Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1888, Page 10

‘TION TOO LATE TO BE OF SERVICE. Next Tuesday superstitious dwellers in some parts of the Pacific slope will cause to predict all sorts of evil to happen to during the year 1889, for if the day be bright and clear there will come a darkness over the earth shortly after noon that to such minds, or in fact to most minds of a few centu- ries ago, would mean a prophesy of dire events tohappen. But, inasmuch as this darkness that will occur is due to an ordinary, every- Year eclipse of the sun, the significance of the phenomenon will importance, in an astronomical light, although it is hoped that by means of the data obtained by the observers some additional light may be ob- the sun's corona, nature or sul or «0 ibetance, it to give to it an intelligible nai, bas ‘Works relatin this very indefinite and elusive Under ordinary the corona is invisible, the rays of the sun com- Fn Eg ge else in the neigh- 2c Tays are shut off Ht ct ¢ HA ei i ui ! HF | f i rn iff i Es F | 1849. He has occupied the THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. have fairly good | fr A second inquiry into the recent accident to the czar’s train at Borki results in attributing banat oe re c q the Panama canal stock dropped 20 francs yester- day on the Paris bourse. The pope has sent to the bishop of Piacenza 000 for a heer 5 college for missionaries to taped to America care for Italian emigrants. William Henri Waddington, French ambassa- dor in re, hell gaipterdtontages no parents, an just -two years of age. le nen wancttad of Rugby, and’ Cambridge, En- land, ne was a ene of es ir took a very le with the Cambridge crew that beat Oxford in ghey ambassador at the court of james e 1883, and is a true and patriotic citizen of his adopted country, France. King Kalakaua gave a grand banquet to the members of the American base ball clubs on their visit to the Sandwich Islands. It wasa unique and elaborate affair. All the guests were decked with flowers wound in wreaths around their necks, After the banquet tl king’s dancers gave an exhibition of their na- tional dances. A dispatch from Malta says that neither the | duke nor the duchess of Edinburg was present atthe theater there when the gpg ty made to blow up the building with a bomb. The Russian consul at Malta, who was arrested for com vows f in the attempted outrage, has been rele: There was no evidence what- ever against him, his arrest being due to a — suspicion that he was in some way im- Plicated in the affair. The prefect of police of Paris has issued an edict giving Brie ayy to the cafés and res- taurants o! it city to remain open until 3 o'clock in the morning. The more staid citi- nies te net Whe tite i as itdisturbs their Pp. The czar has forbidden ‘the Ashinoff expedi- estab- | tion to start for Abyssinia. Ashinoff is a Cos- ers | the favor and confidence of xe 6: ly measured, and computation showed it to extend 9,000,000 miles into space, compared with which our Ss - breathing space shrinks ito modest nothingness, PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS, ‘The eclipse of New Year day may determine profit. Photography is going to play an important part in coypteen Be & next cquipped with photopraptio wpparetun, Revs stographic , have syed to the west, em having ifornia as an objective point. The eclipse will be easily visible in California, Nevada, Idabo, Montana and Manitoba, and the sur- roundin: ——, but as one gets eastward the hour of fo ity grows later, and in Washington the first yw of the sun’s disc will barely begin to show asthe sun goes down into the haze of the horizon, so that in this region the eclipse will be practically invisible. PARTIES IN THE FIELD. The best equipped party is that that left Harvard college some days ago under the direction of Prof. Pickering, who is one of the best known of American astroi is leading porta OH is also ni thatare to be darkened new year. Then there party from Carleton , of Northfield, » and one from the St. Louis university, under Prof. Pritchett. This last-named party with the hot hic it observa' Sau eee a to the ox ie birthday 0 the a naval city, which was loaned to them for this re rot 1e astronomers at the naval observatory would have been enabled to a to make observations of this eclipse, bu’ hurry of the tariff question and the election ad- - of no such subject as astronomy, and there was no appropriation made for that purpose. AN APPROPRIATION TOO LATE. Since the reassembling, however, some con- science-emitten committeeman, so it is thought See ny: menage to gst © rider on eei0be to. date the expenses of en! e ernmeni observat and when the President signed the bill last Monday this item was included. Hence the the bas & party to out west between usand its ——— to Prof. ite extensive preparations have - hpcerer astronomers of the country for observation of the eclipse and the collec- tion of correct data relative to the henomens incident to such an event. The Lic astronomers "fn | 2e88 by compressing leather. Hy te fF: LY ff i £ j i : Peet ee if H i its British success, sack zealot who two years ago entered