Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1885, Page 3

WHAT THEY EAT IN PERSIA. The Good, Cheap Food of the Poor and ‘the Dainty Dishes of the Wealthy. bs From the St. James’ Gazette. _ Inevery large town cook shops abound. Sheep are roasied whole in ovens, and soid hot by the Blice. The sheeps’ heads and feet are boiled separately, and thelr preparation and sale is a trade in it But the edible most in favor among all classes in Persia is the kabab. There are two varieties of e is made from iniueed mutton, which is chopped with a few onions into # paste fine as sausage 1 eare- fully moulded over a skewer, toasted over a and sold and ten hot. waar, the delicacy of This is the kab the lower At the dinner honr jsunset) and at_the break- fast hour (noon) crowds surround the shops of the kabab sellers. Each man carries his bread, which is ust ¥ @ flexi! loaf two feet long, foot wide, and half an inc! The tomer w aah, be th ner of Te obtained for from oO threepel bead, for the pric > skewer of the save 3 nny. form thi Persian soldier, i . The meat is pounded and the soup or eaten aiterward as a plat, a Persia, as in the rest of the east, bread, eat merely Jans of all ages und are con. are generally ittie variety in pure and goo color, most of them are favored with lem es, eucmbe ots for a meal; pnions as We ples. Pomegranates pns are in great demat ns, Which run to fourt very nutritious. e quan- digesti- a iten had in infinite variety and os the huge tong hes, to the tiny for a ha of the m which me tas mast is Simp > by adding > old curds 4 it sets into a top. ten the first f allowed to remain it y time. In with s boiled hard lor are mauch eaten; from ad for 9d. ‘These things, p and varied diet of the Beet, too, is eaten by them; the well-to-do. The lownspeopie aud the wealthy among the Persians devote much attention to good Hving. Breakiast generally is a comparatively li |, but cons! al plats of Val but alway: ed hot; i a small por! to warmed mil ken about be partly beeause all honse servants are ied from the leavings of the master’s table. Kababs of another Kind to these we have deseribed ta the palm amon taste, probabl: e. Sunil piece: z skewered on a slender rod of iron; two of lean and a piece of the delicate fat of tail of the Uriental sheep are put on mately, @ soupcon of garlic or onion isadded, and the kabab is toasted over a fierce fire and handed hot; itiseaten witha little saitand a ately boiled, butter ts added” We & law a Persian will quails, pigeons, dove Banded hot onthe the partrid, in Persia, pit it served. They are d_ rice, which is and termed ehil- Sate the sizziajahn, ists of a chicken, partridge or lamb Ineat boiled to rags, served hot with a sauce of pounded walnuts, pomengranate juice and ¢laritied butter. X similar entree is made upon the same basis with unripe grapes and butter; her with stewed apricots and butter, or 1 plums of Bokhara and butter. All these are eaten with large quantities of plain. boiled Tice, seemingly very rich, yet_in combination With the rice they are to the Persian taste de- licious, and Europeans residing in Persia soon appreciate them. Confectionery and pastry are consumed in Jarge quantities. Lambs a week old, and Weighing only a few pounds, are roasted whole and stuffed with dates, raisins, chestnuts, pistachios, and almonds. “ Ducks, tame or wild, are not much liked. Sherbet, in large china bowls, i 3 served ut dinner. It consists Oftruit syrups or eau sucree; it is usually iced, and is drunk trom huge wooden spoons. These are sometimes sothin as to be in parts trans- weh entrees Parent: they are of native manulacture and delicately carved. They are often of great value, aud the wealth ofa Persian is often shown in the variety and value of his wooden sherbet 8. ons. in its way, the Persian cuisine is as scientific as that of France. Everything is good and plentitul; there are no adulterations; the only fault is on the side of profusion. The free use of clarified batter, it must be remembered, is to enable the partaker to swallow the rice Which is served with most dishes. Unlike the Turk the Persian never serves a dish that is nasty. We once sawa Turkish dish which consisted of aubergines stuffed with garlic, stewed inoil, and eaten cold! It had the rather ‘Sppropriate name of “the Imam fainted!” Persian dinners are always preceded by pipes fhubbie-bubbles), while tea and sweets are | see per servants bring in a long Jeathern sheet and place it on the ground; the Guests take their seats around it, squatting on the ground. A flat loaf of bread, of the Kin We have described, is placed before each man. Music plays. The dinner is brought in on tray and pliced on the ground on the leathern: sheet; the covers are removed; the host says, “Bis: miliah” (“In the name God," and In silence ali fall to with their fingers. “There is no talk- ing at dinner, and when itis overall retire to Test or return to their homes at once. oe A Practical Girl. From the Philadelphia Press, Helen Burdett’s father was an Illinols farmer, with a good farm of, perhaps, 200 acres, but without any one to share his labors or inherit his estate. He accordingly brought up his daughter Helen very much as he would have brought up a boy. She was strong and healthy, very intelligent, and with a decided taste for |" outdoor life, and she very soon attained a repu- tation for “Judgment” and for knowledge second to that of no farmer or stock-raiser in the Vicinity. When she was eighteen years old her father died, and it seemed necessary that she should carry on the place for at least a ar to come, a task to which she was fully equal. ‘The crops were accordingly planted under her direc tion, and she went out to buy. steers, as her father usually went at that season, She pur- chased sixty-five head of steers, pastured them during the summer, and sold them at the season ut a clear profit of exactly xind of land on the inch of the ground,” as the su is, and just what should be done with it. E man in the vicinity understood that she thoro ntelligent in her business, and t it Would be useless to try to overreach he man, when questioned about her, remarke the ¥ r ol the country, “There ain’ man in the state n size up a herd of steers a close as she can, and our droveyer says she beats him at a ih every time.” Yet Miss Helen Burdett ts as modestand Jady-like as any girl in the United » The drover did not inean that she “beat him down,” or “beat him out,” but simply that she understood catue and could tell their “points” better than he could. When Helen was fourteen years old, her Tather gave her permission togo and buy & co for herself, She went forth alone and Ind