Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1889, Page 7

CHINA MAKING AT LIMOGES. A Revolution in the Process of Manu- facture. MACHINERY REDUCING THE CosT OF PRODUCTION— THE FIRING SYSTEM IMPROVED—INCREASE OF QUANTITY, QUALITY AND PRICE OF DECORATED WARE AND ADJUSTMENT OF LABOR QUESTIONS. The Secretary of State has received an en- tertaining report from Mr. Walter T. Griffin, the United States commercial agent at Limoges, France, descriptive of the general state of the china trade at that place. He notes the in- crease in the trade in 1888, which he thinks to be due to several causes. The manufacturers seek the trade instead of waiting for it; they send out travelers and establish agencies the competition is livelier; the manufacturers have adopted the planof producing only cer- tain lines of goods in which they have the best advantage. The result of this change has been that Limoges gives her whole attention to the Manufacture of dinner and tea ware, the higher grades of ornamental and decorated work, such as elegant vases, plaques, bisque figures, &c. The second effect of this competion bas cause almost a perfect REVOLUTION IN THE MAKING OF CHINA. The whole system has been remodeled. As far as possible, hand labor, cheap as it is, has given place to machinery, and this has reduced the cost of production very much. Take, for example, the matter of kaolin, Ten years ago 25 per cent of this valuable material was wasted. ‘The chips from the potters and moiders, with the debris from the broken ware before it had been baked, was thrown away; to-day, it is all reground and worked over by machinery. The broken china is now used as an ingredient in the enamel, so that in well-conducted factories uot 5 per cent of the “pate” is lost. Another important item is the improved manner of woilding. Within the last two years extensive changes have been made, and the rapidity with whieh ordina: hes can be turned off is amazing. These dishes are more regular in form and perfect in shape than those molded by the hand; but far the greatest of all the im- provements has been tie remodeling of the whole system of FIRING CHINA. In old times wood was the only fuel used. Coal, especially the French varieties, so dis- colored and soiled the clay that is put in the upper chamber of the kiln that it was rendered valueless, at the same time the china in the lower chamber was unevenly baked. If enough beat was used to bake the china in the center ers, those on the sides were baked too much; while if the saggers on the sides were baked sufticiently, those in the center, not re- ceiving the full force of the flame, would not be baked enough. This trouble has been ob- Viated by recent improvements on Minturn’s . By his patent the whole Jower chamber of the kiln was heated an even temperature. Minturn’s furnace differed from the others in having the fire-boxes in the in- terior of the kiln. Hard saggers are placed just in front of the fire-boxes, so that the first shock eh oken before it reaches the saggers containing the china. Then the flames are guided by flues, which are made by arranging the saggers around the apertures in the floor through which flames ascend, so directing them up to the roof of the first cham- + in the arched roof; from thence ed down another flue, formed, as edi ber to noted they are th gu Was down through an open- oor of the first chamber, whence ¥ pass towards the circumfere of the iln up through other flues. Minturn’s inven- n ended here. The heat went into the upper chamber. as in the old-fashioned way, through the center. THE LIMOGES IMPROVEMENT consists in adapting the same principle to heat the upper chamber. This is done by making the flames, when they pass up the second time, through apertures in the floor of the second heating this part of the kiln equa ilitating the firing of both cham- bers evenly. From the above description it there are as many apertures through which the flames pass to the upper ebamber as there e-boxes. In large fur- s there are ly ten, and correspoud- ces for the flames into the upper ead of oue in the center, as before. this improvement fully 25 per tof fuel is saved jand 30 per cent in the ukage and qualty of the china. Within the ly all of the furnaces have been ¢ They are now one-fourth larger than they were formerly; so that the 2.044 fur- haces fired last year would really equal 2, furnaces of 188: THE ‘GLAND SUPPORTS AMERICA. The Governments Have Been in Accord Throughout on Samoan Affairs. A British blue book on the Samoan question, containing dispatches from April 29, 1885, to February 28, 1959, was issued in London yester- day. The dispatches show that England has been thooughout in accord with America, and that she declined to accede to Germany's re- quest for assistance in the restoring of order in Samoa until she had learned the American government's views, On January 29 last, Lord Salisbury com- plained to Count Von Hatzfeldt, German am- bassador at London, concerning Prince Bis- marck’s statement in the reichstag that in Samoa Germany and England were “advancing hand in hand.” The British prime minister said that the views of the two countries were identical as far as the future government of Samoa was concerned, but not otherwise. It is now admitted in Berlin that Prince Bis- marck’s efforts to form an alliance between Germany and England have failed of contract- ing the ‘alliance, and it is understood that he stil has hopes of bringing it about. It is this hope which has induced him to invite the Prince of Wales to visit Berlin. ‘ The Cologne Gazeite suys that Germany, in 1887, in deference to American opposition, abandoned the idea ot the control of Samoan affairs being vested in a single power. soe YOUR AFTERNOON NAP. The Siesta, as the Spaniards call it, In- valuable to Health. E) From the Youth's Companion. The word siesta is Spanish and means the short sleep after dinner in which most people indulge who live in hot climates. The heat of midday is so enervating that it is impossible then to do effective work, so that the siesta, while it gives a brief rest, does not cause a loss of working hours. The need of a short “nap” after dinner is not less here than in the torrid zone. Its effect is to furnish a new supply of nervous force; todo ona smaller scale what the night's sleep does on a larger one. Both the climate of the country and our