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6 THE COLORED SCHOOLS. What is Said of the Plan of Abolishing |The Ocean Bed a Desert of Ooze and| He Suffers the Superintendent’s Office. COLORED MEN WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH TRUSTEE FRANCIS —EX-TRUSTEE BROOKS THINKS DR. FRANCIS WAS AT FAULT IN THE BROWN-CAB- DOZO MATTER, The suggestion of School Trustee Francis at the last meeting of the school board that the offices of superintendent of the white and colored schools of the District be consolidated, has created considerable discussion among the colored people. A Stax reporter, in conversa- tion with a number of colored citizens of promi- nence, found that the general impression seemed to be that such a consolidation meant a white superintendent. One man, who did not wish his name mentioned, said, “If the colored superintendency of the schools is abolished, that, in my opinion, will only be the opening wedge to replace all the colored teachers with white teachers. The only consolidation Iam in favor of is mixed schools.” Mr. Lewis H. Douglass was of the opinion that the present system was the best. He thought that the conduct of the schools was now generally satisfactory, although he was 6 aware that there were differences of opinion as to methods, but that could hardly be other- wise. Mr. John H. Brooks, who was identified with the school management in former years as member of the school board, and who is deeply interested in the schoo! id: “The report made to the school board in the Brown sail Cardoso affair is regarded by the colored ple, with whom I have spoken to on the subject, as a a ere oe of : lain duty imposed upon those appointed on it e mae poset pars omen referred the matter to the colored members of the board with full power to settle the matter, and it was an occasion to try the integrity, ability, and courage of the colored members’ to do their duty in the interest of the schools, without fear or favor. The investigation was prolonged be- yond all reason, and finally resulted in a most disgraceful compromise anda thickly white- washed report. I agree with Mr. Fish that it was a white-washing report. I understand Mr. Cornish hada manly report, but was begged out of =e it, and induced to sign the one presented, which he is now amed of. The supplementalp paper presented by Mr. Francis is simply an_ exhibition of his personal dislike of Mr. Cook. ‘There is nothing, nor was there anything de- veloped in the testimony taken by the com- mittee which implicated Superintendent Cook. The @nin schecl' olleer implicated was Mr. Francis, who was charged by Mr. Brown with having induced him to get upa_petition for Cardozo’s place, promising that he (Francis) would remove Cardozo and appoint Brown to the place. As regards the one-superintendent proposition of Dr. Francis, the better class of the colored people want no such change, for the reason that mixed schools are not wanted by either white or colored at this time, and the autonomy of the colored schools can only be maintained by having a perfect organiza- tion. So far as the present Superintendent is concerned, he is pet ereagler ye gentleman, and the Commissioners and white members of the board appreciate him fully. The trouble is that he is not treated well by some of the col- ored members of the board, and I have no doubt that since certain remarks and state- ments have been made by Dr. Francis at the meeting of the board that Superintendent Cook will officially address the board on the subject. When the facts are known it will be shown that the parties abusing Mr. Cook and Saphining are the very people who are, by doubtful ways, doing the mischief.” Bow They Bounced the Deacon. COLORED PEOPLE EXCITED OVER THE “‘ ING” OF A PARSON'S SON. The colored people of Atlantic City, a suburb of Norfolk, Va., are greatly excited. Two weeks ago Vincent Delous, a colored youth, said that he had been conjured and made blind. His father,a preacher, in some way restored the boy’s eyesight, and the latter went to a fortune-teller to find out who had ut the “spell” upon him. The fortune-teller ld him that he had been “conjured” by a youngwoman and an old man. The young woman jad procured the poison in the woods and had _ it to the old man, who afterward met im, and after shaking hands had touched him on the forehead and made him blind. He was told that as he left the fortune-teller’s house the first female he met would be the woman who procured the poison, and the first man the one who had “tricked” him. The boy left the house, and as soon as he reached the road he saw a female, and a little farther on he met an old man who is a deacon inachurch. The boy had such implicit confi- dence in what was told him that he went toa well-known justice of the peace and asked for a warrant for the arrest of the two parties. Of course this was refused, the magistrate telling the boy his court was for the examination of offenders against the law and not to try “‘con- jure” cases. The boy's father and several of is colored friends believing what the fortune- teller said was true, had the old deacon, who bears an excellent character, summoned be- fore his church, and last Sunday night he ap- peared for trial. The investigation resulted in the expulsion of the deacon from fellowship, and when he refused to leave, four of the brethren seized and forcibly ejected him from the building. Tuesday last the deacon made ———- to the same justice for the arrest of the four men for assault and battery, but the justice did not care to interfere and the war- rant was not issued. The deacon will sue for damages for alleged defamation of character, as the father of the boy is said to be worth considerable