Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1887, Page 3

WASHINGTON AND ITS ARCHITEC- TURE. ‘The Congressman and the Architect Further Consider the ‘Topic. mm ‘THR CONGRESSMAN TO THE ARCHITECT. It would be an illegal suppression of important evidence not to make room for the sketches which John sent with his second eptstie to the architect, and which were intended to corroborate hfs un- favorable opinion of Washington architecture. PRIMORDIAL GERMS. ‘That they should lose nothing for want of scten- Ute deseription, he called the first sketch “primor- dial germs,” from which the domestic dwellings of ‘the Inhabitants of the capital were developed. ‘They are still plainly visible to the naked eye in thetr primitive state and in large quantities all ever the city. ‘The second sket:h gives the eariler stages of growth and the third, he remarks, shows the work- ing under the law of natural selection of the famil- far princtple, “tn union fs strength,” and further TL—A MATDEMATICAL TRIUMPH. lustrates how thirteen houses may be bufit, each having two side Walls of Its own, and vet” with only fourteen -Ide walls for the whole lot—a triumph of ma meanness and mischief by no Means coufined to this city. ‘The fourth development he compares to storks, fha- meingves and other "tall Dird=. whose struggle for existence, by keeping thetr heads weil above the mols- ture, mud and malaria at theif feet, has given them edge of art in America, only selfish greed, business “economy and ” mercantile smart ness—with all these incentives, one should indeed be watchful and be wary before committing himself, not simply to paper, but to impertshable brick and stone. Why, you call him an fgnoramus, of use a harsher epithet, who buys 2 picture for a few hundred dollars and invites his friends to come and see it, unless the picture is the Work of a master. What'should you think of him Joho pucs ot the picture, but the thing ttselt not room, but in ‘the most public place he ford to buy, and asserts his right to let it stand there forever and ever, challenging with its brazen front the eriticism and deliberate study of Hi who approach it—philosophers artists, seers thing to and sages, Is tt not a serious Ida hose? And does it diminish your own folly that other men are no wiser or more considerate? ‘Now to your questions. I can suggest no other relief for the narrow lots than the great panacea for all commercial ills, competition; competition among the sellers and common sense among the ouyers, Whatever prevents a rapid rise in the Price of land will tend to prevent a fatal diminu- Uon tn the size of the lots. Evidently, the greater the number of desirable lots that are ready for the retail trade, that is ready to be sold singly for actual use ahd not for speculation, the lower will be the prices. To a casual observer thelr number already seems enormously above uny possible de- mand. The signs of the real estate dealers con- Iront us at every turn, until a near-sighted person might easily get the impression that he was wan- dering among hundreds of small private burying- grounds, bul asa matter of fact this land 13 not fairly in'the market. It isnot enough that it 1s laid off into rectangles and other polygons, figured ‘as to its dimensions, labelled and decorated with the names of the agents who are trying to sell it. It fs not fairly ready for buyers until it is in mer- chantabie condition in every respect affecting its value for immediate use. The walks, the street the trees, the turf, the approaches, the visible an invisible improvements that are indispensable to the safe and satisfactory occupation of land for dwellings must all be in perfect condition. “‘So it happens that of the multitude of- city lots that bear the familiar inscription, a large propor- Uon are burdened with an incumbrance of some Sort; an unpaved street, an unclean gutter, a raw excavation or some other ante-Shepherd offense {hat Keeps them out of the ranks of close compett- tion. It may be that no other description of the fauit can be given than the indefinite, but none the iess fatal Condemnation an ‘undesirable neigh. borhood,” But these very faults which can and must be'removed are in many cases the sole cause of the undesirabieness. Correct these, and some thing practical will be accomplished in’the way of maintaining the liberal scale of private building lots that Was contemplated in the original plan of the city. “One of the building regulations that Gen. Washington himself dictated, that there should eno buildings in any part of the city having walls more than forty feet high and none should be bull( on any of the avenues ess than thirty. five feet to the roof, had It not been moditie would have gone far’ toward more uniform and } reasonable prices in ali parts of the city. It would have compelled builders to make fair use of the lund occupied, at least on the avenues, instead of virtually destroying it by means of worthless hovels of the dog-in-the-manger character, and the restriction of fieigut would have compelled a reasonable breadth in ordef to cover under one Foor the necessary room for a family of moderate size and ample equipment. “While tae spirit of mortal 1s proud,’ there will be an aristocratic quarter, to which access 18 pos sible only by means of a golden key or a burglar’s jimmy. ‘The price of land in such sections is of comparatively little consequence; tt is highly Im- portant that the great bulk of the population of a city, those who lave neither poverty nor riches, should be able to own comfortable homes without paying more for the land on which they stand than Would support them in idleness in any part of the height at the expense of brewdth and the fifth ex- | hibits a certain hydro. ce ¢ tendency, which | he deciares to ef. feet of a combtnation of | mitieal ambition and Maryland whisky.” He “Whatever may be | ase at the present | time, these twin affictions have pervaded Washtng- | ton in former years to an | alarusing extent, and the | === result is evidens in the big | RETICAL DEVELOPMENT. heads of the bay win lows and such oher parts of the houses as are li.ble to have a head put on | Shem. You may be told that all these things be- | ¥.—HYDROCEPTALTS. long to the days of childhood,—the times before the War,—the “before ¢ age,—but, be not deceived; evil antecedents corrupt good breeding, and are not easily tralued out of exist- ence. I tell you the pro: as | creations are a3 prolific to-day as they ever | were, and when there is a cross between thert and some fantas odetn le, the pra these things ike Uieir bufld- | ve Uneir | despair; | generation | sin that none | has suMeient | and or later, E fashions, | Which must be endured because they cannot be cured.” make iness Were would still be h of home-loving peop! of these frantic e Strength of body il to become a distinct ¥ Will all, sone: Leaving for the present Jou for what they are wo. 'serftfcisms to pass | arsthat the two fmportant questions in his letter were whether any- | ming to ebre Powness of city lots, sand f ‘upon them at a satisfac 6 | question would: is | tpt to correct the evil tmpiled tn the frst. | Concerning the brouler question relative to the | visible beauty of nal vigilance, Patient endeavor, ere a little and there a little, are the main rourees. Anomalous as it seems Mhat the residents of the ‘capital of the great re- | Dubite should be as helpless less In the administration of fs government as the subjects | Of the most despotic ruler, it is stil, without doubt, one of tue best governed cities ia tue | workt ing to be prayed for now 1s that eouniry at large whom the inhabit of the District Of Columbia are Rot Included, may select for thetr representatives Im the national Cont ho stand so strong in honesty patriousm that tae | insted If they treat | justice tine | ty lest | xe time | people | vical death 1S not the reward of | ‘ions are not So fer from the subject | 8 they lay eu: indeod they He very elose to tt, for tt needs tet « briet study of the original plan Ofthe city and of is history anda hasty surve Of fis pre etm! « the grand at eXCHE i uialy intended 1 Betty or mag in the besa © ‘wilt find at distances, but of fall 15 teatures in its” streets Sts parks ant publi Mts an bitecture, p: Bad a practical faith in venues, In uments Aud Its tounders estuny of the Ballon, Which, If we imay judge by their works their descend.ints have failed to ‘share, oF, per Raps, 1 woud be more just to say that we do not feel Gur put tc respousibiilties as they felt them; Go not realty the significant fact that we, too, even in the piping thurs o: peace, are stilt making Bistory, ar shaping the destiny of the nation for goud or ill, wuether We tutend it oF not. THE ARCHITECT TO THE CONGRESSMAN. ‘The connection between these coumnents, by the way, and the building of honses will