Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1888, Page 6

sr ~ Ee EVENING TWINKLES, The election in New York was decided ac- cording to law, if not to the prophets. Buffalo Bill and Lord Sackville might join forces in a genuine Wild West sRow. There has been a good deal of raw material abroad since Tuesday. The hen does not cackle-late. Hence she has Ro reasoning power. There is® man in Waltham, Mass,, who has whistled so much that he has blown the center of his moustache all away, and it only grows at the corners of his mouth. ‘The inexperienced barber may hack your face unmercifully, but he will not charge you cut rates, Sheriff Love, at Lawrence, Kan.,while plaster- ing # foom twenty-three years ago. lost s valu- able watch chain. The other day the store was torn down and the chain was found m the plaster. Coal and wood will be in greater demand than usual this winter. because so many poli- ticiaus have been left out in the cold. Satanized crustaceans {s what the Bostonian calls deviled crabs. A Memphis lawyer created a sensation by saying in speech the other day: ‘You can’t get me between Skilly and Carripeus.” He 4 probably related to the Texas orator who fe vently said: “If I depart from these principles, may nfy tongue forget its cunning and my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth.” The venerable P.T. Barnum will not now have to dispose of his circus. W. H. Barnum probably had more of a circus than he wanted. Many of the women whom the society writers rave over in print are not half so beautiful as they are painted. It is a mistake to think that people end their courtship with marriage. The divorce courts bell a different story. The High School girl who, when asked what part of speech the word “kiss” was, said it was & conjunction, evidently knew more than the grammar. The girl who last winter was so modest that she wouldn't look at » salad dressing now gazes at the bare trees without a bhi In order to erect even the smallest and most unpretending house a man needs a site of land. bakers are very freqtently called upon for doughnations for charitable purposes. It takes a red hot argument to make a cold water man boil with rage. The girl with the sloe-black eye can see an oyster saloon just as quick as the lively blonde. The toothless man is not apt to bite off more than he can chew. Some men have a nod habit of sleeping in church, The man who swalfowed a bad egg said it was acase of ova-confidence. Many a man will support a worthless cur even when he has a hard struggle to keep pup. Sir Arthur Sullivan's famous song, ‘The Lost Chord.” realized nearly $50,000. ft was evi- dently in accord with the popular taste. ee The Eccentric Novelist. CURIOUS FREAKS CONNECTED WITH THE MARRIAGE OF AMELIA BIVES-CHANLER. A lady who lives but a few miles from Amelie Rives-Chanler, the eccentric and famous novel- ist, is here on a visit. and tells me of some inci- dents and freaks cohnected with her marriage that have never appeared in print, I think, says the Louisville Post. The novelist is nothing if Bot sensational. so after the ceremony. instead of going immediately away on a bridal tour, she changed the order of things, packed her whole family up aud started them off up the country, remaining in supreme possession of her home, where she lingered several days be- fore finally going East. The night of the wedding the house remained brilliantly lighted far after the gray streaks of dawn lit up the eastern horizon, and the pretty bride was seen flitting through the rooms, first fm her own and then in the parlor. where she Played her harp and sang many songs. The day | was fully born before she saw fit to seek rest, and not until a 6-o’clock dinner was announced did she make her appearance. The story pub- lished that Mrs. Chanler was coufirmed in her night robe, my informant tells me, is literally | true, only that it was ornamented with dainty | and exquisite frills and furbelows and would have done credit toa ball dress only for the shape of the garment. It ts also said that when the bishop confirmed the pretty girl her loveli- ness so dazed the good man that he hardly knew how to perform the service. It was immediately after the wedding. too, that Miss Chanler first introduced her latest fad—shoes or slippers with toilets—and now the extremists in fashiong are following in her train. or rather in her shoes. There are some people in New York who are so infatuated with the beautiful and bewitching Amelie that they would go barefooted if she would but start the fashion, but the trouble is few have so pretty and delicately formed feet as the gifted novel- ist, and a woman with a big foot in toilet shoes would give a fellow snakes. cor neha The Eggs Were Artificial. AN ANGBY PITTSEURG WOMAN ENLIGHTENS THE BOARD OF HEALTH. From the Pittsbury Dispateb. Artificial eggs have been sold in the Pitts- burg market and offered to the public in the place of real ones. A woman walked into the office of the board of health yesterday with a basket containing four dozens of eggs. these eggs are manufactured and not one of them has been laid by a hen.” man exclaimed to one of the health officers. “What am I to do about the matter?” she then asked. The geutleman picked up one of the eggs, looked at it, and he then gazed at the woman in astonishment, saying: “What is wrong with the eggs? They look all right, and 1 don't see any difference