Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1884, Page 3

REL HOUS NOTES. CHES HERE AND ELSE — St. Matthew's church, which been ren- "d for ser- ferred, first to ther to Philade!phia. They »y Fathers Coppin and Bren the and f! eeded b — Rev. S. B. Tread pastor of the who up to last M xandria (Va.) Me : of t v Washington, to s ry S. S. Teachers’ union of Wash- mvenes after its sun on tuber 5th, meeting p-m., for one hy loth and or recess streets northw s 1 anization of and other te, meeting mutual con- of of children, who may u with th od t a in the morn- ominedate tho: se who have tone of the Centenary Metho- ‘opal chureh, at Laurel, Md, was re- There was a large gathering, in- cluding many from Washington and Baltimore. Laurel V Free and Accepted Ma- Solomon Lode, of Sav: ore: ated in the center of the town, nd will be constructed of — From the fact that a member of the Metro- litan M. E. ehureh at Ocean Grove last Sun- act seme thirty members of that church the Grove is hingtonians. The Foreign Missionary attend- id to have been the there. The collections in ning were nearly 2900. and with the afterncen ceileetion ded $2,609. The an- Rual camp me: ced last Tues- day. recently of Leonardtown, has been sent to Jersey City. — Rev. L. B. Plumer, of Crozer Baptist Col- lexe, has b ‘ed pastor ot the York (Pa.) Baptist ch — The secular clergy of the Catholic arcndio- cese of Baltimore will hold a retreat at St. Mary's academy in Baltimore, commencing Mon- day and ending next Saturday. — At Frederick last week tour young men graduates of Loyola college entered the order wits as novices. Mr. Brent Thomas, of . Thomas’, near Port Tebacco, was one of the Rumber. —Grace Baptist ehmreh, formerly the As- quith street church, Baltimore, has moved from the house on Asquith street (whiely be sold) to the Bethany chapel on Eager street, near Broadway, chureh lot. ceinity of their new at St. Charles col- has termine the forma come before the ember can best be pre e the Gospel to r it from hit he fonnd if aity under ous debt ot | ont the res e electing an re house. best flnan- i be made. Ast BANK CASE. WHE NE At the he: tution con! placed in one ank affairs. “If of the board,” he went dT was told it i done when it came ked the counsel, to look after was t seme m were in New Yor! conve arrang us th tt Hatch that t An Obstinate Father and Poison. Several days ago a young man, the son of one of the mos aued lodgings ke obtained about num from a druggist, who habitual opium eater.” The at the hotel and of the hotel attend- tiscovered him an ounce of | stock hin . WhO Kept e ming: “I Let me The young man £ near ils parents’ house, but d their union. and his oppost- led his son to Lis almost ee loon-Keeper’s Ghastly Joke. ling, Pa., Christian Yowmen entered teo. Kramer Wednesday night i for a drink, saying a friend would Kremer sald, “I'll treat,” and pour- sky In @ schooner beer- ‘The Inter drank asked for more, whereupon Kra- fthat don’t kil! you, come at again.” Bowman made his was found dead in the yard by e following morning. Kramer was vn the charge of causing the man's A Sal it, ata pint of w stament does not But it is not tmproba- tome members of the committee will feutinue to meet and undertake a revision of she Apocrypha on the same principles. ———-—+e-___ , Fecerhiye on of the Old Te: ae r s of a minister, | = THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D. C.. SATURDAY, STRU Er. Ways in Which Scanty Pay and Close Economy Go Together, From the New York Star. In some of the Grand street dry goods stores over 500 young women and girls are employed. Their hours of labor are usually from 8 a. m. till 6 p. m., except on Saturdays, when they remain on duty till 9 o'clock. ‘They are allowed an hour for lunch about noontime. All day long they ither waiting on customers or ng their departments trim and tidy. do you receive for your week's work?” hed of a bright young saleswoman in one estaltishments. “I ought to get #7; was a quarter of an be fined fifty cents “What do you pay for your board 7” “Four dollars.” “And for your luneh 7” “Nothing.@ I bring a sandwich, a piece of pie, and a flask of tea with me.” nd for car fare?” hour late two mornings. I'll but I won't, because I | THE FUTURE CAPITAL. What Washington Onght To Ee, and What It Will Be, in Time. E. W. Lightner in the Pittsburg Dispatch. What shall be done to Washington to make it the most attractive spot in the world beyond all comparison? Many say it is the most attractive place in the world pow. It is in many respects, but what it needs is the addition of a few spe- clalties which can easily be added, and which will be added in due time beyond the Peradventure of a doubt. There is no question now that the capital will remain at Washington. The great public buildings. the admirable plan of the city, the scores ot miles of smooth. concrete pavement, the upward of 100,- 000 shade trees, the monument, the parks al- ready made and the parks in prospect, the | money invested here by scores of men who will wield incontestible power with Congress for | | many years to come, the pride already felt of | the place by every American who visits it—all | ; these conditions combine to prevent the removal Kothing. It’s healthier to walk.” For your laundry bill?” “Ido my own laundry work on the morning of my day off. That's Sunday. In the evening Vil fx myself up and attend a party at a friend’s house. They'll have singing aud music and a joliy zoo time.” n'il save money this weel n £2toward the fund I'm raising and I'll put the remaining ¥ceats in my pocket book for an emergency id. I'm not so badly of, you see, and witha a month my salary wili be raised to $8 a week.” place of amusement this week?” me to hear the English Opera’company in “Fra Di He takes me “Our own importat She add monds and clad in costly raiment alighted from a carriage. and rattled off as rily te dilate on the meriis of the soe thouzh thought of care or trouble never enter: her soul. HOW THE — se. DEAR BEFUNCE CAME BACK. Romance of a Case Pending in the Di- vorce Courts of Paris. Paris Letter in New York Times, Eight or nine years ago Mme. de X. was married to M. Jacques de ¥., a gentleman of fortune, favorably known at the bourse and on the turf, and a member of one of the best clubs in Paris. Their union was reputed to be happ she was a devoted wife, and he. apparentl: model husband. who had renc 1 Satan and all his works. Two after their wedding de Y. was found dead inhis bed at fils villa.near Autun, whither he had gone to transact busi- ness with his tenantry. ‘The house steod alone in Its grounds, and foul play was suspected. The condition of the corpse, which was horribly mutilated by a p d to indicate a murder, and several persons were arrested, to be released, howey after an ex- amination into nis fi that he was completely ruined; even his wife's dowry had been lost; there could ue no doubt about It—the poor wretch had committed sul- cide. Madame mourned him sincerely, for he had r, and after acouple of years