Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1889, Page 3

FOR SALE—HOUSES. CITY AND DISTRICT. . feokes For iatiee ear cmapiee ‘Istand 15th. {m6}. THOS, E. WAGGAMAN, on, ‘ened on ‘FOE SALE BEST, on EXCHANGE—FOUR TWo- story and’basement press bricks, containing nine ‘and bath, wood mantels, open fire-Places, and in rear. ‘erms AE CUNNINGHAM. 400 F st. Apply to m6-Im" ‘T DAROAIR: AN INVEST- it. Three: Fok, SALE GREs’ cert aes papeed supose tehy Se enc, cand EVANS & CABUSI, 1224 F street. — Judicious Advertising MAGNIFICENT CORNER RESIDENCE, CREATES many a new business; ON MASSACHUSETTS AVE, ENLARGES many an old business; NEAR SCOTT CIRCLE. REVIVES many a dull business; Containing exer 20, srecions rooms, the petnctpel RESOUES many a lost business; GRAND ENTERT.: SAVES many a fejling business; on PRESERVE Smanya large business; ‘This is the finest Private Dwelling for sale in the SECURES tn any zi including grounser oe To “advertise judiciously,” use the columns of + Ses: ‘Tux Evaxrxo Stax, Everybody in the District reads it; and, in proportion to the returns it yields advertisers, ils rates are much the cheapest, porcini ncanasiern NATIONAL EDUCATORS. They Meet in Convention at the National Museum. down curbing, so as to remedy the insufficient drainage near the railroad lines in that section. The cost of this paving work will be paid, one- third by the city and two-thirds by the owners of real estate fronting on the street to be improved, e entire appearance of that en changed for Tax Fist Warr Orextxa.The new lessee of the Alexandrie fish wharf, Mr. Wm. Javens, has entered upon’ his lease, under his bid of last Saturday, and is getting Fishtown ready for the fishing season, Plat- forms sufficient to accommodate the business are to be laid and the wharf sheathed so as to drain into the river, but none of the fish offal will be allowed to be thrown into the 1305 sis ave. FOR SALE—LOTS. RES ar hr re mhé-6t ear FS Ss oe 25 feet front; {in rear: will sell either op both. mh6-st* 1419 New Sort se heath o, | 4 Fine nopr oF INTELLECTUAL-LOORING MEK— BALE—TWO Di BLE SHALLOW - | PRESIDENT CAMPBELL'S OPENING ADDRESS AND Fovains Detween Dang te two au kat bet THE WELCOME OF MB. HOLCOMB—PAPERS READ Capito Building. LOUIS P- SHOEMARBEC 920 F AND DISCUSSED—DELEGATES PRESENT. 2. pesrtag FXOR SALE—I AM A body of intellectual-looking men assembled B, hear 17th, $1.50. in the hall of the National museum this morn- 4055 by 1 at. near 17th, uproved by small ing. It was the meeting of the departthent of PETS by 128 fe: Lvtht; between Kand Sate: nw. | SUperintendence jot the National Ed ventional . , em . association, A ly hum. of conversation Baby looit, Sein et igteeen aaa sts., near | filled the hall as the members came and greeted Pot by apont 705 Tre 15th st, near Massachusetts | each tipi Pigs seo a a the a ave., 82. school rT, as presi of the associ nets tig reldeuce, 4a Oy 110 to BOT paved a tion, Fred M. Campbell, of Catan, On 125 ft., 16th st., near Scott's Circle, $3.75, | Might be called for this occasion, rapped for 30 by 103 fey Note near ot + 2. 2. order. The hall was filled, a number of ladies, mh2-6t 1300 F st,, 2d floor front, | Who are superintendents and principals of Fe SALE—ON WASHINGTON HEIGHTS—A | schools, appearing among the members, The Fate Elec Lot front ane STO ee Te | Commissioner of education, Mr. Dawson, was 80 cents. BH. T. LEWOLD, an interested listener at the morning session. 1300 F'st., second floor front, _| President Campbell, a young-looking man, with Fo SALE—100 LOTS IN EAST WASHINGTON, | ® black moustache and black side whiskers, at from 26 to 50 cents per square foot. 9 the opening address, He spoke as fol- we: . H. T. LETPO! mh2-6t 1300 F st. n.w., second floor —™ country for fertilizer, Mr. Javens was lessee pol: wharf in 1887 at $6.50, the price now pai ‘OR SALE—FINE BUSINESS PROPERTY ON 77H ‘be sold to LE—1726 MASS. new house, suitable Sato sac 3 fnforma: AVE., BEAUTIFUL for family wishing to enter- an mse. For Star mh2-6t PRESIDENT CAMPBELL’S ADDRESS. “As president for the year, I have the honor to call to order for its spring session the depart- ment of superintendence of the national asso- ciation of the United States, the officers and rey resentatives, in convention assembled, of the grand army of $12,000 public school teachers of our country; those whose office it is to conserve and to direct that most important factor of our national prosperity, the American system of free, non-sectarian, non-political public schools. “The scene witnessed two days ago in this with smaul | city may rel a drawn hither the great con- course of le wi onged t! an sia. 21%¢ feet front. | thoroughfares of the nations capital. Nay, na T te, cor. Seria ave. aud Steubeii st 190 | more than this; it is @ scene which may we OR SALE—BARGAIN TOTS ON COLUMBIA Heights. Fine cor. Lot on 14th nr. Co T5e.ft. lock 39, Columbia road, near 14th, b0c. ft. Kinieman st. near 14thy 490, per it, 25, and Lot 17, block 23, 40c. per ft. BEALL, BROWN & CO., 1321 F st. Notes.