Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1884, Page 7

—— THE EVEN NG STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, — - 1884—-DOUBLE SHEET. HOME MATTERS. —HOTSEHOLD DECORATION MENT OF DOORWAY CUR- ON Buys’ CLOTHES— BONE GoOD REC —PRETTY arr TAINS—A CHAPTE! SALAD SUGGESTION: Bascxas may be stewed and canned. They | he In this form an excellent flavoring tor ap- | Pr } Onwamexts may be cleaned by wash- | rock alum whieh bas been dissolved in | hot water. Mestarp as a relish fs rendered still more wd with horseradish vinegar, with of cayenne pepper. j eration of stoning raisins may be | ed greatly if glass of water stands con- | tly near so that you can dip your fingers | Into it at intervals. Is DirFictLt? to drown an insect, as the er cannot enter the pores of the skin, but if| f oll be applied to. the abdomen it falls | ace, being suffocated. dr a dead at Carer Savce is drawn butter sauce with two | Or three tablespoonfuls of French capers added: | put them in before you take the sauce from the | lemon juice may be added. The capers | bottles ready for use. ® that is good tor almost all kinds of le by beating one quarter A Sar Dolled puddings is m ofa pound of butter and the same quantity of sugar together till they are like cream. Then mix a wine-glass of brandy, ram or wine with them Tue prettiest way to arrange curtains in a doorway is to have two instead of one, and to | tle these back with ribbons or with handsome bands which are manufactured expressly for the | purpose. The curtains should be tled back quite nd not in the old style. Proptce a pure black upon wood, pour four quarts of boiling water over one ounce of Powdered extract of logwood, and when the solution is effected add one drachm of yellow | chro f potassium, and stir the whole well. Repeat the application of this mixture until the Wood is black. Discaxoep Broapc.ot Svrrs can be used as cov for chairs in a most useful way, and particularly on small baz c have become worn. Work a stripe of popr ie elo to pass down the center of the vat of the chair. On either side oth. Jered by some coc ontoa dish of stewed blackbe ries are not perfectly rir es ina very little | s the dates a great mate of six large to- n pepper, one d e toma i chop the stew geatly with the | w | .f the plums with a large i of sugar to one pound of plums, boil the tha texcupful of water for twenty put in the plums and jet them simmer for twe y minutes or half an hour; ts: If in a day or two the sirup looks ur it off, boil again twenty minutes, | and pour over the plum: To Preserve Gi Gxces.—Choose large | zazes, cut them in halves, take out | is: allow its of fruit and su- @ sucarand sprinkle part of it 3 crack d blanch the Kernels. | On Pieree th lie; take one 3 Is prescribed will | ay extravazant prices tor it at y little Cut them into val crumbs, half a | two ounces of fine sug: of salt. one teaspoonful of sion chopped very fine. Put layer of bread crumbs, upon ver of the sliced tomatoes; upon ace a few bits of butter, a little of th rinkle of the pepper, | ; Row another layer of the bre ayer of the tomatoes, but- e untii you have the de the last layer of t smali pieces of but- | Pepper and salt. Piace | ke fur one hour. | Jads onght not to le long 4 only long enough to| are thrown “~ i so altern: quantity, making in cutting. | the moment | t the jigui just s clothes rb dust and » deciares she | by bis fusty he boys’ suits ring once a week. e's yon will see the { trowsers and jack- swinging in the wind 4occck In the after- whipped and shaken till and mud stains takes with a stiff Manilla serubbing brush, ho 1 soap—any part of the lining that ubbed in the , » Finsed in | s Aunt Jane says It takes opperas water to cleanse er—sun and wind Pn ihe closets hav en, and the doors left wide - the rooms are airing, and ate woman keeps her nd shoe her a da Woe asmell of their ownt on inary. The boys soon as the taken of in the » entry, put on| rd if the boot close me trouble t re not to come . dust and wear | Any Woman's their mother to ve Turks at th out shoes last r own particular ar better when not ey at knees are when ween Renner snrns 8 have pea ¥ ave been brushes trowsers and p h With a heavy tron, or th board and them all night under a smo h, layit on scrub with a stiff brush, hot water and Je water as possible; rub wi |. put a thin cloth’ over at well. A shabby coat often good as new from this treats not be hung by the loop on ti ength of time, but be put aw “r forms, which cost ten ce owsers and vests should be laid ss to kee in shape, ts way when the heart Is + wantn lout and For ull ts sum | comme: Mr. Byron; and during the drive to the Ha [asked MIRIAM DOUGLAS. “Tm sorry to interrupt you, sir; but the lock on your satchel is broken, making the things unsafe, besides being a very shabby old bag, sir, bexging your pardon.” So quoth Eliza, relict ot Josiah Nims, the sexton, to her lodger, the Rev. Julius Byron. “What a bore,” exclaimed this gentleman, “when I really haven't the time to attend to anything except these letters.” “T have an errand which takes me past Piper & Tipson’s; I could buy you anew satchel, if you would trust me. Going among all those fine people at the wedding with your lock tied up with a bit of string wouldn't do at all, sir.” “Thank you, Mrs. Nims; I have great trust in | your judgment, and should be obliged it you | would attend to this matter for me, and save my going inte town.” ‘As the door closed after his landlady, the Rev- erend Julius Byron resumed his writing with a sigh of relief. As he sat leaning his head on his disengaged hand—a hand beautiful enough to atone for plainness in all other features had ature willed him to be plain—Julius Byron was an ideal picture of a student—brown eyes with fairy dreamy look, hair long enough to forehead, and a pale, clear complexion, set-off by a golden-brown velveteen coat, which he wore when in his study. Twenty-nine years old, undeniably handsome, gifted with winning manners, and shepherd of a flock most willing to be guided, Julius Byron, as if by a miracle, had escaped being spoiled and petted into effem= Inacy. His safeguard lay, perhaps, Ina pair of ott eyes which had held him spellbound for a few rapturous weeks, andthe witchery of which had lasted over three years of almost total sepa- ration. Miriam Douglas. dispensing tea and ginger- bread to a horde of charity-children in the park at Mount Edgecombe, was one of the prettiest and daintiest of modern Hebes,in a muslin dress | tn color matehing torget-me-nots and her eyes equally well, and with roses at her waist and throat which stole their delicate tint from her cheeks. Miriam was seventeen that day, and the blue muslin was her first long dress; to this the little lassie paid far more attention than to | the admiring gaze of two dreamy brown eyes. After the feast there were offerings of flowers, good wishes and rather too many kisses and embraces from the charity-children, and