of widow- she listened to the voice of a consoler. M. de Z. was assiduous and devoted, his social posi- tion was unguestionable, and it is hard at seve! and-twenty to wear weeds, particularly when one has not a penny and one's suitor has mil- . Widow de Y. married de Z, and ever; body approved the match, and she never regret- ted it until one day, six or seven months doctor he he corpse in his clothes, : x kof r had calied me to your arms.” fatuity, he gloated ove never doubting for ‘ful to his m would be‘ a dream of happin sto be done? it could not be ac no such person as iregister of Autun would pro’ at that dat of October, e ungrateful.” “But with that happin isnot, and, as his of our eliildr entioned that, ifthe first union hac the second had borne three ehild- innocents set the pair ied them to consult vised that Mme. de “trom M.de ¥., aft jot be ight re uiture” should he retura to hat M. and Mme. de Z.,whose mar- «efor the time being ts legally null, should | go throuch a second ceremony. accompanying that act by another by which the children are legitimatized. Overtures to this effect have been made to the absent one, who | fused point-blank @ays he has agree ‘violation of se hi d to the arrangem: eee és A Parson’s Experiences of Weddings. | From the Londo: clety. smoothly and frequently with very pretty effects. The vrides are credited with a careful study and perusal of the service for many days before- hand. Sometimes there has been a rehearsal. | I have known brides, when the grooms have | failed to make the proper responses, prompt, | them immediately and with the greatest facility’ | The most common mistake of the bride is to | take off only one of her gloves, whereas both as are brought into requisition in the se As for the men, they commit ail kinds re and buugiings. i lave known at thut very nervous and trying follow a ‘clergyman within “the nion-rails, and prepared fo take a place hho. f have known aman, when a ed out his hand to unite those of take it vigorou: in hisown and ¢ ita hearty shake. Sometimes more serious difficulties occur. Some ladies lave had an suerable reluctance to use the e or two, if their own etate- have ingenlously coi Tie word, “how- ¥ admitted into the e Kit! who was being old clergyman, who ested that, if'she were unwill- rthe word : it to him; but the you pt | even this kind of co Further, how- ever, than this the clergyman retused to accom- modate her; but when le was forced to dismiss them all witheut proceeding any further, the recalcitrant consented to “obey.” qT is not always made onthe side of the lady.’ On one occasion the bridegroom wished to deliver a little oration | qualifying his vow and describing in what senso and to what extent he was using the words of the formula. He was, of course, given to un- derstand that nothing of tils kind could be per- mitted. There was one who aceompanied the formuls with softo voce remarks, which must have been exceedingly disazreeable to the offi- cinting minister. He interpolated remarks aiter the fashion of Burchell’s “Fudge!” “With this ring I thee wed; that’s superstition.” “With my body I thee worship; that’s idolatry. “With all my wordly goods I thee endow; that's a lie” It is a wonder that such a being was not coriducted out of the church by the veadle. ‘This puts one in mind of an anecdote that ts told of a man who In his time was a cabinet minister. There was a great discussion on the question whether aman can marry on three hundred a year. “All Teun say,” sald the great man, “is that when I said, ‘With all my wordly goods I thee endow,’ so far from having three iundred pounds, | question whether, when all my debts were pald, I had three hundred pence.” “Yes, my love,” eaid his wife, “but then you had your splenaid intellect.” “I didn’t endow you with that, ma’am,” sharply retorted the right honor- able husbai en English as She is Spoke. From the Philadelphia Call, First Londoner—Aw, ‘ow do. Aw, by the way, bajove, ‘ave ye 'eard h'Aimee play in WEnglish? Widid. Beastly fluke, bajove, ye knaw; beastly, She cawn't say h'a bloody word right, bajove, ye knaw. + necoud Londoner—Naw, h'l didn't ‘ave a hoppercunity to ‘ear, ye knaw; but h'l knew she'd ‘ave trouble pronouncing hour language, yeknaw. HH bloody foreigners do, ye kuaw. First Londoner-—Yes, bajove, h'l never ’eard h’any foreiguer, ye knaw, as could pronounce hEgglish Uke a b’Englisi:man, ye knaw. | thrones of Mammon. , | library of the country, and one of the greatest always been kind and tender; but timeisa great | she ree aletter from New York of wh | the superscription sent a cold shudder to her | heart. It was from the dear defunet, and it ex- | plained everything. He had seen ruin impend— | ing for m betore the crash came, and, with | the aid : of the neighborhood, | had of & corpse of whi bodily peculiarities resembled his ow nz been inhu “TH do it,” he said. “Don't, 3 “And why note” asked him five years of happi- | i that gentleman of the danger | t to hin of a conviction for | rally speaking, marriages pass off very | of the capital. Washington is the capital of the j nation. It is nothing else. it has no business |or commercial status. It isa center of social | | and political life, and will always be, and that is j all there will y be of it; and that is enough. | That ts just what the peopie would like to have | | it. ‘The fact that any other city would be less | truly social and political is quite sufficient to | decide the matter. . This point being settled what shall we add to | Washington to make it the ideai capital? It w | not do to be all esthet and nothing practica all pieasure and trlvolity and notuing serious, My opinion is that we ought to be all that the most beautiful capitals of the world are, minus | their mannfactories, minus their great whole- | sale shops, minus their bourses and their ex- [changes, minus their bulis, their bears, their First and best, we should have the greatest | | of the world, where ail the treasures of litera- ture. that are past and that are to come, may be stored, without danger from fire or flood, in a | temple worthy of Jupiter and_ Minerva; ‘where the students of the land would love to congre- gate, and where every thouzht worth preserv- ing would be shelved in its proper place and easily found for fature use. Tne existing library, where precious books are sent only to be ruined, is a national disgrace. * Ped We shoutd have a great museum, where all | that ‘ates scientific discovery. all curiosities | ‘of nature and art, ail inventions, could be | stored; a counterpart as nearly as possible of the British Museum, whose contents attracts students and eavants from all parts of the world. . We should have a great national gallery of fine art, with allofthe living artists represented | by specimens of their best work, and ail of the dead ones represented by copies of their master- | pleces made by the most expert of living copy- |ists. ‘These would be second in value only to | the chefs d wuveres of the great masters them- | selves. Such