Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1885, Page 3

= THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, -D. G., -SATURD AN, 7 i Y,.JSUNE 13 1885—DOUBLE SHEET. COLUMBUS: Or, Evidence that nand a party of Buddhist Monks from America in the Fifth Cen- tury A.D. By Eowanp P- Visix ne York: D. Appleton & Co. Washington: Robert Beall. There is nothing inherently unreasonable tn the idea that this continent was visited by in- habitants of Asia long before Columbus made jorable voyage, and it is true that some of the Mexican and Central American antiqul- tes and traditions bear a strong resemblance to ‘those related to Buddhism, or at least show ap- Parent marks of the influence of that faith, With these existing probabilities it Is not dift- cult to supply arguments in support of the the- ory heretofor® advanced, and now so forcibly presented by Mr. Vining. that the rather vague narrative of a party of Buddhist missionaries on their return from a long stay ina strange and distant land referred toa residence in those parts of the American continent now known as Central America and Mexico. But even if so inuch were admitted, it yet does not follow that sueh consequences xs ure claimed could have followed the allezed visit. Two fatal objections to that view Ile In the facts that there are no evidences of a visit to or sojourn In or a passage through any portions of the country lying be- tween the points of departure and occupation, and that there 1< no record of any subsequent Visit or settlement by other countrymen of the five hardy explorers. It is not possible that the supposed Influences referred to could have come from the temporary efforts of so small a band, however earnest and active It might have been in propagating its faith, “To have made so deep and lasting an impression upon a foreign people aprolonged and extended occupancy of thelr territory would have been necessary, and of such seitlemomt th nes not exist the slight- est proof, nor, 8 far as we know, even a trad! tion, Nevertheless, Mr. Vining’ has made a most ingenious and readable presentation of his view, and as a contribution to historical ure it is atonce unique and creditable. study ai patient research, as it does also of honesty of purpose and a disposition to learn the truth. The autaor’s style Is vigorous and lear, and the movement of the narrative is logieally and agreeably sustained throughout. By Can Engrav! F ry Carey Baird & ‘Those who desire information concerning the manufacture and use of products made from clay, as applied to architectural construction and adornment, will scarcely need to look be- Yond this treatise, which, to the eye of the lay- man. appears to be both comprehensive and exhaustive. The author, whose elaborate work ‘on leather we recently had oceasion to com- mend, has had considerable experience in both the use and manufacture of bricks, and the knowledge thus gained he has supplemented by long and careful study of the subject in all its branches, so that he is able to treat of it not only historically and practically, Dut also from aan ‘esthetic point of view. The ‘product of the kiln has beena most important factor in human progress, from the very dawn of civilization. his fact Mr. Davis fuily realizes. Beginning with the earliest attainable information in re- ard to the manufacture of bricks in thelr rudest form, he follows the progress and development Of the industry down to its artistle achieve- ments of the present day, describing and illus trating the processes of each forward step, so that the reader of the dullest comprehension may ¢asily understitnd not only the momen- tons results attained, but the particular means and methods by which they have been accom- plished. Especially attractive, in view of the great advance of public taste in architecture and In the use of burnt clay in its various forms as means of externa! and Interior embellish- inent, Will be found those chapters relating to terracotta and to ornamental tiles; but the ‘whole treatise, from beginning to end, Is inter- esting as well 4s useful. The volume ‘is appro- ely dedicated to General Meigs, “as a test, of respect. to his high personal eharac~ ter, and appreciation of his abilities as an engi- heer and architect.’ SEN Developmen torteal Object: nt, Progress and th Profuse {ilustrations of its His- ublic Buildings Memoria ‘oore, Washington: The Publishing Company Something of a guide book, and somewhat of @ local history, and having also some of the showy qualities usually residing ina keepsake Yolume, this publication fills a place that sofar as we know has not been occupied by any Single work now before the public. But, having certain characteristics of exch, it follows, as may be supposed, that it lacks tlie best features ofall, and will probably fali to meet the pre- cise Wants of those having occasion to use a compreleasive and exact work of either of the two Classes first named. In a literary point of Yiew the work of the compilers has been fairly well done, though many bear evidence, both ia text and ilustrat of hasty prepara- tion, which should and doubtless will be re- meved in future editions. In general appear- ance the volume is decided "y po- caphiically, the letter press is all that could be | ait for the engravings, whieh in some | Prominence to unimpor- ects, not so much © in quality from sand in one or two cases pass beyend the litter point. The one repre- nting the death-bed of Lincoln, for example, is one That could very weil be omitted. ZOROASTER. By F. Martox Caxwrono. author of “De. Cluuiius,” "A Rovian singer,” ei. New York amt London. Maeaillan @ Co. | Washington: Brentano Brothers, 2) Mr. Crawford does weil to locate the scene of his uew siory in the east, and to choose for it a | period remote and uncertain, thereby giving | free rein to his iancy without danger of being | brought up with a round turn by the Gradgrind | erities an @ charge of not conforming to facts. “Zoroaster” belongs to, the school of Kingsley’s “Hypatin” and Ebers’ Ezyptian novels; and | if it hicks the power of the first and the arche- | ological knowledge and careful detail of the | Jatter, It is still a brilliant and suceessfal lite Tary performance. The characters are vividly sketched, and the descriptive scenes are won- Milly fascinating, while the plot Is fail of rhythwnie action and dramatic interest. Next ‘Mr. 1 think this will prove to be the authors most popular effort. “Mr. Isaacs." Harris, etitor of the “ American Ai New York: The American Angler. Seekers after pleasant places of recreation ean | y desire, and if the 1d they can | rebensive and reliable | turnished in this | mass of | ae | Ti an ardent | of long and wide expe- » that e knows ex: | ‘din the way | 1d when to go fishing, kind of dah to be caught, | haracter of accommod « ,ete., and how to take Hens, probab’ all this he tells thei in a terse yet periectly sat Isfactory way. It is a good kind of book, and the best of its kind RED h:yv: .. | sta blood and thunder novel, full of savage encounters and marveluus escapes, and in @ style to captivate intend scouts and Indian slayers, as mij This is from Its alliterative title and flery but, the rather common p but | kK Shiverestl glish 1 ft factarer, who by good fortune im: and fi marrying ing a life of ease and lux) ACTA. By Sameer a: he r WAYS pari his class by obleman and iV AMS WiGors, f pleasant thoughts and » chosen by the author for undred pieces of verse, ug the past twe Xarlous of the lacy ever, ae « inferred of sibjeets, aud stonce of consider- ble poetic ieella the part of the write he seems to be suinewhi construction and expres examin Patient Mr. Jacob R. Shipuerd. AMANDA DELFEIN TELLS How WOXED MIS EARS AND BA BET HE STILL CALLED MEK DAUGHTER. Mrs. Amanda Dolphin was a witness in New York Thursday in the supreme court in her suit against Jacob I. Shipherd and the Washington’ coal company to restrain them | trom interfering with her rights as the owner of | ‘@ tract of coal land in West Virginia. A thickly | F audience filed the court root Shipherd no further ques: to ask witness and “yer inued by anotuer that she bad ste 11S Nose, MIS LEVEL “d the grosexamination was 1 Uons te Bowser Mrs, Delpbiu sta were pleasant alter the fire Witness struck him once on the when be held her by the arm and told u bud her completely in bis tained as to how she that she