Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1884, Page 3

F RELIGIOUS NOTES. AND ELSEWHERE. WiILES OF A CREOLE PA. Jack Lafiance’s Experience in New Orleans. Acorrespondent of the Detroit Free Press tells the following experience of a friend, Jack | Laflance, in the French portion of New Orleans, | where Creoles dwell: Jack met the beautiful | Melanie at a soiree dansante on Rue Bons En- fants. Being a good dancer and also a firet-class waiter, he was Mile. Melanie's partner for many figures, and by the judicious use of the cream andcake gained the good willof Melanie’s mamma. An invitation to call next Sunday cucrcu — Rey. J. W. Smith, of Harford circuit M. burch, formerly of this city, has been qu recently. — Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin, formerly of the First Congregational churei ot t has returned ns over in Orange Valley, sonof Rev. Dr. J. J. Murray, who was obliged to retinqnish preach- Ing in the ¢ ‘own and Mt. Pleasant M. P. oy : churches on account of Il health, died last | ¥8s accepted, and the visitor then entreated to Monday at his fathi residence In Baltimore. “call again.” Jack called upon the Sunday aes , : following and was s0 cordially received that he oe cof eer pn On the third cail Melanie's ducting a revival meetin im on the shoulder aud said: — The Second Presbyterian chareh, of “M'sieu Lafiance I would lak fo’ see you one minute,” and led him to the diningroom. Once there the old gentieman produced a de- canter and said: “Mon ame tek some cognac. You will fin’ it My todder buy it from Cavaroc. Aha! toza. N.Y editice. — Rev has become the @ handsome church , is erecting » C. Needham, the evangetist, pastor of the Delaware Avenue Ww | ver’ fine. Baptist : ton, Del. ou lak it. eh? | Tek elgar_neyah min, thass n areal Havana, shuah. Now, fren’ Lailance, BAe B.D. of Perth Ain | you lak fo know fo' wat T'want see you—eh M’sieu_ Laflance, I have noti: at my daught atten- r”—here the luckiess Jack as pastor of the D. Saratoga, — The | began to protest. “Oh, lam not wepieeee: a N. e rge Hi. | de" young man! My family, seh, 1s one of the Bayh EST bes in the cits. Yes, seh, ve are twenty-fi9 7 Se es coozin with Jean Baptist St. Louis De Lorne, — The Episeop: cilof Nebraska has again whose gran’fodder slap that Spanish canaille, | O'Reilly, on the chik, a hondred year ago, as | you will an’ wrote down by Gayarre. But, my | frien’, when those Yankee r-r-rascals tek’ ou’ | plantations an’ ou’ nigroes, seh, we was force to leave our place, seh, an’ come yeh an’ work, yes. An’ ami Laflance, I do not objec’ to my daughtah choose you fo’ husban’ no.” the unfortunate Jack broke in_ with: sir, you are mistaken. I did not to your daughter.” The old gentle- n bristied up. “My de’ eah, I love my tam'ly. s my only thing yeh on earth. You have ed Melanie Sunday after Sunday. You have elected Dr. 1. of Detroit, a3 bishop, time he will accept. v. Dr. Robert H. Chap‘aan, a prominent minister of t hern Presoyterian church, died at his In Asueville, ith her, ce with her, with her, ine avee promise my dai ah! They n Michigan. is no otheh c’ose lef a man of h | ah, gah, than sdot. Ken- | to ma’y he . berts, who yes, sah, to ma'y hei blurted out Jack, “Tam o1 pnee | is not mber 10th, to | But annoauced. | yeh, You come live ou have nice time. 7 n he get ou F-T-Ti ng inan wat mos’ anybody come back to the salon I janie [have grant yo' d an’ to tell you de trut’. ye y sopprise, aghtah love you, ah! t Leenarite y nearing iy bell com - Loui: L she lak ti bnouncement next et one li'll ring, yes, an’ Me- next mont. I know you :. Allons, let us tell them is tled to the parlor before he could say Jack Robinson. And though, a3 it happened, Melanie has of Richmond van tour. ° S31 left hia | PFoven an exeeilent wife, there are many who Dr: Wm Dean, who in 1894 left his | sre not. Melanies, and itisto put our velting Hadise Y., in | friends next w 3 onary | the wiles of desi z. and has | con returned to | Lafiane ‘The Ato: This theo such th of matter, is now hel also, number of differ ofthe Missionary so- | Which he supposes aa ie stance to be composed. tot x Creole pai fish this trae story of Jack s courtship. —————— The modern ‘etius, in a lim- mentary chemical sub- It id have first suz nd a theory so different from what the It has been thouzht by some a At of the otes afloat in rove at once at the rea- how jus t Lucretius’ rea- ve the get ‘al principle din such propor ced to the c for wi k in pieces the nature of ng on them would be changed. arth composed of old worn-out par- les would not be of th ne nature and tea 2 now nh water bh composed of particles in the bezinning. And, there nature may be lasting, the changes o things are to be placed only in variou hew associations and motions ” Balfour Stewart age that might have come from Lu- mself Ww s: “A simple ele- being, and en- privilege of remaining unaltered and affected by the powerful blows It against it.” Thus we are jus- ng of the atomsas “the found: t for a conside! us to wake on certain days ot yhour, to take the first trai th esh fore, thi corpo} each the h for a portion of jong before day ‘0 that in order to 1 ¥ changes of matter, ever remain “unbroken and ep. | unworn.”