Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1889, Page 6

THE FUTURE OF PIMLICO. A Statement From President Bowie—| What Happens When he Means Mis- | His Former Wife Returns and Will be Views of Frank Brown. From the Baltimore American. The future of Pimlico as a race course is still a problem that will not be solved until another meeting of the Maryland jockey club is held. Certain gentlemen of the city who are acquainted with the workings of the club say that the spring races were the last that willever be run under the auspices of the Maryland jockey club. Gov, Bowie, the vresident, denied this assertion two months go and still adheres to his declaration, An interview with Gov. Bowie at Saratoga yes- terday reveals the following: “Gov. Bowie says that the report relative tothe future plans of the Pimlico racing associa- tion published this morning is in many _ erroneous. The association has not re- inquished the lease of the ground and has no intention of doing so. We omitted the fall meeting for this year because it would clash w.th big meetings in the vicinity of New York and the bookmakers would not leave these for Pimlico or any other meeting. We have alwa: given larger purses than Saratoga and the Western meetings and have made money at every meeting except the last. Reports that Ivy City is an injury to Pimlico are untrue. The fact of the case is that each is a benefit to the other. It should not be understood that by the omission of our fall meeting that Pimlico is a thing of the past.” s Mr. Frank Brown, who is now devoting most of his time to arrangements for the great fair and who bas always been a great admirer of the Maryland jockey club, said yesterday: “It is a great pity that the club has deemed fit to sus- pend the fall races. as they would have added caste to the exposition, and the Maryland agri- cultural association would certainly have made running races a feature of the exposition pro- gram had they known that the jockey club would suspend. In fact, we would have done 80 as it was, but that we were afraid the jockey club would intimate that we were trying to un- do them by giving races just before their meet- ing. Should the exposition prove a success, I am positive that there will be running races at Pimlico in the fall.” —+—__--+o0e_____ FOREIGN NOTES. Senor Martinez Alonso was kidnapped near Aguacate. Cuba. A of the civil guard later engaged the brigands, and in the confu- sion consequent upon this attack Senor Alonso succeeded in effecting his escape. Cardinal William Massaia died in Naples yes- terday. He was born in 1809 and was createda cardinal in 1884. He was noted for his mis- sionary work in Africa. The Roval yacht club yesterday gave a ban- quet to Emperor William, Prince Henry of Prussia and the prince of Wales. To-day the emperor will review 30,000 troops at Aldershot. Mr. Smith declared in the English house of commons last evening that the government did not intend to follow up the success of Gen. Grenfell by occupying Dongola and Berber. The policy of defending Egypt's present fron- tiers, he said, would be continued. Aman named Bonningre was sentenced in Paris yesterday to twelve ’ imprisonment with bard labor. followed byt ten years’ exile ‘rom France, for selling diplomatic documents to German agents while an employe of the Dan- ish ministry in Paris. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Standard hears, on good authority, that the emperor, despite the opposition of the reac- tionaries, has at last issued the edict for the construction of the Tungchow railway. The Marquis Tseng has been appointed general director. Oscar Wilde, so it is reported, wears a flannel shirt embroidered with flowers. Lord Ronald Gower recently bought a Boncher screen for $7.50 and resold it for 2.000. It is rumored that the queen has at last Fielded to her physicians and will take a long sea trip. rhaps to India, or possibly to Canada and the United States. : It is said that Sir Thomas Esmonde, who re- cently visited this country in behalf of the Irish nationalist agitation. is about to be mar- ried to an Irish girl in Australia, where he now is. ‘Amy Robsart,” a hitherto unknown work of Victor Hugo, has been published. After Ayrshire wou the Eclipse stakes the duke of Portland's horses had this year won £52,681. The great British ironclads Black Prince and Invincible were badly damaged by a collision ABOUT THE RATTLESNAKE. chief—Ready for a Strike. Dr. 8. W. Mitchell in the Century. Let us observe what happens when the rat- tlesnake means mischief. He throws himself into a spiral, and about one-third of his length, carrying the head, rises from the coil and stands upright. The attitude is fine and war- like, and artists who attempt to portray it always fail. He does not pursue—he waits. Little animals he scorns unless he is hungry, 80 that the mouse or the toad he leaves for days unnoticed in his cage. Larger or noisy creatures alarm him, Then his head and neck are thrown far back, his mouth is opened very wide, the fang held firmly erect, and with an abrupt swiftness, for which his ordinary motions prepare one but little, he strikes once oi 5 is back on guard vigilant and brave. The blow is a stab is given b; throwing the head forward, while the half coi below it are straightened cut to lengthen the neck and give power to the motions which drive the fangs into the opponent's flesh. As they enter the temporal muscle closes the lower jaw on the part struck and thus forces the sharp he « deeper in. It is a thrust aided by a bite. At this moment the poison duct is opened by the relaxation of the muscle which surrounds it and the same muscle which shuts the jaw squeezes the gland and drives its venom through the duct and hollow fang into