Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1884, Page 3

LATE DRAMATIC NOTES. T TOURS AND OPERAS—FOUR OPERA CoM- SIN NEW YORK—PATTT's “PAREW! BANKS RETIREJ—CLARA MORRIS 1 miss TON, ET! —The new opera house will be opened No- h by the Emma Abbott opera troupe. erster and Sig. Campanini, | ation of an efficient concert | winter give a series of “Gers- ter-Campanini operatic concerts” in the princi- pal cities of the United States. — Joe Jefferson Intends to revisit England | Rext spring. and he will reappear on the Lon- | don stage probabiy as Rip Van Winkle. } —Mapleson has discovered (and engazed | him of course) another tenor, ‘of whom great | things are expected”—as usual. This time he he is a bona file great artist, and his name is Signor Cardinali. — Eric Bayley, the light comedian, was an of- ficer in the 17th British Lancers and took part in the historic action against the Zulusin Africa, Under Sir Garnet Wolseley. He will soon ap- pear in Washington. — Henry Irving will not inciude “The Bells” and “Charles I.” in his reperto're this time, but ves us “Richelieu,” “Eugene Aram” and "Twelfth Night.” He appeared at Buffalo, N. ¥., this week. —The Jersey Lily is as much the rage in England as ever, so far as the admiration ot the | pablic goes. They buy her pictures and crowd the theater to see her. She takes their money hem for pot inviting her to their | heavy dinners and stupid teas. at tour of the Bluebeard Co., Marie Bokel le a flattering hit in the | Tole of Fatima, and sang a song from tne Ger- man of her own adaptation. giving imitations. | She is now engaged with Samuel Reed, her | husband, and Gustave Kerker in composing a | comic opera. — New York will certainly be a siining light | Af four opera companies are set going. Two in German, two in Italian, and none in English. recently heard in London | Miss Kate Ramelsberg, ot Virginia. at a concert, and was delighted with her perform- ance. It is probable that he will negotiate for her appearance in his opera troupe: — Cotone! completed all the arrange: “farewell” e of th listene lected eautiful, — Joseph Jef teen weeks on De best drai Mite tie pr Ricetti by n over | staye-driver w ace Greele} the Si st trip west. | — This is the way in whieh the eritieof a Mon- tana pa lesque like upp T notes — Speaing of “x erick Ws etis the bm an acter who is popularly supposed to discountenance all such roceedin ‘Tremember once while playing | gar to Beoth’s Lear an incident oc- | curred which aimost broke me up. Lear is mad, and is loot i re him with a vaeant stare. | He says to Edgar. ‘What is your study?’ Edgar | Teplies, ‘How to prevent the fiend and kill ver- | mm.” Then without changing his expression or moving a muscie, Booth said, sotto voce, ‘Skee- | ters and sie —The Kiralfy Brot leted, by cable, the purchase of all the co nery, armor | and mechanical effects w: at the Imperial | theater, St. Peters or Tamaschetf's spectacular ope how current in the Rus xXpect to present the ntastic comedy in three nero, produced by Edward ceum theater, Edinburgh, is fall of fun, never possible or even and perfectly free from double | The plot turns upon the hero's | temporary loss of turned to o ously, as In — Judie’s tour of the United States, Cuba and | Mexico will bezin about October, 1885, and | Bernbaritt’s “farewell tour of the werld” is} announced to ‘in about the middle of May, | 1886. he former will be under the care of | Maurice din his conduct of the Bern- 4 Will be in partnership with 7 Ihave my ideal of physical perfection in the ts her last professional | aged. This is the manner of old man I want to Beason: iy aad permanently re- | be. Tam not atallman now. I do not really tire to private life next year. Few women have | a pree to look ae the peak of a car been so snccesstul as Lotta by simply avoiding | Seat. I stand up merely because I can see some of the peculiarities or actresses and stiek- | “ther. But as I grow old I want to tat up, I ing to her own. One of the peculiarities of | the country was greeted by a large and brilliant audience. | Upon her first entrance the applause was so d jong nued that it was several betore the aciress was allowed to speak her lines. She was repeatedly called betore the eurtain. — After all the talk about Gen. Banks’ tal- ented dauchter going on the stage she has Kicked and resigned her briliiant prospects, Bhe had rehearsed Juliet and Pauline, and it was | two days before the date ot her debut. She! Tushed on the stage at the flual rehearsal in a| Tage. see my pletures are in the windows of a liquor store,” said she. “Yes,” said the manager, “they're In every liquor store in town.” < “Remove them at once,” said the high splrited | | y. “It can't be done; actresses are always ad- Vertised in liquor stores,” said the manager. “You can’t be an actress and avoid the liquor | stores.” | “Then I'll take my pletures out and won't be | ‘an actress.” All the pis were taken out of the stores, the dramatic ¢ Any Was discharged, and Miss tress. Banks is not An fowa Courtship. Frozn the Lc u'sville Commercial. One night a young doctor of Newton Centre, Iowa, escorted the daughter of a prominent and Wealthy citizen to church. The father of the | girl had forbidden her to accompany the young | man. When church was out the father lay in | walt behind a tree for his daughter's companion | and Jumped out upon him ashe passed. He | the young man by the throat, and tore | bis coll posom out of his shirt. The | old gent The doctor went on howe with the young lady as though nothing | ened. Whe2 she entered the house her | father took her to the parior, and, pointing tothe | doctor's skirt bosom, which he had tacked to the wall. said: “intend to have it framed.” On | Monday the doctor saw the old gentleman pass- ing his office. The story of the shirt bosom was siready known about the village. The young man rushed out, dragged his jay night as- | aailunt into his office, and compelied him to take of his white shirt. Attaching to it this placard: “A contribution for a coward,” he fastened the garment toa pole and hung it out of his office | window. Since then the father ofthe young lady has apologized to the doctor, and invited him to all on his