Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1885, Page 3

STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C., WEDNESDAY. BESET BY SPIRIT MEDIUMS. Senater Stanford aed His Mourning Wife Duped. From the New York World. When ex-Gov. Leland Stanford and Mrs. Stan- ford returned trom Europe last fall, after a long stay, they brought with them the body of their | only son, a boy of sixteen, whose death occur- red at Rome a few months before. The loss of | this child caused them to return home, and | ended ina large measure their interest in lite. The trip abroad was made for the benefit of Mr. Stanford's heaith, and he was entirely restored and planning to come home when the child sick- ened and died. It wasa terrible blow to both ents, who, with money enough to bring Eorether the ‘best medical taieyt of Europe, could not prolunz his an hour or prevent se from hurtying him to his crave. It aadiy Cuireel to say that his body is In the it has not been finally buried, thoazh eral ceremonies have been performed — one in London, one in New York, and another he body is ina vault, await- m of the mausoleum at the | Palo Alto. | Mrs. on as she had rested trom | the ecean voyaxe. bezan to visit “spirit medi- | er interest in Spiritualiam, so called, | grew with what It fed on. With alady triend | she would leave the Windsor hotel and drive to | the address of the last medium she had heard of, and no seoner would she get a communica- tion from her lost bey than she would hasten back for her and he, too, must go and day she went to | markable that she ag th complet amily resid sent a cari and had hi efher husba word can bi sorbed in their fn nourishing i This was the beginning ofa rich harvest for Blade as for others, and none of the profes- sionals who met the Stanfords in New York have yet ceased to mourn their departure, Mrs. ad numberless photographs of the ste gave them to those who taken an interest in him and delivered the messazes he had sent to her. These latter were and the hungry crowd of mediums 1 the patience, if not the purse, | ted lady we known among the sptritual- t the Stanfords were believers, it was as gratulation. One median one in Brooklyn finally re: patronaze of Mrs. Stantord, and both were in her pay. One of them, a materializing medium, at whose circles Indians whoop and yell, steam boat captains give forth unearthly sounds, and famous warriors gather nightly to re-enact the scenes of life, got a living for weeks out of Mrs. | Stanford. She lived in the suburbs of Brooklyn | and had a carriaze constantly at her command | to drive back and forth to the Windsor hotel. The seances were held as soon as she. arrived. | and noisy entertainments they were. Musical | instruments were hamiered, horns blown. the hail of raps that fell on the table at which were | hered the sitters, surprised even veteran at- | nts at such gatherinss, and in the midst of it all there often came fresh manifestations, said to be vecasioned by the arrival of the beloved child. and Mrs. Stanford went “lighted. tf such a } i to people who were ab- and had no comfort except in New Yo nd eived the undivided Altogether Mr. throuzh a spiritualistic experience that would | have unsettled the reason of Stoles. At the aittings voices would address the poor mother | and assure her that ner lost boy was safe in the | spirit world, and soon a hoarse, metallic voice | would be heard saying, “Mother!” This was | always too much for the sorrowing lady, and | abe would tearfully entreat the unseen to come | Rearer to her and toueh her. In the inky dark- Ress somthing would touch her swiftly, and she would be assured that it was the hand of | her boy. At other times communications were | written to her in handwriting unfamiliar to her, and these she was told were from her | fon. Mr. Stanford was sometimes anxious about his wife's absorption in the one subject. but it was new to him and in- terested him greatly. It is hardly correct to say that he was altoxether the dupe of frauds. The mediums that he and his wife sought were 4m some instances as much duped as they them- telves, anc were as creat sufferers by the inter- course kept up with the invisible presences about them, who love darkness rather than ght. and will not perform unless in darkness. Mental deterioration is a well-known result of elose attendance on such circles. The Stanfords met Parson Newman, and found that he wes an ardent believer in the phe- Bomena. and eventualy he went to California to preach the funeral oration over the long- unburied body of the bey. Itis said that he was paid $1000 to make this trip, and very Dkely it was more. Mediums are welcome visitors at the home of the Stanfords in California, and the husband and wife tive in the unhealthy atmosphere of “spirits” the greater part of the time. It 1s} feared that the strain has been too much, and | that Senator-elect Stanford ts not well enough | on. If he does go the me- will rejoice. and the popu- ton will be re-enforced by several of the fraternity from New York and Brooklyn. who can well afford to give w gen- 1 busi and devote themselves and their guides” to the Stanfords, Jobn Phenix’s Pamous Fight. From Phep xisna, Arumor liad reached our ears that the editor bad arrived. Public anxiety had been excited to the highest pitch to witness the result of the meeting between us. It had been stated pub- Uely that he would whip usthe moment he ar- rived; but, though we thought a conflict prob- able, we had never been very sanguine as to Its terminating In this manner. Coolly we gazed from the window of the office upon the New Town road. We descried a cloud of dust in the distance; high above it waved a whip-lash, and wesaid the editor cometh, and his driving Is Bike that of Jehu, the son of Nimshi, for he @riveth turionsly. Calm!y we seated ourselves in the arm chair and continued our labors upon eur magnificent Pictorial. Anon a step, a heavy step, was heard on the stairsand the editor stood before us. We rose, and, with an unfaltering Voice, said: “Well, how do you?" He made Ro reply, tut commenced taking off coat. We removed ours, also our cravat. ** * The aixth and last round ts described by the press- men and compositors as having been fearfully eclentific. We held the editor down over the | eo by our nose (which we had inserted be- een his teeth tor that purpose), and whileour hair was employed in holding one of his hands weheld the other in our left, and with the sheep’s-foot brandished above our head shouted to him: “Say, Waldo,” (the whig candidate.) “Never!” he gasped. At this moment we dis- covered that we had been laboring under a mis- Understanding. * * * We write