the bit- ten part. In so complicated a series of acts there is often failure. The tooth strikes on tough skin and doubles back or fails to enter or the serpent misjudges distance and falls short and may squirt the venom 4 or 5 feet in the air, doing no harm. I had a curious experience of this kind, in which a snake 8 feet 6 inches long threw a a or more of poison athwart my forehead. It missed my eyes by an inch or two. Ihave had many near escapes, but this was the grimmest of all. An inch lower would have cost me my sight and | chop my life. A snake will turn and strike from any posture, but the coil is the attitude always assumod when possible. The coil acts as an anchor and enables the animal to shake its fangs loose from the wound. A snake can rarely strike beyond half its length. If both fangs enter the hurt is doubly dangerous. because the dose of venom is doubled. At times a fang is left in the flesh, but this does not trouble the servent's powers as a poisoner, since mumberless fangs lie Feady to become firmly fixed in. its place, and both fangs are never lost together. The ner- vous mechanism which controls the act of striking seems to be in the spinal cord, for if we cut off a snake’s head and then pinch its tail the stump of the neck returns and with some accuracy hits the hand of the experi- menter—if he has the nerve to hold on. Few men have. Ihave not. A little Irishman who took care of my laboratory astonished me by coolly sustaining this test. He did it by clos- ing his eyes and so shutting out for a moment the too suggestive view of the returning stump. Suakes have always seemed to me averse to striking, and they have been on the whole much ——— Any cool, quiet person, moving slowly: and steadily, may pick up and handle gently most venomous serpents. I fancy. how- ever, that the vipers and the copperheads are uncertain pets. Mr. Thompson, the snake keeper at the Philadelphia zoological handles his serpents with impunity; but one day, having dropped some little moccasins a few ys old down his sleeve while he carried their mamma in his hand, one of the babies bit him and made an rely wound. At present the snake staff is used to handle snakes. I saw one October in Tangiers what I had long desired to observe—1 ake charmer. Most of his snakes were harmless, but he refused, with well-acted horror, to per- mit me to take hold of them. He had also two large brown vipers. These he handled with care, but I saw at once that they were kept ex- hausted of their venom by having been daily teased into biting on a bundle of ee ee toa stick. They were too tired to be dangerous. Ihave often seen snakes in this state. After three or four fruitless acts of instinctive use of their venom they give up and seem to become indifferent to approaches and even to rough handling. Two Tragedies in One Town. Madison, Ind., was the scene Monday night of two awful tragedies, one occurring in the west and the other in the east of town. The first case was that of Wm. Johnson, a well- known young man. He had intended to go south yesterday and Monday night with his sweet- heart, Miss Sadie Athey, served as attendants ata wedding. After the ceremony he took Miss Athey home and before leaving her begged ber to marry him. This she declined to do. while starting out to participate in the naval maneuvers off Spithead. Krupp’s statue has been raised in Essen. Anthrax bas broken out ina private herd of Frglish deer. Bull fighting is getting a foothold among French amusements. Lieut. Asseff recently rede from Lubny, in southern Russia, to Paris—1.630 miles—in thirty days, riding two horses alternately, one English, the other Russian, pe front aadoco > ga ON Sassed the Wrong Man. From the Chicago Mail. It would be well for the policemen of Chicago to walk down to the mayor's office and take a good look at him, as it might save them from embarrassment at some future time. Yesterday afternoon Mayor Cregier had oc- easion to go to 17th and Clark streets on busi- ness. He entered a carriage with two alder- men and was driven down Clark street by the railroad tracks, where their was im- peded by a blockade of truck teams, They waited patiently for five minutes, when the mayor stuck his head out of the carriage win- dow and saw two policemen leaning against a lamp post, perfectly unconcerned as to the bleckade. Lifting up his voice the mayor said: “Officers, will you please straighten out those teams and let us through?” Both officers looked at him and the teams and theu resumed their gossip. Another wait ofafew minutes, and the mayor's voice was heard again: ill you remove those teams and let us This time one of the officers looked him over closely and said: “Who the are you? If you want to go through there, why get out and walk.” One bound and the mayor had reached the sidewalk. and, in a voice hoarse with passion, addressed the ofticer nearest iim: “Go to your station and tell Capt. Lloyd the mayor sent you and that you are not to go on duty again until he hears from me.” During this little speech the officer's face turned a half-dozen different colors, and he attempted to make an apology. He m: to stammer out that he didn’t know who it was,” but that wouldn't do his honor. He was = clear through and wouldn't listen to a ing. “Do as I tell you,” he said, “and don’t attempt to make any apology to me. So that is the way you talk io taxpayers and citizens, is it? Til see about this sort of thing.” And the mayor re-entered his carriage, while the fresh officer slunk away to his station. The second officer, upon hearing the mayor declare himself, got away and escaped his honor’s righteous indignation. oo Lawn Tennis at Newport. The court tennis tournament at the Casino, Newport, R. I, opened yesterday with a match