Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1883, Page 3

HE EARTH IN ITS VIGOR. fhe “Lines of Wenkness” Manifested to Seismologists. From the London Times, The moon is dead. It has not life ersugh left to ooze forth the tiniest mud veicano or spurt out the feeblest geyser. No throb ever reaches its Surizce, and not the faintest ramble is ever echoed from its jagged mountain sides. No earthquake wave can ever sweep its Island shores, for earthquakes there are things of the almost infinité past, and the last drop of water quitted the surtace of the planet ons ago. Its very atmosphere has deserted it, and if, Indeed there were a ‘man in the moon,” he could never hear the sound of his own voice. But if by some means this mythieal man could have witnessed the Ischia disaster and the Java catastrepie, how he would have lonzed tiat any such_man ite were possible on his_Ifeless That occurrences like these referred to ust admit, and some planet. are calamities every on may be apt to maintain that man’s arrival in his me has been premature. and that would have acted more wisely and had it postponed man’s advent on the scene until the int fires had exhausted themselves. Bnt when that happeas, geologists tell us, we may look upon it as the beginning of the end. “even the 600 degrees heat of the sun, which beats upon every part of the moon for a fortnight at a time, is able to rouse wit i Ther rough to show that at one period its vity must have been of the most us kind, far exceeding anything ever its bosom the faintest sign ot life. evidence on” its mother earth. — But that has gone, with its water and its atmosphere, and taken with it the ossibility of fe. We are told that our exist- ing voleanoes and geysers and mudholes are but the dying remainsof what at the time must have been a yoleanic activity almost uni- Yersal. Instead of spasmodic eruptions at a few isolated spots we had a constant outpour ‘ot voleanie n from wide Sasures extend- ing across the ‘surface for many miles. earth has not yet. however, entirely igor is evident from the Java outburst, Which is the most stupendous phenomenon of the kind on record. So lonz as the old earth is equal to efforts of this kind we need not mind its latter end. When the blood leaves the cold extremities and the heart has not vigor enough to send it to the surface, the end is not far off; and when volcanic and earthquake manifestations cease from off the face ot the earth the end may be within almost measurable distance. Much of its ocean water will have been absorbed by the underlying rocks and the atmosphere may be rarer and less life giving than Internal heat, the last drop of water and last Particle of air, all life will have vanished, and a dead earth will shine upon adead moon. So long, then, as the mother of us all has any vizor left we must expect her to manifest it occasion- ally as she has done recently at Ischia and Java; fo that. lamentable and regretable as has been the loss of life at these places, the catastro- phes are not entirely without their bright side. Only when the earth is as dead as the moon will such catastrophes become impossible. logists and seismolozists know pretty well ines along which these manifestations of the s vigor are likely to occur; lines of weak- hess they call them, but, in view of the above consideration, we might call them, rather. lines of vigor. Perhaps when they know still more they may be able to tell thelr fellows what laces to avoid in planting their settlements and Building theirhoutes. Bet lage doubtrul it euch telling would be of much avail. Aiter the most destructive outbursts of Etna and Vesuvius the decimated inhabitants have crept back to their bnilt their hets, and planted 8 of the terrible lesson. Al- building begun again even in shat- a.and if the proper kind of wooden used possibly the next shaking the island gets may lead to fewer calamities. THE JAVA OUTBURST. We have said that the Java outburst is the most stupendous on record. An island has been sbattered and sank, and sixteen others have Taised their heads above the surrounding waters. Some hundred thousand people have been sac- Fificed to their mother’s anger, buried beneath or swept off the face of the land ave. The floor of the ocean gene been felt as far as the Ameri Pacitic. There can be little doubt that the wave which the west coast of North America ed across the Pacifie fi the Java rheath the isk: the most energetic volta little doubt that the ocean floor must have been subject to a sudden Upheaval over many miles, oceanic disturbance that has Pacific and was doubt tralia and New Ze: pointed out, the J upheaval have n coast of the pread across the felt all around Aus- Wd. AS we have already xreat manifestation of this kind. on May 10, 1 had its origin on the Pe- Tuvian coast. whence @ wave was propagated to wich Isl; de and to New id Australia on the otier. Still more dreadful and widespread were the results of the earth three in the neighborhood of the Pacifle co: on August 13 and 14, 1868. On that occasion, tweaty minutes after an earthquake shock was felt in Arica, Pera. an enormous fifty feet high, swept in over the shore. ‘This wave traveled southward, sweep- ing the coast as far as Valdivia, which it reached in five hours. Northward it traveled also, and some hours later reached San Pedro, in Lower California, as a wave sixty-three feet in height. Before that, seven hours, indeed, after it was felt at Arica, the wave touched the Sandwich Islands, and rose and fell in such 9 manner all round the islands, that it seemed as if they themselves were actually in motion. About the same time the Mare ‘$ Islands felt the force of the shock, la still Yokohama, in Japan, was reached by the roll of waters. It took the wave ten hours to make New Zealand, and at intervals for hours the shores of the colony were ch: by successive sweeps, While it was nearly fourteen hours befure. it was first detected on the Australian coast. Not Jess potent can have been the upheaval in the waters around J nd when full Teach us it will be found that its inft have been not have b. over the ocean; and of it, doubtle been contri anoes