be more fully Set forth in the answer to the letter referred to, ‘and Which ran as follow: “Dear John: Betore attem ing to answer your inquiries let me say that 1 Loe your wish to Ln ve the domestic arclitecture of Washington 13 sed upon tie solid rock of eludes the fervent desire country sill be the most fotis e1ty in the World, fietatie desire even if You Bebring’s straits and me patriotista, aud 1 iftl, the inost I trust you’ would feel Lived on the shores of er saw Washington ex- expt on the occasion of the pious plignimage walch asa loyal citizen you woud make cace in your Ife to the city which the father of is country founded und Jett. a sacred legacy, to the children df the repubiic. “We can uo louxer plead youth or poverty in excise for the rank our capital hoids tn son with those of other nations. Our youth and Vigor and the fact that We are not en- with dead loads of antiquated heirlooms ‘are ali iu our favor and renders our fallure to stand at the head) instead of very nearly 1f not quite at She toot, all the more disgrucetul. Now, are you Beqinniig to understand, wuat I mean by" saying (hat patriotic fecing has an toumate relation to ‘Washington architecture? IF 18 4 SOLEMN THING TO BUILD 4 HOUSE anywhere, even in a wilderness. You assume a grave responsibility when You make your mark tndelibly and unalterably on the face of nature, ‘or in the streets of a city, to be seen and read of ‘Sil men; and of al! places ou the face oc the earth there is ‘none in which the incentives $0, che ut ‘endeavor are stronger tian here, ple ‘of the earlier pubiic ‘bul | to appear like Vauits or corridors rather than ha | Side burns, leave holes Carouga Uuls Wail or throw | iron age than any that has preceded it, aud if tae | apital of your World where Land costs no wore than ILs value 10; «sHeultural purposes. By comfortable homes, I htan actual Comvort, not relative; one may say, for instance, that a parios, brary or sitting root, fen (eet Wide ts couforiabie,—Hor a city;? but it ts not comfortabie any where, and never can be male sO, for the sunple reson’ Uhat the average human body ana ube furniture required tor 1s accommodation are too large for such narrow quarters. “If iour feet instead of six were the full stature of man the case would be different. aking all the land within the boundary availabe may be reckuned as one of the means by which Ube tendency to contract tue separate iots may be, In some degree, counteracted. Still more timportant 4s iv Uaat the habitab.e tracts outside the city limits should be brought into close communion with the tuside ring. Sinooth roads, swift transit, aud al: the aineniiics that belong tb the heart of the city, wili bring so many thousand acres of land Within easy reach, that Wise men will not find it expedient to bulid thelr houses sixty feet high, sixty feet long and sixteen feet wide. But 11 Were to express myself fully and freely on the subject of suburbait homes, You would suspect me of 4 seliish interest In some’ syndicate,” and scorn my Weightlest arguments. Nevertheless I pro todo so by and bs, but for the present will leave You to Investigaie tue subject by the slow and Painful methods of all original explorers. “The very best possibe plan for a narrow city house in a block 1s like the next war, ‘not fit yet.’ Undoubtedly the house buiiders in most large cities of modern times began wrong, and have fatled to find the better way. Here, as inso many other things, we follow siliy fashlons and unworthy precedents with a3 much devotion as if they were fundamental principles. So 1f does not yet appear Wuat the coung house will be; Dut a few paints may be anticipated. ‘he princlpal approach to the tnterfor will not be by means of a long tlightof stairs, built at great expense of cut stoue, covering the few precious feet that might be given to turf or flowers and spoliing the best_part of the ground floor. The most Linportant room in the house, the drawing room, parlor, or Whatever name my be given to Mt, Will havé the benett of the ruil width of the house. ‘The sialys Will not be long, straight and narrow, hor yet narrow, crooked aud dars; they wil be broad and easy; builc in short tights with large, square landings’ The rooms will be of grace- | ful proportions, nov of suc exaggerated hetght itab.e apartments, It is a mistal the liizher the rooins the cooler te mer and the better the ventilatlo difference tn these respects it 1s tn celiings. The comlag ‘biock’ house will be com. pitte la Itseli; taal is to say, tae party walls that are reckoned such a iarge saving Ln Ue cost of con- struction, but which are in fact, as regards dwell: ings, un favention of the evil one, will be so "very double" that the sounds of the ‘plano-thumping, tne rush of the pluubing Waters, tke Walllag Of babes ahd the sternutatiuus Of asuinnatic sicepers: Will never be heard on the wroug side or it. | Netuher will the falitag joists, when a house at one appose that ibe Ln sum- if thereis any ‘OF of the lower down completely. Wieu No. 10 burns, § and 12 Wii be as sate as If the fire Was a mileaway. But then tue model house in the city block Will not lave Wooden joists at all. ‘This 1s more truly tne | increasing cost of Wood and the cheapening of tron | coutinues, it will be but a short time beiore iron | Wii be absolutely cheaper for the essential fraine Work of houses than wood, Even now it can be empioyed to excellent advantage in so stmpie a lmutter as Lue for girders tor narrow houses. “Of course many points misht be mentioned that are common to all well-built houses, such as warming, ventilation, dryness, &., but I will make only one more suggestion in this letter. No | man livetia (0 himselt, neither can a block house | be built as a house ought to be bulit except by co- | operation. It would aimost doubie the value of great numbers of such dwellings if the rooins at The end opposite the street were as pleasant as those that look upon the public thoroughtare. ‘They could easily be made fur more so in many cases, if, bY common cousent, the ground oecupled by wicouth and unclean bick yard accompanl ments and the back ends of the houses them- seives Were made beautiul and clean, It 18 0 groundiess and discreditable notion that such parse adjuncts and rowgh finishing are necessary T couventence Or economy. ‘there 18 DO More good reason Why a hous: Should have an un- comely side that will not_bear inspection than for a durk side toa inan’s character Which Would dis. grace hit 1 1t were seen; no reason, in brief, why The space bebind, that 1s between, the hous¢s ene closing a city squiaze, should not bé made as beau- Uful #3 the eourtyurd of palaces, or the garden front of suburban Villas, “Where suall you hang the clothes? In the | attic, i they must be dried on the premises. It is, doubtless a mfstake for any private family in town or city to “do its own washing,’ quite as much so as to Make Its own shirts or kult {8 Own stockings. But the cost of building @ skeleton ate, uct an atte for skeletons, bul an open une lintsied apartment covering tie wiole, ora suffi | lent portion of the house, Would be trliling come pared with the value of tle land the elothes-yard | Wou.d occupy on tke ground behind, or beside the house, {C1 Were used for the best instead of the | Worst’purposes.” E. C. GARDNER, | een ae | The English Queen Failing Very Fast. | By Cable to the New York World. ‘The queen 1s breaking very rapidly and she 1s conscious that her life cannot be spared many | years longer. ‘The only shadow over the Jubilee | year that opens today ts the general apprehen- ston among the people of Engiand that the queen may not live Ull the year !s completed. ‘The ap- Praranee of old ages ist clearly marked in Ler jubtiee portratt, which has Just been complet | and placed in Une gailery ie to her private | apartinents at Windsor. ~—— a ———+or___ ‘The Army of American invalids, ‘From the New York Tribune, ‘The United States to-day has a very large army of wealthy invalids, an artay that seems to pe on the Increase, too, and one that goes moaning up and down over the land secking health and tind ing none. Everywhere you go, where location and climate have anything tw omer or nealing Waters containing aught of good to assist nature | orange yellow plusu. | expressions of the faces, and, in fact, | ings. | the etching has “passed muster.” ‘Thi FASHIONS FOR MIDWINTER. THE GENERAL RAGE FOR FUR—NOVELTIES IN GLOVES ROSARY BEADS 4 NEW KINK IN TRICMING— BRIGHTER COLORS IN IMPORTED COSTUMES—EVEN- ING AND OTHER COSTUMES. Potosatses trimmed with fur are coming in yoru OPEN Ewsnorerr fs used by some dressmakers on Wool frocks that are trimmed with bands of fur. AN OPERA Cioax of Diue velvet ts lined with lus- trous white satin, and 1s bordered with chinehitla. Tas Newest For COLLARS are in the square satlor shape, with strings to tie