Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1883, Page 2

WASHINGTON; WEDNESDAY” ee tat Eh, i oA OCTOBER CITY AND DISTRICT. THY GARFIELD PITAL. Proceedings of the Board of Directors, An Interesting and evcouraging history of the proceedings of the directors of the Garfleid Me- morial Hospital was laid betore the board at its recent meeting. Judge Samuel PF. Miller, of the U.S. Supreme Court, stated that his prolonged absence irom the city deprived nim of the ma- terials recessary for making a report, but that the vice presi Mr. Lewis J. Davis, had kindly and eth pertormned this dui n read a report giving @ re- 4 been done in pursuance of neider site was of adjacent < appended a letter Thos. J. her & € real estate ents in charze, reporting the ” the property con- y the trustees of the late sors’ Orphans heme, and mak- touching the proposed sale of from Messrs. ‘The committee tion, c S.A. Busey, Mr. Regi- am Bell, made a Teport through its chairman, Dr. Billings, who ted that, in pursuance of authority and in- ons, the committee had taken possession site, considered and deeided upon the a to the old man- jy. and after con- submitted by r & Marshall. architects; n required on carefully pre- sfications, and the lowest responsible sntracted with; that the work was an- Atter examination into the subject- er of the report, the plans. specifications, work done and that recommended to be done, the board approved of the steps taken, endorsed the suzwestions submitted, and appropriated au 000 to complete the wards e committee. Propriety ot immediate organization of a I stai® was discussed, but on the suzges- tion of Dr. Busey and by common consent that ed to a later day. On suggestion of Mrs. Gen. Ricketts an ap- propriation was made for the purchase ot turni- ture for and the fitting up of a reception room at the hospital. Mr. Henry A. Willard, from the committee on Ways and means, reported that he had filed a notice of claim for land of the hospital affected the extension of the Washington aqueduct. im, chairn re, Biade a verbal report to the effect that the indi- Vidual members of the committee were at work, some out ot t d that they would be repared to ess at the next meeting. The public, it is believed, must be impressed by the earnest hibited by the ies having this little band of p ts and conservative sman of the e launched. thing succeeds The assurances ot fact whieh the ard give the public t t i, that mor done and that | and efliciency are the thre will eulist benef i sections in the in ————+e2—_____ he Dog Nuisance. To the Editor of Tux Evesrs If | could grow! as load and long and fierce as the dogs wh id high carnival in this locality Tsuppose the lvek-up; but si acred than t e would mareh me off to the the rights of dogs are more | its of human beings I expect ntinue te howl forever— IT do not b «of modern as is this city. e nicht is not made a | s curs. on H street, indeed in yy. the noise of th useless brutes | herves of the sensitive, destroy the ‘ick, waken the restless infant. and inflict untold torture on people who were born with nerves. As for doxs being a protection, there is not one case in twenty where a dog other city fested wil ti EMOHIAL HOS-|The System Which It is | meridian. | are governed t THE NEW TIME STANDARD. Proposed to ‘Take the Place of the Present Time. FOUR STANDARD TIMES FOR THE ENTIRE COUN- TRY—THE HOUR BELTS WHICH WILL SIMPLIFY RAILROAD TRAVELING AND PREVENT MIS~ TAKES—THE RAILROAD OFFICIALS ADOPTING THE NEW TIME-—ITS PROBABLE INTRODUCTION ON THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER—WHAT 13 SAID AT THE NAVAL OBSERVATURY AND AMONG RAILROAD OFFICIALS AND WATCH MAKERS IN Tuts cry. People who travel, and there are bat few in | these days who do not, feel the inconvenience which arises from the ditference in time between the various places. A watch which the owner has perfect coniidence in at home becomes a svurce of uncertainty as soon as a railroad train is bearded. Its familiar face and trusty hands inspires as much perplexity in the mind as it the first was covered all orer with Egyptian hierog!yphies and the latter pointed due north ond south. There is very good ground for this perplexity in the multiplicity of times, which Prevails on all the railroads that interlace the continent. It is said that there are at present a hsif hundred time systems in vogue in this country. A fair example of the confasion thus occasioned is presented by Buffalo, where some ot the trains are run on Buffalo. time, some on New York - time, some. on Philadelphia time, some on Columbus time, me on Detroit time and some on Hamilton jtime. Trains ran of the New York Central depot on four different kinds of time. Those out of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia on three. The coatusion is so great that it is next to impossible for the railroad people, to say nothing of the traveling public, to keep track of it. THE TRIALS OF TRAVELERS. Ifa traveler attempts to depend upon his own timepiece. he must either change at every point where a different time prevails, or he must be | Posted in the geography of the country well enough to Getermine whether he has traveled east or west in going from one piace toanother, and how far. This is not such a simple matter as it seems, and many a well-informed person would be puzzled to decide off-nand whether, for instance, Baltimore was east or west of Wash- ington, and how much. Everybody knows that in traveling west, faster than the sun, you gain time, and in traveling east you lose it, as com- pared with the time of the place of departure. But knowing the points of the compass suffi- ciently well to determine the direction, in order that this information should be of valne, the traveler must further know the difference in time between the several locali- ties. In a country like this, where you can take a berth In a sleeping-car and wake up the next morning in Pittsburg or New York, and then travel for days, it becomes a rather complicated matter. The traveler to New York from Wash- ington would find that his watch was 12 mio- utes and 12 seconds slow, and if he went to Pittsburg that his time was 11 minutes and 56 seconds faster than his Washington time. As he traveled further, especially on the branch road¢ and at the country towns, his efforts to keep his watch in agreement with the prevail- Ing time would almost be maddening in their resuits. THREE TIMES IN WASHINGTON. Here in Washington we have three times. There is first the Washington time, which is furnished by the Naval Observatory,based upon the passage of the sun over the Washington Then there is the time of the Penn- sylvania railroad, which is Philadelphia time, Seven minutes and thirty-four seconds faster. Tue saltimore & Ohio trains are run on Balti- more time, which is one minute and forty-five seconds fasterthan Washington time. merely a sainvie of the condition of affairs all the time of some central place