daughter as often as he pleases. : cb stbeatinnsl nil The Truth, by Accident. From the Atlante Constitation. While taking supper at Union Point the other night something was satd about saccharine mat- ter. An Atlanta man remarked to a young lady that it was found in some sugars. “You won't find any In the sugars sold by my house!” exciaimed an Athens man. “Are you certain?” some one asked. “Of course I am,” was the reply. enly the pure article with no sacchi sense about it.” The Athens man still lives, buthe has not heard the last of this. Osten FEATHERS are very fashionable for Winiaing bal! and reception dresses, sometimes | covering the entire frent of the dress. A dress of this deseription ia of pale pink faille with side paneis of garnet velvet and a front of pale ee ostrich plumes. The k is draped uifant and caught up with @ cluster of three feathers on one side, Feathers also border the Jow-cut corsage and short puffed sleeves. ———__cer ‘urprising information fs given by a de- that there ts ne better piace to look for ninals than ina reading-room. In order to bested with erminal news the thieves enrefull t Sean the fites of dally newspapers of cities, Once en important arrest of a thief was made in this way. A man versl days in reading az aceount of "arec so interested that he tte Le guilty, | that you must always go to a politician for in- | general desire in this country for a change of e | | she wili not give over 4.000 majority on the | | them where we pie: | ment day. | want to develop a capacious bay window, so THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. Views of a Well-known Washington Business Man. jath” in Cincinnati Enquirer, T was in Washington city a part of last week, and while there I went into the store of Mr. E. E. White, one of the oldest grocers in continu- ous business in that city, a Marylander by birth, who Is now, as always, a democrat, but a busi- ness man, a wholesale merchant, and with strong common sense. Some of the Baltimore newspaper men were around him talking about Oliv. Mr. White said some things which made an impression on me, and asI do not believe formation, I got some of these matters down as I remember them. Said he: “1 belleve that the state of New York will go democratic, but that the republi- cans will carry Indiana, and that we shall be hard pinched to get the small states like New Jersey and Connecticut, which may determine the result. Said I: “Do you think New York will go for Cleveland on account of the republican boit?” “No. I regard this independent movement asatraud. It has deceived us all along. But ew York is rather a democratic state in the present Condition of affairs, while Indiana | consider to be very much like Ohio—a state naturally republican. I have got money bet,” said Mr. White, “on New York going Gemo- | cratic, but I would not bet one cent on Indiana going democratic. Indiana, like Ohio, has a large and fresh manufacturing piant, while New Yors is more swerved by her mercantile vote perhaps than the manufacturing one. I am not sure that New York is going with us, and do not expect it to go by much of a majority. But I consider trom my study of the figures that the west has experienced no change of feeling. Indeed, 1am uneble to draw from the figures already passed that there is any party. We were tld in the first place that Vermont would show Blaine’s unpopularity. It showed nothing of the sort, and. constd- ering the hostility of Edmunds to Blaine, it showed Blaine stronger than anybody had posed in Vermont. Then we are fold to p our eyes on Maine, where Blaine had a BITUALISM. Decision Concerning the Meaning of the Term. ‘From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Oct. 16. Judge Werner, of the probate court, yester- day decided the proceeding of Miss Mary Barr, to annul a clause in the will of her late father, D. Eglinton Barr, on account of an indefinite- ness, in favor of Judge John Wickham, adminis- trator of the estate. Miss Barr, who was disin- herited by her father, who gaye his property to various divisions of the Episcopsl charch, of which he wasa member, obtained’ a relinquish- ment of the claims of the church in an action in the circuit court. and had the property awarded to her. Judge Wickham, however, refused to pay over @5,000 which the testator had be- queathed as atrust fund to aid such students who might desire to study for the Episcopal ministry or missionary work. The bequest con- tained the following clause: “This bequest is intended to aid only such students and mission- aries as are content with the well-known cus- toms and ceremonies of the Protestant Episco- pal church without what is commonly known as ritualism.” The probate court was asked to an- nul this clause on the ground that ritualism was a term incapable ofdefinition. The judge, after referring to the general organization of the Epis- copal church, and stating that the will provided that the fund was to be distributed by the om- cers and committees of the church, adda: “Numerous witnesses were introduced to show that ritualism is incapable of an exact definition. It is safe to say that none of them gave asufficient account of the practices, views, or doctrine constituting ritualism. To enable an accurate classification, including all persons to whom the term is applicable and excluding all others, no one of the witnesses protessed to be able, after cross-examination, to give a rule enabling a court to do so. It is for this reason contended that the bequest must fail. But is such accuracy Indispensable to give effect to the testator’s intention? Whatever might be the result of the degree of uncertainty demon- strated at the trial touching the precise claasifi- cation of persons entitled under this bequest. if it were other than charitable in the legal sense under the statute of Elizabeth, witich is in force in this state), no doubt is entertained that if treated 2s a charitable bequest the testator’s intention may be carried out, not ouly in spirit, great many rivals and disappointed politieal aspirants. ne exceeded herself at the state | election. Now some persons are saying that | Ohto has ¢ ted the republicans. I am | im the hab oniag on the figures, and not | on my wishes. Ohio elected Governor Hoadley | by a good majority and put the whole state in the hands of the democrats, and now the state elve thousand, to | ican, and it shows a change | nnet draw from | if yon will take up that show you that the repub..