na- tional habits tend to keep the brain and nerv- ous system at ahigh tension. From youth to old age we are on the race for wealth or posi- tion, for pleasure or fashion, for reform or re- ligion. How different is this from the indolent life of the tropics, and even from life in the Enropean countries, where the pressure, haps also the rewards of ambitious striving, may be less, We need something more than the mid-day nap. We need to see that, without a radical change, there is danger ahead for us. Indeed, much of it is already on us, in the rapid multi- py ing of apoplexy, paralysis, softening of the rain. heart complaint, nervous prostration and nervous ailments generally. We need to torce ourselves to take things more quietly; to think more of the rest and solace and duties of home, and less of the sho) and club and the parties of pleasure. We nee to preach up the virtues of contentment and self-control and preach down the vice of ail- consuming greed. But, meanwhile, the mid- day nap is of vast help. It is wonderful how much recuperative power there is in a nap of a few minutes. No oue who has ever acquired the habit of a brief siesta has failed to experi- ence it, and perhaps there is no way in which a quarter of an hour of our time every day can be invested, with a prospect of a better divi- dend in health and length of days, than an see after-dinner nap. A Strange Infatuation. AN OLD MAN ENTICES A YOUNG GIRL FROM BER HOME AND MARRIES HER, A Norfolk, . special to the Baltimore American si amuel Hodges, a widower, aged seventy-tive, of Richmond county, N. C., went to the house of his friend, Robert Norton, on Wednesday last, and, it is claimed, by prom- ises, enticeg from home Mr. Norton's handsome daughter Nellie, who is but thirteen years old. At Kockingham, it is claimed, Hodges, by false statements as to age, procured a license to marry the girl, A preacher was. obtained by the same misstatements on the part of Hodges, who induced him to marry them. When the couple walked the street suspic 3 at once aroused by the disparity of ages. The girl was questioned, and it was soon made manifest that she was an innocent victim. When she was made to realize what her lations to Hodges were she expressed a strong desire to go buck rs) only @ difference between the Out-put of 1882 and 1858 of 15 per cent, which is a net gain of 25 per cent of 1388 over 1886.” INCREASE OF DECORATED WARE. Another noticeable feature of the present outlook is the increase of decorated ware, both In richness and in quantity. Formerly a deco- rator used toaverage the price of a cask of china. when packed aud ready for shipment to America, at about 0 fra 8, Although wh: lower than it used to be, and sume, To-day the value e china is a trifle abor remains the et the price of the decoration has in- eres In other words, there has been a rise in the value. This rise consists principally in richer decorations, as the United States buys a finer g: f goods in Limoges than ever be- fore—in fact, the cheap goods hi been almost exclude The amount of china deco- rated in this vicinity last year was 22,163 moutles, an imerease of 1.786 over the preced- ing year. As each moutle has an average value of 500 franes, the whole amount of china deco- rated in this vicinity would equal 11,081,500 franes. The whole amount of china decorated and white manufactured at Limoges was about 15,000,000 francs. These figures are founded on facts carefully collated from the reports of the different kilns, PRICE OF LABOR. The price of labor does not vary much. The gradual tendency is downward. There has been a decrease of 10 per cent in ten years, ‘The following gives the general wages paid in the different factories to men and women: Boys up to sixteen years, 1.25 francs per diem; furnace men, 2 to 3%, francs a night; potters, 6 a day: decorators, 3 to 8 francs a y: designers, 4.000 frencs per annum; girls m fourteen to sixteen years, one-half frane to 1 frane per diem; girls over eighteen yeats, retouching and enamel, 134 francs per diem; girls over eighteen years, impressions and re- touching, 1); to 3 francs per diem. HOW LABOR QUESTIONS ARE SETTLED. There ere two syndicates at Limoges, one for the manufacturer and one for the workman. ‘The ordinary run of dishes bave fixed prices and are always paid for by the piece. When new shapes are invented or new and special forms are designed, the manuf: arrange with the potter. If they can agree, it is well; if not. the matter is taken before the workman's syndicate, where it is carefully de- seribed, and they give their decision. If that is still unsatisfactory to the manufacturer he takes it to his syndicate, where a committee is formed to meet a committee from the work- Ineu's union, who arbitrate, and the terms thus made are binding upon the manufacturer and the employe. 1n consequence of the above rangement strikes have been unknown in I moges for several years. The price of English coal used in the’ furnaces advanced 534 francs per ton: -t materials remain as given in last yea Urers speak ¥ ly of the pros- pects of trade for the comiug year, and are run- hing their kilns at nearly full force. Heavy orders from the U ported, and the manufacture this year bids fair Wo surpass its highest record. soe Stoning Premier Von Tisza. RIOTING ABOUT THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS AT PESTH. The turbulence continues in the Hungarian capital, When Herr Von Tisza arrived at the lower house of the diet this morning the large crowd that had gathered outside groaned and hissed at the prime minister, shouting “get out,” “resign.” Au altercation took place in the house between Herr Polonyi and Herr a ‘The quarrel will probably lead toa ue! ‘As Premier Tisza was leaving the chamber in the afternoon he was ‘ited with stones b; tical opponents, When the chamber ned a turbulent crowd had gathered out- Side. Herr Pulsky was violently hustled, and Herr Toers, who went to his assistance, re- ceived a severe biow on the head with a stick. Another person wes wounded with a stilletto. Premier Tisza escaped unhurt. The military had to be called out. There were several con- Bicts between the mob and the police, and tuany arrests were made. —_ eee _—__—_—_ Arramptep OvTRAcE ayp Murpex.