among other trophies Miriam Douglas carried away the heart of the Rey. Julius Byron. Had she known this it would have affected hor less than the consciousness that the Barclay girls, her former playmates, were curiously admiring the grown-up Womanish arrangement of her bright silky hair. There were a few tennis parties and five o’clock teas after this,- during which Mr. Byron worshiped his divinity from afar. She seemed alittle in awe of him, and rarely spoke to him more than five minutes at atime. What a de- lightfal task it would be to chase away the timidity from the soft, fawn-like eyes, and how pleasant to think that the sea-sheil pink stole te her cheeks from joy at his approach. Fate, however, cruelly interfered with Byron's dream of awakening loving contd in the bosem of thi teen, three shc 0 per headway, Miriam was summoned to t je of a dying relative, and Julius Byron was called to a parish ina cial town. Three long years this idyl had been in the past: and through all this time the memory of Miriam Douglas excluded any other love from In before he had | the young clerzyman’s heart. though many were the Zoddesses willing to be therein enshrined. He wondered at himself; she had slipped com: letely out of his material existence ; he knew ot Where she was, or if she were dead, or worse—married. Still, with all this uncer- tainty, he could not forget her, and a voice within him seemed to whisper that they sould nieet again. The rapid skimming of his pen over the white ayed for the second time by a heavy footstep at the door outside; and Mrs. Nin panting and crimson from the ascent of the steep stairs, exclaimed— “There, you could not have found a bet- ter or che yourself, rehed t om end to end. Piper and son say off their oath that it isa first-rete and tliat fou needn't fear exchanging with any one by metake he Thank hat you do for me you give me fresh ‘wedding to take place on the follow Byron felt no particular interest. parties were alu The yst_ strangers to xception 1a school-chum of days gone er siuce of the young clergy- man. Owing to the tin ceremony was pe pretty w s of the bri med at how (ding, the bride graceful, sy pale asa lily in her sheeny fleeey drape amon: the guests was the suldued 1 which prevails when the entertaine: reservediy the signs of joy und sorrow—the smile and tear both coming from the heart. After the ceremony, Mr. Byron betook him- self to a dressing-room to fold his surplice and Teplace it in the satchel chosen by Mes. Nima, While so engaged a letter was handed to him with the word “immediate” written conspicu- 's mother, the et and and | ously onthe envelope. The couteuts were as follows: “MaRtow Harz, Thursday, 8th. “If the Reverend Jullus find it con- ptisin this atter- ereat favor ‘You will zo, 1 ard, to whom Mr. E Of conrse; on it is pro said Willis How- cannot refuse such a su yalso. Do yon know anything of Marlow Hall, Howard?” ard of them bi Are they ye, old fellow; my traps are ail train, and I had better fol- low the are of yourself among those mysterions strangers.” In the bustle and confusion at the station Mr. Byron's satchel was tisiaid; but he presently caught sight of the familiar oblect on a distant table, and felt inwardly thankful for itsungain proportions and the luge brass diamond which made it so easily recognized. At Portland @ respectably-dressed man charge of a w stowed aw: in nette came forward to meet I the riner diseoursed freely upon the existing state of affairs there. A son and heir to the fine es- tate had arrived, and there had neen great re- Joicing; but within the past twenty-four hours their Joy had been turned to mourning by a dis- | ‘ummoning the newly-made tather to the h-Bed of his’ only sister inGermany. The youug mother seemed to feel a presentlinent of prtune, and she had insisted upon the baby’s being baptized before the departure of itsfather. The clergyman of the parish was temporarily absent; hence Mr. Byron’s liasty summons. The ee connected with the Hall, and would be very quiet. being witnessed only by the father and grandfather of the child, with possibly one or two guests. a After lunching ina somber richly-decorated dining hali Mr. Byron was shown to a bed- room, with the intimation that his services in the chapel would be required in an hour if con- venient to him. There was something strange and interesting about the fine old mansion, so lately a scene of Tejoicing, and now silent as an empty church. No members of the tamily were visible, and the house seemed deserted, save for a tew -footed servants. ° | As the time for the baptism drew near Mr. Byron asked to be conducted to the vestry- room. To make sure that everything was in readiness he opened ¢ his satchel, when, to his consternation, lustesd of drawing forth a neatly-folded surplice he held up before his as- tonished gaze adoublet and hose of scarlet and | Kray satin, such as might be seen on the stage in “As You Like It.” | Alas for the veracity of Messrs. Piper and | Tipson and the credulity of the worthy Mrs. | Nims! The so-caiied nnique bag had so many duplicates, snd Mr. Willis Howard had bouglit one that very morning iz which to stow away his fancy ball costume. | _ Here was a predicament indeed tor the Rever- |end Julius Byron! In desperation he flew to | | | the wardrobe In the vestry room. Vain hope! ot a shred of the other clergyman’s vestments iat was to be done? Even if in e cases the church rules permitted the to omMeiate without robes In the sacred ee—and for the moment Mr. Byron was too bewlidered to think whether this would be per- jlssible or not—how could he explain the an- roy take to these strangers? They, So troubled, would think him an un- rthy, careless trifter, perplexity he rang for theman who had waited on him, lady in the house with whom I | could speak for afew moments?” Mr. Byron show a tendency to wave loosely back from the | your clever management and | It wasa) showed his | ably ® question of life or | would be performed in the chapei | “My inistress’ cousin is here; but she does not leave the invalid’s rooms for anything Just at “Then I will write my message in a note.” He stated the case as clearly as he could on Paper, and dispatched the servant with It. In answer the lady sent her maid to inquire if search had been made everywhere in the vestry- room for a surplice. He sent back that further search was useless. After some moments of—to him—terrible sus- pease—for the time was almost come for him to appear in the chapel—the maid returned. and, with deep blushes and a nervous twitching of her apron-hem, began— ; You her——. Oh, no, I don’t mean that, sir! | but she would cut the bands off the sleeves and the lace from the neck. and it would be long, | and nobody would notice that it was a nicht- gown, sir; and, if you don’t mind, sir, I would fe and fetch it at once, for there is no time to The girl's concluding words were only too true; and however much he might have