or clasps to fasten them tn front. ‘THERE ARE aS MANY different ways of using fur as adress accessory for warmth or ornament as there are different kinds Of furs, Giossy Buaver HaTs are worn by young ladles with dressy afternoon toilets as well as With tailor-made suits in the morning. BOLD CoLor CoMBINATIONS, such as sky blue and mauve, scarlet and pale blue, heitotrope and orange, are made to fraternize in late French eveniag toilets, In ENGLAND GLACE Kip Groves are superseding those of peau de Suéde for full dress, It iseven announced that white kid gloves are to be re- ‘stored to favor. Bxoavcioru in all the day colors, with astrakhan medallions of contrasting tnts, 18 used for panels for dresses of plain cloth. Flouncings to corre- spond ure also employed, VELVET UNDERSKIRTS, both of allk velvet, cordu- roy, and velveteen, are again in highest fashion, ‘This rst skirt 18 now not necessarily chosen of the same color as the rest of the costume. Tators ark making costumes exceedingly plain. Vests of velvet, cloth or plush, or plastrons braided In military style, are the embellishments permitted in the severe style at present in vogue, Some oF THE NEW GLOVES have the the tops of stripes or lozenge-shaped patterns in kid - ber Jor, as black and white, terra cotta an and tue, Gloves inthis style are also tmade to correspond to the costume, <JuRsEYs are still worn, but they have scarcely any resemblance to those formerly in vogue. ‘They are now made to fit. the figure perfects, and ia li the sé Ss arranged with whaiebones trimmed. Vests OF Fur are a novel adjunct to walking jackets. They fit smoothly and convey no Idea of clumsiness, as would be imagined. Short sealskin maniles with siing sleeves have vests of fur. Astrakaan 1s used this season asa Urlimming for sealskia. A SHORT MANTLE of golden brown plush 1s trimmed with rich gold and bronze passementerie, In front the uimming, whieh terminates in square e is fints! with a corresponding fringe, as Bear -O ane Sines A border oF Sable’ completes Ubts recherché gurment, A Dress oF ELecrnic BLUE VELVET has a skirt trimmed with a band of blue fox. The jacket woru With Uuis hus the high collar with ends fall ing (rom it in boa shape or the tur, ‘The muff and bo: Qab are Of ve ~ bordered With tur, and Doth ar brightened by bows uf gray-biue and pale pink ribvon. ‘HERE Is ONE IrEM With which the shops will all be Hooded in a few weeks—viz,, the rosary beads, to be nad now of every tint, and they take e coloring well, especially the carved ones. They are wWappeat In every sort of trimming tor dress@> and millinery, They will edge bounets ahd bows 2M deiicace pink and biue shades, as well as brow: SHUES FoR Dani @ are cut low and are orna- meuced with the siuullest bows. They should be of the sume color as the costume. Embroidered sues are not “good orm.” Kor ceremontal ocea~ stoms iu tie day ume and informal evening parties audes With Liga irumis fesieued With metal Dut tous or else “Wed are Worn, ‘the coir of lie leather must be in keeping With the culor of tue costume. Is Tus Latest importation of costumes there 1s an evidence of increastug brightness of coloring, even Loues as bright, as genranium are to be seen upon some of the clovus now used. When the general effect incitues Lo be sombre, briuluncy 1s discermibie throush some ivids, oF IU Is luaparted by means Of rever, a breasZpiate or a panel One side Of a bodice Citen uiuicrs Wom anotier, 30 that fo.ds apparent in the right are usually absent tn tue leit. Ix Dass Srurrs the demand for stripes 1s still on the increase. Very beautiful Lyous fabrics of this description are dispiayed. Kegal fabrics of bossed Sutin are Woven With alternate pes of plain sfik piusi eight and ten inches in widia. One ds shows a ground of palest colored cuided sik, Drocaued With ara Desques in a heavy rai uve velvet, Wii a stripe of pluin mauve Veivet aternaling. A white satin and gold-brocade stripe upoa Another pattern alteruaies Wila oue of deep eee. Art Education. SOME POINTS ABOUT ETCHINGS. Even the chlidren are gradually belng edu- cated in art, says a writer In tue New York Graphic, and demand that their toy books shall be illustrated by such artists as Kate Greene away, Rosina Emmett or Walter Crane. “I don't like my new book oue dit,” satd a five-year-old to me the other day, While Scanning a volume con- taining highly colored prints, which was the sift of an oid lady from the country. “Whydoyou not like it?” asked, and to my astonishmet I found she knew very weil what was at fault. She ob- Jected to the incongruous blending of color, of self quite an art critic, dnd much further advanced ih art culture than Ule giver of the book. | Th d becoming accustomer early should begin the tion fn ail these things; it is retlaing to have only the best, the truest art about us in order to | form a correct taste. We cannot buy expensive paintings, but within the reach of almost every one are the engravings and etchings of the present day. ‘There ‘are two classes of etchings—p \d reproductive etch. "Phe first named are the original works of the artists, the last are coptes of artists frou the works of others. Pulnter etchings have the value of original works. ‘They sow the method and spirit of tue rust, Just as a sketch by iim would ay Selecting an etcuing, of course, the frst thing to be considered fs to huve it the Work of a great sure the sub} next is the grade of the etchit the price—ot course the fewer impressions made from a plate the rarer Iv 1S and naturally the more valuable. ‘The first_or highe the “remark prot.” made from the pi ade of etching 1s called impression e, Which satisfies the arust, und to distinguish 1c irom others he “remarks” it isa stamp of approval, ‘The “remark” fs Usually a little ‘ginal sketch or an ideal head, ‘These in turn are etched on the plate to show, as tt were, : ; . e Goer proofs re printed with the utmost care, an deveiop ail the value of the etching. Mr. Kiackner Which exhibits an_tmperfection, aestroyed. ‘There are. seidomt more than fifty Impre-sions taken fi the “ro. miirk” piate, $0 that it is, Of course, Very Valuabie. The second ‘rade, which are alsé very fing, are called “artist's proofs.” ‘The “remark” 1s poushed off the plate, and then the next 200 impressions are the * st's proofs.” ‘hey may be distin. ‘uished by the name of the paluter and the etcher ing written in elther corner of the etching. next grade ts called “proofs before leiters;” are the next 100 Lnpressions made aiter tie "They are distinguished by the Rameé of painter and etcher appearing on opposite corners of the etching. Only the names are printed, not written, as is the case with the signed “artist's proofs.” These also have the publisher's name in addition, Etchings on {ud!a paper are the most valuable of those that come after the “proots before letters.” fhe edition, however, is not timited in number, ‘They are, however, more Yaiuable than orninary prints, od account of the superior impression ob- talned on India paper, ‘The last grade are the plain proofs, printed on Inen paper. ‘They have all the marge and naines of the India print, and printed with equal Th however, renders. th ss has for some time and it{s on the ine drawing room 15 nidngs from the f general Interest in 0 Lass compete without Its portroitoor great masters, It 18 a topt society. The ‘collector n ‘anold gentieman ss reproductions of the great works of lias seen abroad, or 11 may be a pretty Just entering sociéty, who does not think her atiractive boudoir comiplece without its col- lection. “IU 1s the fashion of tbe day, Love After Death. ‘They say if our beloved dead Should seck the old fami Souie stranger would be there instesd, ‘And they would find no weleome face. Teannot tell how it might be cauyiioe Routes tat this ? know; ytd my lost darling eoue to mn ‘hat ste would uever find it so.” Oft-times the fowers have come and gone, areteusiey the inter windy have blow ike while her peacetl test Welt Oy ‘And I have learned to live lowes Have slowly learned fr to In all ite tanks to bears part in her struggle w lengthen out the days of those who have ‘more ducats than digestion, see the anxious eye and the halting who have fought the ight tor crowned with victory and misery, in the great national from Moosehead Lake to Tacoma, to Jacksonville, to Dutt It 1s stated that the Pope ‘the 20th inst., when he will Will hold a conststory ‘nominate a number BU Wether crave, or whethck gay, Thide her wemory in my heart.” Fond, faithful love has blest my way, ‘Tey lave tke place ee te and Hated ir Tseupty as the day shediads oY How would I spring with bated breath, aiatiey too deer for words aic a tae ome frou dea ‘And once again to call her uline! I Rot dream—the blissful dream, iii funy rar with wld unre youdor cold waite marbles eam, ‘she sitll must sluuuber—God Kuncwe beats