Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1888, Page 7

PENDING DISTRICT BILLS. Important Local Measures on the Calen- dar of Both Houses of Congress. THE HIGH LICENSE, STEAM RAILROAD AND FREE WATER BILLS—PROPOSITIONS TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF GaS, TUNNEL ROCK CREEK, CODIFY THE DISTRICT LAWS AND INCREASE TRE POLICE FORCE. The District committees in Congress have for their consideration during this session a collection of bills of more than ordinary inter- est to the citizens of the District of Columbia. In the Senate there are two measures which utmost importance, and it is more than proba- ble that both of them will be disposed of, so Sof March. One of them is the high-license Dill, now in the possession of Senator Spooner; the other is the measure which looks to a set- tlement of the steam-raflroad question. The first of these two to be attended to will un- loubtedly be the license bill, and_this will be ealled up for consideration on Friday next. Until then no member of the committee cares to say anything about the chances of the meas- ure. The provisions of the bill will be care- fully criticized and adjusted by the committee, but there will be no hearings granted either to the friends or foes of high license. It is more then probable that but two meetings of the committee will be required to complete the “Buri ing the last session the Senate made a ial order setting apart the 26th of June asa lay on which local steam railroads were to be discussed, but the special order was swept out | of sight by other b eas. The committee will at once ask for another order, and they ex- pect to secure a day early inJanuary. Senator Spooner has charge of another bill which is not without advocates—the bill to reduce the price of gas to $1 per 1,000 feet. The District Commissidners have anumber of measures which they will urge Congress to dis- pose of as rapidiy as possible. The first and most important of these in their opinion is the free water bill; this the House committee has | promised to take up to-morrow. The proposi- tion to tunnel Rock creek and to make the sur- | rounding region # park will also be en- courage: Several members of the Senate oe iajor Moore in the bill to increase the police force | of the District; th the amount of | territory now covered by each officer is much eater than that watched over by policemen | in other American cities of like size and im- The bill, which has been passed by is only waiting to be called up by some Senator to become a law. It provides for eight additional sergeants and sixty privates. After passage by the Senate it will, however, have to go back to the House to be amended | in conference, for it now contains an approp- riation of $15,000 for the new station house in | the northeast: ed for in an ap-| propriation section will | ave to be elim ¥ a confer- ence committee. Something will have to be done by Congress or there will be no police matrons. The bill authorizing the appoint- ment of matrons became a law last seasion, and it stated very ciearly that the compensation of these Matrons was to be the rate of $600 per annum, but no money was appropriated out of they could be paid. At the first precinct station-house tbe necessary arrange- ments for the « modation of one matron een made, and ali that ia now needful is priation, 3 pro present Police C three or more co’ act ding for the abolition of the nd substituting therefor ts, and the bill providing for jury trials inthe Police Court will be pushed as near to the front as possible by their advocates. The District Commissioners will, they say, take an especial int in all legislation | effecting the District. Commissioners Webb and Wheatley both said to a Stan reporter that they were going to make strenuous efforts to have as much good legislation for the Dis- trict this session as possible. The codification of the District laws is one of the many things to which the attention of Congress will be directed. THE COMMITTEE'S CALENDAR. Following is the recently completed calendar of bills and petitions now in the hands of the Senate district committee for consideration: Senate bills to establish a hospital and reform- atory for inebriates in the District of Colum- bia; to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to condemn land on Rock creek for the purposes of a park; to incorpo- rate the Washington Central Electric Railroad company; to amend the charter of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Co.; to make the 12th day of Febraary a holiday in the District; to prohibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors in the District; to authorize the construction of a bridge across Rock creek at the foot of Massa- chusetts avenue extended; to incorporate the Capital Rapid Transit street railway compan to create a board of education for the District, and to prescribe its powers and _ duties; relating to the record of wills in the District: for the relief of the Sisters of the Holy Cross; to incorporate the Central Cable Railway com- ny; to grant to the Great Falls Electric and ower company the privilege of utilizing cer- tain waters im the Potomac river; providing nee of causes inthe courts of the Dis- ain lands; to repeal jorating the Weshington and litan railroad n the routes of said * chacters for cor- and thereby Georgetown an nies, to sell at pu companies, and to grant porations to operate said ro and otherw to secure revenue to the District from its street railroads; to amend section 2 of the act providing for a permanent form of government for the Di trict; to amend railroad comp: ton and Sui the relief of the Union Methodist p church of the District: to incorporate the Washington and Highiands street railway com- gulating the sale of distilled and fer- t; providing for appointment of a superintendent of char- and corrections in the Distric' to incorporate the Peopie’s Electrical and Ca- ble railway compa: to incorporate the Isher- wood, North end East Washington railway; to incorporate