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6 PRIMITIVE CULTURE. Woman’s Important Share In the In- dustrial Arts. Otis T. Mason, in the Antiquarian. The first human beings were wandering savages, naked, and without a bome. The first houses were rock shelters, caves, woven boughs and undressed skins. The very first picture of a refuge from storms, cold, wild beasts and savage foes. Now, why thisembryo home? Do you not see that maternity, child- life riod of helpless dependency first sug- gesta the home, where the curtain rises on woman <rrayed for her role of industrialism that is to transform the face of the earth? Let us follow the savage women through her daily cares, in order that we may comprehend the significance of her partin the play. The slain deer lying before her cave, or brush shelter or wigwam, shall be the point of departure in the inquiry. She strikes off a sharp flake of flint for «knife. By that act she becomes the first eatler, the real founder of Sheffield. With this knife she carefully removes the skin. little dreaming thagshe is thereby making herself the patron saint of all subsequent butchers. She rolls up the hide,then dresses it with brains, smokes it, curries it, breaks it with implements of stone and bone, with much toil and sweat, until she makes her reputation as the first cur- rier and tanner. With fingers weary and worn, with needle of bone and thread of sinew, and scissors of flint, she cats and makes the clothing for her lord and her family; no sign is over the door, but within dwells the first tailor and dressmaker. From leather espe- cially prepared she cuts and makes moccasins for her husband, which to his speed add wings. Compared with the tardy progress of her bare- footed man in the chase, they are indeed the Winged sandals of Hermes, and she is the aboriginal St. Crispin. Out of little scraps of fur and feathers, supplemented with bits of colored shell or stone or seeds, she dresses dolls for her children, makes head-dresses and toggery for the coming dance, adorns the walls of her squalid dwelling. creating at a single pass half a dozen modern industries—at once toy-maker. milliner, modiste, hatter, uphol- sterer, and wall-decker. ‘THE UNIVERSAL COOK. Of the carcass she makes the daintest food for all. If Prometheus brought fire from Heaven in a dried reed, or the woman's husband evoked fire from the dried fire-drills, she at least on her weary back brought fagots from the forest to preserve and utilize the flame. She was at first and is now the universal cook, rving food from decomposition and doub- i the longevity of man. Of the bones at last she fabricates her needles and charms. Or, we may foliow our heroine on another er- rand. From the grasses around her cabin she constructs the floor-m: the mattress, the sereen, the wallet, the sail. She is the mother of all spinners, weavers, upholsterers, sail- makers. Counting and varying stitches and adding bits of black, blue, red. and yellow on her textures. she becomes the first decorative artist. she invents the chevrons, herring-bones, frets, and scrolls of all future art. To the field she goes with this basket or wallet strapped across her forehead. By the sweat of her face she earns her bread and becomes the first pack animal that ever bent under a burden in the world. I never see a train of freight cars creaking along that I do not seem to hear ‘THE MOAN OF THIS FIRST COMMON CARRIER. Art has caught her portrait as her gait be- came more erect and has given us the Carya- tides. Home she comes with her load of acorns roots, seeds, &c., and proceeds to crush them in a mortar or to roll them on a stone slab. Here she appears clearly as the primitive miller, barring the unrighteous toll. Or, per- chance she lays her seeds in a flat tray and by help of the wind or a hot stone removes the chaff. Here begins her first lesson in thresh- ing. The meal cooked on a fiat stone. made into porridge, or stewed with the flesh of the | slain deer, attests the handiwork of the first j baker. Perhaps, witha stick, hardened and pointed in the fire, she digs the roots from the earth, or clams from the sand. or tears away troublous weeds from useful plants, or digs a hole and drops the seeds of pumpkins, gourds or maize therein. While we watch her working we are looking at the first gardener. farmer and nurseryman. It may be thaton some lone- | ly plain or alluvial river bank there is no e| to shelter her and her babes. How long will it | take this aforetime basket-maker and leather- worker to devise a shelter of grass or skin and | become the architect primeval? It was at first | discovered that clay would hold water, that dried clay would cement rocks together, and that fire and clay would make pottery. ' The primeval woman was not a potter. It was not until near the polished stone age that she be- came the pristine plastic artist. This is tr however, that every form, decoration, and function of pottery were invented by women. I could never understand why the climax of this art of arts, exclusively woman's own art, should have been entirely abandoned by her in its highest forms. * s iy gentle sisters, in your homes of comfort, who with dainty fingers embroider innumera ble forms of things inanimate and animate on { textures wrought by steel, listen to the story that down the ages comes. Long. long before men had time to spin or weave, with nature's thread of grass or pine root. bast or palm leaf. | osier or rattan, there arose most skillful and dainty