Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1884, Page 3

SEASON ss THIS | ON MERIDIAN MILL THE Fr ERECTED BY ME FRAvEMENTS, The am z ings according to the bul year and this compa ist, | ist owing an ex 1884, tothe present time, | s this year dnring-| The number of | e this year Is time. . viz: Moses’ new furniture tise, Lith and F streets, D60; the new 2110,0¢0, and the Gunton building, cor- | Oth street and Peunsylvania avenue, $95,000; | the others have all been i comp the northwest portion of the all over the city itot Hill, South ing: ton, Northeast Washington and through the county. The season for issuing buildii over, and the proval be imuch greater than it Is proportion of these houses new in course of “construction are being built for | the use of the owners, and not for speculation. | ued for small houses ively, and instead of being confined to d ME. THOS. J. FISH INION. “The prices obtained were very fair, I thought.” remarked Mr. Thos. J. Fisher to a Stak reporter, in speaking of the public sale | during the past week of lots on Meridian Hill. | “The average price paid was, I judge, about 15 eents per foot.” i “Was that not considerably less than the Price at which this property has been offered at Private sale?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” was the reply. “The fizures at which these lots were heid ranged from 26 to 30 cents, and I think they were too high. The prices ob- tained were very fi “Will this sale hay upon the value of lan tinued the re not.” responded Mr. Fisher. e diff in the other city, and the t think t FINE BUILDING. mprovement is being - Glover on the north side of en 14th and 15th streets. The il be entirely Gevoted to. of Rees, will have a frontage of 30 with a depth of made by Mr. €, F betw 100 eet. There will be four stories. a basement and an attie. The front, whieh will be highly ornamented. will be broken by six rows of pi- jasters proje from the second story line, and running .o the top. The material used will be brick. with the exception of the first story, which will be Seneca stone, with ornamented | molded cornices, terra cotta key stones, caps and panels. lintels and cappings In the né the building will also be of | entrance to the building ck vestibule, which will be closed at ni yan iron gate. From this vestibule | there will be access to the stairway, which leads to the upper stories and to the offices, which will occupy the entire ground floor. There will be a large window in front, 11 by 10 feet, which will be faced by ornameutal iron grilles. The ond story front will be broken by two large | ndows, and the unper stories with five win- structure will be surmounted with @ pediment in the ation ef the baild- » will be six offices on elevator. 1 t 540,000, M R tand Mr. Cha: ont wets « Edniow to the upy The sta’ nen of wood work. The fin of the hall will be in oak. Opening from the H «library, whieh will be the front b kK. Baek of this . also fin- room will be the work of which will be pis up stairs will be finished In d wood. The mantels will be hand- mens of food earving, and the en- of the honse will be ele: tire finish The estimated cost is S.A. GYMNASIOM. g which the Y. M. C. Association has erected in the rear of their property on New York avenue is completed. It will be fitted up n and opened to the publie on This new addition joins tise pres- and access to it is through the om which wil! be used as 64 feet deep, and giv with oiled ¢ heavy iren rs 2 to build an upper stor be ased asa public hall. In the rear are the locker rooms, pare three hun- = bath and wash rooms. The itted up with all the modern ot Prof. 1. J. h the Chartier The eest of the DB. Gretf was th Yerk city 00, be baleon »which the roe mond also purchased throuch the n lot on the northeast | t for both these lots was 20 AN Hover. | Jence is being erected by id Ferguson at the corner ot 24th and ets. He has a quarter of a square, having ht the old Reeside place. The new house | 4 some distance back from the one of the workmen told a STaR will be 103 feet long and 75 feet wide. te only two stories high, and will sar- ral court, and will be a very faith. tion of a Mexican house, The build- largest ever erected for a private ILDING NOTES. v. two stories high, is being erected 1 Gattl on B street, between 1ith P. Heap, of tue light-house Island avenue, between 16th are being built by een North Cap- nue, at a cost of chnelder is erecting a three- a I street, between sth and Sth, ‘Y.on RB street, id Lith, at a cost ot $9,600. e is being ¢ | trees. j east is not so attractive in ‘sce: = THE EVENING Sth and Lith streets, by Mr. William H. Duvall, at acost of $6,600. Mr. J. McDonald is erecting a house on I: et, between 47, and 6th southwest, at a cost Pairo is erecting three brie! houses 23, ‘¢ on Mstreet, near 32d, is being erected by Mr. B. P. Harper, at a cost of $4,500. An Agricultural Department Poem, From the New York Sun. Senator Plumb is much infatuated with the Commissioner of Agriculture, and lately offered a resolution