Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1884, Page 6

> atl ENING THE EV STAR WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 6, ra — a E SH 1884—DOUBL EET. TWo CaPITsl. Wars To Cook o¥sTERS—| BCUSEHOLD MISTS For SEPTEMBER—PRETTY | DECORATIONS VALUABLE — DIRECTIONS—HO¥ TO CLEAN SILK AND SATIN. ReRoseNe taint in ob vessel tnay be re- moved by rinsing thoroughly with benzine and washing out with aleobul. Frostep glass finger bowls and those made of the pretty raimbdow Ss are now used tore than those made »herian giass. Ip You Wisu for places for chins, have plain | painted deal sheives. inade in zroups, gradaal!y diminishing from the lower to the upper shell, and fixed avove the mantlepiece. PottsHeD FLoors should be rabved two or three times with linseed oil, and then be pol- ished every week with turpentine and beeswax. The oftener the oii is rubbed in to begin with, | the darker the boards wiif be. Tue staircase should always be carpeted. at least with a narrow carpet running down the center, even if the stairs be of handsome woo, wax-polished. The unyielding surface of the | wood is very try.ng to th Caerry Staiy FoR PIve.—Rain ‘water, three quarts; annativ. four ounces. Boll in a copper Kettie until the annatto is dissolved; then put in @ piece of potash the a walnut; keep iten the fire about bait an hour longer.and it isready to bottle for use. To Crystat. Ghasses, make a stro! doiling-hot solution of v ater and Epsom salt: and in a short time produced by the avery pretty erystullization of th For a Hatk-Cca.er take tw gne drachim of gu) arabic, and add to tuem one quart of hot (not boiling) water. goon as the Ingredients are dissolv tablespoonfu!s of spirits of campior going te bed wet the hair with this fuid, Toll ita pieces of paper In the usual manne: | To Ixstre success in making a gooseberry | Pie, stew the berries in as little water as it is | possible to use. When the berries begin to be tender mash them with a spoon, then you will! pieterve the richness of the juice and will not we to throw any of it away. Sweeten with ligit brown sugar ana bake with two crusts. Pretty lambrequins for bedrooms can be made of soft gray linen with borders of lace ! crocheted of red or blue wool and worsted braid, and an edge cau be made by setting points of Plain sateen upon the linen. turning them up- wards like pyraiids and tastening them in place by two rows of feather stitch in crewels of the same color. Never-Faixe Cake.—Three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound | of flour, eight eggs. Cream tie butter and sugar together; add a handful of fiour and two egus | then another handful of four and eggs, and. | so on. unti! all the ingredients are mixed to- | her. Flavor as you like. Beat well each | Ime and bake in a one-pound moid. | To Destroy Rev ANTs.—-Take a larze coarse | sponge, saturate it with warm water and press | it dry, then spriakle it over with fine pulverized sugar and piace it where the auts are trouble- some. They will soou collect upon the sponge | and get into the ceils. Then dip the sponge | into sealding water, which will kill them. Wash | out the sponge and repeat the process. By | this means vou will soon be entirely rid of them. | Twe*Rvsser Kixes.—The rubber rings used | to assist in keeping the air from fruit cans some- times becowes so dry and brittle as to be almost | Sunption against it. is to be souzht, not in the | Useless. They can be restored to norma! con- dition usually by letting them lie In water in position and mode of transacting business. No! | one who compares its average attendance with which you have put a little ammonia. this proportion: One part ammonia and two | parts Water. Sometimes they do not need to lie im this more than five minutes, bat fre- | quently a half hour is needed to restore their elasticity. | Stewep CeLery.—Atter weil washing and | cleaning some celery heads, cut them iuto three- | inch pieces, and boil them in some good broth ‘until they are perfectly tender. While they are simimering, prepare the following sauce: Half a poten cream. the yelks of two egzs thoroughly en, one-half ounce of butter, a little lemon peel. salt, white pepper. and finely grated nut- Meg: heat this ia a lined saucepan. stirring it allthe time, and not allowing it to boil. Lay the celery ina hot dish, ou toast dipped tn the | broth it’ was boiled in, and strain the white | sauce over it. | | Orsrers Ix Two SHapes.—Grate some day- | old Vienna bread into tine crumbs and season them with salt. white pepper and alittle grated | autmez. Drain the nd dry them | Detween the folds of a cloth. being caretal not to press them. Now dip them into beaten exg androll tiem in the seasoned crumbs until well | covered. Then place them in their lower shells | with a plece of butter on the top of each oyster | and bake for afew minutes in a hot oven. Arrange them. still in their shells, on a plate, and. before sending to table. squeeze over them 8 little of the juice of a lemon. To Broil ‘Oysters in their Shells.—After opening the oysters let them remain in the deep shell with their juice, piacing a small piece of butter upon the fop of eaci and seasoning them | with a little salf and cayenne pepper. Have a good clear fire; place the shells on a. gridiron, | Squeeze alittle lemon Juice over the oysters, and broil untildone. Twoor three minutes | will suffice to cook them.— Caterer. CLeastNG SILK AND SatiN.