Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1888, Page 7

THE SACKVILLE EPISODE. LUXURIOUS BRIGANDS. A CIRCUIT RIDER’S TRIALS. Between Lord Salisbury | Typical Fra Diavolos Flourishing in | The Kind of Work for the New Preacher arte Eastern Roumelia. and the Late British Minister. ‘The papers in the Sackville case were made public in London last evening. The first is a letter from Lord Salisbury to Lord Sackville, and is dated October 27. It is as follows: “Mr. Phelps, who is staying at my house, in- forms me that Mr. Bayard’s request for your recall is not based upon the letter to Murchi- son, bat upon ® newspaper interview. I re- plied that I was glad it was not true that the re- quest was duo to the writing of the letter, which was made public only by @ betrayal of confi- dence, and it was hardly practicable to lay down the principle that a diplomatic representative should be prohibited from expressing even pri- ion upon events in the country to ich he is accredited. e lan- e of an interview is different. You must fo taken as having intended it for publication. Before admitting the need for a recall I was Doug in justice to you to know exactly what the alleged objectionable language was. I therefore asked Mr. Phelps for a copy of the interview in order to ascertain from you whether you had been accurately reported, and I told him that I would then bring the matter before my colleagues. Mr. Phelps replied that he had not received the text of the interview, but would take steps to procure it. Itwascon- sequently understood that until the Was received there should be no answer to re- quest for your recall.” SACKVILLE’S EXPLANATION. Lord Sackville replied on the 28th of Oc- tober, as follows: “The letter which I an- swered was a political republican plot. I have mailed a full explanation of it to you. If my recall is deman: it is due to the elections here. Ibeg to express my deep regrets for what has occurred.” On the 30th Lord Sackville cabled that he had received his ‘ta. On the 3ist Mr. Phelps informed Salisbury of the same fact, and added that Mr. Cleveland hoped that another minister would be accredited. On the 4th of November Lord Salisbury received a letter mailed by Lord Sackville on October 26, including letters, &c. Lord Sack- Ville said: “I have certain information that the Murchison letter was fictitious and was con- cocted by a well-known firm in conjunction with the republican national committee at New York. It was sent from Southern California to event suspicion. Mr. Bayard, whom I saw y, said that he regretted the incident very much, bi cepted my disclaimer that it was neither my thought or intention to interfere in the domestic policy of the country. It was a campaign trap, but he frankly told me that I had been indisereet. I expressed my dee regret for the incident and Mr. Bayard assure me that he bore me no ill.” On the 3ist of October Lord Sackville cabled Lord Salisbury: “I must beg to repudiate Mr. Bayard’s statement of the reasons for my dis- missal as an unjust attack agen my integrity.” Lord Salisbury on the same day cabled to Lord Sackville to place Mr. Herbert, as senior secre- tary on the spot, fn charge of the legation. On November 1 Lord Salisbury communicated linister Phelps. He referred to the lat- ve to procure a copy of the obnox- rview made by the British minister at n, and added that, having no further tion as to what Lord Sackville’s speeches | -d or to whom they were made, he was ‘o form any judgment upon the consid- rations which dictated the request for his re- e@il or the forwarding of passports to him. Mr. Phelps replied to the note on the next | day. He said: “My recollection of what passed in our conversation on Saturday differs slightly from yours in one particular. It was not in- to be understood that the ietter written by Lord Sackville formed no part of the rea- s0ns for the request for his recall. I did say in my remarks that the newspaper interview was the principa on. I am still withouta copy of tateierinn. Feeka eee. Bayard a copy of your lordship’s note requesting the tull de- tails of the la e and direct circumstances of the interview.” soo — Queer Occupations. A FASHIONABLE PAWNSHOP—HOW DUPLICATE WEDDING PRESENTS ARE DISPOSED OF. In my rambles around this great metropolis 1 have been surprised at the many methods of making a liv writes a New York correspon- dent of the Detroit Tribune. Certainly if one- half the world do not know how the other live, they just as little know how the make their living. There street a place which gets from the very swellest and selusive circles of society. The has no sign, nothing to give it away as a nbroker’s shop, but such it is, notwith- ling its handsome entrance and liveried der, who ushers the visitors or patrons an elegantly furnished dr: ‘room, decorated with rare bric-a-brac choice tings. The woman who keeps it, for the tor is a woman, is dressed in the latest d receives her customer as if a guest. r half 1th style. It is not until after the usual exchange of morn- ing salutations that she asks: ~What can I do for madame this morning?” Then madame displays a set of jewelry, dia- monds, perhaps, or bric-a-brae, on which she wishes 4 loan. netimes a note is given at the rate of 15 or 2 per cent. These notes, however, seldom go to protest, for the givers de teare to have these transactions known but, apart from that, they s it is generally understood frequently exceeds her al- nd makes it up on the next, while the obliging broker makes a good profit from the ies of fashionable women, own front” house just after a wedding, is known to the neigh- descend from a carriage or a caller, but she makes quite ag up the duplicate gifts. Every wa that the wedding giffs of a season oves, and that most brides, on look- -ssessions, find a large propor- ts duplicated. The bride who t herself ill on figding that she had seven #, every oue alike, with a cow on had not the advantage of the bride lay, who calls her aid the buyer of such Guplicates. One of the popular brides of last season found og her 700 wedding presents 15 