Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1883, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER ’ Mind 7. 1883-DOUBLE SHEET. JAPA Se Mow Travelers Fare the Other Side of Ho ston Transcript. in t American tray sian rival eb of mountain | has no parallel in the Japan- } nh tiong here as “gas, | art the mou: @i fo: Ftlen in ba » wall ally <erapulousiy e} to a hor Tod it wi nail wou On mt 1 de so | ata hotel yon are shown toa 2 carl waiter intmediately brings tea panes custom 181 tas amount of rally fi ‘ond and third-via supper, breaktast pain ina hotel at the summer or loek in the morn are invariably served @ large small. low d from the The price with me; about thirty-tive Jamanese. shers are cl and for fe put upat a hetel over nisht er Was with me. He had one p: ther. Qur food, reoms, bed = charged forty-tive Ty 6 “d to pay my bill it. or P should tayseif a great deal of trout Prefer not To take foreigners at any price. @ served with chairs, ire Willing to pay extra for u seldom tind t partic! ais of iravel. One must t on the oor, lying onene tured in ore thick brs another similar one for a cover Twill net y quitees and the fear that wy ity may suffer. te ight’s fodina das of the is a en court i of ureto th Way ty fasten the no doors like our and th paper s & thets tes time, and w ened by any one. Strai ut the ons under ount tee the P vied Dati psideration peoples on the want of | shers for other | tto b H every fireside in untry wher are | children vp the import. | of lif i the family eir- | cles it may | and possibly be th Net object to the use | ky. It is not eat or drink do not und ia ‘ or if itt do net tnt it! a c ure of © in any forn jokers for the rights pw-bein, Such in- rateness as t which he in the experience of every the land. It is to be re- « has nothing to against the uch, but contines himself to assertion thal non-smokers ch every smoker who pretends have ri to be m considerate of others ought to Tespect it has @me to this: The amohe Wy act, if not by word, that in his opinion the rest of tle world ought to smoke to ant all round. Granfed nner cizar, the social ipe, are k ~ of modern life, the ot re i tobacco habit is not the dorm: tion of man. To a large portion Of tie t ix disagreeable. and utterly to l= portion argues in- very least. From the Cleveland Plaindeater. A rational person will hardly n in this day and age of measurably deer ¢ world of doing anything to we the use of tobacco, for it athe popular consumption But an etfort to make the lovers of the weed a little more considerate of the rights of others is quite a different matter. To compel tobacco smokers to be ordinarily eonsiderate and gentlemanly, if it be possible to do so by the force of public opinion, is legiti- mate. We are sure we are within bounds when We say that a love of tobacco has a tendency to make the man who is always the perfect gen- wg public | | ha WINTER FLOWERS, ‘Twe Choice House Plants. The pyrethrum is a daisy-like flower that has much to command it. ft has delicate green fo- ase. of an aromatic tragrance, which soon eta the surface of the pot, and makes a Jeasine fiandation for the exhibition of its For use in small bou- quets these flowers are exquisite. They are en nsed as substitutes for daises, and are ate and pretty, The plant prefers le for parlor cul- the first place th ts nf green, Its somew! flowers peari and they are most de ‘Tho laurel. STOWS 1H osph ive if a soil in: nnre, in equal parts, p it open and light. low te win. It the last of De- oom: until March. utiful flowers will fll Itis a plant that one rs, but it nd vetten 1 enongh to ke a sunny wi ato. hic contione i fer of its be unt of its ly grown. FRESU. follows tnove of ad. | re Hew fo KEEP FI The first thoneht that Hiration when flowers arve: th kept inthe e: law ioral <cdis how to ble. They should orner of the room during in water net too cold, and oc- ed with water of like t it place them in’ fresh v spr: sprinkle, and cover with tissue < been Soaked in water. Over this Ava newspaper, tucking under the yase, to ut air, © cold |Teom. Inthe m found ore. The India-rabber ts are most convenient lores where iuwers are “watched aud waited upon.” ——————— The Hook ecpere Up hits Hooks. YY upon the 20K Lis Lofty s And bent his body His labors to compl And blots were neither on bis fame Nor on lus ledger sheet. ‘Mf-same hour nat, nd his mind ‘The music of bis pen was heard From morn till eventidt Up coiuzans vast hls eves were cast, hen down again with prtd nd wats he though he saw his work ed and muitipbed. This finge eame eraud, bear Ilom Ry him were ever plannes Althouzh you saw with haif an eye. ‘That he wrote a sloping hand. He had no wife, he made no trends, His joys and cares wer Aud his dearest: he trom keep bis buiane ay today trie. mua latter thing would do. je never Sched when litle Ms His wonld cross; Ando his youth . vain remorse: I that cate along One day the creditor ef an Dropped in tor his amount: fonnd the old man at his post, Thetich tow Tan mate fount; The books were low and he was borne Up to his last acemint. w York Journal of Commerce. A Montana Man in Winnipeg. Prom the Miles City Journal. Information reached us yesterday from a ine inn the train, who was <* to almost a bloody straxsie be- Billings eattle-maa and aa h jlord.at the Queen’s hotel, Winnineg, a few days ago. The cartle-man, who had just sold a train Joad of cattle in Chicago at a high market neluded that he would, in company noted city across the Artivins at that place he pat up at the hotel, and during the evening took boundary line his fam ly to a piace of amusement. In the meantime the tilted man from across the At- antic call tthe offi of the hotel for quarters. Every room in the house was occu- yoed. bat the clerk found aroom for his Eng- lisit guest, or at least he thougit he had, and consequently removed several shooter, “eliaps.” and vaiises belonsin Billings man from the room which he gaged, and the Enctish lord retired, not dream- afew moments he would be roused 1 slumber at the point of a c ver, was the case. The room was rand the reply from the clerk was: weupied by ictish led.” e devil you as the cool answer from the noi Mor * says th wealways in this