—To clean silk or satin dresses it is well to take out the sleeves, and separate the skirt from the bodice or waist- | band. Have two earthenware vessels which will hold about two gallons each, and put half a | gallon of camphene into each. Soak the bodice | im the first pan, and when wetted lay it on the | ¢leaning board wrong side up. With one of the | Scouring brushes clean the lining first, then turn | and clean the outside as fast as possible. Plunge it again into the first pan. Take it up and allow | fome liquor to run off. Plunge it in the second, | and drain for a few minutes over the latter. | Tura the plain side of the cleaning board, spread Sclean sheet out on it. take the bodice, w has been well dipped. and lay it down smoot allowing no crumpling: rub weli with clean Andia cotton cloth until dry. Treat the sleeves, then the skirt. as far as possible. in the same way. Hang up ina hot room for twelve hours to take off the smell of the camphene. Silk | dresses are more effectively cleaned when the Dreadths are separated. In such a case the cost of camphene may be eaved by substituting soap. Dut several pans of cold water must be ready at hand. as not more than five minutes should be | spent over each breadth. from first to last, or It | Will have an unmistakably washed instead of &@ cleaned appearance. Never brush si/ks or Satins across the width, as doing so causes them to fray out and spoils them for remark- | ing. Dissolve two pounds of seap in two zal- lons of boiling water: use when cold. Fave four pans of cold water, with tour pails of water ineach. Into one of these put a smuail quantity of the dissolved soap, making a weak Hquor. Into another dissolve a quarter of a pound of tartaric ucid tor spiriting. The other two pans are for rinsing. Spread a width wrong | side upward upon a scouring board, being eare- fal that the latter is quite clean. Pour over it sufficient of the solved soap to wet it| shoroughly, and well brush it, lenuthwise, with | asoft brush; thea turn and treat the right side | ig the same way. Pass the silk through the thin soap liquor: then in one, and then in the | other of two rinsing pans. Handle it well in! the spiriting pan and take it up to drain. Have | the board and ciean sheet as in the camphene | method. and drv with clean cloths. Atter ali | the breadths are done, not more than five minutes | veing spent over each, they must be finished in | aframe, or on the stutfed board, one be une. Most silks require a Little stifening, which is the last process. For black silks and satins a! tize made of old black kid cloves is excellent, | and aa these are the most useless of all a lady's Mix in i i comforting to be able to turn them to ac- count. The gloves are to be eut up into small pieces. put i a vessel of cold water. astone jar or porcelain-lined sauc. pan, and very siowly simmered for an hour or two, or until the quantity of water is reduced to one half; strain throuzh fine muslin and use warm, but not hot water. Another size. that asually applied by dyers, is made of parchment | abavings or cuitings, washed, cleaned and simmered slowly like the gioves. one pound of parchment to four quarts of water boiled to two quarts and strained. One teacupful of this to a jaart of water is enough for silk finishing. Take she board with the ‘stuffed covering, lay on it one of the clean breadths flat, no wrinkles. Sponge it carefully aud evenly with the sizeand water. Pin down thetwo ends of the silk on the board, then the two sides. Two people are re- | quired for this process, as the silk must be well dtretehed. Pins about an inch apart. Rub once more with the damp sponge and dry before a brisk tire. Textiles which are a mixture of silk and wool may be strained on the board, but no size is needed. Cotton materials to be ironed on the wrong side; a box-iron being the cleanest, is recommended. Satin sometimes requires to be ironed on the wrong side after beiug taken off the frame, to give it brightness. —Philadel- phia = —<e.—___— New York bank directors are so called because they direct the movements of the detectives ‘iter the funds have fown.—Philadeiphia Cail. Stir,and asa | alyzed Mr.O' Reef ) be a combin: | have been. | obtain t HORSE WEN BITTEN. The Old Dodge Played Agnin at New Haven. The New Haven papers tell of aman with & used-up looking liorse who worked the old came The race came off Monday, and the #8 the tollowing account of that afternoon part of the je enlef perties in interest park. The stranger, as he drew ia with lis ped- dler’s wagon. rolied unsteadily in his seat. He asked if there wasn't some ‘ound there The horse- men all laughed, knowing. of course, that wiat ke wanted was a sulky. Finally, a cood-natured member voiunteered to zo off and get a st er would first put up 5 st possible damages. The moaey was fottheomi the still bulky the suiky arrive had been wander E cropping grass in etatine, was hitched im front of it conutry man, now to be ain nt of much to ali apy helpless. 1 3 liug, to get into ed ita if ne didn't want e didat. If he did erewnd and optiie nswer provoked ro ‘een should be sot a whip, & ine little si » track, an Was given went off like a flasi me on at 8 handsome he are and show he al in advance. » Whitey than half The tim The res and 2 so amatter of so drunk as thi seat, analyze Old Wilt the spectators also | i “s gait. It was not stric it. but appeared 10, However, it w trotting. 