a gallery would be as interesting to the mass and almost as attractive to the con- noisseurs as the Gallery ot the Louvre or the | National Gallery of London, or the great gal- [leries of Milan, Venice, Rome, Munich ani | Dresden, or those smaller ones of the Nether- Innds, which contain the masterpieces of the Immortal Dutch and Flemish masters, who, to | my mind, Bre the greatest painters of’ all time. cj ate We should have a great park, equal to the finest in the world, or even greater Inits varl- if any. have the natural ac in the grand forests, high charming sand brooks, Rock creek district to the | north of Georgetown, and just oucside of the | ry of Washington proper. It could with | And at comparatively little expense be | more beautiful than the Bois de Boulogne | the Bois de Chambre of Brussels, Cen- | Park of New York, or Fairmount Park ot ladelphia, while Londoa’s Regent and Hyde | Parks would not be worthy of comparison. Bs iy | hills. deep ravine: | tobe found in th y have, norti. in the Jardin | to the Royal | est spot on the dens of Dublin, all tits could be 1 he tle of the J gardens finer than thos tes of Paris, and equ thi nd stud ber 1 | rowed, however, from a secondary custom of jth hole world could be vi a day's travel childre ildren of land will living fauna | embied, and which | lithe Americas. as | nt Park Is seen | its London at | world could be [would attract the tab the { collect tie by the whole universe, time or another. at the thou lion of roos, and Tats, collection 1s and who will ould be pleasureable to the whole visits Washington at some time, could never hope to see in | other circumstances in the way of strange ani- mals? New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia may haye good zoological collections. but. only | astnall portion of the people who visit Wash- ington visit all or one of these places. The great | zoological assembly should be here. deny that it =e Long before all of these things are accom- | plished Washington will have become the seat of a great university, equal to any institution of | learning In the world, it will have reared the | most thoroughly equipped observatories and | scient:fic laboratories of all kinds, and will have taken the lead in scientific research as it has in | scientific and all other inventions; it will have built other scores of miles of the finest streets in the world, and will have vastly increased the area filled with chanting: resideuces. All ether of the world’s great capitals are | afflicted by trade to a far greater degree than | Washington can be. Ido not mean that simple {commerce which is necessary for feeding and clothing, but Trade with a big, big T, the struggle for wealth, the anxiety for riches which debases nd and leaves it unable to comprehend soyments which may spring from | culture. When men and wo- Jimen come to Washington leave the Hlanguage of Mammon behind If they bring “his gorgeousness and luxury with | them. ‘The most ardent devotees of the god ot | gold are sometimes glad to escape from the vi cinage of the throne and forget the jargon of worship. So they are more and more building houses at the capital to which they may resort for aseason each year and rest and study hu- Umanity and human government. and mingle | with a cultured society gathered from the ends of the earth and learn a language whose alpha- bet is not comprehended in the world’s cent per cent. esthetic: * Prd | There is a grand utility in beauty and in amusement that at first glance seems only for | children, and in fine art and in books as well | as in luxurious homes, and the first may be en- | Joyed by all, while the second. is enjoyed to the full only by the few. Members of Congress, if they look among the intellizent classes, who shouid rule, if they do not, will find that na- | tional pride will not only pardon but favor and urge large expenditure in the rapid tmprove- ment and beautification of Washington in all the avenues suggested. It is the one spot that must illustrate the nation's taste and culture, and should be treated accordingly. pees ee Stay-at-Homes, 80 you had your summer vacation Al the sea-side—wasn’t It cold? ‘Yes—well, I was telling Maria *Twasn’t nice and it made her scold; I knew she had laces and muslins All ready to make a show, And she—well, she cried; but suppostn Sh’d gone and half frozen, you know! I've stuck to this back plazza Al summer, 60 far, and 1 guess Trve been about as content ‘As any one—though I confess Neither I nor Maria have rigged up For company, more than you see, But when you come to't, there's no place Like home, a8 a land of the t:ce. We know where to look for the children. ‘When dinner Is , or lune And don’t have to wash’em and comb ’em, ‘And dress ’em, all in a bunch; If they want to take ple or doughnut ‘And eat It on the back stair, No landlord or servant can tell ‘em ‘To “run off! you musn’t stay there!” ‘We haven't been pestered with callers; We haven’t been bothered with flles; We snap our thumbs at the doctor And know what gees into our ples; you see there are some compensat For the people who can’t get away— Say why cqm’t you come round and see ust You'll find us ome, any Gay. eee According to the evidence of certain experts as susmarized by the British Medical Journal, tobacco smoking is not nearly so injurious to the eyesight as is generally {magined. It is mainly those in whom there Is an hereditary tendency | to weak vision who shouldrefrain trom smoking on this account. Thomas Carlyle is mentioned ‘as an instance of a man who could smoke with impunity. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadeiph'a, probably will not receive the insignia of his rank tor sev- eral weeks, and until then he cannot fully exer- cise the powers of liis office. million young | y, | Was married secretly to Mapia, the countess | Subject, this time Cecilia, the daughter of the ROYAL HKOMANCES, arrinzes Among the No- of the O14 World. Morganat bility From the Chicago Inter-Oceat, The reeent morganati¢c marriage of Prince Louis of Hesse and thé efforts made by the Queen of England and others to annul the union, have naturally aroused some general interest in the left-handed marriages of kings and princes, ceremonies which, it must be ad- mitted, have not always been attended by cir- cumstances reflecting credit on the gentlemen taking part in them. It will be seen, from a definition of a morganatic marriage that the name can only be properly applied to unions wherein the husband is, of royal lineage and the wife is not. The matriage of royal ladies ith subjects does not follow the rule of the intermarriage of ranks everywhere, i. e., the superior rank of the wife in no degree aises that of her husband. Thns,though a plain baron may wed a ducless, he does not. thereby become a duke, but remains a baron till death, and his children can only claim the humbler itle. But the bride of a duke is always en- titled to the duchess’ coronet, though previous to her marriage she may have been the dauch- | ter