Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1884, Page 3

co THE EVENING ——_____._.__.__.___... STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY? JUNE: 28; 188;DOUBLE: SHERT: CITY AND DISTRICT. ART NOTES. ‘CRENESY NCHVOL, “ts. MeGrath and Paris, who went on the 11th inst., were at last ttle down ‘They expect to return eptember. . Who had a studio here fal Closinz Exe boys Who Wo ant of not being ommodations in the lat- ent quarters in Wash- na, T F. Mur nown ially the gift of ork, who, several me $7,000 fur the purpose. of what a single artist can produce, money point of view. fact that the M hibition in P; ly a portion of his w 1 in collection now is Is Insured for $2,000,000. ks are there would in- if not quite one ’ who are startled at what they con- nt fixeures occasionally paid for bits 6 e in this country i ly hold their breath ina ment at some of the results of the Fountaine sale, lately held in I n. A singie Limoges dish sold there it the enormeus sum of 7,000 guineas, or it — One of the latest efforts in portraiture by Mr. G. P. A. Healy is a likeness of Senator Mor- | rill, recently placed on view at the Corcoran | Gallery. It represents its distinguishedsubject more as he looked a dozen or fifteen years aco than as he appears ; and if it had been | painted then it would have been a better picture than it is. first, or. «, orthograph rneilus Cok their quarters in Vernon Row. son the floor he formerly oc- cupied- stead of the old studio, the rooms in the west end or point of the bui formerly occupied by the art classes ot Me: and Rouze The removal is ad both gentlemen, in two im- it does, alarge in- ee and the choice in light from three different points of the compass. : — Mr. Messer has given up his studio in Ver- non Row, and is tor the present located in his ple nt summer quarters on Anacostia Heights. | fle will probably take a studio in the city again next fail, if he can find one to suit, but has d termined, it is understood, not to resume rezu- lar classes in drawing and painting, This de- perfectly natural and proper, from is point of view, is greatly to be regretted. Messer’s standard Is #0 “high. his col vietions so sincere and earnest, and his influence so potent for gcod, both in the theory and prac- tice of his profession, that his withdrawal as an instructor will be a very serious loss to the | | cause of art in Washington. | — Messrs. Brooke, Oertel and Weyl will be represented In the coming Louisville Exposi- Tor good regular aitendan Franets Penmanship, pent ip, | second vemmanship, third ¢ s8, Aloysius War- ker; penmanship, fourth class, George Harris tion. Mr. Brooke, having nothing of Import- Arithmette. Willlam Cleveland; artthme- | : h one or two | (ep Benfanih Ringe atithacthe img | ance finished, will be content with one or t ht = ohn Weller, “Geagraphe: ist class Estey | studies from life, made in France; Mr. Oertel Kemp. | will be represented by a couple of characteristic riiand, | allegorical or ideal subjects; and Mr. Weyl will eph Jones, | contribute a New Jersey Coast Scene, near At- George " Elits, | lantic City, showing a long reach of sandy beach hew ‘Mahoney | with ragged pines, and the sea in the distance, and probably a pastoral subject or two also. It if Fccontested | jg possible that other local artists will be repre- Medals and pre | Sented. but those named are, we believe, all who have up to this time made positiy ae Tangements to that end. District Government Affairs. — Mr. Armor has just completed for Mr. Se- THIRTY-FIVE NEW STREET LAMPS. ac j i ‘eens RY addressed a note toMajor | bastian Aman a copy of Bouguerean's celebra the uuh tnstant there | “Bathing Nymphs,” which, it will beren sold in this city last winter to a New York an for $20,000. The copy is something they | More than double the dimensions of the Ing a nal canvas, and, thus bringing the fizuresn WIT be | life-size, possesses an interest which that He re- | The ing address. & gain a suit ne clear ba! sufticient purchase comu at that nutaber be purchased and | eycccully done, in every tesiech, oh | equ aa 2 | ing or color be co between Ist and ort! on 4h st n K to add to the reput asa close observer and most. ¢ Mr. A. is, ‘omewhat tired of being regarded 8 his frie d to learn, devot self more cl inal subjects. —Mr. Charles M. Rartz, editor of The Ary Un of With 51 on G street streets; 1 om E been in the city for several days past, of at least | some of the flne paintings owned here for 7th streets; 1 on nm 10th Street, at C reet nk rent dl inthe art department of the Southern Hand! and on Exposition. whieh opens in Louisville in August next, and of whi branch he is the Director. Washington has never yet been represented in any of these annual exhibitions, which are_ said to have been exceptionally good; and M Z hepes. with the co-operation of our citizens | who are fortunate enough to own good paint- ewerx | 1M#8. to make a few departure this year, which ne Mack | will reflect credit at once upon the national r | capital and the exhibit under his charze. The ‘tures thus loaned will be kept fully insured st, horthwest, between urk street, Moun’ Pleasant; th and 14th east, between Virginia The numbe ended June ‘The rate for 46 for the | P tuses of death | and transported out and back free of expense to in nr, 4; scarlet owners. estion lungs S| " it leart disease, dand | — Falling to find a purchaser here, the paint-| edent-, “{vhite ‘ing attributed to Raphael, which has been on | jcuge exhibition In the New York Museum of Art | for a long