this while sitting without any clothing, except our left stocking, and the rim of oar hat encircling our neck like a ruff of the Elizabethan era, that ar- ticle of dress having been knocked over our head at an early staze of the proceedings, and the crown subsequently torn off while the edi- tor is sopping his eye with cold water in the next room, a small boy standing beside the suf- ferer with a basin, and glancing with interest over the advertisements on the second page of the San Diego Herald, a fair copy of which was struck off upon the back of his shirt at the time we held him over the press. —se- The Popular Stage Ornaments, Kew York Letter to San Fraucisco Argonaut, At present girls are raving only over Mantell and Kelsey The many other haudsome leading men In New York are ignored. It Is rather cu- Flous that both of these male professional beau- ties are manly and good-natured men, who do Rot pose as ‘“‘mashers.” and who have more male than female friends. Kelsey is a cockney sort of an Englishman, who walks as though he were always in a great hurry, and who looks isely off the stage as he does on. Mantell is Appearance by no means as picturesque off the boards as on. I am told by one of these worshipers of actors that girls don't rave over Osmond Tearle because hisface is too red in the street, and also on account of the peculiar bulge of his eyes; that “Handsome Jack” Barnes’ Jegs are not straight; that his face is very com- monplace and that his clothes don’t fit him; that Jack Mason's fuce is anything but characteris- tie—in fact, is decidedly muggy, and that his elothes also are {li-fitting, and that John Drew, the leading man at Daly's theater, is debarred by his high degree of eiaciation, a prodigious Bose and a queer eye, from being a professional Deauty. Over such stars as Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth, Billy Florence and John T. Ray- giris never rave. They are considered eld and uninteresting. To be the idol of femt- | still a young woman, not more than 26 or 28, I | the first oyster in his hand, the probabilities are im mine New York It is necessary for a man, in the frat place, to play parts which require a diver- sified and fashionable assortment of store- clothes, a conventional mustache and a figare ‘that nust not be robast or rugged, but simply and wholly “elegant.” We have never yet had ® man who could step Into Montague's shoes. Is sad. but I doubt If it has retarded the —- of the country to any appreciable W. GABRETIPS GREAT FOR: TUNE. Lonely Life of the Great Railroad ‘The Ki Whese Wife Was His Fast Frie New York Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Awan of business, having strong relations with Baitimore, said to me yesterday: “It would be an interesting matter for you to go into the will of John W. Garrett.” Said I: “How much did he leave?” “The estate amounts to $35,000,000,” said my friend. ‘Nobody had the least idea of it. It is the largest estate ever accumulated in Mary- land—very much more than that of Johns Hop- kins, and is three times greater than many peo- ple considered it would be.” “What is it invested in?” I asked. “Chiefly in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its extensions and branches, and some of it is in real estate.” Said I: “What do you desire to call my atten- tion to in Mr. Garrett's life?” “To its singular methods. He_had hardly a friend in the world but his wife. He was at war with everybody and everything. The moment he stepped outside of his door he seemed to enter the domain of hostility. He was in con- flict with the politicians, with the city of Balti- more, with the Maryland legislature, with the authorities at Washington, witli the city gov- ernment at Washington, with his cotemporaries of all kinds, and with’ nearly all the parallel railroads. After he had lost his wife there seemed to be hardty a spot for him to look for shade and rest. Yet he turns out to have been true to his purpose of riches. He saved himself. enormous commissions by keeping up a banking house of his own, which his sons controlled. Rob- ert Garrett he designed to take executive charge of his estate, and his other son, Henry, who was aman of cultivation, too, he kept at the head of the banking-house. In that banking- house all the transactions of Mr. Garrett were concealed. If he had operated through any other house his secrets would have leaked out. He has left Henry Garrett, the head of the house, worth €10,000,000. His daughter Mary Is the richest single woman in America— worth $12.000,000,it is believed. Robert Garrett is worth 12,000,000 or more. Miss Garrett is should think, or thereabouts. She has never married, and did agood deal of her father’s correspondence and particular work. She is a woman ot cultivation, and rumor in Baltimore tae said that she is going to marry a physician ere.” —+0<____ ‘The First Oyster-Eaters. From the London Telegraph. When the primitive man found himself with that he was puzzled what to do with it; for the thing was shut. Instinct told him that there was something good to eat inside the shell. Be- sides he had already robbed the cockle and the sel of their contents and thoroughly appre- ciated them; so by some rade process of reason- Ing from analysis he felt sure that it he could only get the oyster open he would find some- hing nice within. But the creature had closed itself so tizht that he could noteven get his nails in between the edges. Its size prevented him putting it into his mouth to crack it. For miles and miles there was only mud and sand on either side of him, so that he bad nothing hard enough to smash it upon. In a half- hearted sort of way he endeavored to insinuate asplinter of acockle-shell to prize the valves open. Then he triffed with the thinner edge with his teeth. At last he thought of his own skull, and wrapped the oyster on it; but not very hard, for it hurt him. He did It in a contempla- tive sort of way—just as a monkey bored to death with a Brazilian not which it cannot break, and yet is loathe to throw away, sits und taps it on the palin of his paw, looking all about him with an abstracted expression of face. So sate the aborizinal man; now and again he would brighten up toa renewed assault upon the obstinate mollusk. He put it down on the sand and hurt his toot by stamping on it: then he took it aud threw it unas high as he could in the air to see if it would mash by the fall; then he put it in front of him and apostrophized it, spoke seriously to it, lectured it, scolded it, abused ft, coaxed it, flattered it, said nasty | things about it, appealed to it, threw himself on its generosity, taunted it, ridiculed it, sneered at