between G. F. Fearing, jr., and F. 0. Beach, Becoming desperate he suddenly drewa re- volver and fired, fortunately missing her, but thinking he had killed her he placed the weapon to his head and blew his brains out, dying instantly. The other case was the shooting of Richard Sisco, a son of Marshal Sisco, by George Schlick. Sisco was killed instantly, the ball entering at the back and pentrating the heart. Schlick had quarreled with Sisco’s brother and afterward found Dick Sisco in the saloon and shot him dead, at the same time slightly wounding Reeder and a man named Chase, who tried to stop him, Schlick got away, but was discovered at his home at 5 o'clock yesterday morning by Walter Siscoe, the dead man’s brother, who tried to arrest him, but Sehlick eut his would-be capurer danger- ously across the throat and made good hié escape, being still at large. Taree Dotzar SeasaorE Excurstox,— Special train will leave Baltimore and Ohio depot at 4:20 p.m. Saturday, August 10, Pas- sengers arrive Atlantic City 10 p.m. Tickets good returning on all regular trains until August 12, inclusive. * —_—--—_ Music to Look at. From Temple Bar. Rossini, who had always le mot pour rire, used tosay: ‘In olden time they used tocom- pose music for the brain and for the ears; but it seems to me that nowadays people are quite content when the thing looks well.” This, I feel confident, was often his guiding opinion. For instance, when Meyerbeer gave “The Hu- guenots,” his lawyer and coreligionnaire Cré- mieux gave a luncheon, where he invited some influential friends to meet Meyerbeer .Rossin’ one of the guests, ate nothing. Mme. Cré- mieux, with the iynx eye of any hostess who has people round her table invited for a meal, suddenly bounced upon her abstemious guest with that question which every lady imagines must go straight to the heart of her guests: “I am sure, M. Rossini, you don't like that dish; one cannot easily please such a fine con- noisseur as you are.” “Pardon, madame, that is not at all the reason, but I never eat between my breakfast and my dinner. Of course. you will ask me why, then. did I come toa luncheon party? Iwill tell you. The other day I was invited to hear a performance of my ‘William Tell’ overture. At the moment where the allegro begins I saw two men in the band put- ting their trumpets up, but I could not for the life of me hear one note; so I asked the man- ager why they did not play. ‘Oh, that is very simple,’ he said. ‘I could not get too trumpet- ers, but I thought I'd get some men to hold up the trumpet. It always looks well to see trum- pets in an orchestra; but. of course, as they can’t play, you can’t hear them,’ Now, I can't eat any more than they could play; but us Meyerbeer, who is so superstitious, would have taken it for a bad omen if I had sent an excuse, I thought I would just sit behind my plate, be- The matches were handicap, and Fearing gave Beach thirty and a bisque. Despite this great advantage Fearing overmatched Beach and won easily in three straight sets—6-3, 6-3, 6-0. beet tae a There’s No Substitute for Leather. Frotm the Shoe and Leather Reporter. Leather is a unique material. There is no substance in any way analogous to it. Flexi- bility and durability are opposite qualities that Bo other product possesses in such a marked degree. In the tanned skin the gelatin and tannin. the animal and the vegetable kingdom, are combined in an indissoluble union which will withstand the continuous frictional wear which shoes, harness, belting, &c,, are sub- jected to better than anything else, It is the one commodity for which there is absolutel: no substitute. Cotton, wool, linen, and ilk are to sowe extent interchangeable; wood irow, stone are frequently used in lieu of each other, but, notwithstanding the scientific re- search and discovery of the present age, noth- ing has been invented to sy or obviate the necessity for leather. With the single ex- egption of bread-stuffs, none of the great efaples of commerce has such a numerous constituency. Every inhabitant of the country, without regard to age, sex, color, or condition in life, is to & greater or less degree a con- sumer of it. ———<oo—_ As Inxtergstixe Tair.—Every Thi Harper's Ferry. confusion Every ticket The Ala., Age Hercid bas re- ceived a tel that Dick Tate, Kentacky’s treasurer, has been ar- rested at Scottsboro’, Ala. cause it looks well to have old friends sit round one’s table.” A Ghostly Happening. From the Boston Courier. Tales of ghostly happenings, even although they be but the veriest coincidences, are al- ways attractive. A lady who was a widow, and partner, came down to breakfast one morning looking strangely disturbed. Her husband's j eee had been a man well known in Boston, ut at this time he a p> ap his residence here and was living in state of Maine. Ii may be that his removal had been in part at least brought about by tal gone indignation dealings = which was felt at his crook with his late partner and with the widow, = he had MARRIED HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. Content to be His Stepdaughter. Nebraska City Special to the Kansas City Journal. There is s family of three persons living in this city, the head of which, Henry Jones, is an unwilling bigamist. About five years ago Jones married in Ilinois a bright young giri just budding into womanhood, named Alice Mor- row, the daughter of a market gardener living near Peoria, The girl had the reputation of being somewhat wild, but marriage seemed to have tamed her, and for nearly a year Jones and his wife lived happily together. Shortly after her marriage Miss Morrow's father died and her mother took up her residence with her son-in-law, At tLe end of the first year of married life Mrs. Jones became