of the nuch of it may Come from volcanic outlet deep down beiow the waters. The earth, 3 George Darwin telis us, is never at rest; it is te of ab stant s steadiness is u tremor, and absolute 1 can be little eanic outbursts and is which are either never known to usat all or only by their remote re- suits in such earthquake waves propa- gated over the ocean. Professor Milne, of Japan, we be e, woes even further than Mr. George . and malntains that in the west Pacific, atleast. the earth below the surface is honey- combed with cavities, and that earthquakes are of almost momentary occurrence. A delicate seismometer is azitated when to human sensa- — the sinallest sign of earthquake is evi- den! e uphes All these are signs that. old as our earth Is, she ts still full of vigor; though 100,000 lives are & terrible price to pay for the assurance that she te ‘still alive. It is some 400 years since any equally powerful evidence of the forces of na- ture was afferded in Enrope, when, in the fit- teenth century, what is now known as Monte Nuovo was thrown up in a night's time to a height of over 400 feet. nah a Securing Engagement Rings. ‘From the New York Morning Journal. Engagement rings are the natural sequences ef the summer campaign of the belles of the watering places, and many a young man is at his wits’ end to raise the n y cash where- with to secure the preliminary token of future domestic bliss. Icecream. drives, boating and pleasure excursions generally have depleted the pockets of the devoted beaus, and in mk&ny In- etances when the question, the momentous question, was asked, it was with fear and trembling that the expected answer was re- i On leaving, the happy girl generally ‘When you get_me my ring get me a . Charley, for I want to be proud of It, and all the girls will criticise it, you know. Get & nice solitaire with a skeleton setting. so the diamond will show nicely. I think a pure white stone ts the best. ‘That hateful Laura has a colored one, and I believe it is tull of flaws. She Wing it, anyhow, and if she hasn’t t her flager she fs continually fixing her hair or arranging her collar. I want a bet- ter stone than hers. “Won't you get it, dear?” “I will, darling: I'l get you the best in the market,” and he departs with a sinking heart. The ext day he makes an arrangement with eome jeweler by which he gets an inferior stone at a high price. which he pays for in weekly in- staliments. Visits to his girl and the usual its and ‘heatricals take the remainder of is salary, and when the wedding day reaches his or her fond parent is ‘obliged to id over the n funds to unite the twain and send them off on their bridal tour. On their return they generally settle down, and the question of the engagement ring the attendant incidgnts form a them. Conversation between : is now: by and by. with the last ray of + How the Peopleof am Ohio Village Lead Lives of Contentment. From the Cleveland Herald. About elghty miles. from Cleveland and six miles south of Mineral Point, the terminus of the valley road at the Wheeling Junction of Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad, there isa quaint little old village known as Zoar, inhabited by a strange, frugal and industrious people, the happiest, perbaps, in the world. They know no care, nothing worries and troubles them. A larze number of them never saw the outside of their beautiful home, a veritable paradizs, and trouble themselve: turmo!! and strifes of the wicked world. The colony was first founded in 1817 by Huber and Ackermann, two Germans, the former a native of Wartemburg and the latter hailing from Ba- varia. Shortly afterward, in the same year, they and a few followers from the same country formed a community and named ft Zoar, because they locked upon their home asa place of refuge fromthe world, which they termed Sodom and Gomorrah. The first two houses which Huber and Ackermann built in 1817 quaint antique structures—are but inhabited by the descendants of the two pioneers. They are builtof logs and mortar and contain but one large room, sparsely furnished. The windows are small, each containing nine panes of glass s | #bout six Inches square. The roofs are covered | With tile, as are those of all the houses erected to 1850, when the art of tile making died out in Zoar. The inhabitants, who have no desire to amass wealth, work for one common end— that is, tor the good of the community, which owns and controis the village, including thous- ands of acres of the richest land in the Buckey state. The money goes into one comu treasury, and the necesaries of life, inclu food. ‘Bs who are annually ed by ballot. ‘The village contains about three hundred inhabitants, which number has been the same since 1817, and never increases or deer 's to any notable extent. There are ho preachers, but all the people are devout, worshiping after the manner of the Friends. The marriage vow is held sacred, and the laws are rarely broken. THE TWO HEADSMEN, English and French. From the Boston Courier. Marwood, the English hangman, who has just died, had held his office for something like twelve years, his first “engagement” being at Lincoin in 1871. His spare time was occupied as acobbler ina little shep close to the parish chureh. He took much pride in the manner in which he performed his executions, and was never weary of speaking of the great Improve- ment of the long drop over all other systems previously adopted in this cout or else- where. He had amassed a fair amount of pro- perty, having several cottages of his own, be- sides other investments. Prior to his appoint- ment as executioner, it 18 said, he was in poor circumstances. He leaves a widow, but no son. In his passage across St. George’ e annel Mar- woud was always accompanied by two de- tectives. He was of a very chatty dispo- sition, and frequently entered into con- versation with his fellow. passengers, who were generally unaware of his identity. A man of middle height. with broad compactly set shoulders, dressed in such a coat as a Lin- colnshire farmer would wear, with high black stock and a low feit hat, he looked the very per- sonification of a good humored oldconntryman. His place of business was a little one-storied building. close to Horncastle churchyard, with the words ““Marwood, Crown Office,” in 1a) letters over the door.’ A very short conversa- tion with him was suffici to show that he jooked upon himself as a benefuctor of the hu- man race. In his shop were several ropes, in- luding one with which he had hanged Charles Peace, Lefroy, Dr. Lamson and Kate Webster. Until he was executioner he had never seen an execation, but for many years he had thought over the subject. and he objected to the way in which Caleraft, as he calied it, “choked his prisoners to death. arefully ascertaining the weight of the criminal he thought he pro- duced by his long drop jast the necessary force to dislocate the vertebre and cause instant death. It is said that at an important interna- tional conference one ot his cards was quietly slipped among the list of speakers, to the utter iscomfiture of the xentleman who received it. It was not an unusual thing for Marwood to,re- ceive an intimation that prisoners who were committed to his hands had declared that tuey would be dragged trom the cells to the scaffold, and he was often advised to have an assistant. .” said he, “when I tap them on the shoul- der they always come with me. I give many prisoners confidence by whispering that lewill not hurt them,that it will soon be over.” He never referred to the execution of Dr. Lamson with- out making the remark that the culprit died “like a gentleman.” Before every execution he had supplied to nim very exact information as to the age, size, weight and occupation of the pris- oner with whom he had to deal, and probably he has taken to his grave the principle upon which he calculated the length of the drop, tor this he would never tell anybody. On one oc- casion at Glasgow, while he was preparing the | prisoners on the ‘scaffold, the gevernor of the | jail received a letter, which might have been a respite. The governor signalled to Marwood to stop. and it was characteristic of the execu- tioner that he was careful not to allow the pris- oners by any cessation of his grim labors to feel that any delay was taking place. The letter proved to be on other business, and the execu- tion proceeded. M. DEIBLER, THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER, is a man of forty-eight years, with an energetic face, a moustache and thick beard. He looks like a peasant in a great coat. M. Diebler suc- ceeded his father-in-law, the celebrated Roch, who died a few years ago. He began his work in Algeria, when he married; then he was exe- cutioner in Brittany, but now, since he suc- ceeded M. Roch. he attends to all the work in France. Fortunately for him and for the criminals, he has very little to do, for President Grevy is opposed to capital punishment, and during the past five years he has siened only eight death warrant: In 1871-72 and his predecessor ittle, if ®ny, abont the | “OUR FAITHFUL FRIENDS.” A Chapter About Dogs and Their Ail- ments by Dr. Watts. From the Boston Herald, Dr. Al Watts—whose efforts in behalf of dogs. by calling attention to thelr various diseases and the proper treatment of the same, are to be highly commended, not offly for the good which has resulted from among owners of these favor- ite companions, but for the efficient aid rendered to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—a society the moral growth and influ- ence of which has been of great service in the community—has issued another paper on ‘“‘Dis- temper in Dogs,” from which, believing it will be interesting to many, the following extracta are made: ‘Dogs, as well as other animals, have diseases akin to the human family, and must be sub- jected to similar treatment as regards medicine; differing, however, in the dose which, proving corrective to the one, in some cases tends to an opposite effect in the other. Catarrh, bron- chitis, consumption, pneumonia, inflammation of the stomach, liver, kidneys, jaundice, dropsy, diarrhea and ‘many other diseases are common to the dog. Dogs generally, at some time of their lives, are subject to distemper, in which one or more of these diseases are prominent, and which being brought on bya common cold, inflammation of the lungsor bowels, assumes a low form and becomes what is known in the human family as typhus fever. The first stage of distemper, caused by exposure to wet or cold, is knewn as ephemeral fever, and brings on ci:filness, with increased surtace heat, quick pulse and hurried breathing. Doge of all ages, from a month upward, are eubject to it, but it occurs mostly before or at the comple- tion of the first year. A dog may be attacked with the disease a second time (then generally in a milder form) and recover, but, for want of proper treatment, which is too often the case, he is more likely to die. Dis- temper is also apt to occur without any apparent cause—as well when dogs are kindly cared for.as when neglected, as whatever debilitates the constitution will generate distemper. It is un- doubtedly contagious and epidemic, occurring mostly inspring and autumn,and may be commu- nicate@ by even one dog over an entire district. Strange to say, the most valuable animals suffer most from this disorder, the cur being ill but one or two days. A dog in an advanced state of distemper is disposed to gnaw at or bite anv- thing within reach, and is frequently subject to epileptic fits and successive convulsive spasms of the muscles, Other and a different descrip- tion of fits then ensue. He staggers, tumbles, lols, and, crying, tears up the ground until he finally falls exhausted. In this state and show- ing these symptoms.many valuable dogs are put out of their misery, generally through fear of hydrophobia, when in fact there is no resemb- lance between the two. is not, by bite or otherwise, communicable to man, and it is to be regretted there should beso little understanding shown in this particular: Any unusual behavior in the dog should be in- quired into as in the case of a child, and especi- ally if the dog suffers from acold or nasal ca- tarrh, as distemper generally commefices in the nasal membrane. The treatment would. of