in the local rail- rs If this difference Is a source of ividual, what must it be to es, especially as on all the railroads of consequence the trains are started, ran and operated generally by tele- graph? A corps of experienced operators, wio to the conduct tos inz them aud their trains at certain d apart and holdiag them back in case of a block or an accident on one of the other divisi Obviously a standard time would grea cidents. WHAT IS NEEDED. It is generally admitted that what is needed is a uniform time standard recornized through- out the country. In England there is but one time, that of Greenwich, but a few years ago there was no uniformity in this respect, and the annoyances and dangers were sv great that the change to a stendard time was effected with but knows e to bark when there is danger. ‘They are nuisances pure and simple. It is time the citizens of Washii sisted on laws to Suppress this unmitigated nuisance. If any per- son talks loud or boisterous he is arrested and marched off. If boys brawl they are promptly shut up. Indeed, our city ean boast of excellent Tezulations in all these particulars; but when it comes to the dog question their license is un- limited. If 1 could see in the dark I wou!d put a bullet throuzh every doz within ten miles. Within a few days twenty Teilated the uffering on account of the howling | K street. As a rule dogs with the t Innes and most untiring activity are voed by white residents. Will not the Com- mssioners do something to stop their noi: OWLER ON K STREET. = a Popular Saying. EVENING Sram: Piease inform us through your valuable col- umns as to the correctness of this sentence, “All And oblige Jack » Harry. | it to be sonnd doctrine, the cor- | surt of justice on a prom $ 1y made up case, Eo. Stan} | to the new stance little opposition. OUR BIG COUNTRY. Owing to the extent of the territory of the United States, where the difference in time from the extreme eastern border to the western limits is more than three hours, the adontion of one time standard would be impracticable. The railroad time convention has theretore adopted @ modification of the system proposed by the late Prot. Benjamin Peirce, of Harvard col- lege, which divides the country into hour belts. By means of this system all the people within a given section extending from the farthest point north to the farthest point south, standard conforming to the time of the meri- n divides the section in the center. 000 miles of railroad have con- sented to alter their time tables, and run trains upon thisuniform standard of time. Itis believed nat all the railroads in the country will con to this arranzement, and when the 18th of No- vember arrives, the introdue- tion of the new system, the entire time of the country, both loca! and railroad. will be changed rd or standards. y is such a practical one. and the advantazes aris- a Made a Slight Mistake. ‘saged woman ed a package of he scattered broad- east among the sinners in the horse-car on whieh she rode. When only one or two of the pamphlets were left a man got im He was on. his way to the depot, a countryman going home evidently. He lad a big watermelon which he disposed of tenderly on the seat next to him, and @ glass flask with a rubber cork stuck boldly out of his coat pocket. ‘He " Le panted as he stuffed his tare in- ‘Hotter than barvestin’ up here, t Everybody looked cold disapproval at him, as good, polite Christian people do when spoken to in a street car, all but the woman with the “tracks.” ¢ had fished one out and extended: to the box. iving it In a brown ie almanac, hey?” said the woman, frmiy, in a high It’s to save your immortal soul. not, handle not the wine,” and him that giveth his neighbor sted the womaa, flercely. actly my neighbor eyether, “You see, it's the new bab: i wife calculates to feten him up by han this be for hin, bless his pootsy xof it,” and diving ned out some Lodia tuling, ete. The woinan didn't walt to finish her disserta~ tion on temperance, but got out without ask- ing the driver to stop. Fron) the Wall Street News. Utell you what,” said a prominent specu- lator to the proprietor of an up-town hotel the other day, “there is bound to be war between France and China.” “Fes, it looks that way.” fede fen na be raise French wines a es. ‘And my advice to you is to lay in a full stock at once, aud thus get the benefit of the advance. And half-an-hour later he was teiezraphing to -bis cider-maker in New Jersey to increase his or- der by ten barrels. eg _ Fart Granville has recently takea to tricycle riding. and is not infrequently seen taking @ “spin” trom Walmer Castle inte Deal. ing from uniformity so great and. so manifest, that there is but littie doubt of its general adop- tion. LOCATION OF THE HOUR BELTS. The first or eastern section in which Washing- ton is located will be governed by the time of the seventy-fifth meridian. Taking a map and tracing this.meridian down it is found that it runs a little east of the following places: Ottawa, Canada; Utica, New York; Scranton, Easton, and Philadelphia, Pa.. and a little west of Cape May, New Jersey, where it runs into the Atlantic ocean. ‘es As the earth in ts revolution causes the sun to pass over 15 degrees of the earth’s surface in one hour, the next line of the time standard is placed in the ninetieth meridian, or just one hour distant in point of time. This will be called the centrai district, and the line as traced ‘on the map is found to through the western part of Lake Superior, the center of Wisconsin, the extreme western part of Illinois, then slightly east of St. Louis, through Memphis and a iittle — ea: of New Orleans. From this line an hour's difference in time will be located on the 105th meridian, which will be called the mountain section. This line goes through Denver, Col. The next time standard will be on the 120th meridian, which rons through the center of Washington Territory and Oregon, a little west of Carson City, and then throuzh the southern portion of California. Ali these lines are just one hour apart, the Pacific coast standard time being three hours slower than that of the eastern district. Thus, when the noon time ball drops in New York it will be 11 o'clock in Chicago, 10 o'clock in Denver and o'clock In San Francisco. The exact local solar time in each ot these cities would be at the same instant: New York, 12:04 p.m. 11:09 a. m.; Denver, 10 o'clock a.m.; San cisco, 8:50 a. m., so that it wili be seen that the difference is not very great. EQUIDISTANT FROM THE MERIDIANS. The time of these meridian lines, however, will not govern the entire block of country lying between them. As, for instance, the time of the 75th meridian will not be used up to the 90th meridian. For that would about give St. Louis Washington time, making the time at the former place nearly an hour in advance of the teal time. This would ancy for practical however, the time ot will govern the belt of side to a distance