hesi- tated at her suggestion in cooler moments, he was thankful now for any solution of the difi- culty. | ten your mistress that I shall be yery grate- fal for the loan she proposes, if she thinks the deception will not be discovered.” The servant vanished, and was soon on the spot azain with a snowy linen night-gown. The neck at the back had been torn down to admit broader shoulders, and a linen handkerchief | had been hastily stitched into inde the rent. Most of the ornamentation had been cut away; but enough remained to prove that the garment belonged to a lady of very dainty tastes. Thankful for this semblance of a surplice, and too hurried to feel amusement, Mr. Byron ar- rayed himeelf, entered the chancel, and the ser- vice began at once. He observed with a sigh of thankfulness that the chapel was very dark; and this enabled him to read without much neryous- ness. Two gentlemen came forward with the baby and its nurse, and for a brief time during the service the young clergyman saw indistinctly the slender figure of a a standing in the dimly-lighted aisle. Before theend of ceremony her feelings seemed to overcome her, for she left the church stifling what might have been a sob, but which sounded strangely like a laugh. What Mr. Byron feared would be a trying or- deal was soon over, and he re-entered the vestry room with a much lighter heart than when he leit it. While disrobing, a name in indelible ink on the gown attracted his attention. Perhaps he should have respected his fair benefactress’ wish to remain unknown; but the temptation was too strong. He turned to the light and read the name—-Miriam Douglas”—under the tucks and embroidery of the robe which he had just discarded. Was it a coincidence, or had a kind fate led him to the shrine of his Idol? The uncertainty ‘was not to be borne. Will you ask Miss Douglas If she can grant me five minutes’ intetview before I go?” he said to the girl who came, in great trepidation, for the novel surplice. Ina cosy little reception room Julius Byron was presently received by her who had been the companion of his happiest dreams during more than three years. The blushing bashful- anished, leaving in its stead a grace- ful womanly dignity. She was a sweeter, fairer | Miriam even then of old, ‘divinely tali and most divinely fair. “Ob, Mr. Byron, how horrified you must be! You signed initials only to your note; and I little suspected to whom Iwas offering that garment. I recognized you at once In church, and, in spite of the soleninity of the occasioa, I had to laugh. It was such an uncommonly bad at” “It was agreat boon to me, and T shall be everlastingly grateful to you for coming to the rescue.” A sudden Indifference as to the hours of de- parting trains seemed to take possession of Mr. Byron, and he found himselt with a certain ainount of equanimity accepting an invitation to spend the night at the Hall. At the conclusion of her visit to her cousin, | Mrs. Marlow, Miriam betock herself to the house end. who extended many informal invita- | tions to Mr. Byron as well. One soft fragrant evening. roses, Julius Byron told his love story; and Miriam listened with a look in her eyes” which rT ivver that he spoke not in vain. * * * * among the June * | ‘dow provoked you, In your turn, must haye | been at finding my stead of the fancy aid Mr, Byron to his frieud Willis, when cain met. Was ina rage at first, I admit,” answered Mr. Howard. “But affairs turned out not so bad after all. Iput on the surplice to see how eine, when one of the maids, catching of me throush the window, set up a declaring that she had seen a ghost. iis brought a lot of visitors out of their rooms, among whom, to my surprise, was Edith Fulton —iy Edith you know. We had quarreled and parted, never to meet again; but the ridiculous, feature of this scene seemed the ice between us, d——. Well, Byron, Ihave blessed the memo- of your surplice ever since!” ““Llat contretemps ot the satchels was a lucky | thing for us both.” : “Piper and Tipson and their humbugs for- ever!” exclaimed young Howard. ee a IMITATION PEARLS. A Venetian Art that Costs the Lives of Thousand of Little Fishes, From the New York Sun. | You would hardly think,” said a dealer in fancy goods, holding up astring of glass beads as big as a cherry, made in imitation of pearls, “that to get the pearl tint on each one of those little globes the lives of at least Afteen beautiful fish had to be sacrified, would you? But they | do, though, and although they are made in Ven- ice, and that string represents a catch of nearly five hundred fish and the ex yn of a goo many cable inches of glassblower's bri Bk ell it to you for a quarter and make a fair hey've been turni | Venice ever since 16 Adriatic they call the T can't say appe ont beads like these in were is @ fish In the k fish, but why bleak ‘There is nothi It is a wraceful fish, with a glitte rof silver seates, ‘They are more pro- 1 in larger schools than herring. y a dent of Veni vator Jacquin by name, pliced several of these fish In ja small aquariim, to observe their habits. ter they had been confined in the aquarium me tine he noticed that the water took on a pearly hue. Believing that this was commu- nicated by the scales of the bleak fish, Jacauin | tried some experiments with them. that water could be so densely charged with the tint from these scales that glass on belng dipped in it and then allowed to dry had every appear- ance of a pearl. He coated glass beads with the liquid, hey were readily taken for large Is. he coating would not resist much however, aud soon ruvbed off of the | surface. Finding that a great sale could be had for beads made in imitation of pearls If the coating could be made perinanent, Jacquin con- ceived the idea of having the globes blown hol- low and then fixing the fish scale Iquid to the inner surface. ‘This was a success from the Start, and the glass pearl bead business got its rst boom. It requires the scales of 4,000 bleak jflsh to make half a pint of the pearl Iquid. They are simply removed from the fish, which areas cheap as mossbunkers, and soaked in | tepid water. Nowadays a very small quantity j of sal ammonia aud Isinglass is added to the liquid. It is introduced inside the bead by a small tabe, and when it is dry a coating of wax jis run over it. Fortunately for the fish, the trade in these beads, pretty aud cheap as they | are, Is not alarmingly large. ——_—+e. A Physiological Check to Population. From ‘*The Problem of Popmiation,” by Charles Morris, in Popular Science Montuly for September If we consider special cases of noted men, the great generals of the world, the commanding statesmen, the distinguished scientists, the celebrated authors—all, In fact, who have become distinguished for superior mental abil- ity—an almost universal result appears: they have either left no descendants, or their families were very small. And. for that matter, we need but to look at evidences everywhere