Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1889, Page 9

A CENTER OF KNOWLEDGE. they were in the habit of making, and all|GEMS THAT ARE COUNTERFEIT. ‘The demand for | Written for Tax Evaxtso Stan, ene sorts of information on this After a — grow, and the} CAN WE BATHE TOO MUCH? Information About Anything te be Ob- a oame of mabe wns sunt fo Ties hs voles, Precious Stones (one From the s,imereases with nt tai in himgton, reason wan! collect Cruel the Chemist. dismond- | Some Doctors ‘e Cannot and Some Bens all this, He said he was retained by an author me of South Africe and Brazil. | gay We Are Washing to Death. BO QUESTION Too DIFFICULT FOR ANSWER— th i i Hee LEARNED MEN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD aT THR NATIONAL CAPITAL—CURIOUS QUESTIONS ASKED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. If there is anything you don’t know but you ‘want to know and no one can tell you, just send on to Washington and find out. There is very little that is knowable that cannot be learned here. People from all parts of the world send here for information on all possible subjects. Think of most any question that has Sn answer, and you may depend. on it some one in Washington knows what the answer is. Not only that, but every thing is so compact here and the knowing ones are so tagged with official title or position that it is not difficult to find just the man you want. A Stax reporter was walking the other day through a building where are crowded Her fod oe e price of some writing he | goxee yaar NATURE HERSELF NEVER THOUGHT had done and he wanted to prove by ple enous « ~ ch en $10,000 Gem rRoa $5 woRTH OF “SPARES” SEARCH FOR THE SEVEN CITIES, REAL PEARLS AND THE IMITATION. “That is » very beautiful stone,” said ran repo! Washington eler, calling a ee sent 0 See daser*s dibbation te demure sein gem of con- sional li some Spanish manu- : : 4 : — : siderable size, with a vivid red fire, which lay serps, mick, is cna gare Tae, “paired tm | 4 sasin-lised box within the glass show cass, “It tor had a theory that the seven lost cities afore- | seems very cheap, too, for its apparent value. said were located somewhere in Kansas, “It is cheap for the reason that it is note Another man had a very old engraving he ” ‘i wanted to know the value of. ‘ing he | real stone,” replied the dealer. “An imitation?” man who was thinking of os store | to ‘ South ‘Amerion wrote for amass of in formation | ‘No; it is not an imitation. On the con- about all the countries down there, to enable | trary it does not at all resemble, to the eye of him to decide between them as a place of resi- in nature. dence. Others wrote to loarn the addresses of | 20,°*Perb any gom that is known ee 3 famous foreigners. All this information is got | 1*'* simply a chemical product; tha = in one way and another from the several for- | You see, the chemists having abandoned the bring them ONE PHYSICIAN SAYS THE SCIENCE OF BATHING diamond mines found by some, children of a 18 Wow IN ITS INFANCY—HE ADVISES BATHING family, who brought to their mother| I TEPID WATER—ALL DOCTORS FAVOR SEA dozen pebbles} saruine FoR THOSE WHO CAN STAND IT. be the gard dna tee te cocoa Some persons bathe a great deal too much. a apiece. In Brasil the mines are This may seem odd to a great many to read; largely worked, if not wholly, by slaves, and wertheless it heard that if a man finds a valua- | 2 eyes: is often given his asa| There are a great many persons who think Th gest and purest diamond in | that a great deal of benefit can be derived from the world was found in South Africa in 1884, | constant bathing. They take hot baths, cold pa sg pnp gel ee pond wie, | Paths, Russian and Turkish and other foreign se cul carat one fragment as ped off Detng Lement by the | baths, shower baths and altogether too many king of Por for $40,000. The Rajah of | baths. Doctors disagree very materially as to Mattan’s famous diamond, until recently the | the effects of water upon the system, Some of largest known in the world, weighed 367 carats, % oe goed Mogul gom a0 _ an aa them advocate cold baths every morning; tate, that th others say that these baths are injurious. Some bole aek pce en en ee eee ig hat pala shoal Wo toon ott She wicter is ‘= eign ministers h manufacture of gold as hopeless are trying ———-e- at a temperature of about 100 degrees; others all sorts of ofices_“newspaper, telograph law- games ane HAE now to make precious tones artificially, san | Tenet eee ee say it should be below the normal heat of the ers’, claim agents’, architects, typewrite : ities | With some success, I dare say you are not A PEEP AT ARLINGTON, body, which is 96 degrees, and place the water surety and trust companies’ offices and artist A professor in one of the great universities | aware that actual, bona-fide diamonds ° won studios. On one Pog doors he saw a card: | had an article to write for a magazine, which | have a9 nip Ag rg yer pects oproeeyg “Bureau of General Information.” INFORMATION OF EVERY KIND. There was a sort of mysterious assumption of Universal knowledge about this that was in- teresting. It seemed to open up possibilities of many curious things and not long afterward the been roduced in this way. | Primitive Simplici Gi FOUS | questi: i ld had to be ready by acertain time. He had to| And yet diamonds have been artificially mand igs (ho: PAD be a + a9 Re rap < aa eter agy bg wo have certain statistics, which could be had no- | factured for years, An English experimenter Hospitality Sixty Years Ago. hud moet benadel Hinder bath for the sient where but at the Treasury department. He | first accomplished the feat and it has been #1e-| 74 g<trome and uncompromising