Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1885, Page 3

j f , ZF THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON HOME MATTERS. REMEDY FOR LCMBAGO—HOUSE DECORATIONS —A COMFORTABLE CHAIR— DAINTY BIS. CUITS—oTHER APPETIZING THINGS. Howr REMEDIES.—Carbolized cosmoline, rubbed briskly into the small of the back, is -d, by good authority, as giving im- recommencliet from lumbago. Continue, the Tubbing for a quarter of an hour. 'A SIMPLE METHOD of decoration for the cen- ter of uninterested front-door panels is found by inserting In geometric patterns some good- sized brassheaded tacks. If inserted before the painting, they may be made of the same color as the door. A Petry CoRNER CcrnoarD is made of piain deal, upon which is traced a conventional pattern of plums and blossoms. The back- ground {s covered with oak staining, and the pattern isshaded with sepia. This may be easily made at home, and when French polished it has the effect of inlaid wood. For Lieut Wrxpow CURTATNS materials are now in use which give variety to the old and well-worn imitation laces which so long have | figured as the proper thing. From simple cheese cloth to Indian silks,one may go trough & long list of materials more or less expensive, which may be used with good effect. BUTTERMILK MUFFINS have but to be tried to become a standing breakfast dish. Beat hard two eggs into a quart of buttermilk; stir infloar to make a thick batter, about a quart, an lastly, a teaspoonful of salt and the same ¢ soda. ' Bake in a hot oven in well-greased tins. Muffins of all kinds should only be cut just round the edge, then pulled open with the Bngers. Darsty Brsccrrs.—Beat very light one egs; pour it over a pint of flour, add a wine-giass of milk, and chop in one tablespoonful of lard and butter mixed. Work thorough! break up pieces the size of marbles, w Boroited as thin ax your nail. Sprin ry flour as you roil them out to mai crisp; stick with a fork and bake quick], PoTaTo SALAD.—Boil six or eight potatoes, and when cold cut them in very thin slices; a salad bowl must then be rubbed with half a clove of garlic; some finely chopped chervil or parsley strewn over the potatoes in the bowl, fnd pepper, salt,oil and vinegar poured over the whole, and well stirred; the quantity of oil should be in the proportion ‘of one tablespoon- fal to less than a tablespoonful of white French vinegar. SpiceD RounD oF CornED BrEF.—Take a strong twine string and tie it tightly around the round to keep it in good shape, then stick It well on both sides with cloves, squeezing them in as far as possible; rub into it also three tablespoonfuls of powdered salt, and then with plenty of fine salt. Lay it in’a large wooden tray or round vessel that is tight, and every other day turn it well into the brine that drips from it. In ten days, if properly attended to, it Will be fit for use. WHITEHOUSE FRiTTrRs.—Boil in one pint of water a desertspoonful of fresh butter, pour scalding hot over a light pint of flour, and beat until cold; add the well-beaten yelks of six eggs, and, just before cooking, the perfectly light whites, Fill a skillet with lard, and when boii- ing hot drop in the batter, a iablespoonful at atime. It only takesa few minutes to cook them. Put them in awarm oven on adry towel for a short time to dry superfluous grease. Serve hot, and eat with wine and sugar. AN UNUSUALLY ComFoRTABLE chair may be made by carrying the two back pieces to the height of the head. Between these a leather cushion Is suspended from four or_five rivets and rings attached to either side. From these Tings are strapsor strong ribbons, which are attached at proper intervals to the cushion ‘The cushion may be replaced by a strong, broad Strap or two, after the fashion of the seats in tilburies. The chair must be strongly made.— Philadelphia News. CHEVREUIL SAvcE.—Chop four ounces of Jean ham and put it intoastew-pan, with a good pinch of pepper, some thyme and a bay leaf, a few green onions and some sprigs of pars- ley? moisten with a gill of vinegar, bol the whole upon the fire until reduced to ‘half the original quantity, then add a small ladleful of brown sauce (or beef tea) or a little consomme. Stir this on the fire until It boils, and after ha ing cleared and skimmed it in the usual man- ner, reduce it to a proper consistency, and finish by ‘adding a spoonful of currant jelly and the juice of an orange. Rick Crogverres.—One-half pound rice, one quart of milk,one teacupful of sugar and a very small piece of butter, the yelks of two beaten light and a pinch of salt. Soak the rice for four hours in water, drain it and putit intoa basin with the milk and salt. Set the basin in a steamer and cook until thoroughly done. Then stir in carefully the sugar, the elks of the ezgsand the butter. Flavor with Tie juice of a fresh lemon. A very little of the grated rind may be added, if desired, but too Inuch will give a bitter taste to the rice. When cool enough to handle form into croquettes. Roll them in beaten eggs and bread-crumbs and fry in boiling lard. When brown take them out, put them in a strainer todry off the lard and sprinkle with fine sugar. ONION AND SAGE FRITTERS.—Twelve ounces of onions, six of bread crumbs, a teaspoonful of dried sage and four eggs. Peel and slice the onions, put them in adeep dish, pour boiling water over thern, and let them remain a few minutes; then pour off the water and fry the onions, or gut them in the oven with a little butter, pepper and salt, and when nicely browned mix the sage with them. Put about four ounces of the onions to the bread erumbs, add the eggs, well beaten. season, with pepper and salt and’ fry in fritters; put the remainder Of the onions on the dish round the fritters and serve with brown sauuce and apple sauce. If fresh sage ts used it should be boiled a littleand pped. FILLETS oF McTrox.—Remove the fillets from two loins of mutton, pair off all thesinewy skin that lies beneath the fat and divide each fillet lengthwise Into four, these together with the smaller fillets, trimmed, will make up ten; trim these and lard them closely with strips of fat bacon in the usual way. The fillets must then be steeped in cold spiced vinegar for about forty-eight hours. After which drain them upon a napkin to absorb any unnecessary mois- ture. Place the fillets in a saucepan thickly —— with butter and turn them around in a ttle hot water; cover them with a buttered Paper and set them in the oven to simmer for about 20 minutes; they must,then ye trimmed heatly around the ends and dish@& up in a close circle, the ends overlapping each other; fill the center with small dice of fried potatoes: pour chevreuil sauce under the fillets and serve. PINEAPPLE or bitter orange marmalade makes a good omelet, to be used either at the close of breakfast or in place of dessert at a luncheon or small dinner. Set a clean, smooth frying pan at the back of the =tove with a tea- spoonful of butter to melt. Beat three eggs for one minute, with @ teaspooful of lemon juice and a heaping tablespoontul of powdered sugar, and put them into the frying pan containing the hot butter; set the pan over the fire, and as fast as the omelet cooks on the bottom break it alittle in disterent places with a fork to permit the uncooked portions torun down upon the pan; when it is still a little liquid, putin the middle a heaping tablespoonful of preserved or canned pineapple or bitter orange, either ted or chopped very fine; fold the omele: forn it outons hot dish, dust'a Iittle powdere sugar over the surface, and send it to the table at once.