clipped bin: er she could. The witness con- y Mr. Shipherd came wo my Tosiged bim for the mouvey, and be if in due thine, tay Littie ‘thing else thud L Wish to gone t9 Bostow and bad a 3 ang iady,and bad beeo just ax eronied as jie codid ue, and had saved ine, and that 1 must give lita a power of attorney. Then A struck bim, and suid to Bim, “What youtbink dever saw in'aShipherd to make over. all my promos y (gun T never sont for ‘Suuipherd execpt op business. I told Mr. Shipbe! it to his five that I would have nothing more to do wlth is but he kept on doing What did not n want hin t phin’s exami The loss ‘This concluded Mra. Del- jon. lige by the waterspout In the Lagos district, Mexico, Is estimated ar over 200 souls. wat the release of Joho Hamllton, chicken stealing, the Jail at Rockville, Md., ts le without # prisoner tor the ‘Orst time im the Listory of Montgomery eouuty. RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND — In the 155 Sunday schools in the District, there are 36,546 officers, teachers and scholars, but less than 5 per cent are members of the ehureh. — In some of the Sunday schools of the city, which have been graded, on children’s day (to- morrow) transfers will be made from the lower to the higher grades. — Rev. Dr. Huntley's congregation has voted him a two month's leave from the pulpit of Metropolitan M.E. chureh, which he will spend in part at Ocean Grove. —Rev. Robert Nourse starts June 234 for the west to deliver his lecture “John and Jona- than,” and a new lecture entitled “Blighted Womien,” at Sunday school assemblies which meet at Ottawa, Kansas and Crete, Nebraska. —The Woman's Christian | Temperance Union, with delegates trom Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the District will hold a convention at Mountain Lake Park, on the B.and 0. R. R, from July Ast to 4th. — Bishop Paret in his first official visit to the Eptscopal churehes of Washington county, Md., was mrch pleased with his reception, especi- ally that at St James college, where ‘he con- firmed nine persons. At St. John’s Episcopal church he confirmed seventeen. — Rev. 8. H. Howe, D. D., lately pastor of the West Presbyterian church, Georgetown, and now of the Park Congregational church, of Nor- wich, Conn., is sent ona European tour this suminer with his wife by his congregation, and sails on June 18th in the City of Chicago. — To-morrow is “children’s day” in the Meth- odist, Presbyterian and other churches, and most of the Sunday schools have programs ar- ranged for the day, embracing singing, recita- tions and responsive readings and generally short addresses by the pustors or superin- tendents. —Ata meeting held Wednesday night at the cornerof Ist and H streets northwest, Rev. Jacob Wilson presiding, ste] were taken to organize an Independent Methodist church. A committee was appoiuted to draft suitable regulations for the government of the congre- gation, — Last Sabbath the corner stone of the new West Baltimore Methodist Protestant church, corner of Lafayette avenue and Gilmor strect, was laid by Cong pag Rev. D. L. Greentield, assisted by the Rev. Dr. E. J. Drinkhouse and Rev. Dr. 8. B. Sutherland, in the presence of a large congregation. —Last Sunday, at Sulphur Springs church, (near Jackson Grove camp ground), the Sunday school celebrated the anniversary’ with appro- priate services, It was organized in 1842. —Japanese Christian church members last year averaged $4.90 in their benevolent con- tributions. This average is in excess of the con- tributions in the old Christian countries, — The congregation of Whitfleld M.E. church, near Lanham’s, P. G. county, Md., are about to repair the church, The committee in charge are meeting with considerable success in the tter of subscriptions. —Last Sunday Rev. Dr. W. U. Murkland Preached the 15th anniversary sermon of his pastorate in the Franklin street Presbyterian ebureh, Baltimore. Dr. Murkland’s pulpit dur- ing his vacation will be filled by Rev. Dr. Bure gett, of Mobile. — The commencement of Lincoln university, the Presbyterian institution in Chester county, Pa., for the education of colored young men, took place on the 4th "instant. There were 37 graduates in all, 32 of whom have finished the regular collegiate course, and received their di- plomas for the baceslaureate degree The oth- ers completed the English course of study, — The vesper services recently introduced at Grace M. E. church in Baltimore, Rev. J. St. . Neal pastor, has provoked considerable eriti- cism. The order of service, printed on a neat pink program, started with an opening volun- taryon the organ, accompanied by a horn quartette, followed by an evening bymn, a prayer, @ responsive reading of selected Serip- Ture by the pastor and. congregation, &e. SMinc ute directions in regard to sitting, standing and kneeling were given on the progr English Mome Life. WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SUBJECT OF KITCHEN ECONOMY. Robert Laird Collier in Minneapolis Tribune. The wives and daughters of the lower classes in England usually work in mills and factories, and have very little time for the cares of home, or for preparing the meals; therefore, cooking among these classes is a ferra incognita, and knowledge Is confined to such matters as roast- ing aJoiut, frying a chop, and boiling a potato. The breakfast of the working classes consists of bread and tea, and, perhaps, oceasionally a lit ue bacon. But in middle class families, whilst there is very little variety, the cooking is ad- mirably done. The joints are well roasted, and so cooked as to retain the strength, the flavor and the juices of the meat. The plates are brought to the table at all seasons ot the year thoroughly hot; the meats and vegetables in covered dishes, and are served and caten while palatably warm. The English consider themselves very extrav~ agant in their expenditures upon the table. Compared with contivental nations, thelr self accusation holds ood. They will spend more than either the French or the Germans, and will have less variety and less deticious food, but their most lavish extravagance would be deemed great Gotan | in most American houses. The continental nations look upon the English as most wasteful in their kitchens, but the English are as much more economical ‘and saving than the Americans as the French and Germans are more economical and saving than the Enciis! ‘The French and the Germans calculate eve! meal, and the number of mouths to be fed. When the meal is served, lly among the French, nl times re is nothing whatever left, bat everything cooked is eaten. Each day’s food is provided day by day. This leads to greateconomy. All things a small jn quantitic even ip England all veze- tables and frults are bought by Che pound, and. the amount needed for the day or ineal carefully calculated, and only that amount is cooked Or served. ‘The servants in all English familles live almost entirely upon cheaper kinds of meat— such ag may be boiled or stewed; and they make their breakfast on bread, bacon and tea, and Usually their supper consists of bread, cheese and beer. It is estimated that the living of each member of @ middle-class tamily costs $2.50, includins children ad servants. This est ate woul hot cover the expenditures for wines, which are deemed a necessary part of the Engtish dinner and supper table. Lighter and cheaper wines @re much more used tian a score of yeats ago. When I was first in Eng!and port wine was to be found on every table, Whereas now it is only occasionally offered to guests. Sherry still holds its place, but ht clarets and Rhine Wines are gaining favor, and are becoming com- moon on all English tables. ae ‘The Pra: ie Belle. From the Minneapolis Mall. A new star has arisen in Dakota, It is Miss Taylor, who'came to Wahpeton three years ago, ‘The first year she took a pre-emption and re- fused an offer of marriage. The second year she took a homesiead and a tree claim, and bad four offers to “jine” farms. She bas now a sec- tion of land, twenty-seven cows and innumer able calves; fair the tiken at the county first prize for buiter and the last prize for pump- an ride horsebuck, shoot gophers, drink Water and isn tairaid of mice, She is a nid is called the Pr ie Beile. 