sim licity | to take. While they were telking om thle ooh could get no answer to his letters to the de- | cessfully repeated many times since. The only 5 P is SP ject of bathing they all of them had an eye to partment in time, and on the last day he hadho | trouble is that the diamonds turned out by | in the style of living that once characterized acting telegraphed to this oracle. What officially it | chemical artifice are almost microscopic and | the best homes in this country, especially | "4 prominent physician, talking of bathing and took the department eleven days to answer was | therefore practically worthless, At the recent | among the gentry in Virginia and Maryland, | its cocts on the constitution and system, said a oom — wee a oracle. | The | got from them “‘unoflicially” in five minutes mirwrageeen rd B Soper a Sears of them can scarcely be comprehended by the casual | recently: . rea run : i ile i a 3 e aper, “ paper man and magazine writer and a deny [ap pep lioness ferro magnifying glass.” Every effort has been made | Observer of today. Reference is not made to Ep oi sopag Tau gh edge ton ee ne with Lamyer and | something | tion for the place, wrote to get all the informa- | t0 increase their size, though in vain, Appar- | the style of architecture nor to the serangement | os only » few places inthis city whens study is _ a. ng E cey sae hpee oerart One | 120 a8 to the analysis of milk he would be apt | ently, the production of diemonds big enough | or quality of the outer building. For with all | madecr the proper application of water, and in bit i to be worth anything could only be uccom-| our notions in the matt h construc- ide t! i v" - and suited to no other place as it is to Washing. | *° "*3¢ in his new business. plished by forces and elements working on the caxgentea erg te Quiside the city there are very few places im ton. It is a curiosity, the thousand of OTHER CURIOUS QUERIES. tion, developed in our mansard roofs, Italian | deed. We have not the means here they have " mighty scale of nature’s laboratory when the | _ ; . strange questions that are asked. You can| Aman who had just been elected district | world was being rendered out ‘Of chaos into | Villas and Swiss cottages, it is very certain that po hong Nee ge ot, hry dt ne Nlnee gre ed hardly think of a question that has not | surveyor applied for the best authorities on | habitable shape. our country homes do not begin to compare ws . ‘kk - 4 that there isa great deal in the use of water —_—— — bores he Berg come in | surveying,and sent the money to buy the books, OTHER STONES. in imposing effect with those massive and | when it is properly applied. ‘And in one or bom oe wr ton — “ = co | _ Translations of the most curious old manu-| “But other stones can be made artificially of | stately edifices that graced the earlier half of | two places in this city they are just beginning to west; from Boston, Cambridge and New York, | Tits in Russian, Portuguese, old Norse | profitable size?” ~~ ~ this century, and whose capaciousness, solidity realy apply it for i ener =e 7 ~ f aad ‘from Algeris, Syria and the Himalaya | QoQ) are asked, for. “Gotsetimen applica: | _ “A fow. No real gem, however, except the | and simple dignity aro witnesses to. the large, | have th baths, plunge baths, tad bethe and mountains. me 1q| tious’ are received for lectures to be | diamond, has been fairly reproduced exactly as | liberal zaind and substantial good taste of our | many others, ‘Some people take acold bath paws may bene <hr —-= by one | Written—the data to be assembled and the | it is found in nature, though imitations are Poi es Spent at cpap Ofucni | Svety morning all the year around. I don’t where information can be as readily Sot dy one | tecture put in form tobe delivered. Several | plentiful enough. ‘The precious stones made | the plain an Pe ate en thee ate rae: | think it does any harm—thatis, if the person is —ey enes Bow ot ot ee Patios! aPitel: | such lectures have been sent out, One man | by the chemists, if such they may be called, trust Dotwecn cur azangement: that the con- | healthy. Some won't feel any better for it and ae a ee ee fhe Hest | sent the manuscript of a speech more than a| are new inventious to the lapidary. Many of | ‘ast between our mode of living and thai b ted | th our ancestors comes out so strikingly. A party | and tirery Tins cold bath will feel exhausted thousand miles to Washington to be correc’ them are very beautiful. This purple one you ~ 7 4 J and tires ose who have a sensitive organi- of knowledge, who are located pares and put in typewriter. have asked about, for instance. ie lovely. It | of U8 were a this rowan the other day | zation can’t stand the cold. I think, though, the congressional library contains a igor gta More than three thousand questions of this | has been named the “violane du cap,” and is as inate lca to landmark, fet Sesae | one who has a fair constitution or is of a strong Smount of information; the largest an pest | sort and their answers were laid before me. attractive a jewel as many nataral ones four papeer dic ephemera ei Peary just to see | constitution can derive a great deal of benefit medical library in the world is here, and here —o— times its price. French chemists are the great | how far the country had advanced generally, in | from a cold bath taken every moraing, are the representatives of all the foreign gov- FOR ENTERTAINMENTS, experts in this branch of manufacture, and | Matters social and religious as well as political, ernments to answer questions as to their re- . their inventions nally ke) cret. Some | Since the primal days of its rude, strong young or gag otc ajo