—Joseph Saizmann, an employe on the farm of Ferdi- band Mutter at Irvington, N. J., bound the three children yesterday and then attempted to assault Mrs. Mutter. Failing in this he knocked her insensible _ blow of a hammer. ‘Thinking he had killed woman, Salzmann ransacked the house. Mrs, Mutter, recovering consciousness, endeavored to make her escape, but was seen by Salzmann and again knocked down by —s blows of the hammer. Mann now One of the children gave the d is not expected to survive. Salzmann arrived at Castle Garden from Switzerland, November cturer tries to | ted States have been re-| to her home. Hodges would not relinquish his claim to his wife, and the citizens thereupon made ready to use force, and the old man, be- coming frightened, fled to the woods. Nellie has been taken home. si tT The Ex-President’s Trip. HE AND HIS PARTY ENTERTAINED AT ST. AUGUS- TINE—TO BE JOINED BY GOV. LEE. Ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Bayard were the only members of their party who were up when their train arrived in Jacksonville at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. Few people were about. Col. J. E. Hart, president of the board of trade, and F. W. Hawthorne, of the Times- Union, called at the car and were received by Mr. Cleveland and Mr, Bayard. Th invited the party to pay Jacksonville a visit on theirre- turn from Cuba, and the invitation, it is thought, will be accepted. Mr. Cleveland is anxious to try his hand at tarpon fishing. The party breakfasted in the car, and subse- quently proceeded in a private car to St. Au- gustine, where they were met at the Union sta- tion by over 500 people, the Ponce de Leon band and a long line of carriages. Mr. and Mrs, H. M. Flagler escorted them to the Ponce de Leon hotel. At 11 o'clock the whole party was taken to inspect the baths at the Alcazar. In the afternoon a drive of two hours was taken over the city, and at night there was an infor- mal reception at the hotel and grand pyrotech- nic ‘a with electric effects. Fie party will proceed to Tampa to-day at noon, thence by ship to Cuba direct. Gov. Lee. of Virginia, accompanied by Col. Fred R. Scott, president of the Merchants’ Na- tional bank; Mr, Alexander Cameron, a wealthy tobacconist; Mr. John H. Montague, president of the Merchants and Planters’ savings bank of Richmond, and Mr. Samuel W. Venable, of nee Jeft for Florida yesterday. It is understgod they will join the ex-President’s party in the Cuban trip. > - °c Three Big Steamers in a Race. The City of New York, the Aller and the Brit- annic, all three fast boats, started for Europe from New York Wednesday morning. The City of New York left her dock at 7:50 and sailed down the North river witb the Britannic close behind, while the Aller brought up the rear. The three vessels kept this order until they were beyond quarantine, when the Brit- annic passed the City of New York. The Brit- annic passed Sandy Hi J ont into the ocean at 9:30; the New York at 9:35 and the Aller at | 9:45. The question now asked by persons of sporting proclivities who are interested in steam navigation is: In what order will the racers reach the other side of the ocean? - see Society Meetings in Street Cars. From the Boston Herald. It is the fashion among Boston fashionables to patronize the street railway, Many of the | best people, who are really of the best in the broadest and highest acceptation of the word, blest with bullion as well as with blood and brains, prefer not to keep their carriages in town, and are to be met with morning, noon and night making calls, shopping, going to concert or theater, and ‘even occasionally to dinner, in the comfortable Back Bay cars, And so it has come to pass that these very same comfortable cars are quite a rendezvous of society. Nearly every one who gets in knows nearly everyone who is already in. An air of gay abandon pervades the scene, as much as gay abandon ever can pervade a scene in Bos- ton. fea eee eae PN The Soft Coal Trade. From the Coal Trade Journal. It is now claimed that the Seaboard soft coal association has fixed matters up as completely as they can; that there will be no complaint if all the producing interests will but live up to the agreement; the outside interests have given the members of the association an assurance that they will keep faith; whether all the mem- bers do so is the vital question. There is noth- ing new in the soft cos Conditions on the Chi- o market; it is are ving — that is, for the consumer or buyer. Pittaburg report is of slow trade just now, and the oper- ators are trying to ane! @ reduction in wages; present, and prices for coal in the several cen- rs of trade are down to a very low basis; in fact, it is said that coal is now being sold in Cincinnati at a less figure than ever before in beatport ner trade, The market for Pitts- burg along the rivers is being narrowed every day, for we learn that regen nor tors are to have a fleet of to take ir from Greenville, on the river, all points below and intermediate between that city and New Orleans, making the latter city a grand distributing depot for a very large of the country. IN KANGAROODOM. Some Account of the Peculiarities of the Australasian Specialty. Correspondence of the New York Times, In speaking of the peculiarities of the Aus- tralasian fauna I cannot do better than begin with the kangaroo. He is one of the best per- secuted of living things, is hunted with dogs, with the shotgun and rifle, and “rounded up” in great drives like those by which war is waged upon the jack rabbits of California. His hide makes a beautifully-pliable leather, which is used for boots, leggins, and countless other articles; his flesh, too, is esteemed alike by “blackfellows” and squatters, and the soups and ragouts that are made from his tail might agreeably vary the ambrosial feasts of the gods. His pelts are a regular article of commerce, are uoted in the daily papers at as full length as the skins of cattle and sheep, and bring large revenue to the station owners in the back coun- try; altogether, he is the most important object of ferw natura in the colonies and abandantly deserves the prominent place he occupies upon the Australian coat-of-arms, where, opposed to the emu, he holds the position given to the lion in his association with the unicorn in the her- aldic crest of England, The kangaroos which appear in every well- equipped menagerie in the United States area faint and feeble parody upon the animal as he appears in his native “bush,” which, by the ways, is a term indiscriminately applied not only to underbrush and thickets, but also to the jordliest forests and the broadest stretches of plain that lie between them. There area dozen Varieties of kangaroo proper, the largest of which, even when squatted upon the haunches, are nearly seven feet in height. Besides these are others in the forms of wallabys, which vary in size from rabbits to creatures three or four feet high, and even below those nature contin- ues her joke in the production of kangaroo rats—sharp-nosed, keen-eyed creatures, with all the movements of the Kangaroo. The kangaroo is a joke, however you look at him. He has four legs, but uses ‘only two in traveling, and he employs his tail, not, as is generally supposed, as a sort of supplementary leg upon which to alight after his long jumps, but somewhat as Blondin utilizes his balanc- -pole in his perilous promenades on the tight-rope. The movement of the kangaroo is accom- plished with his body bent well forward, his forelegs curled up, and his tail projecting in a graceful curve astern. At a single bound he will cover a distance of thirty feet. and soar over bushes ten feet bigh in ‘the midst of it as lightly as a bird. His powerful hind legs seem made of springs, which are compressed by his weight when he strikes the ground, and imme- diately released to give momentum for a new flight; his progress is without apparent break, and resembles that of a highly-elastic rubber ball that is thrown along a smooth pavement, He will outrun the fleetest horse, and only the best kangaroo dog (a specie of greyhound es- pecially bred for the purpose) can tire and overtake him. The favorite way to shoot him | is to lie in wait near his haunts, and send in beaters and dogs to run him out. As he comes springing over the bushes, you let drive at him with shotguns loaded wi buckshot, and if you are good at “rocketing” pheasants, or ducks as they spring from the water, you may bring him down, ‘The excite: ment of this sport is great and peculiar, and combines the shooting of large game with the | exhilaration and uncertainty of shooting on the wing. It also tests the hunter's nerve. The | noise made by a herd of frightened kangaroos tearing through the underbrush is startling, and as the beasts go by the sportsman’s covert | with the speed of light, their killing makes no | slight demands upon alertness and presence of mind, Kangaroo chasing by horses and dogs is a sport which throws English fox-hunting into the shade, andis attended with as frequent tumbles and broken bones as the most ardent votary of hunting could desire. Timid, inof- fensive, and fugitive as the kangaroo is when pursued, he is a bold and dangerous beast when unded and brought to bay. Nature, which leaves no animal entirely defensel has equipped him with a weapon which is the dread of dogs and men alike. His powerful hind legs eo in feet which are set with three strong black claws, of which the central one is long and sharp, with the cutting surface of a chisel or gouge. Woe be to the sanguine hound who, seeing an “old man” kangaroo, winded or wounded, backed up against a tree and unable to go fur- ther, rushes in to catch him by the throat and tinish him! The hitherto useless forelegs catch and hold him, and the terrible hind feet. pla, ing up and down like the walking-beam of a steamboat, tear him open and scatter his e trails over the ground. The like fate has some- times happened to hunters who have attacked a wounded kangaroo with a knife in order to save their ammunition, and gruesome stories are extant in which some huge beast. seizing his enemy in his arms has sailed off bodily | with him over brake and brier to put him to deuth with unknown tortures in some secluded ir. These, however, are evidently legends invented for the admiration of the “newchum,” as the ‘tenderfoot” is locally called, ‘The kangaroo of ancient times was a monster well worthy of association with the giant “moa”—that bird of 15 feet stature. In the admirable Australian museum at Sydney are the fossil remains of this mammoth marsupial, with a skull as large as that of the present ephant and bones which indicate that he was as tall asa telegraph pole. He fed on flesh, this creature, and if his strength and agility were commensurate with his size he must have been capable of covering a hundred yards at a bound. The remains of this great beast have been discovered in considerable quantities in a series of caves in western New South Wales, together with the skulls and bones of the Aus- tralian bear, who also appears as an Auak among the present degenerate — . Child Travelers. TWO YOUNGSTERS TAKE A LONG JOURNEY BY THEMSELY From the San Francisco Chronicle. Among the passengers on the north-bound train over the California and Oregon line last evening were two very small travelers, small in stature. but feeling wonderfully big and inde- pendent over a feat which they have just accom- plished—that of crossing the great American continent unaccompanied by parent or guar- Flora and Arthur Wertheim, the travel- ers in question, are aged respectively six and nine years, and they are all the way from New York, where they have lived ever since they first saw the light. 't got no mother,” said Arthur to a Chronicle reporter who saw the youngsters at the Oakland vier yesterday, ‘and father’s up in Porkland, where he’s been for *bout two years,” You mean Portland,” suggested the re- porter. tle fellow. “Sister an’ I came out in a tourist car, No, we didn’t have anybody looking after us,” this rather disdainfully. “I was the boss o° the trip. bought the ts an’ carried the lunch basket, an’ did everything.” The children had cleaner faces than gener- ally come from a New York tenement-house, and their clothes, though rather worn and patched here aud there, were also clean, or as nearly clean ws they might be expected to be after a 3,000-mile trip. “We came in a tourist car,” the boy went on, not omitting to emphasize the “These tourist cars ain't very high-toned, but they'll do for poor folks. igrants like me an’ sis can’t have ything we want.” “I want some peanuts,” chirped the little maid he’s all the time wanting me to spend money on nonsense,” said the boy, ignoring the remark so far as a direct reply was concerned, “but it takes coin to travel, and you can’t fool it away and have ‘nuff fo take you through — you haven't got only just ‘nuff to buy grub.” When this chunk of philosophy had been de- livered the little fellow went on to say that his father had gone from New York to work at his carpentry in Oregon; that he was going to be a carpenter himself, and knew how to build houses pretty well already. He had had no trouble in getting over the road without as- sistance, and thought he could easily make a trip around the world. 