weavers. unparalleled embroiderers. All your geometric figures. the meander. scroll. | honeysuckle and many others unnamed. whose beauty never fades, are milleniums old. She | who rocked the cradle of our race, or hung it on the nearest bough for the winds to rock. who ersoned the first music of tenderness, who inseribed the history of p e art soft ciay. and invoked Prometheus to imperishable, she. with needle ne floss from nature's distaff, painfully stu out all those lines of beauty which delight and which gave birth to the science of geome. try. MAN'S WORK AND WOMAN'S WORK. in the struggle for existence and exaltation which takes place among many occupations, as among individuals and species, militancy vo | Jonger demands all man’s waking moments. ‘The arts devised by women are in the ascend. ancy, and the man militant has glorified them by his co-operation. Her very ancient digging- stick is nowa plow; her rude carrying-strap over her aching forehead is now the railroad train; her women’s boat, the ocean steamer; | her stone hand-mill, the costly roller-mill: her simple scraper for softening hides, the great tanneries and shoe factori her distaff and | weft-stick, the power-loom; her clay and smooth pebbie. the potter's wheel; her sharp- | ened stick and bundle of hairs all the apparatus of the plastic and pictorial arts. In all this man’s work and woman's work are woven and intertwined like the threads of a beautiful tapestry, in many places undis-| tinguishable im the vast design. peratiesartanit Turning the Tables. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A woman who applied for a place as cook with a family in this city was subjected to a very searching examination as to her abilities and habits by the lady of the house. At last the latter asked the woman: “Do you drink?” ‘The woman replied with quiet dignity: “No, ma'am; but judging by what I'veseen inservice I a ask you that question.” to explain herself the woman con- tinued: “In both of my last places my em- ype drank to excess, and I fea a dog's life consequence. I do not mean to enter a house where the mistress touches a drop of mor.” ‘his was turnin g the tables aad with a vengeance. Enjoying Single Bliss. From the Lowell Citizen. Ethelberta—“Oh, Gustavusysuppose I should | die and go to heaven and then you should die and go to heaven? What would be the first thing you would do” Gustavus—*Ask for you, my angel.” (‘They kiss but once after this, but it lasts from 7:30 to 11:0 p.m.) ae Sere The Oid Way a Good One. ¥rom the Richmond Dispatch. “The school-house of the future will make | steamer Carondelet, libeled by the Ha; ‘and apples of gold. | expression of fr 1S HE THE WHITECHAPEL FIEND? Some Evidence Connecting the Dundee Murderer With the London Crimes. The horrible murder of a woman in Dundee, Scotland, it is now said, was undoubtedly com- mitted bya man named W. H. Bury, the wo- man’s husband. Bury was aresident of White- chapel, London, and his antecedents, which have been traced, suggest that he is probably “Jack, the Ripper,” and that he is subject to fits of unconscious murder mania, The post- mortem examination held on the body of the Dundee victim proved thatthe woman had first been strangled, and that her body had then been mutilated. the abdomen being ripped open and the legs and arms twisted and broken. Bury says that he left Whitechapel three weeks ago. He refuses to say why he left there, and acknowledges that he had no business re- quiring his attention in Dundee. . He says that he and his wife drank fheavily last night before retiring, and that he does not know how he got to bed. Upon awaken- ing, he says, he found his wife lying upon the floor, with a rope around her neck. Actuated by a sudden mad impulse. for which he cannot account, he seized a knife and slashed her body. Upon reason returning he became alarmed and hastily crushed the body into the ebest in which it was found, thinking to fly and make his escape. He found, however, that he couid not leave his wife’s remains, and he finally resolved to inform the police. The theory of the police officials is that Bury’s wife knew of facts connecting him with the East End atrocities and that she took him to Dundee in the hope of preventing a recur- rence of the crimes. a2. Anything to Beat Gov. Church. THE DAKOTA CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY GOES ON. The war between Gov. Church and the Da- kota legislature is still on. There were several measures proposed by different members as a means of defeating the governor by securing his immediate dismissal from his position, but the leaders of the honse considered them to be | unadvisable. However, a resolution was adopted ly that no communication foreign to business of legislature and territory shall be read to the house, and speaker and clerk are inade sole judges of what reports shall be re- ceived. The avowed purpose of the resolution is to prevent the governor from making an- other sueh attack as on Saturday, when he “went for” the legislature and his on prede- cessor without gloves. ‘The feeling in the mat- ter grows more bitter all the time, and there is once more some strong talk of an adjournment until the successor_to Gov. Church shall have been sppointed. This action had about been given up until the recent engagement, and now the republicans in the house and council are willing to do almost anything to defeat Gov. Chureh. ——--0ee. Supporting M. THE SCRUTIN D'ARRONDISSEMENT BILL PROMPTLY ADOPTED BY THE