Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1885, Page 2

Net THE EVENING STAR: WA - e cITy AND DISTRICT. SOMETHING ABOUT THE ASSASSIN PAY Where He Spent the Night After the Assacsinatio: To the Faitor of Tus EveNtNo Star Some time ago you published a scrap of un- written history of the assassination of President Lincoin, showing the direction taken by the | assassin and his accomplice after the bloody | nade of the Payne in deed, agd what disposi horses, Yor will be remembe a the AYE W Surratt’s 2 Seward’ life, the follow! Messrs. D. L. Morrise east corne iith use of M and cemen tion I found my one of my picks gone left the Seward house Rimselt untii te found in bi Respecttully, Washington, Fe To the Editor of Tx I would respect y would be greatly ed If this larg juable museum could be kept open in the evenings, and aiso on Sunday afternoon thus enabling the people of Washing and visitors generally, to of examining this Interestin: curiosities without inte Bary hours of busines. @ an opportuni collection of rare ith the ordi- s [have been able to learn.not one of the etti- zens have ever in the buildin; I have occasion to visit Washi non bu ness every week In the year, and yet, owing to constant and pressing ¢ ts during Thave nev nable Into the building, and that was o minutes before it was closed: whil open int evenings I could and would vis! frequ Tam then usually I presume ands of othe: Situated: but of course they eanno negicet their busitiess In order to avail them- selves of, this pleasure re kp pears to®me that the falls fur Short of what was atly intended to do,and that is to ini est and instruct the eople gen vand very ly these who have neither the opportunity the them to trav I therefore h matter in estion inte considerat not made and if they find th only di way is the need of ne sary fu: m lay their views before Ce gress, > doubt but that they wil Successful i 1 the assistance th The best way nder people happy ad c tented is to ¢ tion of their le ing and useful infor hem to spend at how tion, soe The Ball and Charity. To the Editor of Tur EveNtNe Stan I suggest that arrangements be made by which the Pension building, with Its decora- tions intact, be kept open on the 5th sor the admission of the general public, at a small | charge, the receipts to be devoted to the Asso- | ciated Charitic There will be thousunds of perso. our own citizens and strangers, who ttend the ball, and who would twenty-five decoration they be grat! of the most deservin: in existence. be mad: would b of a connection with the conceive of no ex but think ths , both nnot Y pay a mts to see thi To the Editor of Tre EVENING STAR. In answer to “Mechanic,” in your Issue of the 20th, I would say that board and rent of the same quality is as cheap here as in New York, Massachusetts, or any of the eastern citie while at the west provisions are some cheaper, rents are very much higher. As to length of the building season, “Mechanic” must be well awarethat it is much longer here than at the north and west. It is not true that rents here pay ten to twenty percent. There are very few buildi ft ng the taxe i insurance ar ven eight and if we ir . loss of Der ce nt b nd th upied, cent. It, din pret use of the idents charge Beside tenants mov luss of there as he Standing un over six * empl it is simply b ted, viz: That oi than is charged ¢! hot these non-resident mechanics have to liv and support their families the same as the resi- dent mechanics; and If they prefer to work for $3 per day instead of ding idle, is it not right and proper for them to do so? citizens alike, whether the trict or out of it, and all work where an In repli reside in the Dis- the same right to om they ple ” in TWE Star of the 19th, who ask: rm him where to go to get the benefit of the reduction in price m toned by me. I would right here in Wash- ington, as weil as other places in the country if be Ras supported a family as 1 have he must know that the flour which eost 89 to $9.50 per an now be bought here y hig irades for n Virginia write at Hour, made by hington in lots of jp freight paid. When u the time when that was | Granulated sugar, which then cost 11 cents per pound, now H nts. Dry goods of every description cost only about | twothirds of what they did then, and there has not been a time in twenty-five’ ye, when clothing, blankets and the like ¢ bought as cheap as now. Any one who desires | to know the facts, has only to step into any | Store or grocery, and compare the prices now | with those of three years ago, or examine his own bills. Fresh beef has key ioore whan fny other article, but even that can now be had at less p: by buying that brought here already dressed, and where the the pick of the herds, and where the cattle, when slaughtered, dre ina far more healthy and bet- ter condition than those brought alive on the | ¢arscan be. “Mechanic” is also mistaken in Bis supposition that there Is any desire, at least | 0 tar as Iam concerned, to oppress the laborer in any manner. I bave'been 4 laborer all my Ife and alwaysexpectto be. Ibegan life by | working on a farm through Naying and harvest | at $10 per month and board, and took my tarn | leading with the he and the cradle. I ven- | ture to say I work more hours every day than | 2 does, and I'do not in any manner Yry to prevent others in my line frum workin; for whom and for what they pense. I depen for my success on doing my work better and More of it than others, asking oniy nopen field and a fair fight” in the struggle for lite. Af others can do better than I, it is their privi- Idge, and I have no right, morii or legal, to put pat is, the ve ta flour, and othe A gentleman in Wi fering to deliver winter wiv the roller ten barrels for has be ever be done? stg de Obstacles in their wi In regard to the which “W.F.D.” in- definite, as he does not specify any, can give bim my views iu avery few words. 'By corpor- Stions I understand him to mean ‘tered us- SOciations or eomy i would first prohibit, by law, all wateris cks, so that no stock should’ be issued b mount of actual capital paid in, aployed in the business. nd, I limit’ their proGta, oF dividends, to a reasonable interest— pm six to ten per cent, according ctreumstances—on the capital thus ally employed; and any attempt at eva- ion, such as investing surplus earnings, OF profits in unnecessary works, &e., shouid work a forfeiture of thetr’ ¢! nd all the Tights and privi conferres reby. And Wo insure the faithful performance oi these con- ditions, there should eoneor more commis- Sioners or trustees elected or appointed on be- halfof the public, who should have a voice in the company and access to its books, with an @nnual public report in full of all its doings. I would supply these conditions to all companies charte: by the national, state or municipal overnments, including ‘railroad, telegraph, lephone, gas and all similar chartered com: panies. I'am ready to join “W. F. D.,.” or any Other man, in the effort to accomplish this atany time. Those who desire tosee how the cost of liv- ing hes gradually decreased in the United States for the past seventy-five years will do well to Fead the speech of Senator George on that sub- t in the Senate