the Hotel Republic; to prohibit selling, giving or furnishing tobacco in any of its forms to minors un sixteen years of age in the District; for the promotion ‘of anatomi- eal science and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District; to authorize the Com- Missioners to extend, widen, grade, curb and lay sidewalks on 16th street, be- y street and Columbia road; { of Hannsh Hurdle; to provide for the supervision of the affairs of pi are regarded by the committee as being of the | far a8 the committee is concerned, before the | | to provide for the examination, f | tain manuscript volumes of the municipal | lawa of the District; to secure a compilation of a water for domestic purposes: the national electric pools the Buil protect the the exten: through the observatory; ; to te ; for the of and Mi Loan association; to rests of the Uniled States in m of Massachusetts avenue grounds of the new naval to restrain the erection or maintenance overhead tive power and elec wires; limiting the provisions of the District 'appro- priation act on the subject of overhead electrie wires: resolution authorizing the on the District to ee ae persed way corporations are a of taken, 3 resolution relative tobe — of New Ham; ire avenue streets fmm ory Suggested by the Commis- sioners Prescribing the times for sales and for notice of sales of property for overdue taxes, ACTZD ON BY THE HOUSE. The following bills have been acted upon by the House of Representatives: To incorporate the Washington and Highlands bere plarrsigad company; to regulate the powers and duties of the board of trustees of fre Industrial Home school; for the relief of the attendants on the insane at hospital for the insane; to incoxpor- ate the Hotel Republic company: to extend the authority of the Commissioners in provide for the F.'H. Bates as military Washington High school; -. of cer~ Instrnctor “at the laws of the District; to te the Washington and Western ‘Marfiaga railroad pany;to punish drunkenness; to amend ection 216 of the Revised Statutes with refer- nee to the District; providing for the erec- tion of fire-escapes, PETITIONS. The following petitions and memorials have been referred to the committee: Petition for | liquor licenses in the District; the passage of the Colquitt bill to regulate petitions pray- ing for prohibition in the ict: petition of citizens of Virginia praying that the right be conferred upon the citizens of the District determine by ballot whether liquor legally manufactured and sold in said District; memorial on half of the citizens’ representative committee of one hundred on the subject of the _—— schools; petition of Wm. M. Galt, W. W. Corcoran and seventy-four other citizens of the District of Columbia, praying that an additional day in each month be given to the consideration of | District affairs, and expressing confidence in and approval of the present administration; petition in relation to the amendment of the charter of the National Safe Deposit compan; Pp on of citizens praying for an saptor tion to improve streets in Meridian Hill subd vision; memorial of citizens protesting against the granting of a right of way to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, or the building of a tunnel throngh or under 10th or lth street east for the use of that road; petition of citizensof the northern central section of the city praying for certain improve- ments in that si tition of citizens pray- ing that the present tracks of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad company be not removed; tter of Dr. A. F. A. King relative to promo- tion of anatomical science; petition of the heirs of Henry Bradley praying for relief of taxes; petition of citizens’ county com- mittee praying for the Lore 4 of Senate bill 2023 for the improvement of 16th street: petition of John Dunn and other citizens pray ing that they may be reimbursed for property taken by the District government; memorial of citizens of Washington protestin against the continued occupancy of streets by the Balti- more and Ohio railroad; petition of Rebecca Blaine. praying for relief in the case of inade- uate compensation being awarded to her in the condemnation of certain real estate taken by the general government for the pur- poses of the new library building; etition of Chas. Barker and others, praying Te ths peoesge of a lew authorising the come struction of a highway from the eastern ter- minus of the Eastern branch bridge in a direct line with Pennsylvania avenue; petition of the executive committee of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of the District of Colum- 'S. 1996) praying for the passage of the to prohibit selling. giving, or furnishing tobacco in any of its forms to minors under sixteen years of age in the District; petition of August G. Schoenborn and others, praying for the passage of an act authorizing the Commissioners to widen the alley in square 686, and running from B to C street northeast; petition of I’. F. Bean and others, calling atten- tion to the law, as it exists in the District, re- lating to lunacy; concurrent resolutio: if he senate and assembly of the state of New York in favor of the pot of the bill to re- fund to merchants and commercial agents the taxes legally exacted under certain legis- lation in 1871, by the local authorities of the District of Columbia, imposing a license tax upon commercial agents, which law was, on May 9, 1887, declared by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia beyond the bounds of any authority delegated to the Distaict of Columbia by Congress; petition of the trustees of the First Methodist Protestant churc' praying for the remission of taxes; pet tions cf citizens, praying for the pas- sage of the bills (H. R. 5814 and 8, 1408) in relation to the new gas company; petition of James Crutchett for balance of ards by experts for change of grades front- ing his property; petitions praying for the pas- sage of the bill S. 1996 to prohibit selling, giving. or furnishing tobacco in