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6 LUCAS AND O'BRIEN. . Their Testimony Contradicted by Chief Inspector Kerlin. MORE. TUNNEL DEVELOPMENTS—EVIDENCE BE- FORE THE MILITARY COURT oF INQUIRY— LUCAS WILLING TO Go “To THE OTHER SIDE OF HELL TO HAVE KERLIN DISCHARGED.” The military court of inquiry into the char- acter of work on the aqueduct tunnel continued the examination yesterday afternoon of Chicf Inspector Kerlin after Tue Star's report closed. Mr. Kerlin said that his experience as an in- spector dated back to 1857, and had continued up to the present time. He had inspected the tunnel work on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail- road previous to the war. Witness said he blamed the foreman of bricklayers for not re- porting faulty packing. He also held the packers responsible and thought the sub-inspec- tors had been careless. Witness was most posi- tive that never, at any time, had he consented ii inspector to act as a foreman dition of affairs until lately. KERLIN CONTRADICTS O'BRIEN. Gen. Ruger called witness’ attention to the testimony of Sub-inspector O'Brien, where that person said that he had conversed, in the pres- ence of Mr. Palmer. with witness, and that witness had agreed to O'Brien's performing the duties of sub-inspector for the government and foreman for the sub-contractors. Witness said that there was no truth in that testimony—none whatever. Witness said that Lieut. Townsend went down into the tunnel as often as three or four days a week: he never knew when the lieutenant was going to put in an appearance. During the years 1886 and 1887 witness saw Major Lydecker in the tunnel tly as once a month. “Col (Craighill asked witness if he thought the men who did the packing were competent, and witness replied to the effect that they were fair second-rate masons, fully able to do the work. inspectors a inted were usually pretty food te por he had but little trouble with LUCAS AND WITNESS had some differences. Shortly after Lucas was discharged he was in Quackenbush’s office, and, referring to witness, said: “I will suffer imprisonment for life and will go to the other of hell to have Kerlin discharged.” Wit- ness thought it would be much better to have such public works as the tunnel constructed by day's work instead of under contract. He knew of sub-inspectors receiving pay from the con- tractors when they (the inspectors) worked the arrangement was made with the e and approval of Mir. Coryell, who ‘wan thle rst acoktens engineer in charge of the tunnel. On cross-examination by Capt. ness said there was a rea! nm extra work done by sub: had learned from Sub-contractor Brennan that Lucas had been given mor other than the cash paid him on account of overtime. Witness said that Sub-Inspector Woodward reported to him that on one occasion one of the Kendall brothers—George, he thought—had yalled a packer.out of the “key” so’that the | klaying might proceed before the packing was properly finished. Lucas once reported to witness that the quantity of cement which was sent into the tunnel one night was insufficient. Witness DENIED THE ACCURACY OF LUCAS’ TESTIMONY so far as it implicated witness. Cross-examined by Lieut. Townsend witness said that Lucas permitted very careless work in laying the foundation for side walls. *Wit- ness bad as much confidence in O’Brien as in aby man on the work until the recent beter & ments of rottenness in his work; he thought O'Brien was a perfegiy. square man, At the conclusion Col. Kerlin’s examina- tion (there being no other witnesses present) the court pe edone 5 until this morning, the day to be devoted to an endeavor to read up the re- cord, now about 600 type-written pages in ar- rears. The court will take no testimony until 10:30 o'clock to-morrow morning. THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Dr. Coues Brings to Light the Views of @ Forgotten Washington Naturalist. Among the many interesting papers read at the session of the American ornithologists’ union was one by Dr. Coues on the flight of birds, which for several reasons attracted special attention. Dr. Coues was not present- ing his own views on this difficult subject, but took the occasion to bring to notice certain views published thirty years ago by a Wash- ingtonian. Mr. R. 0. Davidson, in a pamph- let entitled, “A New Theory of the Flight of Birds.” It seems that Mr. Davidson was en- tirely unknown, not only to Dr. Coues himself, but to all the other ornithologists present, and it was partly due to the desire to bring his paper. hitherto ignored, to the proper attention of scientists, that the speaker presented it, and gave a brief résumé of its contents. Dr. Coues did not claim that Mr. Davidson had the matter entirely right, but he thought it only justice toa hitherto neglected author to say, that Mr. Davidson’s fundamental ideas and Cay raprosen were in close aceggd with what is now the accepted explanation oPthe mechan- ies of flight; that the dixcovery was no. doubt ee with Mr. Davidson, and too much could not be given to one who thus showed himself to have been nearly a whole ration in advances of i i Scalar line of origin. res At the same time Dr. es urged upon the attention of the union the necessity of care- evidence fully examining and brought forward by in the