Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1889, Page 7

‘ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON A 4 D.C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1889 FACTS ABOUT THERMOMETERS. | NOT ALWAYS INTERESTING. HON. LEVI P. MORTON. The Common Mercury Tube with the | The Bright American Girl Sometimes is | His Splendid Hospitality while Minister Fahrenheit Seale and other Varieties. From the N. ¥. Mail and Expresa, Very few of the thousands of people who consult the thermometer during periods of ex- treme temperature, summer or winter, are en- tirely satisfied with the results of their obser- vations. They almost invariably think it colder | or warmer, asthe case may be, than it really | is, and generally are disappointed that it isnot | s0. There seems to be asense of grim satis- | age.” Her enemies, especially the vulgar | fully with the splendid ambassadorial abodes faction derived from reveling in extremes, and | ones—and all enemies are vulgar—say that | in that city of England, Austria and Russia, she can “talk the hind legs off a mule.” See | The spacious hotel on the Placedes Etats Unis | how different the point of view can be! When | (afterward inhabited by the duke de Padua) ® weatherwise son of humanity rejoices when the thermometer “breaks the record.” By what is a thermometer? Simple a little | thing as it appears, not everybody can answer | the question. Indeed its construction and the | “why and wherefore” of its movements up and down are but superfic ly known to the major- ity of people. To learn something about it I | visited some of the establishments in this city where thermometers of all sorts and sizes are made and sold, and obtained number of points about them which will E- Seth instrac- tive and interesting. The mereury thermometer is almost univers- | ally used as @ temperature indicator in the temperate zones. The mercury or quicksilver, | used for the purpose is extracted from cinnibar | ore, which is mined —— and Mexico, After undergoing a refining f ages itispacked in cans holding from one to five aa oak, | and sells at wholesale at present for about 85c. a | ound, hd lercury, however, 1s not used in thermom- eters intended for very cold climates, be- conse it freezes at a temperature of 40 degrees below zero, thongh it answers all purposes for exceedingly high temperatures. When ther- Mmometers are intended for use in frigid zones gpirits have to be substituted for mercury. It is not known at what degree of cold the spirit thermometers will freeze and become useless, for cold of sufficient intensity has never yet Leen measured where a spirit thermometer has failed to work, evew in @ temperature of 70 de- grees below zero. The spirits used in thermometers are ex- tracted in the usual way from wood, potatoes and grain and are purely. colorices.’ The rea color noticed is imparted by aniline dyes, and this is done only for the purpose of rendering the spirits in the tube more easy tosee. ‘Ihe addition of the coloring matter interferes somewhat with the sensitiveness of the fluid to atmospheric changes. and is not added to the pure white spirits contained in tubes of thermometers used for scientifie purposes, and where the greatest accuracy and most minute variations are of great importance, At best. a spirit thermometer is not equal to a thermom- eter in which mercury is used, because it is not so censitive and does not so readily respond to changes of temperature. The length of the glass tube has nothing whatever to do with the accuracy of the indi- cations of a thermometor, and although some are sealed to indicate a temperature as high as 600 degrees above zero, the tube is made long only to afford surface for a seale upon which to mark the great number of degrees, and an in- strument an inch long, carefully rate and responsive to v: temperature as the long one; but it would re- quire a microscope to make the readings. ‘The smallest and most sensitive thermometer made. and the one having the greatest number of subdivisions on the scale, recording fifths of a degree, is that used by the physicians for taking temperatures of the human body. The sensitiveness of a thermometer increases with the relative increase in the size of the bulb. The large upright recording (Seixas) thermom- eters used by the United States signal service and at the various meteorological observatories have the bulbs filled with a mixture of ether and alcohol instead of mercury or spirits. A thermometer is made and adjusted by heating water to the boiling point, placing the glass bulb in the boiling water and then filling it with mercury, spirits, or ether till it rises in the tube to 212 degrees—the boiling point. The freezing would answer the purpose equally well for adjusting a thermometer, but it is not used, because a temperature of 212 degrees