pendent, bouxht her cow, aud eame home lead- er cx d to be an excellent invest ment. “I knew,” said her father triumphantly, “that she could’ pick out a better one than I could myse!f. and I believe she has done it.” Miss Helen Burdett stands before . But she is Helen Burdett n althy young farmer from the know and love her, and appre: er gS ‘West came ciated her ie. When she married father’s house and farm were sold at auetion. She managed the sale and it was completed admire ply. The picture is taken in her and the quiet, regular, thought- indicate to the uninitiated a stu- y an artist or a writer. Noone tthis elegantly attired and self-pos- sessed young woman of being a thorough fare mer arid an expert stock raiser. “1 tell you,’ said a keen old man, who has watched her progress from early girlhood, “it’s a lucky man that gets Helen Burdett for’ a wife. She'll double his Property, in plain dollars and cents, if he'll only take her advice, inside of tive years.” Attractive Advertisin: From the Printers’ Register. Nothing canbe truer than the tact that the most successful merchants are those who advertise to the best advantage. It is not al- ways the man who spends the most money in advertising that secures the greatest returns, but he who, having an article that people want, makes the fact known to them Ina business like way. Itis conceded by men who have dare the deepest study of advertising that the Most direct and eftuctual way of reaching the patie is throuzh the press. “An advertisement rted in a periodical paper, be it a daily, aweekly, monthly or semi-annual, 18 seen an ‘Tead by more people than in ail ‘the thousand ognd one otlier forms of advertising combined. itis then of the utmost importance that the display lines ina paper be made as pleasin; nd attractive as dorbibie and that there shoul be some degree of ony between the article for sule and the type uscd “fon tole. In no country a LaF rneson pone making thelr adversting ve as they do in the United States, where every line of type or every illustration that one €atch the public eye is freely used. lund the advertising pages of the are as bure of ellect as the wi ‘they are printed on, In Eng- Papers paper INTERESTING CHAT REGARDING SOME NOTED RESIDENCES IN THE CITY BY THE SEA. ‘Newport (R. I.) Special to the New York World. Remarkable changes have taken place during the past six orseven years inthe proprietorship of summer villas in Newport, and it is truethat the largest and most costly cottages, or, more Properly speaking, mansions, have changed hands, with few exceptions, and, in several in- stances, as a result of financial disaster coming upon the ownersof them. The value of prop- erty is far greater than It was seven years ago, but there are not wanting, even now, signs which indicate very strongly that in several eases other than those to be enumerated the present owners cannot retain possession of their autifal summer estates for the reason that financial reverses have come upon them. ‘One of the largest houses in Newport isknown as “Beaulieu,” und is at present owned and oc- cupied by Mr. John Jacob Astor. It is of brick, and stands in handsome and spacious grounds that extend from Bellevue avenue, the fushion- able drive, to the Clifts, where a magnificent view of the Atlantic ocean and the beaches ishad, It was built Without regard tocost by the Peruvian Minister, Bureda, and he is supposed to have expended over $200,000 on it, All the fashion- able world knows of the princely style in which lived and of his subsequent utier financial oliapse. ‘The estate then fell into the hands of Mr. W. T. Blodgett, of New York, and his heirs sold it to Mr. A. D.Jessup, of Ptiladelphia, for $100,000. In less than ayear Mr. Jessup dis- posed of it to the presen. owner ata profit of over $100,000. It Is said that Mr. J. G. Ben- nett would have purchased it, but he was su- perstitious—feared that evil fortune might over- take him as it had come upon previous owners the property. Mr. Jessup went abroad, and while waiting ‘at the Cheltenham (England) railway station to take the train for London, picked up a newspaper, read a dispatch an‘ nouncing the assassination of Gartield, and im- mediately feil dead. The nextestate but one to this was formerly owned by the late Mr. Daniel Parish. of New York. This gentleman died, amily never have been here since, and the estate was sold to Mr. William Astor. ‘Still far- ther north of Bellevue avenne is 2 magnificent Jot of land where the foundation wallsof ahand- some and costly house that was once on them can beobserved. To the west of these are some magnificent greenhouses, the finest on any sum- mer estate. The property is uow owned by Mr. Alfred Smith, the real estate king. The pre- vious owner was Mr, James R. Keene, the speculator, and it was while he had possession of it that the house was destroyed by fire. He, as everybody knows, had to give up possession ofit for lack of funds, Smith foreclosing the mortgage of $75,000.’ The previous owner to Keene was Mr. Nathan Matthews, of Boston, to whose house, tov, caine ruin as a result of real estate speculation. Ata point lower down the avenue, and manding & view of the en- trance ‘of Long Islaud Sound, stands “The en. Robert B. Potter, w York. The general was very mucli smed here, and everybody was sorry when me known that he could not keep up the establishment. He had to sell it, and got $51,000 for it from Mr. T. J. Montgomery, of Bosion. The latter gentleman made money rapidly by the rise in Bell telephone stock. He must have lost it with equal rapidity, for holding the place for less than a couple of years he was compelled to mortgage it for an amount greater than it is taxed for,and has now gone to Europe. The two beautiful estates that once stood in the of Charles L. Anthony and George Franeis Train, of New York, respectively, have passed intothe hands of Alfred Smith’ after formal proceedings had been taken to foreclose the mortgages. On the west side of Bellevue avenue, northward, stands a charming and ve spacious estate that for years was owned the family of the famous Brown brothers, of Philadelphia. Matters which it is not necessary to refer to here caused the Browns to give up Newport, and the place Was sold to Mr. G. W. Merritt, of New York, who, it is said, will not hold itiong. TheSwikss chalet on thesame side of the avenue, with its spacious sloping grounds Was once she property of Mr. Loring Andrew: He died and his family finally sold it to Mr Theodore A, Havemeyer, of New York, fo $116,000. The family pass their time in’ Eu- Tope, Where one of the daughters married a count. The John Paine cottage has been sold