between them and any other eggs. You mean to state that they are manufactured? They may be rotten, but I don’t think that this egg wes made by the mere ingenuity of any human mind.” “Well, then, you are just a little mistaken; that is all.” said the woman,“‘and I will prove it to you. Look here now at this egg.” She then took one of them from the basket and broke it, and, when the officers observed the yolk, their faces bore the evidence of most unmistakable wonder. In shape the yolk was similar to that of a real egg, but its color dif- fered somewhat from that article, being darker and of a browner tint than that in the ordinary egg. Besides, that, however, the yolk of the false egg consisted of a more Jelly-like substance. Its composition appeared to contain gelatine, srep and starch. The white of this manufac- tured article looks exactly like the white of the real egg. Ithad the same transparent appear- ance, and the imitation seemed to be perfect. But the most puzzling thing is the shell. There is no difference noticeable to the eye at all, and it is not wonderful that anyone should buy such an egg as real hen fruit. The entire article, outside of the yolk, is a perfect counterpart of anything we see in the real egg. The woman bought them in the market at thirty cents a dozen. “I would like you to go to the market and ar- rest the man,” the woman said to one of the oficials. “I do not think he has any right to sell false eggs as good ones.” But the officer refused to do that, on the ground that he had no proof of the eggs being im any way dangerous to the health. “We cannot anything against the man unless we have evidence of the article being made up of ingredients impairing the health of any one who eats it.” was the explanation. The name of the imitation ae vender could not be learned, but it was sta’ that he was not from this cit ——— —cee-___ The Row ys From Temple Bar. The Roumanians who claim to be descended from a Roman colony in Dacta, but who spring mostly from medieval Greeks, have a Franco- Italian vivacity and Jauntiness. Their language is like Italian; the head-dress of their officials is the French kept; they are a small-sized, swarthy, chattering race (that is. speaking of the middle and upper classes, for the peasants, -_ either gypsies or slavs, are strapping fe with unimaginable “bounce.” Withal they have retained some slavish characteristics which have survived the overthrow of the Turkish bastinado rule. A recollection bere arises of a Roumanian cabman being soundly eaned by an elderly policeman (coram populo), “in front of the chief railway station at Bucharest. None of the bystanders seemed to think there was anything in the proceedings, and the cabman, who could have demolished the man by « blow from his fist, did nothing but howl and clamber on his box to drive fast away. Here is another recollection. the chief actor bei ® very Parisian-looking station-master 4 tanraben, who was chatting with an Englishman about sidled up ‘with extended ksheesh, upon most luggage. A Which the station-master tured with it and tha: eloquent fury denounced gape at man who brought disgrace u; She Serene te stranger from me who was only fit to herd wi ben the porter had slunk Mice Sutth— “Hoy lose ago may T ask” “A phenomenon, my boy,” replied the old ‘cae wa man, “isa person who excels or is remarkable aes a — im some special way.” aud they transact all their business MRS. LEVI P. MORTON, The Wife of the Vice-President-Elect is Interviewed. From the New York World. “How does being the wife of a candidate af- fect you?” “I don’t notice that it fhakes any difference. Everything goes on just the same, except that ‘Mr. Morton has more to do. Mr, Morton has great number of newspaper people to sec him, but you are the first who has thought me worth while to visit,” she said, with a laugh that disclosed thdirettiest little dimples up close to the corners of her beautifully-shaped mouth, Mrs. Morton is handsome—undeniably hand- some. She bout 5 feet 6 inches in height, She would be a little too heavy for a ‘1—al- though there are many girls as heavy—but she has a tapering waist and beautifully-moulded neck and arms. Her eyes are large, bluish- gray, aud very expressive. Her complexion is healthy white. She can boast of her nose, and her month is exquisitely aristocratic. Her lips are curved and full, and every smile awakens the most babyish and bewitching dim- les Ihave almost ever seen. Although Mrs. Morton’s face has not one wrinkle, and her Years scarcely seem to warrant it. her hair looked quite gray in the diraly-lighted room. Gray hair is always an attraction, even when uthful face. It was dressed very neatly, twisted to the crown of the head, and there rested in heavy smooth coils, met by a wavy fringe on the forchead. ff course every women will want to know how Mrs. Morton was dressed. Well. she wore a gray cotton gown.