Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1884, Page 3

THE EVENTSG gee STAR: W ASHINGTON CITY AND DIs EMPROVIN RICT. crre. A. Rover, the grocer, is having i Je in his store building H streets. When com 1 1 havi of thirty-two fet, making the entir | ents-tive feet. | added, v wor depth sev- In the rear a building will b ch will be used asa dwelling in place | of the one converted into additional store room. THE WORS Now Gorve Ox IN TINS Crry This dwelling will front twenty-four f t BRING ERECTED IN ALE See. toNs street. and will be two stories high. A PROMINENT REAL ESTATE DEALER 4 NOTICE | of this improvement will be $3,000. The ABLE SOMBER OF svatt Horses BEING POILT | toot is SR. Tan Hurley & Wade are the ACTIVITY IN SPITE OF 4 BACKWARD SEASON. | contractors. - | _ Tue architect, S. R. Turner, has prepared “LE think that the pros drawings for two houses on F street, between nike a New Jersey avenue and ist street, for Mr. J.T. & bs in OConnell” These will be two-story _ bricks, dealer fo a Stan rej = with all the modern improvements. The cost as to how he nets for the | will be $3,500. ‘acon in real T am told by Building Notes. ave their hands full, IT) Mr. George E. Mitchell will erect on the cor- erything that Tc: ner of A and Sth streets northeast five two- and basement houses, at a cost of 36.500. fr . Orme will erect a handsome Jence on K, between 12th and a cost of $14,000. Dr. W. F. Hazen will erect a two-story and nt_ residence on achusetts avenue, n and Sth sireets northeast, at a cost on prow have made 13th streets, are inclined to. th ‘ull one.” ke stian Ruppert will erect two two- | ences on G, between 22d and 23d and thet th S to then cost of $18,000. | Paine is ng erected four ascment residences at the h and Corcoran streets, to be sure at there is outhwest corn at acost of vaman will erect ten two- between U and V 210. & Son are buildiag ty houses ofed. and North Capitol | 5.00 id will commence rection of ten others on K and North Capi- | tol street . | Mr. Heitmmiler is erecting five three-story | it the corner of 14th and N streets, at a | ‘osh & Co. will erect eleven two- , Sth and S streets, at e cost of ureat ¢ Hf you she York, Phil amount. It should b is destined to be t beautiful uot sidering the f “itis t the list affect the im | send the influence of | Mr. W : le who come | bear Scott circle. meyer idence is Just being completed for tyre on Rhode I avenue, The cost was 000. Smith- hitects 7 is building two hous cost of $6,600. lowing buildings ha as far as | 5 W. Frey, iwo tw march of im- | Story dw t. between [and K is no re a two-story and | ‘on will with velling on P street, between 30th | st street: 600, Samuel Norment | ‘K dweliings on street south- cr Swartzell_ two ect, between Ist and North M. MeNantz two 1 street, between A and B BUILDING. | wardness of the season have begun, and houses a HI pertions of the city ae ist siven below. | ‘ x is not con cathe stat Rear K stre« sihgiogs feulay s but all | Mir. Paul Burke two two-story houses pbaaatgehe seeim to experience the between N and O streets n. w..at a cost of £6,040. eet agp is gradu s Weir a two-story and basement puilding up th of the District terial as weil tol, between 6th and 7th 000. Mr.-J. Heiberger two ‘y nt houses on 2d, between D and E streets nortiwest, at a cost of $6,700. Mr. John Humphrey two two-story and base- | ment residences on New Jersey avenue, between | vlarger | M and N streets, at a cost of $4,000. Mrs. | | Sawyer a three-story residence on arton street. West Washington, at a cost of $7,000. Mr. A. Behrend four two-story frame ed. | houses on Washington, between 4th and 5th | 200. Mr. J.J. Brown a " residence on Massa- etts avenue, between 7th and 8th streets st, at a cost of 33,500. rd say that no Inves fer return upon th improves nes of this : Bulnber of building COMMODORE CPSHTR’ is now being erec John H. Upshur on the north nd avenue, between Mth and 15th aes streets house will have a frontaze of 30 deem a sizes feet. anda depth of 61. It will be four stories Fast (0 the trent door knob ft hung, igh, with a basen Aci window oW-white, siken bow, As And fitful, wint'y breezes swung Its streamers to and fro. ernamer tecond nd at the ony. The sard root in front. nt a hand- be an iron ba be surmounted t ‘The letter-carrier on hfs round ‘The fluttering sign deseried; Hits heart recalled a little mound; lie turned away and sighed. of the building will pr nd will be lef; as she went by » bowed her head and wept. fl children, on their way ol, The ribbon saw; e upper stor 1 be four =I ts There is 2 fair » top tleor. There will be ory. and the hy in” poplar and other woed « On the seeond , With se from nd shout no more,” olng ‘The litle baby’s dead.” ‘The pediller, shouting loud his ware In tones discordant shrill, | ed the futtering riybon there, j nd suddeniy grew SUL st the deor, sed over his face, in his eye, } LETTER FROM NEW YORK. Harnaum'’s Latest chievement in Making People Whink Black is White—Notes about the Sacred Beast— A Queer Play for the Mindison Square Theater, with Novel Stage Efiecis— Whe Great Waxwork Show a Disap- | —What Boiling Water Costs | pointme at Delmonico’s—Gossip of the Week. WESING STAR. New York, April 4. Tfany impossible doubts had existed as to P. T. Barnum’s rank as the greatest of showmen, they have been manner in which he has carried through this latest enterprise of