silver- d candlesticks, 3 bronze busts of Shake- 4 etchings of Millet’s Angelus,” 10 nud mirrors, 3. engrav: of one pic- fil knives, 28 ‘pickle and olive forks 1 boxes, 8 bon-bon boxes and r ves. What did she do with woman came to her aid took most of the duplicates off her hands. use they were disposed of at a sacrifice the young bride worried for weeks for transaction would leak out, but what ? She couki not litter up her ith duplic: les. I think it would be a when one is sending out invita- 4 fashionable wedding, to add to ne is desired to present, or else to gifts by saying “Gifts not de- Iam sure either method would save mount of annoyance to both giver and receiver. soe Died for Her Barber. Miss Ada May Thompson, a girl sixteen years living in South Des Moines, Iowa, shot herself im the kitchen of her parents’ house on Sundey night. She was attached toa barber, bat her parents objected to her acceptance of ons. He called Sunday evening and ving told her he was about to cease ions to her. She seemed very much and said as they parted: “I expect e the last words you will ever hear ‘The shooting followed soon after. ———+ee—_____ Children’s Rights on the Sidewalk. A bright little girl of four and a half years Was out on the sidewalk, in Brooklyn, with her brother, who was six. He left her fora few Tainutes and she started to go alone across the Steeet at the crossing, when an ice wagon ran over and killed her. Her father sued the ice company for and got a verdict. The Company carried case to the Court of Ap- Peals, where its lawyers claimed that it was Grows negligence for parent to allow a little ~ to go into the street or on to the sidewalk Without some competent person to take care of it. The court dette thatit is not negligence to do so, and holds the com liable in dam- sees. Here is what Judge jm haem the sub- Hundreds of young children are permit with general salty, and must be pennies Cities, to amuse themselves on the sidewalks, and they cannot always be attended by persons of discretion. The highest prudence would floubtless require that they should be so d, but it cannot be a8 matter of law t ordinary prudence forbids that a ht pila, , Sour ‘soe A = old, properly ucted and cautioned, should go unattended bu a sidewalk for diversion. a Paomise Surr.— hter of Lemuel A Brracu oF pach, dai —Miss Susie Leach, of Cam i Plymouth. for breach of promise . Litchfield is forty years of is in the m@able property. Chinamen should be in their fesire to learn base ball. "It teasines those to From the London Telegraph. Brigandage—which may, happily, be said to be all but defunct in Spain and the Italian peninsula, which is only heard of now and again in feebly spasmodic outbursts in Sicily, which has lost much of its former virulence in the kingdom of Hellenes proper, and which, thanks to railways and the maintenance of something approaching a stable government, is fading even out of Mexico—seems, by all accounts, to be flourishing in the fullest lux- uriance in Eastern Roumelia, The ener, and impudence of the of bandits who recently captured two Au: subjects, MM. Landler and Binder, at Bellova, and are de- manding no less a sum than 1,300 Turkish pounds for their ransom, are almost of a nature to vie with the late M. Edmund About’s de- lightfally pictu ue, but slightfully —— native, narrativé of the achievements of the Greek “Klept” Hadji Stavros, “King of the Mountains.” While the hope must be universal that the two captives will be delivered safe and sound from the clutches of the Bellova *brigands it cannot be denied that there is a slight touch of humor in thefproceedings of these ruffianly out- laws, and that they have contrived to casta new light on the domestic economy of brigand fe. ‘There has been hitherto s tolerably general consensus among travelers that the modern brigand in Roumelia and on the Turko-Greek frontier is, as a rule, a deplorable ragamufiin, usually a ne’er-do-well peasant or an insolent horse couper, who {s in league with the dram- shop keeper, and sometimes with the priest of the village round about which he prowls. His innermost garment is more frequently a goat- skin than a shirt of textile fabric; he rarely washes; his ideas touching combs are indis- tinct, and he never heard of a tooth-brush. As for his diet, it is one in which salt fish and sausages largely predominate over butcher's meat, and rancid oil over both; and, as regards stimulants, he will drink as much as he can get of the commonest red wine, the most fiery corn brandy, and the most malodorous mastic or “raki.” Of course, he smokes, but usually his. tobacco has been the vilest Russian “mahorka” and his pipe a rude chibouck of cherry wood. The Bellova brigands seem, however, to have souls far above such primitive garb and such = viands as we have glanced at. The rogues are perfect Sybarites, and, in a letter addressed to aricu merchant of Tartar- Bazardjik, they demanded that there should be forthwith sent to them six Martini rifles of the pattern furnished to the Eastern Roume- lian gendarmes, together with a large supply of ball cartridge, thirty-five — of shoes, as many shirts, ornamented with the finest Rus- sian embroidery; thirty-five pairs of stockings of the best quality, thirty-five cakes of scented soap, an equal quantity of ivory combs, three dozen less one of ivory cigarette-holders, a large quantity of tobacco and cigarettes, and a neatly-assorted stock of cognac, vermouth, bitters, cheese, and other creature comforts. It is only to be wondered at that these dandy brigands did not adda few dozen boxes of sardines, Paris kid gloves, hand-mirrors, birth- day cards, and flasks of eau de Cologne to their list. Their attar of roses they probably pre- pare for themselves, the odoriferous manufac- ture being indigenous to the region they adorn with their presence. About the only tenable hypothesis that can be formed to account for the elegant luxury in which the Bulgarian brigapds have taken to living may be that they have been reading a translation of the libretto of Scribe’s ‘Fra Diavolo,” and that they have