CHAMBER. In the debate on the scrutin arrondissement bill in the French chamber of deputies yester- day Premier Floquet said he had been a sup- porter of the serutin de liste, but had renounced his advocacy of that system in the face of the sentiment of the country, which was now man- ifesting itself strongly in favor of scrutin @ar- rondissement. They were, he continued, in the presence of a conspiracy of party coalitions and pretensions founded on treason. They must thwart the electoral conspiracy while waiting for the power of the law to foil the conspiracy of the left. The chamber then agreed to proceed with the discussion of the articles of the scrutin arrondissement bill, 2! of which were after- ward adopted. The members of the right de- manded that the final vote on the bil! whole be an open one, each deputy declaring his vote from the tribune. This was agreed to. ‘The bill was passed by a vote of 263 to 222. ‘fhe chamber then adjourned until Thursday. pont —— Liberty’s Statue in Danger. THE POWDER STEAMER CARONDELET FINED $300 FOR ANCHORING TOO NEAR. ‘The New York Morning Journal says n consul, has gotten herself in no end of diffi- culties. Besides being detained. she incurred the displeasure of Collector Magone. who fined her owners #300 for having anchored in too close proximity to Liberty Island with explo- sives on board, and also for neglecting ty hang outa red flag, the customary signal of warn- ing. In view of the powder contained in the Carondelet’s hold it was deemed best to re- move her to a safer anchorage, and Satarday the revenue cutter Manhattan weht down the bay and escorted her to a new haven a mile south of Liberty Island.” THE VESSEL IN CHARGE OF A UNITED STATES MARSHAL. patch from New York last night says: The Carondelet is now lying within the anchor- ge for explosives with three officers of the United marshal in charge. said to-day that on Thursday d, a tug-boat. p alongs sfer the explosiv . after the vessel rying a quan- ide the Carondelet. ‘aptain of the tug that the charge of the away toward Jersey Ci oo — False Sympathy. From the London Queen, BS Letters of condolence and congratulation. if written from the heart, are 4 But written for form's sake, they are no better than so many little pellets of painted wood, without life or mean- ing. They, too, are things which must be done because of rule and law, but things which have no power in them either to soothe or to rejoice. And funeral wreaths, and wedding presents, sent out of politeness, not from real feeling. what a mass of folly! ‘That funeral, not sovery | long ago, where the flowers sent weighed two tons—could any one who had the smallest love f flowers bear to hear of the waste, the sacri- fice? Bloodless. certainly, but a sacrifice xs senseless as that of the barbarous chief who has his horse and his dog, his wife and his slave shot by the side of his grave, that their souls might bear him company in the cloudy land to which ke has gone. And wedding presents! | Fifty years ago they were for the most part of papier-mache—abominations of every kind, with flaring colored flowers eked ont by bits of mother-of-pearl. But fashion has gone further field and into richer regions since then, and gold and pearls, silver and diamonds are the ordinary gifts of th endowed to the wealthy. These two things—faneral flow- ers and wedding presents—have become ut- terly conventionalized, and are no longer the ndship or sympathy. Let them go—save when the tender prayer, the loving thought. the heartfelt smile, the tear that is as a drop of one’s own life’s blood ac- companies them. =a ms , Dancing that is Wicked. From the Waterbury Republican. An eachange asks if waltzing is wicked. Some waltzing is. When a man steps on his partner's dainty little feet every other second, does not keep time with the music, attempts to hop while his partner glides, digs his hand into the middle of her back, involves his extremities in such a maze of confusion that he can't tell his right foot from his left, bumps his knees into his companion, and collides with every couple that comes near him, it must be admitted that waltzing is wicked. How fortunate it is for some men that they are not born quadrupeds. If they have so much difficulty managing two legs. how much more fearful and wonderful would their dancing be with four legs.to ab- sorb their attention. —+ ee Mrs. Wanamaker’s Charities. From the Philadelphia Times, If Philadelphia's merchant prince, John Wanamaker, succeeds to the Secretaryship of the Navy, Mrs. Wanameker will fill the trying position of social successor to Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Wanamaker was Miss Brown, daughter of provision for bodily training,” says Prof, Mac- Alister. The school-house of the past used to make provision for bodily training —that is, the Old-fashioned schoolmaster used to make the average pupil hop around pretty lively. ~paaanae The Boulangers Make-Up. From the New York Weekly. Gen. Boulanger—*1 have changed my mind about getting a divorce from you.” Mra. Boulanger—“And why?” “I hear that a person named Napoleon divorced from his wife, and people are com- him with me. I do not wiah to follow example of so unimportant an indi _ see got vidual.” Enlightening the Young Man. From the Chicago Tribune. ‘ Hankinson (admirer of Miss Garling- house)—“How calm and stately Miss Garling- house looks! I think I have not seen her smile this evening. Miss (dearest ser peat! 8 “Yes: Baw ew Baap on Laid ned B on the cheeks. her husband's