of but a hod-carrier. And the only excep- tion to the rule which renders a legally wedded life, by the marriage contract, her husband's equal in rank is found in the morganatic mar- riage, which originated among the German princes of the tenth century. its idea being bor- % 1a number | the Romans, The name given to this form of marriage was matrimonium ad morganaticum, the latter word taken from the morgengabe, or morning gift, a dowry by ancient custom given to the bride, usually by the bridegroom, on the morning after the nuptials—corresponding to the mar- Tiage settlements of a later civilization—the implication being that the wife mnst expect nothing more from her husband than this gift conferred. Customs in time become law, so this practice t into existence a royal code of matri- mony, in which marriages of princes to ladies of lower ranks in other than morganatie form was held to be punishable with severest penal- ties—penalties more usually visited on the more innocent party, the wite. “Thus, in 1416, Duke Ernest of Bavaria had a beautiful girl, Agnes | Bernane, put to death for marrying his son Albert. The cruelty and injustice of this code affected the morals of the kings, so that some came to think that they might contract a mor- | fanatic marriage over and above one in their | own station. Philip, landgrave of Hesse, one of the champions of the Reformation, contracted | a second marriage ot this kind during the life- | time of his lawful wife. After becoming a Protestant, his scruples were aroused on the | subject of retaining Mrs. Phillip No. 2, and he | consulted Luther, Melanchthon and others about it. THE REFORMER’S SANCTION. The reply of these fathers of the church is acurious document. They demurred a little at the marriaze, saying that they “could not ad- | vise that the license of marrying more wives than one be publiely introduced, and, as it were, ratified by law,” since this woukl cause “ex- cessive scandal,” yet—tor the sake of sparing his highness’ feelings, no doubt—they admitted that “there was room for dispensation;” that they would not ¢ondemn a prince who should thus take a second wife, but would advise “that the marriage should take place secretly, 80 that no scandal may arise,” So Philip kept his two wives, and otiers followed his example, but the custom did not meet with general approval even among the princes. In 1679 Charles Ludwig. elector of Palatine, the brother of Prince Rupert, though already wed- ded to the Princess Charlotte of Hesse, fell vio- lently in love with a beautiful maid of honor, Marie Von Dagenfeid, andresolyed to marry her | n left-handed fashion. He did so, according to | the forms of the church, in spite of the pro- | tests of the court. The fair Marie had fourteen children, nearly all boys, who became well | known as counts of the Palatinate. Several of | them were soldiers of fortune, and won some military repute in other kingdoms, but the | sons of Princess Charlotte ~ succeeded to | throne. Aud, though morganatic marriages | continued to flourish in Germany, this one was the last involving the act of bi ‘The royal family of England hash Jeft-handed marriages. natie fashion to ns | d Duchess of Kendal. which | uglish society Lord Chester- | Ss descendants, an offshoot of the which never laid claim to legiti- | near making a | e Lennox, German hangers on at ¢ prosy Queen Charlotte. Perhaps the | oF what fhe had lost added not a Little to | Thess with which he persecuted those | is broti ers who preferred the beautiful dausliters ot the English nobility to the dowdy and awkward German princesse: MARRIAGES IN E D. September 6, 1766, the Duke of Gloucester | dowager of Waldegrave, and October 2, 1771, | the Duke of Cumberland wedded, also secretly the Hon. Annie Horton. These = marri i were not made public until 1772. King George, on hearing of thei, was furious, and immedi- ately had the royal marriage act passed by parliament, according to which surd docu- ment no member of the royal family under 25 years of age can marry without the consent of the crown. The marriages already con- tracted were not interfered with; indeed, the social standing of the Duchess of Gloucester was such that the king did not dare to offend her family. Her son succeeded to the dukedom, “and subsequently married one of King’ George’s daughters. George | IV. was the first to violate the royal mar- riage act, by his marriage to the beautiful and excellent Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1787. This marriage was declared void by the ecclesiastics immediately, and the royal reprobate lost his last chance of becoming a respectable member of society. In like manner the marriage of the Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of George III., in 1795, to Lady Augusta Murray, was annulled by the ecclesiastical court. Eminent jurists, however, declared the aunulment of these mar- riages far more illegal than the marriages them- that a penalty might ve adjudged, if de- sired, for the violation of an act of parliament, but the marriage in itself was entirely legal. The eldest son of the last-mentioned marriage was the famous Col. D’! He served in the army for a number of years, then, as several successive deaths of his uncles opened the way, he put forward his claims in 1880 to the Hano- verian succession. The int t excited by this action was great, both in England and Germany. He employed two able lawyers to bring his claim before the Frankfort Diet, but at a hint from Prussia that body dropped the matter. The Duke of Cum- berland, who became king of Hanover in 1834, had but one son, who was blind. Col. D'Este now took his demand before the Hanoverian chamber of noble Being threatened with as- sassination, he went to Berlin in 1836, and laid his claim before Frederick William I11., himself mnorganatically married. The king received him as a prince. butdid nothing tor him. The colonel is dead, but his descendants are to-day the hope of the liberal party of Hanover. In 1825 the Duke ot Sussex again married a Earl of Arran, Scotland. She was not received as his lawful wife, but, as in the case of Mrs. Fitzherbert, the verdict of society was in her favor. The queen, recognizing this, after the duke’s death, made her Duchess of ‘Inverness, and the young Guelphs always treated her as a quasi member of the royal family. She died in 1869. RECENT MORGANATIC MATCHES. Some ot the comparatively recent morganatic marriages of royalty are worth notice for the spice of romance in them. For instance, the famous Archduke John of Austria was, in Janu- ary, 1827, taking # solitary excursion through the mountains, and stopped at _ the little village of Aussee to get a carriage to take him over the hills. He was directed to the house of the postmaster, Herr Plachel, but, arriving there, found the head of the house away, and no conveyance available but a two-wheeled cart. The postmaster’s daughter Anna, a sprightly damsel of 17, supposing the stranger to be a pilgrim, volunteered to drive him to his