- | hand-book, wiil als cans have’ gaine they ever have at any election held in the state. They ve elected more county officers, carried more ‘Xpected districts, and disturbed the demo- majority move than in their whi history.” At this point the old though he is not very old, | 2 that he might have ‘picked me up and thrown me out of the store without troubling anybody much, remarked. “In 1876 West Virginix gave 8,000 majority for Previous to that she bad been a re- publican state through disfranchisement, &c. Tn 1880she ran up to 14,000. So I think’ you will tind that when the ‘returns all come in that Uctober election. Does that show any great de: forachange? The simple fact 1s,” saX | Mr. White, “that we liave gat to fight, and not onany more delusions, but when we see a chance anywhere work heartily for it. Now, ndiana has never but once in the past twenty- five ye @ presidential year gone demo- cratic, and that was for Tilden in 1876. New York has at times changed off during the war. Therefore I think that we are going this year to lose Indiana, and I believe we shall carry New York. We have the advantage of the republi- cans in the fact that they have to fight for a number of states, just as hard in one as the other, while we only require outside of the south forty-three votes, and we can hunt for ——— AN IDEAL OLD MAN, Bob Burdctte’s Notion of Physica) Per= fection in the Aged. From the Brocklyn Eagle, Man never attains his ideal. He comes near- est it the day he leaves school; all that year he hovers around it in pieasant proximity. Some- times I think he quite attains it on commence- But a year away from school, he and his ideal part company. He sees it drifting farther away from his eager hands. I have, in my own brilliant and aggressive career, pursued several fleeting and more or less perfect ideals. From where I now stand, at the distance pole, Tcan see the majority of them scooting under the wire, and I can feel that I am shut out. One, I can see, is yet in nearer sight, and I am rery loth to see it get entirely awey from me. at when my summer vest is hanging on the ine it will look like a schooner coming down “wing and wing.” Then I can wear my watch in my fob, with a great big seal dangling from it like a bell clapper. I want to be short in the breath and wheeze when I climb up stairs, and puff aud pant when I walk up bill, and have to take two steps to cross the gutter. And I would wear a clawhammer coat with wide lapels, all the time, and carry my handkerchlet in my hat. Twould like my hair to turn snow white or else fall off, 1 am not very particular which. I would like my mustache to bieach out until it looked like astreak ot flour across my lip. I believe this is ail. I think that is a photograph of the kind of an old man I want to This is my ideal old man. Cane and wheezy laugh, cf course. And I am just as confident as I am that I will die rich that, as I grow old, I will shrivel upand dry out untii 1 look like a shoestring with clothes on. _—______+--______ ‘The Kotation of the Earth. Prof. Young in Science, Animportant and anxious question of the modern astronomer is, whether the earth’s ro- tation fs uniform, and, if not, in what way and to what extent does it vary? The importance, of course, lies in the fact that this rotation fur- nishes our fandamental measure and unit of time. Up to a comparatively recent date there has not been reason to suspect this unit of any variation sufficient to be detected by human ob- servation. It has long been perceived, of course, that any changes in the earth's form or dimen- sions must alter the length of the day. The dis- placement ot the surface or strata by earth- quakes or by more gradual elevation and subsi- dence, the transportation of matter toward or from the equator by rivers or ocean currents, the accumulation or removal of ice Inthe po- lar regions or on mountain tops—any such causes must necessarily produce a real effect. So, also, must the friction of tides and trade winds. But it has been supposed that these effects were so minute, and to such an extent mutually compensa- tory, as to be quite beyond the reach of observation; nor is it yet certain that they are not. All that can be said fs that it 1s now be- inning te be questionable whetlier they are or are not. The reason for suspecting perceptibie variation In the earth's revolution lies mainly in certain unexplained irregularities in the ap- parent motions of the moon. She aloue of all the heavenly bodies changes her place in the sky so rapidly that minute inaccuracies of a second or two in the time of observation would lead to sensible discrepancies in the observed position, an error of one second inthe time corresponding to about half a second in her place—a quantity minute, certainly, per- fectly observable. No other heavenly hg an apparent movement anywhere nearly as rapid, excepting only the inner satellite of Mars, and this body is so minute that its acch- rate observation is impracticable except with the largest telescopes and at the times when Mars is unusually near the earth. oe Salvation Army ‘Fitles, From the London Truth. The other morning Maud and 1 were coming out of a shop near Oxford circus, when a woman ina “Salvation bonnet” (does it not sound profane?) handed us a bit of paper. It lies on my pink blotting-paper now, and deeply out-blushes It, as well it may. {t contains an announcement of a “demonstration” to be held, conducted by “Commandant” H. 1) aS sisted by certain “staff-captains, stail-lieuten- ants and sergeant-majors.” Among the attract- fons of the evening are announced as speakers «Jacko, the Transtormed Giant, the Would-be — Morale, the Cambervell Wonder; Billy ray, Tommy, the Tramp, and th Prophetess. “There! whats oe A medical correspondent of the London Times, calling attention to the tearful height of the mortality of infants, declares that infanticide is largely increased by the fact thet mothers are ' avle to