Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1886, Page 3

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE ALU PLAYERS, ‘The Nationats Again Defeated—The At- tendance at the Games Diminishing, The Nationals drew another goose egg at Capitol park yesterday in the game with the Chieagos. The score was: Chicagos, 11; Na- Uonals, 0. The Nationals played wretchedly throughout the entire game. It appeared tothe Spectators that the most of them did not try to Play good bail. Some of the errors looked as if they were made intentionally. Whatever may be the cause, the crowds at Capitol park are wing less, and but little interest Is ex- Cited by the xames, Individually the team isa one, but there is something lacking. ton is a good base bail city, as was shown by the attendance in the early part of the season; but the interest in the game, as A here, is gradualiy dying. It ts sar- hat good audiences have been in at- OTHE GAMES YESTERDAY. Agricultural department, 19; Treasury de- partinent, 9 At New York—New York, 3; Kansas City, 4. At Philadelpbia—Philadel- St Louis, 0. At Boston—Boston, 4; At Cincinnati—Brooklyo-CincLa- 1 at end of third inning accouat ‘Metropolitan ccount of rain. more, 3. AtSt. Detroit Chicago. American Association, Lost. 29 "\Cineinnatt... Athletic. St. Lonts. Louteviite Brooklyn. |Baltimore. Pittsburg 40 | Metropolitan The most Important plece of base ball news Just now is the e nt by Detroit of Dun— lap, the King sec Sena. The prive paid agement for his release was highest price ever paid for one eeeive $4,500 a season for two tisition. makes the Detroits strongest batting organization that ever oc the bail ground, and strengthens the its In their weakest spot. The release of Daniap is regarded as a confirmation of the story that the Maroons will not be in the league Be ot. ‘Capt, Anson, of the Chicagos, who is regarded asan wathority on base ball tatters, sald, the other day, that Washington is undoubtedly a good bull’ city, and base ball should pay well fe. Ho aise'said that Knowles is one of the ‘St promising players he ever saw. Stolen Bases, Carroll fined aud suspended! Willit be Hines t or Gilli how lame my arm fs!” exclaimed told of Barr's release. Barr was a power to the Nationals last year. He lost huis cleriea! position for them this year, Yet he was snmmarily released when untitted | for work. Hew Without pay unl his Anger would again Tthvuk St in he is pite ence, is the greatest pitehe the box. President Young iow | hing with con- that ever occu- pi Sadie How-k is once more located in the city Where he inade bis greatest reputation, With ropercare of hisnseit he ought to strengthen We mn greaily.—Sporting Life. j Madican, Who showed such control of the | Dail at the begin las become very wild in | hiis delivery. “ls not’ the youngster too am-| bilious for speed? His drop balls are his strong | hold. The last three games at Boston netted the sgo club $1,504.50. isquite au addition to the Nationals, hard b'tter, League club has the smallest ries ever made by a member ue oF assoriation, thourn pitched four straight winning ~ against the Chicagy club. He is a great + aid that Moolic, wio caught here Wed- y acd Friday, will be released by Chie: itis rep “os club is stor € th and 4 : » buy Gore iding decline ¢ only New York ¥ eham- but Spal cuir vardt and Co » have par me played by that season, a biiliard-room and rd avenue, New York, who d 2 wondersui piteh- Philadeiphias, is not twenty-one . the third baseman of the Atlanta eum, iS @ great player, but has the re} lation oc being a hard man fo handle. It was dropped the siingzon him yeu ° Bostons d the game with St. of the ninth nk When the score was $ to 8, to allow the St. Louis players to catch a train. This season has been a veritable boom for the Americas. association financially. Nota single Club has lost money, and most or them will quit big Winuers on the season’s Work. The Pittsburg piayers cousider Ramsey the greatest lett-uanded piteher in the association, becuse he struck out fifty of them in tour games. Carroll lately struck a streak of batting and buses beautifully. He stole third on both d Benuett. ‘attendance at the games in zt bas been 73.000, against 43,000 for the Whole of last seaso Mise Seanian is isgusted with his team. He wants the rules changed so that bis men ean use eri He says they will then stand achan ag the bail now and thei S. Louis Giode-Democrat, tcl was recently received in Wash- a Macon, Gi, offering to sell to the Dantels and Chamber- y of the Macon club. Dan cua Of the Macons, also + is open tor engagement. carold lad named MeGriliis, who lives tdelphia. is a wonderful outfielder, and Madeipbra club is going to uniiorm him ke him on the trips to give exhibitions, The report that Cinciunatt is to lose her big ficder Joues is denied. Powell, having tn Pr the F Cineinn: ter Ahe, the owner of the St. Louis the’ report that I was to pur- anchise im the jeague is true. I . however, of leaving the aaso- kof the players and ise. I have no doubt vee ich city is th t twociubs), I think, would make ‘’muy happen next year, we WHER & few more fouls lose all only one that they have.” ——————— Arbitration in Place of War. To the Edito: of Tae EVENING Stam: ‘The imct that your conservative paper gener- aily reflects public sentiment, and is not a ¥ebicle tor conveying only the opinion of its more importance to your ri zeru: now 4 nt article con- the Mexican border question whieh is tating the public mind, Your severe of War as @ Ineaus of settling a dis udicates that some progress has «eh made on this subject in the direction vollzauon. dhe fact inat wars have all always been popular exbibits phase of human uature, ost the darkest ad it is to be hoped that you voice a” radical change” In ent in asserting that “re jndividuals “nowadays do not y @ recourse 10 Weapons oF Tue time is not far distant wy be said In respect uf nae en individ- vos Will be settled by a recourse Wo ner than to the barbarous the uage of Viewr rs ue when the old battle be the market open w commerce, bullets and omusielis will be replaced viversal suifrage Of Ratlons— will be exuibiteg in public an instrument of torcare is wil be astouished how at Li nave been, G. veo A IM \iN- WRECKER CAUGHT IN THE Act.— A special tw the f irom | Harry. Ber rested in aw, & mare Pililipsburg iast direction of tue company, charging comotive On the be The locomotive eer Fisuuou as it ota switen Bereaw, it rails and the engine was Fi leaped S4- conduct, the utter suid, with aa. i tue beiore and Pb e Fishbough wish Valley railroad, Was committed, 1t is a to jet Bercuw ride Ww was committed lor thal, Muved a foot past where It < would have rolled down an emoank. see. RELATIVES KEMEMBEKED IN A WitL.—The wii 1 David W. Beusie, ior twenty years the Cctuen reporier of tue Pulladelphin Ledger, bequeatued everycbing to Mrs. Burt, in whose Mouse ne had Hved 10f many years, and di Focted that bo Meinber Of bis tay or auy of lis relauives be allowed lo have any tulug to do With the faueralor tobe preseut when Le is buried. soe THe ENGLISH Swiiex BEATEN. tent iu the series of sw cu Deunis F, Butler, euampion of Amer W. b. Johnson, champion of England, @ purse of 34,500 aud the champtousuip of word, tuk place last Tuursday eveutng, Uuree miles irom Green wien, at, Vulladelplia, to the norchera end of Ricgeway park. Butler won with great ease in forty tive mumules, beating is competitor our minutes and arhall, —The sec- WHng contests ke the nelud A big crowd of sporting men, including Han- tthered at the Cunard. pier, East Boston, ye sing to see Jake Gaudaur and Al Ham, ibe carsimen, off for Evgland. Id gladly have taken a rest | | oni, n released by Baltimore, is now With the | ditors or owners, induces one to attach the | ter renronstrating With | AN OCEAN The Delights of Martha's Vineyard— Conerete Driveways and Bicycles. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR. Corrage Crry, MARTHA’s VANEYARD, Aug. 2. “There is nothing like it in the world;” so said to me a gentleman of wide experience and extended travel, with reference to this gem ot the ocean. One comes with expectation of great enjoyment and leaves it reluctantly and with an Inward determination to come again at some not far distant day, Some new delights in changeful sea and sky come with each new day, and on the land the summer pastimes are rendered more enjoyable by the invigorating air, fresh from the ocean. Many of the drive- ways on this side of the island are concreted, and therefore commend themselves to the Yotaries of the silent wheel, from the expert who docs wonderful things upon the unicycle PARADISE. down through the ranks of the tricyclists and bicyclists to the youngster who sits proudly »ver his velociped@. Machines may be hired at fiity cents per hour, and in the morning and early evening hours they are seldom long upon the stand. After the arrival of the evening mail, Cirenit avenue presents a very lively appearanc Pedestrians and riders mingie in apparenuly dangerous confusion, but as everybody is con- siderate and nobody'is in a hurry, no accident ceurs and the electric lights shine upon a HOME MATTERS. USEFUL HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD—DECO- RATIONS FOR THE BEDROOM—CLEANING SIL: VER AND GLASSWARE—TOOTHSOME DAIX- TIES FOR THE TABLE, ETC. BRAN WATER FOR CLEANING MATTING.—A lady says that she has found bran water excel- lent for cleaning matting. For an ordinary- sized room infuse two handfuls of bran, put in ‘a bag in half a gallon of boiling water, pressini the bag so that all the goodness of the bran will be in the water, Dilute this water and wash the matting with a woolen or crash cloth, dry- ing with another cloth immediately. By re- peating this process every fortnight for that is much used the matin retains Its good appearance and is kept perfecily clean. REFRACTORY LaMP Wicks.