Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1885, Page 3

a alll THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. o f SHE TOOK THE Goops. An Innocent Rursl Belle Who Got Away Wita the Jack Pot. From the P A craze oped it jecraph. has gradually devel- jong the Olean divisi nd V rail ad poor, young and ni-wicked euehre ladies of Ollen—first- pened to meet in the » place the other day a purehase which only i she didn’t think » was questioned why she had changed lowed ison the word of the st be lady wh aid t bs sth “play Everybody Any one - mon tin Jack to think I woulda i 1 the fair com- y of dence: tor of the fack-pot ¥ foranything? So i buy the goods to-day Allie, nd is consequ at yard of the eetly iov. Long read son have 2 it himse do: years dur Tr presidin: that woen they reached | a teach additional derful range of of interest to know inja and Maryland und tobtained when by the Peunsyl- itd the east end s from the ndi land = nst th set. Two splendid objects iboldly and beautirul- —the dome ne Capitol tis well ap the dome, It sce the statue deli- white rt sweeplt ftwithin a ¢ transit it he sp Htestitle did stri Lex. few men wore rubber stion against damp- orn in the months to facilitate Y are now qu! cities during the winter walking rd against fallson icy pave ments, but the Cleveland Press is a Uttie skepti- eal about them. It The people who wear them for this purpose doubtless Imagine that their pedestrian eff thereby, but a litt show, we thin the reasons ion would . Among place y from falling. swer the pur- © smooth in reliable and : servation shows the worst falls rsou their feet. Taken who 1 ui relianee on thelr foot covering, they fail with great force when they do fall, in- stead of easily subsiding to the pavement, as does the man without rubbers who is con- stantly on the look-out. Then the use of these rubbers for this p vukens the muscles of the calf of the Ir continuations to the ankle and foot. Inthe case of the man who walks without rubbers on slippery places, they ce ® a source of di ' r. ae | (0 send one of the grooms for her jorse. | and the: «the muscies of the lower part of the leg—the powerful gastrocnemius, the supple tibialis an- tieus, the flexible extensor communis digi- torum, and the pliable extensiors of the toes— are beld rigid and alert, and from constant usage ure well developed and strong, making locomotion practicable and safe if not always easy, even under the most trying circum- stances, ———$+o- Washington Society From the Sacramento News The fmportant part that social life plays at the national capital is shown by the space which is given to society news in the daily press Of the country. There are members of Congress who can remember when it was unusual to see a Society item in the Washington dispatches of the leading New York papers. Society matters, Mf noticed at ail, were treated in letters, and few of the chief soctal d their way into print. receptions, balls, dinners, cl-knewn people are enter: he public prints the day after t Washington Iife, as well is undergoing a great becoming the winter Those who have attained art, literature and science are found whe there is wealth, » there Is wealth the eonditions to them are generally found. ined prominence in public litieal careers have closed, it ns, frequently determine to “at the eapital, no tonly be- able acquaintances are snes and surround- ‘ome fam to them have r them too strong to resist. ston is very different from what ft close of the war. Then it was . Whose streets were shunned In wet F On account of the mud and in dry of the dust. ews. tained int thetr oe nee. All this shows t ~ The ¢: of rieh people distinction i they have the me: make their lendid parks and stafed as those of no Fine statuary and rand build seen everywhere. The su- erbs are nt and there are magnificent @rives of nm: sin sever I directions, tinue to grow in beauty, ¥ the number of tts rich and. dis: sidents will there Ite social reased atten- ehator Bla t by a large S as the count of is by another class. country get to know and they look for accounts of . balls, dresses, and for the bits of rly asthe men look forthe pro- ‘ongress. As prominent, therefore, ch Washington society news the great datly Journals of the coun- @ still more promi- im the near future. STRANGE CULINARY SCENE WITNESSED BY A JAPANESE TOURIST. Japan letter. Attached to each hotel is a bath for the use of guests. The bath-tub and heater are combined fo that the water, once heated, must furnish the bathing material for the whole house. Arriving at a Japanese hotel footsore and weary you ask the landlady: “How many have used the bath?” She innocently replies: “Only eis Passing through the town just at nightfall you See a Woman the man is h immersed in the bath, while the woman is stoking the fire beneath with all her might. The flames pour forth from beneath while this contented Jap is being cooked. Per- Bape, though, this was only & prelim boiling. Such public bathing Is now prohibit fm the cities, but “fur from