0°, Ambition of Younz Wives. From the Chicago Tribune. It seems to be the ambition of all young | wives to look well when any one cals. A young bride beard aring at the front door. ‘The maid was out, and she rashed upstairs to “tidy” a little before admitting the caller, Thete was a moment of lightning work beiore te dre le. Quicker than it takes to tell It, Hower stabbed Into her hair, her ince, ard she w blashe the cheapest tor money. a Was fastened to her throat, a flash powd: ————.0e Calling Quali Up to be Murdered. From the Savannah News, A sportsman at Baxley, Ga., has a trick about calling birds. Hic says that the whistle of the male and female diifer materially. At this sea sou of the year the maie birds are easily called up by giving the call of the female. ‘The male seems tw say “bob white? and the female “boy see.” The editor of the local paper tells how this trick works: “Having secreted our- selves, be gave the female eail and here one came right straight for us, Sometimes they Will come flying and pitch close ut your ieet, We were out but a short time and We kille dive. Mr. Barnes tells us that he generally voes ‘out ip his buggy, calla them to fim and. kills them at short Tange. He never kills a female for they will not come to the call,” — toe A Strange Funeral. Rockford Speciat te Chicago Tribune, A strange funeral procession passed through the streets to the West Side cemetery yesterday afternoon. Instead of hearse, the coffin was borne in a furniture delivery wagon, which was covered with black erape and decorated with beautital festoons and banks of flowers, It was the funeral of Mrs. Charies Sherwood. ‘She had. always expreaved great abhorrence to a hearse, and ber ial wish was that she might not be conveyed in one tg her last resting place. Her irlends carried out her wish In this'novel and striking manner. Me Was Deficient in English From the New York Sun. Frenchman (to Kentucky citizen). “Ven re friend ask you ze invite to take ze drink visky, vat you say-in Anglais?” Kentueky citizen. “Don’t care ifI do.” Frenchman. “Donear Ado, oult Bat yen ¥oU refuse Ze invite, sen Vat you say in tucky citizen. “Well—er—I " got me nov, Frenchy.” Sere ee teens AE EIS There tga serious division In the counsels of the ‘St Petersburg. niliiists the means of carrying on their agitation, “"° P&S ROTECTION AGAINST INFECTION. A Cireular from the New York Board of Health with Specific Directions. The Board of Health of New York has issned for general distribution the following instruc- tions for disinfection, to follow which will pro- tect any house against danger from infectious disease: 5 DISINFECTANTS TO BE EMPLOYED. 1. Rout SULPHUR (brimstone) for fumiga- tion, 2. CoPPERAS SoLvTION.—This solution 1s made by dissolving copperas (sulphate of Iron) in water {n the proportion of one and a haif pounds to the gallon, and {s used for disinfect- ing privies, water closets, cellars, drains, sewers, areas, alleys, etc. 3. Zinc SOLUTION.—This solution ts made by dissolving four ounces of sulphate of zinc (white Nitrio}) and two ounces of common salt together in one gallon of water, and is used for disinfect- Ing clothing, bed linen, ete, 3. ConnustvE SUBLIGATE SoLUTION.—This solution is made by dissolving elght grains of corrosive sublimate (bi-chloride of mercury) in pint of water, and ls used for disinfocting the discharges from persons sick with cholera and other deases in’ which the, contazion is con: ‘Yeyed by the evacuations. To the discharges of asick person should be added an equal quan- tity of the solution. As this solution is a dan- gerous poison, It should be prepared and used under the diréction of a physician or chemist, 5. CHLORIDE OF Limx SOLUTION.—Dissolve chloride of lime of the best quality in sott water, in the proportion of four ounces to the allon. Use one pint of this solution for the dls- infection of each discharge of cholera and ty- phold fever. Leave the disinfectant In the ves- sel for at least fifteen minutes before throwing it into the privy vault or water-closet. {As chloride of lime ‘when exposed to the alr begins to Jose its strength, it should be pro- cured in bottles tightly corked, which should Bot jhe opened until. the article ts needed for use, HOW To USE DISINFECTANTS. 1, PREMises.—Ce! yards, stables, gutters, privies, cesspools, water-closets, drains, sewers, ete., should be frequently and liberally treated with copperas solution. The copperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a basket or bag containing about sixty pounds of copperas in a barrel of water. IN THE SICK-Roov.—The most available agents are fresh air wnd cleanliness, The cloth- ing, towels, bed luen, cte., should, on removal from the patient, and before they are taken trom the room, be’ placed in a pail or tub of the zine solution, boiling hot, if possible, All discharges should either be received in vessels containing sublimate or chloride of lime solution, or, when this is impracticable, should be immediately covered with such solu: tion. All vesscls used about the patient should be cleansed with the same solution. Unnecessary furniture, especial! is stuffed, carpets and bangings, should, when possible, be removed from the room at the out- set; otherwise, they should remain for subse- quent fumigation and treatment. S. Fumigation with sulphur is the most prac ticable method for disinfecting the house, For this purpose the rooms to be disinfected must be vacated. Heavy clothing,blankets, pedir and other articles Which cannot be treated with zinesolution should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as directed below, Close the rooms as tightly. as possible, place the sulphur in iron pans supported upon’ bricks placed in Washiubs containing a little water, set it on fire by Lot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of al- cohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours, For a room about ten feet square at least two pounds of sulphur should be used; for large rooms proportionately in- creased quantities, 4. Bopy ANnp Bsp CLoririna, Erc.—It is best to burn all arti which have been in contact witb persons sick with contagious or infectious diseas Articles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows: Cotton, linen, flan- nels, blankets, ete., should be treated with the boiling-hot zine solution; introduce piece by iece, Secure thorough wetting, and boil for at fan hour. ‘y Woolen clothing, silks, furs, stuffed bed covers, beds, and other articles which can- not be treated with the zine solution, should be hung in the room during fumizution, their sur- faces thoroughly sed, and pockets turned inside out, Afterward they should be hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Pillows, bed: stuffed mattresses, upholstered fur: may be cut open, the con s] thoroughly fumigated. gated on the floor, but should afterw: removed to the open air and thorot 5. Corpses should be thoroughly ¥ a zine solution of double stre1 be wrapped ina sheet, wet with the zinc solu: ton and buried at once. Metallic, metal-lined, or air tight. coffins should be used when possible; certainly when the body is to be transported for any consider- able distance. ——_—e+___ Hay Fever. CAUTERIZATION RECOMMENDED AS AN EFFECT: IVE REMEDY. Chicago Tribune Interview with Dr. E. F. Ingals. ‘The new remedy is,in brief,the burning of the mucous membrane of the nostrils with a red- hotneedle. By the use of the new local anwes- thetic, hydrochlorate of cocaine, this operation can be performed absolutely without pain or danger, and even without the anwsthetle it is not by any means as painful as one would im- agine—certainly nothing like as bad as having a tooth drawn, ile it is true that certain Irritants in the ¢ pollen of grasses, for instance—are the cause of the malady, it has pu hysicians In exactly why some iduals were uufferers from the‘discase while others equally exposed remained unaffected. The- generally accepted theory was that the disease ‘Was of nervous origin, this theory being under Stood to refer vaguely to the whole nervous sys- tem. Recent discovery has shown that the nervous tract Involved is small and sharply de- Aned, and is almost always located in certain arts of those interior sections of the nose nown as the septum and the turbinated bodies, This tract is covered with sensitive nerves, and. the frritants acting on these nerves produces hayfever. The new theory is that by the cau- ion Of these berves the irritants cease to ve any effect. This treatment bas been prac- ed by’ Ww