his—the capture of the white elephant. The facts concerning the arrival and the appearance of the beast are, of course, an- cient history by this time, the telegraph having years ago played a sorry trick upon ail newspa- per correspondents when it began to send ahead the cream and gist of the news and left the cor- respondent to make bricks without straw—in other words, to tell a story which has already been toid. But while the telegraph may have given much about Toung Talountr, the extraor- dinary animal over which half New York seems | to have gone wild, a little account of my own Impressions concerning him may not be without interest. In the first place, it does not now mat- ter a penny whether Toung fs a genuine white elephant, or was manufactured to order for Bar- num. There are stories current to the effect that Barrnm had him doctored for the American market, that he has blacked up all his other elephants in order to make the new beast appear white by contrast, that_he bought *Toang for a song because of these very spots about which so much fuss is made, ete. matter a penny whether these stories are true or not. The fact remains that the beast, whatever he is, has obtained for Barnum about a million dollars’ worth of free advertising. Barnum ev- idently knew what could be made out of awhite elephant, for he had tried to manufacture one and falled. He engaged Prof. Doremus to bleach & promising subject from among his elephant herd, and the poor beast was subjectea to a dose'of chemicals, inside and out, which had a tremendous effect—so much so that it became evident that Barnum’s genuine sacred white elephant would be a dead elephant, and the experiment was abandoned rum failed to make an elephant white, but he may have dis- covered since that to have a white elephant and an elephant that was white was not the same thing by any mean WHAT TI BE. AST, 1S LIKE. Armed with a card of invitation, I presented myself at the Madison Avenue Garden on Mon- day morning last, and was formerly introduced to Toung Taloung. The first thing that strikes you is that the white elephantisof a dirty mouse color not much lighter than the other elephants. Next you notice a number of spots or patches of a dull yellowish gray, which disfigure the ammat’s trank, breast. and ears. These mari are the distinguishing signs of a sacred phant, according to Mr. Barnum, who declares a pure breed white elephant, all of which may be true, for Mr. Barnum will’ admit in the next sentence that he, never saw one before. If Toung was to be put up at auetion and sold | without reference to his sacred character, he would certainly go at a low figure as the victim of some terrible disease. Otherwise the beast isa good looking animal with beautiful tusks. He stands about seven feet high, and does not | Member that one day a party of young bloods | resent the familiarities of the hundreds of per- | ¢lled upon Charles for advice. | | sons who want to make sure that he is not | give a dinner in a private room of his establish- painted. Barnum invited all the distinguished scientists of the city to come and question his alleged priest who came over with Toung—a perfectly safe invitation, as not a man in the town can talk Burmese, a band of eleven Burmese musicians excites wonder by the horrible din they manage to get out of fish-horns and copper pans... Mr. Barnum says that the taste tor cultivated, and that he really likes it, which is possible. for the old gentleman is getting to be slightly deaf, THE MADISON SQUARE'S NEW PLAY. Somewhat of a change has come over the policy of the Madison Square theater. The goody-goody plays containing nothing that might bring a blush to the most susceptible cheek, have brought tie little jewel box fame and fortune in the last four years, but it seems | the public is at last askin for stronger, and, the management not ing dot well with the last two plays produced—* Dut and “Alpine Roses"—has determined upon a new policy, A play by David Belasco, the stage manager Of the theater, has been accepted, to tell the truth, the plot does promise a reversal of tradition in ‘the honse—for virtue comes an awful cropper, and vice wets the best of it up to the vei lof the curtain. The story of “May Bic concerns the adventures of a young something m cost woman of that name, who is loved by Richard, ley & Gettin a mill-owner, and by Steve, one of his hi w Rant ; May returns Richard’: and pities Si Messrs. Judd ls eyes, | The scene is laid in V during the civil war, nin. pureli Pe Just ab The me The alk ning of the ¢tzn he read, in the breeze did “p my little one itly banker passed the spot, H tale the ribben told, t a inoment he forgot ie To Ustok of stocks and gold. ick with or- reom will be in eround fie His heart recalled a b: By kisses oft ¢ A A Uny forms tp creamy lace, ' Laidiong ago to rest. ‘Thus men thetr brotherhood reveal, ‘The common heart within, face, < will be comy) sy. The con- When they that touct of nature feel | tract p ring & John- “Phat makes the whoie world kin.” | 800 ate OKGE RUSSELL JACKSON. —se* arday Smi naman wants to affect eccentricity he nd on returning admits that he | ‘oston Post. | asked Prof. Miller, “isa good name + r And the smart bad koned it He was er of 15th y store, JL. Smith- | © he lower ‘story ce by Mr. France’ 1 the up aid he » much rarer. Burlingt was because it marked ten plus. tor, is it? | dy residen pout his ability; SIENCE. | got avery ide manner.