Abys- sinia with a bandof armed monks, and by pre- tending to hate the Italians bitterl: to jeer ohn, ani was welcomed in Abyssinia more heartily than any previous white visitor. He founded the town of New Moscow, convinced King John that their religions were practically identical, and obtained permission to bring in a large number of Russian immigrants. The advance was to consist of forty priests and sixty monks, and it was to be followed next month by 2,000 young men, who had to undergoa medical examination before they were accepted as emi its. The czar, however, has dis- banded the expedition, and forbidden Ashinoff to continue his plan: Gen. Loris Melikoff, whose death at Nice was announced yesterday, at the age of 64, was at the breaking out of the Russo-Turkish war oe inted adjutant-general to the Grand Duke Miche Russian commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, and it was he who in reality con- ducted all the military operations in the cam- Faign. To him — ly was the credit due for the capture of Ordahan by the Russians in 1877, and the subsequent capture of Kars. In March, 1880, he was shot at bya man named Maladzyetaky, but escaped without injury. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant officers in the Russian service. In the French senate yesterday M. Breton asked Minister Vielle to explain the conduct of Great Britain in closing British ports to French cattle on the plea of infectious diseases. M. Vielle replied that British ports were open only to cattle from Portugal and Sweden. He This | could do nothing against the ill-will of the British government, which had aright to adopt whatever measures the sani police sug- He had tried to negotiate with the government on the subject, but without es Aesthetics of the Foot. From the Boston Gazette. The recent discussion on ssthetics of the human foot have interested me greatly; but I am convinced that a little explanation will har- monize the opposing arguments. According to painters and sculptors, the second toe is gen- erally represented as longer than the first, and in this matter the modern artist has drawn his example from the ancient Greeks. Now, the Greeks, in turn, drew this canon of their art from the Egyptians; and the Egyptians made the mistake of studying the foot of the negro. A small big toe is typical of the ape family, wherein it is very much smaller an the second toe, and deprives its possessor of a number of traits that distinguished his human first cousin. Inthe normal human foot the great toe is always the longest, and this length is one of the ‘nme es 3 of man’s su- riority to the animals most closely related to im. Artists have degraded, and not elevated, humanity by copying a trait which a little care- ful examination would have shown them was false to nature. I am writing of undeformed feet; of feet that have not been twisted out of shape and beauty by the hideous fashionable shoe of the period. Now, among unde- formed feet it is the rarest of rare events to discover a foot whose second toe is longer than the first; and anatomists of widerexperience have gone throngh a long life without meeting with a single example. Grant- ing, however, that the cases were reversed, it remains true that the tendency of devel- opment is to lengthen the great toe, and that it is the business of art to emphasize this im- it fact. There are muscles attached to toe which give it a wonderfal power of motion when it 1s not paralyzed into useless- icbaredo oper fect feet _are more rare perfect han: wonderful arch of the instep is crushed down into flatness; useful breadth has been squeezed into meaningless narrowness; motion has been ‘zed, and a marvelous bit of mechanism has been checked and converted into an ugly lump of flesh and bone. I doubt if the majority of artists have discovered the essential elements that give dignity to the human foot. I refer. of course, to tl of the day, for the old masters had their anat- omy at their lengthened the Te AT | 1a > WHATEVER IS, ISN’T. ‘The Sad Wail of a Disillusionized Man. ‘From the New York Tribune. -—whatever is, isn’t. Are two and two four? I suspect so, but I'm not betting that they are. The fact is, I've been mous apples of which this world holds record are the one which Ev ted to Adam and the one which William Tell shot from his son’s meng Well, Mr. ald never was, that Adam was tempted by a quince. en I was a schoolboy there was a spirited picture of the affecting Tell incident in one of my text-books, The apple wasn’t bigger than an lum, and we boys, I remember, agreed that fell had plenty of nerve, beside ‘being an ANo. 1 shot. Nevertheless, the story won't wash. It has been resolved into a fairy tale or something of that unsubstantial sort common to many countries. As for the fruit of which our first its partook, the Yale professor says, “The le of the it day is propa- ited from the crab apple, and it is not at all fikely that Adam would have been taken in by such a puckery little bait.” Now let some one take the floor and dispose of the other historic apple—the one which Sir Isaac Newton watched; let him show that it was a cabbage or a