resolved to “live up to it.” - The real “Fra Diavolo,” whose name was Michele Pezza, was the most repulsive of highway robbers. He had been a stocking- knitter in a small way of business in the kingdom of Naples, and, going bankrupt, took naturally to the road. He became the scourge and terror of the two Calabrias, and a price was set on his head, but when in 1798 Cardinal Ruffo undertook to force the French to evacuate the Neapolitan territory he pardoned “Fra Diavolo,” and even gave him a commission as lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. For eight years this inconceivable blackguard waged guerrilla warfare on the Gallic invaders, robbing and murdering his own countrymen when there were no foreigners to fight, but in 1806 he was captured, shot and gibbeted, the officer who ordered his execution being, oddly enough, a gallant French general, the father of the great master of the romantic sehool in France, Victor Hugo. There was, in reality, nothing more romantic about Fra Diavolo than there was about our Anglo-French highway- man, de Duval, who was simply an ab- sconding profligate footman of the Duchess of Portsmouth, but in the early days of French romanticism every incident and every person- age that could be perverted to picturesque use were eagerly seized upon by the novelists and the playwrights. They turned to Spain, and especially Italy; and, while Victor Hugo fabri- cated a wholly unhistorical Lucrezia Borgia as the hero of a tragedy, Alexander Dumas manu- factured an equa! y unveracious Fra Diavolo as the hero of a novel. The ready-witted Scribe at once availed him- self of the latter amusing but delusive creation, and, ie the collaboration of the composer, Auber, he roduced the always charming comie opera of ‘Fra Diayolo.” There can be little doubt that, while the lyric art benefitted large- ly by the popularity of Auber’s sparkling and harmonious numbers, an appreciable amount of social harm was done by the highly pictures- que and histrionic presentment given by Scribe of the sham “Fra Diavolo” and his gang of murderous desperadoes. Society began to be- lieve in the existence of a marauder elegantly and expensively attired in plum-coloredwvelvet, with elt sugar-loaf buttons to his jacket, his lower limbs swathed with criss-cross thongs, and wearing aconical hat profusely ornamented with ribbons. ‘This ideal brigand was scrupulously polite to ladies, and would bow over and reverentially salute the taper fingers from which he gently removed the diamond rings, and only under extreme pressure of necessity would this ortho- dox bandit, who was usually a devout son of the church, rob a bisho; 5 escdinneen:/ + Sean Bey How Few Are Rich. Edward Atkingon, in November Forum. It is probable, to say the least, that fully 90 per cent of the whole body of the people spend nearly all that they earn; of this 90 per cent a portion may, by setting aside a moderate part of their small carnings, become the own- ers of a house, or become depositors in a sav- ings bank, or insure their lives in a moderate wi Of the remaining 10 per cent, a partsave enough to protect themselves against want in their later years, and a very small part may become rich, and then need not work unless they choose. Open Grates on Second Floors. From the New York Sun. Experts in house building have suggested that grates in second stories are usually less safe than those below, as the narrower joists give little room for the boxing of the hearth. It is also urged that grates be examined carefully to determine whether the back of the flue is simply of 4-inch wall, which is always danger- ous at the back of a grate in a frame house. This can be determined by measuring the dis- tance the breast extends out from the wall, and as sometimes the breast runs through fiush with the face of the wall in the next room, the calculation is to be made accordingly. eee She Had Lots of Fun. From the Youths’ Companion. A little girl spent the afternoon at her grand- mother’s. When she came home her mother asked, “Have you been a good girl, dear?” “Not so very,” answered the truthful little one, “but, ob, I've had lots of fun.” so0, The Story of a Diamond Necklace. ‘From the Pall Mall Gazette. The Birmingham magistrates were yesterday called upon to adjudicate on a curious case, A London lady staying in Wales was some time since robbed of a diamond necklace of the value of £150. She recently received an anonymous letter, in which the writer said that, being in sore need, she took the necklace, but without fraudulent intention. She was now on the point of sailing for a far country, and teok the opportunity of saying that the necklace had been owned for £35 with Woods, lessrs. Woods did not deny necklace from a lady who owner of such a jewel, but they called upon to they were not whee he it 1 talks!” fois aha hen | Scan to Do. ‘From the Philadelphia Star. A number of young clergymen, all graduates of the Methodist Seminary at Evanstown, met down town the other day and were relating to each other anecdotes of their experience in the various fields to which they had been assigned. “My“most amusing ex- perience,” said one young brother, ‘was in a little village in Iowa where the conference sent me to begin my ministerial work. My circuit included three or four little villages and as many school-houses, and I tried to h a sermon at each place once two org In the village of Edy wood dwelt a good old lady named Mrs. Wickham, an emi- grant from the Green Mountains and one of the Vr of the church. I had just been married fore on the circuit, and the next day after our arrival in Edgewood Mrs. Wickham sent for my wife and myself to come to her house. In the afternoon we went and were warmly greeted by the old lady. ‘I am so glad you've tinea, Brother L—, i brought your wife,’ saidshe. ‘I’ve been waitin’ and waitin’ You don't know how anxiously ever since ‘other Jones went away, which is nigh onto three months, and there hasn’t ben a preacher in this house since. I've got some little things to do that I've ben a-savin’ till the minister come, and now you've brought Sister L-—. Let’s get them off'n our hands and then we can sit down and have a good, long talk.’ “I confess I was a little — at this re- ception, not_knowing exactly what the people on my circuit had been in the habit of saving up for the minister to do. However, I was not long left in the dark. The old -iady disap- — into the kitchen and soon called for us follow. We did so, and found the room lit- tered with two or three old bedsteads that had been taken to pieces and spread about the floor. In the middle of the floor stood Mrs. Wickham, with a big kettle of boiling water at her side, “ ‘Now, Sister L—, jest you take this here apron of mine, or youll spoil your dress,’ she said to my wife. ‘The pesky have been so bad in these bedsteads that I have some- times felt jest as if I couldn't wait till you come to give em a good scalding.’ “This, then, was a part of the circuit rider’s duties in Iowa, thought I; but the old lady seemed to take it so entirely asa matter of course that the preacher should help her with her work that I couldn’t well refuse. My wife laughingly put on the apron and went to work and I took off my coat and cuffs and took hold, too. It was along job, and after we bad got the bedsteads thoroughly scalded they had to be carried eapers set up, and ‘corded,’ for they were the old-fashioned kind of bedsteads i ropes did duty instead of springs or . “But this did not end the work, for_on com- ing down stairs the old lady remarked that the stove wasa little warm yet, but that if I was careful I could black it without buruing my hands, This was a little too much, and I was about to rebel, but my wife whispered to me that we might as well make a day of it. So we went at that stove and polished it till youcould see your face in it, anh then helped the old lady clean up the kitchen. By that time the sun was down, and our hostess kindly per- mitted us to withdraw, Did we stay to supper? Why, bless you, the good soul in her ty at getting her house cleaned up forgot to sa; anything about supper. We were giad enough to get home without being asked to dig up the the potatoes or build a calf pen. But ever since that day my wife and I have always had a prior engagement when aked to visit Mrs. Wickham.” —————+or________ How She Keeps Her Accounts. From the New York Graphic. . I wonder if the coming woman will be able to keep books, I don’t believe it, You have seen your wife making up her accounts, haven't you? She sits down on a chair and spreads her bills all over her lap, and she takes a little book up and opens it. It is a bet f little book, A woman is always economical in that respect. She will pay $20 for a hat, but she'll get a two- bit account-book, two inches by three, for 15 cents, to keep the household figures in. Well, she takes out this book and she opens it and scrutinizes it. “Let me see, I had $5.35 last month, and I— no—surely I had more—no—there it is—85.35, Well, I've got to carry forward $5.35; that’s it, No, it isn’t; that was August, Let’me see— September $10.15. I thought I had more, Now, that’s it, $10.15. Where's my pencil?” And she puts the bills on the floor and goes to her room to get her pencil. She comes back, picks up all the bills and the book and begins again. “Let me see, it was carry forward €4.25—no, that was July, August, September—@10.15, That's it.” She tries to put down $10.15, The pencil is a little bit of a stub and it won't make 4 mark; she pute the bills all down again and goes and gets a table knife and begins whit- tling at the pencil. She does not begin where the last cut was made; she simply tries to scrape the wood away at the point of the lead and she gets a little bit of it clear, Then she sité down and takes up all the bills and the book and begins all over again. “Let me see, $10.15!” And she puts the peneil to her mouth and makes # 1; she re- peats the operation and makes an 0, and so on till she gets $10.15 down. ‘Bless me, that’s the wrong side,” and she tries to rub ‘it out with her finger, and, failing that, she gets a piece of bread and cleans it op sufficiently to write in the place. Then she finds out she can’t write holding the book in her hand. She takes the whole caboodle in her apron and dumps it on the table, squares her elbows and proceeds to business, and when she has got everythiug down she ‘finds she is 15 cents out, She gently rubs her head with the stub of pen- ciland thinks out $11 more she paid out and 1.15 more she got from you. ————-ees. The Paradoxes of Science. From Blackwood's Magazine, The water which drowns us, a fluent stream, can be walked upon as ice. The bullet, which when fired from a musket carries death, will be harmless if ground to dust before being fired. The crystalized part of the oil of roses, so graceful in its fragrance—a solid at ordinary temperatures, though readily volatile—is a compound substance, containing exactly the same elements, and in exactly the same pro- portions, as the gas with which we light our streets. The tea which we daily drink, with benefit and pleasure, produces. palpitations, nervous tremblings, and even paralysis, if taken in excess; yet the peculiar organic agent called theine, to Which tea owes its qualities, may be taken by itself (as theine, not as tea) without any appreciable effect, The water which will allay our burning thirst augments it when congealed into snow; 80 that it is stated by explorers of the Arctic ‘regions that the natives “preter enduring the utmost extremity of thirst rather than attempt to re- move it by eating snow.” Yet if the snow be melted it becomes drinkable water, Neverthe- less, although, if melted before entering the mouth it assuages thirst like other water, when melted in the mouth it has the o) posite effect. To render this paradox more pt 20mg we have only to remember that ice, which melts more slowly in the mouth, is very efficient in allaying thirst. The Dread of Death. Sir Lyon Playfair has written to Junius Henri Brown the following letter in regard to the latter's paper in the Forwn for October or the “Dread of Death:” “Dear sir: I have read your article on death with much interest, This subject has often occupied my mind, and I have been led to the same conclusions. Having represented a large medical constituency (the University of Edin- burg) for seventeen years as a member of par- liament, I naturally ‘came in contact with the most eminent medical men of land. Ihave put the question to most of them, ‘Did you, in your extensive practice, ever know a patient who was afraid to die?’ With two exceptions they answered, ‘No.’ One of these exceptions was Sir Benjamin Brodie, who said he seen one case, The other was Sir Robert Christi- son, who also had seen one case, that ofa oung girlot bad character who had a sudden deoident. “I have who were par- tially devoured by wild beasts under spp ently hopeless of first was Li the African trav- eler, who was knocked on back by a lion, wi to munch his arm, He assured me that he felt no fear or pain, and that his only feeling was one of intense curiosity as to which of his body the lion wor take next. next was Rustem Pasha, now Turkish Siig bata his Sanat eens eee tense ope of fear, but nor he had neither a sense of pain = satisfaction in third case is that of Indian officer now occupying a high position in the Indian iy 4 tiger, whicl hela him firmly a ‘ fe pages deliber- at the shoulder. was sensation of fear, and a EET arm. same conclusions as your- Leng neh oygeard some pe etee ce EVENING TWINKLES. rain. The barber it to have" been a valuable — yesterday. is accustomed to work at ie gencl thtret, bat dat i wil nc! rat no’ Senay The barkeeper will do ever. A New York jeweler advertises amber neck- laces “‘to prevent croup in ae: thus ee upon the superstition some mothers. It may be of interest to the Government clerks to learn that the removal of the tax pn ae Es not lessen the price of board in city. The comes from Semfohmor, W. T., dash potion ie so plentiful thereabouts that “enough can be caught in a week to supply the whole United States.” A Georgia woman who had been an invalid for years says she has enjoyed perfect health since the earthquake. Some women do need a shaking up sometimes, Mr. Filkenstein, of Newark, N. J., is playing & game of chess with his cousin in Australis which has Loe lasted five years, They make their moves by letter. A letter was mailed at Pittsburg recently ad- dressed to ‘The Secretary of the Knavy De- partment,” and the intelligent postal clerk sent it to the warden of the state penitentiary. Pennsylvania towns in the vicinity Pitte- burg are being flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. The counterfeit is said to be the finest ever turned ‘out of an illegal mint in this country. beer may refresh the A man in Pennsylvania has a wetch which | is. has been in use for more than one hundred and ten years, and still k excellent time. It was made before the Waterbury efticle was invented, The viceroy of Canton says that kerosene is a greater menace to the peace and prosperity of the Chinese em} than opium. has already burned up $10,000,000 worth of prop- erty, and he wants it banished. the most magnificent thimble known is that bar papiraigibe emer rege atm waned golden lotus bud and studded with diamonds to form the name of the young queen to whom. it was a bridal gift from the king. A California widow had plans made fora $50,000 monument for her late fis wresae! but when the lawyers got through fighting over the estate the widow was doing housework at $2. week for the man who designed the mon- ument. There is no significance in the fact that the first play brought out in the late.Lester Wal- lack’s theater under the new management bears the title of ‘Held by the Enemy,” for Mr. Palmer was one of Wallack’s warmest friends, pn eer Sleep After a Meal. THE BRAIN SHOULD REST WHILE THE STOMACH DIGESTS THE FOOD. From the Westminster Review. There is a widespread superstition, cherished by a great majority of the people, that to sleep immediately after having taken food is to en- danger health, to favor the onset of apoplexy, &c., a superstition based on the assumption that during sleep the brain is normally con- gested. There is, no doubt, such a thing as congestive sleep, but during normal sleep the brain is anemic, When @ person has taken a fairly abundant lunch or dinner the stomach demands a special influx of blood wherewith to accomplish its work of digestion; no or; can more easily comply with that demand than the brain which, when in full activity, is suffused with a maximum amount of the vital fluid. But a derivation of blood from the brain to the stomach can only take place, except in exceptionally full-blooded and vigorous per- sons, on the condition that the cerebral func- tions be meanwhile partially or wholly suspend- ed. Hence many people after taking dinner feel indis; d for mental action and not a few long for +> The already ly anemic brain would fain yield up to the stomach a still further supply of blood and yield itself up to refreshing sleey Doing so it gains new strength; meanwhile digestion proceeds ener- getically, and soon body and id are again equipped to continue in full force the battle of fife. ut superstition, the child of ignorance, intervenes, declares that sleep during di tion is gerous; admonishes the would-be sleepers to Straggle against their lous in- clination, and, though telling them that after dinner they may sit awhile, assures them of the e: “After supper walk a mile.” e millions of its victims continue, there- fore, the strife to which it condemns them, and ignore the suggestion offered to them by the lower animals, who have always practi: the lessons of sound physiology by always sleeping after feeding whenever they are allowed to do so. Hence the human brain and the human stomach of such’ victims contend with each other during the digestive process, The brain, impelled by superstition, strives to work and demands blood to work with, while the stom- ach, stimulated by its contents, strives to carry on its marvelous chemistry and demands an ample supply of blood for the purpose. The result of struggle is that neither