of about 360 fee ndemn ‘The lands referred to under this heading are chown on tracing B, indicated by the parts colored in green. (0). LAND FOR DAM, RTC., AT GREAT FALLS, he dam to and upon the Virginia take and acquire title toa strip crossing Conn's Island and the el, aud connecting the 7.8. property on Fallaieland and Hard-to-come-at, with the U.S. v $2, {be parents, abore. ‘This will extend the present 8 Of .8. property on the Virginia shore to the eae by taking in @ triangular lot containing about acres. This tact is colored in yellow on tracing C. the Great 16 ra ‘Bow stands, containing about one-fifth of an acre. ‘Rnis tract 1s colored iu brown ou tracing 0. 1t18 proponed to take and acquire title to s tract con- pecting, the gate-house lot with the U. 8. property on sian‘, containing about 26,10 acres. ‘The influ- ent Conduit'and a part of the dam are located on this tract, and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal passes through tis colored in zreen on tracing C. 4th. In addition to acquiring to and for the U. 8. outstanding title to these lands at the of ,the same, or nesded for purposes con- ited by the act under which these proceedings ‘The map of the surveys (in three tracings) required for the uses enumerated in the sbove named wer , ch. ™ay be scen at this bepartment by all Rereby venvectisely notehed ts sele catkins eke oeneedge by reapective' le ubiisation GF teis edverbeemars in the Bop, ment of Justice a description af the tracts or parcels respectively by them claimed, and a statement af their fue as by each claim % ANOS ENTAMIN HAKIdg BREWSTER, — ttorney General. *Nore.—This lot is required for the construction of the valve chamber. ‘au23-80a Mends Glass, Crock Mends Glass, DRE. CHEEVER'S ELECTRIC BELT, or Recenera- tor, is made expressly for the cure of derangements of the p: ive organs. Whenever any debility of the generative organs ocours, from whatever cause, the continuous stream of ELECTRICITY permeating through the parts must restore them to healthy action. ‘There is no mistake about this instrument. Years of use have tested it, and thousands of cures are testified to. Weakness from Indiscretion, Incapacity, Lack of Vigor, Sterihty—in fact, any trouble of these organs is cured. Donot confound this with electric belts adver- tised to cure all ills from head to toe. Thisis for the ONE specified purpose. For circulars giving full iuformation address— CHEEVER ELECTRIC BELT Co., mh3-skw 103 Washington street, Chicazo. Gamavit & Cos Where all other amedicines have failed, this prepara- Hen je always effective. Hapid and extraor ary cure jecharges, recent or of long stan used. in the Hospitals of Paris by the calebrated Dr. Hicoxp, ‘and is foun superior known. Bold by all Druggists. wasly New Horst Laraverre, BuoaD amp Cuxsrwvr Sraxers, Location unsurpassed; newly and im. B00 Foouna, offers attractious ‘supesion 25 Rhy hotel in Phlsdelphia an22-wie.26t L, U. MALTBY, Propristor: Eres cocoa BREAKFAST. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING now ieee of the natural lews which of the: $f digestion ‘careful pplication of the ‘fine, fected Cocom, hs a pe ete eo rr POTOMAC RIVER BOATS, | is} q Z : a & cf} a, Sor = é a erry 200, Cm: "ESE 3 2 g i aa am Eaaae eeeey GaSe Bod 78; ooones B z Bei ty ee Se rs aq 2 i aud Indiana avenue. M. GALT & Co. deli at change to of the eqqulttboting delivered iree: slparts SEWING MACHINES, &c. Rigas OF THE AMERICAN SEWING ‘MA. CHINE OFFICE. In connection UEEN. we have secured the aency for the New Amer- call at for the: -arm Dew paired and made equal to new. bef mia- pis of QUEEN Ma- ‘and repair allkinds. C. AUER- th and H Streets. Gent's Furnishings FAAVE 200 SEEN rr THE HARTFORD SEWING MACHINE. If not be sure to examine it before you purchase. It 1s positively the jigitest ramping alld aimaplest Sewing le. Mie haw alee tie light running NEW HOME, a very Wo bevy aise q simpleand durable Sewing Machine. All