is mach more easily obtained than one of 32 de- grees. Special thermometers of great extreme sensitiveness are made for special pur- poses. Thus a thermometer with a scale run- ning as high as 600 degrees is made for taking | the temperature of ovens, and the chiefs of ho- | tels and restaurants, by computing the number | of pounds to a piece of meat and the tempera- ture of the oven, can tell how long to allow it to cook and know exactly when it is “done toa turn.” Brewers also use a specially made in- strument with @ register running as high as 550 degrees for taking temperatures of their mash-tubs, while confectioners use a thermom- eter indicating as high as 450 degrees to ascer- tain when their candy has been boiled to a suf- ficiently high degree. ‘There are three thermometrical scales in gen- eral use in different parts of the world. All English-speaking peoples make use of a scale | invented by a German by the name of Fab- | renheit, and named after him. The Germans teil whether it is warm or cold by a scale in- yented by and named for a Frenchman named Reaumur, while the French, Italians, and oth- ers ascertain the temperature by a scale founded upon the metric system and called Centigrade. The following table shows the relative systems compared with each other at the boiling and freezing points: and Water Water Freezes, —_ Boils. «---(deg.) 92 212 seeeee 0 80 Centigrade 0 100 The Centigrade scale is used by scientists ex- clusively as being the most naturally arranged. ‘The division being based upon the metric, or | decimal system, the figures are much more readily handled than those of the Fahrenheit or Keaumur scale. ‘The glass bulbs and tubes used for thermome- ters in this country come from glass works in | Yarious states, but the greater number and | Seve the best quality are made at Roches- | ter, N. ~~ Amelie Rives in an Ox Cart. THE VIRGINIA POETESS ENJOYED THE HOLIDAYS | DISTRIBUTING BLANKETS TO THE POOR. The last sensation in regard to Amelie Rives | Chanler has been produced by the news that she rode through the rural district in the Vieinity of her residence, Castle Hill, in an ox rt, says @ correspondent of the New York iting from Cobham, Va. For some time past Mrs. Chanler has been | dispensing charity to the poor around her as heir need, but recently, 'tis said, nt for $200 worth of blankets and clothing, which she presented in person | stive on from the body of this que chai »se who have seen Amelie ves Chanler can fancy her standing, with her | air, in her new-found car of mercy, radi- antly beautiful against the rough outlines of the ‘eart, like a lovely rose blushing beside a rude hut, which serveg as a foil to its beauty. Perhaps she was nearer happiness, as she | looked with moist eyes into the uptarned faces | around her, than she had ever been before. | She isturning from her self-centered life to | consider the woes of others, Surely this is one of the points on which happiness catches the light. How she endured so slow a mode of progres- sion as oxen afford, or the jolting of a spring- less cart after her soft carriage, remains to be told. Bat she is very much of a child in many ways, and would take this cart ride for the eke of a new sensation and for an innocent, childish “lark.” She has little variety in her quiet. studious, country life. Just before Mr. Chanler left for Paris she sent for @ num- ber of the colored people, and to the music | of the banjo and the violin played by two of | them the others danced, to the great entertain- | ment of the spectators. She paid them libe ally and sent them away rejoicin; Her usual | exercise is taken on horseback, dashing at break-neck speed along the roads. She is at present absorbed in writing a novel, and on this account declined to accompany her husband, although to travel in Europe has been one of the dreams of her life. ————+or____ His Game Was Spoiled. A SEW YORE SHARPER CAUGHT IN TRYING TO SWINDLE A NEWPORT BROKER. About two weeks ago two men giving the games of Amos Stevens and Thomas Albert arrived at Newport, R. L, and called upon a Stock broker, offering for sale €30,000 in bonds, which, Stevens said, had been stolen in London. He offered to sell at 90. The broker made an appointment to meet Stevens in Bos- ton Wednesday. Before the date of the meet- ing the Boston chief of police was warned, and two inspectors were at the United States hotel, the place of rendezvous. Stevens and his Panion were on hand and subsequently Albert was released, as it was Tho latter wes oarced wed on Pint es fone rw a forged cheek a the Ailes. gesperiens t0 Se dane envelope was also fo el cash, Stevens pretended from N or pre to w gets: in a masculine searf pin it does not require a | companion to emulation. Too Talkative. From the San Francisco Argonaut. Opposed to the silent type is the young American lady