admitting the Commissioner to the floor of the Senate. He also wants a part of the 1,100 acres of the Arlington estate set aside as a | Waseround for the Azricultural department. hen Dr. Loring can read his title clear of this “experimental farm,” as he calls it, he will then acknowle horship of the following . Which will be published in the Nerth American Revie: i We'll graft the lobster on the hop, The oyster bed we'll guyly weed, The cranberry Jelly tree we'll flop, And suve the macaroni seed. The beet root sugar we will get By ping of Lue hickory tree, Hose chestnuts 1p the spring we'll set, That in the autumn coits will be. We'll prune the citmbing sorghum vine, ~ We'll dig the rnta baga pear, The clam shalt with the pea entwine, ‘And both shall, mingling, blossom there, The Berkshire goat its wool shall shed, ‘The Bantam cow sigil ferd on hay, We'll inilk the ducks, all thoroughbred, That steal the eggs the squirveis lay. LENVOI—10 SENATOR PLUMB. ‘Think of the boost I gave you In ‘The Kansas foot and mouth disease, ‘Then hump yourself, and you will win ‘The thanks of ali the Bostonese. G. Buscomne L- = ts — Washington Homes and Parks. Washington Correspondence New York Times. The national capital has become one of the fav- ored winter resorts of the country. Wealthy gen- tlemen from all parts of the United States come ‘here during the session of Conzress to spend a few weeks, and many of them bring their fami- lies with them. Thia season has brought a larger number of visitors and sight-seers than any past winter. The social attractidhs of the capital are great. and all that is necessary to gain admission to offieial circles is an introdue- | tion by a Senator. Representative, or a member of his family. There are seleet dinner parties and afternoon teas which require a little finesse to get invitations to, but they are by no means exclusive. - There has been a iat capital in unimproved real estate during two. years past. All that section of the city lith street and north of Pennsylvania ayenue has improved wonderfully since 1876. The cen ter of the fashionable quarter for private res dences is Dupont Cirele, at the intersection of New Hampshire, Conneeticut and Massachusetts avenues. This point is about three-quarters of a mile northwest from the Executive Mansion. In 1871 the avenues and streets in this section were scarcely marked out. The ground brought a few cents a square foot. Now the greater portion is covered with fine and costly resi- dences. Vacant lots fronting; on Dupont Circle are worth $4 a square foot, and I know of only one in the market at that price. The greater part of the land in the neighbor- hood of Dupont circle was bought in 1872 and 1873 by a syndicate of Pacitle coast capitalists, among whem were Senators Stewart, Sharon, C.J. Hityer and Judge Sunderland. The panic of 1873 crippled some of these speculators, and they had difficulty in carrying their load. ‘John B. Alley came to their assistance and made them a large loan on very peculiar terms. He was to be paid six per cent interest on the entire amount loaned until the whole was paid and was to have entire management of the property | with privilege to sell and retain 20 per cent of the profits. “The advance in value has been so rapid and enormous that the original share- holders have profited largely by this arrange- ment. Mr. Alley of course, made a great deal of money. The loan has been entirely repaid in all cases but one, [ bel I know one parti- ground which was bought In 1872 Sa square It sold in 1878 for § asquare foot. In 18% ht s1 ISSi 31.50 per square foot. not sell it to-day for $4 a squa Tae Bri foot. sh government, in 1875, bought the war square of ground nded by Conneeticut avenue, 19th and N ed stately quarters for the This gave an inpetus to im- n this locality, which has not spent When Blain his big house, located on , Just north in the rear nator Don Came- ie house Secretary indom shortly afterward built. ‘d his mind when the founda- ht a plot of ground < cast on Dupont Circle. Here he built. It a ood investment for the Maine statesman. d ground cost him about $150,000, has rented the outfit to Z. L. Leiter, late 000 per annuin. xround than he nd he can sell the surplus to-day for ice what he paid for it. A gentleman from New York »pened to be in Washington in 1879, and attended an auction ale of ground on 19th street, near Dupont. cire He bought a lot containing about 2,000 square feet, for 75 cents a toot. He went aw: and shortly afterward sailed for Europe. H did not visit Washington again till 1883. He sold his lot then for £2.50 a square foot, and immediately invested #100,000 in unimproved ground two squares north of the same circle. A Casino which is to cost $230,000 is in course ot erection on Connecticut avenue, midway be- tween the Executive mansion and Dupont circle. A grand park containing about 3,000 acres of Ja It at an early day be laid out along Rock north ofthe city. Massachusetts avenue is to be extended across Rock creek to the Tenleytown road, and