Bat this I know, th: those Our best beloved ‘would fad Be Bi et aulurercd every day ugh years and years—tur one "Fev Haas ————o—___ ‘What He Meant. ‘From the New York sun. She (at the “Hamlet” revival)—What does mean by piling Pelion on Ossa? ‘He—He means the feathers OM te ladies’ bats, PALACES IN WHICH RAILWAY MAGNATES TRAVEL ACROSS THE CONTINENT. ‘From the Chicago Mail. ‘There are oftentimes, down atthe Van Buren Street depot of the Rock Island and Lake Shore railroads, as many as five special raflroad cars under the roof, and idle. I have seen President John Newell's magnificent special car Stella, and President R. R. Cable's still more magnificent private vehicle No. 603, and twoor more other splendid private coaches, all drawn up in line long enough to make’ a train. These special coaches come cheap at $20,000 aplece, “The ttle ‘Kock island ‘has. two. of them, the Lake shore the Northwestern has ‘three’ or four, the St. Paul four or five, the Tilinots Central three, tne Chicago, Burlington and Quincy four, the Michigan Central three, the Grand Trunk four and the Nickel-Plate two Or three. In short, without enumerating Toads, the briefer way is to say that every road on the continent has a special railroad car for its President; a special car for its general manager; a special car usually for 1ts general superintendent; oftentimes a special car for its chiet engineer,and, as in the cases of most of the trunk roads, a spe cial car for its directors. ‘These cars are built by Fuullman, | They have plate-glass windows from the root to the Hoor, and are divided in one or two sleeping-rooms, a bath-roo! lor, dining-room. ‘nd kitchens they areas ong as the ominary Pullman coach, and cost from $20,000 to $30,000. ‘One of the mést elegant is that Which Delongs to the president of the Rock Island. Fine special cars are one of the extravagances of American rall- Toads, and not a small extravagance either. Of the twenty or thirty western and northwestern Toads each one has trom $60,000 to $100,000 in- vested in palace cars for the gratification of gen eral officers or to tickle the pride of thelr women folks. If these cars lasted forever there would be Still from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 invested in pal- aces, on wueels which did the stockholders no earthly good, which drew no interest, Dut which did cost money to maintain. Take all the roads on this continent, and it would probably be found that there was $5,000,000 on wheels for the sole Gelectation of their general officers, and a study of the books of these rouds would probably ahow that the $5,000,000 worth of the magnificent rolling stock heeded to be renewed every ten years. It really makes quite an item of railroad book-keep- ing the more one figures on it. And how can it all bez gine ,the ordinary ‘Pullman coach good enough for a railroad president? Or, even if an ordinary Pullman may not be quite good enough for a president, isn't {t_ good enough for general manager or a general engineer? Savini oun AE SS Mr. Hoxie and the Tramp. From the Omaha World. During the early days of the Union Pacific, when Webster Snyder was general superintendent, H. M. Hoxie was his assistant. Snyder and Hoxie were an active team, and one of them was nearly always on the road, examining its construction or Supervising the details of its conduct, At the time of which I speak, the road was completed a short distance beyond’ Kearney, and Mr. Hoxie had been out to the end of the line and was returning, ‘The roadbed was naturally very rough, and the pro- gress of all trains necessarily very’ slow, Some- Where west of Kearney a tramp boarded Mr. Hoxie’s train, and attempted to work the con- ductor for a free ride to Omaha. The conductor resisted hls plea, but lis tmportunities became 30 pressing and pathetlc that he was tually referred to Mr. tioxte, ‘Let you ride to Omaha for nothing?” said he, when application was made to hin. “No, When. We xe: the next station the conductor will put you off.” ‘The order was strictly obeyed, and the discom- fited beat forced out of the cur and on to the depot platform at Kearney. To say that Mr. Hoxte was surprised When, upon alighuing trom the train at Omaha, the first person that he encountered was Ue Identical tramp would beto put it very mildly. “How did you get here?” inquired the oilictal. The tramp tenderly and mysteriously caught Mr, Hoxie's sleeve and pulled him around behind the car and out of the hearing of the crowd. “I didn’t want to give your old road away to the mob,” sald the tramp—I walked.” = ‘soe. Logan’s Color. INHERITED FROM LIS FATHER'S FIRST WIFE AND NOT FROM HI8 OWN MOTHER, From the Chicago Tribune. The story of the Logan ancestry and of how Gen. Logan inherited or acquired his appearance of hav- ing Indlan blood tn bis veins has never been pub- Ushed, never correctly, at least, and 1s quite inter- esting. Gen. Logan’s aunt, Mrs, Margaret Phelps, ‘the sole survivor of that generation, a bright and wonderfully intelligent old lady, says that her father and family emigrated from county Mona- ghan, Ireland, in 1793. Her father, John Logan, was then a child of 5. Her grandfather, who was one of the Scotch Presbyterian settiers of Ulster, lived to be 118. The tauiy frst settled in Mary- land, and then moved to Ohio, stock breeder, Her father was a and her brother John, Gen. Logan's father, often made journeys’ south to ‘sell stock’ in New Orleans and other cities. On one of these trips. he met the Widow of @ Frenchman named Lara- mie, one of whose sons Fort Laramie 1s "named after. ‘The. widow was half Indian, halt French—beautiful, well ‘educated, and wealthy. ‘She was considered a great catch, and sultors came from far and near, but Joun Was the successful one, When John inarried ber he induced his tather and fainily to move to Jackson county, Missourl, where some of his wile's property 'was located and where she lived. By this wie Dr. Logan had one child, a girl Logan had picked up’ some ‘medical trdin- ing at Virlous places, and, ft 18 sald, got a de- gree during one of nis stays at Natchez, Miss. Dr. Logan’s wife died before 1820—the exact dato 1s “not _known—and he subsequently married Elizabeth Jenkins, the sister of Lieut, Gov. Jen- Kins. Gen. Logan was the first child by’ the second marriage, ‘Dr, James Robarts, of Carbon- dale, awarm (riend of Gen, Logan and his father, and’an old-time political opponent of Dr. Logat When he was running for the state legislature In the thirties, comes into the story at this point, for Dr. Robarts 1s authority for the curious tale. “It 1s a physiological tact,” says Dr. Robarts, “that the first child” bya second marriage tre” quently resembles the deceased wite or husband to an extraordinary degree. - Gen. Logan's case 13 the most wonderful tHlustration of this fact I ever heard of. The general's tather, Dr. Logan, was ner dark, but Dot swarthy, while his mother Was blue eyed and fair hatred. Yet Gen. Logan, strange asit_may seem, inherited the Indian teat tures and complexion of Dr. Logan's hait-breed Wife who died several years previously. ‘The first rs Logan was beaittiful, as those half-breed Women often are, aud was comparatively tal, lmuch fairer, indéed, than her dauguter, Gent Logan's halt-stster, oF than the general himseif, ‘The grandchildren’ of the general's half-sister, by the by, living here in Carbondale, show strongly marke traces of their Indian ‘descent, though down to the fourth generaiion.” 2 eee College War Cries. THE WHOOPS AND THE SHOUTS USED BY DIFFERENT STODENTS, From the New York Sun. ‘One of the college papers has compiled a list and. history of college cheers. According to it the original shouts of the colleges were a repetition of the name of the college. ‘This gave an advantage to the colleges which had sonorous names, and 23 the constant alm of cheering 1s to make more nolse than the other cheerers, new yells were evolved by a process of evolution. ‘These came into existence a quarter of a century ago, when Yale and Harvard had thelr boat raceson Lake sigamond, When the "Rah! "Rah! "Rah! thrice .” pronounced so Aranda clipped d Were aur tag wes card, “Yale” was added to the New Haven col- Jege’s "Rahs with a long howl on the a. rinceton's cheer wus developed soon after as Princeton came into athletic relations with the other colleges. ‘They took the three’Rahs for a basis, and added the skyrocket siz-boomah, which they hold on to as long’as the nine ‘Rahs of thelr opponents hold out, and then yell “Princeton” us a calliope climax.’ Dartmouth has one of the most novel cheers 01 ‘all. Some Indian must have invented it, and stout college lungs give it the High aflatus. Is Wab-hgp-wah! Wah-nooh-wah! Diday, diddy, Dartmouth! Wah-hoo-wah! It 13 fery pleturesiue, and only a sophomore ean Wah hoo to the best’ advantage. ‘The hoo is lke a ‘hunan ow?’s hoot. Everybody has heard Columbia's Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! C-o-lu-n-b--a! The name spells out rythmically. John Hopkins university at Baltimore has taken the ground plan of the cheer and bullt on it, adding J-o-hen H-o-p-Kk-l-n-s, instead of C-o-l-t-1h-D-l-n, Stevens institute at Hoboken and Union college at Schenectady have siuilar cheers, Ruigers has a cheer almost as 0 mouti’s, 101s "Rah? Rah! "Rah! Bow-wow-wow- Rutgers! Williams has an entrancing. and reso. nant Kah! Rab! Rah! Will-yams! yams! yams! Peunsylvanta university has a wild’ Philadelphia er WIUOUL any Special charm. Ibis the tree (ahs aud Penn-syl-van-laht ‘The College of, the “ity of New York cheer better, ‘The: ‘Rah three Umes and add C! C1 N1Y: Cool ‘Cornell has @ cheer that ouce heard annot be forgotten, Ivis like the rhyme of the passen- Jatre. Itis given with proper emphasis only 1m Umes of exeltement. Here It is: Cornell! Corbell! Cor-vor-cor-nelt! I yell like—t Cornell! or Determining the Moment of Death. From Science. 3M. Meguin clatms tobe able to determine the date of death by studying the generations of acarina which have been at work upon the body. Brouardel produced the cadaverof a young woman, beiore the French Academy of Medicine, which had lain in acellarfor a year. He was able to trace live different spectes of ac: and the or- Ger of succession and duration of each species. He found dermestes sarcophagus, laticrus and 1ucina cadaverina, One species consumes the fatty acids, anotiier abGOFDS the Auids and each dies when 1th Work is erided. ‘The period of life of each in sum- mer is from six to eight Weeks, In a case of mur- der, in Which the renzins of the victim were dis covered in a garden, Meguin Was able to establish the date of burial with great accuracy. ‘The value of tese observations and deductions, if confirmed, cannot be overestimated, as barely a mona Passes without the discovery of a murdered body, und la the course of the prosecution the pro! date of death 1s always au important factor. $0 tai as we know, no one has taken up this work of Meguln, Browafdel and Laboutbene In this coun try, and yet it would seem tiat no fleid offers more inducements to the mnedico-iegal expert than the Ce opened by these enterprising French savant inal_as Dart- ————re+____ Charles Rhea, aged seventeen, while playing with a to; in Ne Vi Soc nimseltin uke hand.” Lockjaw" sors Sew ‘Year aud he died Sunday. London Says: Lady Colin has A resumed “slumming”—the endeay. Gussie. London Letter to the San Francisco Arronnt. Iwas talking to Lady — the other dsy about her son, Who has been in the states. She said: “Tm 80 anxious for you to see Gussie. He's Just, got back from America, and I want you to hear all about his hardships out there, poor dear. You know so much about America that it will interest Yop._ Have vou ever met Gussie?” told her I had never had that pleasure. “Oh, no; of course not. He has always been at Eton or reading hard for his i at Cambridge whenever you've been here. He's out cub unting now. you know, isn’t the eldest, and wil have to work. No profession suits Bim. One can’t put all one’s sons into the army of the church, you know. Rupert isin the Blues, Harry in the Grenadiers, and Jocelyn has just been given Such a nice living by the dear, sent Gussie out to fight his way in America, and— Put here he is now, ahd hel tell you all about it Araw-boned, pimply-taced man in cond breeches and ‘tops sprawled into the room, and, throwing his hunting crop down on the tabié among lis mother's Worsteds, seated himself at tran tS any ones Us bands tgecter, without or His mother introduced us formally, adding about my knowing America. He stuck his glass in bis O36, looked over his shoulder at me a moment, and “Aw. aig OU'Ve Just returned from there, I hear,” I {You liked tt, of course.” «Naw. Beastly place. “Couldn't get a bath for a fortnight, No o1 Y Sanne me to fill one’s bath, don’t you {Where were you—New York?” “Naw—Kansas. Had to sleep in the same room With a cowboy, don’t you know. Couldn't stand that, Pancreas you know.” ay “Pool irc ; fancy wi ‘been through!” moaned. his La beret Me “Ya-as; an’ a scot I met in the train bor- rowed a Bundred | pounds from me, and never ‘Said he was a son of the “Disgraceful ot the government not to protect Annocent, confiding boys against such robberies!” Mashed his mother, indignantly. “Ya-as,” said Gussie, contemplating his finger- nails; “how's a fellow—a fellow like me, for in- Stance—to make his fortune in a country like that?” ; “he’s more likely to make “How, indeed,” said some other fellow’s fortune than his own.” “Eh?” satd Gussie, who wasn't such a fool at bottom, notwithstanding his mother’s coddling and his wretched bringing up; eh?” But at that moment the dressing-gong for din- ner sounded and rescued me from a difficult ex- planation. ———+e+. Some Famous Fasters. ‘The great publicity given to the question of fast- ing now before the world, excited by recent suc- cessful and unsuccessful attempts to sustain life, has induced me to state a few tacts not generally known in reference to this matter. ‘That life can be supported and preserved and the ordinary duties performed on a diet comparatively simple ‘and limited in amount, san adiitted truth and accepted bY unost persins who have investigated it. In719 there lived acertain ‘Thomas Wood, born of intemperate parents. Up to the age of forty he indulged himself to excess in meat of a fatty nature and in large quantities of those arti- cles of diet containing fatty ingredients, such a3 cheese, butter and sugar, his beverage being strong ale. He gradually developed into a man of enor mous diinensions, and complication after com. plication of disorders arising day by day, he be- came alarmed at the inevitable, which’ stared him in the face. He graduaily’ cut down his diet by degrees, diminishing his beer to begin with, and then thosé diets containing sugar, and also aniinal flesh, He ultimately allowed’ hitnselt only Pudding made of sea biscult. With tls change Of food all hts symptoms disappeared, he became metamorphosed from a monster into @ man once in. ‘The curious fact 1s that be abstained from. all drink of whatever description. ‘The “sea pud- ding” was composed as follows: three pints of skimmed milk; this being boiled, was poured on one pound of sea biscuit broken into pleces, ‘This. compound belng bolied ina cloth for two hours, 16 became a pudding of suffictent consistency to ‘be cut with a knife, «ind on this alone he subsisted for two years, enjoying splendid health, and with an abscence of all those disagreeable symptoms be- fore mentioned. ‘The quantity taken was 13 pounds at five o'clock tn the morning at hts break st, and the same quantity at noon for dinner; after this hour he abstained from all food until the nextday. The case of Wood 13 beyond all doubt, as two men, twWo doctors, and the church warden in the parish where he lived all testified to the truth of the facts. ‘Tracing the history up of fasters, we come upon that of John Brown, a miner in Ayrshire. Hie lived buried in a coal mine without swallowing any- thing but small quantities chalybeate water sucked through a straw, this being sufictent to sustain life, even in a contaminated atmosphere, the nervous excitabiiity being thus diminished, and taus mitigating the cravings of hunger. ‘This 18 a most interesting case, and bears comparison at the present thine with the Italian fasters and thetr wonderful drinks. At Ltege some coll Were shut up in a pit for twenty-four days aud sustained their lives with water alone from a fountain. Experiments were made and the water analyzed. 1t was found to contain upon evapora- tion nothing extraordinary, and only lime,or what, 4s called “‘culx.” The same constituent is sup- to have existed in the utd which supported john Brown, as before alluded to. Why should this not be the same in the case of the Itallans?