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CITY AND DISTRICT. CUTTING OFF THE FLOURISHES. The System of Writing to Be Taught mitre Pu r Schools, PENMANSINIT REDTCED TO 4 RVSINESS BASIS— P LETTERS FOUND TO BE IN EVERY- DAY USE PUT INTO THE COPY-BOOKS—A SAVING ‘OF FROM FIFTERS TO TWENTY PER CENT IN INK AND MOSCELAR ACTION—A TALK WITH PROF. ned by 3 and improv which have been made by the Spencer At a meeting of the teachers heid at the High School building to-day Mr. H.C. Spencer explained the new or ons. revised system of ian writing which it is proposed,to been devised in’ c children to write, it is claimed, not in ace ance with a theory uf how letters should be made, but just as experience shows men will and do write in their every-day business. All unnecessary strokes are to be dispensed ¥ such lines being retained as are nec- essary to identify the letter. stripped of their flouri: beauty. The easy and gracef tained, as easier to make than ar lines. “The day is coming,” observed Mr. H. C. straight or angu- Bpencer to a Star reporter, “when long writing | as well as long spelling will be things of the past, and the approved methods will be those that'enable us to communicate our thongitts most rapidly SIMPLIFYT THE SPENCERIAN SYSTEM. “The Spencerian copy books.” he continued, “have passed through various stages of im- provement, and are now used in nearly every portion of this country. and have been copied by publishing houses in England. Spencerian was Introduced in the public schools ot the city of | 5. The Improved edition | Washington in 1865. came into use in 1871, and another in 1876. The tendenc® of the changes and improvements has been steadily in the direction of making the writing more simple, rapid, and legible. The new editions of the tooks recently adopted LITERARY NOTES. LIFE.AND LETTERS OF BAYARD TAYLOR. Fa. ited by Marre Hawsen-TarLom and HoRacr r : tor Sin 'e'Co,” Washington, Wan Ballantyse & 90 Bayard Taylor was unqueetionably one of the most cenulnely interesting figures in the whole field of American literature His career was | furthermore creditable and honorable, tn the highest degree, though there isno doubt that his life, or rather, it should be said, its literary outcome, was something of a Atsappointment to himself. For some anaccountable reason the meinbers of his own gulid were not willing to | evard him as high a place as he was really en- | titled to, and then again he was not satisfied as to the esteem in whielt he was held in the pop- nlar heart. Tn the latter case it was not a ques- tion affecting his reat powers, so much as thelr limitations and the range within which they were exercised to the best advantage. Mr. Taylor as pired above all thinzs to be regarded as a poet, and a poet at his best in high and sustained ef- | forts; the general public on the other hand pre- | ferred him in his quality asa traveler and as a w lighter order. These things had their influence, bat they did not embitter his life nor seriously i T, as the letters brought together ven to the public for the first time abundantly show. His life gave abundant bio- | graphical materials. which have been used with se forms, | discretion and good effect by those in whose Tire not evecare; | hands they fell; butit Is In his private corres- I eurves are re- | pondence where the true personality of the man appears. Mr. Taylor was a charming letter writer, and in his familiar intercourse with | friends he throws such a flood of light upon his character and every day thoughts as few men would care to risk. His letters have a value, too, far beyond that. He had traveled widely, and it was his fortune to know many of the most prominent men o! his period, so that he | Was qualified to write and did write instruct- | ivelyas wellasentertainingly. Thereisthrough- | out a charm as well in the variety as in the | | character of the book, whether Mr. Taylor’s own | work or that ot his editor-biographers be con- sidered, and its eflect must be to fix its subject more securely both in the judzment and ailec- tions of his countrymen. FIFTY YEARS’ OBSERVATION OF MEN AND EVENTS, CIVIL 4ND MILITARY. By ¥. D. Krxes, Br Brigadier General US. Army, et ribuer’s Sons, Washingt 7 Win. rey | York: Charles s Baliaptyne & Son. Gen. Keyes’ reminiscences will have a special charm for older residents of Washington, on ac- by the school board are a new departure in this | Count of many of the events and personages de- direction. The Spencer sons. before entering | scribed, but they possess much to entertain all upon these later improvements, took measures scertain the condition of writing among ess and professional men throuhout the country. They sent ont blanks like this.” Mr. Spencer here produced a form of a blank, which contained the following questions: 1. Please write below, in your usual style, all the pital and small letters, and the figures from 0 to 2 What instru velved in pen- manship? 3. What pen do you use? What ink? 4jllow do you hoid your pen? What 1s your position & What movement do you employ in writing, chiefly, have you todo? P.O. address; occupa- ment. 8& Please copy ter tn your customary hand: below the “A mans fortu address. If pleasing, ot he has merit; but if ungraceful, decide against him.” 9. What is your rate of speed in writ fast, slow, or medinin? Mr. Spencer went on. “we rejected all that Were from slow writers, and made a caretul comparison of the othe: parisons, we ascertained the tendency of rapid writers in adapting writing to etery day pur- poses, and with this knowledge proceeded to systematize and simplity the Spencerian system. 