—The Atomic Theory of Lucretius con- ation we were apt to | frasted with Modern Doctors of Science. st an hour or more | . and allowing ourseives eos : Policemen in Germany. saftersards until| What sort of a is the average German etting up. Whatever | policeman? Well. he is net very handsome— have been Gcone | policemen generally are not noted for their we com. | beauty anywhere. He is straight in figure, did not in- | muscular in build, and fs evidently selected on ous reckoning | account of his physical powers ard athletic ‘the effort to | qualities. Though wh rnote of the | to have these attributes is not very clear, be- ie | cause no man ever thinks of resi a police- n. | man In Germany—even the few drunkea men not being fighters. _ It is amusing to see a Ger inga | up. hism an policeman tak- ‘oner throuzh the streets to the loc! ‘The policeman never thinks of hander , hor of even gra T For en hi by a sort at moment generally in ly Fesigned to his ce uniform, too, in Germany is a Like everything else, it partakes I ofthe militar: is aheavy es around th nt with a ring on itssa migned f kept with e zes. ornamented d rays, and nob—the abbre- es the top ofthe mili- ing of the officers is of dark-blue cloth, the coat being cut like the legendary clerical coat, high neck, with a standing collar ornamented gold or silver lace, according to rank. B: ttons confine it closely to the bedy from the chin to the hips, and are | displayed on the jarge turred-np cuffs and on the rather long skirts, so that the police officer Is rather brilliant when the sun shines on \y Just now of havin, ‘ardou, who is that the latest | ch the wounds ui 8 that M. Sardou cts, an Egyptian Women by the Nile. From Letter to Irish Times, The only primitive costumes we saw was on the first day after leaving Assouan on the left bank—the country of the Kalabseh—where the | Yeung ladies stimpky wore round the loins a fringe composed of thin leather strips. The married ladies were clothed to the feet. Cu- | Fously enough, the women on both banks hate or dread being looked at through a glass. One 1 saw ran away, screaming as hard as she could; others at once cover their blanching faces with their hands. Itis afact not generally known that dark-skinned ladies blush white. ize you according to nm extending all over the east, even among the Greeks of Constantinople, by hold- r others! On hepin, who could | and who re- y of contact to which red to apply me and shut a right to do s al urn te Paris, ause of ruin to “Well I wit notwithstanding, have done they had om an ctehes | 8€ Up their hand, palm outward, and Jerking it r toh g y are wile wretches | towards This, 1 um told, means: “May five devils seize you!” If they wish to empha- He ademas size the spell, they put up ten fingers. Atsome villages, encouraged by the soldiers, who flang biscuits from the decks, lads and girls ran fran- z, Mary?” asked a Somer- wife. tically along the banks, scrambling for them, to ou @ erazy quilt,” she rep the great indignation ot the land-owners, over 2 on ite” whose crops they ran riot. In vain these col- ored gentlemen stood in the way, flinging mud t wouldn't be} and stones at them. They serambled by, and that needed | Continued the chase as long as biscuit was flung. igh he proceeded | 761 Amos, Jr., arraigned In Boston on the chai ith a halfburned | of rraud, mytet ction with @ pension claim, Was held yesterday for Urlal. to any | es of the universe,” which, amid all the | ie | course of his « | called to the box. | dudes in general, | class of male beings who paid undue and unne- HE WAS CALLED A DUDE. A Queer Suit a Montreal Court. The recorder’s court has rarely been filled with such a large assemblage of dudes, law students and policemen as on the occasion ot the trial of George Bricault, law student, on the charges brought by Mr. Allan Hamilton, of the court house, of unlawfully loitering and obstructing the footpath, and further for call- ing him a dude, says the Montreal Star. The plaintiff, who possessed the services of Mr. Driscoll as counsel, was certainly an object of great attention In court. He was attired ina tight-fitting black trock coat and black pants, wore regulation gaiters, stand-up collar of con- siderable dimensions, while his tout-ensemble was completed by a handsome black silk hat | which he nervously handied during his exam- | ination. On the whole his “get-up” from an English point of view, was not very frequently seen on the streets of American cities. After Mr. Driscoll had laid the case before the court, the complainant took the stand and recited his tronbles to the somewhat sympa- thizing and jocular listeners. It appeared that during ‘the past summer Mr. Hamilton had been subjected to considerable annoyance and insult from a group of young men who generally congregated in the vicinity of the Recommest buildings on St. Gabriel street. he particular grievance, however, which he desired to iay before the court occurred on Fri- day, the 26th ult. When quietly proceeding along the street he encountered three young men, and had walked a short distance when he overheard the remark, “There goes the dude.” Believing the insult was meant for him- self. he deliberately retraced his steps, to obserye a number of the group springing through a window into the office of the gevern- ment buildings. Suspecting that he had dis- covered the offender, he entered, and froma conversation which occurred with the clerks learned that the guilty party was Bricault. In so far ashe was concerned he was unable to account for this act of hostility, except that it Was undertaken through a spirit of envy or jealousy; again, perhaps it was due to the ob- Jection ot the accused to plaintiff's wearing 3 white helmet. The action of the clerk, who disappeared when the insult occurred, le could only ascribe to fear. ation of the witness was then claire, who acted as counsel for rstand by the term w, aw. I_am not here to to relate facts. " honor desired to know th term. ness said that loud, vulgarly ssly aitempts to . His walk was The dude usu- ridiculous aced by the style a tended hisa of the crown oftiee, in the ence, thought that dude was