who is the victim of the talking | habit in its most virulent form. Her compan- | ions leave her society feeling very tired, She | is most vivacious and bright. Her friends say | of her, “She has a wonderful flow of lan- her friends hear what her enemies have said, | they politely wonder if she has talked off their hind legs. But why repeat these spite- fnl recriminations? This young lady is fond of retiring with her vi into secluded cor- ners, where she entertains him with the history of her abnormally gifted family for several generations back. She never loves a dear | gazelle. to glad her with his bright, soft eye, that she does not impart to him anecdotes culled from the family history. There are epi- sodes of her own childhood which also must be told, and to which the family’s prowess was merely a mild prologue. Naturally these omising past spur her He recalls remark- able evidences of genius which decked with amarantus his brow of youth. He burns to tell them. He chafes to enter the arena, As he pauses breathless. he cuts in - “Yes, yes; very fun! ‘That reminds me of when I was a little chs J “And it was two years after that——” she meditatively interrupts, her eyes, fixed ina stare of working memory on her foot, “that It was one I fell through the ice out skating. of my most horrible experi &c. She takes the bit firmly between h and can- ters proudly off. “He succumbs. buf waits his time. At the end of her recital he makes a spring for the silence and clutches it with: | Iwas about to remark, when I wasa | little chap, not six years old—my mother has often told me the story—” “six years old.” she murmur: eyes to the chandelier in the deepest reverie “when my brother George was six years old h wrote a Spanish poem, which was considered very remarkable. He ‘was a wondertn! child.” She drops the words out lingeringly, but he sees with horror that she is warming with her subject; opening vistas of recollection of George's distinguished powers stretch away | before her mental vision. George is on the | carpet for the next fifteen minutes. He holds his advantage “bravely. The Spanish poem was followed by a Greck one at 8, and a Hebrew translation at 10. It is very bard raising her with George's opulent genius. Her companion is gradually swamped by it. Like the queen of Sheba before the glories of | King Solomon “there is no more spirit left in him.” He only sits and waits patiently for the happy time “When silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.” st oo Vhink and Work Too Hard. MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT CAN SMILE OR LAUGH, AND HE IS RAPIDLY FORGETTING HOW, From the Century. The intensity of modern life and the deepen- ing of consciousness through intelligence breed | sadness. We think too much and work too | hard to have time for enjoyment, and if we | suddenly discover that we have need of it, we take it in inordinate quantities, rather than in simple and natural ways; we go out and buy plessure at so much an hour, instead of some ow contriving to live a mirthful life. Close observers of modern society, like Walter Be- | sant, have discovered that a main lack in the | lives of the poor is that of cheer, and he urges that philanthropic plans should embrace meas- | ures for daily brightening the lives of the peo- ple by some simple experience of a pleasura- le sort. It would be a somber fact if the num- ber of those who live through a day without @ laugh or even a smile could bo ascer- tained—a strange miscarriage of — na- ture, since man is the only being within her dominion who is capable of that action. Christ- mas has rendered the world this good service, | that now for many centuries it has called men | to sympathetic clieerfulness, It comes, indeed, but once a year, but for some days th on the brow of humanity lifts a littl wail dies out of its voice. At times it too obstreperous in its mirth and called for | puritanic check, but for the most it has been true to its origin and stirred the human heart to sympathetic gladness and hope. We shall soon near the growls of the pessimistic critic over the wastefulness of Christmas gifts and | the irrationality of Christmas mirth. Heed him not; he does not know that the Key-note | of the universe is joy, and that Christmas | laughter is only a stray echo of an eternal hymn, and nearly the only one that has reached us, and that it is well worthy of being canght if we would ever hear the whole. The fathers, give gifts to your children, even if you have to lessen the daily portion, remembering the wisdom of Mahomet, who said that if “he had two loaves of bread he would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed his soul,” | And, ye children, stir up your fathers to mirth. | Christmas comes but once a year, and the years left to them may not be many, | = “hase i Railroad