—Sometimes the lamp wick obstinately refuses to be turned up in an orderly manner. It will seem firmly wedged t one side while the other rans up in a int, causing weariness and yexation of spirit, 0 overcvine this depravity take a new Wick; draw out a single thread near the selvedge ani the wick will be found quite tractable wien in- troduced into the burner. ‘The cogs will take It Up properly and it will appear in good form and give an even flame when lighted. SHRIMP SaxDWIcHEs will be relished for lunch. Melt one ounce of butter in a saucepan, and add to it gcupful of shrimps and half a teaspoontul of finely minced parsley, seasoniny with a teaspoonful ot Worcestershire sauce an\ happy crowd. It is a crowd now with six thousand or so, but when the twenty thousand of this month of carp meetings are all here the hive must be full Indeed. Betore coming to the Vineyard we had sone diMeuity in disentangling the names and loca tions, and will here set down the results of our Investigations in that direction, that any late comer may have the benefit’ thereof. The munielpality of Cottage City includés the most familiar names—Oak Bluffs, Wesleyan Grove (the Methodist camp ground) and Vine- ard Highlands (the Baptist camp ground). he post office for all three is Cottage City: The first and second are divided only by Cireuit avenue, and the second and third by two small ponds, between which is a broad road. A horse railroad conneets the two camps, and a narrow: ate railroad extends irom the Oak Binfs landing six miles to Edgartown andei to Katama, whieh is « hotel with a few cottages, and where you are very near the South Beaclt With the ocean dashing its waves of translu- ceut green upon a sandy shore. The Methodist camp meeting was first hela here in 1835. At this first meeting there were only a rough shed for the preacher's stand, a few plank seats and nine tents. About a thou- Sand people were present. In 1869 an awning bad taken the place of the shed, many cot- ages had been built, and on the Sunday of the camp meeting “Gov. Clattin presided, the Hut- elinson family sang and Henry Wilson ad- dressed 30,000 people. Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman preached, and nearly seventy conversions were reported.” ‘the awning was replaced by the present iron tabernadte in 1879; It has a seat- ing capacity of 4,000, and, though a portion of the original grove of oaks still shadows the ground, many of them have given way tw Walks dnd lawns, Which with the hundreds of tastetul cottages standing with thelr wide open doors, make almost envious the passer-by, who is “only here for « few days—going to-morrow.” Oak “Bluits, only the other side of Circuit avenue, was ‘started by a company. Hero the Jand as Well as the cottages is owned by indi- Siduals, while at the camp grounds the cottaes y are owned, the ground being leased. Vineyard Highlands, ine youngest of the three organizations, is upon the highest ground jo this Vicinity, and like them, overlooks the waters of Vineyard Haven, now blue in the sunlight, nest grey beneath the clouds. ‘There are no mosquitves, of course, and I only saw two flies in turee days, The climate is milder than upon the maiuiand and the water re- ported as being many degrees warmer than Upon the northern side of Cape Cod. Cottages may be rented, iurnished, at $50 for the season, and board with rooms niay be had a little cayenne pepper, Let the mixture heat for five minutes, stirring constantly. Spread the sandwiches with the mixture or serve on toast, BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. —This recipe for blackberry cordial is excellent: To one gallon of blackberry juice add four pounds of granu- lated sugar; boil and remove all the scum; then add one ounce of cloves, one ounce of cinna- mon, ten grated nutmegs, and boil until quite rich.’ Let it cool and settle; then pour off the clear liquid very carefully and add to this one pint of good brandy. On no account use infe- rior brandy, Bottle and cork tightly, Whisky may be used instead of brandy, but for medici- nal purposes the brandy is preferable. BECHAMEL isa rich white French sauce, and here is a delicious mode of making it: Cut into pieces two pounds of lean veal and halfa pound of lean ham; put them into a stew pan with two ounces of butter; let the whole simmer ten minutes, taking care it does not brown; then add three or four green onions, a iew mush- rooms, and a sprig of parsley allcut up, a blade of mace, and a econpoun ra of white pepper; Pour over these a pint of veal broth or stock, and simmer till reduced half. Skim and strain it. Put it over the fire with haifa pint of good creain, thickened carefully with a tablespoon- ful of flour, and simmer for half an hour. PANELS For A BED Ruo.—Two panels for @ bed room arefrom German designs. One is a lake with lily pads, the snowy blossoms half open, “dreamily awaiting the night.” Golden and purple tris rise gracefully from one sid drooping stalk supporting a scroll with “Der Abend.” In the background hill and wooded ‘slope are reflected in the water, the whole suf- fused with the opalescent tints that glow be- tween sunset and dark. The companion panel bears a cluster of vari-colored poppies distilling sivep. A horned owl perches on ascroll with “Die Nacht.” Darkiing clouds torm the back- ground, a space of night blue sky showing “tne crescent moon low hung in air.” BoILine Lerruce.—it the lettuce is not deli- cate enough for salad, cut it in pieces and boil itsoft in water slightly salted; when cooked, drain every drop of water irom the leaves, Put some flour in a pan with some butter on the fire, and let it cook until it is yellow; turn tne lettuce in it, and let it boil once or twiee. Pour some stock over the lettuce; iet it boil once again, and, just beiore serving, pour in a little cream. A little nutmeg is sometimes liked. A Denicrous OMELETTE may be made by this recipe: Into a quarter of a pound ot dry ‘in cottages) for irom $10 to $14 per week. There are several large hotels. DATE. —~<e+——____ A POOR MAN AT SARATOGA. How One Can Live There and Drink the Waters at Moderate Rates. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR. SARATOGA, August 4. An impression seemsto prevail that Saratoga is the resort of only the world fashion, or what is commonly calied society people, and that none but the very wealthy can afford tocome here. True, it is a great resort of fashion and the display of wealth in dress, and the magnificent turnouts with liveried coachmen and footmen is probably not equaled by any other resort in the country, unless it is New- port later in the season. The larze hotels and some of lesser magnitude are furnished in a style in keeping with the wealth of their mil- lionaire guests. These magnificent palaces are not full, oreven open but a iew months in the ear, and this compels the’ proprietors to ke these votaries of fashion prices. that houe but wealthy persons can afford to pay. But there ure plenty’ of places in the smaller hotels and private boarding houses where good. board and the quiet of home life can be had at moderate prices and. the free uxe of the waters of the various springs. I say free, because you hace only toxgive the boy who dips the water for you @ lew cents occasionally. The old Con- ress and the Hathorn springs are near the large hotels, and are the most frequented. These two and the Empire are mucii alike in the quality of the water, ‘Tue Hatborn is the strongest and the Empire mext. The Vicby and the Geyser are near w- gether, but the Waters of each ean be had in tbe. Village. It is # benutiful drive out there. I went out with agentieman from Georgia, Who says the Vicby water has made a new man of bin. He drank no less than seven glasses in tne | fifteen minutes we were there. AU6 p,m. I take my quart bottle, go to the spring, drink what 1 waut, beve my bottle tilied, give the at- tendant five'cents and go back to my room at my hotel, I stay ata temperance house. Pray- ers are held in the large purlors atlter breakfast, where those who choose can atiend. There i generally some clergyman, a guest of the Louse, who oificiates. The house is pieasan tly located, and there are at least haif adozen springs, i ciuding those I bave named, within toursquares of the House. There are at present seventy-tive oreighty guestsat the house; the majori I think, ave ladies. The terms are trom $1.25 to | $2.50'per day, according to the rooms occupied | and the length oi time. [pay but $2.5) room and board. for myself’ and wife aad b: agood, pieasaut room.” I have given these pare | Uculars thinking possibly that some clerks in the departinents migut want to come bere bat be deterred by the charges of the large hotels. re ———+-e+_____ | Back From the Grave. |awo WomEN's CURIOUS MISKAKE ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF A BIGAMOUS HUSBAND. An Atlanta, Ga. special says: A queer turn has occurred in @ mystery which bas puzzled courts, railroad officials and two women. Atong the fourteen people killed in the fright- ful accident on the Georgia Pacifle railroad in December, 1884, was a traveler who was iden- das J. P, Weaver, a hotel keeper and cattle er irum Texas. His widow promptly came im to bis effects, and. prepared ipate in the suits for’ dainages brought the railroad company by relatives of ims, Outat Indianapolis was another woman who for a year previous had been mourning the unaccountable dixappearance of | her husband, J. W. Pierce. She read the news | paper descriptions of the men killed at the dis: | aster and it occurred to her that that of J.P. | Weaver tallied, precisely with the personal ap- pearance of J. W. Pierce. Sue made the jour- ney to AUlanta, nad the corpse exhumed and | ab once decided that it was that of ber husband, | Tae two widows comparea notes and figured | out a periectly reasonable theory that when the man bad Jeft Indianapolis he had located in Texas, married there for the second time and was.on a business trip when he met. bis | death. This supposition ts now exploded by | the iact that Pierce or Weaver turned up here | to-day. Siuce the accident, which brougt the | story of his vigamy into notoriety, Le bas been In hiding tor fear of criminal prosecution. It | now remains to be determined who the man was who Was killed Iu the accident and whom both women sincerely believed to be their husband. ————_+e+____ | | Ligwrs1ne’s STRANGE PRANKS.