discontented with her hus- band, he be about fifteen years her senior, claiming that he was harsh with her and inter- fered with her pleasures, Just fifteen months from the wedding day Mrs. Jones eloped with @ member of a minstrel troupe playing at Otta- wa, where she was visiting at the time. Jones took the matter very phi wpe feeling certain she would return in a short time. Less than three months from the time of the elope- ment he received a paper containing a notice of the untimely death of his young wife from intermittent tever at Lafayette, Ind. Upon ng of this sad intelligence Jones immediately devoted his attention to winning the affection of his mother-in-law, » buxom widow sixor seven years his senior with a bank account of $7,000. After several months of wooing he led his mother-in-law. a blushing bride, to the altar in the office of a Peoria jus- tice of the peace. Almost immediately after their marriage the couple came to this city. Two weeks ago, to the utter confusion of Mr. Jones and his mother-in-law wife, the wife of his ounger days turned up in the flesh. She said she led a hard life since she left her husband, and becoming weary and heartsick she started out to find him, hoping for shelter, if not forgiveness. She visited the old home and was told that her mother and husband had gone to Nebraska city, but nothing of their , which had been as private in order to avoid the gossip sure to follow, considering the previous relation of the parties. She ex- plained that the newspaper containing the notice of her death was part of a game bet oda vent pursuit and recovery by a man for whom she had no affection. There are, fortunately, no children to further complicate matters, but ny situation is sufficiently embarrassing as it Mr. Jones was in consultation with Col. F. P. Ireland yesterday as to what steps to take. It is probable a divorce will be obtained from the first wife and a new marriage entered into with the mother. Mr. Jones says his first wife will make no opposition to this, there being no love lost between them. and she will be satisfied if provided witha home and care during life, which he will agree to give her. Costumes in the Trousseau of the Duchess of Fife. From the London Daily News. One of the bride’s evening dresses is in pale blue crepe de chine and rich silk to match the shade, which is one of great softness, The crepe is exquisitely draped upon both skirt and bodice. Another pale blue dress is made of the finest and softest corded silk of the sort known technically as faille francaise, and is trimmed with some costly old point d’Alencon, the deep creamy tint of which harmonizes nd- mirably with the blue. The lace is arranged in folds like a bertha round the bodice, fasten- ing on the right shoulder with a bow and loops that form a kind of epaulet. The lace on the skirt edges the silk on either side of an open- in; K 3 the right over pleats of silk. A beauti- fat b lush pink silk acess is made with two bodices, one cut low and the other open in a V-shape. Folds of satin are brought from either shoulder on the latter, those on the right side which cross over the others being edged with a bor- der of pink ostrich feather and trimmed with very handsome pearl embroidery. A pointed piece of similar embroidery trims the bodice at the back. ‘Transparent sleeves of the pink crepe reach the elbow. The low bodice is all draped with folds of crepe de chine. The skirt is edged with a wide band of pearl em- broidery, another band of it running diagon- ally up the front and down the side, showing an interlude of pink moire bows tied up with pearl tassels, A beautiful pink crepe dress is embroidered in silver. Bands of silver passe- menterie are Lesremen dl arranged upon the bodice. The skirt is all in the silver broidered pink crepe, draped in straight folds over pink satin, A Little striped P brocade is mixed with the crepe. A white crepe de chine is trimmed with Alencon net in front, and finished with a sash of white moire ribbon. A short evening dress in white silk and silk muslin is prepared ‘ially for wearing at the | Scotch bi with silken sashes of the Macduff tartan, which is one of the prettiest of the Scotch plaids. being in large checks in which scarlet predominates, the other colors being green, dark blue and black. The silk skirt opens over afront of silk muslin gathered across in three semicircular lines. The fronts of the bodice are cut away to showa short pleated vest of white silk muslin. A trimming of cream colored lace softens the outlines, The sleeves of this dress are unusually pretty, bemg composed of the transparent lace with folds of silk muslin down the back of the arms. Prin- cess Louise is very partial to the black dresses, of which there are several for evening wear. One is in black moire silk the skirt of which is edged with leaf-shaped tabs, which fall over a frill of black Chantilly lace. It is also draped with lace. The bodice is cut open back and front, in a V-Shape. The skirt is bordered round the opening with a turned- back frill of black lack, in which diamond or- naments may be fastened in almost any num- ber. Another black dress isa rich, soft silk, made with a very long train and ‘opening in front over handsome folds falling straight from the waist in jetted net. There are two bodices —one cut low and the other V-shape. The lat- ter has lace sleeves to the elbow with chains of fet hanging over them from the shoulders, th bodices are covered with finely cut jet. From Dublin the princess has ordered several evening dresses, some of which are in very beautiful colors, One is in the soft tint now universally known as old pink. The materials are broche, crepe de chine, satin, and passe- menterie, all carefully matched