course, vary with. the different breeds and ac- cording to the age or size of the animal; but it is always proper on discovering the aymptoms to give an emetic, say equal parts of calomeiand tartar emetic. or, if that is not obtainable, com- mon ralt will be found serviceable. The next thing to be done fs to keep the dog well bedded, next frequent change, good ventilation, free from draught, and improvement may be ex- pected. Should the dog grow worse, which is probable, and his owner is solicitous for his wel- fare, acompetent physician should be consulted without delay, as the advance of distemper is so rapid in most cases as to preclude all chance of recovery. ee The Washington Correspondents Move South. From the New York Journal. “What's all over?” he was asked. “This beautiful dream, a summer passed in Washington Square.” “(And where do you go now?” “Going south. For the last week or so TI have taken time to make out my route. Here it Is: First I get over to New Jersey—and, by the way, have you three cents that I may devote to that purpose? My banker has not yet returned from Europe. Thanks. Will you take a re- ceipt? Noy I'm atraid that you're not much of abusiness man. Well, once in New Jersey, 1 shall take the nearest raflroad to Philadelphia.” “Yes, youcan go to Philadelphia in two hours now.” “No, [hardly think so. I'm not so spry as T used to be. And then there are so many trains going it is reatly dangerous. No, I’m not so afraid of telescoping as I am of bein thrown off the track. About three days, I reckon, will see me entering the Bound Brook depot in Philadel- phia. Once there, I have a friend in Franklin Square who has spent the summer in that park. I don’t see how he could stand the heat of Phil- adelphia. And then he has not had the society that I have enjoyed. Philadelphia is so slow. Tozether we will go to Washington, where we Il spend the winter.” And your business, if I may inquire?” ‘Both myself and my friend in Philadelphia are Washington correspondents.” The Jersey City ferryboat wafted the literary man over the river. ———_ +s. —_ Pastorius, the German Pioncer. His social life wore no ascetic form, He loved all beauty, without fear of harm, And tn his veins his Teuton blood ran warm. Strict to himself, of other men no spy, He made his own no circuit judge to try The freer conscience of his neighbors by. With love rebukinz, by his life alone, Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown, The Joy of one, who, seeking not his own, And faithful to all scruples, finds at last ‘The thorns and shards of duty overpast, And dally life, beyond his hope’s forecast, Pleasant and beautiful with sight and sound, And flowers ppspringing in its narrow round, And all his days with quiet gladness crowned. He sang not; but, if sometimes tempted strong, He bummed what seemvd like Altorf’s Burschen- song, Hs good Wife smiled, and did not count it wrong. “operated” forty-three tim Formerly the French executioner was paid sixteen hundred dollars a year, but the pay has now been re- duced to twelve hundred. When, by chance, M. ites he is allowed so much a mile for traveling expenses, and a perquisite of forty dollars. He has two aids and a third laborer, who is specially charged to see that the guillo- tine is kept clean. He is called ‘the washer.” Another perquisite for the headsman is that his eldest son is exempt from military duty. M. Deibler lives in one of the populous quarters of Paris, near the Saint-Louis hospital. This house, in the Rue Vicq-d’ Azir, adjoins the police head- quarters of the tenth arrondissement. ‘“Mon- sieur de Paris,” as he is called, lives on the sec- ond floor in a small and modestly furnished apartment. The servant, who opens the door with a timid air, is the sister of one of the headsman’s aids. At the corner of the chimney- place sits the mother-in-law, a small and shriy- eled old lady of ninety-one years. Then comes Mme. Deibier, a buxom woman of forty, with ‘an open and attractive countenance, and who must have been very prettv in her younger days. We have said that she was M. Roch’s daughter; all the headsmen belonging to the ¢ family by succession or by alliance, fathers and sons always marrying inside the family so as not to allow the family inheritance to escape from their hands. It we are to believe the facetious reporter who called upon M. Deib- ler we should gay that he was a baer | man and a discoui one, owing to Grevy’s clemency; but the fact is the reporter found him @ difficult man to interview. M. Roch once had the misfortune to have a blog- raphy written by some entei rising journalist, and as his superiors 1 the executioner of having furaished some of the details he came near losing his freee by this publicity. M. Deibler evidently does not intend to “give him- self away,” and for this reason he appeared melancholy and silent to the reporter. he weal truth is that “Monsieur de Paris” is a quiet. unas- suming man who attends to his private affairs— and to his public duties when the occasion pre- sents itself—like any other mortal. On hia fete day his aids call upon him to wish him long life and prosperity—and perhaps more activity. ——_—_——_-o-_____ Mr. Beecher’s Substitute. ‘From an Interview in the Galveston News, “Mr. Beecher, when the dogma of a hell is knocked in the head how are you to appeal to men in such a way as to lift them out of their boots?” “Preach retribution,” answered the great thinker ina very emphatic matiner. ‘No in- telligent person believes in @ literal burning hell, but when men come to learn that their sins will find them out and -that there is no chance of escaping the punishment for wrong- doing you have got a moral lever that will con- trol the violences of human nature and send it on through the ages of eternity in the right di- For well he loved his boyhood’s brother band; His Memory, while he trod the New World’s strand, Adouble-ganger walked the Fatherland! —Wuittien’s “Pennsylvania Pilgrim” A TRICK ON THE BOYS, ing Newspaper Men illard Party were Fright- How Unwsas With the ened. The interest excited by the appearance of the Indians, among the newspaper men, was of such a nature