light of late stud bridge on the whole sub; tion by means of an admirable series of in- stantaneous photographs. The fundamental ition is that gravity, or the weight of oy ge a eed being that which is simply to be overcome in flying. is the greatest factor im the mechanics of flight. without which mo- mentum would be impossible. It is well known that, as a rule, the birds which fly the fastest and strongest are those whose bodies are the heaviest in proportion to their spread of wing. Gravity acts upon flight somewhat as does the string.of a kite, which at once holds the kite down and enables it to rise against the wind. Many other points are involved in different cases and under differeyt circumstances, but in ali of them gravity is the most important factor. In speaking of the matter to a Star reporter Dr. Coues said that he had failed thus far to discover who Mr. Davidson is, if he be still alive, but that he desired always to give credit where credit is due, and hoped that the pres- entation of the paper before so distinguished a body of ornithologists would at least result in rescuing from oblivion the name of a meri- torious and ingenious student of nature, who had perhaps died before his discoveries were appreciated. sifting the Di of animal locomo- pen eee ae Home from Africa to Vote. A CITIZEN WHO DIDN'T MIND MAKING ‘X JOURNEY TO CAST A BALLOT FOR PRESIDENT. - From the New York Sum A party of enthusiastic republicans in €n up- town restaurant a few nights ago were recount- ing to one another the various experiences they had had in casting their vote for Harrison. One man told how he came up from Washing- ton from one of the government offices to swell the republican plurality in New York state, Another, who was evidently a drummer, im- pressively told the crowd that he had made a _— of a thousand miles, all the way from lew Orleans, to get his vote in. After the had been duly astonished by this great & quiet man spoke up. “Gent m, I came just 11,000 miles to cast little vote for Harrison, nearly half way my the in, iy lobe.” The crowd was at once breathless with at- tention. “Yes,” he continued, “I was down in Natal. South Africa, when I heard of Gen. Harrison's ition. I got so enthusiastic over the news that I wanted to come home right off and do my share to help him out. I left Natal on ugust 30, and a month later I arrived at Soret Seven days after that I was in New ¥. and I have been booming things for ever since.” -——+oo______ Save He ts. Revative or CaaMperiarn. jamin Leach, a confidential clerk with | > Ben; B. A. Atkinson & Co., furniture dealers in Boston, was arrested Saturday charged with stealing $1,000 worth of goods from the firm. = to be connected with prominent families by marriage to Joseph Chamberlain, d who married Miss a day or two = He is finely edu- cated and of PB address. He is years of pretty brunette of twenty-two Fg Peng ting myn the officers called to starch Leach’s room: woman's mother said that she Fed vy) shock of the news of her lover's disgrace would kill her. pectors, Witness | the contractors | THE COMMON SENSE VIEW. Washington Washington Cor. New York Sun. One of the queerest misapprehensions re- garding Washington—that it is a drunken place—has just been disproved again, for the dozenth time. Last year 1,500 liquor licenses were approved; this year only 1,037, a decrease of one-third in a year. It is among the society people, though, and among members of Con- gress, that the scarcity of drunkenness is most remarkable. Formerly any day that passed without the spectacle of a drunken legislator upon the floor of the House or Senate was re- markable. Now the rule is the other way. In those days, too, the fact that a member was drunk when he was quarrelsome was consid- ered an extennation; now it is thought an ag- gravation. If a member is seen at the capitol under the slightest influence of liquor his friends, if he has any, hustle him off home, and the whole thing is hushed up as something that would injure him seriously if it were known. Among the younger members drunkenness is eremy 4 unknown—those who do indulge eing the hold-overs from other times. In society this iseven more marked. Wine and liquors are served more freely here than in any place in this country. Washington is a famous dinner place. and the ubiquitous punch bowl has given spasms to many well meanin; but ignorant people from the outside. But suc! a thing as a young society man drunk in a pri- vate house is absolutely unknown. Once, three or four years ago, ut a large private ball, a young man, who was a notoriously hard case, and rarely went out, got drunk and was put out of the house. It put him under a ban, and probably was the most effective temperance sermon ever preached to the young gentlemen of Washington. As for the talk about the drunkenness and gluttony at the Chinese ball @ year ago, there never was a greater slander upon any society than that. The way most of the pearls at the ball heard first of these apoc- ryphal performances was in the newspapers from the outside. There was a great crowd and jam necessarily—that was all. It is only another instance of a peculiar affliction to which Washington is subject—and that is hav- ing hysterical accounts of imaginary event sent out by inexperienced correspondents. Cases