time, has been taken back to Eng- Births reported: 10 | land, where it belongs. The price asked for it | males; 12 colofed males, | at first was £200,000, but it is understood that | it could now be had for abont $55,000. This vol- } untary fall in its asking value is not an assuring sud I eRMITS Mrs. Mary Fen- | sign to any one who may have thought of buy- ee Sycit | ing it. Even that sum is too much to pay for any ‘oom, | Painting, to whomsoever attributed, about the h- | authenticity of which there exists a reasonable Q | doubt. and the picture in question clearly be- | ss r | longs to that category, whatever may be said to Samuel | the contrary. It seems to be generally conceded | S | that the figures were painted by Raphael, but i there fs no doubt that other artists have tan pered with it since it left his hands, and, beside that, its pedigree is not conclusively established. —Wnhen Mr. John Taylor Johnston, of New York, met with financial reverses a few years ago, it turned out that his fine collection of intings was about the only one of all li ments that produced more than it cos it was understood that the net results from this | source put him on his feet again, so to spe and enabled him to make a fresh start toward a second fortune. + A nee is likey to be that of Mr. i ewho recentl of the I erect an office Ory, and ut up for sal ti litions it would undoub © principal feature of the Goupil gallery York just now is the large oil painting ing the Last Moments ofJohn Brown,” s Hovenden, for a wealthy cut. The time chosen is departure ot the great agitator from the jail 2 js | door tor the gallows, and the scene shows him ashe descends the steps, pinioned, in charge of the guard, in the act of kissing’a little nesro eld, which is held up for that purpose by its th ‘echnically considered the request. of blish a rifle many h, perhaps not up to the level of Mr." Hovenden’s best e! Commts- | forts; but, whatever criticisms may be made, the smunittes | chiet objection to it must be based upon the fact Colored | that it is histo: ically incorrect, inasmuch as it retalued | puts upon canvas an occurrence which never | child, black or white, on that occasion, though | inter he undoubtedly possessed the disposition and Zo- | the nerve to do so, had opportunity offered. But | there was no nezro mother and child present. As | |amatter of fact no colored people were to be seen anywhere near the jail. AS may easily understood, it was a time when, asa rule, the would naturally prefer to be conspicuous their absence. “The only | to be seen on that occasion, according to the . | record made at the time by an eye witne: still clearly remembers all the’ cireumsta were “a few colored people along the skirting the fleld of executlon—some twent acres in extent—apparently slave masters to learn a salutary inorder not toexeeed the — The Courts. y sent Ly their auditor's report ee si leraeali ved. Den- A Thorghtfal Father. Teavliie Of faotiou for receiver | From the Middletown Transcr:pt. stuber. Holtncad agt. Eslin; | «My son,” said a thoughtful father with a fair io Prcered, aud Appicey | bald head and a kind blue eye, “I observe with ere regret that you have been read- d Jake, or the Road Agent's It_is not a good book, my son, and a bs ft day Nquor sel Ts Rage tor iil, the swo | continued perusal of such literature may wean City post ome | you trom that path which leads to success and af hu position, It would break my poor ES Fry So heart, John Henry, to have you become a road Stealing s agent or pirate or burglar for the mere pittance it conten | that such callings bring to those who pursue eiauit of restitu- | them, when there are such grand opportunities for youth, energy and talent in this great coun- s| try. Lay that book aside and be patient, my + | son and in time you may be able to steal the entire capital of a great bank. No self-respect- | observing them can fail to succeed in the some- twok place. The Hero of Ossawattamie kissed no |” LITERARY NOTES. Foris, Howard & Hulbert Washinutou: Brentano Brothers, A singular title to an equally singular book, about which a good deal may be said in both praise and censure, but which, we think, all readers will agree is too long. The author uses too many words, and his plan of combining tific theories with romance does not i itself. On the other hand, the story has the merit of originality, in conception and treatment, with a somewhat witty flavor, a fair proportion of incident and novel experiences, and deseriptions that are jraphic and seem to be trutiful. The story opens in New York, a little over a half a century avo, but the scene soon transferred to Borneo, where most of the events transpire. An air of probability and pe interest are given to the narrative by uti izing the strange career of Sir James Brook iamiliarly known as the ‘* Rajah of Borneo,” but the author's effort to demonstrate a philosoph- a reversing the Darwinian theory of pro- the degradation and debasement of the iuman race, Instead of its advancement, in other words,—can hardly be called a success. It is at once absurd and repulsive. ¥_OF THE BACON. ERSY, With Notes ani Cincinnati: Peter G. SHAKESPEARE Extracts. By W. Thompson. Wash: ‘OV . WYSAN. ington: Brentauo Brothers. It is not likely that the general reader will take much interest in this book, but to those in- terested in Shakesperean literature it will be found both useful and entertaining. It is the outgrowth of a small pamphlet printed for pri- vate clreulation, a couple of years ago. by Its author,—a