Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1885, Page 6

= aR 3 ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, FLIRTATION. Attentions Without Intentions — The Flirts of Both Sexes—The Married Flirt Governs Society. From the London Standard. It appears that we English folk have hitherto . poly of one of the pleasantest forms ot social intercourse. Mr. Max O*Rell informs his fellow-countrymen that in England they have a delightful national amusement called firting, and he happily defines flirtation by saying that In the practice of this pleasant art the male pays to the female “attentions without intentions.” Mr. Max O’Rell hanily Tequires to be told t from France's neighbor in the sunny south. To firt originally meant to be apt in the manage- % smth wT mcwhie fear I may do somebod: : another Tae are te tatiene maidens te hide. chetr | 18 my dread of the large labor which blushes, and to coquettes to conceal theabsence | Would be necessary to « Co ee of blus But flirtation has certainly under- | Of fact. It is possible that I may write a book. gone much modification since it was Imported | but hardiy probable. If I do, it will be to our country. [tis usually so innocent that | etree heed the revenue a book might Foung women pars through io thelr teainine for | UPON being earried back by some casmal re- society” The British matron smiles content. | Mark to his boyhood day Hamlin told me edly when she aces that ‘her denehter, | how he accounted for his ‘having grown up at 1 Aaa her teens, exhibits a | Variance politically with the other members of | ving walks and soft-toned | Nis tumily. Sald he: “When we lived in Paris - n her cousin Fred or her bro- | father took the Portland Gaze'le and the Eastern | Serr acune inate ‘Phees os font auch | Argus, both weekly papers. [think the mail | Javenile attachments will do the girl no harm, if | Cathe once a week tien. I used to go to the they are gently watched over by the parental | Post © They serve to evolve the sexually social Instincts Ina cradu: y. Through them the basnful maiden nature of man in the < ns on the piano. hand in” for the mony that Isto be played in ful swains, of course, truction from these innocent Calflove has its sublimities. Mr. te has lately remarked that he can be hy man who has not been half a dozen 1 over ears in love when a boy. The of such attachiments strikes deep roots being, although its blossoms Chivalrous feeling is devel- of worldly wisdom to The blue-eyed Damon his young life out over E: ts, fevis his heart beat heroic ty times aday when he thinks Mnusidora, whom he secretly tmas ball, and who—he is to be his wife when he When we observe this e great amuse- uld raise the lad in ox ething in him-to whic! early developed suscepti- a beautiful but forgotten his nature. wher our sons and daughters be- gin to near the goal of maturity their attach- azardous. Here, of course, real game of 1 a few years. derive their own i amours. Grant W no wo! eentimenta ment from it, estimation. © »true spice of excitement. Given & happy-natured girl just touched with the first flush of re beauty, with a heart still free fo may win it, can she help flirting more er less? “If she’ simply looks ly a will he not be ready to fall a When ailarly minded a little weary She commences experi- These ex ments reveal to her not akne + of her adorers, but her On the one hand she learns the ure of tormenting easily tor- a the other hand she studies with themselves. are too se- t gives h ttl arance of crimes- Miss Plaint. a. tion ve her stupid, leave her alone the flirt, d enough to look with ik. but forgets you at the nes peor thing. who has so many c 3 calumnies against ur lips. Is this just? i you, but in ever you Interested her. he was only too kind to you! e flirt itis less easy to find an ing as he may, there is The on our mind is like that pro- le te orean artists, who his feet ever so nim- are born flirts: some culty, and some have The born flirt, however, pitied in his destiny. There isa touch z in his nature. No doubt he is ed with a certain amount of good nners are gentlemanly; and if he he creature manages to miles, and a pleasant the drawing-room is zishis reward. There are, of weakness in the male flirt; effeet he prod @ueed by the 1 him when he has reached the age of forty. A ad n carefully arranged smooth face and self-con- ether too flippantly younger d_giving the owner the of naught. He smokes rettes, for the odor of to him too much in cigars would cling the petticoat world. He spends his morning at the club in reading and answering letters con- tained He always considers him: the street az t launching himself into d he sacrifices as much atten- to his trowsers as if they were his con- | ence. Perhaps there is no hour of the day or night so sweet to him as that of afternoon tea. Making experienced choice of the house where he will visit about five o'clock, he is ushered {nto aroom in which he probably finds a dozen Women—visitors or members of the family —all list Teady to be aroused and amused by with him. Fi existence is he may bring ter part of an hour his i ecstasy, and his ha pleted if he is_al make an appoin t oncert, or bean will