—Six or seven thousand people returned to Alexandria Monday eveninj from Washington, wet, but satisfied wit the sight of the inaugural procession and the new President. io town has during the time profited somewhat from the overflow of Washington, which filled the hotels and boarding houses, but it is thought that Alexandria’s receipts in consequence of the occasion will not exceed ten thousand dol- Jars, Enough has been shown, however, to de- monstrate how exceedingly desirable now is close connection with the capital, and the tendency of all the new movements now in rogress here is in that direction.—The eral of Mr, James Beach, who has carried on Fists for its © LIEBERMANN, 1303 F st. Lmh3-6t_STEIG! THE Mi PROMINENT ERS ON PENNA. AVENUE stores R SALE—1308 RHODE E it 12 ate 4 ISLAND AVENUE, ‘art “ JOR SALE—FINE HOUSE OF TWELVE ROOMS. 911 15th st. n. w.: newh mb2-1m_ BEALL, OWN Bona Fee eas owner is going away. 1307 F at. 2.we : parlor, library, and diny ssees’ ened bath-room 5 ; 750. cash OTH! ‘ORD, 1307 F st. nw. NEAR MopaiEn Trill be sold ete low LER & RUTHE! mbh2-6t" FOR 5: He with room Houses, F stand 7th st. cars; 7; Dear Toveland, peel xe EE Bice iP ‘bath, &e 3 aa ranwe, dc oog ‘per mont for. 5 WESCOTT & WILCO: Real Estate Brokers and Insurance Agents, Atetatiful residence on O sty near 12th; 3-story ‘bay-window brick: 11 bath; lot ee ie eas cad ding om alder Prise” “ghkG00 x, ‘Two desirtble bricks on P st.,6 rooms each; bat W st., near 14th st. 7 rooms and bath. Price +++ 83.250 Good improved lot, corner 11th and U sts., ata bar- Chreievon the “ustalment™ pian Price. 00 850 SCS 608 23d st.; 2-story, 6-room brick ; all m. i., 2,600 Being agents for Columbia Ins. Co., of Wi end The fo: ane, of Baltimore, all lines of “Insurance. For sny information about Ws our latest bulletin, apply or send _mbl-6t we are prepered to place : ~janasmanaiad WESCOTT & WILCOX, 1907 Pennsylvania avenue. the tin and stove business on King and Lee streets, took A re yesterday afternoon from his home on Duke between Fairfax and Royal streets. Mr. Beach is a native of this city, but has many relatives in Washington.—The March term of the county court of Alexandria county was opened at the Columbus street court house this morning by Judge Chichester.— The services of b Wednestny took place to- day at St. Mary’s (Catholic) church, accom- panied the blessing and distribution of ashes in the morning, and at three Episcopal churches in the afternoon.—The gx temp- lars of Golden Light lodge had a pleasant time last night, with literary and musical exercises at their lodge meeting, and several members were added to the organization——The child of Rey. Mr. Hart, of the Free Methodist church here, lost for a while in Washington, was found have centered the gaze of the world, Petty monarchs of petty kingdoms attained by strat- egy or by bloody wars, ascend their thrones with pomp and retinue and the gilded glitter of disp! ey, But grand in its simplicity is the ceremonial that quietly transfers the govern- ment of sixty millions of people from the hands —— | of one of their chosen rulers to another, Like 38c- | the ever-recurring miracles of the springtime and the dawn—mighty in its results, quiet in its roeesses—comes to our nation at stated times e crisis which, in other leas favored lands, is looked forward to with anxiety and foreboding. “It might seem that in the tance Pr iy a, a which has brought moist so many thousands of eager observers, a meeting like the present would sink into comparative insignificance, “But, gentlemen, it is the interests which we "Soe. 15e. P. MYERS & SON, 1420 New Yorx ave. R SALE—PERSONS CONTEMPLATING THE purchase g§real estate in Washington will do we Reel Satate Expert au pert an ; Tiv6-F STREET NORTHWEST. © Tnstranct Agent ‘Garden © Company, : and has reached her home here.—Lee eamp mal. phi, Pa Peele enae afore Aly made, this soene | will hold a special meeting to-night and con. PO sae- fay visible sign to the outward eye, far down | der some business relative to Col. McCabe's leoture and to the soldiers’ monument——A double railroad track the entire length of Union street is proposed.