make twenty-five sh:liines out of the | dexth of on infant in one of the small Insurance soc'etics. | but according to his own words. The ques- tion, then, being whether the recipients of the testator’s’ bounty are sufficiently indicated to enable the distribution of the fund as a public charity (as distinguished from mere benevolence, liberality, or private charity), the testimony of the witnesses is full and unanimous in the affirmative. yall Say that the meaning of ritualism is wetl known; each one of them testified that he himself knew; and there ls no doubt that the | beard or committee, or in case of their refusal to act, any proper trustee appointed for such purpose, inay, without insuperable difficulty, decide whether a student preparing for the min= Istry or a missionary in the diocese of Missouri is not ‘content with the well-known cere- customs of the Protestant Episco- pal church,’ or whether his hizh church or low chureh proclivities are such as to justify or not this exclusion from the bounty on the score of ualism. No difficulty is per ed in the dis- ribution of the whole proceeds of the iny ment directed to be made among such students sionaries as are well known to be free he objectionable doctrines of ritualism in se of the testator, and neither the exist- ence of persons whose views may be such as to make it dificult or impossible to class them as either ritualists or otherwise, nor the tact that the doctrine of ritualism is shifting in thecourse of time, so tat what is ritualism to-day may be looked upon as_Jow cliurch doctrine to-mor- row, makes it ithpossible to distribute the bounty to such students or missionaries as are content with the well-known customs and cere- monies of the church.” —__——cee_____ The Sun’s Heat and Power. From the New York Sun, In a regent number of Nature the distin- guished engineer Cupt. John Ericsson sets forth some investigations which he made during the summer soltice of this year upon the tempera- ture of the sun's surface. These investigations form part of a memorable series of studies in Jar physies, one practical result of which has the construction of a working appliance ‘the actuation of machinery by the use of heat derived from collected solar rays. It is certainly noteworthy to find the renowned en- gineer who, more than two score years ago revo- lutionized naval warfare by the Princeton, the first war steamer ever built with her motive power protected, and again, twenty years later, dictated reconstruction to the world’s navies by the Monitor, the famous victor of Hampton Roads, and who after another interval of twenty years produced the Destroyer, which is designed to ruin great foreign ironclads that may attack our harbors, now, in his octogenarian days, pur- suing recondite philosophical studies, whose fruits willinure to the peaceful occupations of mnannfactures and commerce. The power developed by Capt. Eriesson’s sun motor indicated that the temperature of the sun's surface is very great. But the cylindrical heater of the motor, constructed solely for the purpose of generating steam or expanding air, is for various reasons not well adapted, as its constructor has said, for an exact determiua- tion of the amount of surface exposed to the ac- tion of the reflected solar rays. Accordingly, for this latter purpose, he constructed a solar pyro- meter, wilch has beenerected in this city during the present year. It is an instrument of large dimensions, a polygonal reflector, composed of aseries of inclined mirrors, and provided with acentral heater of conical form, acted upon by the reflected radiation in such a manner that each point of its surface receives an equal amount of radiant heat in a given time. The central doctrine which Capt. Ericsson firs* established by demonstration and then as- sumed as the basis of the investigations just concluded is that “the temperature produced by solar radiation is as the density of the rays.” Without attempting to reproduce the mathe- matical processes resorted to, or to describe in detail the apparatus of observation, it is enough to say that Capt. Ericsson reaches conclusions remarkably close to those of Sir Isaac Newton, and totally different from those of Pouillet, Vicaire. Sainte-Clairt Deville, and others, who have assigned a comparatively low temperature to the sun’s surface. Newton. in estimating the temperature to which the comet of 1680 was subjected when nearest the sun, based his cal- culations on the result of his practical observa- tions that “the maximum temperature pro- duced by solar radiation was one-third of that of bolling water; and he found, accordingly,that the comet was exposed to a temperature of 1,680,000°, an intensity exactly 2,000 times greater than that of red-hot iron, at a tempera- ture of 840°.” Capt. Ericsson adds this deduc- tion in the article referred to: ‘The distance of the comet from the solar surface being equal to one-third of the sun’s.radius, 1t will be seen that, In accordance with the Newtontan doctrine, the temperature to which 1t was sub- Jected Indicated a solar intensity of 2,985,000° F. The results Of the experimental investigations carried out by Capt. Ericsson correspond re- markably to those just recorded. They are thus briedly stated: ‘The diffusion of the solar rays acting on the twenty-inch heater, being in the ratio of 1 to 10,241, the tetaperature of ‘the solar surface cannot be less than 298°.87 multiplied by 10,241, equal to 3,060,727 F. ‘this underrated computation must be aevepted unless it can be shown that the temperature pro- duced by radiant heat is not inversely as the diffu- sion of the rays. The high temperature here assigned to the sun's suriace of course greatly contrasts with ‘he estimates of those French investigators who do not consider that it reaches 3,000° centi- grade. As to the sun motor, apart from general ap- plicability to certain classes of work, it must Apparently be epecially useful in all regions like those, for example, of the southwestern terri- tories, that are almost always under the direct rays of the sun in the daytime. <r +08, Gamblerw Wives at Watering Places. Long Branch Letter to San Francisco Call, Gamblers’ wives were less showy