1 agreed that horse on! islead. and prota- ond mile at Just taint; bly did not have bot? such a fast 1 his, however. they all wrong. Old Whitey won second heat, aud the race as easily as the first. but with more of a lead. By this time wil hands knew that the stranger, who had considerably sobered up. bad played them. as they generally expressed it. for a parcel of suckers.” All of them enioyed it, however with the exception of O'Keefe. Mr. Hart didn't eeem very much cast down and if the report that he is the real owner of O!d Whitey is true, there is no reason why lie should It is said the horse can easil a mile in 2:30, and has dyured around thi try in several such affairs as that of yesterday. with no little profit to her owner. It was ob- served that after the race the stranger did not repeat his offer to sell the animal fo All the Horsemen in town, except the bitten one,are taiking and laughing to-day about the match at Hamilton park yesterday. Absentceinm in the House of Lords. HL D. Trail in Contemporary Review, The real reason, in a word, why so many mod- erate-minded and not otherwise unfriendly ob- servers regard the action of the lords in such cases as this with no antecedent coutidence in | its discretion, but rather. it anythi witha pre- qualifleation of the uppér house. but in its com- the nuinbers collected for a great division can wonder for a moment at its want of authority. The influx of peers summoned to decide ona question which they have not heard discussed ix | ascanéal comparable only to a“whip” of coun- try parsons brought upto reject a liberal “sta- tute” at Oxford. Lord Salisbury put ina plea the other day for the competency of ubsentee | peers onthe ground that the skillful adminis- tration of an estate in the country was as good a training as another for the faculties of the politic an, and did not in the weantime disable the absentee trom keeping abreast by means of the newspaper with the polities of the day. Lord Salisbury, however, would hardly say as much, we may suppose, for “training” of another sort. The race course, the yacht, the cricket eld, continental lounging. the pursuit of “big game™ in remote countries, the rivairies of the “masher” at home—there is nothing in these Scenes and oceupntions to develop political -a- pacity. and one should know what proportion they engage of the habitual absentees brought up for great divisiens. before the value of Lord Salisbury's plea can be estimated. The general ep it isto be feared, will not rate it highly. hey are apt to suspect that too many of the re- ervits resemble the hero of that story—ben tro- vuto si non vero—in which a young peer, unabl on one of these occasions tu bring his unfamiliai | face to the recollections ot an officer in the | house, was compelled at last to use this “one plain ‘arzument” to convince him. “Do you think,” asked his lordship tn halt humorous re- sentiment at the recollection of the more con- genial scenes from which he had torn humseif at the call of duty, “do you think I should be such & —— fool to come to this place if I were not a peer?” Unquestionably this young man should he dispensation which he evidently de- sires. Both the honse of lords and linself would be the gainers Uy is being relieved from attendance. It is here, undoubtedly, that the much talked of reform of the house of lords will have to begin, whatever other improvements, ifany. it may be found advisable or possible to introduce. —— ee . Le ig After Death, From the London Lancet. At length it is beginning to be recognized in Frauce that the brain of a decapitated criminal lives and consctousness is maintained for an ap- preciable time, which to the victim may seem an age after death—an opinion we strongly ex- presced many years ago. This ghastly fact—as We have no doubt it is—being perevived, It is beginning to be feit that executions cannot any T be carried out by the uillotine. Prussic acid is now proposed If instantaneous death be desired, this is clearly admi The period taken to terminate | y poison of any kind ast needs vary greatly with the individual. 2 Hot a sinall proportion of instances we tancy death by prussie acid would be considerabl protracted, and although long dying is not horrible as living after death—So to sa: it is strongly oppe ity to protract the agony of a tellow-creature dyinz by the hand of justice. Electricity is another agent suggested. We doubt tne possi- bility of applying tuts agent so as to destroy live instantly. We confess that, looking at the mat- terall round, we incline to think that hang- ing, when properly performed, destroys con- sciousness more rapidiy, and prevents its re- turn more effeetuuily. than any other mode of death which justice can employ. It is against the bungi hanging we pro- test—not against the iethod of executing it- self. This is, on the whoie, the best, we are convinced. > yet —— = rim and the Flower. O simple Nower, springing where ‘The lonely meadows sivep in green, You ope your unted petals fair, And Lreaihe au incense v’er the scene, You cheer my eve with smule so sweet 1 pause to rest may pilgiia feet. A glittering star shone out In spring— ‘ou rose to dream beneath its ray, A bird sang by on purpie wing— Your bud uncuried to hear {ts lay, Jcame from bournes I know not where— J ouiy know my lord ts there. o— ‘The Chicago Editors Have From the Peoria Transcript The editor of the Chicago News charged that the editor of the Chicago Journal wrote a hand | Possessions when no lonyer fit to wear, it is by the side of which the hieroglyphics of the | ancient Egyptians were plain as print. The edi- tor of the Chicago Journal denied this, but wrote the denial in such a way that the printers box . Tribune instead of News. Then the editor of the Trilune grew indignant and wrote anoteto Mr. Shuman