any of its forms to minors under sixteen years of age in the District; petition of George Creveling for compensation for use of wharf and dock structures in this city memorial of the general assembly of Maryland, urging the repeal of the license tax on non- ent traders in the District; remonstrance hmid &Sons against the manufac- ture of paper boxes by the reform school; let- ter of W. C. Dodge relative to the appointment of a commission to determine the location of steam railroads and depots in the District; pe- tition of John Pope Hodnett, president’ and ounder of United States labor league of Amer- ca, asking permission to carry a deadly weapon on his person both day and night in the Distri petition of Wm. B. Jackson and 250 other cit: ens. for a bridge across the Eastern branch of the Potomac, from foot of South Capitol street esboro’, Md.; memorial of citizens of the District of Columbia iz favor of the passage of the bill (S. $123) to amend the act providing a permanent form of government for the Dis- trict; petition of citizens of the District of Columbia praying for investigation, &c, into the affairs of the water department; peti tion relating to the bill for the relief of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church; petitions of citizens praying for the passage of the bill (H. R. 6676 or 3375) providing for the set- tlement of claims for damages by reason of public improvements. the District by the Secretary of the Interior; changing the name of the Keal Estate Title in- o authorize the extension of t ue; to provide for the payment of the 8 per cent greenback certificates of the Dis- trict of Columbia; for the relief of the holde: of District of Columbia special assessment lien certificates; to extend the streets and avenues i Steepino Cars to PurLapeurmta on the Night Express via B. & O. Open at 9p. m. for reception of passengers. Berths reserved at 619 and 1351 Penns: enue or at depot. — Southern School Books. Atlanta Special to the New York Herald, Dec. 7. One of the liveliest discussions that the AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE. Some of the Peculiar Personal Traits of| The Rare Nerve that Carried Him Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelphia. From the Philadelphia Record. Who is Isaiah V. Williamson? People scratch their heads and ask this question, Every now and then the name bobs up in print, but the owner of it is so modest that only his most inti- mate friends know much about him, Isaiah V. Williamson, who has.given one-sixth of his fortune of $15,000,000 to establish the Free School of Mechanical Trades, and intends to double his gift if the money shall be needed, has been one of Philadelphia's most energetic capitalists and philanthropists for years. Old merchants who have known him for half a cen- tary do not know where to find him if he is not is dingy little office at No. 30 Bank street, has remained a bachelor all le now in his ei rit 3 liberalit 1d thi ihe papas ie for incely an Pr ped Which ‘it was founded. Mr. Williamson is of Quaker Cy and was born in Bucks county in 1903. His ther wasa hard-working farmer and the son in early life became in that section, imbued with those economical principles that | can. in later years enabled him to roll up his im- mense fortune, It is said of him that the guid- ing — iv his money-making ven‘ has been not to do a thing to-day that can just as well be done to-morrow. To this he attrib- utes his success in the commercial world. He used to be fond of rational amusements, and for twenty years spent every summer at Saratoga, man, he was pi nately fond and was always on the floor at the fashionable balls and hops at that famous watering place, He was never at a loss for a partner, for he was known to everybody at Sar- atoga as “the rich bachelor from Philadelphia.” Many were the adroit little schemes concocted by ambitious mammas with marriageable dar- li to rescue the old gentleman from bache- lorhood, but they all failed, as the object of their attentions slipped through their handa, To this day, in the sunset of his life, the aged philanthropist delights to gossip with his ever- narrowing circle of acquaintances—for he but few new friends—about the gay e used to have at Saratoga. Long ago, @ quarter of a century, perhaps, he drovi good team, but he dispensed with his carris and horses because he grew tired of them. A gentleman who has known him for for fo1 years said yesterday of this peculiarity: it was easier for Mr. Williamson to give away $10,000 than to purchase a suit of clothes for himeelt.” He has carried the same umbrella for fifteen years or more, and stuck to it be- cause he says he likes it. He moves about fre- quently an serene stays at the house ofa relative, He has no furniture to speak of, and can move about at his pleasure. He does not care to have many people know where he and the city direc ory only gives the loca’ of his office on Bank street. He is not and never has been, a mean man, and the crowning act of his life—the establishment of the pro- posed school—has been undertaken with the view of re-establishing the old apprenticeship system, which flourished so exteneively in his youth and manhood. In personal appearance Mr. Williamson is rather a small man, weighing about 130 pounds. He has a very pleasant face, and some people say his featires are somewhat of a feminine cast. He has a bright eye and his whole coun- tenance is suggestive of firmness and decisive character, Aphasia. From Chambers’ Journal. Aphasic patients speak in spasmodic jerks, pronouncing only one syllable at a time, much as the school boy scans his hexameters, Others, again, succeed with short sentences, but fail entirely on attempting longer ones, The most characteristic defect is where the sufferer, on being asked the name of an article, is speechless; but a moment terward, on the name being mentioned, he re- pe ts it with intelligence, showing thereby that ¢ both knows the word and can pronounce it, cape immediately before he failed