ntemptuous word sitness testitic pearance of N in which he ri not a ci Anot ing that there was noth- . Hamilton to enti- tle yliment. He believed that the p san English gentleman in word. Mr. . Culson. of the Gazette, was next He related his experience ot They were, he believed, a cessary attention to their ou! and to be called one is certainly a decided ex- pression of contempt. In regard to the ques- tion as to whether Mr. Hamilton would pass for a dude, he declined to repiy. smile the witness wore, however, lett the court to draw his own inference. Atter the ex rd appearance, amination of several other wit- ivered his judgment. He ent authori- ed. nt atoms, from each of | the | | engagem ven that the dete n guilty ¢ or obstruct from the fact t hewas Mr. Hamilton, who. ay bravely, will pro been clearly ng the foot- ated inan open eared to take ably carry the case pat window to a higher cour = wae ae Breaking an gagement by Tele= phon From the St. f he-Dermorrat. Tiere isa good story told ofthe uneven course of true loye wich will end happily on reday next in the marriage of young Tom Williams to Miss Susie MeMullin, representa- tives of two wealthy Kentucky families who oc- cupy a prominent place inthe fashionable so- ciety of San Fran The young man is the son of Gen. V ims, now of Stockton, but formerly attorney general of Calitornia. thonsands of yuin vailey, and his son is known duke of Union Island” from one ot his father’s possessions. He is a great ro. ofthe taleand fell In love with her, his fatter refused to listen to his plan of proposing to the gil. Her mother was equally wroth at the sugzestion, for it seems there lias been a feud between the head of the Williams house and Mrs. MeMullin for many years, and southern teuds are never settied by marriage. Old McMullin was a wholesale grocer, and died years ago,leaving a large property to his widow nd his three daughters. ‘The girls have had ny admirers, and when the mother summari- end to the relations between her and Miss Susie devised an ingenious plan wing the young man again under her power and flouting the heads of both houses. So she beamed on another admirer, a young lawyer named Hanlon, and within a week after her mother’s ultimatum she was off with the old love and on with the new. Her engagement with Hanlon was duly an- nounced, and, of course. caused a storm of rage in the breast of the doughty young Duke of Union Island. He came down to this city, and soon the gossips had the rare story that Miss Susie was being escorted to all places of tash- ionable resort by the young scion of chivalry, while the engaged lover was working away like n in the courts, and only saw her once ce a week. The rumors finally reached or letic | Franton’s ears, and he sent a note demanding an | he should be requirea | Holy weitee: explanation, on pain of breaking the engage- ment. ‘The'ingenious young iiss whose plans | had been successful, and who had once more | | become e azed to the duke, did not take the trouble to write an answer. She souglit the convenient telephone. ranz up her dis- gruntied legal lover, and shouted at him over the wire: “The enzagement’s broken.” He had just emerged from a law book, didn't recog- nize the voice, and responded sharply : “What Whothedeuccare you?” Where- upon there came a shrill treble, several notes higher and sharper than befor well enough it’s Suste. I tell you you may con- ement broken.” The Duke and Marshall m this clty, and the sesto be one of the society events of the season, A Costly P From the Austin Dispatch. In the last few weeks of the war, a confede- rate. serving under Lee, wrote home to his father that he was almost barefooted, and com- pletely discouraged. As soon as the old man received the letter, he mounted his mule and set off ata gallop, but was soon halted by an acquaintance, who called out: “Hello! has there has been another fight?” “Not as I've heard of, but I've gota letter from Cyrus.” “What does Cyrns say?” “He's out Oe ao and clean discouraged.” “And where ¥e going?” “Down to Abner Smith's to borry $700,000 to send to Cyrus to get a cheap pair of shoes, and we're going to write him a long letter and send him a box o’ pills, and tell him to hang on to the last; tor, if Cyrus gets low-spirited and be- gins to let go, the infernal Yanks will be riding ere us afore we kin back a mule outer the n.” “That's so—that’s so!” nodded the other. “I kin let you have the money myself. as well as not. I was a saving up to buy three plugs 0° tobacker and a box o’matches all to once, but the army musn’t go barefut when it only takes be to $800,000 to buy a purty guod pair o’ shoes.” oo ir of Boot, ——_—___+e.—_____ Squelching Mix Harrah, Fron: the Philadelphia Cull “Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” he yelled, rash- ing into the house and throwing up his hat. “He's elected, m’dear; he’s elected. Hurrah!” “Who's elected?” asked his wife, with a dan- gerous gleam in her eye. “Why, Cleveland, of course. Hurrah! tiger! Whoop!” “Well,” responded the good woman, “now that your candidate is at last successful, I wish you would send to him at once for a barrel of Hour, a few hams, a bushel or two of potatoes, and perhaps he might as well throw in some coffee and tea and sugar while he is about it.” “What?” gasped her husband. “Weare out of everything. There's not a era% in the house. Hurry, now.” “Why—why, my dear, I don’t know Mr. Cleveland. He would not respond to“any such request.” . “Theo, what are you hurrahing about?” He concluded that he dida’t know. He} acres of fine wheat land in | has the reputation of a hard-headed oungster, whom not even western whisky | seri affect. He was so wild, fact, thit when he