other iuaies on Machines sold on easy mont payments and special auscount lor cash, at ond a OPPENHEIMER’S Eeliable Sewing Machine and Fashion Rooms, ‘O WINDY ADVERTISEMENTS. NO INSOLENT Ik you to death, but the Finest 2 ‘agent to tall ment of all the Leading Se ‘Machines at ;,rices that no canvasser can approach, a ining, MoKENNEY, my3 oth PIANOS AND ORGANS. ENUINE “DECKER” PIANOI ARE MADE BY DECKER BROS, xx PPA G. H. KUHN Sole Agent, 407 0th st, N. W. ‘Also for Burdett organs. F. A. Uzso. — UPRIGHT PIANOS FOR RENT AND FOR SALE. PIANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED A SPECIALTY. §27” Orders promptly attended to. F. A. URSO'S Piano Rooms, sepl0-7m 11th «treet northwest ‘& BHO., a offer Special barguina 10°C ih Buyer for tho fer. ins to Casi Stef the Kranich & Bach ana ©. h ‘New Eng: land PIANOS snd Barker OKGANS, ne: or second hand, but also rell on easy install- ment ‘Tuning and repairing faithfully attended to. sep Herexave Prsxos, HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE, CELEBRATED FOR BKILLIANCY OF TONE AND _, DURABILITY. SINGING QUALITY UNRIVALED. WORKMANSHIP AND FINISH SUPEKION TO ALL FACTORY PRICES ‘We give i exchan id monthix. Open til 8 monthiy.. Open tls p.m. HELABE alive BitaNcH FACTORY WAREROOMS, 427 10th street northwest. aus BRECHENBACH'S PIANO WAREROOMS. PIANOS of various’ makes for sale and rent at re- im. & Co.'s world- duced prices. | Wx owned Pianos. ‘Tuning and Repairing. ‘Lith street, above Pa. ave. P4Nos, ORGANS, SHEET MUSIC. STECK & CO. PIANO, ‘The Most Perfect Piano Made. EMERSON PIANO, The Best Medium-priced Piano Manufactured. ALES = baleen ed gig! KIMBALL became 108 and Organs sold on instalment - changed: rent sppited if purchased.» “me OF e% 5 CENT MUSIC. ‘The only complete Stock ia the clty. HENRY EBERBACH, No 915 F STREET. Managing vartner of the late firm Ellis & €o. a2 STEAMERS. (AL * LINE-SUMMEE SERVICE ‘Quebec to Liverpool every Saturday, making the shortest ocean voyage. Only five days from land to land. Accommodations Cabin—$7 and $80 single; $135 and $250 Excursion. Baltimore to Liverpool every alternate Tuesday, via ‘Halifax and St. Johns, N. F. ‘Intermediate Pasnage, $40. Prepaid Steerage, $21. LEVE & ALDEN, General Agents, ‘207 Broadway, New York; or, AtWashingtcn, D. C.: D. A. BROSNAN, 612 9th street. JAMES BELLEW, 711 7th street. G, W. MOSS, 225 Pennsyivania avenue, jyli-w,s,m,6m NEE OTN OT we ome ma ae Loxbox. Sourmameron 4x BREE. "© Tbestenmers of this qumpany wil eall EVERY WED: SESDAY AND SATURDAY from Bremen pier, £o0t ofsa Hoboken. Bates of pasrage: From CuNArD LINE : NOTICE. ¥ ROUTE. TEE SONARD sreaMsnie CO! N NEW YO SOM ELLE 4a SOS" NeW NORE 19. * Bothn’ Wed.. Oct. 17. ‘Oct. 2. ied. Oct. “lates of pasenge 00 or s accom:rodation. TI AM eso SEDAM, ZAANDAM, P. ny to the Netherlands, Agave: ‘com p Pier, foot RESDAv Yor Hotterdan snd ai “Giternately. DAY for 4 EDGERS, JOUBNALA, ‘CASH BOOKS, &e., &0.. at: fo order Lyoott's Bindery, 1012 Pa. ave: (Gibson BROTHTERS, = WOOD AND COAL. GE PINE, $4; OAK, $5; BA- Pg eae Cosz Axo Woon. ES ea Oy I £ am seer grea mare STEPHENSON & BRO., LL San SEY Oe Va war, © BIEAMFRS GFOorer ARY A) 2 NOR aes ae ee a Jers. ‘Steamer ‘Tth-street wharf lo * eaves DESL TT BUNDATS 8t5:30 p.m, w. SATURDAYS AT 6 P. wfaterday Night Lacursionsa special featare, Retarm ‘Round trip tickets good on either Leary or Excelsior. _ P aclusive councetion with the end Providence “Fare from Washineton to New York, $2.80) to ‘Boston, $15.75, including stateroom berth and ‘Freight received daily until 5 p.m. LM. HUDGINS, Gen. Agent. ac) OOK AT LOW FARE \OF FOLK, 50 Cts. IVER LANDINGS, Cm. SC ERIOR TRIPS to Bn aN ee Hs ae SUNDAY FERRY to Alezandl Steamers LAKE and Most To Point Lookout, Portree Mouroe and Noro, MONDAL, WEDSESDAY ond FRIDAL, nd SATURDAY. at 6-30 p Returning, eure Norfolk Nt AKE, 500. AY. POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. —st ‘teamer THOMP. SON leaves MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, aa. Fare, 25 Gente, NEW AL) EANDHIA’ PERRY.