— Phila. Ledger. Why Doctor's Don’t Catch Disease. “Some men,” remarked Captain Horton, “can move in the midst of pestilence and mias- mata,and never seem any the worse. “How, for instance, do you doctors defend your for- “I'm glad you asked the question. We defend the fortress first by using ordinary pre- cautions. We will not, if possible, breathe more infected air than we can belp. We will not be stupidly rash. Depend upon it, my friend, that when Dr. Abernethy kicked his foot through the pane of glass in his patient's room, because he couldn't get him to have his window down, the excellent physician was thinking as much about his own safety as that of his patient. Secondly, physicians know that they must live by rule when attending cases during a. pesti- Tence. The body must be kept up to the health times of epidemic let every one if, attend toevery rule of health, live regularly, and keep the stomach most care- fully In order, and be abstinent. There 1s no other way of defending the Fortress of Life against invisible foes.” “This living according to rule,” said my friend musingly, “ie a terribly hard thing to bave to add. Atleas:, 1am sure most people find it so.” “Few people,” I replied thing of the sort, until actual danger to life stares them in the face. Some one else, I believes has made a remark similar to this before Mw, but it is worthy of being repeated.” ‘And itis true,” added Horton. been thinking a good deal lately. ‘Most people who are laid low do think,” I “think of doing any- “I have said. “I have been thinking,” said my friend, “that of userr by eating more than is ’neces- sar; «How very true that is, Horton! Why, in care- ful regulation of diet—a diet that should in- cline to the abstemlous—we have one of the best defences against invisible foes of all kinds. This is one of our posts, and should be held at ail risks, if we care for life at all—and not for life only, but comfort while we doexist. Itis @ fact which all should bear in mind, that over- eating not only corrupts the blood, but destroys nervous energy.”—A Family Doctor, in Casseil’s Family Magazine, —— — —e9 —_——_- Lieutenant Greely Aping Oscar Wilde. ‘Washington Letter to the Buffalo Express, I attended a reception given by an Oregon Benator's wife last evening. Lieut. Greely was there. Imagine him a tall fellow, with long black hair parted in the middle, Just like a woman. He,posed and was admired and lion ized. He took it all very grandly, and his air was that of one who considers himself a great fndividual. He's a very dainty and not at all arcticlooking person as he appears in the draw- Ing-rooms of Washington. You would think to Jook at him he had quatfed society sillabub all his life, and had never eaten raw marine or stewed sailor. His lionizing is carried to an extent that is giving him a sort of Bunthorne situation. ‘There are lots of “rapturous maidens” gurrouns Ss got je ding him, and stage poses Real Whist and Domestic Whist. Rx A. Proctor in Longman’s, What is the real game of whist, the reader may ask, If domestic whist is not whist at all? Is not the object the same? No doubt it is. The object of whist 1s to secure as many tricks as possible. High cards tell at whist as at bumble- Puppy (I thank thee, Pembridge, for teaching me that word!) Nay, in quite a number of hands luck tells as much at one game as at the other, and if the whist player ts of sordid mind, as many are, he rejoices at the dull hands in which he has only had to play out winning cards as much as the veriest dutfer of domestic whist at the way in which aces and kings take tricks. “But whist isa game of science, @ game calling for the exercise of keen perception, watchfulness, memory, patience, and trust in the established laws Of probability. It may Sound like exaggeration to say that whist is far better calculated to develop the mind than many things taught at school, yet many aman can perceive a real gain to hig nental qualities from whist practice who would find it hard to recognize any good which he has obtained trom learning how to write Latin verses with due attention to the nicéties of the cesura, A course of whist play isa expital way of training the memory, the per; but hine boys ont of ten gain nothing from sure of practice in determining the greatest mon tmeasures and the least common mul- tiples of algebraical quantities. ind of our best whist players are comy whist is becoming too full of points requiring to be noticed and kept in the memory. A system has come into existence within the last thirty or forty years by which a er can convey information to his partner in 1s V and it is urged that, instead of ig their minds to points of whist strategy, players now have to be constantly looking out for this siznal or that indication, Many of the old players determine to have nothing to do with ali this signaling, but, alas for them! they have no choice. It'is too strong for them. Though they may never signal themselves, though they may resolutely refuse to respond to any signal made by their partner, they must notice the signals alike of their partner and of the adversaries, or all sorts of disasters will happen, for which’ their partners will properly hold them responsible. Thus, a, player sik- nals for trumps, and presently his ‘partner responds by leading him a trump. Suppose now one of the other players has failed to notice the signal. He falls naturally into the mistake of supposing that the player who has led tramps is strong in them, and that the other adversary is presumably weak. Under this mistake he presently forees what he sup- to be the strong trump hand, but in real- Fy enables the weak hand tomake trumps which would otherwise have fallen idle. Or, on the other hand, having a chance of foreing the strong trump hand, the player who has failed to notice the signal refrains religiously from doing so, imagining that he would be helping the enemy instead of cutting down his trump strength, Under these circumstances a part- ner, if of the reproachful sort, can rebuke mueh more effectively than where his own signal has merely been overlooked. To the reproach, “why did you not lead me a trump when I sig: naled?” there is always the ready answer, “I saw your signal, and I declined to respond to it because Tobject to the signaling system.” But what answer can be made when your part- ner says: “My good sir, you played the enemy's game: there was Y signaling for trumps and you deliberately forced Z, giving him Just the trick which made their game; or you failed to force ¥, though that was the only way to save our game!” You cannot answer that you saw the signal, but preferred to sacrifice the game rather than act upon it. You are obliged to tell the truth (and what could be more pain- ful?) that you had failed to notice the enemy's signal, Whist—the real game of whist, I mean—de- rives its interest entirely from which either tricks are made Dy. would not, but for such strategy, have power to take those tricks, or by which’ the plans of the adversaries to