spective countries or to put one in the best | How Permits are Obtained at the Dis- | of the artificial resi wonf fen “are doubtless | life. They should begin, though, to take these Way to get the information elsewhere. All this trict Buildings. pretty costly to produce, as for that matter are | We glanced for a moment at the President’s | baths in the summer when the weather is hot, makes the business of answering questions a the microscopic diamonds, which are as expen- | mansion as it was seen last winter asa fair ex-|and then when the weather is cool and in very active and interesting one here. One of the most active industries at the Dis- | sive to turn out as good big ones in the | ample. Some one present had just been giving | winter time they will be better able to stand THE CIVIL SERVICE AND HOW TO GET THERE trict building is the manufacture and issuing of | market.” an account of one of its superb state entertain- | the sudden cold, In the winter time some isa thing that interests a great many people dts Sor exbdhitionn @f entertsinsnenta, ARTIFICIAL RUBIES. ments, which account had suggested tho sub- | people think the shock to the system obtained throughout the country, and the letters asking | Wy 5' sore lad, Hake Gace ant | Ware Aida was Gea ject of our conversation. We took a survey of be plunging into cold water would be injurious. questions on this subject are numbered by | W282 some Indy or gentleman, or Indies an ally its brilliant doings, its dinners, dresses, colla- | This would not be so if the bath was taken in w gentlemen, desire to add to their worldly “Yes; but not with entire success. Two or tions, decorations, elaborations and courtly | warm room and if there are proper aj ces en Per a —_ a pore a3%o | Wealth by inviting the public, at so much per | three years ago, certain French chemists proceedings generally, and contrasted it all | to warm the bather pevideabal ore fs a club belooked up inthe modical brary.» Some ot | Ben, fo wits the program prevented on ome | claimed that they had dincovered procs for | rit tequnit plannei of the time mien the | of men in onda wh asker them are curious; some interesting. “One ques- | particular occasion, he or she or they is or are | *bsolut De eens 5 za vuby sparks, | of our statesmen entered the capital on horse- tion was as to the largest tumors that had been | mulcted severally or jointly in the sum of at | poomctgnag dhs bought toe cimosd notions Tf | back and threw the bridle over a stake while he oe ee ae least $5. That's as cheap a license as any one | you will remember that the value of the ruby | Went into the appointed place to take his oath ‘saunas ‘ke Gelieed hak. aaa ds | Could expect to have in a city of such import- | is nearly double that of the diamond, the color | 8 President of tho United States, Next other Tameehth. dod abuse Gam eee Leneb ened: Sek ok le—f and quality otherwise being first rate, you can | Contrasts occupied our attention, and then one | plunge, and then when they come ont they tell without it, Just before a medical congress or | ance as Dene Latent | imagine what an cgitation no ax toeedane. | the party, a noble repredentalive-dk » noble everybody that they feel im: better convention all sorts of medical questions are | band together that the church be benefited or ment occasioned amon dealers. Nor was the | Past, observed: ‘Ah, my dear, if you ever | for * their cold bath. This is simply a asked. some charitable movement aided, then the gov- | announcement altogether without truth, as ap- | W®nted to see simplicity that was representa- | ridiculous idea, and there are only a ___ _ CURIOUS MANUSCRIPTS ernment temporarily ceases to sit at the seat | peared from the report made on the subject by | tive you ought to have seen Arlington, the| very few who could stead’ this onde fm foreign languages and medals with strange | of custom and grants a “permit,” which is just | the celebrated Prof Fricdel of the Proven is, | Grand old Arlington, as I saw it den shock. The benefits derived from cold inscriptions are sent to be translated, and | 44 effective as a license and it invariably costs | *titute, who said that he found the chemical SOME SIXTY YEARS AGO, baths consist of stimulation to the skin caused assistance is sought by lecturers, literary | at least #5 less than that necessary evil. Per- | Composition, density, crystalline form and re-| “You have often heard me speak of my old by the cold application and by vigorous rub- Dot tine oe Tacktticn Coot ne, MS | mits have to be secured from Dr. Tindall, sec- | fractive power of the artificial specimens t0 | time visits to Mount Vernon? Well, wason one sem th ere ple ger ner Pebewnp cll pig Seings for Gamesiven, Pavectons ae inden, | Pee en eeanat of, Distriot Commissioners, | Sorreevand in every fespect with the watural | 07°01 Socasicna that the whole fomLly wad | S50," atta na's ices bain, and s colt Aouhe things for themselves. Inventors want infor- | but nine-tenths of the applicants never find | *uby. ‘The only difference he could find was a eget yer tra mation about patents that they cannot get from | him until they have made a tour of the build- | Slight variation in the shape of the tiny air rule that every one of their members must bathe in the Serpentine in Hyde park every morning all the year round. They go into the water in the open in the middle of winter, and frequently have to break the ice before they can take their a to dine at ee fos oe had = - ps for weak people when properly reg- i 1 bubbles, However, the dealers threatened to | from home at S— jount Vernon in the | ulated is good. Asa tonic cold water is supe- i tosses oe pieccnlge 4 a yogh