Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1884, Page 6

» Rep is am = no di ya of ndeney te smatler bu evived for fall hats and i isvat are immense! is worn this season TILE Jewenry and dnli brick-red Is Worth's ination. yeLver is combined effectively ais tn fall suits. ly fall wear will abrics. st popular ma- It is trimmed ming in again. A | and coral, re to be very popular de up with kilted ade w Dara qnetai of red satin. Wi tan colored undressed y worn. u3- Mitts | are ne loves are not as much wern nonth aco. Uxpyep Seat is to be the fashionatle far this winter. It will be made up into short Jac- . shoulder y of the and muffs, and will trim i other cloth coats. Seal- pans will be cut co fit more ure this year. broidered,worn dered nidered | d silk, with a vest of w h white and silv ue and e-looking dress for spe ons. ned cameo bracelets are now for the throat by fasten- ribbon, sewn meo but one, is tied S$ are used to fasten velvet bands on the arn ADistixe! Feature ofdressesthisseason i ance of white, black plentifully trimined slave. Imost every color, and reat of them rial or 3 JERSEYS now cot er braid front and around th Hy useful and ugre than those times as lon ten Is made in the same wa: Parisian Liouse, | boss” hi nes my | boots, ar soln wes precious ti | a fixed s I will! two weeks | made a and she was attired as a bride.” of a lover eame infataa p a guod print. went away b: ba — — - THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AYGUST 23, 188i-DOUBLE SHEET. DLAtH BEFORE A CAMERA, “T suppose,” said a Cin tor my tr: =-Star Ti le in ce Tw “ as sI ck and tf could run t tintypes tor. Torun the I was anxious for ad sat in Anol He w as he told me that it was his son who had_be Lat Stone river. ‘He was a dear good boy w ad the in vad in S In i do” He ne | he’ w: aise I me LT “Talking about ad a funny exp holdiz manit s the p “Women have “Well, [should very ¢ a picture of him on theft hotograph on fie: 1 k with bius! ‘The Apper me out for a day’s hunt. ned up, bath and pls ed me to w but hb eas if wrapt in thought. Think. me > was proba He understood. 1turned out to bea marri e she hated him for bis eruel deception. However, she wears it yet, a3 1 told her to let it Wear off.” @ther Odd Experiences of a Photo- grapher. nati photographer man, “when I was learning conntry town of this state, I had ont forget until death. The Busi- he knew the other boy and he shop. I had made a few ered myself a natural opera- ilery for a day was bilss, and a sitter; before 9 o'clock I got es in the front window awaiting 1 man came in at lla. m. He had mud on his ny.” He was aud wanted a picture y.’ 1 knew all about he iron clamps nnaimed at his a8 quite nervous about some- “I want my 7 z id, d off to look like this, as he ype of a young mi his poc- pose like, you know,’ he said, n old man, with a weak voice on be with him, position while he still held in boy's picture. I went throuzh vay. telling him, All ready and asf took the cloth froin iy back to prevent any em- | thi ver moved. sat “That ou may rest still and held the deaf, 1 touched him on the Stili he did not. move, and I noticed are in his ey died in the chair and Thad the nega dying man. Of course I got help and sent word to his friend: heart started as I saw the tace of a dead man look at me from the collodion coating. The dectors said he died of developed his picture aud It was a ner- can tell you, and Ihave al- id people. le pe airs in photographs, f A some time ayo. erinined, hada p x apistol to her head, as if uicile. This she sent to her getting tired of her. icture she wrote: ‘It you don't It had i for in group picture of them both, their vagaries, even for pic- say so. To them the picture dear. A young woman who be- ed with a drummer had me print of her arm. We can 1 very nicely now, and I made ly, and she A month later she came and wanted it tuken off. Her man, and rance of a Sun Spot. Prof. Langley, of the Alleghany observatory, will contribute to The Century a s lar illustrated papers on “The New Astronomy.” His first article, in the September number, treats of the spots on the sun, and of one of the spots he says: in this spot, too, and an appearance like that ot pine bough “There v ries of popu- e wonderful fern-like forms covered with snow; for, strangely | HECONSTRUCTED HACKS, + How Old Horses Are Made to Look Like First-Class Animals, Daring the recent races, a colored individual | who has hada long experience among race horses and is connected with one of the promt nent stables now in the circuit, in a conversation told how horses could be made to change their natures and actions in more ways than one, says the Pittsburg Leader. Said he: “I will give you a few pointers that may be of advantage to your horse loving and horse dealing readers and may be of interest to them. In either selling or pur- chasing a ‘horse.’ for instance, to make him ap- | pear as though he were foundered, take a fine | wire and fasten it tight around the fetlock, be tween the foot and the heel, and smooth the hair over it; intwenty minutes the horse will show | lamen Do not jeave it on over nine hours. To make a horse go lame, takeasingle hair | from his tail, put it through the eye of a needle, then lift the front leg and press the skin between the outer and middle tendon or cord, aud shove the needle through; cut off the hair on h side and let the foot down, and the horse will go lame in 20 minutes. To make a horse stand by his food and not take it, urease the front teeth and the roof ot his mouth with common beef tallow, and he will not eat until you wash It out. To cure one of ‘crib,’ or sucking wind, saw between the upper teeth to the gums. If you Gesire to put a young countenance on an old ver.make ai incision In. the sunken place | over the eye, insert the point ot a goose quill | and blow it up. close the external wound with athread, aud the Job is completed. To get rid oftie heaves in a horse, give him a dose of | about aquarter of a pound of bird shot, and | he wilt not heave until they pass through him, and that will be for some time. If you desire to give the animal the appearance of having the glanders, melt four ouuces of tresh butter and pour it Into one end of his ears, and he will Shortly after portray ail the symptoms of a tad case of landers. ‘To gistingnish between dis- temper and glanders, the discharge from the nose in glanders will sink in the water, and in distemper it floats. If you desire to purchase a true-pulling horse cheap, and if the party is de- sirous of selling, if you are at all smart in a | Jockey trick, you can easily maneuver to make | the animal a balky one by taking one ounce of | the tincture of cantharidec, one drachm of corro- | sive sublimate and bathe his shoulder at night; | he will remain buiky for a day or two. To put a lame horse in shape, make a sma! in- |elsion about half way from’ the knee to the | Joint, on the outside of the leg, and at the back | part of tie shin-bone you will find a small white tendon or cord; cut it off sad close the external wound with a stitel, and he will walk off onthe hardest pavement und not limp a particle. To tame an unruly horse, take ofl of cinnamon, oll of rhodiumand horse castor; keep separate in'air- tight bottles; rab a little of the oil of cinnamon on your hand and approach the horse on the windward side, so that he can smell the cinna- mon; the horse will then let you come up to him ‘without trouble: rub your hand gently on | the horse's nose, getting a little oil on it; he | will follow you; give him a little of the castor on a plece of sugar or apple, get a tew drops of he rhodium. on_ his tongue, and he is your ser- | vant. He will follow you like adog.” After | thanking the horseliair-smelling individual for his information and tossing a bowl of gin into him the writer bade good-bye, with the reminder from him thusly: “Shuah, boss, dose facs are straight goods, and many a cart-wheel I'se put in my wallet by the monkeying of them.” Bulls in Verse and Prose. From the London Standard. Dean Swift at one time contemplated writing | an essay on English bulls and blunders, and if [he had eriticaliy examined the works of even | our best writers, he would have found numerous that 1s shirred - bee waist, front and ee , a | enomgh, the Intense whiteness of the solar eats /eXamples. Although the bull has obtained for eee eetet or ble | cold. T have had th 2 impres iy itself “local habitation and an: . tunic is of the same i looking at the immense masses of molten | found in various quarters. It 1 ‘The White iron ina creat pudding Turnace. The | Considered an extension of the mixed metaphor. © Salient feature here is one very difticult to see, | Miss Edgeworth defines a bullas “a laughable wh aded. with a tracery a. Will form the tion from the avy winter el hy : r young girls are | even in good tel vions diawin; paper tothe S Flemen the te m tions a special forei reat inter It ars thinne ‘ous by eney to acho ited su ‘The Ameri Joseph Edgar s in our P deney of iin im partienlar by leading dressmakers in plaid | Clusiva le says: * and cashmere. They are very much trimmed | be with ribben, I ne hav Lat One the turne i © yest of the 1 the bodice is of An- ous I tunic asped with hose. prowns popu- is are still » to bring wiut tin, but it has prov healthfui than not hurt the <on plain pile with change- aud the in Paris pes tations. # popa nd mm © of bold width cru with golden brown, | t Englander bine the meantim spite of loc uunced for | Tal psa. erican of the fu vntinge, and ly, would be will t Gen. R. E. Coist Gordon" cits into two The ently are xs. but we have not in