partner in business. She is a woman of abounding charity and has alwa: been more interested giving comfort to t than in devoting time to social pleasures. Those who know her here speak of several large and notable charities of Philadelphia which are the tangible work of her benevo- lence. She is very entertaining all her friends say will perform hay files in the hosy italities of the cabinet circ ————eee re A Moral Duly Pointed. pa trio of hun- ters never went out ona Sunday hunt as were Alva Stuck, Geo, Hadden and Al Marshal Purcell | ad attempted | United States marshal had taken | and the tug steamed | drops of balw | LATE FOREIGN NEWS. Judge Lambert Tree, the American minister to Russia, and his wife, left Berlin Monday for Brussels. A Berlin dispatch says: The resumption here of the sittings of the conference for covered Samoa will ly be delayed weeks await She axrival of = special commis- sioner, who, it is expected, will sent from Washington, Emperor William has officially notified Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, that he does not desire his presence in Berlin cither in connec- tion with the settlement of the affairs of his father. the late Prince Alexander, of Hesse, or any other business. The French chamber of deputies has ap- — an additional convention relative to 6 eoge of postal orders between France and the United States. ; It is reported that the leading financial houses of Paris are negotiating with the object of forming a new combination to complete the Panama canal and prevent it passing into the hands of foreigners, General Boulanger has postponed his in- tended electoral tour through Corsica and Al- geria until April. He will be accompanied on ‘the tour by several members of the chamber of deputies, The Soudenese have evacuated Handoub. They"destroyed the town by fire. Pasteur declares that the story published in the Paris Figaro of February 5 about the mi- crobes of croup and diphtheria being isolated and thus harmless and no longer engendering asphyxia and paralytic symptoms to he utterly without foundation. Drs. Roux and Jerse n, who, according to the story, have been meking experiments on this subject, also categorically deny the story, no such experiments having been made. Emperor Francis Joseph and Empress Eliza- beth arrived at Pesth Monday. Their majesties will remain in Pesth two weeks. Immense crowds lined the route taken by the imperial party to the palace. Monsignor Prokopios, primate of Greece, died Monday of heart disease, The chamber of deputies adjourned as a mark of respect, and the queen and princesses carried wreaths to the house of the dead primate. ‘The ezar has declared his approval of Count Tolstoi’s measures for the reform of the local government, but has ordered that they be snb- mitted in detail to the senate for debate. This, it is believed, will result in the rejection of the measures, clause by clause. At the consistory yesterday the pope nomi- nated for the cardinalate Monsignori Macchi and Dannibale and the archbishop of Catania. him from reading his allocution, but it will be published to-day. The German private schools for the children of the nobility in Courland, one of the Baltic provinces, will be closed by order of the Rus- sian government. The London Daily News’ correspondent at Nice says that Mr. Balfour’# methods of coer- cion are much discussed by leading English politicians and statesmen who are wintering in the Riviera, It is reported that Lord Harti: ton has spoken strongly on the matter. Livels debates are expected during the coming session of parliament. The eleventh game in the chess tournament at Havana, between Steinitz and Tschigorin was won by the latter, making his fifth vic- tory. é The committee of the French senate yester- day discussed a measure providing that persons statements shall be summarily dealt with by the correctional tribunal. M. Guyot-Dessaigne, the minister of justice, said he regretted that urgency was not demanded for the measure. In consequence of the minister's remarks the committee, by a vote of 192 to 63, agreed to grant urgency for the bill, which was after- ward passed, A shock of earthquake was felt in Naples yes- terday. Vesuvius is again active. Feature of the Mind Cure. IT MAY POSSESS WONDERFUL POWER, BUT IT COULD NOT HEAL A DYSPEPTIC. An Auburn parson, skeptical as to the mind cure, contributes to the Lewiston Journal the following anecdote, which he declares to be the actual experience of one of his personal friends: This man had been troubled with dy: for a long time, and had tried various r unavailingly. hy don’t you try the mind cure?” asked his wife, who was a believer. “Pooh!” “At any rate, it will do you no harm.” “I don't take a bit of stock in it.” “You might try it just to please me, if for no other reason, I should think.” Atlength the man—Joans, I will call him— yielded to his better-half's importunities, as a good husband should have done, and went to | Boston to see a mind-curer. - He was received ina barely furnished room by a large woman, and told her what his errand was, “Please take off your coat,” said she. He obeyed. “And your vest.” Off went the vest. She pointed toa broad wooden bench with- out any back. Now.” eaid she, “I want you to sit down on bench, with your back against mine, for minutes, Brace firmly against me and keep your mind perfectly passive. Think of | absolutely nothing.” treatment went on. Joans found that to keep his mind vecantand inactive was more easily said ‘Thoughts