denying the statement. ‘The JournaA editor couldn't read the note. but printed it in the crop reports, and wrote a note ty the editor of tie News, having by this time discovered its mistake. The Aes man, unfor- tunately, started to read the note upside down, and as ‘it was signed Shuman, made the very | natural mistake of thinking It was an article on amen, and #0 sailed into the owners of vessels which persisted in paying sailors such small wages. By this time the editor of the Trikune | grew indignant at not having his note noticed, | and wrote another, saying: “Sin: I desire Ds to retract the assertion sages editor of this sheet ever published a Une reflecting on your penmanship. It is not | the custom of this paper to indulge in idle ee a man’s misfortunes or mechanical de- jects.” And to this the Chicago Journal man, course, being able to read it. responds: ‘Your apology is sufficient. As you are aware, I have long favored a high proi glad to know. you are now convinced It is the better plan.” And the editor of the Tribune, as he threw it in the waste basket, exclaimed: ‘When will people learn that the author's real name must accompany all communications?” f getting bets against his animal with great | © the faterests of human- | Some Fan. | not, of tive tariff, and am | | ‘The Year Without a Summer. From the Poston Trauserip: The year 1816 was known throughout the United states and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person thea living. Very | few persons now living can recollect it. June was the coldest ever known inthis latitud frost and Were common. Simost evel green thing waskilled: fruit vali destroyed. Snow fell to the deprh of ten inches in Verinont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New York and also in Ma: achusetts Theve were a few warm days. All classes looked that memorabie cold suinmer sixty-elz! azo. it was called a dry season. But little rain fell. The wind blew steadily trom the noth coid and ferce. Mothevs knit extra socks aud as for their children inthe spriag, and that usually disappeared during the warn =pell in front of the houses built up again. Planting an done together, and the farm lee t morning started in iook for th: red up ail tracks, and eud of the thir did they find on the side ofa hull, with both ter frozen, nable to move. er whe had a lare teld of cor 1 i ued it to { ward off th ne and bis ntuok tury was rewarded the only ‘n in the neighborhood. able lone in New Or not until the be nd throuch- | nd all pienies were strictiy pro- aL with fro: tL of the th ss throuzhout 3 cneland, . and some parts of Peansyivania, Was nearly ail destroy flelds eseaped formed was so. frozen that the greater part w dried for fodder. Almost every gre was destroyed in this country and in Ou the 30th snow feil at | from Leadon. Papers rece: stated “that it would be remembered b5 present generation that the year 1816 was a year in witich there was ne summer.” Very littie core ripened in gland, aud the middie States farmers suppl scives Irom corn produced in 18! din the spring of 1817. It sold at from £5 per bus September furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the s Soon after the middie it became cold a ice formed a quarter of at inch in thickness.” Getober dueed more than its share of cold weather: and ice were ¢: of 1816, cold, re Europe were rains fell durir September. ; Irost amon. The summer and autawn | hy. and ungenial throughout | eculiarly so in France, Constant the months of July.Auzust,and s But for an abundant potato crop, famine.with all its horrors, would bave veen her lot. The Minister of the Interior established granaries throughout the kingdom, where corn was sold to the destitute at a reduced price. Prices rose, however, to mote than double, and hundreds peristed of actual want. Noveinber | was cold and biusteri snow fell so as to make | good sleighing, December was miid aud com- fortable. From the +cieutitic American. | It is noticeable that a larzer number of the burnings of burns is meationed by the periodical press in the summer than at any other time. | me of the fires are undoubtedly caused by | dightning, the invist vapor from the uncured hay | making a favorable conductor for the electrie | fuld. But there are barn fires which cannot be | attributed to lizhtning, to lighting of matches, to light from lanterns, nor to the invasions of careless tramps. It may be that the spontaneous | combustion of hay is as possible as the spon- | taneous firing of cotton waste. All fibrous | materval. when moist, and compressed. and defended from the cooling influences of che out ward air, is subjected to a heating simtiar to that of fermentation; and in some instances the | Burning. | Spontaneous Ba. dexree of heat is sufficient to cause actual, |‘is of guld.thickly studded with diamonds that visible combustion. Tn. the case of recently “cured” hay this da ver is a8 great as.in similar circumstan oUier materials may be. Fre- | quently the grass is cut in the early morning, while wet with dew; is turned twice during the day, and gatiered and packed in the “mow” or | the “bay” betore niclitfall. with perhaps a sparse | sprinkling of salt Such a compressed mass of brous, moist matter will heat. How far the ueat will yo toward generatiag a combustion may be inferred from a foolish trick which the | writer witnessed several years aro. low of hay had been ent, cured and cocked, previous to removal. A shower threatening. the cocks were covered with caps of canvas and left for the night. While vetting the hay in, the