the madding crowd's ignoble strife” these simple le see ho harm in public bathing if it suits thelr com ‘venience. {rego the luxury of such a bath. a The famous Woman-Not-Afraid-to-Keep-the- Car-Window-Open, is at home with a severe Severity of a Canadian Winter. MOTHER AND SON LOST IN A SKOWSTORM AND A MAN FROZEN TO DEATH. A telegram from Toronto, February 25, says: ‘The winter has been an exceptionably severe and steady one, and numerous imstances have been reported of persons frozen to death. The latest case is that of Mrs, McRuarand her elght- ear-old son, of Lion’s Head, Ontario, The Me- Ruar family have been living there for some years,and were In very destitute cireumstances, MeRuar himself is simple minded, and has been oo lazy to make any exertions to support him- -elfand his family. Begging was thelr chief means of support. On Monday afternoon Mrs, McRuar and the boy were out Ing, and not eturning at the expected time MeRuar himself started out in search of them. He found them nd the three started for home. A blinding wstorm was in progress, and they lost their y, wandering round and round, until Mrs. ‘Huar and the boy sank exhausted behind a arge upturned root. By the time that Me- Ruar obtained assistance and returned to this spot they were both dead. The mother was found with one arm encircling the body of her child; her scanty clothing was torn in shreds ining in contact with brush and logs in her erings, and her flesh was mutilated where lothing did not protect it, The little boy sas crouched close to his mother, and had not much clothing on his person as is worn by a street urebin on @ summer day. The East- nor council met on Tuesday and made arrange- iments for burying the dead. The mother and son were buried in one grave on Wednesday, und a burial service was read by the Rev. Mr. enaan. To-day another case ts reported. Eaward Fagan, a shoemaker living in Pictou. was found frozen’ on tae ice on the Bay of Quinte, five miles east of Pictou. It appeurs that he and a man named Ran, who also lives in Pictou, left Deseronto last evening tor Pictou with & and cutter. Ran says they got lost on the ice ind were upset, and Fagan refused to ride with him further, but said he would go back Deseronto, Rah went on to Pictou and did pt see Fagan afterward. ‘The body was found this morning on the ice by some people who happened to be crossing the river at that point. sbeebs oath Taking Care of Themselves. Boston Letter in Kansas City Times, [ae] Feminine Boston is attending this winter “emergency lectures.” These are, no doubt great value. Ifa girl slip down and sprain ead of being obliged to wait till me man picks her up and sends her home in cab, she quietly takes off her shoe and stock- iog, tucks her skirts on one side and perforins th, ‘y Surgical operation on the spot. If she ni at a ball, insteud of looking around toraman towhom she has been introduced, and into whose arms sbe can without im- modesty fall, she quietly sits down on t r . seuids her escort for a few simple rent nd applies them herself. Suppose ¢ these beautiful snowy s the is away with—rin away with a horse mean, While the horse t ing along looking for @ convenient lamp-post to tse in breaking th zh, tls Boston irl, with th saotnes and the qui lighity of Hippocrates, se’ ome liniment, one or two splints and a numb f strips of linen, and when at last she is thrown ceross. the inst the side of a souse, inste ming or fainting, she pplies the ready i her bund, band- szesup the fractures and walks quietly home ¢ later inthe season some of The lectures to be purely practical, aud we shal be told iow to smile upon a mosquito so that he will fuse to molest us,or how to frown upon a Wasp -o that the wasp will drop dead with tright, or how to convince oneseli at 4 moment's notice hi & mouse is more timid than 160-pound gril, and quite unable to seale a dress, either on he inside or outside, unless helped by a iadder. You see there is no nonsense about these lee: w rls are honestly benefited by them, are becoming more and more popular, a ee Quits! Indeed, they have not grieved me sore, Your faithlessnes and your deceit; The truth is, I was tr the v Ww tends; We can ery quits, and be goud friends, I found you far mor e your fic For Lmyself am eh: And like, you know, to like doth draw: Thus neither needs to make amends; We can cry quits, and be good friends. While I was monareh of your heart, My thoughts from you did never range; But from my vassal did I part, Wh your former lov! y the chanse attend: n cry quits, and be good friends. Farewell! We'll meet again And all our fortunes w Of love let’s have no m: “Tis clear we'r Qur game in ple We can cry id change; To Cure Consumption. DENTIST HOWE IN HIS WILL RECOMMENDS THE FREE INHALATION OF PURE AIR. From the New York Sun. The will of the late Dr. John M. Howe, of Passaic, bas Just becn admitted to probate. For many yeurs he was a dentist in this city. He leaves an estate valued at $500,000, of which $2,500 {s given to the Passaic Methodist church and