achieve such ends are detected and foiled. Tricks may be made by high cards, but there is no interest in that. Any one can take.a trick with the ace of trumps. ‘Tricks may be made by finesse—that is, by p) instead of the best card, a lower card which may ormay not take the trick according as the intermediate card or cards lie to the rightor left. This is bet- ter, but the finesse pure and simple is a matter of nere chance, and so far as the actual gain of a trick is concerned there is no more scientific joy in the success of a finesse than in the cap- ture of a trick by a high card. There is science in the finesse, but the scientific interest does not depend on the direct success or failure of the finesse at the moment, but on its bearing upon the general play ofthe hand. Again, tricks may be made bytrumping winning cards ot pla n suits, ‘There isoften good science in bringing this about properly, not by the course lead of a single eard or from'a two-card suit, but by so arranging matters that the. ruff, when made, shall not impair, but utilize the trump strength which lies between you and your partner, Special pleasure is there in the cross-ruff when ingeniously secured and properly employed; still more pleasure in tempting the enemy to a cross-ruff, Which, while not lasting long enough to give them more than three or four tricks, Just destroys their superior. trump strength. ut the great delight of whist strategy lies in the maneuvres by which’small cards are made to conquer large 6nes, as when along suit is successfully brought in, or the enemy forced by skillful strategy to lead up toa tenace. Nor is there less pleasure in noting and foiling the plans of the adversary for achieving these same ends. Nay, to the true player there ought to be pleasure even in noting the skill by which the enemy achieves sticcess, but I fear me this is more than most players of whist attain to, however earnest may be their whist en- thusiasm, Meteorie Dust. From Nature. You all ofknow the shower of falling stones—the August and November meteors; you know that these are lumps of interplanetary matter career- ing through space, mostly doubtless round the sun, but not aggregated together into planets. Cold Jumps of fron they mostly seem to be, possibly fragments of some ancient world, possibly relies of the old nebulous world material, never yet aggregated into worlds at all. Foragesthey may have been rushing along, some almost {solated, others crowded to- gether. and so they might rush on for millions of years; but a larger body bears down upon some of them; they feel the gravitative influence of the huge mass of planet; they are deflected from their course notwithstanding their pro- digious speed, and a few dip into its atmos- phere. In an instant the terrific friction strips off their outer coat, scrapes and rubs the surface till it glows with a white heat; streams of white- hot particles are still scraped off, and form a luminous trail, but the white-hot masses plunge on, and one perhaps escapes to resume fis Wanderings, disturbed a little by its encounter, but not destroyed; another may be rubbed to fragments altogether; another may be heated so rapidly and unequally as to explode; while another may enter the atmosphere at a very moderare velocity—may be heated, indeed, and violently scraped, but not destroyed, and ‘may imbed itself in the ground, to be dug up by some peasant as a thunderbolt and to be pre- served in some museum. The frayed particles of such meteors must constitute no inconsiderable portion of terrestrial dust; and since it comes m altogether extra-terrestrial sources, it 1s to us of most intense interest. One other visitant from other worlds we know of, and that is light. Light is found to be charged with information, though it took man many centuries to learn how toread It-first with the telescope, now with the spectroscope, and next with who shall say what still more potent revealer and analyzer of hidden truth. Meteoric dust may not be soladen with information as light is—certainly we have not yet learned to read it. Itis only within the iast few years that, at the instigation of Sir William Thomson, a committee of Section A of the British Association was appointed to con- sider the question whether such dust could be collected and detected at all. Under the able and enegetic guidance of Dr. Schuster this committee has done good work, and some dust from the ice fields of the Himalayas and from Greenland has been definitely proved to be meteoric. ——_—+e+______ The New Style Hats. WHAT FASHIONABLE MEN WILL WEAR DURING ‘THE SPRING SEASON. From the Philadelphia Times. * “There will not be much change in the style of hats this season,” said a prominent Chestnut street hatter yesterday. “The high silk hats area little higher and straighter—ess of a bell shape and with a little lighter curl in the rim. ‘The derbys are much the same, only there is a slight deviation in the direction of square crowns, One of the new things Isa reddish rown tan and a greenish gray, with a bronze band, both made’in London. Altogether, the new styles show less change than they have in many seasons. Tweed hais will be worn to some extent, but there are many imitations, The real tweed hats that come here are of ‘English make. These tweed hats are usually worn on rainy days or for traveling. ‘The high silk hat remains the most dressy article of headwear for gentlemen. The derby, however, will be the most worn.” ——~ro._—_____ A Foolhardy Club of Thirteen, From the New York Times. The “Thirteen club,” which annually sits down at dinner on Friday, thirteen 5 prides itself on having overthrown the so-called superstition that thirteen is an unlucky num- ber. In point of fact the club has shown that it is as ignorant of the nature of ill luck as it is reckless in trifling with it. Has no ill luck overtaken the reckless members of this fool- hardy club? Did no one of them lose money on the election or in connection with Jack-pots that seemed outwardly full of promise, but proved in the end costly delusions? Has no one of them been afflicted with plumbers orgs inspectors, and have all of them escaped sick. ness or natrimony or visits from undesirable relatives or sermons lasting forty-five minutes? If they have suffered in these ways, how do they know that their sufferings are not directly due to their audacious dinners? Rance Over-pressure in Schools, , From the New York Tribune. The highest medical and educational authori- ties in Germany and England are loud and per sistent in their warnings against physical harm and nervous ailments caused by over-pressure in public schools. The danger is greatest in the case of girls between twelve and fourteen years of age, although it is not to be ignored in the case of boys of the same age. It onght not to require much argument to convince practical educators that entrance examinationsof ninety per cent entail continuous overwork and ner yous excitement and imperil the health and sanity of girls of that age. powers ofattention, and the tem- | he The Man Whe Lived te be a Hundred Because He Wanted to From the Saturday Review. Cornaro’s regimen—which consisted of eggs, soup, bread, pancakes, and such like food, with wine—was, as he tells us, intended for himself alone. All people should live