in point are the scandalous stories about President Arthur that were telegraphed all | over the country and printed everywhere except in Weshington. Here their falsity was so well known that ata conference among the princi- pal newspaper editors it was considered best not even tonotice them by denying them, Else- where people to this day pull long faces and Genounto the state of affairs that prevailed at the White House in Mr. Arthur's time, when, asa matter of fact, nothing could have been further above reproach than the life at the | White House. In the same way the stories of | President and Mrs. Cleveland’s supposititions | quarrels was news to Washington, and the | | newspapers here, knowing the perfect incredi- | | bility of these things, won't give time or space | to contradict th Likewise the ridiculous story about Mi illard being snubbed by | Washington soc because she taught music | in a school, when the slightest familiarity with Washington life would have been guarantee | enough that the thing was impossible. And if | this wasn’t enough, a list of the houses where Miss Willard was entertained would have been conclusi e——_—__+e-___ Lovers Nearly Killed. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AT NIGHT ON A RAIL- ROAD BRIDGE, A special to the Baltimore American from Philadelphia, Pa., November 18, says: Arthur Trumport and Bertha Milier, aged respectively twenty-two and eighteen years, had a thrilling escape from death at 10 o'clock last night. The couple are lovers, and were enjoying a walk in the moonlight in the vicinity of the Reading railroad bridge, that crosses Twenty- eighth street at an altitude of 60 feet. As they stepped upon the bridge, they heard no warn- ing of any kind, but they had only reached the center, when a shrill whistle caused them to look up in alarm. Directly ahead they saw ® west-bound express coming toward them at a | lightning rate of speed, and. turning to look, | they were appalled to see the east-bound ex- | | press coming from the opposite direction. | Whe space between the two tracks was their | only hope, and it was precarious. With rare presence of mind Trumport dragged Miss Mil- er there, and pinned her arms to her side with his own. “It’s our only chance!” he cried. The west- bound train caught Miss Miller's gown and | jerked her with terrible force from Trumport’s grasp. He remembers seeing her thrown with er feet almost beneath the wheels, and that he felt his own coat torn in tatters as he threw himself at fall length, just catching her limbs and saving her from being dragged under the train. When the trackmen came along a few moments later they found the couple lying un- conscious. Trumport still held Miss Miller, whose clothing was in shreds. Her head and spine were badly injured, and her left foot has been rendered useless for months, Trumport | escaped with a severe bruise on the head and the loss of his Sunday coat. soe What's in One From the Atlanta Journal. Shakespeare first asked the question, What's in a name? It will strike the gentle reader that there’s a great deal in the following mul- titudinous name of a young girl from DeKalb county. Yesterday a lady and her little daugh- ter called at a certain home in Decatur, “You don’t know my little giri’s name, do | you?” asked the visitor of the lady of’ the he did not. Who could know it all ti “Shé were named by the doctor en she was first borned. Her name is, or are, Ishould say, Susan Julia Melinda Maria Savannah Sophia Elizabeth Lady-Bug Tow- ers.” Name? ——___+9o—_, —. The Way Ht Goes. From the Detroit Free Press, ‘There were four or five men in a knot and os be a discussing @ candidate who had been pr He : I'm sorry he got there,” said one, “He ought to be tarred and feathered, instead of holding an office!” exclaimed a third. “Yes. and I'd like to put on the tar!” shouted a fourth. At that moment the man came around the corner, smiling with delight and both hands ready for shaking. and as he halted, said: “Well, boys, I got there.” “You bet you did!” shouted the four in chorus. “And I want you to drink with me.” “You bet we will! Hurrah for you!” And they drank his beer and said they had rather seen all the rest of the ticket defeated than to have him get left. Women and Their Victims. From the Pall Mall Gazette, It was hoped some time ago, says The Hos- pital, that the fashion of wearing the dead bodies of birds as trimmings for bonnets and hats was going out. Such a hope, apparently, is doomed to disappointment. Perhaps the day may come when people who have a little regard for such helpless creatures as birds will give them up to their fate. It really seems to be of no use to try to protect them. The loafer from the east end of London goes forth with his cages and his lime and catches them. He, however, mostly retains male, The other bird murderer also goes forth on his cruel errand, and, by preferences, catches and retains the female. He takes her in the nesting season because the feathers are soft and beautiful then, What matters it to him that his victim is often the mother of a nest- ful of heipless young and that they are left in the nest to die of starvation; to die while piteously crying out hour after hour for the mother that never comes? The mother birds are killed, and the young left