—During the | thunderstorm in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday witeruoon the lightaing struck’ the residence of Charles Meyer, the coustabie, who lives on Jacob street, between Hancock’ and Clas, and in twinkling played a number of strange pranks. Mrs. Meyer and several of the sual | Was Knocked to the por, though no one seriously burt. | When they recovered, to their | Yas “In hanging baskets and in great pots were astonishment they found that the plastering on | one side Of the room had Leen stripped ciean | from the wall for a width of about two feet fy way from he ceiling to the floor, Tue eda | wuere it was torn Off were asa straight us if | measured by a ruler and as s | wenisel, Itwas found also that the w: | was leaiciug and a littie round bole was ered th: iit hid been made with an au lie Oder of ozone, Wile Is often te ticed after a storin, was strongly prevalent. Be sides tue work at Meyers tue boil also kuocked au the chimuey caps from a neighbor's house, Mrs. Meyer says that there Was a flash accom: Panying the siroke which resembied the explo- sion of a bail oi fire. discov- coo Midsummer. ‘Steeped in broad sunlight lies the bill | Ip morning's beauty, Cum and still, ‘The doating ciouds at auebor lie Like snowy argosies om high, No bird-note wakes a noontide’s hush Bave happy wren or lonely tare Beside tue broos iu covert deep | Wilere tetmper blossoms nodding sleep. Again the white pond lily floats Upon tue stream ity iairy boats, Au the cvol caves of suftenes gloom ‘The meadow sweeis and orchis bloom, ‘Without the land fs hot and dim, ‘The stabole tieids in langour swiin, wast lave Is gray With dust And rag Weeds wear their crown of rust, ‘The aspen leaves are scarce anti ‘The locust seude his drewiug whire, And heraidiag tue sultry uch ‘he fervid sun sinks out of sgh. ———~so.— Veterans of the 23d Pennsylvania regiment (Birney’s Zouaves) on Thursday unvelied in imposing 12-foot Quincy granite monument on Caip’s hall, at children were shocked, and one of tue children | er pipe | sifted flour mix one tablespoon{ul of herbs so finely minced as to be almost powder, a ltttle sait, cayenne pepper and & saltspooniul’of pow- dered sugar. Beat three eggs very light, and add io them ove tablespooniul of mushroom catsup, the juice of two large tomatoes and a cup of 'warni milk; stir in the flour by degrees aud irya delicate brown, This amount will make two omelettes. A CHESTNUT SAUCE.—A cheap and delicous sauce is becoming very generally used for boiled fowls. Roast a dozen chestnuts till quite ten- der, pound them to a smooth paste, with a tea- spoouiul of suit, half as much white pepper, and spoonfuls of cream, or iicream is An Ounce of butter. "Put the paste pan, aud mix with it by degrees half @ pint of boiling milk or cream; stir tll fully blended, then pour over or around the fowls. Toasr.—Many seem to think that they have made wast when they brown the outside of a siiee of bread. Have @hey? The object in making toast Is to evaporate all moisture from the bread, and holding a slice over the fire to singe docs not accompiish this; Itoniy warms the moisture, making the inside of the bread hy and’ decidedly indigestible. ‘The true way of preparing it 15 to cut the bread into slices a quarter oi an inch Unick, trim off all crust, pat the slices into a pan or plate, place them into an oven—which must not be too hot—take them out when a delicate brown, and butter at once, To CLEAN GLASS AND SILVERWARE.—Egg shells crushed into small bits aud shaken well in decanters three parts filled with cold water will notonly clean them thoroughly, but make the glass look like new. By rubbing with a flanuel dipped in the best waiting, the brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked. Again, ail of us are aware that emery powder will remove ordinary stains from the white ivory kuiie bandies, and that the luster of morocco leather is restored by varnishing with white of egg. Nothing, it is said, is better to clean silver with than aleobol or ainmonia, finishing with a little whiting on 4 soft cloth. ” When putting away the sliver tea 0+ cotfee pot which Is not in use every day, lay suick across the top under tire cover. This will ow iresh air to get in aad prevent the musti- hess of the contents familiar to boarding-house sufferers. VEAL on CHICKEN HasH.—Cold veal makes very nice hash, and cold ciicken may be used in the same way. Chop the meat very fine, and tos cup allow a cup of Sinely chopped potato (cold boiled potatoes suouli be always on hand When hash ts Wanted), two-thirds of a cup of fine bread crumbs, an’ egg, a tablespoonzul of butter and saltand pepper to laste. Put one- halt cup of water or iuilk ina saucepan, add the butter, one-half teuspoontal of sais, a little pepper if liked, and wuen boiling hot stir in the bash, whieh should be well mixed together in the chopping-tray, and stir till well heated through. Reinove irom tue fire, put the roil- pans On the siove to heat, and’ butter them Well. Beat te egg and. Sur into the hash, aud when the roli-paus begin to stoke put a table spooutui in eaeh, dividing the remainder as evenly a8 you can if there is more tian this amount. Smooth over the tops and putinto a hotoved till nicely browned. Turn out on a hot plate aud serve as soon as possible, Corued veet or any kind of fresh meat may be used in this way. ———_+e+_____ Roof Life in New York. From the Providence Journal The roots ot New York are very Interesting. Much that would not be suspected by a stranger in the streets goes on upon these eriai platforms avove the heads of the masses, From the Brooklyn bridge I have seen that topmost stratum of the city fairly alive with people on wfine autumn evening. On one roof were to be seen some shop girls waltzing to the music of a concertina in the hands of a young man seated on the raised wail-top between that house and next. On anotuer was a merry party of dren ‘filling the upper air with the melody of their singing. Over yonder were two lovers, hand in baud talking earnestly; and soin one pluce alter another were Wo be seen persons Wiser than thelr tellows, seeking the quiet and aratuvely pure aif ubove the uproar and wnt atmosphere of the lower stories und the streets, A yeur or two ago, being invited to dine with some Cubans Ihud met in their own land, 1 went to their address in the neighborhood ‘ot the Ceutral park, and was suown up by the servant—where do you suppose? To the root, Tne Cubans understand tue seience of taking every advantage of the open air. Itthey did. not do so on thelr native isle they would ‘all cook, like so many loaves ina vaker's oven, 1 tound tue root where Unis family nad gathered & place unique among the housetops of New York, An irun framework enclosed the great suet of tn, and from its posts was hung & pretty awnihy of blue and white striped can- broad leaved topic plants, aud wo or three birds in pretty cages swung ‘amoug the flowers, A complete set of lurniture, ail of cane or wicker work, except the table, completed the appointments. Tuere were rockers aud easy cnutits and seitecs of split cane in whieh to loll and lounge and read und sew. ‘There, ia a de- lightful breeze that Kept the riovous of the lauies all u fluttering, we ate adinuer that I would not have exchanged forany that was served in any hot and stuily dining room in the city on tat night, chs sad ng Oe a A Magnigp MAN’s ELorEemeNt.—Goorge J. Fowler, of Coruaudt, N.Y. and Miss Susi¢ Chantery, of Adrian, Mich, Who are alleged to have eloped, have been ih Whitman, Muss, passing us man and wife. Kowser owns prop erty tuere. The young lady ix 23 years old, and sie und her supposed Husband were weil received tuere. A uewspaper wus shown to them contsmuing the account of their alleged elopement Fowler said that be left bis wile six montas ago, and that at present a suit ior divorce is pending. Hls wiie and their child are with her moiuer in Syracuse. Fowler and Miss Coaniery lefton the midnight train tor Boston, where they are now supposed to be. Fow.er says that ie will not give up the young lady, and a trip tw Europe is tureatened in case the pursuit becomes too warm, ‘Tux CLosiNG Session oF THEG.A.R. EXCAME- MENT.