Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1889, Page 11

4 » THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1889—TWELVE PAGES. WHALES AND THEIR WAYS HARING MONSTERS IN THE MUSEUM. How the Big Cetaceans are Mounted for Exhibition. MAKING THE MOULD FOR THE ATLANTIC CITY WHALE—THE Bi@ BUMPBACK AND THE NOVEL WAY IN WHICH IT WAS MOUXTED—THE VAN- ISHED HIND LEGS OF THE WHALE. ——— ESTERDAY afternoon when a ‘Star reporter visited the Smith- sonian the whale from Atlantic City dumped in the grounds Wednesday by a big express wagon had about all disap- peated. In the little building oceupied by the osteologist the reporter found Prof. F. knife, cutting iy and liver andother vital organs. These were parts of the whale. Passing out again into the grounds he met the only part left of the ceta- cean that could be recognized by an unscien- tifle man. This was the whale’s tail. It was coming through the grounds from the old armory building, where it had been in the hands of the taxidermists. Its power of loco- motion was furnished by Mr. William Palmer. In fact it was balanced on Mr. Palmer's shoul- der, and the flukes waved with a graceful and re} motion as Mr. Palmer jogged steadily on. He had taken it to the armory building to secure a plaster mold from it, and was returning it to the osteologist, who is to take the bones out and put them to soak with the other por- tions of the skeleton of this latest addition to the array of cetaceans in the National museum, MAKING THE MOLD. The molds made by Messrs Joseph and Will- iam Palmer from the Atlantic City whale were lying in a shed in the rear of the Smithsonian building. The molds are made of plaster. The tail of the animal was first cut off and then boards were cut so as to fit exactly along a line drawn from the end of the snout down the mid- die of the back and underneath the body back tothe end of the snout again. The irda, when cut, formed an outline of the whale. ‘These boards, having been adjusted, were left in position while one side of the body was cov- ered with plaster. This plaster, when hard- ened, was removed and formed a mold of one side. The whale was then turned over and the board outline being adjusted again, a mold of the other side was taken in the same manner. A separate mold was made of the tail and fli pers. From these matrices the form of the whale will be modeled in papier mache. After the large molds were made the head waa cut off and other molds made from it, with the jaws open, so that a model can be made showing the structure of the head. Every time a whale or any other strange denizen of the deep comes ashore along the part of the coast patroled by the crew of any life-saving station. the ithsonian Institution is immediately notified. This is in accordance with an arrangengement made some time ago between Prof. Baird and Supt. Kimball, of the life-saving service. A code for telegraphing has been adopted by means of which the captain of a life-saving station. when he gets a whale cr shark. by telegraphing a few numbers, can notify the institution of its Species and — character. 1f it is some- thing that the naturalists of the museum desire to secure steps are gjaken at once to get it, as was done the other My in the case of the whale from Atlantic City. A result of this arrangement, Prof. True said to Tue Star re- porter, has been to secure for the museum a great many rare and valuable forms, some of which were not before known to exist on this side of the Atlantic. The museum has a big collection of whales. Of some of the largest the skeletons only are mounted. In one hall. arranged above the eases on vertical rods, life-like in color, and looking as though they are swimming in’ the air, are a score or more of papier-mache models, or casts of smaller cetaceans from pig- mies three feet long up to a white whale and whales of other species twelve or thirteen feet in length. The Messrs. Palmer, the taxider- mists, have been most successful im mounting whales in this way. Ag WORK ON THE WHALE. A buge trophy of their skill is the big hump- back whale, which is suspended in the air across the end of the south hall of the museum. ‘The side that the visitor first sees looks just as a whale might look if hoisted out of the water and hung in the air. It is of dark slate color, paling to a gray on the breast, which is ridged oF corrugated.) Passing beneath the monster to the other side, one gets an entirely different view. The papier-mache model represents only one side of the whale. The other side is left open and exposes to view the bony struct- ure of the animal, the skeleton having been mounted and placed inside the model, so that from one side the visitor can inspect the in- ternal structure, just as one might look at the works of a watch when the case is opened. ‘This was an idea of Prof. Baird's to show the skeleton in its natural ition. This whale. which is a female, and over $2 feet long, was stranded on hoe Cod near Provincetown, some years ago, and the Smithsonian was noti- fied. “It was impracticable to bring so big a creature here, so Mr. Joseph Palmer, with a number of men. went there. Plaster molds were made from the dead animal in sections as it lay ou the beach. The molds were shipped to this city, together with the bones. By means of the molds the paper model of half or one side of the whale was made, and the skeleton, when mounted, was placed in it, The hump- back whale grows to twice the size of the one whose Raper representative hangs in the mu- seum. It is not considered of so much import- ance commercially as the great bow-! the right. and the sperm whales, as ite whalebone is short and brittle, and it has not, compara- tively speaking, much blubber. Humpbacks are sometimes captured by whalers, and are found in nearly all seas. They get their name from having a small hump, instead of « fin, on the back. SKELETONS AND SKULLS. In an adjoining hall, given up