——The internal- revenue office of Deputy Collector S. L. Monroe, in this city, was examined rere by In- spector King, and everything found thoroughly correct, in the depths of mapper gong te stretches of prairie, highup on the slopes MUST BE SOLD. mountains, hidden in the heart of tiny seed, MOST VALUABLE PROPERTY ON MASSACHV- | quietly moving in the veins of northern oak * SETTS AVENUE, and southern vine, are those mighty forces OVERLOOKING THOMAS CIRCLE. noiselessly at work that shall by and by bring Lot 65 feet. Ee on the avenue and circleana , forth in perfected beauty the full-born glory contains over juare feet of ground, with width | of the year. Ground’ worth, 68 per foot. "Present inet “And so, all over our happy country, are the 16 brick house, renting tor €1,200 per ann’ influences silently working that make a free Nearly 3,000 feet of beautiful parking ; ornamental | government possible. In the hearts of little surubs. Fipes laid for fountains. Price, | children ay es the = of — K Ke triotism; in the veins of buoyant youth are Fuassiveneave | Rowing the enthusianm of Joyelty ant the am- Fa ee bition of lofty ideals, which have their source BARGAINS IN BUILDING LOTS only in a wise, and true, and universally diffused _ education. : “In thousands of school houses all over our land, wise and conscientious manhood, tender and eres womanhood has devoted itself to the task of nursing these seeds of virtue, of di- recting these currents of enthusiasm. “The cause must ever be greater than the effect. Under the dome of the capital, and in the chamber of the cabinet, the machinery of legislation does its work. But the real force lies far back, ir the development of brain force, and the training of will power, that gave us men capable of regulating affairs so complex and so vast. ‘Viewed in this light, our assembly is one of no small import; and its deliberations assume a dignity that cannot easily be overrated. “The convention isto be congratulated that it BLOCK | meets under such happy auspices. Its presid- to the _ valle; ne ee ere Pasteur and the Diphtheria Bacillus. From the London Telegraph. M. Pasteur has been asked bis opinion rela- tive to discoveries made by Drs. Roux and Yersin, who have isolated the bacillus of diph- theria or croup, aud communicated diphtheric affections to animals, with a view to obtaining & prophylactic for the eure of the fell disease which makes so many ravages in France, and especially in Paris. M. Pasteur believes that the remedy wilitake a longer time to find out than did the discovery of the possibilities of isolating the bacillus or microbe, which was comparatively easy. He thinks, however, that the two young doctors referred to have done enough to show that it will be possible to find a vaccine for the disease at no very remote period. The physiologist also mentions the ex- riments made by Dr. Jules Simon, of the ‘ick Children’s poe who found that the members of a family which left town for six months in the year were frequently laid up with diphtheria because they had the microbe of the disease in their rooms. After they changed their abode, sages | to the doctor's advice, they were never troubled by diphtheretic affec- tions. Dr, Simon, therefore, believes that MM. and C st. (entire square): Va. ave. and D st. (entire square); . V and Boundary sts. (entire square); hand D sta. ; Cor. r. 16th and Erie sts, (Meridian Hill); ‘ave., bet. 14th and 15th ata; ‘and 18th 5 HUYCK & CO, 1505 PA. AVE. LOT WITHIN 20 sq. foot. cc SALE — BARGAIN. | eee ELEGANT SPACIOUS RESIDENCE, FRONTING ON McPHERSON SQUARE, R SALE—ON NEW YORK AVE. N.W., BET. 8. 6th and 7th: 8-1 house; would Ww. 1 it from 25, FORD W. Roux and Yersin will be able eventually to find a means of making people proof against the disease even when dwelling in places haunted by that “ugly customer,” the bacillus of diph- eee. The Royal Widows of Europe. From the Paris Letter to St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There never were, I think, so many royal widows in the regal circles of Europe in exist- ence at one time as there are at present. Be- ginning witn Queen Victoria, the Empress Eu- genie, and the two German empresses, Augusta and Victoria, there are now Queen Christina of Spain, the Duchess of ried and, latest of all, the Grand Duchess Stephanie, whose aunt, the mad Empress Carlotta of Mexico, has never had on widow's weeds, as she is in daily expectation of the arrival at her present home of the Em- peror Maximilian. What a brilliant destiny that unfortunate prince threw away when he left the charraing shades of Miramus to run after the will-o'-the-wisp grandeurs of a vision- ary empire in the new world. He would have been now, by the death of his nephew, Prince Rudolph, the heir to the Aus. ayy ing officers are to be congratulated that the — OR LEA! FOR Jot opposite B. and 0. De willing response of the able men (and women, enna too) whose services they have solicited, makes Maui y; Sse tod tay bind REDFORD it possible to present a program containing Aa im _ | such rare prombse of interest and of profit.” SALE—CHOICE LOTS AT FOREST GLEN, MR. HALCOMB’S ADDRESS OF WELCOME. is mmnber foots Fal, bund howres a0! ‘The president then introduced J. W. Hol- 7-1 * 142336 F st._ | combe, the chief clerk of the bureau of Educa- FES Bea Cuaate PETE, QUARTER | ation, who in the course of an addres of wel- t 8, block 16, Columbia i Brown's | come referred to the recent inauguration events ee 7, Lot ll and spoke of the ine: of a great party Gacnurdes ie chastened, it is believed, feat and ennobled by the choice of the ent leader. He paid a brief tribute to the zd