the remainder to his family. His father was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and he bequeaths the original commission, a yellow document signed by George Washington, to his son, Dr. John M. Howe, of this city. A part of the will relates curidusly to his health. A considerable portion is, in fact, a treatise on the cure of consumption! He intro- duces the subject by saying that [n 1838 his life was preserved by the free inhalation of pure, fresh air, after which time, in deep gratitude to God, he nade the subject of “correct breathing of common air” a study. He had been im- pressed by observing the result of u sigh on the nterior mechanism, the normal action of the organs being reversed thereby and everything belug disarrenged, while full. deep breathing led to a healthy evelopment of all these or- gans. He came to the bellef that by the adop- tion of the mode of breathing referred to, tuber- cular disease and all pulmonary consumption could be forever annihilated. He closes the treatise with the exclamation, “God hasten the day!” ———_+e+_____ Saturday Smiles. Mr. Cleveland acts like a man who proposes to fry his own rabbit.— Atlanta Constitution. Very popular novel (among officeholders Just at present)—“Put Yourself in His Place,” — Lye. The [eee who has invented an elastic bustle forroller skating purposes should follow it up with a padded coat-tail arrangement for the other sex.—Baltimore American. ‘A satisfactory servant. Lady—You have no beaus, cousins or men’ to bother around. I hope? Servant (seeking a place)—Nary a won, mum, ownly an owld baste of a husband! Edith: “They satin the gloaming” means that they occupied one chair. A gloaming may be obtained at any fashionable furniture store. ‘No parlor is complete without it.—Vew York Mail. “Papa, did mamma say yes to you right off when you asked her to marry you?” “Certainly “Why don't she say yes now Just as quick when you ask her to do things?” *Main- tha's hearing ls not as good now, darling—thav’s “Ah! you flatter me,” lisped a dude to a pretty girl with whotn he was conversing, “No, don’t,” was the reply. “You couldn't be aby Matter than you are.”—Burlington Free ex. Chinese servants are becoming unpopular in California. ‘The wages of Ab Sin are too high.— Philadelphia News. The management of the New Orleans exposi- tion appears to have been N. O. ‘good.—Lowell Courier. Col. Robert Ii Il ts going to Europe to spend afew years. He takes Dorey with him, “True patriots both; for be it understood, They left their country for their country's good.” —New Haven News. Unele John—“ Well, Jimmy, have you en- ryed yi to-day?” Jiniin: ‘0, Lhaven't. 've had a miserable day.” Uncle John—" Mis- erable day? How's that?” Jimmy—* Aunt Betsey told me to eat all the dinner f wanted; and I couldn’t.”—Boston Transcript. +A singer in a Michigan college paper anxious! Taqutres: x hy comee nice muy fover tome? lave you thouzl chain uj , dear girlt—Yale Record. 4 = General Butler declares that he 1s out of oliti ut won't own up the trut that Was “knocked out.” “Horton Recontee” Hat he To. G.C.—Dear sir, do not insult the mug- wumps by offering them office. ‘They ure high= minded and it would break their hearts —W. ¥. A shabbily dressed woman called upon a gen- tleman for aid, claiming that she was {n asters. ing condition. He looked upon her plethoric form, estimating the avoirdupois of the supe, fluous fat, and answered: “You don’t look like a starving woman.” “I know it,” she whiningly answered; “I’m bloated with grlef.”—Chambers’ Now the merry sleigh bells jingle, And there’s not a girl that's single, But will make her lover take her out to ride, ride, ride; And he'll sit within the cutter, WE in anes ar eta elbow crooked aroun ‘bride’ bride. But when she fs nis bride, or da aslelgh she'll never ide, | a enrich the man who keeps the livery,—y, But at home her husband—maybe~” ?” 7” Will gently hold the baby, While she blithely brews gladsome catnip tea, tea, —Somervitle Journal. ———_++__. _ Why a Sugar Firm Failed. From the Newman Independent. i “Another big failure,” said Smith as he opened is morning paper. “A big failure?” queried his spouse, “Yes. A firm in Holland, who were engaged tm the wholesale sugar trade, have failed for $1,000,000. - “Is it possible!” exclaimed Mrs. Smith. “The recent reduction in the price caused son of their falltire was because the woathes wes two cold for anybody to dig sand.” A WESTERN IDYL. Graphic Description of a Scene im the Street of a Colorado Town. From the Canyon City Mercury, A rather sad affair took place on Maine street the otherday. A young lady with her arms full of bundles emerged from a dry goods store, when one of them fell on the sidewalk without her noticing it. Just behind her was a young man—a Too-TooClub young man, who If not Polite is not anything—and he quickly stepped forward to pick itup. Now,a bundle done up ina piece of paper with a dry goods advertise- ment onit is apparently as harmless as a maiden’s prayeror a mother’s spankling, and there it