to die of starva- tion, because certain women insist that it shall be so. Yet how gentle and sympathetic and tender those very women can pretend to be when it s1 their convenience! How correct their taste in everything that re- lates to good manners! How shocked they are by vulgarity; how horrified by coarseness! If they could see themselves exactly as some men see them; could have it at once driven in wy their consciences, that in the estimation of all rational and right-feeling men they are incom- rably inferior to many costermongers, rs, and untaught African ne; iIng-swee! groes, they might for one moment pause and reflect uffon their worthlessness, it really, then, century woman loealy“withet of A STRANGE FATALITY. From the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Afew gossips of the southern end of St. Louis, Mo., are just now discussing the strange romance of a young woman who has for some- thing over a year been a resident amohg them. The story was told by a clergyman of the Epis- copal church, who has been a sufferer from the lady's strange fate. The lady in question is |” but a visitor to America, whence she came to try and shake off a spell of which she firmly believes she is the victim. A few years pre- vious to her leaving ‘Historic Caledonia” she returned from the patrimonial estates of the family, nine and one-half miles from the Holy- rood palace, in Edinburgh, to Aberdeen. By the death of her father, since her arrival in this country, she has become heiress to a large estate. She is refined, graceful and handsome, but the fatality attaching to her makes her life an unhappy one, When wenteen-years old she became d to a nephew of the bishop of . One day, while riding across the heath in his company, she had a presentiment that he would propose. that night and that she secepted. She saw him, in « momentary vis- ion, lying, pale and cold, by the roadside, Be- wildered, she involuntarily stopped her horse, and in another moment fell in a swoon. He bore her to a cottager’s near by and on her recovery the bashful young man’s love had been 80 intensified by anxiety that, ina moment of mutual tenderness, they were betrothed. After escorting her home he had to pass the same spot to return to his domicile. e next morning they found him dead near where she had fallen. “His horse had evidently thrown him and he had been killed by the consequent injury to his head. ‘The lady recovered and eighteen months af- terward she was betrothed to an English naval officer, who was suddenly ordered to the West Indies to join H. M. 8. schoolship Eurydic The next spring, on the return of the ship home, she was wrecked andall on board but two were lost. The young lover was not one of the saved. Time healed the lady's twice-wounded heart, her affections were won by an English army ofticer, who was drowned shortly after the be- trothal, The night he was drowned she was attending a ball, and, according to her state- ment, was seized with a sudden attack of dizzi- ness and fainted. On recovering, she said she had seen, ina vjsion, the ball-room suddenly transformed int®a submarine cavern, contain- ing nothing but the corpse of her accepted lieutenant. She could never be induced to dance again, It took a good deal of persuasion to induce her to become a fiancee again. But the per- sistance of an American sea captain conquered her reluctance and she accepted him, He re- turned to Philadelphia with his ship for the purpose of putting his affairs in shape for the wedding. While his ship was at anchor off the Delaware breakwater he was also drowned. The bride-elect came to the Quaker City after- ward, and, having relatives in Carondelet, re- solved to make a long visit to them. The clergyman who furnished’ the facts above related met and loved the lady, and she apparently reciprocated, but when ‘he pro- posed she replied by telling him her story, and all his eloquence failed to change her resolu- tion never to marry, His attention to her had been a matter of society gossip, so that there was something of a s ion when there ap- peared in the society columns of the Globe- Democrat an item stating that she had gone to visit friends in the interior of the state, and would soon return to her home in Scotland to reside permanently. oo — Wedded to His Half Sister. BUT HE DIDN'T DISCOVER IT UNTIL FOUR YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE, Jacob Wells, a farmer living in Fayette county, Ala., has just discovered, after four years of happy wedded life, that his wife is his half sister. Well’s father, who lived at Sparta, Ga., was killed in the war. About twenty-five years ago Mrs. Wells married a man named Hogue. Young Wells, then about twelve years | old, did not like his stepfather and ran away from home. He finally drifted to Lafayette county, Ala., worked a number of years as a farmer's laborer and in time bought a small farm of his own. Mrs, Hogue’s mother died soon after the birth of a child by her second husband, and the child. a girl, was cared for by relations of the father’s family named Smith. Two years later Hogue died, and his daughter grew up in the Smith family, and was always known as DoraSmith. Five years ago the family moved to F: the young lady met her half brother Wells. Even Well’s most intimate friends knew