— Water impregnated with line suspended in solu- Uon. Lonly giveltasa theory and I think a correct one. Elizabeth Woodcock, 1n 1799, lived eight dayson snow water. Cecilia Steers, in i820, live dit. teen daysalsoon snow water alone. Thiscame from a well thirty feet deep, and which had been made for the purpose of obtaining chalk. Her we have another instance of the “calx.” “In 1765 we read of three women in Italy, buried for thirty-seven days in the snow, living’on suow water also im- Pregnated With lime. In 1795 a Yorkshire gentle- mah, agedsixty, absolutely wasincapacitated (rom taking food, fer thirty-six days. “When in health he weighed 240 pounds, and on the thirty-second dey of his fast was’ reduced to 138 pounds in weight. Dr. Willan relates a case of an abstainer livlug Seventy-two days without nourishment, on which day he died exhausted. He lived only’ on water flavored with orange juice. Henry Welby, 1n 1657, for forty years, though of great wealt, never tasted elther fish, flesh nor fowl He died at the ripe old age ot eighty-four, During the whole of his retirement his chief food was oatmeal gruel and a salad of cool herbs, ‘The longest time recorded in the annals of physic in Which a man existed without food was Sixty-one days, the case being that of a young man driven wad from overwork. Alexander Benedictus mentions a case at Venice where a man itved forty-slx days without food. The his ates that Louis the Pious, Em- ee, Who died in $40, existed ‘forty lays Without f0od or drink, Albertus Magn gives us the record of ‘a woman of Co logne, who lived for seven weeks only on water, Itis sald that Democritus Mved to the age of 109 years, and thatin the latter part of iis life, for forty ‘days, he lived on smelling honey and’ hot bread, Kalin relates another case where fifty- two days of fasting took piace on water alone, ‘The Medical Guzette for July, 1883, contains two remarkabie instances; one of’ these, @ patient, 18 stated to have lived six years without swallowing any food, the mouth be occastonally motstenci with water, tea, or Whey, Which was not swal- lowed, but spat dut. In the other case, which was, originally recorded by Prof, Ricel, of Turin, an in- ability to take food existed for three years.’ There are many traditions in all histortes relating to the means employed by various indlviduais to support life during danger and privation. ‘The Indians of Asia and America, When they are bound for a long Journey where there is a possibility of such a state of affairs existing, prepare themselves for emerger- cles as follows: ‘They mix the juice of tobacco with powderea shells in the form of smal balls, which they retain in their mouths. ‘The gradual solution serves to ¢Qunteract the uneasy craving for food, it having been proved by experiment that clay fhtroduce into the stomach relieves hunger. In 1770 a woman living on Yarmouth created considerable excitement and amazement in the world. She was reported Lo have lived for seven years and a halt Ithout tasting food, her ips only moistened with aver. ‘The manuscript department at the British mu- souin contains a quaint description of the fasting of Jane Hodges (Sloan MS., 4,811). She lived in the year 1609. She suffered froin hysterical aphonia ‘and neither ate nor drank for nine weeks, 0 1t 1s reported. She was under adeluston, and stated that “she fasted for the sins of the people, and that she was the saviour of the nations-, she uitl- mately recovered and took food. In 1870 we read of the “Lancusbire fasting girl,” Ellen Sudworth, eleven, ‘Luts 1s, however, uot one of clear ab staining from solid food, as she lived on liquids and soups. We now come to Dr. ‘Tanner, the American physician, who in 1880, commenced bis fast of forty days’ duration, He apparently com- pieted this, and was stated to have benetlted to the extent of £25,000 by It as a commercial Specalation.—Dr. “Forbes Winslow in Pall Mait gazette. ———— Sullivan Gratified Him, AN AMBITIOUS CORNISH MINER IS NEATLY PUT TO SLEEP. From the Chicago Herald. A member of Parson Davies’ combination tells 0 good story on a local slugger at Fort Keogh, Mon tana—a tall, broad-chested Cornish miner, who had often announced his intention ot kililug Sulll- van if he ever met him in the squared ring. ‘The miner's opportunity came about a week ago. He had been otled and rubbed down and sweated until ‘the local sports thought him in splendid trim. On the night the Sheedy combination arrived at Fort ‘Phe miner was in the hall when the curtain Tolléd up and so were his friends, Aiter witnessing Several irlendly bouts between the lesser lights of the combination Sheedy was in- formed that the Cornish pugilist was awalting iuls “Who does he want to fight?” asked the manager of the troupe. «Sullivan, of course,” yelled @ Lait dozen men in chorus, : i i but in third Fapbed' the rat uaderaice, Ont ies Ounces re Dulged out like hickory nus ‘The miner struggled gu aoweves unt be caught a right-hander under awoke, fitteen get usted backer Maree me - “Didn't I tail yo, Jack, there'd be a fall o’ rock in Lives Shortened by the War. ‘From the Chicago Journal, Dec. 28th. Gen, Grant died at the age of 63 Gen. Logan ied at the age of 6% Gen. Hancock died at the age of 61. Gen. McClellan died at the age of 60. Gen. Halleck died at 59. Gen. Geo. G. Meade died ats7. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas died at 54, Gen. W. T. Sherman is the only one of the few greatest Rre'tai on, and Furregut, tes eetavest oaval Ror e fatal 63, an ts naval died at 69. “Grant, taucock and MeCielian Were men who, in the ordinary course of nature and in circumstances of peaceful life, would have lived, if not to extreme at least to advanced old age. They died years before the time naturally ore: fragile weia, 5 ded earlier to tue m and _yiel weaknesses of broken constitutions and to the causes that Shortened their lives, All the great generals of the war who have died since tts close evidently met premature deaths. All died sud- denly, or after brief flinesses, and. in each case, as in that of Logan, brain aga terrous complications precipitated the fatal action of the disease. ‘The case Of Grant's 1 disease and death from cancer appears tobe an exception to these untform, facts, but it is not. ‘The cancer was an much a disease of the nervous as of the muscular tissues, and it was certain from Its in of a fatal ter mination. The cause of death, if not death itself, came unexpectedly, surpri and out of thé order of nature. Undoubtedly the weight of such vast responsibiiities asa military command Imposes—the exhaustion of ‘and berve power in planning, in watching, in the labor and anxiety of the march, in the pain, excitement, ‘solicitude, ril and mental torture of the battle-neld, when every sense, per ception, and power is stretched to its utmost ston—miust impair the energies of the best consti- tutions, and create points of weakness from which decay will spread and cause the fall of the entire structure eariler than thecat he would other- Wise have occurred. As itis with the commanders Soltis with the soldiers who were in active Vice throughout the war. ‘Their lives have, as @ Tule, been shortened by at least. three times the length of their term of service. Few of them have assed, or will pass, the fatal years that follow Soon after the landmark of threescore, while the few who docross it are far more than outnum- dered by those wh sen. ‘The New Era, South and North, ‘From the Newark Advertiser, December 29. ‘There are those in the south Who, although they may not now be heard, do not approve of what Mr. Grady has said. There are those in the north, silent in the midst of this general chorous of ap- plause, who do not believe what he says, There are irreconctlables who have never accepted the ar bitrament of arms, who still cherish vague hopes Of a restored Lost Cause, or who brood silently Over the ruins of the confederacy. ‘These men, if not numerous, are often noisy. ‘They attrac tention by the truculent violence and audacity of their utterances. It 1s easy, almost natural, that they should be accepted as the old representatives of the entire south. There are, in northern com- Mhunites, many men whose, political plans require that the ‘old sectional feeling should not die out; others who are impatient that a peculiar social institution that existed in the south for more than a century should not adjust itself at once to a changed condition of things; others who canno: understand how a people, tauzht by years Of slaveholding to despise manual labor, cam ac- custora itself to habits necessary to promote ma. terlai_and permanent prosperity. We may well believe that these are ina small minority on both sides of the old ine of Mason and Dixon, We may as well accepi the fact that the new south, with Whatever reluctance, has finally turned her back on the frremediable past and 1s honestly ‘building a better life on new foundations; 1s full of hope for the future, and fs sincerely destrousthat the inem- ory of anclent wntmosities shall fade, ‘There will be attrition, misundersiandings and much 1olisi- ness on both sides, ‘These things will pass away and another generation will know them only a3 matters of hist From the St. Paul Pioneer. ‘The girls of the wild west admiremen of original thought. A Dakota miss whowasattending Ham- line university, near St. Paul, 1s said to have be- come very much agitated because the professor who conducted morning prayers invariably fol- lowed the same torm of supplication, She endured Unis infliction until it became intolerable, and the other morning in the midst of the prayer paralyzed the professor and the Who school by yelling out Chestnuts!” ‘The young lady has since returned to the quiet precincts