to the skull and skeletons of mammals, are the mounted skele- tons of several big whales and some little cues too. As @ Stam reporter was looking “t them, Prof. True discoursed to him, with the enthusiasm of a naturalist, on the of whales. Prof. True remarked that the caet- ceuns furnished « striking example of what might be called mechanical evolution. Their form is wonderfully well aon to the ele- ment in which = live. The bin is a com- bination of lines of beauty. In the whale. dis- sected by Prof. True yesterday, were found little rudimentary pelvic bones, all that is left of the hind legs of the ancestor of the whale. Whether the whale was once a quadruped livi on land back somewhere in the eocene peri und by the subme: of the land had to adapt itself to an aquatic life, descinding its hind in the 2 pom of evolution and —— forward legs to flippers, is a question bh scientists have not yet settled. Some claim that the tail was devel from the hind legs. ‘The notion that whales when they blow spout- water is erroneous. When a whale rises to breathe, as soon as he reaches the surface, he expels from his h sh his blow-hole, a from a distance, Bw a looks: & spout of y or water. It is by this spouting and a it whales have of “lob- round, them dhat Slslora’ are anf fase er wi to them often at a great distance. mere) ‘TEE NARWEAL. Upon the top of s case, in the hall of mam- | fringe of the whalebone can be seen attached te } the jaws of the finback and the humpback mals, is mounted the skeleton of a narwhal, the tasked or horned whale of the Aretic ocean. The skeleton in the museum is that of a full- wn male. It measures about 14 feet, jiral tusk extending straight out from the head to a le: of about 6 feet. These horns or tusks used to be brought into by sailors, aud for along time it was not own to what kind of animais they belonged. They gave rive tothe yarn about the imagi- nary creature known in story-books as the uni- corn. The tusk is, in fact, a big tooth. It ap- pears normally only in the male. and it is a curious thing that it grows uniformly on the left side. Recently, however, the museum has purchased @ skull of a narwhal, said to be that of a female, which has two tusks, each 4 feet long, one growing from each side of the head. Narwhal have a market value, and are used by ivory workers in the mannfacture of canes and other articles. On top of another case near the narwhal is the skeleton of a bottle-nose whale from Norway, and a few feet away is the bony frame of a little piked whale from the Massachusetts coast. Ranged along the wall are skulls and wbones of big cetaceans, There is a lower wofa sperm whale looking like a big Y, and studded with teeth like spike heads. The cranium of a California y whale, of Cali- fornia, looks like the skull of some gigantic bird. Near it is the huge skull of a sulphur- bottom whale obtained from Nantucket. The sulphur-bottom is so named from the color of the heart. It resembles the finback, attains — size, and is a powerful and swift swimmer. he sulphur-bottom whale of the Pacific coast is said to be the largest known cetacean. A record is made of one that measured 9% feet in length and 39 feet in girth, and had a weight estimated at 294,000 pounds. HOW WHALES FEED. Whales are divided, Prof. True said, into two great classes, the whalebone whales and the toothed whales. The whalebone whales have only rudimentary teeth. Their method of feeding is such as not to require teeth. 80 long ago in the process of evolation their teeth retired from business. and now naturalists find only indications that these whales were sometime in the course of the earth's history rovided with teeth. The whalebone is nota one at all, but a horny, elastic substance, that grows ott like stiff thick bristles, fringing the upper jaw inside the mouth. When the mouth is open this elastic fringe, springing downward, forms a net that completely curtains the orifice of the mouth. Prof. True, in explaining the functions of the whalebone to a Star reporter, remarked that it was a singular thing that the biggest of beasts feed on the smallest of crea- tures. The whalebone whale subsists on small crustaceans and other tiny creatures. It opens its mouth and swims rapidly until it catches a mouthful of these dainties. Then it closes jaws, and with its tongue squeezes the water out from the meshes of whalebone and swallows the morsels left. This done it opens its mouth again and steams ahead after more small game, repeating the operation until its hunger is ap- peased. ‘THE HUMPBACK WHALF.- The great bowhead of the Arctic regions is the chief whale, hunted for its oil. This whale is rarely, if ever, caught away from the ice. In the summer it comes some distance south with the ice floes. It used to be thought half a century ago to be identical with the right whale found in the waters of the temperate zone. Though the right whale yields blubber and whalebone in paving quantities, the blub- ber is not so thick and the whalebone is not so long as that of the great bowhead. It is to capture the bowhead that our whalemen risk their lives in the north Pacific. Often their vessels are wrecked in the ice of Behring sea and the Arctic ocean. The sperm whale inhabits chiefly the tropi- cal regions, but has occasionally appeared as far north in the Pacific as the California coast, and in the Atlanticin the vicinity of the British isles. ‘This whale, besides its blubber, carries in a hollow in its head a store of spermaceti, THE GREAT FINBACK. One of the largest of the whales, the finback or blue whale, occurs in almost all waters. There are known tobe four speciesin the north Atlantic. A regular fishery for these whales has been established on the coast of Norway. The finback is so shy and such a rapid swimmer that in early days of whalin, with appliances then in use, it was next to i ossible to capture one. As the yield of blu! er and whalebone is, comparatively, not