this than other seasons at Long Branch. a fact due to the lack of fresh victims to the husbands’ gaming baits. The ups and downs of a gambler’s life show more readily in his wife's personal adorn- ment than any other way. Asa rule, when the gambler goes under his wife’s diamonds are im- mediately pawned; then follows her driving es- tablishment, if she has any; finally her valuable furs and sil and not notrequently her best silk or velvet dresses, the parting with all of which she stands bravely, hopeful of a forthcoming streak of luck to replenish her jewel case, wardrobe and house to a more gor- geous extent than before. Gamblers’ wives are usually very pretty, stylish women, some of whom are cultured persons, who avoid all refer- ence to the pursuits of their ambitious spouses, in company or on any occasion, while others seem to glory in boasting of their hasband’s winnings. The wife of a very successful on ler from Arkansas, registered at the house here, is a yery handsome brunette, thor- oughly refined In manner and appearance. wears no flashy jewelry nor carries a nine, yet she has proven herself a gen lady and won the res) of all who formed her le acquaint . Taste Wa cee Say 10 she did not regret her husband's where- upon she smilingly replied: “Noy all bustaasees of life are games of chance.” We did not pursue the subject any further. pope ae If Americans would substitute les and hot cakes, they would be ively, less speculative, less bombastic plex, according tu the Glasgow Herald. for , less and hap- SOMETHING ABOUT HEROINES. Femininity the Woman’s Greatest Charm im Heal Life, if Not in —? From Chamb=rs' Journal. Most of us have heard of a certain thoughtful little girl who took Time: by the forelock, and decided that if woman must have some profes- sion to turn to, she would be a professional beauty. Several women -have passed the old turnstile to public lite, and got in somehow on men’s tickets. Their insignificant sisters peep ‘over the wall and observe that men who outside were the soul of chivalry, begin to elbow the ladies within, and ungaliantly assert in seit-de- fense that the ladies have elbows, too, The in- significant sisters will not enter; but if they tried to reason about it, they would be ‘“‘stump- ed out” in a moment ie the others on the plat- forms inside. ‘When I hear a woman use intel- lectual arguments I am dismayed,” says a wise thinker from a re the Atlantic, and the in- significant crowd aforesaid and the majority of the world agree with him in this, and those out- side the wall find out all at once that a woman's unreagoning nature is no insignificant charm. “Her best reason, as it is the world’s best, isthe inspiration of a pure and believing heart. She is the happiest when she devotes herself, obedient to herpatient and unselfish nature, to some loved being or high cause. and glory itselt, says Madame de Stael, would be for her only a splen- did mourning suit for happiness denied.” In America, where life is lived double- quick, and where every product, from a continent downward, Is of the largest size, there are crops of overtaught girlhood ripe already for our in- spection. Women of the middle classes there can discuss the nebular hypothesis or the bino- mial theory, as ours talk of lacework and the baby. Mr. Hudson, in his recent ‘“‘Scamper through America,” declares that to converse in the railway cars with ladies returning from con- ventions and conferences was a genuine pleasure; an intellectual treat. But he adds that, though one could revere them, almost worship them, to love them was out ot the question. For each one of usthere is some face en- shrined in memory, whose influence is lofty as an inspiration, whose power is a living power, whose love has been stronger than deat, an will light an upward path for us even to lite’s end. Why is all this but because she whom we loved was a heroine? And what were her char- acteristics? One answer will serve fur all—Ten- derness, gentleness, self-forgetfulness, suffer- ing. The last characteristic may not be univer- sal, like the rest. But the highest love can only exist where suffering has touched the object loved. It is one of the compensations for the manifold sorrow of this world of ours. The fire of trial seems to light up every beauty and at- traction. The life that not only loved much, but suffered much, has a royal right of influ- enceas long as memory lasts—an influence which cannot belong to any life which suffering has not crowned. ———_—__+o+ _____ A NEW “PROFESSOR.” Teaching the Art of Steeping Properly. = . New York Correspondence, Speaking of behavior, teachers of deportment are common enough in the persons of dancing masters, but their instructions relate entirely, so far as I have known, to the waking moments of their pupils. But I have come across a trainer of sleepers. She is the principal of one of New York's many “‘finishing” schools, where- in girls are prepared to get the final touches of polish to fit them exquisitely tor society. Hay- ing been informed that she included in her course of lectures one on the art of slumbering presentably, I begged her to tell me abont it. “O, dear me, sir,” she exclaimed, “I really couldn't allow a man to be present at a lecture to my girls.” “That was beyond my wildest thoughts,” I hastened to say. ‘The extent of my hope was that you would briefly inform me, in a general ‘“ y, as to this peculiar portion of yourcurricu- He “see no objection to that she responded, “and It is simple enough. We try here to so train our pupils that they will become thorough- ly agreeable ladies. Did you ever consider that athird of your time is, or ought to be, spent in sleep? And ifyou did, It is highly improbable that you havehad athoughtas to how you looked when sleeping. Well, it doesn’t make so much difference in a man, perhaps, but a girl owes it to herself to beat all times as handsomeas she can, irrespective of her natural expectation of be- coming a wife. Therefore, I have introduced the study of slumbrous comeliness. The main fault to be corrected is that of sleeping with the mouth open. Very many girls do it. It isa habit carelessly aequired, but often hard to eradicate. Dreadfully unfeminine snoring