with each other. The back of the dress is made per- fectly plain, with a train. In front it opens over puftings of the pink crepe strewn with flowers in pink crystal passementerie. Between the puffing is a revers of pink broche. Another of the Dublin dresses is in cardinal Irish poy lin, The back, like that of the pink, is make quite plain, but the front is gracefully draped with cardinal crepe de chine and trimmed with bands of Irish point lace, the bodice being treated in similar fashion. A beautiful citron and silver brocade has a deep accordion pleat- ing of citron-colored silk muslin in front, Bands of silver embroidery are also introduced, A white moire silk striped with satin has in the front three white panels of satin embroidered ina design of stars made of pearls, The back is veiled with I-starred itet. _ —se0- Peculiar Phenomena. From the Boston Courier. ‘The imagining of the romancers have again and again been in time realized by the discov- eries of the scientists, and, if the oriental idea that nothing can be fancied unless it really has somewhere an existence may be supposed to have any foundation, it is to be expected that in time many more of the wonders of fiction will be brought into the realms of sober fact, Acase-in point is afforded by an experience tried at the hospital of the Salpetriere. Asub- ject having been hypnotized the a conducting the experiment traced name whose husband had been defrauded by his | eee the patient’ arm with a blunt probe, say- to him: mm his subsequently h; aa, to command his arm cutaneous homorr! EARLY WESTERN JOURNALISM. AUCTION SALES. RAILROADS. A as =a ~_ . ~ = AA a a rere bee de rr ‘From the New York Graphic. sweet, Vestibuled Limited ex- When Mr. William N. Byers, the Colorado pioneer of journalism, first started in to print the Rocky Mountain News he had a pretty tough ‘time of it‘and experiences lively enough to suit @ Ute Indian agent. News was plentiful enough, and it was not generally supposed that the press would make any editorial attacks upon the citizens of Auraria, as Denver was then culled; so one day when Byers found fault editorially with the killing of a Mexican by Charles Harrison, a gambler, the latter’s friends, fully armed, gathered about and make an attack upon the log house occu- pied by the News. The editor and his reporters and itters were 50 rised at the sud- denness of the attack that they did not have time to make any resistance. Editor Byers was taken a captive to Harri- son’s saloon, called the “Criterion.” The crowd wanted to kill him on the spot, and knives and pistols were flourished in his face. Harrison had once been a Mason, and knew that Byers was a member of the fraternity, so under the pretence of taking him into a side room in talk; hie got him out of the place alto- ther. Byers was plucky enough, for he ran for his office and, arming all hands, laid low for the enemy, who came fast enough, and a ae) combat took place and one man was lle It was just about this time that the Hon. Joseph Wolff of Boulder, Col., who was a good printer and a handy man about an office, ar- rived in town from Omaha via a freight train. He was dead broke and he made at once for the News office and asked for the boss, Byers, seated on a barrel, was pointed out to him. “Want any hands?” asked Joe, leaning against the door. “That depends,” said Byers, without looking ‘up. FDepends on what?” “Can you shoot?” “You bet.” “Will you?” “Well, then,” said the editor, getting off the barrel, ‘‘here’s a rifle and there's a case—go to hat’ll I do first,” asked Wolff, “kill some- body or throw in a case?” Byers went to the window, leaned well out, looked up and down carefully, and then turn- ing back, said: s guess you'll have time to throw in a hand- ‘ust about this time the office was in a state of siege, and to write and print what Byers wrote and printed at that time require amount of moral courage, or what is more com- monly called nerve, than is possessed by jour- nalists of the present day. Many threats were made and more than one combat took place, but the editor came out ahead, and alway stuck to the paragraph in his salutatory which read: “Our course is marked out. We will adhere to it with steadfast, and fixed determination to speak, write and publish the truth, and noth- ing but the truth, let it work us weai or woe.” Auta ntnicen dN President Green Talks Back. President Green of the Western Union said to @ reporter in New York yesterday that the communication received from the Postmaster General was a very weak defense; that the statement that the union was using 1,000 miles of right of way under the act of 1886 but shows his want of knowledge of the law. He reiter- ates the statement that the government is the only favored customer at reduced rates, and says that it will not pay to send a message of ten words for one cent. He does not deny the right of the Postmaster General to name arate, but does not admit his right to make one that will not pay the company. ea on Orthography Quite Needless. From the Pittsburg Chronicle. Oakland, Md., rejoices in the possession of a dusky citizen who in turn rejoices in the name of George Newton Sandomire. George Newton cannot read, but that lack does not prevent him from poring over the newspapers (which he usually holds upside down) and imagining that he is absorbing infor- mation through his finger ends, Not long ago some official had occasion to record his name, when the following colloquy ensued: “What is your name?” “George Newton Sandomire, sab.” “How do you spell it?” “Spell it! Don't spell it at all sab, I jist writes it right down. A Great Compliment. From the American Musician. Cablegrams to the Herald and World last Sun- day announced that Lady Leicester had