it, invoked it, prayed to It, blessed it, cursed it. But the oyster would not be moved either by complaint or insult, it remained as obdu- rate as that ‘‘pebble-hearted cur,” Launce's dog. Not a word could he get out of it; there was no more expression on its face than on a silce of cold pudding. It re- mained stolidly shut. Then our ancestor gave way to a gloomy despair; he threw himself down on the sand and glared with impotent de- sire at the exasperating shell-fish. Bad. wicked thoughts came into his mind. He saw his aged grandsire approaching, and, beckoning him with a fraudulent smile, induced the poor old man to sit down on the sand; and then suddenly, without any warning, he smote him on the crown of the head with an oyster. Again and again the mollusk descended, till at length, in a frenzy of determination. he gathered up all his force in one decisive blow, which split his grandsire’s akull, but broke the shell. Thereupon regard- less of the corpse beside him, the assassin picked out the plump oyster and swallowed it. He closed his eyes while a smile of ineffable enjoy- ment stole over his features, but only tor a moment. The oyster passed away like beauti- fuldream. He sighed and rose. It was a fear- fal price to pay for the delicious morsel. Yet other thoughts perplexed him. His relatives were not numerous, and if he must be obliged to use up one each time when he ate an oyster, he could not look forward to more than a couple of score at the most. Nevertheless, he gathered bushel or so and went home, pondering over the situation. He told his dreadfal secret to a friend, and that very evening, as he was asleep, his friend came and cracked an oyater on his skull. The original savage did not die, but his intellect was perma- nently affected. This was not the woret. how- ever, for somehow the knowledge of the fasci- nating bivalve spread, and men went about with surreptitious oysters concealed upon their per- sons, on the chance of meeting with some one on whose cranium they could crack them. It was a dreadful time. But it ison such founda- tions that nature always builds, and her su- perstructures are raised upon ruins. By and by came the Stone Age, when the soft sediments of river and sea had hardened into rock, and men then smashed the oysters open with fragments of bowlders. They chose a smooth crag, and, putting the shell-fish into slings. slung them froma very short distance agalust the hard rock. This was better than using each other's heads, and the beneficial results of the change were soon apparent. Man, relieved from the rpetual suspicion of having oysters cracked on ' Bis skull, had the leisure to give his thoughts to the useful art. Before long they discovered the secret of sharpening flipts into oyster knives, and all went merrily. Wise men tell us that hese keen-edged slices of flint and obsidian are “hatchet-heads” and “‘arrow-heads,” But this 1s mere conjecture; picturesque, it is true, but unreliable. It is more probable that they are all oyster knives in various stages of develop- ment. This much, at any rate, Is beyond all doubt—that primitive man ate these delicious things In enormous quantities. The sites of many primeval settlements are now only to be traved by the heaps of empty oyster shells, which they were, in the dirty, unsanitary, way of a re- mote antiquity, in the habit of throwing out of their doors into the street. In the ancient ‘‘kitchen-middens” of northern Europe, and mixed with more ancient lava de- posits, asin Kent's Hole Cavern, are heaps of he shells, the vestiges of the repasts of the cavemen. In America these relics of primeval oyster suppers form sometimes mounds of sev- eral acres in extent, while the isolated caverns— where, no doubt, some snug little party having found out an oyster-bed of their own, used to go and consume the fish all by themselves—are innumerable. But one !n the Savannah river, nearly 300 feet in length, gives evidences of something more than private oyster parties. It | their doors must have been the feeding place of a nation at least. Feminine From the Boston Post. Did you ever see a woman play whist? No! Well, she does it somewhat as follows: “Oh, dear, I don't believe I can ever get these cards arranged—Now, let mesee, that one goes there, and—Oh, dear, I've dropped one on the floor— Won't gs pick it up?—Thanks—Now, let me see—Oh, it my play?—Mercy!—I'm eure 1 don't know which one to play—There, I played the wrong one, but never mind—Have I got to follow suit?—Well, if I can’t follow suit can I tramp?—Oh, I wish I could have thrown away on that trick—Could 17—Oh, I'm so sorry—Now how stupid I was I didn’t see it best is ner’s ace when I tramped, but never ee And so it goes on, and at the end of the = sie Roneralty was to stand the other side he was so badly mblepappy- Deaten. RUBBING AGAINST GREATNESS. A Chat with Presi retary Bill Nye in the Providence Sunday Star. When President Arthur ‘paid a visitto the great National Park several of the prominent men of ‘Wyoming, including myself, went, up to Green River, where the Presidential party would leave the special train, and, under an escort, cross over land to the park. There were half a dozen of us who felt as though the north- east corner of the national fabric rested on our shoulders, and we felt that so long as the Presi- dent was to visit for a number of weeks within the borders of Wyoming we ought, as a matter of common politeness, to go and give him the freedom of the park and the Shoshone Reser- vation. In the party we had a member of the Supreme Court of the Territory, the United States Mar- | shal, the present Surveyor General of the Terri- tory, and myself. When the President's train arrived, bearing besides the President, Gen. Sheridan, Senator Vest, Secretary of War Lincoln, Col. Sheridan and others, we waited quite awhile for the Presi- dent to come out and see us, but heremainedin his car. Thinking, at last, that perhaps the Presi- dent had not heard that we were there, we walked around the train a few times, so that he could see us and call us in and converse with us, But he made no overtures whatever, and we finally had to go into his car and introduce our- selves. He may have been overjoyed to see us, and doubtless was, but he has remarkable con- trol over himself that way. When the President took my shapely hand in his, and Col. Sheridan told him who I was, he looked me square in the face with a sort of rising inflection, as though he might be trying | to remember who I was, but could not. At that moment I would have given $2 if I could have thought ot the proper thing to say. The more he looked at me with those dark, sorrowful eyes of