4s an instance of simplifying matters, you will observe the standard capital T has heretofore 13 trequentiy decided by his first | t once conclude that | | who are familiar with or intetested in the his- | tory and prominent characters of the country | for the past fifty years, The book abounds in | anecdote, and furnishes at the same time much | valuable information on serious questions, all | told with refreshing frankness and in good tast Those who knew Gen. Keyes well would natu- | Tally expect a volume of more than ordinary at- traction. and they will rise from a perusal of its pages with no feelingof disappointment, except, | Perhaps, that it devotes less space to the lat struggle between the states than might natu- rally have been anticipated. TAREE VISITS TO AMERICA, Emmy Farrn- FULL. New York: Fowler & Wells Co. Washivs- ton: W. H. Morrison. This book is made up of articles contributed ‘ing, | by the author from time to time to various “‘sfter obtaining a large number of replies.” | periodicals, relating chiefly to the subject of re- numerative employment tor women who are obliged to support themselves, Her observations After making com- te interesting and valuable as expressing the convictions of an intelligent and conscientious | | Woman who has not only given the problem serious thought. but also done much toward | its. practical solution, Her impressions of the | cofntry, its people and institutions, formed during extended travel, will also be found been made with five strokes, The simplified T | eutertaining and often instructive. is made with two strokes. has been carried to an extent which secures a saving on an average of 15 to 20 per cent in the strokes used in writing. At the same time gteater legibility is secured than had been reached before. The Spencerian -copybooks hitherto in use in cur public schools comprise geven copybooks and four duplicate tracing books—eleven inall. The series just adopted comprises six books alittle largerin size than the old. and noduplicatetracing books. Thetracing exercises, so useful to beginners, are provided for | ja the regular books. Each book contains on its covers all the directions and illustrations that are necessary for teachers and pupils to have in using the book.” PECULIARITIES OF PENMEN. “We issued about a thousand of these circu- lars.” continued the speaker. ‘Then we copied out the letters. We had a long lineof A’s; then a long line of B’s, and 20 on. We were able to see what form of letter was in most common use. The greatest uniformity was found, I think, in the letters A, B,C.E and 8. I am speaking of capitals. The custom of making a capital “4’ like a small ‘A,’ only larger, was tound to be almost universal. The greatest di- versity, 1 think, was inthe F's. It is wonder- fal what marks men would make for F’s. In some cases we found the custom ling to be barbarous. Nobody makes a Z distinctly. All sorts of things were made for Z’s. In the new series we preserve the same angle of slant asin theold. We never have found anything to take its place with advantage. It is the siant that will be taken naturaily by letters formed by a person who sits in a proper position and holds his pen correctly. in the older series of copybooks the writing given in the lower numbers was go large that the children were unable to use it in their spel- ling and other written exercises. It is neces- sary to give the beginner letters somewhat larger than are needed in business use, so that they may readily appreciate their form, but that idea was carried to a ridiculous extreme. In the new series the copy lines from the first are of a size that can be used in their school work. The standard size for business writing has been Teduced so that the eye-space is now one-tenth of an inch; formerly it was one-ninth.” HOW SMALL LETTERS ARE ABBREVIATED. “Abbreviation In small letters is secured gen- erally in letters at the beginning and ending of words. For example, the initial curves of i, u, W, 0, a, ¢, t, d,&c., are omitted at the begin- ning of words and at the end of words, the final curves of 8, J, y, Z,z,f, &c. This leaves more distinct spaces between the words and makes the writing more legivie. There,” said the pro- fessor. scribbling ona piece of paper, “by the old method, thirteen strokes are required to write the word ‘and,’ but by the new we get rid of three strokes. Seven strokes are reel to write ‘of" by the old method, the new. The gain Is in rapidity and legibility, while the writing is as handsome as ever taught. As a matter of fact some forms of letters that have been taught in schools never got into current use. Too many strokes were Fequired to make them. ; POSTMEN IN GIGS, Tricycles™ Sugg ested. Net Consider- ed Comfortable on Our Rural Roads. From the New York Sun. There are four mounted postme n in this city, that is, they are called mounted, although they ride in gigs. They are attached to stations R, S, and T, which are respectively at Morrisania, Tremont, and Kingsbridge. The districts that they travel through are