is able to do its work well. The brain is enfeebled by being denied its natural rest di the diges- tive process, and the healthy func’ of the stomach degenerates into dyspepsia, 00 The Invaluable Hotel Clerk. From the New York Press, The American hotel clerk has been bitterly assailed during the week by an Englishman writing for the papers with more bitterness than honesty. “No one ever appreciates him,” said the foreign buyer of a down-town com- mercial house last night, ‘until he travels in Europe. Half a dozen good, wide-awake, cheerful, and es | hotel clerks from Amer- ica would make London sife a thousand times more agreeable than it is at present to American visitors, if they held the reins of government in English hotels, There is no one man in any big hotel in Europe who can be depended 4 to attend to the minor details of every- life as our clerks can here. If you want anything done about your room you have to see the housekeeper; if you wish to ask for mail, you’ must go and see the mailing clerk; if your. luggage needs attending to, you have to seek out the head rter, and the manager of the hotel has no onception at all of the duty or whereabouts of the cashier. There are, in other words, 80 many heads to the management of the bi English and Euro; an hotels that amant bewildered out of all reason and put to an end- less amount of trouble through trying to find the right man. The at American institu- tion of the hotel clerk may have same draw- backs, but, taken all in all, he is a functionary whom we can never spare. In about thirty cle renedr intent, fe ‘urope, and then the: eee i foc cme. thors geod idea.” Do intellectual women make the best part- ners for life? Emerson says “it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion ;” and Jean Paul Richter declared that he would not lead a woman into the matrimonial noose whom it would not delight to hear him read the learned reviews of Gottingen, or the universal German pert Aer they sounded his praise, h it might be in some degree gzaggerated. Joka mar- Stuart Mill regarded the riage in its chest aim and tas “oe facullt Montical in cpinton’ ana warrnea Soutien, nm opinion an betw nina siperesehiee dt seat similarity of powers tu items, a0 tat coe ean joy the h of looking up to the other can have nately the pleasure of leading and being led in the path of devek mt.” But other men a“ us have thong! 't differently on the sub- ject It is an oft-quoted saying of Dr. Johnson “aman in general is better he has a good dinner on the table Greek.” Racine Hamburg Marine Observatory, will succeed in getting @ South Polar expedi- than the North. It is much colder there than in the Arctic circle. There seems to be no de ty crc | tain opening seer mariention far of this kind will, of course, be pushed on during the summer months—d: January, February, and the early part of March, that But even in the helght of summer the temperature of the air in Antarctic regions is always below the point of sea water, and bitter tempestuous winds and fogs and a are all but incessant, No Arctic explorer has ever gone beyond the bounds of vegetation. At least lichens and seaweed have been found wherever Northern navigators have trated, but in’ the awful solitudes of the ith Sir James Ross found not the slightest trace of vegetable life, either on the eat or in the sea, yet he never came within less than 700 miles of the south pole. The magnetic pole has been oa thin 150 miles, and it seems le that important scientific results tht be obtained by cover- ing that further ; but even this is doubtful. ——-or-—_____ Bulbs for Winter Blooming. Olive Warner in American Rural Home. There are many persons who annually make preparation for winter flowers by potting and re-potting geranium, fuchsias an@ other com- mon plants, and as often meet with disappoint- ment, the plant yielding nothing but leaves throughout the winter. To such I wish to recommend a class of plants that can always be relied on for flowers—the hardy bulbs. Al- though hardy they are among the most desira- ble of lante for window culture. A bulb is es- sent @ bud, and it is only necessary to sup- ly. heat and moisture to cause them to develop. Bikey require a free, dry and somewhat rich soil, into which the roots may penetrate freely, Cover only the lower half of the bulb with soil, and then press: down until they are nearly covered, The hyacinths are indispensable for winter blooming because of their beauty, fragrance and ease of culture. The Dutch hyacinths have large flowers of all shades of color, red, white, blue and a In regard to the rela- tive beauty of hyacinths there is no greater fallacy than that the double are more beautiful than the single varieties. Many of the double sorte are Cregeen beautiful, but the colors of the single are richer and the blooms larger and they are more easily grown and therefore better adapted for house culture. The white Roman hyacinths are the easiest grown of all the bulbs. The flowers are single and some- what smaller than those of the Dutch sorts, but of very sweet fragrance and produced in at profusion. A very small pot will answer is hyacinth. Some prefer to plant three or four in a large pot. The Scillas are beautiful bulbs of very easy culture and excellent for growing in pots. The flowers are pink, white and blue. 8. Siberica is the best for pot culture. The flowers are a er oo sky blue and are borne of graceful spikes of six to twelve blooms each. Tritelea uniflora is@ pretty, graceful plant, with grass-like leaves and large star-like white flowers shading to a delicate blue at the center. The white narcissus is one of the most lar flowers grown. The small, cu ened flowers are borne in clusters and are deliciously fragrant. The double Roman narcissus is of the same nature, except that the flowers are double, The colored are also valuable for winter blooming. They vary in color from pure white to bright orange. The Jonquil is a species of narcissus, éasily ‘own and always a favorite for its bright yel- AUCTION SALES. FUTURE Dave. ‘Latest Styles, itting Required. 