destination, So they set out, the prince silent and preoccupied as was his wont, the young girl chatting and singing all the way. She was said not to be beautiful, but very at- tractive, and it was evident that the prince ap- pres ceed herattractiveness. At partinghe shook er hand warmly, with many kind wishes, and the next day, to her great amazement, ap- yard again at Aussee. Here he made a three jays’ visit, and at its close asked the postmas- ter tor his daughter. The old gentleman natu- rally wanted to know who and what this eager suitor was, but when he announced himself as “John, archduke, late fleld marshal, but now out of employment,” he was angrily bidden to take himself and lies elsewhere. So the prince had to bring some one to ead him, and so far placated the father that in just three weeks after that eventful ride he wedded the joa gne Anna and carried her to Vienna to she sent tothe king and queen. He gave her titles and castles and a magnificent income, and al- ways treated her as his full consort. She bore him several sons, and it is just within the bounds of possibility that a descendant of this humble it girl may some day sit on the throne of he Hapsburgs. PRINCES MATING TRADESMEN’S DAUGHTERS. When Prince Charles, of Bayaria, uncle of the s | “shine” with hi AUGUST 23. 1881—-DOUBLE SHEET. present-king, married the -pretty schoolmaster many distinguished guests we present, and the king himself gave the bride & morgengate the title of baroness and a hand- some house and park in the Bavarian Alps. His cousin, Duke ‘sonis, married a trademan's daughter, and has always since lived in great retirement near London. Prince Leopoid, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, the brother of the Kingof Portugal, nephew of the King ot the Belgians, and first cousin of Prince Albert of England, mar- ried in March, 1861, Constance Geiger, a teacher | of music in Vienna. The marriage was public, and attended with much display. Alexander II. of Russia had a morganatie wife, who was com- monly known as the Princess Dolgouroki. He Was greatly attached to ler, aud she was with him at his sad death. The principle of the morganatle marriage, that a wife of lower rank cannot be admitted to the title of her husband, nas excited much wrath among the English nobility. It does seem ab- surd that the queen ot England should insult / the oldest and the wealthiest of her noble sub- jects by making them yield precedence to some German prince whose paternal estate is not-| much larger than afalr-sized farm. For Instance. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar married Lady Lennox, the sister of the Duke of Richmond, a | family undoubtedly possessed of as many heral- dic honors as Saxe-Welmar can show, and far more worldly wealth. Yet this lady cannot be | Presented at the English court by her husband's 5 title, but only as the Countess of Dornberg, a petty title civen herasher part of the Saxe- Weimar estate. Another German prince, Victor of Leiningen, who wedded the beautiful and ac- | complished sister of Gen. Francis Seymour, and learned that, she being a commoner, could not | be introduced at court as his full consort, as- | sumed the title of Count of Gleichen. He and his wife are thoroughly recognized by the Eng- | lish court, but as “hich nobility” only, not as royalties. Count Gleichen is an officer in the | royal nay: ~_____+e-____ THE ALLIGATOR HU ‘ERS, Life Along the Florida Rivers in the Kot Summer Months. Atelegram from Gulf Hammock, Fia., says: The men who hunt alligators for their hides and teeth are now reaping their harvest. The warm weather induces great numbers ot alligators to { frequent the marshy banks of the rivers, and | the absence of sportsmen during this season makes them comparatively fearless. The most successful hunters hunt only in dark nights. A | Toofing a house. Not-dtf the virious purposes for which It is used slate owes its adaptability to the fact that it is capabie of being split into thin layers or Plates. So conspicuous, in fact, is this feature in slate that the term “slate” is In common lan- guage applied to all rocks which can be » into layers so thin that they can be used in In reality, however, many of the materials used in roofing houses are not states at all in the scientific acceptation of the term. In many parts of the country thin flags or “‘tile-stones” are habitually used instead of slate; and though these luok like thick slates their true nature is really very different. In all these cases the flat surtaces of the slab are the surfaces of the successive layers of mud or sand out of which the rock w: inally composed. As such layers are always comparatively thick, “slates” of this kind are much heavier than true slate. and th compel builders to have recourse to hich pitched roofs and heavy timbering. Moreover. they do not stand the weather so well as true slates, and are thus in the long run more expensive than the material whose name and funefion they have usurped. True slate then is a special and peca- | Har material, which not only splits into thin | ses various dist layers, but posse: characters, which enable us to sep from other rocks which at first sight ap to resemble it. In order to understan haracters we shi ail piece of Welsh or Scottish rooting slate and a small fragment of ordinary “shale,” such as every native of a coal district knows so well. Two such pieces of rock placed side side are very like one another. Leth pro! are some tint of gra easily into thin rs; and what is more important, both show themselves to be nothing more than hardened mud, since both, it pounded down in water, give rise to a clayey ooze, These are striking and weighty points of nee, but they are accompanied by less picuous thouch fundamental points of dis- 'y, Which ninke the difference between and “slate.” and which we must brieily enumerate and con nese ald provide ourselves With a bis The Germ Theory of Disense. From Chamber." nal, Let us briefly sum up what Is at present known about the germ theory of disease. EXx- periments having shown that no life Is known to spring from lnanimate matter we may rea- sonably conclude that just as wheat does not few nights ago [had my slumbers broken sev- eral times by the discharge of guns. On repair- | ing to the panks of the river the next morning to ascertain the cause of the noises I found twe young men occupying a hastily constructed pal- | mnetto-fan camp. Six dead alligators were lying | around the camp, varying in length from tour to | eight feet. The hunters had kille? them the , previons night. One of the young men was busy skinning the ailigators, while the oth with the aid of a single cooking utensil, which | answered the purpose of baking oven and cof- fee pot. was preparing a frugal morning meal. The skin isremoyed from the belly, tue under part | of the jaws, and the inside of the legs, The skin on the back 1s worthless. As soon as the in barrels, which are shipped toa Now York firm. The hunters receive #1 apiece for all hides four feet