— rly comumissione . hout to erect ral: Bobby —“Now you pr rluresa tend I and yon oder me your cake.” Tommy Vhy, pretend i ou’ know.” n what will vou d Bobby yeu know.” Tommy—“Do you Phiiadiphia € le her se vif she would s awful mad when st 9 to part shetehy in your said the liquor dealer, “it is a one from openin ed feet of a liqu rain of the trade, , hich wit a wood and back of rier will “If you had you would not | “It was | “But didn’t I do. mma has always | It is better to | ‘ou know.” you got quail on toast? party as he y ot an eagle on silver? tor. ud the conterence ad- ed sine di San Fra Post. . toc : “The right le t. aS you see, is shorter than the nee of which he limps. No 1 you do in of this kind! ent p, tov."—German Joke. | Wd aches. ool this atte stor: “Well, the propr WELLING. . for W. C. wen begun en the nd 1Sth nee Will which line This m of thi ine residence erection of a | we and V Be Te nee ran i ering-up of | L met my | vas Jeqr, s . n, With a | seks : | there te 2 on 9s shir Baser ! © of twenty feet. | turned her attention to the staze.—Boston Post. Tt will have ‘oveiments, ne press aera the interior fluish will be in ard oh, ‘The cost | The Bin f West Virginia is believed Will be $3,000. 4 te ist to contam a siumbering Sir AB. Cox . ‘There is one place of abdut an acre tt where the ground never f w always melts. Vegetation is th in advance of theseason. The jow this spot. are endeavoring to sup- press slugging watches. ways Tutuer. The co: ‘ opening last |b ‘the wax we | work show it is excellent, but it is nothing and the play opens with the abduction of Ric ard, who is arrested as a spy, and is carried off so fast that only Steve knows what has become of him. He las promised Richard to tell May the truth, but allows her to believe Richard dead. At the end of a year arries Steve, and on the anniversary of the wedding Richard walks he dificulties of the sit i solved by sending Richard back to the battle- field, where he is killed, and packing Steve off upon an arctic expedition, where he reaps glory. He returns at the end of six years to see lils child, and the woman whom he has so deeply wronged falls into his arms, saying, “I love you.”” Why she should love lim is not clear, but stage heroines are queer characters some- times, and the curtain Is rung down amid gen- eral rejoicings, with not a thought of poor Rich- ard. who, as the linpersonation of virtue, has had a hard time of it all along. NOV! ECTS. er of the theater he n some novel effects. In one scene May and Richard sit on the sea shore, and Ma traces upon the sand a picture of true hearts entwined. Before their talk is over the tide ri and washes away the sketch. That Is one bit of realism. In another scene a lot of trained birds the twigs of at and fly le of the staxe manager. SAPPOIN7 EI The theaters are still dull under the double spell of Baruum and Lent, all except Irving, i #3a seat with Ado About sof staze ph surpassing, perhaps, “The Merchant of Venice. Poor Booth, at the Lith street theater—an in- is playing to comparatively small ing houses, although the prices half those of Irving, and is said to ion keenly—so much so that he avoids meeting Iry WAX WORKS UPON A GRAND ‘The great wax-work show ot the en Musee has not turned out to be so much of a wonder as might haye been expected. I went to the riday night, along with tive or six hundred other inyited guests, who carried a card nearly a yard square, and saw all that was to be seen. The principle upon which the ding is arranged is to have a large hall, dimly light urrounded by a great many al- coves very t a ders are to be seen. AS & Wal more. You never forget that it is a wa: show, and the atmosphere of a hairdresser's show’ window pervades the place. Along the sides of the first hall are representations of the death of the young Prince Imperial at the hands of two murderous-looking — Zulus, who_ are about to pierce him with their spears. Next you see the late Emperor of the French upon his bier at Chiselhurst, surrounded by members of the family; and on the other side of the hall a baptism is witnessed by the German Kaiser and his numerous family. In the main hall of the Museum is a gigantic work representing a ‘ort of astate opera box, from which most of the crowned dignitaries of the world look out upon the vulgar throng of Americans who have paid half a doliar apiege to enter. In the front row ot the box are President Arthur, who, from the hands of French work- imen, comes e@ut looking a good deal like reigner, the Kaiser, the Pope, Queen Vic- and President Grevy, of France. Back of these important personages are massed a score ot persous more or less celebrated, and all daz- 0 Corgeous Nnitorms and jewels. Upon a ‘tforin in the center of the hall are Gounod, Corot, Bernhardt, Mary Anderson, Hugo, Pattl, ; but the work has been so hurriedly done that there was not much to choose between Patti, Bernhardt and Mary Anderson, the three having apparently been turned out of the same mould. Along the wall, opposite the congress of nations, are more cells containing great men at work—Fulton making the first steamboat, Krupp making his first cannon, ete. One cell designated on the program as containing Edison inventing the electric light, but the workmen had only began to build up Edison, and had finished nothing but his