4 “I will get to Porkland Monday morning,’ said he. ‘Father will meet us at the depot, and then we'll be all right.” eee -—-— He Was Drunk, Too. From the Chicago Herald. “Well, Charley, did your wife get on to you?” “Yes, she did. “Did tell her that I said were meets weiner “Yes,” “What did she say “Said you must was,” we been drunker than I A Tramp wits $10,000 1x His WatueT.—An Easton, Me., special to the New York Sun, March 19, says: Daniel Murray, a brother-in- peta Jobn W. Sayres, Lah school slate manu- facturer at Bangor, put in an appearance day after an absence of ears, inthe garb of a tramp. He teeomned Sayres, said that he was without a dollar, supposed he would have to hat’s what I said—Porklan4,” said the lit- | “tourist.” | Ld HAPPINESS AND DUTY. The Highest Type of One Follows the Performance of the Other. The details of a p hy, or a religion (which latter, after all, if but a popular phil- osophy, a philosophy of the heart) may be, and, indeed, are, quite indifferent as to the ethical inferences that can be drawn from it. But the main wuths are not. The main truths of areligion or philosophy lend the color to the ethics that grows therefrom. And we find in the history of philosophy that materialism, with a great regularity, produces hedonism or utilitarianism; for it places the ultimate object of life in material existence and its well-being, viz., in happiness, Spiritualism, on the other hand, as @ rule, leads to asceticism. It re- nounces the pleasures of the world, for it seeks the object of life in the deliverence of the soul from the fetters of the body. Monism rejects both views; it finds the purpose of existence in the constant aspiration of realizing a higher and better, a nobler and more beautiful state of existence. Life is a boon so far only as it offers an occasion to improve that which lies in our power to change—the forms of things and the modes of life. It is not pleasure or happiness that gives value to our days, but the work done for the progress of our race. Moses expresses this truth most powerfully in a pas- sage of his grand psalm, which we quote ac- cording tothe forcible translation of Luther: “Man's life will last three score years and ten, or, at the best, four score; but if it was pre- cious, it was of labor and sorrow.” Mere happiness will make the heart empty, and the aspiration for happiness will make of man a sallow trifler, Asceticism, on the other hand, will prove destructive and suicidal. But if we consider the punctual performance of our daily duty, every one in his province, as the object of our lives, which must be done to en- hance our ideals and help mankind (be it ever 8o little) to progress, we shall find occasion to unite the truths hidden in both—the material- istic and spiritualistic ethics, We shall find sufficient oceasion to practice abstinence, to exercise self-control, and to set aside the fleet- ing pleasures of the moment. At the same time, while the pleasure-seeker will be wrecked in his vain endeavors, we shall experience that a noble satistaction, which is the highest kind of happiness imaginable, follows those who are least concerned about enjoyment, and steadily attend to their d ee pia The Value of Technical Judgments. From the Sanitary Era, The National Electric Lighting association, at its recent meeting in Chicago, received a re- port from its committee on underground ser- vice which fairly matches some of the “expert” opinions on water purifying. It is notorious that public safety and the public will have thus far been on one side of this question (burying the wires) and the electric lighting and tele- graphing companies generally on the other. The report was entirely on the latter side. Its only dificulty was with the facts, and the only way to manage the facts was to ignore them. The city electrician of Chicago protested against such a report in the teeth of the facts that the underground lighting service had been in satisfactory operation there for six years, and is about to be extended indefinitely throughout the city. A well-known conduit constructor, who has operi an un- derground ’ plant in Philadelphia for five or. six years with —_ perfect and uniform succéss, and has just completed an- other in New York at great expense, complained that he had not even received a circular from the committee, and that his repeated invita- tions to them had been ignored. n he said, that the committee report the conduits impracticable is that they have not seen them, and the reason they have not seen them is that they refused to look at them, though chal- lenged to witness their regular operation under the same high tension which they assume to be the point of impracticability, In fact, hile reading the report of the meeting, we could hardly keep it from passing into a dissolving view of some water-works or public-health con- vention in a death-grapple with the unauthor- ized facts of water-puritying at Long Branch, Atlanta, Somerville, and a couple of hundred other places. eee oe Laced Too Tight. “Notice anything peculiar in the posture of the girls on the stage?” said a physician to a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter one evening at the “Crystal Slipper,” pretty girls in pink tights standing beside the throne of the prince. “No,” was the reply, “nothing, unless it is re uncommonly pretty.” “Well,” said the doctor, “if you will ob- serve how they stand you will notice that their pose is unconscious, but that every girl of them save one has her right hand behind her back, and the exception is a girl wearing a directoire dress.” th ell?” was asked. ‘4{he arm behind the waist means that every one of those girls are laced too tight. Th so constricted that they cannot let their arms | } hang by their side, and so unconsciously they put one behind their_back. directoire dress isn't laced tightly, and you will notice that her arms fall naturally by her side.” see Sham Antiquities. Boston