nothing of his early history, and he had never communicated with his relatives in Georgia. Wells and Miss Smith, as she was known, fell in love at first sight and were soon married. They have one child, a year old, and only dis- covered their relationship a few days ago by a chance word dropped by the wife. "Ti in a quandary for a time, but have de continue to live as man and wife. pam ooo : Why Dr. Hostetter Left no Will. ANGRY AT A CITY OFFICIAL. HE TEARS UP A DOCUMENT WoRTH $1,000,000 To PITTSBURG. A dispatch from Pittsburg, November 16, to the New York Tribune says: A great deal of surprise has been manifested in Pittsburg at the fact that a man of the late Dr. David Hostetter’s business habits and immense wealth should die intestate. To-day the story leaked yette county, and there | out that afew weeks ago Dr. Hostetter did | make a will, which contaim to the city of Pittsburg a fine art gallery an mechanics’ hall. It was to cost $1,000,000, and was to have been the most elaborate structure of the kind in the United States. The will provided that the doctor's eldest son must be one of the board of directors goverwing the institution, to be succeeded in turn at death by the eldest male heir, and so on, from sire to eon, After this had all been settled, the city controller, acting under the advice of counsel, took a step that was most unfortunate for Pittsburg. Dr. Hostetter was bondsman for Andrew Hartapee, a city contractor, and a judgment had been rendered against him. On that judgment an execution was issued on some of the doctor's possessions. He was clearly liable, and none knew it better than he, but this act of the controller highly incensed him, and he went direct to the safe deposit company, where he had placed the will, and tore the document into shreds. He never could be induced to make another. | Dr. Hostetter said that the city officials used undue haste, as he was good for any amount and would have paid it without the process taken, soe — Is the “Ripper” a Malay Cook? An Austin, Tex., special to the New York World says: During the bloody butchery of women in this city three years ago there was a Malay cook at work in a cheap boarding-house in the vicinity of which two of the bloodies: of all the terrible assassinations occurred. On Christmas eve, 1885, two women were murdered’ and horribly cut and slashed. One was just two blocks from the boarding-house where the Maday cooked. He was strongly suspected and was shadowed by detectives for two or threy days, when he suddenly disappeared and not been seen or heard of since. Detectives here think it is possible he has drifted to Europe and is the “4 er.” The Jersey Theater Party. From the Philadelphia Times, Nov. 17. The Coquelin-Hading performance at the Chestnut Street opera house last night wit- neessed the introduction of a new feature in theater and opera going that is very likely to become popular, sex aig as it starts under the se & hionable auspices, It is simply the plan of having a large ty of friends go together with the understanding shall pay her own, expenses—a surprising has not’been adopted a deen of the most ee ladies SJersay club, the name being” "Saggeeted by the Jersey clul ie of the’ Jersey. treat on which the club ts i f pet, For the opera and the most attractive theatrical inces of the winter the club will and ask ong or more mar- will pay for herself and whoever she may invite, and in case of any other expenses, such as car- riages or a supper, it will be shared pro rata posnentiy Shathes oy Et : i f i ue i Sa i E i il ue i i mt a bequest giving | EVENING TWINKLES. Some Fictions about Happenings in| Engaged to Four Men, Each One of| The way a ship is bound hasnorelation tothe Exploded. ‘Whom Died. onicioites of commerce. The Spaniards who wanted to mob Castillo probably took him for the soap man. meets iets hee er. to not a a Because alady has a dolman it does not necessarily follow thatshe has married a dude. When executions are bores | electricity = probably be spoken®of as current ‘The democrats who tried to Palmer governor on the state of Illinois must now dance to the music of a Fifer. You can never convince a woman that she has overdrawn her bank account so long as her supply of checks holds out. A St. Louis hat firm has failed. They prob- ably bet their own hats on the wrong candi- date at the recent election. Even the deacon who nara at church last Sunday with a new silk hat was immedi- ately set down as a better man. When a young man has an attachment on the old man’ Property as well as for his pretty daughter his suit ought to prosper. Dougherty, the man who loves Mary Ander- son, once was a telegraph man, but he hasn't yet found a key to the actress’ affections. There has as yet been no mention of the formation of a glass trust, but then probably such a scheme would be too transparent. Literary kleptomania must be on the increase in Paris, for within the past two years 145 per- sons have been convicted there for stealing books, In a Florida county it is said that the officers elected recently are half white and half col- ored. They ought to be put in a dime museum. Ignatius Donnelly may cipher out that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, but ke will still have to sigh for the governorship of Minnesota. Gay and Jolly