to do Thus, a conversation like the following may be carried on with an aphasic patient, Holding up a pen, the questioner asks, “What is this?’ eyes of the patient shows intel- ligence, his lips move spasmodically, but the required word will not come. ‘‘Is it a sword?” the questioner. The patient makes @ gesture of impatience and contempt, clearly implying that the suggestion ridiculously ‘wide of the mark. “Is it a pencil?” asks the questioner again. The patient still shakes his head, but his look implies that this guess is much nearer the truth than the former one. “Is it a pen?” is then asked. “‘Yes—a pen,” answers the patient readily and with evident relief. A moment afterward the questioner again holds up the the same object and demands its name; but the patient is dumb as at first. He has just pro- nounced the word “pen;” his whole demeanor shows clearly that he understands what it is, but by some inscrutable impediment he is hindered from Soaneonng the idea with the word. Some link has dropped out of the mysterious chain which connects the thought formed in the brain with its articulate ex- pression in speech. Sometimes the tendency of the aphasic patient is to substitute for the correct words others seepage them either in sense or sound. ‘Give me thy littie chapel, said an aphasic patient once, when demanding his prayer book. “Are those the pipes for laying on the light?” was the mode of another's inguiry about the gas. ‘My friend has become a Plymouth Brother” was what an aphasic once intended to say. What he did say w ‘My friend has become a Yarmouth bloater!” In the two former cases the analogy in sense, in the last, the similarity in sound, explains the curious confusion. ccommuunay Sey in Talking Out in Meeting. From the New York Tribune. There is an old man in Chichesterville, in the Catskills, who always speaks out in meet- ing. Recently acity divine preached in the little Methodist church of the village, and the old man became so excited at one or two home thrusts in the sermon which seemed to apply toa certain ‘‘close” neighbor, that he (A up and shouted, “That's right, youngster; hit "im And later on, when the sermon ap- again.” peared to come home to him, he cried out in stentorian tones: ‘That's so, b’gosh. We're all sinners, ev'ry durned one of us,” eee One Clergyman who Favors Dancing. From the Minneapolis Tribun Since the marriage-a-failure topic has been worn out and reduced to pulp, the country is now to be deluged with the discussion of dancing. Whether dancing is proper or not; if 80, when, where, of what character, for how many hours, and in what style of dress? The Rev. C. 8, Nickerson opens the ball, as is most proper, with an indorsement of dancing. He says it is natural. innocent, beautiful. That is, juare dances, where people move gracefully and merely touch finger tips. He says hugging io grade streets; to detine the route P. railroad in the District; for the relief of G. H. Cot to incorporate the West Washington Electric Lighting, Heat- ing, Motor, and Power compan; ‘orpor- ate the National Temperance Home; to pro- vide for the extension of ith street; to pro- vide for the widening of Columbia road; to regulate the fees and limit the compensation | of the recorder of deeds and of the register of | wills; to provide for the suppression of t traffic in intoxicating liquors in the Distric for the relief of Mrs. Emma G. C. Abbott: for the relief of non-residents who have paid license taxes; for the relief of Henrietta Minnix; to authorize the Commissioners to | water mains where ne 0 build a road on Brightwood ave Washington and Mar t pan} tions 851. S83. 861 and 862 of the Revised Statu’ United States for the District of Columbia; for the relief of Jesse B. Wilson; | for the relief of Nathaniel Magruder; for tue | relief of the heirs of Mar, 5 the relief of Rebecca B. Scott; to provide for Placing the electric wires used by the District under ground; to provide for the redemption | of lands sold under trust deeds; to provide for ® commission to determine the location of md depots; for the relic! df Donovan; to incorporate the Under-ground Cable and Conduit company; for the improvement of Rock creek, and for other pi *; to regulate and license pawn- brokers; to amend the act providing a perma- nent form of government for the District; rela~ tive to the rules and regulations allowing pro- and permitting car- riage ; for the relief and rotection of saleswomen; extending the track te the Capitol, % ~ North O Street and South the appointment of a sanitary engineer; to incorporate the Washington an: Great Falls Narrow Ga i company; rel defining certain acts ot Coemren for of owners of real estate; to create a board of claims for damages to reason of public i 5 real estate improvements; to regulate practice of pharmacy; to incor- Columbia Central railway company; Foguring she removal by the Commmisioners of and. for the manufacture of beer or mait liquors beyond Boundry street; audit to ad; | tall of Georgia senate has ever had took place to-day over the public school bill. The bill provided for the use of text books throughout the state, with an amendment to the effect that, all things being equal, the preference should first be given Georgia’s authors and then to south- ern authors, Senator Gibbs wanted to strike out the clause, “all things being equal,"and leave itcompulsory with the state school commis- to use nothing but text books by southern ors without regard to the difference in t of such books and those offered authors. He said in the course of his speech that there was book published nerth of Mason and Dixon's line that was not sectionalism, After considerable dis- cussion Senator Harris offered a substitute, providing that a preference should be given southern books, and that if it was found neces- sary to purchase any northern books that the school commission shall see to it that they con- tain nothing of a sectional nature, The amend- ment prevailed, Away Off. From the Philadelphia Press, Big Billy Taylor