would keep popping in, He rapidiy grew uneasy, The five minutes seemed to be | half an hour in passing. “That will do.” said the woman, finally. * How do you feel now, sir?” “Feel? I feel like a confounded fool,” said Joans, Toothpicks. From the Boston Transcript. “L. P.” desires of the Listener that he shall lead a reformatory crusade against the tooth- pick, and asks: “Can it not be truly said of the toothpick, like tobacco, that the decline of good manners is owing to its use? How is will s00n be, if it is not already, a national dis- grace. Iwas atasmall country hotel where | we were like a family. ‘Two Englishmen ktopped a few days. After dinner, as we still lingered at the table, some one passed the toothpicks; indeed, I believe they were on the table. ‘Al i oue of the men, taking one. I could not blame him, and I could not protest there, but I wanted to scream.” The Enghshman was very near right in assuming that the placing of toothpicks upon the table isan American cus- tom. It is an exceedingly unpleasant custom, and is, fortunately, the Listener believes, disap- pearing before the progress of good breeding. (Good breeding, by the way, is not n modern improvement.) But it is, nevertheless, exceed- ingly common. There is no effect without a cause, and, no doubt, the American abuse of the hogerg ert goons to the excessive preva- lence of dental caries among the American people. But there are some forms of disease that are worse than other forms. and though it may require a certain amount of stoicism to dispense with toothpicks on all occasions, it is a degree of stoicism which is due to our fellow- beings. ‘4 -coo—_____ One Dozen Fair Bicyclists. TWELVE GIRLS RACING ON WHEELS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. Twelve girls started at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the bicycle contest at the Madi- son Square garden, New York. Their names are Hilda Suallor, a Swedish girl; Jessie Woods, Kitty Brown, Jessie Oaks, Elsie Von Blumen, the well-known champion; Luln Hart, Maggie McShane, Lottie Stanley, Helen Bald: win, Hattie Lewis, Louise Fox, the “New Jer- sey Butterup,” and Louise Armaindo. The race was started by Tony Pastor, ‘The first acci- dent of the race hay dat 4:27 p.m. Miss Su- allor slipped her foot from the pedal and Miss McShane caught her wheel in the machine, Miss McShane was thrown against the railing, and Miss Brown, who followed, fell upon her. Miss McShane added to the excitement b: fainting away. She was carried from the trac! and did not reappear for 15 minutes. Midnight score: Stanley, 90; Armaindo, 88; Baldwin, 87; You Blumen, 81; Woods, 80; Sual- star Lewis, 70; Hart, 62; Oakes, 60; Brown, At 11:45 Miss Si succeeded in passing Armaindo. Two peg ten Miss Armaindo was seen to reel. Her trainer it her. fainted away and was carried off the track, The condition of the pope’s health prevented | publishing slanderous and offensive personal | e man sat down, she sat down, and the | than done. | the abuse of the toothpick to be stopped? It) this an American ‘custom?’ said | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889, i t i | he must not get into the habit of desultory read- | good out * GEETLEMEN'S GOODS. _ WHAT AND HOW TO READ. Suggestions by Librarian Saunders, of the Astor Library. From the New York Independent. ‘The number of books already published is 60 great and the increase is so constant that it is not sufprising young students of litera- ture seek advice on the subject of how and what to read. In round numbers, I suppose there are about 25,000 new books published in the world each yesr. A single library in Paris is said to represent abont 150,000 acres of | fry, ERAULEIN Ni printed paper. The British museum has | June. | EDUCATIONAL. YW ASIONGTON ConsERV: OF MUSIC, St. a ies oor ie advantages. 0. B. BULLAMD, Director," flisin HORTHANT IN VEN SIMPLE LESSO: Soo a ft eataea, Ciage Had school Acme PhonoeTapQ Fw TING. DEA CHARCOAL AND \t by Miss ‘a student of the suede Ee Schools; 12 Temsons for #4 450.0 PARENTS DESIRING TO SEND DAUGATERS TO first-class School in Germany. 4 ¥ NERF, Huth School eich for par for European trip prov! weided sin $9-Lim G. T. Kex TAILOR 414 OTH STREET nearly the same amount, and its book shelves BALCH'S CIvit senvick institee. 1207| H, D. Bann would stretch a distance of nearly forty miles. forall examinations. Election weeht and cone IMPORTER AND TAILOR, De Quincey, in his day, said it would take one | Positions carefully revised; highest references. f43in ” R OF = UNIVERS: Piss the honor to infogm you that his NEW GOODS over 2,000 years to read through either of these ASTER 0) —. Lp aye Just arri sist PORE two libraries should he do nothing but read. | folnt, allege. Formerly tage Phgeed | estalinmee —_ In the midst of this literary superabundance | Hite" —— MAURY in 1221 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. thority of Emerson, hat not more chan wix-of | FUSCA; "BED GREED OL TW MALI | mun? Eaten BS. the 25,000 books published each year are really | Uniy., vate tutor i a ——— — = worth reading. Readers will also draw conso- | 0defn languages. 003 16th st-n.w. “jal L-zav ____RATLROADS. _ lation from the thought that the more books COR. 7TH SINESS COLLEG! = —— founded 1864. Locat IEDMONT AIR LINE. there are published the greater is the need for pat copsnguaais soem Mek Schedule in eect February 10th, 1889. condensations = ker and that excel- — = 50,000 young i! have been trai | 8:30 A. M.