temperately, but the temperance of one man is the excess of another. Cornaro’s method is the simple one that each man should find out for himself what is the suitable quanity of food and drink for himself, and then live accordingly. The charm of Cornaro’s narrative consists in the garrulous naivete with which he sets forth his «imple creed and practice, Italy, he says, was suffering from three great evils—first, from flattery and cere- monies; secondly, from the effect of the Lutheran doctrines; thirdly, from debauchery. ‘These three evils, or rather “cruel monsters Of human life,” have destroyed respectively social sincerity; secondly, the religion of the soul; thirdly, the health ‘ofthe body. The first two plagues he leaves tobe dealt with by some ‘gentill spiriti,” who will banish them from the world; the third he undertakes to extirpate himself, being convinced that Italy before his death will return to her former “fair and holy manners.” To this end he gives his own prac- tice as an example to be followed, at least in i aim and spirit. His daily allowance of food was three rolls, the yell of an egg, with Meat and soup, the whole weighing 13 ounces; his daily allowance of wine was 14 ounces. On one occasion, after he had slightly increased the quantities, he became in a few days “choleric and melancholy,” and soon fellinto a violent fever, from which he only recovered by returning to his former regimen. He neverate or drank to the extent of his appetite; avoided extremes of heat and cold; was careful to have sufficient sleep. To keep clear of grief, melancholy, hatred, and other perturbations of the mind was alsoan- essential part of his system, though temperance in eating and drinking will do much to counter- act menial troubles, as well as to nuetralize the effects of bodily hardships. Once when powerful enemies brought a suit against him he kept His equanimity, and won his case in the end, while his brother, who had led an irregular life, died ofanxlety While the case was still going on. If men were but temperate as he was himself they would live to be a hundred years old. He him- self intended to do so, to die at last, not of disease, but of “pura resoluzione.” If he had had a good constitution to start with he would Teach 120 years instead of only 100. He did, in fact, die very nearly at the age of 100, if he did not surpass it. He 1s sure that, having on earth led a life pleasing to God, he will by His rasrey enjoy the heavenly life after death. Until he adopted the temperate life he never “knew that the world was fair.” The temper- ate “fanno brutto il mondo.” Even the deaths of relations and frien&s troubled him little, so calm and equable had his temper become. These and other doctrines to the same effect he published fn his first treatise, written when he was at the age of 83; three years later he followed it up by a second, the “Compendio della Vita Sobria;” five years later still he pub- lished a third; and, Snsily, at the age of 95, he brought out his “Loving Exhortation,” urging his readers to do as he had done, and to enjoy the happiness he had found. Not a little of it, he tells us, was due to the fact that many of them had followed his advice. Soothing Syrups and Popular Remedie: From the National Review. Opium forms the basis of innumerable reme- dies, and very effective remedies, sold under titles altogether reassuring and misleading. Nearly all soothing syrups and powders, for example—‘mothers’ blessings” and infants’ feurses—are really opiates, These are known or suspected by most well-informed peo- ple, What is less generally known is that nine in ten of the popular remedies for catarrh, bronchitis, cough, cold and asthma are also opiates. So owerful indeed is the effect of opium upon the ning membrane of the lungs and air passages, so difficult is it to find an effective substitut! that the efficacy, at least the certain and rapid efficacy, of any specific remedy for cold whose exact nature is not known affordsstrong ground for suspecting the presence of opium, Many chemists are culpably, almost criminally, reck- Jess, and not a few culpably ignorant in this mat- ter.’ An experienced man nt from a fash- tonable West End shop a box of cough lozenges, pleasant to the taste and relieving a severe cough with wonderful rapidity. Familiat with the ‘influence of opium on the stomach and spirits, he was sure before he had sucked halt a jozen of the lozenges that he had taken a dose powerful enough to affect his accustomed sy: tem, and strong enough to poison a child, and do serious harm to a sensitive adult. Yet the lozenges were sold without warning or indica- tion of their character; few people would have taken any special precaution to keep them out. of the way of children, and the box, falling into the hands ofa heedless or disobedient child, might have poisoned a whole nursery. a nan The New Orleans Street Car. Letter to San Francisco Argonaut, Speaking of cars brings to mind the great po- Iteness and courtesy of the southern men. I have seen three’ or four of them rise simul- laneously to offer seats toan old and ragged negress, and never since Ihave been in New Orleans have I seen a woman standing in a car while a man occupied aseat. In New York many handsomely dressed and attractive women have become accustomed by long ex- petlence to cling to the strap of a swerviny yb-tail car, while adozen or fifteen men sit comfortably. One grows accustomed to that sort of thing, and does not realize what a man’s duties are until it is brought forcibly before him, as it is here by the manners of the men of New Orleans. The admirable part of itis that they do not discriminate in the least. A Fed woman of wretched aspect is treated with he same courtesy on every occasion as her more attractive and younger sisters. In pass- ing up her fare, stopping the car—in fact, in every little attention that can be paid toa woman passenger—there is positive competi- tion among the men. Every street car driver here ts called “Gal- lagHler.” The only slang expression in the place is that which is addressed in a chorus to the driver, after a woman has alighted, by the men passengers. She steps off the car, and the driver sits comfortably ahead looking at the mule. He displays every inclination and in- tention of sitting there forever, until three or four passengers ‘raise their voices and cry, ravely: “Let her roll, Gallagher.” Upon this e lets go the brake and the mule trots daintily On its blithesome way. Mexican Hotel and Home Life. What Mexico needs more than anything else isa good hotel. It is about two hundred years behind the times in this respect. The city has five railroads, a splendid street car system, tele- graph wires to all the world,a telephone service With 700 subscribers, six daily newspapers and any number of weeklies, electric lights, the best bath-houses in America,but not one decent hotel. Those who have to remain in Mexico any length of time invariably go to housekeep- ing, and can thus live as comfortably and econ- omically as anywhere in the states. ‘There 1s no aristocratic quarter in Mexico, and it is fashionable not only to live on a business street, but to have a saloon or a meat market on the und floor. Everybody lives. in flats, the houses are usually three stories high, and