in time of oue-half hour, or as neafly so as posrible. over the actual time an hour in the most di ‘The effect of thie would be Ue Tah meridians which te an wi is 7 mil seconds faster tory time, West from This is | o country. ‘There is in every city and town the local time and the! Tailrcad time—the latter being the | atime reculator, wive the time | | a plify this system, and lessen the danger of ac-j and fifteen degrees wide will have the sametime | meridian; which is one hour slower, would be used. TN USE ON THE RAILROADS, In arranging the time tables the railroads will make the changes from one time section to an- other at the termini of roads or at the ends of divisions. The western railways, whose termini are inf Buffalo, Salamanca and Charlotte, are al- lowed to use the central standard as far east as those points. The finportant places, where the change of one hour from eastern to central time occurs, are Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Charlotte and Augusta, The change from central te moun- tain time is made at Bismarck, North Piatte. Wallace, Coolidge and others; from mountain to Pacific time at Ogden. Yuma and others. in many cases tho change of time, when mae at these railroad points, will not be at the ex: place where the two time belts meet. On many Taliroads the line separating the two belts ses the road at places where it would be in- convenient to make the change of time, and so the place is shifted east or west toa point where there is a terminus or the end of a division. CURIOUS FEATS OF TRAVELERS. This will canse travelersto perform some curi- ous teats—as, for instance, leaving a place be- fore they arrive. It a train arrives at Pittsburg at 8 o'clock in the morning, and five minutes after the traveler starts for the west, he will find that according to the time table he has left Pittsburg five minutes after 7 o'clock, or fifty- five mirthtes before he arrived there. ” The fact will be that he left the belt of the eastern time standard and entered that of the central, there being a difference in the two standards ot just one hour. On the B. and O. road the time used im Washington would probably prevall as far west as Cincinnati. The times of these four standards are substantially Philadelphia, St. Louis and Denver times, the one hundred and twentieth meridian being as near Carson City as any other prominent point. New York time is four ininutes taster than the eastern or seventy- fifth meridian time. and Philadelphia only one minate slower. Chicago time is nine minutes faster than the central or ninetieth meridian time, and St. Louis only one minute slower. Denver is exactly on the one hundred and fifth meridian, and San Francisco just ten minutes Slower than one hundred and twentieth meri- dian time. HOW IT WILL AFFECT WASHINGTON TIME. The effect of the adoption of sucha time stand- ard in this city wouid be to advance our time seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds. When It is twelve o'clock on the seventy-filth Meridian it lacks seven minutes and twenty- eight seconds of twelve here, according to ob- servatory. time. A Sram reporter went up to the Naval Observatory yesterday to ascertain pe the proposed new system was regarded ere. : “Ithink that the system Is an improvement over the present one,” remarked Commodore Shufeldt, as ke put on his overcoat for a trip to the Navy department. “I have promised to furnish the time of the seventy-fifth meridian in New York, and will do so.” Capt. Sampson, who was next seen, said: “The Naval Observatory has not determined as yet to adopt this new time. standard in any way, but we have been requested to furnish the time In New York and will do so. The Western Union Telegraph company has been sending the time to New York and other points at 12 o’clock Oaily for years, and it can Just as well send the time of the 75th meridian.” “How about the local time here?” asked the reporter. ‘We have been in the habit for years,” was the reply, “of dropping the ball at 12 o'clock Washington time every day. I suppose if we drop it seven minutes earlier that very few will it.” e you going to change the time of drop- Ping the noon ball?” continued the reporter. “That depends on what the people here wish. It does not make any difference to us. We can drop it at one time Just as weillas at another. Of course, fer our astronomical work there will be no change in the time. and we will still use the time of the meridian over which our dome is built.” WHAT THE RAILWAY OFFICIALS SAY. An inquiry at the railroad offices developed the fact that the officials here had no informa- tion what the companies intended to do. remarked we sary i from the main office i Season; but so far we have heard nothing. On the Pennsylvania railroad, which is run on ‘leiphia time, the new time wiil be only one ter, while on the Baltimore and Ohio, hisran on Baltimore time, it will be six and twenty-three seconds faster. re no objection to the adoption of this new time here, arked Mr. Galt, the well- known jewelry, toa Star reporter,’ “It would certainly be much more convenient to have a uuiforn stem, and the change is so slight that it weuld hardly be noticed, and it would cer- tainly affect nothing untavorably.” Mr. Kart and others who keep recalators, ex- pressed the same views, go that there does not seem to be any objection to the new system in this city. WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN BOSTON. In Boston preparations are being made to introduce the new timeon the 4th of November, when the principal eastern railroads issue their winter tables, arranged according to the new standard. The new time is 26 minutes slower than the present Boston time. Cambridge Ob- servatory will send out the word to drop the time ball at noon, new time. The school clocks will be pat right. The noon alarm of the fire department wil be correctly rung, and in all probability all the watches in the city will in one day’s time have been adapted to the new ruling. ACTION OF SOME RAILROADS. ‘The railroads between Nashua and Montreal and Oxdensburg made the change on the 7th inst. The grand Trunk line of Canada will adopt the proposed system for the running of their trains on Nov. 4th. The Western Union Tele- graph Company, which drops a time ball daily in New York by telegraph from this city, will adopt the new time. << Mis Lordship in Chicago. “While in Chieszo Lord Chief Justice Coleridze de- clined to inspect the process of sansaze making, saying gently, ‘Teat sausage myself sometines’"—Kxchange. ‘To see your plg killers Pd rather not go (Says I to myself, says 1). ‘Though you've little besides in Chicazo to show (Says I to myself, says 1). And the sight, rm afraid, might my stomach de- range, For I sometimes eat sausage myself for a change, And its composite parts are exceedingly strange, (Says 1 to myself, says 1). The slaughter of pigs I regard as boar (Says I tomyself, says I). And I'm utterly