§with a waist which fitted to perfection, the skirt trimmed in white, open- work embroidery. A straight gold bar fastened the collar, and Wars wanes otuer jewelry ex- cept a large solitaire and a large emerald on the third finger of the left hand. A gray cot- ton gown, the material of which couldn’t have cost more than $5? Think of it! and a woman, too, whose husband is quoted at some €20,- 000.000. “Do you receive many begging letters, Mrs. Morton?” “Yes, but that is not new. I received Just as many before Mr. Morton was nominated as now. I think that comes into every one’s life, more or less,” ; “I was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,” said Mrs. Morton, when I urged her to teli’ me of herself. “My name was Ann Livingstone Street. My father was a lawyer in practice there, and so there we lived and I received my education. After a while we remove to New York, and I was in society quite a while before I met Mr. Morton, So, you see, there’s noth- ing to tell.” S “I love America and everything American, said Mrs. Morton warmly, “so much so that my friends tease me about it. I have very many triends abroad. and Llike to go across occasion- ally, because really the only way to get a man cut off from his business is to take him abroad where he can’t get to work. Ithinka trip al- ways does Mr. Morton good, but I am always glad to get back to my dear old land. I just think it is so perfect that we cannot introduce anything foreign that will excell or even equal — we have. My household is strictly Amer- ci How many children have you?” “Now, you will laugh when I tell you that I have done nothing but raise a family‘and keep house since I married. but it constitutes my whole happiness.” she added hastily, as if fear- | ing I would infer otherwise. “Edith, my eldest, {is a tall, handsome girl of fourteen; Lena is thirteen, Helen is twelve. Lewis Parson. my eldest boy, died while we were in London. Alice is next, and is ning, and Mary, the baby, | isseven. They have a French governess, and | they keep up their music and drawing during | the summer; all other lessons are pat, by until winter. They are very happy children, too. They have their tennis grounds, their pony and dog-cart. in which they take long daily | drives about the country; they ride and they do fancy work, and then each has her little duty to perform. One looks after the poultry and rings in the eggs; another sees to feeding the | dogs, another to the flowers, and soon. They are busy children. They have formed a sewing class of the farmers’ children, many of them from among our farmers and others from the | outside. Every Saturday morning they meet here, and Edith, Lena, and Helen teach them sewing. Then they get up picnics and invite us to attend. They have ome for to-morrow, I | think. Mr. Morton has had tables put in the | ground. and it is now a very pleasant place for | piewic parties. They come from all quarters | with their baskets and spend whole days down | there. It makes us happy that we can give a | little pleasure to others.” —-eo___. Found After Twelve Years. 4 CRIME LEADS TO THE DISCOVERY OF A LONG- LosT CHILD. One afternoon last week 9 sympathetic-look- ing old gentleman, with every indication that there was trouble on his mind, entered the Pittsburg Press office in quest of information. He wore upon the lapel of his faded coat a but- ton of the Union Veteran legion, showing that he was at the front with the boys from ’61 to’65. A cripple, as the result of a rebel bullet which had never ceased to give him trouble, he looked a great deal older than his fifty-odd years would otherwise have indicated. A day or two ago he had read bad news and at the same time good news of his daughter, who was taken away from him some twelve {cars a8o, and whom he had long since believed dead. Fanny Kammerer, the young woman who at- tempted to poison Mrs. Brown at Crafton, is the old man’s daughter, and he was apprised of this fact by reading an article relative to the matter in the Paper aday or twoago. Adam Kammerer is the old man’s name. He tolda rather pathetic story concerning his life, and how he had searched for the past twelve years to ascertain the whereabouts of his two chil- dren, Fanny and Harry, Some twelve years ago or more he was living happily with his wife and two children in this for his family in the country. One day when he re- turned home for dinner he found the meal repared, but his wife and two children gone. Way uevecretarned! Watecsivod sons tidings of them a few years afterward, but six years later he learned that his wife had died. “This news did not reach him until considerable time had elapsed after her demise. He at once made an effort to secure hischildsen, but failed. He learned that they had been V papa in an or- phan’shome, but a search of the institutions in this cify failed to confirm this report. As years dthe old gentleman almost gave up all ope of seeing his children again. ortune has not smiled to any great extent — — Kammerer. He served in the 139th Pennsylvania volunteers, Judge Collier's old regiment, and during the past few years his old comrades have done much to make his declining years pleasant. He resides alone in alittle house near the corner of Lacock and Voeghtly streets, Allegheny. On Monday even- ing he read in the Press the story of Fanny Kammerer. He was at first dazed, and he asked again and again the question; “Can this be my daughter?” An investigation proved he correctness of his surmise. will go to Morganza,” said Mr, Kammerer to a reporter, “and bave a talk with my daughter. She does not know that her father is ae And that boy of mine! Where is he? Thope I shall yet be able to find him. too. The love that I once bore them has been rekindled and is just as strong to-day asever it was. I will make an effort to secure her release from Morganza and take her to my home. How happy I would be to have both my children with me in my