—East Tenn. tH Delt y for angrrenton, lent books of that class are from time to time | {OF business in the Spencerian G of America. | Ville, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Stations r “ ry . Ey ioderate, ‘hibu being published in science, history and biog- | (curses: ‘Business Course, Sharthendaet Tern | Knoxville, itowe, Moutgomery. and New Or: ae i ions | coiling and Oratorss Palace reethod Pines | ag pupae Slee diy for Wanewoe a cannot hope to offer any new suggestions on, Iustteted oj 7 Wille, Stations Ghee ‘Bouts, | nouncements, free. and Oratory, met! furnished with competent employ A A. ‘x on this os and interesting subject. Some valual le guide-books to courses of study HENRY 'C. SPENCER, LL, 3 Daw TO, Rabel, and general knowledge have been written by | F{RENCH LESSONS —MADAME CHEVREMONT, Ghatlott Gotu ke Aususta, Atlante, Birminyg- very ‘competent men,and I can do but little Divlomée de TAcaiéase de Paris, Special clansed ett Moutromery, New Grice ekaeand Calera, more than emphasize some of the wise sugges- | $F child Eyening classes for adults. Ad- | cars Atlanta to M Pullinan Sleepers Mont: tions they have made, The best books that | Z™2° EESSONS MISS CLARA Hanae | ate Ne, Seat aud Mann "Bondo Biccrrs have been written on this subject are, in my | PTANO AESSONS — Mi MARRIBOR, | Siseper Greensboro te bis ond AGrusta, “Solid opinion, the Rev. Dr. Noeh Porter's, Perkin’s, 20-5 1234 12th st.nw. | 2s ee —_—. Does not connect for heatley’s and Carlyle’s address before the Dp" @ AND PAINTING—INSTRUCTION IN | 80 PM bails, except @anday, for M, | students at the Edinburgh university. Py- every branch and for all agea, private or in Strasburg and intermediate stations" | croft’s “Course of English sper a poy Reh el re Boia end Chats eaprves Dally, vie aL nchbare in 1450, was one of the first books of this kind | 504 Est. rome Brsstot ahd Chattanoo ein) pers and is still one of the best. Potter's “Hand- | 9 rra5ERNA V_HODENSTEIN: SOPRANO GAY. | PU et Memphis aud thence to Arkanses book for Readers and Students,” published by | MU is TRSAY,RODENSTEIN, SOPRANO, HAV- coj80 P. M—Westorn Express Daily for Manatens, the Harpers in 1858, is another guide to good | covcerts ee. A nite. nant af puptis wiltsiwo be | CalPeYes, Orr charioten ail, Jouiare, Cicine reading which was very popular in ite aay. ; Peis ; cerene 1S ni ee me *e rags There are certain famous books which all 4 NG OF ELOCUTIC 2 -.—Southern Express D: for Lynch- well-informed persons are presumed to have | api Preipal’ tone tal aay Noninsl PeeS | bum, Renviis, Heletey ashore, Chasotte Golem read. ‘ts of such books have been given by | sion fully tanght. STAMMERING Thorcuchly | jo Sleeper the different writers on the subject of reading: | cured. References to patro: Jas | * Via Atlanta and Mont: it will be interesting to reproduce some of | KT them. Emerson classes as favorites: Froissart’s “Chronicles,” Southey’s “Chronicle of the Cid,” Cervante ally femoirs.” Rabelais, Montaigne, Izaak Walton, Evelyn, Sir Thomas UDENTS’ LEAGUE, ILD 1317 Fet. Day and Evening classes, Drawing nd Painting in Oils and Water color from life. Classos for beginners. | Instructors—A. G. Heaton, E. C. Mes- ser. DoW, Gill, W. H. Holmes, and 8. Jerome Uhl we in Sleeper Washington to Augusta, ue. ‘Trains on W ington 9:00 ALM. i vston and Obi y excent Daily: arrive Round Ail etuirning leave Round Hill AM. Daily BM. Daily excep Sunday, arriving Washingt 130 jo 830 Browne, Aubrey, Sterne, Horace Walpole, Lord | )WARD C. TOWNSEND, A end 3:2 -M. 3 °. m 5 trains from the - Clarencon, Doctor Johnson, Burke, Lamb, | Strect deep) bre the eye erate opatorieal and | Heat esata ene he, South via, Charlotte, Dun. Landor and De Quincey. Among the best | Pramatic acta {7 tothe ee sa | PON AE AGS [Moat Penuesee, Bristol and Low. books ie names certain atitobiographies, as'8t, | Gr. JouN's COLLEG: APOLIS. Mi = Ch; wae nee Augustine's “Confessions,” Benvenuto Cellihi's | SS "hight acpartuentenid tare pore atuay, rlacatst 10:15.A°8 Se “Life,” Lord Herbert's “Memoirs,” “Menioirs | SPECI ALPES OS aE TO ~ ee een and information of the Cardinal de Ponsseaw's “Confes- | THe PhEPARATION “OF CANDIDATES YOR | syivanis avenue audet Prosser Station, Feneanine: ms.” Linneus’ * Gibbon’s, Hume's, nia Rail and B sts, JAS. L. TAVIA ‘THE NAVAL ACADEMY. For nptsloguce, address 2 M nklin’s, Burns’, Alticri’s, Goethe's and Hay- don’s autobiographies, Pycroft’s list includes *Esop’s Fables,” “The Arabian Nights,” “Robinson Crusoe,” most of the Waverley novels and plays of Shakspare: ident, THOMA! General Passeuxer Agent. S FELIS A. ¥. NHE GREAZ 4 PENNSYLVANIA ROUT. SOUTHWEST, DID SCE q . VERNON SEMINARY, 1100-1104—1116 M STREET Harrisbure, te ” AND 1128 11TH STREE’ iN EFFECT AS Ki Se Don Q ne mil ence Se eae shes T. | RAINS LEAVL. WASHINUTON gress, Manca of Wakefield.” Goldsmit! » | pqaRDISG AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG | "CORNER BIXIH AND Bote ETS “Deserted Vi y.” the voy- LADIES AND LITTLE GIRLS. LOWS: be Basil Hall's 2 : For Pittsburg and the West. Chicago Limited Express of | i 9 i. | . Thorough instruction in all branches in Pullinan Vestibuled Cars, at 9:50 aan. daily Past | | tra Sou With the best modern inethods. Commodious new Line, 9:50 a.m, daily, to’ Cinciimatt a ver’s Travels. schoo] building, heated by steam and having abundant vi leeping Cars from Pittsburg te anati, Joknsou’s sunlight end fresh air. For further information apply end Harrixbury to St. Louis: daily, exc Satur- | Joke to the Principal, Mrs. ELIZABE1H