were the opposing candidates for Congress in the third ouisiana district, Gay was successful and now he is jolly while Jolly is not gay. “Lo, the conquering hero come: emigrant said when he saw one of red men coming for him with an upraised scalping knife. At the Coquelin performance last night it was noticeable that the French-without-. master students couldn’t follow the text with- out the aid of a libretto. According to Oscar Wilde. George Meredith's style is ‘chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning.” This is one of Oscar's Wilde re- marks and means nothing. If Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher who is now studying theology has as good a delivery in the pulpit as he had upon the ball field he will prove a dandy preacher. People in Atlanta, Ga., can now watch the butter-flies in open gardens of roses. Here in Washington the butter flies within doors on the buckwheat cakos at breakfust. Chas. Reynolds, the star catcher of the West- ern base ball association, is teaching the vil- lage school of Sheflield, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo, He is a great favorite with the chil- dren and plays the game without errors, A Machias, Me., man who cut grass with a mowing machine all the forenoon last Wednes- day. only to have it buried out of sight under ne snow before night, thinks something is out of gear this year, and not the mowing machine, either, It is announced by cable that “thirty plump yourig women” are to sail from England under contract for theater work. Now is the time for the high tariff man to insist upon the pro- tection of the plump young women of this country. ——+-e-____ The New B. and O. Directors. EXPLANATIONS MADE OF THE CHANGES ON THE BOARD. The election of the new Baltimore and Ohio board of directors, as mentioned in yesterday's Star, has swept out of existence the committce gation, and left the Johns Hopkins ity, which holds 15,000 shares of stock, without a representative. The Baltimore Sun to-day gives the following as a semi-official statement of the changes made in the board: “Every one of the seven retired directors had sufficient reason for retiring. Messrs. Dobbin and Gregg are advanced in years, Messrs. Coale and Keyser, to the regret of the com- pons. retire Because of impaired health from hard work. Mr. McLane, who went in with Mr. Mayer and Mr. Keyser at the request of the Drexel-Morgan syndicate of bankers, declined re-election, because he does not have a repre- sentative interest in the company. It is neces- sary to have a full attendance at’ the meetings, and representative men were selected in every instance. The company has large interests in Philadelphia, and Mr. Keim, a representative man, was selected from that ‘city. The Read- ing and Jersey Central are in close accord with the Baltimore and Ohio, The Drexel-Morgan syndicate did not share in the selection of the board, and are satisfied to have good men selected. ‘The Jobns Hopkins university, which continues its large holding of stock, has nota direct representative to succeed Judge Dobbin, but is well cared for. The board all through is made up of active men in the busines world.” — ‘soe The Coming Eclipse of the Sun. New York Special to the Philadelphia Press. Mr. Garrett T. Serviss, the secretary of the American Astronomical society, was asked to- ay what there was peculiar in the eclipse of the sun, which is to occur on January 1 next, and for the observation of which Harvard w versity has already fitted out a costly expedi- tion to go to the Pacific coast. “Well, in the first place,” said Mr. Serviss, “an eclipse of the sun is ulways in the highest degree interesting, because there is hardly any phenomenon of the heavens at once so startling, so beautiful and so awe-inspiring. In order to see a total eclipse you must be somewhere along a line only a few miles wide, from which the moon at the moment that it comes between the sun and earth will be exactly in line be- tween the eve of the observer and the center of the sun, Then the moon for a few minutes will completely cover the sun, shutting off its light and heat so effectually that chickens go to roost and the abservers frequently ehiver with the sudden lowering of the temperature of the air. Unfortunately the line of totality, which is never the same for two eclipses, has a way of selecting remote regions of the earth to be favored with the wonderful and magnificent views it has to offer, and on this occdsion the Unithd States is peculiarly favored in having even a part of the line running across its territory. ‘The path of the total eclipse, as it is technically called, will begin near the ceyter qf the group of the Alentian islands, which stretch across from Alaska to Kamschatka, and southward and eastward over the Northern Pacific ocean, will reach the continent a little north of Sin Francisco, It will continue on in a broad curve turning northward and crossing Nevada, Idaho and Montana, will end fer up in Canada, about half way between the western end of Lake Superior and Hudson bay. While only observers along this line will see the sun totally eclipsed. partial eclipse will be seen all over the United States. Here in New York the eclipse will be just beginning at sunset. The further west you go the better chance you will have to see it.” eee. Gladstone’s Appeal for Irish Tenants. ‘HE OPPOSES THE ASHBOYRNE ACT AND DEMANDS THAT ARREARAGES BE DEALT WITH. The bill extending the Ashbourne act and appropriating £5,000,000 for the purpose was introduced in the house of commons yes- terday. Mr. Gladstone moved the following amendment to the government proposal: “That in lieu of voting £5,000,000 it is expedient, in view of the lamentable sufferings arising from recent evictions in Ireland, to extend the land law of 1887 so as to empower the courts to re- duce or cancel arrears of rents that are found to be excessive.” He did not desire to stop the oj ition of the act, whatever he might con- dire opel caret ase e act alive, But he objected to it Hodcas. of the amount demanded. The government ought to have asked parliament for a limited grant. He had always He apy to the Ashbourne act os fon Pergherpv re Cf purchase to the land- lords, wl he consider as the peas- ante ought to have the initiative. What reason had the Sheen! for refusing with such tenacity deal with _ arrears? aes LADIES’ GOODS. Bor Taz Fasovs WATCHSPRING CORSET. WILL NEVER BREAK. GUARANTEED TO OUTWEAB ANY CUSTOM-MADE CORSET. MAYER, STROUSE & 00., Mfrs., 412 Broadway, N. ¥. 0c23,no20de18,Ja15,fe12,mb12,ap9,my7 MESS, MINNIE, LYNCH, acid FORMERLY OF 8ST. School, lias taken rooms Koe’s Inaustrial § 20th fe lauses® habits, WINTER OPENING. ‘MRS. M. J. HUNT Will open, on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22p,a case of Imported BONNETS and HATS, the most elegant er disylayed in Washinton. 3m 1309 F STREET NORTHWEST. _ siege se Sear Sax Guanaexrs AT OLD PRICES. oft stock was purchased before the hewry advancey Rvreare offer’ tiem at cid prices. ‘Sacquem UF te Visites, an jacket weil Ganiienta in every shape and Trimming st ices. Stuf, fea, . ahd Stoles in Monkey, Lynx, Bear, and Skunk Fur. Yur Trimmingin every variety of Fur, Nuke y Mulls at 8350, 4. #220 and 85. ba ey Mufis at $2, 82. Nilates’ and Children's Mutts, Boas, Coats ‘and Baby Carriage Robes. Alljgoods as low in price as any house in Aun te Silk Derby and Worsted Hats and Imported Silk and Derby Riding Hats,with and with- nit ella x WILLETT, & RUOFF, ers and Furriers, 905 Per feet fit and work, one fitting required. Millinery ut balf of cost. QOMETHING NEW—IMITATION LEATHER 4) Wall Pockets, Mata, &c.; pretty, durable and cheaj New Frost Children, Scrap Pictures, Gift Cards, Stud- jesto Paint, G Paint, 10c. Japanese Goods, J JAY GOELB, 421 Sthnlw. Branch, 208 Pa. a mi ee Sea Sus Ganvests REDYED and AL FINE FURS OF EVERY DE MUFFS. BOAS, &e., ) SKINS DRESSED, MOU LINED. The Misses CUNNINGHAM, 923 F st. n.w., second floor, and 1310 8th st. n.w., bet. N and O sta, se22-3im Lars Buy the celebrated “CORTICELLI" SPOOL SILK AND TWIST. IT IS THE BEST. | For sale - THE PALAIS ROVAT, Lisner.) Corner Pa, ave. and 12th st. se27-eo2m = —_ Fevors Dress Suerps ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Manufactured by AH. and-eo3m. ‘UPERFLUOUS HAIR DESTROYED, LEAVY) trace, by imy electric needle proce’s, endorsed by Brinkmann & Co, Baltimore. every prominent physician, Ten years’ practice in this city. Electrical treatument for lich ant 02m? MLS. DR. GABLIEL, Fe THE LADIES-SEAL GARMENTS ALTERED aud repaired; mutis to order; carriage robes re- Hl P MES. Ni |] ivy pre: \ fufactured by Y> Sold by all States, Mux M, J. FL Also; A special selection in SHELL, AMBER AND DULL ET ORNAMENTS. fi Hair Dressed and Bangs Shingled. ING AND DRY CLEAN- 1203 New York ave. 7 work of every des vet and Evening Dresses, AKOLINE LERCH, formerly with A. and Maison Yriexe, Paris. A FISCHER'S DRY CLEAN LISHMENT AND DYE WORKS, 906 ‘Ladies’ and Gents’ Garments of all kinds Dyed without being ripped. | La a specialty. Thirty-five y moderate.’ Goods called 1 LL-WCOL GARMEN ) Adyed « good mourning sl4 st. nw. A. FISCHER, 906 G st. now. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. _ G. T. Kees, TAILOR, oc9-3m_ 414 9TH STREET. i H. D. Bane, IMPORTER AND TAILOR, Has the honor to inform you that his NEW GOODS have just arrived. estublisimnent, stublisimne ae __HOUSEFURNISHINGS. _ JXHE POPULAR AND FASHIONABLE WINDOW Ornament, “Stained Glass Substitute.” 21 E st. tw. ew supply of this paper. n20-e03t” usin Ge mh17 A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES On hand and ‘for sale. mb31 WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. ¥. NOVEMBER 20, 1888. leaned and | ved. ! ‘Mr. BARI personally fits all garments made in his | j bah _RAILROADS. so Fe ee ad ise Se ay on 10 2 Fe eat acto soak Baltimore, 5, 6:30, 6:40, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 11 ominul trang) om aie Sa oe EF | hoes Bers: nee aie ex- 6:40 8:30 a; 2:10 and 4. ee ae pata sane a detween Washit I. at TE eee 00, 8: Shee Stations on the Metropolitan Branch, té rrineipal stations’ only BO, 14240, °5-35, t11 mn, eh, pores and’ intermediate stations, t7:00 p.m, 0:00 p.ra, Church train leaves Washincton on Sunday at 1:15 fm. stopping at all stations on tan = ‘Branc! For Frederick, 10:10am, 14:35, + days, 1315 pm rot Hagerstown, t10:10am., and ‘Trains arrive fro 30 p.m, Sun 30 pa 20am and 9:35 daily 6 P ns, ieav: ington, train), 9 min ite trai 00.3 6;34,8-00, 10-0004 TY pan, Sy2 5:10-8:30. 8:00. 