character and aims of Mr. Cleveland, and m spoke of the hos- Uiich would be acosrded to the members of the EN. wi wo accorded to the members ot 1e ‘To lstraners and the Public; Tbe to state that | association, He invited the delegates to visit con turnish first-class Meals, delivered to your | the bureau of Education during their stay in ot ot any post. ail orders promptly | this city. West-end Caterer, - ar genye to — se owe — be 513 137 & =| referred, was appointed by the President as a per je Island; Howland, Illinois; reon, Wis- 81 tos2. J. A DEWITT, rae jale- consin, and Howard. of Ohio. , ” THE I ‘AU GURATION. On motion of Mr. Marble a committee was vA directed to be appointed by the president to Fe SALE-OR | EXCH. TWEL Brick, 14214 vt f+ 252100 to 14 From Brick. tae bist ata. 20. room '& Houses, 306 and 308 C st. a ck Houses with stable on 2d gt street Meado: tear line. Frame wn,” side lot am d ata! f20-lm "THOMAS A. MITCHELL, 934 F st., Room 4. retgchten Teli iissted wide Geeta Ea ce 14.000 to $14,000. “(Ric'ssveral very fibe building lots, cheep, andon REDFORD W. WALKER; 1006 F st. FH SALE—THE HOUSE OF THE LATE Justice Wait C44 ite | cout er ore ll 16 roume ; el it im ite MES A: represent to Congress the needs of education | trian throne, and popular and beloved as he was, he would have been rapturously hailed as the future emporer by the nations under the sway of Austria, Napoleon III did his most fatal work when he lured the intelligent, ami- able Maximilian from his conjugal happiness and the brilliant possibilities of his future, to work out his own sinister designs, which were not for the aggrandizement of the unfortunate archduke, nor even for the regularization of French claims in Mexico. but which were simply veretmonal Hits | a8 far asit can be assisted by federal aid. He ae se ee Bre Sreaktisi. | aid in explanation that the reports of the edu- cn plan, commencing | cation bureau were delayed by lack of proper One Ee ge Sppropriation, and this defect, 4s well aa sthers, we ior piLiKG'& WHITE-Phops | could be brought to the attention of Congress by the committee. Lage a oe then began the considera- ol 1e YOUNG EADY WOULD LIKE TO EXCHANGE ‘THE PROG! dictation for short-hand with a gentlem - en eee 62, Gress GRAHAM or PITMAN, Star of mng.20 The first paper on “The relation of Psychology Ww. 3S, GEO.W, McELFRESH, AUTHOR. | to Pedagogice” was read by Nicholas M. Butler, | Covert acts of hostility against the United ized Private Detective Agency. Commitunications "| Si have carved you an empire out of a ‘uttended to and «irietly confident ‘Utes | the president of the college for training teach- |} ocx of silver.” was the remark of Napoleon to urs, W. WILLIAMS, Manager, 926 Fu.w. | ers, New York city. The discussion of this Ma: haltian wien the Jaten to tok rian r was led by D. L. Keihle, superintendent | Snr Tt wae nota waning ane tod Pr'publie instruction, Minnesota’ and W. i, | of him. It was not an supice but a sarcopha- n that the crowned Mephistopheles had hol- a log president of Normal college, Nashville, | Owed out for his luckless’ guests, and not from ‘The next paper wason “City Training and Lm" USTH'S OLD STAN: THE ONLY PLACE J where. trstelees ond Hane Ce ACE ‘Clothing can fold at respectable prices. ‘Address or call at G19 D st. lo any: ol each: bas cl ad $10 pectoumtk’ Sjuare from Savice Price 86,500, OWNER, 013 R SALE—OR LEASE—BRICK HOUS Pees ned 18 eB Loa: pei gu t50."rHoMs a kL, Soa F soon my of 3 rooms, ‘&c..in each esdw* surr- ween RK SALE OR RENT—BUSINESS Fohaive. aia PROPERTY ON 3 low GOS 14th st, iB SALE SEW STABLE, CONN. AVE. AND L Lied (LES EAKLY, 603 14th st. 2B SALE—HOUSE OF wets A Sh6t ears Ns. ¥ Datis, TSO st” WITH loward ave, Mi 126-lm* BARGAIN—7-ROOM BRICK Fe MEAT A gs oy “ce Bisvs, Be Fan nw. a block of silver, but from one of g-anite—not Practice School" by W. 8. Juckman, pridcipal | #2 sunny Mexico, but in the dim funeral vault of the High School, Pittsburgh, The dtecusslon psburgs = eee. was led by Howard Sandison, Terre Haute, In- is ’ B Powell, superintendent of’ the Premier Crispi Must co Siow. —Ofcial dis- diana, itches from Rome cause some uneasiness in Peet of the Beate = city wary Park, ie The Berlin foreign office. Although Signor jormal |, Greencastle, Indi: Crispi remains at the head of ‘affairs, he warns onc 2 ee nee ae Bismarck and Cornt Kalnoky that the fore ‘2 o'clock. A. paper on -County Lasti- preset CLEVELAND IN PARIAN MARBLE. Full figure. Bust... 293 JUST RECEIVED FROM ITALY. WM. BALLANTYNE & SON, __428 7TH STREET. Pri development of the Italian army which had been arranged by himself and his allies must eg = period of ae Srpny | "s twelve army.corpy will be reduced to ten and the frontier works be limited to defensive yoga weakness of Pa regs 34 = en recognized at Ber! is- pete! ted, Bismarck and Kalnoky aioe: thee position. They admit Crizpi’s u es and ‘will not seek to compel him to fulfill his pri- vate e1 