is a consequence. I teach my girls to close their lips snugly before dropping asleep, and, to avoid throwing their heads too tar back on the pillow, so that their mouths won't fall open as soon as the muscles are relaxed. I conjure them, too, to prepare a toilet for the bed as careful, though less elaborate, than that for the day. Their night clothes should be neat, well- fitting and adapted to their individuality. Thay should regard a night cap with horror. Their hair should not be unbecomingly done up in a tight knot. but adjusted with a view to both comfort and presentability. Their poses on the couch should no more be awkward than those of their waking hours, and I instruct them to so habituate themselves to gracefulness in bed that it will become instinctive. That’s about all there is ofthe system.” —_—__-e- ___. Return of the “Prominent Citizen.” From the Detroit Free Press. He was supposed to be worth a hundred thou- sand dollars, and he flattered himself that when he slept an hour later than usual in the morn- ing all the business in the city waited for him to get out of bed. When a letter arrived a few days ago demanding his presence in New Eng- land for three or four weeks he hesitated to go. He knew just how broken up the city would be, and he had his fears that nothing would be done in the paving line, and that all building would at once stop dead still. However, the prominent citizen at length de- clded to yo, andhe got off quietly. Nobody rushed onl to stop him and beg him te put off his Journey, and as tar as he has since learned the council has passed no resolutions of regret. He returned the other evening, and great was his surprite to find the city still here. It hadn’t strayed or been stolen. The city hall hadn't tumbled down, and he couldn’t flad grass grow- ing in oy of the business streets. This was bad enough, but ashe walked up street he met a friend, who called out: ello! Blank, going away?” ‘No, I have just returned from a month’s trip to New England.” “Indeed! W! mh I hadn't even missed you.” A few steps further on he encountered an- other, who was still more surprised to hear that he had been absent, and added: ee the papers didn’t even mention the The prominent citizen reached home to find everything running as smoothly and satisfac- torily as when he left. It was a great shock to him, but the climax came when he was called bere door to see an humble-looking man who sald: “You know I was talking with you three or four days ago about trimming up your trees, and I called to say it would be a job worth about four dollars.” tes prominent citizen had returned. What of it? . ———_~.-____ Life in Stockholm. Correspondence of the Boston Transcript, Stockholm is a wild and giddy town, unfit for theological students and newspaper correspond- ents. It has cates enough to give one aplece to every inhabitant, and each cafe has ‘its own brass band; consequently the effectupon a Sun- day is as ifone had dropped into a circus un- awares. One of the prettiest ofthe pleasure re- sorts, and right in the heart of the city too, is the Strom » & neatly kept little penin- sula, which juts out into the green waters ofthe Saltsjon, and affordsa beautitul view of the city. HereI heard an orchestra which was unique in its way. It numbered some seventy per- formers, all of whom were small boys. It was interesting to see three teet ot humanity trying bigdrum towering high above: it. performer ig drum above 4 But they make good music and would make the fortune of any mai who should bring them to America. I give Teaders an inventory of all the cafes that I passed (some of which I did not pass) the first day of my stay In Stockholm. Suffice it to say that last I found myself in the Md moe at Hassel- backers. This dreadful name is not Swedish for al ockup.” It is the pleasure park par excell- with « beautiful view spread: cut ou every ade, witha view out onevery the Stockbolmer can listen to excellent music and drink his beer or coffee at the same time. Tonly wish that any wordsof mine could im- (elie) senisity, the respectability, the so- ety of the public. Here are entire families sitting contentedly in the pure fresh alr, taking recreation in 9 man- ner whichall can afford and which will brighten pee entire week of labor. They have attended afternoon is given to this absolute is, of course, no trace of intoxication, and none the of and excitement ofan American ex- cursion. olm is absolutely encircled by iL The approach to most of these is by water, and thtte steam launches in every rT Which Are Sometimes Omitted Pad the Biographies of Stage Favor- From the New York Commercial Advertiser. Society does not sanction inquiry as to the ages of any lady in its circle, but the age of much-admired actresses is often the subject of friendly interest. It 1s proper, therefore, to give the ages of some of the leading actresses who atone time or another have been the re- cipients of applause In American theaters: AGEN AGE. Ce eee 51 Panny Davenport. Alice Harrison. Di a Lingard. Cella Logan. 42|Sara Jewett 42|Maud Harrison. 42) Adah Rehan. 21|Stelia Boniface Mrs. Drew was known as Mrs. Mossop thirty ears ago. She is the mother of Miss Georgiana rew. Mrs. Hoey married John Hoey of the Adams Express company, and retired from the stage twenty-one years ago. Maggie Mitchell is worth $500,000. Rose Eytinge’s first husband was a printer in Albany; when she married the second time, her husband was George H. Butler. a nephew of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. Effie Germon has been married six times. Lotta is worth €200,000. Mrs. D. P. Bowers has accu- mulated a large fortune. She is sick at pres- ent at the Victoria hotel. Her two sons are to open the large hotel on Broadway and 40th street, opposite the Metropolitan opera house. Charlotte Thompson married a man named Henderson, who appropriated the greater part of her earnings and left her penniless. Eliza Weathersby is the wite of the comedian, Nat Goodwin, and is as good an actress as he is an actor. Stella Bonitace is the daughter of the genial George Boniface, ‘whose boast it was that he never had an enemy. Fanny Davenport is the step-daughter of E. L. Davenport, by his