old age. I am not earning much money now on account of my age and affliction, but I'll try and provide for bot of them. Iam now employed as a watchman. I want to thank the good people of Homestead for what they did for my girl.” ~~ ee ——_____ Not So Peculiar After All. From Harper's Bazar. : Miss Grace—“Peculiar costume for a man to wear, isn’t it?” Uncle George—“Yes; but do you know that at one time the men of the United States wore =n, iiss Grace—‘ no. When was that?” Uncle George— hen they were infants.” American Naval Commander—“Ship ahoy! There comes a foreign man-of-war! To yr guns! Splice the main brace! Load with grape and canister! Don’t give up the ship! Vi or death!” Cabi } a ain't a man-of-war, It'sa “Eh? Wha—? A_ tug-bost? pte he Pile on all sail! Away! The darn thing’ll run into us and bust our rudder!” ——— cee Just Struck. From Time. were you star amitien by Cupid dart AS (consulting ‘About two minutes.” : g NES INS ann “Is phenomenon, pa, of the masculine or fem-| _ Lord Seckville may not know much it ortho masulioe gender almost every AUTUMNAL RED BERRIES. Native Fruit that May be Used in Inte- rior Decorations. From the Philadelphia Times. Holly, with the familiar holly berries, may already be seén on the streets for sale. Some of the colored people from New Jersey display great bunches of scarlet-clustered fruit and gl vergreen, prickly-edged leaves. There isa ‘harmless trickery in some of these bunches—the leaves often come from one plant. the berries from another. It is not popularly known that there are several species of holly, only one of which is pre-eminently noted for its curious and beautiful foliage. ‘The berries of this are dull-tinted and few, compared with those of another kind of holly, whose leaves fail like other deciduous leaves, The hand- somest bunches of holly sold are made up of clusters of brilliant globes from the later species, against a background of green from e former. The tgs bag holly, or ilex, is almost identical with the English holly. In these datitudes it grows mostly in the Jersey ine barrens. But the other holly, which at is season may be seen bearing berries with no leaves, grows sparingly in Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey. It is one of the famous rare plants of Chester county, In company with the holly may be seen ex- ed for sale the trailing vines and vermilion Fruit of the beautiful Mitchella or partridge- berry. This little berry has beoome familiar to the general public, but thanks to the clrromo card and the artistic amateur, the samo general public seems to imagine that it is the fruit of the trailing arbtitus. The difference in the fehvae of the torpiicts ought to be enough to convince even @ casual observer of the error. The plants are totally distinct, the trailing arbutus being allied to the rhododendron, the artridge-berry to the Quaker-lady. The mis- e probably ‘originated from the fact that the pretty red berry keeps its color and fresh- ness all winter, eyen under the snow, and in early spring may ‘be seen side by side with the blossoms of the trailing arbutus. The flowers of the caigigs, amet do not appear until aboyt June. Curious to relate, it takes two blossoms to form one berry. These two are side by side at the tip of avine. They are shaped like the bloor f a Quaker-lady, satiny- white within, some of a garnet tint with- out, and are exceedingly fragrant. The “artistic amateur” has gotten hold of the dogwood as well as the partridge-berry, with the result of having it only half known Everybody recognizes the blooming cornu: the spring. but few seem to know that the dog- wood gives us the handsomest of all our an- tumnal berries, while the leaves themselves in scarlet and gold often rival those of the maple. The fruit of the ood grows in clusters at the tips of the twigs, often preserving a gor- geous geranifim color till Christmas diy. The cluster might be expected, as the tiny blos- soms of the dogwood grow in clusters. This may seem an error, butit isnot. The large white petal-like growths of the familiar dog- wood afe no part of the real flowers at all, bit are of ornamental appendages growing around them. The true flowers are the little enish bunch in the center of the four white leaves, and these are called bracts, a term meaning leaves different from the regular fo- liage of a plant. There are three or four other species of dogwood nearly as common as the better-known cornus florida, or so-called flower- ing dogwood. These have the little clustered blossoms, bat not the ornamental leaves of their relative. Their berries are mostly blue. Quite a namber of our plants bear blue ber- ries almost as hAndsome in their way as the more familiar red. Among these are the cat- brier, sour and the viburnums, to say nothing of the wild grapes. All of these may be made quite effective in decoration. _ Every- body knows the spice bush and saszafras in the ring. But everybody does not know that in ¢ fall they are covered with brilliant waxen red berries. These ought to be of interest to the general public when it is learned that both are allied to the classic laurel. A near relative of the American laurel is the gaultheria, popularly known as tea-berry or wintergreen, ‘This is a low-growing, éver- en-leaved plant, with a spicy odor. It may @ found along the Wissahickon. Quantities of the sweet-tasted, pinkish-red berries may be seen any autumn or