—At Thursday's session of the Grand Army ol the Kepublic Encampment, at San Franetsco, it was resolved (hat meetings of the Batioual Gucampmeut Ue held: vetween Aprit and November instead 0° May and September, as.at present. This was in detereuce to the wishes ofsouthere members. ‘Lhe proposition toadopt Upton’s Lactics wus rejected. ‘The recommen- dation of the department ot “Muryland to give reference ib pul jous w i ther disabled teased on toe morning of July 3,18 hanged soldiers, whet OF not, Was e was adopied. THE MODEL REPUBLIC. A Pure Demoerncy,—Where Elections are Honest, and Officials are not Snobs. ‘Watterson’s Swiss Letter in the Louisville Courier- Journal. The Swiss Confederation is, next to San Ma- Tino, which is a mere toy Republic, the oldest Tepresentative government of the modern world. It 1s a model of Jeffersonian simplicity. The Congress meots twice a year, and rarely extends its sessions over three weeks. Its mem- bers recelve $4 a day during its sittings. There isa Federal Council of seven, one of whom is chosen as President for one year. This Council Is elected by the Congress. There is no cam- brous Electoral College, as with us, and no long, or second, or third terms, The popular elections are held in the churches, and the corruption of voters, or the stuffing of the ballot-box, or rioting about the polls is wn- known. A civii-service law, unwritten, but real, Prevails, and good men grow old and die in the Public service. Nowhere, except in the army, 1s age a disqualifier, The Swiss statesmen are all gray-haired, and a cursory glance ata sitting of the Swiss Congress gives the impression of & smali human snow-storm. Ostentatious displays, either of oratory or of living, are as unheard of as official manneriém, inaccessibility and bombast. The beggar on horseback has never penetrated these fast- nesses, The corner-stone of the circumlocution office has not been laid. There are no public debt and no surplus, My friend, the Hou. A. Dudley Mann, who negotiated the first treat between the United States and Switzerian told me a characteristic and amusing Eat ot dinner given him by the Federal Counell ju before bis depar.ure from Berne, which nearly bankrupted the national treasury. I think he sald that, out of a surplus on hand of two hu: dred and seventy-five dollars, this banquet left Jess than one hundred dollars subject to the President's drait. Mr, Winchester, our present Minister, to whom I mentioned this, declared that timé has in no wise lessened the trugality of the Swiss authorities, They receive the most meager salaries, and make no pretense at cere- mony, In transacting business with the Swiss Gov- ernment, one dves not have to cool his heels in an ante-room or pass the gantlet of a line of in- svlent underlings to reach the head of a De- partment. The Swiss Senator is not a mendi- cant at home, bowing and cringing to the dear peavles anda pompous lordiet at Berne, too usy to do anything and toogreat to be useful. ‘He is the same amoug his constituents and av the Federal capital, The country is too small for little thunderbolts to put on airs and the people are too straightforward and intelligent wlerate the shame and frauds which current in larger and more complicated tems. Yet this simple, free and happy, upright and economic system has flourished for 500 years, and is at this moment as stable and unshuken as it ever was, a pure Democracy and a perfect Republicanism. Americans take off your hats and salute it! oe State Elections of 188: Alabama elects Congressmen November 2. Arkansas elecis State officers and Legislature September 6; Congressnien November 2. Calltornia elects State officers, Legislature ‘and Congressmen November 2. Colorado elects State officers, Legislature and Congressman November 2, Connecticut elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen Novemoer 2. Delaware clects Governor, Legislature and Congressman November 2. Florida elects Legislature and Congressmen November 2 aud votes upon the proposed new Constitution of the state which was framed by the convention which met in 1885. Georgia elects State officers and Legislature October 6; Congressmen November 2. Iltinols elects minor State officers, Legislature and Congressmen, November 2, and votes upon. & proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State to abolish the contract system In the prisons of the state. Indiana elects minor State officers and Con- gressmen November 2. Towa elects minor State officers and Congress- men Noveinber 2. Kansas elecis State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. Kentucky elects Congressmen November 2. Louisiana elects Congressmen November 2. Maine elects Governor, Legislature aud Con- gresemen September 13, Maryland elecis Congressmen November 2 Massachusetts elects State officers, Legisla- ture and Cougressmen November 1 Michigan elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. Minnesota elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2, atid votes upon a proposed amendmeat to thé Constitution of the State to fuctittate the erection of county and scnool buildings, Alississippi elects Congressmen November 2, Missouri elects minor State officers aud Con- gressinen Noveinber 2. braska clecis State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. evada elecis State officers, Legislature and Congressman November 2. New Hampshire elects Governor, Legislature and Congressinen November 2. iew Jersey elects Governor, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. New York elects a Judge of the Court of Appeals, Assemblymen and Congressmen No- vember 2, and votes upon the question of hold- {ug u convention to revise the Constitution of the State, North Carolina elects Justices of the Supreme Court, Legislature and Congressmen Novem- Ohio elects mi men November 2, ‘Uregon elected State officers, Legislature and Congressman Sune 7, Pennsylvania clects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. Rhoue island elected State officers and Legis- lature April 7, and ratitied the proposed amendinents W the Constitution of the State, one oi which prouibits the sale of intoxicating liquor and the other admits foreign-born Union. ex-soldiers and sullors to citizenship. Elects Congressmen November 2. South Carvlina clots State officers, Legisla- ture and Congressmen November Tennessee elects Judges of the Supreme Court August 5; elects Governor, Legislature and Jongressmeu November 2. ‘Texas elects: State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November 2. Vermont elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen September 7. Virginia elects Cougressinen November 2. West Virginia eieets Legigiature aud Con- gressmen November 2. Wisconsin elects State officers, Legislature and Congressmen November es soe Sleeping Cars with Bath-rooms, 1m the Kailway News. Sleeping curs with bath-rooms are the latest. Some of these have been placed on the Cana dian Pacific railway, and tired and dusty trav- elers who cross Lhe continent will be able to take a thorough wash at apy time during the journey. These cars also have buffets, smoking rooms and all the ovher latest sleeping car improve- ments which tend to make long distance jour- heys comfortable and enjoyable. The Canadian Pacific owns and operates its own “sleepers,” aud they are Sulltand forotshed in a manner almost regardiess of expeune. Nye this or State officers and Congress- ri -o——_—__ ‘The Decadence of England. ‘Henry Watterson in the Louis. tle Courier-Journal. Engiand is on the down grade. She has reached the top of the acclivity, and is pausing &@ moment on the summit betore she begins the descent. Whatever may be the future ut Ireland, it isa simple question of population and opportunity as to Australia and Canada. Democracy has planted bis foot upon English soil, and feudalism, with her prerogatives and Uuds, must yo, Except in the wealth o1 its members, the House of Lords is hardly more tuau a tradition, Royalty itself is littie other tuan afigure-neud, Macaulay's New Zealander, sitting Upon @ parapec of London bridge and surveying the tins ol St. Paul’s cathedral, may have been only the vision of a lively imaginu- tion; but time may prove it a prophecy. Tue robber barons, wio built tuele funpregna- ble casties upon tue rock-ribved turrets of the Kuine, lixe thelr modern descendants who have built weir tortunes in the American tariif, recked LiLUle the day of wrata; but behold Upon'the beautisul river, and ull tue way irom Awtlerdam to tue Lake of Constance, one con- tinuous procession of crumbling Walis, shattered towers, breken draw-vridges and dry moais. The giory of ichubod has departed, so may depart ube glory of England. ‘Lhe great houses, waicu, like the fastnesses of feudal umes, over: hang ‘the golden siream of commerce and fuusuce that Hows through Lombard street the great Louses, W1.ich like tue casties and palaces i the Palatinate, rise amid the gardens of May Fair; the great houses, waich, like the Roman forum, turn custom into law, wad give to man- kind iéssous in statecrait and Jurisprudence— even the great Keep of Windsoi, gir. round by its primeval towers, the sy1uboi und the shrine Of Lue consuiuution of Engiand—may puss away as compieiely us Lue Acropolis at Aiueus yd become buts tue remainsof an anuquity onfty w lite more spiendid than that oi the Romans and the Greeks, Life is a sayloek. ‘Life ts a Shylock: always it demands 1 be {uuiest od: €F 9 tutes Gt IF ewch treasure, Giits ure not trey scattered irda tts hands, We wake xeturiis lor every borrowed (reasure, Each talent, ench acuievement and each gain ‘Necessitules sume peuaity WW pay. Delight imposes lassitude and paid, As Certainly as darkuess 1olows day, All you bestow on causes, or on men, ‘Ot iove, or hate, of malice or devotion, SOuchow, so... Ute, suall be returned again, ‘there is no wasted Oil, no sust emution. ‘The motto of tue world 1s, “Give and take.” it gives you lavors—oul of sheer good will, ‘But Wulees speeuy recompense you wink You'l: anu yoursel presenveu with its When rapture comes to thrill the heart of ‘Take it with fewperod gratitude; remember” Sone later te tae inteieat will fall ane, "No year brings June taut dues nocbri GENTILES INDIGNANT OVER CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.