nerveless in presence of gore (Says I to myself, says I), ‘Through that fluld I’d very much rather not wade, ‘So your stock yards to-day I decline to invade; And really don’t care tosce sausages made (Says Ito myself, says —Tor ‘onto Grip, —— Chinese Fiirtation. From the Family Herald. ‘That the Chinese are not wanting in gallantry or in.the art of repartee was clearly demonstra- ted by a young mandarin, an attache to the Chinese embassy in Paris, in a conversation with a beautiful and elegant woman who had him introduced to her one evening at a fashion- able reunion. Curious to know whether It was worth any one’s while to attempt a little filr- tation with this son of the Celestial empire, she asked him, among other things, what qualities his countrymen valued most in woman. mestic virtues,” was the reply. “Oh. indeed!” sald the lady, in a slightly contemptuous tone. “Then you don't like your ladies to go into company and enjoy a little gossip?” ‘No, madame; a Chinese husband has the right to get a divorce from his wife if she is a great talker. ‘The charming French woman here thouzht she detected a covert allusion to herself, and sar- castically inquired: “I re tage that would have been my fate in Chin: The Chinaman at once repited, bowing low: “You may be sure that from the day of your arrival in China the law that inflicts this “mode of punishment on the loquacity of women would be abolished.” Hough on the Parson, From the Modern Argo. Rev. Dr. S——, who happens to possess a rather florid complexion, recently went into the shop of a barber—one of his parishioners—to be shaved. The barber was addicted to an occa- stonal spree, after which his hand was apt to be somewhat unsteady. In shaving the minister ‘on the oceasion referred to he made a slit and brought the blood to the surface in a considera- ble quantity. The minister turned to the man and brother and said tn @ tone of solemn sever. ity: “You see, Jackson, what comes from tak- ing too much drink.” “ sah.” replied Jack- son, ‘it makes do skin very sah. Itdo fack, gab.” Her do- fora. ———_—-e-_____ The crowd at Aberdevn, in their eagerness t see the Princess Beatrice, knocked down. the tree which ahe had Just planted. WINTERING IN WASHAINGTON Houses fer Senntors Needed—The States a ‘Them—Washington the Fashionable Center—Notabie Houses, Ete. | 1 f From Forney’s Progress. Of course President Arthur should have a wife, and saying that syggests the thoucht whether it would not be a good rale to choose no un- married man for high official position. Wi Americans do not place nearly enough import- ‘ance upon the social duties of our rulers, whom we call our servants; in fact, we pretend to deny that any sogial duties are reqaired of them. We are apt to condemhand laugh at prominent gen- tlemen who, haying money, spend lavishly upon entertainments, and to propose that National, State and City Governments should all provide funds for receptions, dinners and balls of the Chief Magistrates would be met with a storm of ridicule. The idea would be hooted at as unre- publican, and that would end it. Still it would not be with bad effect if those we place in au- thority over us, more frequently mingled soci- ally with their fellow citizens. In answer to what would of course be said, that the people themselves would have no admission to such as- semblies, there is the very obvious reply that they should be content to be represented there, as they are represented in the halls of legisla- tion. The National government recognizes that the President must give two or three state dinnei but we go no farther. T would say, were I not afraid. that I would like to see our governors jiving in fine houses, and purposely so salaried that during their terms they would be ¢he head of “society” as they are ofthe state. That, though, will be some day, but not until the capitals are brought from fhe small towns into the chief cities. Cities, too, should grandly house their Mayors, and surround the office with the dignity which ofrizht belongs to it. I would go farther; I would have each state erect in Washington houses worthy of its Senators, and I would like to have the National government give their homes tothe Cabinet. I am well aware that all this will be received in many quarters with a loud smile, and yet it is something to be carefully considered. When we insist upon so much simplicity in the lives of our officials I think we pursue a dangerous course. It is not best to strive to pull these gentlemen down in among the crowd. To thoroughly exercise the authority which we our- selves have vested in them, we must feel that they are filling their positions to the every inch. In adding to the luster of their offices wi would but deciare that we were satisiled with our selections and had found men worthy of all honor. The brilliancy of thelr homes would re- flect itslight upon ourselves. It is a bad sign that we so commonly regard our public men with such disrvspect. This is not snobbisiness, It is common sense. Our own pride should teach us to wish that our rulers should not only be gentlemen, but live like gentlemen. The man in public Ife, without a wife, cannot answer, as he should, what is socially required of him, and that goes without saying. President Arthor is “a man of the world,” and, with the aid of his sisters, gets through remarkably well, but he should be married. Wintering in Washington is yearly gaining more and more favor, and we should be glad that it is. The eapital or our nation should lack nothing in comparison with the capitals of other nations. The diplomats should not have reason to look upon it asa sort of banishment to be sent to Washingtdn. Powerful as is the United States, it cannot afford to have a dull and stupid capital. Asno individual can afford to be so eccentric as to place himself outside the pale of all society, so this republic cannot afford to carry its republicanism so far as to make itself disagreeable to the representatives of other nations sent to it!by their governments. That Washington, therefore, is becoming the fashion- able winter center we should congratulate ourselves. s round of gf has an im- portant significance not easily overvalued. That its hotels are for months crowded with the wealth and culture of the land, that rich men are building palaces there, that the city itselt Is beautiful ahd capable of being made still more attractive,+are all very pleasant truths. rush in building. we are told, has commenced within the last ten rs. Bef that time, apart from the government lings, there were none worthy of not But there is a chan; indeed, when Mr. Blaine can rent his house for a number of years at eleven thousand dollars a year. And think of it; the Mr. Leite who pays this sum was thirty years ago a clerk in a country store in Maryland; not getting, as ou may supfose, a princely salary. When’ 19, he went toch ‘ago, and there, by his own energy and strict honesty, he became a