the top floor is considered the best. It will rent for $100 a month, while the second floor rents for $40. When a house is to be let in Mexieo the owner sticks an old newspaper in the window. It isn’t very tasteful, and seldom improves the appearance of the house, but It Is economical, and understood by the commu- nity. Servants are cheap and pienty, and you are pretty sure to have several descendants of the Aztec kings about the house if you hire one, for it is the rule here that the whole family go ‘with the father or mother when they go out to service, Your cook brings her husband, her children, and pretty nearly all her rela: tions, and they are fed from your table and sleep’ under your roof. The husband may be a shoe-maker, or a saloon keeper, or @ hackman, but he lives'where his wife works. There aré usually rooms enough inthe house for them all, and the only food they wantis plenty of beans and what is left from your own table. ——_——-9¢______ Philadelphia’s Cable Road. DEFECTS WHICH WILL COST A QUARTER OF A MILLION TO REMEDY. The cable road ofthe Philadelphia Traction Company, constructed through twelve miles of the principal streets of the city, has been found to be radically defective, after a cost of $600,000 to the projectors. One of the en- Ineers e! upon the system expressed the Goss eee a that $250,000 would be re- quired to correct mistakes and make the road racticable for traffic in cold weather, When the iron conduits, through which the cable poenes, wera laid, iron rods were run through the stringers and bolted to the top of the conduits just below the slot where the rip passes down to the cable under tne strect, ndee rods were expected to counteract the resgure of the ground, and keep the slot open. very change of temperature, however, has een fouhd to affect the ie the slot and hinder the passage of the grip. Work was begun to-day to remedy this error. The ground must be torn up over the entire twelve’ miles of track already laid, and substantial new ties and jron braces are 16 be inserted in place of the defective ones. The projectors of road visited Chicago to examine the system in operation in that city two and at- iphia which undo, ears tempted improvements in Philadel will now cout & quarter of a million 09 ‘The President Hankering After a Ty- * 1 phoid Rest. From the Louisville Journal. A Louisville man in Washington insisted on seeing the President. Great efforts were made to bluff him off, as Mr.Cleveland was very busy. No offices, they told him, could be filled before the 4th of July or early in October. He said he wanted no office, but the Presidential menials winked and asked him what he was giving them, Afters long time a Congressman came along, took pity on him, and got him in. Mr. Cleveland looked careworn,but inquired kindly» “What office'did you say, sir, you would like ? “0,1 os office,” suid the Loulsviller pulling a lat bottle out of his pocket, “I erel¥ sir, to leave with Bee rie aetna genase Soe ‘Why, sir, you have no idea how much excite: ment there is in our town about ’em.” Mr. Cleveland looked surprised, and then he sald “Thank you, sir, thank you; I have been thin! {ug for some’ time of the typhoid rer in hope of getting a rest. bless you, eg ee se Lonisviller is not. yet back ‘Washington. ralist, “I have brought a few specimens to illus- trate that feature in low life—es there ate dyna- miters in the lower animal kingdom 4s well as in the higher, and curiously enough, we might say the eame of the vegetable Kingdom. I re- member a few years ago I was travelingon & small vessel between some of the West India islands, and at one place had purchaséd s num- bara curious seeds, placing them under my irth for safe keeping. I was sitting at the small table, hanging ‘on with both hands, 1b company with a ne nger, when there came an explosion that sounded as if a of powder had gone off. Something wh! by my face so closely that I felt the wind, and another projectile struck me full in the breast. The negro was not so fortunate. He uttered a loud yell as the sound came, threw up his hands, and with the blood ‘ing from his face went over backward with a crash that brought the skipper and crew down the hatch inahurry, We picked him up, and first he Swore that I had shot him and then that I had hit with with a club, but in 8 moment he re- covered from his fright and we began toinvesti- gate. “The man had been struck fairly in the nose— a blow so powerful that it was several hours before the hemorrhage could be stopped. When Irose from my seat something drop] upon the cabin floor, and I afterward Blcked tt up; and what do you suppose It was? Nothing but @ section of one of the seeds, and they were the explosives, The heat of the cabin had in some Way affected them so that they went off like cartridges, and as each of them was made up of several pieces, it had somewhat the effect of grape-shot. One struck the negro as related, another missed my head and shattered a look- ing-glass behind me, another struck me in the chest, while still another, curiously enough, took ‘off the handle of a pitcher, or monkey cooler, that stood on the table. Four of the seeds didn't go off, and you may be sure I put them in a stron; A number of seeds,” con- tinued the 5 r, “have a similar habit of ex- ploding, and it is generally a provision. con- hected with the dispersal of seeds. In the west have seen trees explode with @ report that gould be heard nearly a mile; in this case the frost was the cause. There certain insects bore great holes in the bark of trees, rain finds its way in and freezes, and away goes the tree as ifyou had placed a torpedo in it, showing what the expansive power of water will do.” —— 09 Esthetic Poker in Boston, From the Chicago Rambler. The intellectual game of draw-poker has taken a firm hold on the dwellers in cultured Boston, and the teachings of the Concord School of Philosophy are for a time forgotten. Our special correspondent writes us that he recently overheard several fair daughters of the Athens of America indulging in this pleasant pastime, when the following dialogue ensued: Anastasia—“Is it my aunt? Oh, yes! well, there's a solitary check.” Clytemnestra.—“I will bestride your destitute of sight, dear,” Well, draw your cards, girls, I Proserpine.— will remain Patrick.” Millicent.—“Well, I will wager a half-score of checks.” —“I behold you and elevate you Proserpine.—“I fear that you are feigning to possess nore than you really have, but never- heless, dears, I call you.” aAnsstasia.—“I have & homogeneous trio of ces. adiiilicent—“And I a Robert-appendaged lush.” Proserpine.— “While I hold a quartet of knaves. Millicent.