his, and patiently waited for me to say something, the less I seemed to have my mind with me, and I wanted to tell him that in the hurry of starting off I had left my thinker at home on the piano. At last I got desperate, and said: ‘Mr. President. don’t you think we are having rather a backward spring 7” That was nearly two years ago. and he has never, officially or otherwise, gratifled my mor- bid curiosity. “He still looked at me in dumb wonder andsurprise.Perhars he felt oppressed with the pomp and glitter of my good clothes. Marshal Schnitger and Surveyor General Mel- drum dropped into an easy conversation with General Stieridan, and fought their battles over again. Just then Judge Biair was presented to the President, and I fell into the hands of Secretary Lincoln. bably the Secretary still wakes up nights and thinks with pleasure of that little chat we had together at Green River. He looked at me in an attentive and interested way that flat- tered me at the timg very much. but when I saw him half an hour afterwards looking at a young cinnamon bear in the same way, I was no jonger proud. Casually I looked up at Judge Blair and the President to see how they were coming on. The President had nailed the Judge with that same earnest, expectant look, and the Judge was feeling of his head to see if it were there, and at the same time was trying to think of a hard word. Just then the President seemed to think of something that he had left in the other car. He rose and with a firm and dignitied step | walked away, and I have never seen him since. Neither has he seen me sinee. “Tt Is years since last we have met, And we may never meet again; Thave struggled to forget, But struggle was in vain.” Soon afterward we all hastily withdrew. We thought it would be better for us to withdraw before the rest of the party did. It wouid be more etiquette and bonhomie. Take it all around, we had a very pleasant call on the party, and everything passed off smoothly. occasion, which I have rigidly adhered to. When I call on another President of the United States it will be when he sends a double barrel quo warranto after me, or when I have business with him of an important nature. I shall n States again just to kill tlme. The desire to rubupagainst greatness has been fully glutted in | z to shed a happy smile | on the President, who is a total stranger to me, | me. The wild yearni has been thoroughly satiated. Should one of my own family be chosen to that great office, and insist on my coming to Washington to run the administration through the holidays, I might do 80. otherwise I warn the future Presidents of this Republic that { will never, Never darken The last-named place, which General Stewart's main force is reported to have reached already, is a town of considerable importance, on the west bank of the Nile, nearly opposite Shendy. It has a population of about 3,000. It is divided from the desert by a line of low hills, and from the river itself by a belt of cultivated land. Shendy, on the east bank of the river, which now becomes the center of interest in the Egyp- tian campaign, Is famous as the place where Ismail Pasha, the son of the great Mehemet Ali, was assassinated in 1821, and the town wag, in reprisal, razed to the ground by the Egyptians. ‘The etory ig a good example of eastern charac- ter. Ismail Pasha had been deputed by kis father to collect some arrears of tribute trom the fero- cious chief who had been the scourge of the country, and who himself had earned the soubriquet of the “Tiger of Shendy.” Pitching his tents, Ismail summoned “the Tiger” to his presence, and peremptorily commanded large supplies for. his troops forthwith. With pre- tended humility the ‘Tiger of Shendy” pleaded the poverty of himself and people, and declared his utter inability to comply with the demand. In his wrath at this reply Ismail inflicted upon him the unpardonable insult of striking him over the head with the pipe which he was smok- ing, and threatened the “Tiger,” who, true to his name, crouched, and, feigning ‘absolute submission, left the presence of the unsuspect- ing guest. ' All that night, amid the gayety of the camp, the prince and his suite remarked with gatisfaction the immense quantities of forage which the tribes were piling around the circuit of the tents, especially the huge piles around those of himself and sulte. They understood better the meaning of the “Tiger's” submission when, awakened before the dawn of day, they tound themselves encir- cled oy a girdle of flame, to prevent escape from which the “Tiger” and his tribe with leveled lances stood sentry, until the Prince and his whole force were roasted alive in re- venge for the insult, and Shendy was thus made a historic spot. Mehemet Ali, to revenge this reprisal, sent up his son-In-law, the savage Detterdar, who razed the town, but the “Tiger” escaped into the interior and was never captured or punished. So, for over sixty years, Shendy has been more than half In ruins, the huge, clumsy ‘“Gover- nor’s house,” close to the water's edge, being the only inhabited building In the older quarter. The new town is a mass of wretched mud hovels, crowded around a vast, dreary market-place, in which a few skinny old Arab men and ‘women, sheltered from the sun by mats of dried grass, offer for sale thelr scanty stock of tobacco, dates, white spongy cheese and cakes of brown bread, which look much more like brown soap. Ney- ertheless, its commanding position on the right bank of the Nile, midway between Berber and Khartoum, and its importance as a leading telegraph station, has led to frequent conflicts during the past nine months between Gordon's forces and the followers of El Mahdi tor its pos- session. ————— Onions Instead of Applies. From the Philadelphia News, “You didn’t know onions were getting popu- lar among frult-eaters, did you?” said an elghth street fruit dealer Saturday. “No. Well, it's a fact. You'd think peopie would be disgusted with the smell of a raw onion, but the fact is that many people like the odor and eat them with the same relish they would an apple. Why,” said the dealer, “when first went into the business nobody ever thought of such a thing as eating araw onion; and aler would no more have sold an onion from astand than to have retailed potatoes, Nowadays we think nothing of having a man ask roranice strong onion, and every dealer and every fruit-stand in town keeps them in stock. ny, alnt it?” “And does the onlon craze grow?” “Grow? Well, rather! Why, sir, if I've sold one onion this morning, I've sold a dozen. ‘They bring from two to three cents apiece.” ——_—__— oe Klotz, the lumber man of Shasta, Cal., has a be: Fergal