winter day at any fruit stand. The favorite and quaint Jack-in-the- ulpit has its scarlet autumnal fruit. This is a ndsome spadix, or club, as brilliant as coral or rubies, But woe to him who attempts to it, that is, if he does not like mustard or cayenne pepper. The root of Jack-in-the-pul- pit is the very same article that has gained such a bed name as the fiery Indian turnip, The hip or red fruit of the rose is well-known. Many, however, do not know that the ripened ricarps of the wild rose are particularly Pecutifal and abundant: ‘Any of the foregoing berries are effective when combined with ever- green—a great deal more so than are dyed im- mortelles or grasses, To the list of native berries might be added eranberriesas opening a new opportunity for autumnal decoration. People have grown so used to thinking of cranberrics as made to eat that they forget what beautiful fruit these are. They are produced by a dainty little plant with delicate waxen blossoms, a near relative of the trailing arbutusand teaberrry, The cranberry grows principally in the Jersey swamps, It is but a few inches in height and is so small and inconspicuous that only the presence of the berry among the grasses betrays the plant, Cranberries imbedded in a plate of moss are —* as a center-piece in autumnal ration, e+ --_____ Married a Condemned Murderer. A WEDDING IN THE JAIL AT SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco has a Nina Van Zandt in Kate Keane, ® young woman who on Wednesday evening became the wife of John McNulty, a murderer, under sentence to be hanged three weeks from Thursday. Sheriff McMann gave permission to have the ceremony performed in the Jail. McNulty lived with the woman at the time he committed the murder, but she then had not secured a divorce from’ her husband, who deserted her. This week she got a divorce. When all was ready for the marriage Wednes- day evening McNulty came out of his cell. took the arm of hig bride and went to the clerk’s office, where a police justice promygly married them, They receivedcongratulatio#® and spent a half day in quiet conversation in the jail cor- ridor, when the bride kissed her condemned husband and left. She is confident he will yet be released on the aaa plea. A strong ap- peal has been made to the governor to com- mute the sentence to life imprisonment. and if he refuses an appeal will be made to the Su- preme Court. a aS, Warm Water as a Stimulant. From the New York Herald. An elaborate system of experiments recently conducted by the Agricultural College of Mich- agan show that milk and butter products are slightly increased by warming the water drank by dairy cows. Prof. Johnson, who directed these experimentts, says the results are not so pronounced in favor of warm water as was ex- pected, and the difference is so slight as scarcely to pay for warming the water. Though the gain in milk and butter may hardly pay the dairyman, nevertheless we may say the im: | sith of the cow’s condition by the arti- ial warmth of the water is great.” The ani- mal may be compared to an inanimate motor, like the steam engine, deriving ali its power for locomotion’ and digestion from its internal heat. Ordinarily the heat necessary to keep the animal in health and bs to enable it to resist external cold is evolved within its body by the chemical changes Boing on in the process of digesting ita fe When this supply of animal heat runs low, as it is sure to do in a severe winter, the animal suffers in all its organs, But if the natural heat is supplemented by the artifical heat in the water the animal drinks, all its func- tions are strengthened and its ability to endure severe cold is considerably increased. Heat is also a powerful stimulant to the heart, so that a cup of hot tea is much more refreshing than acold one. There is, therefore, every reason to believe that if the Michigan experiments were tried cise ot dairy farms in winter the results would ‘idedly ‘increase the far- mer’s profits, ————-+e0________ Children as Suicides. Agnes Repplier, in the Catholic World. Eight years ago an English writer on suicide enormously, and America alone point to more than one baby of seven who wearied of its hardly tasted existence. twelve to sixteen, however, appears to age at which children ected warat the links ees EskeiEze if ‘ HI if +} i et H a5 ! & : F THE SENTENCE OF JESUS. A Copy of the Original Decree as Issued by Pontius Pilate. From the London Tablet. A correspondent of Notes and Queries ex- tracts from the Kolnische Zeitung what is called “‘ correct transcript of the serftence of death pronounced against Jesus Christ.” The following is a copy of the most memorable ju- dicial sentence which has ever been pro- nounced in the annals of the world-—namely, that of death against the Saviour, with the re- marks that the journal Le Droit has collected, the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian, Until now we are not aware that it has ever been made public in the German papers. The sen- tence is word for word as follows: “Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, In- tendant of the Province of Lower Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the cross, In the seventeenth year of the reign of the Emperor of Tiberius, and on the of the month of March, in the most holy city of Jerusalem, during the Pontificate of Anuas and Calaphas, Pontius Pilate, Intendant of the Prov- ince of Lower Galilee, siti: in judgment in the presidential 5 of thy “Pratecs, sentences Jesus Christ of Nazareth to death on a cross between two robbers, as the numer- ous and notorious testimonials of the people prove: 1. Jesus isa misleader. 