next day, one of the workmen dropped an unlichted match trom his pocket Into a cock of hay, and in a few minutes It was ablaze. It alterward was ascertained that ne iad spoken of the warmth of e hay as he lifted it on his fork, when a companion remarked that it might be hut encuzh to light a match, on whieh he put amateh into a riek. and be- fore they had passed on five minutes the rick | Was on fire. | Everybody conversant with farm life, where {hay isa permanent aod an important crop, knows that for weeks after getting iu the hay the barn is warm when the docrs are opened in the mornin: There ts an amount of heat that is absolutely unpleasant when the thermometer outside registers 60°, but which is quite wel- | come with the outside temperature at 40°. This baro heat is undoubtedly from the moist hay, compacted and inciosed. The cure for the pos: | sible danger of possible spontaneous barn burn— | ing would seem to be the thorouch curing— | drying—of the hay before it is housed. We dry ‘all oar herbs and some of our vegetables with- out injuring their peculiar and individual quali- ties. “There is no reason why hay or other tod- der material stored in large masses should not | be reudered equally innoxious to the influences | of heat by thorough drying. 1 | | New York*s fad Young Man. Letter to San Francisco Argonont. i Another man who is often met is the younger son of wealthy widow ora careless father, who is allowed $10,000 or $15.000 for pin- money, besides the debts which he manages to | contract with his tailor and florist. This speci- men very often gets into the papers, has num- erons intrigues with actresses, considers him- selfafrightiully wicked specimen of humanity when he succeeds in | some woman ot thestaze of to supper, and cultivates round shoullers and a wearied, exhansted and dissi- pated expression. Hedrinks absinthe cocktails, | talks continually about women, and passes with the younger members of his sex as an awfully | {bad'man. It ts rot infrequently the case that | | this youth—there area great many of the kind | in New York—imacines himself very much more ‘depraved and wicked than ke really His father usually knows which way the wind blowing, and allows the boy to have his swing. After he has sown bis wild oats, the young man not Infrequentiy settles down into a solid.good- | hatured and thorouch-going business man. He | then affects the blase air of aman who has seen everything in the world and gives fatherly ad- | Vice to other young men who are endeavoring to spend iarge incomes after the manner which | he alfected. “These younz spendthrifts are com- monly the most agreeable men in the world. | | Once ina while you will find one who Je puffed | up at his own importance, but, as a rule, he bas the good natnre of a hich liver. | pasticab Tctia os i aa ol RO als A Phenomenal City. From The Wail Street News, | They laid out a new town in Dakota last fall | and called it Golden City. A Chicago specula- tor who was out there took 500 lots at $5 apiece, | and in thirty days the price of city lots had gone to $25 each. Some one built and opened a saloon, and the figures jumped to $30. A second | saloon went up, and city lots changed hands at | ST apiece. The Chicngo man was advised to sell, but he concluded to hang on for a tew more saloons. It was only about a month ago that the snow-drifts melted so that anyone could get into the new town. The Chicago man’s agent showed up to find the place deserted by human beings. but on a tree was a sign reading: “Sell you the whole —— city tor #10. Fellows begun to draw lumber for a church, and the sa- loons moved to Red Gulch, fifteen miles west.” os Not as Green as She Looked. From the New Orleans Ficayane. : Sinall talking parrots are the favorite pet birds of young ladies this season, and the deal- ers are teaching them to say ‘Kiss me, darling!” in a commercial way, which insures a rapid sale forthem. A dealer made a mistake the other day, and trotted out an old green parrot that was small and meek-looking, but—oh, my! ‘When a young lady and her beau called, and the bird Medes Poapegee =. eye forges = tp to er prett; , he rol e eye kno} ant broaked out, “I ain't sa—_preen asl ook.” Pa | | | i | | i | ° Feinburgh Revie ‘0. unlike most other zreat rivers, has Po delta. Whea, by its ewa iabors of erosion and deposition, its actual channel shail be so far obstrneted as to make fresh meavs of exit desirable, they will no doubt be found, and the excavation of such auxiliary brances ts even suspected to have already becun. But at prese: it discharges mo the sea by 9 single, unbroken ary, seven and one-half miles across, In which a sounding line of 200 fathoms does not everywhere touch bottom, and a current runs of five to seven knots an hour. The enormous volume of the outiiow may, from these daia, be mpertectly nated: and, in poitt of fact, the Congo, althongh overmatched aa regards the | length of its course by more than one ri |, Stands second only to tie Amazon, for the unvarying copiousness of its waters. Capt. Durton places at the surprising igure of at least 2.4000 cubic per second the volume of ater borne by it: and the admitted and sober a, | | imate is 2.00.00). Now the M nen at the hei its March flood, o; down no more th 90,000; it sinks i 28,000. ic feet a drawing their stores f eqnator. At Rom: between the his does not in the narrews, 1 This noble shade Europe throu: rprise of a hardy Diogo Carn, com to d the scope | and reign by mari- time its moath in i454, aad token or Portuguese su- | premacy fed column on