—A dispatch trom Sali Lake City says: ‘The Gentes are indignant that Con- {Tess hus stricken out the appropriation to re imburse District Attorney Dicksun tor money advanced to carry on the business of bis oftiee: Througa such advance Mr. Dickson was @ple collect on torielted bonds and pay into the Treasury $25,000 on Canuon’s bond, — or ‘There is a young lady in Burlington so sens Uve thatshé cannot see a railroad cut with- ‘out feeling burt uerself—Lurlington sree Press, THE COLOR oF ‘THE SEA. Different Theories Advanced te Account for Its Many Changes. ‘From Sclence for All, ‘The changes in the color of the sea have at- tracted the attention of seafaring men from the earliest times, Numerous theories were offered in explanation of these changes, some ascribing them to the varying color of the sea bottom, some to the difference in depth, others to the Presence of certain coloring substances, others, ‘gain, to the chemical composition of the Water. Most of these suggestions contained an element of truth, although no one of them, taken by itself, sufficed to account for altera- tion in color which bad often been observed to occur in the course of = few hours’ sail, and [eiihin a distance measuring less than @ ship’ Of late years, as the reader is aware, numer ous scientific expeditions have been fitted out and dispatched by the governments of Eng- Jand, Norway and America for the express pur- ose of exploring the secrets of the deep. Among the problems which have now for the first time received u satisfactory solution, new Hght hay also been thrown upon the conditions which affect the color of the sea water in every Part of the ocean, thus completing the informa- Uon for which we were indebted to the unaided exertion of earlier travelers. Que of the most Temarkable and most widely distributed con- trasts of color is that which 1s known to exist between the intensely blue seas situated be- teen the tropics and the green seas of higher latitudes. It appears, as the result of recent observations, and more especially Of a series of periments made on board the German trigate Gazelle, that there is au intimate relation be- tween the colors of sea water and the propor- tion of salt held in solution by the latter. On comparing the specific gravity of green water with thavof blue water,it was found that tae later is always heavier than the former, and, thereiore, contaius more salt, the two difte colorea waters being supposed to have same temperature. In other words, the greater or less intensity of the blue color ot’ sea water may be taken as a direct index of its saltness and of ils specific gravity, so that when we observe the color of the water successively chunge from a deep blue Wa blueish green and adark green we may conclude that the water has beoume at the Same time less salt and less heavy. ‘This result agrees with the experience of navigators in every part of the ocean, for as the vessel pro- evens from the dense and salt waters of the tropical regions toward the lighter and fresher Waters of higher latitudes aud ot the polar re- gions the color of the sea Is seen to change from 4n intense blue to agreenish blue and green tint. ‘There are, however, numerous excep- tions. Green sexs are inet with between the tropics, and blue seas are encountered in the temperate regicn aud even within the Arctic Circle, but titese exceptions, fur from contra- dicting, only tend to contirm ‘the above rules. A Shelf for Emergencies. From Good Housekeeping. If there is anything that adds to one’s com- fort inan emergency it isa closed shelf pre- pared for emergencies, That is clear. Acci- dents, nervousness, sudden pain, midnight calls for help, parcels that want doing up, broken crockery or ornaments, all find a ready answer to their calls on this carefully prepared shelf, It is so easy to prepare and keep in order, can be small or large, as one decides to confine Its con- tents to a few things or enlarged to many. I intend to give a list for the smallest one that I think it advisable for any one to keep, be she Keeping house or boarding. First of all come the things that are to be ready for illness, sud- den or otherwise: Camphor for faintness, head— ache, or a sudden attack of diarrhoza, although for the later there Is nothing equal to a table- spoonful of raw flour in a ylass of cold water, tobe taken In two doses halt an hour apart. closely covered little box of raw flour is easily kept on the shelf, to be often renewed lest it get musty. A small’Uin can of flour and mustard, mixed in equal parts, ready to mix into a pasté for a mustard plaster, 1s to me a pleasanter arrangement tor a hustily required mustard plaster than the “mustard leaves” ready at the drug stores. In a litle box besides this can Should be old linen and cotton rags /or the other half of the plaster, as well as for cuts aud bruises; also a strip of flannel a “finger” broad e-quarters of a yurd long, to put upon the outside of a cotton cloth, several times folded and wet in cold water, tor a compress tor asore throat, Keep your ease of court-plaster in this box Of rays, and a spool of white linen thread, both conveniently near the necessary pair ot'smail scissors, Camphvrated vil, which Is best when made at home by dissolving camphor gum in warm olive oil until no more will dissolve, is Invalu- ble In sore throats, or chests ora Cold on the lungs. Rub in well, and_ there will be no cold taken afterward, as'there is after the old-lash- foned “goose-grease.” there is nothing for chapped bands equai_to glycerine and tincture of hydrastis, fiteen dropsor the latter toan ounce of glycerine, Wash the hands in warm water thoroughly, and belore drying rub in @ little or good deal'of the mixture, according to the need: Tannin, a dry, greenish powder, is a great comiort where ‘ja sudden severe nose bleed occurs in the family. Once snuffing it_up well into the nostrils generally ends the trowbl Tannin forms, with water, a good gargle for sore throat, as ‘it isa healing astringent. 1t is the best thing I know of for severe chaiing, especially for infants, Extract of hamamelin is anotner indispensable tor this emergency shelt. Itis really good tor neurly all the ills mentioned on the wrapper of the bottle, On principle, my emergeucy shelf always holds Olive oil, alcohol uud winmonia, Hot summer days and headaches find me gratetul for: my bay rum botiie. According to my saith, I keep twelve principal homeopathic remedics aad a little book of directions ior their simple use. My faith waxes stronger with tue passing years, and my family Is uliving monuinent to Uelr often eiliciency. I quite torgot to put aruica in my remedy list, ailuougu it is ‘de- eidedly second to tincture v1 colendulu for culs or wounds, Both are to be diluted with water when used. Itis very pleasant to turn from the above list and point you to my mucllage bottie. How many tines you will use it if convenient on ius she, Next it sould stand @ boitie of Stratina, or one of its relauions in the cement tauiiy.” If Clytie’s head comes off, er the butter-dish cover breuks in two, or your iavor- ite cuina cup gets into so ununy bits oat iL Will y do for an oruament ailer @ vigorous Us of the cement, you wiil be glad of tne remedy. A boltle of side-pollsh or & box of saoe-paste is u naudy thing wuen one dresses in a hurry, Last, Dut Hot lewst, comes a ball of twine. Ti You are fortunate enoug to possess a silk bag, With pretly ribbons and a pair of scissors, 1 hold your string buli,itis deligutiul, Uiberwise @ buii on the end ot ‘the emergency shelf will Save much haating for strings and much vexu- tion oF spirit, ———+e+___ How to Tell When a Person is Dead. From the Medical and Surgi.al Reporter, While we ure decidedly in favor of cremation, we do not admit that the fear of being buried alive should be a reason to cause us to reject burial aud wo adopt cremation, There are two simple tests by which we can always convince ourselves whether a person is really dead or not. One test is the samme tuat has veeu crowned with prize by the French govern- meut, which bad for Years offered & large rewurd for the discovery of any method,always applicable, always relidvle, and one tuat may ve practiced by the most ignorant, The method of determining actual deata, Which Was consid ered by the “French goverument as being worthy of the reward, is the iollowing: When the tingers o: a person who is supposed tw be dead are tully extended, but kept near togethe: and it placed in froutot a candie lignt in a duck rooin & peculiar bright red color, due to the capillary circulation, will be visible wuere the fingers touch euch other, li there is any lite lett. ‘Luis vest Has thus far proved the most reliable. ‘The other is bused upon the well-known tuct that the muscies of 4 human being will never respond for # louger Lime to the strongest elec- trical current than for one nour and a halftter death; witie as long as life last, may its evi- dences be ever so litile, the contractility of the muscles, if nut affected by some forms of paraly- sis—und in cases thus alfeeted, when death Seems to occur, It alway's is reai—remains, What is Playing mash With New Eng- land. Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune, Aramble through New England at this sea- son of the year is “instructive. In Massachu- setts the woman question is @ problem of curious study. Over in Boston petitions have been prepared and sent to Congress asking per- mission to import Chinese us servants on giv. ing bond that the foreigners shall_not become pubile charges. Yet there are 60,000 more women than men in Musyachusetts. A bosrd- ing-house proprietress recently delivered her- self of this lament: “Because the Women have been spolied by fucory work tuey have come to look on household Work as iuierior, ‘They muke better wages in the factories, and so, al- though the tactory work is now light, they ‘will not work at auytning else, You can scarcely get a woman to come and was! for you. ‘Then, two, the women ure intellectual, as bhey call it, and get above any work, Some of them who are prime housekeepers, if tacy only set about At preier to spend tueir Lme lu writing rhymes, aug stories, wud sentiment tor the papers.” But it is not merely the women who are averse to manual iabur turough New England. J, P. Aukinson, a weil-to-do farmer of Vermont, who Was asked the price of improved iarm lands, said they were worth from $15 to $30 au acre, aud When surprise was expressed at this iow figure he deciared that the same tarms formerly sold tor $7U. Seeking to ascertain the cause Of this reduction, Mr. Auclosonsaid: “Tue young fellows won't ‘work. Those who will Work have gone oif to the west. Those who remain cure more about 1ast horses and other fast things than about tarmiug. Louk about at any of tie rullroad stations und you will find scores of sulkies standing around, When tarmer or 4 farmer's boy gets @ fast horse the farm goes to the devil pretty quick. You can’t hireiurm help even st vig prices, Men have got above it, want to live by their wits or on ‘what thelr fathers accumulated. When David HUI Wok Lue famous oid Biack Hawk stallion into Addison county he caused a loss in tbe value of farm there equal toa million dollars. He tound Hawk in adray in Lowell, Musi. It would have been better for the state of Vermont if ne had never found him, Way, ib literally the farmers all over ihat state.” ‘These two glimpses at the olden civilization of this counuy, the men aud the women alle: 1Ul Of Voll, inditferent to the The History of the British Flag. From the London News, Weare all tamiliar with the white, blue and Fed ensigns, and with the Union Jack which oe cupies the upper quarter nearest the flagstaft. The white ensign has the Red Cross of St.George inaddition to the Union Jack. Without the Jack this white ensign with a red cross repre- sents our old national flag as It existed from the Hme of Richard I until the death of Elizabeth. This red cross flag, the banner of St. George, Appears to have been chosen by the soldier king in honor of the saint who was the soldiers, It remained for more than 40 years the flag under which the English warriors fought on land and on sea, When James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth the Scoteh bad @national flag. That also was a cross, but it Was shaped differently from that of St. George, and was known as the cross of St. Andrew. The ground of the Scotch flag was blue, and its cross was white, To mark the union of the two kingdoms under one sovereign the national banner underwent a chanze, although Scot- land still retained its separate par.iament. In the new flag the two banners of Scot- land and England were united. There ap Reared in it the obiique white cross of St. Andrew on a blue eround, and the red cross of St. George on a white margin, worked in the blue field, The king was accustomed to sign his" name in the French form of James, “Jacques.” He was, in tact, the Union Jacques, or, a8 we improperly pronounce it, Jack. For local purposes the Scotch still continued to use the white St. Andrew's cross on the blue field, and the English the red cross on the white field. It was stated by royal proclamation in 1606 that “whereas some difference hath arisen between our subjects of South and North Britain traveling by seas, about the bearing of their flags; for the avoiding of all such contentions hercatter, we have,With the advice of our cou cil, ordered that irom henceforth all our sub- Jects of this isle and kingdom of Great Britain, and the members thereof, shail bear in thelt maintop the Red Cross, commonly called St. George's cross, and _the white cross, common! ‘and in ‘their foretop our suujects of South Brian shall wear the Red Cross only, as they were wout; and our subjects of North ‘Britain in ubeir foretop the White Cross_ only, as they were accustomed.” In 1707, When the Scoch aud Ei legistatures were united, the distinctive flags ceased to be used, and the united fags us arranged in 1606 became the single ensign for the United Kingdom. twas tue sovereign that made the wuion and established the n: tional flag, and an establishment of distinct legislatures “again would not alter the thas. dreiand would take presumably tor its local e sigu the Red Cross of St. Patrick, This Irish banner ought to have appeared in the Union flag of 1606, but it did not. Ireland had no dis- Mnet recoguition in tbe Union flax uutil 1501, when the Irish aud British legislatures were united. At tuat date tne Union Jack under- went @ further change, und the red diagonal cross of Si. Patrick on a’white field was 1iro- duced, Since that date the Union Juck has shown the red cross and white margi ing the banner of St. George; the white diagonal and blue field of St. Andrew's banner, and tie | red diagoual cross of St. the white diago: ‘The biue ground of the Jack is therefore due to Scotland, aud the red and white as crosses and margins to England and to Ireiaud, ne An Sammer. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CARE AND COMFORT OF OUR DUMB FRIENDS. The American Humane association presents the following suggestions relative to the care of animals during the heated term: Provide water—fresb, pure water, Think, reader, how you are refreshed by @ driuk of cool water on a hot day. The lower animals aro equally in need of the means of quenching thirst. The active dog requires drink frequently during the hot day, as does aiso the cat; and a dish of fresh water should stad where they can have access to 11. Undoubtedly many a dog fs driven to madness through lack of water; and the testimony is that bydropbobia is Almost entirely unknown in those ivcalities Where dogs can drink when they wisn. Every city, village aud couniry town shoul be liberally Supplied with drinking fountal for anitnals, aud they should be so constructed tat even the smaliest dogs can drink from them. No gift to a peopie confers a greater pleasure than a fountain, and that person who turns aside a stream froin a fleid aud gives a watering trough to the roadside, or provides a fountain at which man and beast can drink pure water, is truly a public beuetactor. Give the horse irequent opportunity to quench Luirst at times when not too inuch over- heated, and vefore eating. To drink freely immediately alter eating prevents a iavorable digestion of tood. Provide shade. ‘How instinctively we seek the shadow when the sun is pouring its bot rays on the dry and parcited earth. if the pasture is not provided with shade trees, in a convenient locality set four, six or elght’ supports, acruss which place straw or grass, aud thus, ina briet time and with littie labor, make a’ shade in Waich animals can rest irom the beat or the sun, to the great comfort ot themselves and benefit to their owners. ‘Remove the harness from the horses in the hot day whenever you desire to give them a full,irce rest,aind once during the day,p at night, a thorough eurrying aad’ grooming will uot only give rest, but will do about as much towards improving the animal's condi- tion as will the oats. Examine the harness on your working team, and you will discover that blinds, eheck-reit and Cruppers are simply torturing contrivances, serving no useful purpose. Take them all off Jor the convenience of yourselves and the com- fort of the horses. Keep the stable well veu- Ulated and tree from the strong ammoni:, Wiilen Is injurious to theeyes. Assist the auit mais to protect tuemseives against flies, feed regulariy, uiteb im the shade, and remeinber thatthe care which will give comfort to the lower animals will make them doubly protita- bie to their owuers, aside from tue humane bearing upon the subject. ———+e+_____ Crime in Paris. From London Lite. According to some curious official statistics Just issued the number of arrests in Paris last year amounted to the enormous number of 36,000, ot which 15,000 were for vagrancy, 30 for murder, 133 for homicide and 86 for night attacks, It I allude to these unsavory statis- lics itis to point out at what a cheap rate lite has come to be held in the gayest of capitals, ‘The audacity of the lowest dregs of the popula- tion bas grown positively alarming, and they commit assaults, play with knives aud other lethal weapons with a freedom that renders it dangerous 10 pass through several good quar- ters of the town after dark. It would bave been far trom desirable during your homeward siroll at night to fallin with aay of the 15,250 outeasts included in the above categories, and their successors may be assumed tw be equally numerous, “if “many of them Selves are not again let loose on socie I do not say that one’s life is in danger on the grand boulevards, but hardly a night passes that ruifians do not signalize their presence within a few yards of them, while in fess central. though almost equaily’ crowded districtsstabbing casesare of daily occurrence. ‘Vhis condition of things has gradually grown from bad to worse, until” Parisians now consider a revolver as indispensable a vade- meeum as aclzarette case. All the younger zen- eration among the well deessed section of so ciety is thus secretly armed for self-defence, buvin defiance of the law. Foreign visitors Paris should, therefore, be on their guard. as well. I canuot wdvise them to carry weapons of any kind, for it they were found in their possession a