Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1890, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C 7 SATURDAY DISTINGUISHED WOMEN Wives of Congressmen From the Southwest. LOUISIANA AND MISSOURI. —-— Mrs. "Wills of Texas—Other Ladies of Note in Official Society at the Capital— Interesting Sketches and Personal- ites. —— Toe Evrestne Stan, HE states of Louisiana, Texas and Missouri are represented in Congress by some of the ablest and shrewdest | le the most brilliant aud entertaining | er ‘MRS, BLANCHARD. One of the most interesting ladies in the fashionable life of Washington is the wife of Newton Crain Blanchard of tho Shreveport district and a member of one of the historic families of Lozisiana and Texas, Her father, Capt. William W. Barrett, a native of Rich- mond on his mother’s side, was descended from the distinguished Taliaferro family. Mary Emma, now Mra Blanchard, was born at the close of the war. Having served in the con- federate army Capt. Barrett settled with his family at Shreveport, La., and became promi- pently interested in mercantile pursuits. In 1873 Miss Barrett married Mr. Blanchard, then a lawyer at the Shreveport bar. Mrs. Blanch- ard’s life in Washingtou began with the open- ing of the congressional social season of 1331, her husband having been elected to represent the Shreveport district at the early age of thirty-two. He has served in five Congresses before reaching forty years of age. Mrs. Blanchard is a petite brunette with engaging vVivacity of mauuer and brilliancy of conversa- thou, The death of Edward J, Gay, representative- elect from the La Fourche parish of Louisiana, opened the way to Andrew Price, his son-in-law, to the congressional honors of the Fifty-first Congress and Mrs. Price succeeded to the social honors in which but a brief space before she was so well known while assisting her mother. Owing tothe death of Mr. Gay Mra, Price has been in mourning, but next winter will take a house and entertain, Mrs. Price's mother is a daughter of Col. Andrew Hynes of Nashville, Tenn., a merchant and a wealthy land owner. The Hynes’ addition to the city of Nashville was part of his landed possessions in that section. Mrs. Price was born and edu- cated at St. Louis, but went to Louisiana with her parents as 2 child. Het mother still resides Bpon the St. Louis plantation in Iberville parish, which has been in her family for five generations. The Acadia plantation, one of the historic estates of La Fourche parish, is the home of Representative and Mra. Price. In 1879 the Louisiana belle became the wife of Andrew Price, then a lawyer of St. Louis, ‘The following year the young couple returned to Louisiana and took possession of one of the ancestral es- tates. Since then Mr. Price has been engaged in sugar planting. Mrs. Price isa lady of me- dium height, erect figure and graceful car- riage. Her large bine eyes and wealth of dark brown hair give additional beauty to her at- Wactive face, MES, ROBERTSON, The vacancy inthe House created by the death of E.W. Robertson of Louisiana was filled by the election of his son, Samuel Mat- thews Robertson, who took his seat during the Fiftieth Congress, Mrs, Robertson, the charm- ing representative of the far southwest, was Miss Georgie Blanchard Sanford of Brazonu, Tex.,where she was born. Her father, Dr. John T. Sanford, was a native of Virginia. Her mother, before her marriage Miss Amy Wilkii son of Rapids parish. was related to the Crains @f Louisiana and Newtons of Norfolk. iss Sanford was educated at Alexandria, din 1875 became the wife of Mr. Rob- ‘o but the year before graduated at sou State University. In Washington society she has a wide range of friends and is admired alike for her beauty, affability and accomplishments, MRS, MILES, One of the most noted men in eongressional life 1s Roger Q Mills of Texas, Mrs, Milis is aladly of domestic inclinations and pleasing mann Miss Carrie Jones, when an infant, was taken to Texas by her parenta Her father, Col. Henry Jones, became prominent in the warlike expeditions under Gen. Hustor against the Indians. Having located near . Jones subsequently transferred bis possessions to Matagorda, $08 Miss Jones became the wife of There in the Kentucky-born young man. who, at the ace of seve n years, just after the Mexican war, made his home in Texas. He entered Congress in 1573, and has since been one of the foremost leaders of his party, 1 circle of Representative and Mrs, sof ason, Charles H. Mills, in his iving law with ex-Attorney General and an exceedingly interesting . Miss Fannie Mulla, who is finishing onal term in one of the best schools ‘MAS, HEARD. Miss Lillie B. Copeland, who was born at Waverly and raised and educated at St Louis, Mo., was s belle in « large circle of congenial young people of Washington before she be- enue wife in 1888 of John T. Heard, the Representative of the Se: Heard bad thirteen years’ distinguished serv- ice in the two houses of