elation Yay accumulating for years, which is to be fired on the night of the £4 of March, in honor of the ina ‘on of Presi- dent Cleveland. He thinks fhe blaze will be seen 100 miles away. There are seventy -eight women studying medicine in Paris, thirteen of whom are Paris- ill, 1 made one resolution on that | reallon the President of the United | APHORISMS OF BEACONSFIELD, Some Cutting Thingy About Women Written im the Famonys Novelist’s Notebook, London Letter to New York World Lord Beaconsfield once publicly declared that he ruled mankind by despising it, and his books, his speeches, and his actions combine to prove that his cynicism was real, and not merely assumed for occasional use. Nothing more dis- tinctly shows his habitual'tone of thought than the contents of a well-thambed little MS. note- book, which a literary triend of mine ‘has re- cently had the good fortune to light upon while overtiauling a box of miscellaneous rubbish in a small shop in the neighborhood of Clare Market, London. This important -‘find” is q small oblong 12mo vol. of 120 pager, bound in faded Russia and somewhat stained by damp. Inside the cover is Disraeli’s autograph; and ninety-eight of the pages are closely written over on both sides by the same hand. It is difficult to assign a date to the MS., but Ishould fancy, from internal evidence, that the greater portion of it must have been set down about the year 1885. Every line of it is Interesting and eee charac- teristic of the writer. It is clear, however, that the contents of the notebook were not in- tended for publication, at all events in their present form, for Disraeli more than once in his books dwells upon the necessity that exists tor the man who desires to succeed to keep on good terms with the fairer sex, and it is per- fectly certain that meny of these witty cynicisms are enough to set every woman in the world in arms against their author. I am permitted by my friend to transcribe some of the more striking of the entries in this unique commonplace book, and I propose in the present letter to collect those which more par- ticularly and pointedly deal with the ever at- tractive subject of woman. Let me, however. disclaim sympathy with the more rough and un- gallant of the sentiments expressed. I think that Disraeli has treated the sex abominably. ‘Still I cannot avoid occasionally laughing with him, for his reflections, though not always just, are generally amusing. Here ix a first budget of extracts: “Coquettes give their blossoms to their lovers and their thorns to their husbands. “When a woman has lost one battle she rarely wins another against the same toe. “A blush often announces the departure as well as the arrival of shame. “Why do the Germans make the moon mas- culine? Surely we are justified in regarding her as feminine, since she is essentially change- able. “Men are people who make rulea; women are people who make exceptions. “It is recorded that God sald:- ‘Let us make man In our image, after our likeness.’ It would, perhaps, have been Impolitic in Moses to hint more directly that woman was made ina very different mould. The conclusion, howeven is obvious. “There fe no marriage inheayen; neither is there any heaven in marriage. “‘A beauty without wit seems to me to resem- ble a bait without any hook in it. “TI believe that there are some women who wear petticoats simply lest they should be mis- taken for men. “There is this difference between passion and love—the one breeds headaches, the other breeds heartaches; but neither would be dangerous if there were no fools in the world. “Love certainly increases the population of the world, but I doubt whether {t adds much to that of heaven. “Of allthe women whom I have known I chiefly remember those who forgot themselves. “It is quite possible fora man to respect a woman so much that she shall despise him. “Ifa man does not take his wife to church the chances are that, sooner or later, he will be obliged to foliow her thither. “Adam in Paradise must have slept very peacefully—until he had the misfortune to lose his rib. “A woman is flattered by the love even of a beggar in rags. is “Marriage is mnch like a spacious bird-cace set in a garden on a winter day. The ins would be out and the outs would be in. “Love, like a fire, is liable to be extinguished by overmuch stirring. “A good woman wearies aman; a bad one worries him. “It 1s often not until a woman feels that she is too old to be loved by man that she seeks to be loved by God. “The word ‘curious’ means quaint as well as Ingulsitive. Woman, in both senses of the word, is a curious animal. “Man is a substantive; woman is an adjectiy “Addition is the bounden duty of a bachelor; when he has mastered it multiplication will tol- low as a matter of course. “The two most difficult things are to paint a picture on running water and to convince a woman who does not wish to be convinced. “Man sometimes calls a woman a goddess,but he would not love her if she were one. This fact, doubtless, accounts for the partiality | which was shown by the sons of God tor the daughters of men in the antediluvian period. The daughters of God must have been a little too ethereal. “It does not speak well for the fairer sex that asarule, he best succeeds among women that has the lowest opinion of them. “It is perhaps extraordinary that more mar- rlages do not turn out unliappily, since the woman generally marries to get into the world, while the man as generally marries to get out of it. “The great argument against the admission of woman to public positions 1s her inabifty to be punctual. “A woman may not have-a religion, yet she always has a deity. “Most women feel flattered when they.are charged with little weaknesses of which they are not guilty; perhaps because they know that her faults are so often a woman's chief ql ns. ‘A man will return rather to her who has deceived him than to her whom he has de- ceived. “It Is well to remember that a woman's eyes and cars are not all at the same side ot her head. “If woman were by nature what she tries to make herself by art she would be dreadfully dis- contented.” ——__—_~-e-_______ Increase of Cancer. From the Popular Sclence Monthly. If the data of the registrar general's reportr are correct, cancer {s steadily increasing in Eng- land, and the rate of increase is augmenting. Thus, daring tht ten years 1850-59 the increase in the number of deathstrom this disease was 2,000, showing an average increase of about 200; from 1860 to 1869 the number of deaths was 80.049, and the average annual increase 248;and from 1870 to 1879, 111,301 deaths occurred, with an anuual increase of 320. Dr. Charles Moore attempted to show, in a book puolished In 1865, that cancer thrives with good living, and that its increase was an accompaniment of the {m- seek economical condition and vitality of the ritish people. It abounds where the conditions are ordinarily most fsvorable to health, and more among the rich than among the poor. Ac- cording to a French observer, about ten percent of the wealthy classes and 7 per cent of the poorer classes are afflicted with cancer. The disease, according to Dr. Crisp, also prevails among animals, more frequently among flesh- eaters than among herb-eaters, and among do- mesticated than among wild animals. It is not zymotic or infectious, or conveyed in any way, nor is ft transmissible, though the predisposi- tion to it may be inherited; but it begins de nova in_ each individual whom it attacks. The only efficient remedy for it 1s the surgical one, and that should be applied at the earlier stages o the disease, while the affection is still local. 