brother, by the way, of U.S. Treas- urer Wyman,—which gave some sixty odd titles in the bibliography of the singular controvers; to which it is devoted. This has now been ex- panded into a handsomely printed octavo vol- ume, of 124 pages, containing 255 titles, with explanatory notesand extracts, which add great- ig to tls value. In completencas, within itsown field, we know nothing equal to it. THE AMERICAN HRSEWOMAN. By Mrs. Exiza- BI oan Houzhton, Miffitu & Co. gtu.! Win, Ballantyne & Son. The present populfrity of horseback riding with our countrywomen ought to make a wide demand for this book, which it well deserves. Mrs. Karr seems to thorou: tand her subject, theoretically and practic: and she Is able to impart her knowledze in a style s0 plain, comprehensive, yet cone that any Woman reading her instructions thoughtfully may, with reasonable experience, master that inost desirable accomplishment. of riding well, To further thisend a number of appropriate diagrams and illustrations are given. MIN nce Remus, Washington: ‘Prentano brothers. The peculiarities and merits ot Mr. Harris’ sketches of southern character and folk-lure are 80 well known by now that a mere announce- ment of the publication of a collection ot them is warrant enough for his legion of admirers. He fs a genius in his way, and the contents of this volume show him at his best.“ At Teazue Poteet’s.” which is perhaps the best ot the pres- ent group, has been pronounced by Julian Haw- thorne one of the best pleces of recent American letion. B Serie & Xo A capital book, this, for a railway trip or sum- mer resort reading, where one does not want to tax the mind with prolonged or heavy efforts. In fantastic humor Mr. Stockton excels, and some of the dozen stories which constitute the present volume are in his best vein. Most, if not all of them haye been published in maga zines, but they are well worth preserving in per- mauent form, to be read one at a time, at odd in- tervals, as fancy prompts. OUR BASE BALL CLUB: nnd How it Won the Cha pionship. By Noan Buooxs, antho: THE LADY, ORTHE TIGER? And other Stories. Frank R Stockton. New York: Charles = Ch Mr. Brooks Is, we believe, the first author to hang aromance upon what may be called our national game. and a very clever story he has especially for the younger classes A large part of it is taken from lite, of readers. and several of tie characters are real per- sonazs ell known, under fictitious names, dint st to the narra- of a “picked nine.” VERAGE MAN. By Ronert G ST, author of ‘Confessions of a Frivolor B Jamies Ke Omgvod & Co. Prothers, The promise given by Mr. Grant's previous sparkling little book is not kept in this volume, neither is the expectation held out in its bezin- ning rewarded at the end. Its scenes are mostly laid in New York, and many of the doings of Wall street and the dark ways of “‘soclety” are unfolded. Some of the situations are exciting, but as a whole the story is rather below the average of current fiction. THE HANDY COMPANION, FOR CONST, of Experts, = G Waslunistor 2 NT USE. Edited by a Select Cor jew York: rscll. Hubbard Brothers. Washington: C. We can best give our opinion of this little book by telling that, traveling on the cars not long since, we bought a copy from that irrepressible nuisance the train newsboy, solely on its merits ag an epitome ot interesting and useful informa- tlon. STOTIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. IV. New York: harles Scribner's Sons.” Washington; Wm. Ballan- ye & Son. The reputation established by its predecessors ie amply sustained by this volume—No. 4 of the ies,—which contains stories by Miss Woolson, . Bunner, N. P. Willis, Mrs. Foote, J. W: De Forest, and Noah Brooks. COOKERY FGR BEGINNERS. A ies of Familiar Tesvous for Young. Honeek By Manion fantasy, author of “Common Bense inthe House: hold, ete: "Boston An admirable little book, in every way, with Its directions 4o plain and complete that no one what difficult task of cooking well. Other Publications Received. OUR AMERICAN RESORTS. For Health, Pleas and Ree ation. Where to Go, and How to ‘There. With nearly Oue Hundred and Fifty 1 trations, y Lo Bi Edited by Second Washington: ‘Bacock. onal News Bureat In Enclish and Washington: J. ©. P: CLUB, AND HANDY SP} ERR. Humorous, Pathetic, iotic and . in Prose and Poctry, fur Read- tcl by GEORGE M. Baker, Boston: Lee & Shepard. WHIRLWINDS, CYCLON S. By Wr Mi Scries, . Parker, DONE. A Handbook for the Nursery Useful Hints for Cuildr n and Aduit:. By ‘, M.D. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Picnics, Excursions, &c. The Carroll Institute excursion to Marshall Hall on Monday Corco- ran, whi 2s at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., return- ing leayes Marshall Hall at 3 and 8:30 p.m., and the Mary Washington, which leaves her wharf at 10 a.m.and 5 p.m., and returns at 2 and 8:30 p.m, The commodious steamer New Armenia leaves her wharf at 9 a.m., Saturdays excepted tor Lower Cedar Point. After July Ist she will leave on Sundays at 10 a.m., returning at 9 p.m. Tke Excelsior makes Saturday night excur- sions to Norfolk and Fort Monroe, returning Monday morning. The W. W. Corcoran makes daily excursions (Sundays excepted) to Glymont ‘and return, starting at 10 a.m. and returning at 5:30 p.m. On Sunday atternoons the boat leaves at 8 p.m. and returns at 8 pe The Saturday Evening Club has arranged a series of excursions Saturday evenings on the Mary Washington, which starts at 6:30 and re- turns at 11 p.m. The Mary Washington will, as usual, make