last winter, and for the past wenty-four veurs the article in thy New York Tribune of December 9, 1584. We all spend much more than formerly, because we earn All are | e | sury duringthe | HOW THE STYLES CHANGE. | A Talk With a Man Who Makes } ion Pintes. Fash- | THE GREAT ADVANCE MADE BY AMERICAN ME CHANT TAILORS+0UR FASHIONS COPIED EUROPEANS—PRESIDENT AUTHUR AND ECT CLEVELAND A$ FIGURES S PLATES. FOR FASHI Mr. J. J. Mitchell, of New York, editor of the ‘ashion Review and American Tailor,” who Was recently in this city, spoke to a STAR re- porter of the great improvement of the mer- nt tailors of this age and land, and said the ropeans now get many of their fashions from this country. rmerly,” he said, “the repre- sentative merchant tailor might be said to be a son of poor parents, receiving pattern plates twice a year, and being fully satistied. Now, | however, the merchant tailor is not content with even the quarterly plates issued, and is Surpassing those of other countries. They are now ever alive for something new, to have not only the latest patterns for their customers, but the latest improvements of tools and conveni- e their business. Some were content a with modest. unassuming places tnow the merchant tailor has as hment us any tradesman.” ent the pattern brane! up rees,” replied he, “we tion or hint fro: a “thing seceptable, After getting sgestions from tailors and others, and consid: hays getting the view of a lai ad do as many newspaper men do, It is well enough to get the we have to boss the job and use our own Itisone of those ‘businesses In which defined method as to originat- rvation and study Is required. auges were made in’ February for cing ad summer styies, and in August for 1 and winter, and the greatest changes are still made at’ these periods, The’ trade past ten years, at least, has, not been content with but’ two r, and must now have of the foremost demand- he great changes are in wever, and the others are ions or improvemenes on them, not anges, Te business of making ased atly ithin the past ned thet at ntumber at it, but the wu.K of itis done b vo or three houses. Of course, there is notsomuch cha: vie de- mnanded by gentlemen 4s by ladies. we do of get Up the count stvles for partieujar sections of Wien we publish the plat nt tu every portion of tie ccuntr sometimes it is found that one st r in ove section and ‘another in reection, butas arule the tastes are as veh ditterent in one section as another. > are about 25,000 merchant tailors of n the country—those who keep a Lage tnily up to the times, having the with them the fashion maga- Ye come to be as essential as the news- Such progress made that even are adopting our patterns, ident Al ines torial xl figure for the yle does not come by reason of n adopting it, though to some have a following, A gen- tle S$ what style beeomes him and will fit hin new President is not of | Tin BS but you will find eveland will look effort in uni fr. Mitchell, andt ing the merchant tail- ‘exchanges are being esuits’ are apparent wherever It is not intended that aggressive, but that ze they will be mutually improve ‘ancement may be made in their £ s: that they should not only meet toge but with the tradesmen with whom the: advancement al and talk 0% f the trade, = $e MARRIED AT LAST. The Difficulties which Met a Washing- ton Couple in Baltimore. er measures for the One day recently a middle aged couple left here for Baltimore for the purpose of getting married, their object in leaving the city being | to keep certain friends‘of the groom from know- ing of the marriage. After procuring a license in Baltimore, as the groom was a Catholic, they were shown to the parsonage of a Catholle priest. Here the priest refused to marry them, as the bride was not of the Catholic faith. They went next to another priest who also refused, but recommended that they go to the Cathedral. Upon arriving at the Cathedral the case was ex- plained, and the priest informed them that the consent of the groom’s pastor was necessary,and | he ‘graphed him for such consent. The arty leit Washington before the dinner hour, and having spent all their time in hacking or waiting for the tying of the knot were by this etting tired and hungry, After waiting 1 hour for an answer to the telegram the ame impatient, rried before,” she said to the groom. “I have never been, but I ain't going to be I ‘d about any more. Come and ait e If we can't get married.” “Whi asked the groom, “By a minister of course,” she answered ‘ ou'll not be married,” said a priest. He may not be according to his bel lef,” an- swered the bride, T will be.” With that the party left, and repairing to the residence of an old Presbyterian minister the © was stated and he: married them. When ‘Tr, Was getting out the fee for the latter discovered that he had a ertaining that they wished to be a the ring,said: “Well, Ifthree priests id not marry you, it is better that the mar- be well done, 0 if you will rise we will it by going over itagain,” and thereupon | the ceremony was repented. ————+e0______ HONESTY OF GOVERNMENT EM. PLOYES. A Well Deserved Tribute from Com- petent Authority. In his speech at the dinner of the Merchants’ Club in Boston, recently, Ex-Comptroll- er Knox said: I lived at Washington for more thay 20 years, without an opportunity ofexercis- ing the right of suffrage. I held a non-political office, nd I can say, after an ‘ars, that no private estab- n boast of amore efficient entious body of men, as a whole, the officers and employe: F the ‘Trea: ‘y depart omposed. as they are ofmem- % of both eal parties, Few people ap- elute the ibility and work of the Trea- ite civilwar,when hundreds,you ay thousands, of ‘millions of dollars were nd reissued in green backs, 7-30. notes, bank ‘notes, frac? and various other forms of in- UnitedStates,and yet thewhole of this, responsible duty was performed, It may be said almost without the loss of a single dollar. “entered upon new duties in New York on the Jast and within afew weeks thereafter fe oF that elty suffered a loss, from ths ong doing of two men at least four times greater in amount than was lost during the 20 Yeurs preceding the year 1882, which Includes the wholé period of the civil war. If any poll- tician, greedy for spoils, cherishes the belier that the Treasury is full of unwholesome persons who deserve to be turned out to give place to a. hungry horde of successors, simply because they unsavory political work in the late campaign, he ts grievously mistaken. The e government, as a rule attend timate duties. The difficulties and embarrassments of the government may be traced to the legislative rather than to the ex- cutive branches of the government, ————+e+_____ The Work of the Associated Charities THE FRIENDLY VISITOR. In — street lives a widow with six children; two are cripples; one is helpless. The father died not long Since, leaving the family de- pendent upon the efforts of the mother—a dell- cate, pale-faced woman, who willingly accepted a service place, while her aged mother did the housework. In no condition for hard work this widawed mother toiled from early morn till late at night until compelled to take her bed and send fora physician, She