crooked- neck squash. Whatever is isn’t. Making an abrupt transition from apples to military heroes, I came upon some more wide- , deep-rooted, but exploded beliefs. ere was Kosciusko, Didn't Campbell tell us in so many words that z Hone foe's anon bade the world farewell And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. Of course he did. But it seems he was mis- taken to this extent. Hope didn’t shriek nor did Kosciusko fall on the occasion referred to. Of course if he had fallen Hope very properly might have expressed herself in that way. The great Polish general—a cold-blooded but — taking chronicler reminds us—was killed by a fall from his horse some years after he had quit fighting. Then look at’ Ethan Allen. How I used to thrill as I read his stately invitation for the surrender of Ticonderoga; ‘In the name of Jehovah and the Continental Con- ess.” But I am given to understand that iter researches—oh, these later researches!— show that Ethan used the following vigorous but unembellished formula: ‘Come out of here, you blanked old rat.” And then again consider what has happened to Leonidas. From time immemorial he has been credited with winning the day at Thermopylae with ractically nobody to help him—a mere 300. it here comes a statistician whe reports that he has discovered that Leonidas was backed up by an army 7,000 strong the morning that Xorsee vainly endeavored to get de ae awayfrom him. Do you blame me for holding that whatever is isn’t? Some years ago a paper was read in this city by an accomplished scholar before a body of Pie graduates. An abstract of it was pub- lished at the time and it was among the sera) which I fished out of the drawer of my des) Here is an extract from this abstract: ‘The famous saying attributed to Louis XIV of France, “L’etat c'est moi,” was never ut- tered by Louis at all, but by Mazarin twenty years before Louis came to the throne, and said before Mazarin by Queen Elizabeth. Sappho never killed herself by jumping from a rock, but died a natural dea‘ The Philoso- pher Diogenes never lived ina tub. The story of the virtues of the Roman matron Lucretia must be rejected, while the story of Horatii and Curatii is worse than doubtful. The sons of Brutus were not the victims of their father’s firmness, but of his brutality. It was utterly impossible for Hannibal to have followed up his victory at Cannae, and the story of his using vinegar to cleave the rocks of the Alps is ab- surd. So, too, is the story of Cleopatra dissolv- ing » pearl in a goblet of vinegar and drink- ing up a fortune at one draught. Archi- medes never said: “Give me a lever long enough and I will move the world:” nor did he ry out “Eureka!” at any known period of his life or discoveries. Alexandria was never visited by Omar, nor was the Alexandrian li- bi burned. No more did Galileo say: “‘And et it moves, for all that!” since it is proved rom authentic documents that he did not dare to. That Columbus broke the end of an egg and thus confuted his mockers is fabulous, as also is the story that he encouraged his follow- ers with brave words when the shores of San Salvador were still out of sight. Charles II never had the body of Cromwell taken from Westminster Abbey and hanged at Tyburn, for the daughter of Cromwell, apprehensive of some such ill-treatment, had her father’s corpse secretly removed from the Abbey and buried in a quiet church-yard. Milton's daughters could not have consoled their father in his ~ * Mrs. Bowser’s Account of Them. ‘From the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Bowser doesn’t intend to let sickness or death get ahead of us asa family if any effort of his can prevent, and he is always doing the right thing in the nick of time. One day he came home an hour ahead of time, his counte- nance wearing a very important look, and the first thing he did was to bolt upstairs to our bedroom and lower the window, although I had just closed it after airing the room for two hours. He then came clattering down to ask me for a pan. “What on earth do you want with a pan?” I asked. “To save all our lives!” he answered. “How?” “Your bedroom is full of poisonous Ne nena cara by an open water.” r° it, That's the weapon ot i! Mrs. Bowser, if = ip poisonous gases e Hothing to sey. but save the life of o1 child possibi .. Ihave felt a strange lassi- tude for several days, and a sanitary plumber tells me that we have poisonous air in the room. “Your lassitude couldn’t have come from being out to club and k four successive hta until 12 o'clock, couid it?” le seized the pan and hurried w and when he had filled it at the lavatory he sat it in the middle of the floor and came down with @ relieved look on his face, to say: “See if you don’t feel better to-morrow than you have fora month. It’s a wonder we are not all dead.” “Did the ancients know about these poison- ous gases?” I asked. hauantaes thing. They never gave them a thor “And yet the aver of health was 17 per cent above that of to- , and the average of mortality that much lower! How do you account for it?” “Oh, well, if you want to die, go ahead. I'll even buy the sae and help you to ae yur- self. I