Sunday excursions to Glymont and Marshall Hall, two trips—9:30 and 3 p. m. The steam packet Excelsior will make a trip to Cabin Jokn’s bridge and Great Falls to-mor- Tow, a8 usual. Information concerning Stork’s tour for this summer, which Is particularly sulted to ladies traveling alone, can be obtained from W. L. Stork, Y. M. C. A. buildings, Baltimore. urth of July regatta at Norfolk wiil at- tract a large crowd, particularly as Potomac and Columbia crews take part inthe races. Steamer George Leary will leave July 3¢ at 5:30 Pp. m.; returning, will leave Nortolk at 7 p.m. on the 4th. Steamer Excelsior will leave July 4th; returning, will leave Norfolk July 5th at 5 p. m, Excursionists can thus remain in Norfolk both days and reach dome Sunday morning. The third excursion to Monte Cristo (Black- iston’s Island) will be given to-morrow. The ane Moseley leaves at 8:30 a. m., returning at 10 p. m. ‘The only steamboats landing at Marshall Hall Sundays are the steamer Mattano, leaving 7 a. m., and Mary Washington, 9 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. SY ‘The contract between the directors of the New York Metropolitan opera house and Mr. Gye, the impressarlo, has been signed. ‘The committees of Lehigh and Schuylkill coal exchanges met in Philadelphia yesterday and agreed to recommend that no chailges inthe line and city and harbor prices of coal be made during the month of July. ing and careful young man would adopt the pro- tession ct road agent when by a little time and mn he can get to be president of a bi aonet oocunee in Coes ye Laton, the manager of La Picard, the wounded. rday between M. “aneey ana M. Vile manager of Le Paris. ‘The former was church, who has been on quite a lecturing tour The society devote thelr means to procuring ered in, and sometimes assisting the parents, RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — It is claimed now that Washington is the banner Sunday school city in the United States. —Mr. George Francis; Dawson has given a lot of ground in East Washington to St. James’ P. B. ehureh. — Rev. Dr. Power, of the Garfield Memorial in the northwest, expects to fill his pulpit to- morrow. — Calvary Baptist church has granted its pas- Rev. Samuel H. Greene, a three months’ f absence for rest and recuperation. Mr. Greene leaves July 7th for the north, — The forty hours devotion wil take place at St. Teresa's church, Uniontown, July 20th; St. Mary's, Rockville, Ai . Marl- boro. Aug. 17th, and St. Aan’s, Tenallytown, Sept 14tu. — The retent collections in the Catholic arch- diocese of Baltimore for St. Mary's Industrial school foots up, as far as reported. £1, of which sum St. Peter's and Immaculate Concep- tion each raised #40, and St. Stephen’s €20. — The funeral of Sister Veronica, whose death occurred at the convent of the Sisters of the Notre Dame last Wednesday, took place from the convent Thursday afternoon. The services were conducted by Rey. Father Boone. The de- ceased was about 44 years old, a native of Mass- achusetts, and joined the sisterhood about 20 years ago. — Some of the Congregationalists of this city are speaking of Rey. J. P. Newman, formerly of Metropolitan M. E. church, and now acting pas- tor of Madison-avenue Congregutional church, New York, as a possible successor to Rey. Dr. Rankin, of the Congregational church. Before inviting him to the pastorate they desire that he shall become a full-fledged minister of the Congregational church. — For the camp meeting at Jackson's Grove, onthe Baltimore and Potomac railroad, which will commence on the 31st of July, Rey. Dr. Murray, the president of the conference, has assigned Revs. L. W. Bates, C. H. Littleton, J. 1. Mills, C. B. Middleton, T. 0. Crouse and J. F. Cassin for the first week, and Revs. W. M. Strayer, J. E. T. Ewell, C.'T. Cochel, D. L. Greenfield, R. S..Wroe and G. R. McCready for the second week. The tent sites will be selected next Wednesday. —At the 42d anniversary of the City Mis- sionary soclety, recently held at Dr. Sunder- land's church, interesting reports were made. clothing and necessaries for the children gath- and has assisted continuously curing the year sixteen families of ninety-six persons, clothed or partially clothed many children, have expended $188.28 for fuel, medicines, house rent, &c., besides rendering assistance in the way of clothing. shoes, personal visits and care and donations of books. — The Pine Grove Presbyterian church, near Mount Airy, Carroll county, onthe Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which has been closed for séveral years, has been put In thorough repair, and was pened for worship last Sunday. From the Burlington Hawkeye. You go to a summer hotel down by the sound- ing sea or away up in the frowning mountains, Well, there comes a day raw, t@guy, cold, the mercury drops thirty-elght” degrees in two hours. You wander all over the house, uj stairs and down, from cellar to roof and baél again, shivering in your summer clothes, hunt- inga fire. There is none. There isn't’ fire- place in the house. Nor a stove. Nor any place to put one. Youcan't have a fire. You can sit around and shiver and that’s the best you can do, ana you don’t have to make any ef- fort to do It. Who ever heard of fires ina summer hotel, the proprietor scornfully asks, and the clerks say, with greater scorn, that nobody ever asks for such a thing except’ some greenhorn from the west. That's all right, you are accustomed to have the proprietor and clerk use you tor an ottoman, so you don’t mind that. But about 2 