means. soo ___ Gambling in the Army. From the New York Herald. A mania for gambling seems to have invaded some of the posts on the Pacific slope, as Gen. O. O. Howard has issued a general order call- ing the attention of officers in his division to the fact that “the vice of gambling is preju- dicial to good order and military Giisciphine.” All persons in the Army, therefore, who shall within any military reservation play games of chance for money or other valuable consider- ation will be subject to trial by court-martial. It is reported that in consequence an abnormai activity has been imparted to the training of jack rabbits to run steeplechases, this being the only amusement left at some of the stations on the plains. +o The Newest Millionaires. From the New York Graphic. The purchase of the Georgia Central Railroad last week by John Inman, president of the Richmond Terminal Co., brings that gentleman quite prominently into public notice. When the rebellion broke out the Inman brothers—Jobn, Samuel, and Hugh—entered the Confederate army as privates, and when they left the ranks at the end of the war they were without capital or resources. At their wrecked and desolated home in Georgia they bade each other good-by and started out to make their way in the world. John Inman came here to New York with scarcely £10 in his possession, and for a time his life was a very hard and unpromising one. He worked asa clerk in a broker's office, and plodded along for a couple of years, saving a ittle from his scanty salary. Finall he got in- to business in a small way for himself, and to- day he is in possession of a fortune estimated at from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. The two other brothers were equally successful, Samuel, who began work in Augusta, finally. after some ups and downs in business, settled im Atlanta, where he is to-day one of the wealthiest and most respectpd citizens. Hugh is also a resident of Atlante, and is considered to-day the richest man in the state of Georgia. ‘The Inmans are among the most generous and beloved of the men who have done so much to build up the new South and vitalize its great and growing resources. too _Exrvostoy ix 4 Couizcr Bor.pixe.—A ter- Tifie explosion took place in the main building of the Pennsylvania College at Gettysbi early yesterday morning. Investigation peowed that several pounds at least of powder had been wrapped around with cotton and rope and exploded in the hall on the fourth story of the building. The cotton had taken fire, and for a moment alarm was felt as to the safety of the buil - The students put out the fire. By force of the explosion the locks were broken from the doors near by, transoms were blown in and several windows shattered. Later it was discovered that the locks on the doors of the belfry and of the class-rooms of Profs. Bikle and Croll had been filled with melted lead. If the discovery of the culprits follows the investigation that will be made by the col- lege authorities they will be severely puni NIUR- one else to take his place, Deacon Francis M. Wadhams ascended the pulpit and recited one of Talmage’s sermons without an error ora hesitation. William Busby, another man, though not a deacon, can listen to aser- mou or # play and repeat it verbatim. His power has been tested several times and he has never been known to fail. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, DEEP-SEA DESOLATION. Slime After the First Mile in Depth. From the Catholic Magazine. Despite the fanciful pictares which some writers have drawn of the ocean bed, its deso- lation, at least in its deepest parts, must be ex- treme. Beyond the first mile it is a vast desert of slime and ooze, upon which is constantly dripping a rain of dead carcasses from the surface, which carcasses supply the nourish- ment for the scanty fauna inhabiting the abyssal region—in some places more than five miles from the sunshine—and the microscope reveals that the slimy matter covering this deepest ocean bed is very similar in compo- sition to the ancient c! of the cretaceous period, while mixed with it here and there are minute metallic and etic bodies, which have been proved to be dust from me- teorites. At long intervals a phosphorescent light gleams from the head of some passing fish which has strayed hither from a her and happier zone. But it is not until we have mounted a deal nearer the surface that the scene cl for the better. We now meet with forests of brilliantly colored sponges, while the phosphorescent animals swimming about are much more numerous; and the nearer we get to the littoral zone more and more phosphorescent lights appear, till at length the Scene becomes truly animated. When only 1,200 feet se; te us from the sunshine we come upon the first seaweed and kelp (1,200 feet is the deepest limit of plant life in water); but we must rise still another thousand feet and more and get as near the top as one hun- dred and twenty feet before we find any reef- building corals. As plants do not live in deep sea, e deep-sea animals either prey on one another or get their food from dead organism and plants which sink down to them. Thus Maury says: “The sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always ae fall upon its bed showers of microscopic shells.” And ex- periment proves that a tiny shell would take about a week to fall from the surface to the deepest ths. Since sunlight does not pene- trate much farther than the littoral zone, there would be beyond this perpetual darkness except for phosphorescence. Many of the ani- mals inhabiting the continental and abyssal zones have merely rudimentary eyes; but these blind creatures have very long feelers, which help them to grope their