Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1889, Page 7

« ‘ 3 i THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1889. QUESTIONS BY THE HUNDRED. The Inquisitive Visitors to the Wash- ington Monument. THE JANUARY WORK OF THE SHAFT ELEVATOR— VISITORS WilO WANT TO GO HIGHER THAN THE FIVE HUNDRED FOOT LEVEL—HOW TIMEPIECES ARE AFFECTED. About 11,000 pilgrims obtained bird's-eye views from the top of the monument during the month of January. There was no great crowd at any time, but the stream of visitors ‘Was constant and almost unvarying. Even on clondy, misty, rainy days the elevator con- tinued to make its slow way up and down, laden with shivering passengers, who were making the best of their opportunities to see the world. It would certainly seem that the majority of people would be satisfied with an artificial, tem- porary elevation of 500 feet, and, indeed, a majority probably are, but there are some who want to get even higher than the ordinary means at the monument will permit. EXCELSIOR. ILL LUCK IN THE OPAL. Experiences of Mitchell, the Boxer, and Others With the Distrusted Stone. Troy Special to the New York Sun, How many people there are who at some time or other have read or heard stories which tend to create the belief that opals bring ill- luck go their owners, Superstitions persons have great faith in the notion, and not a few who would deny that they are at all given to superstition, at heart believe that opals and bad luck travel hand-in-hand. Bookmaker Jas. F. Cleary, of this city, bought a very pretty scarfpin a year ago last month. It has a hand- some opal in the center, and this is surrounded by brilliants of the first water. A Sun corre- ndent le: d that Mr. Cleary was willing to sell the jewel at a liberal discount, Meeting Mr. Cleary Monday the writer said: “I hear you want to sell that pin?” “ “I have been strongly tempted to do soa dozen times,” Mr. Cleary replied. “Now, Iam not superstitious, but many acquaintances have told me that I would surely have bad luck as jong as I kept it, and thus far there has been A woman visitor the other day was possessed | more truth than poetry in their utterances. with such a desire. When she reached the top landing she began to peer around for a mode of traveling to the capstone, but the nearest approach to it was a 20-foot ladder standing against the wall in one of the corners, partly Partitioned off by the buttress, First asking Permission of the floor man, which was readily given, she proceeded to clamber up its rounds until she had gone as far as possible, stayed there a moment to regain her breath, quiet her nerves, and to take in the full significance of her position. and then returned to the floor, with somewhat the feeling, probably, of the boy told about in school books who wrote his name above that of George Washington on the walls of the Natural bridge. INQUISITIVE VISITORS, The visitors who come to the monument have a great natural curiosity about the struc- ture, and many are the questions they ask of ™men on duty there. The elevator conductor become a human encyclopedia of terms, dates, and figures, relative the shaft and its | surroundings, from sheer recessity. “They begin to ask questions as soon as they get in the car,” he remarked to a Stam re- porter the other morning, “and they keep it up until I get them back to earth aga Some pe freeng Lemes any, but there are others who make up for them. About the first thing they want to know is when the monument was commenced. They ask the names and resi- dences of the engineer and architect. The dates of the completion and dedication are de- manded; the number of years actually con- | sumed in its construction; the size of the base | of the shaft and of the extreme top, and the thickness of the walls. One of the most usual mestions is whether or ngt to-day is a good y for secing from the top, or ‘is it hazy? ‘how far can be seen?” and ‘where is Sugar Loaf mountain? are favorites. But a majority ask most of their questions about the STRENGTH AND STABILITY OF THE SHAFT and the elevator. They want to know if the monument stands on solid rock or on sand, and the size of the stones underneath; if any one | was ever killed here; if the elevator has ever broken down; if the cables are strong, and how often they are examined. Even that certificate of safety over there from the elevator company doesn’t satisty them, and they express the | greatest, alarm lest I shall let in too many | passengers for the trip. You can't satisfy them that this is one of the safest lifts in the world, and when one of the safety ciutches on the sides happens to jar against the iron guides they start and tremble, and ask if the cables are not slipping. ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION. “They show some odd ignorance about the method of building the monument. For in- stance, they ask how we got the stones up. if they were not awfully heavy, and if the cap- stone was carried up on the outside or inside. When I tell them how it was set ther hardly believe me, and ask me the names of the work- men who did it. I feel like a walking book,” he sighed, shutting the door and pulling the starting rope as the car filled and the time came for starting. EFFECT ON A WATCH, He glanced at his watch as he did so and frowned. Holding it out toward the reporter | he remarked: “That watch was a good time- | piece before I started in to run this elevator. It used to — right on the minute and I could always depend on it. But since I've been pull- | ing this cable and going up and down between | heaven and earth it has got to be the crankiest piece of machinery I ever saw. At first it did not do so badly, but lately I can’t place any de- ndence upon it One day it goes straight, fhe next day it gains. the next loses, and the next it is liable to gain as I go up and lose as I come down. I took it toa watchmaker and he | said that it was the dampness of the shaft that made it work that way, and the motion of the car.” The reporter gently suggested that perhaps something other than a Waterbury might stand the dampness a little better, but the conductor continued without —— the remark. “The jeweler to whom I took my watch said ‘that he is going to make an application to put | aclock in the car, without any kind of an ad- | vertisement, to see what luck it will have with the cold and dampness. He says that a clock “that can run in this place is good anywhere.” WF CHANGES WITH THE MOON. The Curious Birthmaric Which Disfig- ures a Pennsylvania Man’s Neck. James Rothermel, g county, this state, has a strange birthmark | v which