physicians for the last year or so, and is said to hi been successful in over 8) Pe cent Of the cases treated. The partial failure in the other 20 per cent is attributed to an inefficient or tinperfect cauterization. A pre- paration of cocaine has been discovered to be an excellent palliative remedy, better than anything hitherto used, und is recommended while the disease Is active. Dr. Ingals’ conclu- slons, after lengthened research and experi- ment, are as follow rst, pearly all cases may ‘be cured by systematic, thorough, super- ficlal cauterization of the hyper-sensitive r= tions of the nasal mucous méembraue, providing the treatment is carried out during the inter- vals between the attacks; second, the most effective and least painful means of accom ishing this is by the galvano cautery; third, ire aust be taken fo treat every sensitive spot, and not to cauterize too large & surface at once; fourth, the operation may be made pain- less ‘by @ proper use of hydro-chlorate of eo caine; Ofth, in nervous subjects geuveral treat- ment must ‘not be neglected: sixth, cocalne will be found to give much relief in'cases of hay- fever, chronic coryza, catarrh, ete. ‘The operation is slinple and rapid. First the sensitive spotsare located with a iat probe— always knows where they ure, Then de or insulated point of wire at- gulvanle cold into the nostril until it sensitive spot. Then the electricity point of the wire instantly not for a traction of a second, causing a very slight superficial burn, This is repeated duil unuil the whole sensitive tract is eauterized. ‘The operation will require from _ five to twenty tings to compleie. The application of hydro- te Of cocaine In the nostrils prior to. the insertion of the electrode renders the operation imless, (he plan being followed at the disere- of the As this angsthetle is re- ported to st fabulously expensive, the doctor was asked about the cost. He suid the hydrochlorate of ‘tine averaged a cost lo him of about $2 for each separate’ application. From this tact the reporter estimates the cost of having huy-fever permanently and painlessly cured at from $20 to 310 ‘soe. Seasonabie Rhymes. that which rpets ate best fumi- ly eaten. shed with th; should then. teri hi battery Is in bu s turned, becomes 3 foes Will shate uj autid vow On tie smooth polished crown Of the bald-headed mun when he's taing & doze, No Kose Without a Thorn. ng her sweetest delight, burdeued with boom, sprlug trom our concu tn the aight, To classe the tosquitoes all over the tooux, From the Ruut to the Beach, And row “us almost time sweet maidens think From urhau dust aud simcke aud Leat wo ee, ‘To put aside the tellers of the 1 ‘Abd sport along the ro:lers of the sea, A Matter of Pronunciation, Higw fate thehonest man derkiest he man who fer Nis new straw hat ow Anu many other thinzs besides, Saas Delights in native grow toniatoes, ‘Tue nin who always “pas's lis way” suis gown to liver and potalues, He'd gladly eat, but camtou ‘The price deaanded fur tomatoes, ‘The Invalid, He bles to scenes of rural biiss, ‘To spend a month in idieness, And hopes to have bis heallli restored. Hy country air wad county hoard: : He tittle Knows, und more’s the jniy, ‘The bourd each day comes frou the city, Qutches the Wrong Fish, ‘Now to the pond the small boy hes IT halt for plokersi, perch asd yoek, Mifubave thst tomy boot furgai — Boston Courter, ‘The Diffusion of Slang. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A dramatic exchange remarks that “the word ‘jay,’ as denoting a stupid andience, has become almost universal slang among theatrical ” Theatri !hiae= wil terested Stormers” and chit amc are Sudiences for denoting stupid companies: betta’s brain was of excepiionable size, tals be Sesiae Signals make attacks ou Soakim BEATING THE MARY POWELL. ‘The Yacht Stiletto Distances Her in = Race to Sing Sing. TWENTY-EIGHT MILES IN AN HOUR AND SEVEN- TEEN MINUTES—THE STEAMBOAT'S PASSEN- GERS LAUGH AT THE STILETTO AT THE START. ‘From the New York San, June 11. When the big steamboat Mary Powell shot up to the foot of West Twenty-third street yes- terday afternoon her stokers and engineers were laughing, and her purser was so tickled that he could hardly make change. A big crowd which had gathered on the wharfseemed much amused also, and so did all the passen- gers, because a little boat which was darting around out in the river had challenged the Powell toa race, and had vowed to beat her. For @ long time past no boat around these waters had dared to challenge the swift Mary Powell, and the idea of her being beaten by 8 Uttle thing which could haye been put in her cabin only made her crew laugh and advise the Passengers to get back toward the stern if they ‘Wanted to have a good view of the race. In the midst of all this derision the small boat kept dashing around gallantly, puifiug out of its small smokestack arrogantly, and exhiblt- ing to the four points of the compass {ts name, “Stiletto,” painted in white letters on a black background. She was only 95 feet long, ‘With 11 feet. of beam, and was shaped like a double- inted wedge,’ Mer general appearance was ike that o; a lead pencil sharpened at both ends, and old sailors who never saw a boat sh: like that sald that she would roll over if she ever tried to go fast, and other an- ¢lent mariners remurked that she would blow up If she tried to show anything Uke the un heard of speed of twenty-six miles an hour, Which her owners clalmed she could make. Bui old suilors do not know everything, and there ‘was a big surprise in store for them. When the Mary Powell paddled’ away from her landing she iound her diminutive challen- ger waiting for her to come along and be lowned. When the Mary Powell people got good View of the Stiletto and saw what she reaily was, the joke struck them as a better one than ‘ever. The engineer thonght best to squelch presumption at once, and im- mediately proceeded to leave ‘the little bout out of sight. But the little boat wouldn't pe left. She. came right “up Blongside the Powell, pouring out a coluinn of black smoke that would have done credit to a much bigger boat, and throwing up the water from under her stern in a way that made the old sailors stare, Secing that the Stiletto would not be distanced at that rate of speed, the en- Eineer of the Powell put on a little more, and Advised the pilot to steer clear of the little boat, 4g she would certainly explode ifshe tried to Keep up, But the Silletto did nov explode, and did keep up. Mr. Herreschoif, the blind boat builder of Providence, who’ made the Silletto, was on deck with, & patty of iriends, ‘They had remained modestly silent in the face of insults from the Powell, but when they saw that big boat jumping through the water as fast tis she was able they let loose thelr exulta- tion and showed that ‘they were proud after ail. One sald something to the man who ran the engines, and the others all took off their bats, Lowed politely, aud, yelled. “good-by.” Theti the smoke poured thicker out of the Lit- tle funuel, the water jumped up from under the stern Until it wet the flag floating aft, aud the little boat rocked like an old-iashioned cradle, Gradually she stole away from the fast flyin: Powell, und beiore the friends of that boat bad recovered from thelr astonishment they were enjoying a stern chase and list taunts ‘Of the Stiletto peo them on the wind. ‘The piled on more steam, until the bi; nto Jump, and the men who knew something about bollers. got as far att as they could. ‘This lasted until the Powell fiting along at the rate of twenty-five niiles au hour, faster than she had ever gone belore. But even that gait Was not fust Cnough to catch the stiletto, and that small yacht was still steadily gatnin Then the Powell people sought other consola- tion. They said the little boat must elther blow up soon OF roll over, and that even ifshe didn’t do that she could not keep up her speed for any length of time, Hor maker, they said, had con- trived some devilish meas of making her go like greased lightning, but she could not pos- sibly carry fuel enough to go much further. But they were wrong all the way through, At Youkers the little boat shot’ past Jay Gould's switt yacht, which was going ut Tuil speed to enjoy sis much of the race as possible. Mr. Gould’s yacht has been beaten by the Po cll,and itevidently did that financier much ood to see the boat which beat him struggling inthe wake, He took of his high white hat, waved it, wildly to the people of the) Stiletto and bad a cannon fired in honor on the flye ‘That small boat whistled thrice to. ackuow edge the polite attention, and flew along. faster than before. At Yonkers she was more than a quarter of : mile ahead of the Powell, and took iveasy. At Hastings she was a half mile ahead, and, belng sure of Victory, spurted just for fun, tose what she could do.’ She flow over the ten miles between Yonkers and ‘Tarrytown in less than 23 got there while the Powell spurted desperately along more than a mile behind. AtSing Sing the race ended, as that was the destination of the little boat. ‘The distanes of twenty-eight miles bad been made by the Stil etto in 1 hour and 17 minutes. The Mary Powell arrived there seven minutes later, whistled courteously Ure times to the Stiletto, and pro- ceeded on her way, no longer the tastest bouton the river. ‘The model of the Stiletto is entirely new, and her maker says that there is no danger ‘in send- ing her at any possible speed, because she si pig can't blow up. The engines, he paid, were not particularly large, and & bigger boat’ built in the same way would do something stunning, Ounces of Prevention. TWENTY HINTS TO ENABLE THE NOUSEWIFE TO KEEP THE FIRE-FIEND OFF THE PREMISES, From the Fireman's Herald. 1. Always buy the best quality of oll. 2: Never make a sudden motion with @ lamp, either In lifting It or setting it down, 3. Never put‘a lamp on the edge of a table or mant 4. Never gil. a lamp after ds Id have to go without a_i; hat the lamp wicks are always clean they work freely In the tube. 6. Never blow a lamp out from_ the top. 7. Never take a lamp to a closet. where there are clothes, If necessary to goto the closet, place the light at a distance. 8. Use candles when possible in going about the house and in bed rooms. They are cheaper and can’t explode, and for many purposes are Justas good as lamps. 9. Matches should always be kept in stone or earthern Jar or in tin. 10. ‘Chey should never be left where raté_ or mice can yet hold of them. There 1s nothing more to the taste of a rat than phosphorous, ‘They will eat {t {f they can get at it. A bunch of tatehes is almost certain to be set fire to if a Fat gets at it. 11. Have perfectly good safes in every place where matches are to be used and never let a mateh be leit on the floor. 12. Never let a mateh g after lighting it until y out, and then it is earihern dish, 18. It Js fur better to use the safety matches, which can only be lighted upon the box which contains them, out of your hand ware sure the fire is ter to putitinastove or 14. Have your furnaces examined carefully in the fail and at least once during the winter by a competent person, All the pipes and flues should be carefully looked to. 15. If there are any closets in the house near chimneys or flues, which there ought not to be put nothing of a combustible nature into ther Such closets will sollsilver and crack crockery and burn bedding. They forma bad. part Of any house thatcontains them. 16. Never leave any wood near a furnace, range or stove to dry. 17. Have your stove looked to frequently, to see that there are no holes for coul to drop out 18. Never putany hot ashes or coals in a ooden recepracle. . Be sure tbat there are no curtains or des that can be biown into a gaslizht, 20, Never examine a gas metera‘ter dark, soe. Does Habit Make Decency iu Dress? From the London Times. What is it that constitutes decency in dress? Clearly nothing but habit. The castom of the particular society or subject matter concerned— in ordinury language, convention. ‘This scems strange to some people, butit is most certainly true that there 1s. no absolute rule as to what drapery Is or is not decent. Even in the same society the conditions vary enormously, Use ‘and custom alone determine the becoming. A Turkish lady is shocked ifa strange man sees her without @ yasbmak and a monstrous bunile of wraps. So conventional is this cov- ering of the face that a Mussulman peasant yoman surprised in the field will often veil it eronly petticout, lors tell us that a well-bred African blushes to be seen for the first me In ‘The unusual use of clothing appears to her scarcely decent. Custom, habit aud cou- vention decide the matter cdong ourselves, A pure cottage girl in Connemara, who sleeps In «room with men and never owned stockings, Would feel uneasy in the ball dressof a princess, The princess would almost suiter death rather than share her cottage for a weelt. If the daughters of Leonidas went to a drawing room at Buckingham palace In their Spartan tunes, they would probably cause as greata flutter as they would feel themselves. Noone would ex. cL a hospital nurse to do ‘what hundreds of Innocent zirisdo ina pantomine; but the dan- seuse, again, would hardly. submit to the | un- sparihg revelations of a surgical ward. Hond soit 4s the sole aud paramount rule; bat then this depends on certain conventional practices be- ing respected. wilt, niet hie Gx'pouss on thesacore ro fc, met his éx- 0 W's, howdy ao, anh Row's yer Beatin” "Good : wake. “Imprubin’ faighul "* thank yer. Look heah, Went away fruih yer house dis mawnint on wall, I'd like ter go up an’ git it.” my epee coat hab dun been put on'by is yer?” ‘La . De Law, yes, Abner. De tacks am, I tayried Did yer, cbilot Wall, so did f. Folks yhat's ‘got ter hussle roun’ eh” make er {ibin® can't Gown an se us some time. Good tnawnis ‘The Fire that Never Burns Out. ‘From Peck’s Sun. There are only about @ dozen men in this country who do not like togo fishing. Many do not go once in ten years, but all the time they think they will go next week or next month, and they keep thinking of the fun they used to have thirty or forty years ago, when they were boys. An old man who had fished $very year for Sfty years, and enjoyed it came into a busin ds im at Bi ts ct Sa ‘Ashi eh “Wnat lyoer — nie “0, no luck to speak of. ‘The fact ts, my ing days ‘are over,” sald the old man with a sigh, a8 « pain took him In the back. "Tain't [hai it used to be, boys; ‘tain't what It used to - When Iwasa boy I would get up before daylight and walk four miles barefooted, with a tamarack pole and a strong Ine, and with o piece of pork rind for bait. would catch fist Ull the cows came home, There were no rods ‘nd reels in those days, and no artificial files, that I know of. We would get a bite, and throw the fish over our heads, out on land, and see him flop. | could catch ds eno ch for our family and al ie nel rs, ant joy Later, years, when I tone a man, 4 bad the fishing fever just as bad, and 1 would go a hundred miles -to fishgand spend a bar Tel of money, and work hard for a week, and it would do me good. I would be heavier and stronger when I came back, and my brain Would work like @ steam engine, But now, While T have the fever Just as bad, 'am all used up. It takes me all -the fall and winter to (eg over my aches and pains, to get ready for the spring fishing, and the first day I go out am used up fora month, Boves and muscles that Idid not know Thad years ago, ache so now J am perfectly sure about where they are, I am too old to walk much, and too rheumatic to ride in a boat long, and'T haye to be petted like @ child. I have to employ a man to row the boat, puton my bait, and take off my fish, aud my fingersand thumbsare getting so rheumatic that T can hardly turn the bandie to the reel. Another year and I will have my hired man reel in my fish, while Isit in a chair on the bank, and then f want todic, Whena man gets soitmakes his back ache to cast his bait in the hisarms ache when he pulls in is legs ache .when he stands up, his heel ‘aches when he turns around, his head aches when the sun shines, and’ everthing aches when it is cloudy and’ damp, &nd his stomach seems to all drop outan hour or two. before lunch time, he Is played out as a fisher- man, and ough T shall never go ght to know it, You hadn't ought to give up fishing, uncles” utd the clerk © se by the pape that the fish are biting splendidly out’ in Waukesha county. One man caught a hundred pounds of black bass in Okauchee yesterday.” “No!” said the old man, as he took his band off the small of his back dnd straightened up to try his back and see if it was broke. “Say, you pickup my rod and things and get them down the two o'clock train, and I will go and take @ Turkish bath, and go out there for a dey or two. IfT could ¢ateh one fish and feel Just as I did when I was a boy, I would give a thousand dollars, ‘To.teel the ‘same freédom that] did then, ‘with the old tamarack pole, walking around in the wet grass barefooted, looking into the water and seeing the fish lazily watching s though they thought 1 was no account on nd then tioticing the difference of ex- on the mug of the fish after I him out on the bank. wouldn't dare wade in the stream now, aud get my fect wet, because I wotlld cateh acold that would lay me up for a month. 