long and upward. H Alter the skins are removed the hunters cut | off the heads, and place them on the edge of | bodies; butit is only when they meet with | day. the river, where they. remain for about a week. | At the end of that time the teeth become so loose that they can readily be pulled out with the fingers. The teeth from half a dozen large | grow except from seed sono disease occurs without some disease germ to produce it. Then, again, we may take it for certain that each dis- | ease is due to the development of a particular kind of germ. If we plant smallpox germs we do not reap a crop of scarlatina or measles; but just as wheat springs from wheat each disease is. Each comes from and has existed somewhere pre- viously. It istrue that complications occur, several diseases running their course at one time, or one after the other; but. however un- commen, none of them are new. After a forest is cut down anew variety of trees may spring up; but nobody supposes them to have grown | skins are removed they are salted and packed | spontaneously. The seeds existed there before, | and their growth was due to the occurrence of conditions favorable to their development. So the disease germs which are always floating about may frequently be introduced into our suitable conditions that they take root and produce disease. Under ordinary circum- stances these germs, though ‘hearly al- ways present, are comparatively few in blue or black; both split | “I want to go to the base ball game,” said @ Cleveland young lady to her feller. “You!” he exclaimed in amsz mont. wouldn't know a base hit fre | a three bagger trom an assi: | “But, George, dear, I could learn. You know ‘how soon I picked up that new e broidery stitch, and how quick I am at everything.” | Weill, there is no use in _following her argu- | ment. Every man has been through it, fret or last, and knows howit always comes out. She went to the game. Ge e bad been y itting in one of the side stands where fa seat, and the privi guying the umpire to his heart's content. On this occas’ ‘behind a beastly wire screen.” as he np s lied it, and pre- pared to suffer, The velands were at the bat. asked “You m & passed bail, OF evelands are those in gray Why don’t they all dress ali Those are the Clevelands; the othe Bostons. “What are the Bostons doing here? come ail this distance to see the game ere to see the Clevelands Mand. “ sare the Did they ought they Why, they both play.” oh, we're going to see two games. How nice. In the mean time the first man at the bat_after | two strikes and fv: y to short center fleld, and sta ke a ; bird. The ball was caught, and he set out leis- urely tor he “What made that man ran question. “He wanted to get to first.” “What's first: “That bag, yonder.” “Why didn’t be go? Was he afraid that man standing on the baz wouldn't like it? “That must have been it,” said George, In de spair. Ina few moments Cleveland went out and started for the field, while Boston reversed the movement. “What is that for “The Clevelands are out. the bat. “Oh Just then a Boston ‘slugger struck a liner for two bases, and started on his tor “By Jove, that's a Maud understood this. think so too. I've bee | real handsome. But, George, ¢ sald, as the | bean-eater stole third, “he doesn’t care a bit whether the Clevelands like It or not. He's going right on, and I think it's real mean, ag he's a visitor.” The next Boston hitter struck too short, and was caught at first, but it brought in the ran. from the third. “That's a run,” said George. ‘And is that a run, too, that man walking Was the next The Rostons go to | isy,” sald George. “Yes,” sald she, , that’s an out.” “How much does an ‘out’ count?” “One.” “and how “One, too. “Then an out counts one, and a run two. | They've made four, haven't they?” | _ George collapsed. When the game was over | Maud said ste thought she was beginning to understand it “real well,” and was going every Her swain isa reformed man, and hasn't been avle to “get away” since to go to a game. Saturday Smiles. Ben Butler's campaign Is to be ful! of sur much does a run count?” alligators weigh about a pound, and are , number, and in an extremely dry and indurated | prises, he says. The carrying of a single state worth 24. The two young men killed fifty alligators in the week that they hunted in this netehborhood. They begin hunting as soon as it becomes thoroughly dark. Their hunting outfit con- | and till they are moistened they do not begin to | to have seen the umpire. sists of a buli’s-eye lantern, in camp language called *look-em-up,” a boubled-barrelled shot- gun, or “killem-sure,” and a hatchet, with which they split the alligator’s skull, id to which they have given the very expressive name of “dynamite.” The man who is to do the shooting for the night fastens the lantern to his forehead, and takes his place in the bow of a small bi His partner paddies the boat cauti- ously along the stream, while the man in the, bow keeps a sharp lockout tor alligator which, under favorable circumstances, hy n lantern at a distance of two 4 yon as they discover a pair of eye yp autiously up to wit! couple of feet of the ailigator’s head and dis-- charge a load of buckshot into ft. As soon as | the shot is fired the paddler catches the alli, tor by the jaws, which he holds together with one hand, while he cleaves the skull open with his hatchet. wometimes the alligators reta power of action. When such rather ey ‘k getting them into the boat. | Sometimes ligators turn the boat over. ndled at onceafter pus wounded, he sinks to the bottom and is lost. | I asked one of the hunters who had killed | more than a thousand alligators, what was the size of the largest one he ever killed, and he told me 131g feet long. He said that hi: ther killed one on the St. John’s river 17!¢ feet long, the head of which when placed in a flour barrel pro- ed two inches over the tup. He sold it toa i museum for 265. hundred yar¢ n considerable | : the case, it is | ss ED ELE HORSE. HE STOPP: How a Brave Young Man Made a Big Mistake. From the Newark Evening News, Ancust 19. Ten minutes after the city clocks struck the hour of 10 this morning, and while Orange street was comparatively free of wagons, a tall, bony horse, hitched to a dilapidated wagon, came down the thoroughfare at a fast trot with- | out a driver, A score of heads were poked out of the windows as a couple of boys began to | shout ‘“ranaway horse,” but the animal con- | tinued unmolested to the junction of Broad and Orange streets. There a tall, thin youth with | tight breeches, a high collar, and panting for | glory, balanced himself on his tip-toes, waited until the critical moment, and suddenly shot out like a meteor from the sidewalk and made di- Teetly for the off shaft of the wagon. A group of boys uttered a shout and awaited the issue | of the adventure, while two ladies on the oppo- site corner grasped a lamp post and screamed, Seizing the check rein with the tenacity of des- | pair plus determinetion and bravery the gallant | youth brought the influence of his specitic v= ity on the curbed bit of the steed, and amid the | plaudits of the smail boys screamed : | “Whoa, now! whoa! whoa there! whoa! whoa! whoa!” The horse came to a sudden stop, apparently glad of the opportunity of resting himself, when suddeniy a red-headed man arose up bottom of the wagon with a stump of aw his hand, and jerking the rein from the 1 the gallant youth, exclaim “What the blanknations the matter with you, you fool? Get out of here and let that horse alone, can't you? What are you tryin to do | anyhow?” and he arose in his wrath and drove | on, uttering a string of bad words that hastened . the disappearance of the brave youth around a | neighboring corner, while the boys hooted and the ladies tittered. ———__+e. How She Got a Husband, From the Daily Journal, Ogdensburg, Auzust 20. A somewhat romantic story, in which a well- known lady, whose first name is Hermie, is the heroine, and a young man named John is the hero, came to the ears of a Pittsburg Leader re- porter. The iady referred to is now married, but at the time the story opens, on last New Year's Eve, she was a blooming maiden, whose affections up till 11 o'clock of the night in ques- tion were unpledged to any person. The story goes, and its authenticity is guaranteed by sub- sequent occurrences, that the young lady had remarked shortly before the Christmas holidays that any young man of her acquaintance who, at 11:45 o'clock on the night of December 31, would make a proposal of marriage to her, she would accept. When she made the remark, in the hearing of one or two of her acquaintances, she was under the impression that she would never have to make ee her promise, as she had not the faintest idea that any person would be visiting her house at that time of the night. ‘The remark made by Miss Hermie came to the ears of two or three young men from different sources. They did not acquaint each other with their intentions, but they must hayeall been ofthe game mind, as 9:30 o’clock on the evening in juestion found three of the maiden’s admirersin the parlor of her home. During a casual conver- sation they had among themselves they found they were all there for the same purpose, namely, that of remaining till 11:45 o'clock, and thea proposing to the yor hostess. She knew of this, and was in a dilemma as to how to act, but-.a plan occurred to her, and she de- termined to state it to the young men; so she arose in the midst, and, with a sweet smile all the while, said: ‘Gentlemen, I am aware of of the object of your visit here, but as I can’t accept of your offers of marriage the best way you can do is to match pennies, and the winning one is to remain here till time comes for making the proposal, which I said I would accept.” ‘is plan was carried out, and John was the lucky one, and at a quarter of an hour before the big bell rang out the old and in the new year he proposed, was ed, and Just a little over two weeks ago John and Her- mie were married, the two losers of the penny- matching game acting ip in| of | | as best men, state. Thus, they may frequently bodies without meeting with the sential to their growth: tor experiments have shown that it Is very dificult to moisten them, develop. Ina 2 Ithy system’ they remain in- active. But anything tending to weaken or impair the bodily organs furnishes favorable conditions, and thus epidemics almost always originate aud are most fatal in those quarters of our great cities where dirt, squalor and foul air render sound health almost an Thus, too, armies suddenly tran the regularity and comparative comfort of bar- rack life tothe dangers, toil and exposure of , | the battle-tieid and the trenches are often at- | cked by epidemies. Having once gota be- i idemies rapidly spread. The germs air In yreat numbers and ist state; and the probabilities of their ‘ing and of their establishing themseives in healthy bodies are vastly increased. Teasons one disease not un- frequently follows another. The latter 1s com- mouly said to have “changed” into the former; but probably the two are entirely distinct, the second beiug simply due to the weakening ot the system. Ang give rise to disease. It is not, strictly speak the foul gases, but the yerms present in them that produce the diseases. ever, are themselves injurious to health, while they are indleations of a state of matters much more dangerous; and it is never sufficient to de- stroy evil odors without searching out and re- moving the causes that produce them, Climate and the weather haye also much In- fluence on the vitality of these germs. Cold is a preventive against some diseases, heat against others. But we have still much to Jearn reward- ing their behavior under varying conditions. Tyndall found that sunlight greatly retarded ad sometimes entirely prevented putrefaction; even For the same her widespread belief is that foul smells | white dirt ts always favorable to the «rowthand | development of the germs. Sunshine and cleanliness are undoubtedly the best and cheap- est preventives against disease. Told the Truth in Spite of Himsclf. From the Boston Globe, Squire Borge, of Bangor, is wealthy, and wishes his friends to understand that he is a wonderful sportsman. Last winter he started | up country on a fishing trip, where he met with poor success. The first thing he did on returning to the city was to go to a market and buy fifteen trout. ‘They were beauties, and he told the salesman what he was going to do, and asked him where he should say they were caught. “@h, tell’em they were taken from Linus on On his way home the squire called and had the largest one photographed. Underneaththe picture he wrote: “One of the fifteen taken from Linus Pond, January 8, 1884, by Timothy Borge, esq.” In two days he came back to the marketman and said: “Lookee here, where is Linus Pond, anyway? They asked me where it was. and I told them it was up in the north part of Hancock county. Then they got a map, and wanted me to show it to them, and for the lite of me I couldn't find it. Just tell me where it fs, and I'll go home and fixthem. Confound them, I'll tell ‘em om the | where Linus Pond is, and give them enough of | it.” Then the marketman led him gently outside the shop. and pointed to his sign. It read: “Linus Pond. Fish, oysters and game.” ———— How French Women Bathe, From Chambers’ Journal. Here is @ lady habited in scarlet, dainty shoes and stockings to match, and a bewitching cap (none of your hideous oil skin), with falling lace and telling little bows of ribbon. Here another, clad in pale blue, with a becoming hat tied under her chin, and many bangles on her wrists. The shoes alone are amarvel. How do all these intricate knots and lacings, these glancing buckles, survive the rough and sportive usage of the waves? Who but our Gallic sisters could imagine those delicate blendings of dark blue and silver, crimson and brown, those strange stripes and esthetic olives and drabs? The cos- tume of the gentlemen is necessarily less va- ried, though