as to develop itself at an un- seemly hour ofthe night. Shortly after leaving the cliff of % sudden, when the occupants of one of the cars in the third section were awakened by a most frightful series of yells, heads were quickly poked from behind the cur. tains and to the horror of the night-gowned oc- cupants of the car, the aisle was discovered to be full of wild and paintedIndians, armed with tomahawks, knives and all the paraphernalia of savage warfare. They were bent upon murder and robbery, and had selected a car which was filled mainly with press eens as their first point of attack, well knowing that no- where else would they findso much concealed wealth. The occupants of the car were horrdr- stricken, and for a moment were unable to do anything, save to yell. In the meantime one of the Indians got astride the colored porter and nearly tore his bleeding scalp from off his head. Commissioner Bell, of Washington, who oc- Sol pay ‘an upper berth,grasped his revolver, but betore he could use it it was wrenched from his hand, and he was laid out stark and stiff. The Hon. Carter Harrison poked his head This distemper in dogs.| ‘TOM OCHILTREE IN PARIS. —- Whe Texas Congressman Helping in His Vacation to Rum the French Re- public, Paris Letter in New York Sun. Col. Thomas Ochiltree has been lubricating the machinery of theErench Republic all sum- mer, and has become sucha power in effairs of State here that only the mozt conscientious de- votion to his Texas constituents could serve to draw him away in October, at which time he Proposes to return to the. management of the affairs of the republic across the seas. Only those who know of his talenf for ubiquity can understand how it is going to be possible for him to run two republics, but Col. Ochiltree’s familiarity with republican principles is so un- usual that it really, it is said, does not require the great mental effort the task would suggest. The French statesmen are inclined to boast of havirig weaned Col. Ochiltree from his native land, and it is more than hinted that as between Parfs and Washington, the accomplished Amer.- can has a positive preference of the city of the Eden Theater, the Ambassadeurs and the Alca- zar d’Ete, especially in view of the grand oppor- tunity presented here of establishing one of the most attractive features of American politics, viz., draw poker, Baccarat is all yery well, but Col. Ochiltree is able to demonstrate that draw poker is as essential to the rapid development of the principles of a re ‘© a8 a morning cocktail. The Anicrican bar has received Col. Ochiltree with distinguished honors. and many new points have been introduced into the code since his arrival here, while additional force has been added to others because of his exposition of the virtues of peppermint. Julep is in fact an Americanism attributed to Col. Ochiltree’s presence. A curious scene occurred a few nights ago at a cafe chantant in the Champs Elysees. Cul. Ochiltree was sitting under the trees in front of this oudoor theater, with coffee and Cognac be- fore him, and, the night being warm, he had laid aside his straw hat, so that nature’s brilliant decorative sheathing seemed to be the only spot of color in the mass of heads. The curi- osity it excited seemed to convey the impression that the Parisians fancied that it waSa new American electric lamp. But the fun came when a comedian dressed as a pompicr—a French fireman—came out with an imaginary hose in his hand. As he sang and cavorted he aimed the invisible nozzle, shooting an imper- ceptible stream, at the Texas Congr-isman’s head. Col. Ochiltree did not appreciate the cause of the uproarious mirth that followed, nor did he seem to get. the point when, as he involuntarily put on his straw hat, the comedian exclaimed in French, ‘‘The fire is extinguished!’ Col. Ochiltree has luxurious quarters at the Continental hotel, and he is one of the attrac- tions at the table d‘hote along with the vivid French pictures on the walls. His social side, however, is better known in America thaa here. for there is here the yawning gulf of a foreign language between the Congressman and many of those to whom.he is introduced. Col. Ochiltree goes to the brink of this precipice of difficulties and gesticulates 80 oddly that, like condor in the Andes, he seems about to flap his wings and sail off into the soft atmosphere of the French tongue, but memories of Texas seem to restrain him from the perilous feat. He is more at home at Poissy with his countrymen, who discuss the tang and bouquet of the spark- ling Wines on Minister Morton’s table. He is happiest when he is going abont with Lafay- ette. Col. Ochiltree has not been able tu con- vince some 6r his American friends that his Inti- macy with Lafayette is not ajoke. He does not want them to believe that he is stalking about Paris with a cheap ghost of the early friend of the American republic, nor does he mean to insinuate that the old hero is still liy- ing, asone Texan intimated. ‘No, no,” says Col. Ochiltr “Allow me to make it clear to Lafayette—my chaperon, my friend—is the grendson of the Marquis de Lafayette, and is a devilish clever fellow, speaks English, ’as all of the most cultivated Frenchmen in public life do, and isa Senator. In fact, he is a Marquis in his own right, but I tell him that under the republic he should not use his title, and I think he sees the force of my suggestion. I have been telling Latayette that if he wants to make the republic go he must do more as we do across the water—get down among the people, be democratic—bust up all this order business, palace business and nobility business. I think (and here the Colonel drew a volume of smoke out of a fifty-centime cigar), I think I have given him some things to think over.” “I suppose, Monsieur, you have met the dent of the French republic?” at. Grevy? Oh, yes; I know Grevy well. In fact, I occupied ‘his box in the Senate hamber, and also atthe opera. In fact, he shown me some marked attention, and I held consultations with him. They are eager for information here about .our re- public across the sea.’ ” -‘Do you think the republic has come to stay?” “Why, of course. They have (modestly spoken) received a new impetus of late in the extension of republican doctrines. They turned out a whole lot of judges here some weeks ago. Now, I didn’t like that. They were in for lite relics of the old rig-geen, and I told Lafayette that toan American—one in public life, as it were—the act seemed a little communistic, but he gave me a satisfactory explanation. The re- publicans didn’t have any show before these fel- lows, and they accordingly were bounced. Goy- ernmental necessity.”” “Reconstruction policy?” “Voraiment. That is—traly.” This little conversation, which occurred on the Bonlevard des Capucines, was abbreviated by the arrival of some Frenchmen, who took the American statesman off. As they went gayly along, the Texas Congressman with his petite straw hat perched on one side of his head seemed to be the Frenchiest of them all. A few days later Col. Ochiltree was asked it there was peace and loyalty in all of the arron- disements. He said readily: “Yes, yes; a little discontent in the Faubourg St. Germain, but trifling.” “Is there any new topic in Governmental circles to-d: d “Yes. ‘There is a new ballet at the Eden theater.” Se CLAPHAM JUNCTION. ‘The Resh and Roar of London-Sixteen Hundred Shunted Trains a Day. From the October Century, If you want to see what the traffic of London is like, go to Clapham junction, where the great railway systems connect. The rails lie together from behind the curtain of his berth and at- cee red to mutter a speech to the raiding rea- skins, The result is that Chicago will have to call. a jal election and choose another man to take the place once occupied by “the best mayor Chicago ever had.” The handsome young man whorepresents one ot the eastern papers, fell out of his berth wrong side foremost, and as he was attired in gorgeous under-garments of scarlet, the Indian leliberately denuded him and left him a gad relic of departed glory. Several:other horrible outrages occ! i—one young Englishman in the car having his front teeth all carried ges fo he had left them by the side of his tent, when he retired, and Noahbrooks, chief of the tribe, discovered them and took them away, to give to his wife and children at the Newyork times Reservation, Chief Evs Malley stubbed his big toe against a belonging to the corres- pondent of the St, Paul and injured him- alert The Indians were put to flight all ofa sudden by brave Conductor Webber. who rushed to the spot with a bottle of ap) water, and cried, ‘‘Supper in the rear car, gen- tlemen!” It was indeed a narrow escape, and members of the party still carry recol ‘ions and mementoes of the occasion, aome of which Coat as high as $6 and $3. like the wires of a grand plano. System and organization have done their best, and six- teen hundred trains a day run over them. It is a bewilderment. In and ont, coming, going, slow trains and fast trains; one side of you halts a train, and while you watch its wheels slowing, an express rushes past on the other side like a tornado of iron; no shriek- ing of whistles or clanging of bells as on our railways—they keep their signals for their officials, and outsiders must expose themselves at their own risks,—only a rush} a blast of wind that almost takes your breath or draws you into its eddy when it has gone by, a torrent of ore windows, and you see the rear ofthe last age shrinking before your eyes as it leaves you; and the fast express has come and gone in a space of time which you could hardly find on the dial of your watch. Up anddownthe lines you see signal-posts and semaphores—arms working; by night lamps green, red, white, the language of the railway, but no confusion; every man knows his een or forgets it at his bodily peril. You ask the orficial when your train isdue: In two minutes;” and as the clock hands point, the train comes. He knows to the second when it left the lust station, whether it be on table-time or behind it; every movement is recorded, and every train has its place and moment. A tunnel-way for passengers con- nects the whole, so that no one is allowed to cross the rails except the officials, who grow foolhardy and now and then come to grief. The guard at the junction told me one day of the Billing of one of the porters, to cross the line in front of the fast express, and was struck midway the rails by the full front of the locomotive. He was knocked like a ball twenty feet, and when they reached him there was no quéver even in his flesh. If a shot from & twenty-inch Rodman gun had hithim, it would not have expunged life more completely and in- stantaneously. Itisasaying of the denizensabout Clapham junction, that, on the average, one man is killed every six weeks. One wonders, after having watched the traffic a half hour, that some one ts not killed every day. Look cityward and see- the trains flying—diverging eastward, westward, northward, line under line ‘three deep, crossing each other, diving under or going over, but never on the same level, and then sweeping by long curves tonne the huge circumference of suburban ndon, & lé of iron, meeting, crossing, ‘uniting, soeting egain on the opposite side. In @ mutiny of the 15th infantry of Mexico, at Puc 1, caused by paying the men in nickels 90 cents to the dollar, the officer of the guard ‘was killed and a captain and corporal wounded. The Special counsel in San Franciaco for col- lecting Sanaa taxes has commenced suit r J. P. Jones, of Nevada, to re- cover $20,000 to be due for taxes on sundry mining 6 DAUGHTER HAS TAKEN THE MEDICINE faithfully, to directions,and her health and spirits are now perfect. The humor is all gone from her face. I wish every anxious mother might know what « blessing Ayer's Sarsaparilla is in such cases,” GQUFFERERS FROM THE EFFECTS OF QUI_ ‘nine, used as & remedy for chills and fever. willap Preciate Ayer’s Ague Cure, a powerful tonic bitter, com- Posed wholly of vegetable substances, without & par- ticle of any noxious drug. Its action is peculiar, Prompt and powerful, breaking up the chill, curing the fever and expelling the poison from the system, yet leaving no harmful or unpleasant effect upon the Patient, cry