way along the bot- tom. Other j Bathe animals, on the contrary, have enormous eyes, and these very likely con- gregate around such of their number as are phosphorescent, and may perhaps follow the moving, lamp-posts about wherever they go. And so bright is this light on many of the fish brought up by the dredge that during the brief space the animals survive it is not cult to read by it. bs The reason why fishes and mollusks living more than three miles under water are able to bear a pressure of several tons is that they have exceedingly loose tissues, which allow the water to flow through every interstice and thus to equalize the weight. When the ease is removed they perish. In the Challenger ex- pedition sent out by the British government, all the sharks brought up from a depth of a lit- tle less than three-quarters of a mile were dead when they got to the surface. 2h ree Modern Civilization. IT TENDS TO UNDUE NERVOUS EXCITEMENT—AN AGE OF RUSH. From the North China News, It is a very significant aspect of modern civ- ilization which is expressed in the word “nerv- ous.” Its original meaning is “possessing nerve, sinewy, strong, vigorous.” One of its derivative meanings, and the one which we by far most frequently meet, is “having the nerves weak or diseased; subject to or suffering from undue excitement of the nerves; easily excited, weakly.” ‘The varied and complex phraseology by which the peculiar phases of nervous dis- eases are expressed has become by this time familiar in our ears as household words. There is no doubt that civilization, as ex- hibited in its modern form, tends to undue nervous excitement, and that nervous dis- eases are relatively more common than they were a century ago. But what we have now to say does not concern those who are specially subject to nervous diseases, but to the general mass of occidentals, who, while not in any specific condition of ill health, are yet continu- ally reminded, in a great variety of ways, that their nervous systems are a most conspicuous part of their organization. We allude, in short, to people who are nervous, and we un- derstand this term to include all our readers, and. in general, all the people who live in the lands from which we ve come. To the Anglo-Saxon race at least it seems a matter of course that those who live in an age of steam and electricity must necessarily be in a differ- ent condition as to their nerves from those who lived in the old, slow days of sailing packets and of mail coaches, Ours is an co of extreme activity. It is an age of rush. There is no leisure, so much as to eat, andthe nerves are kept in a state of constant tension, with results which are suffi- ciently well known. Business men in our time have an eager, restless air—at least those who do their business in occidental lands—as if they were in momentary expectation of a tele- gram—as they often aré—the contents of which may affect their destiny in some fateful way. We betray this unconscious state of mind ina multitude of acts. We cannot sit still, but we must fidget. We finger our pencils while we are talking as if we ought at this particular instant to be rapidly inditing something ere itbe forever too late. We rub onr hands together, as if preparing for some serious task which is about to absorb all our energies. We twirl our thumbs, we turn our heads with the swift motion of the wild animal which seems to fear that some- thing dangerous may have been left unseen, We have a sense that there is something which we ought to be doing now, and into Is we shall proceed at once to plunge as soon as we shall have dispatched six other affairs of even more pressing importance. ‘The effect of overworking our nerves shows itself, not mainly in such affections ‘fid- dier’s cramp,” *“telegrapher’s cramp,” “writer’ cramp,” and the like, but in a general tension. We do not sleep as we once did, either as re- gards length of time or soundness of rest. We are awakened by slight causes, and often by those which are exasperatingly trivial, such as the twitter of a bird ina tree, a chance ray of light straggling into our darkened rooms, the motion of a shutter in the breeze, the sound of a voice, and, when sleep is once interrupted, it is banished. We have taken our daily life to rest with us, and the result is that we have no real rest. In an age when it has become a kind of aphorism that a bank never succeeds until it has a president who takes if to bed with him, it is easy to understand tha, while the share- holders reap the advantages, it is bad for the president, \ ——_———ee_______ An Emperor’s Flame. A CHORUS GIRL WHO CALLS THE GERMAN EMPEROR “WILLIE.” The New York correspondent of the Albany ae says: An hour ago I saw a small, plum: and handsome woman of thirty, with bleache hair, false complexion, and flamboyant attire, who has become famous throughout the world for an adventure with royalty. It was she of whom it was told by cable telegraphy that Em- peror William, of Germany, had ordered her out of his country because his grandson, the —— emperor, had fallen in love with her. ler name was ee Pfeydner, and only a lit- tle while before she had sung in the chorus of German 0} at our Thalia theater in the Bowery. At that time she had been considered by those who knew her as no better or worse than the average of minor actresses, nor pos- sessing special attractiveness. But she be- witched 4s famous a masher of the stage as Frederigk de Belleville, who married her. But he had a wife already, and so the second union was invalidated. Then Sophie went back to her native Germany, fell in with the heir ap- Parent, captivated him completely, and fora year enjoyed all the luxury of a princess. Af- ter ejection from that country she