room for : jshman in pref- Americans, and a cot inthe hall- s, Whose means are was the reply; “I've got cash here in’ my wease! skin to buy all is in this town, and besides have ten musand head of ¢ ranging in the Judith puntry of Montana,” and away he went to bring forth the man who had taken possessign of tis were broken with the 2 tl of “murder” the police and made a the unests of the ‘aled by the nation of What 1 and the ain would Intrade un tie who hailed from Montana. dis thateall, Ter write— Write to the sed old folks at home, Who stt when th is den WIth folded han wwhicast eyes, And thin absent one, se my hasta, to write,® 6 bioding thoughts go wandering back fo many a by-goue mleht, Wh r needed sleep and rest, h was a prayer we their delicate babe ‘To their tender love and care. Don't let them feel that yourve no more need se Of their love and counsel For the heart grows strangely sensitive When has dimmed the eyes. Te inight be well to let them belleve You never forget them quite— ‘That you deet it a pleasure when far away, Long letters home to write. Don’t think that the young and giddy friends Who take your pastim® gay he anxious thoughts for you nid folks have today. of Writing do not put off, ter for which they look and tonged, er for Which they look and Yo an hour too late. For the sad old folks at home, With locks fast turning white, Are longing to hear of the absent one— Write them a letter to-night. nati Saturday Night, —- SN Where the Millionaire Applauded. I had a seat in the new opera house close to the box of one of the New York money bags, on the opening night, says Nym Crinkle, and several of us were disturbed by some kind of a silken row going on at intervals in the little i At first 1 thought it was a family row. But after a while I discovered that it was noth- ing more than three round-armed Hebes In full ress trying to prevent an old governor from applauding in the wrong place. They held him down with stern propriety in the bottom of the box, and we could just catch his smothered ejaculations: “By Joye, I'm a stockholder here and I've got aright to applaud!” “Yes, but pa,” said_a rich mezzo voice, “yon alwaye do Tin the wrong place. Nobody applauds the ballet ‘and the chorus at the opera.” Then I think the feman in other things sadly forget himself ‘When under the influence of pipe or cigar. beauties all sat down on him, for we heard nothing but a few dying gasps." PETROLEUM CHEWING GUM. A New Industry that is Eating Into the Gum ‘trade. “Did you know that nearly three-quarters of the chewing gum that tires the jaws of the ris- ing generation in the United States is now made from petroleum?” said a manufacturing confee- tioner toa New York Sun reporter the other] day. The reporter did not know it. “Oh, yes,” said the conrectioner. “Petroleum first knocked ihe spots off of the whale oi] bust- ness of New England, and now it ngzinto its spree end Tamarack jie industry at a fear- fulrate. Here’s alump of petroleum we have Just received.” The coufecticner siapped his nd on a large oblong block that resembled a “A few days * said he, pout of the ground in Pennsylvania brown fluid, with a sme! that wuld knock an ox down. ‘The oil retine it and put it through a lot of chemical processes that Tdowt know anyth about, and after aking out a re of vod Share of n benzine, a number of other Iphabet, lett e clean wax. There isn't any te to it, and no more smell than there is to a china plate. “We will take this lump. cut it up, and melt dilers, ‘This piece will weigh 253 pounds. indsof cheap s#zar to it and flavor EC en, peppermint, or any Then we turn it out on into all sc After it is wrappe p: packed in boxes it is ready for the market. You can imaxine that somebodyis chewing gum in this country when T tell you that a lump like this one will make 10,000 penny cakes, and we one Np every Week. ‘There are dozens of acturers using almost as much of the wax ieve this petroleum chewing gum, if honestly made tlectly harmless, and that is more than f the guins made from the jui ported article. AU How to Keep Them Bright. Autumn leaves are y shionable in New York this year as parlor decorations. All the large Norists there are getting them In in large quantities, and, after they are prepared, sell them at 25 cvnts a dozen. The leaves in greatest F oak leaves, which, dried and var- are placed about picture frames and in bunches on the walls. Leaves from the chestnut tree, which are said to retain thelr green color, are often mixed in among the oak leaves, which are of a reddish brown. A florist says that the rve leaves is to press them be- lotting paper, or some other soft paper. several he said, “take them out and change the paper, lest the moisture cause the lear to rot. changing the paper at intervals until the leaves are thoroughly dry. Then they will look duli. ‘The colors will verze toward the brown, and thg ecllector, who has not had expe e that the color is fadins. Thi ‘The color has to be brought out by oil, varnish, or wax. I prefer oil. ‘The next best thing is to varnish the leaves with a thin white varnish. Ido not ap- prove of waxing for it makes the leaves tuo brittle. The leaves are rubbed ever with wax and then ironed with a warm flatiron. Formerly wreaths and ornaments were made out of pressed leaves: now they are us tures and to decorate walls. han mest leaves ar almost every tint. canary leat. o my mind the the maple. ‘They are of We often find the palest low, orange, and red on the same ey are also eaay to press.” =e: Housekeeping in Normandy. Misery loves company, and it anything will comtort American housekeepers it is to know that they are not alone in the cares and worries of houseKeeping. From an article on “House- keeping in Normandy” are taken these ex- periences of a housekeeper, which will prove of interest: It may surprise some of our own newspaper and domestic grumblers, who are forever crying down our servants and extolling those of Eu- Tope, to learn that the servant question exer- cises the Norman mind auite as meh as it does | the Transatlantic one. With robust women and | girls idling and begging every day at our gates, vi e frequentiy as servantless in our chateau as if we lived in one