said to a visitor fiom the associated charities: “I am ‘so glad you have come.” Tears filled the eyes of both, Strangers though they were, as she spoke of het husband's death, the extent of her loss: how she had suffered and missed him duritg her illness; how Kind he always, was to her, ‘to everybody; and how she had “prayed that her life and heaith might be granted her for the sake of her fatherless children.” Her visitor assured her that necessity should not compel her to resume her work until perfectly well, bat when her kind employer, who had waited be. yond reasonable expectation, could wait no longer the poor woman, assured that her work should be lighter, went out in the bitter cold. of the early mogning to her daily task. Two days later the 1 energetic grandmothe:, whose more than three score ind ten- exhausted by overwork an ure while doing double duty as servant and nurse. Tired out, the visitor found her in bed, the dear little children were trying to keep still’ in an ad- joining room, for gran’ma was sick, She, too, was glad tosee the visitor, She said she “euten searcely amything for two days. Noth- els ma much more and live much better. In fact, we @il of us now consider as necessities things which our fathers seldom bad as luxuries. We are better housed, better clothed, better fed &nd better educated, and I, for one, rejoice that such ts the fact. OusERVER. February 26, 1885. une) awe MIXING METAPHORS.—“No reform,” jlaimed a fervid orator a’ the other night, “was pat bloodshed, und juicker will the ex- @ North End meeting ever accomplished with- the more bloodshed the millenium come and the fewer the lives sacrificed, ‘The Juggernaut car o- Ene ice gory locks ahd ry ite nce eee tones, ‘with all tyranue” ing tasted good; had no appetite.” When asked who had worked for the children that day, she said: “Their mother rose at five o'clock that’ morning and made bread for them. She must be at her place at six. She must not fail: she was so thanktul to get it. She could not afford to lose it.” At the request of the visitor, who knew where to find ft, a good lady gladly sent a r woman delicious chicken soup, which was highly relished; “the chicken wasse tender, Yn soup was so nice.” How grateful was or sympathy, kind attention and le, nourishing food. Her visitor was thank: ful to some of the le of whose generous contributions have made sible for the Charities to send to “the widow and in their: . ‘¥ Visrror, for something new. | iM work on it till | when we come down to | , do not make the | DRESS SUITS FOR THE BALL. What It Will Cost to Cut a Figure st the Inaugural. THE STYLE OF DRESS TO EE WORN—A TALE WITH A MAN WHO HIRES OUT DRESS SUITS— WHAT THE MODISTES ARE DOING FOR THE LADIES. A great many people are just now trying figure what it 1s going to cost them toattendthe inaugural ball Wednesday night, For a gen- | tleman a dress suit, a standing collar, a white | satin Ue, apair of light gloves, a coupe, a bo | quet of flowers, two tickets,and a young lady, | are the requisites, besides a supper and other incidental expenses, The dress suit, if he has it made, will cost him from sixty-five to ninety- five dollars. If he buys it ready-made, from twenty-tive up; if he hires It, five dollars. The | standing collar will cost him a quarter; the tle | a dollar, and the gloves a dollar anda half, The carriage wiltcést from five to ten dollars; the | fowers fromh,two doliars to twenty, according | to what he ge? the tickets ten dollars, and the | young lady, # -uing, if he is discreet in his se- | lection. Ifa ‘yung man prefers to go alone It Won't take so uatich of an outlay, but hismoney n't be ws v invested. laimed a down-town tailor, TAR man’s inquiries as to @ ball. “Dress sults! Why we ufything else for the last two and i've twenty-five men employed on, ‘There are hundreds of tiem being made for the ball. It wouldn't do te go without | “Dress suit | in answer to Tix that branch of t | haven't made months, | them no “Any change in the style?” asked Tae Stan. “No; that is, the regular dress cut will be worn; there is some slight change in the roll of the | collar, There are some few made after a style | they have been trying to introduce, just asweep- ing’ cut from the ‘collar to. the tail, like an_e: agzerated cutaway; but they don't take w Scie of the new plates show the French style | of delicately colored pants and colors in coats | and the knee breeches style; but it’s too early | for these: it will be a year or two before they come | into vogue. The knee breeches will take best | anc Rtlongest. ‘That's the comingstyle. ‘The conventional dress suit will be the one for the inaugural.” “Will there be many hired for that oceasion?” “I shail have 500 suits there. I have been collecting and making suits to hire on this occasion for two years, aud I haven't enough to meet the demaud. Ishall have 500 suits there at $5 aplece.” “Who hires?” “The very be ber of suits ¢ people, We have a num- wed by members of Con- by United States Senators, hire them not only for this occasion, but cht straight along. We have had outa great many this winter, and members and Senators | are among our customers. We had twelve suits at the dinner given to Gorman at Willard’s, and about thirty at each ot the President's re- ceptions; and we hire them out for dinners and schoc! commencements generally. People who are stopping at the first-class hotels, aud don't happen to have dress suits with thei, come to | me when they are invited to any place | where they have to wear a’ dress suit, But {he inaugutal bail Is the great occasion I have paring fe..”” edo Yous"! your suiter” I have been advertising iu THE StTaR for them for two years. People outgrow. their dress suits, and can't wear them, though they are perfectly good. ‘These I buy and make over nto the latest cut. Then, besides that, 1 make agreat many myself. I’have such a big busi- | ness in my hiring department that I shali make | i permanent Branch of my business, having a full stocke of elegunt suits of our own make. “Besides those that are being hired we are | making a great many suits. Our prices? Well, the cheapest we make are $65. We put up an elegant suit for $9: MAKING LADIES’ BALL COSTUMES, For a lady the only expense of the ball will be her dress, “The ball dresses,” said a fashionable modiste, ‘will cost sixty, seventy-tive and up to five | hundred dollars. The average price 1s from $60 to $85. I am now makinga very handsome | dress, to be worn at the inaugural, which will cost $250, There are a great many being made for that occasion. All’ the dressmakers are busy, and agreat many fashionable modistes from’ New York are in the city with magnificent who make any pr the fashions have them cut long, but some short ones ure being made. There will be some very handsome dressing at the ball, and most of the dresses will be long. Delicate satins will be worn mostly. Some rose colored, some pink, white, cream, But one very rich style will h a ‘k, With lace and tulle, and gold or silver cords. — ART NOTES. Boston has a new Water Color Society, of which Ross Turner, formerly of this city, is one of the founders and leading members. —The trustees of Cornell University