met the heroine HOW SPONGES SRE CAUGHT. Slimy Masses of “iver” Which Be- come Clean and Dry. Naseau Letter in New York Times,” The sponging fleet is composed of small schooners ranging from ten to forty tons, or even smaller. Each schooner carries from four to six men, and makes périodical trips out to tha Sponge beds. Around Abaco, Andros Island, and Exuma are some of the principal fisheries; there are hardly any of value in the immediate vicinity of Nassau. The men do not dive tor them, as sponge fishers in the Mediterranean do, but use long handled things like oyster tongs to fish them out of the water. They do not “go it blind” and probe in the mud like oystermen; in this clear water they can see every inch or the bottom, and make up their minds what sponges to take, and seize hold of each one carefully, detach it from the rock to which It clings, and lift it into the boat. They are not the nice, delicate and light-colored things we see in shop windows. When first taken from the water they look and feel more like a piece of raw liver than any- thing else. They are slippery, slimy, ugly, and smell bad. Their color is generally a sort of brown, very much like the color of gulf weed, only alittle darker. Most people are taught, inthe days of their freshness and innocence, that the sponge is an animal, and when they visit Nassau they expect pore s to See Sponges swimming about the harbor, if, indeed they do not surprise some of the more athletic ones climbing trees or making little excursions over the hills. But they are disappointed when they learn that the animal part disappears entirely long before the sponge reaches a market, and that the part we use for mopping up fluids is only his house, the many-roomed residence in which he sheltered himself while at sea-—a regu- lar masine tenement house, built with great skill and architectural precision, in which many of the little beasts lived and died. <Atter the sponges reach the deck of the vessel they are cleaned and dried and go through a curing pro- cess. They then become the sponges of com- merce, and. are divided Into eight varieties in the Bahamas. Some, called “lambs wool,” or ‘“‘sheeps wool,” areas fine and soft as silk, and very strong. Others, although large and perhaps tough, are coarse and comparatively worthless. There are, too, boquet sponges, silk sponges, wire sponges and finger and glove sponges. The process fer curing them is to keep them on deck for two or three days. which “kills” them. Then they are putina wl and kept there from eight to ten ys, and areafterwards cleaned and bleached in on the beach. When they reach Nas- cots are cut off and the sponges are for exportation. Nearly key in Nassau understands how to do this trimming part. The symmetry of the sponge must be preserved as much as possible, and if there are any places where coral 5: has adhered to the sponge, those places must be eut out, for no amount of skill or care will get rid ofsandin a sponge, and the sand is sure to seratch anything it touches. The trimming is generally done very expertly, so that a novice would hardly see that a sponge had been cut. ——— soe z= Movements of Actors. Frank Bangs, asthose who have seen him only on the stage may be interested to know, isa middle-aged man, of the portly, white-hair and ruddy-face style. He is sufficiently different from his footlight self to be a generally unrecoz- nized lounger about town. A majority of America’s well-known actors are now in the city, waiting until after the Presidential cam- paign shall be concluded vefore essaying to get the public's consideration. In an audience this week ina theater which was willing to fill itaelt on other than cash terms, the theatrical people werein an actual majority. The assembiage was like that of a “professional matinee,” and theex- hibition of grotesque millinery-—-that strong chat- acteristic ofactresses—was quite startling. Onall sides were familiar faces, intersnersed with those which,though sfrange to me, were none the lessto be identified as belonging to the profession. The lack of whiskers in the men and the plenty of paint in the women left no room fer doubt. They were members of the army of Thespians who at most seasons rove te and fro throughout the land. An incident illustrated their tull ac- Erie Bayley was acting the title role in “The Colonel.” “I donot know whether he was flustrated by the kind of audience which he had to tace. or had a cold, or is permanently pos- sessed of a hot potato in his mouth. It is cer in that his utterance was thick, mumbled. two-thirds unintell le. He entered one of the scenes briskly, stood in the center of the stage, and delivered a sentence in his wo manner. ‘Change co’s-f; Ville-t’min’t-f freshm’ts,” was interpolated by somebody loudiy enough to be heard over half the hous words transformed poor Bayley instant vividly into the ad brakeman, with articulate ant nients at way stations, so el 1 tourist within he Inthe lobby of anoth en the acts ot Italian opera, there were by chance some curiously related persons. The manazer ofthe company sauntered about.a blonde beauty in exquisite evening dress— James Barton Key. He lias now resumed the use ofhis whole name. Previously he was in the bills of comic opera performances and far- cical pieces as James Barton only. He is the son ofthe Key whom Gen. Sickles notoriously killed in Washington aquarter ofa century In- the same throng was Sickles. He is a hale, handsome, bearded crutches instead too. man, who walked with of replacing his war-lost leg with a cork one. He has inherited and manifolded wealth, and resides in town, managing the real estate which constitutes his fortune. The woman who in- yolved