the Gini but one whieh i n shown in the pre- ed on it. As, nother, tending the center, and euch er toward its et. as we now nd the in. B that theinnersh has be ter shi ies le, or nuclei, an look into the depth but as fu e to no liquid or umes of whir ich is fron to five thou- from fifty to two hundred of which (as we saw in the to be made up like a rope, of st the fine threads of here is something more ce of form, for both ap- ure in com: y thd; for there is 1 t the solar atmosphere, | pr than cur own air, is rend- pus heat, and owes to > pull out In strings, in com- therwise dissimilar things, as or meited glass.” tee ican of the Future. Chamberlain contributes a ber Ce ‘he Foreign opulation,” in which he shows migrants of the same race to states, giving to those sec- gn character. But in con- upposing the entire mass to sed, the Celtic and Teutonic blood, the and the Norman would be mingled in much the same proportions as they were in the veins of the original English settlers. The ture,supposing present forces ail white elements to fuse Imost as much an ‘Anglo- ave seen, not distributed types are tikely to be stuntil a long pro- vali have welded the The Wiscon- , 18 hite the New iments to com- hman. But in come to speak a single dl wing | y we not as tend to mak neous nation, in ity of origin? ‘The Beserts- Between Cairo and Khar- tor ‘on, late of the Egyptian gene- the September “Century,” culties opposing “The Arabs divide their kinds. The first is called et meaning mountain or wilder- In this kind of deserts there is more or less vegetation. alw is there that the Bedouins roam and raise their flocks and camels. also found. Suakin ts chiefly ot this kind. d the atnoor, and it is Impossible to im- | aine anything me are shown in | literally nothing but sand and rocks, scanty; but yet It Gazelles and other game are desert between Berber and The other sort pre barren and ‘olate. Itis Not a h, not a blade of grass ever grew there. and hoanimal life at all, not even In- like oceans which you cross remanufactured in alternate | on your ‘desert ship,’ but where it is death o with velvet. Prune velvet to “tarry. The ostrich and the hyena triped with Sicilienne stripes of the same shade cross them swittly by night. These at- sakes a tasteful fabric, and the wany dahlia | moors are generally from eight to ten days ints are i aid ere being made up in Paris for autumn costumes, -e- om ‘The Pautt of the Age. nit of the pL By a burst of : We pian wo s before thetr season I hat We Inay wear; rand ask the reason are so few and rare, at perfect bu We crave the gain, but despise the getting: Ww th, ard, b ‘rom the winning; r the fight— Dut sinning, uor aud wuoral blight? of strivin ear is done, have not won, —Eita V i. rly. The latte ile, scantily wat N across, with one group of wells in the middle. are | Such is the Atmoor of Shigre, which I crossed in nine days, and that of Korosko in seven (two days less chan the usual time). of wells is found half-way, which ts called moura—bvitter. can drink {ta water. Travelers always carry enough Ni'€-water ts last them across. Itis the only desert where no guides are needed, for the track is perfectly marked by the skeletons sof cameis aud cattle. which, as I counted them, average sixty to the mile on the best parts of the trail, and four hundred on the worst. Thousands of camels and oxen perish there Only one group ‘one but camels and Bedouins r are driven from the Upper ered once in forty-eight hours en the march, and a large proportion of them die on the way which are the only their bones clean . The hyenas aud vultures, denizens of the atmoor, pick ‘before. the next morning, and ssiretuing | the flerce sun heat dries the hides and bones, so that the stench of carrion never taluts desert air.” the Ix Rerry to a floating note by a French the bad and the worse,” the Indianapolis News says: ‘The cynic’s 2’ fraud. There are two kinds of women, the good and the better.” One's opinion depends a good deal upon tiie | the left hand kind of company he keeps. r | confusion of idea: inner ex- | -a definition which is like- | wise applicable tothe mixed metaphor. The | latter arises when in the same expression metaphors from different subjects are com- | bined, or, in other words, when incompatible j Operations are put together. A bull, on the other ha involves contradiction. | One part of it render the other impos- sible. Poets, while indulging in bold digits of florid exp "quently verge on mixed | metaphor. ofthe mixed metaphors in Shakespeare, Milton, and in. the works of other | great W . however, are redeemed. b plegant and expressive, and r tiveness and originality. | Such, for instance, as the line from Young: j 1s but the shadow of a sound.” And that beautiful passage in “Sa * where the blind hero be: na buried Myself, 103 