ementa, th an increase of arma- menté as he agreed to would involve his down- fall and the probable succession of atinistry unfriendly to the alliance. tute,” was read by A. G. Lane, superintendent of schools, Cook Co., Illinois, and on ‘State Teacher's Institute,” by John W. Dickinson, secretary state board of edncation, Massachu- At the session this evening, which will begin at 8 o'clock, a paper on the “Relation of Manual Training to Body and Soul,” will be read by James MacAlister, superintendent of public schools, Philadel) remain in session each day three s' OR BIRD FOOD. Mocking-bird Food, Bird Dainties, Bird Healt “wOhericrer, bard oro also Food ora BISHOP, the Bird Mau of Baltimore, Ma., America's inoat experienced bird Paucior For sale by pritci ‘Take no other. jal4-m,w,f,3m Hygiene and Hysterics. From the Sanitary News. There is some discussion of the question: “Does the great attention paid to health in these days an anxiety about bodily ailments which is a disease in itself?” The question at eiemce may oseen as Snare ene, 20k Leek The convention w: through Friday, . sessions. DELEGATES PRESENT. The following, among others, were present : E. H. Cook, Potedam, N. Y¥.; W. E. Anderson, Milwaukee; M. A. Newell, Baltimore; Dears. To _Impnisoxwexr.— Fab be CS. iithograpliore sud oe oe 2 * us tary, and sant bE F a Potomac, but will be carted off and used in the } THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889. Tr WAS SUICIDE. Result of the Coroner's inquest Over the _Body of George Mack. terson held an inquest over the body. The de- ceased was about sixty years old. He came here from Switzerland a few years ago. John Eller, No. 43 N street northwest, testi- fied that he had known the deceased for years; that he was a wheelwright by trade and was native of Switzerland. Witness last saw the deceased about 7 o'clock had been pheliver ane int ue When he left witness’ house he had no money. Smeoedpe Sega ees “ le man and no a . he enidy hed been in the and was discharged was discovered, but wit- nesscould no} identify it. Witness then duced his own knife, which looked sometbing like the one found, and the coroner remarke: that if he (witness) had lost his knife, the one found might easily have been identified as his, DR, HARTIGAN TESTIFIED that he examined the body yesterday and found two wounds of the wrist. One of them was quite deep and divided an artery. There must have been considerable hemorrhage from the wounds, ‘“he examination of the internal or- gans showed a general bloodless condition, but no evidence of disease. There*may have been pre-existing debility, but exhaustion from loss of blood witness thought was the cause of death. The principal. wound was evident}; made by a blade such as is in the knife found. Witness was impressed with the belief that THE WOUNDS WERE SUICIDIAL ONES, at least that was the probability. There were no other marks about his body. Witness thought that the wounds might have been in- flicted some distance from where the body was found; that he fainted from loss of bl and fell headlong into the pool of water. Michael Downey, at whose house deceased lived, testified that he last saw him about 10 o’clock Sunday morning. He only knew him as “George.” When George left witness’ house in the morning he put his overcoat across his Shoulders, and witness told him not to come back any more. He told him so because he (de- ceased) had been sleeping in witness’ kitchen, and the children did not like to have him there in the morning when they got up. Witness never knew deceased to have a knife. tglsaac Blagdon, an old colored man who lives at the tar sheds on North Capitol street, testi- fied that about 10 or 11 o'clock Sunday night he heard somebody “‘kicking up a fuss.” He did not think they were quarreling. WHY HE THOUGHT DECEASED A “GOOD” MAN. Witness was asked whether he knew the man or not, and he replied in the affirmative. “And he was a good gent’man, too,” added the old man, “many a dram has he give me.” “And that’s why you thought he was a good man?” interrupted the coroner. “Yes, sir,” answered witness, “but if 4 wan offers me a dram T'se goin’ ter drink it if ives,” Policeman Oliver testified that when he went for the body he found it in a pool of water, face down. His hands were uplifted. His hat, coat and knife were found some ince from the Pool next to Mr. Felt’s house. His coat was covered with blood. The body was first found by a colored man who lives on Pierce Jacob Eller, one of the jurors, testified that on Sunday Mack told hit t he (Mack) was tired of life; that he was sick and did not think that he would live any longer. Witness thought then that he intended to commit suicide. A VERDICT OF SUICIDE. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from an incised wound of the wrist inflicted with a knife, as the jury be- lieves, held in his own hands. A Stubborn Prejudice. DIFFICULTY ENCOUNTERED IN FORWARDING FE- MALE DRESS REFORM. From the Chicago Times. For some years the intelligent women of the United States and England have been engaged in the problem of diminishing the weight with- out altering the general feminine character- istics of the traditional costume which has ap- pertained to their half of the human race. The manishness of Dr. Mary Walker, the ugliness of the Bloomer mode, and the various undisguised attempts of radicals like the late gallant little fighter, Jane Gray Swisshelm, to abolish all distinctions, more or less, have com- manded no following worthy of mention. The dress-reform ladies’ were interested first in making woman's attire more conducive to health and life; secondly to beauty and grace. It is an open secret that in sccomplishing this desircble _pur- pose they have been gradually rejecting the stays which made a Queen Elizabeth look like a high-ribbed Greek trireme; that gave to Queen Anne the stocky tightness of a Dutch clipper ship; and which, in our recent times, created the small bodices and smaller brains that adorned the little Trianon and hastened the decheance at Versailles, It was time for rational women whose lives contain other ob- jects than the servile worship of society or the idle languors of gossipy drawing-rooms to rebel against modes that are still designed in the dubois precincts of the boulevards, and whose most obsequious disciples in England and the United States are women who, asa rule, have not the faintest idea where the fashions come from. But sy good —— in this world has its abuses, and some good things come to evil ends. Itis an open secret now, as one can see in any modiste’s show-window or hear in any talk on sanitary dress, that the numberiess heavy starched petticoats that helped our great- grandmothers keep their huge hoops in lace when Lady Malaprop was smirking philo- sophic parables to Sir Charles has been seri- ously lessened. In fact, it is as well to acknowl edge that s@mething called a divided skirt which, not to mention it too loudly, is Turkish what-do-you-call-ems, has taken the place of the fussy and easily-soiled jupons. Ladies wear this — so reservedly and so modestly witbal that if its manufacture were not open the world would still be ignorant of its existence. Butalas, what fate befell Mrs, Lizzie Ryan at Hannibal! It her neighbor should wear her divided skirt under her dress, why should she not wear hers over it? She was a farmer in Kansas. Tramps frequently invaded her premises, Her woman's costume invited their cowardly instincts to rob | and pillage. She wrote to the “judicial officer of her county, and told him that change of clothes on her part would effect a change of conduct on theirs, He replied with good sense that she hud a right to dress as she pleased, eapceially for the defense of her home. She put her divided skirt on outside, and thereafter was not troubled in her estate, either personal or real, But one day Dame Ryan bethought her sho would go to Hannibal. As Rosalind tremblingly warned Celie it were a dangerous thing. as dangerous as the forest of Arden but Lizzie felt no fear. She did not a gallant curtle ax upon her thig! goer-epear in her hand; nor did she take on swashing onde martial outside, as many other mannish cowards have.” She went up quietly to Hannibal, and as soon as her strange cos- tume was seen by the police, with the spirit of some of their Chicago brethren, Sarees the virtuous-and astonished dame inside the jail for shocking of their modesty. Dame Ryan should ask for a writ of habeas corpus returnable before any one of half a dozen Chicago judges. ‘They would vindicate her right to dress as she #0 long as it was modest, and her arresters would be sent to the bastile to serve out the remainder gf her the We ‘8 tective agency might extend its Jarlsdiction with propriety and effect. Cure for Sleeplessness. From the Toledo Blade. Iwas talking with a very convivial friend, a major, about.the rew remedy to produco sleep, “gulphurial.” “Don't talk that to me, sah, don't talk pete tag Be } i & i 5 F a HH | ix Thomas E. E. L. J. Eakin Gadsby, Ren; Libbey, Francis dud W. H Belden. ; {8 CaLLIne THE PETIT JURORS a number presented excuses, but they were not as numerous as formerly. There were four Present from the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ national bank, and this led the court to re- mark that he had observed that it was but seldom that jurors were drawn that sume were not drawn from this bank. After some time ye a in considering the excuses the court said of the eighty-six summoned he would ask the following twenty-six to remain: Samuel Samstag. F. Norment, J. P. Green, 8. H. Wheeier, D. Crowley, W. B. Clagett,’ L. Mackall, M. R. Goddard, C. H. Burgess, P. Ritter, E. H. Chamberlain, W. R. 5) C. Lefler, J. H. Brooks, Ed. Mayer, 8, B. Bacl rach, M. Jackson, C. A. Edelin, J. W. Pilling, J. M. Jackson, T. D. ery Alexander Campbell, L. R. Tremley, ¥. Atlee, F. T. Howser