have given a commission to Mr. W. W. Story for a statue of Mr. Ezra Cornell. the founder and mu- nificent patron of that institution. — Mr. F. L. Montague, who has spent several months past in New England, has returned to the city, and re-opened his studio in the Y. M. ©. A. building, on New York avenue. —It 4s said that the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is running behind hand financially at the rate of $5,000 a year. The statement may, however, well be doubted, and it 18 to be hoped that It is not true, — The statue of Gen. F. P. Blair, designed by W. W. Gardner, of St. Louis, has been cast in bronze at Cincinnati, and it is expected that it will be placed {n position in Forrest Park, St. Louis, in a few days. — Mr, McGrath is represented by three num- bers in the watgr color exhibition in the New York Academy’ of Design, and Mr. Paris by three. These, we believe, are the only Wash- ington artists who sent over drawings, — Mr. E. H. Miller, of this city, sent a number of examples of his work in that line to the ex- hibition of the Etching Club, now open in New York, which were readily sold, as most of his etchings are, at the prices named in the cata- logue. — Mr. George W. Childs has just presented to the Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, a collection of drawings originally belonging to Benjamin West, and some of them by his own hand. The collection numbers fifty-seven pieces, and ineludes crayon and pen sketches, —Statues of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the leader of the colony at Hartford, Conn., and of Judge Oliver Elisworth, Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court during Washington's administra. tion, are proposed for the capitol of Connecticut, at Hartford, Both projects are zealously urged: — A New York paper prints the absurd story that “Mr, Archer is to get $10,000 from the gov- ernment for his portrait of ex-Secretary Blaine.” The price actually paid for the portrait In ques- tion which is intended for the Department of State, is $500, and that fs considered by com- petent judges a very high figure for it, — Art circles in New York are on the tip-toe of expectation In regard to a painting which, rumor says, will soon be exhibited there. Itis said tobe nothing less than an original Raphael, taken from a Naples museum in November and shipped from Paris in December to New York. The story 1s that duty was paid on it ata valu- ation of $100,000, —Considerable mystery seems to surround Rembrandt's painting of “The Gilder,” which, It was said, was bought some time ago to come to this country. It is now definitely set» tled, however, that {t has arrived in New Yorl thaeit is in. the hands of Mr. Sehaus the worl. known importer and dealer, and that it ts for sale. The price? Ah, well,—-Mr. Schaus would robably like to know what you would be will- ing to give. — In view of what was promised in advance touching the design being prepared by Mr. Francis Lathrop for the cover of Cussell's Fam- ity Magasine, the observing patrons of that eriodical must be both surprised and disa} pointed now tbat it has appeared: The GaP Ing, which seems to be a weak imitation of one ‘Vedder's poorest conceptions, represents a bad. case, of bow-legged washerwomn, ‘with outspread wings, the supporting cay of which, on actual test, would not te semeneae oe ensure the safety of the buxom wench in Jum) ing from the top of @ stake-and-rider Virginia nee, — Recognizing the fact that New Hampshire has never had a stafue of Daniel Webster, her most famous son, Mr. Benjamin P, Cheney, a native of that state,but now a citizen of Boston, has determined that this want shall no longer exist. Accordingly, on his own account, he has contracted with “Thomas Ball, the sculptor, now residing in Florence, honor of the great statesman, whi resented to the state when finished. It laced on a suitable pedestal, resting permanent granite foundation, in the he state house at Concord, and’ it is e: that it will be ready to be formally unvelled in November next. The price to be pale Mr, Ball {s $8,000, and {t is thought that the expense of ebsportat 91, pedestal and other ineiden 8 .: uggregate amount nearly one more than that sum, —It is now announced that the sale of the Seney collection of paintings will take place in New York on the evenings of March 81 and April 1 and 2, prior to which time they will be on exhibition at the galleries of the American ona 4 SHINGTON, costumes, Some of them ure periectly gorgeous. | | Those tor five hundred dollars you ought to see. | Most ofthe dresses are beg made Tong. Ali ensions to keeping up with | f- ; FEB D.C. SATURDA: LITERARY NOTES. 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Ardently loyal to his state and people, he naturally sympathises | strongly with thei in their pectiliar trials, but | at the same time he has too high a regard for | | the truth of history to conceal or distort facts, and it must be adinitted thaton some points hé presents a showing which must go far to modity | the extreme views generally heid in the north | as to the course pursued by the state, both at | the outbreak and during the progress of the re- bellion, Tt contains, also a good map and a full index, with alist of authorities quoted or re- ferred to in the text, CONSUMPTION: He, Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and W, Kircien, M.D. New York: | Sons, Washington: Brentano The author's estimate that the annual mor- tality from consumption throughout the world exceeds three million fully justifies every effort that can be made towards its prevention, arrest, | and cure,—if the latter be possible. To these | ends he contributes the result of large experi- ence with the disease and extended observation | of its characteristics under various conditions, | and while he promises no specific remedy, he | | points out its nature and probable causes, how | It raay possibly be avoided by those in danger, and the way ‘in which the sufferings of those | beyond hope may be ameliorated. The subject is treated in a plain common-sense manner throughout, the object of the author being to place it in such a light that the dangers of the lsease and the means of escaping them may be understood by the reader of ordinary intel- ligence. In the latter connection an interesting review is given of the comparative advantages of different localities in the United States as climates for consumptives or those of consump- tive tendencies. HOW TO BE YOUR OWN LAWYER. A Complete Instructor for everybody in all the ordinary legal affairs of life. Adapted to every state and terri- tory. Compiled and arranged inder the super- vision of prominent members of the New York bar. New York: M. T. Richardson. The old adage that “the lawyer whois his own attorney has a fool fora client” might be extended so as to rend *hat a lawyer who Is an attorney for any body has a fool for a client,— the moral being that all who can doso should keep out of the hands of the lawyers. The pur- poe of this book ts in that direction, its aim to point out how litigation may be avoided rather than how to proceed once the unhappy wight be entangled in its meshes. It ives concise directions, with