walked into the sporting de- partment of this paper last Friday evening, sat down in achair, threw his feet ona desk. picked up the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, and was soon engaged in deep study. He had been a about three minutes, when he ex- on valli if th leaguers don't “Well! if these yer yo me a pain! Here's dis yer Bewsea sre tatue, and he’s le mean by get! it der on tell me what you think of it.” One of the office boys took up the paper and found that the Seward referred 1 should be done at home; therefore, the waltz is banished from Mr. Nickerson’s congregation. But high-necked, li-o'’clock, square-cornered, long-meter dancing he thoroughly approves. ——— ae A Boston Woman’ From the Boston Herald. There appears to ous incidents attending the registration of the women voters here in Boston. The latest story comes from the headquarters of the registrars, and may be accepted as entirely authentic. A large number of the women seem to have been exceedingly annoyed at being obliged to give their age to the registrars, and in a number of cases they forfeited their right to vote rather than to state how old they were. In one in- stance a spinster gave her age as “twenty-one plus.” hat do you mean by ‘twenty-one ins?” inquired the registrar. “I mean, sir. hat I am over twenty-one,” was the tart reply. “We cannot allow any of that nonsense here,” said the official; “you must give your exact age if you desire to be registered.” “This she per- sistently declined to do, and consequently her name is not on the voting list. 6m The Mystery of Fish Life. Charles B. Palmer in Science. The peninsula of Florida contains innumera- Through the Ordeal of Popping. some great opportunity was within your grasp, but you had hardly the presence of mind, the— the courage, as it were, to avail yourself of it?” “Why—er—yes, Miss Thavesome- times had a kind of feeling as if 'a been sort of sent for and couldn't go, you know.” Miss Amanda sighed dreamily, and there was 4 pause, during which the two sat inthe semi- darkness of the Quickstep parlor and ox- changed profound silences, ‘The door opened and Miss Amanda’s elderly female relative looked in. “The book you are looking for, auntie,” said the young lady, with entire self-possession and some emphasis, “‘is probably in the library.” The elderly female relative withdrew and Miss Amanda spoke again in the soft, musical, Persuasive voice of a trained applicant for charity: “She will not disturb us again, Mr. McPeli- | “‘She—she wasn't disturbing me any,” he protested, And he sat and looked helplessly at the glow- ing coals in th ith the feeling that every breath he ghastly blunder, “As you were aboyt to say, Mr. McPelican,” resumed the young ‘there are times when it seems to allof us that we must speak what is in our h—— in our minds,” vaguely answered the bewildered youth, and he tried to remember when he had started to say anything of the kind; “yes, ’o course. “And while I am not eure that I ought to lis- ten to you, Mr. McPelican,” she said, with downcast eyes, ‘when you speak tome in this— in this personal manner, yep —” The young man could feel his pulse beating a tattoo on the drums of his ears, but he sat like abound boy atacorn husking and said nothing. “By the way,” exclaimed Miss Amanda pres- ently, ‘I have a new book of bes pros Mr. McPelican, that I am sure you will enjoy see- ing. It is alarge book, and you'll have tomove your chair—why, certainly, you can sit he: with me onthe sofa. I never thought of that. The pictures danced before the eyes of the young man in blurred, confused images. “Isn't this engraving of the ‘Courtship of oe Dombey and Walter Gay’ perfectly lovely?” “Wh-which is Walt?” he gasped. “There! Look closer. Don't you see him?” “W-who’s he courting?” “You'll have to come closer, Mr. McPelican. I declare, though,” and she looked archly at the trembling youth, “Iam almost afraid to tet you come any nearer. You look exactly like Walter in the picture!” And then the arm of that helpless young man stole in a timid, apologetic, sneaking way | around the waist of the charming Amanda uickstep, her head sank on his shoulder, and : ie book of engravings fell neglected to the oor. “Alfred,” she said, an hour later, as she toyed with a button of his coat, “you bold boy! How on earth did you ever muster up the cour- age to ask me to be your wife? You know well enough I never gave you particle of encour- agement.” The young man patted her eeieeeages ht on the head and then spoke proudly, with the voice of an Ajax defying the lightning: “When I make up my mind to do anything, Amanda, no obstacle on earth can stop me!” Various Ways to Woo Sleep. From Chambers’ Journ: The most celebrated and perhaps the most efficacious method for procuring sleep that has been devised was originated by a Mr. Gard- ner, who, among other things, had remedies for many evils, such as for allaying thirst where no liquid element could be procured, for im- proving the eyesight by various ingeniously- contrived glasses, and for appeasing hunger, His sleeplessness, however—resulting from a severe spine injury in being thrown from a chaise—had been almost intolerable for years, until he discovered a means, which never after- ward failed him, of commanding sleep at will. The discovery caused some stir at the time, and many eminent persons adopted it and gave testimonials as to its efficacy. Now, however, that {t has dropped almost out of existence, it may be a boon to have its formula repro- duced. The sufferer who has wooed sleep in vain is, accordii to Mr. Gardner, to lie on his right side, with his head comfortably placed on the pillow, having the neck straight so that respiration may not be impeded. e lips are then to be closed slightly and a rather full in- spiration taken, breathing through the nostrils as much as possible. The full inspiration taken, the lungs are to be left to their own action. Atterition must now be fixed upon the respira- tion. The person must imagine the breath passing from his nostrils