pre- sented the Princess Louise of Wales with a wedding present in the shape of a magnificent Steinway full concert grand. The instrument was exhibited among the other presents at Marlborough house, the home of the prince of Wales, and attracted universal admiration from the crowds of distingnished visitors. The En- glish areavery clannish people and much given to sticking to custom and to old names, ‘The fact, theretore, that the piano selected for presentation to the princess should be of Ameri- can make isa very great compliment to this country, to the genius of our piano makers and to Messrs, Steinway themselves, who have every reason to be very proud of —— on The Shah’s Pocket Handkerchiefs. From the St. James Gazette. A statement has been going the rounds of the papers that the shah’s standard of cleanliness is not up to the European mark. The truth is, that he is scrupulously thorough in his ablu- tions and fastidiously clean. But Oriental manners and customs are so little understood here that even the additional disorder cr@ated by frequent ablutions is invidiously criticised, whilst the shah’s use of a pocket handkerchief is openly denounced. The shah never carries a pocket handkerchief; he is always numerously attended, and his servitors at # moment's notice supply his wants, His hands are always encased in exquisitely fitting kid gloves. When he requires a handkerchief he turns to an attendant, who hands hima pcper one. He uses it once only and treats it as we do a tooth- pick—he throws it away. eee. Merits of Southern Women. From the Sunny South. Northern people have always had a good many queer notions about their cousins down this way. and the queerest of all is the notion that the southern wemenare not practical. On the contrary, the women of the south take to business as naturally as a duck does to water, They have not the tendency to isms that the fair northerners boast of, thank the Lord, Their way is to take things as they find them and make the best of the situation. Without the least appearance of effort or sounding of tom-toms they go quictly about, paying their own way, and their failures are too few to talk about, It was nothing uncommon in old times to see a woman oe about in the fields boss- ing the negroes and the overseer. She usually bed arate this care on her own account with a general supervi of the country side, and her masculine neighbors were only too glad to consult her on matters of common in- terest, Many a debt-burdened estate has been freed by the feminine turn for detail, a faculty that too many planters lacked before and since the war, ———-+e0______ Fright Restored the Voice. From the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. A strange circumstance occurred at W.Ya., in connection with the flood disaster. Miss Sheets, a daughter of James Sheets, lost her voice last winter and since then had not Imme: she that peyent) speak as well as ever. ———-e2--—____— Beware of the Gay Deceiver. From the Leavenworth Times, Beware of the blandishments of OF ‘DSI > TOILES WAR Mat SAS is iAN- A Behav AvCrION WIthIN GUE BALES” RODRE THURSDAY, AUGUST EIGHTH AT TEN A AE ___ FUTURE DAYS. 1HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ABOUT SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED CUBIC_FEET OF VALUBLE ITE, CUY FOR THE SU WEDNESDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST, UR O'CLOCK P. at Barbour’s y order 0! STO! HALL THOMAS DOWLING, Auc & BANG! tractors. t. me Cone ‘ER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucts. PEREMPTORY TWO-STORY FRAME SALE OF A . LLING, WITH KACK BUILDING, FKONT- ING ON SIXTH STREET BETWEEN M AND N STREETS NOKTHWEST (N > UGUST FTH, sIx 4 & sell, in front of the premises, pays 5, in aquare 481, having 18 feet 9 incl ‘front Frame Dwelling: with Back Buliine? comeaialne e Dwelling, uilding, con to be sold tosettle up an estates ‘Terms of Sele: One-half cash; balance in six, twelve and eighteen months, for notes bearing interest from day of sale and secured by a deed of trust ou propert sold. All conveyancing, &., at purchaser's cont. 6100 down when the property is struck off, and if the terms otsale are not complied with within ten days the we roverty will be resold at risk and cost of defaulting Purchaser, WALTER B. WILLIAMS & Cu., aul-d&ds Auctioneers, SSIGNEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE LOTS IN THE TOWN OF HYATTS- VILLE. MD. By virtue of the power contained in a Eduond V. Lawrence and Mary A. Lawrence, bis wile. fo lchard f- Evan, dated the 10th day of May. 1888, of recorded in liber J. W. B., No, 9, folio 789, &c., one the land records of Prince George’s county, Md., and ned to George N. Walker on the 16th of April, 1889, Which wssigument is duly recorded in liber J: W. B., No. 9, folio 792, of said land records, the under- ed, BS UBMILCE AN BLOI will seil at public auc- tion, ih the town of Hyattsville, on FRIDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF AUGU: O'CLOCK P. M., ull those vill UST, 1889, certain pieces or parcels of land and premises kuown as Lots 37 and 38 of KR P. é' ‘addition to Hyattsville. a Pe ject to a prior uilding sssociation. two-story six-room Ti ‘Terms of sale: One-half cash on day of sale, or on ratification thereof by the court: balance in one year from cay of sale; deterred payment to bear interest from day of sale, to be secured by the bond of the pur- chaser with surety or sureties to sutisfaction of as Siguce, or all cash at option of Di vey enc! at pure! “c's cost RICH E. BRANDI, § Solicitors mort- ation. ta dy24wkstds -OCEAN STEAMERS. QHORT ROUTE TO NOKDDEUTSCHER YD 8. 