guide his lite ciples. A fictitious senti- days as a bactielor. ‘A’ body's wa high digni- once remarked in our hear- id not truly enjoy the pleas- until he had married. A i gentlema of tie compan rk that a man could alw: rtation with his own wif nem: even bet Whether we isthe married f powerfully to the Another and less useful kind of Wedded flirt is known to us all as a frequenter of seaside watering places. The Riviera Is her favorite resort. She travels slowly along the a shore every winter, unaccom- ner husband, who remains at home business. She is delicate and Somehow all the once dislike her, and most pleasant magnetic . Ere she has been two fn the place you find her stretched out on a the veranda, with half-a-dozen nd her, her maid discreetly disposing sowe distance off. The flirting ‘on of the conversational oppor- ed abroad, is able to do en do well—she speaks Thus she manifoids her fascinations, and can everywhere gather round her «circle of admiring attendants. To Some men this type of married coquetry is the most bewiteblag of female charms. Lord sconstield, in one of his novels, finds peculiar pleasure in describing a woman of thia kind. His study of her ends with a sigh of admira- Alae! coquettes are but too rare.” Cannibalism in Africa. ectator. Many readers have been inclined to doubt the frightful aceount recently published by Mr. S. St. John of the revival ot cannibalism in Hayti, but a narrative just received from the west coast s tthe practice exists in our Barnett, district com- Castle, recently found ‘<a riot inthe interior by , Unding that it was fomented by @ hative priest, ordered the fetish house to be en- tered. He there found portions of two human bodies baking in a large brass pan, their owners having evidently been murdered by blows which crushed in their skulis. Voodooism, which now Tages in Haytl. Is, in fact, an old African creed, and {ts priests hold cannibalism necessary to their rites. The crime will, ot course, be sum- marily put down in Cape Coast Castle, and we think it will be found that the plea of religion, which ts a better plea than that of ‘, will hot be admitted. win niki The camel hes twice the carrying power of an ox. With an ordinary load of 400 pounds he can travel 12 or 14 days without water, going 14 miles aday. They are fit to work at flye years oid, but their strength begins to decline at 25, although tuey live usually uutil 40. They are omen fattened ut 30 for fovd, the Hesh tasting cy practice comes to us | st, he is very weak. Look at | taken the place of any | oman’s love, and the typical | | far the most ex | pated. | it. | Vated site in the heart of Bangor. HANNISAL HAMLIN. A_Veteran’s Eecollections of Early Days—Why He Doesn’t Writea Book. Hannibal Hamlin ts now 7% years old, and he told me one evening not long ago, writes a gossiper in the Lewiston Journal, that he thought his health never was so ood; in his younger days he frequently had severe and painful headaches, which did not trouble him at ail now. | Mr. Hamlin said he had received many flatter- | from publishers who desire him: to ok. “Whether I shall ever doit or “Ido not know. Sometimes I Ihave read no political history think I will. of my own times in which I could not supply many deficiencies and make many corrections. Two things deter me from ¥ is I realize that my me: fice for the mail and bring home both of these papers. Father was a whig, and he used to sit down in the and read the Gazette through first. While he was readingthe Gazette | L used to read the Argus. I did this week aiter | week, and suppose the Argus gave me a deuio- | cratic cant. “My brother Elijah was a very strong whig, | bat he and I always got along well together, | because we agreed never to talk politics and | kept our agreement. I ran for Congress in this district, and he voted against me three tim When he ran for governor, I voted against him. To i856 we came together in the republican party, and I'll tell you when and where it was. | They held a mass meeting here in Bangor. | and Elijah presided. He introduced me to the audience, and 1 began my speeca in this way: “Brother! We meet to-day for the first time in our lives on the same political platform. I give to you the right hand of fellowship.’ “Didu’t they howl, though!” And the venerable statesinan’s eyes flashed as he recalled the exciting event. He said he could Tepeat a large part of that speech. “The campaign of 1856,” he added, “was by iting of any in which I partici- I made 99 speeches in that campaign. If Lad known It before it was over, I would have made one more.” any times did you speak in the last enty, I believe.” id the work tire you?" Not a bit. I got excited sometimes, though, I tell you. Mr. Hamlin remarked that he once hada taste spaper work, and, on the whole, enjoyed said he: “When Horatio King (who atter- ward became Postmaster General) aud I bought the Jigfersonian at Paris both of us were under twenty-one years of age. I remained in part- nership with him six months, and worked for him six months more. Iset type and helped work off the paper on the old hand press. We | had to spread the ink on with balls made of buckskin. It was very