makes him an object of superstitious re- gard among his neighbors. According to a , correspondent of the Pittsburg Post. on the | who lives.in Fayette | back of Rothermel’s head, just below anda little to the right of the base of the brain, is a | small excrescense, bluish in color and crescent | shaped. The moment the moon begins to turn the tirst quarter of her pole. the mark begins to | undergo « startling change. Its bluish color turns to a brilliant red, and the flesh below it and extending dingonally across his neck to the left shoulder begins to swell. As the moon rows older the birthmark gets redder and red- r and redder, and the flesh swells more and more, until, when the moon has reached its | “full,” the crescent-shaped mark is of a fiery | scarlet. and the flesh extending from the mark to the left shoulder haa swollen into a horn- like roll, two or three inches in thickness at | the largest point. and gradually tapering to point near the left shoulder. As the moon gradually begins to wane, in like manner the scarlet of the crescent-shaped mark becomes less fiery. the horn-like roll across the neck to decrease in size, until when the moon is dark again there is nothing to be seen but the small biuish crescent-shaped mark. For over twenty-eight years these changes have followed monthly with the moon’s phases; and so marked are they and so regular that rmel can tell by simply placing his hand | on the back of his neck exactly what stage the | moon is in. a > aeeneeete The workmen in charge of the hoisting aj pa- ratus at the Licking rolling mill, New ae, attempted to play a practical joke on Jos. Tape, a fellow-workman, by hooking a rope around his neck and starting the machinery, The re- sult was that Tape was killed. | Father Leavy, a Roman Catholic priest, died | at Monroe, Mich., yesterday, of smallpox. all | the schools have ‘been closed and every one ordered to be vaccinated. The authorities of Scranton and Wilkesbarre, Pa., have arrested and lodged in jail some fifty tramps, charged with the murder of Policeman Ellis in Hyde Park on Sunday night, Jobn Lake was arrested in Boston yesterday on a charge of setting fire to a boarding-house in order to get insurance money on his furni- ture and clothing. The fire-marshal believes that the prisoner is a notorious firebug. The board of directors of the Boston home- market club has adopted resolutions approving Secretary Fairchild’s course in entrasting to Appraiser Stearns the work of checking the fraudulent practices known to exist at the New York custom-house; also urging the repre- sentatives of Fame Sa bn Congress be a or passage of a tariff bill embodyi e best features of the Senate bill. oe funeral services over the late Charles A. Washburne, ex-minister to Paraguay, were held in New York Ea — at the Church of the Divine Paternity. Rev. Dr. C. H. Eaton Officiated. A delegation from Old Forty-niners . The body was taken to South Livermore, Me., for Measures are to be Lf interment. the of peach orchards in Delaware to prevent of “yellows” and other diseases. Senator-elect ins, of Delaware, is on his ‘aj 5 For the first time since I have been in business Ihad a very bad year in the one just closed, and my ill-inck began very soon after I bought the pin. My book has been a heavy loser, and other ventures in which I interested re- sulted unprofitably, Still I dont't attach the blame for this state of facts to this pin. But L'il tell you a story about another opal and dia- mond pin. When Kilrain and Mitchell were here the other day I had quite a talk with Charley Mitchell. He noticed the pin and said tome: ‘I hada pin very much like that one, and I had bad luck all the time I kept it.’ “I remarked that my luck had not been good since I had bought this one. “Get rid of it, said Mitchell, ‘TI gave £28 for one in London, and from the day I bought it until I sold it I had nothing but bad luck. Everything I touched went wrong. I was at Newmarket and couldn't pick the winners at all, and in a moment of desparation I sold the in toa bookmaker named White, one of the eaviest operators on the English turf, for £10, I played the races with that money, and ‘when I left the track Iwas over £50 ahead. But White's book lost heavily, and for along time he had arun of bad Inck, while fickle fortune was more considerate in her treatment of me. White finally sold the pin to a third party, and the bad luck that had attended White and my- self visited the new purchaser, and continued until he sold it toa fourth man, but I do not know how he made out after becoming the owner.” “I nmust confess that since I had that conver- sation with Mitchell I don’t think so much of this jewel as I did.” Mr. Cleary continues to wear the pin, and robably when the boys who play the horses in ‘is book read this story they will hope that he will not part with it. ceo BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB. An Infant Laura Bridgman Keller’s Wonderful From the Portland, Me., Advertiter. The feature of the annual report ¢ Superin- tendent Anagnos, of the Ptrkins’ Institute for the Blind, at Boston, is the brochure on little Helen Keller, the infant Laura Bridgman, by Miss Sullivan, who taught the little blind and deaf mute to understand the world about her. Miss Sullivan tells many interesting anecdotes and incorporates letters and compositions of the little girl into the story. When little Helen. for instance, visited Welles- ley college, she examined the statuary care- fully, and afterward imitated the various at- titudes which had attracted her attention. his she did with great exactness, copying from the statue of the dancing girl, for instance. the position of feet, hands, arms, head—indeed, of the whole body. Last June she was introduced to a young Greek student, whose long name, consisting of 28 letters, was spelled to he only In repeating it, she made but one mis- take. This was corrected, and about three months later she asked where Mr. F-r-a-n-c-i-s D-e-m-e-t-r-i-0-8 K-a-l-o-p-o-t-h-a-k-e-8 wae, Helen certainly derives great pleasure from the exercise of her senses. On entering a green-house her countenance becomes radiant and she will tell the name of the flowers with which she is familiar by the sense of smell alone. Her recollections of the sensations of smell are very vivid. She enjoys in anticipa- tion the scent of a rose or violet; and, if prom- ised a bouquet of these flowers, a peculiarly happy expression will light up her face, indi- cating that in imagination she perceives their fragrance and that it is pleasant to her. SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS AND STILLNESS, she has been forced to depend largely upon the muscular sense as a means of ascertaining the mental condition of those about her. She has learned to connect certain movements of the body with anger, others with joy, and others still with sorrow. One day, while she was walking out with her mother and Mr. | Anagnos. a boy threw a torpedo which startled | Mrs. Keller. Helen felt the change in her ther’s movements instantly, and asked: Vhat are we afraid of?’ She is very fond of children younger than herself, and a baby invariably calls forth all the motherly instincts of her nature. She will handle the infant as tender the most careful nurse could desire. Her own writings indicate clearly what a won- derful work has been her education, This is the way in which she deseribes her visit to the President last spring: “We went to see Mr. Cleveland. He lives ina very large and beautiful white house, and there are lovely flowers and many trees, and much fresh and green grass around. and broad smooth paths to walk on. Teacher tolg me about the beantiful river that is very near’ the ‘dens. The Potomac river is clear, and it is 'Y beautiful when the sun shines upon it. eland was very glad to see me.” e began the study of geography during the ast year, and has acquired a notion of the points of the compass and of boundaries, She will bound a room, a house. a garden, without difficulty, and she has Worked a little with the maps. She had learned, at different times, the names of a few of the states in connection with other subjects; and she now learned at a single lesson the names of all the states of the Union, and their correct spelling. AND I8 ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD! Early in July she went to Brewster, where she spent the remainder of the summer. This visit at the seaside was a novel experience to her. When first taken into the water she ran fearlessly forward, dancing along with the same happy freedom she manifests on land, and delighted with the splashing of the water around her, Unfortunately striking her foot against a stone, she stumbled and fell forward. and the salt water filled her mouth. The shock of the fall, by which she was instantly submerged, the coldness of the water—and especially the seeming violence with which the sale waves rushed into her mouth—terrified her, and seemed to arouse in her a feeling of indignation. Assoon as she had sufficientl: recovered to use her fingers, she asked, excited- ly: “Who pnt salt in water?” For several days afterward she manifested great timidity about bathing, but by degress she regained her former fearlessness, She would wade in until the water was up to her ears; and, at first she would be frightened when # wave caught her and swept her back, but she soon came to think this the greatest fun of all. She also learned to float. In short. she thoroughly enjoyed her stay at the seashore. The following extracts from Helen’s diary illustrate what she has learned about familiar animals: “Jan. 16, 1888.—Rats are small animals, They are made of flesh, and blood and bone. They have four feet and a tail. They have one hea and two ears and two eyes and one nose. They have one mouth and sharp teeth. They gnaw holes in wood with their teeth. ey do walk softly. Rats killed little pigeons. Cats do catch rats and eat them. “March 8, 1885.—We had fish for breakfast. Fish live in the deep water. There are many hundreds of fish swimming about in the water. Men catch fish with poles and hooks and lines, They puta little tiny fish on the hook and throw it in the water, and fish does bite the little fish. and sharp hook does stick in poor fish’s mouth and hurt him much. I am very sad for the fish. Fish did not know that very sharp hook was in tiny fish. Men must not kill poor fish. Men do pull fish out and take them home, and cooks do clean them be 4 to eat for breakfast, The story of the with interest and instructive incidents and ns to all intelligent persons new sources of we extracts from her diaries, and by her le’ she has gained an uncommon facility mn, tin lf. itis an indescribable pleasure to watch her and Keepy nos Sy woman as the sen- nice and fry them, and then they are very this little buman is ought and wonder. As will be seen by the of ¢ She takes Gelight in reading to heres tences fall from PENITENTIARY BLOODHOUNDS. The Fierce Brutes Used to Track Escap- ing Convicts in Arkansas. From the Little Rock (Ark.) Letter. Crossing the yard, one comes in full view of Jim Stewart, a colored trusty, who has charge of the penitentiary pack. Here are five blood- hounds—the white bitch Nellie and four dark- colored dogs—that outrival any fetters or any walls in the matter of restraining convicts from running away. Outat the camp at Palarm, the other Sunday, a convict “jumped” and man- aged to get a clear two hours’ start before his absence was noted. He swam the creek, and, by diligent running, had covered nine mileg or more inthe twohours, Two men followed him —the guard of the “gang” to which he be- longed—and the dog man and four dogs, He was tracked, overtaken, and brought back. Next day he was wearing a heavy iron “spur,” something that will prevent any display of ility as long as it is worn. But with the “spur” on the convict could ‘not chop wood. The spur was removed. and the convict told, while the howling of the hounds interrupted | the words, that he “could take another run if | he wanted to.” “You let a man swing an axe every day, eat- ing a pound and a half of brend and meat ata meal, and turn him loose, and it takes a pretty good jorse to Keep up with him. With an hour's start he will be gone eight or nine miles before you can catch him.” The man who said that was fully alive to the value of his dogs, his bloodhounds; or “man- trailers,” as some folks might call them. And now the dogs are to go though their usual daily run, for bloodhonnds, like pointers and setters, need to be constantly kept in prac- tice. At‘The Walls,” and at each one of the rs the dogs are given a daily run, longer or shorter, harder or easier, as circumstances dictate. Inthe present instance a trusty is started out from in front of the hospital build- | ing. He darts off round the corn-crib, goes down along the garden fence, climbs the fence, fe the ditch on the other side, and makes sundry devious windings in the immense field called a garden, going round three sides and coming back to the hay-barn, climbs up a post and stands in a position of safety, Mean- while Jim Stewart, a lithe young fellow, wear- ing a slouched hat, whose band is fantastically adorned with