—“Well, dear, then you take the ceramics.” Se ee Western Rivals in Politeness. From the Detroit Free Press. They sat together in the smoking compart- ment of the sleeping car after breakfast and were very quiet fora longtime, At last the fat man remarked: “It is curious how traveling affects some people. For instance, my feet are so swollen that I can only keep my boots on with positive agony.” “And odd that I am affected just the opposite way," replied the other. “My feet shrink so that I could almost get both feet Into one boot.” There was another long interval of silence, during which each stole anxious glances at the other. : “In such a case,” said the third man, who sat opposite, “I should advise you to trade boots.” “Willingly,” was the response in chorus. As they were making the exchange the porter came up with the remark: dun'reckon I got dem ar’ butes mixed up, tween you two gem'len, and each of you has got on de wrong pa’r. “I knew it all the time,” said the fat man. “So did IY? added the other. “But I'll be hanged if I let any Wisconson man outdo me in politeness.” “And Wisconson don’t take no back seat for Missouri!” Holman Hunt's Last Picture. ‘From a London Letter. “The Triumph of the Innocents” has at least the merit of being a wholly new and original rendering of the story of the “Flight into Egypt.” The Virgin with the Child In her arms is mounted upon a she ass; St. Joseph, his carpen- ter’s tools slung over his back, is leading them and hurrying them across the plain of Philistia, Close by is a village with dogs prowling round it; the distant hills are studded with the watch fires of the soldiery, towards which St, Joseph is turning anxious eyes; it is night, the moon. and stars ‘are shining. So far there is nothing in the picture which ts not tolerably obvious and which another painter might not have in- vented. Mr. Hunt's own conception, that which gives the picture its name, is the proces- sion of the spiritual bodies of the slain Inno- cents that accompany the fugitives from Beth- lehem, The Holy Family are in thedim moon- light, the Innocents are radiant with supernat- ural "glow. The Innocents are Stepping on a stream of ‘the water of life, which mhoves for- ward as they move and here and there gives off bubbles of glowing color—“airy globes which image the Jewish belief in the Millennium that is to follow the advent of the Messiah.” In the largest, brilliant with all the hues of the rain- bow, there is faintly shadowed the vision of Ja- cob—the earliest suggestion of a belief in an- other life, —_—__——+e+______ The Mahdi’s Military Resources. From the London Standard. ‘The mahdi’s military resources include 15,500 Egyptian regulars, who were originally taken prisoners or deserted to the mahdi’s camp. It is not known, even at English head- quarters in the Soudan, how many native warriors have Joined Mohammed Achmed, but he possesses armaments for an almost unlim- ited number. Besides the arms and equipments of Hicks and Baker Pasha’s forces, which fell into the hands of the enemy, the latter has an enor- mous quantity of provisions and ammunition, which the Egyptian government had stored in Sennaar, Kordofan and Fachoda. ‘As far back as two years ago the Fgyptian authorities at Cairo admitted that the mahdi had captured 90 field guns, 15,000 Remington rifles, and 3,000,000 cartridges, Since then the caer of Berber, Shendy and Khartoum ave capitulated. At Khartoum, also, the mahdi found a vast quantity of ammunition and 5,000 to 6,000 negro troops well armed. The rebel army is also copiously popped with siege illery, Both Sir Charles Wilson’s and rd Charles Beresford’s steamers were fired upon by heavy riverian batteries. There are a number of Turkish and Arab officers with the mahdi. The black recruits are drilled by fugitives from Arabi's army, and the mahdi’s artillery is worked by Turkish Topskis, who are held to be the best marksmen in the world. Shooting Wild Geese in Maryland Waters, The St. Michael’s Comet, Talbot county, Md., says: “Herring Island in Miles river has be- come quite a resort for wild geese and swan: On Monday last Mr. Joseph Jefferson ang John Eaton shot into a flock of nine wild geese and killed seven. Thursday Messrs. T. Potter and J. Eaton killed two swan and one wild goose on the island. One of the swan measured seven feet one inch from tip to tip of wing. Capt. J. G°Morris and Dr. T. J. Smithers killed sight swan and four wild , besides di ‘shoot- {ng from a sink box in Eastern bay. In shoot- ing geese at night a number ere usually wounded, and get away from the + capners in the darkness. They are generally upin a day or two by some of the men, who are generally on’ the lookout for them. As one of our tongers was coming home a cold windy day this week he ied 6 crippled goces on the fats, and immediately steered for it, but his boat failing to quite reach the fowl, which hesaw was getting away, he fences, overboard to his a2 ets dare ase Reo | object ire may when he found that it was an old iy goose flashing breast SAR A Lenten Story. From the New York Star. A story was told to me byan D.C., SATURDAY, wircH 28, 1885-DOUBLE. SHEET. ‘This Year Boys Want Tops. A DEALER'S VIEWS ON CURIOUS CHANGES IN ‘THE JUVENILE MARKET. ‘From the New York Times. On the broad, even pavements around the City Hall and in Madison and Union squares the whip top has become about as big a nuis- ance asthe roller skate, After school hours busy pedestrians must take to the roadway or runs gantlet of flying whip strings. It is not ‘uncommon to see fifty boys at one time in the space of @ block mercilessly flogging little chunks of painted wood until they whirl and hum like weathergigs ina gale. When each of two boys endeavors to whip his top to a certain goal first the sport becomes as exciting to hin as it 1s un table to rs-by that come within his reach. Another game is for each boy to flog his so that it will strike and knock down that of his adversary. This is called “encounters,” perhaps because of the ola eeseanuan ts Mae bata v1 {notfensive pedestrians who objec aving “Some inexplicable law seems to govern the outdoor gameés of children, the same as the *Paret of glider people,” said a wholesale toy lealer in West Broadway. “Baseball, boating, roller skating, croquet, iawn tennis and even theatricals seem at times to be epidemic. You can't account for it. Roller skates were a load on our hands for years. Now we can't supply orders. Toy makers, like other men who get their living from a fickle public, don’t attempt toexplain it nor to control it. They sell the public what it wants and will pay for. This spring {s ‘top time’ with the boys, and it is use- less to try and sell them anything else. Last ear it was nothing but marbies, but they can’t bee es sas eae we the frost gets out of e ground whip tops will give away to peg tops. The hard paverhents would soon break vine Dock steel peg inade. ,Some boys are as particular about choosing ¢ top as a woman is in sclecting abonnet. There is agreat variety as regards shape, the wood used, and in the size of the peg. The best tops are made of boxwood or liguum vite. For whip tops most boys make their own whips, but we have made a new one this year with harrow thongs of pliable eciskins. “The boys must be careful in using them, though. A ee in the face would almost put ‘a man s eye ge The Mayos of Richmond. Engene Didier in April Harper's. Col. Mayo married Abigail De Hart, daughter of John De Hart, of Elizabethtown, New Jer- sey, who was a member of the first Continental Congress that met at Philadelphia in 177: and one of the most prominent lawyers in his state. After his marriage Col. Mayo bought a beautiful residence in Elizabethtown, called Hampton Place, and his ‘annual advent there in@coach and six, with colored footmen and outriders, was an event long remembered by the inhabitants of that ancient borough. He re- sided for several years at the Hermitage, ashort