2. He has ex- cited tha_people to sedition. $. He is an enemy to the laws, 4. He calls himself the Son of God. 5. He calls himself falsely the King of Isracl. 6. He went ito the Temple followed by a multitude carrying palms in their hands. Orders: The first centurion, Quintus Cornelius, to bring him to the place of execution. Forbid all persons, rich or poor, to prevent the execution of Jesus. The wit- nesses who have signed the execution against Jesus are: 1. Daniel Robani, Pharisee; 2. John Zorobabel; 3. Raphael Robani; 4. Capet. Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem through the gate of Tournea.” ‘The serftence is engraved on a plate of brass in the Hebrew language, and on its sides are the following words: ‘“A similar plate has been sent to each tril It was discovered in the ear 1280 in the city of Aquill (Aquilla?) in the ingdom of Naples. by a search made for the discovery of Roman antiquities, and remained there until it was found by the commissaries of art in tye French army of Italy. Up to that time of @c campaign in southern Italy it was preserved im the sacristy of the Carthusians, near Naples, where ft was kept in a box of ebony. Since then the relic has been kept in the chapel of Caserta. The Carthusians ob- tained it by their petitions that the (ecm might be kept by them, which was an ac! mowledge- ment of the sacrifices which they made for the French army, The French translation was made literally by members of the commission of arts. Denon had a fac simile of the plate engraved, which was bought by Lord Howard on the sale of his cabinet for 2,890 francs. There seems to be no historical doubt as to the authenticity of this, The reasons of the sen- tence correspond exactly with those of the Gospels, -s00 Adulation Clogs. TOO MUCH LOVE IS SURE TO AWAKEN A CONTEMP- TUOUS RETURN, From the London Spectator. The idolized almost always despises the idol- ator, and as frequently shows the contempt he —sometimes she—feels. The adoring wife, who follows every word of her husband and makes herself as plastic as the amaeba—who lives only in his smiles, and who breaks down into tears when he frowns—she makes a lovely pic- ture in fiction, and Medora will never want a Conrad to admire her—hypothetically. In re- ality Conrad would have wearied ef her before the week was out, and he would not have scrupled to show what he felt. And when tho two natures come together in actual life, as they do sometimes, and the gelatinous, proto- plastic, adoring wife, invertebrate and wealt- filled, spends her days in mental adoration of her husband, the chances are that husband's mood toward her is one of distaste and con- tempt, and that utter weariness of the soul which comes from the constant reflection of one’s own humor. So with women, When they find a man fool- ish and week-kneed enough to be always in an attitude of adoration before them they feel for him only scorn and that cruelty of tyrann which is the fitting portion for slaves—aecord- ing to the creed of the slave-owner. His folly and want of reserve are matched by their hard- ness in letting him feel the effect on the selves, ‘The state of both is pitiable—as pitia- ble as that when the wife is the little dog who fawns on the hand of the master who spurns, and whose self-respect is lost in her adoration. All this applies to all forms of love—not only to that between husband and wife or between lovers, It applies equally to parents and chil- dren—to the mother who loves her children beyond reason, and therefore beyond their own g00d; to the father who is “Lear,” with too certainly “Lear's” fatal fortune of ingrati- tude; to the daughter who makes a bad wife because she is too fond a daughter; to the son who makes a bad husband becaust too fond a son, How many married homes have been wrecked on this rock!—when the wife cannot tear herself from her mother and the husband sacrifices his wife to his mother. ‘The wisdom of reserve, what a bit of true wisdom it is! Without it, how the lights flare and the dust flies. ae eee, Phonographic Reporting. From the New York Evening Sun. ~The first attempt to report the proceedings of a political mecting by means of the phono- graph was made last Thursday evening at Or- ange; and the degree of success attained brings us to consider the possible change in re- porting to be effected by this ingenious ma- machine, . It is relentlessly accurate. The crafty poli- tician who kept « complete file of all the cylin- ders recording the utterances of public men during one campaign would have an absolute record for use in the next. The deadly *par- allel” column is liabel to the charge of bein based on a distorted report. The phonogray has no political beliefs of its own. Each tell- ing inflection, the punctuation of applause, the whole manner of the speech would come roll- ing out from the relentless ear-trumpet, and woe to any man who should try to change his ground, The aspect of the phonograph as an engine of matrimonial a. has been often con- sidered, Even the parlor organ—that remarka- ble exotic that flourishes in certain rural com- munities—would lose its terrors before the stealthy and pitiless recorder of