8. CO. Fast Express steamers. To Southampton (London, Havre), Bremen. Aller, Wed., Ali, 7, 2 Dain; Bibey bate Aue, 10, ed., Aug. 14, ¥ a.m.: Werra, Sat., Aug. Saale, Wed., Aug. 21, 2 p.m. ; Ems, Sat, ea. dan. Comi tate rooms, excellent table, luxurious: saloon ssivointmenta, Pelces: lat cabin. $75 and ipward rth, according to location; 2 a adult: steerage at low raven Applp to E. ¥ DROOP, 925 Penn. ave. EOUSEFURNISHINGS. Cooxrxa By Gus A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES On hand and for sale, mh31__ WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. NOTARIES PUBLIC. _ ((OMMIcSIONER OF DEEDS FOK EVERY STATE and ‘Lerritery, Notary aud U. B.C JNO. b. BEALL 1Sz4 a etuw Ubeticeirom Yau Wop mlz UNDERTAKERS. IM COSTELLO, WITH A PRACTICAL UNDEE- taker and Embalmer in my employ, 35 G st. nw. and 34 Hst. ne, Every’ terms. ‘Lelephoue 208-2. jeasonable jy31-3m FAMILY SUPPLIES. __ Fr EVERY REMEDY FAILS TO CURE DYSEN- TERY TRY HEITMULLER’S CASTELLON WINE. THE ONLY CURE. NEVER FAILS, For sale by JAS. L. BARBOUR & SON, Wholesale Agents, my11-3m Unsrnsceventep Arrractios: OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature for Fducational and Charitable purposes, and its franchise made a wart of the present State Constitution in 1870 by an overwhelming popular vote. Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place Semi- Annually (June. and aber), and its GRAND SINGLE NUMBEK DRAWINGS take in each of the other ten mouths of the year, and are all drawn in public ut the Academy of Music, New Orleans, La. FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS FOR INTEGRITY OF ITS DRAWINGS AND PROMPT PaY- MENT OF PRIZES, Attested as follows: “1We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangs- ments for all the monthty and Sem'-Annwal Drawingeot The Lowwiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and contro! the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, sairness. and in quod fuith toward ati partics, and we authorize the Com- Dany to use this errtryicate, with Fac-similes WF WUT sig~ natures attached, in its advertisements." Pe i Ie, the undersigned Ranks and Bankers, will pay all prizesdrawnin The Louisiana State Lotteries which Inay be presented at our counters. Bank, R. M. WALMSLEY, Pres. Louisiana Nat FiERUY LANAUS, Pres, State National Bank A. BALDWIN, . New s National Bank, CAKL KOBS, Pres. Union National Bank. GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1889, CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. Twenty Dollars each: Halves, feuths, $2; Twentieths, $1, LIST OF PRIZES. TERMINAL PRIZES, of @100 are... 850 Brite of *100 are: 3134 Prizes, amounting to... 81,054,800 Licks mot eres ets wing Capital Prizes are en- AGENTS WANTED. For Cru Kates, or Sze ES SR Mia’ sales treatin Stumiee” ‘Sioce rapid tecura mail’ Selivess eal eae sured by your inelosing un Luvelope beuring your full IMPORTANT. MA Dal dew Ia Address express aaiiy $:00end 113 De ay, ed Limited x om main line, express daily except M: ae ‘Yor Lexington and Local Stations 10:30 a, ae 93:55 am, T1030 am. TS 0 p.m. ©. depot, Wash- and #:30 p.m. | P. m. and 8:50 p.m m.. y we ys 3:40, 8:00 and & eck days 6:10 0 pm. 8:30 8 unapolis, 6:40 and | 4) p.m. "On Sun: Eeave Annapolis, 40, 37 am, p “ m the Metropolitan Branch, t6-43, 2.10. §1:15 p.m. for principal statiols only; 0:30 a.in.. 14:30 and $5:30 pam. For Rockville and way stations ¢4:35 p.m. ‘OF Gaithersburg and intermediate pointa, °:00%. 112:30, *5:30, t 11:20 p.n Boys ‘iMtermediate stations, 17:00 p.m, mon Sunday at 1:15 at all statious on Metropolitan Branch, 8:85, 110-90 am, 13:00, 14:30 215 am leaves Ws og 20, 4:20 and Cary Gn all ‘ay traiue 330 P.M. ©) 220 p.m, train does not stop at i my Chester, “2:30, *7 208 a Baltimore and Wand 14:30 pm. 215, *5:00 p.m. and Philadelphia for Washington, "4:1 Oi ne RC ae EE | mi, Rilsitic City. 4:00 and 9:30 am. 00 noon my pundaye 4:00 8. m., aud 12:00 noon, ‘Ocean Grove 14:00, 18-00 & oon ; $9250 am, “Daily Ee kt 2:00 Pam. Elizabeth. Si m. 412-00 tExcept Sunday. Sunday and Monday. call K Tesidences by Union ‘Transfer Ucket offices, 619 and 1351 Penn; at Depot. CHAS. 0. SCU 4. 1. ODELL, General Manager. IEDMONT AIR LINE. Schedule in effect June 30, 1889. 8:30. m.—Last Tennesse Mail, daily for Warren- ton, Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Lyncuburg. and stations between Alexandria abd Lynchi Knoxville, Chattanooga aud Mem man Sleeper Wasiinyton to Mempl from hotels and ders left at his, 11:24 a. m.—Fast imail daily for Warrenton, Char lottesville, Gordouaville, Statious Chesapeake aiid Olio Koute, Lynchburg, Kocky Mount, Danville aud Sta- Hons between Latchbune aud Daiville, fe | Atlante: Sirminghash,SSionigonscrse New “Orient rming! jontgomers, | Texas and California. “Pullman Sleeper New York to Atlanta, parlor cars Atlauta to Montgomery, nan Sleepers Montgomery to New Orleans. Sleeper Greensboro’ to Columbia and A i- yan Sleepers Washington to via ©. and Q, 4:15 p. m—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassas, Strasburg and intermediate stations. 7:25 p. m.—Daily via Lyncliburg, Bristol and Chat- Vestibule Sleepers Washington to Memphis, connecting thence for all Arkansas pointe, Also Washington to New Urieans. press, daily for Manassas, ey Charictisevilies ptauutos Louis? Vestibule train Washityton to Cincinnati with « Pullman sleeper for Lowsvilie. daily for Lyncuoure, ([ B® GREAD, eNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO THE NOK1H, WEST AND SOU’ DUUBLE TRACI ‘LiNDiD STEEL KAILS. MAGNIFICENT TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON Fut M STATION, ¥ v s, 4) = OF SIXTH AND B STKEETS, AS FOL- For Pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited Express of Pullman Vestibuled Cars at 9:50 a.n:. daily ; Fast Line, 9:50 a.m. daily to Cincianati and St. Louis, Rith Sleeping Care irom Pittsburg to Ciuciuusti, ana Harrisburg to St. Louin: daily, except Saturday, fe Chicago, with Sleeping Car Altoona to Chicago. Western Express, at 7:40 p.m. daily, with Sleepiug Cars Washington to Chicago and St. Louis, con- necting daily at Harrisburg with through Sleepers for Lotisvilleand Memphis, Pacific L xpress, 10:00 Fae fo Pittabune and the, West, with through ‘Sleeper to Pittsburg, and Pittsburg to hicaxo. BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD For Kaue, Rochester and Niuagars Palis daily, except sunday. 