J.SOMELS.d1-sm | day, to Chicago, with Sleeping Car Altoona to Obie johnson, ae OLS GNOME, 1Aks RAMEE, caso. Western’ Express, at 7:40 The young render need scarcely be told that Acitcel ave thetarh Gourns ta Pach Blech Cars Wackiitgn to Chicaco ands ‘ nusic on the Piano, with daily'use of Techuicon Seuens tee Cotte ry As ; * le Sleepers for Louisville and Me . Paci x ' ing. Pyeroft in the preface to his book already | Harp, Guitar end Banjo, Special attention «iven to ress, 10:00 p.m. daily, for Pittelgure and the | mentioned. speaks of a young lady who. de- | bY Mony and thorough bass classes; also to vocal. West with throigis Siecher to Piitebuh, and FAQs voted a third part of her time to reading Rus- | — a BALTIMO} XD POTOMAC RAILROAD. sell’s ‘Modern Europe.” which she read at the Nommercial Branches, Ty pe-writiieg, For Hypie, Canandaigua, and ter, daily ; Sur But- rate of not less than fifteen pages an hour and rupid p . Low rates. Est, 188 tab and Nisare. daily, ¢ 0:00 p. sometimes more. Mr. Pyeroft asked her what ‘30. WOOD'S COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, oF WN eee ne Gat Wasluneton to Ro rt hwnsport. Lock Haven, and Elmira, at 9 Soa. 4a19-t0f2. —— satisfaction this meth¢ = ie . (PB! BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. | and she told him she that she did her dut: of reading gave her, happy in the thought that she kept her reso- Intion; that s as much as her friends ‘Terms bezin now, that cont er histories retained to b wd NT oe: 5% read. and thr she hoped one day to excel in lite- | 979 ______ — <a S| For Boston without chanee 5:00 p.mn. "i Tknow a young man who, actuated by | FWHENDS) SELECT SCHOOL A PRIMARY, IN: | For Brouipn, 34. st thous tram ton. motives," read the “Encyclopedia ists Tat ne eT feo Cay Willi USate of Brooklyn Amex, aifordinng | na” through in the same painstaking aa 2 one w. SIDWELL. Principal, a ferriage acrone ew cr ed —s A COMME 1A] COLLE ‘or Philadelphia, ‘0, 6-00, 11-00, and 11-40 oa mere mechanical rule A} School of Telegraph yand ‘Type-writing, Ban. 2-00, $4 00, and'11:20 p.m, | n never be of much ad- | 88, ¥- Rear City Post-Ontic Hichest | sty: 0, 4:10, 8:00, | 4 | ard Business College in America. diddy eq S , 10:0 a hited Express ' hould be systematic in | ped. ‘The largest and inost cominodious busta Paslor Cars, 9:40 3.1m, aud 3:45 pan. quiring knowledge, but, above the city devoted to business ith ‘Dining € ae : all things, he should be interested in what he | Sha 3 $00. S40 p50 reads, as Shakepeare ss 1k i ae 238 fit coes where is no pleasure ta'en; HA! RD GRADUA 9:00, and 11:20 p. sir, study what you most affect. A Gay enachae ost St a O11 Dr. Johnson's aay: to read the | weet p ~ 7:20am. and 4:40 pan. daily, | ii f | For Pope's Creek w except Sunday For Aunapolis, and 9:09 am. 12:05 and 4:40 yon daily, except Sunday, “Sundays, 9:00 a m, books you honestly felt The fact that y W curiosity to | _2¢29-Gmo_At Sanders & Stayman’ a ps Hi iN DA tor the reception o 06 Days and SATUMDAL lars, 1004 F si HOUSEFURNISHING Wan Pavers, Draarenrirs, of our ca) DRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG Rati- Wa AAD ALEXANDRIA AND WASHT <GTO8 The Tail of 2 Masti”. For Alexandria, 4 IT WAS TURNED TO THE LEFT AND THAT's HOW THE TRAMP KNEW ME WAS STUFFED. 1. $205, From the New Yor HOUSE AND FRESCO PAINTING, — oe oe | ‘ P. mi, woek days. 1 was the owner of a mastiff about as large REX FURNITURE POLISH. | For i mond and the South, 4:30, d 3:40 p.m. daily, excep: Su@ as a yearling calf; but one day he went the way Trains jeave Ak of ail dogs, and I employed a taxidermist to set him up in good s While this work THE P. HANSON HISS MANUFACTURING CO, 815 15th st. now. al1.3m | _Dattimore House, 217 | * = US, was being done the tramps began to pat in an | } en eactiioesiteas! | Ona erie of the fraternity got inside the yard. He had | not been dead two days before w a Som heteto and sation How they caught on T dont pre A full Line of ier. a7] Gen. Pus. Asent, Unt ws the way it worked, GAS COOKING STOVES KE AND OHIO RATERO cae | io Seve dule in effect Dec. 9th, 1888. When th came home he looked as ala it i jon from st slife, Wy standing him on the g arose bush any one looking over the gate would have sworn that “Jack” was alive and ready to tackle an intruder. During the first day as many as five tramps halted at the gate, tocka look, shook thelr heads, and passed ea’ and three more were scared off On hand aud for sale. et of New Jersey | Leave Washingt: 7 avenue and C st. For Chicago and Northwest, vestibuled limited ex- dail pi*press. 9:05 p. nats and St. Louis, express, dsily,3 and ureand Cleveland. vestibuled limited ex- mb31 WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. Press, dat PIANOS AND ORGANS. Soon after dinner a dilapidated pair, fresh Tu. fine instruments,” The Pease Pianos | from a long tramp. arrived, and as the first | Burdett Orguns, sold here since 15 years, als laid his hand on the gate, the second ex- | ft themselves.’ G. H. KUHN, Sole Agent, 40 claimed: ee 4 ' 0 go, Bill—there’s a dog!” : se fons between Washington and Balti. ‘Stuffed!” replied the first, as he opened the Saxpers & Sraymay. ‘Su ry a iS 224 gate. : | Pan. ‘ of = on DECKER BROS.. WEBER, FISCHER and ESTEY leave " Baltimos How dye know?” , PIANOS. Sold on accommodating terms aud for rent, 10, 6:20, 6:30.7 20,80 _, By the turn of bis teil. Ever see a big dog | Special attention called to our new style >. 10:30, 00. | ay tle his tailcarried to the left? Course ESTEY ORGANS.) = at Pa, he’s stuffed am, . 