boots. HORRIBLE HORRORS. Bown below the main hall 1s the eryp? of hor- rors—a sort of dark cellar, from whieh you peer lean | tO various compartments containing sights tore or less horrible and bloody. In one a body of lynchersare stringing a poor wretch to atree; {in uncther the guillotine has just severed the It doesn’t | Next to the elephant | surmese musi¢ must be | Hiantly lighted, in which alcoves | head froma body, while another unfortuate is advancing to meet his fate: in another a man dies under the knout. From a realistic point of view this department is the best of the show, for there is little Hight, and aman who is going to execution may be expected t6 look like w The fizures and lights are arranged with all a Frenchman's dramatic art. But upstairs some ncidents” are a littie bit ridiculous. No matter how cleverly the scenery, is painted, the small size of the scene-celjs appear, and Napo- leon III. lying in state in a cubby-hcle eight feet square, or the Kaiser’ of Germany crowded with ail his family into a littieroom of about the same size, cannot impress one seriously. And the defect is the superabundance of light. The public is allowed to come within about five fect of the figures. s6 that in @ bright Te all sorts ‘ot imperfections are visible. Less light and a sheet of ganze between spectator and waxwork inight heighten the illusion. Back of the mu- seum proper is a large concert hall, which will be used ag a garden. Its connection with wax- works does not seem to be clear, but the proba- bility is that some day the Eden Musee will be simply @ gorgeous beer garden, with incidental wax-works thrown In. It is doubtful whether Its income as a wax-works show simply would pay for the electric light, let alone the interest on the fortune which has been sunk in the build- ing. THE HOT WATER MANIACS. The rage for drinking hot water, which now prevails with results about evenly balanced, one- half of the constant drinkers swearing that it does them a world of good, and the other half | that it bas broken them, and not their ailment, ail up, reminds me that one of the late Charles Delmonico’s most delightful jokes was at the expense of these hot water votaries when the | mania was in its infancy. Most of my readers probably know that hot water must be taken as | hot as one can bear it, a giassful or more be- | fore meais or Just before going to bed. Now, one of the sources of revenue at Delmonico’s restaurant is the appetizer In the shape of bit- ters, ete., which the majority of men take before dining. and it was, therefore, with soufething of | dismay that this ‘substitution of plain boiling | Water was noticed. No charge had ever been | made for cold water at Delmonico’s bar, and it was hard to see upon what ground a charge | could be made for hot water to the regular pa- trons of the house. But Charles Delmonico was | equal to the emergency. He caused a placard | to be set up over the bar announcing that owing | | to the demand for the hot tater bererage a spe- | cial cook had been engaged to beil the water in | the proper fashion, and that it would be far- | nished to patrons at_ twenty-five cents a glass. | To some of the dudes, who thought the price | was rather steep, Charles said: rou see it isn’t every man who can boll | water proper! First, you have to get water and filter it halt a dozen times; then it wants to | | be put Ina copper vessel over a hot charcoal | fire and brought to a boil with all its life in it. | The moment it bubbles serve it. It you take | ordinary water and let it simmer in an iron pot | over a’ slow fire it is perfectly dead when it comes to a boll, not a particle of life in it—only | fit for slops. It isn’t every one who knows how to boil water property.” Then Charles would | wink at his head waiter, who gravely agreed | with every word his master said, and order | some of tliat steamed water for himself, and in | | Toung to be the finest specimen he ever saw of | tlte end the dudes who valuea thing because it | costs 1noney if for no other reason, would rather | pay a quarter at Delmonico’s for their boiled water than get it free elsewhere. It was Charles Delmonico’s mission through life to show people who had more money than they knew what to do with how to waste eome | of it, and he was always ready for a sly dig at the idlocy ot his cllents. I re- They wanted to | | Ment which should eclipse anything ef the kind | lever given by the jeunesse doree before, and | | especially it must cost more money than any | previous feast of the kind. Charles made out a stupendous menu, which brought the cost up to | | $85.a head for each of the young noodles who | | were to partake; but even that absurd sum was | not enough for them. Could he not think of some more devices for making the dinner cost money? “Well,” said Charles, with the utmost gravity, “of course you might do as at some of the Eng- lish clubs, and pitch all the glasses and bottles | into the middle of the table at the end of the ; dinner. My glassware is expensive, and that | | will cost you some money.” | The young men went away delighted, and | that evening about midnight the superintendent | of the restaurant was startled by a terrifle crash , of glass, and rushed up stairs, to find the young | | men aiming at the floral centerplece with Det | monico’s beautiful glasses and the empty bottles. In answer to his protest he