labori Tsold out my share of the Jegirsonian tor £400. I made a pretty good speculation, and the money, I know, helped me materially in my law studies.” . Hainlin remarked tha the tive y as the part of his political career. Hannibal Hamlin has no stronger t his disposition to “keep with the boys," puts it. He always has marched in the proces- sion. Capt. ellyn Morse, of Bangor, re- lates an incident which happened in 1863. Capt. Morse raised and commanded a Bangor com- pany. of which Mr. Hamlin, then Vice President of the United States, was made an honorary member. The company was ordered to Kittery to man the fortifications there, and Vice Presi- | dent Hamlin insisted on going and carrying a musket “with the bo: And when there he & insisted on doing guard duty. The ex-Vice President lives in a square three- storied house, roomy, but modest, on an ele- His private affairs occupy but little of his time, his only trouble is the lack of some ——_-e-—___— ‘The Management of Diphtheria, From the Sanitary Engineer. There are many cases in which at first a skilled physician cannot say positively whether it is contagious diphtheria or a simple non-specific inflammation with which he has to deal, and this uncertainty may continue for a considerable time. If Dr. Jacobi’s views are correct, and he Is certainly very high authority on this subject, diphtheria may exist, especially in the adult’ in a cronic form, not greatly disturbing the health, or at all events not preventing the per- son so affected from going about and perform- ing his or her usual duties, and yet making the secretions from such person capable of conveying the disease. The precautions to be taken in the manage- ment of a well-marked case of diphtheria are, or should be, generally known; they nave pen published as circulars by many health boards, and through the secular and medical press, and may be summed up as follows: Isolate’ the patient in an ai ing the least possible amount of furniture, Hy that which ts upholstered. and naving no carpet or curtains. Disinfect all excretions and secretions, and especially those from the throat, and mouth, and all articles soiled by them, promptly, while they are yet moist, and thoro; Use clean, soft rags for receiving the discharges from the nose and mouth. and burn them as fast as soiled. if other gpticles are soiled, use solutions of chloride of zine or bichloride ot mercury, under the instructions of the physician. Be especially careful as regards toys, pencils, or other articles which may be given the child for its amusement. of the articles used giving it food or drink, and of the remnants of such food ordrink. Everything that has touched the patient's lips. or that has been hed by any- thing that has touched the patient’s lips is dan- gerous. When convalescence has set in do not yield too to the importunities of the patient to be allowed to see his friends or to go out, nor to your own feelings of weariness at the long- continued confinement. Above all things do not, under the excuse of giving change of air and scene, send him off to some other place to complete his recovery; you might send dynamite about the country with scarcely more risk. Do not-send the child back to school in less than Six weeks after the uttack: about two weeks T you are satisiied that he ts entirely well is good rule. If the little life is not strongenough to with- stand the k, and is cut short, do not in your griet forget the danger to other lives which the its contents may yet cause. Do not « friends and playmates to fo not have any funeral ceremonies in the ; treat the s! nomn und its Contents as be- ing dangerously infected. in mild and doubtful cases follow the plan above indicated as nearly as you can, and be sure that all your care and patience will be needed if you wish to obtain security for other members of the family and for friends. The Care of House Plants, From the Household. <= Dryness of the air Is the chief obstacle to suc- cesstul window gardening. Plants succeed much better in the kitchen than in the parlors, as the alr is charged with moisture from the cooking, etc. It the house is heated by a fur- nace, there should be a pan for evaporating water inthe furnace, kept well supplied. It stoves are used, keep vessels of water on them. Dust is injurious to plants. Much may be pre- vented from settling on the leaves by covering the plants with a light fabric whenever the rooms are swept. All smooth-leaved plants, like the ivy, camelias, etc., shouid have a weekly washing with a damp sponze. The so-called green fly, or plant louse, is easily killed by tobacco water. Apply this when ofthe color of weak tea. Red spider is very. minute and works on the lower side of the leaves. When these turn brown the spider may be suspected. Give frequent showers, laying the pot on the side, and apply water. with the syringe. Scale insects anfl mealy bugs are best treated by hand picking before they become numerous. Chrysanthemums, when. through flowering, should have the stems cut away and the pots of roots taken to the cellar. The pots of bulbs which were placed in the cellar or in a pit for roots to form may be brought to the window, and