metal buttons, is holding four dogs in leash with one hand and keeping the bitch Nellie back with the other, At the proper moment Nellie is loosed and the leash slipped for the other four, and as Stewart. winds his | horn away go the dogs. Nellie in the lead. Nellie has seen the fugitive go down by the corn-crib, and follows, apparently by sight. Aimost before you know it the whole pack are bunched at the fence, and in an instant Nellie is up and over a plank and tearing down the garden. Her nose is first down, then up, and never held particularly close to the ground. A few feet from the fence she strikes the scent. | follows it through the turnip patch, turns back where it doubles. and keeps on till she comes swinging down underneath the south wall, and | then noses closely along till she is on the home trail. Within five minutes from the time that the trusty has climbed into his perch of safety Nellie has him treed and is barkingat him with all her might. The other dogs gota littleconfused in the turnip patch, but rallied admirably, going back on the back track till the live trail was struck, and soon coming into the hay barn, It is all interesting enough to look at, but the way the hounds bay as they give cry isn't any way reassuring to the man who is being chased. Few of the dogs are given to biting, though some of them will bite anybody when they get excited on the run; butitisn’t the dog’s teeth that the fugitive convict dreads; it is the nose that can follow aman through almost apy tangle of underbrush or wood. For a second run the dogs follow on the trail of the trusty around the workshop, the cell- house, behind the wagon shop and across the | yard. The scent doesn’t lie so well on the hard | macadam of the yard, and is, moreover, con- | fused with that of other trails, but the dogs j keep at it, and soon come up to where the trusty is safely ensconced in the barn, The run is declared a success, No Serious Rows in New York. BUT IT IS FEARED THE STRIKERS MAY BECOME VIOLENT WHEN THEY FIND THEY ARE LOSIN: None of the numerous disturbances growing out of the New York street-car tie-up yesterday amounted to much, but it is feared that when the strikers realize they are losing ground th may become more violent. The police are termined to give the roads all the protection in their power, and believe themselves fully able to cope with the strikers. The latter complain that the police are officions, and are, as in for- mer strikes. not only protecting the property of the railroad companies, but helping to run the cars the strikers deserted. Magee called on Mayor Gra and said that he did not think eos should run cars for the corporations. ror re- plied that that rested with the superintendent of police, who he was sure was only ng for the protection of New York's citizens. He hoped that Mr. Magee would urge his friends to do nothing to injure their reputation or that of their organization. Magee so promised, The state board of arbitration, consisting of Messrs. Robertson, Purcell, and Donovan, came to New York yesterday afternoon and_pro- ceeded to the Murray Hill hotel, which they will make their headqnarters. Soon after reaching the hotel the board received a ti gram from President Richardson, of the Atlan- nue road, in Brooklyn, ing that he ing to confer with xecutive committee of District assembly No. 75 and the board of arbitration, provided’ a committee of nine of their own employes, members of the local assemblies, were also adinitted to the con- ference. Mr. Donovan immodiately dispatched a messenger to the chairman of District assem- ly No. 75, asking if this proposition would be entertained. The board also sent for the pres- idents of the tied-up New York city roads, At 10 o’clock last night it was reported quiet at the stables of the various street railway companies, A few policemen were left at the various points where there was thought to be any danger of an outbreak, From what the arbitration commissioners say, the 6th avenue road, by its president, Frank Curtis, is primarily responsible for the tie-up. None of the New York roads have any agreement whatever with its men. The em- ployes of allthe roads, however, demanded some sort of a written understand and the oficials of all the roads consented, with the ex- ception of the Broadway and 7th avenue, the 6th avenue and the 42d street lines. However, when the other railroad companies learned that these three would not come into the agreement, they, too, refused, and hence the trouble. ‘The elevated railroads reaped a harvest out of the trouble. The 9th avenue line. which closes nightly at 8 o'clock, was kept in a tion until 1 o'clock last night. The crowds on this only mode of transportation have been enormous, It is not at all improbable that the employes of Col. Shepard’s Fifth Avenue stage company will follow the example of the surface road employes and goon strike. They complain that their hours are too long, and that they get no time for meals, although they don’t run on Sunday. Yesterday a committee of the men called upou the directors, asking that each man on the road hereafter get half an hour every day for lunch. BROOKLYN POLICE SYMPATHIZE WITH STRIKERS, ‘The tie-up in Brooklyn is much more suc- cessful than that in New York. No attempt was made to run cars in Brooklyn yesterday. It is said the polige are in sympathy with the strikers, and but little effort appears to be made to enforce the law. Pre ions have been made in Brooklyn to call out the eigh- teenth, nineteenth, and twenty-third regiments in case of riot. The company has decided not to run any cars at present, and so long as no attempt is made to run cars it is thought that there will be no serious trouble. It is said | that President Richardson has held no further conferences with the men, and that he does not evince any disposition to do so. The strik- ers say that the company is well able finan- cially to pay their men $2 a day. Mr. Rich- ardson, president of the Atlantic avenue line, says the demands of his men would involve an additional expenditure this year of over $52,- 000 more than last year for precisely the same service, A DisaBep Sreamsurp Lisetep.