decidely rural, and some of the crossroads that they are dally com- pelled to take are very rough. Although they ride, they are hardworked, and they have long hours. “Some ofthem make two trips a day.” a ost office official said, ‘and some three trips a y Tcan’t tell you just how many miles they are compelled to travel on each tfip, but a great many. They have to go up one road and another. and it makes no difference how rough the roads are. Gis are better than rid- ing on horseback, because the men can jump out, of them more easily when delivering ee nek Ske eee on or off a ree.” “Do they get more money than the others?” “They get $300 more a year, out of which they Ibust keep their horses and gigs, which are thel - own property. “How would tricycles do for letter carriers in these surburban districts?” “Not very well on account of the roughness of the roads. If the roads were all level and smooth, it would not be a bad idea; but it weelg > utterly impossible to run a tricycle ost of them with any comfort.” “How do the mounted postmen getaround when there is heavy snow on theground?” “One or two of them own cutters, but the are generally used, snow or no snow.” the lonely roads the carriers have to look sharp for persons who may have evil intentions against the mai This abbreviatfon | RALPH THE DRUMME®. | | A story of the Daysof Wasnington. Lours Rovsszier. Translated by W. J: Gompos. Liustrated. New ‘York: Henry iolt & Co. Washington: Brentano Brothers. The hero ofthis thrilling story is the son of a French Marquis, who, having wasted his pro- perty, and hanged himself in despair, leaves his child to seek his own fortune. He enlists in the Frencharmy about to start to aid Washington, and hisperilous adventures during the revolu- tionary war are told in a very attractive way. The only objection to the book Is the very se- rious one that fiction and fact are mixed, and history sometimes perverted. The sketchy illus- trations so freely introduced add considerably to the interest of the text. "AIN. PHL Boy's Fxperience 1 Vestern ONaniay Davie the War of tie, ebellon, "By MAL ton: Brentano Brothers > 2° arene An interesting book, this, for boys, and espe- clally for those with a military taste, being the story of a young lad of fourteen who went to the front with his brother, and finally became a gol- dier himself. The scenes of camp lifeare graphi- cally described, and the pititul sights on the bat tle fleld attera fight are sketched with strength and pathos: and as every incident related is said to be an actual experience and all matters at- fecting history absolutely correct, the book is bs a whole a good one for the rising generation THE VIKING Nor- Washington; Robert Beall. ’ Throughout the whole series of the Bodley books the author has very happily managed to combine instruction with entertainment, and in these respects the latest volume—which young readers who have followed the wander- ings of the family will regret to learn is also to be the last,—is by no means inferior to Its predecessors. In fact, describing less traveled countries, it perhaps excels in these qualities, and tfat part of it relating to Andersen, the children’s favorite, will be found Particularly interesting. toni Wit Morrsoa, woot & Ca Was Any one can understand that the adventures of the right sort of widow, attractively told, would make a very fascinating book, which this isnot. It lacks plot and purpose, and though many of its ecenes are clever sketches, their de- tails are to elaborated that the central figure is obscured or lost sight of, and as a whole it is uninteresting and in places tiresome. 2 og pat pee gras by May O. Root. ‘The plot of this story is an unhackneyed one, and its characters are cleverly drawn and well sustained. The author is evidently improving with experience in writing, and her present: effort is alike a credit to herself and to the “Hammock Series,” of which it forms @ part. THE CHILDREN OF ISSACHAR, (1 Chronicles, xil: ARS oa Wamane nee tae It is not easy to see why this title shonld be given to a plea for kukluxism, the specious ar- guments for which are strung upon athread of romance as criminal as revolting, and devoid ot literary merit throughout. 1S fy bos Seas New vor: ee iter) Lite The author did well to withhold his name from the title page of this story, for which, either asa literary performance ora record of personal adventure very little can be said. —Chicago’scrack literary weekly, TheCurrent, which continuesto improve the older it grows, came out recently with an artistically designed and every way pleasing cover, which both adds to Its appearance and conveys the idea ot sub- Stantial success. It is very creditable to its clientage that the expectations of the Jectors of this new aspirant to popular tavor care been more than realized up to the present time. «s— Bookish people and others desirous of Keep- ing advised touching current literary matters will find much to their taste in that entertaining little monthly, The Bookbuyer, published by Charles Seril 's Sons. It has lately been if in size, 80 as to allow more extended scope, and ids about as much for ita trifling cost sewaeal we know. fs — The Croaker. Oh, the melanch croaker, "itu his esas 2 ter of occasional spontaneous poems of the | New | RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — Gorsnch