room at Five Points. And it sometimes seems as if the arch mischief maker himself must be often perplexed to sup- ply faults enough for those who serve within walls. There was Elise, 80 low spoken and blushing t our artist declared she should pose for his Madonna, but who developed an extraordinary genius for gros mots and was FINALLY DISCHARGE for general insubordination and insolence. Al- phonsine, so pretty in her dainty cap and ker- chief, did not wait to be discharzed, but left in the midst of her dusting to take & place in town. Angele hoids largely frequented conversazioni in the kitchen, with large consumption of viands, whenever we leave the premises. Victoire pre- pares her bridal trosseau_ from the ‘linen press, while the gost comes back and taps myste- riously in the darkness upon the window, where- upon Louise suddenly disappears and is geen no more until morning. Delphine mixes the uses of kitchen towels and pocket handkerchiets, and sends us in snuffy custards. Jeanne threat” ens us with the majesty of the Frenci law if we do not pay her doctor's bill; while Desiree, whose patois is ear-rending, does exactly as she . however contrary to orders, declaring y of excuse that she canuot understand our foreign argot! We haye iany friends from our native land who come every sammer to visit and to envy us in our Norman chateau. And the universal tes- timony, in view of the rack and turmoil which the servant question creates in our souls and kitchen, is that, after all that has been said of the SUPERIORITY OF SERV. in Europe, those of rural France are, if possible, even more trying to soul and body than those of our own country ver shall we forget the last. of our countless Elises—middle aged, decent, armed with recommendations impressive even if of origin in a remote corner of the de- ariment. who succeeded a procession of her workless name 3 as our cuisiniere. How tidy she wa How scrupulously neat and respectful! What a periect cordon blen! How we all laughed and grew fat during her epicur- ean administration! She lived with us four weeks in Sybaris. One day of the fifth, return- ing from a walk, a horrible apparition’ greeted us upon our own lawn. A wild shrieking fleure, capless. in masculine blouse and trousers, and with a scant long locks streaming around a distorted tace, cried a frantic welcome to us as we came in sight. And we knew from that spectacle that the last of our Elises was as drunk as drunk couid be! . Not only our own experience, but that of our French acquaintances, assures us that the French woman servants in the rural provinces are too often light in character and therefore totally unreliable in youth, and given to wine bibbing, snuff and uncleanliness in middle age, Out of the innumerable multitude of bonnes who have favored us with their evanescent presence since we have dwelt in our chateau, an alarmingly large proportion have been mothers ALTHOUGH NOT WIVES, some of them mothers a number of times, while no less than four have been discharged In view of a circumstance which our stricter morality has been taught to consider disgraceful. Certain peculiarities of the French law, tramed by men for the protection of their own sex and the utter sacrifice of the weaker one, explain the fact that @ pretty bonne is as natural prey to a French- man as a bird to a cat, both cat and Frenchman being equally irresponsible before the law, and only bird and bonne the sufferers. The French law forbids to search for ordeclare the paternity of an illegitimate child. It, how- ever, makes an allowance of ten francs a month for each unlawful child—when the mother chooses to claim that’ allowance. Most of the wretched beggar women who call constantly at our kitchen door are’ numerously dowered with olive branches, and we know one chronic i sance, who all summer long sleeps every night @la telle etoile and spends every day dragging huge baby wagon from chateau to chateau and farm house to farm house, who claims an allaw- ance of twenty francs a month for the two PATHERLESS LITTLE WRETCHES she drags behind her. Thus the French law puts a premium upon immorality! Another sickening result of French moral leg- islation is the motherhood of the mere children who beg at our doors. One girl who came to us one year, laughing, frolicsome, almost baby- like, came to us the next enriched at fourteen with an allowance of ten francs a month for the baby she bore in her arma A STAGE COACH CENTENNIAL. An Interesting Story of the First Stage and Mail Koute in New England. From the Springfield Republican. The first stage and mail route in New Eng- land, and probably the first in the country, be- gan operations 100 years ago, on the 28th of October. Capt. Levi Pease, of Somers, Conn., and Reuben Sikes, of Suffield. both blacksmiths, had previously run a passenger conveyance between Somers and Hartford, a distance of twenty miles, and from this small beginning conceived a scheme of establishing a regular passenger and post route between Hartford and Boston. Sikes was sume years younge®™than Pease, and his father stoutly opposed the enter- prise, telling his son that Pease was enticing him into a ruinous scheme that would sevu them both in jailas jeur debtors. But Sikes Not to be frightened, nor did ilure of an effort to start a similar line the year before between Worcester and Boston deter from joining forces with the dauntless tain. ‘Two convenient wagons” were secured, and, October 20th, 1783, at 6 o'clock in the mornin: they left Boston and Hartford, respectivel Capt. Pease drove the west bound stage, start ing from “the sign of the lamb,” stopped over night at Martin's, in Northboro, passing through Worcester the n and resting in Rice’s in Brookfield. His route the third day took him through Palmer, and perhaps Wilbraham, to his home in Somers, and on the fourth day Hart- ford reached. This route was followed through the winter and early spring, bat in 1784, Sprinztield was made a station, and the river was crossed here or at Enfield. By the new arrangement the stages left Boston from the Lion, ‘Ivoro street; the first night passed at Farmer's, hrewsbury, and pencer was reached the day foliowing. "Here, on about the highest point