—A Norfolk, Va, ial to the Baltimore American says: The itish steamship Albany, which was ashore a few miles from Cape Lookout, and it this afternoon | day at Bi was gotten off by North Carolina tugs, with the aid of the United States revenue cutter Colfax, arrived in port to-day. A board of survey has been appointed by the British consul to make an examination. Immediately after her arrival VIRGINIA NOTES, The deficit of the Richmond exposition was from $17,000 to $18,000, which the ‘k on hand will about counterbal- ance, property was capitalized at $120,000. Gov. Lee will deliver an address in New York on February 22. In his remarks on that occa- sion the governor will,devote a good deal of attention to the industrial prosperity of this state. He will no doubt have something inter- esting to say on the race problem at the south. The Richmond Terminal managers are re- [eters to be negotiating a scheme with the ‘timore and Ohio management whereby the latter is to extend its lines between Weverton and Lexington to Bristol, and there to connect with the East Tennessee, Virginia and a r 80 as to give the latter a shorter outlet north than its present route over the Western North Carolina road, It is intended as a men- ace to the Norfolk and Western road. The new construction will be about 180 miles. Captain Ham, Sheppard, collector of internal revenue for the Lynchburg district, has de- clined the presidency of the Florence (Ala.) Land company, recently tendered him at a salary of $3,000 a year, After visiting Florence, he says his advice to Virginians is to invest their money in Virginia, where the chances are equally as good if not better than any- where else he knows of. Gov. E. E. Jackson, of Maryland, has given President Smith, of Randolph Macon College, $5.000 as his contribution to the endowment of the Randolph Macon Academy, which will soon be established at Liberty. In a private letter toa friend in Wytheville, Hon. Robt. E, Withers, United States consul at Hong Kong, China, says that he hopes to leave for home about the first of February, and that he will send in his resignation as soon after the fourth of March as possible. J. M. Clarke, aged nineteen years, who went to Richmond from Amelia connty during the Christmas holidays on a visit to his father, is missing. Young Clarke left Richmond three weeks ago on foot for home, but it seems he has never reached there. A private letter from San Jose, Costa Rica, to Jno. L. Williams, of Richmond, sa: i speaking of the recent earthquake there beautiful cathedral, all the hotels, and not 100 houses were left fit to live in. The loss is esti- mated at over $1,000,000. The people are all living in tents in the streets, and hundreds sleep in the circus tents, One lady, Mrs. Bon- nafel, who died from fear, had witnessed Wash- ington’s invuguration and been at the court of Marie Antoinette. She was 115 years old. Strange fate to die in Costa Rice from such a cause, after witnessing the horrors of the French revolution.” rset oS ee eS A Vegetarian Dies of Old Age. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 22. One of the most remarkable characters Cin- cinnati ever saw died yesterday. It was Dr. Joseph Garretson of west8th street. For sixty- two years of his life he never drank a cup of coffee nor sipped a little tea. For fifty years of his life he ate no meat; for twenty-six years of his life he never took so much asa pinch of salt. He came of English stock, and was born in that county of long-lived people, York, Pa., February 808. His ideas were simple. but of diet he believed strictly in a vegetarian diet. Nature, he used to say, has supplied this food, and it is against nature when aman eats meats. To those who would eat meat, however. he insisted hat it should be eaten boiled. He used to point tothe In- dians as proof of this, claiming that they were never sick unless from wounds. He trusted to no caoks to prepare his food, but did it him- self, When he went upon a journey he took his food with him, and onlya few weeks before hig death was in New York city, going the en- tire distance with his food. He claimed that everything greasy was injurious to the human system, and of ail things horrible was a piece fried. Dyspepsia and all the ghosts and nightmares of indigestion he attributed to frying. His only drink duri long life was water, or sometimes a lemonade. He was continually experimenting on the subject of diet, and attributed his long life entirely to his diet and habits. i The Danger will Abate in Six Weeks. From the irrepressible Chicago News, Pedestrian (to Washington Policeman)— “What is the meaning of this great crowd in the street, officer? Is anybody hurt?” “No; there has been an accident and the street is blockaded, but things will soon be in shape again.” ‘But tell me what has happened?” “Why, you see, Vice-President-elect Morton has just met First Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral Stevenson and their titles are too long to pass each other on the same thoroughfare. We are trying to induce the first assistant postmas- ter-general to resign for half an hour while we get things into shape.” soe Mr. O’Brien Appears at Manchester. HE 18 GIVEN A TREMENDOUS OVATION AND IM- MEDIATELY RE-ARRESTED. Wm, O’Brien was arrested at Manchester yesterday while addressing the meeting. A rumor that Mr. O’Brien would appear at the meeting brought out a large audience, The chairman we: addressing the meeting, when a commotion arose and Mr. O’Brien stepped to he front. The people arose en masse and shouted until they were compelled through ex- haustion to desist. uch a scene was never witnessed in Manchester before. Mr. O'Prien’s face was pale, but his voice was firm. He gave in detail the story of his conviction. nce his flight, he said, he had roved through four counties of Ireland. He reached Wexford on Friday, after a drive of 90 miles in an open trap, and was then smuggled on board a collier and landed at Portheawl, Wales. He stayed a y nr and then came to London, go- ing thence to Manchester. When he had concluded his remarks his friends rushed upon the platform to shake him by the hands. So eager was the crowd that Mr. O'Brien was hustled about and almost fainted. At this time a force of police arrived. Mr. O’Brien was arrested in the ante-room while the audience was ing the hall. light parade was afterward held in honor of Mr. O'Brien, His arrest caused intense excite- ment, -s00 (OBEAN’S SurcipE.—W. Harry Baldwin, son of Wm. H. Baldwin, senior mem- ber of the dry goods firm of Woodward, Bald- win & Norris, of Baltimore, and manager of that firm’s extensive cotton mills at Savage, Md., blew out his brains yesterday shortly after reaching the mill. He is supposed to have been temporarily insane, as he had been under medical treatment some years for a nervous affection brought on by a sunstroke. ——__<or Prixce Ferprvann’s Enemres. — General Schweinitz has recently tried unsuccessfully to reconcile the czar with Austria by suggesting a mutual agreement to displace Ferdinand and | replace Prince Alexander of Battenberg on the throne of Bulgaria. The czar relies on the speedy acceptance by Bulgaria of Russia’s guidance. Letters from the metropolitan, Gregory, the senior member of the Bulgarian clergy; Simeon, the president of the Bulgarian synod, and other bishops, declare that the de- position of Prince Ferdinand is imminent, and that at the coming synod the bishops will an- nounce him as unfit to reign and demand that he abdicate on pain of expulsion, ethan eet? = Tae HounGartan Ministry 1x Danarr.