of her own home, ‘se. ‘The Man Who Saved the Queen. AFTER MANY DAYS HE RECEIVES 4 WEERLY REWARD OF A POUND. From the Paris News. ‘The London correspondent of the Belfast Morn- ing News gives some curious particulars about the man who saved the Queen’s life near Kensington Palace in 1821, when her Majesty was only two yearsold, ‘The man was an Irish soldier named Maloney. He was walking near the carriage in which the infant Princess was driving, and when the carriage was upset he rushed to the child's rescue and brought her safely out of the broken vehicle. He broke his leg, however, in the attempt, and sustained other injures, from’ which he suf. fered for some time afterward. ‘The Duchess of Kent, the Queen's mother, gave him the munifcent reward of one pound for his herotc act. In a few years he was sent out to In- dia with his regiment, and there he spent upwards of twenty Years, returning to England a pension- er on 6d. a day. He kept reminding her Majesty for nearly twenty years that he had saved her life, and as he was beginning to think at last that hé could never succeed in exciting the royal gratitude to do anything for bim, he received through the the post a small donation anonymous! e fol- lowing week it was repeated. "Upon the tntredues Uon of postal orders he got one for one pound aic most every week, the donor being still nameless. As the orders, however, bore the Windsor post- lark, he suspected the source whence they came. At last one day a slip of paper which appeared to have been put into the letter accidentally revealed the name of the sender—sir Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary. —————— America and England. THE EFFECT OF PUSLIC OPINION HERE UPON THE IRISH QUESTION. James Boyce in the Princeton Review. Foreign journalists and politicians rarely com- prehend either English institutions or English modes of thought and feeling, and are sadly at sea in their estimate of English public men. Because they misinterpret our motives they misjudge our acts, generally, no doubt, in a spirit of envy and suspicion; but Sometimes,” also, by ascribing to us aprofundity and tenacity to the praise of which ‘We are not entitied. But American opinion 1s an- other matter, We, in England, value tt, because re know that itis based Mot only on the sense of kinship, on faith in the power of freedom, but also on a sympathetic insight into our habits of thinking and doing, and an appreciation of the Prineiplés by which our government is worked, American and English inst!tutions spring from the sume root; and although the solutions which have been iound or attempted for the political problems. Of the last hundred years have often taken differ- ent forms on the two sides of the Atlantic, the roblems have been mostly similar in substance. ‘ach nation has far more to learn, and does in fact learn far more from experience ‘of the other than either can learn from any other source. Watching American opinion with the care it d serves, we have remarked that this is a question Which the people of the United States are follow- ing with a specially close and interesting atten- ton. We belleve it tobe one whose broad out lines, at least, they are, from thelr own history, specially competent, to master and pronounce upon, It has a practical interest for them, as well as {0r us, for it affects the poiltical attitude of a large and active element in their own population. Significance of Precious Stones. It is still customary among lovers and friends, says the Boston Glove, to notice the significance attached to the various stones 1n making birth- day, engagement and wedding presents, ‘The ‘stones are sacred to the different’ months, and the language of each are as follows: January, garnet; constancy and fidelity in every engagement. Feb- ruary, amet ; @ preventive against violent pas- sions.’ March, bloodstone; cot wisdom and firmness in aMiction. Aj ond : denotes faith, innocence and vit May, emerald; ity. Sune, agates insures tong. ite, health and BONS: June, agate; long perity. July, ruby; discovers poisons and coreets evils resulting from mistaken friendship. August, sardonyx; insures conjugal felicity. September, Sapphire; frees from enchantment and denotes re- pentance, eps denotes hope and sharp- ens the sight and faith of Le possessor. ‘Novem- ber, topaz; fidelity and friendship and prevents bad dreams. December, turquoise; gives suc especially in love. Among other stones the moon stone protects from harm and danger; the helio- trope or bloodstone enables one to Walk invisible; the pearl is an emblem of purity and gives clear: hess to mental and physical sigut, and’ tue. cas eye enriches the wearel ee —___ Unawares, ‘Wo wero sitting, after waltzing, On the stairs. Bibra sett tenderly he kissed it ‘Swiitly in his pocket isa Uuawares, ‘We were talking, after waltzing, ‘Onthestuine 1htad'said that he should rue it, gentleman Bostonian ot amature age'as well a8 bite blood) was equal vo tse errcthat mxy wife tain here.” Onentranes ‘Ke’ discovered, to his dismay, that the only person present was d well-dressed cilored A Just Debt Liquidated. ‘From the Macon Telegraph (Dem) ‘The American public bas written “Paid” across ‘the tace of the mortgage on Mrs. Logan's home. ‘Tennyson's Early Love. THE ORIGINAL OF “MAUD” AND THE MEROINE OF “1OCKSUEY HAL.” From the New York World. ‘Those who are familiar with the story of Alfred ‘Tennyson's life (the new name dces not suit him so well as the old) Will smile on reading his latest work, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,” over the spirit of self-deception which runs throughout the verses. To the world “Maud” and “Locksley Halt” poemsonly. A few know that they Ste something more than poems "of the ‘ing on—they are heart records, In the sequel to “Locksley Hall,” Just pubitshed, the poet tells his, son that, never have loved a world. fing ike su. Who has played such sad haves ‘with the Susceptible youth's feelings, but this 1s precisely what vhen Alfred Tennyson as a promising young poet, crowned with Osforg)s laurels, he wooed his first cousia, the story of Which wooing he afierwards wove Inio Deautiful verse and cave tothe world, Another suitor, the wealthy heir to the earid of Boyne, however, appeared on the scene, and the fair Amy, afterwards so liberally adjectived as “false and servile,” Decame a peeress, ‘Lord'Boyne, who is the owner of Ia and valuable coal mines in the cou: Durham, tho heart of the northern coal fields of England, freely extended his hospitality tots bride's cousitt at Brancepeth casile, a modern but tnposinge man- sion. The poet repaid the kindness by satirizing ‘the good-natured peer, bisbrand-new title and his acquired wealth most “tana” “Locksley, Hail.’ : bis wife’s very natural indignation Lora ‘Was not gratified to find his scribed by a recent guest as a “gewgaw” castle, or at having the world informed in verse, however harmonious, that his wealth had come from the sweat of miners; neither did he enjoy the thor ‘that the es Of the World were Wagyiny the story of his money having bought ain who preferred another lover. It 1s poss! he failed to sce the beauty of those Rembrandt Uke touches wherein he 13 described as a clown and drunken. It might be beatiful poetry, the outraged host Dut it was not good taste, and it was not true, His lordship ts certatn!y one of the most commonplace and uninteresting of peers or of commoners, but he ts netther coarse hor drunken, and Brancepeth castle with is shivering larches knew Tennyson no more. Mr. Tennyson's wounds healed iike those of many another lovesick swain Whose limited faculty of expression couid not lead him into such betra: or ‘Lares and Penates; but popular as he is poet. he has never gone to the hea! the English people. In bis early days be was radical to the core, and his verses overflowed with the best 1n- ‘Stincts of humanit ‘Time has brought hi Wealth and he has accepted a peerage, from w itis safe to assume that he no lon, few contempt for new Utles which he did in Uw when he lampooned his successful rival. In Ang his latest production one is renitnd Tamous mot, appiied by a wit to nobleman: “I neard you were « lord among wits, estates: a wire t00, 4 Dut I find you are oniy a wit among lon Tennyson Was once a lord among: poets, hi Volume has proved him taerely a poet among lords, “eee Defying the Mercury. From the Atlanta Constitution. Congressman Tillman, of the Edgefield, South Carolina, district, 1s one of the most original men inCongress. He belongs to the anti-overcoat brigade, of which Hannibal Hamlin isthe general, he walks to the'capitol with buttoned, and rallies his hea leagues on their effeminacy. ‘overcoat in thirty. coat un- wrapped col. He has not worn an pride Unat he hever made tue professional acquaintance of a doctor, Canada Warlike. AMERICAN VESSELS SEIZED IN FUTURE