eas =e ; prosecute any one for fraud who ventured to | family carriage; in the same style we were of | rior to tepid water. But for pup of clean- certain questions, One ambitious inventex was PERMIT HUNTING, iusue the artificial rubies as real ones, and, in- }course to go to Arlington. Aunt and Unele | liness warm water is the best ere are cer- willing to pay his money for an answer to this | _TB€ teat majority of persons who apply for | asmuch as their combination is very rich and | Bushrod went along. As the days were the | tain diseases for which bathing in hot water is ion: “Wi permits are colored, and those of them who | powerful and the laws against selling counter- | Short days of autumn, and the roads the stall- especially beneficial. For a hot bath the tem- pose h meaceen of | parle “od know not the ropes generaily commence to | feit jewels for actual ones are very strict in| ing and appalling roads sth: 9 regime, | perature should be below 98 degrees and should fion?” make inquiry at the front door as to where per- | F#2Ce, the fused rubies have never got upon | although we set off quite early in the morning | only be higher when so prescribed by a physi- r Pp : Sey the market. It was a great scheme, to make a | We were the better part of the day reaching | cian. A hot bath with the water above 98 de- CANNON BALLS WANTED. . doe A e A lady wanted to know where ahe could get | given by. the ollece on tee nec eea | @11,000 ruby out of @8 worth of sparkn”™ Our destination teomt entrance, the man-| Reems, Tery often dangerous. Turkish and f i stances it is of no particular ‘advantage. ‘The RUBIES AND WHERE THEY ARE FOUND. cas Gied dc ok dnote T| pruwisn baths are not much good for sick peo- four 20-inch cannon balls for her gate post. It | stances it is of E love ‘eoacka’ Par 1 rubies, | 810" itself stood in such imposing majesty, I} ple. They don’t hurt well people when pre popaboae what an amount of work this | Seeker after freo permission generally’ com- of cone TY You speck of are real rubies, | was prepared, of course, to see everything | scribed, and for such they are a luxury. In- = simple wish involved. Application to the | office, and, although he is there told to go up- without and within of. corresponding | valids, though, should beware of them. G y i ‘i ighti hat was my ‘ar and the Navy departments and letters to | stairs, b “ “Oh! yes. That is the trouble about rubies, | style. © But on alighting, w y ARE WE WASHING TO DEATH? all the arsenals failed, and when some such balls | stui"® be f emaiens nono temas ieelimba the | There are plenty of them, but ver, Sim EO | Tee oe ceercnee See a Aae Pa: | ad well kunwn wom pheysician aah ("ined se were wanted were found among the scrap- | first flight. Here opportunities to open and | ied ones. The pee ae Flee] Pope gger sd soyero edigente ce Rparonghe ond Ptepiatgnbmemanatit bathing every day. I think the navy yurd, there was no possible | shut doors and to gather much uscloss tpforma, | World are those of Burmah, where the natives i Meg tesamuberts | as Guest ceca = ae ‘way of uaguising hams thea h they were of n0 | tion become more numerous ead the cen, | have for centuries boon digying for thon ia | nor materi ot any sort paved ti je broad court ere are lots of people who are just washing value to the government and were only in the | naturally becomes more thoroughly mixed, | the most primitive and therefore most un- | J3st® regular dirt te nthe primitive | themselves to death, and I don’t believe in Way. An offer to replace them with their | Just about this time he will ask some one | Profitable manner. ‘They are found in quan. | times of old Englan a yam, not very regular | such heroic treatment. Many people can’t en- weight in iron was refused because there was | where he can get « permit, and in response will | tities in successive strata, with layers of earth | ither, for this ground work was worn hich | 2uFe & bath every day and a person must have Sno authority.” be steered right ahead into Inspector Entwisle's | 424 clay between at a little depth below | and there into hollows and puddles, in which | a very strong constitution in order to be able AN INTERESTING QUESTION room. If he wanted a building permit that | the surface soil. But nearly all are so small as | the Water was standing in barn-yard style. | to do so. I think it particularly unwise to at- that cost an immense amount of trouble to an- | Would be the very place, but he doemt, | t0 be scarcely valuable. Only occasionally a A PRIMITIVE INTERIOR. tempt to take a cold bath every morning all ‘to the oe pe aay ww les he & ame were te Ge wrong box. | big one, with the true pigeon’s-blood olor, “However, the view from this stand was so | the year round. In cases where I have known yd wae a foment ‘= hws Before he leaves, however, he is carefully in- | ‘uns up. There used to be wonderful accounts | striking and the trees and grounds around fine | this,to be done I have went found that in “I structed that the gentleman he wants is to be | Of the Jars full of large rubies which King ties | Tine cuses out of ten after taking the cold bath Sketch Book beginning: found in the second room on the left-hand side Theebaw of Burmah had in his palace at Manda- core ae "ex a cnsird _ int tpaciots & epee fools cenit op ee ~ re a eer fo grim up in Cape Lent eae een ngs | when they looted the elty a alee Sine | hall from which the ample and high-pitched | {2.08 suiclent proof tha pbuigtag nie eold Amidst the main; t ilgrim up in Capt. Lusk’s office, which, b: iN : ago. Iwill come and try ‘you, She wad, ack onthe eli, bos ths right. Then | Perhaps they were carried off and hidden away paral rap ies