—It is thought likely that Premier Tisza, of Hungary, may be overthrown by the feeling which has arisen against the army bill. The ministerial majority adhered to him under a strong pres- sure, but public opinion favors the opposition. A messagéfrom Kossuth, read at a banquet on Sunday, powerfully contributes to increase the agitation, The chief objections to the bill are against the clause sac oa examination in the reserve commissions be held in German, and that those failing to pass the examinations for commission in the reserve after one year of service shall serve another year. Kossuth’s letter touched the strongest chords of the national feeling in saying that Hungary must have a national army with Hungarian colors, Hungarian commaders and Hungarian feeling, and that the man was no Hungarian and ought to be abhorred who would surrender those rights, fi —————+ee_______ ANoTHER Banquet To Minister Pue.ps,— Lord Coleridge presided at a banquet given by the London Century club to Minister P! Jast nigh Among the Pied were the Mar- uis of Lorne, Sir Lyon Playfair, Mr. Howard ‘otter, Archdeacon Farrar, Sir Edward Thorn- ton, Secretary White, of the American legation, Consul-General Waller, Col. Gourand and Mr. W. H. Burns, The cl Et Fepret, Mr. Phelps in said thet i he had met with a small success was largely LATE FOREIGN NEWS ‘The recent ramors that the pope has been having fainting fiteare denied at Rome. His holiness continues to hold his cnstomary re- ceptions. The Russian department of the interior is preparing an employers’ liability law, by which employers will be compelled to insure work- men against accident during employment. The oo is also preparing a death 1 insurance bi The first words of the baby king of Spain publicly recorded were those uttered by him when a petard was recently exploded in the : “Hear the cannon! he said, The municipal authorities at Constantinople, without previous notice. insist upon levying a tax of seventy Fnemges upon printers and pub lishers. ‘The Greek printers are chiefly af- fected. The journal per lication, The Briti Fry ambassadors are u! their influence to ini the authorities to withdraw the tax. Gen. Boulanger said in a recent interview: “I grant interviews personally to about 280 —— aday. This morning alone I spoke ‘0 142, That is without counting the delegations which set foot in this room. They number from 800 to 1.000 persons a day, I see them in groups of abont fifty ata time. It is reported that the witness Thos, O’Con- nor, who charged Mr. Timothy Harrington, M. P., with employing him as a moonlighter, is on his death-bed and has signed a confession, in which he withdraws the accusation, The government has voted large sums of money to build stores and elevators at Odessa and four other grain depots in the southwest- ern districts of Russia, Pope Leo received last year from “Peter's pence” $1,500,000; from interest on capital invested abroad. 500.000. and from other sources about $100,000, besides $400,000 in cash jubilee gifts, His total disbursements aggre- gated about $1,700,000. Mr. David Sheehy, member of parliament for the south division of Galway, was yesterday found guilty of violating the crimes act and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment without hard labor. Mr. Shechy entered an appeal. Editor Stead, of the Pali Mall Gazette, asks: “Why should the Americans desert Paris when it is the capital of a republic after crowding to it whe it was the capital of the empire? In the 1 days of Napoleon III there were as many as 16,000 Americans established in the es of the Seine. Now there are not Cardinal Ganglbauer, the archbishop of Vienna, has sent an address from the Austrian bishops, which is published in the Orservatore Romano. proclaiming the right of the pope to temporal power. Italian papers are o' opinion that the address woul ent friendly relations between Austria and Italy but for the success of Gen. Boulanger, which brings war within view and makes vati- can discords less heard in the quirinal councils. | In the German reichstag yesterday the East Africa bill passed the second reading after a short debate, in which only progressist and socialist members opposed the measure. Si ed ir the | affect the pres- | ROY; BAKING POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE It is a scientific fact that the ROYAL BAKING POWDER is absolutely pure. It is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public. HENRY A. MOTT, M.D., Ph. D., Late United States Gov't Chemis. _AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. __THIS AFTERNOON. UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. TRUSTFES' SALE OF VALUABLE REAL FSTATE LOCATED IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. By virtue of the power tained in s deed of trust made to fs: and duly recorded ‘iuons the land records of the District of Columbia in Mber 1221, folio J |» at the red there. he rooms of Duncanson ‘Brothers, corner of Bth and D streets northwest, in the Se o¥ Vashi c,,on WED- NESDAY, JANUAR) RTIETH, 1889,"AT FOUR O'CLOCK PLM. “All the tndivided one-fifth interest in fee simy Yested in Geonge A. the grantor in said 4 . Hyde,” trust, as the only child and sole heit-atlaw of Cecelia chitdren, heire-at-law and devisees of Wis acte ceased, ih and to all these certain parcels of In Wate aud being im said city and District, kno ny distinguished as and being lot 2, in square 10, lot? of square 11, lote 5,6.9 and ‘square 12. lot 2 of square 16, lot 9 of square 20, lot No. 21 in square 37, lot 7 i 's 2 to 11, inclusive, in synare 63, lots 4, 5 und. Square SX, lots 3 to 7, inclusive, im square $9. All of the above-mentioned parcels’ of ground are unimproved. Also the following improved parcels of ground: Lot 6, in square 104, improved with one 2-story frame ayelling «done I-story frame dwelling, Lots 2 to 6, inclusive, in square south of squire 12, improved with a frame ice-house, and with a bric Warehouse (size 38 feet by 72 feet), also two kilns o burners, &c. Lot 4, in square 12, improved with three 3.stor brick dweilings. Lot 8. in squate 