sur- rounding us We think it will be found to be a general rule that persons constantly exercised im mental labor have few or no children; those of less active minds have larger families; while the largest families belong to those who do not trouble themselves to think at all There ts abundant reason to believe, then, that such a physiological check to population really exists; and, in its operation, it is not diff- cult to percelvea rich promise for the future of the human race. For it isin no sense, in its superior phase, a starvation check. Nor does it need any of the violent repression of natural desires exercised in the prudential check. At first elyht, it appears as if Its tendency must be to constantly piace the cultured at a disadvan- tage in numbers as compared with the dull and ignorant. But this disadvantage Is more than counterbalanced by the progress of education sud the brain Incltements of modern civiliza- tion, Thus, the class of brain-workers is bei continually recruited, despite Its lack of fecund- ity, and we can see Indications of an immense future augmentation of this class of the popula- tion at the expense of the unthinking, aud con- Sequently of @ new barrier to the progress of population, whose efficacy Is now but beginning to appear, ———-—~+e0______ Proseentions by the French government of publishers of immoral works have been frequent of late, and heavy fines have been inflicted, He found | e said I was not to’ say who it belonged to, | bleak about its | VAGARIES OF SLEEPLESSNESS, Queer Ways by which Victims of In- sommia Seothe Themselves to Slum- ber. f Ses From the New York San. | * “Insomnia,” remarked an elderly physician of the old school to a reporter for the Sun, “is a perpetual puzzle to me.” “How 80?” ’ “Weil, sleep being not on}y a natural condi- tion, but a necessity, we find nature furnishing “My young lady told me to te!l yon, sir, that if | #!! the conditions to induce sleep, not only in you would not think it any harm, she would send | health, but in disease, in ninety-nine cases in a hundred—but the hundredth case is the mys- tery. Why, sir.” and the doctor warmed into professional enthuslasm, ‘when we see how quickly and easily men adapt themselves to most unnatural and artlficial conditions of life— working by night and sleeping by day; sleeping with the clink of the fdrge, the jar and clash of machinery, or the shrill whistle of escaping steam in their ears, and waktog with a start at any unfamiliar sound, or at the cessation of the accustomed racket—it seems as though man could never suffer from sleeplessness.” “But will not excessive fatigue explain sleep under such trying circumstances?” “Not satisfactorily. ‘I am too tired to sleep’ is a common complaint; while in one case, that of anight watchman ina bank, a cripple who has not probably done a day’s work in a dozen years, tue man ‘sleeps with his ear close to the incessant buzz and whirr of the burglar alarm, and has twice been roused only to find a tramp or drunkard asleep on the steps outside the bank. Once, after I had been treating him with a medicine that slightly affected his hearing, this watchman complained bitterly that he was getting ‘too deat to sleep,’ and declared that he was kept awake by not hearing the burglar alarm distinctly. - “When you realize that the strongest man may, in spite of his will, be reduced to the blind helplessness or slumber by the droning of a friendly bore, an accumulation of foul air, or the temperature of the weather, it becomes still more mysterious to me how slight a thing will ‘murder sleep’ and work measureless mis- chief to mind and body. “Perhaps,” suggested the experienced re- porter, “an unqulet conscience, domestic anx- leties, or an unpaid debt—* “Fudge!” retorted the doctor. “I have seen a man sleep soundly and tranquilly up to within an hour of his own hanging; I have seen my brother fall asleep white waiting for his mother- in-law—a peculiarly wide-awake anxiety she Is, too—and [ should not be sorry if a careless debtor were sometimes kept awake; but you can lay down no rule in these cases except that each man is a rule to himself. “The various eccentricities and whimsical fancies of the men and women who suffer trom wakefulness defy all rule, and would be amusing it they were not so dangerous to the patient and so discouraging to the doctor. There are Tiany persons who cannot sleep on the left side, others who must have their heads point to sume pet quarter of the compass, patients who de- mand noise, like the ticking of aclock, and others who require pees silence to enable them to fall asleep. What, for instance, do you think of a woman who cannot. or will not, sleep in a room carpeted with anything except straw matting, and who cannot sleep in the same Toom more than ten consecutive nights? J am assured and believe that she has faithfully tried, ayain and again, to exceed this ten-night limi that the eleventh night 1s Invariab.y sleepl the twelfth excited, hysterical perhaps, the next worse, and so on, until, on two occasions when I have been called, I can assure you that her condition was too critical to admit ofa suspicion of malingering.” “Are women more subject to it than men?” t in my experience, nor is it contined to the physically or mentatly weak among men. A_ well-known athlete has assured me that, after training for some fmportant event, he used otten to be thrown out of condition by sleepless- ness for several nights preceding the trial of strength, until he covered that he could alway ifthe clusét door in his chamber were set wide open. Even now, in traveling, if he occupies aroom without a closet, he 1s cer= tain to lose his night's sleep. “A grave and self-contained judge,” continued the physician, ‘every nizht ties a black thread tightly round the biz toe of his left foot—the right won't do at all—and, with Judicial gravit y claims this as a certain cure for what he dato cail his ‘niht tits; while a classmate of mine at college, now an eminent and eloquent. clergy bian, once confided to me with much self- proach and perturbation of iind, that when- ever he had an attack of sleeplessness he be- came at once possessed by an irresistible temp- tation to say ‘damn,’ and, that cabalistie word onee uttered, his unrest vanished and sleep came atonce. ‘Think,’ said he to me, solemnity, but with a twinkle in his eye, ‘of a minister of the Gospel becoming irresponsibly profane for want of something to pat him to sleep, when he has a desk full of old sermons in the house.’ ” * “irresponsibly protane#? we repeated. “Quite so. udsley declares insomnia to be a frequent cause of insanity. and Iam Inclined to regard It as one of the most obscure of men- tal diseases. “And the cure: “Well, there isa gtim humor about giving a restless man the ‘active principle of hops’ to put him to sleep, but, as tor permanent cure, the most satisfactory cures are those queer fancies of the patients themselves. They may be ab- surd and irrational, but they are lasting, and taste better than most medicines.” “MY DEAR SER An Interesting DecisionAbout Addresses culars. was lately submitted to Assistant Postmaster Squiers, of Chicago, tor his decision. A business college has printed a | circular, the type used being the exact fac | simile of the type-writer. ‘The object in employ- | ing this form of correspondence is to convey to the person to whom the circular is sent the impression that the sender has been at spectay pains to communicate with him, and has even employed a type-writer. There is a compliment. conveyed in the plan which is adroitly con- ceived. Further than this, it 1s designed to save post- age. Type-writers have been ruled to be sub- ject to first-class or letter postaze, as have all hektograph and other work which is not a re- production, while printing is graded as second- class and is sent through the m cheaper. The ng on a large number of circulars is, there- fore, an item. The business college had all of its circulars printed in the semblance of a type- writer, except the words, “my dear sir,” and the address of the person to whom sent and the signature of the sender. These were printed with a regular type-writer As type-writing is recognized by the law as the same as hand-writing it came within the pro- yision of the statute which prescribes that printing can be sent as second-class matter, and allows the address of the sender and receiver to be written in ink. The question to be set ued was, therefore, whether “my dear sir” waa part of the address, It it was not it must be either struck out or the circular sent as first- class matter. The assistant postmaster decided that “my dear sir” was not part of the address, and that the word “address” as used in the law, meant direction. The assistant postmaster deprecates the existence of printing methods which can successfully duplicate a type-writer. Why the Play Was Interrupted. From the Cambridge (Md.) Chronfele Some of the nice children in the avenue re- cently proposed to surprise thelr parents with a dramatic performance, with the distinct under- standing that no adult was to witness a re- hearsal or to ask about the nature of the play, written bya young miss of ten years, who was to assume the role of heroine, assisted by a lad ofthe same age. On the night of the perform- ance the parents of the children assembled inthe front drawing room ot one ‘of the large resi- dences and waited for the dratying aside of the portieres with commendable patience. The first act represented the wedding of the hero and heroine and the departure of the former to the wilds of the west, where he was to reap his fortune in raising cattle and mining. This went off finely, and the portieres were closed with a loud burst of applause. A lapse of ten years was suppo: to have passed between the first and’ second acts, and when the latter commenced the young husband had returned, and his wife, not looking a day older, greeted her spouse in a formal manner, and even asked him to remain and dine with her, which he consented to do. While seated at the table eating Ice cream the husband told how he had toiled for wealth and acquired millions, all for the sake of the dear wife he left behind. This had such an effect on the matron that she finished the ice cream, sighed to think that there was no more on the table, and then addreased her husband, speaking earnestly and firmly. “You have done weil,” she said, “but beh er! have beenat work | have not been idle. You shall see what I have accomplished.” She touched a bell, and a white-capped bonne entered the room leading a toddling infant a year old, and followed by nine others of various ages, one for each year of married life. The actors to this day do not understand why the play was Inter- rupted by shouts of laughter applause from the fathers and mothers who were present, At any rate, they say the play was a success, but the parents think it a little iy In construc- tion and plot. AUCTION SALES. 7 RAILROADS. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. THIS AFTERNOON. oJ OF SHERMAN & 00_ Anctioncens, TRUSTEF'S SALF @F THAT VALUABLE STORE AND DWELLING. KNOWN AS NO. 617 FOUR- AND-A-HALF STREET SOUTHWEST. By virtue of a decree «uf the Supreme Court of t! District of Cotumbia, sitting in egnity, passed in egy cause No. Wc7: Fa. Doc! 3a Twill ou Sat URDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-THIRD, A. D. 1834, %t SIX OCLOC: ‘K P. M., sell at public auction, in frovt of ties ‘to said all the right, title and interest of the par— ‘cause in and to the south five Se ota eight (8) inches tront, by the depth thereof, of twen- ty-six (26), and the inorth twelve (12) feet and six (6) inches front, by the depth thereof, of lot twenty-seven (2), in square four hundred and ninety-six (496), to- Sith the improvements thereon, Consisting of & Ewo-tory brick and trame building, used as a store and welling. ‘Terms of sale: All cash. or, at the option of the pur- chaser, one-third thercof in cash on the day of sale; j ‘ance in equal instalments, payable in one and two years, secured by purchaser's notes and deed of trust upon the Premises sold. Interest on the deferred payments at the rate of six per cent per annum. A deposit of 8100 re- quired on the day of sale. The trustee reserves the right, if the terms of sale be not complied with in seven. days from the date thereof, to resell said real estate at the cost and risk of the defaulting purchaser. All con- ‘yeyancing and recording at purcliaser’s cust. BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON, Trusteo, ‘Office, 482 Louisiana ave. nw. aul THIS EVENING. ARGE STOCK OF FINE ENGLISH BREECH- LOARTNG, AND . MUZZLE LOADING SHOT. GUNS, FISUING TACKLE, RIFLES, y Tove BAS! BALLS ES AND (COMES, 31° BETS, OPTICAL GOODS) WATCH CHATN= By direction of the ewnereo cease beseees Twill y direction of the owner, to change busine sell-cn the promises, all the above Stock or J."U. OMEARA & 00.1347 Pennsylvania ayenive nortliwest, Sale commenced FRIDAY, JUNE ‘TWENTIETH, at SEVEN P. ML, aud every ‘evening thereafter hour until further notice, DEALERS ARE SPECIALLY INVITED, as many goods will be sold in original packaces. Great bargains inay Deexpected every night” FOLEY, Auctioneer, N. B—The Fixtures will not be sold as, at the termin- ation, of sale, the tore will be gecabled by aU OMEARA & CO., Manufacturers of “LOYAL GLUE” ‘at sane HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, THE ENTIRE PLANT OF “THE WASHINGT: CHEMICAL WORKS COMPANY," INCLUDING ALL STOCK AND MATERIAL ON HAND (EX- CEPTING SOME SULPHATE OF AMMOMLA, SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On SATURDAY, TWENTY-THIRD AUGUST. 