Transcript, Paris Letter. ‘There is a great passion nowadays for antique articles of furniture, and it has given birth to a world of sham antiquities, An army of handi- craftsmen are busily engaged in the manufac- ture of these wares, which are palmed off on confiding people as being 200 or 300 years old, and dated from any desired landmark in his- tory. Old chairs, old tables, old dressers, old bedsteads and old anything, even if made last week, have great value in the eyes of many -raons satisfied with antiquity in appearance Worm-eaten furniture is now one of the rage This stuff is easily produced with the aid of bird shot, which is fired into it, Old houses torn down furnish worm-eaten timber, which is turned to good account in fabricating old sets of furniture, Old door keys. medieval bellows, gilt flambeaux in Louis XIV style, warming- pans and brass fenders of the fourteenth cen- tury, candelabra and even old_ snuffers, find purchasers as fast as these antique wares can be made by skiliful artisans in out-of-the-way places of the gay capital. Old coins and r gency clocks are cast by the ton every day in Paris, but they are very scarce and bring fabu- | Jous prices. BS age Gen. Lew Wallace as an Artist. From the N. ¥. Star. When I saw General Lew Wallace on upper Broadway the other day, I thought that he looks younger as the years advance. He certainly does not appear so old as he did when he r turned from the Turkish mission. I learn that everything is going well with the general. “Ben Hur” still brings him in a handsome in- come, and “The Fair God” finds an occasional purchaser, He is writing another novel that is promised to be more popular than any previous work from his pen. Several years ago, before the general had acquired ‘an international he devoted his brilliant and versatile nts to painting, and turned out several ex- ellent canvases, for an amateur, Out of one of these pictures there arose a controversy that was fie while it lasted and has been a source of amusing recollection ever since, he general painted “Venus Disarming Cupid,” and gave to the little god a pair bf bright purple wings. The artist was forced to defend Tis choice of color with all the mythological and ical authoritics he had atcommand. I have forgotten how it ended, but I know the geveral did not recolor the wings, nor did he admit he was wrong. That is not the kind of a general he i: eg eas A Youth’s Rejoinder. From the Merchant Traveler. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” was the sharply-spoken remark of a lady to a young man who had just trodden on the train of her dress. “I beg pardon,” said he, apologetically, add- ing after @ pause, “you must admit, madam, that the angels couid not be blamed for peing afraid.” ——_—+e0______ The judiciary committee of the New York as- sembly will report favorably Mr. Demarest’s bill, which amends the Ives pool law, by pro- viding for a tax of 10 per cent on the receipts for jission to race tracks to be paid to the state controller, and limits the uumber of racing days to fifteen. 1, Gabriel Monhegut, superintendent of the mint at New Orleans, has forwarded his resig- nation to Washington, The Baltimore council’s committee on the house of babe as & bad condition of ality and other Vices und ruflanise arene and other an are ticed to an alarming extent. girs cutter oomt Hawk, Spit, Cough, fer dizziness, i inflamma‘ eyes, headache’ lnsaifades tag fade, Inability: to pe a nees with your nasal twang and offensive breath ‘he reason, | pointing to the line of | The girl with the | | 1 r EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 21, 1889. ears Soap Fair white hands. Brightclear complexio Soft healthfal skin. “ PEARS'—Te Great English Compeson SOAP —Sold Evrwhare® |: Sch. soosss, Ss S AE suite D PATENT™ ey, THE PREMIER FLOUR OF AMERICA. fe19-tu.th,sat3m GALLERIES, No. 816 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHT Water Color Paintings by Mr. P. TAFT, of Washington. A fine selection also by prominent Foreizn and Ameri- can Artists just received “THE SEA AT RAMSGATE,” x48 in, original photoxraph, not enlanced and entirely untouched. Uniqne in respect to beiue the exact color of the and in-tan' NEW EMCHI 3 AND ENC by all the most prominent etchers and engravers, notably ORD FA ‘ LED.” HR. Ai FAVORED SWAIN,” Morgan, PAINTINGS, MIRRORS, WATER COLORS, the best and handsomest. PICTURE FRAME 21-00 - EDUCATIONAL. 7 OCAL LESSONS—M'LLE HENRIETTE L. ERNI, Certificated Pupil of arce ; tly returned from Europe. with t from Paris aud London, will now receive pupils. Ap- ply to Messrs. Metzerott; sanders & Stuyman, F st. mh J Bt) HARVARD GRADU simely or am sina] clas _mh19 At Sanders > DREAMIN D PAINTING every branch and for allages.private ori THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS st. Cali an mh 16-22 WRENCH, GREEK. MATHEMATICS A specialty.“ Prof."H. LARROQUE, A. ML, ot Sor. bonne Univ., Puris. Private tutor iu Sciences, Classical and modern lancuay 316th st. mw. mb14-1m' Wastixgeto: SER RY OF MUSIC d Buil and F sts, Twentieth Piano, Organ. Voice, Violin, Fiute, Cornet, & advantages. O.B. BULLAED, Director, nih GSUINE, CRAYON PORTRAITS ) lessons; no knowledve of di kuarantee to teach « speciuen at REY NOLD ARENTS D co: A) Gea st, near City F admitted. Call or se DA ACAL Sn. w., MONDAY, WEDNESDAY Now is tiie time to Ball. Send tor« 'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Colored studer ne. nts mhts 1004 F st BATU AY. 3 ssin the Speucerian Day and night sessions, Tait courses: Business Course; id aud Ty pewrit- nid Writing, BE euiple SAKA A. SPENCEK, Vic t, OL... Priveipal, nouncements, free pal; RY CoS) SDWAKD C, y) Correct (deep) bre Dramatic pat of study. ) SPECIA 7 NOR DALE % THE PREPARATIO: THE NAVAL A For catelogues, address Presid. 