between Boston and Springfield, the passengers were transferred who brought them to Springfeld, and in_ changed conductors for the trip southward. The fare at this time was “four pence per mile,” or about $10 for the trip from Boston to Hartford. business was, doubtless, profitable, for two years later Captain Pease became the owner of a Boston inn, opposite the Mall, which thereafter the starting point for his stages. The line was extended to New York, and its work- ing was so far improved that Worcester was made ina single day from Boston, Hartford at the end of the third day, and New York three days later. The roads between Worcester and Springfield were in poor condition, but the en- terprising captain interested himself in the settlement, procured the first charterfor a turn- pike road granted in this state, and invested largely in its stock. Although he lost every shilling he put into the scheme, yet the better conditicn of this thoroughfare enabled him to announce that ‘passengers who take stage at Boston Monday may reach New York Thursday evening following.” With the bettering of the roads and the addition of im- proved rolling stock, three trips a week each way were made between Boston and New York. But this remarkable pro- gress in staging did not satisfy the ambition of Pease. At nie tenia of 1786 he and his young friend Sikes were at the head of a “trunk line” extending from Portsmouth, N. H., to Savan- nah, Ga. A uniform rate of fare was fixed— “three pence per mile, with liberty to pasaen- gers to carry fourteen pound weight of bag- gage.” This long line was a mail route from its beginning, and when the federal government nized Captain Levi Pease was the first to contract ror carrying the mails. Indeed, for years his name was the only one in the infant post otfice department, at least in NewEngland. Captain Pease seems to have had no military right to his title, although he followed the for- tunes of the Revolutionary war. He was born at Enfield, Conn.. in 1739, and lived at Blank- ford for six years before the war. He acted as agent for Commissary General Wadsworth at Hartford, and turnished horses for dragging artil- lery for the French army from Newport, R. L..to Yorktown, Va., and foraged for the army on its journey. He made Shrewsbury his home after 174, and died there in 1824, having survived all his children. The Devil. Men don't believe tn a devil now as tholr fathers used to do; ‘They've Yoreed the door of the broadest creed to let, his Majesty throuch. There isn’t a print of uis Cloven foot or a flery dart from lls bow ‘To be found on earth’ or air to-day, for the world has voted so. But who is tt mixing the fatal draught that palsies heart and brain, And loads the bier of each passing year with ten hundred thousand skun? Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with flery breath of hell, If the devil isn and never was? rise and tell? Who dogs the steps of the tolling saint and digs the pit for his tect? Who sows the tares In the field of time wherever Won’t somebody God sows His wheat? ‘The devil 1s voted not to be, and of course the thing is true; But who ts doing the kind of work the devil alone should do? We are told he doesn’t go about as a roaring lon DoW, But whom shall we hold responsible for the ever- lasting row * To be heard in church, In .ome and state, to earth’s Temotest bound, If the devil by unanimous yote is nowhere to be found. Won't somebody step to the front forthwith and e their bow, and show How the frauds and crimes of a single day spring up? We want to know. ‘The devil was fairly voted out, and of course the devil’s gone; But simple people would like to know who carries his business on. —ALFRED J. Hoven. Sample “Prohibition.” From the Buffalo Express. In 1880 Gen. Kilpatrick was one of the zepub- Nean stumpers in Maine. Senator Blaine was chairman of the state committee. One day sey- eral stumpers met at Mr. Blaine’s house. in Au- gusta, to get new orders and take a fresh start. Blaine said to Kilpatrick: “I want you to go to Danforth. You know we have a prohibitory law in Maine, and you have probably found out that it isn’t always observed. But everybody admits that in Danforth it is strictly li up to. Opinion is all one way there. and I want you to say something about temperance in your #, said the general, and off Arrived at Danforts, 2 committee- man met nim, and the first thing he said was “General, isa strict prohibition town, and we would like to have you say something about temperance in your speech, but ag you are an old army man, and may feel the want of 4 little stimulus, I have brought along ‘his”’—and_ pro- duced a bottle. Arrived at the hotel, th Jord took the general to one side and said: “You know we're very strict here on temperance, but you being a stranger here”—and produced from achest a bottle and glass. A colored boy showed the general to his room, and in its pri- vacy said: ‘*Ye know, boss, wedon't have any- thing to drink here, but if ye want anything I can get itfur ye, boss.” Kilpatrick had sev- eral more simular adventures before he got out of Danforth, and declared thatin that strictest of all prohibition towns he got more invitations to drink than in any other town he visited dur- ing the campaign. We feel cuite sure that Kilpatrick went to his grave be.ieving that pro- hibition does not prohibit. French Papers and Theaters. ‘From the London Truth. There are two things that I have never understood, viz.: why the French, who pass half their day reading newspapers, and another con- siderable portion of it in theaters, do not rise up and periodically hang a newspaper editor and a theatrical manager. The newspapers generally contain an article upon the state of political par- ties, puffing that which the particular journal represents; a city article recommending the pur- chase of some particular security in which those connected with the journal are isterested; about half a dozen bad Jokes; the same number of faita divers; a dozen or two extracts from contemporaries, generally beginning ‘our talented and sympathetic cotfrere writes;” and a considerable number of para- graphs which are paid for, urging all to buy hair washes, soap and othe such