7 ‘The Meanest Man Yet, From the Detroit Free Press, He got on the front platform of a Woodward Avenue car yesterday morning and had a brief conversation with the driver before entering. When he sat down the subject of conversation had already been opened. It was about the state of the thermometer. “I looked at mine ag I left the house,” re- marked a shiverish passenger, ‘‘and it marked twelve degrees below.” “What! only twelve below?” exclaimed another. “Must be something wrong thére. Mine showed fifteen and was going down then.” “Yours must have been a warm place,” said the third passenger. “I have avery reliable thermometer and it showed a little over sixteen degrees below as I took the car.” Two or three others had their say, and when the cold had been brought down to twent; degrees below the mean man rose up and said: ‘Gentlemen, please walt a moment.” He opened the front door and the thermom- eter he had hung PP. was hi him. took it and it HORTICULTURAL HOBBIES. A $100,000 Orchid Mouse—Gould’s Palms—Noveltics Plants. From the New York Mail and Express. “What is the latest rage among the finest Specimens of plants?” asked a reporter of a florist. “The orchids are, decidedly. They are com- ng into tavor on account of their many shapes and varied shades of color. They are plants which grow without any soil, being usually tied to a block of wood or a cork suspended in the air. They require nothing but water to nourish them. The plants are very unattractive, but the flowers which grow on them are beautiful beyond comparison. They are parasites and grow well in South America. In Europe one large horticulturist, with acres of green louses, employs fourteen German naturalists to do nothing else but experiment with orchids and produce new varieties. In the United States the universal love fur plants has not reached a high enough plane to justify such an enormous expense. A single specimen of the scarcer kind costs $1,000." “Do suy pavate conservatories grow them?” “Yes. Mrs. Pierrepont Morgan has a green house filled with the largest variety of orchids Specimens in the United States and among private people not in the busines perhaps in the world. They could not be bought for a hundred thousand dollars. She employs Bev- eral naturalists and every three or four years new specimens are produced. They grow slowly and very delicately, and for that reason ocala do not give much attention to em.” “Is ita fact that most wealthy men who build penhouses fill them with their favorite plant?” “With few exceptions such is the case. Mr. Jay Geuld has a magnificent conservatory at Irvington, which cost. they say, €350.000. " His mania is tor palms. Every variety of palm in the world is to be found there. They are the most valuable, too, in the world. John Hoey has a green house at his residence at Long Branch. His great specialty isto gratify the curiosity of his friends every summer by ex- hibiting to them over a million of plants bedded in the open ground. He has the finest collection of stove plants in the counti J.B. Colgate has a fine conservatory at Yonkers. His hobby is roses of every variety. Charles J. Osborne grows chrysanthemums, anemones, oa rhododendrons at his summer residence at se.” a How They Cure Hams tn Virginia. From the Country Gentleman. Virginia hama, and notably the Smithfield and East Virginia hams, are cured in the fol- lowing way: The hogs are left on the scaffold till the ant- mal heat is well out of the carcass and it has become a little stiff trom cold, in order that it may cut smoother and better than it does when limp. Usuaily the pork is not cut till the next morning after it is killed, but if the weather is very cold, and it Is feared that it will freeze before morning, it is cut and salted the same lay. On being cut. the meat is immediately salted and packed down in bulk, flesh side up, on the floor of « platform made for the purpose. On packing it down each plece is so laid that all the blood that oozes out of the meat wili flow away from it, and not remain in contact with the flesh to taint it. This is one of the nice polnts In our method of curing bacon, namely, to have the animal bleed freely when it is killed. and not allow the pork to stand long in the bloody water that always comes away from pork tor a short time after it is slaughtered. Hence we never use the brine, but always the meat dry, and break bulk and resait. again in ashort time. Care is taken to touch all the joints and bones with plenty of salt, and to sprinkle more salt on the thick part of the pieces as they are packed down. We use trom a busliel toa bushel and a half of dry salt to a thousand pounds of pork, apply- ing the most on meat of large size. Sometimes, to give a fine red color to the flesh of hams, a little salpetre is rubbed on them, but very often | nothing but the dry, salt is applied till the meat is ready to be smoked. At the expiration of 4 to 6 weeks, depending on the size and the weather, the hams are taken up, washed clean of the sait (but this 1s often omitted), and mo- lasses or moist brown sugar Is smeared over the flesh sides, and red or black pepperapplied free- ly to give the meat a good favor, and also tu keep off the bacon bug, the parent of the “sk: per.” The red pepper should be dried in oven, and then pounded tine ina mortar. Both sorts of pepper may be taken together. A gai- lon of molasses or 10 pounds of sugar and 4 pounds of black pepper or a_ peck or red in pod are enough of these articles for 1,000 weight of hams. The pleces are then hung up and smoked $n the usual way by kindling a slight fire in the middle of the room and keeping it smothered with chips from the wood pile. But use only green hickory or oak