1 used to be wet (rom Genesis to Revelation six days Ina week, and I never knew what it was tohave weold. "I have carried a string of fish that weighed’ more than /I did, a iile, and whistled Wl the way, I haye been so tited I would go rsleep while scaling a fish In the old woodshed.and I was as happy as a person could be. But it fs all changed now. Even pleasure is hard work, aud [realize that I must stop fish- ing forever. Butsay, hurry up and get them things to the depot, and the old man who thought he never would fish any more went out to @ tackle store to buy some hooks, and went to the depot, forgetting to take his Turk- ish bath, , they’ never give up fishing, me earth pression had Symmes. ANOTHER RED-HEADED ROOSTER FROM THE ROCKIES. Denver Correspondence St. Louls Dispatch. Colorado’s successor to Judge Belford In Con- gress is a character who promises to attract as much attention as did the flery, red-headed, flaming whiskered judge. The new member's name is @.C. Symmes. He, too, is red-headed. His beard is long,and even more flaming in color than that of Judge Belford. It issaid that Colorado would notsend to Congress any one but a red-headed man. As Colorado is the Spanish word for red, this custom has about it acertain fitness. Symmes isa very smallman, below medium height. His weight is about thatof Mahone’s. While he is very slim and small, he has a deep, roaring, bass volee, which can heard ata great distance. He is a rich man, He is worth about $200,000, He is a practicing lawyer. He has had a good many riends among the early miners of Colorado, and throug! ion with various mining enterpri: made a fortune. It is sald of bim that he is one of the most ignorant of men, and that even Flannigan, of Texas could not begin ty mangle the English language as does this new congressman from Colorado, He has the most exaggerated idea of his own Teas ance. He proinises to be the great butt of the coming House. He will make a good running mate, in appearance, with the insignificant, looking Spooner from Wisconsin. It is related of Sytmes that, after the national election, a nuinber of republicans, friends of bis, gath- ered in his office to weep and lument over the result, One patriot said: jow that the demo- crats “have won I suppose slavery will be re- stored.” Another one called attention to the probability that the country would be required. to assume the confederate war debt. One hes diction after avother of this kind was rapidly made. Symmes took vo part in the conyersa- tion for some time. Then he arose with an air of heavy gravity,and, taking an oratorical posi- tion, slowly inflating his chest, he said: = “Gen- temen you are wrong. I have no doubt these democratic seoundreis will attempt all the things you have bamed, but they will fail, gen- Uemen, for I will be there.” e Symmes, like Spooner, was a native of Wis- consin, He went to Kentucky after the war. He was a candidate for Congress from. ik He received 70 or a Tv0 votes agaiust or 20,000 democratic votes. He madea contest, however. The House authorities per- mitted him to go through all the motions of a contest. When he returned to Kentucky he sald: “I had no idea, of course, of succeeding. I simp- ly went to Washington for the purpose ofseeing if my yolce could ffl the House of Representa- tives, An irreverent friend suggested that there no doubt but what his yoice could empty the House of Representatives. ‘This sug- gestion made Symmes very angry. It had been the one ambition of bis Hie to reach a place in the louse of ets ntatives. He served all during the war. Ever since then he has used ais war experience to color every one of the phrases in his political speeches. “He is always carrying the fay aloft. His battle and smoke be- grimimed inetaphors of war are said to be some- thing beyond deseription in the way of exag- geraied pomposity. During the last election one of his favorite phrases was “When the i-dees of November return, then will our enemy bite the bust.” = ‘The #niden’s Suitors. From the Boston Courier, Suitor No.1. Sweet maiden with the face so falr And eves that like the dianonds shine, Linaluen with the queealy alr, ¢ more Fas, wilt thou Oh, give consent and be my site, ‘Some pity kindly show to zne; T love they better than may tie, And cheerfully would die for thee, ‘The Matden, Oh, do not tease me vow I pray: ~ ‘Talk love to me some other day. Bi Suitor No. 2. ‘the reason why I've called Is this—er—well, upon my Mie, Tscarcely Know just what to say— ‘And~er—well, will you be my wife? ‘You'll never know litt's cares or ills, In siiks und jewels you shail shine, TH tout your millinery bills And—Wwell, in brief, Will you be mine? The Maiden, ‘This is so sudden! But—oh, lat 1 think you'd better speuk to pa. ———+e+____ The Large Rate of Infant Mortality in Summer. Ina timely article on “Summer Complaint” in Babyhood the editor says, speaking of the effects of heat: Next and last of the great causes of bowel trouble is the heat of summer. This is theone point in which weare at a disadvantage as compared with most European countries, Our terrible summer heats ure very productive of the more destructive forms of bowel troubles. This influence is most felt in great cities, where itacts together with other causes, In @ well- known work on children's diseases @ table is ven of the monthly deaths in Philadelphia rye m diarrhoeal disease, including dysent during seven years. ‘The average for the weveH, Js2.9F ail deaths during the frst flve years of ie trom diarrhoeal diseases, gives @ result round numbers to this effect: = January contributed 4% of 1 per cent. February «+ « Mareh * Bs . Apni « 1 x ny is 1 2 June « 7 July * 4 ed “August “ 80 * September # Bin Qetober | s 13 < jovem| 3 mber 1 « That is tosay, the twomonths of J of adults and children alike feebled We Know, too, that the de; on ieoare e felation {a the duration of the heat, the iveness also is most depressing en ihe’, contains much moistare, A Masher Mashed. ‘From London Punch, * Beecher om Evolution. THE BROOKLYN PREACHER MARMONIZING IT ‘WITH THE BIBLE. An unusually large number of people attended services at Plymouth church Sunday morning, and when Mr, Beecher stepped to the front of ‘the pulpit every seat in the great edifice was ‘occupied, and the aisles were filled with people seated on camp-stools, The sermon was the third in the series on evolution which he has undertaken to deliver,and he opened his Bible ‘at the third chapter of the second book of Tim- othy; sixteenth, verse, and read: “Every Serip- ture inspired of God 15 also profitable for teac- for re} for correcting, for instruction in righteousness, that the man’ of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all God's ‘Mr. Beecher said: “The sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament have bad and still justly have a relation to the highest moral con- sciousness and to the profoundest religious ex- periences of the best men, and any endeavor to dethrone their influence would be met by the resistance of everything that Is best In the best map, dhe divine revelation, interpreted by evolution will, in my judgment, free the Scriptures from fictitious claims made by men and from clouds of misconceptions, and give to us a book as a clear shining light, inste: of an orb velled by false claims and wornout phitoso- phies. “On the theory of the plenary Inspiration of the book the Bible is alrendy setaside, I donot believe that any bonest man, believing that God inspired the thoughts and the feelings. be- Heves that be originated them in himself and then thrust them out of himself into the minds ot prophets and holy men. Noman that be- Neves that, and that, therefore, believes that every word, and every’ text, and every state- ment of the Bible is divinely authorized—no