as they grow give them an abundance of water. If needed, sup- port the heavy flower spikes of hyacintns by a small stake. —__+e-—____ Where Boston Stands, rom the Wall Street News. “I understand,” he said toa Boston man, “that the Mexican Central rallwa} desires to borrow €3,000,000." “Exactly, sir.” “Isn't this rather singular, considering that the road is a new ong?” “Oh, no, sir; We tell short, in as the nose on your face. 000,000 of our estimates on construction. “and how much money has Boston made out of Mexican Central?” “Not a cent, sir—not ared cent. That's an- other ofthe plain things about our road, sir, We do business above board and invite inspection of the books.” PRINCE BISMARCK AT HOME. His Very Affection Bears the Character ofthe Iron Willand Hand. Berlin Letter to the London Times. Without being avaricious, Prince Bismarck is as fond of order, economy and regularity as the Great Frederick, and enters into details of housekeeping to which one would naturally suppose him a stranger. I have heard him relate, with the brodd humor characteristic of him, that one of his former valets had begged him fora lease of an inn on his property at Varzin. “As soon as he became the tenant,” said Bismarck, “of the inn, which used to yield 2,000m., he betook himself, in the capacity of my ex-valet, to the ‘study of politics. He subscribed to all kinds of newspapers, and passed his time sitting in a large arm chair reading them. When guests arrived he treated them insolently for disturbing him. He soon fell into disrepute as a surly landlord, and tray- elers took care not to enter the inn.’ He now earns scarcely encugh to pay for his newspapers. As to myself, I shall haye to evict him, tor he has long ceased to pay his rent.” And you could see that the loss of the rent affected him. Yet the tone was not that of a nt but that of discontent at having bis cal- culations deranged. Prince Bismarck leads a very methodical life, and in the country, ag -in town; no event is allowed to interfere with its regularity. His grand dinners are abundant, with mathematical sufficiency, without stint or waste. His daily meals are those of a good family burgher, and the servants are methodi- cal, attentive and silent. None of his household ever commits the mistake at table of epeaking betore the master of the house has, so to speak, tacitly given him leave. All wait to see whether the prince is in a conversational mood, and when he is pleased to speak all are hushed, not to lose one of his words. To this, in part, is due the large number ot words, anecdotes and dia- | logues attributed to him, for it has already long been customary for his listeners to treasure up every word he utters. One of the Prince's characteristics is his love for some large dog, which he makes his con- stant companion, and feeds himself—a dog, for instance, like the one that so terrified Prince Gortschakoff. The dog follows the chancellor Into his dining-room and stretches itself on the carpet. In the course of the meal the butler brings a large piece of bolled beef on one plate and bits of soaked bread on another. The Prince in person cuts up the beef and prepares the food for the dog, which stands by, grave and attentive, pending the solemu preparation of its food. The Prince's dog is never fed in any other Way. ‘here is something noteworthy in the habits ot this man, who personifies the Prus- sian race in its most elevated character. If Bismarck is not close, he 1s not generous either. He does what he deems right, and ex- pects every one to do also what is tight by him. Generosity, in the ordinary sense of the term, is too mild, unrefiecting, effeminate a quality to enter into this colossal, rough-hewn nature. He treats men too much like figures, to be ad- ded, multiplied and divided at will, to entertain any tender feelings towards them. He aspires less to rule them by gentleness than by the vig- orous ascendancy of his genius, and he would not be greatly flattered by an affection unmixed with dread and admiration. Even on the rare occasions where, in other men, what is called the heart comes into play, in him the master— hay, almost the tyrant—is to be found. His very affection bears the character of oppres- sion, and no giove is thick enough to conceal the iron hand beneath it. SOME COURT DRESSES, ts in Which Roy- indulge. The Exquisite alty Ca: com the New York Home Journal. Some exquisite dresses for the Queen of Italy have Just been forwarded to Rome from a lead- ing Parisian establishment. One of these was in, satin in a new and delicate shade of pink, bro- ecaded in white, with a pattern representing in- terlaced cords and tassels. The skirt-front was composed of pale pink satin, laid in flat folds Just beneath the waist, and caught In graceful draperies at the sides of the train with looped cords of pale pink silk, flnished with long slen- der tassels in silk and pale pink beads. This frontage was finished with a fringe to corre- spond, which fell over two ruffies of narrow Mechlin lace. Another dress was in colored silk of a deep maize-yellow. The long full train was finished with a single ruching of the silk, and the skirt front was draped in