3 THOMAS FELL, A. AN DEL S FoR ADEMY Jie BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. Terms begin now. a 723 14th i ing Ladies’ Phy contidently e BROT Particular jon paid to al ludies, tarred or single. Forty OF Ld ny hour by Uion and advice tree x it s seribed and sworn _be Dr. BKO THE: SAMUEL C, MILLS, a lic, in and tor the District of Columbia, this thifd day of July, 1 lin* ANHoop es Ati or two or Di Will cure any Lerve-Low USING TOKE! YLUERS f nervous > BY I S00 B st. sw » REQUIL Vurk F i bicod diseases, cau nary discaves Cul tox. rianently curd ity, sc 3 : ey STANDL Jed Ui FOL: SHORT KOUTE TO LONDON, NOKDDEUTSCHEK LLOYD S. 8, CO. Fast Express steamers, To Southampton (Loudon, tavre), Bremen. ve March un. Trave, ty April 6,10 a.m excellent table, Inxurious saloon appomtments, Prices: and up- Ward a berth, according to location; 2d ‘cabin, be tw E. ¥. DKOO! ih; steerage at low rates. Apply Penn, ave. ARD LINE, HAS. L. DUBOIS & CO., agents, 605 7th st, now. Plaus and lists of sailings furnished, Passengers Ja booked to Paris. HE MUTUAL KESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOC T tion, of New York, hus furnished insurance to ewghty-two thousand members during past eycht years, jue- ma saving to them over sixteen iillioa dollers, by panies, . Wi » Supt. 15 st. le mhd-s,tu,th, hin Eg Grand OU National Award of 16,600 francs. INA-FAROCHE AN INVIGORATING TONIC, CONTAINING PERUVIAN BARK, IRON, ano PU For Malari E.FOU 30 appetite, Poorness of Biood, Neura’ RE CATALAN WIRE. he PREVENTION and CURE of Indigestion, Fever & Ague, Loss of sia, Ge, 22 Rue Drovot, Paris. GERA & (0., Agents for the U.S, NORTH WILLIAM ST. ALTIM Leave W For Chi: express di 5:0) B00 + 1:45 10:10 and For Au) s10-0 3;°1 TRAINS COL Pu vent, |. except For Anuaye ym. d: 4109 ALEXAN WAS, For Alexi “CLAS, Gene ungt P. nupeper, Was! P to Lou'sy: LOWS For hitisburgand the We: KAIOAD, | Strasbuny, ud nteruiediate station Gl Ped Bristol and Chattanvo . Pullman Sleepers and Solid 11:00 P. | burg, Danville, Kaleigh, Asheville, Chai te, Colum | bia, Aiken, i omens New Or Jeans, Texas and California, Pullman Ves Washington to New Orleans via Atlauta and Daily creep Sunday, arriving Washington RAILROADS, _ MORE AND OHIO OAD. pedule in effect Mat h, 1889. orner of New Jersey estibuled Limited tly 8 p.m, junati, St. Louis, and Indiauapolis, express od F116 0, 6240, 830 a. Sundays, 5: 111-00 jum. Pols. 6-40. 2 "pm, 4:10 pan. Sundays, litan Branch, 16.35, apal stations only; ‘diate points, 18:00 a, ire ations, +7:00 p.m, non Sunday at 1:15 Metropolitan Brauch 14:35 and 15:30 pam, and t5:30, daily S35 9, ud StL Washingtot $0 pam, open at Pim, tel phi Wiluuneton. and Chester, 0,711 W, "4:15, *S200, and en Baltimoreand Phil- At 50 ave Philadelph: 1:i5a.m., tl do, §Sunday only. : checked at hotels and resi- ftat ticket offices, 61M and 1Jol CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. Ag't. “Gen. Mahager. PLENDID SCENERY. MAGAIPICENT EQUIPMENT, it eH ASR AVE WASHINGTON FROM STATION, SIXTH AND B SYREETS, 44 POs Chicago Limited Express of 1 Vestibuled Cars, at { mu. daily; Fast 50 a, dst. Louis, mati, xcept Satur leeping Car Alt to Chi- 7:4 » with, Western’ Exp ne Cars Wasi, pv with through Sleeper to Pittsburg, and Pitts: . lor ure and ti < MAC RATLEOAD, . daily ; for Bag. t Saturday, 10:00 p, Wasiuington to Rochester. Haven, and Elmira, at 9:08 las 00, 11:00, and and 13:20 ‘On 10, 4:10, 10:00, and Express Of Pullman, Parlor pt Sunday, and 3:45 p. cept Sune Fast, 4:10, #00, 11:40 a. Lamited aily, € 10 p.m. every day. ouch trains connect st Jer. Brooklyn Aunea, affording b street, avoiding double 11-00, and 11-40 », ond LL pam. ed’ Express, 1, Week days, und 3 411-402 0, 8 y 00, iK Week days 0, 9:00, 9:40, 9:50, 03, 0, 3-4. 210, 10-00, and 11:20 p. Sou, 180 amy Breck Line, 7-20 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. daily, 8.10, 10: sunday Seis Sas % 9:00 & my 5, 7:20.and 9-00 am, 12 ly, except Sunday, Suiday DKIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- AND ALEXANDKIA AND WASHINGTON tris, 4 On Sund: ay et 4 5201, 8205 aud 10:05 p. Ba, <o & a, and 5:00 LL7 @.m.; 0:47 and st E. rt JR WOOD, rai Mai Gen. Pus. Agent. aud ‘New Ore ‘New Orleans, ure BG . Ville, Greensboro, Kaleil, mba, Aucusta, AUanta, Birning: xas and California, . to Atuuta: Pullinan Parlor teo1ery: Pullman Sleepers Mout- ew Orleans wid Mann Boudoir Sleepers arp, Vicksburg: and Shreveport. Pullman wa and Augusta, Soli . Does uot connect for vaily, except Sunday, uipiis1xpress Daily, via Lymebl . Pulls Vestibule Sleepers on to Mewphis and thence t Arkalsas M.—Westérn Ex Daily for Mi Daily lie M.—Southern Express for Lynch- ‘usta, Atlanta, Mon! Sleeper Mout mers. Pullman Sleeper Washington | Sauwwithout change. E | , Trains on Washington and Ohio divies foeton 9:00 AM. Dats except Sunda 2:45 PL Daily: arrive Round Hill 11:30 A.M. and 7:20 NL | Beuunbing leave Round Hill 6:09 A.M. Daily and ‘h trams from the South ilies Tyuchbnrg arte in Washi 7 Fn Rat Tenn Burg at 1113 AM. and 9-40 PMs via mf sud Ohio route“ ana Chari at 5:40 PM. and 9:40 PML; Strasburg Local at 10:15 A. M. ‘Ticket “ping car reservation and furnished, and checked at office, 1500 Penu- sylvania avenue, at sak aud Bests JAS. L. TA DENTISTRY. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. REE DENTAL INFIRM. Bec eeneria it Tee iH a ont rial, 2 n.W., Dew ineut of Columbian, University, sro 1 t0 3 pan dally, y. Extraction iro cuter in Sane Soes Te EY or R. STARR PARSONS, DENTIST, ‘OTH ST., COR- Enw. F A sige pal by yun ler suc au ARCHITECTS. MA! promptly executed by expert draughtsmen. jall-3m NOTARIES PUBLIC. ee 22 ee POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. Bal Capt. siniyte mb6-6m itimore and River ae. ed aSelock ne further: STEPHENSOR a wart. MM VERNON! iat at. veRNon: Ww. Ww. ee aaa ot BUSINESS. ‘The attention of the business public is invites ‘With confidence to the superior advantages sented by Tas Wasurveron EVENING Star as advertising medium. The sworn statements of {t@ daily circulation, published from week to taken in connection with the data given below, lustrate in the most striking manner the steeqy and rapid growth of the paper in circulation en@ ‘versy, the fact that THE Stak is the best local ad ertising medium, not only in the United States, Dut in the whole world! This claim is based and conceded on the fact that no city in any country ie ‘80 thoroughly covered by the regular circulation of ‘| single paper as is the city of Washington by that of Tas EVENING Stak; and it does not rest on the extend alone, but also on the character of circulit and fullest of any daily paper printed, in propor- tion to population, but it is also the BEST, since th® paper does not merely go into the hands of the people of the District of Columbia asa body, bat tnto their homes,—into the families of all condi tions, and into those of the money-spending @® well as the moneyrarning portion of the con» munity,—in @ much