drifted about Enrope, and this week she is singing in one of the New York concert gardens, She is a baroness, too, having at one time in her — been the legitimate wife of a Vienna aron. “My dear Willie,” she cooly remarked to the writer, ‘‘was a love of a fellow. We were sweethearts, genuine and true. He doted on me and I was mighty fond of him. I belie to tell the honest truth, that he would almost rather give up his place as emperor of Ger- many and live a private citizen with me, That sounds egotistic: Well, but you don’t know how much he loved me. How did we get ac- —— It was a street flirtation in London. ‘illie had come from Berlin to see his grand- he mother, Queen Victoria. One was riding in Hyde Park in an open co riage on way to the palace, was a member of a German then playing in sar yg ay THE YOUNG KAISER’S HEALTH. POOR POLICING IN LONDON. From Constitutional dies that May Shorten His Reign. London Correspondence of the Phila. Telegraph. For the moment, also, Germany is possessed by a wild fever of military enthusiasm, While the aged monarch William I continued to reign, it was felt that war was not possible, With Frederick III Germany had a ruler who wasa most determined opponent to all idea of war, but with the present young emperor, the mili- tary spirit is again in the ascendant, and this certainly renders the situation dangerous. His royal progress through Russia, Austria and Italy also suggests military alliances that seem to promise easy victories, Therefore young military men are all in great excitement, and Pappas rage rset dee pag is going to them all to ina Lay hy Unfortunately too Gory, for mankind at lished. Of course, in the press, attempts at criticism are alt out d impartial and ides of lic inion. We are made to believe that rare where the young Emperor William distin- guishes himself, shows himself a it and powerful monarch, and is received with unani- mous ————. Such is not the case. Un- doubt “Cee far, the emperor has displa; certain gly qualities; has given proof of some strength of will and some aptitude for work. But how long will this We are told of his manly presence, but we do not find mention of the ominous cotton-wool pads that fill his ears to keep the outer air away from the ulcers that at any moment may affect his brain. Then there are the rac! neuralgic — that =~ him awake all night and e im getup at untold hours in the morning. ing by. making “eneprise rile’ to hat ry its ar racks, where he does not fail to vent the ill-humor caused by os on any one whom he may find at fault. ese are the freaks of a sickly man. Who shall meas- ure the political importance of such sickness? Who shall say how soon this young life may be cut off? and then what will, what can, happen? The German people cheer for the kaiser; the are taught that authority, all greatness, power, should be concentrated in the one hand of the kaiser; and nature, as if to prove how false, how wrong, is such a doctrine, strikes both father and son with grave constitutional maladies, so that the one could only reigna few months, and the other may not reign more than a few years, These are considerations which are forgotten aT the gushing writers who de- scribe the royal pageants; and yet who shall say but that they are not much more important than the uniform the soverei wore or the number of times they pretended to kiss. ———“eee- A Singular Worship. RELIGIOUS FORMS AMONG CERTAIN ARMENIAN SECTS, From the Boston Herald. Near Mosul, in the outspurs of Kurdistan, Armenia, lies Ba-Hasani, the holy city of the Jesids, or Devil Worshipers, and containing the temple and mausoleum of their Sheik Adi; and not far thence the village of Bashlyka the residence of their civil and religious head. Accordi to tradition, their faith had its origin in certain apostate members of the Ar- menian Church, and their name is variously derived from Jesu or Jesid, one of their chicts, and from the town of Jezd. Their faith has robably, however, a much earlier origin, Serivedl from the influence of all those reli- gions successively holding sway in those re- gions, from Zoroastrianism to Islam, They address prayers to the sun at his rising and kiss the place first touched by his beams. At certain festivals they warm the fingers of their right hand at the holy taper, then draw them over their right eyebrows and kiss them. The Supreme Being they name Allah and reverence the founder of Islam as a prophet, while they reverence Christ as a great angel, naming him Ben Isai Nurani (Jesus, Son of the Light), who one day will come to rule the world. They de- sire to live in good understanding with Shal- tan (Satan?), the devil, and so great is their re- spect for him that they do not pre- sume to pronounce his name, but call him “Melek-Tau,” and pay ‘honor _ to him symbolically’ as a light-giver (Lu- cifer), and in the figure of a bird, Our Thursday is their Sabbath. ‘They fast forty days in the spring, but are not over strict in the observance of such fast, preferring rather to do it by proxy. One member of the family fasting will do for all the others as well as him- self. Children are immediately after birth baptized with the water of the holy spring at the grave of the Sheik Adi. ‘o this end that water is fetched to places very remote from the holy well by mendicant monks, all belonging to one single family. The alms gathered by these monks on their pilgrimages are divided into three parts, Half goes to the mausoleum of the Sheik Adi, a quarter to the head of the sect, and a quarter to the kawal himself. Besides these mendicant monks the Jesids have high priests, or sheiks, and a subordinate class of servants of the Jem- ple, or fakjrs, as also another class, thé so- called ‘‘djirs” (“old, eldest,” presbyter), held in high respect by the faithful, and, by ‘reason of their pious life and pretended power to cure diseases, poet. in the savour of spe- cial sancity. ‘He who by his alms gives to the priests sufficiently of wealth may acquire eter- nal happiness, Circumcision is not a stringent requirement, but is left to the choice of the head of the family. The Jesids have a horror of the color of blue, and eschew all attire of that hue. They have the reputation of being strictly honest and moral, ‘They show great ee to women, so that @ woman ma! acquire the priestly dignity. Polygamy is al- lowed only with tribal chiefs, The common man may have but one wife, for whom he has often to pay the mother rather high price. Priests and kawal may not marry out of their caste. A widow dresses in white, and etiquette ——— of her€ven to strew dust on her head and smear her face with clay, Corpses are first washed and then buried with the face to- ward the polar star. In the killing of animals all the blood is drained off by cutting through the artery of the neck, as with the Jews and Mohammedans. They cling with great tena- city to their faith, but refuse the adoption of any proselytes into their ranks. Confession by Telephone. Paris Letter to the London Truth. Edison's inventions have been giving some trouble to the holy office. It is admitted that the pope can bless by telegraph. But the hard- to-be-answered question whether a penitent can confess and be absolved by telephone is notso easy tosettle. French bishops have been against it, but as appeals from their au- thority have gone to me, the holy office must settle the matter. On the live-and-let- live pn aes I should, were Ia member of that body, be with the bishops. What a mon- opoly of de fin certain preachers and directors of conscience would enjoy were the telephone admitted as a vehicle of commu- nication between them and their penitents! The poor seaside and country abbes, who in summer find variety and some —— in attend- ing to fair and fashionable Parisiennes, must lose this resource if the affirmative judgment be given. Then there is the danger of prying curiosity going beyond the verge of sacrilege. The use made of the telephone in the Wilson case ought to be a warning. It appears that Italy is even more disturbed than fashionable France on this sub- fect and that doctors in theological casuistry iffer terribly about it. Father Berniardi of Faenza, say “Yes, provided the penitent is in a case of extreme necersity.” ie learned Father Lehmkuhi considers that sins can’t be remitted by telephone, but that censures can be given. This is the view of the French semi- nary at Rome, Dr. Eschbach. The te in te absolvo applies only to a person present, A real presence is, therefore, obligatory inhis mind. Telephony, says Father Birardi, length- ens the human ear for miles and suppresses distance for the voice. Being within earshot is being, for confessional objects, present. Renan thinks the conservatives, unless in ex- treme cases, are —— Old forms match with ancestral habits, which have become instincts. The church would not toes a church were it turned into a telephone bureau for the confes- sion and remission of sins, and penitence ald become mechanical, as Tetzel tried to make it. Miss De Smith—“I envy you your lover, Nellie. He is my beau idealof aman. I suppose he always anticipates your slightest wish’ civilization is the standing difficulty of our sentimental age. A generation is growing up ‘round us which has never been disciplined, either at home or at school. Spare the rod and spoil the child is a maxim relegated to the dark ages and the wealthy classes, Our young aristocrats are birched as of old, but the per- sons of the children of King Demos are now sacrosanct, So they grow up like wild asses’ colts, and are the despair of the custodians of law and order. Such, at least, is the explana- tion of one set of sociologists. But we have nothing to do with causes. What we are con- cerned with are the facts. THE BANDIT GANGS OF LONDON. Within the past year there have, from time to time, been brought before the knowledge of the public the existence of gangs, always ruf- fianly, and sometimes predatory, which are composed of young fellows who are distinctly not of the esticated variety of the Here are the names of a few of othe Star yiobeet ging: tasina e Maryle! " grove. The Fitzroy Place , Regent’s Park. The Monkey peed em Ly Whitechapel. The Black gang, Union street, —— The New-cut gang, the New-cut, Lambeth. The Greengate gang, City road. The ‘Prince ur” gang, Duke street, Blackfriars, “The Gang of Roughs,” Norwood. The Jovial Thirty-two, Upper Holloway. These are a few of the names taken from the police-court records, Some of them may have now ceased to exist. Others are still in full activity. They are of very low of organi- zation—without discipline, recognized leaders, or definite objects. It is not of yesterday, this plague. Mr. Justice Hawkins has denounced it in the strongest terms from the judgment seat at the Old Bailey. On one occasion, while sentencing eleven ae ee in one batch, he said fared they, of th os had Pasty together in gangs for the purpose of robbing, assaulting and estag pels whom they de- sired'to plunder. No part of the metropolis has been free from this plague. In ‘ite- Bea in Islington, and in Covent Garden it- self, [find the same offense committed at all hours of the day. It is absolutely necessary,” said the judge, “for the public safety that this sort of robbery with violence should be imme- diately and sternly repressed,” and he showed his appreciation of that fact by sentencing the | heat to long terms of penal servitude. ‘or a time the epidemic