mil- lionaire. And these new houses in Washington so vary in style that there is no monotony upon the face of thecity. The eye is not wearied by resting for square after square upon piles of brick and mortar all of the same cast. But few are alike, and very few are in rows. Many are odd and bizarre, and a large number have open spaces and lawns before and around them. Among the houses most talked of are: Gov. Butler's, on Capitol Hill; Senator Cameron's, on Scott Circle, completed two years ago. S. 8. Cox, of New York, Dupont circle, Con- gressman Wadsworth, of New York, in Blaine’s old house, on 15th street. Congressman Slocum, of New York. General Sherman’s house, 15th street; next door to him, General Van Vliet; Ketcham, of New York, K street; Walter A. Wood, of New York, I street; 8. Randall, of Pennsylvania, Capitol Hill (small and modest house; this session Mr. Randall will be at Wil- lard’s); Gen. H. Bingham, Pa., K street; ex- Secretary Robeson, on 16th street, above Massa- chusetts avenue. Few Cabinet officers build. Mr. Frelinghuysen lives in hisown house, bought when he was a Senator. Folger lives in arented house, the property ot Commodore Willis. Lin- coln lives ina rented house. Wm. E. Chandler lives in his own house. Brewster rents the quarters formerly occupied by the French Lega- tion, at the most genteel end of the most gen- teel DiplomaticRow. Gresham lives in a rented house, and Teller also keeps house in a rented place. Senator Bruce, Register of the Treas- ury, has a house on M street. Probably the most substantial and comfortable houses are those occupied by the Justices of the Supreme Court. They have life places and good incomes, two good reasons for comfortable houses. The Chief Justice has a handsome house on Rhode Island ayenne. Justice Field has_an enormous house on Capitol Hill. Brad- ley has a larze, old-fashioned house on I street. Wood and Matthews have bought houses, Blatchford owns a handsome one. Harlan rents. Gray lives in bachelor quarters. Within the last five years the army and navy people have built a great many handsome houses, ranging in cost from $15,000 to $30,000. Sen- ator Pike, of New Hampshire, has bought a house; the Russian legation has taken the fine mansion built by Gov. Shepherd. and lately occupied by the Chinese legation. Abraham 8. Hewitt will be at the Portland. Senator Pal- mer. of Michigan, who succeeded Senator Ferry, has taken the Windom place. Not all of these houses ate what could be spoken of as magnificent, but a number of them are, and the tendency is in that direction. In most cases, when not otherwise stated, the occupants own their honses. Short Sunday Stories, From the News, Chicago It is Narrated that Solon once Awarded the rize for Virtue to a Grecian Reporter who nkly Announced that he Had not Severed his Connection with the Athens Daily Volksblat, bas had been Bounced therefrom for Incompe- cy. A Dyspeptic Tarkling, being much Reviled by his Associates for his Wan and emaciated Appearance, quietly Remarked that he Would try to Find time to step Around and Shed a few Teare to their Memory the Day after Thanks- giving. . Contemporary, exclaimed: “How much’ Hap- pier art thou than I!” “Yon speak Traly,” plied the Contented brate, “It is much more comicrtable to be an Ass in clover than an Ass in Journalism ! a polle once Found his lyre in a Secluded nook. ‘Where have you Been so long that I have Been deprived of your Soothing Society?” he inquired. “Chide me Not too Severely, for my Dereliction carried its Punishment with It, replied the Lyre; “I have been Editing paign Paper in Ohio.” cha Overcome’ by the Truth of” this Argo: can.” ercome th - ment, the mule Lapsed into a Harrow! Silence. A husband, having One Night returned home Faller thana goat, gave Promise unto his Wit of a new Dress. ‘‘And what Kind of a Dress?” asked his Sagacious spouse. ‘A cashmere Dress,” replied the husband. ‘‘Alas,” cried the wife, ‘alas, that, Having once Started in, you Did not get Fu!l enough for a Gros Grain!” James SGOOEMED Ss sas HG les, alias “Fat Ji ” the leader of moet emevarcisia/ine Peaucinco who bra. tally outraged Mrs, Margaret Wagner, now oak: has been sentenced to fifty years” impris- A NEW BUMMERS’ BONANZA. The Future Possibilities of Alaska. From the Chicago Times, The discovery of a river in Alaska of greater magnitude than the Mississippi is fortunate in many respects. It will furnish something new to brag about in Fourth of July orations, Niag- arahas done duty in this respect about long enough. It will also furnish a new subject for poets. It will afford a pretext for spending large sums of public money in making surveys of the river. Most likely the exploring or surveying parties will have difficulty with the Indians, which wili result in war. Indian wars are always expen- sive, and the further off they are the greater is their cost. The war will result in 1 ing a large army of peusioners, who will live to an extreme old age. The subjayation ot the Indians will call for many agents to look after their welfare. When Indians become the “wards of the nation” they cease to be self-supporting. They must then be sheltered, fed, clothed, and instructed at the expense of the government. Educating Indians always results making them helpless and de- pendent. . Civilized Ladians are expensive luxu- mes that only rich countries can afford to in- dulge i As the civilize us become bad by excessive petting, it will be necessary to pro- tect them from their no bors ‘who are better behaved. This will call for a large army. By degrees different tribes will find out that they can become “wards of the nation” by killing some. of: the whites. Possibly some of the soldiers sent to subjugate them will discover a little old or sil- ver. If this is the case there will be a grand rush of fortune-hunters. It will then be necessary to i ish the Indian title to the mining te d this will cost an immense sum. With ing population a territorial government wiil be necessal and = this wiil provide places for many politicians. The formation of a territorial government will e it necessary to select a place for a capital. Fifty places will assert that they offer superior advantages. As soon as one ts selected, there will be a demand for a division of the territory. Dividing the territory will result in some more capital fights and provide places for more politi- cians. The politicai party in power will discover on the eve of a presidential election that a few more electoral votes are needed,and one ortwo of the territories will be admitted into the union. In the meantime mail routes will be established and enterprising persons will take the contracts for carrying the mails. It will be necessary to encourage commerce on the river that is the rival of the Mississippi. Mr. Roach will demand a subsidy for this purpose. Of course the river will have to be improved, and that will demand a large appropriation.» Most likely it will