eeanaig- eater eigen Yaler ig not good at any time. “The shock ob- SPBst you are protecting a messenger takes ithe straying one in ‘charge P os of tes Sting . re autici- | tive look of everything that met the eye. The quatly pt oa Bey Saecrems ago: ice What's your end and aim,” Tindall has lnd°erccted. to protect hatweit | king by the English soldiers hnd arte Of 22 | wallaywhiere one might expect to ace the carved | £Testly affects the nervous system. Co woman Irving credits them to “an old poem. Tindall has had erected to protect himself g dy the English soldiers had quite a de- i inlaid wood with rich cornice or an- - r i . pressing effect upon the ruby market, | Cedar or inlai care : tobe in. AndIcan’t sec what benefit they a a lowering in the value of the gem being feared | Si¢8t frieze, were positively in the original con- CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS. dition of naked, unplastered lath ‘even a | °82. derive from indul, so freely in en as HOW PERMITS ARE ISSUED, as a result of a sudden throwing of t sap- cold plunge baths, ie method of sea- Asa eran eee teller ter iene ie a ce. to ules wandering and| plies before the purchasing public. Rubiva | ‘OUCH of paint to relieve the offensive baldness. | Patni over on this side is, think, a vreine authorship. The publishing house that pub- " i tray largel fi in Iam not certain that there were any carpets, A " 0 into the wate: lished Irving’s works was applied to for the | *metimes there is less, but the foregoing is | are also largely obtained in Ceylon, where the | bat all the furniture areand wae of the Glapent oly th ha avalon il’ way "eee Con name of some relative of Irving's who might | Js about anzaverage voyage. Then Dr. Tin- | intives make s business of hunting for them in | 474 homeliest sort and in keeping with the sure | °2Y Gealasity nekaea 45 tice sates need te oe the streams that come down from the huge ” noon, and frequently return to the water again Know, something, of the matter. Ono was dall is in demand. but it ie only on rare ocee- | cone of ‘mountains in the central partot tthe | Founding Walle. may an well stato the | im the afternoon, and will stay until abnost found who had assisted the author in his Seen = t ccd A ~ te the island, where it has been supposed for centu- fact sr lies althotgh the Gheardellen alts sundown. I wonder they don't get washed lus work. Without hesitation he said ct puma dng Pad > anging cour Le an | Ties that a great matrix of rubiesexisted, above | f#¢+J ragiteety “y ‘the = day's en- | *W8Y sltogether. By staying in the water so See eT i timeele ted writ | eee ee rte eg vsiness is of such an} the clonds, from whence those found ‘in the tertainment—the only efforts at ornamentation | 108& they undo all the good that might be credited fim to "an ‘old_-poom® merely. ace | HimPly calls ont “Harris,"ond then hin colored | "TA"™Are washed down, orig wach a theory | terteiument the only efforts at cmamantation | done by ape ing FR g em em to “an old poem” merely asa 4 7 entirely without reason, though nobody h: 3 i an bour matter of form. At first this was accepted as | messenger, who responds to that name, inves-| been able to find the matrix. yet. When renee ord ne was by no means one of the | should be spent. If possible the bather should satisfactory, but the bureau was not quite as- | tiga! Poh PP! Hontion - writt np “ys < discovered it will afford a profitable opportun- 48 slyly to inysslf, and which, 1 well cowneths §9 into the sea head first, or, at any rate, ome —_ oe research was madelater. In fein ot ealt ant ok soos rorae-ts aia haf | ity for the use of a few pounds of dynamite,” bee ek eae tito! cay Sihoeme one Bet a or —— ope —— —_ Sroited to" Willem ‘Clad’ get SF | hey hare to ay aboet ie peepee one Panu aso natraTons year ‘ile, twas vory hn to feta | ag tah eet af, wang fhe water seventeenth century. A sketch of Cleland’s life | *imment and unload it for ten or fifteen min- “Are there pearls from Ceylon?” from saying aloud, as later in the evening our very often will give the bather a severe head- Tag, Sixes sand the poem included im it, | mtes for the benefit of “Jim,” as Mr. Harris is| Yes, the waters thereabout area great pearl- | hospitable host tok me from picture to | ache. I think bathing in tepid water is much This seemed to settle the question, but in look- | familiarly called. fishing ground. Next spring will be the harvest | Picture Pointing out their peculiar excellene ‘of | More beneficial than bathing in cold water. It ing for « more complete account of Cleland it FLAWS IN THE APPLICATIONS, of pearls at Ceylon, which comes only once in| hisgeniun NY Sminms those efforts of | should be about the temperature of the bod yuild way, und while he’ claimed dora tes | _ Fally nine-tenths of the applications have a | thice yours, Between the harvests the natives | "'“Gno of these hand-daubs, I distinctly rocall, | Pods and Hussian bathe ate injurious {0 some have written the poem. he afterward conf. serious flaw inthem; they must first be in-{ wait patiently for the oysters togrow. Pearls | was a horse that was literally drawn and quar- | 414 beneficial to others. Any one suff from that he had mesaly aided afawatencen soon dorsed by the chief of police. That necessi- | 8T¢ legoly counterfeited, as you know, the | tered, the hind ttarters being perversely and heats complaint should not take Tarkish ths, Shoce ngained sears eer eR alse Some two or | tates a walk up to police headquarters and not | peng Tine ithe feet ge oow (glass | inexorably huddled up upon & canvas that | heart complaint should not take Turkish baths, three hundred years before his time. Irving's | one in © Landeed