to Mr. H.H. Cooke, of New York. Daniel Webster used to visit Newport while that house was being built, and it was at his suggestion that one of the broad piazzas ‘was added. From that amateur anglers throw the reel and line. On the Cliffs stands a handsome house, once owned by Mr. J. Frederick Kernochan, of New York. Some years ago that gentleman wrote to the aforesaid Smith and told him he couldn't afford to keep the house, and a short time afterwards a customer was found for it in the person of Mr. Ogden Goelet, of New York, who paid 390,000 forthe deed of it. President Arthur was very handsomely entertained ata villa on Narra- sett avenue In 1882. The place was then property of the late Gov. E. D. Moran. He died, and his widow, who crossed the dark r herself but a few days ago. not desiring to return to Newport, sold it to Mr, R. T. Wilson, of New York, whose son, Orme, recently mar: ried Miss Carrie Astor. About thirty years ago the late Willlam Beach Lawrence purchased what was known as the Ochre Point farm for about $15,000. He and his heirs have now sold the whole estate, the gross amount of all the lots realizing over one million doliars! The homestead, where many eminent men have entertained, was finally purchased by Miss C. L. Wolfe, of New York, for $192,000. Sinee ‘then she ‘has torn down the house and erected a pertect palace. The last large sale of property, in co of reverse of fortune, was made recently c.C. Baldwin, of New York, who was finan- cially ruined fast year. The house is ahand- some one and when the crash came to Mr. Baldwin he transferred it to the Central Trust company of New York. It has now been pur- chased by Mr. J. H. Inman, of New York. Other instances of sad reversal of fortune could be given; those cited above, however, will suf fice to illustrate the changes that have been made during the past few years. ————§ oo —___ French Sentiment. THE ACQUITTAL OF ANOTHER HIGHLY EMO- TIONAL MURDERESS, Paris Letter to London Truth. Together with the Van Zandt riots the great topic of the week has been the trial of Mme. Francey, an enigmatical provincial virago, who last December shot an architect named Brise- bard, firing one ball at him in her drawing-room at Tonnerre, and following him to the garden gate to finish him with two other balls. The trial took place at Auxerre, but the crime, like that of Mme. Clovis-Hugues’ and of half a dozen other vitriol-throwers and femmes de revolver, interested the Parisians particularly, owing to its peculiar actuality. The woman who takes the law in herown hands tn order to avenge her honor is a thoroughly modern type. As a chapter of the provincial life the drama of Ton- nerre is profoundly interesting, and among the Witnesses there were characters which would have delighted Balzac; for instance, an asth- matic gentleman, whose malady caused him to get up three or four times in the night, open the window of his chamber, and surprise the secrets of nocturnal rendezvous. ime. Francey is an unsympathetic and pretentious creature, whose crime seems due to asort of mental derangement, which might be called (a folie imitation; the garlands and flowers sent to Mme. oe nea turned her head, and she seems to have desired to have her portrait, too, published in the newspapers. Her victim, the architect Brisebard, whom she accuses of having attempted to dishonor her, is a still more unsympathetic rson; he is the type of the debauched village Don Juan, a satyr of the nastiest kind. Afterall the evidence, there re- mains a certain mystery; it {s doubtful whether Mme. Francey shot Brisebard merely because he was brutal, or because he i Seer some se- cret; ut any rate, she premeditated her erime and enticed her victim into an ambush, But in spite ofall this the Jury acquitted her. Why? ¥ecause the French ‘law offers in such cases no alternative but acquittal or the galleys. The complex and attenuated crimes due to that modern flower of delicate culture, la nevrose, a8 the doctors call it, find no corresponding pen- alties in the code. ' The old mother of Brisebard, who Was supported by her son, demanded dam: ages. The jury Which had just estimated the honor of Mime. Francey as being worth the life of a man, valued the loss which this old mother had experienced at the moderate sum. of £3201 ———_+e7+—_____ Symptoms of Hydrophobia. From the New York Sun. The first symptom of hydrophobla is a sulky disposition. The dog slinks away under a bed or lounge when in the house, or into the dark- est corner of his kennel, or under an outhouse, and tries to escape notice. When called out he comes unwillingly, and goes back as soon as possible. He is very nervous, and frequently rearranges his litter and skulks about from one corner to another, His eyes show the change that fs coming on. Dogs sick with any disease are apt to seck dark corners, butin bydrophobia they are invariably restiess. ‘The next symp- tom is a temporary hallucination. He seeins to hear something, and jumps up and runs to the spot, or snaps in the Vacant alr as If for a fly, or stands in an attitude of expectation. This symptom Is often overlooked, or, if noticed, is jgnorantly supposed to Indicate a return’ of health. Another symptom is a depraved appe- tite, He ceases to take his: natural food pal allows bits of wood, old leather and all Kinds oftilth. The voice of ‘the dog ts then changed, becoming hoarse and lower in tone, ning with a single open bark, followed by or four diminishing howls the bottom of the throat. The saliva, which at first is abundant, dries down and becomes ropy. The dog tries to ¢lear it from his throat, and acts as if he had a bone fast in his teeth. ” Many people have been. fatally bitten when trying to help a dog get the inary bone out, lowing this come the weryihing he mcetey asd: Gene aa everyining an exhaustion if the disease is allowed Tse. A common and dangerous error about hydro- phobia is that the dogeannotand will not: Water. ‘The dog a fre paroxysms are upon an he is unable toswallow he will’ test iw ee deep into the fn ae master and receive and give caresses until the last ‘and will even submit to punishment when Mable at any ‘mo- ment to fly into an ungovernable fury. more three months in’ an animal wiice has been bitten by a mad dog; but uence y Mr. The New Gilbert-Sullivan Opera. From the Saturday Review. We gladly turn to commend the ingenuity of the idea upon which the plot is based—the rais- ing of Ko-Ko, a criminal condemned to death for flirting, to the rank of lord high executioner, So that no decapitation can take place in Titipu till Ko-Ko has decapitated himself. Poor Bah, Lord High Everything Else, who traces his ‘ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial ‘atomic globule, and whose family pride is con- sequently something inconceivable, is also a figure in Mr. Gilbert's own peculiar vein. So much has been written about the opera that readers can hardly fail to be acquainted wigh the plot, which shows,to put It very briefly, how Nanki-Poo, the mikado's son, has ed from the questionable charms of Katisha and fallen in love with Yum-Yum, who Is betrothed to her guardian, Ko-Ko; how Ko-Ko is to be deprived of his of lord high executioner be- cause executions seem to the mikado to have ceased in Titipu, and how Nanki- Poo, on the verge of’ suicide, offers him- self as a subject for the headsman if he may spend the last month of his life as the husband of Yum-Yum; finally, how though he isnot behended, a certificate ‘of his death is shown to the mikado, who finds that it is his son who has been executed, thus If¥ing those concerned open to the most awful penalties for compassing the death ofthe Helr Apparent. The character of the thoroughly benevolent monarch is one of the best ideas in the work, and the scene in which the faise certificate, pointing to the decapitation, is first read, by fhe mikado, is so good that we are tempted to quote it:— ei Mix, (looking at paper). Dear, dear, dear: this ts very Hresomel? ROR.) ‘My poor fellow, in your anxiety to carry out my wishes, you have beheaded the heir to the throne of Japan. { Ko. But I assure you we had no tdea— Together + Poow. But ti we didn’ (Uber, We really hadn't the feast notion— MIK. Of course you hadn't. How could your Come, come, my good fellow, don't distress yourself, itwas'no fault of yours. Ifa man of exalted rank chooses to disguise bimselt as a second trombon: must take the consequences. It really. distresse to see you take on 30. I've no doubt he thorouglily deserved all he got, (They rise.) Ko. We are infinitely obliged to your majesty— Mrk. Obliced? Not abit, Don't mention it could you (el PooH. No, of course we couldn't know that he was the Heir Apparent. PrTTI. I: wasn’t written on his forchead, you kno Ko. It might have been on his pocket-handkerchieft but Japanese don’t use pockel-handkerchiefs! Hal hat hat 3 ha! ha! (7b Kar.) I forget the punish- mpassizg the deuth of the Meir Apparent. Punishment! (They drop down on their Psrtt. ) knees again.) Mik. Yes. Something Ingering. with boiling ofl in Something of that sort. [think boiling init, but i not sure, I know its ‘some: thing humorous, but lingering, with either boiling cil melted lead. Come, come, don’t fret; I'm not a bit How urance, we had no fdea— Mik. Of course a hadn't, That’sth Unfortunate he fool of an Actsay mpass- death of the Heir Apparent.” ‘There's nota owing, or having no. but there isn’t. cts are have of it, ing th Word about mistake, or not There noth th se you wait till then? Pirri, and Poo. Oh, yes—we can wait till Ko then! Then we'll make ft after Innch very sorry for you all; butit’s an u and virtue is trlumphaut only in theatric: ances. ‘The glee which follows is one which it would have occurred to no one but Mr. Gilbert to write: See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy, Bis not. ‘Yet Bis worthy, Idarc say, Of more prosp And the condition of is contrasted with that of “wretched, meritori- ous B.” Almost all the verse in is excellent, and though Sir Arthur score Is by’ no means free from himself and certain other composers, he dresses his melodies so daintily that we have nothi but praise for his share of the new work. Author and composer go hand in hand with the skill and senseof humor peculiar to themselves. How much of Sir Arthur's success is due to the su gestions his partner supplies need not be con- sidered; the result is delightful, Nanki-Poo's firt song when he enters asa wandering min- strel to beg the assembly of nobles to tell him where he nay find Yur um is an excellent specimen of the GilbertSullivan school. ‘ you in agentimental mood? I'll sigh ior you,” the minstrel sings to a tender melody in B fat, charmingly accompanied by reeds and strings. ‘The Key chan; perform: y, undeserving A to EB flat and “I? patriotic sentiment is wanted,” the singer shows his ability to supply. or “Ifyou for a song of the se “We'll heave the capstan round,” he vocally declares; and a dashing air in C major, two-four time, of the ch which has edme to be recognized as nautical, so carries away the Japanese nobility that they go through all the traditional gestures of the stage sailor, the effect of which in their tlowing robes and hanging sleeves is singularly comic. We agree with all that has been said in favor of the merry trio, “Three little maids from school are we.” There is laughter and merriment in the music; the pretty dresses and quaint action of the little maids give fi ness to the humor, The odd gesture of rubbi the knees is under- stood to be a direct importation from Japan. “What if it should prove that after all I am no musician?” cries Nanki-Poo, about to reveal his identity to Yum-Yum, “There! I was certain ot it directly I heard you play!” is her reply, and then they sing what may be called a hy- thetical duet, “Were I not to Ko-Ko plighted, would say in tender tone,” and soon. We do not at all regret the absence of the pentatonic seale, or of music in minor keys without a ing note, which the critic of the Times see! consider a wasted opportunity. The march of the mikado's troops, based on the air, if it may be ealied an air, to h the troops of the ver- itable mikado marched in the revolution of 1868, quite satisfies our longing for Japanese melody. Among the best musical numbers in the second act are the chorus “ Braid the raven hair,” with the episode, it with downcast eye; the madrigal, “Brightly dawns our wed- ding day,” with its reaily powerful transith from laughter to tears; and the “Derry down” chorus, which has an irresistible gayety. The score {$ full of ingenuity, Thus where. in the course of the mikado’s story which sets forth his desire to make the punishment fit the crime, the reference is made to the music-hall singer being forced to attend a series of fugues and “ops,” “By Bach, interwoven with Spohr and Beethoven,” a phrase from the G minor fague is heard on the bassoon; and when it is said of the criminal who was about to be exe- cuted how “he nodded his head and kissed his hand, and he whistled an air, did he,” the pic- colo is not to be heard without laughter, Ughtraly. fanny, 100) isthe duet between ) ki-Poo and Ko-Ko. it runs as follows: Nanx. The flowers that bloom in ge spring, ali, Breathe promise of merry sunshine— As we merrily dance und = ‘sing, ‘Tra la, ‘We welcome the hope that they