M. E. church has received 18 mem- bers since last conference. — Last Sunday morning Rev. F. T. Tagg re- ceived nine members in the Georgetown M. P. church, —Rev. Dr. J. W. Parker, of California, preached recently at his old charge, the Calvary Baptist church, in this city. i —Rev. A. D. Murray,the junior pastor of Con- gress street, Georgetown, and Mt. Pleasant M. P. churches, has been obliged by Ill-health to discontinue preaching. northwest, will be opened forservice to-morrow aiternoon. | — At the October meeting of the Boston Con- | erezational club, Rey. C. F. Thwing, of this city, | spoke on “The responsibility of the churches for the systematic visitation of the communities around them.” — At the next s | ference of the M. | preside. The conference will be held at Rev. 8. M. Hartsock’s church, Eutaw street. Baltimore, March 5th. The Washington conference (col- ored) will be held in this city the same day. Bishop Foster willhold the Virginia conference | at Roanoke, Va., February 26th. -— The McKendree M. E. Sunday school, has | Just received a contribution to the library of | 100 volumes of new and valuable books, for | which it is indebted to Mr. Zephaniah Jones, one of the oldest and most respected and use ful members of that church. The school has | also recently purchased for its use a fine | Decker Bros. piano, in which undertaking it was largely aided by the efforts of the same | good brother. Mr. Jones has been quite ill for some weeks past, but it is satisfactory to learn that his heaith is now improving. ion of the Baltimore con- Progress of erection at Columbus, Ohio. — Henry Varley, the English evangelist, is expected to hold services in St. Louis and other | cities this winter. — At Riverside Baptist church, In Baltimore, | an interesting series of reylyal services has been held recently. —Mr. Sankey believes that the singing, at all the services of the church, should be under the direction of the ministe’ held a very successtu! meeting at Carter's Creek church, Fauquier county, Va., and six persons were baptized. — Rey. D. Watson Winn, late of Virginia, has | Tesigned his rectorship at Macon, Ga., to under- | take mission work at Waycross, Ga., and parts | adjacent. of the Sunday Schoot Union will be held next week, at the Congregational church. | at 4 and 734 o'clock. —The presbytery of Carlisle, Pa., recently adopted an overture to the synod of Pennsylva- laws be improved. Alliance will meet in New York Monday even- ing to hear reports from Rev. Dr. Scharff, who attended the meeting at Copenhagen. — Rev. Horatio N. Powers, D.D., ot Bridge- port, Conn., has received a call from the vestry | Trinity Protestant Episcopal church at Newark, N. J., to become its rector. — At the reyuest of tie Bethel (Va.) church of the Shenandoah Baptist association a pres- bytery met in October at Milwood, Va., and set apart F..T. Davis to the full work of the min- istry. ion’s Advocate says that on October 12 | Rev. H. J. White, pastor of the North street Freewill Baptist church, Bath, Maine, with the avowed purpose of joining t! tists, — The theological seminary of the Reformed | Dutch church, at New Brunswic! J., which | recently celebrated its centennial, is now vers prosperous, having an endowment of over — Rev. I. L. Hott, an elder in the church of the United Brethren in Christ, of the Miami con- ference, has been received into the Marion, 0., Presbytery, having accepted a call trom the ented churches of Cardington and Ashley, io. — Mr. Thomas W. Timothy, minister of the colored Methodist Episcopal denomination, was confirmed at All Saints’ church, in St. Louis, recently. Mr. Timothy is a native of the West India Islands, and was a member of the church of England. — Rey. P. Nelson Meade, of Cumberland, Md., has been elected rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal church, Norfolk, to succeed Rev. John B. New- ton, now in charge of Monumental church, Rich- mond, Mr. Meade is a grandson of the late Bishop Meade. — Rev. J. L. Lancaster, a graduate of Union theological seminary, Virginia, and late pastor of the Presbyterian church at Holly Springs, Miss., has resigned his ministry in the Presby- terian church, and applied for orders in the Episcopal church. — Bishop Randolph, of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia, will make visitations as follows: November 28, St. Paul’s chapel; 29, Wi- comico; and 80, Nomini; December 1, St. Ji 2, St. Peter's and Payne’s chapel, in Westmoreland county; 3, St. John’s; and 4, St. Paul's, King George count y, Va. — Arrangements are in progress for the visit to Rochester, N. Y.. of the noted evangelists, Messrs. Moody and Sankey, who are to be there on November 16 and 17. Mr. Moody will also attend @ convention of Christian workers in Utica, November 10 and 11. It is expected that they will hold a Christian convention in Balti- more some time this winter. es. An Extraordinary French Murder Case From the London Telegraph. — The new church, building of the Unity Pres- | byterian congregation, on 14th and R streets | church, Bishop Foster will | — There are now four Methodist churches in — Rey. S, M. Athey and J. N. Doffermyer have | —Thestxth annual Sunday school institute | Sessions | nia asking that the present defective marriage | —The American branch of the Evangelical f | of th GRANT AND LEE. Military Characteristics of the Generals Compared, Grant, the federal chief, says Brig. Gen. | From the New York Sun, Keyes, in his “Fifty Years’ Observation of Men and Events,” maintained a pressure upon Lee's defenses which knew no totermis- sion. As a rule, he would neautralize the force of his enemy's strongly fortified points by attacking those that were weaker; but lest bis adversary should infer that he was influenced by fear, he assailed the almost impregnable position at Cold Harbor, at a cost to himselt of 7,000 men at least. while he inflicted but trifling loss upon the coniederat Srant has b narged with of life on that oceasion, st have considered his situation such his conduct. It was a maxim with the great Napoleon that such rashness is some- times necessary for the safety, as well as the honor, of an army. The sustained vigor and tinely boldness of Gen. Grant constitite an im- | portant factor in the problem I am studying in | regard to his supremacy. € Lee, from the nature of things, was con- ued to imitate the example of the Roman auius against Hannibal, and of Marshal Frederick the Great. He was de- jor lines against superior numbers, and being woefully deficient in tr nsportation, it would have been madness for him to sally out beyond the support of his ramparts. Some of | his crities, however, have fancied that FROM OVER CAUTION, on two or three occasions, he failed to see opportunities offered by Grant to break through his lines and harass the Invader much more than he did. ‘It is varely possible that such censure may have been deserved. Gen. Lee was overworked, and so dreadfully oppressed by his responsibilities, that from time to time | nature claimed tts pose, and occa | sionally he may have fallen into | that state | which T call tle syncope of the mind, a state in which energy refutes to respond to external impre: however obvious they may be. | Where is the man of action who has never expe- rienced such a state, and seen passing by and beyond recovery precious opportunities and golden prizes, which in his ordinary condition ne would have easily appropriated ? But, what- | ever may have been the faults of Gen. Lee, it is certain that he increased the death rate in the federal army to a degree that ought to satisfy the most ferecions lover of slaughter. es of manceuyres, battles, actions and 's of position in the Wilderness, and until Lee was driven from behind the defenses of ond, rward till the southern con- ‘acy he: last groan, ¢ NO PARALLELS on the continent of America, T! those displays of martial gevius of ancient and modern times which have been the study of military men in all and the wonder of the world. ‘hey remind us of the struggles of Sylla when the Samnite Tel! the slip and placed the Eternal city in such jeopardy that Sylla appeated to his gods to save him and Rome, of the contests in Greece | between Pompey and Cwsar before the battie of Pharsalia, when Pompey’s sycophants felt such confidence that they lampooned the mighty Juiiu- and called him “a-vendor of and more than all, perhaps, they give an idea of the war of the allies upon Napoleon in France after the campaign in Russia, when | that great commander's genins shone most | brightly, fighting against fearful odds but to Ours was an intestine conflict, and the glory e actors loses a portion of its luster when we reflect that inthe opinion of some men, if good counsels had prevailed, tt might have been | avoided, and the thousands of brave men whose fraternal blood seethed and impasted the sdil from Petersburg to Ri ond might have been spared. In determining the relative merits of Grant and Lee, I have been careful to consider all the qualities and circumstances pecaliar to each, and not only the exploits of the two generals, but also their dispositions and temperaments, | The fact that the former finaliy conquered the | latter is not by any meaus conclusive. If 1 were to see a man take up a gun welghing 1,000 | pounds, place it upon his shoulder and walk | away with it, I should know. without further | investigation. that he possessed extraordinary | physical strength; but the gain or loss of @ single battle would nut prove a man to be a good or a poor general. Hannibal, Turenne, Frederick and Napoleon ail lost battles, and yet they are cited, | 4MONG THE GREATEST CAPTAINS OF ALL TIME. Wellington never quite lost a battle, but he was seriously checked, and in this respect Grant re- sembles the Englishman. At the approach of Lee or Sherman, his army would shout more enthusiastically than for Grant, but when the latter came up during the fight the lines became | more steady, and the soldier wonld adjust his | aim with greater accuracy than before. Sherman showed wondertul vigor and sagac- ity when he pushed Johnston from Chattanooga to Atlanta, but Grant would drive his chariot through passes that Sherman would not yenture to approach. There was an abatement in Lee’s audacity during the twenty-four hours preced- Ing the battle of Gettysburg, otherwise he would have won it and gained the southern cause; but nowhere can I discover debility in Grant’s move- ments or assaults. Grant could hold his enemy as in a vice, with @ ruthlessness like that of Tamerlane or the Duke of Alva, and when he had accomplished everything, he left upon the mind of his ob- server an impression that he possessed a reserve of torce that had not been called into play. Tam constrained, theretore, to assign to Ulysses S. Grant the highest rank as a military commander of all that have been born on the continent of America. WORTH, THE MILLINER. The Manner in Which He Cares for = Girls, From the Paris Messenger. Worth has a large establishment in the Ruede la Paix, where 400 young women stitch, stitch, stitch, not at allin poverty, hunger, and Tags. His employes number 1,200 in all, and during the Commune, when nobody ordered dresses or anything else, Worth provided for seventy of Paris, Oct. 18.