orice permit-hunters leaves | tayen'trom living fake Tig Wax snd scales | could not possibly have served for more than a | toate wv avised by theit phoviclon™ quotation was from the old part, the doctor's office with good grace, while many | “ket from living fish. The pearl is chiefly three-quarter likeness of any horse in a normal of them are, after a subdued sort of religious c¢ | COmPosed of carbonate of lime, with films of | condition, Ihave often laughed outright since ME FAVORS TEPID DATEA. IDEA OF THE GREEK SLAVE. charitable ‘fashion, really profane. It is not animal membrane between its many layers. | then at _the adroitness with which, childasI} 4 doctor who has given particular attention a ee it reread sree ah Amount of re- | always that thoy return. Once ina while the | u¢8 membrane films, becoming dry, gives | was, while I stoutly maintained my own opinion | igor Orentioe cate “To a strong man a cold search and developed very interestingly was as | police authorities refuse to indorse the appli, | £22 Bese! its hardness. ‘The substance ‘of the | to tay inner self, 1 yet maunged to suppress all to the origin of Hiram Powers’ idea of the | cation on the ground that the person gett arl is a slimy secretion of the oyster, which | signs of it and never uttered word that could | th taken every morning might not seem to ng rdinarily deposited upon the ‘interio: | gir hurt him, but I don’t think that they are b Greek slave. The congressional brary was | Pee eee te eens ioe fraud. or that the | ace of the shells forming whet iscalied “mother | &°%° emma arm, tioularly beneficial. Inthe summer time searched in vain for @ life of Powers! it one which the police think had better re_ | 0f Pearl’, Grains of sand or other foreign * are d are very refreshing; but 5 - brcape rnd “But to return to our arrival, As we entered werkt Bagi that might throw some light on the bodies, lody within the shell, produce an ir- ter. ‘The index of periodicanteravrre 222 | main closed, ‘There are several halle in the thot te 5, in the wihter time I think the shock to District which ritation of the tissue which causes the deposit | the saloon the gracious and elegant Mrs. Custis searched and every bit of writing con- bea of a pearly matter around them for the oyster’s | came forward to meet and to greetus. The cerning this statue, or statuary in general, UNDER THE BAX, protection. This matter 1s deposited layer after qosiniens and drollery of her attire was some- or on the subject of sculptors and art, was|90 to speak. In times past these public | layer until the pearl is formed. By the artifigial | thing that attracted my particular attention, scanned, but not a word could be found as to| places have troubled the police not a| introduction of flinty particles pearls can’ be | The gown, if not of calico, was of some material the origin of the Greek slave. It was discov-|hittle and it has been seid that enter-| ™ade to grow. The Chinese in this manner | that fa equally homely | and ae dang df ttain it was worn a domestic apron, ered, however, that — was born in Wood- tainments were frequently given to which cones, & cel kind of fresh water mussel to | Over: 2 , AP ey eonali town in | So noon exsont s palicoeee eat waite luce pearls in great numbers, thongh of | best of my recollection, was not removed duri New an or reminiscencer — z A ‘ small size. Sometimes they introduce diminu- | the dinner nor the entire day, Around her nec! who knows all the local events and traditions, | jets he had on bis, person @ razor, a whisky- t tive images of their gods and other thingswithin | wasa sitnple white 'kerchief (cambric probably) the bureau wrote # letter, addressed to the his- | bottle and a ticket. Not unnaturally, | thy shells and have them turned inte eee by | that wen arcana tater Weteh (Sot ake t the sudden plunge in torian of Woodstock. and sent it with a letter | *tfife and gore would be followed ty po- | 4 sort of oyster-plate process.” trying attire did not conceal but rather en- out of a hotroom is tothe postmaster of the place, asking him to | lice interference. There are other halls which Hs hanced the beauty of her face and the cor- fering from nervous see that it got to the right agg sre regarded with suspicion, but they get TREENEIONS OF TERRORRD, dial grace of her manner. Jaint should not indulge in them, short time they got a reply, giving just the in- through occasionally by making the advertise-] “I suppose that the diamond is more largely is " ments of the entertainments as harmless as | igni tone?” en re possible in their appearance. Then some of | “itsted than any other stone? “When she took us into her own private apart- | that is, on account of rubbing; and A VISION IN MARBLE. those who reside in the vicinity of the hall find “Probably. Most of the imitations scarcely ment to remove our wraps it ed to me that - res oe a So a peraen, The historian sent them a transcript of a let- | out that the real rogram contemplates having resemble real co & closely enough to de-| tho appointments of her pe are cold, they re ter sent by Hiram Powers toa relative, T, E. | present 2 full and not too-harmonious brass | ceive any one, but the 2 r sorts of counter- plainer than those in the rest of the establish- shoal: indulged Poweps, in August, 180, when the statoe had | bad, Euarantecd to play until 3 o'clock in the | felt, made in France from ‘various composi ment, if that were le. I distinotly recol- ‘ morning. Representations are made to the | tious, are so wonderfally like as occasionally | [oc that pone ‘on he. IN MRS, CUSTIS’ BED ROOM. and Russian baths are for rheumatism— ghee gs UF 7 the cover! bed was a home- aoe a be iar aigck 