me, Opens wide.” And the well-known line from Shakspearé “Cowards die many times before their death.” rake arms againet a sea of trou- it has been suzgested that, to remove the ‘tie word “slige” should be read he lines from Addison's poem on < of Marlborough: struggling muse with pain; © launch into a bolder strain” where three diferent actions are enjoined, have often been quoted as an example of mixed meta- phor. In a very old romance we find one of the characters saying to another, who has threat- ened to bring lita before the Areopacus: “Watt a short time and you will have the opportunity of accusing me of your murder too,” and from Herand’s epie poem, ‘The Judgment of the Flood.” Is taken the following good specimen of verbal absurdities: sloomed o’r his brow, the internal diadem, Like a black craig projected o'er a cli, White as th urge, tlie harrier of the main; And like a tedorb once overbright, Hits eye a ruin burned. and on his cheek Tmmortal beauty ously shone,” In one of the poems of James Hogg, the Et- trick Shepherd. occurs the couplet: “And forced a mun to sing a sang ‘That ne'er could Sing a sang ava.” It surely must_be to such singing that Der- t Conway refers when, in “Forget Me Not,” aks of a “melodious discord,” Allan Can- n would have us believe that he had dis- for in the “Amulet” he “T feel the fragrance of the thorns Where lovers love to meet.” This, however, 13 surpassed by Conway, who has nade a more remarkable discovery, aS wit- the lines: * weet Provence ‘ir odors to the listening sense.” iz to feel a smell and to hear one: Lord Lytton was still more sensi- tlve, for he writes: “I hear the vain shadows glide.” upplies a good example of the bull | ng: “The feet of the Rabbi slipped When he recovered he found that his fon had fatlen also, and stood by his Disraeli, in his “Curiosities ot Litera states that “When Clarendon was em- ployed In writing his history, he was in con- stant study of Livy and Tacitus;? and in| Audlubon’s “American Ornithology” occurs the curious statement that “the earth was rent asunder in several places, one or two islands sunk forever, and the inhabitants fled in dismay towards the eastern shores.’ To come to more modern times, we find a coroner's jury in the north of England recently delivering themsel thus hat the deceased. Was run over and killed by a train on the Great Northern railway, but_ how his death was occa- sioned there Is not suMicient evidence to show.” Quite recently the town clerk of Durham drew attention at a council meeting to a standing order which he regarded asa Chinese puzzle, and which ran as follows: *‘When two or more Persons rise to speak at the same time, the chairman shall call upun the first person who rises In his place.” This reminds one ot the alderman who informed a council “that the first meeting of the -council was held but no one attended.” Lieut. Gen. Burroughs, writing to a contempo- rary in February last,on a question arising out of the investigations of the crofters’ commis sion in Orkney, made the statement that ‘James Leonard, the father of nine children, is an able- | bodied man in the prime of life, and so is his wife.” i : There are many Scotticisms which might not inappropriately be classed as linguistic incon- gruities, to wit, the use of double negatives, common among a certain section of the Scot- in th from under him, and he rolled down a in follow height. com}: T | the “arms of a liberating sword;” and the Figaro described the monument of Quinet as “‘an equestrian statue ina sitting posture.” Itis not proposed to narrate here how Sir Boyle Roche accomplished the feat of writing a letter with a sword in éne hand and a pistol in the other; how on one occasion he heard nothing but silence; how he refused to give his | autograph in a note which he signed; or to allude to the many facetious doings and sayings of that great bull king; but. a few examples of linguis- | tic incongruities may ve picked from the utter- ances of Hibernian orators of the present day. | for Irishmen are noted for their liability to per- petuate amusing blunders. Speaking in the honse of lords in 1892 on the arrears of rent (Ireiand) bill, an Irish peer said: 'y lords, yem will drive the Irish landlords off the face of ‘the earth, and they will have to beg heir bread from door to daor.” What follows, | uttered by one of the members for Wicklow in the lower house, is not less ludicrous. ‘As | long as Ireland,” he exclaimed, “‘is silent in her | wrongs, Engiand is above all her cries.” An Irish member informed Mr. Speaker that “while three-quarters of the outrages Mr. Foster had | was grossly exaggerated;” and Mr. Moore, M. P., in the course of an Irish debate, said that, “until you reform the workhouse, so that aman. may go in without shame and come out a de- arnell, When conversing