istance west of Richmond, but in 1816 he bought Bellville, a magnificent seat in the suburbs of the ‘city, and lived there until his death on the 28th of May, 1818. He was buried at the old Mayo homestead, Pow- haten, a short distance east of Richmond; and on the same place, partially protected by an open arbor, {s a large rock, which marks the last resting-place of the most powerful Indian chief in Virginia, Powhatan, whose principal residence was here, and aiter whom the place was called. Colonel Mayo served in the state troops during the war of 1812, and represented for several years the county of Henrico in the legisiature. Mrs. John Mayo was one of the most remarkable ladies of her day. She was celebrated for her “personal comeliness and mental endowments,” and long occupied & rominent position in Richmond society. Maria fayo,the eldest daughter of Col, John Mayo, was the reigning belle of the day, and_as Mr. Mordecai says, in his “Richmond in By-zone Days,” she made the Hermitage anything but # hermitage. She was a great beauty, wrote and repeated poetry charmingly, sang and played on the harp exquisitely, nd was so fascinating in manner and agreeuble in conver- sation that she is sitid to have rejected over one hundred suitors before accepting Gen. Winfleld Scott, then in the full glory of his military cesse%, to whom she was married at Bellville on thé evening of March 11, 1817. The festivi tles were of the most extended and hospitable charaeter, nd, as an old letter before us_ex- presses it, “there were splendid doings.” It is sald that Scott courted Maria Mayo as Mr. Scott, as Captain Scott, and as Colonel Scott without success, but as General Scott, the hero of Lundy's Lane, he carried off thé coveted prize, Warfare Against Skating Rinks. From the N. Y. Times. There is going tobe a determined warfare on the skating rinks by theatrical managers, who have determined to unite against this form of amusement, which is now conceded on every hand to have occasioned a loss of at least one- third of the moneys usually counted upon by theatrical enterprises throughout the country. In Minnesota a law is proposed which provides that men and women shall not simultaneously skate in the rinks. The object of such @ statute is to put anend to the condition of im- morality which is claimed in many quarters to be stimulated by the skating system. The ef- fect of the law would be naturally enough to shut off that portion of the patronage of such places which 1s made up of young men and women who find more pleasure in the social re- lations of roller skating than in the physical exercise imparted, A similar bill is on the point of being introduced into the Illincis legislature, where it will be pushed forward by Mr. James Meade, Mr, Hooley, Mr. MeVieker, Mr. McConnell and Mr. Hamlin, who control the principal theaters of the western metropolis. This, I believe, is the first case on record where any considerable number of theatrical managers have come definitely together to fight against a common foe. Unity of purpose is not one of the strong points among ple engaged in various capacities in the hentrical calling. In every large community there are always two or three managers who do not feel themselves personally damaged by op- position such as that shown by the rinks, and who ‘itively refuse to enter into any com- bination which is calculated to help their com- petitors. But the importance of some step cal- culated to put anend to or curb the skating frenzy has suggested itself in a most imperative veln to theatrical people. Meanwhile, the craze for roller skating, far from being abated, seems to gather new force at every turn. Thé possi- bility that there should be profit in an enter- rise requiring the very large expenditure involved in hiring and running an establish- ment of the size of the Madison Square Garden shows that the entire community is expected to support this latest form of amusement, There ‘was once before a roller-skating mania in this country, but it died out before it had reached very large Bry rtions. The present craze appears undless, and the managers of theaters have made up their minds that they must combine against the opposition or find their business fatally impaired. 2 The Child and the Year. Celia Thaxter in St. Nicholas. Said the Child to the youthful Year: “What hast thou in store for me, O giver of beautiful gifts, what chéer, ‘hat Joy dost thou bring with thes?” seasons four shall bring eir treasures: the winter's snows, ‘The autumn’s store, and the flowergof spring And the summer's perfect rose. “AM these and more shall be thine, ‘Dear Child—but the last and best ‘Thyself must earn by a strife divine, If than wouldst be traly blest. “Wouldst know this last, best gift? "Tis a conscience clear and bright, A place of mind which the soul can lif ‘an infinite delight. “Truth, patience, courage and love Tf théu unto me canst bring, I will set thee all earth’s ills above, ‘ Child, and crown thee a King” ———— nn ‘The Law of Marriage in England. From the London Standard, February 26th. The lord chancellor has reintroduced his “Marriages Legalization bill,” the object of which is to prevent certain formal defects from invalidating a marriage. It proposes to declare thatno marriage celebrated in the united king- dom in the past or in the future is to be deemed tohave been invalid “by reason only of any want oflawful authority for the grant of any Meense or certificate ‘for the solemnization thereof, or of any certificate of the publication Siartrany paceuniee a's talcum cecal atte ee etatee ce cate; or of any want of lawful authority for the jemanizat marriages ding or where the same may have been sol- —S ae ‘From the New York World. Mr. Cleveland is the only President who has Polk, ‘lor, Fillmore and Buchanan were all am ‘. when he firstcame to Wi shaved his beard and Ochiltree asa Manager. New York Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer. Col. Tom.. Ochiltree, of Texas, has gone into the theatrical business. His specialty is the Promotion of the Baroness Nadia de Rotehkoff asa new actress, She came to this country from Russia nearly @ year ago with the deter- mination of going on the stage here. Shefound the achievement farmore difficult than she had imagined, It would have been easy enough to get together a cheap company and go to some small and near town for a debut, but that was not the size of her ambition. She would appear in a fashionable New York theater or none, and for a while it looked as though the latter alter. native would have to be accepted. But Col. Ochiltree became convinced of her genius, and Yowed that she would have @ fair chance, Wallack’s theater was hired for a matinee, considerabl ie adve ising .was done, and th aggregate cost, including beautifbl co tumes for the star, has been carefully cor ated at not less than $2,000. This is'a high re when it is considered that there will probably never be a repetition of the expert- ment. The newspaper erties say this morning that the baroness was a ridiculous failure. She Was a most uupromising novice, and they don’t admit that she has any histrionic merit what- ever; but she was handsome, though disadvai taged by the glare of footlights and a theatrical make-up. Off the stage she is quite charting. Her