great, whalers gave their attention to cetaceans more easy to capture. Since the introduction of bomb-guns, which discharge an explosive bomb, @ great many whales of this species have been killed and a regular fishery has been established in Norway, where several hundred bave been killed. The finback attains a length of 85 feet, and some of even greater length have been captured. Sometimes a bomb is discharged into a whale without the fuse being lighted and does not go off, but the whale goes off with the bomb, Recenil , in one killed on the Norway coast, was found a bomb bearing the name of E. E. Pierce, a bombmaker of New Bedford. This has raised an interesting ques- tion as to whether the whale carried the bomb all the way across the ocean. Prof. True has written to Mr. Pierce and learned that he has never sold any bombs to Norwegians, but he has sold them to Scotchmen, The whale may have been shot by a Scotch whaler. A SKELETON OF A HUMPBACK. A skeleton of a humpback whale, about 30 feet long, is suspended across one end of the hall from iron brackets, something like boat davitson aship. This was a mode of mount- ing designed by Mr. Watkins, of the museum. The weight of the skeleton was calculated and the brackets adjusted so as to distribute the strain evenly. Up 15 or 20 feet above the floor, against the Piers and arches, are suspended two other huge skeletons, one a finback about 40 feet long, and the other a right whale about 36 feet long. The whale. The right whale was hunted by our fore- fathers in the Atiantic until it was nearly e: terminated. Within a few years the speci has become abundant again, and several have — off the coast of Long Island. The skeleton in the museum was from one of these, and it was mounted and prepared for exhibi- tion by Mr. Ward, of Rochester. It was the right whale that was hunted by the ue whalers on the Spanish coast in the middle ages. These daring scamen made Se de far out into the Atlantic in search of whales. semen ana Health and Beauty. Eliza R. Parker in Ladies’ Home Companion. To be beautiful, a woman must be healthy; the delicacy which comes from physical weak- ness is not an element of beauty. The grace of a perfect form is the result of sound bone and flesh; health strengthens the muscles, and the Proper condition of the stomach and lungs is of{great importance—on fthe rfect circula- tion of the blood and its | sort from all im- — depends the beauty of the complexion. ‘he skin must be kept healthy by frequent bathing and proper dict, as well as plenty of exercise in the open air. The English are wont to say the paleness and sallow tinge of the American girl's complexion is due to insuffi. cient n hment, the want of strengthening food. A French author of note says: “A train of exact and rigid observation has demon- strated thatasucculent, delicate, and care- ful regimen repels to's dis length ®@ considerable time, the external appearance of old age. It gives more brilliancy to the eyes, more fresh- ness to the skin, more support to the muscles, and as it is certain in physiology that it is de- pete of the muscles that causes wrinkles, ose enemies of beauty, it is equally true to i tae equal, those understand eating are comparatively ten years —— than — Price ene not Grrpeeng it science.” atmosphere, it is true. is somewhat unfavorable to clearness and of the complexion, and our climate is more or less exhausting to the constitution of women, yet with care and attention to cer- rules any woman not actually have good health, and with it some Bathing is one of the first req it Vpseorwina @ healthful condition of the skin. erefore, walk of an hour or more in Be open ait int the exercise of housework), and a plen' of well-cooked, nourishing food— puddings and sweet-meats tain may of WITH CABLE AND GRIP. The Motive Power to be Used on the 7th Street Railroad. THR SYSTEM ADOPTED AFTER CAREFUL coNsID- ERATION—HOW CABLE ROADS ARE OPERATED—- PICTURES OF THE CABLE CONDUIT AND THE GRIP AND HOW THEY ARE WORKED. A cable road is a simple thing when you come to understand it. That is what President Hart, of the Washington and Georgetown rail- road company, told a Star reporter. His com- pany have been for some time investigating the subject of motors, and they have not yet com- pleted their studies. President Hurt and the directors know all about horses as a motive power for street railways, as they have had considerable experience in that line, There seems to be two other motors which‘are consid- ered suitable ‘for street railroads, namely, the cable and electricity. Asa result of the atten- tion given to this matter by President Hurt he is prepared to say now that he knows something about the cable motor. He admite that he knows nothing about electricity and inquired rather anxiously of the reporter if he was acquainted with any one that did, and what it would do and what it wouldn't. The reporter hadn't any informa- tion on the subject, and Mr. Hurt went on to say that, while the cable road as now built was not perfect, it had been demonstrated that it was practical, and that it was the best motive power now known. At any rate, as has been stated in Tae Srar, the company has decided to put the cable on their 7th-street line, and in the course of a few months the public gen- erally will be able to see the practical opera- tion of this motive power. TRE SEVEHTH-STREET LINE, from Boundary to the wharves, is about three miles and a half inlength. With the exception of one curve it is perfectly straight, and has some rather heavy grades. The absence of curves and the presence of grades were the main reasons which induced the company to put the cable on the 7th street line, instead of on the Avenue. The latter is rather meander- ing. and has what may be termed a flat topog- raphy. It is also longer and the outlay would be greater, Mr. Hurt estimates that the con- struction of the cable road will cost about $100,000 per mile of single track. When it is down the cost of operating it will be much less than the present cost of using horses, A road using electricity by means of overhead wires would also cost less than the cable road. But overhead wires in the oie not very popular either in Congress or with the public. HOW THE CABLE WILL BE LAID. Mr. Hurt says that it is the intention to put down the cables without interfering with the daily traffic, One square will be done at a time and temporary tracks will be built on each side for the cars to pass around the new work, When the new track is down another section of the road will be torn up, and this rocess will be continued until the entire road finished. The cut given, showing a cross- of a cable road, will == afford some idea of the Mimount of work in- volved. The entire space between the tracks will be dug up to the depth of five feet, a base of concrete will then be laid, covering the bottom of this trench. Resting upon the concrete will be a series of iron supporta called yokes, which will support the tracks on each side and the conduit. The latter is an egg-shaped tube made of concrete, and through it the cable runs, being supported at suitable intervals on ulleys. The tube has a narrow slit or slot in The top, which is flush with the pavement between the tracks. The cable is an endless rope made of steel wire. It is operated by means of a large drum or whee}, over which it passes. Steam engines keep the drum in mo- tion, and the rope, passing out over the drum, is carried under the pavement to the street where, at the head of the track, it passes over horizontal wheel. and then over the pulleys down the tube the entire length of the line, when it returns by the tube in the center of the other track. The power of this moving cable is communicated to the cars. by means of a grip, | a cut of which is given. According to the most approved method the grip isin a special car, called the grip-car, although it may be on the front platform of a regular passenger car. The driver or grip-tender stands in the center of the grip-car, which is smaller than the ordinary car, and is open, but will accommodate « num- ber of passengers, and is convenient as a smok- ing pad 3 package car. There can be attached to the grip-car any number of passenger cars. The grip attached to the lever is about 2 feet long, and consists of two horizontal jaws, THE GRIP. The upper jaw is stationary. When the car is in motion the lever brings the lower jaw up and the cable is held as in a vise. The car is then carried along at the same rate of speed that the cable is beingrun. In sopping the car the grip is relaxed allowing the cable to pass freely in the lower jaw, at either end of which is a pulley or wheel. The car is then entirely free from the cable, and ite natural momentum is checked by a brake, which brings the car to a dead stop. again the driver, by means of the lever, seizes the cable between the jaws of the grip. The slot in the upper side of the cable tube is half an inch toaninch in width steel bar to which the grip i forming the connection of the grip with the car. HOW REPAIRS CAN BE MADE. By an automatic arrangement at the engine house the slightest defect in a wire strand of the cable is made known by the ringing of a bell, when the engine can be stopped and the defect remedied. In the event that the cable is seriously injured it is removed from the drum, the injured part is cut out, and a splice made, which does not weaken the cable. e conduit can be kept free from water and dirt that may pass through the slot by grading the bottom and eonnecting the conduit with the sewers. The grooved rail is used, and thus the entire road-} can be le flush with the pavement. The track of a cable road does not | necessaril, the exclusive Fae apart ofthe center of a street, as is the case with the horse railroads in this city. A Flat Refusal. From Puck. Janitor—‘‘Havé you any children, sir?” Mr. Kidby—‘Yes; three.” Janitor—“I can’t let you have this flat, then.” Mr. Kidby—‘“But my children are all mar- ried.” Janitor—“It doesn't make no difference.” Mr. Kidby—They live out in Chicago.” Janitor—‘‘Can't help it, sir; the owner says he won't rent to nol who has chidren un- der no circumstances.” a oo The Wrong Tipple. ‘From the Utica Observer. “George,” she said shyly, as she withdrew her lingering lips from his, “I think I smell Nong, Edith, sane) "ll have to guess “ . > you ve again.” Sind she guessed again. ‘ ————__—______. But You Can’t Do It, You Know. Could we elect what things were fit To linger in survival Our Pains and aches we would transmit ‘To some detested rival. But itcan’t be done. You have to ache it out for yourself unless you follow the example of these messes: Rtg gor gen cured when thought I had con- Stmption.” Laviwa EN Ames, lowa. Dus. STARKEY & PaLun-—*Cndor God I believe sectionof the road bed > In starting | THE NEW YORK GIRL. Some Types of Gotham Lasses as Ob- served from Without. THE FIFTH AVENUE GIRL AND THE BROADWAT GIRL—THE GIRLS WHO GIOGLE—A REMARKA- BLE GIRL IS THE BOWEKY GIRL, BUT THERE IS & MORE REMARKABLE GIRL IN MOTT STREET. Correspondence of Taz Evenixo Stan. New York, April 5. sang of arms and a man. Had he lived in these times here he would have sung about peace and the New York girl. Here in this cosmopolitan town are all types of youth- fal femininity. They come from the four quarters of the globe, from all countries and all climes; they speak all languages and are of all complexions; are short, tall, thin, stout, and from the time of their arrival they own to the name of “the New York girl.” And aren't they bright and winsome, all of them! And don’t they alllove to come out of doors and show how pretty they look, Lord bless ’em! The “rounders.” the gentlemen of leisure who loaf away their days watching the tide of tidy femininity that ebbs and flows on all our principal thoroughfares pleasant