elaborate folds, the draperies being held in place by clusters of yellow ostrich feathers. But the gem of the collection wasa ball dress with corsage and train in plum col- ored velvet, the sides of the latter being em- broidered with shaded beads of the same hue and with silver thread,ina pattern of ostrich feathers. Beyond these embroidered edges were set side panels of white satin,embroidered in the same pattern and colors. The skirt front was in white satin, veiled with white tulle stud- ded with pampilles of pearl and crystal beads. A fringe of the same beads edged the lower bor- der of the tulle. At one side of the skirt front was placed five pale-blue ostrich feathers, the train veing lined throughout with pale-blue satin. —_—_—_-e-_____ Society Life in New York. Blakely Hall in the Brooklyn Eagle, A western man who moved here with his fam- ily two years ago, in speaking of New York society the other day, said: ‘This is positively the most inhospitdble town on the face of the earth. People here express thelr surprise that adventurers succeed in getting Into a certain strata of New York society. The reason such men get as for as they do 1s on account of the number of families in New York who have been so thoroughily chilled and disheartened by frequent rebuffs that they welcome any sort of a stranger if he is clever and pleasant, as a re- lief from the everlasting monotony of home life. ‘Take my own case, for example. We moved here two years azo trom Omaha, and settled down permanently in New York.’ We are not country people by any means. Both of my daughters and my wife spent five years of their life, prior to 1580, in traveling about Europe, and the girls are bright and rather pretty. e came here, bought a house in 36th street for which I paid the rather snug sum of $40,600, and there we have lived ever since. The neigh- bors own their houses on either side of us, and the block is filled with peop who have lived there for many years. am acquainted with several business men who reside on the block, and altogether I felt that I was moving into a decidedly pleasant neighborhood. In the course of two years not a solitary neighbor has called onus. Men I have met down town have visited me in one or two instances with their wives, butthe acquaint- ances have never ripened into friendship, and it either of my daughters should give a party to- morrow it is doubtful if their mother could ask a score of presentable people to the house. My business has compelled me during the past twenty years to spend a great deal of time in Europe’ I have traveled a great deal, but I have never tound a society which is quite so un- gracious as that of New York. Everything here is either blood ormoney. Ita man is worth one million he is recognized. If he is worth one hundred million he 1s sought after. only worth one-quarter of a million he is foi . Of course this is an old story. The point I wish to pene about particularly ts t! snobbish talk about “blood” which one con- antly hears in New York. In England, you know, gentlemen when talking about one another do not prate continually about good families, old tamilies, best ple, good blood and the like. It 1s the custum there, as else- where among gentlemen, to assume that people whom you meet in society are respectable and of gentle blood. Here, however, there is con- tinual talk about old families, and to my certain knowledge there are not a dozen families in the city wno can look back one hundred years to ancestors of respectability and position. ‘Another curious thing is that New York recognizes no other blood than that of the Knickerbockers, Though my own people were retired ship-owners in Salem when the Stuyvesants, Brevoorts, Van Rensselaers and Crugers were butchers, bakers, shopkeepers and harness-makers in New York, T am considered plebeian.” +o. —___ Flowers on the Tomb of Dickens, London Letter to the Liverpool Post. Walking through Westminster Abbey to-aay I noticed that fresh flowers had been laid upon the tomb of Charles Dickens. They were all bright flowers, such as Dickens loved through his life, and though they have been here some days now they retain their freshness in marvel- ous degree and make bright this one spot, the first which Englishmen coming from all parts of the world to visit the abbey first ask to see. ‘These are not the kindly meant offerings of a passing stranger. They were placed here on Christmas eve by the loving hand of his grand- children, Twice a year they come, some of them growing up ‘now, and place their gar- lands on the tomb of him who to the world is a man ot imperishable renown, but to them is also a friend and piayiate, who, time, never failed, whatever his state of health might be or whatever the of busing that lay upon him, to make the season *4 xs within his own household. Once again, in J when flowers are more plentiful, on the oth the anniversary of the he sim) inscription upon the stone is covered ‘under wealth of roses. Orleans, arrived at Los Angeles Eight little bootblacis, who hed bootblacis, who hed beat their way from New Monday.