3 hundred and f «204, y . Igave the men a quarter apiece and then | orraus have been made apd og Bc Tv and ea | went out to look at the big dogs in the neigh- | ferred organ for Home, Church, Chapel, Se 8:30a%0. 4:35pm. Leave An- | borhood. Every one carried his tail to the right, | 88¢; Handsome 9-stop) Estey organ for Hasy 334 am, 12:05, 4:10, bam. ‘Sundays, | Call aud exatuine. SA Fst monthiy payments, ine. : ANDERS & STAYMAN, 1c, Ma. Indeed, nine dogs out of ten do, and that rag- ged and penniless old tramp was a closer ob- server than the taxidermist who had made a ag $5 stations only? | j for prircipal 7am. 4°10 pan, ‘or Stations on the Metropolitan Branch, +6: 10:10a.2m..61-15 pan. for f ? 4:35, and t3:30 pa > life study of posing specimens, Iwasso hit by | ee ob :3b, T1120 pee OOO it that I stored ines dog in the pare and fed I FALLET & DAVIS’ PIANOS ROOM a and intermediate stations, 17:00 pm, every tramp who came for the next three selected stock; low prices; easy teri train leaves Washi 5 ‘ | ct Sey Bg By ; : wes Washington on Sunday at }-15 months. pi - Srigure Marra: here ea ty Ast oC ape. topping at all stations on Metropolitan To MR, AND Mus, CHAMPERLAIN AT = reception was en at Glasgow K UK . evening in honor of Mr. and Mra, Joseph Fal | amberlain, Addresses were presented to kK i Mrs, Chamberlain on behalf of the Women’s Kk Unionist agsociations of Scotland. Mr. Cham- | berlain thanked the aristocratic gathering for the honor paid to himself and his wife. After some remark@on the relations between England and America, he said there never was a time when it was possible to recognize anything in PHILADELPHIA DIVISION For Philadelphia and Wilmington, | a ad UNEQUALED IN TONE, D DURABILI Special attention of “Purchasers” is invited to. their New Artistic Style: ed in designs of HI EST DECORATIVE ART. Pionos for reut. daily, 8:15 Dp. mi. iaffet Parlor Garson tos Sleeping Car on te Balti and “ pan. open at § p.m. mediate point 230 p. For inte Philudeiph hetween tt scogniee (¢ g SECOND-HAND PIANOS. — A large assortment pam. and 14:30 p.m. the shape of separate nationalities in America, | comprising almost every. well-kvown wake ie ae raing Jeave Philadelphia for Washington, daily, — oo country, in thorough repair, will be closed gut at very , * pau. aud 12:05 tisk | CANADIAN SrapaTHy ror O'Garex.—It is | Jew fixures. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS anee talled for and’ checwee ay 3 a j rumored in Ottawa that the liberals will intro- | ee NTHLY INST ag tu price and ie Sais genes ‘ou orders left at Ucket ‘Offices, G19 and 1531, duce in parliament a resolution deploring the treatment which Mr. William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, has received at the hands of the Clonnel prison officials. A conservative member, representing an Ontario constituency, SOULL, Pasa Agent, i ars, had also proposed to introduce a| JT HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THAT oa . Simllur resolution, He will confor with the | LD PROTHERS is the oldest established adveruis- | JYf't- VERNON VERNON) ~ ‘Lad: rae oa patie liberals, Coutideutiy cousult Dr. BROTHERS, 000 BYt sw, STEAMER WW. CORCORAN ————_or—___—_ Particular attention paid to all diseases peculiar to Vernon se inet Taney daily (except Sunday for Mt Tue Late Representative Burnes’ Succes- Indies, narried or sing - Forty years’ experience. River far down WGivmont, sor.-The democrats of the fourth Missouri congreasional district yesterday nominated on the second ballot Hon. R. P. C. Wilson, of Platte county, to fill the vacancy in the fifty- Bm Returning, reaches LL. BLAKR, Captain. Vernon snd at 10 o'clock about 3:30 p. LADIES WHO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF AN | _ #1 rienced female p should. br, WILSON, 1105 Park and 12th sts.'n. e. Ladies rey {OR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. . NEW IKON STEAMER “WARE: first Congress, caused by the death of James N. BR. LEON, : aed SATURDAYS ee ees SEAN: Burnes. D The Oldéet Hetabiished and uly Reliable Ladies | FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS. p.“ty touting at Maver Woman's Ricnt to Vore rx Caxapa.—Attor- | Can be consulted daily, 404 € st, between 43 and 6th | and‘ Leta nnat Mai "Conti with B aud Orie Weak ney-General Mowat, premier of Ontario, has ‘sts. uw. Shephei See sci . JOHN Dabo eee given a favorable assurance toa large deputa-| tion mules cominstion Sepees ore eegte: | CW. LDLEY. Manager. sats tion of ean com the eto —— Woman's } Office always open, fez-2w* = enfranchisement association, who desire wo- PHY! ALL MPLAIN’ ‘EA STEA man's suffrage extended to voting for members — 54 tne air 5 ee ———OCE NS = MERS.___ of parliament. He says their reasons are un- | deutial. Consul tree. HORT B TO LONDON, answerable, and that municipal woman's suf- | ¢7-6t" DK. HENKY J. TAPT, 1201 1ithst. nw. NOKDDEUTSCHER LLOYD 8, 8. CO, Steamers, Havre), Bremen, so, Elbe, Sate Feb, 16, Rien 2, "oa = ‘Trave, has worked so well in Canada as to justify AL xtension. ——_—__+e+____ Caxapa Lixexy To Back Down.—It isrumored NHOOD RESTORED H. BY USING A cure any case of nervous ood bee ne RS eee Pisce ta Gr ‘Fast on good authority at Ottawa that the dominion government will recede from its position in to the seizure of the American schooner \dgewater at Shelburn. N, 8., refusing to pay duty on repairs. Thi has been fully considered by the government. 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