afternoons; the actors and gamblers and other sports who work nights and loaf days—these fellows have separated the New York girl into several classes, according to peculiarities which are distinct in each class, and have labeled her with names which seem to them to best ex- press the respective peculiarities, THE FIFTH AVENUE GIRL is one of the best known of these classes, She isn’t a girl who lives on 5th avenue, but when she walks abroad to show herself she chooses that club-house-lined “esyie ec for the ex- hibition. To see her, well dressed, tastefully gloved and booted, as she strolls past Delmon- ico’s or the Union club, demure and thoughtful if alone, or chattering briskly when there are « couple of her, you would never for an instant imagine that the realized anybody was admir- ing her. But she does realize it, all the same. She doesn’t stare boldly at the club windows, neither does she send any visible sidelong glances at them as she goes by, but, all the same, she knows every male face that is at these posts of observation, knows whether she has created an impression and how many pairs of eyes are following her retreat. How she knows it I cannot guess, unless she have eyes in the back of her head, for, to all appearances, she isn’t paying a bit of attention to such things. The 5th avenue girl is young, generally not over nineteen, and she walks with a stride as if she were doing acouple of leagues for a constitutional. The reason for this peculiarity of waik I cannot explain, but I have often heard men say in other parts of town when meeting a girl with this stride, ‘Hello, here's a 5th avenue girl off her beat.” I may add that the Sth avenue girl is almost never insulted and that her greatest fault isa mild sort of vanity which isn’t altogether unbecoming. THE BROADWAY GIRL. Every ‘pleasant afternoon from 4 o'clock until 6 the west side of Broadway, between Union square and 38d street, is packed with well-dressed people. And on every pleasant afternoon, between these hours, here is the beat of the Bro:.dway girl. She rarely goes so far so@th as Union square, however, but con- fines herself to that portion between 23d and 33d streets, where the principal hotels and theaters are. She is of as distinct aclass as the Sth avenue girl, but alas, she isn’t as lova- ble. In gowns, hats, wraps and ornaments she is better dressed than the 5th avenue girl, but her gloves are not so immaculate, nor are her boots so trim and tidy. She is also louder in conversation, older in years and fonder of ad- miration than her sister strojler. She is inno- cent enough, but it wouldn't at all disagree with her notions if she imagined that the swells and well-dressed bums standing at the hotel entrances thought her just a trifle ‘“fast.” She wouldn't be ‘fast’ for the world, this Broadway girl, but she thinks to be “fast” must be awfully chic. And if you should ask her to define exactly what she means by “fast,” she couldn't tell you to save her life. ‘The men she selects for ideals every afternoon are those with the boldest eyes, although their insolent stare frightens her at the same time that it de- lightsher, And if her wonderful woman’s in- stinct, already pretty well developed, tells her | that the well-dressed, handsome man who just brushed her elbow isa roue, she straightway tells herself that there is the man she could adore, The Broadway girl isto be pitied. She doesn’t know that as soon as she has become a common figure on that thoroughfare her repu- tation is gone, and that no matter how true a wife and mother she may become in after years | there will be always somebody to sneer, “Humph! Pity Jones married her, Why, she used to walk Broadway.” You might tell her she was losing her reputation, but she wouldn't believe you. Ten to one she would say she didn’t care for her reputation. That would be a lie, of course, but she wants to be thought “fast,” you know. Sometimes, though not often, the Broadway girl falls. Oftener, after adoring roués and wicked but well-dressed scoundrels for a year or two, she suddenly marries the meekest and most insignificant looking clerk in a retail store. She is perfectly happy for three years, After that time she and her husband quarrel more than they ought. THE THIRD AVENUE GIRL. The $davenue girl walks in the evening. She is very young, and there are a great number of her, all apparently just turned sixteen. She generally emerges from her father’s butcher store or the doorway of her mother’s “improved tenement house’‘at about 7 o'clock, bareheaded and with her hair hung ina braid down her *back. She wears a little shawl, sometimes over her head, sometimes resting on her shoulders. Before she has reached the next corner she dis- covers her counterpart, Maggie, standing in a doorway, and soon after joining Maggie they meet Kittie. The 3d avenue girls always go in groups of threes with their arms locked to- gether. They are generally plump and ros} neatly but not fashionably dressed, and they would rather giggle than chew gum. They giggle at everything and everybody, including oue another. If one of their young men friends meets them and lifts his hat they giggle. Ifa cigarette-pu fing youth on the corner says “Ab there, rosy!” they wiggle. If Kittie remarks to Maggie that it must be getting late all three set to giggling to almost the point of hysteria, Ifa rat runs out from the corner grocery al- most under their feet they do not shriek, they giggle. They are honest, good girls, and most of them are at home. if not abed, by 9 o'clock or earlier. The 3d avenue girl is so near like | the 8th and the 9th avenue girls that only an | expert can tell the difference. THE BOWERY GIRL, The Bowery girl is out at night. Out late generally, too, although she may be, and usu- ally is, despite her brazen ways, as virtuous and honest as they make em. She is a know- ing piece, too, is the Bowery girl, and the masher who is attracted by her face