tinuous stream, and at the instant he brings his mind to conceive this apart from all other ideas consciousness leaves him—or at least so sa: the recipe—and he falls asleep. If this method does not at once succeed, it is to be persevered in, and, eee carried out, is believed to be infallible. It is founded on the principle that monotony, or the influence on the mind of a single idea, induces slumber; and, as such, but another form of different methods which are familiar to a great many. Sir Thomas Brown found it a most effectual soporific to repeat some verses on which the well-known Evening Hymn was founded. Ra- belais tells us of some monks who, when wake- ful, resolutely set themselves to prayer, and who, before they had concluded half ‘a dozen ayes or paternosters, fell asleep. Franklin took his air-bath; Sir John Sinclair counted; while Sir John Rennie. when engaged on public works, never went to sleep without previously having his hair combed at the back of his head with a fine-tooth-comb and rubbed gently with the palm of the hand. Combing the hair, brushing the forehead with a soft shaving- brush, or fanning, all are good as sleep-in- ducers, and might well be tried on sleepless children, although perhaps the Spanish prac- tice of getting babies to sleep by rubbing the space between the cervical and lumbar verte- brae—that is, between the neck and waist— with the hand, as it is reputed never to have failed, would orter road to the same goal. eee They Don’t Speak Now. From the New York World. Cora—‘‘I would wait ever so long for any man that could love me for myself alone.” Violet-—What patience! And you have al- ready waited so many years, See. A Hitch in the Economy. From the Springfield Union. “Charles Whippingham De Gagely, I should just like to know what you are going to do with all those cigars in your bureau? Why, there is a whole drawer full of them!” “Why, my dear, I have been practicing economy. Don't you remember, last spring you read in your Domestic Monthly that the saving of three cigars a day would keepa whole family in groceries?” Aes and you used to smoke six cigarsa ‘That's so, and you begged me to cut it down to three, and I've stuck to it and saved three cigars a duy ever since,” “Well. I don’t see as it makes any difference with the grocery bill. I don't take much stock in that Domestic Monthly any way.” ra bes Soon cakes £9 A Nine-Year-Old Girl Official. From the Trenton Times. The city of Trenton can claim the brightest and youngest city officer in the state. Miss Hattie Owens, very cute and clever fora girl of nine, has been made second assistant city clerk, and can now be seen on duty at certain hours filing away in their proper order the official documents in the city clerk’s office, When Col. Owens, the city clerk, todk posses- sion of his new quarters the public documents appeared to be considerably di: d, and, on complaining, he found a cheerful volunteer in the person of his young daughter, Miss Hattie, who is very onal but sharp and me- thodic She was assigned the work of reas- sorting, and is doing it well. She is rather an- irl and announces ee Lid % THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. MOND, making an = for the girls’ reform” | school; to abolish rents for the ain} Poromae re rate, wit Sewwes @ moriifying and | = AUCTION SALES. ——— ___ EDUCATIONAL ———=—= pri cokea se Cae aE ora mative AR’ “ARTA OU AB WN COLLECTION OF 3:30 p.an. For full particulars call or send for circular. PAINTINGS, STATUARY, BRONZES, &o., Belonging to tise estate of the late RAWING AND Pal TING—INSTRI JAMES ©. MoGUIRE. and for, Nitios THE NATIONAL ACADE: are numbered ‘Tobe cold by order of hie enscuiors.om MORDAY,DB- | _=El-twe . and r Cl TEN, 1888, and following days st INDERG. t north twelve sini date f AM. and THREE P.M. Kisticeter KS thence east sixty-one (G1) fe al vis Sunderland } oe oe t to the ecl-4m prov "Terine of sale, hs prescribed. by in cash, aud the at one and two eeTments. for which the notes of the pure! ‘ken, bearing interest from the day of and a lien retained upon the Property. wait or all at tion of ming rT: $100 will pail fo be paid on ‘day of sale. tf the terms of com) with in ten days. the property at the cost of the defsulting purchaser. All at cost of ‘AYELT). 1, HOLTZMAN, 27. ae MM VERNON SEMINARY, 1100-1104—-1116 M STREET AND 1198 11TH STREET. AY Youre ARDY LER Thorgar instructioa in al] brapches in with best modern imethods. Com: seulantast a bac Mgraar reams : to the Principal, El zs BETH s % STSEORGE'S HALL FOR BOyS. ST. GEORGE'S, Maryland. U: : year. Prot. 2c ia EARL A Sts Pritcipal * {am as Pennsylvania avenue and 11th street. ‘The collection will be on view up to the hour of sale. BOARDING AND 45-6t THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. LES W4cTER 5. WILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneers ATTRACTIVE AUCTION SALE. By order of the Taunton Silver-Plate Company, at our Salesrooms, corner of 10th and D streets, facing Pennsylvania avenue north west, commencing WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER TWELVE, AT ELEVEN SALE OF IMPROVED SUBURBAN PROP- THE BARR FA On MONDAY, TENTH DAY DECEMBER, A D. 1888, uroUl obkodE Pt yy will sell ta front of n28-0ollt - thoroweh buss classes. also to vor U SINESSTEY-TRAINED TEACHER OF ENGLL en not iasres has Classes LOW ing: 85 per won ton. TEACHER, O'CLOCK A. M.,, RESUMING AT HALF ‘ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS, igie A> 24, SECTION 3, OF THE SUBDIVISION OF : a cb. —Thoroug’s Musical a BARRY FARM, TMPROVED BY Two: PaST TWO AND HALF PAST #ith daily use eraet Monon ure SMALL FRAME HOUSES SEVEN P. M., DAILY, Bando. Seca) attention ‘given "to harmony ‘vooal. ‘Terms: One-third cash, balance in 6 and 12 months, for which the notes of the purchaser will be taken, with interest at the rate of 6 per ceut per aunnm from day of sale, secured by deed of trust on propert, or all cash at option of purchaser. sale. Terms to be complied with in 10 days, other- rer nets on <a! a ge purchaser. conveyancing at purchaser's cost 3-dkds HOMAS, Att Until Entire Stock is disposed of. RICH, ELEGANT, AND. UNIQUE ELECTRO- PLATED WARE, La sold, 3 Deposit of $100 at FRENCH MANTEL CLOCKS, IMPORTED ARTISTIC PAINTED BRONZES, STATUETTES, E te Ei" Btudlo, s2i Lith nw Benddoromeular abe Tees @_BENSINGE! 