articles. The theaters—I am not speaking of the acting— are perhaps a shade worse than henewspapers. They are invariably filthy, and so ill ventilated than when it is warm one ig almost stifled. The seats ure narrow, too close together, and gener- ally ill constructed. Unlsss a premium be paia, it is diMcult to get one from which the stage can be seen. The corridors are pervaded by hideous old hags called onvreuses, and these ancient harridans almost tear the cloaks off the backs of ladies in order to obtaia a tee for keep- ing them. Their idea of restorin, them is to hurt them at the owners while the last act is proceeding. But le petit bane nuisance is even still worse. The thrust little wooden stools under the feet of ladies, whether they want them or not, and then, before the lay is over, come round and demand payment for zpercin3 he started. THE FASHION IN DOGS. TWO GUINEAS AND FOUR MEN. Canines That Go Out of Style Like Last} A Scene of Unusual Interest om the Year's Bonnew, Greyhound of the Occan, From the Philadelphia Times. From the New York World. “You know there are fashions in dogs, asin} Four gentlemen were seated at a table in the everything else,” said a dealer in dogs to are- | Smoking room of the steamer Alasha, of the porter the other day. “A lady who pretends to | Guion line.on her recent remarkable trip acro follow the fashion would no more be seen on | The sea was running heavy, and the smoking- the street leading alast year’s dog than she | room steward found it a delicate matter to place would weara two-year-old bonnet or an old | @ zlass and a bottle before each of the tour gen- style dress. It would bea loss of prestige to | tlemen and to uncork the complimentary ginge her that would be very damaging to her standing | ale otherwise than on his head. The conversa- as one of fashion’s votaries. Like otherfash- | tion turned on tie extraordinary speed the fons, too, that of dogs is subject to many | steame? was making, and led to a bet, In “cov- changes. Not to go back too far, we will bein | ering” the wager of a sovereign upon a trivial with the black and tan. Wi tasted they | matter one of the four gentlemen took from his ‘were very p , but they have, as a. breed, } purse a guinea of the reign of William and Mary. gone Out of date. In England the black and | “There are only two of the tan is. a good deal larger dog than he is in | he said proudly, “and this America. There he is a rater, but in this | 464 times its face vaine. country a pet deg must, asa role, be small, and m in existence," I Had 1 the other the ; ne" | numismatists. tie wht fort this |. He laid it on the table as he spok wariaey: wl bere a, | Moment after the coin had disappeared, ariety Is 15 pounds, the: abred here so | Moment alter, the coi Nobods small that, when two yearsold, they only weighed | 20) anybody else . nit. its cieesrenen D4 pounds. Such an aninal would be worth | MS, MNEveUs else take it. Its « arched $100. The Skye terrier superseded the black | Mh and low: his three companions and the steward helped him. No other persons w the compartment, and yet the coin could not be found. These four men had been strangers to each other when the voyaxe began. They had been five out and were rapidly nearing port. The owner of the valuable coin was inconsola- ble, suspicions and profane by turns. Il tell you what is the best thing to do,” sald one of the party. “The coin ia not on the floor; it cannot rolled through the ceiling. Somebody here must have it. searched?” Allagreed but one gentleman who had hith- erto said nothing. He positively refused to sut- fer such an indignity. When it was suzvested to him that where all others a: single person ought to object he simply dectined, made his bow, took his drink alone and left for his stateroom. The good ship Alaska plowed on to her sixth day, and just after her completing it Fire island was sighted. a 3 tan, and held his own tor awhile enly to the Yorkshire, wl is nothing more or less than a smi the Skye, procured by breeding from smallest “obtainable specimens ot the § until a very small animal was produced, looking | like the Skye in everything but size. “The sys- tem of breeding dogs down so much below the normal size renders them very delicate and liable to disease of a scrofulous nature. Those Ihave named are all dogs ot the past as much as the poodle or Spitz. They are dos that have had their day, and must now give way to those | whose day is to come.” “What isthe coming dog, and where is he coming from?” “The coming dog is the fox terrier. To be perfect he must have asmall body, white in color, a black head anda small white triangle on the forehead. There are not many of them extant yet, but it is not hard to see that the pug will soon be cast asida for his more sprightly . by the way, ler edition of the Sil ‘ ‘. is The gentleman who had refused seer ne tre. Tene mth already has one; 98 | to be searched had been put in coventry: the soon as Mrs. Jones sees it, she must ave one, | three others who J sat at the table with him too; and then it will not be long before Mrs. Brown and Mrs Robinson will have fox terriers, too. By that time there will be another stylein vozue. Ofcourse, he will come from abroad, where all high-bred dogs are born, or are sup- posed to be. Buta great many that arebousht | unanimously suspected him. But just as the pilot came aboard the Alaska the gentleman who had lost the guinea found it sticking in the sole of his boot, where it had been wedged ever since he had first displayed it. He was overjoyed at his discovery and auxious to make amends for bis uniust suspicion: But,” said he to the zentleman who had re- fused to be searched, **why on earth did you not agree as we all did to such a simple test? That would have settled the matter instantly. ‘0 it wouldn't,” answered the other. vhy not?” “Because (producing his purse) there is the only other coin of the kind in the world—same date, same color, worn the same! That is the reason I refused to be searched, for nothing on earth wou'd have made you believe this was not your own coin had you fot been so lucky as to recover it.” As the Alaskasteamed into port a social glass removed all traces of unpleasantness. ee