be found that it overflows its banks in some places. If such 18 the case, it will be necessary to build levees. To build and keep these In repair will call for an enormous expenditure of money. Of course the country cannot get along without railroads. The corporations construct- ing them will demand a strip of land fifty miles wide on each side and a large grant of money. These roads will be chiefly used for the trans- portation of foreign excursion parties, Once a year the President will travel over them for the purpose of getting where he can catch a large bass. To raise the money necessary to carry out all these schemes, it will be necessary to keep up our present tariff. Protectionists have long been in a worry lest there may be no use tor the money received for duties after the na- tional debt is paid off and the claims of pension- ers satisfied. It will all be needed, however, for developing Alaska. ———_——+e--_____ What is Known of John Harvard. At the last meeting of the Massachusetts His- torica! Society the Rey. Dr. George E. Ellis spoke as followsin regard to the proposed statue of John Harvard at Cambridge: “AS was announced at the last commence- ment, Harvard Coilege is to receive the valuable gitt of a statue commemorative of the honored man whose name it bears. The gift is froma generous benefactor, Gen, Samuel J. Bridge, an adopted alumnus of the coll A very exact- ing demand is to be made upon the genius and skill of the artist who is to represent in bronze | the form and lineaments of a young scholar of whose personal appearance we have no repre- | Sentations, relic, or even description. The work | must be willy ideal, guided by atew suggestive ts, all of which are in harmony with grace, secret and silence as yet unpenetaated or voiced cover the whole fe history, in the mother country, of him who plated learning in the | New England wilderness. We know neither j his birthtime, nor birthplace, nor lineage, nor parentage. His name appears on ghe entry book at Emmanuel College, Cambrid@®, in 1623. He was matriculated there as pensioner, that is, one who can pay his own charges, July 7, 1631. The signature for his bachelor’s degree is dated 1634, and that for his master@ degree in 1635. There all that we know of John Harvard in England stops. He is called Heverend here, and was known as a preacher. Sunt we are In ignorance whether he had beerr especially or- dained in England; and there is no record of his ordination, as a dissenting teacher, there or here. The artist would know the number of his years. We cannot tell them All that we have to guide us is that, supposing him. to have been of the average age of twenty on taking his bachelor’s degree, he would have ‘been twenty-sev.n at his death here. Milton, who was born in 1608, was matriculated at the same university, though at another college— Christ’s, which he entered in 1824, at the age of sixteen. But he did notreach adegree. The statue of Harvard might well represent him in the loose robe and hood of a master of arts. But ifhe shared the Puritan scruples of his time as to ‘clerical habits’ the Geneva costume would be more appropriate. We do not know at what port of exit, in what vessel, at what date or with what companionship Harvard embarked for this country, nor the time of his arrival. “His presence here is first recognized by his mission as an inhabitant of "Charlestown, August 1, 1637, and as ‘sometimes minster of God's Word’ in that town, assisting Mr.Symmes, the pastor of Charlestown church, of which Har- yard and his wife were admitted members. He received grants of land from the town, and on April 26, 1638, was on a committee ‘to consider of some things tending toward a body of laws.” ‘The site of the house which he built is known. Judge Sewall speaks of sleeping in it. It was probably burned in the battle June 17, 1775. Harvard died of consumption in Charlestown, September 12. 0. 8., Sentem- ber 22, N. S., 1638,.only a little more than a year after the first mention of his presence in New Engiand. By a nuncupative will, of which there is no record or administration, he is said to have left all his library and ‘half of his estate, being £800,’ to the college, which the court had two years previous voted to establish at the New Town,’ after his gift called Cambridge. Such is the ambiguity of language that it seems impossible to decide whether the whole or the half of his estate was . Nor do the ac- counts and receipts of the bursars of the college satisfactorily settle the doubt. If Harvard was essed of £1,600 it was a very large estate for those days. yropapyy it was invested in England, causing delayed and fragmentary re- turns.” Why She Bounced Him. In a recent interviewas to her separation from M. Damala, to whom she was legally married, as it will be remembered, not very long ago, Sarah Bernhardt said: “We separated because I no longer wished to pay for his foolish extravagance, carriages, bouquets, forfeits, &c. My coaches were never ‘handsome enough. My coupe did not suffice. In the first weeks of our marriage { had to buy ‘tor him a victoria with two horses and superd harness to ride in the Bois du Boulogne. You may imagine that we had violent scenes. One day after one ot these scenes I was seized with a terrible rage and ran out of the house without my hat and gloves. ‘Take everything! Keep everything!’ I cried on leaving. ‘Since you won't go I will, and I won't cross this threshold again as long as you are here.’ I re- spied in the ctieal cay ana at night peas my aunt's. It was jnence eeeaireee that M. Damala sconpeea an en- gagement at the Gymnase, where { had no sooner entered than I had to his forfeit so am glory of my husband. M. Besson himeelf in trying to find out if Iam vied. But Ican affirm that I have for. my folly, and that, married or not, I'm going to be caught like that again.” poem ret mire mor an chine in s Cincinnati brewery, killed $3 horses ‘A combination sale of Jersey cattle was held in New York . The attendance was fair and the bi unusually brisk, The cow man company paid $1 into the ofthe and ~ hunters hied them earl ‘The Smoke Nutfsance. Darid Dudley Field, in The Continent. “Use your own so as not to injure another's,” is a maxim of our law. In another form, more used in common speech, it is. ‘One's rights end where another's begin.” It is no less a rule of courtesy and social convenience than of pos!