with an American rter, is stated to have said: ‘The Irish | with what shreds of liberty remain to them un- | der the powers with whieh, in future, the al- y omnipotent speaker will be armed.” Mr. ‘onnor Power once informed the house that since the government have let the cat out of | the bag, there is nothing to be done but to take the bull by the horns;” and another Irish- man told the same august assemblage, when re ferring to the Irish prevention of crimes bill, “that If they imprisoned the agitators they would make the agitation greater stil ge < 2 KILLING ONLY HIMSELF. cr | «4 Suicide After Shooting a Woman Who Had Discarded Him, In Springfield, Mass., jealousy cansed an attempt at murder and a suicide on Thursday afternoon, Robert Reichert shooting Mrs. C. B. Graves and then killing himself with the same revolver. Reichert, a German furrier, aygut 35 years old, kept a small store at No. Main street, his stock including clothing, men’s furnishing goods and furs. Before he went into business for himself, a year ago, he worked in one of the leading fur stores in the city. He lived at the Springfield house, a German hotel, and was known among his countrymen as a quiet sort of a fellow, with a tendency to the blues. Recently he told some of his triends that he was financialiy embarrassed. Mrs. Graves. a woman of questionable character, with whom he was fascinated, is supposed to have helped him squander his money, and, when she recently threw him overboard, he grew despondent. Mrs. Graves, several years his senior and not particu- larly attractive in appearance, lived onthe upper floor of a three-story brick business block, sevy- eral doors below Reichert’s store. About 5o'clock Thursday afternoon Mrs. Mc- Dougal, a tenant on the same floor, heard loud talking'In her neighbor's rooms, and finally cries forhelp from Mrs. Graves. Running into the latter's sitting room, she saw Reichert stand- ing in the doorway leading to Mrs. Graves’ bed- room and flourishing a revolver. At almost the same moment Mrs. Graves tried to crowd past the man. istol shot was heard and the woman fell. ‘ichert immediately left the room and entered a small dark bedroom near by. When a policeman, who had been hastily sum- moned from the’ street, a few minutes later pushed his way into the room, expecting to find a desperate man at bay, he stumbled over alifeless form. The young German had shot himself In the right temple, the bullet entering the brain and causing instant death. By his side was a battered “Crescent” five-shooter with two chambers empty. Mrs. Graves’ wound is not fatal. The bullet entered the fleshy part of her neck on the left side and under the jaw, passed slizhtly up and lodged in the back of the neck, somewiiat below the base of the brain. Mrs. Graves’ husband, formerly a grocer in this city, left her several years ago, and is now doing business somewhere in Connecticut. The couple have two children—a boy at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a girl at North Troy, Vt. Fifty Cents a Freckle. Clara Belle at Long Branch. The Long Branch manicures have addeda new department to their business—that of freckle painting. The most fashionable young women this summer are those with auburn hair and golden beauty spots. The sun’s raysare power- less to produce freckles on most complexions. Tt was said that the effect could be aceomplished for delicate complexions by the application ot moistened sand just after rising in the morn- ing. So many young women got to using sand that bath-house keepers did a thriving business for a time by selling a fine white kind, and the sign, “Freckle Sand for Sale Here,” met one’s eye very frequently. The results were not sat- istactory and the treatment now has been al- most wholly given up. The yearning for freckles, however, was so great that the mani- cures were almost forced into doing what nature could not accomplish. They have be- come so skilled at the art that the only thing about their work that suggests its artifictality is the fact that the freckles are so much more delicate and plcturesquely disposed than one ever finds them on the blooming countenance of amilkmaid. The charge ia 50 cents a freckle. One treatment, with careful management, can be made to do for three days. An aggressively fashionable young woman, however, prefers to have her freckles painted newly every day. ee The Travels of a Little Steamer, Frou the Spokane Falls Chronicle, A remarkable feat is now being carried out by ® young Englishman representing a party of English capitalists who haye acquired a large block of land from the British Colombia govern- ment in the exquisitely beautifullower Kootenai valley, lying Just over the northern confines of Idaho, where the international boundary line separates the waters of Pend d’Oreille lake and Kootenai