and form and thinks he can fool her is badly fooled him- | self. But look at her! She wears the highest- | heeled boots in the market, the biggest hat | and the bobbingest bustle. She walks with her elbows out at right angles with her body, and her gait is between a mince anda strut, Her ! voice is always deep contralto, she affects a huskiness in talking and she grins and leers, but never giggles. Bowery etiquette permite anybody who meets her to speak to her, and she always replies, although she doesn't al- ways Lae her walk to do it. Probably she will grin and huskily hail your greeting with, “Ta- ta, bantam! Yer awfal nice, but yer uppers don’t fit yer,” as she goes strutting along. If she and her companion (these girls go in couples) meet a stranger to the Bowery who looks meek and bashful, one will bellow in his very face, “My! Ain’the a nice clean man!” Two, of tem stood a front ee dime museum window the other night, lool at corpse- like painting of the “oasified man,” a spectacle so horrid that the authorities should prohibit it. The girls chewed gum and ed at it five minutes. ‘Ain't he real "2" remarked one. “Yep,” replied the other, “but the livin’ man wid de broken neck is cunniner. I plays him fer place every heat,” and they turned with a new rapture to the portrait of the living man with a broken neck, whose head lolle over his shoulder, whose ee and whose eyes bulged. “Oh, protruded e is a lollah!” fervently exclaimed the first Bowery girl. ANOTHER NEW YORK GIRL, like a girl, and im truth, her husband tells me, she is only sixteen. Mr. Ah Dam is the richest Chinese in New York, and Mrs, Ah third wife he i Higa oer Mr. Ah Dam never let anybody see his and the red in her cheeks makes it exquisite, while her hair, brushed back from her fore- head, isas bisck «night and is tina broad knot behind, pierced with two gold Her hands are pny, things, pink on the inside and golden without, and her feet, which are not Eetormes, but exquisitely shaped, are no than my thumb, I will swear. She doesn't walk on them, but teters around the room a good deal like the little sandpipers that throng the shores of the Potomac opposite Washington. She was dressed in « red silk gown, stif and shiny, and wore white stock- ings that showed just a bit above her cute Migs slippers with ——— soles, Mrs. am doesn’ lish, so compliments were evidently wanted on hee, And irre binge I — her husband = in- reting er one e pretty things I had ey types btn forbidding way that PI e compli- Barring the men’ business then and there. frown, I think Mrs, Ah Dam is one of the sweet- est New York girls I ever met. i. H. Soutz. ———roo —____ THE WHIMS OF THE FAIR. PARISTENNES greatly affect black toilets. Gracervt Neck Scarrs in empire fashion are worn with stylish home dresses, Warts axp Biack bonnets are much trimmed with gold ribbon and gold embroidery. Very many of the newly imported black lace dresses are made up over foundations of black faille or merveilleux satin, with no touch of color visible save the wide empire sash of old rose, violet, or Nile green. FaxciruL menus are passés, Instead they must be fine but plain, and either stuck up- right in a silver holder or framed in filigree of dead silver on a bright background. Tur New dyed linen now brought over from Ireland comes in pale dull blue and all shades of pink end red. As the process of manufac- ture forbids its ever being cheap it is safe to remain stylish as long as it will last. Srix Crerative is @ very beautiful fabric for evening dress. This material resembles crepe, of course, but it is softer and more diaphanous and clinging. Old rose, almond, ivory, reseda, golden amber, golden terra-cotta, Nile green, and primrose are favorite tints in this textile. Rovnp and belted waists remain in fashion- able favor, notwithstanding the great vogue for polonaises and redingotes. Many dresses in this style are made of the beautiful fine wools, either bordered or elaborately braided in graduated arabesques on the front and sides of the dress-skirt, Corton stuffs for summer come in all shades of red, in a dozen tones of blue, in pink-gray andin lavender, Biack and white are com- bined with them in nearly all the big broken poe that are immensely stylish if well worn, at confusion worse confounded in the hands of an unskilled dressmaker. Tue Emrrre Vetzs intended to wear en the flaring wide round hats are useful as well as ornamental, as they prove a genuine protection agaiust the keen spring breezes. The ordinary French model for this veil was simply a deep [poe oMfancy net. with long ends designed to ¢ passed around from the back of the hat, and lightly tied a few inches below the chin, ALMost Tat OnLy New Featcre of the tailor- made gown is the use of leather for vests, cuffs, collars, andsoon. The favorite kind is a rich, soft velvety brown, which is very stylish when made up with checked tweed that is cut bias both for skirt and bodice. For plain cloths there are galloons stamped out of un- dressed leather, and very much enriched with bead and metal embroidery. Narty Litrie Jackets are the complement of most of the simple mountain and seaside cos- tumes already in preparation for the forth- coming vacation season, and a general effect of homogeneity is afforded to these suits by form- ing the jacket of the same color. though not necessarily of the same fabric as the skirts, The most stylish of these have very elegant fancy vests beneath. Gowns For YacuttNe, beach wear, and so on, now take the generic name of “water dresses,” and are made up of fine, light cloth or flannel with a round waist with shirred crossing fronts, full skirt, deeply gauged on to the waist and bordered’ at foot with a deep bias band piped with a contrasting color. The same color ap- pears in the habit shirt that fills in the little V at the neck, Is Dressy Eventna Tortets young ladies are wearing ribbon baadeaux in their hair, with a number of high loops