TO BE CON- FISCATED, NOT ¥ FINED. The commanders of Canadian cruisers have been instructed to make all seizures In future for viola- Uon of the fishery regulations under the provisions Of the act Just assented to by the British govern- ment, Which means contlscation, and not uader the customs regulations, as has been the case up to the present” Ume, with one exception—tne Kighland Lizht—over whicit there 15 {some trouble. ‘The war has already begu announced by the fisheries department at ‘Tuesday, in the selzure of the American fishing Schooner Stevenson by the Dowinion cru General Middleton for breach of the dsuing L A dispatch from Ottawa suys: The unperial ernment, in assenting Lo Lie act of lust session, intimated to the Dominion government that th would back them up in and carr ‘out to the letter the text of the treaty or ISIS. Without this support, the Dominion author! could do but little, but finding the Brittst govern. ment are willing to stand by them they state that, while keeping within the are determined to seize and confiscate every foreign vessel ot ¢roaching on the Canadian fishing grounds. A lively tme may be expected, as the American fish- ermen seem to have siruck an attitude ofdetiance, while the Dominion government are equally de: termined to protect thelr fisheries, CANADA HAS NOT PROPOSED 4 SETTLEMENT. Members of the Dominion cabinet deny the truth of a cablegram from London to the effect that communications had been recelved trom Canada by the British Minister at Washington showing the favorable prospect of asettlement of the fishery dispute. — Hanlan on Training. HE POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN METHODS. Ed, Hanlan, the oarsman, in spoaking of the American and Engilsh methods of training, s: not because their men are any better than ours, but they are betier trained. “The American men When they train don'tdo tt regularly enougi Australians are stricter even than the English ‘They take a medium good man and if there Is_any row in him they get it out. [have been wateting unls thing for years, ana Tmean now to do all I can to improve training In tulscountry. We have ‘he best rivers In the world to row on, and tue championship ought to be held on this side of the world, I brought it bere once and then lost it, Dut I hope to bring tt back next Fear, 1 Chin Ross, Teemer and some of the big men onghe make an effort to recover the cham am the smallest nan in the crowd, a expected to do the work. ‘This win to remain on the island near Toronto 10 kee Of the temptation of city Ilie, I expect. to much of my Ume to tee-boating. 1b tce-boats, and I have sailed over only been beaten five tues. I mean to ki doors to keep ty tlesh hart. Last year Us doors and did nothing, and’ ia the spring 1 was Yoo soft and no good.” ‘We see considerab stage.” One of two convinced—elther el hat.—Burlington Free Pr Au invention for sowing on buttons is the now. est. Woman is the best fuvention that’ Was ever devised for sewing on buttons, Dut she isnt al- ways in Working order.—Somerville Journal. When a man becomes firmly convinced that he isa gentus, It is then that the fringe slowly beztus to form on the botiom of his trousers’ legs.—Lie “Ig it correct to say, ‘I put up at the X—— hotel?” inquired one traveling ian of another, “No.” “What ought I to say?" pul up with the X—hotel, would be about the Uxng—3yer- chant Traveler. “[ don't think strikes would be #0 common,” said a Knight of Labor, the other day, “It it did not Cost So much to support the leaders Gf the Work ing men.” One of the peculiar things in this life is that a ‘Woman's shoes never fly her unless they are too small. Another is tat a man’s never fit lla un less they are too large.—Vew Haven News. If any person will kindiy inform us of something thatis uot an “appropriate. Chirtstaias presi: she will confer a great favor upon thousands of anxjous ingutrers.— Boston Transcript. ‘One of the queer things of life 1s that the man who knows {t all seldom can tell any of It to any- Dody’s satistaction.—Journal of Buca Mrs. Cleveland says that she Will remove her hat at the theater if the rest of the ladies wil. The Test of the ladies say they will if she will, and here we are back where We Started.— Philadelphia Cali. City man—What the blazes is the matter with that hen? Farmer—Nothing. She has just laid anegg, City i2an—Great Scott! One would sup- she had laid the foundation for a brick block. well Citizen. ‘oung man—I love your daughter, sir, and would Hie to make ber my wife.” Father Whee are your prospects? Young man—I vutnk they" be pretty good if you'll say yes —Tid-wits. Se ee ‘To PROSECUTE A CARELESS PHYSICIAN.—The coro- ner’s jury fmpaneled at Scranton, Pa., to investi gate the cause of the death of Jchu Z. Comnoily Who died on Sunday last as Dr. John I. Amma was about to perform an operation on iim, found the physician gulity of gross neglizence. ‘He aul- ministered ciloroform Without assistance, lay or medical, and as he Was about to make an fneiston When the mercury 1s cuddling into cup at zero | to be | awa | “The reason our men get beaten by the English 1s | They are like a lot of schoolboys s While an English athe i MMs iiie 18 gov. | erned by strict rules. He rows steadliy when in practice and 15 never allowed to spurt. ‘Tue sprrwean Save EXTRAORDINARY, ‘Wo ask tho attention of our lady patrons to the fele lowing card. which we think will Prove interesting to The firm, who have been for the past ten years sup~ plying us with COTTON UNDERWEAR, having bea, obliged to discontinue operations on account of the lance losses sustained in their endeavors to compete ith other manufacturers, and at the same time PAY. THEIR EMPLOYES LIVING WAGES, have #hipped. to us THETR ENTIRE STOCK, WITH TIONS TO SELL AT SUCH PRICES AS PROPER. The goods, #0 far as 1 finish is concerned, are pes being sample garments, an somewhat soiled and will necd te For this reason they have been divided. into several lot, each lot containing Nicht Dresses, Skirts, Chemise, Drawers, &e., aud every yearn each Jot will be sold ata uniform price of 5 &c. THESE PRICES ARE IN EA LOW THE ACTUA\ ARGATNS WILL BE OPFERE te further that these lots do not each carn: nite suitable to every Indy. ‘The sale will bewin TUESDAY MORM® 4, at LL o'clock, and will continue each day the eu tire lot iseexhausted. DOUGLASS" 8TH AND F STREETS. Hens: THE COOL WAVE. | Your needs aro live. You do not have to be told Where to satisty them. The variety, beauty and excel | lence of the stock of Clothing at OAK HALL, CORNER 10TH AND F STREETS, Is known by everybody. and in onler to reduce an un- Usually large stock prices have Leen cut regardless of cost or value, ¥ Overcoats reduced to 4. ¥ Storm Overvoats reduced to Is Overcouts reduced to $6.50. t Clinchilla Overvoats (the Montagnac) reduced Peover, Melton and Kersey Overcoats reduced sb per cent. Fine Kersey Surtouts reduced from #20 to #15. Donble-breasted Chinchilla Coats an: any ible breasted Chinchilla Coats and Vests at 87.50 | aA fol Line of Business and Dress Suits have been re duced fully 33 per cent in prices | qdiine Jack Brosdcloth Suite,double-breasted, at €20, Full Dross Suits (Swallow-tail Coats) from $20 up. FOR BOYS—4 To 18 Wo have still an immense assortment | Overcouts, and if low prices can sell | propose to carry over a garment, | f Suits and we do nut OAK HALL, CORNER 10TH AND F STREETS. Tus Gores Excuzr Crome COMPANY, NO. 400, CORNER OF SEVENTH AND D STS sae oe sSSg FER FEB 4 e EB ‘ay ie SssS Kee EER OVERCOATS AND SUITS, REDUCED TO 610, 1 aT es ne EEE a tat \Vierr & xoorr BEAVER MUFFS AND NECKBANDS. 900 Pouna, ave, Prererz Faawes, your attention to our very large wtiuent of tiue Gilt Frames, warraBt x! Y your pictures extra ro, abd can furnish above sizes of Frames in Walnut, Oak, Bronze, Giitaud Plush, ‘Oak, Gilt and Plush, &- Our prices are acknowindied by every ono to be very Jow, aud to give you an idea how low we sell Fra 2 coniplete, with Glass and Bock, tent expired. Dr. Ammann Clans that ne susttuisjered only Between two and three drachms Of chloroform, but members of Ue deceased's fam ily testified tat the quantity used Wasat leastiwo —___-+ee. \RCUBISHOP_ ELDER ON LAnOR AND Caprrat.— annoishop. Elder, of Cinciunati, being asicod “What would you Say as to the present diificulties: between labor and capital?” replled: “The difficulty now is the lack of ieciti ‘and the charity which belongs to religion, on we ‘side both of labor and capt ‘Such a rule as each man should try to get the best he can every transaction seems Lo prevail now. as ils spirit remains there will be cont ‘When the capitalists are strong the workingmen fail in thelr contests with thein and vice versa. ‘What we need to-day is, pirit of good-will and charity to modify this selfish rule of each striving for his own advantage. | Now cach, Wants lo get