river. This pass, traversed by a mar- row Indian trail, which winds through the almost impenetrable forests that clothe this great spur of the Rocky mountains, known as the Clarke's fork range, has never been passed by a wagon, and now a steamer, the hull built of. teak in one piece, is to be spirited across this mountain barrier for a distance of forty miles. A large force of Indians, belonging to the Kootenai tribe, a race that has as yet remained perfectly untouched by civilization, and who have never seen a white woman, have been engaged | toxether with 10 or 12 white men to help in the work. The little steamer has seen much travel. Built last year on the banks of the placid Dee, that washes the Roman walls of beautiful Chester, one of Encland’s oldest cities, she made a’ summer trip to the rock-bound coast ot Norway, where her owner explored some of the most inaccessible fords of that picturesque coast, bent on’salmon fishing and bear hunting. Brought back to England, she left Liverpool safely stowed away on the deck of the Polynesia, one of the ocean leviathans, May 21. Landed at Montreal, she was placed on the deck of one of the large propellers running from that point to the western extremity of the great lakes, Duluth, when, atter passing through some 150 locks that makes navigation through the long chain of great lakes possible and atter a narrow escape from being wrecked on a hidden rock, on which the propeller struck one dark night heavily, she safely reached the latter port. when. she was Immediately placed ona flat car, on which, after being placed in bond to enable her to pass through the United States, she began her long transcontinental journey of 1,500 miles over the Northern Pacific line to Sand Point or Lake Pend d’Oreille. egg eee A Marriage that Did Not Hold. At midnight on October 27, 1883, William reported were totally unfounded, the other haif | ied woman, you will do no good.” Mr. | must fight the coereion bill step by step, | HOT SUMMERS IN HISTORY. Thermometers Burst, Meat Cooked in the Sun and Rivers Dried Up. From the London Standard. People who are already complaining of the heat while this summer is scarcely a month old, says the XJXeme Siecle, should remember the | extraordinary weather of former years. In 627 the heat was so great in France and Germany that all springs dried up; water became so scarce that many people died of thirst. In 879 work in the fleids had to be given up; agricultural la- borers persisting in their work were struck down in a few minutes, so powerful was the | sun. In 903 the sun’s rays were so fierce that | vegetation burned up as under the action of | fire. In 1000 rivers ran dry under the protracted | heat, the fish were left dry in heaps and putri- | fled in a few hours. The stench that ensued | produced the plague. Men and animals yen- j turing in the sun in the summer of 1022 fell | down dying, the throat parched to a tinder and } the blood rushing to the brain. In 1132 not only did the rivers dry np, but the | ground cracked on every side and became baked to the hardness of stone. The Rhine in Alsace | nearly dried up, Italy was visited with terrific | heat in 1139; vegetation and plants were burned |up. During the battle of Bela, in 1200, there | were more victims made’ by the sun than by | Weapons; men fell down suastruck in regular | rows. The summer of 1277 was also severe; there was an absolute dearth of forage. In 1303 and 1304 the Rhine, Loire and Seine ran dry. | In 1615 the heat throughout Europe became excessive. Scotland suffered particularly in | 1625; men and beasts died in scores. The heat In several departments during the summer of 1705 was equal to that ina glass furnace. Meat could be cooked by merely exposing it to the sun. Not a soul dare venture out between noonand4p.m. In 1718 many shops had to close; the theaters never opened their doors for several months. Not a drop of water fell during six months. In 1758 the thermometer rose to 118°. In 1779 the heat at Bologna was so great that a great number of people were stifled. There was not sufficient alr for the breath, and people had to take refuge under ground.’ In July, 1793, the heat becameintolerable. Vegetables were burned up and fruit dried uponthe trees. The furniture and woodwork in dwelling houses cracked and split up; meat became badin an hour. Therivers ran dry in several provinces during 1811; expe- dients had to be devised for the grinding of corn. In 1822 a protracted heat was accompanied by storms and earthquakes; during the drought legions of mice overran Lorraine and Alsace, committing incalculable damage. In 1832 the heat brought about cholera in France; 20,000 persons fell victims to the visitation in Paris alone. In 1846 the thermometer marked 125° inthe sun. Finally, the summers of 1859, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1874. ete, although excessively hot, were not attended by any disaster. atended by:any 4 AMERICANS MALIGNED, An Incident Showing that We Take Time to Rest. = Other nations, says the Detroit Free Press, love to picture Americans as rushing up and down with so much steam thata funeral pro- cession cannot check business tor an instant. Itis claimed that we eat too fast, sleep too little, rush too hard, and that young menof 28 are all broken down with the excitement of busi: ness. At 1o’clock the other afternoon a boy about 12 years of age halted on the southeast corner of Griswold and Larned streets and flung down his coat and yelled: “Hey, there—let ‘er come?” Before he had spit on his hands at least fif- teen people came to astop. In abont two min- utes another boy had flung down his coat on the northwest corner of the same streets and yelled: “Look out—she’s coming?” By this time the crowd had increased to 20. The last boy threw a ball tothe first, and the first boy threw it back. It was simply throw and catch. It was a sight common as nail heads In the sidewalk. There was no slight of hand— nothing thrilling—no chance for accident, and yet 75 people came to a dead stop for ten ‘min- utes. Among them were lawyers who had cases on call, bank messengers with their port- folios, wholesale merchants, and indeed all classes of business men were represented. A policeman finally came up and asked one after another what the matter was, but no one an- swered. He ordered the boys off. and they had nothing to remark. It was a man who had taken a seat on the post oftice steps minutes previously who slowly rose up, bras the dust, and of ed to a friend: $9,000 to pay our men off this afternoon, and I guess I'll loat along.” Ss —— EN GIRLS HOW A ATCH. Their Mi ster Starts Them, and ‘They Win Two Prizes and Much Ap- plause. From the New York Sun, At Port Jefferson, Long Island, on last Tues- day, the Rey. N. B, Thompson, of Brooklyn, acted as umpire in a rowing match between seven young girls from 12 to 14 years old. At 6 o'clock in the evening the seven young ladies backed the sterns of their boats up against the shore. A young man took hold of each one to keep her from starting too soon, and Mr. Thomp- son, watch in hand, said “Go.” Two young ladies fouled, and the others were well ahead Uefore they had ceased talking it over. They came back to shore, each convinced that the other girl had kept her from winning the race. The other five kept right on. They rowed well, but they seemed more anxious to keep ahead than to go tast, and when one held the lead she would go out of her way to head off any other girl who she thought was catching up. The parents and friends on the shore were all much worked up, and Mr. Thompson, in hia excitement. waved hls watch around his head, and carefully noted the inside of his hat. ‘The rowers had to go around the yacht Alarm, which was anchored half a mile from shore. They went around in different ways, and got a good deal mixed up onthe other side, but they came out again and dug tor home. Miss Blanche Tooker, of Port Jefferson, was first, and won a silver cup. Minnie Adee, of Brooklyn, who was second, got a napkin ring, and the others came in in a buneh, and won the admiration of the crowd by their earnestness to the end. ———_+e0 Mr. Bonner and Maud S, From the Commercial Advertiser. “Have the sporting men begun worrying you yet to put Maud S. on the track? Mr. Bonner.” “Oh, of course. They don't give a man any peace so long as they havea particle of hope. ing men know I have consistently made it my rule never to trot a horse for money. I shall not break my rule with Maud S$. If Jay Eye-See beats her record I shall probably have Maud S. trained upon a good track and drive her for her very best. But it will never be re- corded. It isn't xenerally known that the rules “Well, I've got to go to the bank and cet | Iam somewhat protected by the tact that sport- |" LADIES GOODs. SUMMER RESORTS. For Tae Nexr Two Werxs M. WILLIAN, In onier to make room for early Fall finportations, will sell balance of White Suits below cost price. Silk Man- Ullas at half price. Cloth Jackets, Ragians, New Mar- kets and Traveling Wraps, all tailor made ahd very de- sirable, at prices to close. Trimmed and Untrinuned Hats and Bonnets at half price. Finest coods in eve department at greatly rtuced prices. Three best styles of French Corsets at 10 per cent discount. Trevise, Paris, (aul2) penpsytvania ave. Q NINTH STREET. ST. CLOUD BUILDING UNDERWEAR, FOR LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN. 