8. Moree’ y ASHINGTON SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND forse and Carriage Bazaar, TABLE, w Oratory, 004 M stn.w. Mrs. M STEVENS HAL — . weipal. Voi iture and Natural Tile sold af the Bazsar, 940 Louisiana avenue, on AND CLOCK ORNAMENTS, | carefully taught. 1 AY MORNING, DECEMBER T! EEN, at TEN O'CLOCK, 25 head of Horses and Maree workers and drivers. STAMMERING SATIN, CHINA, AND GLASS BOWLS AND VASES. | Thoroughly cured. References to patrons. 230-1m Baty, 10.new. and second-hand Wagons, Phetons and | tn new eclors—Gobelin Blue, Old Red, Torquoise, and QINGING TN TWENTY LESSONS: AND afo-3t 8. BENSINGER, Auctioneer, Cameo—sincular and beautifully painted with auiment. Signor Fabiani at home mn BENSINGER, Auctioneer, * Tich designs, and embossed with gold. cuaceday gud Saturday. $30 to 6:30 atm. and Horse and Carriage Dazhar, 940 Louisiana ave. 7 hater on ll e FRUIT AND BERRY BOWLS, RIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, COR. 7TH SLEIGHS, SLEIGHS. SLEIGHS. From the Ravenswood Pottery, mounted in Silver ts. nw. Established 1N6¢. Central . PEREMETORY SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION OF Conmodious halle apd ciass-rooms, Superior au FORTY SLEIGHS AND CUTTERS, HARNESS, LIFE-LIKE TERRA-COTTA BUSTS. corpsof instructors. Its well-traiued graduates are ROBES, filing responsible Uusiness and ‘Positions. AY, DECEMBER THIRTEEN, com- | Brass Goods, and night sessions, Large atteudance of young z cing at WEL Vis O'CLOCK ‘M, we Will sell in ‘Music Boxes, wean ond women. Five courses oe. rae: a eorteadbae Freuch Bevel Mirrors, imunship: Course in Expression. Tuition a a Eesigeniag Si ait on ert oe Swell Body. four-pessenger Ca aitams, ke, fe. | HESBY C. SPENCER TL. B, Principal Sand a these rls ure all handsomely painted, ana trim, bums, A. SPENCER, Vice-Principal. nee in raw silk, car pl cloth: tten tio XES. - the trade pane pap jergannare u of | SOUVENIR CUPS AND SAUCERS IN SATIN BO! Miss soitss ! uctioneer. | A fine line of Toilet Goods in Celluloid, Brush, Glass, | north: section, t ying. AR’ ~uaitecshs soi sasahiaes oy eepeenae aloe ULATION aud SPEECH KEADING taugut the Deaf. ne ana* @ large assortment of the celebrated Rogers’ Table Cutlery and En- IANO LESSONS — MISS CLARA RARRISON, pupil of W Mason, N.Y. Kindergarten System Gilsh Sten Sheara, be. for’ ite Cutidren « Specialty. ‘8e20-3m* Ladies are respectfully and especially invited. Chairs y R- COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. —THE COROO- x ises. Tun Scientific School opened October 1. The classes, BRUSH: i ATOHE Far att ey hich meetin the erching are open 10 butt wexaw HOR: SUITS, HORS BL. ETS, ~ -~ information about tt be courses in Altera, SHOW CASES, COUNTERS, SHELV: | ag.ay WALTER B. WILLIAMS ® CO-_ | rigopometry, Analytic Geometry and Calculus, 7uoMmas "LING, Auctioneer. , PHAETON, ETC. F[HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer ti a sry AES; A PM. VERY HANDSOME EBONY PARLOR SUITE, EASY | Les TWENTY-FOUR SHARES WASHINGTON MARKET 4D FANCY CHALRS FANCY TABLES, BLIG | of toe above ONE SHARE MATIONS! FAin ASSOCIATION SwOu5s, Pat TINGS, MIRRORS IN VELVET 223 6th st, uw, (half « buck exst By virtue ofan order of the Supreme Court of the] FRAMES. TORTIEAES., JAPANESE. KAKA- | inton, D.C. = aNctagee Pustrict of Columt.s- holding a special term for Pro-| Pris HALL AND STAIR CARPETS WALNUT | QY4E BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES sin at pi faction 01 ers sUT | HURSDAN, the THIRTEENTH DAY OF DECEM- Rm, VRMITURE. FINE HAIR MAT BER, 1888, commencing at TEN O'CLOCK A SEeeere oe Woe Be ‘Terms begin now. store No. 403 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, all STERS, ASH ORLOARE AND CHATIN tok Shelving, Kor comtained thefelt. "This stie pensats | EXTENSION TABLE, FINECHINA ANDGLASS- | soog 723 14th at. nw. an excelleut opportunity for parties intearch of Hol | WARE, TABLE LINEN, KITCHEN REQUISITES, 5 Sea ae ‘Herma cash. i on THURSDAY MonxTNG, pecewpen tum. | K™ENDS, SELECT, ScHOOLTA. PRIMARY, — THER TLENTH, 1588. COMMENCING AT HALF-PAST __ “‘kiieoe. Tea TEN O'CLOCK, I shall sell at residence, 2129 K street | au29-6m THOS. 'W. SIDWELL, Princtpal Executors of the estate of HORACE 8. JOH. er : OK KLE northwest, @ very superior collection Z effects, on view mi01 BUSINESS EDUCATION — BOOK-KEEPING as-dts A Penmanship, Commercial Branches Ty pe-w a joeuton jolarship, €25, rapid progress. tabsished 1885, WOUD'S COMMERCIAL Sc 407 E. Cap. auy. ‘of sale. ‘HOMAS DOWLING, Auct. D iCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. "RUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE: pyr BROS., Auctioneers, ER! ORY AUCTION SALE OF EX UARE, Front. | 40¢ EO STOCK OF LADIES’ AND GENTS’ FURNISH- ING MASSACHUSETTSAVENUE, EIGHTEENTH ARTYN'S _COMMERCH. LLEGE ING GOODS, SUCH AS SHILIS (DRESS AND SURED P STREET NOKTHWEST AND DU- MEnTS Tolegraps a COMFORTS, BLANKETS, UMBREL: net Reg i No. | 8,8, 4.) Bear Ort atice, ane, Richest 4 CHILDRENS FABLES AND | _ BY virtue ot a deed recorded in Liber No. | ard Business College in America.” ‘Splendidly eq Sere Pan . 