1884, at TWELVE O'CLOCK M., in front of the works of the Company, on Zith street.” between G and 1 streets northwest. consisting of iie LEAD SULPHURIC ACID Ad back towers 5x5 and. 15 feet hich; pau capacity 350,000 1bs., (all approximate measurements): three Furnaces for 0 1b. charges hourly: four Retort Fur- haces, including Glass Retorts, reduc the manufucture of Oil of Vitriol, together with all BRICK AND FRAME BUILDINGS connected with, as well as all tools, implements and iach: appertaining thereto, Also its BRICK AMMONL. FACTORY AND BRICK STOCK, and PATENTED AMMONTACAL S1EAM STILL for the distillation of AMMONIACAL GAS LIQUOR and the manufacture of Sulphate of Ammonia, including Boilers, Pumps, Satu- rators, Evaporators, Steam Dryiny fe, implements, tools snd machinery of every Kind nae in operating the same. The AMMONIACAL STILL is continuous ints operation, and has a producing capacity of Irom two jousand to five thonsand pounds Sulphate daily. Con- tract for the Atnmoniacal Gas Liquor will be trausferred of the Works, on account of Mr. P. Bauer, ing pans, etc... for ‘This sw purchaser at h, ‘Terms of sale: Cash within five day: cing at purchaser's cost; a deposit ol #: required at time of sale, §?— THE ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY, AUGUST THIRTILIH, SAME HOUR all conveyan— forfeit money AND PLAG For further particulars inquire at the office of the company, i ‘THE WASHINGTON CHEMICAL WORKS Co.." ausd-dis 621 Penusylvanus Avetins. |CNCANSON BROS,, Auctioneers, TRUSTEES’ SALE OF TW BRICK AND FRAME HOUS! s ON H STREET. BETWEEN’ SECOND A HIRD STREETS NORTHEAST (P. NUMBERED 217 AND 219 H STREET.) By virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded in Liber No, 873, folio 218, et cea... 6ue of the land ree- cords: Tuubi OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1534, O'CLOCK P. M., in front of Piece or parcel of groun of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and known and des THREE-STORY S, WITH riced as purt of lot numbered uundred und fifty-two theast corner of atid lot nine ( running the west on H st north, thirty-two fi four and a quarter inches (2 feet 44g inches), th south one hundred (10) fect, thence east thirt; feet four and a quarter inches (32 ft, 43g in), thence north one hundred feet (100) to the place of beeinuing, containing ev thousand two hundred and tturt fect, mic Tens, tox all the nuproveinents, ways, ease ii e nd hereditaments to thi sane belohyine ppertaining, Terms: Quv-third ¢ nee in equal ist: at and. two 9 3 10 bear Interest ars, be seml-annually, and to secured by deed of t purchaser. Conveyancing, Pesit of $100 requ all cash at opti dat sale, the defaulting public ice of sucht 2 niblistied int Washingion, D. auc0-cod&dbskds WILLIAM DIC 5 } Trustecs, uly recorded in liber, et sea., one of the I in the Distric ve auction, on THURSDAY, FOURT! IBER, i884, at HALF-PAST FIVE C'CLOCK FP, M., iu frout of tne premises, all that piece or parcel of ground lying in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and known as Lot numbered four in square numbered seven hundred and seventy-one ), toxcther with all and sineniar the anor maLces, rights, privileges, improvements aud other heredita: ments to the same Lelonging or in any wise appertain. iy ,, terms: One-third cash, balance in equal instalments in one and two years, notes to bear Interest, payable semn-annuslly, aiid to’ be secured by deed of trust on premises soll, or all cash, at option of Purchaser, A posit of 100 required at time of sale. Conveyancing, C1 3 re not complied with iu ten days the ‘Trustees reserve the right to resell at the risk and cost of defaulting purchaser, after five Gays’ public notice of such resalein some newspaper Published in Washington, D.C. as THOMAS 8: HOPKINS) trustees, JOHN J. EDSON, anl9-eotdbs&kds yous SHERMAN & OO., Auctioneers, e pall ‘TRUSTEES’ SALE OF A VALUABLE LOT AND TWO FRAME HO! i square seven hundred and win Uaving a front of 32 feet and 2mches trun: ‘Terins of sale: One-third cash, balance in equal instal- ments in one and two years, secured b on the premises sold, or all’ cas! option of the it of $100 required on the day of pluplied with in seven days ill be resold at the cost All conveyancing jue Dw. { ‘Trustees, 13 Grant Place. prior sale havinus failed to comply sale within the tine lnuited by The The terse thereof “the a it st © tertus therec! v ty wal bores at bis cost and risk. Bee my marchaser ata 10x18 and 14 feet high, with front and | sulphur | the publicsaleof (his property made March | STORES, | D ded of trust | HE VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY. SHORT LINE To THE Bchedule~ih eet AEUST 3. 1884 9:10 4 M.—NEW ORLEANS MAIL daily. nections * ala from Washington via Charlotte and Colunibia to Avgueta’ “Puliinan Neping Car inun Washington fo White Sulphur Springs aingeerar Dieiion Train leaves Washington at 7:00 | atid 6.10 P3 exept Suuday, on tramse leave Wasndngton st'520 AML and | + N.MACDANIEL, Agent SOL. HAAS, Traffic Manawer. - In Erveot JULY 161TH, 1884. Traine Jeave Warlington, from station, corner of 6th and Is strcets, as toliows: For Pittsburg aud the West, Chicago Limited E: ce Slerpiug Cars at $40 ati daily, Past Line | m. daily to Cincinnati and St. Louis, with Sleep- Cars from Herrisburg to Cincinnati, and Hotel to St. Louis; daily, except Saturday, to Ch ith Sleeping Car Altoona to Chicago. Western Press 7.40 p.m daily, with Palace Cars to Pittsbuns, etd for Eig erage 5 pera Car j fteburg to CI ‘Mail Ym. daily | for Pitabang and the West, with Palace Sleeping Gar Washineton to Chicago. BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RATLROAD. ie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara, 10.00 p.m. daily. except Saturday, with Palace Cars Washinton to Rochester. ‘Train leaving Weshington on Saturday mizht will not run beyond Renovo. gone at Haveu and at 9408 m "except. Sunday. New York and the Rast, 718, 820 and 11.00 a gene Ree For Ne m., 210, £00, 10.00 and 1115 f. bt. On Sunday. 4.00, 100 and 1115 pm. Limited Express of Pullman Parlor Cars, 3.40.8. m. daily, except Sunda; For Boston without clange, 210 p. m, every week-day. On Sunday, 4.00 p. sa. For Bivokiyn, N. ¥., all through trains connect at Jer- ecy City with boats of Brooklyn Aunex, affording di- Pret transfer to Fulton street, avoiding double terriage actors New York city. Fer Philadelphia, 715,820 and 11a m...210, 400, 6.00, | 3o,0and 1.15 Qn Sunday, 4.00; 6.00, 20.05 and | 21.16 p.m.” Lailted Express, 9/40 a in. daily, except Sunday. 21 25, 4. 40, an 15 Gu Sumas, 9.40, 11.00 a m,, 4.00, 6.00, 7.40, 10.00 and DS pa For Pupe's Creek Line, 6.35. m, and 440 p,m. daily, except Sunday. | For yoni 6.35 a. m., 12.05 and 4.40 p.m. daily, ex- ALEXAN aya AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY, | cheap, Tue L“& AT LOW FARES. NORFOLK AND FORTRESS MONROR, AIBST-CLASS FARE. GL ROUND TRIP. ¢1.98 Steamers LAKE and MORELF! Sixth ctwt whan! MONDAY. WEDADSD AT on PRES DAY, a 5:30 pm..and SATURDAY, ai 6p. um. Returae ins MONDAY Morning. olortal ‘Beach. 