was abated. The skeleton army was put down, and little was heard of the gangs for a year or two. The plague has, however, revived again, and the recent trials at the Old Bailey of the young ruffians concerned in the Regent’s Park mur- der showed that the fighting gang was as powerful and as troublesome as ever. They prowl about the streets armed with belts and sticks, they fight, and when they get a chance most of them steal. ———~--_ eee —_____ He Kissed Out of His Caste. From the New York Sun, The gossips are now telling this story of Mrs. 8. Van Renselear Cruger, wife of the republi- can nominee for the office of lieutenant-gov- ernor. She is an acknowledged society leader and her house is regarded as among the most desirable places to call by aspiring young men about town. Among Mrs. Cruger’s frequent visitors was a good-looking young fellow who has hitherto been regarded as one of the most favored bachelors in the best society of the metropolis. A little while ago this lucky indi- vidual called to pay his respects to Mrs. Cruger. A servant had disappeared above stairs with his card, when a remarkably pretty housemaid entered the drawing-room and proceeded to dress the lamps. The girl was so pretty and her trim figure so appealing in a long and snowy white apron that the young man threw prudence to the winds and caught her in his arms. He was in the act of bestowing sundry violent caresses upon her tempting mouth, when a softly modulated voice, speaking in the calmest way, interrupted the elysium, Mrs. Cruger’s tall figure was standing in the door- way. She had come down sooner, perhaps, than was her wont, or maybe the kisses had been so sweet that the young man had lost track of the flight of time, “Bridget,” said the voice, “have Inot always told you that you were to receive your com- pany in the kitchen?” Bridget fled. ‘The ardent gallant didn’t raise his eyes again, and when his senses told him that the coast was clear he found the front door without difficulty. +oo—____ Safe and Powerful. AN EXPLOSIVE EASILY MADE THAT Is BETTER THAN POWDER OR DYNAMITE. The new powder extralite, which looks much like damp ¢orn meal, and which has an odor about it which druggists would at once recog- nize as oil myrbane, is easily made over a stove. A reporter of the Hartford (Conn.) Times saw some of it made over a little fire in the back room of a drug store, and then, by special in- vitation, saw the experiments made at the ex- periment station. The first three trials were to prove that the mixture could not be exploded in the open air. A small fire of woodand leaves was made, and then two pounds of the yellow compound were put into the fire. Powder or dynamite subjected to such a test would ex- plode violently, but the new invention would neither explode nor burn. It was saturated in kerosene, and then about one-half of the uantity burned slowly. Next, a roll of the compound about the size of the largest firecracker was tested by the insertion in it of a dynamite cartridge. This cartridge was touched off with a fuse, but its explosion did not explode the new substance. Powder or dynamite tested thus would produce a violent concussion. Next, some of it was put on a stone and hit with a sledge-hammer. It did not explode. Powder or dynamite would have exploded. At no time has it been possible to explode the new substance in the open air. Three men who have blasted stone for many years were then asked to assist in blasting a rock. A hole two feet deep was drilled in the hardest rock to be found. The experts said that were they to blast it with [eet two ounds would be required; with dynamite, fair that amount, and it was decided to try what nine ounces of the new compound would do, Three rolls, each containing three ounces, were placed in the hole, and having been prop- erly connected with a fuse, the whole was tamped ming" The fuse was lighted, and shortly after the air was full of flying bowlders, and the rock was blasted to fragments, All tests go to prove that this new powder, which actually does the work of blasting powder and dynamite, and which can be made ver: cheers, is perfectly harmless to handle, and rail ship- ments of it are safe. ———-——o* —_____ The Babylonian Explorers. THE PARTY TAKEN FROM THE ISLE OF SAMOS— THEIR APPARATUS UNINJURED. The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday says: Dr. Wm. Pepper yesterday afternoon received @ communication from Rey. Dr. J. Peters, leader of the University of Pennsylvania’s Babylonian expedition, stating that he was still detained in Constantinople on account of the unwillingness of the Turkish authorities to grant the permits necessary for beginning ex- cavations. Dr. Peters says that influence of President Cleveland, as well as the interest shown in the expedition by the American minister at aeroriyeonel are such as will Probabl secure the necessary concessions e seg araay With reference to the eas shipwreck which several of the members of the expedition encountered while en route to Damascus, the communication says: “No serious damage was done to of appa- tnd Field, after romaining’a fou dace cate an fertat hemear eee es ©. amase rendesvous of ihe party. Stopped with a P common tion turned upon the really disgraceful way in which the fingers of silk gloves and the toes of silk stockings wear out nowadays. There were i : E ef fr el D. C., bo FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP. Mala-| An Unofficial Investigation Makes In a tavern opposite the London law courts by jesarrtbettrane Showing. i yesterday afternoon Jos. Ka’ ch drew a re- From the Pall Mall Gazette, x Volver and fired a shot at Cox. The There are few more es was com- = pod yk epee murder. vanagh as commission. A