second marriage. Lizzie Price was the 80- called and once beautiful wife of Charles Fechter, although the famous actor never ob- tained a divorce from the cultivated woman who still lives and bears his name in Paris. DID NOT KNOW BILL NYE. The Broken-Legged Humorist Tries to Revive His Memory in a Forget- ful Breast. Tsaw William G. LeDuc the other day at Hastings, Minn. He used to be at the head of the Agricultural departinent, and I used to of- fer him suggestions about raising iced tea by grafting an old-fashioned tea-pot on some hardy variety of reirigerator. Mr. LeDuc claimed to be ignorant of my glowing career. I pitied him and asked him where he'd been all summer. I said: ‘William you are not so weli informed as Thad been led to suppose. I knew that you had almost foundered your teeming brain try- ing to devise means by which you could inbreed the milkweed with the common Irish potato in such a way as to produce apeeled potato with milk gravy on it, but I didn’t think you had been in public life so long without knowing one who has done so much to bring the literature of the present day up to a lofty standard and res- cue it from the hungry maw ot oblivion. You may know how to lower the record of the shirt- stud, or at what season we should shear the hydraulicram, but I'd advise you, before you go any farther with your agricultural experi- ments, to read up on the eminent men of the age in' which you live.” I then bowed haughtily and withdrew. ———$-+er-_____ How to Pot Geraniums, From the American Queen. Now is the season for potting plants. The best soil tor geraniums is fresh yeliowish mould taken from a pasture, which should be mixed about a third part of its bulk of sweet, old ma- nure, such asmay be gathered from roads, or leaf-mould, with ahandfui of sand to half a peck of the soil. Failing fresh loam, the surface may be skimmed from the garden when neither wet nor dry, and manure and sand added, with a liberal sprinkling of crushed oyster-shells. When used it should be just moist enough to ‘‘cake” together; both quite dry and very wet soil being unsuitable for potting. Drain the pots well by first placing in a flat oyster-shell, or something of that kind, then some broken particles of pots, charcoal, or bones, to the depth of about an inch, which cover witha bit of turf, or anything that will prevent the soil mixing with the drainage, and thus rendering it inoperative. Place in suffi- cient soil, making it rather firm, so that the plant, when placed on ft, has the top of its roots next the stem nearly an inch below the rim. Let the plant be fixed exactiy in the center, then add more soil, a little at a time, shaking it well amongst the roots, and finish by pressing it firmly down. Always leave-a space of at least an inch from the surface ot the soil to the top of the pot. Filling the pot quite full of soil is a great mistake—one of the greatest and most common that is made by amatenrs. After potting, water the plants well through a fine-rosed watering-pot, and stand them on ashes or other base impervious to worms, either in a rather shaded position out of doors or in a frame. Sprinkle them twice a day if the weather is bright, and give the soil a good watering every time it gets dry to the touch, never before, as.very wet soil checks the forma- tion of roots. In course ofa fortnight roots and growth wilt have started. The plants will then endure the sun, and will need much more water. If this is given sealeonny, ore will be Saree and, as above remarked, old plants will be made young again, and sickly plants healthy. As these popular geraniums are grown b: tens of thousands of persons in town ani country, these Veda Soar scarcely fail being useful at this, the right time for repotting pre- viously cut-down plants. There is still time for pruning and cutting down if the work has been omitted. or the plants were not ready for the operation before. | The Elm Bug. From the Jerseyman, Morristown, N.J. It isfa well known fact that a large portion of the elm trees in this section of the country have been destroyed by the attacks ofa bug which eats the foliage, and which it has heretofore been found impossible to resist. It has proved ® very serious matter and our streets and parks have worn a desolate appearance. We are informed by a reliable gentleman living in Morristown, that the elm trees in New Haven (than whichthere are not, probably, any finer in the country) have been saved from these pests by a remedy which has been applied there for several years past. The gentleman men- tioned is personai!y interested in the matter, and while on a visit to New Haven this spring prolonged his stay one day in order to make in- quiries in regard to the matter. He visited the professors ot Yale college, who had Interested themselves in the subject, also the superintendent of public parks, and the workmen who applied the remedy, which we give herewith. Takea stout cotton cloth seven inches wide and nailit around the tree just below the branches. Place the nails four or five inches apart and drive them halfway downto the head. This will leave room between the cloth and the tree to stuffsalt hay, or moss of the kind used for mattresses. This must be crammed in very tightly and then saturated thoroughly with a mixture of printer's ink and whale oil soap, mixed to the consistency of rather thick paint. The bandage must be kept thoroughly soaked with the | bd arlene! and applied freshly every few days in April and May, and October and November, when the second crop of bugscome. The male elm bug flies, but the female has no wings, and hence is obli to crawl up the tree, and this preparation is so offensive to her that she re- fuses to pass over it and there is no fecundation. The New Haven people say it is a sure pre- yentive, having proved it by several years ex- perience. @ne Hundred and Twenty Miles ou Steerback.