man who fs consistent and honest can keep himself from going headfirst into the gulf of tn- Adelity. In times of ignorance men were saved by inconsistencies, They are yet, very largely, And any man that takes the old theory of the absolute and plenary and verbal tnspiration of the Scriptures {s bound to infidelity, and if he don't go over it is because he is too stupid. “But even they take the ground that if we are to refuse science to help exegetical interpreta- tion—if you stand on the ground of exegesis alone—they concede that everything is gone und that the revelation of science wiilend the declaration of the six days of creat! Ibe- lieve that ig 4 men‘of old spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The Bible, as I look upon it, is the history, the record in part, of what the effect of God’s spirit’ mov human conscience has brought to pass 1! line of our natural history. It is the that universal and continuous action of the divine mind on human consciousness that has raised man from the lowest barbaric sept Step by step, unfolding all the laws of social Ife, unfolding all graces, all affections, all reasons, a ures Of moral nature and all spirit - apes —_ ——+e-_____ The Oasis of Penjdch. From the Moscow Gazette. Penjdeh is in the shape of a triangle, formed by the Murghab, which waters the Merv oasis, and by its affluent, the Kushk. To the southjand southwest the frontier of Penjdeh—a district traversed by the nomad tribe of the Sarik Tur- comans—iseastly confounded with the hills of ‘the once fourighing territory of Badghis. Ac- cording to the Investigations of European trav- elers, we should understand by this name the region bounded on the north by the sands of Merv, on the west by the Heri Rud, on the east by the Murghab, and on the south by the chain of the Paropamisus, ‘Ghe most fertile portion 01 Bagdis at the present time is the eastern part, between the Murghab and the Kushk. ‘The sunds of Merv extend into this east of Penjdeh, while on south the well-cultivated region once belougin; Usbe But bow to Aighanistan, and i'm re wus Muimer ripul, Sh n, Andkhol ‘and Akeha, oa The oasis of Pevjdeh, fully capable of careful cultivation on the one condition that. a good system of irrigation shall be introduced, form as It were, a sort of turning point between the deserts of the north and the fertile regions of the south, which await colonization. ‘His! roves the flourishing state of the a dghis, which is still testitied to by imi rains. With regard to the oasis itself Penjdch is still peopled by about $000 Sariks, who oc cupy themselves chiefly in ralsing flocks. Their encampmeats skirt the banks of the Murghub from the site marked by the ruins of old Penj- deh. The greatest breadth of the oasis from West to east Is wbout twenty miles; the greatest Jength trom northwest to southeast—that is, from Ak Tapa to Meruchak—is about twenty: seven miles, The area is rather more than 300 square miles. fhe Penjdeb Sariks are rich. They live in kibitkas or felt tents. Some ainong them pos- S€ss us many as from 1,500 to 2, ‘000, sheep and between seventy and eighty camels. They ralse there, but in small quantities, crops of rice, wheat, sorghum, &c. They weave carpets which rival tbose of Persia, and fine cloths of camel hair for khilats und women’s veils, famous throughout the whole of the East, bat which are exceedingly dear. The Saniks of Penjdeh have commercial relations with Bokhara, Merv, and Herat above all other places. The irriga- tion of this region is quite insufficient. Its ug- ricultural future depends upon the improve- mentof this essential. The culminating point of the oasis is Ak Tapa. Ruins are to be found there of a town and a citadel. ‘There jy a road from this place to Herat by following the left bani of the Kush, which iscrossed by the half Tulned bridge of Pul-i-Khisti or Dash Kepri, At the southeast extremity of the oasis are the Tuins of Meruchak, and a little to the north of them begins the canal which fssues from the ‘Murghab and irrigates the fields of the Sariks. which The Speok in Mr. Sweency’s Room. From the San Francisco Alta Callfornia, The leading topic of conversation ina little corner grocery on Natoma street yesterday afternoon was the spook that had appeared in the bedroom of one of the oldest residents of that cosy street. Mr. James Sweeney, the gen- tleman who had seen the ghost, was not reti- cent in bis description of the apparition. “We was not more than an hour asleep,” satd Mr. Sweeney, “whin the ould woman woke me up, and tould me there was something in the room.” “Faith, thin, a nice job she must have had wakin’ You, Jim, if you had your usual allow- ance of beer,” remarked one of Mr. Sweeney's neighbors. “Beer has nothing to do with it,” sald Mr. Sweeney, “I was cowld sober whin I wint to bed, an’ ‘tis always cowld sober I'd be, Tom Darcey, an’ Iwas waitin’ for you to thrate.” This sally turned the laugh on Mr. Dare ed “no further interruptions to’ Mr. eeney’s narrative, “Git up, Jim,” sex she, “there's some wan in the room.” The lamp was lit,an’ when T looked. out, shure enongh I saw asmall black animal skipping neross the flure. Tis only the « sex J; an’ faith I knew well {t wasn't. the cat or the do ther, for that mather. “Git up,” sez me wile, my up, 4 don’t be a dirty coward. “Would ¥ou have me git me death of cowld,” sez I, “dhriving out the cat?” “His not the cat,” says she, “tis too big for the cat; ‘tis the divii himself, the Lord be good cit tis te divs see Lowy a “If ‘Us the divil,” sez I, “why don’t a pray; that’s what you ‘go. to inass Yor; to learn yout His dated How could 2 poor lsboring man like me be expected to dhrive out the alvil?™ ‘on might think by this that I joking, bat Twas theimbitn; slike a lafe, and aither the first giimpse of the spirit, I kep’ me hed undher. the blankets, an’ so did the ould woman. Thin Tpartinded to go asleep, but twas no use, I Was awful seared,” “You're a white-livered snipe,” says the ould woman; “ef you won't et bp and dhrive it way. ‘Will you pass me the holy wather” ‘hey a prayer, first,” sez I, “an’ If'that don't do any yood, Til getthe holy wather for you; ut wtiore fs 12” “10 the window,” sez she. “Tniv ‘twill stay there,” sez I; “for if the divil shculd nip me be the fut, who'd look out for pe “Avid that the goteo mad that ut she got so that she jum) out reheat gave a scream and rele nent ov @loogh, ““Bedad,” sexi to meself under the blanket “tne divil has got the ould woman at lust;"batt bed bardly the words outov me mouth’ whin she puted back the clothes and shoutin’, » Ate hit, Beelzebub,” slung the sperit into the bed vid me. pioiurtherin, murtherin, an’ what aia you do, “I fell back stone dead,” said Mr. 8 “an’ whin the oulé woman. Drought me to; f lammed the stuffin’ out ov little Jimmy darin’ to his pet kid awl is pet in the only dacent Saturday Smiles. The Teller is a man who sometimes does not tell—but silently steals away.— Philadelphia Te Kale student charged with having as- Saulted a policeman hasbeen discharged. “New Haven policemen ought to be careful about going out at night—Hoxion Pyat, A northern paper praises the Indian hair re- Storer. He is a fraud. No Indian was ever Known to restore any hair.— Tras Sitings. Yesterday a little girl did not want to go to school because It was “too awful hot.” When asked ifshe liked winter better, she satd: summer it is too hot to go to school and in win- ler it is toocold. 1 like the weather just right.” Witmington (Dei.) News. Aellebore will kill currant worms Just as it did before the new version —Lowell Courier. A democrat who is waiting anxio office sadly obser arctic sly fo “tl the other day th Riacler, which ts moving at the rate of one m’ whch thousand years, should be called the Cleveland administration’ glacier,—Boston Courier. 1 A London paper names Chicazoas one the | states in which Mr. Irviug's success wae ene est.” But it wus no greater in the stat ofc the city of Pennsylvania, cago than It was in jair_in the county of Boston, le did very also.—Norristown Herald. “There is always room at the top” probably originated with the late hotel ‘guest “Boston Budget, The king of Bavaria pays $40,000 for an ra seat: but then, as he runs no chance of sitting behind @ woman wearing a four-story hat, it is | Probably worth it.