ee Clothing and Bedily Heat. From Popular Science Monthly. The thinnest veilis a vestment in the sense that it moderates the loss of heat which radia- tion causes the naked body to experience. In the same way a clouded sky protects the earth against too great cooling in spring nights. - In covering ourselves with muitiple envelopes of which we augment the protecting thickness ac- cording to the rigor of the seasons, we retard the radiation trom the body by causingit to pass through a series of stages, or by providing re- lays. The linen, the ordinary dress and the cloak constitute for us so many artificial epi- dermises. to warm these passes through proportion as the: ing the surfac r us feel the chills which direct contact with the atmosphere occasions, tor our clothes catch the cold for us. The hairs and mais perform the same function as toward their skin, serving to remove the seat of calorific ex- change away from the body. The protection we owe to our cloties is made more effectual by their always being wadded with a stratum of warm air. Each one of us tius has iis own at- inoxphere, which goes with hin everywhere, and ts ewed without being cooled. The ani- mal also finds under its fur an additional pro- tection in the bed of air that fills the spaces be- tween the hai! they inclose that porous substances, furs and feathers keep warm. Experiments to determine the degree of tacili- ty with which different substances used for clothing allow heat to escape were made by Count Rumford, Senebier, Boekmann, James Stark and M. Coulier. 4 alts were not in all cases consistent. with each other, but they indicate that the property is dependent on the texture of the substance rather than on the kind of material, or—as concerns nou-iuminous heat—its color, ——___re-___ Wednesday Waggeries. “Yes,” said the candidate for office, “I sup- pose [can't sue that paner for saying I spent part of iny life in jail. Yon see I was a ware tor six years. I can lick the editor though! Boston Post. A Vermont editor in publishing one of Byron's poems changed the words. “Oh, gods!” to “Oh, gosh!” because the former was too profane for his readers. A western paper says “silk kerchiefs knotted around the neck will be much worn this feason.”” The west is getting yery nice about such mat- ters. Not long since a rope was thought to be good enough.—Philadelphia Call. “Idon't take much stock in proverbs,” said Brown to Jones. For instance, look at the oft-quoted one, *A friend in nee deed.’ Now, most of my experience with friends under the impression that they are late impor- tations have never been out of the city, and it is very likely that the aristocratic favorite who, after he has been in a Walnut street mansion two weeks will eat nothing tore common than custards, has been brought up on scrapple. Many ladies go to the Americah steamshi wharves to buy dogs from men who have jus arrived with them from Europe. Some cute customer has become aware of this and buys common dogs up town and smears dirt and grease into their coats He stations himself | near the wharf when.a steamer has arrived and salutes’ madame with: “‘Very fine dog. Him good stock. Fetch him over in engine room. He very dirty, but look good when he’s washed.” “Madame, knowing very little about dogs, buys him at a pretty stiff price, under the im- pression that she is getting a bargain. Others color common dogs to suit the demand. There is a great deal of this kindof thing done. There isa barber in this city who hasa_ pretty good business in fixtng up doge for sale—shearing, dyeing and curling them in the most approyed style.” “Do all the good dogs come from abroad?” “Oh, no. Many ofthe tinest specimens we have come from alleys where there is scarcely enough to raise them on. If you want to follow the styles you will have to sell your pets about once a year, and sell them cheap, too. Second-hand dogs are just like everything else second-hand. No matter how good they are, people won't pay much for them.” gee Scenes and Incidents in Sitka. From the Northwest News, The misty rain did not prevent us from fur- ther exploration of the queer old town. The lower part is built of block houses, formerly oc- cupied by soldiers, but now given over entirely toIndians. The beach is strewn with canoes Just in from fishing, and women are busy clean- ing the fish to dry and keeping an eye on the babies. Said babies, from six years down to lufancy, ure out on the Sound paddling around by themselves in canoes. On the com- mon a crowd of Indian boys were playing base ball. Though all theirtalk was in native tongue they cried in English, ‘‘out,” “foul,” “tall The heat that leaves the skin goes superposed envelopes; the them more slowly fn yrs: reach- “one strike,” as they had learned from seeing sailors play. Their actions were very amusing, and their ball looked and felt like a potato tied upinarag. A lot of girls sitting on a pile of high boulders overlooked the scene, and busied themselyes in nursing rag dolls, whose wooden heads showed skill of carving that seems won- derful from these untaught people. These In- dians are so superior in many ways to tribes of the plains that any progressive person would naturally become interested in their advance- ment. The Presbyterian mission established a school here flye years ago that, after a hard struggle, has at last conle to a firm footing, and with those at Wrangel and other ports bas done much to suppress witchcraft cruelties, and to teach Indian girls industry and virtue. The chief Is generally appointed special police- man for Indiantown. The present chief is “Captain Tom,” a good officer, having great In- fluence with lis tribe. He has acquired $8,000 by trading, owns a good house, bought from a departing Russian, and sports a brass-buttoned blue suit. Quite as conspicuous as himself is his fat squaw, who gives her name as “Mary Tom,” and is also a great trader, having $5,000 to her own account, profits as “middleman” between her own people and the whites. She has the wabbling walk characteristic of htr people, caused by their all being plgeon-toed from con- tinual squatting, instead of sitting to rest. All the Indians wear American-made shoes and stockings, and one is rarely seen barefooted. thelr complexions are fair as light Japanese, the | in need has been that they wagted to borrow. babies beg almost white. The huuid atmos- | Give me the friend that is not in*need.”