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Cen? 4 S¥o paper no} each. ‘The finest line of stationery in the city at the lowest prices, Correspond- ence cards aud envclopes only Ie. per box, Engraved Plate and filty cards only 9c. ‘sual EW BOOKS. Practical Treatiee on Electric Lighting. Gordon, Dictionary of Miracles. Brewer, Outlines of Psychioloy. “Sulley. Aiubitious Women, “Fawcett. Doctor Ben, Round Robin Se fare of the Koad. Ei ‘The Princess, "Tewnyson, iual:s of Tivton. Jobuson, ul Correspondence of Eliza P Gurney. The King's Men. Lal. Haautuond. ACvuntry Doctor, Jewett. A be stationery always on han othe ppencer, Goethe, Irvii tury for September, 30c, One thouss: and for summer reading, only ilton, of the turf record a horse’s time only when the owner or manager haga bet upon her. When Maud 8. broke the record at Cleveland Col- onel Stone, who was managing her for the day, made a wager of $100 with a friend that the mare would beat 2:11. This was just before she started. Stone mei tioned this to Busbey, of the Turf, Field and Farm, and Busbey warned him to go quickly and get the wager recorded by the Judges. Stone did so, and Maud 8.’s time went on record. Now [have a mare that I know can world. Imean Lucy Cuyler. 1 trotted her at Fleetwood not long ago before a top wagon, and asked my brother, David Bonner, and another gentleman to take her time. She made the half mile in 1:05, But it was never recorded. There was no bet on it.” “Did Mr. Vanderbilt make it a distinct con- dition of sale that Maud 8. should not be put on the track 7” “T can answer you as I did an elderof Dr. John Hall's church, who was in here this morn- ing to see Maud 8. He asked if there were any conditions. I said, ‘When we engaged Dr. Hail Alexander was accosted as he was going from | his work in the paper mill at Corinth, N. Y¥., by ‘a deputy sheriff and told he was wanted at the hotel, the Centralhouse. Arriving at the hotel, Alexander was ushered into the sitting room and then informed that he must marry Miss Carrie Bennett. Alexander remonstrated. but a justice of the peace entered the room and told the couple to stand up, and they were married. Mr. Alexander immediately took his leave for home, one mile distant. The following day he informed counsel what had taken place, and soon proceedings were begun to have the mar- tish peasantry, and such phrases as “I feel a sweet swell find no pain,” and “A four- square tavl In this category of blundera we may also appropriately include this curious epi taph, which may be seen in Montrose church- yar “Here lyes the bodeys of George Young and Isbel Guthrie, and all their posterity for fifty yeres backwards.” And the following, which Is inscribed on a tomb- stone In Arbroath church-yard: “Heir lyes Alex Peter, present town treasrrer of Arbroath, who died the 16th January, 1730.” It is said that a French miser perpetrated the cynic that “there are two kinds of women— | most practical of all bulls by making himeelf his own heir. The Vollaire recently, in the account of an attack upon a gentieman, stated that he received a stab “which cut the carotid artery of " M. de Cassagnac predicted not long ago that Frauce would turow herself lato riage set aside, as Alexander claimed it was il- legal and fraudulent. Alexander has just re- ceived a decree issued by Judge Barnes setting aside the marriage. —————-o-—____ An Osculatory Salvationist in Jgil. At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Edward Lonkdale, a member of the Salvation army, called at various houses Thursday and stated that by applying a plaster he could, with the aid of earnest prayer, Temove spots, pimples, etc., from the skin. At the house of J. N. Kepler he was allowed to try his skill on Mrs, Kepler, and no one being in-the room, he attempted undue familiarities. Mr. Kepler, however, happened to be in the next room, and eatcning the fellow attempting to kiss his wife, beat and kicked him out of the honse. He then had the Sulvation soldier arrested, and In default of a fine he was sent to Jail. to preach for us we didn’t make It ‘a condition that he shouldn’t go down to Madison Square Garden and take part in a prize fight: but we didn’t expect him to do it tor all that.” —— Royal Funeral Expenses, From the London World. Tt has caused much surprise that the amount of the vote for the cost of the duke of Albany's funeral should be se small. I understand that the outlay was really much larger, but the queen has herself pald the remainder of the bills. The expenses at Cannes were enormously heavy, some of the being most exorbi- tant. When the king of Hanover was buried at Windeor, in 1878, the queen, insisted on payin; the whole of the expenses, much against, the wish of the duke of Cumberland, who de- sired to pay everything himeelf, but her majesty was resolute, make the fastest half mile of any horse in the | H ‘EW BOOKS. LAL, by Wim. A. Hammond. STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, Vol, 3. 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