the necessary fegal forms, including patents, pensions, bani ruptey. partnerships, agreements, bonds, deeds, leases, ‘mortgages, wills, &c.;-also, a dietiona of legal terms, tables for computing Interest and making other calculations, and much val- uable miscellaneous information besides, mak- Ing it a convenient and useful hand-book for every day reference. LIFE AND WORK IN BENARES AND_KU- MAON: 1839-1877. By James K: DY, M. A. late Missionary of the London Missionary Society etc. With an Introductory Note by Sir WiLitiaM Muir, K.C.8. L, etc., late Lieutenant-Governor North-Western Provinces of India. [lustrated. New York: Cassell & Co., Limited. Washington: Brentano Brothers. Primarily Mr. Kennedy’s book ts intended as a record of his life and labors as missionary firstin India, and afterward in the hill coun- try of Benares, and in that sense it will find many appreciative readers among those inter- ested In the work of evangelization. It is, how- ever, much more than this, Nearly two score years of active experience and observation in So interesting a country as India must neces- sarily qnallty an intelligent gentleman to tell much that is new and instructive in regard to its people, products, scenery, climate, indus- tries, ete. ‘This heghas done, in a frésh and graphic manner, making the volume one of more than ordinary interest and value, and a substantial contribution to current knowledge. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS: Or, the Me chanism and the Metaphysics of Exchange. By EDWARD ATKIXS8O: Nei : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Washington: Brentano Erothers, In these days of inclinations towards com- munism, socialism, nihilism, and anarchy, the three essays constituting this modest volume cannot be too widely read. Mr, Atkinson is a close observer and profound thinker, and has the faculty, moreover, of expressing his views clearly and forcibly. The first essay, “What Makes the Rate of Wages,” was read at the meeting of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, in Montreal, last August; the second, “On Banks and Banking,” was read as a lecture before the Finance Club of Har- vard, In 1880; the third, “The Railway, the | rain and snow, and_ pre Farmer, and the Public,” is reprinted from’ the Manufacturers’ Gazette.’ They are followed by Appendices which contain a vast array of sta- istics, the study of which will throw much light on points now too imperfectly understood. N, MY. By Dr - ABpar ofthe Acadsay of Moalcine: Anmoneieat os by Frederick i Fenton, New Work: Canals Company, Limited. Washington: Brentano Broti- The basis of this excellent work 1s a course of lectures delivered at the Paris School of Fine Arts, a fact which indicates at once its charac- ter and its value to art students, It is naturally divided into two parts, the first dealing with the bony structure of the body, the other with the muscular system, both belng so fully and clearly illustrated as to make the book second cal aa value to @ course of surgical lectures, with practical demonstrations with the human form, to an artist desiring to plished figure painter, 2 HE WANE OF AN IDEAL. A Novel. By La Mar- TH Ghesl Corus Bea tne Talia Hy Cutts BELL, New York: Wm. 8 Gottsberger. Washing- ton: W. H. Morrison. A well written and interesting but not alto- gether pleasant story, tending to show,—if that ‘was not, indeed, the purpose of the writer,— that mén and women are largely the creatures of cireumstances and associations, which often shape thelr destiny in spite of intention and wil good, the become an acco! Talrabiy portsaved, aad ‘sore or the lave woenes ofthe ion pre A en ord The name of the writer is a fanule; but ir tafe story ine fale exansple of her 1a st a e: ower, her future ‘will be welcomed by fiction. THE EDWIN ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK. Ka’ ComeTance | ARNOLD! Boao be Letene Coe This dainty little volume, edited by the poet's two daughters, is one of the most attractive of thé class to which it belongs. Each month of the year is illustrated by\an appropriate en- graved design, and prefaced by a new poem, but a sort of nary as well, : SEA FATHERS: Aree a ‘of ; Beginning with Prince Henry, the navigator, end with end Mr. ending Cook, Scoresby Dance, ; nay to will not. eros. but of interest ——_ AUARY 28, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. and their adventures to older readers. The style of the author js clear, concise and fresh, and a delightful flavor of the sea pervades each narrative. NGRESSION, VERNMENT, A Study of wie kes ees eae ee Houghton, Migin & Co. Washington: Wm, Bal lantyne & Son. The object of the author appears to be to point out the leading practical features of the federal system, and to contrast governmept by com" mittee with governthent bs cabinet ministry? as illustrated by Congressional ,and | Parlit mentary methods, and he has thus made a con’ tribution to the political literature of the day that is at once interesting and useful, and par ticularly so to students and embryo statesmen. CATtewerve Woot ii the “Olden “rime. We the orve We int author of Bart ley,” etc, Cleveland: Leader Printing Company. The charm of this story, like most of Mr. | Riddle’s contributions to fiction, lies in its quiet, simple style, and its faithful descriptions of scenery and life, rather than fn plot or delin- eation of character. If the latter are not strong, however, they are never bad, and the tone and moral are always good. In a country where business changes are made so frequently and rapidly as {i ours, one rarely expects to find, and indeed rarely does find, an establishment in continuous existence for a hundred years, and least of all_a publishing house. Yet Lea Brothers &Co,, of Phil ade!phia, have recently issued a neat little brochure com* memorating the centennial anniversary of their business house, established originally by Mat- thew Carey, and continued to the present time without interruption by his descendants and their relatives. Itis an interesting contribu- ton to the history of publishing in the United States, and in typographical appearance hardiy less creditable toits publishers. than 18 the unusual event that called it into existence. Dr. Charles Denison, of Denver, has com- piled and published an ingenious and useful map, designed to illustrate at 2 glance the cll- matic peculiarities of the various sections of the country, with reference to their influence on the public health, and especially adapted for comparison in connectian with the treatment of certain diseases. The plan adopted gives at once a clear and correct Knowledge of the aver- age cloudiness, temperature, precipitation of ling winds in all parts of the country, together with season tables, and other staiistics caleulated to throw light Upon asubject to which too little atten- tion has hitherto been paid, Asa contribution to political science this book | isan extremely valuable one, giving as it does afull compend of early and modern laws in relation to mines and mining, and a record of the crude means of securing order and Justice in the mining camps and settlements of the Pacific slope during the exelting periods follow- meriecan