8:10 a. For ne, Cauaudaisus and Kochester daily; for Buf. |" taio snd’ Niagara daly, except, Saturday, 10:00 p | | mm. with Sleeping Car Washington to Kochester. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmire wt 9:50, ma. daily, except St FOK PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE EAST, E F id 11:40 am, 2-50, 4:10, 1:20 pan. On Sunday, 9:00, 11:40 0 Hig Wo Py ee Limited F ET igey EV re of an i whe THE EVENING STAR ts a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor |of LAST WEEK. It prints ALL THE NEWS, Local, Domestic and LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN- ING PAPERS, This is conspicuously true of all classes of news, but especially so in regard to Local News and District Affairs. THE STAR has a very much LARGER and BETTER force of LOCAL RE- PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS than any other paper in Washington ever thought of employing, and ITS MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER- | FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY | OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. It is | therefore able to print each day full | report of every transaction of public in- terest occurring in the District up to the very hour of going to press. 20%. By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES for REGULAK AND SPECIAL DIS- | PATCHES, and with the difference of time in its favor, it is also able to give its readers every afternoon the news of | the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERE ot | for the entire day, and up to 12 o'clock | midnight, thus leaving literally nothing in the way of news trom Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. Equally does THE STAR lead all its contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY. Receiving the regular dispatches of Doth News Associations; with alert and enterprising special telegraphic cor- | Fespondents at all important points; and with wires leading directly from its own office to the general network of telegraph system touching every city, town and hamlet in the United States and Terri- tories, it is enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day anywhere between tie Atiantic and Pa- cilic Oceans. 202 @ NOTE THE RESULT: 23 THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON. It is de- livered regularly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PLOPLE, AFTER | THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE | SAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. They know that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan measures to advocate, and no private schemes to forward. They know it, in ‘mux | short, tobe THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, "FOR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. Fast Express 5:10 a, m. week days, aud 8:10 p. aly. Express 2:10 p.m. dally. “Accom. 6 'p, For Boston, without change, 2:50 p. m. every day. For Brookija, N- x aul flirougis m m and 11:20 :402. m.. 2:10, 8:10, 10:00, and I For Pope's Creek Line, except Sunday. FREDERICKSBURG KAIL- WAX. AND ALLXANDKIA AND WASHINGIUN KALLWAY. IN EFFECT MAY 12, 1889. = ‘02, 10:05 and I ay at 4:30, On Bi at 45; 249, 10:07 atin, 2:30, 6:01, 8:02 aud 10-05 5 a.m. and 4:55 pan 230, 10:57 daily, 6:21 p. m. daily, except Sunday. — leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:05, 7:05 Ae, 11207 a. au. s 20, 3 E and ‘Trains unday ‘at 9:10 and’ 11 7 Od, 3:00, 9:20, and 10: Tickets and information at ATSKILL MOUNTAINS, SARATOGA, LAKE GEORGE, ADIRONDACKS, West “shore Hailrend wil ‘rum Dasbeees mas o8 shore “ : j to-and irom the Jerse; City station ‘of the — ose Teale palit, aang Seo. CATSXILL MOUNTAIN EXPRESS.—Leave Jerse; am. Armve Phonicia, 4 chty Staton ai 8 i250 ma 7%: ; Mount House Station, 1-20 p.m. ; Palen vii P:25 pau." Drawiue-roon: Cars. Jerse Gils to oh Hotel station and to Pucenicia (fur Hotel and Mountain House). BAKALUGA AND C. we Philadelphia, 8 :~ Lea Je2atsep30 General Passenger Agent, New York. o—Oo]l_====__= GENTLEMEN’S GOODs. = ee and nothiag else. Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSU- LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. It is in fact worth more as a means of reach- ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER. ‘Furthermore, in proportien to the re- | turns it gives its patrons, ITS ADVER- TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST IN THE CITY. In conclusion, the public should bear in mind tiis one significant fact: THE STAK does not rely upon empty boasts to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA- TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED by any one having an interest in their examination. These are CRUCIAL TESTS, which few papers invite, and which those that boast most are least able to stand. > The esteem in which THE STAR is held by the reading and advertising public is conclusively shown by the fig- ures given below. In the first six months of each of the five years named the average daily cire the paper, which is the surest indication | of its acknowledged value as a medium of publicity. Thenumber of NEW AD- VERTISEMENTS printed in the col- umos of The Star during the first six months of the years named was as fol-