lay as guileless asa blue-eyed bulldog asleep in the sun, Just as he stooped to pick it up there wasa rustling of the paper, the twist began to come out of the ends, and in another Instant an undeseribable some- thing—a sort of a cross between a bal- loon” and a devil-fish—flew into the air before bis eyes, and a number ten-thirty-six- ineh-double-joinied-duplex-elliptic-steel-bowed bustle -inflator-dollar-and-a-half-bald- headed- hoop-skirt with two rooms in it waltzed around and gyrated and opened and stat upand fell on the si house pie, and the young man straightened himself up looking as if he wished a forty-ton zephyr would come down fromthe canyon and sweep him over into the next countr young lady came back with led an Italian sunset produced by throwing a inst a board fence, and she ripe tomate picked up that wire contrivance, and then she went towards the east. and he went towards the west. The sun ducked his head behind a cloud to hide a smiie, and three or four of the boys who took in the show laid down and laughed and doubled themselves up in a manner that would have made a summer dose of green-apple colic hide its head in me, soe ‘The Philosophical Ram. From Life. A solemn-visaged old ram, with long wool, was one day browsing ina valley with a large number of animals; and after the weather bad been duly discussed, he remarke: “Now, just look at this suit of clothes, something strictly first-cl You don’t pick up raiment like thison this road. I'm sorry be helped. You see list gentleman by My clothes are the cynosure of ail without rept: msheating took } his flecey gar ked and hon expe he niet the ar nee he ted of his tin “Well, Major,” remarked the ing the Ram, ‘Turkish {and me lothes, ed the B z Ass, just from college, as he aful of grass with cl disconrazed, old tellow “The Major seems to he stripped fora prize- vhispered the Buzzard, with amiable retorted the “Hl butt th ys an lite thing more on the subiect. Astor worth more in the mar ate th sses of some of you. It is not y wit of clothes ull y vidently philosophy shines biis background otf adve On a Wire. From the Detroit Free Press. “Yon know I liker der almost poy myself once, man on Raudolph street yesterday. “but I feels like it vhas my duty to complain a lee- dle.” “What is ft now, Mr. Dunder? ; “Vhell. der poys take a wire and hold him in der water until he vas a big le, Dey spend two tree daysto make him shus nad ats life, und last night dey hang I ater der door of my 8: om. it dis morning pody yells at me tol und Ishump et und almost i peeause I vhas after a pole to knock dot telcle down, und in ten minutes a growd of fifty pe on hand. Some call out toy poke mit und some falls down und eries vhen I bre 4 Window ini pole. Thitdot e times ash £ hat hi hedt, but it swings und swit down, und all der time sume rd de ly vhas laugh- see, to gif oop und pay mid a lad man two shillings I der time hell, vhat anyhow nd what do you want of mm “Vhell, you shlip around a leedle und speak to dose poys. Tell ‘em I vhas like a poy myself, but haf some feeli Vhen a man p taxes und vhas on the ward mmittee he feels proud of himseif, und iimakes his heart ache vhen a growd makes fon of him und says he vhas some bass-wood Gabinet officer for cows to chew on.” — see Paper Plates, From Galignani. A daring landlord in Berlin has introduced paper plates. Bread and butter, cakes and similar articles w served ona pretty papier mache plate, having a border in relief and re- sembling porcelain. ‘The landlord liked them because “they were so cheap they could be thrown away after once ; waiters liked them for their lizhtness, ause they were neither to be washed hor bro! were delighted to take them away as souvenirs. Housewives will cordially weleome the intro- duction of this sort of table furniture into America, gee How to be Attractive. A Parisian newspaper has been teaching its female readers “how to be attractive.” Among the rules given are the following: “Look con- fident and Indifferent; express yourself simply, and with a voice as sweet as possible, Be keenly alive to everything that passes, yet. ap- Pear absent-minded: know as much as possible, yet please by asking questions. Having read evervthing, quote nothing; seen everything, appear iguorant; heard all, alway PERS desiring everything, isk for nothing. | Bo light-hearted to preserve your beauty; be indul- ent to uttact sympathy”—and so on. These flaws—some evidently anti-blue-stocking laws— are laid down as absolute, witb one exception, “Blush neither for shanie nor for pleasure,’ to which is added “if you can help it.” ————se0 A Foolish Question From the Graphic. “Where have you been?” asked one promi- nent politician of an other, “Up to Albany.” “Did you see the President-elect?” “Yes.” ‘Weil, what did ho say?” Say?’ Did you ever talk with him?” ay “I thought so,” ——_—___+@¢___ Bad Enough as it was. From the Graphic. “John Badger,” remarked Mrs.Badger, “I believe if you had half a chance you would be & Mormon. Wouldn't you now?” “Heaven forbid!” replied Mr. Badger, in a tone of voice which left no doubt of his sincerity. ————+e+______ a Why Ice Will be Higher. From the Boston Post. Customer—“I suppose ice will be cheaper the coming summer, won't it?” Iceman—“No, in- deed! higher if anything.” | Customer—“But, great heavens, man! hain't there been plenty: this winter?”’ Iceman—“Oh, yes.” Customer “And it hain’t cost any more to cut it?” Ice- man—* No, not as much.” Customer—“ Well, then, how are you going to make ft cost more"? Iceman—" Well you see there has been so much ice, and it has cost so much less to cut it, that our houses are overcrowded, and we are com. led to go to great expense in building new iouses. That’s where the extra cost will come in.” Customer—* Oh!” Poking Fan at Vassar Girls. ITS SERIOUS EFFCTS ON THE COLLEGE, From New York Letter to Buffalo Express. A professor in Vassar college tells me that the managers are really alarmed by the steady fall- ing off in pupils during the past five years. The number now is only a little more than balf that of 1875. “The cause isn't in any deterioration of the college itself,” said the professor, “for it ig the same noble school as ever. ‘The trouble is ‘assar has become a thing e fun at. Hall en new Jones anoet ie ee H eo new jokes about gir are put upon Vassar studenia. Their doings are ridicn gxaggerated, falsified, and the very name o Vassar is a ynonym'for feminine foolishness, The consequence is that girls are begin dislike to go there. I wouldn't be si see the doors of the college shut in five more. The,newspaper paragraphers will Advice That Is Cheap but Valuable. From the Ladies’ Home Journal. Itis not easy for American women to resist the influence of pretty things, and the only way is not to pay much attention ‘to mere nov- elties of dress and fashion, but adhere to certain fixed and well defined rules. Bi d ma- terials, selest al dewalk as flat and thin as x boarding- Here's ‘ou fellows can’t dress in this style, but it can't with the other sheep was de- ut, address- ‘ou seemed to be stripped tor a tulate him on the pros- niuin mutatns ab illis!” exclaimed a pd a sic grace; “don't be Ram, p said toa police- > | lon en, and guests express sur to to ave Their Passi for Free Cologne. From the Baltimore Herald. “Here they come!” The speaker was a Lexington street store keeper. Two young women with jaunty airs and good clothes swept by to deseend upon the perfumery counter, There was @ sort of mournful tone to the expression of the proprie- tor’s face which was astonishing to behold. AS most storekcepers would hail the of the bright-faced girls with joy and pleasant anticipations, the remark called for an expla- nation, Just watch them,” he said in answer to an inquiry. Thatis easy enongh. They ate still at the perfumery counter. ey chat and they smile and look appealingly at the clerk. They fondle the bottles. Ah! out comes a ‘stopper; over Ups a vial; handkerchiefs and muffs catch the sweet-scented drops that bubble out. Then & merry word and wind they fon Perfumery without money and withont price! “The old. old story.” Thus remarked the store- keeper. “The young women have regular free cologne routes Just as every old toper has his free lunch route. And the lunch tray isn’t Worked with any mote thoroughness either. It was unusual a year for @ customer to come in and waste time over the perfumery bottles; they generally know what they wante and got it. " Now the strange thing {s when we don’t have a hundred femininesa day waltzing over to the cologne bottles to ask questions by the acre and take a free bath, with never any- {hing more than a suggestion of purchasing. Don't imagine that these are people who can- not afford to buy their perfumery. Young wo- men who ere known in all the fashionable cir- .cles of the city have got the mania, and one of those whom you have just seen is the daughier of a Charles street nan who pays taxes on over $1,000,000 worth of property. Another woman who comes here to wet her handkerchief and scent her dress once a week at least isa leader in one of the most exclusive sets up town. It Is humorous to see same of them disport them- selves at the counter. They uncork every bot- tle within reach, sniff, and sniff, and sniff, til) long after all sense of smell is deadened; ask the price of this and the price of that; want to know who uses the one and who the other; where one was manufactured and where another, whether certain odor is lasting, whether {t is fashionable, whether—a hundre things, and then at the tail end over they tip some one ef the bottles, Sometimes more than one,and take their dahy bath. Stand tt? Of course westund it, How can we help it? Some of these folks who sponge on us for their cologne are good customers at other counters, and it never would do to clash with them on such @ score. Other stores are levied on in precisely thesame way. AsI told you, the pretty crea- tures gular free-lunch routes, and they work them with the sweetest sort of devotion. Costly? Weill, rather—bat not quite so costly as