of the same at the top of the coiffure. upheld by invisible wires to keep them in position. Silver filets are also worn when the Grecian style of dress is chosen, These bands, however, are becoming only to women with abundant tresses and features that are decidedly classic, Stk Gioves exq embroidered in silks of the same shade as the glove have me- dium long Jersey wrists, which cling closely to the arm and fit perfectly. These come in all the rich street shades, and in most of the beau- tiful artistic tints noted in kid gloves for even- ing wear. These gloves grow more popular each summer season, and for shopping and general wear with handsome costumes are chosen in lieu of any other glove by a large class of women, ALL Suapes or Ciorm are reproduced in kid gloves for spring wear. The most popular of these are the golden browns, orange and lovely gray shades, which now rival the tan colors in favor. Among the gray tints are shown silver antique, a shade but a few degrees removed from black, spring sky, a dull leaden color reflecting silver lights; Russian gray, a mouse shade; acier, or steel color; nun's gray with a suggestion of cream in it; ashes of rosea, a lovely pale, soft dye, and many exquisite and ladylike pearl color; —eo——_____ The Effects of an Avalanche. From the Cornhill Magazine, I enjoyed an excellent opportunity last March of inspecting the interior of a Staub-Lawine, or ‘snow-dust avalanche, which fell in the valley of Davos, below the village of Glarus, At its deepest point it lay about 60 feet above the post road, and a gallery had been bored through it with great labor for the passage of sledges. The walls of this tunnel were a com- pact mass of go peo snow, which the work- men cut into with pickaxes. You could make no impression on it with your fingers, and the marks of the pick were as sharp as on a block of marble. I noticed the following objects em- bedded in the portion of the avalanche exposed to view: Large and small fragments of gneiss and limestone: occasionally a huge bowlder; tranks of trees, mostly larch and pine, sawed flush with the snow walls; branches, innumera- ble twigs of cembra, larch, spruce, ‘fir, and al- der, so evenly distributed’ over the whole sur- face that the trees from which they had been torn must have been stripped by the whirl of wind and snow-dust; these fragments were so firmly clutched that you could not scoop them out; lastly, and most impressive, massive blocks of pure transparent ice, one of them 6 feet in length, 3 feet in depth, and how broad I do not know, This ice must have been torn by the blast from frozen waterfalls in the gullies of the Rutchtobel. The avalanche probably started at some 3.000 feet above the Landwasser, descending from a district known as the Ausser- berg, which is dominated by the two peaks of the Leidbachhorn and Aelplihorn. It was clear on seeing how stones, stems, branches, twi; blocks of ice, &c., were firmly wrought into the snow mass that @ man’s would be inex- tricably ry ey by the same frozen substance. Siending in the gallery and reflecting on these remembered with a thrill of awe that somewhere or another, at no great distance, the corpse of a man lay actnally imbedded there. e was called Caspar Valiir. and he had been buried in the avalanche upon February 7. Gangs of peasants to the number of fifty had Cac cberempenin d for = in the snow with les, breaking it up with Pie pepnergn | les, and their sad, resigned faces told how they sorrowed for their com- rade. His fate might be so easily theirs, too! The 6a’ Alpine winter claims its victims last this labor of the search, will- ingly and without wage given by the men of Glarus, had to be abandoned as im ticable. Caspar Valtr was left to slumber in ‘his. ola in ‘springtime His wide W, with two young children, went on fi chalet on the hill which overlooks the which robbed her of her husband. On the 3d of May she gave birth to a child, and on pepe Syren ome: was brought to it, had been across the stream the rush of the Staub- Lawine and his was in excellent preserva- Aways Hosp the Unger Hand of Dtnenss. Is HE A FRENCH ADVENTURER? Boulanger is all That and More, too, Says an Eminent Writer. From the Forum. Boulangism is only the expression of the dis- satisfaction of all classes in France with the republic and its leaders, and another instance showing how easy the masses may be deceived and led astray. The prime causes for the es- tablishment of Boulangism lay in the universal contempt in which all the republican leaders, except Freycinet, are held in France, and every day the newspapers reassert that truth, To be ruled by men whom one would be afraid to receive in his house— by a Constans, convicted perjurer, and charged by the leading newspapers with malfeasance in office, and who was compelled for a few years to disappear from the political stage; by a Tirard, a time-server, whose’ i ity is not denied by his most intimate friends, and whose moral character may be com, with that of Bors Tweed; by a Jules Ferry, a hisfamily out of the French treasury, an ready to sacrifice the world to his ambition; by ® Fallieres; bya Rouvier, who barely escaped conviction by a majority of one voice after a pro- tracted trialona charge of the grossest and vilest immorality; by an Andrieux, the ac- knowledged protector of a well-known pro- curess of the ftue Duphot, in whose house he was arrested when it was raided, and whom he saved from prosecution and conviction; by a Floquet, another time-server, who, after basely i insulting the czar of Russia in 1867. became, when in power, his most exalted adulator. Boulanger’s 'impudence, therefore, did not kill him, but increased his reputation, and his horse won the day. Boulanger’s greatest | epee d came from his horse, and if indeed ie restores the consulate, as itis his avowed intention to do, and, following Bonaparte’s ex- ample, becomes first consul of France, he owes to that