—San Francisco (Cal.) Alta, “. D. C., SATURDAY, MANUARY 24, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. WOMAN'S WORLD. Some Comparative Figures and Facts Between Fifty Years Ago and New. ‘From the Unionist Gazette. Fifty years ago married women had no legal existence, no shadow of civil rights. Their property became their husband’s; their services for life were nis due; they could neither inherit nor earn one dollar which would be positively their own; they were held in ab- solute pecuniary dependence. To-day, the property which women inherit and that which they personally earn is legally their own, to be used, managed, held or dis- poet of in life or at death (certain provisions for the husband’s benefit excepted) as they theméelves please. Then the widow was divorced with but the life use of only one-third of the family real estate, even though such estate might have been acquired by the joint industry of husband and wife, or by that of the wife alone. The roperty was legally the busband’s and hisheir’s, be Tight in it was the maintenagge to which even @ pauper Is entitlea. Now, a wife, neglecting her family, may earn for herselt alone; but fifty years of unselfish home toil, helping to Keep the dear old farm and clear off its mortages entitles her to not une foot of land, to not one room in the house to be really her own. Her own children or strangers outrank her. Then, a mother, if married, had by law no right in her own child. Its custody was ex- clusively the father's; he could dispose of it by will even months before its birth. Now, in New Jersey and several other states, the custody of the child is primarily with the mother. It {s demonstrated, though women reach maturity earlier, that in all countries they reach decadence much later, and are distinctively a different type of being, with a quite special outlook into life’s mysteries. The new view anes its new hopes and its fresh encourage- ment. en Seg ene A GREAT EDIFICE. Erected in a Country Whose Common People Are Daily Starving. ‘From Galignani's Messenger. The new cathedral of Moscow cost more than $10,000,000. It has been half a century in con- structing, but the wonder is not that the time is so long, but rather it has been so short. The great cathedral of St. Saviour’s is erected as a memorial of the deliverance of Russia from Na- poleon Bonaparte in 1812. Less than three months after the retreat of the French the Em- peror Alexander I. issued @ decree that the church should be built, and a few years later the foundations were laid. It took twenty years to erect the building and cover it in, and the scaffolding was taken down in 1858. The scaf- tolding alone cost £50,000. It has five great gilded copper cupolas, surmounted by crosses, the central one of which stands 340 feet from the ground. The whole building is faced with marble, and the interior is pronounced the most exquisite in its decoration In Europe. There are magnificent paintings, elegant windows, costly candelabra, and the floor and wall are inlaid with many va- rieties of marble. There is nothing in the world to equal the gorgeous splendor of the aitar and its accom- paniments, and the cathedral covers 73,000 square feet, and will accommodate comfortably in its central area—for it isin the form of a Greek cross—10,000 worshipers. The bells tor this church cost £15,000. The largest weighs twenty-six tons, and the smallest only thirty pounds. —____-+-_____ WHY THE BRIDE BENT HER FINGER, She Kept the Ring Below the Second Joint and Made a Mental Reserva- tion Besides. rom the New York Sun, Ata recent wedding in Newark, the bride made her promise to love and obey the man beside her, and he in turn vowed, in the formal language of the Prayer Book, to cherish and protect her, and thenthe Rey. Mr. Dupuy, an Episcopal clergyman of this city, directed the groom to place the ring upon the bride's finger. It slipped on easily at first, but the bride by bending her finger made it impossible for the groom to press it past the second joint. He endeavored to press the ring on all the way, and asshe resisted, there was a painful pause in the ceremony.’ Mr. Dupuy supposed the ring was too small, and proceeded with the service. At the reception which followed the bride was asked by a friend what caused the delay when the ring was produced. She frankly explained that the wife of a Broad street jeweler had told her that if she allowed the groom to sltp the ring over the second joint of her fingerhe would rule her through life; whereas it it passed over only the first joint she would alw: have him under her control. She added that resolved to resort to this device to effect her supremacy, because she was only 18 years old, while the groom was 40, had been married once, and, owing tp his experience in matrimonial life, would probably have things too much his own way unless she enlisted the fates on her side at the outset. The Rev. Mr. Dupuy, who papived the young lady in her childhood and had known her inti- mately since that time, reproved her for desiring to rile her husband, and reminded her that though the ring had not passed over the second joint of her finger, she had nevertheless prom- ised to obey her spouse. She listened meekly, but afterward told a contidential friend that the promise