the airy noth- ings of twilit youth and love. ‘t is stated that Mr. Edison is cudgeling his ingenious wits to improve the phonograph and increase its powers of instantaneous perception and reporting. ‘The world always adjusts iteclf to altered conditions and makes the best use of new and strange inventions; but the ibili- ties of the phonograph are ‘so great that one may be content to await developments without borrowing trouble by indulging in vain and prophetic speculations. ——--see-_. A Great Year for Nuts. CHESTNUTS IN STRONG DEMAND—HICKORY NUTS ARE PLENTY—MANY ENGLISH WALNUTS. From the New York Mail and Express, This has been a great poste pre nuts. Chest- nuts, which were about the first to arrive, came in in larger quantities thamever before. The crop in all sections of the eountry was an im- mense one, and dealers expected to see the market glutted and prices fall very low. But such has not been the case. The demand has increased with the supply, and three or four times the usual quantity has been sold at good prices. The Italian street venders are the best customers that the dealers have. They pur- chase by the bushel, and sell tho nuts roaste boiled or raw on the street corners, by the and pint, for about double what they cost. Moderate Exercise is Good for Dyspep- sia but ‘Loo Much is Dangerous. Frou the New York Mail and Express. Exereise is one of the best cures for dyspepsia known to medical science: Dyspeptics, on rising in the morning, do well to indulge in a few free gymnastics of the movement cure species, before putting on the outer Clothes that interfere with free move- ments, It is curious how closely some of these esercises come to some of the active labor em-| Carpets: Canrets!: We are daily receiving our Pall supply of BIGELOW, WELL & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY BRUSSELS, MOQUETS, VBLVETS, TAPESTRIES, i in fi THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARL3. ne dag dard ggprmacn.< eagle amen UGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DRAPINGS in great Variety. Au inspection of our stock ts solicited. HOOK, BRO. & CO., 1328 Fat. STOVE, RANGE ployments which are cure for many ills. Fol- low the movements of the reaper, first with one arm and then the other, as though swing- either as the corresponding arm makes its splendid swing. This is fine exercise, as it changes the position of certain dorsal and ab- dominal muscles. To imitate with clenched fists the movements of the wood sawyer, or to swing the arms ina half circle upward, while the arms are held close to the body es possible, are both splendid breathing exercises, The queen of Sweden takes the ‘‘housemaid cure” for her ailments, but either man or woman in their own apartments may go | work ¥ the laundress at her | Tinting a through the motiou of washtub, always with the clenched fist that accents the motions of the arms and hands at the washboard, to great advantage. All of these movement exercises are good when the chiflingss of autumn days finds people with languid circulation. and itis scarcely necessary to repeat the suggestion that wise people get awake slowly. There are uscs for others than children in the half-sleepy stretching and gradual stirring to your toilet. as the circula- tion is not too suddenly led upon for has brought. But while exercise is beneficial when used in moderation, one should be careful to avoid too violent or protracted exercise. A recent case of this in a Philadelphia normal school almost resulted fatally. The victim is Anna Haig. She is sixteen years old and belongs to a class that is assigned two hours each alternate week for instruction in the calisthenie department. The girls are all clad in exercise suits of flannel, and use light wooden dumb-bells and wands for gymnastic pufposes. Section three consists of sixty girls, the majority of whom have had a Year's experience in calisthenic exercises. The delicate Pupils, who include a small Voda shar! of the class, are excused rom physical exercise on the presentation of a physician’s request. On Friday night, after her exervise in the calisthenic department, Miss Haig was taken with violent pains in the neck and bd. By Saturday the right side of her face was paralyzed. Dr. Siegler, the fam- ily physician, ascribed the paralysis to overin- dulgencé in calisthenic maneuvers. The young lady has suffered very mach, and Mr. Haig says that under no circumstances will he allow his daughter to resume physical exercise when she shall return to the normal school, — ——— Dried Wild Rose Leaves. From the Lewiston Journal. Two large foreign orders for “pot-pourri” show thg result of the traffic which has been going on during the last summer in answer to advertisements circulated throughout the state by an enterprising Portland firm for wild rose leaves, The wild rose bushes which with us are so loaded with blossoms during the months of June and July, have been despoiled of their blossoms by youthful petal gatherers to the tune of 1,000 ands sbleast, all of which has been used in the preparation with which to fill the rose jars now so popular. From all parts of the United States come orders for the neatly constructed tins, each containing its two ounces of dried rose leaves mingled with flowers and petals of other varieties, spices and choice im- pe perfumes; and now comes the intro- lucing of Maine rose leaves to perfume the parlors and salons of Europe. One hundred thousand two-ounce tins were sold last season, besides an unlimited quantity in the Japanese Jars, which were nearly cleared out of the market by the demand. a Home of Literature. —Please, ma’am, the editor wants to know if you've got that article on ‘Order in the Household’ ready for the Women’s Depart- ment?” Literary Lady—‘“No, I haven't. I accident- ally used all my writing paper to kindle a fire with, and my ink got spilled, and I can’t find my knife to sharpen a pencil.” “Please, ma'am, he said if you wasn’t ready you should cut some article out of a magazine and send it over, ‘cause we must close the page.’ “Tell him I would like to oblige him, but I've lost my shears,” cote ee The Foibles of Human Nature. From the New York Evening Sun, The bookkeeper of a Wall street bank, a man deeply versed in psychology, employs his spare time in making practical tests of his researches, There is a humorous vein in his composition and these tests are frequently of a laughable nature. He isa firm believer in the theory that man magnifies his own little troubles and avoid things that have no existence in point of fact. The other day this philosopher carefully placed a sheet of ae ee on the edge of a desk in such a way that half the sheet hung over, The desk was in a narrow passuge that was much used by the clerks, and the philoso- per had no end of fun watching them pass, instead of shoving the blotting paper out of the way, every clerk who — would squeeze himself against the wall in order to avoid knocking it down, The fat clerks had a hard time of it, and one of them cricked his spinal column in a particularly fine acrobatic feat, caus 9 aati The Conscience of To-day. g@ IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE SENSITIVE IN DEAL- ING WITH PRACTICAL LIFE, Dr. Lyman Abbott in The Century. . Certainly the conscience of the American people, I should rather say of the Anglo-Saxon people, never has been so sensitive and never so resolute in dealing with practical life. If the most trustworthy expressions of religious feelings are those uttered in devotional meet- ings, private journals and religious biography, it Ey ahite possible that what the theologians call “conviction of sin” was more poignant in the last century than in this; but if the most trustworthy expressions of religious feeling are those embodied in life, the sense of sin and the purpose of reformation have been far more effectively expressed in this century than in the last. Ten millions of slaves were held in bondage in America, and other millions un- der the British flag in its colonies, with only a feeble and wholly ineffective protest. Drui enness did not lead to social repute in cither Old or New England. ‘Churches id for drinks on occasions of dedications and ordina- tions, and the minister's sideboard took on the espect of a public bar. The conscience of England abolished slavery in all English dominions in 1833; thet of the United States, moving more slowly and having a more enormous task accomplished its work thirty years later and at anawful cost. But the task was accomplished. Almost in the very spot where in the half of this century a pee hs missionary was pub- licly whipped on the bare back, not ‘for circul- ating anti-slavery tracts, but for having one in his possession, now stands the buildings of the Fisk university, dedicated to the education of the emancipated negro. If drinking has not Hickory nuts are also sold on the street | ay. stands in lar; juantitics, but are not in as groat demand ss chestnuts’. The dificelly of getting their meat out of the shell may have some’ to do with this. The old way of holding a flat-iron in the lap and operating on the shell with a hammer has gone out now— bably on account of the batter thi The venders operate patent nut-crackers sell the nuts cracked so that meat comes out easily. The size of the hickory nuts and the whiteness of the shells govern the price. = inferior variety eo, ae oe: = country as pig nuts, are of tng por They have s thin is quite bitter in HOUSEFURNISHINGS, _ Cooxixe By Gas GAS COOKING STOVES (Op band and for sale RA FIRST-CLASS HEAT: oF Latrobe, at low prices, call o 2 GAERTRE) A) bes and Ranges Reyaled Frouily a 3 Gormenly wie Pint Hiss & Co.), ort with P”"Hangon Hise & Co.) x WALL PAPERS We have just received a itterns. We are ranteed first class. Free peas B. LEPREUX & BRO, 508 the door. ____ RAILROAD DOUBLE TRACK STEEL RAILS. tac TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON PORNER SIXTH AND B'S S activity oe sluggish conditions that sleep | For Pittsburgand the W Jirnited Express of ti aud Bt. Louis, cting daily at Ha: v# for Louisville sa 0:00 pan. daily, for weper to Pittsburg, and Pitts- 0. AND POTOMAC Ry : ry except Sunday, and 3:45 p. use Car. m. daily, with Di Boston withott chance trains connect at Jer- klyn Annex, affording | giteet, aveiding double hi pr 11-40 am. Dau. On 00, 4:10. 600, 1 ress, all Parlor Cars. 0-40 pam. daily, with Dining sey City with boat direct transfer to Fulton prrjace acrons New York Cit and 9:00 am. 12-05 4 Sundays, 9:00 am, REDERICKSBURG RATL- ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON 0:57 wm. daily, information at the office, northeast cor tand Peunsylvaniaavenue, aud at the ders cun be left tor the ch tp destination from hotels and 8. E. PUGH, J. Gen. Pas. 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