521 11th st,, near F PUP TACUTE STS, ay et purchasers cost; terms af sale to be com wotnes SuSE" Bscoma)} Bronte hour and place. WOOL BLANKETS, extra besvy, sus _BISSEHhwona) noe | “SURE GALE TO-MORROW. enOTAL, FRENCH, Dina NAL, SRUOE, ot yum value 5Uc., reduced 3 LADIES BROADCLOTA, half eT al cpleet: gash value $1, reduced to 87e. ‘ ¥ WHEES #00. apeicmers Avenue, Opposite,City Post-Office. pet KETS, finest 2 Seompe sige, extra, soe wos IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE save or exe: | ¥rtthre pe a ; GANT FUR ATPone Fon Mitost Eve DE. VASE oor UE OME CENTOMERS, PARTMENT OF THE HOUSEHOLD, BEING THE | of Silk Embroidered G Ve. 0 halt TAROEST ORFEMING OF GOOD: SUBSTAN: | Pine Damask Napkine, wurth Toc. Galect one of TION E PAST YEAR. CONSISTING OF | MUTE Preceuta with a purchase of 63, SHERRY, WALNUT. AND Aan, “OME VERY oar FINE Pid MiRRGR TS WALNUT FRAME, naxPRoMeChyin PLAbe tad Bhi wiae, . 3 P wool; cash value oboe ARDS IN WALNUT AND ASH, SEVERAL : —y. oer FINE PABLOR SUITES IN PLUSH ONE FINE pt MR min, S00, LDING BED IN WALNUT, WITH WALK MAT: | TAGE ASE RR CLE mot gaatity Bi Bis PEDETEADS, Reisiny ane HENRIETTA CASHMERES, extre Fon, dale ENT OF Goons, TOO NUMEROUS TO MEN- | {ia Pure Wool, sil colors; cash value bi WITHIN OUR SALESKOUM, THURSDAY, 0) HT, AT TEN AMC AT TWELVE O'CLOCK “HARP, A LARGE LOT OF Ai HAI REW AND SECOND-HAND BRUSSELS AND GRAIN CARPETS, KUGS, MATTING, OLL- = 2 Dain us, worth $1.50, HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. MES,Y,4, TRAVIS. MODISTE, MAKES HAND: NCE OF STOCK OF STATIONERY, FIRE- wg Habits ond veins Dooney oaeeaeee PROOF Shree, ROM THE ESTABLISH. | Pat eee ‘Drensee 0 epestalty. MENT OF Ji MAET, ESQ. AT AUCTION. |? On THI AY MORNING, NOVEMBER EIGHT! 1888. at TER OCLOCK, withas shall sell Stationery Goods, a us ck of n05-3t THOMAS DOWLING, Actioucer. JUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers, OK DWELLING HOUSE, No. 816 F STREET SOUTHWEST) AND. OINING SIDE LOT. SALE PEREMPTORY, f THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER EIGHTH: AT FIVE O'CLOCK, we will sell, in frout of LOTS 10 AND 11, SQUARE 413, each lot fronti Se 6-12 fee’ ry F street, and witha SOMETHING NEW—IMITATION LEATHER Wall Pockets, Mate etc; Rretty, dareble few Frost Children, Sci ctures, Gift ies to Paint, Gold Paint (1c. 3 5 JAY GOULD, 421 9th st.n.w. Branch, 205 is ee. x ocl3-Lm* SQEPERELUOUS HAIR DESTROYED, LEAVING NO trace, by my tlectric needle process, endorsed by every I . Ten y ThE Tiey" Blectrical treatment for laden atid chiltress ocl0-Tm* MRS. DR, GABRIEL, 1321 G st. aw. JOR THE LADIES—SEAL GARMENTS ALTERED and repaired; mufis to order; robes re MKS. Ko M. EVANS, depth of 124 8-12 fest to a 25-foot alley. The ta. | _oco-2m* 1201 Pennsylvania ave., Davis Building. Provements consist of a two-story Brick ing; One best locations southwest Mes. M. J. Hos, ‘erms: One-third cash; balance in equal install- ments in one and two years, notes to bear six per cent nterest from day of sale; payable serui-annually, and to be secured by deed of trust, or all cash, at option of purchaser or purchasers. t pur. 1309 F STREET NORTHWEST, Invites special attention to her lange and select stock: Conveyancing, Paecere oer Paguacers. Conveyancing, Bc. at par. | of MILLINERK, complete in all branches and at mode sale. Terms to bo couuplicd with iy ten day frou day | ate prices 5, otherw. eae ese! cout of defaulting purchaser” Hak a0 | Balance of stock of KID GLOVES, in ofd sizes, at Sedéds DUNCANSON BROS, Aucts, |halfprice, © 9020-3an = Sy VALUABLE cupmoven | fants cuieins ABS Tap age Bane = IMPROVED Sold } iteration THe TEE Radley sa Test dye hounes in the Cathed Muze M. J. Praxo 1809 F st. n.w. (Mrs. Hunt's}, FINE FRENCH HAIR GOODS Also, A special selection in SHELL, AMBER AND DULL JET ORNAMENTS. _Hair Dressed and Bangs Sbingled. x . Seat Skis Gansexrs. ALL STYLES MADE TO ORDER. FINE FURS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, MUFFS BOAS, TRIMMINGS, &o. (Old garments redyed and altered by the Misses CUNNINGHAM, 923 F st. n.w., second floor. 1310 8th st. nw, By virtue of a decree in cause No. 10678, in Fauity, in the Supra jurt of the District of Colum- dia, the undersiy “ustee will offer for sale. on the premises, on SATURDAY, the SEVEN TH DAY oF NOVEMBER, 1588, af FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., Lota fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16) and eighteen (18), in Williain McLean's subdivision in Square north of Square two hundred and forty-two (242). Lots four- teen (14) and fifteen (15, are improved by a lange two- story Frame Cottage, No. 1315 Rhode Island avenue. Lot eiggteen (18) is nuproved by a Dwelling-House, No. 1407 Fourteenth street northwest, and subject (0 the life estate of the widow. Lot siatecu (10) is uuim- prov Also, on the same day, at HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., sub lot twenty-seven (27), in square two hundred and seventy-eight (278), improved by & three-story and basement brick house, No. 17 Iowa au3l-3m* _8¢22-3m Ae CSETAISS: CURTAINS! CURTAINS! LACES? On MONDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF NO- ee Ep ee YEMBER, 1888, at FIVE O'CLOCK P. M,, I shall offer . 72017th st ‘second fi for sale, on the premises, part of lot seventeen (17), in em Foss -- square hive hundred and’ thirty. 