- tive law. The purpose of this paperis to cali attention to one violation of this rule which causes much discomfort to many persons and has grown to be a great social evil. Smoking tobacco may be a good thing or a bad thing for the smoker. We will not enter much into that question. What 1s insisted upon is that he has, no right to annoy another with it. 11 may, for aught I know, add to his power of digestion, or he may think that it sweetens his breath or imparts a favorite per- fume to his clothing, or it may svothe his erves and soften bis temper; but these do not clothe him with the privilege of blowing bis smoke into my face or into the airso near me as to reach my mouth and nostrils. My right not to have his smoke is as great as his can be to have it. That every one of uahas the right to breathe the air, and to breathe itas the Dispenser of all good has made it, will hardly be disputed. How then does it happen that this right is so often and so rudely infringed? Is it because tue indulgence of the appetite has blunted the edge of that delicate sensibility which feels for others, or extinguished that love of justice which would yield to every one the full measure of his rights, or that readiness of self-de which would rather abridge something of one's own happiness in order to increase the happi- ness of another? < wi bd Public dinners and clubs are made places of tribul: nm more than entertainment for those who do not smoke. They who, in order to do honor to somebody or to some occasion, are drawn into a public dinner, are smoked as if they were so many pieces of bacon. No sooner has the last course of dessert been served than the cigars are brought in, and the room is ep- veloped in a cloud of tobacco. Probably half the guests do not smoke at all. That does not matter. Those who do smoke have, of course, according to theirown theory, the right to drive out, or, a8 one might put it, smoke out all the rest; so that, with the ever-refilled glasses, the thick vapor blown out of mouths al- ready surcharged with the vegetables and viands, the clatter of plates and the voices of the orators, the sad and submissive non- smoker has, to put it mildly,rather a hard time of it. el = ud It does not lessen the wrong which those who do not smoke suffer from those who do that so many of the latter are unconscious of it. It is impeesible otherwise to account for the number of amiable gentlemen who, without even ask- ing leave, make no scruple of lighting cigars in places where there are ladies, or gentiemen who not only do not smoke, but who detest the practice. It may be that they think long toler- ance has ripened Into right, or, without think- ing at all, but with an assurance alien to all else they think or do, they assume that what seems good to them must seem good to all. The smoker's creed apes to consist of three ar- ticles: First, smoking is good for me. Second, Being good tor me, it must be good for every- body else. ‘ihird, therefore, everybody else Shall have it. Now we non-smokers disbelieve the first, deny the second, and resist the third. Ifthis creed were a true one, the amokin, car of a railway would bea patch of paradise. Try it then with a party of ladies. Let a trav- eler, smoker or non-smoker, entering a train at station with such a party, chance to light upon this car. He will hurry through it as if it were a place accursed, and the first word to hear from the ladies will be an exclamation of extreme disgust, and as they step on tiptoe over the grimy floor, lifting their skirts and holding their breath to exclude, if possible, every particle of that cloud of tobacco, thick enough to cut with a knife, they will rejoice on reaching the other, as those who have esca from an evil den, 0 foul, filthy and fetid is the whole concern, Why smoking fs disagreeable to his neighbor is not for the smoker to ask; that is none of his business. That it is disagreeable, is enouzh for his neighbor, and it should be enouzh for him. He may, and no doubt does, like it. It is an old maxim that there is no disputing about tastes. There are people who like unsavory smells. One who has lived all his life by the side of a slaughter-house may take pleasure in the smell of offal; and workmen in the fat-boiling estab- lishments to the east of Murray Hill may like the odor; but if others do not like it, it is their right not to have it. Reasons for disliking it might be given in plenty if that were neces- sary. Every puff of tobacco blown out of a man’s mouth is loaded with saliva. Now, no one likes to be spit upon. Take a ite cambric handkerchief, and hold it soas to breathe inte it a little tobacco smoke. There will be left a sediment of yellow matter resembling ear-wax. Thisis what you take in when a smoker blows in your face a whiff ot his tobacco. When we pass beyond the domain of taste to consider what is useful or hurtful, each must be allowed to decide for himself. This much, how- ever we may be permitted to say. Whatever else, gocd or bad, smoking may do for the smoker, it can hardly be doubted that it calls into exercise the seltish elements of his nature. It takes possession of many men who are in amiable, generdus and deferential to others, but who are reduced to such a con- dition of servitude to tobacco that they forget their habitual good manners in other respects, and take no thought of the discomfort they in- flict. Some there are, the more scrupulous and the least enslaved, who before lighting a cigar will ask their neighbors whether have any objection, or whettier it isdisagreeable to them. Why do they ask? Ifthey would reflect a little they would perceive that the mere fact of ask- ing leave is a condemnation of the practice. When one holds a bancn of grapes in his hand, he does not ask his neighbor's leave to eat them. More likely he will ask the neighbor to partake and expect him to eat half of them. * = = How can the smoker and the non-smoker reconcile their respective pretensions? Nothing is easier. Let the smoker smoke unto himself, but let one, who does not smoke or take to- bacco into his mouth or blow it out of his nos- trils, be free from the annoyance. The non- smokers have their remedy in their own hands. Let them resist every encroachment on their rights. Let them refuse to frequent places of amusemont or take passage in conveyances where they are not protected against tobacco. If, for example, it were once understood that a particular line of steamers makes adequate pro- vision tor the defense of passengers against the intrusion of smokers, that alone would surely gain, other things being equal. many passengers who would refuse to go where their rights are | The Fashion of Mourning Garb, ‘From the Chicago Inter-Ovean, OF ali che subjects discussed by the eleventh Congress of Women at its recent session in this city none seemed to excite more lively wmterest than **Mouraing Garb,” which was under cone sideration neariy ac hour anda half. The frst speaker, Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, of this city, read an elaborate paper ou the subject, strongly and elaborately protesting against the mandate of fashion whichdemands the wearing of biack in attestation of sorrow over bereavement. All the speakers who followed her spoke in the same strain, and judging from the applause one would say that the Association for the Adraace- meut of Woman looks upon mourning garb as anevil to be abolished, and calls upon those Who set the fashions of the day to inaugurate genuine dress reform, Airs. Dr. Smith's paper was admirable in th art of putting things. One could hardiy come un- its persuasive rhetoric with- ed by it wsjections to the meurn- ore effectively set forth. Five reasons were given for the position taken, 1. The reflex Influence upon the wearer er clothing is bad, keeping the attention nd upon the sorrow. ont being strony ture was its | n. Whose morning of be diled with sunshine. 