23 the people, there, | Comminioners by the sleep loving neighbors | t0 cheat the ox and no ordinary per- | woven quilt, while the tole, wagha an foe animated by local pride. ‘is letter Powers | and the permit is revoked. These matters }- - iture around were such as in the plans tells the story of his vision in marble, cannot be otherwise than annoying to the siagerees ty 2, ro- Fe ape aed beh yon but they bene me teirtie ‘whic! im silence and as soon as possi thereafter bob up serenely and ask for auother | #2cient. A thin flake of @ Es oF ef permit. pees stone, with as little color’as ay Encouraging His Ambition. oS From the Merchant Traveller. ‘is “So, young man,” said the painter, as he and paps ca daubed streak of sky on the canvas, “you | the petchagrns~ | open Mion achd iss had ne sometimes of a strong H si sg. “Can you learn to live on crackers and cheese on some days and on nothing at other if 38 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. 9 circulation again and the bather will ie ot 8k Pfidinnapotia, expres the better for the bath and for the walk.” | daily. 3 Rae Limited es- well-known hospital surgeon favors heroie | ou ‘inal. ‘express ‘except ees } treatment, He is a believer in cold baths and plenty of exercise. Talking on this subject re- ‘Garap Sth Toe! Sentions 120.90 m, 2 cently, this is what he said: £58, Se egy eh dae, 400, Sa, 800, “I me nade aggro bbe enh SAEs. 2 F e mi round ve a} 3: (So-minutes, 425.4 3 Sy reek doa! of benett from so doing. ‘The eect | 4 Ss f re ree cold om the is to act as a| 12:00 (45-mmuten $ 30 (48 tateraten Sera cae: prstannsterhertines| bus eave ae aed cold baths. "Then in dcving oncveself the omy SOLO aR SS ee eT Sok friction of the skin bas another healthful effect RS Pebp sundens BSS VERSES enough to bathe in the open sir ev sin ean ae 7 Ts Fao eee st morning all the year I think, enjoy bet- (aSamins 20 ($6 mini 21K 38 ter health than those who try to keep in warm | $.00.6 00, 1 Bias room and only take warm baths on | 11. 1, $90. 9:18 Le certain occasions. Their nerves are im | #220 00 100k AOS better condition and stronger; their skin 14,00 . . § ‘ is harder and more healthfal better ir week * Sundays 450 a m., 14 bp. a tly strengthed by the use which the: Leave Bay Kidwe week daye 6-30 am. firough raped ‘having to move po ag sxonu. bandas 20. 8204 9:00 order to keep himself warm while in the | fj hurls (#0-end 8:3 sm. water. ie persons of a eo agg ee 4 Leave pola, 640, 3 ree nervous temperament, of course, this hero! Bo Pm. Sundays, fe nnd treatment would be too severe. They couldn't | gig7hg sos 93, the, Metropolitan stand the sudden shock to their system caused | {10:20 tan" $4 ho betes hee by the plunge in the cold water. For such | $F Kockville and way stations 14:35 p.m. rsons tepid bathing isthe more beneficial. | »/ T12:30, *5-35, 111-20 pam. ye water should be from ninety to a hundred unre Boyds ‘and “un legrees in temperature. Some persons can- 3 not stand bathing nearly as much ke others, To | ,Chuxh ‘eas leaves Washington on Sunday at 1.13 some persons water has a tiring effect upon | For Frede + the system. These should only indulge in an a tepid sponge baths at certain stated times. For | Tras “srnve Tron ch many diseases and complaints water is abso- | 4:00 p. lutely necessary. But these occasions ean only | $42,2" 1. be ordered by a physician after he has made a | © Ni W'VOne AND PHILADELPHIA DIVISION, study of the patient's case. Turkish and Rus-| | For New york, Arenton, Newark aud Elizabeth, sian baths are a luxury to those who can stand | 2) 4:9". 18:0). 0°30, "1 00 am. "2.30," Suand them, but only those who have been advised Sar on the 10:30 pin, open st POORER, x me gat ere or — hearts are in a 0 p.m, Sun Soe nek ep itor — ealthful condition should ever attempt to , a og take thbse baths. For rheumatism and similar OS am. Fd, “6:20, complaints heat baths are very beneficial, and &@ great many persons suffering from severe cold often find great relief from a Turkish bath. The general effect, though, of a Turkish bath on the system is weakening, and for this reason alone, if no other, they should not be often taken, Sea bathing is particularly bene- ficial to all those who can stand it. I don't know that there is any harmful result experi- enced through staying in the sea water for a (a . oes whole morning, provided the bather keeps soy 99 2 >" eee moving about, is warm, and his blood is in | ressences by Union Irapsier Co. on andes tate at ood circulation. But directly one begins to | [ihe othioes, G19 aud 151 Rn oy ay oe feel cold. or experiences a tired, languid feel- | “3!"F°GpeLn. cates Manet ite Gem Pune, Ace po} then it = time = aon out of hey IEDMONT AIK LINE. (ete cee, dod and a good brisk walk should be indu! in Schedule in effect June 30, 1889, P, 30 a. m. S 4 la ‘arren- rene ors to get the blood into circula- ten Cordova ‘Chalet =. “Tybehijane 4 Eriol, Knogvile Ghettntccwe and Messphis "alt man Siceper Washington to Memplus, The Conscientiousness Carried Into Gen- dgpebbur, Rocky Mount, Denville and Station’ A . a am. and $6.302m. Lio ow Sait Sate pea ay Pm.; from Pittsbury 7:10 amend iy ween Baltimore amd and 14:.30p.m for Washington, "8 “Sl, "3:00 bam for Washi “an eH “4:15, *5:05, "143 Rutitic city 4-00 ana 9. 