larger ratio than any daily journal that can be named. By reason of the fullness, freshness and reliability of its news, local, domestic and foreign, its independent and fair treatment of ail pubi estions, and eapes cially because of its intelligent and effective de- votion to jocal interests. and its close attention te matters with which the household, and particue larly its lauy members, are conce ned, THK Stan is everywhere recognized and admitted to be, im every quality, the leading and favorite newspaper of the National Capital, alike in the counting- room, the work-shop, and the family eirele. More conclusive evid by the tabie below. ‘The growth of circulation therein indl- cated, with the analysis following, cloarly shows the esteem in which the paper is held by th munity to Whose interesis it is so steadfastly dee voted. It will be seen that, in the number of copies issued, every month in the year ISSS shows & handsome increase over we corresponding month in each year given; and, asa further illus- tration on that pint, it may be stated here that there has been a corresponding advance in the umber of new advertisements printed during the year. The comparative figures for the four years last past are as foidows: PALLY CIRCULATION IN 1885~"S6"S7—"88, ISS6. 23,385 24520 23,998 24,727 24.356 S5.0rS 23,156 22.504 Reed Sh,708 Iss?. 25,470 26,299 26,008 25,575 25,742 2,116 JANUARY. Peeuvary . OcTOBEK NOVEMBRE .. 25,604 Pet Deckawee 24,657 26,758 Daily av'ge..22,123 23,082 22,058 increase... 1,309 1,399 Of this aggregate daily circulation of 27,063 Copies, tue book» of the oflive show tut an average of 20,029 copies were regularly delivered each day, by carriens, ai (he homes uf per: serivers in thecity and suburbs. Of there-uainder, # daily average vi 5,421 were sold at the office, in the hotels and railway stations, etc.,and on the steels, by newsboys, making a grand total average within the District of 25,450 copies daily, ieaving @ daily average of 1,032 to be seut to regular sub- scribers residing beyond its limits, vy mail,expresa, and railway traius, dn addition w the 20,029 copies ane. Site jaily delivered at the by of subscribers, a large proportion of the Sy4~i olberwise disposed of in Wecity is reg- uuurly purchased vy permanent residents, ving in loagiugs, &c. (uot Lousebolders), while the resi. due goes inte the hands of transient visitors, from all parts vf the country, who each year come to the National Capiial in greater numbers aud for longer periods, aud wo, iurthern largely Tevent the well-to-do and » “7 portions of the communities to which Iveiy Lelong. the lastnamed is a cla: » aloue weil worth reaching; but it is to the phenomenally large permanent local circulauion of the paper, Aud especially to its unparaileled huld upon the What We atteuuon uf 1S is parcularly directed, y sul x What 41s STAR reaches avout every iamily in the district of Columbia, and is read 6. Uean WereeJourine ou) tread! it follows, ther Pulan Whe are ane iat an advertise j MeN iuseried 4m iis Columus will MeCt the eye. j every person im te istrict worth reaching, of Whatever race, creed,sex, age, or condition in life dtonly remains to be paid, the information of those imteresied ia the sutjoct, that, in proportion Wo its circulation, ihe rates of advertising in 41mg EVENING STAR, whether Waunic Periods, rank with te very iowest in the United Slates, Judeed, taking Lous ue eatont ead char acter of ils circulation inte consimerauon, it may sately be Claimed Wats Wide aud such aM excom dent quality of publicity can uoWbere cise be buugul Jor le same mouey. “Trial by Poors.” For the information those uot familiar with The Siak, aiew exwacis trom nouces by its com temporar A out by 1ks recent change im forum, ave appended : From lie Wastonyton Lust. We constuculaie Lux STAR on its great rosperity, There 4s nu veiser evenung mewspayer wnshe United Staiea trom the Philadel pnia Ledger THE Wasminuiun LvesiNG STAR has marked the Close of Uweuty-one years uuder ite present manage Went ¥y peruMUELt culargement to a double shoet, UF et, aud eaght page MeCUMUICAL LU KUVeIMEMS Liss fusuive 10r Yruuiscauion. Colubideraun) suet tua Lwice as. Latye ws A004, 1Ufuiouen dani) Mace Lusee ae Neuen ci, alts uae autuoet ve Lauiee tine tiie vk Mat st veda euyuyed. At amy buaieea 8 mretctames bever, “workay us aiy cay du tebe anu Arum the dirwukign Kusle, Washington's best, af not paper, Bk Sian, which Las a ciculsden vi BU, tive fupisuon ot” SUU.UUAs serve eh ee ey ie Ake Dhak une Me guULCS, Sut st Petes © ewe, fives OULL blue eMuauly Ieper eee ut, sid sae wtuaitiod aus eavesselns feputanon hus Amur ues Ui dle bole Bud Mane cued lL sins: rom the sit ery really its only news wore Sus, LUE WandINGTON STR, one of the most prosperous Bewspapers au Lue couUtTY, Jatcly ehilanged,as Use pore MuLLAAy ali CEL-jexe paper. Lhe wood, umes te cujoy® Waw Created uy ite inauiagete, aus lie end eves Clipse Hae Beet esd Succenmuiy BOF any Joann TE 2e 1s dian) Leapects 4 modes aileruouN paper, eud iB edleudigs Lo 1 UUF ew hear agrecluge We Efust abe Pruspeiit) aay Lever wai. trom Wve Pasiuderphia Times. ‘DRE DiAM Bis tice Waiistic field of the pational Cayitad, win Miss 1 wdiiirainy aud With great succome, | rom tie New dork | Whatenteryriming, | Stas, dune jan 2U Maudnuaicel ALECUUOL papers sy i A dime auligy eek way OL BLY UR, mm UL —— American, Ls WAsuAnGTON EVENING STAR appeared last night im uew bye, Witu tise auuvunccuscat tame Heremtee Would apna PeTusaueully ae cu eieutpage were AMe DIAn use sUug ances Ube Ul Lue antionel capes ‘usd Ais ds isc aucun 6 wale wala UL GOWN, By Gu MUCTeaeiLg ail CalCuLstaul aid works From tue Chester a.) Vimes, Here aud there we behosa a paper which rewards t toil, peruape ue welius, of It = Siueaeure Ui Success Lat Caciten tine wouner of at Pomveuiuts, Duca w Jouiual, 4. gives Un ulubvuludenh Piewsure Ww Ve wile 10 mu), 4 Like RV ENING Se eaeuunactou Catp- iene rom the indianayolin News, At wives us great picusure to note this evidence of Prvspertty. Lite Dias is out ul Une best UG seated sapere uu the couMUry, aiid so 6 must Creuiuaule Reyes emalive OF Like widen cayiuml. Prom the Macon Ga.) Detegraph. THE EVENING DTAK is Landsmer than ever, audi The best LeWapaper VWasiaug vl LVF Med. Wash | trom the Philadelphia Kecurd, THE WasHiNGTON EVENING STAR keeps an easy SuoUg le CoMteupuraties Pubuaued au tue 2