and T. 8. Nairn. patina ae « BES Thanking the Police. CHAIRMAN BRITTON WRITES A LETTER TO MAJOR MOORE, The excellence of the police arrangements at the inauguration was a matter of general com- ment by the thousands of strangers who have visited the city during the past week. For the first time in history Pennsylvania avenue was kept entirely clear during the parade. Every disorder of any kind that arose was promptly quelied, and considering the immense crush of people the number of casualties and thefts re- pol is unusually small. Mr. Britton, as chairman of the inaugural committee, addressed aletter to Col. Wm. G. Moore, superintendent of police, as follows: “Now that the inaugural ceremonies are prac- tically concluded, I desire to take the earliest opportunity to congratulate you, and through you the magnificent force under your com- mand for the efficient and satisfactory manuer in which they have attended to the conserva- tion of public order under such trying cireum- stances, “From the beginning to the end I have con- stantly relied upon your support and assistance, and neither you nor your men have failed us at | any moment. It is flattering to the local pride to know that visitors to the city will take away with them the conviction that our police mat- ters are 80 thorougly systematized and so ably handled thata créwd of double the regular population of the city can be poured in and out within a few days’ time, and yet both the formsand the substance of law, both by day and night, be fully res d. I take the lib- erty, not only on behalf of the inaugural com- mittee. buton behalf of your fellow-citizens, of thanking you, and through you your men, for their arduous and thoroughly effective services.” Miller wandered most of the time—Mr. Meucci asked to see the child, of whom he is very fond. “I must see the little one once more before I die,” said he to her father, and the little girl, whose godfather he is, came to him willing! In its wandering his mind seems oftener to recur to matters connected with the telephone, which he claimed to have first invented and to have been defrauded out of by Bell and others. He made an attempt at one time to dispute the validity of Bell's patent, but with the small amount of money at his command the effort had no chance of success. Jt is said, however, that for some time the Bell éompany has thg justice of his claim so tar as to pay him ap annuity of 100 a month. ‘The story of Mr. Meucei’s discovery of the art of telephony is very interesting, as is also that of his struzeies later for what he held to be his rights. The discovery, ich the tale said was purely accidentai, made in Cuba in 1849, two years betore he came to this coun- try. Mr. Meucci had a contract with the Cuban government fdr the use of galvano-plastic electricity, and while galvanizing certain articles required by the army he made frequent use of electricity in treating sick persons at home. Wires were placed through the various rooms of his house, connected with the usual batteries. One day a patient happened to place in his mouth an ciectrode of copper, the other end of which rested near Meucci’s eag. The latter thought he heard the sound of the pa- tieut’s voice, who was some eigbty feet away and separated by three intervening rooms, He immediately covered both imstruments with paper cones and then heard distinctly the words of the patient. Coming to New York in 1851, Mr. Meucci found Garibaldi, whom he induced to go to Staten Island and live with him. The herore- mained there for three years, sharing to a cer- tain extent the labors of his host, who was en- aged in the maunfacture of paraftine under an invention of his own. For a while Mr. Meucci also was an owner of a paper-mill at Perth Amboy and a brewery at Staten Island, He was not successful in any of his ventures, and of late years had become very much impov- erished, even the house in which he has lived for thirty-six years passing out of his hands, It is now the property of the combined Italian #o- cieties of this city, to which it was presented by Frederick Bachman a few years ago. The little parlor of this cottage contains man; interesting and quaint mementoes of Garil among them being a cabinet made by him | presneted to his host as a showcase for his can- dies. On the walls of the dining-foom bang old portraits of Victor Emanuel, Cavour, Mage zini and Garibaldi. During the illness of Mr. Meucci there have been many visitors at the house to inquire con- cerning him. Baron de Fava, the Italian min- ister at Washington, came on especially to see the old gentieman and pay his respects to the friend of Garibaldi. ————+e+___ A Divorcee’s Wedding. WHAT SHALL THE BRIDE WEAR? 18 THE QUESTION NOW ASKED. From the New York World. A question which is agitating New York society is, how should a divorcee dress at her second wedding? This is becoming a question of absolute importance, for the tribe of