—EVERY SUNDAY Steamer THOMPSON, leaving her Washington, ou the Half Hour, conitaencing st 9:90 8."m., and Alex andria, on the Hour. ‘Conte. vat STEAMER AnnowsMiTHE Leaves 7th street wharf atts. m.¢se POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, Connecting with Balthnore and Ohio R. R. xt "*Shap- Dera’ nina at Alexandria with 7:90 a.'m. xen bet. wharf, W M®™ VERNON mr. STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN tone ie orciook ar mas Eotiening’ reaches Washing? 30) Ba 1. L. BLAKE, Captain. potonac TRANSPORTATION LINE. ‘The stexmer FUP. Capt. W.C. Georheran, tea Stephenson's wharf, foot of Tth street, every SUNDAY, at4 o'clock p. m., for Baltimore and Kiver Lan Reuruing, \caves Baltimore every FRIDAY at 50 ‘accommodations strictly firet-clame, Lagat must be prepaid, and will be rece! ved om BATURDAYS ae STEPHENSON & BRO., are. mi6-fm ‘Tth'street wharf and 12th st. and Pa. are. RAILROADS. E GREAT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE. THE NOKTH, WEST, AND SOUTHWEST, DOUBLE THACK ENDID SCENE! Elceping Car Pitteburg’ to’ Chicas. Mall Fp Bip. dauy. ieee the We BALTIMGRE AND POTOMAC RATED be to Canabdaigua, aud Harrisvurg 3 -60 and 10:20 p. m. For Popes Creek Line, 6:40 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. daily, except c For Antapalis, €40.0.m, and 4:40 p.m. daily, exoops sunday. ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG _RAIL- WAX. AND ALEXANDKIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD. E 11.00 and 11:30a.m., 4 and 11:30 p.m. Un the office, net of 13th etreet and Penuayivania avenue where orders can be left for the checking perthiy xo x CHAS, E. PUGH. General Manacer. wd ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, HE MODEL FAST LINE AND THE ONLY LINE THE EAST AND THE WEST. oontx i's HENCE coven STEEL RAILS! Ecbedule to take effect SUNDAY, MAY 23th, 188. ‘Leave Washington trom station, corner of New avenue and C street— asd cor and st etn without change; excep * ‘at 8:300. m. ond 8:40 p. m. m. to Pattern. Cleveland ‘and Detroit i, oa ‘OF Detroit via Monroeville, 10:15 a.m, ,, with slecper for Tole lo. gully exorpt Sunday; Bs an sd 9740 9 Gaby wi P 2:55, 6:30 am sunday. seats To, CH fim. Sundar, p.m. cept Suisday "20:00 amc, ‘B00: except Suiday: "10:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m. Fointot Kocke: ; for Warhington at, 4:40, 6:40, (0, and 10:30 a... 22:15, 2.50; 39, 9:00 and 11°80 p/m, ; on Suy= 9%, 9:10 am. 1:30, « ., ater fin Washiuxtou stop st Relay Station ex- cept 4:30 p.m. For further information apply at the Baltimore an@ Qhio Ticket Office “Warhington Station, 619 aud 1331 ‘ivan corner i¢th wl oriers Ra eae e aa W. |. CLi MENTS, M. of T., Maltis & mia co K’LoKD, Gen"! Passenger Agent. MEDICAL, «ec. 8 Fok, MEN-CHECKS 1. SIX HOURS. AS chresin three days. Drag Store 16 "N1ith Philadelphia. 480 Penna. ave., Washington, D. ©. ADAME DE FGREST HAS Ki Mep¥ FOR LA- dies. All female complaints quickly cured. Cau be consulted daily at 1245 7th street northwest. Uffice hours from 1 to 9 o'clock p.m., with indies ouly. »#ep!0-21u" RS. BROTHERS AND GRAY GIVE NO FREE and send ptions wend you to some who divide profita with the doctor. i dicappointed of a cure of private dincases should con- gat Drs. BKOTHEKS and GKAY, 006 B strocts. ‘euarantes ‘8 cure or no tay. ‘Thirty-seven years’ experience. seplctin ‘HO I8 i HE MOST RELIABLE AND LONG! Specialist in the oi a te BROTHERS is—over thirty-two. 906 Bato w. Sworn to before A.'. Lichardn, Justice of te Peace sep!- ANH Rr Y USING A rice Enon gree cure any case of Nervous De- aa viwar to the whole sretten boe Beoeetbouttwedt curt ime sticntion paid toalldineares prewar to . irrecuiarivies aud Ovarian N CONFIDENTLY OONSULT Aber Bho a a “soe B atrect Partic- Hy mar. ried Deaters Fees LLS Mi address on receipt of $1. G07 Os FO cat LAD! MAY BE and after cre [oR