o'clock the next week, when you are in bed, snatching a moment's sleep, while the mosquitoes go out and sing; when it is so hot that the shingles on the house warp and curl up. the hotel catches fire in six places, burns to the ground, and you escape with the clothes that you wear in bed. That's what makes you mad. ——-se2—_____ ‘The Diagram Nuisance. The Argonaut, of San Francisco, hits off one phase of modern journalism in this way: “If a barn should blow down,” It says, “there will be & dlagram of the premises; view of the barn before being blown down; view of the barn while being blown down; view of the ruins; in- terview with the hired man, who said he always | knowed it was going to blow down; interview with the owner, with his and other theories on barns blowing down; interview with Professor Mugwump, the distinguished Chicago savant, with his views as to the reason why barns blow down rather than up; comparative table of barn mortality in this and other states for the last forty years, showing percentage of barns blow- ing down compared with the illiterate vote; his- tory of loss from the earliest times to the pres- ent; statement of loss—#500.” —— soe For Wives to Make a Note Of. Wives who have drinking husbands should cnt this out and paste it on the looking-glass. A western journal has the following very prac- tical remarks for those who cannot get along without frequent whiskies: Liquor dealers pay on an average @2 per gallon tor whisky. One gallon contains an average of sixty-five drink and, at ten centeadrink, the poor man pays $6.50 per gallon for his whisky. In other wi ras, he pays $2 for the whisky and $4.50 to the man for handing it over the bar. Make your wife your barkeeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon of whisky for a beginning, and every time you want a drink go and pay ten cente for It. By the time you drank a gallon she will have $6.40, or enough to refund the €2 borrowed from you to pay for another gallon of whisky and a balance of $2.50. She will be able to conduct future operations on her own capital, and when you become an Inebriate unable to support yourself, shunned and despised by all respectable persons, your wife will have enough money to keep you until you get ready to fill a drunkard’s grave. a Aco = Dickens in 1842, From Perley's Reminiscences. Charles Dickens, when he first visited Wash- ington in 1842, was Just entering his thirtieth year. He was a middle-sized, somewhat fleshy person, and he wore a brown frock coat, a red figured vest and a fancy scarf cravat that con- cealed the collar and was fastened to the bosom in rather voluptuous folds by a double pin and chain. His hair, which was long and dark, grew low upon the brow, hada wavy kink where it started from the head, and was corkscrewed as it fell on either side of his face. His fore- head retreated gradually from the eyes. without any marked protuberance save at the outer angle, the upper portion of which formed a prominent ridge a little within the assigned po- sition of the organ of ideality. The eyeballs completely filled their sockets. The aperture ofthe lids was not large, nor the eye uncom- monly clear or bright, but quick, moist and ex- pressive. The nose was slightly aquiline, the mouth of moderate dimensions making no great display of the teeth, the facial muscles occasion- ally drawing the upper lip most strongly on the left side as the mouth opened in speaking. His features, taken together, were well proportioned, of a glowing and cordial aspeck with more ani- mation than grace and more intelligence than beauty. ——____-e-________ Cremation an Incentive to Murder. From the St. James’ Budget. There are also other objections to favoring the practice of cremation, of which the murder by-poison objection is, of course, the most for- midable. As we have said on several occa- slons, and as the home secretary repeated on Wednesday, there js much more murder by poison than {s commonly imagined. Take what precautions you may, regulate as you please, there would be yet more crime of this kind if cremation became common. There would be more of such crime because there would be more temptation to it, and we should never forget in discussing this sabject that as the practice of cremation advan the discovery of suitable poisons might advance too. eee ONE OF THE Most Pecuitar sections in the south is probably the mineral belt of West Alabama, which stretches diagonally across the country above the thirty-first degree of north latitude. It extends from Garlandsyville, in East Mississipp!, to some distance east of the Aln- bama riyer, where its mineyal evidences sink below an extensive pine forest and again come tothe surface in East Alafima. This belt Is probably not more than ten miles in width and contains some of the most important minerals used in agriculture and the arta. That portion of this section which has some of the strongest, evidences of the existence of petroleum oil lies in West aieanis and embraces parts of the counties of Washington, Clarke, Choctaw and Marengo. Itis about evenly divided by the Tombigbee river, a stream navigable at all sea- sons of the year by steamboats or other craft. In extent it will embrace probably 800 square miles, or 500,000 acres, and contains a great di- veralty of soils, minerals and forest growth. (-FHOM | 2038 mane. Qnigk Frannit—The, Weat Bnda @poer ing—New Imprayements-Amusements at the Branch—Gene Grant and Family—Commodore rrison—Per- sonal Mention—Gencral Van Viiet at Shrewsbury, etc. Special Correspondence of Tar Evestxe Stan. West Lox Braxcu, N. J., June 27, 1884.