3 Mirmtet andi sve tT: Tempens: git General Gftice, Sixth street whart. Teeyhone cal BER. - POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. Steamer THOMPSON MONDAY, WE! FRIDAY, 7am. —Fare 2c 3 TEAM Sw ck an, for Mattox Creck, returning cednewdlaysanid Br — Gays up. and Chatsi Palut and Brent's wharf Thursdays down and Mondays aud Wednerdays up Prouhts 2 cowed duly @. T JONES Agent. ek ‘Fth sirect whart. QTEAMER TV ARROWS\ITTH cs FROM TH-STRELT WHARF. On Mondays, 7 a.m. for Nomtm and intermediate landings, returning On Thunstays. 7 a mi. tor Currioman, Nomin!, 8 Clement's Bay, and ihiermediate landinga rewramg 4307. m., for Currioman, Nomint sud intermediate landings returuinx Sunday eventiae. LAM aass, 8) 8m. Shecval Excursion to Co» N. B—Land at all summer weorts each trip JOUN B PADGETT, Agent, wis CWORIDLEY. Manscer, - NOKFOLE, FORTRESS MONROE AND THE POTOMAC | STEAMBOAT COMPANY'S Ine Steamer GEORGE LEARY leaves Tth street whert on Mondays and Wednesday it 5:90. Saturdays at 6p. Store at Piney Point ranidd Harbor going ine, SAIUADAY NIGHT STFAMYN RETULNS MONDAY Exclusive connections with the Boston an4 Providence steamers, Connects with New York and Kich- mond steanorn, Rorfoik aad Western, Sealoard and Roanoke, cea View and Vinginia Beach railroads. Passage and room canbe secured at Baltimore and Ohio “Ucket office, Muth “stnet and Penuesiva- bia avenue: at St Mare hs Uenhorn’s, ext t city post office, oftion of Knox's express, Oth stivet at Pennsylvania aveuue, and at couiyatiy’s ith ttrect wharf. Knox's express will call for and check bageage frou hotels and private. residences, Freight received daily wet Sp. m, dio WILLIAM P. WELCH, General Agent )TOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE ‘The Steamer SUF. Capt. WC Geogheean, wit ree ber trips to Baltimore and River Landings, SUNDA Marek Uth. leaving Stephenson's whart weap mn; leas ix Baltimore for Washington every FRIDAY ai 3 pub ht received until 6 p.m. Saturdays ONLE 1 Raver fr ait tnust be prepaid, accuuunodaticn unequalled BARPMENSON & BRO. Arenta, th stroet wharf, Applyto mh3-€m AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON KALL- Roan, For Alexandria, 6.0, 7.00, 9.25, 11.05 and 11.35 a. m, 2.05, 4.25, 6.00, 6.35," 6 1.35 p.m, On Sunday at 690, 9'25, 11.05 a'm., 8.05 p. 10, For Rictimond atid the South, 6:30 and 11.05 a. m, daily, 5.00 p.m. daily, except Suuday, ‘Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6.05, 7.50, 10.00, 1.00, 3.05, 3.23, 6.10, 7.03 and 10.40'p. 1, dutgt (except. Monday). On’ Sunday at 700 and 1010 aan; 7.09 aud 1U.40 "p.m, ad 110 hight, ‘Dickets and information at the office, northeast comer f 13th street and Penneylvania aventie, und at the sta ew orders can be left for the checking of bag- ination irom hotels aud residences. E. PUGH, J. Woon, General Manager. General Paxseniver Agent pe SARATOGA, AND CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, ONLY ALL RAIL AND PARLOR CAR LINE, Trains on New York, West Shore and Buffalo Ry., by West Shore of Picturesque Hudson River, leave Jersey City Station of Pennsylvania RAC as follows: SARATUGA SPECIAL 1 Saratoga 2.85 pxm., Caldwell, Lake George, 4-25 Montreal 11 pan, Eeeant Pullinan Builet Cirs to Saratoya, thence to Mentre: CATSKILL MOUNTAIN SPECTAL. 9:39 am—aAr- Five Hotel Kill 2:30 p.m., Grand Hotel 2:07 pan. parlor Cara, | (DAY EXPRESS, 10:16 am—Arrive Albany 3 p.m: Spri own 5 pan., Utica 5:50 LAKE GEORGE, in., Rochester 10:40 p.m, Buffalo Niagara Falls 12-58 ain Parlor Cay to A prince and Niagara Falls, D CATSKILL MOUNTAIN EX- Lenves Tth-street Vernon at 10 0% Cc UNARD LINE THE, cranr Srnvra OREGON Gavia.) AURANIA.. T. VERNON! MT. VERN STEAMER W. W. Corcoran hart daily Cexcept Srmday) for MR Auk; PeLuing, reaches Was! LL. BLARE, Capt STEAMER ton about 3-30 pam. ow a BLIWEEN CA oH BOR. K, NEW YORK. ON AND EVE RATES OF WEDNESDAY FROM NEW YORK. ASSAGE—860, €90 und €100, according is low rates. Steem@e ticketsfrom Lay- erpool aud Queeustown and all other parts of Europe at Jowest rates, Through bills of Inden given for Belfast. Glasgow, Havre, Antwerp and other ports ou the Continent, aud for Mediterranean ports, “For fr No. 4, Be at the Company's office, Jeht and yasnare appl Steerage and Cabin to Ling Green, or LOW & CO. 605. EMNUN H BRO! PRESS, 11:40 a.m.—Arrive Hotel MBaterskill 5:15 p.m., | Grand Hotel 5:05 pan., Saratoga 6:25 p.m, Lake Georgo Brum. Parlor Cars Jeivey City to Saratoga und Lake core. SAKATOGA AND CATSKILL MOUNTATN D. 3.45 Arrive Hotel Kasterskill 9 ania R.R train 8:15 an sto Montreal. The New ssa, U Leave Waehington from statien, coruer of New Jersey avenue and C street. Yor Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Lonis daily et 5:05 a m., 10:15 a. in. 10:10 p.m. with Through | onches and Palace 5) Saturday. For Titling at 8:30am. and 8:40 p.m. daily: 8:40 Tonto Pittshure, Cleveland and Detroit, wit Sloop Toe Cars rine. For Toledo and Detroit via Monroeville, 10:15. m, @hily, with Sleeper for Toledo, via Wheeling wud Lake aL .L ‘ A Apply to City or Depot Agent of Penn. RR. for com-| AA E i a | plete time-tables, tic ASAE OO AAS Gor chairs from Jerse tation rsrved inadvanee | A ALLLLULILA AN y | bon abplication allman Car Co., Pum, 2 POPULAR SUMMER Rov Haase aaa: Ee Commencing May 34, and eve 5 am sailing from Quelue to Liverpoa, : Qcean voyaue. Only five ALTINOR: Iron Ste s}eed an ing Cars to sbove points, | without changes 10:19 au daily” to Chicago, xcept | th ENERAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY. J” Derwers New Youk asp Mayan. ea Comigns’s pier, No. 42 North Kiver, tot of Morton ree in squouie ¢ Paris, LOUIS Linge Green, New York, GW. a 5 Pentay! J.W. BOTELER & SU3, c ransatinntique 2. 6, Bow e Txtea on from Liverpool, Queenstown, lnaow and Galway, for prepaid busiest tickets insted to atly raflruad station I steorace, $2. ‘Comedy JAsents, 207 Broad reatter. LDEN, Gi OF GW. MOS 5 PENNSYLVANIA AVE’ ‘Wanbuinycton ene kt. i, Trains for Philadelphia and New York at 6:19 a.m. | daily, except Sunday; 3 p.m. and 9:40 p,m. and | 20:30" p. au. daily, witht Parlor and “Sieeping Cars =| aches Fer Baltimore on week days, 5, 6:39, 6:40, 8:00, 8:10,9:00, | and 10:09 a, m.; 12:10, 2:20,'2:35, 3:00, 3:30, mninute train) 4:40, 6:30, 6:50, 7:00, m. For Baltimere on Sundays, 6:30, 8:00, 8: 2:85, 3:00, 4:40, 9:20, 6:50, 7:00, 8:20, m, FerPoints on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, 10:15 a. mu. dally. Fer Anutpolis, 640 a. m.,and 12:10and 4:40p, m.; on Sunday, $:20 a. m.. 4:40 p.m. For Way’ Stations between Washington and Baltim 6:00, 6:40. 9:00 a. m., P. 1.. 