Train in a Forest Fire. ASCENE AND EXPERIENCE ENOUGH FOR A LIFE- TIME, From St. Nicholas. The train, lessening its speed, was soon obliged to creep cautiously between banks of | rose-red embers or solid cords of roaring wood— | the wood which had been eut and piled for | commerce. The pine brauches on the flat-car | ignited, driving the brass band into an inclosed carriage for shelter. Men with buckets dropped | to ditches beside the track and dipped up water | to throw on the train, creeping on the platforms | again with scorched clothes and hands and | faces blistered. One who has never been in a | forest fire can scarcely imagine its intense | heat, the arid. blinding smoke, the suddenness | with’ which trees flash from’ root to crown, | and grass blazes far from any spark, as if the | earth itself were burning, the furnace glow of | pied logs, the heated air from bal ‘ound. | neredible sigh of fire. showed throngh the nightmare Moss-inclosed stumps spurted flame many times their own height. uarolle | roung ferns, | .sprang green and fresh from one side of a log, while the other side quivered in | living coals. The train stopped. It could | & creep into retreat no further, for its track was | } burned and the rails warped into fantastic | curves. Blackened and biistered paint ran | down the car sides, The doors and ep | had all been closed to keep out smoke and ening heat. Every passenger in the carri: gasped for breath. The floor was so hot it | burned their feet. The window glass could | not be touched. They could all see the wooden | sides of the inclosure warp. When the doomed train had hung a minute in the midst of this fw e some one opened a door and shou that it was on fire. Into the blisteri darkened air, and out upo at floor, spread with embers and quivering with heat. the people all rnshed. Women fainted and | were dragged up and carried by their fathers or brothers. The escape-valve of the locomo- tive was left open by its flying engincer, but it | uttered its steam wail bri being relieved by explosion. When days had cooled the forest | to blackness a distorted boiler and some rows of iron wheels were found where the train came to @ stop. Fae <tc Sse ain ee American Versatility. ‘Max O'Rell in the Forum. Is there anything more sublime than the way in which the American can combine the sacred | and the profane? Why, he is a greater adept at | it than John Bull. On board the steamer we hada party of Americans who passed seven days of the voyage in playing poker. The smoking-room rang from morning to night with the oaths that they uttered every time that they threw acard on the table. They were so fluent with them that they hardly used the same twice in an hour. Their stock seemed inexhaustible. On Sunday, after breakfast, a young lady sat down to the piano and began playing hymns. What happened then? Our poker party gathered round tne Young lady, and for two hours sang psalms and holy tunes subj | objections to the owner of the hotel, who ‘late to the literature of Doctor’s Commons. to the edification of the other occupants of the saloon. I was dumbfounded. In France, we have men who swear, and also men who sing hymns. But I believe that the Anglo-Saxon race me can furnish men who do both with equal facility and gusto. ——_-_eee—__—___ The Emin Relief Expedition. a The managing committee of the Emin Pasha expedition at Berlin has received information that Lieut. Wissman, who, it was expected, would lead the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, has been ge ae for special to France. Paria Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph. Under the official regime of Mr. and Mrs. Morton the American legation was lodged in a palace. The United States government does not possess in the greatcapitals of Europe any buildings in which to lodge its legations; but for four years the one in Paris vied snccess- was the scene of a lavish and continual hos- pitality, which has left a brilliant memory be- hind it, not only among the Americans but also in the highest French social circles, The spacious drawing-room, whose furniture in gold yellow brocade had originally been made for Christina, queen dowager “of Spain, was adorned with fine works of art, prominent among which was “The Burial of Manon Les- caut.” by Dagnan-Bouverct, and the noble portrait of Mr. Morton by Bonnat. one of the masterpieces of that powerful and_ conscien- tious pencil. The personal charms of Mrs, Morton made a deep impression on Parisian society, and her Worth toilettes and magnificent jewels seemed to form Her winning | kindly courtesy of Mr. Morton made their reception days peculiar] ble. One was always sure, too, of meet | n that hospitable drawing-room some one | or other of the noteworthy personages of the | day, French as well a8 American, Their enter- | a fitting setting for