ocenpation of that By ‘ubsequent discovery of gold. In this will Ife the chi tof the book to students al or historical science, but the general li tind 2 good deal to attract inthe pictures it gives of life and experiences, both amusing and exciting, under peculiar con: ditions, The new edition of Miss Johnston's “Visitors'y Guide to Mount Vernon” (it is the 9th, by the way, revised and improved,) contains an inter- eature, in the inclusion of @ catalogue of Washington's Hbrary, copied trom the Inven- tory of his personal property made by the au- thorized appraisers after his death. “Tt num- bered nearly 900 volumes, not counting pam phlets, magazines, and maps—no small library, when books were books, both in character and cost—and showed the father of his country to be @ patron of sound and substantial literature. Mr. J. H. Hickeox. of this city, has commenced amost useful undertaking in the publication of a monthly catalogue of “United States Publica- intended to give a complete Mst of all , documents, maps, ete., issued under govr nt auspices, whether by order of Con- y of the executive departmentsor the work will be specially valuable men, journalists and librarians, but it rest for a large class outside of ‘ves encouragement. Mr. W. H, Morrison, of this city, announces the publigation, in May next, of the third yol- ume of Schouier’s History of the United States, embracing the period from 1817 to 1831. history has been well received by the public, and the concluding volumes are looked forwar to with considerabie interest. A complete edition of the works of Mary Clemmer is to be published this spring, which will include a yolume of her literary, social and politic: articles, and also a memorial volume, now in preparation, which it is designed shall do justice to her as @ Woman and an wuthor. Volume IX of “Stories by American Authors” (Seribners, through Ballantynes), although hardly up to the highest standard of the series, contains two or three excellent stories, that are in themselves worth the moderate’ price at which the volume is sold. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have added George Parsons Lathrop’s story “An Echo of Passion” to their edition of fifty-cent paper- covered novels. Other Publications Received. HEAVY ORDNANCE FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE- Belng a consideration of the Preseut Defenseless Condition of the Coast Cities of the Cuited Stat to will possess i these, and des! etc.,ete. By WiLLiaM H, Jagtss, Lieutenant 8. ‘New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Wash- ington: Robert Beall. MIND IN MEDICINE [Srrnrtvar Spectres]: Embracing two Sermons preached in the West Church, Boston, October Sth and 12th, 1884. By CyRvs'A. BatroL, D.D., Pastor. Published by Request. New York: M. L. Holbrook. ACY AND MORMONISM: A Discussion of 1. Aid to Education and the Utah Probl lem. L Waite, Ph.D., Statistician ). Lothrop « Co, Brentano Brothers. ENERGY AND MOTION. A Text-Book of Elemen- tary Mechanics. By W1LLiam Paice, M.D., As- sistant-Mas University College Schoul, ‘Lon- York: Cassell & Company, Limited. rentano Brothers, THE SPANISH TREATY OPPOSED TO TARIFF REFORM. | Report of @ Committee of Inquiry appointed by the New York Free Trade Ciub. New York: G, P. Putnain’s Sons. Washington: Robert Beail. VISITORS’ GUIDE To the Cotton’ Centennial E New Orleans: Jno. B, Roose; E. Morrison, NING CAMPS. A Study In American Frontier ua . By Charles Howard Shinn. New narles Scribner's Sons. W: yo: Wo Ballantyne & Son. THE PLUMED KNIGHT vs. GOV. CLEVELAND; Lamar, Arlington and Other Verses, fe Rooers. Third Edition. Washington, . RED-LETTER STORIES. Swiss Tales, from the German of Madam JOHANNa Sryni. by Lucy WHEELOCK. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. XDOM SHOTS. By Nxrson Gooprick Hu- sa eimer Levoy, tlncls Bloomington: Published for the Author. {URAL LYRICS; Elegies and other Short Poems, ia By Tons dF Siuaose. Philadelpuis: 5. Lip: pincott & Co. TOBACCO REMEDY. By Gen. Bets of North Carolina, New Yor! Company. ——_+e+-______ A Curious Spectacle. ‘To the Editorof Tux EVENING STAR: A singular phenomenon made its appearance on Sunday morning last above this place amidst the thin skim of clouds overhead. The time was between 8 and 10 in the forenoon, and the phenomenon was that of a sigment about one third of a circular halo with the variegated colors of the rainbow, and say, if completed, thirty degreesin diameter. The remaining part of the circle was not formod, the atmosphere being too clear, The position was perhaps forty degrees from the sun, and tothe southeast of the zenith. The singularity of the appearance consisted in the fact that the halo was turned not towards but from the sun, with the visi- ble sigment convex. Atabout 9 o'clock the halo quite disappeared, ‘but reappeared in half an hour tillit finally vanished. The question is on what did the halo center, for nothing but a very thin fleece of cloud occupied the central of the halo, Usiontown, D.C. Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Nat. Met. bank to J. Gales Moore, lot 82, sq. 887, ,500; and pts 162 and 163 Prather's sub Mt. Pleasant, $2,000; Hanson Stewart to Gabriel Clark, undivided haif pt. Fortune enlarged and pt. 20, Batley’s Purchase, &c., apt G. Bangs to Ann Jane E. Qt. i $127.50; Anna L Bramhall to J.D. Joneset al, trastees, $d Baptist church lots 88, 4 and 5, sq. 510, $—; East Washington Investment Co. to M. Stanisei, lot 24, a. 789, $1,412.80; James Seats eae ite 1, & lot 836, $3,900; John Van Riswick to Washington Vorld’s Industrial and position, and New Orleans lard. "Washington: W. 8. T. L. Cure Orange Judd rtz Johnson, lots Sand 4, 8g. 695, 83,975; John Miller to Anheuser Busch Brewing Assn, pt, 14,09, 641,91,040.50; 7. HG. Todd to same, $425;" M. ‘Smith to same, t. do., $538; heirs of 8. to T. D. Bond, in Trust, pe. 6, 0a, 868, lot $, 89. 724, 8— EJ. Dallas et. al., to a lots 412, Smith t Bins Lee pt, Chichester, $760, B Les to Henrietta Smith, pt. Chichester, undivided seventh, $750, G10 ING. —% whee rar or rts ae 3 4 ifintshed bulidings ever st id. well Se ee con’ rang in sul suitable (gating rae ope bebe structed that each room hasan a ‘ Je yh was in Va., grad oe a ee ae This | | hideous to look at, t -Spangles and tinsel. THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. Looking for Quarters—And Something Eat—Concerning the Carnival—Sun- day in New Oricans—The Vast Gov- ernment and State Exhibits— They Should be Brought to Washington. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR. New Organs, La., February 21, 1885. Arrived here Sunday morning at 7 o'clock, after a ride, by no means fatiguing, of 46 hours from Washington. The railroad stations here are,I presume, no part of the great interna- tional show, for the one we at ‘d at would compare very unfavorably with the Baltimore and Ohio depot in Washington, which, as well known, fs a disgrace to the federal capital. Leaving our baggage at the station we stroiled up Canal street to look for quarters, and were soon located in a nice, clean room, on the third floor of @ house on Canal, near Carondelet Street, at one dollar each, This is in the most central part of the city, from which cars start every minute to the Exposition, ferries, &c. For meals we had been recommended to frequent the Christian Women’s Exchange lnueh rooms, but on going there found them closed on Sun- @ay—just as though strangers were not to be taken in and provided tor on the Sabbath. However, there was no difficulty In finding something to eat, for bar rooms and restaurants were all open and doing a thriving business, Preparations for the carnival were everywhere evident, especially along Canal and St. Charles streets. The balconies, which here mostly ex- tend across the Totwalks, were provided with additional props and terraced for chairs. Onr landlord had thus provided accommodation for one hundred and fifty persons, from each of whom he expected to realize one dollar ON MARDI GRAS and the day previous. During the day aSpan- ish benevolent society paraded the streets pre- ceded by a band, and also divers omnibusses carrying bands and placards announcing exhi- bitions, circus, ete, The theaters were all open in the evening, yet the churvites in the morn- ing were exceptionally well atiended. We dropped in a church of spacious size on Fi lin square and found an audience of not than 2,000 people; every aisle and every bit of standing room packed fall. At the close of the sermon an organ recital of seiections from Wag- ner's Lohehgrin followed, rendered in a mas- terly manner. On Monda change Lu We patrgnized the Women" brooms, bu Burbon s so well cooked every so moderate in price that we really ¢ njoyed breaktast, which involved sn « cents each—cottee, tea or milk, wk, 15 cents, By 10 streets were filled with 2 dense muss of m Rex, the king of the carnival, arrived on land parading with his ¢ asked, under eseort of sever tary compan’ S. marines, brass ban i carriages, the principal streets, embarked on one of the large gaily decked steamers and f lowed by some se steamboats, «ll crowded with passengers, amidst salutes from the war vessels lyiug in the stream, and the screeching of over A HUNDRED STEAM WHISTLES, he started for the exposition, where ceremonies appropriate to the occasion were held. At evening the Krewe of Proteus geant illustrating Chinese mytholog: than eighteen floats passed in review, each pre- ceded and aceompanied by torch bearers to the apparaled in se: aloft a toreh s, backed with a and one foot wid rv olr of petre unted by a galion lewits were drawn t risoned also in sc: th. The various costumes of the characters represented were GORGEOUS IN THE EXTRME; fome exceedingly expensive. Half men, haif Higator seemed to be a prominent teature— y decorated in rhe pa, as declared the press to be instructive. We could not it—probably owing to our obtuseness, for, when 2 dusk next to On the autiful, ani er than the day | previous, Oceasionaily a group of masque Taders were encountered, but, as a rule, poorly gotten up. Som © hours or more after t time announced, Rex again made his ance as the patron of industry, followed by (a pageant representing ‘the — story of Ivanhoe in tableaux on a series of floats. It pleased the public immensely, and | the press extolled the succe: t the rep en! tion, Again obtuseness prevented our taki {tall in.” We could not see why the characters in Ivanhoe should be masked if the actors were not ashamed of the parts they assumed to take. | We could not see any beauty in the haracter of Rebecca being taken by @ masked man, or | that of the Queen, &e., asked men, Our ideas of architecture also confitcted somewhat With the proportions of castles poriraved in pasteboard and covered lumber on the floats, as | compared with their Inmates, and then we could not understand why most of the charac- ters acted either like harlequins or dancing- masters. The evening parade was given by the “Knights of Momus,” and consisted of a pa- nt on floats, representing the “Legends autiful.” On the whole this was decidedly the best of the three pageants, THE TABLEUX OF THE FROST KING deserves special mention. But again we failed to see where the educational feature came in. Had it been as correct a representation of the voyage of the Jeanette aud the trials of the Greely relief party, we might have taken it in; but even then the instructiop would have been expensive out of all proportion to the lesson taught. This last night's pageant we were told cost ete of $50,000, and the two previous ones, Including the outfit of Rex, $87,000—a largé proportion of which went abroad to pay for costumes, It ix nevertheless pronounces A GRAND SUCCESS by all, even some of the teachers of the public schools who have been teaching the past six months, we were told, on “promises to pay We wondered, when it wasall over, whether the good people of New Orleans were not “pay- ing too much for their whistle.” Before closing, a word about the great Expo- sition. Great ax to quantity and quality of e hibits. The volumes of instruction embraced iu the government pulldings alone ts beyond comprehension, and it would be akin to na- tional disgrace to allow all this wealth of object teaching material to be scattered. We there- fore suggest that by Joint resolution or other wise the President of the United States be au- thorized and empowered by Congress to confer with the various state governments having ¢ hibits there—including the owners of the inval able educational exhibit, the women’sand cole ed peopl e's displays, and invite these to consent that their exhibits fn connection with the gov- ernment departmental display be transierred at the close of the Exposition at New Orleans, ‘TO THE FEDERAL CAPITAL and there form the nucleus of a permanent ex- position to embrace in time all the states and territories, the whole to be arranged for pur- poses of ready comparison upon the plan of the Paris Exposition of 1878, and so constitute to the legislators of the country and the public at large a grand and COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL OBJECT-LESSON. The building the government already owns, and thus would be secured to the people a ten- fold repayment of all the federal and state gov- ernments have invested in this World's Indus- trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans. A Honesdale, Pa., dispatch says: Silas Clapper, aged 77, living with his son on the eastern bor- der of this county, was greatly annoyed by cats several days last week. Gn Saturday he shut several of them in the kitchen, and going among them with a heavy club beat a number ofthem to death. When he got th: the kitchen floor and walls were covered with blood, and the sight of it horrified the old man after he got over his excitement. He went out in the barn, and halfan hour later he was found hanging by his neck from @ rope tied to the rafters Dynamite for Farm Use. Henry Jones, a farmer near Waynesboro, Ga., plants a crop of ground peas every year. This dynamite, Mr. Jones picked it lntoa lot of sere h for the crows. when the dynamite exploded. ‘Since then not & crow has been seen on the place. AN ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE IN PENNSYLVA- special dispatch to the Pacsaapas Times from Lancaster, Pa., says the therein daring outrage have just reach On Monasy at farnoon Lea ira Mende! nineteen