—Quick transit gloria mundi. That may not be good Latin, but it is good sound Ameri- can “horse sense,” for. being freely translated, it means, according to my version, that a quick passage over the world isa glorious thing, especially in hot weather, when a warm place is left for acool one. The only pleasure in the stage of transition is the rapidity of its accom- plishment, for who finds delight in being fanned with the dust and black-grit laden hot air currents, made fragrant with the sulphurous breath of the locomotive, when the thermome- ter is inthe nincties, asit was onthe day 1 traveled hither? One feels oneself getting moister and grittier as the hoursadvance. One feels a beam in one’s e1 and, after toiling fer hours to remove it, finally, when it comes out on a wet handxerchief, how defrauded one feels to find it only mote after all—literally a mere speck. If wehave never before admitted the force of the Bible saying that we have a beam in our eye, while there is only a mote in our brother's, we do when we travel with an open window on a railroad, for we are ready to take an oath that the relative size of the cinders of which we and our next neighbor respectively complain as impeding our vision are, as. tl Bible puts them. “His is only a mote, while ours 1s surely a beam big enough for a rafter for a house, or plank for a political platform that cannot be straddled. And we also demand that in the tulfillment of Bible doctrine, ours must be cast out first, and then we can see clearly to Temove the mote in our brother's eye. Thad long been convinced that a large part of the pleasure most people derive from their summer trips lies in the ability to boast wi truth to friends at home that they are “sleepin: under two blankets every night,” when t have reason to believe the friends are suffering from overpowering heat, even when covered only with a sheet at night; but from my obser- vations last summer, when, as I wrote to Tur Stan then that I honestly believed that people were running around in search of a warm watering-place, because they hurried so from one to another, complaining they found all too cold. Therefore, {am doubtful whether or no it will be wise to admit that, in spite of the fact that I reached here on one of the hottest days of the season, I did sleep under a blanket that very night. But for the aforesaid observations last year, I should be eager to tell it if 1 had found four necessary, for it is_a common belief that If a little of anything—tfor instance, of a stimulant—is good, a great deal must be very much better, and I would have thought that to tempt many of my friends to visit the place from which I wrote I ought to insist on the ne- cessity for as many blankets as my reputa- tion for veracity or theirs for credu- Mty would permit. But now, fearing that too many blankets may scare folks away from my favorite regorts { mean to draw the line strictly on two blankets. Blankets at night being admitted to be the test with such a_num- ber of summer travelers as to the desirability of any summer resort, the number mentioned should be construed ‘as the barometric readings are in the weather reports. When two blankets are needed for covering after retiring here or at Saratoga they must be understood to indicate a temperature out of doors which permits tolks with comfort tosit on the piazzas until bedtime, while four blankets might be understood as in- dicative of an area of cold, damp weather, when every one huddles together In doors. That latter suggestion thrown out in any letter from a watering place Is as damaging as to speak of the nights as being too warm. Wherefore I am glad to say I have had no cause to complain of wet or hot weather since my arrival here. The bathers, also, seem to have been well pleased with the temperature and condition of the ocean. THE WEST END'S OPENING. The West End hotel has been having as many “openings” this month as a society belle has debuts, or an actor farewell performances. The cottages and restaurant opened June 2d, and several families arrived for the season that weel The hotel opened on the 21st, and began to run right at once as it it had never closed at all, except long enough to put every part of it in thorough order and to lay down many new carpets and distribute throughout the house a great deal of new furniture. There were one hundred arrivaison that day, and many of them, judging from the number and size ot trunks outside the rooms, must have come to stay a long while. Next Saturday (to-morrow) the brand-new skating rink, completed only this week, will be opened in the evening with an ex- hibition of roller skating by an accomplished professional. The band, which, after to-morrow, is to play twice every’ day, cxcept Sunday, of course, at the West End hotel, will give its first music for this season to-morrow evening. All the outside rooms in the hotel (meaning those fronting on Ocean avenue—as two sides of the hotel do) have been entirely refurnished in ash orcherry, and the back rooms, which look out on pretty courtyards, where flowers and trees, protected from the rough blasts from the sea, grow as well as further inland, have also been thoroughly renovated. The table maintains the high standard established tor it years ago. The new rink is across the lawn from the west side of the hotel, just opposite the Pennsylvania club house. The interior of the rink is wholly finished in Georgia pine, except the very smooth floor, which is of hard