him in a tragedy died many years ago. She became intemperate after her disgrace, and her forgiving husband could not effect her re- form. Do you recall the Richardson murder of a period ten years later? Albert D. Richardson, a leading journalist and author, was shot in the Tribune office by & drunken lawer named Mac- Farland on account of jealousy. Horace Gree- ey was related Soclally and in business to the persons concerned, and the trial of MacFarland, ending in his acquittal. was reported by the page inthe newspapers of the day. The murderer rapidly became a sot, a frequent prisoner in the police courts and finally died in a western hospi- tal. Well, a strikingly handsome reproduction of Albert D. Richardson was in the lobby in the person of Leander Richardson, a journalist; and one of the important witnesses, who saw the tragedy as an office boy, was present in Dan Froham, the theatrical manager. A third fam- ous homicide was represented by Edward 8. Stokes, the slayer of Jim Fisk. He retains all of the good looks which enabled him to divide the favors of Josie Mansfield with the original partner of Jay Gould. His family was all but ruined financially by the expense of his two trials, but he has made money rapidly since his Oh, youknow | cmermence from prison and is thought to be at least half a millionaire. There were no signs of former shadows upon the present fashionable diversion of these men.—New York Letter in Rochester Herald. ee eg ree Wonien and Politics. From the Poughkeopsie Eagle, Women talk as oddly as they throw a stone. Here is a sample: “Good morning, Mrs, Dusenbury.” “Good morning, Mrs, Sullivan.” “T see that Cleveland has a plurality over St. John this morning.” “Indeed, well?” “Yes, and my husband says that Blaine may carry the state.” “You don’t sav 80; well. I declare! John told me last night when he came home that they couldn't tell anything about it until after the electoral college was built.” “Now, you don’t. I wish the college was done, because I don’t want to wait much lozger, How is it going to be built?” “I don’t know how; ‘pears to me he said It was all done but putting the canvassing boards on.” “Jane's husband sald she thought Toledo and Henderson [local candidates] would be elected, WINTER WEATHER Wispo, * z Cm tae Seasonable Hints for Passing the Coming Months With Tolerable Com- fort, From the Philadelphia Timea, From the present time to May dwellers in these parts must exist under very unfavorable conditions, whiclf, to a great extent, are beyond our control. We may, however, reduce to a minimum our chances of being affected injuri- ously thereby by attention to the following points, viz.: Our food and drink, our clothing, our habits and the ventilation and warming ot our houses, the gist of the whole matter being the steady maintenance of the nor ody tem- perature. How we shall warm our houses is not more Important than how warm they shail be kept. This is readily told. In.the apartment used asa. sitting room’see that the mercury remains about seventy degrees, rather below than above this. In the sleeping apartment sixty degrees isa very comfortable temperature. A higher degree of heat than this would be quite admissible where there are younz children. The ventilation of rooms in which human be- ings must remain hours at a time is a very im- pt matter and one that is much neglected yy individuals and builders as well. Really the majority of the houses in this city are about on a par in this particular witn dry goods boxes, and separate rooms can only be kept any where near reasonably ventilated by raising the w dow sash one inch from the bottom and lower- ing ita like distance from the to By this means the air In the room is constantly re- newed and drafts are avoided, which is also a desirable point. The effect of muscular activity on the prodne- tion of body heat is well known, and this makes it appear that an active habit is the best for the winter season, which is a fact for more reasons than the one just given. For winter wear woolen fabrics are best be- cause of their pliability and of their lightness as compared with the weight of cotton tabrics that wena afford the same protection against the cold. The substances to be eaten and drank in win- ter should be used hot as possible and should contain a maximuin amount of fat. Hot milk, beef tea, chocolate and soups are especially well adapted as foods for winter use, and now fat fries of oysters, sausage, etc., are adm! a greater extent than at otier times. At this season liver oils, such of that of the cod, are very useful to those who can stomach such mat- ters. oe ‘The C}d Man’s Guile, From the Burlington Hawkeye, “Papa,” said Amelia, when the morning sun stood high in the heavens, say about 83°<ast bid. “Papa,” she said, accenting hea on the pa, ‘did you tear William's coat last night and hit him across the shoulder blades with a win- daughter!” exclaimed the old gentleman, in utter an ment. 3 id, accent same as before, “do not attempt te deceive me. Did you throw him and fire the door mat after “My child, my child,” he said. in pleading | tones, ‘am I your father, or am I a tough of the Blood tub gang?” “Did you tellhim that if you caught him around here again before Lent you'd rip out his Inngs with a nail grab?” “My daughter,” said the oldman tenderly, “T did not see William when newent away. I can- not be at the office all day and then sit up all night. But I met him at the door when he came and bade him welcome for your sake, al- ‘though you know I love him not. and for your sake Iasked him to come often and stay late. This was all that passed between us, ny dar- ling. Go; you must rest, you were up late last eve