—Somer- phere and lack of sunshine cause this effect, but | ville Journal. . also cause another that is less agreeable ‘A sick friend writesito sto secertaln the matory rheumatism. We ha jraw! 2 shortest road to health. Thereare two paths sons drawn all Out of shape with ft, and several | Noe re ond homewpathe: von ts dwarf children. ‘This last. speaks well for their or ae 5 Boaton ore humanity. as it is the custom of Indians to put | Choice and pay your money.—Boston Courier. “T hevallus noticed,” observes aunt Pabet dwarfs to death. There is no agriculture at Sitka except gar- | “thatthe boy who lets his moth dening, to which the Indians have lately taken on their own account, with success as to hardy vegetables. These, with abundance ofcod. rt salmon. daar, =ou5e, merous berries to be had with little labor, enable them to run better boarding-houses than the usual summer resorts. There are no cattle or sheep in Alaska, and except game no meat unless the steamers furnish occasional supplies to a favored few. There are four cows who do their duty at Sitka, and three mules that do nothing except on rare intervals. Before reaching there the tourists discussed quite warmly whether it would be wiser to go on horseback or in hacks to see the town. On arrival we found a livery man who does an extensive business at other ports, a party named Shank, who furnished us with the only horses known in Sitka. The most enjoyable feature of our stay was furnished by the custom house officer's wite, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, who collected the best people of the town and officers of the naval vessel Adams to meet the wit, wisdom, and beauty of the Idaho’s passengers. Such an evening’s entertainment in New England would be called a ‘tea party,” in New York city a “kettledram,” in San Francisco a “surprise evening,” in Portland a ‘‘bun-racket,” and in Sitka, Russian days, a “‘chi-peat.” ‘Wm. H. Was There. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Vanderbilt was the most prominent feature of the Irving performance on Monday night. He was accompanied by two of his daughters, Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Twombly, both of them consid- erably overdressed. Uncle William has cut at least three inches off of his whiskers on either side, but the world is unmoved by the change. It was remarkable to notice the appreciation of the great millionaire, He applauded Mr. Irving at all times and in places where it was not at all appropriate, and his daughters followed his ex- ample. Between the acts Mr. Vanderbilt went out to cool his fevered brow inthe lobby. As he wandered about people made room for him, and no matter how thick the crowd he always had a space of three or tour feet to swing about in. He wore an opera hat of the vintage of °62, and ‘looked sicery and fe ga bee en any one approached he shook hands with effu- siveness and immediately wandered away. No- body knows whether he was thinking of Henry Irving or the stock market, but he seemed ab- sent-minded and labored under considerable suppressed excitement. The statement that his artistic feelings were aroused by the perform- ance has been credited by sev: persons. ‘There are two cats at the Crystal Palace ex- hibit of London priced at $50,000 each. Five Seer Sas werent ece fixed on the a, bring in all the kindlin’ wood and build the kitchen fire isthe ™mourner that bellers loudest at her fun And then she added, thoughtfuliy, “M. not it is because he wisses her the most.’ “No,” said Brown, ‘when I goto a concert T never appland anything that I can understand, By applauding severely classic pieces it gives me a standing in soci u know. When — hear the *S kee doodie,” and such like vulzarities, 1 usually ask somebody near If he can inform me what the thing is.” Boston Transcript. Scene, a Sunday school. Young Iady cate- chising ‘the children on the plagues of Exypt. Y. L— And what became of the plazues of A pause. Then small boy at bottom Please, miss, I know! Join the bap- tist ate them.” The other day a grocer sold an old farmera galion of tar throuzh mistake for molasses. After Giscovering the mistake he waited to hear some complaint, but hearing none wrote to the old fellow, who replied as follows: ‘Much obliged fur the c'reckshun, but it come too late, as all of the stuff is done sopped up. Wife she ‘lowed that thar was suthin’ outen fix with the “lasses, but I ‘lowed she must be pregedist."— Arkansaw Traveler. “Anna, what must you do, before everything else, to have your sins forgiven?” ‘Commit the eins” People who are color blind cannot distinguish any difference between red amd green. To them the woman who paints her cheeks looks green.— zbbe as A Blasphemer’s Death. ‘From the Raleigh News and Observer. A farmer in Stokes county was paralyzed re- cently under rather startling circumstances, The weather had been unfavorable and his crop fell far beneath what he anticipated. In his Ca eel he cursed heaven and earth and was ully profane. While rioting in his blasphemy he was paralyzed. ‘The Only Case Since the World Began. From the Philadelphia Call. A Washington hackman tried to collect a $1 fare for an hour's services by bringing the de- Mnquent into court, but the judge discharged the: qaieoner because -the plaintiff had not charged him $1.50, “the legal rate of tare per hour.” This, we ‘believe, isthe only case of that kind since the world began. ——____-o- Guiteau’s Ghost, ‘From the Baltimore Day. Folks in the Washington Jail see Guiteau’s ghost night. every Even Satan ir ly to be rid of this ecamp occasionally. — e is worth a hun. | collection of two would be simply invaluable to | in | Let all of us be | ; and it is on account of the air | is a friend in- | Gowip About Gloves, From the Pall Mall Gazette. At first gloves were usualiy made of Tinen, aiterwards of silk. Gloves for ondr ary wear— when the practical British mind discovered that they would be an acquisition to our every day garb —were de of tanned leather: such were