— ‘From the St. Louis Republican, October 16. Oxen can be readily trained to be governed by a bridle and to carry arider. When a boy we had an ox broken thus as well asa horse. This was of course done for the novelty of it, as there were plenty of saddle horses on the farm. The Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette gives the following: “An old gentleman named Jones rode from Oak Grove, 15 miles from here, to a neighborhood 45 miles south of here, on Wednesday, to notity his daughter that her mother was dangerously ill, He did not ride a wild and untamed x! made the trip of 60 miles in 16 hours. He started on his retarn this morning before the sun was up, we coe spoomnenriae =, ‘a pony, wi ol arrived at Fort Worth at 7 o'clock last , and after some simple refreshments anda rest proceeded on way, intending to Fee Bln eeiSentea wach Soret thus accomplishing 120 miles in hours on steerback, a feat never before Tus NORTH AMERICAN BEVIEW NOVEMBER, OCTOBER 15TH, CONTAINS AN ARTICLE “BY HOBART PASHA, : ADMIRAL OF THE TURKISH NAVY, ox PROGRESS IN NAVAL ARMAMENT. ‘The REVIEW diseusses those topics which at the time are uppermost in the public ‘mind, and abeut which every intelligent person {s desirous of acquiring the fullest and most trustworthy information, It addresses itself to thinking men in every walk of life—to all who would reach well-reas- ned, wnpartisan conclusions on subjects of Public interest, ‘It presents both sides of questions, thus in- suring the largest view of all matters in contro- ‘vorsy, and enabling the reader to judge under- standingly on, which side, in the conflict of opinions, the truth Hes, ‘Tt engages the services of suthors who by ‘their studies or their opportunities are specially qualified for the thorough discussion of the subjects on which they write, 0 CENTS ACOPY: 95 4 XEAR. © LAFAYETTE PLACF, Tuovsaxns Or Doxzans or MILLINERY, STYLISH AND HANDSOME, TO BE SOLD at KING'S PALACE, 14 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. French Pattern Hate and Bonnets; all the leading shapes in French Felt Hata. Alsoa Magnificent Amsort- ment of Children's Hata Binls representing every lime. Plumes, Tips, Velveta, Velveteens, Treble Eng- Uish Crepe, Satin, Sk and Kid Gloves at importer? prices, Wonderful Banrains in Ladies’ and Children's Cloaks. Twenty-five Thousand Dollars worth of Lae ies’ and Children’s Wraps to be Slanghtered. We have added to our extensive Stock of Millinery s very lange assortment of Wraps of every description, compris ing the latest and stylish makes from abroad, which we ‘Will sell at lower prices than you find elsewhora, All we ask, give us a call before purchasing. KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET. Crormxa News. ob THE MISFIT STORE, ‘Corner 10th and F strecta, Is packed from floor to ceiling with tho best stook of Clothing ever brought to Washington, and as the weather is somewhat backward we propose to force tales by putting prices down lower than even we evet id before. We will sell FOR MEN AND YOUTH Cassimere Suits at $6, worth #10, Cheviot Suits at #7, worth 813. re Suits at @8.50, worth $15. Splendid Business Suite at $10.28, worth 618, Blue Boaver Suits at $12, worth #22. K Corkscrew 4-bution Cutaway at kplendid Overcosts at $4, worth $10. Good Substantial, All-Wool Overcoats at $8, worth, lendid lines of Overconts at $10, $12, $14, $16, 818 . worth tuly double. FOR BOYS, 4 TO 11 YEARS, worth $4. 75, worth ge. 60, Suits at 84.50, wort BS. ereoats and Suits at worth $10. FOR BOYS, 12 TO 17 YEARS, Overcosts cnil Suits at $4.75, worth #8, Overcoats and S 50, worth $10, c ts and Suits at 8%, worth $14 ts and Suits ai $10 rth B18. ‘Colored or $13, worth $25, Odd Pants for men, immense variety ‘Odd Pants for boys, complete as.ori aT THE MISFIT STORE, oct OR, 10ra AND F STREETS. Howe, Sweer Home To find out how very little mone; it takes to buy the arumberless articles which help so mate ially to make a ‘home attractive you should not fail to pay usa visit, It ‘will pay you back. We offer this week; Handsome panel genuine O1i Paintings, in beautiful gilt frames, at $1.29, $1.49, and $1.79. Large Oil Paintings, in heavy gilt frames, at @298 and $3.49, Fine Oil paintings, in embossed fist gilt frames, $4.49, ‘The same in very wide fiat frames. $6 50. Real works of art—Paintings which are worth from $25 to $50, in very heavy flat or doop frames, at $9.50 and $12.50. All these goods will surprise you by their remarkable heapness aud besuty. We offer also a line of handsome Engravings in oak frames, all complete, at 99. the frame alone is worth the money. Besides which we have a large number of fine Chromos from 99c. up. ‘We would also call your attention to our rich’{gold, gilt and bronze Frames for photos We offer a pretty 8x10 bronz» fram atW2o ; a heavy silt frame, velvetinside. at 9c. ; lovely 8x0 gilt frames, ‘silk plush inside, at $1.79 and $1.93, ‘Most beautiful goid and plush Eassl Frames at $1.98 and $2.42, Japanese Cabinets and Boxes, something entirely new; fine Whisk-holders, Ornaments, Bisque figures, and numberless other novelties, Bronze Plagues, &a, &c., are among the new goods Just opened. Our sale of complete Curtain Poles, with rings, ends, and brackets, at 39c., 49c., 69c., with brads trimmings at 79c., &., will continue this week. M. SILVERBERG & CO., 312 7th street and 313 8th stroct northwest, ‘Near Pennsylvania ave, Scrpose You Loox. Some people have never seen, and therefore fo not know of the New, Handsome, Good Fitting and Stylish Clothing we have. We Mention: Fall OVERSACES, from 88 to $30. Heavy NEWMARKETS and Sack OVER- COATS, from $10 to 8.5. ‘Men's and Youth's BUSINESS SUITS, from $10 to #23. Cass Four-Button Cutaway SUITS, from $15 to $28. ‘Black, Brown and Blue Diagonal aud Cozk- screw Prince Albert and Four-But- ton Cutaway SUITS, from 8D to 845. Boys’ and Children's SUITS, from 33.50 to $18, Our stock of Neckwear, Gloves and Under- ‘wear is full and complete. Prices the lowest. Shirts Made to Order. NOAH WALKER & CO., 625 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. oclS EIMER & BRO. Ss ‘7th strect, bet. H and 1, and 3161 M street, We call rarticular attention to our very complete BOOTS AND SHOFS FOR THE FALL TRADE. We are sole agents for BURT'S CFLEDRATED MEN'S SHOES. “There are nove better. sud ave ste «We have the fo! g styles: Biicis FINE CALS: vation or plain, sa eal to, BURT'S FINE CALF Cougress gaiters iu’ broad and, arrow toes, Burrs FINE CALF leco-hook bals. 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