was told that it was | all right—Charles had recommended it, and real Englishmen dtd this sort of thing at their clubs. So'why should not sham Englishmen do the , | same, as they had the money in their pockets to | pay tor what they called the fun? It is needless to cay that the bill was considerably larger. | STRAWS. | Roscoe Conkling is the object of no little envy Just now, as having won a practice worth $100,000 a year almost at a bound. The Hoyt | will case, in which Mr. Conkling acts for the , daughter of the lute millionaire, Jesse Hoyt. | will pay him at least that sum alone, about ten | millions being in dispute. His time is 60 con- | stantly occupied that he will not accept cases where the fees are not large and certain. Campanini is to give up the operatic stage, it | is said, for the drainatic, and will go back’ to study under Salvini. 2S TIGHT TROUSERS TREACHEROUS. An Odd Incident and a Physician's | Warning to Wearers of Skin-Tight | Pants. From the Philadelphia Record. “Here, conductor, this young man’s fainted.” The words were uttered in a tone of great ex- | cltement by a stout woman of about 40 years ot | age, last evening in a Columbia avenue car, and | as she spoke aslim youth who was seated be- | 'side her in a corner of the car fell forward aud dropped in a heap upon the straw. With the assistance of a gentleman the con- | ductor lifted the senseless youth on to the seat, | and two minutes later, as the car pagsed a drug | store, pulled the bell-strap, and, followed by half a dozen interested passengers, five of whom | were women, carried hitu into the store, where | he was placed on a lounge in the back room. A doctor was hurriedly summoned, and after a disappearance of about ten minutes the youns | man and physician came out of the room, which | had beea kept closed, arm in arm. ‘The young | man’ ill pale, and he walked with a | very perceptible tremor. After a few moments’ rest the young man got on another car and went away, and the doctor sald: + seen of the deadly effects o wearing tight trous- | ers; and had that young man not been attended | to promptly he might nave been in great dan- ee queried a bystander, Incred- sir; tight trousers! Why you cannot | how often we doctors have to treat | cases of illness brought on by no other cause Take that young man, for instance: his trousers | | Were at least four sizes too small for him; not tooshort, of course, but too tight, and for hours | and hours he had been walking about with a pressure ot at least 275 pounds to the square | Inch on his olexté vivisectori arteries, which are | situated In the calves of the human leg. This} tremendous pressure forces the blood into chan- nels not able to carry it without undue straining and although the victim feels no pain he is li- able at any moment to topple over in a swoon, and unless relier is promptly given a long and | serious illness {s likely to follow. It is astmilar trouble to that experienced when it was the fashion for ladies to wear very tight sleeves, ex- cept that in the case of tight trousers the mate- rial is heavier, the arteries larger, and the re- sult apt to be ‘more dangerous and difficult to relieve. An Original Love Story. He struggled to kiss her. She struggled the same ‘To prevent him, so bold and daunted; But, as smitten by lightning, he heard her exclaim! «Avaunt, sir?” And off he avaunted. But when he returned, with a wild, flendish laugh, Showing clearly that he was affronted, And threatened by matn force to carry Her off, She cried, “Don't” and the poor féllow donted. When ie meekly approactied, and got down at her t, feet, Praying loud, as vefore he had ranted, That She would forgive Llu, and try to be swe And sald, “Can't you?”—the dear girl recan' ‘Then softly he whispered, “How could you do so? I certainly thought I was jilted; e But come thou with me, to the parson we'll Say—wilt thou, iny dear?” And she wilte Then gayly he took her to see her new home— A cabin by no means enchanted. 2 “Seel_ Here we can live with no longing-to roam,” ‘He said, “Shan’t we, my dear?” So they shantle: Syracuse Hera A Sen Rime. A careless builder, high and di Nailed a-plank to 4 broad ship's bide. ‘The plank was rotten, and by and by ‘The ship was launched on the waters wide. AWay she sailed for eastern goals; But the cargo she carried was huraan souls. A happy maiden, as good as gold, ‘ Lived und loved at the ocean's tect; Her heart grew young as days grew old, And she counted the masts of each nearing fleet. Brave ships waxed tall on the gray sky's rin; | But uever the suip that carried bint —STELLA C. AIKENS. j their | with a sha |b S GHOME: MATTERS. --: NOW TO KEEP FRESH FISH—A GOOD AIL-THE- YEAR ROUND MEAT SAUCE—HOW TO COOK WATER—HOUSE DECORATIONS— HOW TO MANAGE AN INCUBATOR. Patxrep and stained floors are growing in popularit; JAPANESE screens and panels are much used for decorative purposes. Tue finest plain white damask is coming in fashion again for the table. A BvrTerMi-k Batu for mildewed artiéles, afterwards placing them in the sun, is recom- mended. OLD-FASHIONED rag-carpet is to be seen on the floors of some of the kitchens in some of our fashionable houses. Brass poles are used for stair-rods. They look effective over a handsome carpet, but are difficult to keep clean. SWEET OMELETTES, which are only the plain omelette with a layer of jelly or jam epread over it before It is rolled, should be dusted with fine sugar at the moment of serving. Home Cake.