30 am., 12:00 noo a .50 pm. dundays 4:00 a m., and 12-00 pom, ux Brauch aud Ucean Grove 1400, 18-00 & noon ; $980 am. ‘Sun “Daily. Sunday only, tExcep@ between ‘wehbure and Dany re hale uine Japanese Art. igh, Asbeville, Charlotte, Columbia, Ai oa Auanta, Birmingham, Monteomery, New From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Atlante crate, Pullman, Slesper sow ie In Japan whole families of artificers work a to Ne cane.” Palme Sleepers Montgomery to New Orleans. Pullman together at home; each person performs an al- | Rlcsi<r Greetabore! te Coluibis and Aurela Palle loted share of the labor, One man may be | Route mage deftly fashioning wooden trays, while a little 5B ins Dally. qroept Bandi boy rubs them smooth with sand paper and | ,7 299. pekwure, Bristol and Chate two daughters lay a glutinous foundation, | Mempuis, connccting thence for all Arkausas pointe; which renders the wood impervious to moist- | “9? )sslineton to New Uricatm ure, The wife makes designs, the husband in- ewriile, Staunton, Louise lays upon them pieces of mother-of-pearl or Uuuan alee tC ivory, and the grandmother contributes the erica nate Expwene ¢ counsel born of experience. The Hon. Lewis Wingfield says, in “The Wanderings of Orléans, Texas, Pullman Vestibule Car Washington to New Orlesus, via Atlante and Montwomery. Pullman Bieepes Ww eton um Globe-Trotter,”that he once demurred at the | End Genser eeae yy mieten, Ala, via Ata Price of @ curiously wrought metal dish, | pion {00 etal aad Ouse division leave Wash an. dally exoept sunday, whereupon the head of the family replied: dally: arrive Round Mill 1-50 a. .Remember that this dish occupied all of us | Pin duly eucept besden Sonving Woe whom you see sitting here for a period of | Lin and’ .25 yim, eight months, | Rent, food and clothes are rep- | | fiiwuxh tralne from the South via Charlotte Dane presented by that work of art. If you consider | iieaud Lynchbu ive iu Washington 6 530.q. the matter in this light you will not sind the Sere we 34 aiid 10-40 pe, vin Chemapeak is dear.” and | od Charlottesville at 2°35 p.m, ap: Unfortunately, the Japanese have imbibed | {1% P44 and 6:63 au. Strasburg local at 9:18 the notion yo the English and eer ro noice! alee fing-car reservation and information have a great deal of money and no knowledge slied, and tauteage Checked at office, 100 henue of art. One day Ifound a cunning worker in | 2. \sis Sysuae abd at Famonger Station, es metals sitting in deep thought, with corrugated | "je ___ JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass, Agent. brow. Some patriotic American million: eases mer, had givenhim carte blanche for the fashion- re vane ing of an le in wag He would oo pig, Ry gh vt al Wis’ conventional eagle—a fowl such as would “do K : for America.” Did Inot think he was right? | S1##+ BAAS, MAGNIFICENT QUI he inquired. If he were to do his best it | TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, FROM STATION, would be a labor of years, wee OF SIXTH AND B STKEETS, Pol. It was not easy to convince him that there | por Pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited Express ere come Americans capable of apprciating # | of Puliman Vestibuled Gare ath pdt us daig beet master piece; but the next time I visited the | Lint :00, am. dally to Cinelanat and st Coin capital he was radiant, burning with en- and Harrisburg to St.Louis. daily. except Saturaay, thusiasm. He had procured a living eag SeGaicege, with Slceping Car Alioona to Chicago, had carefully studied its habits and its atti- | este Hive, at7/40 pm daily sith Scop tudes, and was busy on its portrait, feather by | — ecting duily'at Harrison” with thtunh iepere feather. Frnt dally, for Pees ead wet oe span of life of many eagles, as well as my BAL AC RAILROAD own, perhaps. No matter; there many eagies | FoF,Aane, Canandayua, Rochester aud Niagara C daily, except 5 = to be |, and ifI die my son will continue | For Erie, Copendnigus ana Totes daily ; for But- the work.” falo and Niagara daily, excent Saturday, 10. OO p, . with ping Car Washington to i In another quarter of Tokio dwelt a man a Koche ster = . n - For Willamaport, Lock Hat end himure 508. whose specialty was the inlaying of i ry ail pad “apd _ Rundap wood. I gave hi commision to fashion a | FOR EMIADELGHIA. \Ew YORK AND THE EAST, screen, with a spray of maple cast across it— $5200 sal f2 3G a PEN the most remarkable Solbnpe toon, both in form Es #2 20. arid. 40700 ead opm Vso and color, which isto be met with in Japan. xpress of Pullman Parlor Cars, 9:40am dutly, In due course of time he produced the object, | (s*?* Swudss, aud S40 pam. dally, with Dum with proud smiles and many brow-rappings on FORK PHILADELPHIA ONLY. the mat. I shook my head and frowned, PE Papas Bab ee ae Et 32g 8 “Til none of it,” said T; “and you, for your} | Sau. Snow eh ss84 alge: part, ought to of yourself.” oF oh. without change, 2:50 p. m. every day, Somewhat taken aback he nevertheless pro- | ¥ Jere City with "basta Week comet a ceeded to point out the beauties of the work. | ine direct wanster to Filton atinet eh The more he argued the more Ishook my head, | ,_ double ferriwe scross New York until, finding he had made a mistake, he sud- | F°, Som denly burst into tears and beat his breast “Oh, base and wicked man that I am,” he groaned. “Yes,” I answered grimly. “That abom- inable screen must have been carved when {On Nore Grask with cake, drowsy after a de- uc! smJ,turned away and he caught me by the gar- For Azuapolin 720 sd 9,09 a. 12-05, 4 20ang Rr a ad Pe oy moaned, “ani ret well! Give m: z “ time and there shall be another screen at rahe ALSkARBOlA 25D WaSWiNnum which you shall never frown.” After many months the screen was finished. The maple leaves were of every color assumed in autumn by that ious tree. There were birds flitting, each feather a marvel; cicadas and preying mantis clung to the bough. It was as and true a transcript of nature as the hand of man could accomplish. oreries Se cents Senne Ov “Brethren, T regret to see attention from Teligious ities: your very you the troub! P| Hi F Hi Ei i