to obey was made with a mental reser- vation. Her Econom From the St. Louis Republican, One of those little dodges resorted to for “raising the wind” by members of that great and increasing class who hang upon the edges of trampdom and respectfully but firmly decline to work or pursue any honest calling is illua- trated In the following incident, which actually occurred in the snburbs of this city within a fortnight. A husband returning home at even- ing was met at the door by his wife, who, after the usual Salutations, sald: “Oh, George, I have something to show you.” “What is it?” a “Never mind, but come and see it.” She preceded him into the cosy little parlor and pointed triumphantly toa white, woven strip, about six {inches in length, lying In the place of honor on the center table. “Look,” she said; “what do you suppose that is, George dear?” and her voice assumed the gentle tones of one about to communicate a pleasant surprise. “That,” rejoined George, approaching the table to inspect the article, ‘that, tome, Susan, looks feartully and wonderfully like a common piece of lamp wicking.” “Ha, ha; I knew you'd say that. You men are so stupid. It is a lamp wick, true, but not @eommon one. It is one of the greatest inven- tions of the age. It is an electric lamp-wick, George. I know from the man from whom I bought it; and he was a very nice-looking man, too, well dressed, and such a talker; teld me about how it came to be invented, and how Pro- fessor Somebody of something spent years of his life in experimenting and died just a3 he got it perfected. All you have to do is to fill your lamp with oll, put in the wick and lightit. After few days an incrustation forms on the outside, cry electricity he called it, and the lamp will burn six months without refilling. There's one in the lamp now. Dou't you see it gives a brighter light ?” George stood atupefied. He looked at the wick reposing in quiet dignity on the table as it Un conscious it was master of the situation; at the burning lamp, which gave forth a bril- ant, steady light, and at Susan herself, in whose eyes rested the unmistakable assurance of victory, and involuntarily ejaculated: ‘‘May- be there’s something in it, How many of them did Fe buy?” “Only three, dear, at a eore apiece. Think of the saving, Geom: ‘hy I could buy a new cloak next winter from the money that would have been wasted in coal oil.” George waited and his wife waited to see what would come of the investment, when the electrical crust had formed on the wick. . The next night, sure enough, there was the lamp as full as ever, and shedding as good a light. On the third and fourth evenings it was the same. The wick vee conte par stoned no Kure the process of incrustation having begun. The wife =peet that it might be a week or ten days this happened. George scratched his head and was on the point of surrendering, when a bright idea occurred to him. He called the servant. ‘Betty, do you always fill the par- lor “Yes, sir.” “Did you fill It Monday?” “Yea, sir. « teal 2” “Yes, sir.” EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER. Widespread Commotion Caused by ‘That Remarkable Statement of a Physician. ‘The story published in ¢hese columns recently the Rochester, N.¥., Democrat, created a deal of com- ment here asithase.sewhere. Apparently it caused even more commotion in Rochester, as the following from the same paper shows: Dr. J. B Henion,who is well known not only in Roch- ester, but in nearly every part ot America, sent an ex- duly published, detailing his remarkable experience ‘and rescue from what seeined to be certain death. it ‘would be impossible to enumerate the personal inqui- Tea which have been made at our office as to the validity of the article, but they have been so numerous that fur- ther investigation of the subject was deemed an editor ial necessity. ‘With this end in view a representative of this paper called on Dr. Henion at his residence on Andrews street, when the following interview occurred; “That article of yours, Doctor, has created quite & whirlwind. Are the statements about the terribie condition you were in, and the way you were rescued such as you can sustain?” “Every one of them and many additional ones. I was brought so low by negiecting the first and most simple symptoms, Idid not think Iwas mick. Itis true I had frequent headaches; felt tired most of the time; could eat nothing one day and was ravenous the next; felt dull pains and my stomach was out of order, but I did not think itmeant anything serious The medical pro- feasion have been treating symptoms instead of, discases for years, and it is high time it ceased. The symptoms ‘Thave Just mentioned or any unusual action or irrit- tion of the water channels indicate the approach of kid- |*ney disease more thanacongh announces the coming of consumption, We do not treat the congh. but try to helpthe lungs. We should not waste our time trying torelieve the headache, pains about the body or other symptoms, but go directly to the kidneys, the source of most of these ailments.” “This, then, is what you mesnt when you said that More than one-balfof the deaths which occur arise from Bright's disease, is