Wanu Unorawear. _ ‘WARM FOR LADIES. UNRERWEAR, — Merino Vests and Pants, UNDERWEAR. Saxony Wi UNDERWEAR, All Wool, full reenlar, z $8 eac UNDERWEAR, Scarlet WARM $1.19, $1.39, NDERWEAR, WAL UNDERWEAR, UNDERWEAR, Me WARM UNI FOR GENTLEMEN. eri ia D: no Shirts and Drawers, GENTS 00 R WAR! UNDER’ 5 each. English Cashmere (fancy), 2.75 each. Double Breasted “Shaker,” $2.48 cach. LADIES’ GENTS CHILD’ UNDERWEAI WARM FOR CHILDREN, UNDERWEAR. Merino and Cashmere der- ‘ARM wear, from 2c. to $1.25. UNDERWEAR. WARM. RM NDERWEA UNDERWEAR, vey FOR / WARM. LADIES’. GENTS AND UNDERWEAR CHILDREN, WARM At 25 per cent under usual UNDERWEAR. Prices, PPP. ERR, BPPALAIS fRe OYAL, P R P RR 08 1117-1119 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Arrrnactions ar THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS, THE STYLES—The Handsomest we have ever shown, and a great variety, covering every taste and need, THE WORKMANSHIP—The best and the most careful. THE PRICES—The lowest in the market for reli- able Goods. Depend upon it. FOR MEN AND YOUTHS. 50, We : Business Suits at B10, worth $18, All-Wool Cassimere and Cheviot Suits at $12, worth $22. Black Diagonal Suits at $15, worth $25. Black Cloth Suits (Frock) at $12, worth $22, ,_ Black Cloth Suits at $15, worth 830, ‘Finest Black Cloth Suits at $20, worth $45, ercoats at #6, worth 810. rcoats at $8, worth 215, Better Ove at Bplendid Overcoats at $i0, worth $19, ‘Fine Overcoats at$15, worth $25. FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 11 YEARS. Good Suits at $2.50, worth 4.50, Better Suits at $3, worth @5, Still Better Suits at 4, worth 37. ‘Real Good Suits at $5, worth $9. FOR BOYS FROM 12 TO 17 YEARS. Good Suits at $4, worth $7. Better Suits at 85, worth #3, Btill Better Suits at 86, worth #11, Splendid Suits at 7, worth $13. Black Worsted or Diagonal Suits at 89, worth $16, PANTS. An immense varicty at 81.50 $2, $2.50. $3, £3.50, $4, $4.50, $5—any of Shin worth eink THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS. Fax None. ‘We have now placed in stock an immense line of ocd LADIES’ JERSEYS AND NEWMARKETS, Imported and made in This Country, prices ranging from $4.75 to $19. ‘These goods will be very fashionable this season, and the greatdemand for them has alresdy raised the price. We have them in many styles,.some who undertook |- very handsome and choice. Please call early and don’t be disappointed in style and prices, MISSES' FALL JERSEY COATS AND NEWMAREETS, We have a full line of these goods for Misses, Our stock of HAVELOCK COATS and SUITS are coming in day by day, and our prices will efeak for themselves. Ps ‘We have some great Bargains in Garments left over from Last Season. Our Millinery Opening will be MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH. Full Stock on hand Now. BBB AU 0 MM MM ™ 9sse BOB AA U U MMMM» & eee BBB A A UU MMM 5gs87" 416 SEVENTH STREET. 05 _LADIES GOODS. Mus. M. J. Howr, 1309 F street northwest, Special display of MOURNING BONNETS and CHILDREN'S STYLER, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, OCTOBER lors AND lira. — Misses SEDGWICK AND CHRISTMAN, IMPORTED DRESS FABRICS. (Late with Mme. Van Renth,) Have opened thetr Parlors, 925 12th street @ INCH FRENCH OTTOMANS, 8125. northwest. Latest styles in Fall and Winter Costumes, S INCH FRENCH TRIOOTS. 2.00 Tailor Finished Cloth Suite x specialty. 8-6" IN ENCH CAS ——————— os $8 INCH FRENCH CASHMERES, 500. BROCADE, “FUR-LINED CLOLK. StOCKE 42 INCH FRENCH PLAIDS, 1.25. NETTE, Ero, Representing all the Latest Dosigna, <2 INCH FRENCH PLAIDS, -_ ‘My line for this season embraces over xixty different @ INCH FRENCH PLAIDB = ra including the ernwine derecy Jacket belts te eat display eve: ‘hia cluy. . M. WILLIAN, a _1 Cite Trevise, Paris. 907 Pennsylvania avenne. of Fa sili : Mis. K. A, Dosovax, TYLER & CHEWNING, 904 F street, (Junction of 9th and F streets Latest Styles of Everything Appertaining ta 8 939 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. MILLINERY. _Batisfaction given or money refunded ADIES FURS REPATRE! Redyed and Lined. Fur Circular and Dolman covervd. Miss CUNNINGHAM. 1310 Sth street northwest, between Nand 0. Moor B. Vax Reor, 1112 131m STREET NonTHWeEst, Having just returned from abroad. will OPEN, FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER. ber TRIMMINGS: oben SEAL | SACQUPS SEATON PERRY, (SUCCESSOR TO PERRY & BROTHER.) HAS NOW OPEN A VERY LARGE AND COMPLETE | LINE OF BLACK AND COLORED ALL-WOOL FRENCH TRICOTS AND HABIT CLOTHS, RANG- ING IN PRICE FROM $1.25 TO 83 PER YARD. TRICOTS AND HABIT CLOTHS ARE THE PROPER AND FASHIONABLE FABRICS FOR LADIES' TAILOR MADE SUITS. ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF BLACK AND COLORED FRE) DRESS TEXTURES FOR PLAIN AND COMBINATION COSTUMES, | NEW PARIS AND BERLIN JACKETS, WRAPS, NEW- MARKETS AND RUSSIAN CIRCULARS, “ALL THE CORRECT STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED.” SUPERB STOCK OF BLACK, WHITE AND. 4 SILKS, RADZIMIRS, OTTOMANS AND PLAIN AND BROCADED LYONS VELVETS, IN QUALI- TIES THAT CAN BE RELIED ON TO WEAR. oie RARE ROOM FOR DISPLAYING EVENING €-CHOICE GoD: Fe HOICE. GOODS, PLAIN FIGURES AND COR- SEATON PERRY, Perry Building, Pennsylvania avenue, corner 9th street. Established 2840. 006 pepat-am Bas removed from Baltinnny to 24D heam, Ian tkiiore 10.241 trent sont where she will make toordcr Drvsecs. and Conta grade. With me eXPUTIET Brenmmaking shewuarantocs jai a and style. DRESS a CUTTING SCHOOL. — LADIES CAN learn dress cutting, fitting, makine, draping and Meastirement Parlors and scliool. S13 11th street _n. w. Dresses made to order. aud AM FISHER. SHEMICAL DRY CLE: MENT. 906 orthw: nce. P sunctior ju District offe Tacor Corns, DIAGONAL CLOTHS, BROADCLOTHS FOR TAILOR-MADE SUITS. pila Maxon OMUTENTH STREET NORTHWEST, enTehave just onened a large stock of the above goods fii parantees grt a a face” MA tontertel, sirable shades. ER SPECIALTIES ARI ail ol Stock of new Dress Goods Just recelved, including | Prench Hand-made Uinlertntnne Meebo Underwear, ‘Sil and finest Imported Hosicry, Velvets and Satins in great variety. We abe offering decided baryaius in Bicalle Velveta, Bittarant stoek Black Brocade Silks, Fruit ‘ jacannt sto UE Yelets all the core e <_ {0 in Colored Silk ¥ parang Binck Velvets'n every grade We have just purchased a am; Real Se ach eripems ma el on large and: chazane stock o Goods. In buying Black Goods, particular signs gcononay rect the te lousckeepers Lincs and Cottons in every grade, Full stock of Table Linen and Napkins in new dexiens, W. M. SHUSTER & SONS, 919 Pennsylvania ayen ue, N. B.—THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. 3 Goods. and Bustles. | The “Hercules” Sup- orset, for which Miss His epecial agent, 881 Corset, her Own make, that for the price cannot be surpassed. N._B.—French, German and Spanish spoken, a __GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. __ Tuoxrsoy's Sumer Facrony. CHARLES HYATT, Prorrretor. FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER, MEN'S FINE FURNISHINGS, Dousaxs: Douxass: Doras: 816 F STREET NORTHWEST, 8. B. Eu, + CLOAES! CLOAKS! CLOAKS! Opposite Patent Office, New stock of the above goods fast opened, trimmed in succRaFOR TO the latest styles, $10, $1: S15 915 Go) oz es, DUBREUIL BROTHERS, Cashmeres, 50¢ oe TC ol Fall Dress i. As, single and double, aj styles. Canton Flannel, 8. 10c. 12 MANUFACTURERS OF FINE DRESS SmRTs GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, 1112 F Srneer Noruwesr, Wasurserox, D.©. Finest Dress Shit Fine Shirts to ix of the Six Extra Suit Bea -s' Flan: Black Diagonal TR, all styles. Linen and Napkins, all grades, Six Fine Shirts to orde Table mb Bed Comforts, 75c., #1, $1.25, £1.50. » White Wool Blankets, per pair, $2.50, $3, $3.50, from $1.25 per pair. BIG BARGAINS. 100 dozens Cream Damask Napkins, 9R¢. dozen. 10-4 Best Bleached Sheeting Cotton, 25c. 8. nation. (Gray.) rainte on Al Field on Constitution and Jurisdiction of U, 8. Courts, Malone on Real Pro Trials, sce a 4q 3 lancous:—Old Mexico and Her Tost Provinces, “s Fool (Julian Hawthorn.) Eugene Fre pti james Balddin). Bonnytell Vang = Steves Aveere, (Jolin Esten Cook.) “Banned and Bivased (Mrs, Wistar 08 Bouth Side, | Iwo Yearwat Hilixboro’ Julia Century. Chaucer to Bi Nelson.) Lyrics of lth W. H. MORRISON, 475 Pennsylvania aventie, Lorme « Wie HAVE ON HAND, AND ARE DAILY RECEIVING, NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS, SUCH AS SILKS, VELVETS, SATINS, CASHMERES, LADIES' CLOTH IN EVERY SHADE, AND DRESS GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. iE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE, ILLUS- trated, 2 vols., 50. Viggunia, History of the People, by Jobin Eston Cooke, Lite of Janes Buchanan, by Georgw Ticknor Curtis, 9 Bis Son Eecolle $1.50. e Rivals, by E. P. Roe, $1.50. ous of @ Naval Giicer, by Capt. W. I, Pasker, WM. BALLANTYNE & SON, 428 7th Street, Booxs, Tx Fozowra New $ JUST RECEIVED, < f - “ BLACK site = Are offered at reduced prices: A Washington Winter, o BRACE SRSHate . Mrs. Dahlgren’ Through One Anmininrston be heey, NKETS from #2 to $108 pair. Burnett; Mr. Isaac, by F. Marion Crawford. Dr. Claud: BLANKETS at $5 and P fue, by F Marion Crawford. Eve's Daughters, by Marion BED COMFORTS from $1 Harlan; Poems 0 jon, by Emma Bat Yet JOB LOT WHITE SPREADS just received. a Woman. by Hardy | Hawthorne’: Works, Kivenside Edie CLOTH and CASSIMERE for Men and Boys. nag, | _ We also offer special reduction on sts of Books: TABLE 1 ‘TOWELS, NAPRING DOTLIES. | Dickens’, 15-vo) » Cae ran HANDKERCHIEFS, GLOVES and HOSIERY in | Dickens’, Great Variety. COURTAULD'S CREPE, in all widths, EXAMINE OUR STOCK BEFORE PURCHASING YOUR FALL SUPPLY. LUTTRELL & WINE, 21 0 10 0 5 BO 300 BAUM'S, 416 7h street, A Feasr Or Arr A D Fasuion FOR THE LADIES! ~GREAT AND GORGEOUS!— KING’S PALACE, Grand Festival and Fall Opening of MILLINERY AND PARISIAN NOVELTIES, PATTERN HATS AND BONNETS, CHILDREN'S, MISSES’ AND LADIES’ WRAPS, anything of the kind ever before witnessed Eclipsing in Washington City. Weextend a cordial invitation to allon THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 AND FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, To our SECOND ANNIVERSARY Celebration of the Opening of KING'S PALACE. In recognition of ‘the favors showered upon this enterprise since its inceptior by a Discriminating Public, * ‘we will commemorate on New Years Day, Jami 1, 1884, ‘bu ticl eL our Grand Drawing? | KING'S PALACE, ‘The Largest Millinery House in the District of Columbia, 814 SEVENTH STREET. os ee Oe Evzovraxa New xo Haxvsouz FOR THE FALL TRADE IN CARPETS, RUGS, MATS, AND UPHOLSTERY GOODS, ‘For the Lowest Cash Prices, at SINGLETON & HOEKE'S, sep 801 MARKET SPACE. PMPORTERS OF FREN CHAM ‘French Clarets from @1.25 to _Gaifornin, for HOOL. KS, ik EVERY GRADE OF PURLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND C01 1930 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, HOU) wep27-2w Corner 20th street. AND ALL SCHOOL KEQUISITPS, ie nd retail, NOVELtizgs. a er eae a seeps 418 9th street northwest. TRUNNEL & CLARK, —_—=__== ——— 811 Market Space, ATTORNEYS. ‘show t friends, en re nd the public FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS. ‘Best Class! Bottom Prices! Special prices in Black and Colored SILKS, of our ‘usual ties, MERE VELVETS, CHUDDAS, CASH- Jobin CHUDDA, 42-in., all-wool, 50c.; good val in wibctior grate at Og. ‘Also, many new things 15 = eee Feary experience. " Business “quietly and legally trans- SAMUEL EOWA yy 680 Ta. ave., next to City P.O. N. MILLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, pee es Building, ‘472 Louiniana avenue. reduocd from tam YO" SUITING FLANNEL, @1, | _ Residence, 240 North Capitol street =. NAPKINS, TO ‘A. HALL, we; stock. HOSIERY. and Gent's UN- Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, HANDKERCHIEFS. ‘916 F street northwest, oe ‘of stock and Sompariaon of rier , mata as QLICITOR OF “ONE PRICE ONLY." snd °F stresta. “Good work, good ep! TRUNNEL & CLARK. ei Le See ee iermct & Se until OC ee RCRERT T MEMOREY He hotel fea, F. ALL Orvenixe Dany Goops. ‘We open TO-DAY full lines of all the new FABRICS ILEN DRESS GOODS, in the most in We DI x “BRUNSWICK” VELVETEENS are the beat. Full lines MESTIC Sa PINENG Lace CURTAING andal season. JUBEKEEPING HO! ING LL pete nee