3. Custom mnkes ards of us all, compelling many an expense afford, expec death of their only 1 the mournin, at the dictate of fashion and is flaunting hypocrisy, and thus scrves a demoralizing purpose. 5. It is like @ Beo- ond burial to take off the mourning garb. Bach point Was well taken and ably angued. It was more than accidental cotne all the speakers, with one exception, where arrayed wholly in black, The ny collar alone Telieved the darkness of the soe exception wore nothing strict their costum & suitof brown. There was ly funereal perhaps in any part of The truth is that black Is the garb of gentility with man op woman. He or she who avoids colors escapes criticism, and gives the Impression of being well-dressed with- out having a kness for dress. It is not to be supposed that any of these protestants against’ the conventional black of mourn- ing wore black or brown on the platform for that special occasion. On the contrary, they Probably took no thonght upon the subject of personal attire further than to obey the in- stincts of good taste. We only speak of it as showing that the reform in question is really not a matter of color to any considerable extent. What is needed is simplicity. Grief, ofall things, should avoid ostentation. Then. too, those who can afford to dress as they please should consider the duty they owe to that large class, poor wi- dows. No doubt a great deal of suffering couldbe traced to the social necessity to don a particular garb in attestation ot sorrow tor the beloved dead. Gay attire would be unbecoming, of course, but ordinary biack and neutral tints are in themselves as appropriate in the presence of death as the conventional crapes, ee serra. Why Men Do Not Marry From the Whitehall Review, The English marriage market has become an arena of competition as Keen as any auction room. The natural impulses of women are dis- regarded. Mothers advise pradent alliancer, and discountenance, by fair means and foul, love matches. Girls choke down their feelings and aid and abet their seniors in enconraging men who are “catches,” throwing off the re- straints which made their grandmotne re charm- ing; but still the cry goes up, “Men do not marry.” And yet the most inveterate club- man, the mocker at love in a cottage, was once 8 youth not blase, to whom the vision of a home was enchanting. Almost every man tries his hand at realizing some such dream early in life, but the attempt is usually nipped in the bud by want of means or by failure to win the partica- lar woman on whom his heart is set. He sutfers acutely, but man is an he mingles: in with the world, not entirely proof against feminine fascination, but finding it almost impossible to set up an ideal. Matrons with attractive daughters cannot complain that their girls see few men. The tendency of the age Is to level the barriers between the sexes; girls play tennis, they row, they rink, they skate, they sit in the smoking room, they dance not only in the evenings but in the ‘afte The natural tendency of such intimate ciation would be matrimony. But the fact is that men who might have had serious Inten- tions are frightened off before liking begets love. There is an all prevailing fuss pervading the in- tercourse of young people which is altogether detrimental. “The instant a pair begin to show any particular liking for each other's the wide world around them isinstantly on the qui vive. The mother watches, fusses, reports her cronies and too often catechizes the girl, wounding her sense of delicacy and making her conscious and constrained, or leading her to imagine herself beloved, -when the man's feel- ing is only that of pleasure in the society of a young woman who doesher best to make her- self » Men are usually ignorant how girls note and welgh the attentions they re- ceive, and that they impart the details of such homage to pathetic (if oons. asso- habitually violated, aa they now are, in many of the river and sea-going steamers. The com- munity is made up of individuals. Let each assert his own rights and the abuse will cease. In short, if those who do not smoke will let it be well known once for all that they mean to have their rights respected, they will be re- spected. ee Love's Coming. She had looked for his as warri With the clash of arme and the But he came instead with a stealthy ‘Which she did not hear at all. ‘She had thought how his armor would blaze in the his bride; ies cally She found him at ‘She had dreamed how the gaze of his strange, bold ness and the supper. The plan was agreed meeti ad upon ata ‘ing on Each game, or away, forgetting she is expecting a few soft tender glances. Women are not aware, on the other hara, how sincerely he may like and ad- mire a girl without a thought beyond mere will. And it is precisely the better kind of man. who fails into the misfortune of raising false hopes—the man who belives in the simplicity and candor ot women, desires their aympathy and values their regard. A man of the world has the imstinct of seif- preservation developed strongly enough for his protection. The sense of safety isthe real bond of many of the alliances now 80 fashionable— sometimes salutary, often mischievous—be- tween men and married women. Kept within bounds no suspicion attaches to them, no hopes jare built upon them. The lady receives the petit soins due to the female nature, which the usband of long standing often neglects; the telul to the this without common man receives the sympathy masculine creature. Men feel without exciting the too lively anxiety of friends. And no wise man proposes without kuowing the character ot the girl he wishes to marry. The mothers who are so eager for their daughters’ establishment are wise.although this precipitation is not only foolish but indecorous. crbnsbninedivem $e sing A Telede Preacher's Story. A story ts told by a Toledo, Ohio, preacher on ® brother minister that will bear , Recently a circus was in the city, and the min- teterial curiosity was so awakened that an out- side view of the stretch of canvas would not suffice. The minister had compunctions of con- ecience against the gratification of what he fancied might be a questionable desire. How- ever his liberality of beliet would permit of the children going and of their seeing all that could be seen, had some good sized masculine them. Bat, unforte- lovingly and entreatingly to the elder Fitzjoy, “Iam going to buy some sheet brass and a set of tools.” “Oh, going to do something usefal at last?” “Ob, no, you dear old soul. 1am going in