years, the beautiful and accom; ed, daughter of a farmer residing in Colerain — and carried her outraged her. S by her father. k ship, went to the barn to hunt eggs, when was sclzed by @ man. who wore a mask. tled the girl's hands into the He then Bi the |“ jeity, and transform them into | talk | of educatior | large an WHERE IS THE UNIVERSITY? The Great rai City—The Need of a National and Thoroaghly American University — “Gath’s” Views on the Subject. “Gath” writing recently to the Cincinnati Pnquirer, said: “Among the designs of the founders of this country, which, has never been carried out, was one of the erection of a National University. The denationalizing of our easter: colleges is but too apparent to American cit zens in general, The temper of education it these old schools is adverse to popular govern. ment in the direction of the respecting of per sons and to the nourishing of quirps, qutpeta and affectations which frequently take the form of sincere hate of the students’ native land. Jobn C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams, the (wo great competitors from the north and the south, the two men who really began the great couflict which bas united peopie, were both advocates tional University. Insensibly Congress ne on making collections at Washington a nisew here ipments of a Smithsonian Institution is in tion ngress, because the money Mr, “On AVE OUF goVveruMeNt Was lost by in: ment in state rights, It was loaned to Ar kansas, and was there stolen by the state gov. ernment, and never mi good. Cor thereupon, to support the natinal faith, voted the money, and the Smithsonian Institution bears Smillison’s name, but was made b American tax-payers. The United St lection of patent models has grown a ington so greatly that some years voted to let a portion of ther ferent colleges through the ec education of pupils anc hanes, ecllection, hows is still at Washington, and is the most complete on the globe, The Ainerl- cans have ntry to assist the . LED ALL COUNTRIES in inventions, although they became a country after the steam ongine was invented. The library ‘sities of Congress nt, and will, after the usual Ws, be aecommoduted I some respectable building, built to be accommodated to the growth of the lit the departments at Mme illustrative of year or two ago, is Visit in all Wash- ms of the 1 swervator iington wtil have the be manufactured. at faculty mm knows, or selen- n the delega nt States and in th tors for what WASHINGTON CITY AND [1S COLLECTIONS, To retarn to Wash: lon city and Its collee tions, It has the first and the best Army ané Navy Medical museum in the world. In each of the departments ix. special Mbrary for the use of that departin devoted to the specialties thereof, Im the Capitol and other ¢ butldings are th Washi aby thing 4 ofthe arehit and went w fh is 8O, id Hall of Rey) have radiater sions of the several xt rve all natu he ae which are ten ing south, It of the south- ent institution can be ners, superior ultimately acter of Its students and graduates f any of the m GEN. WASHI Gen. Washington favored @ national univers sity ninety year He wrote to John Adams: “The proposition to transplant the entire fac- ulty of the U rsity of Geneva to Washington American university, is important. A national university in this country ts a thing to be desired, and this has always my decided and the ropriation of grounds and tor it in the federal city has long been contemplated and At that very time Washington had his will and provided for the establish- a college, say “It is always a source regret to me tw see the youth of these United States sent to foreiyn countries for the purposes ontracting habits there and prin- ciples unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, which are afterward rarely overcome. For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see jan devised on @ liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through ail parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought, to admit from our national council: Looking anxiously rward to the accomplishment of so desirable au object as this is, my mind has not been able to conte plate any plan more likely to effect the meas- ure than the establishment of a university In a central part of the Cuited States, to which the youths of fortune and talents from all. parts thereof might be sent for the completign of their educaiton.” Thereupon Washington gave his shares in the Potomac company, which Virginia had given him, to endow a university within the Miits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the general government. In order to pacify home feeling in Virginia he also gave his shares in the Juines River Navigae tion company to what is now the Washington and Lee’ college, at Lexington. The above let- ter was written to Edmund Randolph,on the 15th of September, 1794. “Gath” suggests the propriety of carrying out Washington's plan beiore the centennial, to c- cur ten years irom now, of his proposal’ to es- tablish tbe university. He guotes various writings and utterances of Washi Jefferson favoring the establishment of @ na tional university In the federal city. He says the Catholic college here, founded and con- trolled by the Jesuits, which has become a handsome institution, educates a large proportion of the sons of our Co’ men. He refers also to the Columbia Mr. Corcoran’s benefactions to it, and the standing of its law school. Zo. nd : ington and The Constitutional Rip. Washington Correspondence of the New York Worla. When the count wasgoing on in the House last ‘Wednesday the acting Vice President handed an envelope containing the vote of Nevada to Keifer. Edmunds had torn open each envelope before handing :t down to the tellers. The Ne- vada envelope was only partially torn open, ' Keifer, in order to get out the returns, would have been obliged to tear the envelope. This Mr. Edmunds had regarded as his yeculiar duty. Keifer understood this and so he did not presume to tear the remaining mmch of paper still left at the partially: open end of the enve- lope. wily to Mr. por pod with an air of exaggerat snportance and ruggested that he had not wholly fulfilled his part of the duty. Edmunds listened and then ‘he said, grimly, without turning towards Kelter: “I think teri have made the constitutional rip, sir.” -‘Thie nrase was afterwards around how used to describe the duties oF the ties President during the count. He Is to be strictly ante ry to ~ making of the constitution en consti iy velopes containing a Suicide in His Wife's Presence. John Kircher and his wife, of New York, have been separated for some time. The wife and her three children have been living in apart- ments in a Brooklyn house. Thursday night her husband roused up the inmates of the house by loud knocking at the door. Mrs, Kircher saw ber husband from the window. He looked up and called to her to let him to open the door, Her husband The ball penetrated ie brat e in An officer, when about to lift dead man into the hallway of prevented by the widow, already enough from not want the body in the sixty years of age. Fara, i tf 38 E i i & : - : 3 ct iets j land, while a number of arti scientists were testi: