Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1886, Page 3

: ‘ # THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, ‘Written for Tre Evexrxe Stan THE GREAT BATILE OF THE WAR. Pennsylvanin Reserves at Gettyburg. [Copyright, 1886.} PART IL RECAPITULATORY. Let us return to the Reserves, whom we left Just resuming their march after enjoying a wel- come rest on the afternoon of this same Ist of July. Besides the bodily recuperation which they had obtained,the incidents attending their Feentry upon their native soll had exalted their spirits to a high pitch of enthusiasm, and they buckled down to the hard work of @ July Right's march with a hearty good-will. The Mareh lasted till two o'clock on the morning of July 2, when, after twenty-two hours of Waking, they were permitted once more to seek in slumber sureease of toll. At a little aiter daybresk they were again afoot, and about noon they reached the battle-fleld. Cemetery Kidge wore now a different aspect from What it had the afternoon before, when Generals Howard and Doubleday stood’at the Ye of the cemetery counseling together how Sere to secure their position, and directing ths lucing of their broken battaltons, Hancock Baa arrived, with fuil authority from Meade to assume general control. His soldierly eye had wt a glance taken in the strong points of the po- Sition, and on bis recommendation orders had Deen sentout toall the subdivisions of the army to concentrate on Cemetery Ridge. By six O'elock of the Ist most of the third corps and all of the twelfth bad arrived, and the firs: bad been reintorced by Stannard’s Ver- Meade reached the field, and at the break of dawn he commenced forming bis line. FORMING THE LINE—THE FIRST ONSET. General Meade first contemplated massing Bis forces on the right, and precipitating them upon the enemy’s left, commanded by Ewell, Who occapied the town. Pursuant to this plan, the Res :rves, hing the field, were ther with the rest of the Fitth Corps, the Tweitth Corps, which constituted ‘% right. A change of plan afterwards Cuused their transier to the left, in rear of Little Round The general line’ of battle, as it came fi On the ex- treme ri ith Corps; next it, on the lett, one ou of the First Corps, on Culp's BF Eleventh Corps, on Cemetery Hilt, v ons of the First Corps at base; then caine the Second Corps; then the rd Corps; then the Fifth Corp ig the extreme left, the Sixth Corps bel the Ie: of res Of going tuto hei his corps—the Was thrown cc generai line, maki: Sickles had formed im such & Way that it ably in advance of the @ Salient angle towards the enemy, the right side of whicu extended from the "general line out to a peach Orchard near the Emmettsburg road, while its lett side reached back towards Little Round Top. At about haifpast three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2d of July the enemy attacked this position of the Third Corps, the first onset being directed against the left side of the angle described. I cannot attempt here any detailed fecount Of the desperate fighting whieh this attack involve my only purpose being to allude to it as ding up to the first participa- Yon of the Reserves in the active work of the ttle. Sickies’ leit was eid by General J. Hobart Ward’s brigade, which occupied the on ground covering the approaches to Litule Koand Top. Ward's line was long and thin, nemy outilanked it by the tront of fades. His overthrow was inev- hard to accomplish. attacking forces, but succumd, leaving to back th he drove bs Was finally compelled to the victorious ioe & clear passage t6 the Round Tops. THE KEY To THE FIELD, Considering their prominence, as features of the landscape and thelr commanding position ference to the Union ines, these heights glected. Except that a veated on Little Round profthem had up to mpied. General Warren, wie’s ebief engineer, having occa: sion Just avout the time of Watd’s overthrow YW ride to the siznal-station to take a look atthe Beld, saw at a giance the supreme importance of securing Little Round Top irom being selzed by the enemy, an event wLich seemed perilous- ly Immuinent. "Once let the enemy gain a firm footing ¢ Round Top and he was master Of the situation. He would flank our whole po- sition. It was manifestly the key of the battle- Seid, and hazard it un Barnes’ div f the Firth C been orde Kes to goto the assistance of the Thira pS. Spurting his n dashed over to s ibility of detaching rigade of bis division, and hur to take position on Little Round Fied it baci ‘Top. THE STRUGGLE FoR “ROTND Tor.” ‘On comes the victorious column of the enemy pushing eagerly up the savine between the Round Tops, intent on seizing Littie Round ‘Top, which appears to them to be without de fenders. Hastily forming hiscommand on a Spur jutting out from the southern side of the Beighis, Vincent succeeds “in checking the enemy's advance. Sending for reimiorcements, Hazlet’s regular Uattery, stpported by the One Hundred and Fortieth New York, under Col. O'Rorke, comes to bis assistance. The fighting Asterrific. O'Rorke, Vincent, and Haziet all in turn are killed, Gen, Weed is inortally wounded, Goi, Rice succteds Vincent in command, and Col, Chaiberiain, of the Twentieth Maine’ regi- ment, by skillful manoevuring and desperate fignting at last drives the miederates out of the ravine, and Littie Hound Topis for the moment saved. Fisher's brigade of the Ke- Gerves bad be fed to the ot Rice and Chatiicriain, and it comes upon. the scene just as Ciainberiain bas finally repulsed {not two Late to hasten on to found and snatch from the enemy's > sceure its subsejjuent salety. Que ol ‘s regiments, the Eleventh, fortunately. es the event wards proved, is leit t ad its strength to McCundless’ brigade, which has not Yet becume enzaged. ANOTHER CHARGE. But only for a time is Little Kound Top sate. Atresh and larger force of the enemy again Qssails the height, this time directly in front. ‘The First and Second L ot the Fiith | Corps succes: lants in the plain below, ‘oncom almost to ravely, aye desperat troups strive to hold | Weir grou a ered and ¥ ure swept ruthlessly uitant foe of the great battle is at the Conte themselves ns will have anding em: falling on the Union flank w p the | Ariny oF the Pot i. What mo- | little span of fore, or, Gud grau| THE KESE! In two long i thelr dirst Line Is just Leginui: ly, near the top of fe ES TAKE A HAND. the hi Moving | uns of ¥ magic, its | formation is d column of regiments, endtue stery d permitting the Rearward res: T lueir tire over the beads of those . the whoie mass Delches forth @ burst of lead und dre that withers asirocco. No raw troops these, but ve ft ascle, of Bail Run, of Freder: of Antictam and uf South Moun and fire rapidly, but Ss. Steudily, re- ley after volley now halted and ho see themselves pated prize as by a © they try bravely @ rocky itis uch reply as is Woufire so destructive they guilantly airempt. Atone moment it looks as if they 2 @ despentte clurge up the but the dreadiul storm of ke pours upon them — passes human eudurance. Thelr lines waver, and at that iustaut Crawiord gives his Penusylvania parce. With their peculiar ‘an once before sound- at ia the ears of their rves plunge down the hillside, » the charge as they run. eded to complete the Con- they ko in a devil-take- r of their own ch out upun the no fire from the we therm, for te, bus from a irleftiront a force of ind rocks aud trees, # galling and destructive se gallant colonel goes down, tnding the ad when a few ation to visit an mere errand of curiosity, wll to-day I wish to fail in my From Uuls source, too,comes a bullet nat finds et in right hand of arerof the First Keserves. The i. “Give them to me,” he rides ubreust the £ raises and Waves the: unded je sturdy evlor-bearer runs out beside ral's Loree, and With bis eyes fixed on he has carried so bravely and so. long. he keeps pace with the horse until Crawford hands olin buck the colors, and he tukes again place iu ranks, OB, of go tie Victoripus He- Ves, driving their beaten that lutersects the plain, over boulders, youd the stone wail that bounds the iand, leaping which they push stil fo Ward over the trampled Wheat tbat carpets the field beyond the wali, until the enemy disap- woods, The evening 43 Worm and weary, i$ elate with triumph, the Ke: to the stone Wall and prepare to the night behind sts sheltering rampart. With's Stiong ‘pieketiiae omted well to the front, the tired suidiers, some close up to the Waliysome farther buck,sbake down taelr blan- pears trom sight in Shadows are failing no but with he serves retur: Kets'and court the drowsy god. THE THIRD DAY—PERSONAL HEROISM. A rude awakening comes to them with the Srst break of dawa, The Confederate riflemen, steading up tuto the trees that skirt their posi- pon, sizain their eyes to cateh the first practs out from the cover of the wall, veritabl ¢ | the Unton forces, five miuutes more and | | ment rin; | the womai; it ls the first openly allowe of love; it should be of perfect taste and at the same time not inconvenient to the wearer + the Confederates approach; | s the ascent when | showy, ond and indisereet. | towards the sappbire and the diamond, of foes acrossthe it cable glimpse of the recumbent Reserves, and the moment that light enough, exists to foake them out they open fire. The crack of the Titles and the “zip” of the balls as they strike all around them start the Reserves from the lethargy of slumber into lively action, and, hastily gathering their arms and accoutre- ments, they scurry forward to the cover of the wall, or, if already there, adjust themselves to make place for their comrades. Once in line behind the wall they are measurably secure. But even there the slightest exposure invites and receives the instant attention of the hostile sharpshooters, who succeed in inflicting many a wound and ‘causing some fatalities. Mean- White tne plekets of the Reserves, lying low amidst the trampied wheat, watch theirchance for effectively returning the leaden compli- ments of the Confede: and so for hours during the earlier part of that third day of July, and of the battle, the desultory fighting goes’ on. Water is'the one thing that the soldiers crave most desperately. The sant supply that the more | prudent of them had secured the night before is exhausted, the last drop has been drained from the canteens. The torrid heat and the sulphur- ous atmosphere provoke even inthe strongest a rehing thirst, while with the wounded who Rave not yet becn carried to the rear the desire tor water is almost maddening in its invensity. But water is only to be bad by cutting loose from the protection of the wall and striking boldig forth across the exposed piain to the rear where the little creek known as Pium Run offer# the only supply. Dangerous, almost surely fatal, as is the enterprise of obtaining It, brave e the at tempt. Ever and anon some two or three of these, gathering as many of their comrades’ spirits are not wanting to mak canteens as they can hang around them, set forth on thelr knightly quest. Bravely putting Mts ciads” in their panoply of canteens, they 1n- stantly become the targets of scores of rebel rifles.” Some go down, stricken dead by the jeaden hail; some are wounded, and some who seem to bear charmed lives make the perilous trip unseathed and return, bringing the dearly purchased boon to their grateful comrades, But while there are instances ot great daring and exposure on the f individuals such as Thave just described, to the bulk of the He- serves the forenoon of the 3d of July is a season of passive endurance rather than of active par- ticlpation in elther aggressive or defensive lighting. Their pickets are of course constantly and actively engaged. And I must not omit mention of the irrepressible Bucktails, who ebaie sorely under the enforced inaction of their position, These men, hardy mountain- ers of western Pennsylvania, trained from childhood in the use of the rifle, have no equals in either army as marksmen. The tactics of the Contederates of posting sharpshooters in trees and picking off our men like deer stirs the bile of the Buektails tremendously. Conscious of their superiority in that especial way, the are bighly irate at the state of things whicl holds them passive ovservers merely of a style of wartare that they feel 8 peculiarly in the line of their training and experience. - They al- Teady have their proper contingent on the picket line, but they all want to be there. In Squads Ot'two aud three they come to Me- Candles, and with a sort of blushing diffdence, as though asking a favor almost too great to be calmly contempiated, they request permission togo “GUNNING FOR A REB.” McCandless is not the man to refuse such o Tequest; and bidding them “Go ahead,” the Bucktails, glowing with pleasure like school- boys unexpectedly granted a recess, bounce over the wall withan agility modeled on that of the red deer of their ntive wilds and launch forth to seek thelr game. One illustration of their doings must suffice. A couple of them find a rebel stowed away among the upper branches of a tree, from which “coign of vun- lage" he has for ours been picking off our men. “Don’t shoot; I'll come down,” out the Confederate, seeing himself discovered. “We know you will,” reply the Bucktails; and the crack of their rifles gives deadly emphasis to their words. Ibave much exceeded my intended limits, and I must bring this paper to a close without even glancing at the great evi the progress of that historic day. on the right, the terrific artillery duel all along the opposing lines, Pickett’s magnificent charge aud its gallant repulse, with the thousand inci- dents that attach to these themes, must be ex cluded trom this chronicle and the story be brought to its closing scene. nts that marked Geary's fight REPULSED IN EVERY ATTEMPT to break through the Union line, Lee’s shat- tered forces have withdrawn to thelr original position on Seminary Ridge, and the sounds ot battle have pretty much subsided. But over on the Confederate right, opposite the position of the Reserves, @ rebel battery still plays a eam of fire upon the Union lines. Meade, anding on Little Round Top, inquires what troops ure those he sees out in front. He is told that they are the Pennsylvania Reserves. He immediately sends an order to Crawford to silence the offending battery. Crawiord directs MeCandless to advance and clean the enemy out. Springing up with cheerful alacrity, the Reserves form line, as if for parade, under a perfect blizeard of'shot and shell.’ Forward they rush, apparently conscious that the guod fortune that has atiended them all througn this grand battie on their native soll bas sin- pled them out for dealing the nal stroke to the nsolent invaders. With a parting belch of fury the rebel battery limbers up and retires. Moving somewhat too far to the right and get- ting actually in the rear of the more advanced of the Contederates, McCandless, by Crawiord's order, changing front to left and rear, dashes down on s Contederate brigade posted behind a breastwork of rails and sods, which he takes in Rank, Utterly, discomiited by this onslaught, which is made by troops coming apparently from the direction of their own lines the Con federates stand not on the order of thelr going, but go at once. The Keserves give them a speeding volley, and the hush of silence falis upon the tleid of Gettysburg. THE GREAT BATTLE 18 OVER. Whether the battle should have ended then and there, whether Meade ought not to have precipitated his whole army on the beaten confederates and turned their repulse into a rout, is a question I will not undertake now to purpose has been answered if I ded in telling intelligibly the story the participation of the reserves in this great conflict. It will always be thelr pround reflec- Hon that it was they who saved Little Round Top trom capture by the Confederates at the most eritical moment of the straggle; that they deult the final bow to the enemy, und that the close of the battle found them holding the most advanced position attained by any portion of Go. A. Woopwaxp, Colonel U.S. A. eee mgagement Rings aud Lovers’ Boquets From the Pall Mall Gazette In all things fashionable {n personal apparel France is the authority par ezeellence, and with regard to engagement rings, which are said to be mostly required at this season of the year,one of the oracles delivers itself thus: ‘The first of the presents which must be made to an afflanced bride onght to be the engage- tuls ring must forever be kept by gage (which remark, considering that the custom of marriage de convenance ts still very much ad- hered to in France, has a slightly sarcastic tone.) I would not choose the ruby; it is too My taste inclines which the one does imot go well without ‘the | other. Ishould not choose a large sapphire surrounded by diamonds; I should ask our jeweller arth interlace in happy combi- natton the sapphire and the diamond. ‘The Lurquolse fs diso @ tasieful stone, but when it Is constantiy worn it has the immense disad- vantage to change itscolor, and to this change most Women attach a sad and sentimental superstition. It should, theretore, not be chosen for the first present, which is worn and cherished while life lasts, and which remains from the days of youth while everything else changes. Another subject which the merry month ot May suggests to the same writer is the Lag a ing of flowers by aman to bis intended wife. The ortnodox basket of flowers composed by the Morist is Known toull the world. “Ifthe ance is a man of any taste he will always vary bis flowers according to the conversation he has had with bis lady on the previous day. He will know how to make delicate allusions in the flowers he sends, for have not the flowers their language? ‘The stalks of the flowers he will encirele one day by a porte-bonheur, an- other day by acoupie Of those pretty snakes (alas! alas!) which so gracefully coil round the arm, and again, he will throw some diamonds into the calyx of the roses flavored by the lady. I recommend above all not to be monotonous in your choice of flowers. Show that you have occupied yourself with their choice, and that toconform to cusiom is not the reason for your present of flowers.” = —— ‘The Deeayed Cowboy. From the San Angelo Enterprise. The festive cowboy has been quite numerous around the bulyvards this week, but like the baron, his glory has departed. The heels of his boots are as bigh as ot yore, but when he sits “straddie-leggea” on the corner of a monte- table now he “blows in” a quarter where for- merly he staked a note,and though he still damns the sheepman, he no longer rolls his MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. AUDEAN'S NEW OPERA FOR WASHINGTON— ‘MARIE PRESCOTT’S NEW ORLEANS SUCCESS— JOHN KE. OWENS NoT TO RETURN TO THE STAGE—“THE MIKADO” BY COLORED AMA- TEURS, — Acting Manager Fort, of Albaugh’s, is hav- ing prepared for him an English version of Audran’s latest opera, “Le Serment ’ Amour,” which he expects to present here during the summer opera season. Mr. Fort's version of the opera has not yet been named. — Anewcomic opera will shortly be produced st the Lexington Avenue opera house, N. Y., entitled “1,000 Ems.” The music is by Charles Lauback, and the wordsby Myron Bernard,two Journalists, —“Evangeline” was not a success in Phila- Gelphia. The first week business was good, butt fell off badly the second week. —Celia Alsberg, the new California star, made @ better impression in Measure for Measure” during her second week in Denver than during the first week in “Cymbeline.” — Osmond Tearle has returned to New York. after eleven months’ absence in England. — Rhea will close her season on June 20 and ‘will sail for Paris a week later. She will open nextseason in the middle or latter part of August in Canada, —Strange to relate, that trashiest and coars- estot Charlie Hoyt’s dramatic absurdities, “A ‘Tin Soldier,” seems to have caught the people at the New’York Standard Theater, where it 1s now running to crowded houses, Many of the objectionable features of the piece have been eliminated since it was seen here. —Despite liberal advertising, the Cincinnati May Music Festival, which closed on the 224, oe ‘a loser to the extent of $8,000 or $10,000. he expenses will reach fully $33,000, while the receipts were about $25,000. —The long run of the comic opera, “Little Tycoon,” in Philadelphia, will close on May 29th. — That excellent actress, Marie Prescott, has made a fine impression in New Orleans as Galatea. Her engagement there was extended several weeks beyond the original limit be- cause of her success. —John E. Owens sald the other day: “At present I haven't the slightest intention of re- turning to the stage. My future plans will be governed by my health. 1 may spend the sum- Meron my Maryland farm, or, if] am strong enough, cross the ocean. 'Charleston’s mild climate improved me considerably winter be- ie jast, and I may spend the coming winter there.” —Agnes Ethel Tracy, who was recently left two millions on the death of her husband, was ‘once a poor sewing girl and worked for Matilda Heron. —Mme. Helene Hastreiter will not be con- nected with the American Opera company next season. She goes abroad for a number of years, —It is said that the total receipts of Miss Mary Anderson's season were $311,000. — George C. Miln, who has had three years of turbulent experience on the stage, is said to be engaged in writing up his reminiscences for the public. —The new Park theater, at Columbus, Ohio, Tuas ppened on Monday evening by the National Ideal Opera company in “The Mikado.” —AIsabel Morris has arrived in Australia, ‘Where she is to star in Caprico’s “After Twenty Years.” — Mme. Modjeska has started out for a trip through Yellowstone Park and other portions of the wild west, —Col. McCaul! last evening withdrew “Don Cesar” at Waliack’s theater, New York, and tonight Audran’s new opera, “Serment @’Amour,” will be put ou. Of course, this is said tobe a better work than “La Mascotte;” but while lovers of light opera will hope it may be, they cannot be blamed for doubting that it is, — George Clarke’s “ pictorial comedy drama,” entitled “A Strange Disappearance,” which was produced in New York this week, ts pro- nounced arrant rubbish by some of the critics, —The engagement at the New York Lyceum theater of Frank Mayo's “Nordeck,” the third the play has had in New York this season, opened very auspiciously on Monday night, — The sensational event of the week in Phil- adelphia theatricals was a performance of “The Mikado” by colored amateurs at Horticultural hall on Thursday tae A colored special Policeman of musieal ability conducted the or- chestra, and a colored Chestnut street barber took the part of Ko-Ko with great eclat. Fiftecn hundred people laughed themselves tired over the performance, —Col. Mapleson’s experience in Chicago last week was simply terrible, but he came out all right, with his proverbial buil-head luck. His orchestra struck on oureaay night, and Ar- ditl, most accomplished of leaders, bad the agonizing experience of conducting an orches- tra of ten musicians through the opera of “Car- men.” The singers were in good voice, bow- ever, and made up in the gusto and heartiness of their vocal efforts tor the lack of volume in the instrumenial department. Giannini made a “icick” on Saturday for more money, but was told by the gallant colonel to either siag or Whistle for the back pay due him, He saug, ‘The leading artists stuck to the manager and saw him safely through the week. —A theatrical observer and statistician as- sents that every five years the public undergoes ‘an almost complete change. In other words, if @ play is presented only at intervals of five years in any city, its audiences will be com- posed of a new set of people. ‘The growth of boys and girls into men and women and the mortality among adults, according to this mathematician’s calculations, are the factors in this transformation. He further argues tbat the recognition of this fact should justity the revival of good plays from time to time which have been shelved in the belief that they are worn out. ° — Miss Minnie Ewan, ot Wasbington, is now @ pupil in the school of the celebrated teacher, Mme, Marchesi, of Paris, The school was full when Miss Ewan applied tor admittance, and tHe distinguished preceptress refused to receive any additions, but being persuaded to try Miss Ewan’s voice, she was so pleased thai she at once determined to admit her, and_ predicts for her American pupil a most brilliant career. —Auv alleged interview between Miss Anna Warren Story and a reporter of a New York Journal, there 18 authority for saying, had no foundation In tact. No suca interview ever oc- curred. ‘Come out, old straw! ‘tis seven months sinew you w Jnid away. Maren Eorth, vld bait Let people aught Vil Spriug you on them while L may: ‘June know, Hliza where's that hat? 1 Auturan it summers here. If itis goue my hopes ure Hat, ‘And 1 shail suffer some, J fear, Why, everybody swears to-tay Because the mercury gets hich; And when I told 4 crowd ‘twas hot, ‘There wasn’t one who had said “Sulyt” my August form arly Weak enough to fall, What do I want? Eliza dane, ‘Twunt my old straw hat—that's all, You burnt it up? ‘That sort of thing Should be prevented by the law, Straws show which way the money goes, But women hever care a straw. “Boston Courier, ————_+e+____—_ Etiquette of the Hansom Cab. ‘New York Special to New Orleans Times. ‘The niceties of conduct are sometimes strained in the topmost circles of our society. The vilage maiden, accustomed to independence of com- panionship with beaus, would be astonished by the radically different conduct of her rich city cousin. The Fitth avenue belle must not go to the theater coupled with a man unless accom- nied by a married woman fora chaperone. the is forbidden to go walking with him after dark, or to spend an evening alone with‘bim in her owa parior. ‘The mooted ques- tion just now is whether she may with pro- priety ride with bim in a hansom cab. It was decided, a year or two ago, that she should not share the seclusion of a close carriage with bim; but when the hansom came into use here with their wide open fronts, fellows and girls paired oif in them with impunity, for it was tonsidered that the exposure to pubiic view was sufficient Justification. But the point 1s now raised that the sectional closure of the front, by means of doors like those which, in old-tasiloned hi kept children from getting out, conceals the hands of the occupants. Ni can tell whether the little gloved hands of the demure ¢reature are lying listlessly in her lap,or are heid in the larger ones of her com anton, Glass doors might obviate the difficulty, but meantime the most painfully circumspect of the beiles are abandoning the hansom, a Divipep Democrats iN InpIANA—The democratic congressional convention of the profanity under bis tongue like a sweet morsel, but wears the look which indicates but too plainly that the barbed wire fence and the “man with the hoe” have done him up. Fare- Well, lestive cuss, and as you“pull your freight towards the setiing sun, you may find in the jand of the Montezumus long-eared Mavericks and dark-eyed Senoritas to console you for 7253 euiorced expatriation, and may you never toreed to herd sheep, edit a newspaper or rob stages, as some of the rest of us have to do to make an honest living! What though in your Paltny days you were a trifle “handy with your pop’ and had a deep-seated aversion to eating your own beef, you were ever gentle with children and treated women with a chivalrous courtesy worthy a knight of the middle auickly lured by the song of the sireen and ———-se+_ Ex-Alderman Duty, of New York, gave ball in the sum of $1: sthother charge ot bribery ti Son 7th Indiana district, held in Indianapolis ‘Thursday, resulted inasplit, W.D. Bynum, the incumbent, was nominated by the regular con- Nontion. About thirty delegates, ‘under the leadership of W. E. English, bolted and nomi- nated Lem Bailey. Both candidates accepted the nominations, Our Exrarapition TREATY WITH ENGLAND. Inthe a ot bee Le eee ir. James under foreign secretary, plying to ‘question by Mr. Vincent in regard to the existing treaties between England and America, suid that the ieee ued saat @ more adequate extradition treat een two countries would soon be concluded. that an op- ition member crossed the Moor after the ‘and called Promler Norquay @ coutempti- ble liar, The bulky ] inion prompay ait assallant, and eaigat flowed, Dut ‘combate Govs ‘AMITE W< >.—Two hundred pounds of ite in the rae Kd eepioed yl and wood. and Joho a ee broken 13 miles away. : FASHIONS IN PERFUMES. Spring the Season of Facts About Making Sweet Odors. From the New York Sun. A slender little lady, with delicate, refined features, and attired in an elegant but note- worthily quiet costume, stood for some time the other day near one of the show cases of & fashionable big drug store up-town sniffing ten- tatively from time to time at one or the other of two little ground-glass stoppers that she held in her daintily gloved fingers, A reflective, critical and puzzled expression rested upon her fair face, At length, handing both the stoppers back to the patiently waiting clerk, she sal “I like both, but cannot tell without more trial which I prefer. Send me alarge bottle of each.’ ‘When she bad gone out the proprietor said in reply to a question: “We sometimes have haifa dozen ladies at one time in this season of the year testing per fumes in that way. The sprit is the time when, ifat all, they change from their favorite odors and seek new ones, impelled possibly by the all-pervasive influence of the season to get away irom the associations and habits of Winter. Ifthey do not change then, ft is sim- ply because they can find nothing Cae bose them so weil as what they have been usin, A Very few steadfast noses, having once settled upon what suits them best, never use any other pertume,even by way of experiment, And, singularly enough, the odors thus most faith: fully clang to aro’ not such as are generally deemed cholcest or most pleasing, but are sim- ply clearly defined and not unpleasant smells— as I prefer to characterize them—such as elvet or sandal wood, for instance, Sticking always to one perfume seems to me like a continual diet of mutton—liable to grow monotonous in time; and I have not yet settled in my own mind whether persons of that habit do so be- cuuse they like it or because they have read ‘that it is the fashion among certain great ladies. in Europe. A change in spring seems us natu- ral as turning with joy from the hot-house flowers of the winter to that first sweetest and most weleome of our wild flowers, the trailing arbutus, -_Hhls annual process of setection tends to the gradual establishment of special perfumes in Very close proportion to their actual merit, A strong, penetrating perfume, possessed of, that one virtue most appreciated by vulgar tastes of being lasting, may be rushed into sudden tem- Porary popularity by cheap prices and much {igorous adverlising—as in the case of a certain cologne that I could name, the compounders of which have made halt a million of dollars off 4 combination of strongly smelling essential ouls and resins. But delicate perfumes, sulted to reflned sensibilities, grow in favor gradually with persons of discriminating taste, and eventually attain a firm hold upon popular favor that extends yeur by year, so far as We can Judge, forever. Thus there are cer- {ain old established perfumes that may. be ¥iewed ‘as a sort of classies, such as Lubin’s ‘Jockey Club,” Bell’s ‘Ess, Bouquet, Lund- borg’s*Edenid,’ and Atkinson's "White Rose.’ “Choice periumes nay be considered as b longing to three classes—the so-called “bou- quel’ perfumes, those tat are the simple odors of the towers’ whose names they bear, and those that py delicate art employ such combi- nations and blendings of various odors as to- gether simulate periectly the perfume of some tien flower, the real odor of which is so evanescent and delicate that it cannot be caught and fixed by any pro- cess yet Known to science. Of the first of these, the representative one that most readily Occurs to my mind at present is the ‘Edenia,’ that I have already mentioned among the classics, “The inventor of that perfume was no Jess than nine years In bringing it to perfec. Non, and when it was done he was so justly enthusiastic over ic that he de- clared that ‘in it art was glorified and nature eclipsed.’ ~All these bouquet _ per- fumes are made “by various vlendings ot the results of “the enjleurage pro- cess—the extracted odors of violet, Jasmin, tuberose, rose, orange flower, and cassie— together with ihusk, oil of rose, oil of ylang- ylang, and ambergris as a jicateur. One or fnotuer of those may biending, but that is the open field for selection. The eniéurage process consisis in exposing clarified srease, thinly spread on glass trates, to the presence ’of the flowers, unt it has taken their odor irom them. ‘Thav’is done by manu- fucturers in the valley of the Var, in the south of France, where Vast flelds of sweet-smelling flowers are grown for this purpose. Alcohol aiterward takes up all the pertume from. the Grease, aud the perfumed alcohol {s what is Used ib making tue extracts for the toilet. 1) is in the grease lorm that the pertames are Im- ported to this country. Other sicaéeurs than tat which I have mentioned are employe such as gum benzoln und gui tolu, ‘Tue prov: ince of umbergris 1s to blend and develop per- fumes, to give tuem a homogeueity, as it were. Jts uuturai smell is not plewsant, belng more like thatofa damp cellar than auything else. It is found in tue spermaceti whale, is an indi: cation of an abnormal and unhealthy condition Of that creature, aud 1s supposed to be a product of indigestion. ’ Nevertneiess, it is a requisite for the periuiner, and nothing else ean take its place. “Of the simple natural floral odors, that ot Violets is unquestionably the most delicate ant that wich stands highest in the appreciation of persous of retined taste. Ishould have made a tond faithiuiness to this perfume an excep. tion in my remarks about tue odurs that some people cifag to permanently, Many of my lady customers buy nothing but ‘Alpine violets,” aud are proof against all the blandisuments by which my young men endeavor to induce them to even Uy sumetuing else. I respect that sort of woman, Beau Brommel is said to have ailirmed Uiat {bere was no pertume so sweet as thut of iresuly laundered linen bleached on the grass. Well, tue French have invented a per- tuime that presents just that odor to a very del- jeutely suscepuible hostril, They cail it ‘Mous- seliue.’ No other is so faint and evanescen', but ivis very charming, and a few of my patrous ure exceedingly fund of it, but they are more Hable to change off at times for more decided Periumes thau are the lovers of te violet. ‘Doubliess the nicest art or Uke perfumer ts shown in the periect simultaion of tne odors of ertuiu Howers, Uke real perfume ot which can- hot be caught.’ Such # Hower, tor Instance, is the hiy os the valley, yet here is a pertume, Hamed alter that Hower, the eutrancingly sweet odor of which is the perfect reproduction ol nuiure’s work, so far as tue smell goes. ‘The production of such a stimulant perfume is sometimes the work of years, It can only be carried Ou When tue flowers themselves are in perfection for purposes of comparison, tor a sceut can no more be accurately remembered than it can be auulyzed. And even when the ue 1 propitious the artist compounder must often lay aside bis work for days together, be- cause his olluctories grow weary, temporarily Vidiated and unreliable, ‘Two of our most de- lighttully sweet flowers that grow upon our content, tue maguolia and the tea olive of Georgia and Alabama, have never yet been per- feclly simulated in pettume, tuough they have beet the subjects of almost countless experi- ments. Again and again the exact odors have been caugut and lost again the moment that the necessary sizateurs lor retaining them were udded to the uleoholic compounds, Of course they will be won sume day, but when they do they will have been well earned, The cheap ‘extracts’ or ‘colognes’ seldom contain any of the natural odors obtained b enjicurage, but_are made of oll of patchoull, Canadian’ snake root, alligator musk, butyric ether, @ lite ofl of ylang-ylang, and’ I don’t know whatall else. Edison ts said to have af firmed, several years ago, that he had found ways of extracting exquisite odors from troleun, and he muy have done so, but, so [ar as I know, he has hever done anything with his discoveries in that direction, As @ rule, perfumers now, both in Europe and this count try, have broadened the field of thelr enter prigeso us to take in almost every article of the toilet that 1t 1s desirable should have @ pleasant scent, such as soaps, dentritices, com ineties, lip salves, batr olls, fuee Washes, &e, In fact, 1 am acqualhted with but one large mana- facturing firm in this country that contines itself entirely to the production of ‘handker- chek extracts, so-called: and colognes, and their rigid restriction of their business to’ those lines seems to have given them a very decided Jead in the quality and popularity of their pro- ducts. I have observed in late years that our American goods are steadily growing in fayor, and also thata discriminating and judicious use Of periumes is much more commo@ now than it was a few years ago.” ++ —___ Bits of Girls’ Gossip. SHY GIRLS IN GRAXY—BLOSSOMS TO THE BLOS SOMS.—MR, OSCAR'S FINE BOOTS, From the London Truth. I did not believe that a wholly gray costume could posstbly look “loud” until Isaw one at the Grosvenor on Saturday. I begin to think that gray is rather an underhand color, like those quiet girls who, with an appearance of demure serenity, are, beneath it, the most Practiced and dangerous of coquettes. One ates to use the odious word “sly, DUtit ie thoroughly applicable to such girls as these. ‘Do you know any who are like ‘that? ‘There was a black bonnet, with a whole bush of roses nodding hither and thither, as though bowing their greetings to all the other flowa in the room, mas aré worn now “as though growing.” This you have doubtless gleaned from the fashion journals, bi Tied a little too far, this style is apt tobe sug gestive of poor Ophelia in the mad scene, ‘The org bonuets reeably s had hearh of them ald expected them te" be unpleasingly hard; but, thou, - posed of real coral trom! the Haha, nee oy, ‘cesses it undergoes render it quite as as the new wire laces, which are so popular, It is paras 98 you might fancy, but a Pale straw Tadmired one bonnét with clusters of llac so natural that one involuntarily Imagined tae remembered fragrance of the real blooms. — A. quite delicious one was wreatned juce with farlands and forget-me-nots velled In PrTnoticed that fie” Dea a Senet at Mr. ‘ide even wore patentJeather ‘with pointed toes, How Powderly Made Himself Useful. ‘From the Texas siftings, A passenger train on the Michigan Central oad came to@ sudden and unexpetted stop not long ago, Engine disabled, be lett out of a special | i STELLAR WONDERS. How They May be Unfolded by the Greater Telescopes. ‘From the London Telegraph. All the discoveries of ancient astronomers were, of course, effected without the ald of glasses, and Pliny, in his ninth book of the “Almagest,” quotes fourteen observations of Mercury, dating 200 or 300 years before our era, and still to be relied on. They had, no @oubt, good eyes in those days, when every- body except the astrologers went to bed with the sun, and rose as soon ashe appeared. In the tail of Ursa Major, the middle star has near it @ small companion styled on the celestial charts “Alcor.” The Arab observers knew this by the name of ‘Saidak,” which means "Vouchstone" or “trlal;” for if ‘a man could per- ceive that tiny point with the unassisted eye he could easily see the small stars of the Pleiades and the satellites ot Jupiter. We must, however, also remember the purity nd transparency of the eastern sky, especially in dry, desert regions, where all the heavenly orbs tine with s brilliancy quite unknown to Western astronomers. Co; rnicus, it is relat lamented in the hour of his death that he Bever 80 much as seen the planet Mercury, which the happier Greek observers called "St bon,” the “splendidly shining;” and one of the most promising points in connection with this Great Dew telescope in America is that it will be peciet upon @ mountain tar above the lust and mists of the lower world—lifted into that stainlessly dark blue atmosphere which Prof, Tyndall ‘has celebrated upon his bigh Alps. Acpordingly, when wo call to mind the considerable additions made to the heavenly science by such comparatively inferior instru- ments as even those of Lord Mr. Lassel, and the elder Herschel, we may be full of hope that the California astronomers will astonish and delight the old world with new discoveries, “when some new planet swims into their ken.” They can hardly be in time for the two comets of the season—the Fabry and the Bernard, which are to be in their highest brilliancy about ‘May 15th next, and not much further from the earth than the trifle of 15,000,000 and 35,000,- 000 of miles respectively. ‘There are, however, unresolved nubule at which the great glase will fo sooner be pointed than we may expect to have those distant mysteries instantly “come down”—like Col. Slick’s coon—into. sles of stars and systems; and outside Uranus and Neptune, the latter being distant from us 2,746,000,000 miles, the new telescope may cast a glance in the border world between our farthest planet and our nearest star, and per- haps find a sister for the single moon ot Ne} tune, and tell us why the tour moons of Uranus —Arlel, Umpriel, Titania and Oberon—dance backward in the’ eternal minuet of the skies and have planes perpendicular to the eliptic of the mother body. ‘There are, indeed, endless points upon which astronomers seek such luformation as improved command of the heavens might pupply, espe- clally is the enhanced powers of this telescoy can be wedded to the faithful eyesight of the Ppuotographie camera, Wonderful things have been achieved of late in such a way; spaces ot the mnidnightsky blank to the ordiuary lens or mirror, have revealed to the sensitive film of the plate myriads of starry bodies, The crim- son cressets on the sun’s ridge have depicted themselves; his spots have registered their peri- odic passage, and the me approaches, appar- ently, when an automatic astronomer will be invented which will chronicle every event of the spheres with sleepless accuracy. We want to Know much more of comets, of nebule, and of those curious little members of our tem, the plantoids, which perpetually increase in number with closer observation, until they have grown up during the present century to more than 250 known and named bodies. ‘They wander as obedient to lawas the very largest planets, between Mars and. Jupiter, tiny islets of the sapphire ocean, sinall children of the cosmos, the biggest dot much more than 300 miles in diameter, few of them so bulky as to bo visible without a telescop: Are these little silver bees of the system mere broken fragments of some intermediate planet, or have they been seriously created, and have they been take). up with revolution and gravi- tation, und all the rest of it, on their own ac- count, and for special purposes? To auswer that and many another quesiion of the kind may, doubtiess, iu American phrase, “lick the Lick giuss.” but more and more, us astronomi- cal conceptions expand, are they silently affect- ing morals, thoughts’ and religion. We see inuinity wud grasp eternity when we look forth Into the starry space, ‘The visible universe is palpably boundless, and implies an invisible universe of which it is the shudow, the symbol and the imperfect provisional expressiou, All faiths hitherto delivered to mankind have been. Ptolemzen, pre-scientific, built on the theory— or accepting it—that the stars were set in heaven w light this little O, the earth,” round which the sun goes daily. Fuith has pot yet ventured to look through Galileo's * optik glass,” let alone the gigantic lenses of Mr.Jumes Lic By aud by mankind will understand, as well as hear of, larger Ideas. 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