her beau manners and the alway tainments were always on an extensive scale. The gave one grand general ing reception | 1 each winter during their stay, inter- sed with minor receptions, dancing parties, | . throughout the si average there was a dinner party 0 r covers given once a week. as long as Mr. and Mrs, Morton stayed in Paris, They gen went | to the seashore or to Switzerland in the | mer on unt of the health of their children. | Since the election of General Harrison, the one | excl et Thave heard i ati n the from their P is, “May we not hope now to have Mr. and Mrs, Morton back in | Paris a ‘A good deal of disappointment is invariably manifested when the questioner | is told that our new Vice-President and his charming wife are claimed henceforward by | Washington society. THE PLACE DES ETATS UNIS. The story about the renaming of the open square on which their hotel was situated will, I think, bear repeating, and the more so as it is literally true. When Mr. and Mrs. Morton | first arrived in Paris they had some difficulty in finding a residence at once comfortable and spacious, and exactly suited to their tastes The handsome hotel that Mr. Morton afterward engaged was precisely what was required. But the name of the square, when he first in- speeted its was the Plice Bitsche, having been christened by the municipal authorities after a fortified place in the Vosges, famous for its guilant defense against a besieging foe. Nata- rally Mr, Morton objected to living on a square bearing ‘such a peculiar name, and the more so as his haughty countrymen had already commenced to concoct ed jokes on the ect. So he stated his frankly at once rushed off to interview the municipal authorities and to bewail his hard luck in not | being able to rent his house to such an ad- vantageous tenant, and all on account of the name of the squ Forthwith an eloquent | document was officially promulgated to the ef in view of the long friendship exist- en France and the Un: States. and ause the new minister from that coun- bout to take up his abode on the space 1, its name should be changed to that f the Place ats Unis, anda square on the side of the city should receive the dis- 4 appellation of Place Bitsc So every- was satistied, and America is honored, not | in the names of the Rue Washington and the handsome square, whose most sumptuous dwelling was for four years the residence of the latest of our republican ministers, soe Curious English Wills. London Letter in New York Independent. There have been two curious additions of Lord Sackville, the brother of our late ambas- sador to the United States, chiefly notorious for having closed Knowle park to the public, has left all he could leave to the queen’s maids of honor. His character did not suggest, asa | motive for this, a chivalrous generosity, but in | another man it might have been so, for it is | generally understood that, considering their | rth and position, maids of honor are far from being well provided with this world’s goods, | It has probably t ys 80, or we should hardly read of their willingness to accept wha’ scems but little short of blood money—the ransoms of the poor victims of Monmouth's re- | en bellion. I don't think men of honor wonld have done it, But there can be no harm in the young ladies who fill this enviable “situ at court to-day taking Lord Sackville’s mon Heaven knows why he left it to them. Per- haps for the same Teason that Alcibiades cut | the dog’s tail off, “to give people something to | taik about,” or pe he selected them’ as | being, upon the whole, the most unlikely class | to have ever committed a trespass in Knowle | | | ion” | | ark. PYA still more curious will is that of Lord War- | wick’s housekeeper, who leaves her master the | savings—and the perquisites—of a lifetime, amounting to no less than £70,000. Huge as the sum seems to be to have been acquired in such a calling, I doubt not it was honestly come by. Warwick castle is probably the most popu- lar “show” place in England, and at the same time one that is mainiy visited by rich people, notably An mm the house has | esp it possesses so much wherein their own land is wanting. The house- keeper of such a place, in her stiff silk gown and golden chain, is. a person to whom a sensi- tive mind would shrink from offering less than five shillings, and to whom a rich man notat ali ensitive would give a guinea. For my part, I am always dwhen I visit these “statel homes of England” to find the housekecy away, and a deputy acting in her place; i cheaper, and the cicerone gets quicker ‘over the ground. The old lady in question was | evidently at the head of h r profession, and | @ person in th position—whatever the calling | is. unless, indeed, it is literature—is sure to make a pile. Supposing she had no near rela- tives of her own, it seems to be an