i at % We recognize that desire and are to pl a some ni now the retention of Irish members highly mis- chievous,” British War Minister Stanhope tolda London audience that the new rifle decided upon for the British army was believed to be supe- rior to any used abroad. He hoped the gov- ernment would be able to supply the army with bet - He also saw the guns. stated in Cologne that the nobles in the Caucasus contemplate an emeute at the first opportunity, and that the official accounts of e czar’s reception on his tour were not true. The Marquis de Talleyrand-Perigord recently won {20.000 at Monte Carlo. He played the limit, $2,400 at each bet, His wife is an Amer- King Otto of Bavaria’s latest development of mania is to imagine himself a black cat. His demented majesty now moves around on all fours and calls loudly for live mice. The world-renowned Dutch physician, Dr. Mezger, who established the efficacy ot as a + therapeutic agent, an those fame has attracted to” the Amstel hotel at Amsterdam princely patients from distant lands, notably Empress Elizabeth of Austria, has decided to quit the Dutch metropolis in order to establish himself at Wiesbaden. His acceptance of an offer which he rejected last year is a great disappointment to the burghers of Amsterdam, who have been congratulatin; themselves on having retained him. He is sai to assign as a reason for his removal that Am- sterdam is not a fit place for an_ establishment like his, the streets being so ill-policed that his distinguished patients have not been safe from annoyance and insult, and he recalls the fact that the Empress of Austria once had her fan snatched from her hand by an Amsterdam rough, The pope has received jubilee gifts of money to the amount of £1,150,000. France has been the most liberal donor of cash (the monks of the Chartreuse sent £20,000), while the smallest offerings came from Spain, Portugal, and Poland. How does an actress become world-famed? asks a feuilleton writer in the Frankfurter Zeitung, and goes on to explain that their royal road to fortune is to have some of their jewe! stolen from them. According to a rough esti- mate which a statistician has made concerning thefts of jewels from actresses, gems of the value of %75.000,000 have been stolen during the last decade, and however greatly the abili- ties of the police of different countries may differ in other respects, they are alike all the world over in never troubling the thieves who victimize the fair Thespians. The jewels are never by any chance recovered, while the para- graphs recording their loss multiply indefi- nitely. In European military circles it is considered that Osman Digna is a myth. The Landgrave Frederick William of Hesse, while on a voyage from Batavia to Singapore, fell overboard and was drowned. The deceased prince, who was only thirty-four years old, was well known in court and military circles of Ber- lin, having held the rank of a major in the Hus- sars of the Guard. The Shakespeare statue in Paris has enraged certain conservative Frenchmen. L’ Univers | and Le Voltaire are trying to anger the Parisians by quoting the insulis to Joan of Arc found in Shakespeare's “Henry VI.” The infant King of a is said to have but one great passion, which is, strangely enough, bologna sai e. Whenever he sees this un- romantic edible he can hardly be restrained. Stretching forth his baby hand in an imperious way he exclaims: “His majesty wishes it.” But his minister of the interior takes care that his majesty doesn’t get it. Alfonso is extremel, jealous of his mother, and whenever they pear in public it makes him angry to have people applaud her. Sixteen Liv —cos—___ Lost at Sea. THE EARL WEMYSS SUNK IN A COLLISION. Capt. Kennedy, of the ship Creedmore (Brit- ish), which arrived at New York on Wed nesday from Manila, reports: “On Sept. % at 9:30 a. m., sighted a ship with signals of distress fiying, which proved to be the British ship Ardeneaple, whose captain said he had a shipwrecked crew on board, and wanted me to take them. I agreed. Saw a French steamer bear- ing down to him, and was asked to stand by and saw a boat go to thé steamer. I was sig- naled to board the ship. Hove to on his starboard bow and was boarded by the captain and party of the crew of the ship Earl Wemyss, which had been in collision with the Ardeneaple and which sank immediately after, carrying down sixteen persons, including the captain's wife and three children. I went on board the Ar- deneaple and found her ina dangerous con- dition, Isent for my carpenter, and, on con- sultation with the other two carpenters and the captain, pronounced her unsafe, Capt®Guth- rie mustered his crew, who decided to leave | the ship, and some of them went aboard the Creeamore, the rest getting provisions and | their effects on board: During the afternoon all hands except the captain and the first officer left the ship. Captain Guthrie | said he intended to stay by his ship, and as he was determined I went aboard the Creed more and proceeded on my course. The next day I took account of my stores, and finding them short I put all hands on_short allowance, and kept the ship away for Barbadoes, where the wrecked crews were landed.” The Arden- eaple subsequently arrived at Fernando de No- ronha in a badly damaged condition. coe — War With Oyster Pirates. DREDGERS FIRE ON A POLICE SLOOP, WHICH BRINGS ITS CANNON INTO USE. Says a dispatch to the Philadelphia Press from Baltimore, November 1: The first battle of this season's war between the illegal oyster dredgers and the state navy, took place yester- day and was continued y. In yesterday's fray the police-sloop Mary Compton was coi led to retreat. he fighting was at Swan's oint, where abound the