bring, ‘Tra la, Of.a summer of roses aud wine; And pues what we mean when we say ta thin: Is welcome us flowers that bloom in the ‘spring. Ka. ‘The flowers that bloom in the spring, ar Have nothing to do with the case. T've got to take under my wing, ‘Tra la, A most unattractive old thing, ‘Tra ‘With a caricature of a face; opie that's what I mean when I say or I sing, «du Bother the flowers that bloom in the spring!” MS Ko-Ko’s perfunctory utterance of the “Tra la’s”” bas a comicality not to be described. They are totally foreign to the sentiment of his verse, but the melody requires their introduction, and he resents the necessity of singing them. ’The best songs have been so much quoted that we may content ourselves with saying that they are very good. ——_—~+e+. The Grow! of a Pessimist. | aimless volley of rit ‘The world is growing better every da; ‘This fact ts plain, wo hopeful people sxy. it may be, but the keen observer sees pepper still is Jargely made of pease, ‘The pump still aids to swell the milk suppl; ‘Ana? primeold port’ we get from logwood dye. ‘The bottom of the strawberry box draws near And nearer to the top each passing year. ‘The finest apples, cherry cheeked and brown, Bull at the top of apple bar's are found, ‘Ah, who would dream beholding such a show, many rotten ones were bidbelow!) “Pure dairy butter,” much of this, I ween, Is alll composed of oleomargurine. ‘The world ls growing better people say New rogueries are developed every day. ‘The world is as 't has been since it began: ‘Man studies still to cheat his fellow man, Boston Qourter, ‘Women as Moral Reformers. From a Weston (W. Va.) Special Letter. Yesterday great excitement was occasioned in this place by the forcibleimmersion in the river at midnight of a well-known widow, the persons laying violent hands upon her being equally well-known. For some time past the widow in question, Mrs. Dodson by name, has been conducting herself ina manner which failed to meet the approval of her neighbors, and at an informal gathering of half a dozen females it was determined that an example should be made of her. Ac ly about eleven o'clock at night seven or ladies, who felt that the good name of the com- munity was being placed in Jeopardy by thelr erring sister, met at the residence of one of their ‘number, disguised themselves so as to be unrecognizable, proceeded to Mra, Dodson’s home and knocked at the door. ‘The unsuspect- ing widow opened itin @ few moments, when she was seized by her assailants, a’ shawl thrown over her head to stifle her screams, and the hurried their victim towards the Fiver, a hundred yards distant Mrs. How the Hadendowas Do It. Soudan Correspondence of the London Telegraph. How the Hadendowas do it nobody but they themselves can tell, but night after night they come into the middle of our camp, stab and hack a few soldiers, and go out again scathless. Sometimes they ereep in five abreast past our sentinels; sometimes they come right up to our tents, half a mile within the line of redoupts and pickets, and bring camels and horses with them. But, whatever the audacity of their en- trance, the impunity of their departure is the same. Our guards turn out, bugles sound the alarm, signals flash, rifles are let off, a gunboat fires overhead into black space, but hext morn- ing there are only our own mutilated and dead in evidence of ‘the assassins’ presence, The Hadendowas have left none behind them, or had none to leave. It is horrible in the highest degree, this monotony of midnight murder, and depressing beyond language to find our headquarters’ staff apparently so unteachable by experience. Crawling along on all fours, they traverse the space between them and their victims with all the patient caution of wild beasts stalking prey. They reuch the doomed tent. For the sake of the ‘sea breeze the doorway is open, and the next instant the murderer is standing by the sleeping soldier's side. He feels a hand passing over his body and starts. A ery Is rising to bis lips. It is strangled in his throat by a groan of pain, and before the gallant fellow can_even Warn his com sthe fieree spear is drivén home through his body, the heavy two-handled sword has fallen across him, But the tent is alarmed. There fsno time to lose! Slashin; this way and That, the murderers stab and hac with the fury of tlends, and_ then as the camp starts to its feet in clamior they are off. Not a sound betrays their passing. There is no trace of blood to. tell of retribution. hey’ are gone—back into the villainous gullies, back into the scattered brush, and next we can imagine them sitting to Ives outside our line of re- n gleefully to the storm they gles telling the old tale. of murder completed and the murderers gone, the , the din of volces, th of our indignant gun ible vengeance. They hear fi m_ swell up and dwindle get up and pass. on towhere ‘their friends are waiting to con- and to rejoice—to rnb their spear- is against the red tips of the assassin’s weapons, to smear their swords with the blood still wet on their blades. And in our camp? The h stretchers there are carrying away mutilated bodies of ourmen, their impotent utierane: roaring for an impo the tempest ngle comrades standing to their arms, savage with uscless rage, as they look at the lantern-lit group of stirgeons and wounded, It isa horrl- le episode, et of nightly oecurrence. “Murder! Murder!” I heard the word ring out last nigit from the ordnance camp and then came aery—the bitter ery of aman, suddenly overtaken by the agony of death. A shot and then another and another. ‘Then’ a confusion of muftied sounds, ‘Then silence. I was only 400 yards aw The night had been so still that the water lapping on the quay was plainly audible where Tlay. Presently came this brief uproar of alarm, subsiding as suddenly as it had arisen. Sighals were flashing overhead. A party of Hadendowas b ther crept straight across the camp, or passing along the rear, had sed its complete length, crossing twice on their w the electric light thrown by the Dolphin, hid reached, without being observed, the farthest batch of tents from their starting point, the st to the tot Behind them, only ‘a handred yard ‘as Quarantine island, with its camp; 1 till lay our ship- ping, sinboats close in shore, com- manding one lin ir retreat, the whole of the British troops intercepting the other, Be- hind them was the sea; on their left the town, yet, such is the confidence inspired by nightly Success and impunity,that the assassins did not hesitate to erecp even'into such a desperate po- sition as this. And their, work was desperate and terribly complete. Of the whole of the ¢ cupants of