appro) act; and one which savors of the feu washer mission to empha: leave her wealth to her lord. My housekee if [had one, would not be likely to make her heir; but I have hada good many cooks in my time who, if they would each kindly bo- queath me the little pickings they have made | | out of me—the mere extras—it would be in the | aggregate a good round sum, and should be a| great relief to their minds. eee A Heroine in Rags. SHE CARRIES TWO CHILDREN A DISTANCE OF PNDRED AND FIFTY MILES, vintnercial-Gazette. looking, but misera woman, carrying two small child: clothing told the story of destitution more | plainly than they could do, attracted the at- | tention of Policeman Muenlerman on Pearl street, near Butler, shortly before 8 o'clock last evening. Approaching the seemingly nigh exhausted creature, on whose face was plainly stamped privation in all its terrors, the oificer interrogated her as to where she had come from and how she came* to be in such apparent destitution, In reply the woman narrated a story which reads’ more | like the work of a novelist than realism. She had tramped a distance of between 350 and 400 miles to this city, and had carried and cared for her children as best she could | with the limited means at her disposal on her | tedious journey; in fact, all she had on which | to sustain life was what she begged along the | route, while she obtained shelter in barns and outhouses. Her home was in West Virginia, on the Big Sandy river, twenty-three miles from Pikeville, Pike county, Ky. Her name was Nancy Coleman, Her husband, John, had been a farmer, but about a month ago deserted her and took up with a woman in Pikeville. When he left his wife he took with him their two children, aged, respectively, two and three years. This was too much for the courageons woman, and she determind to regain the pos- sesion of her little ones, who, she declared, should not be brought up by a woman of dis reputable character, Going to Pikeville, she d to secure the children, and with them started on her long jouruey to this city, which she, by remarkable perseverance and ‘endur- ance, managed to into last evening, after having been on the road over three weeks. removal to the House of Detention, where she and her little ones were given fi and lodg- ing. the authorities will no doubt take further steps in for the wo- | dent admiration. Their great size convinced | show. “After a while the little coon could no | that precaution did not exempt him from sev- | large walking cane, fe e Lincoln, but also in the designation of | ‘ | laid out with great regularity, but the baild- | , of the buildings | Senator Coke and the Little Darkey. Washington Correspondence St. Louis Republican, Soon after the last session of Congress a number of southwestern men started home: together. There were in the party Senator Coke, Representative Kilgore and Attorney- General Hogg, of Texas, Representative Man- sur, of Missouri, and Senator Berry, of Arkan- sas. All were over six feet high and well in the neighborhood of 300 pounds each. When they reached Louisville they had to wait for an hour to make railroad connection. They walked up and down the depot platform for awhile, and finally took a turn on the street. When they attempted to return to the depot they found the gates closed, and the gentle- man in charge, clothed in a little brief author- ity, insolently refused to let them enter. Their baggage was on the inside and they felt nerv- ous about it. Coke pleaded earnestly for per- mission to go on the depot platform, but the ate-keeper was inexorable. Coke got mad. fe stormed around for awhile, did some very talented cussing, and at last ina state of ‘disgust sat on a truck near the gate, pulled his wide-brimmed hat over his eyes and looked gloomy. There was a little nigger boy in uniform belonging to the por: taff, who wasa close observer of the proceedings, He viewed the southwestern statesmen with evi- him that they were really some distinguished people, and belonged to some wild western longer restra his enriosity, and approaching Coke, who ndily on the truck, he asked: rat troupe does yer belong ter? , Berry followed suit, and gore and Hogg went into spasms, In the niime Coke lost patience and made a grab for the colored chap in li He missed, and to the tune of very: viqlent laughter the darkey escaped, Coke did not recover from this inci- dent until after he parted with his associates, Every time they referred to the matter and gave vent to he: langhter he got angry. iie could not bring himseli to see the fun of the thing. Sparee eee A Fighting Editor. THE FRIEND OF Gi D, PRENTICE, VICTORIOT IN TWO DESPERATE ENCOUNTERS, From the New York Mail and Express. L. G. Matthews, of Louisville, was for twenty- three years an editor in Indiana, and his repu- tation for bravery was so groat that