troublesome scrape would be sure to ensue; but they ought to be careful to avoid lonely streets alter dark, and should not venture On {vot out of the Englishman's usual orbit, ————+e+___ S Specimen Dakota Tales. A GREAT COUNTRY NO DOUBT, BUT STORIES ABOUT IT ARE GREATER, Dakota Letter in Modern Miller. About two weeks ago I~aw a farmer out be- hind a straw stack gathering into a heap a lot of old bones and pieces of hides and sprinkling salton them, Yesterday I saw this same man selling a five pair of steers toa butcher uptown, They were so fat and had filled up so fast that he had bound their hides with an old buffalo rope. This granger was a Sunday school super- intendent before he came to Dakota, but be swore these were the cattle I had seen him kicking together belind the straw stuck. He said all they had eaten was some wild grass that had sprang up in his door yard, where the women foiks iad thrown a few tubs of warm soapsuds on wasb days. He said that he had learned that the best way to winter stock in Dakota was to knock tiem to pieces in the fall and set them up again as wanted; otherwise, unless we get a blizzard every Week, they were Hable toget toofat and round on the native Tass. "'Last fall I stopped at a house to borrow a match to light my pipe with, The man told me to go right out in the garden and pick alll wanted, I did not know what he meant at first; but ne woyt out with ime, and—I'm almost afraid you'll think I'm a lar for tel there was about half an acre grow! finest parlor matches I ever saw. as thi ‘They were as hairs on a bind mule. He said be had @ poor crop the year betore, because the seed was too good for such soil, ‘This year he hud mixed bis seed matches with about one- third toothpicks and got a splendid yield, I went out after breakfast and saw the man blowing up Hubbard squashes with They were too be Of his wite’s legs was about eight inches longer ‘than the other, and the man explained it thus: He said when they first came to Dakota they lived in a “dugout,” with nothing but the ground for a floor, trom which they hud to mow the grass once a day tofind the baby. He his wire had @ babit of sitting with one leg over the other knee, and the leg that remained in ‘contact with the soll got such a start that the ‘other could nevereaten up, E atron of | THE FRENCH ENGINE WHICH IS PLANNED TO EXCEED THE LIMIT. ‘From the Ci einnati Commercial-Gazette, = The day is very recent when the talk of alo- comotive making a mile a minute was received ‘with a due amount of doubt, being almost uni- versally disbelieved. To-day, however, sixty miles an hour is not the limit, and locomotive builders vow essay to increase the speed from ten to fifteen miles above that figure. The latest novelty in chis line is a locomotive de- signed by M. Estrade, a graduate of L’Ecole Polytechnique, which ‘Is to be experimented With on the southern lines of France. M. Ex- trade, convinced of the value of large wheel has fiited his engine, tender and coaches witti Wheels eight and a quarter feet In diameter, The engine is of the outside cylinder type, With slid2 valve on top of the cylinder, and all the gearing carried outside. The following table of iinensions will be read with interest: Total length, teet, Width between long Diameter or wheels eet Distauice between axles, Distance between axles, miucl Cylinders. From axis to axis, f rate surface, square feet. Heating sur-ace. square feet pacity of boiler, cubic feet Weight of engine, empty, tus Weight of engine, loaded, tons.. This locomotive is expected to make an aver- Age speed of irom seventy-two to seventy-elgut miles per hour. The coaches are peculiar tn that they are carried inside iron-girders, while the wheels run under the center of the longita- Ginal seats, Two axles, sixteen feet apart, Sup- port, through elliptic Springs mounted "upon the Oil boxes, these longitudinal girders, witicn have ends curving toward the ground. Each girder carries three other elliptic springs, from Which is suspended, by means of iron rods, the lower frame on which the body ot the car is Supported, The couch is separated into two stories, the lower of which is made in three Pendent sections, with doors, which may be Used as bagzage-rooms, &e. Above is a slagle compartment central passage-w reached b; chi end of the coat and communicating with the train by hinged platforms, the Urial of this new locomotive wili be waiched with great interes! ‘Smi WHY A PITTSBURG MAN WENT OUT OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS, From the Pittsburg Dispatch. “I hear tuat Smith has sold out his saloon,” said one of we uple of middle-aged men, who sat sipping thetr beer and eating a bit of cheese in a Smititield street saloon last Friday might, es,” responded the other, rather slowly. “What was the reason? 1 thought he was Just coining money there The other nibbled a cracker abstractedly for & moment and then said: “It’s rather a funny Story. Smita, you know, lives on Mount Washington, ght near me, where he has an excellent wile, « nice Lome and three as pretty ohitdren as ever played out doors, All’ boys, you know, the oldest _not over nine, and about the Same size. Smith is a pretty respec able sort of a citizen, u and thinks the world “Well, he went he and found his wife out shopping or something of that sort. He went on through the house into the back yard, and there, under an apple tree, were the litle fellows playing. They had Abehch and some bottles aud tumblers a Were playing “keep saloon.’ He noticed that they were drinking something out of a pail,and that they acted Upsy. ‘The youngest, whd was behind the bar, hada towel tied aftound bis Waist, and was’ setting the drinks up pretty free, “Smith walked over and pail. It was beer, aud two of th drunk that they stagge A neigtivor's bo: acouple ot years older, lay asieep behind thé tre “My God. boys, you must not drink that,’ he said.as he lined the six-year-old irom bellind the bench, “ ‘We's playin’ s'loon, papa, an’ I was a sellin’ it fust like you, said the iitie fellow, Smith poured out the beer, carried the drunken be home and then took his own boys in and pu them to bed. When bis w buck she found him crying like a child, He eame ba down town that night and sold out bis business and says he will never seli or drink another drop of liquor. His wile told mine about it, and site broke down crying wile sie told it. This is a true story, but the nume was not Smith, AN INDISPENSABLE ARTICLE OF TOILET WHICH Is ALWAYS WITH MER, From the Chicagu News A hairpin is a woman's best friend. It fits a multiplicity of uses, and she is never without one. If her hair is short you can depend upon. it that in a recess of her purse or a pocket of her reticule you wili find the hairpin, If she buttons her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who ever sa Woman button her gloves with anything else? If her head itches does she scraten it with her finger? Nonsense. She whips out a bairpin and relieves herselt. Suppose a nickel has dropped between the bars of the wooden foot- grate in the street car, Does she soil her fingers asa man Would, and then not get it? Certainly not. Out comes the hairpin, and the coin is Liite@ out without troubie. If her shawl pin is lost, where so good a sub- stitute us the hairpin. It se eats a nut does she take @nutpick? Most assuredly not. The hairpin again. Iv is with the hairpin that she rips open Ue uncut leaves of a book or maga- zine; it is hairpin with which she marks her progress in her favorite boo! key is eleton key would; with it she cleans her finger pais and, if itis clean one, even picks ner teeth. And the feats of hair-securiny that she Will maie a s ple vow-egved hairpin accomplish nearly sur- Passes the beliei of man. Aliogether, It de- serves to be classed among the great inventions Of the world, and the grave of the original nan who created ‘the first one couid have ho prouder epitaph than this: “nis is the kind of hairpin he was.” ————-+e+____ A Hot Day in Carson City. From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal Sunday was a phenomenally hot day for Car- son City. When the sun rose over the edge of the mountains inthe morning ithad about twelve exira degrees of heat on it, and by the time It had been up an hour the tickie grass began to wilt aud the leaves on the cottonwood acted like Lue pitcher of the Chloride ball club, The hens that came out to tuntsiray bugs and wortns surveyed the prospect ior a few 10 ments, took their morning drink and retreated into the shady en-house. By noon it was just blistering, and if you took hold of a brass ddur-knob you thought you were in Sacramento sure. People who got ail dressed for church changed ‘their aninds and, taking off their clothes, put their feet to souk’in a tub of water aud tanned themselves. The sun blazed aud blazed for hours and hours, and never seemed to change its location at all. ‘The dogs crawled under the house along with the eats, bth on good terms tor the time, and cows’ tongues flapped around their forelegs as they walked, ‘The suingics tarned upon the roofs,and when @ .aan walked round the corner the Sweat ran down into his shoes and sprinkled the sidewalk. You could bake a vateh of bread in Geurge Hark’s reirigerator. The solder on the tin roofs melted and ran down into the gutters like rain water, Doc Benton started out with his ice wagon, and belore be gol ig the post office he found he was running a strett-sprinkier, and the street sprinkting cart, right along beuind, was pufliug steam irom ali the eracks in tue box. These are view simple iacts regarding the weather, culled ‘along Main street, irom the truthiul population o: the city, and the Appeal gives them for What they are worth, ONS eee Tairst in Hor WEATHER.