horse at least the same honors that checinna bestowed on the one who won oe = Persian empire. Boulanger is a graceful rider, and his maces is athoroughbred. When he at- tended military reviews and des, both horse and rider won the admiration of the lookers on, and the newspapers spoke about the graceful rider. Rival journalistic enter- prise immediately published skotches of Bou- anger and his horse, with their full history, and for the history of the latter it is needless to say that unlimited scope was given to the reporter's imagination. Illustrations of Boulanger were seen every- where, in the rum shops, in the stationery stores, and the more dissatisfied parliament was with Boulanger the more popular he be- came with the people at large, who took that way to manifest their feelings of disgust and a to the course of affairs, What are Boulanger's prospects? He may overthrow the present cabinet, and he may even be elected president if at the next gen- eral elections no party secures a working ma- Ce. They may then combine for electing im, but only to wear him out, just as Gam- betta was worn out, and innumerable others have been, and their usefulness impaired. Bou- langism came from a horse and a song, and will finish in a song, as, according to Beranger, everything in France commences and ends by @ song. eS Eee Frothed Like a Mad Dog. THE AWFUL SUFFERING AND STRANGE CURE OF DAVID BARKEY. Wooster, Ohio, Special to the New York World. David Barkey, eleven years old, a son of a well-to-do farmer living northeast of this place, has just recovered from hydrophobia, and aconite, hydrate of chloral and salicylate of soda were the means of saving his life. Feb- ruary 10 the boy complained of feeling unwell. His entire muscular system appeared to be affected with a soreness that could not be counted for. A physician was called in and diagnosed the ailment as muscular rheumatism, for which the patient was treated. The treatment which is generally used in such cases was apparently effective. About ten days later the boy’s condition took another turn and other physicians were called in for con- sultation, The patient would pant like a dog, stick out his tongue, froth at the mouth and simulate the growl and bark of a cross canine. The paroxysms would continue for about twenty minutes or half an hour, and then he would sink into a semi-paralytic state, from which he would rouse up soon afterward feeling appar- ently well. n the day the consultation was held by the physicians the patient experienced five paroxysms. When water was sprinkled in the boy's face he would experience a paroxysm and bark and growl, and suap at and attempt to bite persons Srouna him, ‘The disease was then pronounced hydrophobia, and the infection was said to have come from the family dog, which had been shot several years ago on account of mani- festing signs of madness, About eight years ago young Barkef, then two and one-half years of age, was bitten through the upper lip by e this dog. Last fall oy was bitten by a neighbor's dog, which, after the boy's malady became known, was killed, examined and pronounced healthy, The physicians tcaced, the rabies to the first dog, but did not claim it was caused by the bite through the lip. The dog had what is known as the dumb or paralytic rabies, and the sup- position is that after or between his paralytic attacks he licked a sore on the boy’s hand or body and thus transmitted the poison. As soon as the disease was known young Barkey was bound to his bed and mittens of heavy cloth were placed over his hands, and his arms bound in flannel to prevent him from biting himself. The paroxysms were generally experienced about noon, The boy appeared to be possessed of super- human strength. It required two men to hold his arms back, His attendants were provided with thick gloves, and during one of his par- oxysms the patient managed to get his father’s gloved hand in his mouth and bite through the glove to the skin, but did not bring blood. Another attendant’s gloved hand was bitten until the ends of his fingers became black and blue. In order to appease the boy's anxiety to bits pillows and thick pieces of cloth were thrust into his mouth. He would close his teeth firmly on them and his glassy eyes would dilate in a horrible manner, The attending physician looked upon hydro- phobia as an affection of the nerves. He also me (red that poison was self-limiting; so he de- cided to endeavor to keep the boy alive until the action of the poison was spent. Large doses of fluid extract of aconite were prescribed with a view to blunting or partially paralyzing the sensuary nerves. In order to produce sleep large doses of hydrate of chloral were administered. Thinking the poison depended on a ferment for its action the physician gave the patient salicylate of soda in large doses. This treatment was resorted to to bridge the case over until the poison had spent itself. Satisfactory results were soon manifest. The paroxysms became less went and less severe, and after one week the boy was no longer aiflicted with them. He has not ex- perienced any convulsions for several weeks, snd his physician has pronounced him out of er. When seen to-day he was sitting up in bed and looking quite well. His voice is @ little husky and his limbs, from his knees down, are partially paralyzed, which is said to be « result of the effect of the strong medicines adminis- tered to him. This paralysis is expected to wear off, and it is quite certain the bo: around again before long. One ity of his — condition is his sensitivencss to touch. He isin fear of being handled, though he touches himself without any sign of discomforture. His mind does not appear to have been impaired by his illness, se tee! Frenne eRe! “iy HELL Babel, a has en Maggie. e actress, from her husband, Henry T. Paddock, by having beealed in’ the “chastery S n Trenton. 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