3:30, 4:40, 7:00 an: 2030p. m. Ou Sundays, 8:20am, and 1-25, 4-40and $40 Pam. For Stations on, Metrovolitan branch, | 740 & mand 6:55 p.m. daily except Sunday, 4:43 | . m. daily for principal stations on Metropolitan branch 8:30am. daily for Iexington, Staunton and Velley branch, 8:30 a.m. daily except Sunday, 6:40 | NESDAY AND BSATUUDS ‘west, CHAS. ington from 1to o'clock pam, with ladies only. Jy METWEEN New Tore, HAVRE, Losbos, SccTHAMPTON AND IiRPMEN, The steamers of this company will call EVERY WED. ¥ from Bremen pier, foot of Si pireet, Hoboken. Baten of sues fruin SEW YORE to LONDON, HAVRE, BREMEN: By Wednesday steam —First cabin, $100 to #15 day steam First catan, fart at lowent rates. CELEICHS & G0..3 Bowling Gree, Newt METZELOTT & CO. 925 Penusylvavia avenue north: WALT S42 wtreot, Agtnte ior Waste MEDICAL, &e. 4. urthiwest. Ont P.m. daily; for Frederick, 8:30 a.m, 10:15. a ui, 4:45 24a. daily except Bunday, | FQ Haverstown, 10:194 and 5:35 p.m. daily except sunday be rk and Philadelphia, 2:56, 6:90a, m, daily, 8.20 p.m. daliy, exe-pt Sunday. yen Annepolis, 8:20 am. aud 1:50 and 6:37 p. m; Sunday, 53 a. 'm., 6:37 p.m. exineton, 6:20 am, daily, and 2:15 p.m, daily, hours—1 tod Derk THE, OFREST, PSTABISED AND can be only reliable Ladies’ Physician in the city 32 iret street south, Missouri even i, Detween 3 iD Srregruluritios | .rcenf Sanday” tun Frederick and intermediate points, 8:25, a.m, 2:15, p.m., and 8:12 p,m. daily, except Sunday; 8:13 | }. 1n, daily’ from Point of Rocks, = Itimore for Warhington at 2.00, 4:40, 40, 9-10 and 10:90 a. m., 12:15, 2:50, 3, 7:00, 9:00 ad 10:15 p.m. :on Sun- 15, 7°90, 8:20, 9:00, am, 1:90, 5:00, 6:35, 7:30 and 9-00 p. Alitrains from Washinton stop st Relay Station ex- ease, and furtie any fore ane by Dr. EAD AND BE sonthwest, app is the. Oldest ty,and will gu : the poor fur mand advice free ab the day. Subscribed and sworn tobe OTHERS, April 2d. iss, SAMUEL H. WALKER, Noiary Publia, rin) dy3i-lm* ‘cept 4:30 p. ap, Yorfurther thformation apply at the Baltimore and | Ohio Ticket Office—Washington Station, 619 and 1351 Pennsylvania avenue, corner 14th street, where orders We have just received a laree Jot of Bakers’ PINE, WOOD, "Also. fresh amined COAT of ny ior quality Age oaneets use, all of which we offer at lowest market ‘The attention of consumers is respectfully invited to au iuspection of our stock. STEPHENSON & BRO., mi6 ‘th st. wharf and 12th st. 7 Coat: JOHNSON BROTHERS, WHARVES AND RAILROAD YARD: ‘Twelfth and Water streets southwest BRANCH YARDS AND OFFICES: 1202 F street northwes 1616 7th street northwest; 1740 Pennsylvania avenue northwest; 1212 8th street northwest; Corner 84 and K streets northwest; - (221 Pennsylvania avenue southwest, TARGEST PRIVATE RAILROAD YARD ew SORE als vee WHARYV) aay ‘usurpaseed oononulo handing COAL DELIVERED ON CARS DIRECT FROM THE MINES INTO OUR YARD. We deal only in best qualities of ANTHRACITE BITUMINOUS COAL = All kinds of WOOD, either in the stick or prepared order, at ‘our! coe a a) CLEAN COAL, FULL WEIGHT AND MEASURE ros Geliveries and prices as low as Fuel can b furnished. sepls GstEFUL—comForrixa. EPPs' Cocoa. BREAKFAST. “By a thorongh_ ‘the natural tawa which the of: ‘and mu‘rition,and by of j of well. Heation of the fine propertice -8e- of hg arocnnd us ready Yo attack whurever there iss woak ‘We inay eacape many a fatal by keeping Eursclves well fortited with pure blood ald a with pure b ‘® properly caly Gy'lt: Sud bd by Grsore faced time JAMES EPPS & CO., Homeopathic Chemists, —se-. As late as 1840 there were but seven vocations into which New England women had entered; in 1884 the number was 317. Cues O. N. T.Sroor Corrox SIX SPOOLS FOR 25 CENTS, at ATERBACH’S Sewing Machine Rooms.cor. 7thand Agency for the light-running NEW AMERICAN. No. 7. fan caitirely new, hich-arin machine, msnatact ated 30” ys" TRAM pr pyres BENJAMIN F. LEK ‘ON, ? e taker bagwag. checked and received. FLFCTRIC VOLTAIC BELT. ana other Morctnre Am auels-dkde HViIN KOSS TT TON: } rustecs, tyre oe enae | TANGER. We will wend on Whines. dope felt Tey, ny Al. CLEMENTS, M. of T., Baltimore. oung or old, who are suffering from Nervous Debility, delT C.K. LORD, Gen'l Passenger Agent. tue ‘ital: and thone diseases of a personal nature re a - — — sulting fro a ianece abe ener commen. Speray Te ; nd SS = == == > a = complete restoration to health, vigorand tathood guar 7, r i teed Send at once for illustrated uphiiet, free. Ad- ___W0OD _AND_ COAL, SEWING MACHINES, Go. __ | Sots Sent stop fo bumtratel gag. free Ade A victim of early tmprndence, eansing Nervons Da bility, Premature Decay, etc.” having tried in vaim every known remedy. has eco of self fore vered a simple means cure, which he will tive to bis fellow -swaf- Address J. Ho KEEVES, $$ Cuutharm street, New by the cld-established American Sewing Machine Co., | York. _d910-tu.thiés Tiety ahd durabity Pees al! others in speed, sim- | 5 ei aay OF TER GENIRATIVE ORGANS Also, new Automatic, Domestic, Sincer, Howe G., W. rete cured by the CIVIALE METHOD. Adopted and Wilson No. 8, aud other first-class’ Machines for | i sli the HOSPITALS OF Prompt retura: fale or rent. of VIGOR, | Simple cases, $3 t0 $f. Severe omen, 63 10 ‘We anploy no canvassing agente, $12 Panuphict tree. CIVIALE KEMEDIAL AGENC! By ceuling with us you save money and annoyance, _ | 160 Fultou street, New York“ aps-this yJpsimction free at your residence by experienced PEM ROvAL PILES —c ROYAL PILL ICHESTER'S ENGLISH: ai Unde tepaiie aad seunaaioh are the only genuine. For f ‘C. AUFRBACH, corner 7th and H, next door to Aucrbach’s Geuts" Fur- four cent stamps to Ch 2313 Medison Square, Puilad chest nishing and Hat Store, 326 Tse Licnr Ressixe New Howe AND HARTFORD SEWING MACHINES, the simplest and most durable Sewing Machinesever Produced. Sold ou monthly payments, and liberal dis- count for cash, At OPPENHEIMER’S Tehsble Sewing Machines and Fashion Rooms, 628 Sth street n. w., St. Cloud Building. Good machines for rent All kinds Bazar ines repaired. = Paper Fs DakcBeRTON, TEE EXPFRT SPE to beau expert without featment and cure 3 Diwanes, Lost Nitality. Impaired Manhood and Abuse ¢f the System. Bladver, Ki every Wednesday end Saturday, froin more. Main Ofice, iW N. Liberty at, FOR 48 (Cures a saa who stands hish in his profession, $s acknowledwod ide world in the rvous aud Chrouis peer it of Priva iney and all dixeasns the Heceint cus Yositively cured in 44g 0 LETCULY OT CRURLICS Used. een ey" | ftopam. a Cow. Kefers to leading physicians ot Balti. Lumere, Md jul MEN—CHECKS IN SIX HOURS Uuee daye Drug Store, 160. 1th sirooy @CPenna a¥e., Washington, D.3. GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. Tur New “G”? Howe * An Entirely New ‘High Arm, Sewing Machina, Which Excels all Others, oki on Installments ; Liberal Discount for Cash. "a Every Machine Warranted 63 SOLD Br ‘THE HOWE MACHINE Co, 983 F Street Northwest, near 10th street. ‘With hand-worked buttonholeg, FOR 75 CENTS. ‘The best ever offered in the city. 4 FULL LINE OF SUMMER UNDERWEAR, SCARFB AND TIES. se7-t.ths6m = * Washington, D.C. | 4 LOT OF SUMMER SCATYS FOR too, WORTH 6h = LARGE LINE OP Ts fs 22s. fans eaten he wing ae SUMMER UNDERWEAR AND NOSTREY. ‘Prices, "No convasners. offices ‘money. ‘and FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER A @PECIALTE G B&B. TEONPSOWS SHIRT FACTORY, aed UPPERT, ‘CHARLES HYATT, Proprietor. 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