—We venture to hope that those who are zealously urging the poliey of retusing to quench their thie Iivtins Lot weather because “drinking makes people more thirsty,” will reconsider their policy trom the physioiogical standpoint, and that they will recoguize that to thirst and drink, ry rspire und drink again, are the natural steps {n'a process by which bature strives to mace tain the integrity Of those organic changes which the external heat bas a tendency vo im- pede. The natural and true policy is to supply an adequate quantity of finid without excess. Tuerefure, do not abstain trom drinking, but drink slowly, 80 as to allow Lime tor the voice of nature tocry “enough.” There is no drink so ‘us pure water. For the sake of favor, aud use the vegetable acids are useful, a‘dash of lemon juice may be added with advant Tne skin should be kept tuirly cool, so thai a sufficient quantity of the fluid taken may pass off by the kidueys.—London Lancet, “Is In a Wire's Duty ai asks a scrupu.vus correspondent of a wesiern, exchange. ‘The editor doubtless has his opio- jon, but he hesitates to express it. If the ques- tion had been addressed to us we should have ‘The impossible is nobody's duty. It is Impossible for a wife always to be pleasant and cheerful. The best the dear old giri can do is to do the best, she can, and, In the case of most wives that is very’ good indeed, and quite equal to thelr husband’s deseris.—syracuse ‘Standard. .ys to be pleasant?” jack. {Pin Tooking for my wedding ring. I've hunted tor it Ligh and low. 1 wouldn't lose it for anything.” “I wouldu t bother about 11,mamma, to the worst you nd | i | Sti Rioting tm Belfast. THE POLICE AGAIN FIRE UPON A CROWD oF WORKINOMEN. While a party of workmen, numbering ab»! 500, were recuraing from their work in Be! . about 6 o'clock last evening @ bottle thrown among them from the window .: » house occupied by several families, Oie of workmen was struck by the missile an: ~ verely hurt, The crowd immediately retal with boits, hammers, stieks, etc,, and a fu me. The police and military cb. crowd repeatedly with litte fired upon them. Soveral i. > ‘dand the mob quickiy dispersed Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chiel secretar® audience at Dubiin yesterday to Mayo" land, of Beliast, with Feference to thee: | meni ot strong repressive measures in that Icis expected that a proclamation Will be ws 3 tu Belfast toruawita INVESTIGATED IT, In the examination by Mayor Grace |. charges agalust Commissioner Squire, in’ York yesterday, D. Louber Smith, ex-de) 6 commissioner of public works, testified Gam. |. Many instances when appointments wore 40 titted to Squire be said he would wit) soid Law 1e $0 that he might first consult Fiy at Ex-Alderman Charies B. Waite was broagh town yesterday by detectives irom L: tow sirect jail and takem before the gra: where he gave evidence in the ease 6. yale id. Waite Is thought to have uaoosor himseif of very important news in Oi WLU Squire's appointment as coma. ioner oF public Works. When Squire's nomination was endorsed by the board of aldermen, Waite wes temporarily occupying the presid the absence of kirk. Ex-Mayor B= tractor Richard A, Cunningham Mcvatney, formerly superintenden Were also’ before the grand jurs last evening that the grand Jury Fi their inquiry into the ef ‘soe A Detroit's Shipper’s Pian. ESCAPING FROM CANADIAN CUSTOMS Captain Grammond, of Detroit, had considerable trouble with Cau. toms officials on account of harasslig ou. ' regulations and bas instructed his lake ail sorts of chances to got out o. once they got in it, The other day b's tu. « wego, left Point Edward, a Canadis. ¢ or Lake’ Erie, without reporting to U tom house, Thursday the Oswe, Amber-tourg, Ont, where the coll | the Oswego abd seit Unree deputies os Jie captain submitted graceful Yesterday morning, while the tres |: 5 Were asivep, an order from the eo... oul to his deck hands, “Fire 'm ou three sleeping deputies were husti dropped over the rail to the dock, 6 a t | customary dull thud. The Oswego's Wee | then cut and the tug escaped. ‘con Fatal Tricycle Collisio: A ROSTON MAN KILLED AND MIS Wory In Boston, Thursday evening, Sams ~ 0. > aud wile started out towards the Cho. ‘ reservoir road on their tricycles, The | dark, and as they did not revurn to the 5 Ueir iriends became greatly alarmed. 4 | midnight @ searching party was aux orgauized, when @ hack drove , | the missing ones, ‘The driver sald. 1 +. | them beside the road, both unconse, | were taken inside aud physicians | moned. It was found ‘that Mr. Sto.) a | sustaised a fracture of the skull, fro | died within an hour. Towards mo: | Stickney recovered sufficiently to | | ssid Uuatit was very dark, and th cuines collided and throwing ey with great force upon tke paver. + Was ignorant of the fact that her hus expired, aud when informed of thes? . became’almost frantic. It isteared sl.» recover, Mr. Stickney Was @ BOL oi Suickuey, of Lhe firm of Stickney & Pu . manuluciurers, and was 23 years old. wen eet tere | Satu: fies, When you see a gentleman in ap sony ¢ fear lest his bathing partner may dro. ed aud u-baif fatnoms of water, there @r sw. | for believing Laat she is pot related w a). j | 2 Sanday, school teacher im Lite. set *' his inianis to ask @uy gaestion U a {weir minds, and @ little one asked: tue cireus coming? W bat is Lhe use of having a good, 1. # Woman, Unies you can tell some on a Wedo 4 believe Pigeons dl writes,’ are generally long, with & postecript, cov botn sides of the paper and cromed In tw rections—Boston Husband—“i have been making my » dear, Leaving you everything, witn—ab— power ‘to re-marry—” ” Wile—"Oh, dari ., uever!” Husband—“Yes, love, Aud—" (w 4 sardonic chuckle)—“in that case I 5. feel assured there will be at least ope w 2 will daily deplore my death!” — Lonu.n The reason so many men lapse into drunke.- Ress again after a temporary reformation 1s be- cause they attract #o much less attention sober than when druuk, Their vanity is touched.— Texas Sytings. If fly papers could only be made as deadly as icecream, and lee cream made as Larmiess nd nourishing as fy p: the world would bea heap happier iu this kind of weather.— Ainneupoits Tribune, An exchange says that “Josh” ts the only name that rhymes with “gosh.” ‘This state- ment won't wasb.—Norristown Herald, ‘Do you know Lhe natureof an oath, ma’am’ inquired the Judge. “Well 1 reckon I orter,” was thereply. “My husband drives @canal boat.”"—Merchant Traveller. It is believed in Arizona that the Apaches are willing to surrender long h to supply themselves with ‘ammunition, —Pideburg Peis grap! City Parson—Going to have the hay fever this yeur? io; my Congregation can’t Country Parson— afford i.—Chicago News. No,” snappishly said the summer boarding- house keeper to Mrs. Cuiture, of Bostou, who Was inquiring as 0 the bealtiafulness of the locality; “no, we ain't got no typhoid and there ain't been no call dor ‘em, either, Folks is wanting everything nowadays, and ain't saustied with clean beds and plenty of what's good to eat.”—New York Mail. Mr Duseuberry (sobbing)—Oh, It ts Just | dreadful to be disappointed in jovet Mr, Duscuberry—Dhere’s something @ good | deal worse than that, What, pray?” ‘To ve disappointed in marriage.”—Philadel- phia Cail, “I thay, old chapple, can you let me have your wore to dwive 1h my dwag this afta noon?” “Why, of course. But why not driv, your own?” “My deah boy, I'm going to take | Miss Dwesser dwiving, and She always weals that duced wed dwess. My horse is eowu, y” kaow, and Wey don’t mate." —Kambier. Anew game at Newport this year is called “Aucentors.” Ite played by seven peuple, one of whom inust be from Philadelphia, The Philade!phian ta placed in the center of a circle formed by the other six players,and tes stories about his family, The others uy tw believe him, and Ube first one who believes wins the game. They are laying Georgia granite on the streets of Cincinnati and using Indiana limestone in the walls of the new Georgia capitol, aud Maine granite was used in buildiug the Avante post ‘ottice. Verily, it seems that stone gets cheaper the further it has to be hauled.—ai Sunny South. An essay, by @ Tennessee Jad, contained this brilliant passage: “Honesty is, like eugel’s Visits, few and inighty scarce.” In reference to Harvard students, Col. Hix- nson deciares that “a poor young mau Wie as agreeable manners and is good at athletic hhas a beter chance for popularity than « ricu ob.” How ubout & poor Young man of agrece- Sirciances wovensa & sat sesesee eas Ovserver. ‘Were you at the sociable last night?” Yen, and I spent a very pleasant evening.” “I heard Miss X—— was tosing there, I “sup- ; joyed that?” . Pose you enjoy. aa asa “iver so much, She couldn't sing.”- “My indignation, sir, is just!” exclaimed young, mau who ihovght ie had’ eon bud: treated by his employer. “Sit is Just—just@ tie, t99 mach for me. think ‘abnounce tn the morning pap that you have been compelled by tailing heal to give up your posiion with me.”—Tid Bits, Even the borse-jockeys in Boston are e grammatic. It is related that a gentieman w Was trying a horse in company with @ Jock noticed, ‘after having @riven bim a mile or ty. Ubat he pulled pretty bard, requiring consta waiebing and rein, and inquired: you Ubink it is just the horse for # lady + Grive?” “Well, sir,” answered the ey, must say I shouldn't want to roe who could drive that horse.”. Franc Argonaut, Her Young Man—“You've heara about t).4 picnic party being poisoned, haven't you?” “Oh, yes.” ~And I’ve been told thatall ice cream exhi :t" traces of arsenic.” “Does it? How nice! tor the com