no man cared to encounter him, He is a wealthy man- ufacturer now, end resides several months of | tue year at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Walking around the corridor, wearing gold-bowed spec- | tacles and a derby hat, no one would suspect | that years ago he noted fighter, He was a friend of George D. Prentice, the gre or | and poet, and the latter advised him never to | answer in his paper a personal attack, But MATTHEWS, eral desperate encounters that made him known nd feared in the Hoosier state before the war. His first triumph was to place a barley black- smith hors du combat. He went in the smith’s shop to collect a bill, ‘The smith’s brother had | been shown up in Mr. Matthew's paper, and e former yearned for revenge. He said to: editor: You sue me for that bill, and if you fail to win I will give you a sound thrashing.” “Why don’t you do it now?” pluckily an- swered the editor. In an instant the trip-hammer right arm of the huge blacksmith struck out and knocked down his antagonist. The writer arose and | rawling upon his back again. blind with rage he got up, drew a penknife and almost carved the sinith to pieces, | t took the blacksmith six months to get well. | tizens tendered their thanks to Mr. pews for his heroic services. Shortly after= Ohio river on a ferry- | litor approached and | e author of a certai ticle in the ny Le He replied that it was none of his busi The rural quill-dri z with a ng him to the floor of | the boat, Bleeding profusely, he got on his . drew a revolver and at the first dis- | broke hisantagonist’s arm. That ended | Those two fights firmly established | ws’ reputation, and for some years he | enjoyed a halcyon immunity from sudden at- . He retired from journalism when the n, and his ways are those of peace and | good fellowship. i “ tral America. S$ IN SAN JOSE, CAPITAL OF COSTA RICA, DAMAGED—EIGHT PERSONS KILLED, — | San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, was the scene onthe night of December 29 and the morning of December 30 of a series of earth- quake shocks of great severity. The shocksare believed to have originated in the voleano of Poaz, 6 leagues distant from the town, At Alajucla eight persons were killed and many ju The churches and Principal buildings | in San Jose suffered considerable damage. The inhabitants encamped im the squares and parks, No further shocks having occurred the alarm is subsiding. The civic feasts were begun yes- terday. San Jose is situated near the headwaters of the Rio Grande, almost midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The population is about 26,000, ‘The city lies in a picturesque valley, 4.500 feet above the sea, formed between the Herradura mountains on the south and those of Barba on the north, Its streets are ings are low. Among the t are the cathedral, the Episcopal palac the government buildings. San Jose bee: | the seat of government after the destruction of | 4 Cart former capital; by an earthquake, | September isd. An Old and I soe portant Will, Mr. Nathaniel Burwell, of Millwood, Va., Ki Courier, has a copy of ert Carter, of Caroto- man creek, Lancaster county, executed in the | sixty-third year of the testator’s age. It isa voluminous paper, containing pages of closely-written manuscript, and disposes of 0,000 acres of land and 1,100 slaves, Part of this immense body of land laid in Orange | county, from a part ef which county has since | been made the counties of Frederick, Warren, | and Clarke. Accompanying this will is a pa: | per, signed by Ro. Brook: was authori taining 5 of abranch that issue river, now called She division of said 50. ul parts for the followin don Carter and George the will of ya tract of land con: { the Potomack in order to, into eigh andoah, 212 m P 4 Carter, sons of obert Bur- i well, sons of Major t n Page, rof the Pres er, son of Robert Carter, jr. and ie arter, son nis survey | PA was ordered by a decree of the court in 1730, | evens yy and the yor made return of his report in | corded subdivision of p rs thereafter. The President- | r, it is here shown, 6 acres of land in the Val . od By blood ‘arliest settlers in this valley. - with the The Rage for Armorial Bearings. * n this republic for armorial bear- desire to trace descent from some effete European line is a1 ing. I knew three priaters, two men and a woman, ona single | paperina Colorado mining camp, who spent P the best part of their time in setting up theif genealogical records, One of them bankrupted himself in buying plates to illustrate his family chronicle, and slipped off one night, leaving all his debts unpaid. soe He was All Right. From the Atlanta Constitution. * During the recent registration prior to the election a gentleman stepped in front. of the judges and prepared himself tobecome a quali- fied voter in the city of Chic ago. “Do