8-00, 9:05 am: 1:15, :10, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 10:00 and 11 p.m, PHILADELPHIA DIVISION. oF Pluiladelphis and Wilmington, daily. 8:10a. m, » 4:20 and 11:30 p, Buflet Parlor Cars on the . Sleeping Car on the pm, oints between Baltimore apd 09 and +430 p.m. and Wilmineton, daily, 6:30, and 11 oper For intermediate y Philadelphia, *# From Phil 11-15 a.m | ave. W. M. CLEMENTS, n19 "Gen. Manager, rue onear, CK." Pt STEEL RAILS. MAG LEAVE. WASHING TOR FROM STaTr 4 A Ge PRO STATION, EK SIXTH AND B STREETS, AS FOL? ‘azo Limited Ey of Am. dally. Past Lows, For Pittsburgand the Wes Pullman Hand St. Louis, | ch un Vestibuled Cars, Line, 9:50 a.m. daily, to Ch with Sleeping Cars irom Pi ne to Cinch and Harrisburg to St. Louis: daily, except Satur- day, to Chicago, with Sleepit Car Aitogne to Chi cago.” Western’ Express, 2. witl Sleeping Care Washinte capoand st Lous. | connecting at Harrisburg with through Sleepers for Louisville aud Memphis. Pacitic Ex- 10:00 pan. daily, for Pittsburr and. the est, with through Sleeper to Pittebury, and Pitte- D POTOMAC RAILROAD, and Rochester, daily; for Buf- yexcept Saturday, 10-00 p, ar Washington to Rochester. wk Haven, aud Elmira, at 9-308, 7-20, 9:00, 11:00, and 10-60, and 1130 poe, 00, 4:10. 1 200 p very day. uch trains connect at Jer. of Brooklyn Annex, affording » Fulton street, avoiding double | Sf, 8:00. 13:00, and 12 | a r and 11-40 | 00. cn@.11-50p.m. On Sun: | m. Limited Ex) s ait Parlor Core peat i na ress, jor Cars. 9-40) | ni, Week-days und S45 pan dally, with Dining j 9:40, 9:50, 11.00, | B45 a1, 480: | On ‘ar. For Baltimore, 6:3. aud nd 9-00 o.2m.. 12:05 and 4:40 Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 a m., pan, ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- ALAND ALEXANDKIA AND WASHINGTO! vrmation at the cfice, northeast cor- et and Pennsylvania venue, and at the orders can be left for the checking of begrage ty destination from hotels and residences. ‘GH, WOOD, E. PU . Agent. P MONT AiR fact ber 30th, 188: Schedule in efiect Se q 8. 8 A. M.—Eaet T Siail'Daliy for Wi "hi Gordonsville, Charlottesville, ie. and Stations i | between Al Koanoke, Bristol, Knoxrilie, umery, aud ‘New Or’ | jenn, Juton to"New Orleans, 11:24 il Daily for Warrenton, Char- Stations Chea & Ohio Route, | ween | ynecl Ville, Greensboro, Raleigt farlot a, Augusta, Atlantag " Birning? | hain, Montgomery, New Orleans, Texas and Caliiornia, 1 man Sleeper N ew York to Monteomery in_comnec- | Hon with Pullman Sleepers Montgomery to New Or- | Jeans and Mann Boudoir Sleevers for Birmitacharn, ayurg. and Shreverort, Puluan Sleeper Danvilie | to Colmn! and Anrusta. Solid trains Washington Atlanta. Does not connect C. = iH tor C. & O. route points Sundays, 50 P. M.—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassas, burg and interiediate mations >” eelk, Express Daily for Warrenton, Bordon eeville, Louisville, Cincinnati, A Solid Trains Washineton 16 Bristol, Chattanooga, Louisville: also ior Lynchburg, Mem pli a Little Hock, aud all southwestern, pointe, Through Pullman Sicepers Washington to Memphis hange. 11:00 P. M.—Southern Express Daily for Lynch- burg, Danville, Kaleigh, Asheville, Chatiotte, Colum. bia, Aiken, An; Allanta, Montgomer Or- leans, Texas and fornia, Pullman Vestibule Sleeper poneren gas A a Atlanta and Mont- omery. hasan per Washingion to Augusta, Gat without chance cit ‘Trains on Washington and Ohi Yash. | ington 9:00 A. 4 M. Tnily; arrive | Without i ae Daily and Sunday, arriving Washington rongh trains from the South via Charlotte, Dan- ie aud Lynchburg arrive in Washington 7:00 AM. and 7:35 PL via East Tennessee, istol and Lynch- bure at $ A.M. and 9:40 Via Chesupeake | and Ohio route” and Charlottesville at 9:40 PML: | Strasbur cal at O:47 A. M. L - sleeping car reservation and information Tickets, nished, and bazgege checked at office, 1300 Penn. Venta aven: nd at Patsenger St:tion, Pennsylva- ry —— and B sts. Jas. L. TAYLOR, ok Genrrai Passcuger Agent. | POTOMAC RIVER BOAT | gt YeBxon: arr. BNO! CORCORAN hn-strect wharf daily (except Sunday) for Mt. nd Kiver Landiines as tar down as Glymout, clock a.m. Returning, reaches Washington er I. L. BLAKE, Captain, R LAN ti FOL POTOMAC RI Pi NEW JAUN 5: “WS REFIELD” sitect wharf on MONDA\S, THURSDAYS D. Returning TUESDAYS, | P. hing at River i Creek, ¥ Carvers: Canpers:: Canpers: We are daily receiving our Fall supply of BIGELOW, LOWELL & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY BRUSSELS, MOQUETS, VELVETS, TAPESTRIES, THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARES, RUGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DRAPINGS in great variety. Au inspection of our stock is solicited, _Se25-3m_ _—_—-HOOE, BRO. & CO., 1328 F st, WOK A FIRST-CLASS HEATING STOVE, RANGE or Latrobe, at iow prices, call on . GARTRE) $15 7th st, Lafhobes and Ranges Répaized Promptly. se20-2un B. LEPREUX So Wormer & COn, ‘with P."Hanson Hiss & Co.), WALL’ PAPERS. We have just received # large con it of new ering patterns. We ure selling all Loc. White Back | pers (8 yards long) for ay piece. Gilt Papers frow 15¢. 10.30. Embossed Gilt from Sse. to 45. All Terk, SS first ciass. Fresco Pain! Tinting specialty” ne SSB LEPREUX & BRO, 508 7th st. nw. 7th street cars pass the door. myl PIANOS AND ORGANS. 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