—Rub well into a pound of flour | half-pound of good beef dripping: add one- quarter pound of suzar and one-quarter pound of currants; then one tablespoonful of brewers’ yeast. Mix as bread, but do not knead; let it rise till light, and bake in a quick oven, To Make the ebony stain for furniture or man- tels, use tube oil, blue-black, for staining un- varnished wood. The dull tint gives the surface required. and is very different trom the shining and varnished effect of jet black paint. Ifthe color sinks in very much, as it will on soft woods, repeat the process. ‘Tie Cuear palm-leaf fans are very much used for screens, being covered with drawn plush, satin, or cretonne to form a bag, finished off with small (popreas round the edge at small intervals, and a large satin bow at the base of the handle. They are sometimes hung up against the wall by the side of the fire-place, handle upward, and holda half-opened Japanese fan fire-screen, or any little odds aud ends. Tx Rooms where the paper is of one device, the pauels of dark crimson, or any color preferred, are hung in the form of drapery. In some rooms this drapery takes the form of a curtained window, and it Isa most effective mode of fur- nishing, aswell asodd. A full drapery over the mantel-piece is another mode, while from | the mantel itself curtains are draped and held | to back, thus making of the mantel from ceil floor one perfect drapery. Against this bri brac and plaques are placed. AN EXCELLENT MEAT Satce, for use at any season of the year, calls for four quarts of ripe tomatoes, one cupful and a half of red peppers cut in bits, one cupful of chopped onions, one cupful and a half of sugar, half a cupful of salt, one pint and a halt of vinegar, one tea- spoontul and a half of cloves; the same qu: tity of cinnamon, one teaspoonful eacn of ginger and nutmeg. Let this boil for three hours, then bottle and seal, or put in pint cans. If the to- matoes, onions and peppers are chopped very fine, it is best not to strain the sauce. ScraMBLeD Eocs with SHap Rogs.—When you have shad for dinner, scald the roes ten minutes in boiling water (salted), drain, throw into cold water, leave them there three min- -utes, wipe dry, andsetin a cold place until next day, or whenever you wish to use them. Cut them across into pieces an inch or more wide, roll them in flour and fry to a fine brown. Scramble a dish of eggs, pile the roes in the center of a heated platter, and dispose the eggs | in a sort of hedge all around them. A very nice breakfast or lunch dish. To Keer Fresu Fisi.— ice for keeping fish over night. Housekeepers | who are obliged to be economical should go to the fish stalls towards evening, and they can, by | putting a little vinegar on the fish they buy, keep it pertectly well, even in hot weather. until the next day, and, indeed, the fish is im- roved in flaver by this treatment. Fish which has been kept in ice during the night, and been exposed on the shop board during the day, being frequently watered to make it look less stale, undergoes changes which destroy both flavor and nourishment.—Zondon Queen. How To Cook Warer.—‘‘Few people know how to cook water,” Charles Delmonico used to affirm. “The secret is in putting good, fresh water into a neat kettle, already quite warm, and setting the water to boiling quickly, and then taking it right off for use in tea, co‘fee or other drinks, before it is spoiled. To let it steam and sinimet and evaporate until the good water is all in the atmosphere, and the lime and iron dregs only left in the kettle, bah! that is what makes a great many people sick, and is worse than no water at all.” Every lady who reads this valuable recipe of a great and care- | ful cook should never forget how to cook water. TINTING on glass is on the increase. Screens of various heights, the backs of blotting-cases, and the fronts ot cottage pianos, as well as many other things, are painted. mirror over a console table could have a lite-siz bit of laburnum painted across it; and a smatier | glass, stretching across a corner of a roum, above a writing table, could be partially covered with dainty sprays of apple blossom. We saw a short time ago a circular plece of painted plate glass doing duty as a mat to a good tized caldron, standing at the side of the fire-place. The caldron had a blue painted ribbon and bow as its decoration, and contained coals. A very small palr of tongs lay on the top. Some caldrons are gilded.—American Queen. Oyster SaLap.—One pint of celery, one quart of oysters, one-third of acupfrl of mayon- naise dressing, three tablespoonfuls of vi one of oil, half a teaspoonful 9f salt, one-e of a teaspoonful of pepper, one tablespoontul of lemon juice. Let the oysters come toa boil in own liquor. ‘Skim well and drain. Season them with the oil, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. When cold, put in’ the ice ‘chest for at least two hours. ‘Scrape and wash the whitest and tenderest part of the celery, and, ‘p knife, cut in very thin slices. Put in a bow! with a large lump of ice, and set in the ice chest until serving time. When ready | to serve, drain the celery, and mix with the | oysters and half of the dressing, Arrange in the dish, pour the remainder of the dressing over; aid garnish yith, white celery leaves. Rugs on THe Lixe.