it wasonce. Some of the bottles ov ¢on that counter that uncork easily are not exactly im- ported, Yes, ali the high-sounding la)eis are on them, but labels, my gulleless boy, are cheaper than eau de cologne straight from aris, Ladies who really want to bi are not hurt by this bit of fie e it—not from the display of gilt labels on the counter.” ——_—_+00_______ The Chicago Girl's Consideration. From the Pitsburg Chronicle, Away off by himseli in some humble ‘corner of the world sits the man who firet said the Chicago girls had big feet, looking at the im- mense mountain his original mole-hill of a le has grown into. The origin of this slander upon the fair girls of the Garden City is curious. A youug lady of Chicago was about to be visited by as nite fried’ from St. Louis, “Mah,” she ‘You Kuow Low sensilive Julia is, like ast. Louis ¢ pu refer to thelr large ‘ietly said her mother, “Yes, au Know they look so enormous along: le of ours that I thought I'd order up a ease No. 25s from St. Leuis and give them around = the girls Julia will meet here.” “It ld be a delicate kindness on your part, "replied her m: ther; and the noble i girl did so. When the St. at her friend’s in your girls nd immediately tele That is how it origin- ———+e+______ = on Liberalism. ing on the subject of “Liberalism” a so at’ Birmingham, Cardinal Man- ning said he had no contention with the broad, liberalism of that Just, bentgn and toler- e of men who had been foremost iu this country for the last eighty or one hundred years,and who had brought upon the land a reign of justice and equality—men who were resolved to deprive no man of his freedom so as he did not abuse it, and to violate no man's conscience in his religion or in his duty to himself or to his children, There was, how- | ever, apparently springing up among them an | ageressive liberalism, borrowed trom the theo- rists and constitution mongers of France in its worst period. It was a policy not founded on the needs und desires of the people, but upon the abstract theories and political ideas of pa- xan republicans, filtered through the pedantry of the Freneh tevolntion, “Such liberalism,” he said, “could possess itself of Christian En land only by a conquest worse than Scandina- vian or Norman. A ——_—_+ee+. A Dull Day. From the Boston Transcript. “How’are times?” “Very dull, indeed, and it’s all owing to the election of Cleveland.” “Nonsense!” “But I tell you it’s so, and I'l bet you $1000 that four)months from the day ‘of his inauguration more than half the shops in Boston will be closed,” “Moonshine. Tilaecept your wager, but hold: Four months from, the 4th of March is what?” Independence Day.” “Take my hat.” “No; it's too big.” Gifts, If I could give you what would outlast time— Remain as fixed as Polar star above— Something to live and thrive in any clime, I'd give my love! And should’ you ask for that more true than steel, A something of yourself a kindred part My inmost thought I'd then to thee reveal And give my heart! Should friends desert you, fortune cease to smile; Should Joy ttzelf appear beyond recall, Yous wesry moments I would then begaile, ‘And give my all! But {f some lofty sacrifice you'd ask, How glad I'd yleld me to your dear control And give—siucé giving is Love'asweetest task— My very soul! And, oh, believe me, could I turn awa; One cruel shaft, one pang of this world’s strife From your great heart, this day Td give my life! —SARAH J. MILLER, eee Friction of Gentle Life in Chicago. From the Chicago Herald. “Let go my ear,” yelled a passenger on a West Sie street car yesterday. | - “I beg your pardon,” sai 1@ other man, “] thought T had hold of the strap.” ee ‘Why Lamps are Popular. From the Philadelphia Call. Mrs. Dobbs—No, indeed, the newcraze for lamps has not affected me, and it won’t either. I would not have a lamp in the parlor for the world, Mrs, Hobbs—How can you talk so? The lamps they make now are perfect works of art and everybody buys them, “I know it; but Ican’t see what advantage Ce are.” “If you had a grown up daughter asI have quick enough.” you would see the advant: e What difference would that “Dear mel WiRvon know a kerooene lamp can't be tamed “Yon <3 down real low without smoking,” “Well, when I smell smoke I know it’s time to saunter into the parior.’, ———+ree+____ And by the Air-Line Route, From the San Francisco Alta, California’s contribution to the Ws monument is overdue, this state and Oregon being the only ones that have not sent blocks of stone to be used in the stately structure. The Father of his Country is dead and has no offices to bestow. If he were acting President and building his own monument more than 10,000 Californians would be eu’ route for Washington with their pockets full of rocks. Hor WATER FOR QPEN WoUNDs.—In an ad- dress before a New York medical college on “The Protective Treatment of Open Wounds,” Dr. Theodore Varick, surgeon-general of New Jersey, stated that in an experience of seven ears, in which 59 cases of amputation were ted with boiling hot water applied to the wound as soon as the ruptured vessels were Hed, only two were lost, and these not from shoe! fe regarded heat as the best antiseptic, being simple, safe and invulnerable, THE GOULD FaMILy.