di- vorcees grows apace. Ata recent reception of a well-known house nine of them were counted in the room at once. Their marriages are fre- quent, and as fashions in the matter of wed- A Wager on His Own Death. From the N. ¥. Star. Augustus R. Cazauran, the dramatist of the of the Madison Square theater, was under sen- tence of death by the doctors for two years be- fore his death. ey told him he could not survive the dropsy which was ually ex- hausting him. He made tables of com a4 eration, and from these data he e date of his death. He told me sion that he estimated that e in about eight weeks from the from time to time, the statistics showin; pulsation, temperature and loss of strengt ter each 9) calculated with me of 825, which I laughingly accepted, that he would die within eight weeks of that date, He did not die, but had a_benefit on the day he had fixed upon. I called next day to rally him with leughter, but he was not visible, and within a week he was dead. Iam told that |dimgs are very rigid it is considered — es oa pay tg = necessary to discuss this subject thom jim he gave it to his wife e remar! t i he shouldn't need it ‘‘on the road” he was tak- | CCSHlY and get it settled at once, Society has really no precedent to guide it, for every shade of gray, ranging all the way the very nearly white pearl-gray to the warmo-tinted ashes of roses, which has been held to be the widow's color for weddings, and which has typitied the vague shadow of reminis- cent regret tor the first spouse. would hardly be appropriate for the divorcee, who Sw can have no regrets for the first. Indeed, the widows object very strongly to sharing their rights in this color with the grass widow, and the maiden brides have set their little feet down against the white, which is their immemorial ion, being used by women who have al- ready worn it once. To wear a traveling dress and be married quietly and informally in church is what the widows and the maide re- commend to the divorcee, but she is for the Most part a person little used to dictation, and is littie likely to take it from women who have happened to be mcre fortuuate than she in ber ex] nce with the other sex. in England divorcees are always married im such a very private manner that the question of dress has never been a disturbing one, butim Chicago and San Francisco they insist upon @ certain amount of rejoicing over their new alli- ance, and, therefore, some costume must be settled upon. In both those cities these remar- ried divorcees have worn very shades of blue with gold, or nm with silver, the blue or green being of shades that are just off of white. A pretty red-haired Chicagoan wore the other day on such an occasion a very pale shade of pink. But none of these quite fills the need, in that they are not ve enough, and might be worn by any one on any occasion. The only feasible so far is that they should wear ing, and that it would probably last her for “forty weeks or another season.” The Smoking Habit. GRADUALLY BUT FINALLY FULLY ACCEPTED a8 PERMISSIBLE IN SOCIETY. From the London Queen. Nothing changes more then the outside laws and formulas of politeness. Within the mem- ory of any sexagenarian the whole code has been altered. Where, fifty years ago, ‘to take wine” with you and bow across the table was as much an expected attention, an obligatory act of courtesy, as to salute you on entering the room, the man who should do this, save ata supreme! timate an: -jocular ering, would seb much “out of ie as if were to lay his band on his heart, bow as low as his and assure “madam,” hisfair friend, that he was hers from his eyesbrows to his fin- r-tips. Fifty years ago no gentlemen could Ere smoked in the presence of ladies. The unmarried girl or young wife of a — status, = Bice 4 with aman ® cigar, would have Rome with a Tew sivots lese-ef chatector than she had set out with. But who has a word to say now? Now we have the cigars and cigar- ettes brought in with the coffee immediately aiter dinuer, and no one is offended. The men are not considered too free, the women do not herstif join the men, and if think the exhibition shocking. the younger cept it as a matter of taste, and either ii or determine to try, ing to their indi- vidual liking, with no moral afterthought what- ever. On this special question of smoking in the presence of ladies we offer no opinion. Those who like it and those who dislike it must settle the matter between them. It is one of those movable und temporary items which depend wholly ow acceptance. In in, the South America, men. There are reasons for the practice, but as we said, connted, each woman for who will many and those who not obliged, but the one does not part of her character and the ey ot ale eee unless te prac with the pape, and because she the farmer condenms the latter. sie oe 5 Dr. Bliss’ Surgical Instruments. From the New York Star. £ F i & E ; if E i A li & E § i eae if E ‘ | fll ite f ; fi