—The convenience of rugs and Kidderminster square at you can "uke your floor out of doors to sweep and clean, instead of havinz the dust in the house. Do not. however, hang the rugs for beating on the clothes line. That should be kept whit free from dust. It should always be “take direetly after wash-day «for the week. Instead of haying the whole line up, to catch the dust from beate keep a separate bit of line fur this purpo: that may hang every day in the week except wash-day, The amount of dust that comes out of a Dutch rug ora Peacedale, to say nothing of Turkish, Saxony and Daghestan, well beaten orous arms and a wicker bat is amazi at, if you get one stout enough, is uch better than a stick, Which wears the rug; but ey the stick is’ an improvement on broom- ing indcors, which leayes so much of the st to settle back again on all around. Keep the rug line distinct if you want clean clothes on wash-days.—Dhiladélphia Ledger. TEMPERATURE OF INCUBATORS. — Editor Evening Star: We have just constructed an in- cubator (ary heat), and have some doubts as to the proper heat that ought to be maintained. Will you kindly tell us this in your next issue. Also how often the eggs should be swetted, and if it is necessary te keep a damp cloth around them. A SUBSCRIBER. The heat maintained should be from 102° to 103°, a trifle higher perhaps at the last stages of incubation than at the first. The eggs should be sprinkled for the first ten days once a day, the rest of the time twice a day, though many sprinkle them twice a day the whole time. The best way of applying this moisture is by means of anatomizer,commonly used by barbers, which can be procured atalmost any druggist’s. The water should be lukewarm. On and after the eigh- teenth day it is well to aip the eggsonce a day in 5°. A sinall recepta water heated to about 95: filled with water should be kept in the ex chamber to supply needed moisture. The damp cloth is not geuerally used.—[Ep. Stal +e. Way Down in Egypt's Land. From the Evansville Argus. An Evansville drummer was trayeling in a buggy over In Southern Ilinois, and stopped ata cabin in the woods and asked for a drink of water. A gourd was handed him, and, as he stood at the well, the tall, angular, rawbone woman of the house asked: tranger, if it’s any o’ my business, who might you be, anyhow?” “Tam a Hoosier, madam,” the tourist replied. “Hoosier, eh? Uh, yes; one o” thei fellers that peddles socks. Well, we don’t want none. 1 de dad a parr outca his old gray wool shirt. I've got a pa'r o’ rayther xood ones yet, an’ Sal's “lt tote her throuzb il next barfoot time it she larns up the heels. Like to bargain with yon, ‘nt money's money nowadays, an’ we kin worry through with wa't hose we've got. Wat's tha (ug tobacker? Wisti you'd gimme “bout hait pipetul of it.” Vinegar is better than | Even a tall) and put into its special | THE PRINCTSS IDA—MAY BIOSSOM—HOOTH AND IRVING—MADAM SEMBRICH, ETC. M. B. Curtis, as of Posen, will be at the National next wee Gilbert and Snilivan’s latest opera, ““Prin- cess Ida,” will be at Ford's Monday night. — As American music-lovers were last year attracted as tar as Germany by the fame of Ma- terna, Winkleman and Scaria, it cannot be otherwise than an event of more than ordinary importane> to have these great artists in this city. Materna, when the “star” York festival, was pronounced by m: superior to Patti, Sembrich and even the peer of the great ones who have gone before—Lind, Pasta and Malibran. Searia holds undisputabty the first position among the he of the world, and Winkleman is. unrivalled Europe, excepting, perhaps, by Gayarre. from * Tannhanser,” “Die W: “Tristan und Isolde’ will be given here. Messrs. Metzerott & Co.. who will conduct the subscription in Wash- ington, will shortly have elaborate handbooks, containing engraved portraits of the artists and translations of the selections. — The theaters ot New York will give benefits for the Actor's Fund” in Thursday matinee, April 17th. — Minnie Palmer was presented to the Prince and Princess of Wales during the performance “My Sweetheart” at the Royal Strand Theater, London, March 21st. — Sembrich delighted the New Yorkers with her charmiug rendition of Violetéain “Traviata.” — “May Blossom,” Belasco’s play, will follow | ‘Alpine Roses” at the Madison-square theater. It will be presented April 12th. —Avwriter in the New York World suggest: that the orchestra play “Home, Sweet Hom | during McCullough’s performance of “Brutus,” | which is by the author of that favorite song. “Et tu Brate.” — Miss Cora Tanner, with Stetson’s “Princess Ida” company, 1s a young lady, particularly beautiful and possessing a charming voice—a rare combination. — Booth’s receipts at Haverly’s theater, for his first week, were $8,100, and Henry Irving's first week amounted to $12,467.50. | _—Nat Goodwin is said to be dangerously ill, John E. Owens, the Maryland comedian, is slowly recovering. ¥ not only Nilsson, but 2 @ | —The Baltimore Sun gives a scene occurring at the Academy of Music in that city one even- Ing of this week in which Manager Sam Fort threatened to eject from the building Mr, Max | Freeman, the traveling manager of the Bijou company, because Freeman objected to the | intrusion of some gentlemen not connected with the stage behind the curtain. Mr. Freeman was undoubtedly right, not only froma pro- fessional, but from a moral point of view. The