you solemnly swear," &c., asked the judge. “I do,” was the reply. “Name?” It was given, “How long have you lived in this city?” “About three years.” “Your native state?” “Texas!” exclaimed the man proudly. © “Ever been naturalized?” ed the judge, beet 6 ‘The Texan gave the judge a look that froze his marrow and caused cold chills to run up and down that individual's spinal cojumn. “What's that?” finally ejaculated the Texan, drawing a little nearer the judge of election. Ever been naturalized?” repeated the ju The Texan stooped down amd ran his his bootle; him ever drifted to never get back to Illinois. commissioner, who , nthe N. W, side | { 1 obert | AUCTION SALES. TO-MORKOW. HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. NEES SALE OF COMBINATION FIRE- eer, SA) PARLOR AND CHAMBER FUR- NITURE, C} IRS, CARPETS, &o. ANUARY FIFTH, 1889, ‘K, I shall sell at the Anc- of Tuomas Dowling the stock of Purni- ture and Safe of Munroe Bros., removed there for con- it FRANK B. BISHOP, Assignee. /HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ULAR SALE OF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AT YACCTION ROOMS TO-MORROW, JANUARY HENCING AT TE TO-MORROW (Saturday), J commenciug at TEN 0 CLO on Rooms EMBuACING QURNN GAL ASSORTMENT O) HOUSEHOLD FUR: Uso ONE VERY FIYE TATHE COMPLETE, AND 150 1 = FRA ALSO AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, HORSES, CARKIAGES. BUGGIES, W AGONS,_1t ALTER B. WILL Auctioneers. WwW Regular Saturday Sale of Household Effects of every Seociption, to which will be added about 75 second-hand Brussels C: On TO-MORROW, JANT O'CLOCK A.M., we shall sell in It WALTER B. . Toilet Ware, & vi RY FIFTH, AT TEN front of oursalesrooma. WILLIAMS & Cv., Auc STOCK OF STATIONERY, BOOKS, &C, AT y, JANUARY FIFTH, 1889, at | EX oh within jon. rooms, I shall sell a stock of stationer CY woods Te- moved to my store et couvenience of sale. ' = 1A8 DOWLING, Auctionee: = FFICE OF WASHINGTON DA HOWER, Teal Estate aud Insurance Broker. 1115 F st, ° GANT LOT ON WEEN FOU FAL TREET, BE EENTH STRE PENGH DAY < PEREMPTO FA square 1¢ a depth of 128.1 to deposit of $100 roc WA! Age THOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer. a IMPROVED PROPERTY, BELN ‘TORY BRICK, No. 916 1°8' TENTH, will sell PART OF LOT 1 fronting 24 see i ot 136 in oved by a back building, ent toall strect-car lines, Wes te ve three-story Brick Dwelling, with No. 916 I street northw on_ the pro: ry 4, 1 PUPiie Sz Ge LE NeAK HYATTSVILLE, ON THE AND OHIO KAILROAW, By virtue of a dec; George's county, Mar and paseed tu a ext Me, ¢ Omebui dersigned, as Trust public auction, at i ty, Maryland Ts TW we'scon ARY SLVI ¢ arcel of land, alled part more and ¢ Washington city, and convenient to schools, ch mills, and post-cfice er: . by the decree, are: Om 3 2 the Farifiesti of the 5 w proved by the Lrustee, A deposti of $ quired on the day of sale. Conveyancing at cost of WILLIAM STANLEY, SOUTHW STREET ower in the will of Mary omer for sal reete § wo-stor: Net rable corner lot, bavi feet 10 inches on F street aud 1 ) ON THE § CK P.M 5, improved by C street sontiwest + Oue-thir i cash aiid balanee in equal twe est ut 6 per ed of trust, or all ca 1 deposit of €200 will be requir wand $100 upon each of t omaplied with in ten da be 8 of the pure upou Nob ther sale, f sell at risk and cost of defaulting purchase Ja3-d&ds J. WALTER COURSE) WAtten B. WILL OF GRO BAR-ROOM 8. stock of Gt weries, & to the highest bi AYLI EXECUTORS’ 5. AND UNIMPR TRICT OF Cc author! VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE IN THE yin ted in and under the of W. WWW of rerord in &e., of the re ic + day tof thy DAY AT FOUR O'CLOCK in front No. 2 Oust jot ste 1c" wills: ta | | | er 2 a din the city of Washingt HOS. N. WOOD, Executor. A COMPC NO.1102 VILGINE 5 THE SMITHSONIAN aay INST iain deed of trust recorded in etseq.,oneot the laud re- bik, and at the request rins of sale: One-third of the purchase money in Within ten days fr the day of sale. and t: wee in two equal payments at one and two ye with interest st 6 per ceut from the day of sale, secured by adeed of truston the pi the purchase money a5 be paid in pperty sold, 0 AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK AM. Cont AT SAME HOU UNTIL ENTIRE STOCK 1 DIP OF, AT OUR CORNER TENTH AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, A hihly-important collection of Ten Thousand Dol- lars worth of Lace Curtains, larvely owned by reliable importing house of fifty years’ stan to be sold tor benefit of credit who deciine peremp- torily, and we think unwisely, to authorize the use of their hames in connection with the sale from an} . Stich a large andl ‘complete stock should be dom seen collectively. Every {crested should attend this sale; @ chance of joes not occur often. 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