12, improved wi ory brick dwellings. The trustees are in- ir. Hyde thai pend at ormed by Str. hag been released —the north Sosg fort, Terms of sale,as prescribed by the deed: One-thind cash; the balance in equal instalments six and twelve mouths after the day of sale, said deferred payments to bear interest at 8 per cent per annum from the day of sale and secured to the satisfaction of the trustees, orall cash, at the option of the purchaser or purchas: $200 required at time of sale. to be complied with in ten days or. prop- erty will be re-sold at cost of defaulting purchaser. Conveyancing at purchaser's coat, Under the. pro- visions of the de of trust “the trustees or trustee acting in the execution of this trust” put up and sell, or offer to sell, atone ti:ne, in one body. and not in separate lots or parcels, all the undic v1 one-fifth interest, in Simple, vested in said jidaud cle hetr-at-law yde, eased. intestate, who was one of the Jaren and heire-ut-law and devisees of William Easby, deceased, im and to al) those certain parcels of lund hereinbefore particularly described and referred to. ptive of and showing the location and hove lots ¢ seen at the office of F. a F st. n.w., Washington, and will be exhibited at the salesrooms of Duncansou. day ‘of wale, ELL Trustees, re required “to Sewator-evect Wasapurn Criticauty Inn.— A Minneapolis dispe 3 that Senator-elect | W. D. Washburn, the millionaire miller, is re- ported critically ill. Immediately after the ed him he had to take to his bed, and to-day it became known through an intimate friend of the family that at a con- sultation of physicians this morning his condi- tion was pronounced dangerous and his re- covery extremely doubtful. The reception which was to have been tendered him at the West hotel has been indefinitely postponed, panic Naa Edgar Strakosch, of the disbanded Kellogg opera company, agd Harriet Avery, the soprano of the same company, are reported to have been married on Wednesday last. The Buena Vista Green Forest Mining, Fur- nace Land and Improvement company, in Rockbridge county, Virginia, has been organ- ized with a capital of $300,000, which is to be raised to £1,000,000, and will erect furnaces, develop mines, lay out towns, &c., on its prop- erty. The wrangle over the appointment of collec- tors of taxes in Dorchester county, Md., under the act of 1888, was brought toa close yester- day, when the county commissioners appointed Wm. E. Muir in the first district, Alfred B. Tar- pin in the third, John H. Giles in the second and Edward P. Tyler in the fourth, all at the rate of 5 per cent. A fire occurred at Taneytown, Ma., Monday night, destroying the machine shop occupied by Mr. Franklin H. Bowersox, with its con. tents, consisting of the manufacturing imple- ments apd machinery, and a lumber shed near by belonging to Mr. Tobias W. Eckenrode, with its contents, consisting of fifty to seventy-five thousand feet of dressed lumber; also, about one hundred tons of coal. Pretty Clairrette Vanderbilt, who, as late as last Wednesday night had played Pierrette in the “Pearl of Pekin,” died in New York Mon- day night. The late Augustus Cazauran, the playwright, was buried yesterday from the Hotel Dam, in New York city. The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Houghton, of the “Little Church Around the Corner.” Many actors, theatrical men and men of letters were in at- tendance. The interment was at Greenwood. Jacob Knabb, senior editor of the Reading Times, died Tuesday evening, aged seventy-one years. He was one of the tirst to advocate the free public-school system, and was an old-time abolitionist. U. precepenteo Acrrractt OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature in 1868 for Fan. cational and Charitable purposes, and its franchise made a part of the present State Constitution in 1879, by an overwhelming popular vote. Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take glace Semi-An- lune and December), and its GRAND LE NUMBER DRAWINGS take place in each of the other ten months of the year, and are all drawn in public, at the Academy of Musi w Orleans, RS, cz FAMED FOR TWE! YE FOR INTEGRITY OF ITS DRAWINGS, AND PROMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES, Attested as follows “We do hereby certify that we supervise the renee, 3 ments for all the monthiy and Semi-Annual Drawing: The Lowsiana State Lottery Company, and in person ‘manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness. and in good faith toward al: parties, and we authorize the Com- Dany to use this certuicale. with Fac-similes OF our sig- natures attached, in its advertisements.” SS We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers, wilt ait prizes drawn in. The Louisiana, State Lotteries which may be presented at our counters, M. WALMSLEY, Pres. Louisi tional Bank, Finine LANAUX, Bree, ate Satine Bank ALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans National Bank, CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bauk. ‘GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 188 CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. 1 Tickets at Twenty Dol oh: 10, Quartoce $5; Kenta ge, Reena tag LIST OF PRIZES. 300,000 id 3,134 Prizes, amounting to... -81,054,800 tote Rett gewing Capital Prizes are noten- ater neh hai ane? Sane ce tery to fue ‘without White's stamp ue out ‘s on PALAIS ROYAL and Jal ?-2w* Ja23-108 ____ FUTURE Days. AY HORSE, 7 COWS (FRESH AND FAuMiNe INPLEMENTS. On MONDAY A HENGON, FEBRUARY commencing st TEN O'CLOCK, we will sell on farm of Lewis Steerman on “B" road near intersection. toned stock, which is in condition. Serpe mentione sachs cash. DUNCANBON BROS, Auctioneers LADIES’ GOODS. LADY, FORMERLY CARRYING ON DRESS. Ansiine tn New York, would like setae Cutting and basting wapecialty. T Cet a ADIES, IF YOU WISH A GOOD AND 87) A aitting Waist buy White's Glove-Stting are every respect, sleeves and all. ed. ‘GEO. ser te Talon, LLEO TE. AMSLEY, NEDWi Baltimore, Ma., Will open at WILLARD'S HOTEL, Private Parlora, Feb, 5th, 6th, 7th, Sth, and Oth,s large and elewant ae- sortment of Imported Ball and Evening Dresses; also the latest novelties in Spring and Summer Costumes for House and Street wear. ‘Special attention given to orders for Ball apd Even- ing Dresses _Fitguarantecd. Miss J. Boacrss MODEL RIDING HABITS EVENING AND RECEPTION COSTUMES _s5-Im? oe 1446 Qat Vu, BRANDIS, 1220 PENN AVE. _ jor-1 Gowns, vening Street Costumes, ete., it short notice, Tuade a fitand work, one fitting reguired. Reasonable re Formerly ‘with Lord & Taylor, New York, and Wim, Barr & Co., St. Louis. Buttonholes made. ” jal-Ltu* QUPERFLUOUS HAIR DESTROYED, S2trace, bey my stecerte necdle every prominent physician. Ten years’ practice in thin ty nent for ladies and children. trical treat MUS. DR GABRIEL, 1321 Geta. Vor ave. Velvet and Evening Dressen? ANTOM Dd as LERCH, formerly with a. 3K AND Cal and Maison Yriese, Paris," (PSE MISSES CUNNINGHAM, “FURRIERS W EKS & CO, Auc-ioncers, 637 Louisiana avenne, Opposite City Post Office. HANDSOME HAND-MADE WALNUT Bi SET, EG SOLID OAK, ROU — BEDROOM § x IRRORS, BEDSTE. 