the legislature of his native state. During his senatorial term he was sent to Washington by the fund commis- sioners of Missonri to prosecute and adjust all claims against the general government. It was during the four years of this ably conducted service to his state, while resident at Washing- ton, that Mr. Heard met Mixs Copeland and made her his bride. Mrs. Heard, who was young and beautiful, was very kindly received by the youthful presiding lady of the Execu- tive Mansion, Mrs. Cleveland. As a con- gressional bride sne was also cordially wel- comed by the older ladies who had run the gamut of fashionable experiences, MRS. BLAND. ichard Parker Bland. Representative of the | Lebanon district of Missouri, when the silver movement took shape in the Forty-fourth Con- was one of the most active champions of free coinage. He was in,advance on questions which are now accepted’ practically as public he ‘Bland silver dollar” was discussed y section, Bland. Mrs, Jefferson county, Mo,—is the daughter of Col. | Miss Virginia E. Mitchell of E. Y. Mitchell. who was adjutant general of r Gov. Phelps. She was educated at the Ladies’ College at Caledonia, Mo.. and married Mr. Bland in 1873. Mrs. Bland came to Washington at the beginning of the Fort: third Congress, in the winter of 1873, While very retiring in her tendencies she is very much admired among the ladies of her ac- quaintance, She rather shuns the more showy walks of social life and devotes her time to her interesting family of children. Deb. R.K. soe : ONE YOUNG MAN OUT WEST. Astonishing Experiences of a Washing- ton Youth in New Mexico. HE GOES OUT TO GROW UP WITH THE COUNTRY, MEETS CRITICISM IN THE SHAPE OF PISTOL BUL- LETS, EDITS A NEWSPAPER, FALLS IN LOVE AND COMES EAST TO ESCAPE BEING LYNCHED. Acertain Washington lady has recently been ina great state of mental perturbation con- cerning her only son, a youth of eighteen, who went out to New Mexico afew months ago for the purpose of seeking his fortune. His communications with her since his departure have been mostly by postal cards, some of them rather alarming by reason of their brevity. The first missive he sent, some days after his arrival, announced that he tiked it out there very much now that he had got a soft hat,his high silk one having been shot off his head by rude men with revolvers three times during the first week of his resi- dence. Next, about a month later. came a pos- tal card saying simply: ‘I am going to fight the Indi: Start tonight. i F His mother spent the next week in bed, ill from sheer alarm. A fortuight afterward she got anothe ing: “Didn't fir Indians. H you a scalp some Landlord nnple: y.” Hardly had a money- order for $50 been sent before « long letter came detailing the circumstances which led up to his ucceptance of the EDITORIALSHIP OF AN INFLUENTIAL JOURNAL inthe town where he had located. He said that, incidentally to his duties, he edited the paper, did all the local reporting, wrote the editorials and the correspondence from abroad and was trying to learn how to stick type in order that he might be able to get out the usual weekly edition on those periodical occasions when the solitary printer felt it necessary to go on a spree for w few days at atime. The pro- prietor of the paper, he explained, had ® similar weakness for intoxicants, though ue, instead of going on occasional toots, stayed drunk practically all_~—sthe time. This unfortunate habit kept the young editor busy during ail his leisure time jooking up his employer trom saloon to saloon, fishing him out of gutters or rescuing him from rum shops, where he had put himself into pawn for drinks, and taking him home. From time to time he would have fits of delirium tremens, during which he would be locked up, howling, in @ room adjoining the newspaper office, while the editor saw to the business and preparation of the paper on the other side of the partition, ME FALLS IN Love. However interesting this account might be it did not serve to relieve the anxicties of the anxious mother. During the next two months ostal cards dropped in occasionally from New Mexico in response to her long and carefully com- posed letters of maternal advice, though uoth- ing very definite could be learned from them aw to the welfare, moral and physical of the writer. Then, at length, came a compara- tively long communication from the youth telling how be he was going to marry a per- fectly lovely young woman, who was as beau- tiful as she was good, like the princess in the fairy tale—so replete with charms, in fact, that none of the other women in the town would speak to Ler, simply because of their jealousy. Matichaedaplaageiphughercstielie geared to his mother to be that of a rather common- looking woman about forty years of age. A postscript was added to the effect that he was publishing weekly installments of a continued romance by the young lady, of which he him- was made the hero and she the heroine. He was waiting