finest oyster beds in the state and where several battles were fought last winter. The dredging season only began two weeks ago, and since the opening the so- called piratical dredgers have been. stealing oysters from these private beds. Yesterday noon the police sloop Compton came sail- ing around the point, and there in the cove lay nearly 400 dredging boats, sloops and bugeyes. Under cover of the bluff on the point 600 or 800 men were busy as bees with the tongs and many of the vessels were already half filled with oys- ters. When the commander of the Compton hailed the craft nearest him and commanded them to surrender they opened fire with rifles, and a ball, whistling through his hat, cautioned him to beware of his head. Several of the im- pudent dredgers ran up their red shirts to the masthead as indicative of the bloody time the sloop would have in trying to capture them. The Compton’s crew, taken by 8 ise, did notreply to the fire of the dredgers until the air arcent them was filled with flying shot from the 500 or 600 guns of the pirates. Then the lice responded lively, and several of the Rater were wounded. The gails of the police sloop were riddled with small shot. Finally the cannon of the sloop was brought into action, but the dredgers would not leave or surrender. The shot from the cannon carried away several oftheir topmasts and did them considerable , but closing upon the police-sloop, they poured such hot volleys into her that was compelled to put about and fiee to the Chester River. Towar: ht the police steamer McLane came up with Compton, and to- gether they returned to the t, and Hf pretenses, The agreed meet tickets to for the pres- _———r*9>—____— L, Wallace, @ well-known afternoon. g i : NOVEMBER 2, 1888. GAS COOKING STOVES On band and for sale, HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Cooxme Br Gus WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. Cunrers: Canrers:: Canrers11: We are daily receiving our Fall supply of BIGELOW, LOWELL & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY HOOE, BRO. & CO., 1328 Fst__ S§ HEATING STOVE, RANGE LY aad oases GFormeniy with PHaneon Hiss & Ca), We ha pel’ traces ot o Tetttran "Wear selling all foe. Whntte Back guaran! Tine sing * boo" LEPREUX & BRO, 508 7th st. aw. ass the door. ‘myt Gilt Papers piece. from 35c. to 45. All ‘Fresco Painting (RE crear TO THE NORTH, WEST, DOUBLE TRACK SpE VANIA ROUTE D SOUT 4 hd iD SCENERY | T EQUIPMENT. LEAVE WASHI: y 7 ER SIXTH AND’ Bo: Ts, AS FOL nan Line, 9:50am. . with Slee) — and day, to Chicago, with Slee} cago. Western Sleeping Cars W: Harrisburg wit for Pi the rough Sleeper toPittsburgs Taad Pitts. jiearo, VRE AND POTOMAC ndaigua, ri port, m. daily, except Su For New York a N. sey City with boats of Brool 1:05 p. 2:00, 5:10, 7 2 and T and 11:07 am.;2: 10:42 p.m. Tickets and information at the office, ‘Limited 50 tito see ind van Suh sith Louis and i Cars, 9:40 a.m. daily, except Sunday, and 3:45 p. EDERICKSBURG RAIL- ‘A AND WASHINGTON For Chicago an: press, daily, 10:59 mn. and St. Louis, express, daily, 3 and and Cleveland. vestibuled limited ex- ily, 10:59 am., and express, 9-15 p.m. 4 local stati +10: and Jocal stations: 10-10 am, Pp. m. datiy, express, tween Baltimore and 5 pan, Points, {7:30 am. 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 1 iedsatoe 0. 8.30, Bab an 5, 6:45, 8:35, and Bis 12:10 and 4:35 mm. Leave An- :10, Dm. Sundays, Iphia, 5 a.m. anc p.m. ; For Annapolis, 6:40 and 8:30 m. On Sundays, 8:30am 42 Branch, For Frederick, 10:10 am., m. Sundays, 1:15 p.m. For Havertown, HG10am.00d.t5:90 pm. ‘ruins arrive from ic daily 7 :; mm Cinelnnath and Bt. Louis daily 6-30 si : ay 6: :55 pm.; from Pittsburg daily 7:90 eine $18 i. On St 100, $:10, 5: LEDMONT AIR LINE” In effect Se 8:30 A. M.—Fast Tenn, Mail Dat Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Lyne Knoxville, Homes Cs noxville, Rome, Cs leans. | Pullman Slee; 11:24 A M—Fast Jottesville, Gordonsvil Lynchburg, Rocky Moi tween Lynchburg and Charlotte, Columbia, A ham, Montgome: ‘New Orleans, Texas ew York to Montgomery in_connec- man Sleepers Mouteomery to New Or- rs for Birmi man Sleeper Dan Solid trains Washington Atlanta, “Does not connect for C. & 0. route’ point un 30 P. M—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassas, estern Express Dally for Warrenton, xpress tesville, Louevilie, Cincinmati, Memphis, Little Rock, and Throuxh Pullman Sleepers Ws burg at 11:13 A.M. aud Ohio route and rasburg Local at 9:47 A.M. ‘Ivania avenue, nla Railroad, 6th oo E AND OHIO RATLROAD. Schedule in effect Nov. Ist, 1888. 308 » 8 9:45 kau, ch trains leave Washington Sunday at Rm., stopping st all stations on Metropolitan 13:00, t4:35, t5:30 p. r and Wilmington, 2: laily, and 10:45 a.m. Sigpes y iediate its north am. daily, and 12:15 4 4m. Sundays 730, +30, mn. ‘Daily, sSandays onty. and checked at hotels an@_resi- es on orders left ‘at ticket offices, 619 and 1501 W. M. CLEMENTS, al Gen. SCULL, Pass. Agent. y = _-—— , and Stations: chburg, Roanol and New Or- New jons Ches, & Ohio’ Route, reensboro, ‘halei¢h, a Birming! ‘aud Californie to ts Sol ory, New Or- leans Via Atlanta and Mont- Garevthoutchenge Pe Washington to Augusta, ‘Trains o ly: Round Hill 11: ain Sunday. riving Washington Ey 2 ees ‘Al ‘ernon and River at 10 o'clock am. 3:30 ‘POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. Mt VERNON: STEAMER W. W. treet wharf daily « (Ceoepe Stiaday) for Mt, Returning, neaches Wastiewtos LL BLAKE, Captain. POTOMAC RI ING ey oe Returning pA ‘touching at rg and SATURDAYS at 7 am. FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS Landings Nomini Creel See schedule. JOHN B. CW: MEDLEY, Manager. 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