the tents—24 In all—only two es- ed spears and swords, while the mu parently unhart s wildly emptied after them ort fired volleys into the dark. e of blood. Inside the tents sight was dreadful—blo n lying about in all dire d everywhere, and ions wounded and = ¢e0-— Were There Giauts in Those Days? From the London Standard. It was once a much debated question whether the average human stature had been diminish- ing or increasing. The praisers of past men and times had no difticulty in imagining thatin the earlier periods every man was six feet upward and every woman five fect ten, and till science came with its measuring acne they had the best of the argument, ‘There is little dis pute now on the subject, chiefly because statis- lies, coats of armor and feats of strength h finally settled that, with the giant. exception, men Of all places, epochs and breeds have kept very much at the samelevel. The Hottentot and the Laplander have been always dwartish, and thg Caucasian, through the whole gamut of history, has been handsome and stately. That giants are exceptional ina yery peculiar sense is shown by the fact that they grow as often among people not distinguished for more than ature as among the taller nations. A. Scotch professor once fellon the plan ofmeasur- ing all his students and noting their nationall- ties, that so that he might get some idea as to which of the peoples were the tallest. He found that Americans, especially those from the west, were first_in this odd competition, Irishmen next, the Scoteh next and the English shortest of these four peoples. But it would have been no surprise to him {f more men of really gigai tic size could be found in England than’ any- e, because no rule of average seems to exist for such products. The Chinese giant ng could hardly be said to owe his helght to any sort of contagion of examples to be met with in the land of the Celestials. Geology has rather refused to allow that there were times when jants formed the rule and not the exception. those days must have been farther before the flood than naturalists can intellectually focus, Itis quite another point whether physical in- quiries are at all raised by the prehistoric as- sumption about a regularly tall section of the human family. There is now little doubt at all that within historical periods the race has kept its uniformity so weil, that the rule is only the better establi by’ the oceasional ‘appearances of th of the flesh. It ts also true that with the aid of modern intellect ppliances there is not at all the old im- veness in the giant as such. That he ntellect to be formidable was a great discovery for the normalists, When minds were sinipler and less ready of fenee, the man above six feet, with or without armor, hada natural supreinacy, and his importance in- creased with his length of leg and arm. On this aristocracy of physical preponderance the sen- tence of Ichabod’ has long since been passed, and, like Samson after his hair was cut off, thé giants of civilized life, even if reaching the 17 feet four inches Of the’ French giant of Angers, are quite like other men in essential signifi: cance, ——__-+ee+______ The Morgan Dollar, From the Scientitic American, Morgan, the English engraver of the die for the American “standard” dollar, animated per- haps by an ambition similar to that of the youth who fired the Ephesian dome, smuggled nto his work, in two places, the initial letter of his surname. Although miscroscopie in size, these “M's” are plainly discernible on the coin even to the naked eye after a care ul search. An eugleeyed Wall-street man recently dis- covered one ofthe letters, and started amon; his acquaintances the following puzzle: “Fin three letter M's on the standard dollar.” ‘Two are readily found—one in the word “unum” and another in “America,” but the third is not so easily found, Chief Drummond, of the United States secret service, showed a reporter that there are four M’s instead of three, the fourth hitherto unnoticed even by Wall street men. Mr. Drummond laughed when his at- tention was called to the matter and said: “The presence of these extra letters on the standard dollar was first brought to my notice by one of my clerks, ‘They were, of course, cut in the die by Morgan.” The chief of the secret service acknowledged that they had not escaped the attention of the counterfeiter, who had placed them on the false coins. Similar instances of the mutilation of dies are recalled in the case of English and French engraver’s work. Wyon,the artist to the English mint, many years'ago, placed on the plate ofa postage stamp a “W” of so minute a character that for years the stamp clreulated without a doubt of its perfection. “The event- ual discovery of the blemish created a sensat- ion in England, the objectionable addition to the work was promptly erased, anda strin- Re law passed ae the commission of a ike offense, In the ae Napoleon III an engraver placed the initial letter of his surname on the plate fora stamp. This also was of such saiomecspis dimensions that it escaped detect- ion fora long time. The discovery of the fact led to the same result asin the lish case. Wild Game in Afghanistan. From the London Telegraph. In the valley of the Kushk Rud we saw deer ofvarious kind, wild boar and the goorkal, or wild ass, A large drove of them passed our line of march one morning, but we saw little of them except the great cloud of dust they turned up as they hurried off to higher ground. I under stand that there is little difference between the goorkal and the kyang, or wild horse of Tibet, larmots are also very plentiful; they have bur- rowed their holes into the ground everywhere. and it is dangerous to horses, as their feet sink into the honeycombed earth. These marmots may be said to be now the real possessors of the Jang, for there is scarce @ yard of it which is not oceupied by them. Epa es sre au? in considerable numbers, and in the Kushk Valley some of our found pheasants plentiful, and wild pigs are still more numerous there than on the higher oe ane, a 3] on Sas ins ‘stream cover reeds, an find cover in them. One morning on the march Tange boar, walking up theslds ofweshniik tiey up theside of the been’ disturbed "by the nt up the hillside, and about they descended again y » They wel aif a mile tothe ‘The Wastes of The Household. While the well known saying that a French family could live with elegance on what aa American housewife throws aways is fre- quently illustrated in families where waste can be ill afforded, it is also true that, in eight cases out of ten, this relegation of cold bits to the offal pail or ash barrel is not caused so much by