and these are nervous fancies that distract your brain.” And the father kissed her tenderly. The girl went, but her face was a study fc house, sign and ornamental painter and ¢ She nodded her head thrice, aad her lips were | set firmly asthe adamantine post holes that strew the brooks in Vallombrosa. “Ah, ha,” she said, ‘William Granger, you have lied to me. and about my own father, that ht tide over the church fair and theater Until Lent, indeed! Wait until I see ist once more.” theoid merchant, chuckling merrily on his way to the street car, said: “I have cooked that young man’s goose. He may come back once more, bat he'll never try it again, an’ ny daughter has not lost the temper slie used to have.” It is hard to fight the fates, = ses Saturany Smiles. A “Clerical Error:” Dr. Burchard. If you would be wealthy, get upon a mule. You will soon find you are better off.— Watson's Tihuminator. It is asserted that St. John never has any- thing stronger than water on his table. He evidently doesn’t use western butter.— Yonkers Statesman. One of the latest recipes: dude’s boot you are like! jelly.—San Francisco Post. A pluk of propriety: Ethel—“Oh, mamma, T've got such a pain!” Mother- Where dear?” Ethel (a refined child)—“In my sash, mamma.” London Judy. Khartum must be practising on roller skates. We hear that it has fallen again.—Norristown Heraid. The average sizeof the American family is 5.04. The decimal probably represents the dude, but the statisticians have got it rather large.— Boston Transcript. “I think,” mused Gail Hamilton, who is said to be working a pair of slippers for Dr. Bur- chard, “I think tat Samson's feat of slaying a thousand people with the jaw-bone of an ass is totally eclipsed.” —Brookiyn Eagle. “These firemen must be a frivolous set,” said Mr. Spilikins, who was reading a paper. “Why so?” “I read in the paper that after the fire was under control, the firemen played all night on the ruins. Why didn’t they go home and go to bed like sensible men, instead ofromping about like children?’—Texas Sift- ings. “Please give me something to eat. had a warm mouthful in a week.” “Here, ny good man, is a plate of nice hot soup tor you,” replied the cook. “Hot soup!” he howled. ‘Haven't you got anything else? ‘This makes the fifth plate of hot soup I've had inthe last hour. It is not healthy to put so much soup on an empty stomach.”"—New York Star. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” is what the lad remarked to his father whorefused to take him to the theater.— Yon- kers Statesman, Indignant tourist to the hotel manager who has just presented his bill: “See here! Youhave charged me fifty ceutimes for writing paper, and you know very well that you have not fur nished me ascrap!” ‘*But, Monsieur, it is for the paper on which yourgbillis made out.’— Cl cago Daily Hotel Rep “You've got my seat, sir,” sald aman on a Texas railroad, who had left his seat for a mo- ment. “There is nothing to show that you have retained this seat.” “Look up there! There is my hat box on the rack right over this seat.” “Well, then you sit up there on your hat box, if that’s where you have retained your seat.”"— Texas Siftings. The rooster has one advantage over the tur- key—he may go through the racket and still live, while the turkey’s doom is sealed.—Cin- cinnati Times-Slar. Belva Lockwood is a member of the Washing- ton bar. It is said that opposing counsel got over a difficulty by alluding to her as “our sister—in law.”—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. peat oh al How the Brazilian Eags Oranges, Rio Letter to Pittsburg Telegraph. The differentiation of development ‘asserts itself even In devouring oranges. In the region of the Rio Amazonas it Is one fway, and in the region of the Rio Query it isanother. Here the If you on a to make eftf's foot I've not but law, you can’t tell anything about Jane, Recut she don’t know anything about poli- ics.” “No, Is'pose not; now, Sarah Ann is right the other way; she says her husband believes Blaine and Logan will be elected.” “Ain't it funny?” “Ain't it?” ood day.” “Good Cay.” —__—_—__.-.___ ‘The Hoston Girl Felt no Thrill. ‘From the Boston Journal, During the first appearance of Henry Irving as Louls XIV in Boston, alady found herself seated next to a party of three intensely typicai Boston girls, who observed the development of the play with that freserved, serene and critical aspect for which their class is noted. The lady was more enthusiastic than they, and at various points which the actor made was not chary of applause. At last, when a particularly strong situation had been met and mastered, she ex- claimed "sotto voce: ‘‘Ah, he is, indeed, (aes The three young women who sat beside her im- mediately put up their eye glasses and looked ather ina quiet, but wee way,and the nearest of the party, in acalm and yery distinct voice, said: “Pardon me, but I have not yet ex- perienced any thrill.” Afterward, in relating this incident, the lady said: “I had in my dress at the time a long shawl-pin, and I was awfully attempted to jab it into the cold creature’s arm, to see If she would feel any ‘thrill’ at that.” eater begins by transfixing with a fork the vegetable globe in the neighborhood of the south pole. Then, with a sharp case knife(which is uot a cheese knife, as might be inferred by the etymologist) he makes through the rind a circular cut, which may be likened to the ant- arctic circle. Next he slices off the whole of the arctic zone. Then, cutting from north to south, he slices off the rind in meridians from one polar circle to the other. The rind thus having been removed, and the luscious sphere being still transfixed and held in his left hand