6oTs E. LOU. ke ETS, CURTAI AD, TW CITY HOU R c RIMENT OF ‘OUR SALES- ENE ‘HE T, ROOMS, THIRTY-ONE, __AT TEN ass it WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneers. AT AUCTION. UARY THIRTY-FIRST, at CL . M., we shall sell the balance of stock remaining on hand of Lace Curtains consigned to us fora large importing house, and to be sold with- out reserve. Terms cash, _3028-3t See Pexcanson BROS., Auctioneers. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & 00., Auctioneers, LE OF CROCKERY, COMPRI ORTMENT OF DECORATED TOIL. oPS AND SAUCERS, &e., AT AU NG, JANUARY THIRTY- \ O'CLOCK, mmencing at T! we will sell within our salesrooms, 9th and D sts.. in open lots 10 the trade, a large consignment of the above good: erms, cash. a28-3t FPHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. BLE IMPROVED PROPERTY NO. 814 ‘TH STREET, BETWEEN HAND I NORTHWE: ION. HURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY. THIR- TY-FIEST, 1889, at FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., in frout ofthe premises Vshall sell lot 28, in mquare’ 105, 22 feet 6 Inches by an average depth of about 125 feet, improved by @ first-class. frame dwelling, containing 1 rooms, with water aud gas. This property is lo~ cated near the Metropolitan ‘club rooms aud the street Tallroads, and one of the most desirable locations in the city. it rus of sale: One-third cash: balance in six and ve months, with notes bearing interest, and se- cured by deed of trust on the property sold. "All con. Yeyancing and recording at purchaser's cost. 200 a required at time of sale. d&as THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. EPT HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AT AUCTI F TARY, 1889, at K A. M.. at 132 Maryland avenue south- est, opposite Botanica Gardens, I will sell without reserve a lot of nearly new furniture all in good condi- tion, such as— Walnut Book-Cases. Walnut Desks and Secretarys. Cabinets, Book Rack: M.T. Hal. Brussells Carpets, Handsome Si. Howe Sewing Machine, Very fine Electric Clock. Walnut Bed-room Suites, Wainut Wardrobe and Cheffonier, Heating Stoves, Range, China and Glassware. Gas Stove, Kitchen Requisites, &e. jodie THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. rpuowas DOWLING, Auctioneer, CATALOGUE SALE MISCELLANEOWS. AND CLASSICAL BOOKS, MANY OF THEM FINELY ILLUSTRATED, {ALSO A LOT OF MEDICAL BOOKS AND INSTRU- MENTS RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR CATALOGUE,) AT MY AUCTION ROOMS, ELEVENTH AND PENNSYL- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY PIE AT HALF-PAST SEVE! LOCK, AND FOLLOWING EVENINGS, CATALOGUES READY. THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. |) stoma BROS., Auctioneers, NCERY, SALE OF IMPROVED PROP: TORE AND DWELLING, NO. 2251 EIGHTH STREET, COR. GRANT AVENUE, ALSO. REAR PART OF LOT NINE, IN’ WRIGHT COX'S SUBDIVISION OF MOUNT PLEASANT, WITH SMALL FRAME HOUSE THEKEON AND LOTS IN “MONTELLO.” By virtue of a decrve and supplemental decree by the Supreme Court of the District of Colum! Equity cause No. 10270 (Peters vs. we will offer for sale Tespective premises, in Brookes, et al), at public suction in front of the ‘DNESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF PEBRU- AIM, ALD. 1500. at HALF PAST FOUR OOLDCR P. M., lots numbered 133 and 135, in square numbered 5, In the vi “Montello,” as the same ree And 1310 Stist nws between 8 an Oate,_Jad-m Mux M. J. Prasxor 1 F st. (Mrs. Harrison's. FINE FRENCH HAIR GOODS. Also, A special selection in SHELL, AMBER AND DULL JET ORNAMENTS. SHAMPOOING. Hair Dressed and Bangs Shingled. | iy Dress SHIELDS ARE T ‘HE BEST. jufactnred Brooklyn Shield Co., 2, Sold by all leading dry-goods houses in the Unil States ocatted) FISCHER'S DRY CLEANING ENT AND DYE WORKS, 906 G st. Ladies’ and Gen: nents of all kinds cleaned an@ Dyed without being ripped. | Ladies’ peci: re hirty-five years’ experience, Tolerate.” Goods calied for snd delivered: Aue er eld _PIANOS AND ORGANS. _ Saxprzs & Srannax, DECKER BROS.. WEBER, FISCHER and PIANOS. | Sold on accommodating terms and Special atteution le for called to our new sty! pera ESTEY OBGANS| Two hundred and four thousand @04, ‘Estey organs have been tnade and sold. Lvecymboet a ferred organ for Home, Church, Chapel, snd use. Hi Estey organ for $75. mouthly payments. Call and examine. SANDERS F st. 1a 12 EFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE sue THE Krakaner Pianos, the Piauow and Burdett at 407 10th st. nw. UMN, ity Practical Piano Maker, KK NNN a RFE KK NNN AA x K K NNN A EER PIAN UNEQUALED IN TONE, TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP ae AND DURAB 4 Special attention of “Purchasers” is invited to their “New Artistic Styles,” finished in designs of HIGH= EST DECOMATIVE ART. Piauos for teut. -HAND PIANOS. — A large sing almost every well-known make in ths i ¥ ll be closed out at es. SPECIAL TNDUCEM NTs tered both im prices and in terms.which will be on MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS when demred. when. WM. KNABE & CO, ae z S17 Market Space, ALLET & DAVIS’ PIANOS; SUPERB IN TONE; I Perfect in workinanship; clogant in styles: low in price, Hine stock preparatory to the Holidays: st. LW. “u! atsl L. SUMNER, Agen et; gs SPECIALTIES. LECTRICITY—15 \YEAMS A SPECIALTY IN and meutsl disease, spinal ovariaa parslymis, tumors, sciatics, t ne Urals, chorea and diseases gen erally irs removed. Stricturescured. Static elec- tnaty, through clothing. Dr. L. 8. NICHOLSON, 604 [2th st.nw, , MULLER, S28 13TH ST. N.W, TREATS hronic Affections ot the Eye, Ear, Throat Di Catarrl Om ours, 9-12; 2-5, Sunday, from 10to2 =~ —_———————— NOTARIES PUBLIC. Cate at Cheers E BEALL W321 F ck nw. ‘inoBice trom vom worn al H LINDERCORNS, eee on eu corns. pain. Em ated 2 uf rt tothe feet, 1c at Drugpiste Hassom 20, N.Y. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC From its combination of valuable: superior of Gir in the cure of aia and. Bowel discrdery ad is inal ‘oe ———. ‘se it without ve Coug! histis, Asthina, Weak 7 “wien UINA-LAROCH AN INVIGORATING TONIO, ST., N. ¥. Poor, Foolish Men.