11333, folio 392, et seg., of the’ records of the Dis- | ped The largest und most commodious uilal ERY, JENFLRY, ETC, trict of Colzabla, aud dt the request of the holder of | Use city devoted to business isaltiig Catalogues free On _wepnespay “Nor: DECEMBER | Bote sec thereby, we will sell at Fable pection, ip on application. Colored studeuts uot edimitted. TWELFTH, commencin; t LOCK, we will | {rout of, the mises, ou SATURDAY, the | FRANCIS G. MARILYN, President. C. K UBNEM, sell, within ‘our salesroun nl D streets north- | PHEN TH DAM, QR DECEMBER, 4. D. 1888, st | 4 E., Princi al. vel MOUS oi at Dacaxs wecth of Breare dered. fs ci pum! ONE HUNDRED AND TRILTY-SEVEN (137), fronting 174 feet 10 inches on Massachusetts avenue, 159 feet 10 inches on P street north, and 71 feet on 1Sth street west (being a triancular square), together | NEW ILLUSTRATED CIRCULAR SWITHEN C. SHORTLEDGE’S MEDIA (Pa.)AC. MY FOX BOYS seut tree. sels. coors, 9tl West, for account of a dealerdeclining business, « 1 stock of the abyve toods, to which we respectia the attention of buyers, dai ‘ADE =. With all the improvements, ways, easements, rivhts, | EDARS” — A BOARDING AND Dak privileves and appurtenances with same belonging or | SCHUOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. fnany wise appertaining, OCTOBER 1. 11 sell ‘Terms: One-third of the purchase money in cash, us in balance in equal instalments, at one and two years, and for which notes of the purchuser are to be given, bear: | ing six percent per annum interest, payable ‘semi- Address. MISS EAKLE, 1916 35th st_ HARVARD GRADUATE DESIRES PUPILS singly oF un sanall Classes, A po Clocks, Cloth: ‘agyinte mong which are many | avousils from day of sale and to fe secaaed too Wace PUINAM AM, oe All parties | of trust on the premises sold, or all cash, at option of se19-3mo At Sanders & Staymun's, Feinw, til leposit of $1.000 required at time of | ———— "manne 1 please take no purchaser, A ULE} " Mca Pawnbroker, 3021 Mst, | suie. Conveyancine. &c..at cost of purchaser, Terms ROF. SHELDON'S DANCING ACADEMY NOW dl0- to be complied with in ten days, otherwise the trus- ener Spe mentie of UNDAYS, WED- tees reserve the right to resell’ the property at the | NESDAYS and SATUKDAXS. or send tot cirew- | isk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five | lars, 1004 F st. nw. auso-Dul PRO Published in Washington, DG) S76 BEWSPAPEE | TR JOHN CAULFIELD F ELEVENTH STREET. BE— AUSTIN HERI Will resuuce lessons at 1012 14th at, D STKEET AND SOUTH CAROLINA JOHN F. Cox, { Trustees. , UPpusive the Hamilton House, “AVENUE SOUTHEAST. Abstract can be seen at Koom 10, No. 1419 F street | _ 8¢10-3m' October 1. 1888. pPyyirtueof s decree of the Supreme Court of the | n.¥ d4-dsds == strict of Colum! passed in equity cause No. 5 ~j = Doc.27, Francis R. Carter vs Ruchael M. acter et al Auctioneer. SPECIALTIES. the undersigned trustee wili offer for aale at pnb auction in front of PHURS fon. the DECEMBER MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL BS-| 7) j. Ww HAYWARD. TATE. ELECT KO:THERAPE! UTIST, POUR OCLOCR, By virtue of a power contained in mortenge from Desires to announce that be will devote bis entire recorded subdivision of lots numbered from seven to Sallie G. ‘Tracy and William H. Tracy, to Dep time to the practice of ten (7 to 10), inclusiveof Thomas Young's subdivision | dated the 9th day of November, in the Fear 1886, ai ELECTRO-LIBRATION, red | duly peourded Ju Liber J) %, 1" No. 1: folie, 160 Be | being an entirely new method of using electricity. ne of the land reeords of Chari e Means or the Electropuise thro Sioned will sell st public auctiun, af the ‘Courthouse | [oes yeucien tg att Bae battery, no currest bo door, in Fort To Shock. Itis essentisliy s “Lome treatment,” aad wn- bacco, oD. DECEMBER EIGHT! ‘ EENTE, 1 severest testa hes proved itecif an tuted My wil that lot plece 01 eure) ‘ "CRE or Or gifcashyat cpl cfpambase Sh conkeencen | Gel Siection, district of Charles cousty, Taryland, poyey gon have pal a Berares, acute crchroaig gud recording at cost of purchaser. | A deposit 9 Toga eee cares treat derfully "q results, $100 requi ‘time of sale. If t acute diseases, some, expecially fevers, beiug cured in ie be not complied with in ten the Trustee reverves | containing 201 acres, more oF less, 24 hours, Noove need give up now. Lean cure you. & Tat ty resell the property at the rk sod come 4 The sbo property is improved by suite- ow abandoned caves a specialty a3 he defaulting purchaser upon an advertisement o Dropsy and kidney diseases yield at once. Pree cou- fivedaya GHARTES A; ELLIO ee, ‘as-deds — 406 Sthst. b. A. DEPUE, Mortgages. sultation invited. For further iuformation call ob ot DR. J. W. BAYW 1219 Tet Theatre: PEW EEN ELEVESTE AND B. WILLIAMS & GO. Aucts, @5-6t" HUCSES NOS. MIB AND GEE SS | a rere SALE OF VALU S28 13TH ST.N.W, TREATS Firtue of, i THREE-STORY a Curonic jections of the Eye, tar: hose Mt Ofice heura O:2:2-8, Sunday, from 10 to 2 request of auction, in front of the DECEMBER THIRTEEN FOUR O'CLOCK P. Part ‘vata pate and ‘elelty-three (90) — tin Paes , fro Ring hundred and eighty-three (98), fronting Soi at HALF-FAL a fol real ¢s- bered by thirty-two (32) feet on F street northeast, in the city of Washinton, and running back with that width to the rear line of said lot, the same being improved by two two-stury frame dwelling-houses, ‘The property will be sold in bulk or as two separate lots, each with a house th purchase Terms of sale prescribed by'said de of the purchuse money to be paid in ance in two equal instalment, one und two — which the notes o frat ey the prema aa Rant oar o ‘on each piece Btia om alt when the same 8 mente upon the premises dne to the day of sal Paid out of the proceeds of s:le. Property to be con- a by the court. All con- = wo not in seven from of le. nstee reserves the right to Fesell the Premises at the risk and e efaulting purchaser upon Sve days’ notice of such in Washington, ofand National Award ef 16,600 trancs, QUINA=LAROCHE AN INVIGORATING TONIO, PERUVIAN BARK. IRON, axa PURE CATALAN WINE, For the PREVENTION and CURE Hchee, and uence eaat 79 fet to wa Of beginning, toretber w: thereon, eleeautinige substantial ‘condition, ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash (of which Es at time of sale), belance i Smeets yi LLZMAN, ad wat HOLTZuaN,} Trustees, | E. FOUGERA & 00. UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, men SALE OF ¥, virtue of a decree in Eq e Mary E pee ouiitled dary E Bailey et vir Yn Eifebeu ral . oon ¥, r resale in some newspaper pul ah ELL ‘Trustee ome ed oD DAY OF DECEM- eM pe aed AB toget ‘with the improvements thereon,