the park will begin just north’ of this extension, and extend up Rock creek three miles. The stream is a beautiful one, winding among the hills, which are covered with a heavy growth of noble treea. In time it will be one of the loveliest and most attractive pleasure grounds in the world. Taxation is light in Washinuton. Real estate 50 on the hundred. The United states y8 an amount equal to that paid by the citi- zens. All avenues and streets are pavked. A man who owns a lot fronting on an avenue hasa t in front of his house rangingin depth he sidewatk is still beyond riunate enough t x ison two sides. it with a lew iron fence and chooses. but he controis it and enjoys it ali the s mprovement of the Potoma wanted, nearly t if he i h will li, which now rden, at the foot street, west of eding marshe thy during th the Whitel which have made the c months of August and Septe this vear by a beautiful par 1 ‘The government, «ston canal, south= nical Garden to the Eastern chi of the Potomac, obtained a wide strip of round two miles long. ‘This will within a year or two be converted into a drive shaded with ‘There will then be a park with several mil They will extend trom the arsenal grounds, at the junction of the Eastern Branch with the Po- tomae, to the old Observatory, with more than two miles frontaze on the river. The national capital is fast becoming not only the tashionable center during the winter, but the home of many literary and artistic people. The National Library, under the intelligent direction of Mr. Spofford, has the richest store of inaterial for historical writers to be found in the United States. The Corcoran Art Gallery has the only , complete set of casts from the antique in the | country. If Congress will appropriate the money to purchase a site for, and begin, a commodious and appropriate building for the library, the ad- ditions to the literary colony at the national capital will be large within a few years. Now the facilities for using the great library are so meager that students labor under many disad- vantages. The prospect for the appropriation this session is fair. The drives and rides about Washington in the spring and fall are varied and very attrac- tive. The roads as arule are good. the road to the Great Falls of the Potomac, elghteen miles from Georgetown, is replete with charm- ing scenery. The pike from the navy yard Lridge to Marlvoro, twenty miles to the ‘north- nery, but the roadway is always good; and in the spring and fall the marshes along the Patuxent river are the paradise of the sportsmen. Jack-snipe are found there in great numbersin the spring months, and in September soxa can be killed by the hundred on every high tide by a fair shot. The Potomac, forty miles below Alexandria, is famons for its ducking shores. From the mid dle of November till the Ist of April canyas- backs, red-heads, black-heads, and whistle-wings feed on the wild celery beds which line the shores. The great forests of Stafford county, Va., are alive in the fall with wild turkeys, an the bottom lands along the river with quail. The bass fishing of the upper Potomac can't be excelled. The finest woodcock ground in the world—the glades of Garrett county, Md.—is within a few hours’ ride. A fair day's sport is a dozen brace of as fine birds as ever delighted the eye or tickled the palate of an epicure. Blackwater, a day's ride from Oakland, Md., 13 the greatest trout stream south of Maine. Teet, between Q and R, at a cost of | e investment of outside | y west of | groundis not his in fee simple, | sof beautiful drives in the limit of the city. | > —— si STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIE 26; 1881-DOUBLE SHEET. OUT-DOOR PASTIMES. . Base Hell, Boating and Bicycling— Prospective Tari Events. Bicycling. The prospects that the coming meet of the league in this city will far surpass all those that have been held thus far grow better every day. Ordersare already pouring in upon the committee of arrangements to secure rooms at the hotels in advance. Two large photographs of the wheelmen will be taken when the league*meets here, one of the procession as it comes up the ayenue, taken from the portico of the Treasury building, the other will be of a tasteful grouping of theleague previous to disinissal at the end of the parade. A number ot distinguished persons have ac- cepted invitations to be present at the league banquet at Willard hall, The business mecting of the league will be held May 19th, 10 a. m., at Ford’s opera house. ‘The races take place the following day at two o’elock at Athletic park. The Philadelphia ycle club will be repre- sented by 15 or 20 men at the coming meet. The increase of the L. A. W. for the last week was 79 members. Rey. L. W. Schneider has been elected chief | consul for the District and F. E. Pelouze repre- | sentative, the District being entitled to one when the league has fifty or more members here. Messrs, Woodward & Lothrop have donated a handsome silver cup for the three-mile race in the Capital Bl. Club races