—Paris is at present stirred to its depths by the revelations made respecting the career of Pel, the poisoner of Montreuil. Pel is now at Mazas, on a charge of having made away with his servant, a women named Marie Boehmer. He is also charged with having pol- soned his firet wife. M. Kuehn, the chief of the investigation department, is busily engaged at Montreuil in tollowing up any clues which may bring the murder of the servant home to the accused. Two boxes which belonged to the miss- ing woman were found to containa napkin which bore the imprint of a blood-stained knife. Alarge dinner knife has come to light, supposed to be the instrument with which Pel cut the flesh off the bones ot his victim before burning it by some of the chemical processes in which he is an adept. It is thought that the victim’s re- mains were placed in the closet ,as Pel had been his workwomen, though he, too, suffered for want of decent food. Worth is English, born about sixty years ago in Lincoinshire. Brains were his only capital. That the manis a genius in his profession is as evident as the multiplica- tion table. He inherited his ability from his mother, who possessed excellent taste. You must not judge Worth by all the dresses made by him, as I used to do. If a woman ‘insists upon having a fussy, furbelowed coz- tume Worth is obliged to make it. however dis- (Spe he riay be. “My life is Te but a of roses,” he said one day. “What I have to endure from some women is simply incred- ible, when it is remembered that they call them- seives ‘ladies.’ A person sailed in one day and gave an order, saying: ‘I don’t like your taste, Mr. Worth; I want so and so.’ ‘Madam,’ I observed to make frequent visits there on three This is somewhat borne out by the fact that when the cesspools successive days in July last. was drained to-day portions of human intes- tines were found. Pelisaclockmaker by trade, and was married in 1880 to.a young woman named Buffereau, em- ployed in a shop near tha Champs Elysees. 'wo months after the marriage Pel’s wife died In Intense agony. She was hastily buried inthe Montmartre cemetery, buther remains areabout to be exhumed by order ot the procureur of the republic. A yearafterward Pel marrieda Mile. de Murat, who is still alive. Pel denied that he had veen married to his first wife, but M. Kuehn confronted him with his brother-in-law, and he then ad- mitted the marriage. M. Kuehn has madea minute examination with @ microscope of pel’s house at Montreuil andin the interstices ofthe floor has found living organ- {sms such as exist only in putrefying blood. When Pel arrived in Montreuil trom Nanterre, where he ran away from his second wife and nis creditors in Juiy last, he wasaccompanied by the servant, Marie Boehmer, who it is said, was for- merly a lay sister ina convent and afterward a milkseller in the Rue St. Denis. She intrusted alarge share of her savings to the care of Pel, and about three months ago suddenly dizap- Pel, inanswer to various inquiries, said he had sent her to the hospital. The neigh how- ever, assert that one night, about the time of Buebmer’s disappearance, a great fire was visible in Pel’s house and that the air around was in- fected by an offensive odor. In an adjacent sewer some human hair has lately been dis- covered, and it is in this direction as well as in ee ee that M. oehe pete i princi; A zations to-day. Pel wi bably brought face to face with his second wife to-mor- Tow. + -It is not léng since the mother of the alleged her Was Killed by an electric battery made her son. Pel is ina very despondent con- tood suring ths pes eee dab kee t! a. A mouton, or associate, has been bh him, as it was feared that he was about to commit suicide and possibly the accused may make Was Dickens’ manager, tour, ts personal novelist, hse will be eS ATS, company. in and get a replied, ‘you can have what you want, but I’m quite sure if I had your taste I shouldn't have any customers.’ She didn’t mind the sarcasm. She didn’t understand it. What do women come to me for if they don’t lika my style? That’s what they pay for. Why don’t the: make their own dresses if they know so much sbout it? Another lady said: ‘You make my Cousin’s dresses and I don’t approve of them. Mr. Worth.’ ‘Neither do I, madam,’ I answered. ‘If your cousin likes colors mixed up, I can't help it. Ifyou havea more cultivated eye than your cousin, I congratulate you.’” a aa oe ee A Woman’s Answer. * Do on Enow you have asked for the costliest Fins! mado by the Lee on lea woman’: and a woman’ Anda woman's wonderful oer Do you Know you have asked for this priceless Asaci might ask for a toy? Demanding what others have died to win, ofa boy? | ‘With the reckless dash Until I shall question thee, You require that y wo as 28 His heaven your gees) You & cook ieee ear for your mutton and beef, Great | Some of the Co | The memoirs of Caroline Bauer will create even @ greater sensation than Carlyle’s dys- peptic dissertations. The Queen is espectally burt by the publication, as the reminiscences contain revelations that may be called horrible and revolting with regard to the house of Coburg, from which the English monarch obtained the husband she has been trying to canonize for more than twenty years. The family was so higeously poor in the beginning of the present century that three of the prin- cesses Were brought on to show to St. Peters- burg, to try and catch the fancy of a brutal grand duke named Constantine. “As he would not make any selection himself, his mother chose for him the youngest of the three, who was only 15 years of age, and who eventually had to return nome from his abominable treat- | ment. Another of the girls married Prince Alexander, of Wurtemburg. He iad thin legs, a bloated body, the expres- sion of his face was brutish, his forehead was disfigured by a big wen and he was a featiul glutton. When the young princess awoke on the morning atter her weddiug day she found her husband beside her gnawing a big ham bone with brutish ferocity. The revelations Karoline Bauer makes with regard to the late King of the Belgians, to whom she was morganatically mar- ried for about twelve montlis, will remove that monarch trom the pedestal of sagacity aud es- teem upon which the laborious puffing of his family had placed him, and Baron Stockmar, the friend and favorite of the Queen and the late Prince Consort, is proved clearly to have been no better than a pimp, even with ris own cousin. All these revelations len point to the view which Labouchere is preaching of the marriage of the Grand Duke of Hesse with Mime Ka mine. “Why,” he asks inthis week & 7 riage spoken of as the Hesse Dar ? It was no more a scat i f the parents of Prince I tenburg, or that of the Princess Lonise and the Marquis of Lorne.” The real scandal, he thinks, lies in the strenuous efforts of the Queen to bring about adivorce. “The conduct,” he says, “of ‘our good Queen," words which he writes | with significant quotation marke, “has Leeu equivocal in the highest degree.* | | The Peasant Girl’s Song. My lady has wealth untoid, My lady is strangely fair, Bright jewels encircle her {tly-white throat And Shine In her goiden hair. And yet it seems to me, Wiien proudly she passes by, That with all her gold and her lands untold She Is not so happy as L. My world ts a world of song, From the woods where the birdiings meet, ‘To the realms afar where each slivery star Is singing a melody sweet. Down at my lady’s feet Unnumbered suitors tall, She rules with a wave of her slender band Those lords and courtiers all. But not for the oldest name, 1 Or the hanghtlest title there Would i Cade the heart of the peasant lad Whose home I have promised to share. My word Js a world of lov Proud lady, pass coidly by H Your lands $0 fair and your Jewels rare | Cannot make you as happy as I. Ae ete AU ead jaturoay Smiles. The Speaker of the House—the wife, gener- ally.—Puck. Some were taken and some were left.—Bur- | lington Hawkeye. Are we a nation off horn-blowere? Cincinnati Enquirer.” Large ears are said to denote generosity. We have noticed that mules give away their hind legs.—San Francisco Post. We are.— At the theater he asked her whether she ever | j saw a four-leafed clover. ‘No,” she replied, “but I've smelt 'em.”—San Francisco Post. “Ah—keep your seat,” as the dog remarked when he tossed back the foundation of the | tramp’s trowsera through the orchard fence.— | Turlington Free Press. Everybody will settle down when the result of the presidential campaign is finally declared, | and after that ‘t is to be hoped that everybody | 1 will begin to settle up.— Lowell Citizen. | pretends to be full when It is not.” 1h Mrs. Belya Lockwood carried as many states as Butler or St. John, anyhow, and that is doing | pretty well for a woman's first run against old and experienced politicians of ‘the pantaloon gender.—Norristown Herald. A fashion paper says, “The new underskirt | In this re- spect ft differs somewhat from a man; the latter pretends not to be full when he really is.— Philadeiphia News. “How far do you want to go2” asked the con- ductor of @ west-bound train of a clerical- looking passenger, who had tendered him a five-hundred-dollar bill. ‘Just as far as that money will take me,” said the Rev. Dr. Burchard.—Sun. Ata Sunday school in this city a teacher asked a new scholar, alittle girl, what her name was. She replied, “Helen French An urchin in an adjoining seat sang out, “What is it in English?”— Thorns and Thistles. ‘The Mother Hub ts of such yldeous mien ‘That to be hated needs but to be seen. But when surmounted by a pretty face, We first endure—then pity—then embrace. —St. Paul Herald. The most barefaced liar we think of just now is the man, holds up his glass of whisky and exclaims, lere’s health,” when he knows well enouch that there isn’t a particle of health in the stuff.