—The entire family are soon to go on a yachting trip, except George, and they are to board the vessel at Charleston, George will stay at home and ran his father's business. Jay Gould never could endure social Ufe. He goes nowhere of an ev: ‘His wife is not in any sense @ woman of . She hom she is interested in the enoret eat ye wi e Ld jure! it you ever hear of ber at balls or "Astors ae eee te family to. keep It to be @ hobby of [oe hunly burly, “Not bat ot wi way shi Epieay ena as ag ant avoid cheap trimmin; ways well such colors as will go well together and have, SS ett Sane te ee them usually dark. “Never wear out beat on publtelty in any manner, muet eve ae boveperrs | likely Yet at home or on subj “ad vere wear and tear. Have best —— ont wherever they are, are cpl oe mate by Bo weg res aker, and Jolliest, and every one Ww! likes an le materials, Use best black kid aon e@, ecru or beige tints, wear| than and the black are better and eanition can nee gery ‘Always ba: ng handsome bi mentation. tr Fes Little cost; but the neatness taste, | shouldn't treat your friends with plump, full- a MAN BURIED ALIVE. What His Friends Discovered When the Coffin Was Opened. In Flat Creek township, in Buncombe county, N.C., about thé 20th of last month, a young man by the nameof Jenkins, who had been sick with fever for several. weeks, was thought to have died. He became speechless, his flesh was cold and clammy, and he could not be aroused, and there appeared to be no action of the pulse and heart. He was thought to be dead and was prepared for burial, and it was noticed at that time that there was no stiffness in any ofthe limbs. He was buried the day after his supposed death, and. when put in. the coffin it was remarked that he was as limber as a live man. There was much talk in the neighbor- hood about the case, and the opinion was fre quently expressed that Jenking. had been bu- ed all done about a opened “dis | the body was in such condit! hauled 20 miles without beiq ly was lying face downy been pulled from the head int and there were scratches of tH fie inside of the ld and si These facts caused great excit quainted personally with the ia Kins was In a trance, or that ani parently suspended, and that hi lead when buried, and that he scfousness only to find himself Yond help. The body was then Gerson county and reinterred, distressed beyond measure at Ww criminal carelessness in not. bein! sure Jenkins was dead before he wi 3 +o oS FIVE MEALS A- DAY, & Why English People Are So Robi Rotund, “I think the reason why EngUsh people gene- erally have rosy cheeks and are fleshy and robust,” said one of that nationality in Detroit, “4s because they know how to take care of the inner man. They have five good meals aday, and sometimes more. The average Englishm: rises about 7 o'clock, He immediately tackles his breakfast, which usually consists of a libe- ral rasher of bacon—generally without pota- | toes—bread and butter and two good, big rounds, of toast. At 10:30 or 11 o'clock ‘the ins wants attention, Recourse is had bh lunch to plain bread and cheese, whic! rally red American—and here I may si an American-wauts to see what sort of cheese is made in America he must go to England to find out—and the lunch is washed down with two or three glasses of strong ale. Remember that this lunch is a generous one, and not just two or three crackers and a mouthful of che either, When this is tinished the Englisin: rtified sufficiently to last until dinne which is generally one o'clock, two | after lunch time. The great meal Of the day is dinner, which in many households ort». | middle classes lasts fully an hour, The cusivan prevails in most households of having separ and distinct courses, In many parts land # suet pudding ked dump ment gravy forms the rst course. This lowed by a Joint, then a pudding of some then cheese, During the afternoon t w: y that if af ses of ale are taken just aren Kk it is tea time,“ W thout ind meats, except seme relishes, a gi meal is made ot te s, muttins, bres butter aud . ‘Then at 9 o'clock'at night it upper time. This consists of, generally, a supply of bread and cheese ‘and ale. ell.” observed a slim Americau who had been listening, “Nupoleon ¢: the English a nation of shopk ers. If I wentto that oun. try to do busi would want to deal in some- thing to eat. The Englishman blushed, and the conversa tion was directed toward the anti-gactronomic feats of Dr. VES THEM. Some Facts About Frozen Apples That Are Contrary to the Generai Belief. From the New York Sun, “If youfr garret or loftis only cold enough, there isn’t any reasonin the world why you flavored Rhode Island greenings, Baldwins, or any other choice apples, just as well next June as you did last Christmas,” said a Washington | street commission merchant. “I'll have fist | year’s Baldwins, and I don’t