on the 16th May. * Willett & Ruoff have come to the front with a valuable gold medal for the two-mile race. ‘The Capital Club races will undoubtedly be very interesting. B.W. Hanna has been chal- lenged by Howell Stewart for the five-mile race, as well as by Borden. Hanna will do his ut- most to retain the club cup in his ssion. The reception of the Capital Club in their new club house last Tuesday was a most enjoyable affair. The rooms were filled with the members of the club and their lady friends, and the lafter highly praised the tasteful manner in which the new quarters are furnished and decorated. It is expected that the members of the Capi- tal Club will make more numerous and more extensive runs this spring than heretofore. The number of riders has increased largely of late, and there is a growing desire todo more roa riding. Charles Frazier, of Smithville, N. J.. won the five-mile race at the annual meeting of the Citizens’ Bicyele Club, of w York, last even- ing. A diamond medal the prize. His time was 17m. 91s. He was also the winner of the two-mile scratch rece in 7m. 41s. F. D. Owen, of the Capita! club, has been appointed one of the judges for the Philadel- pay tournament, which is te take place in | une. There will be a polo match on Star machines at the Capital club races between teams from | the Star club, of Smithville, N. J., and the Cap- {ital club, Rex Smith and Robertson will prob- ably represent the home club. Base Ball. ‘The Washington nine met with a very unex- pected and overwhelming defeat at the hands ofthe Wilmington club last Monday. They evidently underestimated the strength of their adversaries and did not put their strongest nine in the field, and when they found the tide turned against them were unable to stem it. In the game with tle Clevelands on Thnrsday the Washifigtons batted better than was expected, but their fielding was weaker than usual. The two runs of the visitors In the first inning were made by men who hadn't touched the ball with their bats, and who should have been out on three strikes. Bad playing by the catcher and first baseman aidit. Such mistakes at the opening of a gamethrow a damper on the | interest of the audience. The Clevelands won the game by a score of 10 to 5. Manager Hollingshead has materially strength- ened his team, it is thought, by securing three | ing, Kiley, and Ke But one of | y, appeared in Thursday’s game. He yed left ficld, and_made a very favorable im- pression, capturing three flies nicely and run- ning his bases well. King is from Peabody, Mass.. and has a wide reputation as a first baseman. The league clubs were anxious to secure his services, but it was only lately that he consented to play ball, and “Holly” was fortunate enough to capture him. He preferred not to play Thursday because of a heavy cold he had contracted. “It Is safe to | predict that when the championship season opens in earnest Mr. Mexley’s team will be able to hold their own with any of their competitors. “It the nine isn’t strong it widl be because good men can’t be secured,” says Mr. Moxley. The Nationals were defeated Weducsday af | ternoon by the Bestons (Union) by a score of | 4to3, but on the day following won a victory from them, the runs being respectively 7 and 6. | The Nationals desesve great credit for the plucky manner in which they fought. The game was tied twice, and it was only in the last inning that the Natiouals secured the winning run. The game was a very Interesting one, and every good play was received with cli The Nationals’ new man from Frederick is a tremendous thrower. The services of Baker were greatly missed in | | the early part of the week, but the boys did well, nevertheless. The residents in the neighborhood of the Capitol park are not so much annoyed by the crowds which witness the games as they are at seeing | the beautiful trees on New Jersey avenue broken and injured by the hoodlums who try to | see the game from the branches. A number of policemen are detailed to keep order at every game, but they are probably not aware that their services are more needed on the outside of the grounds than on the inside, although they can see the game better from the inside. The weather has been very unpropitious this week for the ball tossers,and a number of games in all parts of the country had to be poned. The vames between the Washing and Clevelands and the Nationals and Be could not be played yesterday, but they w come off this afternoon, and will, doubtless, be very interesting. The Providence defeated the Metropolitan club in New York yesterday—ti4 to 2; and the Buffalos walked away with the Brooklyns, mak- ing 13 runs to their adversaries 3. Boating. The past week has not been any better for boating than for ball playing, but the District | boat clubs have succeeded in sending out crews | nearly every evening for a short spin, just to get | the men limbered up. | Waters, the boat builder, has agreed to build | anew eight for the Potomacs by the desired | time. He has discovered a means of preventing the peeling of the bottoms of his boats, and guarantees that there will be no such trouble with them in the future as the Columbias ex- perienced with their eight last season. H. W. Garfield, president of the National As- | sociation of Amateur Oarsmen, has issned a call | to the executive committee ‘to meet at the | Gilsey house, New York, this evening. The time and pi: or holding the next annual re- | gatta will be settled at this meeting. The Votomacs will not send a light weight | crew to the Schuylkill navy regatta in June, as | it has been learned that the races are not open | to outsiders. | Whe Turf. The fine weather of the past week has in- | duced trainers to vacate their winter quarters | and make the preliminary skirmish of the sum- mer racing campaign. The arrivals comprise the stables of C. W. Medinger, W. P. Burch and Whitaker & Barry, from Charleston, 8. C., and Davis & Hail, from Maryland, aggregating thirty-six horses. Medihger’s lot consists of Emma, Bettler, Old Liz, Fairmount, Libbie and a couple of two-year-olds. In Davis & Hall’s string 1s the old favorite, Ella Warfield, Per- former, Enigma, War Eagle, Ergo, Vinton, Exotie and Rosiere. Burch has an unusually strong stable—Decoy Duck, Bob May, Burch, Jim Nelson, Mordaunt, Col. Sprague, Telie Doe, Mittie B. and six others, and Whitaker and Barry have Congaree, Lady Dean, and three unnamed two-year olds. M. J. Daly's sta- ble of nine and R. Bradly with seven were ex- pected this afternoon, and when they arrive there will be seventy-seven horses on the ground. The track was never in better condi- tion than now, and the trainers express them- selves a8 hignly pleased with it. At Baltimore the reverse of this ia the case. The track there Is sald to be as hard as adamant. In the it few days several horses have been stopped in their work on that account. Among them the famous Glenmore and Antrim, the latter be- ing entered in the Washington cup, two miles | ereigns was won by Moon's colt Penton, with | a dead globe, but it its eternal fires can give it the liberal sum of £1,000. there will no doubt be a large field of starters. It closed on the ist of March last with fifteen entries, all of them horses of more than ordinary merit. Gov- ernor Bowle has engaged a strong trio—Com- sation. Crickmore and Nettle; “Joe” Mc- Mahon has Hilarity, Frankie B. and Joe Mitchell, and ex-Senator Scott has Blue-grass Belle and Referée. The others are the fast fillies Decoy Duck and Mite B., Welcher, Per- former, Vinton, Antrim and Blast. Crickmore ia a strong favorite notwithstanding the rumors circulated during the week that Nettle beat him on Tuesday in a trial oe at home. The others in fayor are Mittie B. and Decoy Duck, Hilarity and Welcher being also fancied. The following named horses are in training at the track: W. L. SCOTT'S: STABLE, Greystone, gr. c., 3, by Kins Alfonso; Geneva. Voila, b. f., 3, by Billet; Belle Palmer. All Hands Around, ch. f., 4, by War Dance; | Tarantella. Referee, b. g., 4, by Hurrah: Kinney K. Wellington, b. g.,3, by Billet; Bourbon Belle. Florio, br. f., 2, by Virgil; Florence I. Radha, ch. , by Algerine; Nannie H. Biast. ch. ¢.,.3, by Aristides; Colleen Bawn. Blue Grass Belle, ch. f., 4, by War Dance; Ballet. Krishna, b. c., 2, by Algetine; Ella T. Nirvine, b. £, 8, by King’ Alfonso; Maggie Hunter. ‘Tunis, Simoon, b. g. DAVIS & HA 5 Performer, br. c., 3, by Fiddlesticks; Patience. Enigma. b. f., 3, by Enquirer: Queen of West. Ella Warfleld, b. m., aged, by War Dance; Flora. War Eagle, b. c., 4, by Leader; Red Eyes. Eugo, ch. c., 2, by Dickens; Eugenia. Vinton, ch. g.. 3, by Kinney; May D. Exotic. eh. f., 3, by Enquirer; Sallie Crow. Rosiere, b. f., 3, by Dickens; Rosie. ED. TIFFIN'S STABLE. Keno, b. h., aged, by Chillicothe; Chance. Charm, b. g., 3, by Kingfisher; Attraction. THE WASHINGTON STABLE. Desiree, ch. f., 3, by Eolus; Dewdrop. THOMAS DORSEY'S STABLE. Tota. b. h. aged, by Lynchburg; dam by Iota. C. W. MEDINGER’S STABLE. Emma, ch. f., 3, by Eolus; Minnie Andrews. Rettler, bg. 3, by Gaberlunzie: Gretchen. Old Liz, ch. f., 3, by King Ban; Susie Fuller. Fairmount, ch. g., 2, by King Ban; Susle | Fuller. Libvie L. peper. Joe Lewis, aged, by Hiawatha; Jack Malone. Ch. ¢., 2, by Cloverbrook; Minnie Andrews. W. P. BURCH’S STABLE. Decoy Duck.b.f. 3, by Longfellow: Call Duck. Bob May, ch. g., 3, by Gleneig; The Nun. | Burch, b. g. 4, by Enquirer; Brocade. Jim Nelson, ch. g.,6, by Wateree: Belle of York. Mordaunt, ch. h., 4, by John Payne; Libbie L. Col. Sprague, b. g. aged, by Calvin; Pauline Sprague. Telie Doe, ch. f., 2. by Great Tom; Nina Turner. Mittie B., b. f. 3. by King Altonso; Flash. Homespun, b. g. 5, by Enoree; Leah Z. John C., b. g., 2, by Great Tom; Leah Z. Evenone, bik. f. 2, by Euquirer; Shawnee. Sporting Notes, The contestants in the six days’ go-as-you please walking match, which beginsin the Madi- son Square Garden to-morrow nicht,are Rowell, | Hart, Sullivan, Noremac, Vint, Thompscn, Nitaw-Eg-Ebow, Elsen, Panchot, Lounsberry, Herty, Fitzgerald, Campana, Haaes, and Day. A meeting was held to-day, and the final pre- liminary arrangements were completed. In.a wrestling match at Wilkeabarre last eve- ing John Connors, of Scranton, who recently feated the champion. Edwin Bibby, of New York, threw Simon Bradley twice in two min- utes. Connors offers $100 to any man who can | throw him in twenty minutes. Throckmorton’s gelding Phantom won the great Sandown hurdle race in England yester- day. ‘The free welter_handicap race of 200 soy- | b. g., 3, by Algerine; Oleaster. 3. by Algerine N ch. f., 2, by Cloverbrook; Sallie Cul- irst Fiddle second, and Walton's colt Hope- fal third. At the meeting ofthe Memphis Jockey club yesterday the Milburn purse forall ages, one mile, Was won by Princess, the favorite. Time, 1: The cotton exchange stakes for all ages, 14 miles,was won by Lute Fozle. Time 2:14. Third race, selling race, for all ages, 2j mile | heats: Queen Esther, (favorite) 11: Brooklyn, 42, and AnnieS 3. Time, 1:1817 and i:19. Fourth race, for all ages, 11-16 miles, Lillie B. won. ime 1:54. ge Whatsthe Moon Doing. Signs of peculiar and di changes were, observed on the slender crescent of the present new moon. An astronomer within the past ten days claims to have discovered something un- usual going on in the great peak of Tycho Brahe, a big mountain which has always been a prominent object on the eastern side of the moon. Tycho is a volcanic crater, nearly 20,000 feet high and 50 miles in diameter, and it had, up to within a few days, a peak ‘a mile high standing in this crater. ‘This peak, which was only a bright spot in the midst of a black crater, has suddenly grown to be a gigantic | mountain, nearly filling the entire bagin of the crater, and towering above every other moun- tain on themoon. It is estimated now to be thrice as high as it was, and promises some startling phenomena. The moon has been called any clalms to life it is certainly a living corpse. The signs of a renewal of volcanic action, which begun to be discussed acentury ago, ate now not merely scientific nuts to be cracked by the astronomers, but they are clalmed to be facts for the people. ek, Saturday Smiles. A farmer is contented with his lot when he has had the grass cut on it, for then he wants vi Jommercial Bulletin. That's about the scythe of it.—Boston Post. It is said that Nilason was aun-struck in New York last week. It's a mighty meansun that will stay behind the clouds so many weeks and then come out and strike a woman.—Kockland Courier-Gazetie. A Chicago woman remarried her husband from whom she had been divorced, and then got mad because he wouldn't take her ona. bridal tour. “I notice thatthe ballet girls mostly wear smiles when they come upon the stage,” said old Mr. Squaggs to his wife, who had insisted on accompanying him to the theater. “It shows that they think they ought to wear something,” she snapped, and he said no more.—Somercille Journal. “What are you winking for?" asked a drug- gist’s clerk of acustomer standing near the soda fountain. “Was I winking? Beg pardon. For ofhabit. Icome from Maine.” The apol was accepted. “It seems to me,” moaned Algernon, as he flew toward the front gate withthe old man close behind lim, “that there are more than three feet in the yard.”—Philadelphia Call. A fashion magazine has an article on will the coming girl wear?” Ifthe article fers to the servant girl of the future, she will probably wear the best the land affords. “What is the cause of this illumination?”asked a traveling Englishman of the waiter at a hotel ina German town. ‘Her royal highness, the grand duchess, has Just become the mother of a grand ducal infant.” “Is that so?” responded the Englishman, taking out his note-book; “I must make a note of that; so in Germany when- ever the city is illuminated the grand duchess becomes the mother ofa grand ducal infant.”— Texas Sistings. He was a Somerset club young man and she a saucy damsel from a town in the Old Colony. He had been “doing the English” for her bene- fit, until her patience was exhausted, and she turned upon him with the remark: “Mr. X., youare English, f suppose?” Oh! nah,” he re- plied, with an air of delight aw—what made—aw—yer ‘think that?” “01 she returned, with a bewitching toss of her pees head, ‘the English are go ill-bred, you now!”’—Boston Courier. “Tsay,” said a railroad’ brakeman running into a depot restaurant, ‘the forward trucks of my car have slipped off the rails. Have you got a piece of iron anywhere about .that we could use for a lever?” “I don’t believe I have,” replied the proprietor. ‘‘What’s this?” asked the and a quarter, to be run fur on the fourth day of the meeting. The horses now in training at Baltimore will be sent here early next week. The prospects tor a brilliant meeting next month are rosy. There is every indication that, although first in point of time, it will be the | ied racing reunion of the year. Congress ing in session will help to attract visitors from distant points. The officers of the club are un- tiring in their efforts to perfect every detail, and its roll of membership is being augmented dally. At the meeting of the executive committee on Thursday evening thirty-three new members were elected, among whom were Cabinet minis- ters, Senators, diplomats, and leading citizens. Through exceltent management the jockey club has overcome the strong prejudice that Lut a short time since existed hereabouts against turf sports. Now, howeyer, its semi-annual racin; earnivals are the fashionable out-door tocial gatherings for the display of the richest toilets and handsomest equipages. Perhaps the most interesting race of the meet- ing will be the contest for the Diplomatic stakes. It is for hoises ot all ages, aud the dis- tunce Gemileauda half As the club adds brakeman, trying to lift something from the counter. ““That’s sponge cake.” ‘Well, 1 ess it willdo if it isn’t too brittle. I will ring it back in a minute.”"— Philadelphia Call. ‘some find rest, » , MUSICAL, .AND DRAMATIC. AMUSEMENTS. NEXT WEEK—TUE OPERETTA OF “THE BEGG. FORD'S—THE WA OPERA ‘‘DESIREE, SER CONCERTS—THE COMIC ETC. THe McCatit Orena Company will hold the boards of the National theater next week. The engagement is to be opened with “The Beggar Student,” which will be placed upon the stage with appropriate settings and scenery. On Thursday evening the comic opera of “Desiree” will be produced for the first time. It is pro- nounced by those who have heard the score and libretto as certain of success. Particular inter- est attaches to its production, because of the fact that Mr. Soussa, the composer, and Mr. Taber, the author of the lyrics and adapter of the dialogue, are residents of this‘city. The plot anda large portion of the dialogue were furnished by Mr. John M, Morton, of London, England. “Tue Ragan” at Forp’s.—Monday evening the initial performance in this city ot “The Ra- jah,” the very successful comedy, will be given at Ford’s Opera House. The company carries complete scenery and ap- pointments from therMadison Square Theater, so that, with the Multless caste, a thoroughly delizhtful rendition of “The Rajah” can be an- ticipated. “The Rajah” is merely the cogno- men ofan English army officer who has been serving with his regiment in India, where he has spent his time under the punkah, betting, flirting, drinking brandy and soda, growing lazier and more fistless day by day. He is. how- ever, a very manly fellow at heart,-provokingly cool, and a very hero in prowess. The death of his uncle recails him home, where he finds a eet girl, whose guardian he is expected to come. Two rascally attormess, who have mismanaged the estate in their own’ interests, and a set of turbulent oolliers who are discon- tented with their wages, and threaten, under the leadership of one Cragin, to make things unpleasant for the Kajah. The Rajah subju- gates the pretty girl, who is inclined to insub- ordination, and subsequently marries her. He withdraws his patronage from the rascally law- yers, and gives it to a humorous clerk whom they have dismissed. He tames the colliers and proves Cragin to be an escaped convict. Tue WaGner Concert.—The lovers of Wag- ner’s wonderful music will have an opportunity to hear it presented in all its magnificence Thursday evening next at Lincoin i Materna, Scaria and Winkelman, accompanied by Theodore Thomas’ orcu will selections from Tarnhauser, Parsifal, Die Walk- ureand Tristan und Isolde. ‘their success in Lies and elsewhere has been most reimark- able. Mr. Kinsiey’s BeNerit.—Mr. 3 Samuel G. tional theater, will take nis annual benefit May 5th, when “Fogg’s Ferry” will be produced by Miss Evans. Mr. Kinsley has such a host of friends that a crowded house 1s an assured fact. The star of the occasion, Miss Evans, will make lier first appearance here under pecu- liarly favorable circumstances. She has been very successful throughout the country, and has already taken high rank as an actress of the school of Lotta and Minnie Palmer. — Woolson Morse’s long-talked of opera, ame Piper,” will be prodaced at Wallac New York, May 12th. —Haverly Is said to be bargaining for the lease of the New Park theater in New York. Most likely his only desire is to sell again at a profit as quickly as he can. Haverly has pretty much ceased to be anything more than a specu- lator. — A new spectacnlar opera cailed “The Miss- Ing Link,” and written by Serboeck and Ed- wards, will be produced at Chicago next week, by a company which includes Agnes Halleck, Leonora Huntington, Alonzo Hatch, Seth Crane and Mrs. Paul Brown. —Mande Branscombe, formerly the much- photographed, is playing Beauty in the old ex- travaganza of “Beauty and the Beast” at the Liverpool Prince of Wales theater. — F.R. Thiem, who is said to be well known in German literary circles, has written a play called “Washington's Camp,” which will be presented in both German and English next sea- son. — ‘the Boston theater has made a happy ven- ture in “‘Jalma,” and its popularity is quite re- markable, It last night finished a run of seven weeks at Chicago to large audiences—a notable engazement. in that city—and on Tuesday the fiftieth performance was celebrated by giving out neat little palets of white wood as sou- venirs. —InLondon a club_ has recently been estab- lished, the object of which is the discussion of matters of general interest in tie theatrical world. It is known under the name of ~The goers’ Club,” — At the conclusion of the Wagner festival in waited to greet Materna as she left the hall for her carriage. She has quickly sung into popu- larity. — Fay Templeton has proven a decided success at the Academy of Music, Baltimore, in comic opera. She has secured great praise from the press of that city for her bright, afch, piquant acting and sweet singing during the week. She has appeared in five operas, and closes to-night in “Girofle-Girofla.”_ Her company is also much praised. She appears in Washington Monday, May 26th, for the benefit ot the first company Union Veterans. —Oakey Hall writes to the New York Mirror that Dr. Mallory of the Madison Square theater is trying to buy “Claudian” from Wilson Bar- rett. for R. B. Mantel, but that Barrett refuses to sell it because he’ issurely coming to this country next winter. —The handsome new theater in Leicester square, London, for a short time known as the Pandora, was opened last Monday as the Em- pire. It is underthe direction of Alexander Henderson, and will be devoted to spectacular opera ofthe gauzy sort which H. B. Farnie fur- nishes. —There has been a widely expressed hope that Edward Booth and Henry Irving might play together before the latter's departure for England. This cannot be brought about now. partly because of Mr. Booth’s ill-health; but it is likely that they will act together when Mr. Irving returns in the autumn. Booth will play but little next season, not more than 30 weeks in all, and a good portion of this time will be speut in Boston. — Gounod has written a composition to Lord Byron’s celebrated poem, “Maid of Athens, E We Part,” and presented the same to the poc original, whose maiden name was Theresa Macri, but who is now living in a suburb of London as Mrs. Black, bowed down by age and alka,” the new comic opera, isa great success at the Casio, N. Y., and promises to run allsummer. It filled Haverly’s Broad st. theater, Philadelphia, for elght weeks. The scenery Is grand and the company excellent, — Carrie Swaim (Cad, the Tom-boy), is shortly to be married to Chas. B. Palmer, secretary of the #tna Insurance Co., of Hartford. — Lawrence Barrett is playing to half filled houses at the Lyceum Theater, London. “Yorick’s Love” will be replaced by Richelieu next week. — “Love and Law,” adramatization by Milton Nobles, has been successfully produced at the 14tl-street Theater, N. Y., with Mr.and Mrs. Noble and astrong company. Mrs. Nobles isa Washington lady. 3 — Aimee will try English comedy next sea- son, introducing French, German, and Irish songs. — InLondon there are 28 theaters in working order. ,It has been calculated that each night the combined treasuries amount to £6,820, and for one year £354,640. — George Denham and Blanche Chapman, lately of Hess Opera com , are in Washing- ton. e They caine direct Aas the City of Mexico. — ‘tA Night in Venice,” a new comic opera by Strauss, will be produced for the first time in this country at Daly's, N. Y., to-night, by J.C. Duff's company" : —Mapleson has made a contract with Mme. Scaichi for three years, beginning with the next autumn season of opera at the New York Acad- emy of Music. — The New York Musical Courier, of Apri And go the weary world goes on: I sometimes wonder which ts best— ‘The answer comes when life is gone. Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake, 80 g0. some hearts beat wh some hearts break, e where Toften wonder why ’ts go, Some hands fold where other hands Are lifted bravely in the strife; And so thro’ ages and thro’ lands ‘Move on the two extremes of life. Bone Terenas here conw ect march, a thorny way; Some sti Je on Where some have fled Some seek, when others shun the fray. Some sleep on while others ‘The Hels or the steand brave; ‘They will not rest tiil roses cree ‘Around thetrname above & grave. 28d, is a special edition dedicated to the New York and Boston “Wagner Festivals,” and con- taining pictures of Wagner, Materna, Winkel- man, Scaria, and Theodore Thomas. — “Justine,” an emotional drama, an adapta- tion from Sardou, by Miss Selina Dolaro, was produced, and met with ofly a partial success in New York last Monday evening. —The first performance of the second dra- matic festival took place Monday night at the Music Hall, Cincinnati, The play was Julius Cwesar—Keene, Ward, and Barton Hill takit ag of ‘Mare Antony, ‘and Cassine e audience numbering from 2,000 to 2,500 persons grew very enthusiastic at Cig ined seemed generally pleased. The festival, how- eyer, is proving @ disastrous financial failure. Madison Square | sley, the popular business manager of the | Boston a crowd of over five hundred ladies | Tae Bors. 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