south Lhe river (w many th the Moen Lotliess) known as the R pry powerfal an : kingdom of Conge, Be of Congo, since disintegrated into a multitude of sordid chieftainship to the sea. The eaphionious apjcliatio: “Zuire’’—a corruption of the local —was first used by be Barros in li (15 and was erated b; verse of Camoen “Ail o iui grande retuo esta de Ce Por nos Ja convertide a fe de Christ Por ondé 0 Zatre passa claro e lo Rio pelos antiguos munc Within the last few yeara Mr. Stanley deavored, but without brous! which the stream flowed as no en- suecess, to associate the Congo with the uame and eminent services of Livingstone: while in its striking testimony tion of tribal iorizons—its nutt rival in number ‘and are frequent! from those of itstributaries. ———s0+ The From the Dereas Mayazine. ‘The thimble is a Dutcu Invention that was first brought to England in 1695 by one John Lofting, who began its manufacture at Isiing- ton, near London, gaining thereby both honor and profit. Its name was derived from the words thumb and bell, ~ for along time called thumble, ana only lately thimble. Old records say that thimbles were first worn on the thuinbs; but we can scarceiy conceive how they could be of much use there. Formerly th y were nade of brass and iron only, but of late years steel, silver, gold, horn, ivory and even pearl and glass have all been used for making thimbles. I saw some very beautiful ones in China that were exquisitely carved, of pearl and bound with yold, and the end also of gold. Th pearl thimbles are quite as costly and tar prettier than those maae entirely of gold. Usually there is a pearl sheath for the sclssors. and a dainty needle-pook of. fe edged with gold, to accompany the thim- le, and the whole is inclosed In an exquisite lit- Ue pocket cise shaped likea book and bound in satin and pearl. A thimble owned by the queen-consort of Siam is ghaped like a lotus bud, this being the royal flower of that country, and almost everything about the court bearing. ina greater or leas de- Tee, soine impress of the lotus. This thimble are so arranged as to form the lady’s nameand the date of her marriage. It was a bridal gitt from the king. who, having seen the Englishand American ladies at his court using thimbles.took this matied of introducing them amoug his own eople. In Naples very pretty thimbles, composed of lava from Mount Vesuvius, are occasionally sold, but rather as curiosities than for real utility, be- ing, from the extreme brittleness of the lava, very easily broken. I have heard also of thim- bles made ot asphaltum trum the Dead Sea, and of one compesed of a fragment of the o.d elm tree at Ca nbridge, Mass.. under which General Washlagton stood when taking command ot the United States army. in July, 1775; but I do not suppose that any of these were ever intended to be used in sewing. In the ordinary manufacture of gold and silver thimbles thin plates of the metal are introduced iuto the die and then punched into shape. But in Paris the French have a way of their own, quite different from ours, for muking gold shim- bles that are said to be much more durable than those made in the usnal way. Pieces of very thin sheet-iron are cut_into dicks of about two inches in diameter. These. after being heated to redness, are struck by means of a punch into @ succession of holes of a gradually increasing depth to lve the proper shape. The thimble Is then trimined, pollsbed, and indented around its outer surface with tiny holes. {tis next con- verted Into steel by a process called cementa- tion, then tempered. scoured and brought toa bine color. After all this is completed a thin sheet of gold is introduced into the interior and fastened to the steel by a mandrel, while go!d leaf is attached firmly by pressure to the out- side, the edzes belng seamed in a small groove made to recelve them. This completes the¢him- ble that will Inst for years. The steel used in its constraction will scarcely wear out ina lung etime, aud the gold, if worn away, is easily replaced. <——— He Ate His Family. From the Detroit Fre Press, “This talk about cannibalism in the Greely party is ali bosh,” he suid yesterday on the post office ateps as he rubbed his white plug hat on hiselbow. “Suppose the living did eat the dead—what of it?” Nobody answere:d him, and be presently con- tinued: “Ten years azo I was tost with my family in the Rocky Mountains. When we had eaten our boots and shoes and whatever else we could ; worry down we had to resort_ to cannibalism. ‘The baby went first. We naked him. aad a bet- ter dinner I never sat down to. Was thereany- thing in that to raise a great fass?” Three or four others were added to the crowd and he went on: “In the course of six weeks wife and | ate our five children. We had ‘em stewed, roasted and warmed up. and I never relished my meals with keener zest. Did the papers raise a greal howl over it? Have I been ostracized from soctety on account of it?” He mopped his bald head and rubbed his hat some more, and then said: “The time came when I had to eat my wife. She wasn't as tender and juicy as the children, but the meat kept longer and furnished more real nourisiment. Nothing of her body but the vight foot wasleft when [ was rescued. Three days more and I would have been compelied to take my gun and shoot deer and elk and rabbits and such game or starve to death.” “Do you mean to say that game was plenty around?” asked a iittle Mian who had, Deen breathing hard. “Yes, slr—woods full of it.” “And you had a gun?” “Yes, Bir.” “And you ate your family in