the gloves of Henry VI, which, though undoubt- edly useful, were far'from ornamental. Men and boys Y es long before women adopted them, andthe same extravagance in gloves which is noted among fashionable ladies to-day was practised by the dandies of the six- teenth century. A pair of Queen Elizabeth's gloves have been preserved, which, though “of very fine wh leather, worked — with gold thre of a size at wh eur fash beauties — would nd aghast. Good = Queen Beas, however, ad a hand that was fit to wield a scepter. The thumb of her glove was 5 tm and the palm me inches 9 Another | roval glove preserved in Henry Vill's whes xtove,” in which, if the original | to the illustration, a a comt of Ki ade, tly rich lined, with heavy ta haps the reason why sen es are really artistical » hawking worked is that nts of t 1 more inter wearers of to- day is at famous queen eves were of fine white leather worked with wold thread, and lined in the cuds with drab i Scots the latter Ing Ds. more, ch is still rved, was of I r with a gauntlet embroidered with silver wir d vari- ous colored stik, and lined with crimson satin. Th glowes of the six- century in silk with such r them veri How long glove 1 with lowers fidelity as to is difficult to nent th woe, when in Ey nighted ignorance, car 1 Britons. the titute of gloves. Saxons | Hs cate Danes came and went, and th | and did before glow } place in our national costume the sixteeath century we and silk, the latter often Anit | scribing their lulstory Author of ints us with th syinbolical loves have been signs of . Security, prom- Ises; they entered into transactions of tenure and formed part of mediwval rent. But as they “Gloves meaning. were a token of hostility, they were also often @ peace-offering or a gilt on any sf such as New Year's and Baste Kings and fanerais: they were worn as. and after going now a common ne- ‘all sorts and conditions of cessity, worn among men.” ees A Clove Shave, From the Napa (Cal) Resister, As Miss Annie Derry, daughter of Thomas Derry, esq., of Napa City, who is now teaching the public school ot Soscol district. was walking to her boarding place after the close of the school Tuesday evening, on the railroad track, indulging in pleasant reverie, she noticed the uisun train rounding the curve about haifa mile distant. Satisfied that it was too far away to bring danger to her, she leisurely continued | her course upon the track. Watching its coming toward her without anxiety, she did not noties her steps, when, accidentally, she stambled and fell violently to the ground. On attemping to rise the young lady discovered that one of her feet was e rail. She m: vio- bot all in vain. What must have been herthouzlits in this sitaation ag she saw the distance growing less each moment between her and the rapidly approaching train, can only be fmagined. while she continued her wrts to get free. She w er handkerchief in distres: signals were unseen. \ heaven, almost at the last mom | came like a flash of lightning th | be extricated by unbuttoning ix was an old one, pretty loose up thought was acted upon with nervous the foot puiled from beneath rolied from the track not a tom escape a horrible death. “It would not be strange, fast beneath tl I her hands but her Asif by inspiration trom nt a thought t her foe might *, which t. The NOTES, rail, and she at tuo soon to considering the mental strain the young | ad suffered, if she lay for some time ina condition; | for even atter her triends had come to her ase | sistance tor two hours sheremained tn a speech Jess condition, suffering from the nervous pros- tration subsequent upon the agonizing position in wh adbeen placed, with death rapidiy m Which there seemed a0 escape. most devout gratitude she blessed the kind Heaven that inspired her with fortitude and presence of mind to unbutton the shoe and thus secure release from her py shock to the nervous syst Miss Derry has not fully at the present time. Some seven or eight of her scholars saw the accident from the courtyard, and. although almost paralyzed with an azonizing fear for the life of their beloved. teacher, they rushed to the track with blanched faces to find that she had suffered no physical injury. The engineer of the train, which was running at a hizh rate of speed, seems to have been unsconscious of the manner in which he had jeopardized a human life by his careless watch along the road. eae “He Knew All About 11.” From the Philadelpbia Call, Ifa stray planet should strike the earth and knock it into Minders there would be above the crash of matter and the wreck of worlds the voice of O'Donovan Rossa ‘1 knew all about it. I planned it my The girls of Princeton, Indiana, have ongan- ized an anti-chewi Thi France take nding suicide TIT AO 22 T HOR T HHI T HH r ouuH PPP RRR 00 POPE KO Oo PPP RREO O04 PR RO 0€ P K KOO occ 00 MM MMPPP A NN NY ¥ OQ CO OMMMMP P AA NNNY ¥ ¢ (0 OMMMMPPP AANNN ¥Y © CO OM MMP AAAN NN ¥ op Occ OO MMMP A AN NN ¥ FT OF BOSION, MASS., Desire to gain the attention of all who use liquors inany way for beverages or medicines to their newly patented ‘method of refining liquors by agitation, and the forcible injection of pure, warmed air. This process thoroughly oxidizes the fusil ofl, and expels the light, dangerous ethers and aldehydes, positively eliminating all poison- ous elements, and rendering the liquors «mooth, mel- Jow and of delicious natural flavor, but aboveall making ‘them chemically pure. Liquors of two or three years old, of the best quality, are taken, and by this process are in a short time made superior in flavor and commercial value to those kept @ great many years in the wood. This saving of time oo- casions a corresponding reduction of cost, so that not only better goods but a lower price for liquors is secured dy the Cushing Process than was formerly possible, ‘Chemists of national reputation have indorsed the prin- ciple and apparatus eraployed as scientifically correct apd physicians prescribe them as the best for mediciual and family use. ‘The goods themselves may be found in Washington at the wine store of JAMES F. McGEE, 406 ‘9th street northwest, and at the principal drugsists. 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