—Boston Transcript. “Julia, your father concedes your election by a majority of one.” A “A pretty close figure, Henfy,” she coyly ob- served. a “I should rather call it a tie, Julia,” was Henry's gallant response. Masonic customs: “so the Arabians goto lodges and come home late, just as you do,” said Mra. Mannerly to her husband, who was of a convivial turn of mind. “I don’t know,” he stammered. ‘-But I know they do, for I read in @ paper that when an Arabian enters. his house he removes his shoes and keeps on his hat. That’s what you do when you come home late from the lodge.”—Teras Siftings. A newly married couple from. the country boarded a Philadelphia street car the other day. When the car became crowded the bridegroom gallantl@arose and offered his seat to a lady. “Oh, Wilyuin,” said the bride in alarm, “are you goin’ to leave me?” “No,” “I'm goin’ to hold on to one of them leathers. , Wilyum,” said she, “let me hold on too,” and as she arose she tossed her head scornfully at the lady who had taken her lover's seat.—N. Y. Tribune. . When a man aims his gun at a cat, and pulls the trigger, and the cap simply enaps, it mizht be likened to the frizzes on a fashionable maid- en’s forehead. It is a false bang. (P. S.—It may be supposed that it required several days’ severe mental labor to produce the foregoing— but it didn’t. The office boy evolved it while we were footing up the election returns.)—Wor- ristown Herald. There was a little story told by Mr. A. 8. Sol- omons, in his recent address before the Y. M. H. A., which will interest the children. When I was abroad, he said, a'short time ago, I received a letter from a young lady—a young lady three and a half years old and unmarried—accompa- nied by a translation, wherein the wish was ex- pressed that I bring her home a large Indian rubber dog of the “pug” species. I complied with her reasonable request and she was de- lighted, especially because of its rare ability to squeak when pressed todoso. While handliag it in her nce a few days ago, and finding it impossible to get a sound out of it, she took it from me, examined it critically for a few mo- ments, and then looking up at me with that earnestness and sincerity of expression 80 pecu- always be hot, | either, ‘Time was up, and the starter blew his whistle, 38 liar te children, said: **Do you know, I think a Puggy has swallowed his squeak.”—Jewish Boston Hozsz Cans. ‘He was a New Yorker—for the first time in Boston. He has strolled through Tremont ana Washington streets, and finaliy brought up at the East Boston Ferry. There he stood for five minutes or #0, looking at the steady streams of horee cars pouring through all the neighbor- hood, and then he spake:— “Well, Igive it up. Boston's elected by heavy Jority, New York ain't » patch on it,.nor on horse cara. Never saw so many horse cars, i ; town. Lortrlas youre wanting for socks and for| “They do jump a some time,” answered 1h” ead the New Yorker, enterisga iit 28789. 28930. es 29403. OFFICIAL DRAWING OF THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, SINGLE NUMBER. CLASS “‘L.” st New Orieans, La, on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Nth, 1804. Sebetee eae 3 eeeeeee SEEEE IEEE eebevedeeteseeseetecen¥ eee: BeeenenSteesde ee Seaee te oe seeeesesete: FREE 50 50 00 50 Sess. este ee SESeES! oar 100 bats oo bangs. 00 35168. U0 55207. 50 55744. 00 55; 50 55805. (00 53056. 00 56399 50 56.97 50 66839, ‘300 5637 avo Bea09. uy +50 200 88707... 50 200 BswuR.., 78 ‘oo 88871. cov ‘200 BB 994" 109 200 89209. 200 HE ; i APPROXIMATION PRIZES, 750 1302 - £00 190 19023. | 9. 750 13030 § 00 Tuinbers endine with £0, Buse of the number drawing the owe is The subserit ibers, having superviend the single num- Yer drawing, Class “L,” by Louisiana State Lottery, TS Which Were this ced in the wheel, with rieans, La., this Tuesday, G. T. BEAUREGARD, Ri 3. A RAKLY, Canmissionens, Prizes cashed in full w No, 68,980 draws cap ton, San al prize . Harrodsbing, hy al pris #000, sold in New tnd New Orleans and St Louisiana state SE-CAPITAL PRIZE. $150,003 su pervie then Commissioners, UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated in 1808 f; for educational and Of 81,000.09'—to whi Das since been added, years by the Lawislat Purposes—with a capita! e fund of over $550,000) an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made apart of the present State Constitution adopted December 2, A. D. 1879, Ire GRAND SIS@LE Nearmen Drawtnos will take plac monthly. It never scales or postpones. Lak at the following Distribution 175TH GRAND MONTHLY i UAL DRAWING, NEW ORLEANS, . 1884, TUESD MBER 16, Under the supervision and tinanagement of Gen. GT. BEAURFGARD. of Louisiana, and Gen. JUBAL A, EARLY, of Virgin’ 88- CAPITAL PRIZE $150,000, a ‘Notice—Tickets are Tep Dollars only. Halw Sy aati Fithe @2 Tenth ei Saves § LIST OF PRIZES, 2 Capital Prize of $150,000. 1Grand Prize of 50,000. 4 Grand Prize of 320,000. 2 Lore Prizes! .. of 9,000. APPROXIMATION PRIZES, 100 Approximation Prizes of $200 100 do, lov ao. 0. | 2279 Prizes, amounting to... ssessstueenenenne D220 Application for rates to clubs should be made ouly to | the office of the Company in New Oricars, For iurthe: informat on write clearly, giving full ad. Gress. Postal Notes, Express Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordinury letter. Currency by all sums of $5.and upwards at our expense) ad- eae Oveans, Ta, Make P.O. Money Orders payable and address Reg- ie P.O. 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