here and there one notices an ec- centric harlequin, easily distinguishable among the crowd, and, again, what Englishman would dream of taking hismorning dip with a ruffround his neck, a eilken girdle and a hat to save his complexion from the sun? Two amiable per- sien dressed Dae oe of the a 4 obligingly spent greater part of the day pee Their business is to conduct timid !a- dies trom the beach and to assist them in their bath. The braver spirits allow themselves to be plunged under the brine; the more fearful are content to be sprinkled delicately from a tin basin. There is also a rower, whose little boat, furnished with life-saving appliances, plies up and down among the crowd, lest one, more ven- turesome than neighbors, should pass be- yond his depth—an almost impossible event, as one might say, seeing with what fondness even the boldest swimmer clings to the shore. A cabinet, formerly Marie Antoinette'’s, which, within a few months, fetched $15,000 at auction in London, was bought fifty years ago at a fair in Frankfort-on-Main by an lish a =70. It is believed to have now gone back to Frank- Rothschild. forttoa The Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder, of Chicago, who was for many yearsa m! in India,ex- presses the opinion that “for unmixed wicked- ness and utter moral tg ads y no city of Asia could equal Chicago or New York,” and that this continent has a class of villains “lower and meaner than the lowest and meanest in India or China. “It is right enough,” says the Insurance Chron- icle,“for every earnest citizen to spell Nation with abi N. But the patriotic who does this and forgets to Family with a big F, Home with a big H, Wife with a biz W, Child- ren with a big C, and Duty with a big D, hasn't learned his lesson properly.” The effluvia, how- | will be one of surprise.—Exchange. First base ballist—Ah, hal I hear you fel- | lows were licked vesterday. Second base bullist—Yes, but you just ought Philadelphia Cali. “The dog came tor me,” said the tramp, 4 | [played I was a railroad contractor.” “What did you do?” “Made tracks.”"—Hochester Poste Express. Canada ts entitled to the name of “The land | of the tree and the home of the knav The American knave has too much treedom over there.— Norristown Herald. A writer in the Provi must wait until 1S¥2 for nm.” Well, it we must we must, though it seems pretty tough. We don't suppose the writer could induce Jupe to perihele next year? There may be two or three persons right here in this town who wouldn't myrmur greetly if Jupiter were to defer the exbibitfon until 18920. Th Pica be willing to wait. ‘orristoun ce Journal says we ee iter's next perihe. “How glorious it ts to be engaged In a purely | intellectual occupation,” murmured a Boston n, gazing rapturously into the admiring | eyes of a country editor; “your own mental uities for tools and the whole universe workshop. Now tell me,” she added, *y you find the most dificult ti your noble profession?” | said the editor.—/’hiladelp! Talk about aman turning a woman's head! It is passing another woman with a new bonnet that does it. ‘The echool of te! y for women In Cooper Institute, New York, is overcrowded. There is | no business that lets one into other people's | secrets like the telegraph business. ) “There is but one good wife in thts town,” | said a clergyman in the course of his sermon— | the congrezation looked expectant—~and ev | married ,mwan thinks he's got her,” added the | minister. There is a woman out in Michigan who has | had nineteen children in the past twenty-two years, and the other women of the town have organized an indignation clab with the “Down with monopolists.”—Burlington Press. Mr. Henry Wattersen’s poct thus dishes up ue Fourth Commandment ior local use in Louis- Ville: conn: ing the hi ands,"* Six days shalt thon atte And answer ev'ry di From the Merchant Traveler. “Chicago is a great city,” said one traveling man to another as they got off the train In that town. “Yes, it's a big place. Did you ever see them raising houses and building the firet story last?” Xo; do they do that “Yes, all the time. Why, some time ago they raised the whole Tremont house with 4,000 jacks." : “How many?” “Four thousand.” “Thunder! It didn’t take so many, did it? By gravy, 1 saw atellow down in Cincinnati, about a week ago, go into one of the biggest establishments there, and I'm a sucker if he didn't raise the whole house with two Jacke. Prettiest came of bluff I ever saw.” The other man gave Cincinnati the lead, and Chicago came ad. = k A Queer Siberian Discase. From the London Mesical Record. The person affected secme compelled to imi« tate anything he hears or sees, and en interest- ing account is given of a steward who was re- duced to a perfect state of misery by his ina- bitity to avold imitating everything he heard an@ saw. One day the captain of the steamer, run- ning up to him, suddenly clapping his hands at the same time, accidentally slipped and fell hard on the deck. Without having been touched the steward instantly clapped liis hands and shouted; then, in helpless imitation, he, too, fell as hi and almost precisely in the same manner position at the captain. This disease lias t met with in Java, where it is known as ‘lata.’ In the case of a temale servant who had the same irresistible tendency to imitate her mis- tress, the latter one day at dessert, wishing to | exhibit this peculiarity, and catching the wo- man’s eye, suddenly reached across the table, and seizing a large French plum, made pretense to swallow it whole. The woman rushed at the dish and puta plum in her mouth, and, my a severe choking and semi-aepliyxia, succeeded swallowing it; but her mistress never tried the experiment again. a A paper read before the California Wine- Growers’ association recently, containei the following startling philological theory: “The old Roman win rower found in his tubs and vats the same sediment that bothers us to-day. He had no chemistry in those times, but he did havea healthy profanity. So he calied his sub- stance ‘a heli or a and probably so re- garded it. Hell, in Latin, is tartarus, an¢ from this ancient cuss word come in direct cecent tartar, cream of tartar atid tartaric acid.” At Garves Rub, near Charlottenbrunn, im Silesia, a 17-fold echo has been discovered, which is pertectly audible, The town of Derby, Conn.,has 18 drum corps, When they are all cut on parade there Is but one man and goat left in the whole town to siand on the street corner and puncture the atinos- phere with cheers.—J’hiladelphia Prese. When Mise Beckwith tries to swim the Eng. lish channel in September she will be unaided by floats, but will be acccmpanied by the lot, Jones, who thinks she will accomplish the in fifteen hours, and as she has already swam on one occasion for thirty hours he thinks her success is assured. » The Two published in the City of ‘Mexico, has aa interview with a gentleman who knows, name not given, in whici be states (hat the Panama canal will not be compicted juside of fifty years.