wood, as it imparts a brighter color to the meat. Concerning Tastes and Flavers, Grant Allen, in Cornhill Magazine, Sweets and bitters are really almost the only tastes proper, almost the only ones discrimi- ated by the central and truly gustatory region of the tongue and palate. Most so-called fla- yorings will be found, on strict examination, to be nothing more than mixtures with those ot certain smells, or else of pungent, salty or alka- line matters distinguished as such by the tip of the tongue. For instance, paradoxical as it sounds to say so, cinnamon has really no taste at all, but only asmell. Nobody will ever be- lieve this on first hearing, but nothing on earth is easier than to put ittothetest. Take a small plece of cinnamon, hold your nose tightly,rather igh up, between the thamb and finger, and begin chewing it. You will find that it is abso- lutely tasteless; you are merely chewing a per- fectly insipid bit of bark. Then let go your nose, and you will find immediately that it “tastes” strongly, though In reality It 1s only the perfume from it that yon now permit to rise into the smelling-chamber in the nose. So, again, cloves have only a pungent taste and a peculiar smell, and the same is the case more or less with almost all distinctive flavorings. When you come to find of what they are made up. they consist generally of sweets or bitters, intermixed with certain ethereal perfumes, or with pungent or acid tastes, or with both or several such together. In this way a compara- tively small number of original elements, vari- ously combined, suffice to make up the whole enermous mass of recognizably different tastes and flavors. Se Wednesday Whatnots, There is more fan in “being up with the lark” than down with the pneumonia.—The Pretzel. The snow is from one to five feet deep on the level. Its depth depends altogether on the conscience of the story teller.—Peoria Tran- script. The country will be glad to learn that Colonel Susan B. Anthony has not spanked the Rey. Dr. Patton at last accounts. But there is no doubt that the Doctor is wearing two pairs of pants—a trick he learned when a school-boy.—Adanta Constitution, “So your son has gone abroad? Aren't you afraid he will fall a victim to the cholera?” “No, indeed; he is a member of a baseball club, and his friends inform me that he was never known to catch anything.”—Boston Transcript. There was a court-martial held on a young officer who had gone on a spree and had a fight inabarroom. The bar proprietor was brought before the court and put inthe witness-box. The prisoner was placed in full view. “Witness, do you recognizethe prisoner?” ‘“Yes,your Honor, and most of the court.”—San Francisco Chroni- cle. ip- an A Boston Inventor has perfected a snore cure. It is a piece ot wire bent in the shapeotadouble hair-pin. On one end is a small wheel, some- thing like a chtld’s pin-wheel, made of silk. The wire is fastened over the upper teeth when retir- ing, bringing the pin-wheel in close proximity tothe noseand mouth. When the sleeper snores it starts the wheel to revolving, and the points of the wheel’s rays, which have fine,sharp. steel needle ends, whirling around rapidly, tickle the snorer’s nose and cause him to desist. The in- ventor has large orders from the numerous sleep- ing-car companies, and has been made a Past Grand Mojuk in the east, in the Society for the Suppression of Profanity.—Pittsburg Ghronicle. ‘The Ki Compression Required. From Bob Burdette, He didn't know the Brooklyn girls very well, being a comparative stranger trom Philadelphia, but he timidly remarked that he wished he were ‘8 leather belt that he might clasp ber waist. FEBRUARY 4, 1885—DOUBLE SHEET. TRAINING SP. ROWS TO FIGHT. Scene im a Chincec Gambling House Philadelphia. — The Philadelphia Times printsan account of a sparrow fight that took piace last Sunday night in the Chinese gambling house at No. 219 North 9h street. It wasthethird fight of the kind given at that place. Chong Wah keeps a Chi- Rese store at No. 219, and Bun Sun Low has a little tin sign out over the side door announcing | that there isa Chinese restaurant inside. The } store is simply a blind, and the restaurant is only run as a cover to the real business of the Place, which is one of the most complete Chi- nese sporting houses in the United States. The gambling room ou the first floor, back, was cleared of all the furniture, and about 75 China- men crowded about an old extension table turned upside down, with the legs sawed off. The atmosphere was stifling. When Ban Sun Low nudged his way through the crowd to the sparrow pit he had a bird In each hand. Their wings were cut and their tails were cropped close. Their bills were alinost white where thes had been sandpapered to make their little beaks as sharp asa needie’s point. The Mongolian spectators watched the birds and Bun Sun Low closely. One of the sparrows had a little piece of red ribbon wrapped around its leg to distinguish it from the ott Hop Chung Lung, who is one of the silent partners of the gambling house, then sized up the birds with @ sporting man’s eye, and offered to bet ten “plunks” (dollars) that the bird with the red ribbon on its right leg would kill the other. There were no takers until Bun Sun Low had dropped the birds in the pit. The moment this was done the sparrow that had no ribbon on it plunged at the other and pecked a mouthful of feathers out of its head. This caused a chuckle all around, and Charlie Lee, the 10th street laundryman, cov- ered Hop Chung Lung’s ten lunks.” This added fresh excitement to the fight. The bird with the red leg was the gamest. and made a lunge at bis antagonist, plucking out his left eye. In another moment he pecked the other bird in the throat, and his needle-pointed bill did deadly work. The one-eyed bird toppled over and fell on the sand dead. The excitement, although boisterous, was not intense. Charlie Lee reluctantly handed over the ten “ plunkk” he had lost, and Bun Sua Low gathered up the dead bird and the victor. Other fights followed, aud when the fourth brace had fought for three or four minutes, Chung Wah told Bun Sun Low to stop the fignt, and the spectators were told the sport was over. Phabe oo i tdlstonitbh An Ideal American. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, From the February Atlantic. If there is any person in the world to be en- vied it is the ote who ts born to an ancient es- tate, with a long line of family traditions, and the means in his hands of shaping his mansion and his domain to his own taste without losing sight of all the characteristic features which sur- rounded his earliest years. The American is, | for the most part, a nomad, who pulls down his house as the Tartar pulls up his tent-poles. If I had an ideal life to plan for him it would be something like this: His grandfather should be 2 wise, scholarly, large-brained, large-hearted country minister, from whom he should inherit the temperament that predisposes to cheerfulness and enjoyment, | with the finer instincts which direct life to noble | aims and make it rich with the gratification of | pure and elevated tastes and the carrying out of plans for the good of his neighbors and his fel- low creatures. He should, if possible, have been born, at any rate have passed some of his early | years, or a large part of them, under the roof of the good old minister. His father should be, we | will say, a business man in one of our great | cities—a generous manipulator of millions, some | of which have adhered to his private fortunes in | spite ot his liberal use of his means. His heir, our ideally placed American, shall take posses. sion of the old house, the home of his earl memories, and preserve it sacredly, not exactly like the Santa Casa, bat, as near y just as he remembers it. "He can add as ma acres as he will to the narrow house-lot. build a grand mansi . in the not distant neighborhood. But the old house, and all immediately around it, shall be as he recollects it when he iad to stretch his little | arm up to reach the door handles. Then, hav- ing well provided for his own household, him- eclf included, let him become the providence of the village or the town where he finds himself during at least a portion of every year. Its schools, its library, its poor—and perhaps the new clergyman, who has succeeded his grand- father's successor, may be one of them—all its interests he shall make his own. And from this center his beneficence shall radiate so far that all who hear of his wealth shall also hear of him as a friend to his race. Is not thisa pleasing program? Wealth Is a steep hill, which the father climbs slowly and the son often tumbles down precipitately; but there is a table-land continuous with it, which may be found by those who do not lose their head in looking down from its sharply-cloven summit. Onr dangerously rich men can make themselves hated, held as enemies of the race, or beloved d recognized as its benefactors. The clouds of discontent are threatening. but if the gold- pointed lightning-rods are rightly distributed the destructive element may be drawn off silently and harmlessly. For it cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the old world axiom, richesse oblige. —_——+. Stout Necks. HINTS ON DRESSING OF THEM WITH LACE, ETC. Astout lady with a short neck can wear lace often as becoming as her swan-throated sister, provided she does not attempt to snug it close up under her ears, or to bunch it in wavy pro- fasion abont her neck and shoulders. First, then the Jace jabot, fichus, bertha, or neck trimming of whatever sort, should invariably be flat; secondly, it should always decrease in width, as it approaches the waist line, and thirdly, itshould never stop short here, but fall into graduated points if possible, to several inches below the belt, giving a longer effect to the waist. It would also be well, before adjust- ing the lace bertha, fichu, ete..to turn back very slightly that portion of the bodice which comes Just under the chin. This V opening of about three inches in length and width can be daintily veiled with lace, catching together the filmy edges with a slender lace-pin. —— Fingers too Long, So he Cut Them Off. Atramp, with the middle finger of his left hand wrapped in a rag, applied at Mrs. White's residence, near Waverly, N. Y., and asked if he might use an axe that stood by the chopping block on the wood pile. On being given per- mission he picked up the axe, and, placing the middle finger of the right hand on the block, chopped it off at the middle Joint. He wrap, up tie stump in a rag like the one on his left hand and walked away, leaving the piece of finger lying on the block. He was followed and arrested. The fiuger on his left hand had been recently cut off at the middle Joint. He sald that they were too long, and had led him to steal, and so he cut them off. He was sent to the Monroe county penitentiary under the tramp act. +e To Meet His Little Bride. From the New York World, 34. “Count Rosebud,” who is shortly to marry the widow of Gen. Tom Thumb, has been In New York several days. He closed an engagement in Washington and came to this city Saturday. He is here to meet his diminutive flancee and arrange for the wedding. Just when the mar- riage will take place has nut been decided, but the ceremony will be performed in one of the fashionable churches of this city before long. “I knew Mrs. Tom Thumb several years before her husband died,” remarked the Count, and I tray- eled inher company last season. I came to Proctamation: BALTIMORE POST OFFICE. Col. HARRISON ADREON, Postmaster, mokes this announcement: Ihave used Red. Star Cough Cure for a severe cold and cough and found it a prompt, sure cure. Its pleas. Ant to take, prompt fn ite action abd, has none of the bad effects of other cough mix- Lures, which derange the system. Col. ROBERT G. KING, Assistant Superin- tendent of Letter Carriers, says: “1 must say Uthat I endorse Keed Star Cough Cure. 1 have used It In my family fora violent congh and found tt,excellent. Its use was entirely free from the depressing effects of opium or mor phil preparations, which are alinost tnvaria- ny given for cougis.” BALTIMORE CITY HAL Colonel WM. H. LOVE, Secretary to His Honor, Mayor Latrobe, declares: “From own personal knowinige and observation have no hesitation in saying that Ret Star Cough Cure is the best Temedy for coughs and colds on the market. A case of chronic asthma has been brought to my notice where the paroxysms ceased after the use of a few doses of this va fected a prompt dorsement by the hig Of our state Is fu ly ¥ rience,—it cured my n and I trust, for the be est sclentifc authority ifled by my own expe- her of a severe cold— eft of the suffering, 1t may find its piace in every household for Uhroat and lung affections.” BALTIMORE CUSTOM TOUS. Colonel JOHN H. SUTER, Correspondt Clerk Custom House and Past. De Commander ¢ Army Republic writes: “Having myself personally suffered with a cold and cough, and the children of my family having in lke been troubled, I used the Red Star Cough Cure. I found that afew doses in each case had the desired effect. 16 ” harm) ot the bad effects of other cough mixtures on either the stomach or system.” BALTIMORE BOARD OF HEALTH. Dr. JAMES A. ART, M. 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