maple, and measures 120 by 80 feet. A billiard room is next, which meas- ures 25 by 40 feet, and has in it’ two billiard tables specially for the use of ladies. Mr. Hil- dreth, who has always been most enterprising, is determined that the large number of visitors he expects this summer shall not lack amuse- ment. Both the rooms described will be lighted at night by electricity. In front of them is a charming balcony, where one can rest and enjoy the ocean breeze, as it faces in that direction, and in the afternoon watch the driving, which promises to be fully as much of a feature this year as heretofore. Early in the scason as it now is, there are many ‘fine equipages seen going up'and down Ocean avenue between five and eight o'clock in the evening. LONG BRANCH AMUSEMENTS. The driving shou!d be even more of a feature this season than heretofore, as Ocean avenue has been extended by completing the broad drive around the lake. This lake is what used to be a very usly blotch in the high road, where the tide In turn invaded and receded, and when, in'doing the last, it left_the ground bare, the odor was not pleasant. Now It has been pro- tected, at the end next the ocean, from any in- cursion of salt water. It is kept flooded with fresh water deepenouzh to float pleasure boats, and several row boats are on it now. It rejoices in the name of Takanassee lake, which is said to have-been the Indian name for allthis rezion. It is avout midway between the West End hotel and Elberon, and has across it a very wide, strong, handsome bridge, completed last year. To increase the conveniences of Long Branch a plan is now being carried out for a thorough system of district telegraphing, as complete as the best in any city, by means of which messen- gers or police can be called and a fire or burglar alarm sounded. The messengers will answer a summons on bicycles. COTTAGE LIFE. The residents of the fashionable cottages along Ocean avenue began coming early inJune. Mr. Victor Newcome and his family came over two weeks azo. They expect, however, to spend part of the summer at Newport and also in Bay Harbor, Me., as they did last year. General and Mrs. Grant have had their eldest son, Col. Fred Grant, and his wife and children, and Mrs. Sartoris (formerly Miss Nellie Grant) and her children witn them at the cottage here. This cottage has long been the property of Gen. Grant’s wife. I heard her speak of this two years ago. Ihave seen Gen. Grant riding more than once in the afternoon with his wife and one of the other ladies, and one or two of the chil- dren In a large open carriage drawn by a pair ot horses. He always has ‘his crutch in his hand, Teady to use as soon as he leaves the carriage. Readers of Tue Star will remember that his favorite style of driving has always been with but one companion, or alone ina light buggy behind one or more fast trotters, and that he rarely used, either here or in Washington, to drive in the family carriage. Perhaps he no longer has his fast horses, for I heard indirectly that they had been seized by his creditors. From the tact that on Tuesday workmen were seen putting the blooming plants, which each summer adorn the front of Mr. George W. Child’s Swiss cottage, in their place it was de- duced that he and his family would soon be here and so it has proved, Is not this a poetical way for an arrival to be heralded? COMMODORE GARRISON, who arrived at his cottage here on Sunday morning with his brother, Oliver, and his wife’s sister, Miss Lily Randall, was hurried away from New York when it grew so warm there as to weather, as well as financial disturbances, looks very teeble. He had pneumonia about two months and has not yet recovered trom its effects. is voice is very faint in conse- quence of weakness, but he seems to be bear- ing his money troubles bravely. I do not think he has ever been the same since his son was killed two years ago. He seems to have loved him most stendesiy and depended much upon him in business matters. © Mrei!Gartsuh joined Commodore Garrison here the first of the‘ -week! and probably th Will remain at the cott unless they can sell it, as they now wish tod ag they cannot afford to Keep it. ly cottage and the still more ma; do. That | veut 2 wi tty it was built, in 1881, and the town house whe: they ¢ married. But latter, I under- stand, is in litigation, because the deed was not Tecorded, though made so | day or two previous to his wife, as all who know her are aware, been extravagant since hy now proposes to come. . ne | in their in- PERSONAT. MENTION. | Gen. Horace Porter and his family are at their yttaze here and are in good health. She charming as when in Washington. M astis and her niece, Miss Lulie Eustis, Mr. W. W. Corcoran’s granddaugiiter, have b tor a fortnight at Spring Lake, one of the love- | La of the many pretty seaside resorts near | here. Gen. MeKeever's family will go there the first | of next month. ' Attorney eand their son, his name e by July is as pir son, and led in their | summer ho! saw G Van Viiet th nly looks weil but has becon Readers of Tur Star pos- bly remember that ina letter from here last | Rs . Van Vitet’s garden a big mint fatch, to be used. of course, as sauce for roast lamb. sen. Van Vliet now says of It: “While life ts stil on a burst, That mint patch quenches thirst, And dresses lamb.” Having been accustomed while in Washington to read of Ferdinand Ward, (of Grant & Ward) and to hear him otherwise mentioned as one | who had pitilessly duped and robbed those who | had trusted him in busi atters, 