expected this, of course, but ridicule never moves me, Mrs. Bowser—never.” Two hours later he went up-stairs in his sli pera to look for a paper in another coat, and, 6f course, he sat his foot plump down in that pan of water. There wasa yell and a jump, and over went the pan, and when I got up there he stood holding up one leg, as you have seen ahen doon a wet day. What i said on that occasion kept Mr. Bowser very quiet for a whole week, Then he began to grow restless in, and one night he brought home a sus- picious-looking package and sneaked it uj stairs. After supper he suddenly disappeare; and when I looked for him w fairs he by something in a basin and was about to hold it over a gas-burner. ee Bowser, have you got a new theory,” I ed. “Look here, Mrs. Bowser,” he replied, as he {ad down the basin, “you have heard of ‘teria, I presume.” “Yea, air.” “They are the germs of disease floating about. They are alive, If inhaled, cholera, yellow fever and other dread diseases are the result. Fumigation kills them.” “And you are going to fumigate this room!” “Tam. I am going to kill off the dreaded bacteria.” “Well, you'll drive us out of the house or kill us.” I went down stairs and he burned a com- pound of tar und sulphur. Tn ten minutes we ad to open doors and windows, and the cook came running in to ask: “Is it crematory Mr, Bowser istrying on us?” “I am simply driving out the bacteria,” he replied, coming down the stairs at that mo- ment. “And there's bacteria in the house?” “T'm afraid so.” “And I’ve worked here four weeks under the noses of the dreadful creatures? Mr. Bowser, I quits! I quits now!” _Aud quit she did, We had to sleep on the sitting-room floor last night, and_ three weeks later every caller could detect that odor. It was hardly gone, however, when Mr. Howser began to sniff around again. “Any more bacteria?” I asked. “Mra. Bowser, if you want to sit here and die I have no objections, but I don’t propose to neglect common-sense precautions to preserv my own health,” va ee “Is anything wrong now?” “TI think so. I think I can detect an odor of 8e" ‘gas in the house.” “Im ble! I shan’t have no more stuff burned until I know it is necessary!” “Won't you? If there is sewer-gas here it must be eradicated at once.” For the next week the entire house smelled of chloride of lime until one could hardly draw a long breath, but Mr. Bowser was not satisfied. “TI have been thinking,” he said to me one evening, “that I may bring the germs of some terrible disease home in my clothes, I ride on the car, you know, and I ought to take precau- tions.” “How?” blindnesa by readin es from the old % Sof roasons—they did not authors for the best know how to read. Whatsoever isn't—isn't it? Suppose we call Thomas Jefferson to the stand. For years and years it was popularly supposed that Jef- ferson and Spartan simplicity, Jefferson and cheese-paring were synonymous terms, “‘Jef- fersonian simplicity” was a generally accepted hrase like ‘ne plus ultra” or “vox populi.” ut a year or two ago I picked up my Tribune one morning and there wasa letter froma blood relation of Mr. Jefferson. He said that there was no foundation for the assertion that his illustrious ancestor was an exponent of simplicity, the fact being that Thomas loved the good things of this life, had them, and lived generously. Just so! My next witness is Gen. Stark, Didn'the rush into the battle of Bennington crying: “We hold that field to- night or Mollie Stark's a widow!” Certainly he aid; every school boy knows that he did. “But stop a minute. A man steps to the front hold- ing in his band a branch from the Stark gen logical tree. This branch shows that the ral's wife, “the daughter of Caleb Page, of Starkstown, now Dumbarton, N. H., was named Elizabeth.” You can't get Mollie out of Elizabeth. The “general,” so the iconoclasts insist, ‘‘must have said Betty Stark—not Mol- lie Stark.” Very likely. Whatever is isn’t. What more? Much more. More than there is room for. Was Joan of Arc burned at the stake? Itisetoutly held that she was not— that she perished by proxy. Did Shakespeare write the plays of espeare?—but we won't go into that. The phrase “‘sweetness and light” is well nigh uni p Gere igge to have origi- nated with Matthew Arnold. But not long ago a correspondent of the London Times held that Philo Judaeus was its father. Who, out of the artists | coal coal business, ever doubted that Lehigh coal was Lehigh coal? Nevertheless a Philadelphia dealer assured a reporter the other day that “half the commodity sold in this city as Lehigh comes from other localities.” Repently pamphlet ou the great wall of Chas, pessting let on the great of ‘ina, ting out that there was not now and never ind been such a structure. Was Lucretia Bor amodel of practical piety? Possibly not; still, accord- | po de William Waldorf Astor, who turned his attention to her character while ruriber bn: Nasiee ude thal Aine Sek oe aon pable of ff John Bunyan’s claim to eoret ome Wecaraat unc! lat the it ;,and within been attributed to Theodore Parker. fie # "8 “government of the people,” r Hi “Carry a disinfectant about me to repel the 8. “It might be a