it Doctor?” “Precisely. Thousands of diseases are torturing peo - Ple to-day, which in reality are Bright's disease in some ofits many forms, It isa hydra-headed monster, and the slightest symptoms should strike terror to every ‘one who has thom. I can look back and recall hundreds of deaths which physicians declared at the time were caused by paralysis, apoploxy, heart disease, pneumonia, malarial fever and other common complaints which I ‘see now were caused by Bright's disease.” ae did all these cases have simple symptoms at rn “Every one of them, and might have been cured as I was by the timely use of the same remedy. Iam get tag my eyes thoroughly opened in this matter and think I am helping others to see the facta and their pos- sible danger also.” Mr. Warner was visited at his establishment on North St. Paul street. “At first he was inclined to be reticent, but learning that the information desired was about Bright's disease, his manner changed instantly and he spoke very earnestly. “It is true that Bright's disease had increased won- derfully and we find, by reliable statistics, that from *70 to "80, {ts growth was over 250 per cent, Look at the prominent menit has carried off: Everett, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Carpenter, Bishop Haven, Folier, Col- fax and others. Nearly every week the papers record the death of some promipent man from this scourge. Recently, however, the increase has been checked and I attribute this to the general use of my remedy.” “Do you think many people are afflicted with it to-day who do not realize it, Mr. Warne “A prominent professor in a New Orleans medical college was lecturing before his class on the subject of Bright's disease. He bad various fluids under micro- Scopic analysis and was showing the students what the indications of this terrible malady were. ‘And now, gentlemen.’ he said, ‘as we have seen the unhealthy in- dications I will show you how it appearsin astate of perfect herith,” and he submitted his own Wuid to the Usual test. As he watched the results his countenance suddenly changed—his color and command both left him and ina trembling voice he said: ‘Gentlemen, I have made a painful discovery; I havé Bright's disease ofthe kidneys. And in less thana year he was dead. ‘The slightest indications of any kidney difficulty should be enough to strike terror to any one.” . “You know of Dr. Henion’s case?" “Yes, Ihave both read and heard of it.” “It is very wonderful, is it not?” “No more so than a great many others that have come to my notice as having been cured by the same means.” — believe then that Bright's disease can be cured?” “I know itcan. I know it from my own and the ex- Perience of thousands of prominent persons who were given up to die by both their physicians and friends.” “You speak of your own experience, what was it?” fearful one. Ihad felt languid and unfitted for business for years, But I did not know what ailed me. When, however, I found it was kidney difficulty I thought there was little hope and so did the doctors. I have since learned that oneof the physicians of this city pointed me out toagentleman on the street one day, saying: “There goes a man who will be dead with- ina year. Ibelieve his words would have proved true if Thad not providentially used the remedy now known as Warner's Safe Cure.” Dr. 8. A. Lattimore, although busily engaged upon some matters connected with the state board of health, of which he is oneof the analysts, courteously ans- ‘wered the questions that were propounded him. “Did you make a chemical analysis of the case of Mr, ‘HH. Warner some three years ago, Doctor?” “Yes, sir. “What did this analysis show you?” “The presence of albumen and tube casts in grest indanrve.” ‘And what did the symptoms indicate” sorious disease of the kidneys.” id you think Mr. Warner could recover?” io, sir. Idid not think it possible” “Do you know anything about the remedy which cured him?” “Yes. Ihave chemically analyzed it, and find it pure and harmless.” We publish the foregoing statements in view of the commotion which the publicity of Dr. Henfon's article has caused, and to meet the protestations which have been made. The doctor was cured four years ago and ‘ia well and attending to nis professional duties to-day. ‘The standing of Dr. Henion, Mr. Warner and Dr. Latti- more in the community is beyond question, and the statements they make cannot for a moment be doubted. Dr. Henion’s experience shows that Bright's disease of the kidneys is one of the most deceptive and dangerous of all diseases, that it is exceedingly common, and that it can be cured. 1 Garar Siavonrer , OVERCOATS AND SUITS at THE ! \NDON AND LIVERPOOL CLOTHING 00, j Corner 7th and @ streets. We are determined not to carry an Overcoat till next season; therefore, we are selling them at a grest sacri- fice, ‘Overcoats we sold at $25, we sel] now at $12.60. Overcosts we sold at 822, we eell now at $11. Overcoate we sold at $20, we sell now at $10. Overcoats we sold at $16, we sell now at $8, Overcosts we sold at $12, we sell now at $6. And all others in proportionate low prices. SUITS. SUITS. 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