before him, the eater, with the knife In the right, slices off the tropical regionsand puts the pieces in his mouth on the flat side or pierced with thepoint of the cutting instrument. In which operation a sixth of the substance of the fruit is wasted in removing the rind and another sixth In cutting away the core; but with the best of oranges by retail at less than a cent apiece, no matter, +o, ——_ The question as to the habitability of the ptanets has lately been discussed with much ability by Prof. McFarland. His conclusions are that, life on their surface on the earth; that Mars Chet all telescopic and Spectroscopic probabilities of conditions compatible with fe as we see it; that the earth, certamnly for has ‘been covered With multifa- no t iu respect to Venus and evidence or kno itself; ‘and that the satellites are not fitted for such life a8 the earth exhibit \¢ moon, in par- ticular, having no water and no sible to | ODDS AND ENDS AT ONE-HALF THEIR ORIGINAL VALUE, You will find at our “Odds and Ends” counter Rem- nants of desirable Dress Goods, which will be sold at ‘one-half of original price. About 15 Ladies’ Newmar- kets marked down to $2.8 piece. ‘These numbers ranged in price from $7 to $15, but they are “Odd” sizes, and cannot remain in 0% eto stock of reelar goods. ree dozen Brown.Grven and Gray Ladies’ Jerseys at ‘0 cis., former price $1.2 Onr Great Cloak Sale is still the talk of the town, and in order to supply the great demand, we were obliged to replenish our assortment, 03870 Ladies’ Newmarket, rth rey pd nd Chfis, stands a Ko parison wi y - 1 Cafis, stands a gocel comp ath any $10 gar- Children’s Havelocks for school wear, of wool cloth, trimmed with plush, at 2.75 and up. Children’s Costs, tr gs abovs, at $1.7 Band up, a Wovea Corsets, 5 hooks, 14- DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT, Few Tnvolces of Blankets and Comforts, I case of ray Wool Blaukets, $2.25, A.complete stock of Comfortabies from $1.25 to St each. Just received another invoice of Striped Jersey Flan- nels at 69c. a yard, 2 CASHMERES—CASHMERES, ‘BO pieces all-wool Colored Cashmeres at $73ge. per yd. At BAUM'S, 416 7th street northwest, Tae Misrrr Sronr, CORNER 10ru AND F, 220 Sells a good Newmarket Overcoat at $10, worth $18 | An elegant Nowmarket at $15, worth $25, A fine Chinchilla Surtout at #20, worth $35, A splendid Chinct; 815. la D. B. Coat and Vest at $8, worth Afew more of those fine Prince Albert Suits at £20, worth $35. Agood Overenat in licht, meaium or heavy weight at 87.50, worth $12, Splerdid Overcoats at $3.75, 210.25, a1 817.75, $19.50 and 321, fully 33 per cent less than pr at any other store in the city. | Business Si Pocket, Black, brown. datilia, w away Suits at 212; cheap at $20. colors, cheap, Incnificent line of Boys’ Suits and Overcoats from $2.25 up. Gossamers and Rubber Coats at a sacrifice to close. Immenee varicty of Odd Pants, $1.25 and up. | | Fine Black Broadcloth Suits at $20, worth 849, at THE MISFIT STORE, n19 COR. 10rm AND F STREETS. Mestre Axo Mesicar, Mencnanprse. MRS. HENRIETTE C. METZEROTT, Faving purchased the entire interest of Mr EDW. | DROP. in the firm of W.G. METZEROTT & CO, has removed to lanse and commcdious new store, No, 903 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, ‘Where the following instruments may be found: HARDMAN, HAINES BROS., PROM. CC. BE: KC CHALL & WENDELL nowned CLOUGH & Wi A full stock of MUSIC stant, A SPECIALTY INT Having nd 4 MUSICAL WORKS con- nm hend, ING AND REPAIRING Kiwe's Parace. GREAT SLAUGHTER IN CLOAKS AND MILLIN NOW IS YOUR CHANCE FOR BARGAINS. BEAD KING'S PALACE PRICES. Flegant DOLMANS, NEWMARKETS, RUSSIAN CIRCULARS at €5, 86, 87 aud $3, All styles of JACKETS at $4, $4.50, $5, $5.50and 36, 160 SILK and SATIN WRAPS at $9, #10 and $12, SILK PLUSH GARMENTS below market value, 2.000 Misses? and Children's HAVELOCKS and NEW- MALRKLTS, a mest magnificent line, at $2, 83, $4, 35 and $6. 5.000 Wool and Freuch FELT HATS a¢S0e., 7c. $1 and $1.25. 2,000 Children's S0c., 75e., $1 and $1 BIRDS, PLUMES, WINGS, TIPS, RIBPONS, VEL- VETS, SILKS, SATINS, VELVETEENS, less | sold elsewhere” Tlegant TRIMMED HATS at 25c., 1.35, Ladiest UNDERWEAR, CORSETS and KID GLOVES below manufecturers’ prices. Do not buy until you have exemined ourstock and ascertained our prices, if you wish to save your mouey. KING'S PALACE, nl 814 SEVENTH STREET. E. G. Davis, 719 MARKET SPAG? OUR STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS IS | NOW FULL AND COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPART- | ME: WE HAVE ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES, AND ARE OFFERING GREAT BARGAINS ND DESIRABLE GOODS, WE INVITE AD SPECTION OF OUR STOCK AND COMPARISON PRICES, WE DESIRE TO CALL ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUR STOCK OF BLACK DRESS GOODS, WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED BY ANY HOUSE: IN THE TRADE. OUR GOODS ARE SELECTED WITH GREAT CARE, ARE ALL OF THE BEST AND MOST RELIABLE-MAKES,AND WE ARE PREPARED TO QUOTE PRICES THAT WILL ASTONISH YOU. SEE AND BECONVINCED. BLACK DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT IN REAR ROOM. NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS, OF E. G. DAVIS, cll 719 MARKET SPACE. ure RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, the Comf« Shirt, elegantly made, of the best erie < pen linen, reiuforeed, and only ‘Tocents. Fine Unfinished Shirts only 50c. Finest Percale Shirts only $1.59. Finest Laundried Dress Shirts, in solid bosoms, ready to put on, for 81. finest Dress Shirts made to order (solid bosoms): eee Sp sb crfoct At guaranteed ae = MEGINNIS’, an22 1002 F street. Canrers & Dnseeny. We have sust opened ‘TONS, AXAIIN: BODY BRUSS! a line of WIL UETTS, VELVETS Also, a of Di >a COV! NGS, inspection. Coupe, Carriage, Road, ‘Team anid Express Harness of inds and descri; it Lowest sary rmuine CONGO OD HARNESSIs stamped with rea muk LUIZ& BRO, (oT Pennsylvania Avenue, ‘Adjoining National Hote, §2-TOPSE BLANKETS and CARRIAGE ROBES in great variety at very low prices. awe aed ‘Broad: S Winter way Style, Sizeet bortiwest ER HATS ON RESULT OF BRODIE, the Mateen, aly 11a from $6.25 up, to suit every taste and colored Corkscrew 4-B Cut- | Extra weight double-breasted Blue Flannel Suits, fast | 3 | custo cclT | open for inspection. PRICES! FUE EE ig Ee at = | NOT DOWN IN THE Parers AND UP IN THE STOREY ‘We hope the entire population of Washington willl Tead this advertisement carefully. We have found thag because we advertise to sell Clothing at exactly TEN PER CENT ABOVE COST OF MANUFACTURE, some imagine that we merely nse ft as acatch to araw trade. We wish the public to distinctly understand that. WE PURSUE A STRICTLY ONE-PRICE SYSTEM, The price st which the goods are marked is the very’ lowest at which they are tobe sold, There will be no, exceptions to this rale. We will not let go for §1L99 the Suit or Overcoat that ismarked at @12. We have marked EVERY GARMENT AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE, PRICE, i ‘We offer you low prices. We give you candid, truthful advertisements, and we will treat all pleasantly,but will make no deviation in any case from marked price. TEN PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE, STRICTLY ONE PRICE, 827 axn NENTH STREET Nournwest, Eouthonst corner Massactvusetts avenue, Open evenings 19, Saturday tH] 11, 827 Please bear in mind, we have no connection with | any other house in this city, You Cas Preserve YOUR EYESIGHT BY PURCHASING YOUR oc26-1m EYEGLASSES AND SPECTACLES aT THe VIENNA OPYICIAN COMPANY, DR. NEUER, OF Vi OPTICAL MANAGER, BRAZILIAN PEBBLES, EYE AND OPERA GLASSES, PATENT EYEGLASSES, set with Brazilian Pebbles, iz to the Optical Business, No. 1304 F STREET NORTHWEST. And everything pert: EVERY ARTICLE MAKKED IN PLAIN FIGURES Oc31-3m Srox Tarr Cone. New goods keep on pouring in upon us. We have @ larger stock this year than ever befor. Our extensive storing facilities are getting too rus, Hut the | substantial encouras om our ers, impels us to try and lay before thera THE LARGEST AND Toys AT PRICES ©: K LOW As NOW. The lonz expected 6,8 10and 12 foot Curtain Poles have come at last,and we can furnish them in Ash, Walnut, Cherry ana Ebony. Our cvlebrated 4c. 5 foot Poles, with solid Walnut trimminus, are also here, We do not keep flimsy inch Polea Ours are all heavier, Wel ade arrangements now tokeep our supply ap, Among the new and decidedly cheap foods ine Gold Leaf Easel Cabinet Pramea, wit , at 99e. $1.98, ‘They are bar. gains, Solid ook Shelves in several 80 Just rece! A very largeline of Walnut, aud Plush Work Boxes, Walnut Faney and Plush Desks; Collar and Cuff Boxes, fine Piush Sty Cases, Whisk ilclders in lange vari and Glove Boxes, Inkstands, &., &! fizures, In Autograph Albums we can offer some very do cided bargains, and in Albums we beat the w Our assortinent of Hair, Cloth, Tooth, Nail, Infants and other Brushes is immense tol. Our 99°. equari ries, Our new 9c. Bi Butter Dish boats auything you cver saw, ‘Thousands of other new articlea, Gur Holiday Opening Moaday, December 1. M. SILVERBERG & C9., 512 Tth stroct and 313 8th street northwest, Handkerchief t very low nis Near Peunsylvania ave, — NOAH WALKER & CO, ‘625 Pennsylvania ave, Lance Sroce. NOAH WALKER & CO, GREAT VARIETY. 625 Pennsylvania ave, — NOAH WALKER & CO, 625 Pennsylvania ave, NOAH WALKER & CO, — 025 Penneyivauia ave, rANTIAL ‘TRIM. NO NOAH WALKER & CO., And the best-nad: Clothing 625 Pouusylvania ave. tor the st money, Garments for Business. ‘Garments for Dress, Garments for Work, Solid Values for your DoNara, Three floorsstucted with the BEST-MADE CLUTHING, NOAH WALKER & CO., 625 Pennsylvania ave. NOAH WALKER & ©0., 625 Peunsylvania ave, NOAH WALKER & CO, 625 Penusylvauis ave, Pievre Goods for Order Work. = Over Sacks ai NOAH WALKER & CO., 6% Pennsylvania ave. NOAH WALKER & CO, Peunsytvania ave | QINSHEIMER & BRO, SSP" hus itu street, bet, Hand T, and ‘We call particular stteation to © stock of 1 Mostract, mutton oF plain, abd poitited te Congress gaiters in broad at ra brond bottoms, for oid rentiemen, 153, iu lace and bution, every style ction of these goods from that ca. re no betirr. Departinent we have the BRATED COUSINS SIONS, KID, button, high he EID, common-sense ton. STRAIGHT GOAT, button, in both SS FINE PEBBLE, button, in common-sense and low heel. MISSI'S' SHOES fm Kid, Straight Goat, and Pel, Same pattornn, COX TINE SHOES for adios, Misees, and Children, Z of bee} sud tor. CHILDREN AND MiSSitS SPRING-HEEL SHOESin variet All of which goods we sell at n very low price. We ask call of all betore purchasing your shoes, gs wo oan savy fou money 80. ber ‘the name Bumbes 7 SINSHEIMER f ist ee25 808 7th and 315! Cu Rorrens, Nos, MAND 405 72a STREET NORTUWSIt. Headquarters forths WHITNEY CHILDREN'S CARRIAGE COMPANE. of Tawn Tennis Sots, Tennis Rackets, Croe gees ferent Slon Bicychoneicvelen, Velocbedes Re assortment of Traveli 14 Lane lcatvedl,s lanes ae 2 ling and Tan te make room for Saul a Exxcnoxs Hara Fresh supplies of DERBY and SILK HATS to settle DERBY HATS at e2o0's3, geena Bole agents for DUNLAP’S NEW YORK HATS. WILLETT & RUOFF, nl2-Im 905 Pennsylvania avenua, Fast. aso Woxren Turorrariox. Suitings, Overcontings, and Trowserings rrectved ana Gentiemen will place their orders sithe LEADING TAILORING ESTABLISUMENT OF , WASHINGTON. H. D. DATR, 8 311) Penneyiyenia aveaua