good idea.” “Now you are talking sense, Now you seem to understand the poril which has menaced us.” He got something down-town the next day. I think some of his friends put up a job on him, knowing lis eraze. It was a conipound which left him alone on_ the street car before he had ridden three blocks, and he had no sooner got into the house than we had to retire to the back doors. The cook got a sniff of it, and down went the dinner and up went her hands, and she shouted at Mr, Bowse: “A man as will keep skunk under his house would beat ime ont of my wages, and Pil be goin’ this minute!” It took soap aud water and perfumery and | half a day’s time to remove the odor, and when I declared that it was the last straw Mr, Bowser ed his hands under his coat-tails and re- . I believe this house to be clear ‘ia, owing to my prudence and self- and I want to keep it so.” “Aud all this rumpus has been on my ac- count?” s “Exactly, Bat don’t go too far with me, Enough is enough. 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K le hardly too much to say that {¢ is read by the mem bers of every family in the District of Columbia, It is peculiarly the favorite of the home circle, and 1s no less esteemed in the counting room and the work shop. It follows, therefore, that as an agent | Of publicity within the National Capital and com | tiguous territory it has mo rival An announce ‘ment in ils columns practically meets ali ey:s, and, CSium. | 1 proportion to the service it gives, its advertising Ga, without change. ‘Traine on Wasldington and Ohio division leave Wash- M except Sunday, and 4:45 14:30 4 Mand 7 20 7:35 PM: via me wt 11:10 AM. and 9:40 PM: aud Ohio route and. Cl Strasburg Local st 9:47 AMC iekets, sleeping car reservation furuished, and baggage checked at sylvauia avenue, and nis Railroad, 6th and 4 at st Bats Leaves Tth-strect whart daity Hi! eo wha « Vernon and River Landings as tat down of Ginna at 10 o'clock a in. Returning, reaches: Waskinseg about 3:30 p.m. 816 LL BLAKE, Captain. R POTOMAC RIVER LAN “ F° DEW TRON STEAM) ih WAREFY Leaves 7th-street on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS apd SATURDAYS at 7 « m._ TUESDAY! FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS p. touching at ings as far and Leoverdtown, 5 Nominal Creek. Vs Bay ae oreines se Ma. Connects with B JOUN BPADGETE. ag RT ROUTE TO LONDON, NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD G8 HER 8 8 co, ° oo 30s. m.; Ems, OCEAN STEAMERS. ASS S DAe PLLNOR SuPEED DX TONE: ‘081 el : price! Tine stock prey tot iayenow open pre pursitor the Holidays AUSII Othst. vw, HT. SUMNER, Ageny peste WOOD AND COAL a- | RED ASit Connection. Coxe: Woon: JOHNSON BROTHERS, Coat: For particulars, echedues, ae MEDICAL, &. 113 Wall st, N. ¥. rates fank with the lowest in the country. Beng low, they are rigidly adhered to. There only re | mains to be added on this head, as an indication Of the esteem in which the paper is held bythe business public, which best understands it own interests in this respect, that, both in the number of subscribers and of new advertisements printed, each year in the history of the paper shows » large | increase over its predecessor. For exampie, during the first nine months of the present year | the average daily circulation of the paper has been 26,651 copies, and the whole number of new advertisements printed 30%, against an average daily circulation of 25,427 copies end 38,504 new advertisements dur ing the corresponding period in 1887, In shor, THE STAR has never taken « backward step, ant its conductors are determined wat 11 never sbsll vakeone. THE WEEKLY STaB Is especially commended to that portion of @® Teading public who desire to be keptadvised affairs at the seat of government, and are #0 sift ‘ated as not to need or care for a daily paper. Tit in every respect = first-class family journal news is carefully collected, and may be depended ‘upon to be fresh and authentic. Its scientific, lie Fary, household and agricultural department s¥ edited with the view of mecting the wauv anf tastes of an intelligent and reading public, smd of affording assistance to the student and une» pursuit of general information. Some of we mot noted and learned men and women of the coust'T are contributors to its columns. Its ample tele graphic arrangements and full corps of speitl correspondents enabie it to lay before its resde® ‘every week all important happenings, foreign sat Gomestic, and especially such political, social, ssf current events as are worthy of note, in the sul of Virginis, West Virginia, Maryland, Nor Os? ‘Mpa, and those adjacent thereto. ‘Tue low price at which it is published, ‘brings it within the reach of all. None ‘that they cannot afford to take ft, and ‘Ghat they can aflord tw éo without i (GEND FOR A PREMIUM LPT. P| As on erve inducement £ ‘Tan WanExy Stan, a letot valuable, ote been 4 Sh wel be maltet ¢ 5 | mE eed a lee Sn ft. In presenting THE EVENING STAR in te new dress and improved form, attention is called to itp Peculiar merits as enews and family paper, as well as to the extraordinary @dvantages it adorae aligh professional authority—which in this ie