—Zsoaton Post. A Columbus (Ohio) physician has been’ar- rested for robbing a graveyard. His defense, it is believed, will be that be has done » great deal to fill t,—Chiongo Times. “Which way?” asks Ingersoll. Down, Bob! Boston Post, rs ™ ‘8 description of having a tooth s: “Just before It killed me the tooth —Chieago Ledger. ew Orleans Picayune learns from a trustworthy source that there are no fashions for fat ladies—Adianta Constitution, Weddings resulting from chance acquaint- ance jettide during Summer vacations. may wel shed under the head “casualties.” Somerville Journal, — a A good old deacon in Connecticut was very pious and very fond of clams. Whe che attended a Rhode Ish ertaxed his eapacity But his faith in pi bated. Leaving the party, and gv an the ng his knees behind a tree, he was heard cate: Sixta RICHMOND IN THE FIELD. WHAT, THOUGH THE OTHER FIVE ane SLALN, THE VALIANT AND VICTORIOUS sIxXTH REMAINS CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER Conquering the prejadices of the PEOPLE and wine hing their confidence by straightforwardnes in a base hess operated on the principle of ONE PRICE AND THAT THE LOWEST, the letter and spirit of which we are wedded to, and could not escape from even If we would, and being ‘wedded to so pore and perfect @ principle which en- ables us to treat all men alike with equal Justice, we would not say, “GOOD-BY £ SWEETHEART, GOOD- BYE,” evgn if we could. ‘To preach one thing and practice angther te held ty All honorable men to be not only reprehensible, bat contemptible, The people are not fools. Last season | numbers of them were caught and crippled in the cum ningly devised trap of “GOOD-BYE, SWEETHEART, GOOD-BYE.” and it wasan tneult to thelr intelli gence to again attempt to perpetrate the self ‘chormity which, tn its inception, proved tobe "= Jusion and a snare, ‘We offer you PROTECTION against this insidious destroyer of confidence, and in the business world CONFIDENCE 1s everything. ‘We claim not to have abused your confidence tn the slightest degree, and to have kept the mith in every ‘essential particular, Give us your patronage and weguarantee you PRO» TECTION in prices: Jes than this we would not €o— more than this you could not require. We've got the money, we've got the goods, we've got the grit, Mike: wise the grip, and “by the eternal” we mean to hold ttt A STRING OF PEARIA, One hundred Men's Sults, strictly all wool, 98.75. Pure Linen Vests, hair line, few left, 62 ota ‘Thousands of Seersucker Coats and Vesta, mow to Yolce, stripes, checks and plaids, $1.97. ‘OMtice Coats, 25 cts. Sold on Tuesday and Thuraday nights only from 7 t0 9 o'clock. Forgi . 0 Lord, this great Restore my health, and Twill never nore clams.” ‘Then, after a judicious ery few, ifany, Anien,”—New Orleans le young Indy was seen blacking boots the other morning, id the helped do the hought she is fitting het wite of an Italian coun P Sanitation by fire in view of the threatened westward advance of cholera Is attracting at- tention in this country, In large cities, and even in the smaller ones, there is a demand for some better methods than are now prac- ticed for getting rid of street and household wastes. In the hot and heavy climatic condi- tions of this country in the summer months the decomposition of vegetable matter is very rapid, While in the very act of removing garbage from the street the air is more or less contaml- nated, removals should he frequent to reduce as much as possibie the d trom decompo- sitto If the garbaze couid be so removed and then linmediately subjected to incineration the eneficial result would soon appear ii reduc death rate. Within ow: on oe moe years an expensive for street and household refuse has been built and “d in London, capable of reducing to ashes at least sixty w loads in twenty-four honrs without ereatii ny nul sance. Some method of this nature) must eventually come into eneral use in large coms mupities and amonz dense populations. If people would but think sound Indulze a. little prudence, inuch pould he accompilshed b vate cremation, “The kitehen stove turnishes & convenient crematory where much of the waste that is generally throw into some receptacle to decompose and thrown off removed could be disposed of, It many communities oil and ga largely used in the summer n 4 portion of the refus wise to do so, yon gases till trae that in es are ths, but when ube disposed of It is cee Thomas A. Kenon, superintendent of a berry farm in Wicomico ‘county, Md., was killed by a& train on the New York, Philadelphia and ————+e+_____ Bank-Notes as Conveyers of Disease, ‘From Nature, May 7. All objects exposed to the air and passed from hand to hand are apt to have minute organisms settling upon them, and we should except such things us bank-notes, which pass through many hands, tobe favored by more than thelr usual share of moving such minute bodies. Nevertheless it is ing to sce what really have been found i 5 ae facts de- ‘use of Norfolk railroad recently. Eee “Soames Swaps FOR THE BOYS.” ADLER’ TEN PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE, 927 and 929 Seventh strest northwest, ‘corner Mamachusetts avenua STRICTLY ONE PRICK AND THAT THR LOWEST. ‘57 Open evenings until 6; Saturdays aati 21, Txxr Srrox OUR CUSTOMERS “STICK” BY US BR CAUSE WE NEVER “STICK” THEM. IT DORs: CHEAP ONE SEA- SON AND DEAR THE NEXT. ALWAYS COUNT ON US FOR BIG MONEY'S WORTH. IN CLOTHING OF ALL SORTS SUITS FOR MEN from $6 upwards, SUITS FOR BOYS from $3.75 upwards SUITS POR CHILDREN from $1.75 upwards, BLUE FLANNEL SUITS from 96.50 upwards, MIDDLESEX FLANNEL SUITS at $10.00, PANTS from $1.25 upwards, GENUINE SEERSUCKER COATS AND VESTS, ‘At 61.75, A LARGE LINE OF ODD COATS AND VESTS VERY CHEAP aT IN OUR REMOVAL SALE, IN CHILDREN'S SUITS. SHORT PANTS, TO FIT AGES, 4 TO 14 YEARS, The $5.00 and $5.50 Kinds Are Now $3.90. The $6.00 and $6.50 Kinds Are Now $4.90. The $7.00 and $8.00 Kinds Are Now $5.90, ‘The $8.00 and $9.00 Kinds Are Now $6.90, The $9.50 and $10.00 Kinds Are Now $7.90. IN BOYS’ SUITS. LONG PANTS ‘TO FIT AGES, 10 TO 17 YEARS. Stylish $6.50 Suits Are Now $5.00. Stylish $8.00 Suits Are Now $6.00, Stylish $9.00 Suits Are Now $7.00, Stylish $10.00 Suits Are Now $7.50. Stylish $12.00 Suits Are Now $8.50, Stylish $15.00 Suits Are Now $11.00, CHILDREN'S KILT SUITS. ‘The $5.00 Kinds Are Now $3.50. ‘The $6.00 Kinds Are Now $4.50, ‘The $7.00 Kinds Are Now $5.50. ‘The §8.00 Kinds Are Now $6.00. ‘The $9.00 Kinds Are Now $7.00, ‘The $10.00 Kinds Are Now $8.00. ‘The $12.00 Kinds Are Now $9.50. DOWN AT REMOVAL RICES ‘The B0c. Walsts Are Now 25c. The 49c. Waists Are Now 350, ‘The 7c. Waisis Are Now 530, ‘79c. Walsts Are Now 650. 80c. White Waists Are Now 690, ‘89c. Walsts Are Now 84e. 8c. Walsts Are Now 85c. $1.09 Walsts Are Now 94c. EVERY PAIR OF CHILDREN'S PANTS __ ‘MARKED Down. EVERY PAIR OF BOYS' PANTS __ MARKED Down. OUR REMOVAL SALE MFANS A HEAVY LOSS TO US AND A GAIN TO THE PUR- CHASERS OF CLOTHING. SO PURCHASE NOW, WHILE THE STOCK Is COMPLETE. A.SAKS @ 00, SHIRT THE CLOTHIERS WHO AS CHEERFULLY RE- FUND MONEY 48 THEY RECEIVE IT, aT Jel2] | 816 AND 316 SEVENTH STREET. ee Booxnse, THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS CROWDED DAILY IN EVERY PART, THE CRASH IN PRICES TREMENDOUS. DRIVEN TO If BY THE LATE SPRING, BUT CLOTHING MUST BE SOLD, AND THE FOLLOWING PRICES BO IT: Genuine Calcutta Seersucker Suits at $10, only a few CH] THE LONDON AND LIVERPOOL CLOTHING 00, 360 CORNER 7rm AND G STREETS. ol FOR BOYS AND CHILDREN, TRE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT WILE ALWAYS BE FOUND aT THE BOYS’ CLOTHING HOUSE, 900 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB ALSO, A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT oF ‘MEN'S AND BOY'S SUMMER UNDERWEAR * STAR SHIRT WalsT, HAS NO EQUAL, PERFECT IN FIT, IN FLAX NELS, LINENS, PERCALES AND MUSLING B ROBINSON @ 00, Sad 909 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR Micemaw Sraaw Ham THE CELEBRATED MACKINAW STRAW HATS MANUFACTURED BY DUNLAP @ 00,,0F NEW YORK, NOW READY. ALL THE LEADING SHAPES FOR MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN, PEARL AND BEAVER COLORED DRESS AND DERBY HaTs aT WILLETT @ RUOFF'S, SOLE AGENTS for DUNLAP’S NEW YORE RATS my5 66 Pennayivanioare, KKxer Masvracrorrsa Comrawr. 437 SEVENTH 8T. N. W. HEADQUARTERS FOR SHIRTS AND MES FUENISHING GOODS. ccore ke Se site goer gt Seca EEP'S SHIRTS MADE ‘only our quailty the Very Beat” ix for G10 ator SPECIAL RUPTURE: Se eee, Pieri