know but last year’s greenings,as sound as a knot,in my house next summer, in the same dish with this year’s harvest apples; yet nine out of ten peopl would have thought these same apples we ruined two months ago, and would have treated | them accordingly. Why? Simply because they were frozen.” “Doesn't the freezing of apples spoil them, then?” asked the reporter, “The general opinion is,” replied the mer- ‘that after an apple freezes its yalue is gone; but the fact is that Just the contrary is the truth. Leta barrel of apples freeze in the fall, and ‘keep them frozen, or, rather, do not disturb them, and in the spring they will be in the very condition they were when taken from the tree, Baldwins, and in fact all tavosite eating apples, do not have their full flavor nor mellowuess when first packed in the fall. They ripen in the barrel, and are at their best in Jan- uary. After that they begin to decay, and when March comes they are few and far between. those that are left being the result of especial 400d care and attention, “If they are frozen in the fal however, the ripening process is checked. |The vitality ofthe apple is simply suspended, and it only needs Ac proper,treatinent tO restore it to its natur jon, The trouble has always been that when & barrel of apples was found to be fro: rolled off at hee to a warm place and s to a rapid thawing. Some people take the apples out of the barrel and plunge them in cold water to draw the frost o1 ie result is a flabby, flavorless fruit, really not worth the room it occupies, and subject to speedy decay all because of popular ignorance. “A frozen apple is ong of the most sensitive things in the World. Tolich your tinger upon it, and when the frost is thawed from the apple the spot touched will be a mark of decay which spreads rapidly over the fruit, Therefore, {f you everfind that your barrel of Baldwins’ {s frozen heat it gently. If the apples are thoroughly frozen the barre) will not be full by nearly a peck, so much has the fruit contracted with the frost. It would be impos- sible, now, to move the barrel without ruining every apple in it. So, if it stands where it will not be subjected to sudden warmth, and thus thawed out rapidly let itstand. Cover the ap- ples up so they Will be kept dark, Then go away and let them alone until spring comes and draws the frost out of everything. Then uncover your apples. It may startle you, but you will find the barrel full to the head With the plump fellows that were rolled into your house in the fall, and which were a sorry-look- ing lot of wrinkled, shrunk-up fruit the last time you saw them, “If they were assorted apples when packed ‘ou need not pick them over, for they will be just as sound and hard as they were in Novem- er. By the middle of May or 1st of June they will be in the fragrant, mellow condition that they would have been {n five months before if the frost hadn't stepped In and held it back, I've had apples frozen and thawed out three times in one winter, owing to sudden changes in the weather, but they were all right when the final drawing of the frost took place. A bar- rel of apples might be Kept frozen a thousand yeal ‘Neve, and the fruit would be just as sound and fine flavored when thawed out and ripened as it was the day it was packed.” —— oe The Classical Music Pretense. From the Providence Journal. It is not to be inferred that we deprecateclass- ical music in the concert-room; on the contrary, we believe that one’s musical taste is necessarily imperfectly refined unless one becomes ac- quainted with the severe grace and beauty which are to be found in the grand and im- perishable creations that are embodied in the works of great masters. It is nevertheless true that program which consist only of classi- cal music, constitute a strong hindrance to the growth of musical culture among all who have not made the art and science of music a special study. The rage among a certain class for what is called classical music, seems to gather fresh strength from day to day. When this Tage finds expression in those who have been careful stadents of the intricacies, practical and theoretical, of classical music, we have no dis- ee to examine the propriety and justice of eir claims to %t and consideration, When, however, pretense and affectation are so far as fo seek expression through pre- fended raptures” over ciassical music, the ludicrous element is too pronounced not to ol raed tion. The class en we are jumerously represented in all our large cities, and it ions bid to the classical music = Seepopiiein our wid schools = rant eorles of the eacus as rth by learned mathematicians. inally are many whose lack of independence tempts them tojump in and go with the tide with a fall knowledge that it will carry them in an Cee | direction to that which their in- stincts and preferences would lead them, fea oat the other fondness of dabble and flounder some an which they can not understand. ——_—_+e+______ ‘Who was Lost. 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