height is medium and her build compact. ‘The outiines of her figure are pleasing and she enhances their qualities by artistic dressing. Her photographs get attention when shown in the windows of Broadway stores. She would have a round face but for a high forehead. which she shades with a frizzing of her brown hair, Her complexion is light, aller the Russian ma ner, and her eyes are jilac—not of the watery variety, but tender and expressive. Hermouth is not too small and she smiles bewitchingly Withit. She speaks English with a foreign nc- cent, and her gestures are coquett Col, Ochiltree violently disagrees with the crities im their estimation of the baroness’ ability to act “Camille,” but his policy of mentorsbip for the fature is not divulged as yet. tte Metamorphosed Into a Boy. From the Philadelphia Record. A subject, apparently a young girl of fifteen, Appeared for. clinical operation at Jeiterson Medical college a short time ago. The patient wore short dresses, looked like a young school miss, and had the manners of a girl. The trouble with the patient was an inability to retain secretions of the kidneys. Dr. W. H. Pancoast made an examination and discovered two exceedingly interesting facts: First, that his subject was not, as the parents had always supposed, a girl, but a boy, and that he had been born minus a bladder. Dr, Pancoast explained all this to the class before which the ration was performed, and then proceeded to supply an artificial bladder, a surgical feat first accomplished by Dr. Pan- coast’s father many years ago and now not an uncommon operation. The parents of the sup- ed girl, now transformed into a handsome boy, at first refused to credit the facts relate by the doctor aud would not keep the subject in boy’s attire, dressed in which the professor had retu i him to them. A further operation was inade at the request of the parents, This was done last week and so fally develope r organs that doubt was no longer pos in addition to this metamorphosts, been given a boy’s name in exchange for the f male one with which he w: istened. Prof. Pancoast has-recently also had another case of Somewhat the same tiature, although not quite s0 interesting, the subject being a boy of four years, who had always been supposed to be a girl. ‘The operation in each case was about the same and both patients have recovered, ee Artemus Ward's Will. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, March 21st, Among the archives in the vault of the Oxford county probate court at Paris Hill is a copy of the will of Artemus Ward. Ward died in Eng- land of consumption, and his will was made there. ‘The copy is inscribed on two heavy sheets of parchment about two feet square, in the most elaborate style of the scrivener’s art. The copyist must have spent many hours in fashioning the big capital letters of old English text and the flourishes which decorate the in- strument. The parchment was sent to the Ox- ford county probate court ina heavy tin box, I cigar ease, only on a larger scale, pout nine in long and thred inches wide. ‘The box is secured by a pad- lock, on which are stamped the British coat of arms and the letters “V. RB.” The testament begins: “This is the will of me, Charles Ferrar Brown Ward, know “Arte” mus Ward.’” The testator directs that _his body shall be buried in Waterford Upper Vil- Jage, but in a codicil changes the place of his entombment to Waterford Lower Village. He bequeaths his library to the best scholar in the schools at Waterford Upper Village, and his manuscripts to R. H. Stoddard and Charles Dawson Stanley. After making several Vests: to his mother and relatives, he gives the ince of his property to found “an asylum for worn- out printers.” Horace Greeley to be the sole trustee, and his pen to be the only security to be demanded of him. An Oxford county man, referriug to the will, said: “Either Arte- mus intended that his will should be a post mortem joke or he was robbed; for upon his death a very small property was found—hardly enongh to pay the minor bequests, let alone founding a printers’ hospital a Some Baltimore Writers. From the Literary World. ‘The south has fully its share of late of women who support themselves by magazine and story writing. Mrs, Charles Tieman, author of the popular “ Homoselle” in the Round Robin series, has finished another novel, called “ Pro- Inquity-” She is a native of Richmond, Va., as lived in Baltimore since the war, and has written stories for “ Harper's” and the “Cen- tury. Another Baltimore writer is Miss K. M. Roiand, who has worked for nearly all the southern magazines and for “Harper's.” Mrs. Angela Crippen Davis, of Louisville, has been writing southern character sketches for ten years, and her work is much admired in the south, She used to lecture,and now she has a realistic novel ready. James K. Randall, who wrote “Maryland, My Maryland,” subsided into newspaper work at Atlanta, Ga., after his one successful ooh and has not since attempt- ed literature. He is now a Washington corre- spondent, and has a daughter name: land, after his Song. ——__e+_____ Seth Green on Eels. From the American Angler. Ido not know how eels breed. I have seen people who sald they had seen the spawn, and other parties who said they had seen young eels in the mature eels nearly ready to hatch. Like youself, I have opened them from day to day at all seasons of the year, and never have seen any young ecls orspewn. My opinion is they hatch in salt or brackisk water, and go up the streams when they are small. They can go up any dam or fall when they are young. They crawl up the dams and falls, clinging to the rocks under the sheet of water the same as an angle worm would. They would go up any fall, no matter how high, if they oe there before they were five inclies long. There are plenty of eels in Lake Ontario, but none above except they have been transported or got up through the canal. They are so large when they get to Niagara Falls that they cannot get over; they are so heavy they before they get to thetop. —+—___+ee+—______ How to Measure Fields, From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. During seeding time farmers often wish to make an accurate estimate of the amount of land in afield. The accompanying table has been found useful and convenient for the pur- pose, and may be cut out and preserved forfuture referen 5 yards wide by 968 long contains an acre. 10 yards wide by 484 long contains an acre, 20 yards wide by 242 long contains an acre. 40 yards wide by 121 long contains an acre. 70 yards wide by 69% long contains an acre. 80 yards wide by 60% long contains an acre, G0 eet wide by 726 long containsan acre, 110 feet wide by 397 long contains an acre. 180 feet wide by 363 long 220 feet wide by 198 long contains an acre. 240 feet wide by 181% long contains an acre. 440 feet wide by 99 long contains an acre. ——+es—___ May Out-Arthur Mr, Arthur. ‘From the Louisville Commercial. “President Cleveland has lovely eyes, remurked a Louisville society belle yes- terday, who is just hack from Washington. “Indeed,” anid her listener. “Yes, and the prettiest teeth you ever.saw, ‘They glisten like pearls, and he knows how to aay tl are z DRY GOODS. 420, 422 424, ax 426 SEVENTH STREET. 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