1 was | amazed to meet a New Yorker here whose faml- | ly had suffered much from the failure of that firm, speak in terms of sympathy with Ward, | and add: “Ido not see why he should be made | the seape-goat. I believe if he could or would speak out there would be facts developed whith ard to bh y nothing for or ag: ‘of the case, but merely give what it is worth. Miss Grenpy. hd eee ani “THE BLUE ETHEREAL The Plancts in Jaly. sKY.”" From the Providence Journal. Venus is evening star until the 11th. Though she ceases to shine in the western sky after that time, and even disappears from sight before and after the advent of one of her great epochs, she is during the whole month the most inter- esting member of the planetary group with which the earth is indissolubly bound, at least for millions of yearsto come. On the 1th, at 9 o'clock in the evening, she is in inferior conjunction with the sun. She then passes be- tween us and the sun, with her dark side turned | towards the earth, like the moon at new moon, } changing at the same time from the sun's east- ern side, where for nearly 10 months she hasehone as evening star, to his western side, and where, in reversed order, she will shine as morning star for nearly ten months to come. Our nearest planetary neighbor moves very rapidly in this portion of her orbit, and soon be- comes visible as morning star in the eastern sky. She will be a beautiful object at the end of the month. rising soon after 3 o'clock, nearly two hours before the sun. But she has met with a change since we beheld her in theglowing west, when her slender crescent was diminishing at every reappearance. For, as morning atar, the loyely crescent is all the time increasing in di- mensions as the planet turns more of her il mined surface towards her terrestrial neigh- bor. It is hard to decide whether the tair star is more beautiful when, beaming in the twilight sky, she slowly sinks below the western hills, or when, anticipating the dawn, she fades away into the light of heaven at the coming of the sun. Venus is brightest and largest of the | starry throng, and comparatively near the earth. But it is difficult even for the best telescopes to find out what is going on in her broad domain, on account of her intense luster and the at- moepnere of clouds in which she ts closely veiled. through the summer, | near Jupite: order of thetr position toon draws near Venus, morning stars, on. sun's western side. The new moon draws Vranus, and Mars, even- Ing st: eastern side. The moon occults only three are visible in this belt of the w Obse in turn, and sty south s Venus, that most charming favored mortals looking upward between the limiting parailels of &) and 54 deg. north latitude. _ BOOKS, &e. 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Venus, four hours after inferior conjiinction, encounters Mercury, twenty-three hours before superior conjunction. The planets meet and | pass on the celestial cor , both morning stars at the time, the former moving westward from the sun, the latter moving eastward towards the sun. Though the aspects of both planets are the same swift-footed Mercury will complete more than five synodic periods, while the more stately Venus completes one. Mercury is in| conjunction with Jupiter on the 23d, at 3 o'clock | in the morning, being 1° 10’ north. Both plan- | ets are too near the sun to make the conjunc- tion visible, even if the time were favorable. Neptune is morning star throughout the month. There is nothing noteworthy in his course, excepting his increasing distance from the sun and his ees tothe earth. At the end of the month he rises before midnight. and he would be a conspicuous object in the morn- ing sky if we were near enough to behold him. It would also be easy to keep the run of him, for it takes him thirteen years to move through & constellation of the zodiac. Satarn is morning star. He is far enough | | from the sun to be seen by early risers, and will soon give promise of the radiant object he will become a few months hence. He has pereepti- bly advanced fn his eastward progress in his orbit, and is leaving behind Aldebaran and the Pleiades, his close companions of the last year. Observers will find him almost directly south of Capelia, rising an hour and a half before the sun on the first of the month, and three hours before the sun at the close of the month. Jupiter is evening star during the month, but will soon be too near the sun to be detected in the glare of twilight. He reigns alone, for Ve- nus, his great rival, is out of the way. He will, however, enjoy the supremacy but a short time, | tor he Is rapidly approaching his greater rival, the sun, in whose overpowering beams his les- ser light will be eclipsed. Even the giant Jupi- ter has to succumb to the mighty power of the great central orb, and, as it were, be blotted from the sky when he dares to encroach on the solar domain. Jupiter, hastening towards the sun, is met on the way by Mercury, the smallest of his brother planets. hastening from the sun. They are in conjunction on the 23d, an event already referred to. Mars is evening star. He ts near Uranus during the whole month, setting about a half hour earlier on the Ist, and a quarter of an hour later on the 3ist. Meantime they meet and pass eack other, being in conjunction on the 19th, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. when Mars is.11’ south of Uranus. There are difficulties in the way of observing the planetary conjunction. 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