company was largely comprised of ladies, and the stage should be exclusive tor their protec- tion from annoying attentions which frequently degenerate into insult and scandal. — Mary Anderson closes her engagement at the Lyceum, London, to-night toa large and enthusiastic audience. —Rhea xoes to San Francisco in May, and will play at the Baldwin. — John McCollough’s New York engagement did not prove as successful as usual. —Emma Abbott is singing eastward. She will be in Philadelphia April 14th, and in Wash- Ington after that. — Robson and Crane will play the “Two Dromios,” in Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors,” at the Cincinnati dramatic festival, April 2ist. —Colonel Mapleson’s opera season at the Academy of Music, New York, will begin on Easter Monday. — Manager J. G. Alexander will produce his mew comedy drama “Burr Oaks,” in Chicago May 14th. —Ada Dyas has signed with the Madison Square management for next season. — During her spring tour, Miss Helen Ban- croft will use a new version of “Camille,” which | follows the orizinal French a great deal more | closely than that of Matilda Heron, which is the one in general use. —The Alaska, of the Guion line, which fs due | in New York April 7th, has on board the festi- | val artists Materna, Winkleman and Scari. | —Three Wagner festivals concerts will be | given in New York Tuesday, April 22d. Lady Clare” will be followed at Wallack’s | theater on Monday evening, April 8th, by Mr. Buynand’s “Betsy.” — “Her Sacrifice has been a failure in New York. -- Jos, Levy, manager for Mr. Lawrence Bar- rett, in a private letter toa friend in this city * * © “Here are the flgures—but how | many will believe them—of the clear profits of Mr. Barrett for tiisand last seas 1 , of forty-two weeks, 1883-4. of twenty-nine week: . This | season was cut short on account of European | trip, and also contains eleven weeks run in New York city.” — An organization known as “The New Eng- land Musical Charitable Association,” has been its object being to care for sick members of the profession who derive no benefit from any other | socie It has no connection with the Actogs’ | Fund society. theater, has been chosen president. — Mr. Billy Bireh, the well-known minstrel, survivor of the famous firm of comedians “Birch & Backus,” is to have a benefit at the Grand Opera House, N. Y,, next Thursday afternoon, April 10th, tendered by the theatrical manage’ ot New York and Brooklyn. Birch having been fnancially unfortunate, the theater is offered free of charge. Mr. Birch is one of the survi- vors of the wreck of the Central America, com- manded by Capt. Herndon, father-in-law of President Arthur, who heroically sank with his after saving all the lives possible amo! passengers and crew, in 1858. —Gouned’s “Redemption” was produced at the Trocadero, Paris, Thursday eveni April 5. Gounod conducted, and Mme. Albani and M. Faure sang. — Charles Reade. the English novelist, who has been in ill-health for some time, is now said to be aying. - — Barnum has offered a prize of £500 in cash for the cest poem on the sacred white elephant, ‘“Toung Taloung,” no poem to exceed fifty lines. The coinmittee is composed of the well-known gentlemen judges, John R. Brady and J. F. Daly and Rev. Robert Collyer. = ————— A Shine For Iwo For Five Cents. The New York Sun says: Two one-legged young men had thei Bowery bootblack yesterday afternoon. When the job was finished one of the young me tossed the boy a nickel, and the two away. “They're variety actors,” the boy said, lar customers. I make more mon when they ain't together, for then I get thr cents for a shine. oe cos A boy was sentenced by a Laporte, Ind., jury to four years’ inprisonmeat at hard labor for stealing a suit of clothes. A jury in the same town and on the following day gave Henry Au- gustine only five years’ imprisonment for the murder of his uncle and cousin. Nearly fifty years ago a woman named Lois Lyman of Cabot, Vt., began to plait the comb- ings of her hair into a rope, It was half an inch thick and of various shades, the hair hay- ing changed materially during the half centur; When she died afew days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet long. Some heartless wretch caught two cats, tied them by the tails, and flung them into the cellar of a Connecticut church. They kept pretty quiet until about the middie of the sermon, when they bezan to complain, and the pastor sternly remarked, ‘*Will the choir please wait until its services are required?” Dr. Otto Krummel of Gottingen, who has been investicating the area of oceans, estimates the superficies of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans at 194,787.425 square miles, and the total superficies of ail the seas on the globe at 231, 915,905, while the total stiperficies of the conti- nents and islands ne puts at 34,354,950 squase iiles. =A novel feature in the dining roomofa hotel at Niagara Falls is a colossal mirror, in which the Falls are reflected in such a manner that the guests may admire while they eat. A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water and quickly wrang, and then applied over the seat of the pain in toothache or neurai- gia, will zeneraliy afford prompt relief. Head- | aches almost always yield to the simultanes applicatica of hot’ water to the feet back of the neck. 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