38), improved H DYE! DRY CLEAN. by a two-story frame dwelling, 2 E street south- ESTABL 1205 New York a west, and two-story frame dwelling on the rear of the lass Ladies’ and Gents’ very descrip: lot," The dimensions of this lot will be given at the Son; Flush, Nelvet and Evening Dresses. ASTON le. ND CA’ N. ERCH, formerly wi ‘Terms of sale: One-third in cash, and the remainder | su Mann Wane, Bee e2lly in equal instalments at one and two years from the of sae, with interest at 6 per cent per annum, secu by the notes of the purchaser and a lien upon the prop- sold, or the purchaser may pay all cash. Deposits be required af the time of the sale as follows. On No. 1315 Rhode Island avenue, $500; on No. 17 lowa STON FISCHER'S DRY CLEANING ESTAB- LISHMENT AND DYE WORKS, 906 G st, n.w. Ladies’ and Gente’ Garments of all kinds cleaned and Dyed without being ripped. Ladies’ Evening Dresses ‘Thirty-five years’ experience. Prices Ory Girele, $200, and on ante of the other p Parcels. ¢100. If | mx erate. Goods called for and delivered. e are not complied wi mn days after the we [N tale the property nay" Us resold ‘ca ime daye’ pute | AA EECMOOL GARMENTS MADE UP O8 RIPPED Dotice at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser A Fiscuer, e sold free of taxes to June 30, 1s8s, except as to sub loteighteen (18) in square north | S14 S06 Ont. aw. of square two lundred and forty-two (242), the taxes on, yrhich are paid by the life tenant. conveyancing at the cost of the purchaser. WILLIAM Hi. ROBE if T PIANOS AND ORGANS. Trustee, ciunati, Ohio, ALLET & DAVIS’ PIANOS; SUPERB IN ' DUNCANSON BEOS., < Perfect in workmanship ; oo in @ Auctioneers, n5--d&ds Fine stoc to the He price. : to ttsiigdec uw. HL BOMN Soors & Srv, 934 F St. N. Ww. We conduct the Piano and Organ business in all ita brunchee. "We offer our Aue inne of Pranoe Agen EO, W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF SPLENDID VILLA LOTS IN WHITNEY CLOSE. By virtue of acertain of trust, bearing date on the seventeenth day of Fran D. 1887, and duly recorded in Liber No. 1246, folio 1, records of the et seq. of the | by the best makers at very District of Columb it the rorable term osente r aby me very fragrant and borne requeet ef the party cocesed sherebyr ee Will sell at 18 mow Faure in City or Country, for any length “ public suction, in front of the preiixes, on WEDNES- | of time desired, take Old Instrumente in part payment The Anemone is one of the most beautiful | Pay, the FOURTEENTH DAY of NOVEMBER, AD. for New Ones, rent Pianos and Organs, with aaa and showy flowers, The foliage is very pretty 1888, at FOUR OCLOck F. M, all those contain of purchase, and give careful attention to Tuning: and the lowers are exceedingly briliant in| Westiagl i™penoC aN sats dp the, Sous of DECKER ENR color, Anemone Fulgens is the best for winter fhirteen, <8), Parton Ce and_ fifteen 28), in im it ili cl bered five (5), in L “s vi- oe roma es ace of « tich vermition | Dees ee ar ake Whitney Close, as recorded ESTEY PIANOS, “he Tulip is one of the most important of | iinc°HMA FMS, often Oe and Gl, surveyors All toguiries for. farther “information will te ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance in three equal | promptly ackuowledged. ihm to ich and gorgeous dapay of | Boat ots tw at ine anc ea Sa SANDERS & STATMAR, flowers with eo little care an attention in enl- sit ally secre 7 deed ‘ot Frast-avon the pretniaes ey Dorth wert, tivation. e great variety of colors, their in- | $0ld, or all casi mrcheer's option, One hundred . 217 Main st., Bi i leases GEO E WW Ww 00 RRR 7 GEO. E. EMMONS, quot ow de s)aresacopnt camot| ce20eate_ Sn ATS toe. | EE op Ee OS HE flowering bulbs. Iris Persica should be selected BRECEIVERS SALE. al VALUABLE Bons WW aro Crottk E,,, 200 very fragrant and freely produced. By virtue of an order of the Circuit Court of Balti. | HALLETT AND CUMSTON Pianos Chiot nodoxa Lucilliw, sometimescalled G1 puore city, passed in the case of bargains in the city. es of the Snow, is ono of the lovelicet plants, with land and Gosstwise Transportation Compat stlower | QB MILLS ON THE KRAKAUER PIANOS: Spikes of azure blue flowers, with pure wi Cedar Point, Charles County, Md., on THURSDAY, le them excellent in every particular.” ters, IN’ Y OF NOVEMBER, 1888, AT oe ———_+o+__ TEN ok A Mel bey bon al ees oahe G. H. KUHN, General Agent. Tricks of the Innocent Japs. Son Gompung, cseelsting Voce rece twelve | Also for “Pease” Pianos and Burdett Organs. SOME OF THE METHODS THEY EMPLOY TO TAKE | cows, two oxen, one bull, ing imple- 15-6m_ 407 10th st. 1% THE UNWARY TRAVELER ey eet ee From the New York Herald, rt, ‘one Miller Safe, wh m0we Kx ABE In the tricks that signalize most all trades | Fitcpen quent antetoom table Complete abouttwohun- | CNEQUALED X TONE, TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP the “Japs” are by no means without their little | quantity of chine end ety atten is invited to our devices, and when it comes right down to an | Dathing nuits, twenty-seven Dosis twenty-one paitwot | “New Artistic Styles” guished in dexieus ot appearance of ingenuous “innocence,” these rakes, &0., £0. SECOND-HAND PIANOS. a (Aaeortment artful Orientals can enact the role in a manner EDWARD HAMMOND, Receiver, NABE, & OO. MH WM_ A. HAMMOND, Atto: a hat would completely eclipse even hat of & | ao aug sc Rae Rata | _mrt an or" the aa elon use to my in i dene DOWLING, Auctioneer, ore ary si er, 01 eir overbearin; pol MPRC ———_ ness in all bentoase transactions and their al- NCERY SALE OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE ~ RINE by. IN WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN, D. ©. | @PECIALTY IN NG HARPER'S AND most childlike innocence apparently in all mat- CONSISTING OF A THREE-STORY PRESSED: Century Magazines for $ 75 conta, ters of barter and trade I will not speak. BRICK DWELLING, NO. 710 TENTH STREET Ly DERY « in 1845), 10) Iwill simply speak of two classes that the] Baisaep BiicK DWELLING, WITH SPABEE, | eave All work cuarani . foreigner = ‘meets with on a pone 0. ibe i THEY FOUEL STREET Nouri SSS ——oOoOoOo bontmen and rb ip anaps Lp the ‘jinrick- Soaeer aN NO, 629 TENTH STREET Grand Natisnal Award of 16,600 francs. ws, 0. “FT STREET NORTH: On landing at Yokohama the steamer anchors Ww A TWO-STORY FRAME BWELi about a mile from shore, and most of the trav- BY scmpeianinamecemnnmed eling to and from the ship is done in boats that are worked something gondolas. These crowd around the steamer in swarms, the boatmen of- fering in very fair English to take you to shore and back for six cents. Iam now speaking of Precip Tad ate epee For some r one of boatmen, who seemed to eajerstand English very well, ab after my arrival at Yokohama some few mont Pg0, agreeing to vy him six cents for the round trip. On ey poten Than Me: and demanded ny a? IRON, amp WINE.