preference to kill- ing game?” “Certainly; hunting was always very distaste- ful to me.” “Then, sir!” yelled the little man, as he Jumped up and down and plunged around— “then, sir, I characterize you as s monster. and—lemnie get at him—lemme hit him once!” But the crowd held bim back, and the man with the white hat marched off up the street, saying: “Well, well! what a fuss to raise about my eating up a whole tamily! Seems te be some very queer men in this town,” Accidentally Overheard. From the Philadelphia Call. Young husband—We have been very happy, pet, and there is only one favor I have to ask. Bride—What is that, love? x “lam fond of “You never told me acon vt “I did not like to trouble you; but the season for it 1s here, and I realiy can’t ‘get along with- out it.” “Well, dear, you shall have it.” “Do you know how to make it?” ALLS but my mother does. I will send, for | Wy WILL ALWays rIND 4 ¢ | Finest Lounéried Dress Shirts, in solid besouns, ready | FINANCI _DRY _Goops Dazss Goor s Dear ‘MENT. BOOKS, Piavars Stock Titvousra Wines we rwrex E. G. DAVIS. To make room for Fall a discount of 25 pe PSs Oss * cont will be made on all cesh p ses until Octo! amenities i VASEINGTON aL FORT TTILADELPHIQ, 719 MARKET SPACE (cxorpt Pertodicais and Sex amen res NEW YORK, susTON. &s OUR NEW DEPARTMENT, F: SPRING, HAS PROVEN QU AND THE LADIES OF WASHT BHISHED Las? H TEINCE & WHITELY, Stock Beoxcas t. Brondway 2 birth awemne} Yore Senco Booxs Asp Scnoot Serrires WHOLESALE RETAUL OLCE STOCK ICS TO SELECL FROM GRADES; VELVETS AND Genera, Partners a Genera’ BLACK DRESS FA: BLACK SILK, ALL st the city R Fe octal Baa PLUSHES IN BLACK AND COLORS, SATINS, AND lowest. A fall eub.ie and er iain A Travers, Special Martner ALARGE STOCK OF BLACK WOOLENS ALL Tin WM. BALLANTY NS. Sty ao Ee oe CADRE a ol | NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON, TO WHICH Wr —— - — Wr KALLWAL SECURIGIES CORDIALLY INVITE THEIR ATTENTION j New Pesuicatioxs Lianeh Ofico—35) Lith strvet (Corvoran Bulliags NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS. 1.2. LODGE, Koadeut Partues. Faetetienen Songs ntoementton=ss garciiae tic ohichinns aecconeh ou: re 18 sanuo | eognce ? ve we Tashan ENTIRTLA TOO LARGE. bE REDUCED. AND om oa STRAG Gordon, Ween me Feeerat Drnecrom, Peek th Feet te . ee D re 45 slindes, “44 seeces | aa LADI nS GOODS. T ATTENTION OP CONTEMPLATING _Rewamler that this reduction will ¢ Mer 20th. 0. - ‘ vos OF FIRST-CLASS ONLY Kemen.ber aisd vettox Es Kan Grov VTUS AND WOULD PARTICU- hood. 7 TO MAKE LOOM POR FALL WK ATTENTION TO. THE vette étons me : = FURNA POM THE WELL- See es MOUSQUETAI Li OF E ron, AND T ; Fa Si RICE AS GOK HIRTS RETAILED AT WHOL LSS LE PRICES, At ONF PUNDEED PER CEST *OLLD ALSO CALL YOUR KNOWN FIREPLACE SILK Buy the Comfort Shi mauslin att 2100 i FACivE: UF JAMES shEat, For HPATING TWO Ok MORE ROOMS ABOVE. LOR ATING QUALITY THEY HAVE N THESE HEATERS AND tw put on, for $1. FURNACES ALE BEING USED }XTENDIVELY IN Six finest Dress Shirts mace to order (solid bosoms) for GF THE FINEST HOUSES IN Zak CITY, 89. Perfect it guaranteed at JOH Wa GARE GREAT FLEASCAE Ls REPER- TO. A CALL Is St VES PROMFTLY FURNISHE WALTER D. WYVILL, Exeur No. 452 PA. AVE VR AND bowl. greatly re Ins nter t oAtve AGENT, NEAR 4% SPREET. rama Reprse th OTH STE ved ac | LINEN GOODS tor en PREVIOUS TO TEARING DOWN THE WALLS TO , Cc LOTHING FO BOL WEATHER, Noan warner x m, ponitin Patent Offic t2:Penmsytvania wa NOAH WALKEK & C2, (Pennsylvania Wa ASH! CONNECT OUR NEW BUILDING WITH OUR PX COVERS, NOAL WALKES & Ov, At home, mountain — { JVEK=, CHAIR TIDIES, frankie or hay, Nuuw Ch ENT STORE. WE SHALL SELL ANY GOODS IN | ae so finest end (::Pemusyivania Ava Bons, “cemueker, “Alpaa OUR THIRTY-FIVE DivaRTMENTS AT LESS | NOAH WALKER & 02. THAN COST TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR FALL IM. | ‘ PORTATIONS, WHICH WI ALLOUR 5,6 AND Sc. 1 COLORS, REDUCED TO 4 150. LAWNS REDUCED TO 8 © REMNANTS OF THESE AT YOUR OWN PRICE TC SHORTLY COME IN. WARRANTED FAST TS, OUK 12% AN! NOAE WALKER & C9, €25 Pennsylvania Ava NOAM WALKER © 09, { Paw NOAH WALKLE & C2, Wh Dray deta Vests Duck, Alpaca and Ww UNDERVE sivanis Ava, ses dines sk ake CLOSE. Anwalinite i. Pounsyivanua ava, ALL DRESS GOODS AT LISS THAN HALF PRICE, | ft) les fer La NOAH WALKLE & Ua, — vi] N NT TO CARRY E) NEXT | . Pennsylvania iva AS WE DO NOT WANT TO CARRY THEM TO N nus SOM RALKaRh be: SEASON. | NOAK WALREE & CO, BLEACHED TABLE LINENS. WARRANTED PURE, FULL WIDTHS, REDUCED TO 40c. FROM 60. 10,000 WASHEK ALL-LINEN HUCK TOWELS AT 12% CENS, ~_ NAPRINS! NAPKINS: ODDS AND ENDS OF SOME AND HUNDREDS OF DOZENS OF OTHERS AT A GREAT SACRIFICE. ABOUT 700 PAIRS LAS? SEASON'S BLANKETS, WHICH WE HAVE MARKED AT GREAT BARGAINS. A FEW MAY BE SOILED FROM DUST, BUT THEY | ARE MOSTLY IN GOOD ORDER. WE WANT TO CLOSE THEM BEFORE THE RECEIPT OF GOODS FOR THIS FALL. a 400 FULL SIZE COMFORTERS. FILLED WITH WHITE COTTON, AT 81, ACTUAL VALUE #175. WHITE GOODS! WHIT GooDs:! SPLENDID CHECK NATNSOOK REDUCED TO 7c. EXCELLENT INDIA LAWN REDUCED TO 1c. FROM Isc. call 1,000¥ARDS DOTTED AND FIGURED SWISSES REDUCED TO 1240. FROM 300. JERSEYS! JERSEYS?! IN ENDLESS VARIETY AT A GREAT REDUCTION. GREAT SACRIFICE LADIES' UNDERWEAR. SOME OF THESE ARE SLIGHTLY SOILED AND WILL BE SOLD AT HALF PRICE, 200 DOZEN APRONS, FULL DEEP RUFFLES, 10¢. TO EARLY BUYERS OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS OUR STOCK CARKiED OVER FROM LAST SEASON IS VERY DESiKABLE, AND AS WEIN TEND TO COMMENCE OUR SALES WITH FRESH + GOODS ONLY WE OFFER GREAT INDUCEMENTS ON THE THIRD FLOOK IN THE ABOVE GOODS. TAKE tHe ELEVATOR. \JSS ANSE K. HUMPUERY, vee fOr Pennsylvania Ave. TENTH STTEET THAT THE SUB ness, etiers of ad- of Av na H. Whine, decermed Al persons at deceased are h- rel w the 18th day of a) ‘wise Ly law b- excluded from te. erin hed this 1¢th dey of Anew: LDwIN'D HA TLE, Admit ON, Solicitors NOTICE Nekes CO French Hend-mac ne fnuest Imported Shoulver brace G_2PATEFCL—coMFoRTING. EPPS’ COCOA PREAKFAST. estion and nu rition.end ty eae cdf Our Grea vuee tala os Tt is by the judicious use const tution may be — ts feubtle maladies are float tatel sl y aeplat aoa ESCR, also, Vet ves, ete, wet and | are pare | ally built up un Cebey te disease e around punt, We Leurisheu 2 di Made str is with boiling water or ink. Soldin timp » and 1b.) vy Grocers Jabelled Cius. SEWING MACHINES, &e. Cues O. N, 'E GAMES EDPS & CO., Homeopathic Chemista, London, Englands ‘eSeoot Corros, mbl-s.méta r, Howe G, W | wes Macuines for fer canine, permeating throug store thean or action. There stout this imetrument, Year of tee have <2t, and thousands of ents ate testified to,” Weake trim Indiscoetion, Incapacity, Lack of Vigor ‘lity—in tuct. any trouble of these oneans ts cured: nivuls this with electric belts advertined to | cure all dis trou Iiesd to toe. Thus iefor the ONE | Gita plpwse Fur cucdian avila Tw indorston corner 7th and TH. nex: door to nishing and Hat Store. os = tous COTYONS AND SHFETINGS, BROWN AND - écae : UILEVER ELECTRIC BELT 00, BLEACH) D, OF ALL THE Wi Li NDS. | Tue New “G”? Howe | _na-ssew 169 Waniington strost, Caloaso SPLENDID TEN-QUARTER BLEACHED SH t = “ ING AT 20 CENTS PER YA H Anu E: y New, BLEACHED PILLOW CASE COLTON 124 CEN FER YARD. WE MEAN BUSINESS, ARE PREPARED FOR TRE SAME, AND SHALL NUT FLINCH PKOsi LOSS TO Dorr, 5 Arm, Sewing Muci Euixm 1-41 as scientifically s cuvine 1 wonder wwuratiug the Asrsveyrary Witich Excois all Others, t. PURE Sold or Instatimente; Liberal Discount for Cash, ror tig the LANSBURGH & BRO., 400, | “thiowt tebe MA 2 WN URL OvGH 27 Byuy Macuine Warranted 3 | Tb Trrneow, Vertow aud MalantaL Fevers it tim BUY WE HAVE OVER ONE HU ND DTO WAIT ON { i oy pono str ayth av ne ey Serene } YOU WITH PROMPINESS DUMISG TRESS HOT | Gants ss aitawe Dconteascamte ene eek oem. jars. alse tor hiny diseases, +} OUGLRA & CO.Ageuts NE a | naSi-was SULD BY ALL DRUGUISTE i \ ' anmt and 424 SEVENTH STREET. SR-CAPITAL PRIZE $75,003 | TICKETS ONLi $5. SHAKES IN PRUPORTION, MACHINES, (Pease STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Gurable Sewing Machines ever 7 Freduced, Solu ch ancutlly yayzuents, and liberal dis- thesimplest and amos! ¢ tio hereby mentasiorailthe “rtif'y thal we anperviee the arrange. yard Semit-Amnual Dracingeed rr The Loisiana State Lvttery Company, and tn fereom a EE 88 TET OE 5 for casa, Manage and contre. the Dravines Ucewisrloes, and that AA UU OO tT HOO . the sure are conducted with huneaty. jasrness Ond PAU Ge F Hoo oon seth toveuri ai earties and we wiitnorise the Come wae uu Goo FT Kehable Sewine Machives and Fashion Rooms, #25 Sth street n. w., St. Cloud Building. T/ANiy To uae hes certasicate with Fac-eimales OF OUT wgndr (ures attached, in ‘ls advertisements. > TU. O'MEARA & CO, 1947 Pennsylvania Avenna, Are eelling their entire stock—Gurs, Rifles, Cutlery, Tools, Tackle, Notions, Musical Instruments, Jewelry Hardware, &c.. at auction, every evening, at 7 p.m, Larwaius can behad bee auction advertisement. jy7 EAT ew Home, °* chines at honest. prices fice and save zur dcke GENTLEMEN Pa Bess Rexroncen Sum, With hand-worked buttonhoies, POR 75 CENTS. The best ever offers! in thecity. AFULL LINE OF SUMM: ee DERWEAR, SCARFS S$ GOODS. porated in I°A8 for 25 years by the Lerisisture for edueational ard Chart aile furposeecwith s canted fae nee teen addes hae wince been ad 2 yan fhelming popuiar-vote its franchise “Spare of fier present tate Constitution adopted, ThA Ger Tu: Be:r. “THE CONCORD HARNESS.” “AND TIES. The only Lottery ever voted on and indorsed by the peo- THE CONCORD COLLAR. Phitts to Order: | ple of any State z Tt never scales or peatpoura. N- 501 7 GOD Hause of il Huds tad description, Bd bos waa $3: | ars cranp SINGLE ¥U MBER DRAWINGS TAKE a Coupe, Carriage and Road Baruess a specialty. oa : 8. BELL A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. LUTZ & BRO. eu 1112 F street northwest d GRAND_DRAWING, CLASS 1, 18 oe 497 Pennsylvania Avenue, aah ACADEMY CF OMUSIC NEW Gi TT Adjotuing National Hotel, Day, gad Just Orexep_ A LOT OF SUMMER SCARFS FOR 50c, WORTH $L LARGE LINE OF 172p Moxrary Drawreo. "2 CAPITAL PRIZE 875.000. 3 200,000 Tickets at $5cach. Fractions in fifths in propor ‘Trunks and Satchels in great variety, at lowest prices. (CORD HAKNESS has maker's Every genuine CONCORD HAL? maker SUMMER UNDERWEAR AND HOSTERY. LIST OF PRIZES. ‘ou Meo: ARIS, 1 Capital Prize... G az P 1878. FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER A SPECIALTY| 1° “do. du — 2 Prizes of 86 BAKER'S THOMPSON'S SHIRT FACTORY, 2 she CBARLES HYATT, Proprietor « | 20 do. £ cocoa. 109 do. hese 4 n tee we. | EZ SIGF strect n.w. opposite Patent Office. | 30 do: ‘Ferrsnted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the ex. | —— — ceenof On bas been removed. It has three times the | JURE AND RELIABLE | 2000 do. strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or { . 8 ee ee ee HOMG:PATHIC REMEDIES, | : ‘sons. health, Either by the single visl or incomplete outfite,xt — | Ig¢7 BOERICKE & TAFEL’S Paammacr. en6-c078t 988 F Street, Washington, D.C. : THAT NEVER PREAKS CELLULOID TRUSS: TEAT NEVER ER rept T. ter