extravagence as by the lack of knowledge of how to dispose of them in any other way. The dainty utilization of scraps is a subject that Well repays the thoughtful study of any house Wife, and even the least original cook can often “evolve from her inner consciousness” an appetizing dish from cold ments that at first ‘sicht appear utterly unpromis- ing. In this matter, however, the mis- tress must generally depend upon her own brains. Few hirelingshave the keen interest in their employers’ “Welfare that would urge them to save a couple of pennies here and five orsix there. Fewer still, with the best inten- ions in the world, know how to do it or appreci- ate that it is in the minor economies that true saving consist. What difference does it make if those scraps of cold bacon left from breakfast are summarily disposed of In the swill barrel, or if that bit of corn beef—too small to appear upon the table again—is bestowed upon the first basket beggar who presents himsel!? And if these escape that fate from the extra consclentiousness of the housekeeper, they are too often converted into the ubiquitots hash, Hear how one careful housewife disposed of similar remnants: ‘To the corn beef and baco! minced fine, she added half as much coli mushed potato, one raw egg, a ltttle chopped onion and pars} nd with croquettes made of these, rolied in flour and fried in nice drip- ping, provided an appetizing dish that was quite sufticient, when accompanied by stewed potatoes and bread and butter, tomake alunch for three people. Another dainty dish, which ‘appeared upon a friend's table was formed from even less promising materials, Her dinner the day before had been a stutted chicken boiled with rh Examination of the pantry revealed the careass of the fowl, with one leggy attached to It, and a couple of spoonfuls of the cold rice Nothing daunted, however, the valiant house- keeper advanced to the charge, and, with the aid of a small, sharp knife, removed more meat from the bones than ‘one would at first have believed possible. This was cut— not chopped— in ‘small pieces and set aside with the rice and half of the dressing, while the bones, the rest of the stuffing, and “a little minced onion were put over the fire in two cups of cold water, When a slow, steady simmer ofa couple of hours had reduced this one-lialf, it was cooled, stained, skimmed, and slightly ‘thickeued with browned flour, ‘then returned to the fire with the fragments of meat, rice, ete. brought to a boil, poured over ad crustless Squares of fried bread’ laid in a hot platter an The result Finding a Long Lost Brother. BROKEN DOWN IN PARIS AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS OF CRIME, Mrs, Angus Cameron, in St. Louls, has just re- ceived a letter from a brother whom she has believed to be dead for thirteen years, Twenty six years ago Mrs. Cameron, then Miss Annie Gill, came to this country with Duncan Gill, her brother. They lived in New York for a time, afterward going to Chicago and finally to San Francisco, from which place they were cor- respondents to foreign periodicals, though they had considerable wealth. Angus Cameron, for whom Mr. Gill felt an intense hatred, came to San Francisco trom Dumfries, Seotland, fifteen years ago, and a vear later, upon his marriage With Miss Gill, the latter's brother beeame so angry that he attempted to kill Mr.and Mrs, | Cameron, and failing in this, let ‘the country. arch was made for him ‘everywhere, and few weeks later,on finding a ‘corpse ‘in th Sangre de Cristo Inountains which seemed to be her supposed brother Mrs. Cameron buried all of her resentinent. few months ago Mr. Cameron died in. nd,and his wiie soon afterward came to St. Louls, ‘The letter which Just came from he play the role of a cripple ¥ nm is for something less than $2 a night. He says that he is thoroughly penitent and beg- ging his sister's forgiveness, he entreats her to send him money with which to come to this country. In the narrative which he gives of his life since he left San Francisco, he says that he went from there to Mexico, where he be- came a brigand and made a fortune out of plunder. He lived an uninterrupted life of vio~ lence until the rebellion of Arabi Pasha, where he Jost an arm and a leg in the service of the British a y. He closes his pathetic letter by vi a strong will is broken, and 1 will ay, henceforth, in| your hands.” Mrs. Cameron will go to him at once. How Some Letters are Lost. From the London Standard. When letters are lost it by no means follows tl the postal authorities are invariably to blame. Sometimes it happens that, through culpable careleesness or shere absence of mind on ‘the part of the people who post them, im- portant missives go astray, to the great annoy- ance of everybody concerned. A postman ina northern town has just giventhe public the benefit of his own recent experience in this direction. In one case a gentleman hastily jerked a letter addressd to a business firm in France into the Capisacede ieee ear) leftit sticking there. Fortunatly, the postman was approaching at the moment to clear the box, or the letter might have been stolen by an un- scrupulous passer-by, or lost in the street. On another occasion a gentleman, who was run- ning to overtake a friend made a dash at the Jetter-box as he rushed past with two thin post-cards, which caught the edge of the opening and sprang back upon the pavement. he gentleman was quite oblivious of the accl- dent, and, eagef to overtake his friend, was quickly out of sight. In the third case a gentle- man was walking down the street with apost- card in his hand, and ashe drew near the letter- boxa man at a shop-door gave him an advertise- ment card. Instead of putting the post-card into the letter-box, he carefully posted the ad- vertisement card, and then deliberately folded the post-card two or three times and threw it into the gutter! The vigilant “postman was passing along at the moment and saw the curious blunder, and the post-card was duly rescued from untimely oblivio Russia’s Enormous War Burdens. From the New York Times. Ata time when loose statements as to the magnitude of the issues atstake in an Anglo- Russian contest are so general it may be useful to recall some of the statistics of the last war in which Russia took part. From the crossing of, the Danube in June, 1877, until February, 1878 the Russian loss in’ killed and wounded was 89,304, The cost of that ttle war in money was equally frightful. The official report of the total expenses was 902,000,000 rubles, avear- aging 32,200,000 monthly.’ The silver ruble is equal to about eighty cents, but the rubles cur- rent in Russia then depreciated nearly one-third, During the war this paper currency swelled from 711,600,000 to 1,154,000 rubles, and loan. followed joan: Still the ledson of peace does not seem to have been learned. Under another such burden killing taxes and virtual bank- ruptey must follow whatever the issue of the struggle, and it is not impossible that even if absolutism be victorous in the field it may meet its death blow at home, At least that fs the view of King-killer Hartmann, who, speaking in the name of the nihilists, is re- ported to haye said that during the war the terrorists would be quiet, confident in the belief that the sequel of the war, whoever conquers, will be the ending of the line of czars, 01 Perfumes and Disinfection. From the Gentleman’s Magazine. Prof. Mantegazzi found that nearly all the essences used in perfumery, and many others not appropriated by the perfumer, when ex- posed to air and light, develop ozone. He says that the “oxidation of these essences is one of the most convenient means of producing ozone since, even when in very minute quantity, they can ozonises large quantity of oxygen, while thelr action is very persistent; that in the greater number of cases the essences, in order to develop ozone, require the direct rays of the sun; inasmall number of cases they oMfect the ‘change with, dlffused light; in few or none in darkness.” Even a ves sel that has been perfumed with an essence and afterwards washed and dried, still develops ozone, provided a slight odor remains. The most effective essences are those of cherry, laurel, palma cloves, lay- ender, mint, juniper, femons, fennel and berga- mot; the les effective are anise, nutmeg, caje- put’and thyme. Mantegazzi adds that“cam- phor, as an ozonogenic agent, is inferior to any of the above named essences.” These facts should be better known than they are. Our grandmothers used perfumes as disinfectants, and ozone being the most effective of oxidizing disinfectants, it appears that they were right. In the east, where there is much need for at- mospheric’ purification, the old faith in per- -fumes stillremains. With us it is now generally supposed that such perfumes merely hide the jodour and decelve us, but if Mantegazzi and Dr, Anders are right, this modern notion isa ———_+o+_____ How New York Women Win at Poker. ‘New York Correspondence Pittsburg Post. ‘The desire to win a dollar or two is as strong in the belle whose allowance of pin money isa hundred.a month as toone towhom the loss or gain ofa trifle is of consequence. oldclubman, notably astiekler for’ exactivude in his play, was bi direct ant h, according to Hoyle, couldn’t ive en | t or anywhere near it, and yet be chips over to her aftera moment's tation. “What under heaven did A ey Sas you do that for?” three ofa kind,” he. ‘Her two pairs beat my led. TBBut che didn't have two paira” “O, yes she did—a of aces in her anda pair in her ‘head— blue ones teams in them. "They'd beat aroyal Mah Well she: street, —aa his, the search was abandoned. In the grave of | DRY GOODS. EDUCATIONAL. 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Pda se eee ‘TRAVELING AND LUNCH ALL SIZES, ALSO A LARGE NABUEEY OE MASTER Boas DNeLare, (TPP BERLITz scHOOL OF PaNcTAGES a 723 14th st. nw. CITY, WILL REMAIN OPEN ALL SUMMER: ALSO SUMMERSCHOOL AT PLYMOUTH. MASS; LEWISTON AND BELFAST, MAINE. 70] 4 Lae SIREET, BETWEEN K AND L ior po pg a AT Frivatefantion Professeur Slasoes during Vacation at 9 a.m. ifdesired” SCLLE ©, PRUD HOM to the confidence of the friends of jucation Mr. William D. Cabell, of Washington City, D.C. He is well known to the cry ‘Man gentleman of great worth, tive talents ofa high onder, exhibiting untiring Zeal in the discharge of any trust which may be cop- Somes ita ison. M. D., chairman of the fheulty; J.8 Davis, 8. O. Southall, Geo. Fred k Hol ~ 4 S. Venable, John B. Minor, J. L. Cabell, Noah F. H. Smith, Wm. 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Each proposal niust be signed by the individual or firm making it, and ve accompanied by a bond with sufticiept sureties in the sum of two thousand dollars, district in'wiich the surides reside of do bustnom on ict inn wh surities reside or on 4 form to be turnished by the Dey ent, conditioned for furnishing such of articles as be awarded under ft, aha the performance of the Som trac socigereds and coutiacts: will be awarded Guy toes. sider contracts wi a {ablished inanufacturers of or dealers in, the aati Proposals to be addressed to the undersigned, and marked “Proposals for Stationery.” d pDeliveries must be free of at, the Tressary partment, Washington, D. C.. 9 inspection bg un expert détalled for the moby the Secretary of the Treasury, and very, ferior article will be deemed sufficient cause to apbul the contract, at the option of the secretary. ‘The Department reserves the right to walve defects and reject any or all bids, DANIEL b Ww. WasINeToN, D.C, SEALED PROPOSALS, tn triplicat ing Fishwwave ut the Great ‘Falls of the a cordance with the ‘Congress approved Shaw, will be received at this ofice ened TREE O'CLOCK NOO! on FRIDAY, MAY 1885, when they will be publicly ‘opened. [The Wark 10 be dons consute in building athe Maryland Channel, or Falls Branch of tae and on the adjacent land, six sections of and thelr auxiliary structures, in plans aud spec:fications prescribed by the U. Iiisioner of Fish and Fisheries, Parties did will apply at this office for blanks for Specifications and all information, The served to reject any and all bids or. of te G. J. LY DECKER, Major of Uae aplsi0;21.238m087 ON m1 vt MILWAUKEE, Arar. 23, 1886.7 Dear Sm: ‘We beg to call your attention to the fet that from this date on we will ship our“Lager.” You will find it to be exceptionally fine this year. ‘Yours Truly, 5 JOS. SCHLITZ ToSAMUEL C. PALMER, Esq, ‘Washington, D. C., BREW. 00, ‘N THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT I ‘OF COLUMBIA. TayLoe “et al,” complainants, vs. Aloette beens Wanner “et 2if? defemdante, ts Oncoenanes of the: Geores On ‘of the Fo Appleby, ‘Williaa, i Aaimonston, and Witiess ‘Tayloe snyder, herein filed, thority be given them by thé court to she nid at W. L. Brown for the purchase of Jos 10 and 11. ia Bling the property Known as 21° Madison’ Saeed ro = late 7 apt payable ouethird casi and residue. in, 1,2, Say of aale to hina until jasds i te, tts twenty day of April, A. i, sae ordered ‘the cout tat Ube trustees sccopt said bid and self the to the said W. L. Brown for the sald sam of Quterms aforesaid unless cause be shown ‘0 aia a | with, ‘Ghai deder of ratiBestion of enle ahgald max be BPtinis order bs published Salty in Hine Srening C4 Scenes par ine Jole teaaivenioore