anxiously, he said, to see if the heroine married the hero at the end of the tule, because, in case such was found to be the fact, it was his intention to Propose matrimony at once. The last chapter e had received, to be printed in the next week's edition but one, disclosed a love pas- sage in a grave yard. during which the hero ventured, Without encountering serious remon. strance, to encircle the heroine's waist with hi manly arm, So he was in very good hopes of » successful issue to his suit, THE PRODIGAL'S RETUR: This letter sent the poor lady to bed for another week. Having dispatched a letter of tearful and beseeching remonstrance to her son on the subject of his amatory schema, she spent a fortnight of intense anxiety concern- ing the matter without getting any response. Rather more than two weeks had passed, when one night at about 10 o'clock she was startled to learn from an alarmed servant that a dreadful-looking tramp was at the front door, demanding admittance, There was uo mau in the houre and she and the maid wert together to investigate. The intruder had got past the front door, but the vestibule door had been shut against him and he was standing outside rapping at the glass, “Why, ma!” she heard him shout, You going to let me in? It's me There was no mistaking that voice, The door was quickly opened aud an embrace very tearful on the mother’s side followed. Then came questions on her part as to why he was in such a dreadful condition—hisclothes shabby to raggedness anda pair of top boots several sizes too large pulled up over his trousers, His explanation was brief and to the point. WHY HE CAME Home. “A man was killed out in our town and they thought I did it, though I didn’t, He was very popular, because he had killed fourteen persons in the last ten years, and so they were going to lynch me. But for some reason they told me that they would let me go, on con- dition that I got out and never came buck ‘any more, So I sold most of my clothes and every- thing else Thad to get hero, aud I'm very hungry. I haven't any pagrge, except two blankets, which I would advise you not to take into the house,and this vaise Here. I think I have got enough of the west.” His mother thinks so, too, and doesn't pro- pose to let him go away from Washington any more. As for the valise, it was found to con- tain some old copies of the paper he had edited, with installments of the love story of which he was the hero, the skull aud thigh bones of an Indian and some pieces of Indian pottery. Serene A Snobbish Custom. From the Boston Transcript Another English fashion, and this a thor- oughly ugly, snobbish, detestable and ridicu- lous one,which is unfortunately much followed by our owners of carriage and riding horses, is the practice of docking and ‘‘banging” the teils. Itseems to be, as # rule, only the un- fortunate animals who are made so English in appearance that one would expect them to whinny with an English accent, and to look at the world from behind a@ single blinker, that wear the abbreviated tails. No doubt there are many English ways that are well worth following—guod ways in which the people of the old country have surpassed us. But since the best horses in the world have been raised in America and the best horsemen born here, and since we have more horses in this country to- day than England is likely to bave in half a century, there reully seems to bi son why we should borrow Eng! toms, ————-+o+_____ Spring Styles Abroad, ‘He was a Kafr bold, She was a Zulu maid; All bis deep love he wid LIBRARY OF CONGRESS How the Work Upon It Has Pro- gressed Thus Far, A MARVEL OF BUILDING. Structure Below Ground ing Methods of Into the Future, truction—A Look —_.—___ spcause it has been built thus ‘ithe ground, and secondly. FF because in looking it over, § if you don’t take the utmost will be pretty sure to somewhere and break a limb or worse, The entire cellar part of the structure is now completed, its roof pierced everywhere with a multitude of holes, some small and others big enough to let a horse tumble down, which are de- signed to make room for the passage of flues and other heating and ventilating apparatus to different parts of the building above. ventilation and heating of so enormous a book tum curough pala as this extensive mechanical ar- rangements are requisite, as may be judged from the fact that such — fix- Mugs 48 are necessary to give warmth and air will occupy about one-half of the entire four acres covered by the cellar. Nor does this in- clude the great excavation, itself nearly an acre in extent, which will accommodate the boilers and coal vaults, entirely outside of the building at the east front. The other half of the cellar, save a smal! portion that will be oc- cupied by dynamos for electric lighting. is to be left available for the dryest kind of storage of books, documente or anything elsa that it may be desired to put away and preserve safely, THE HEATING ARRANGEMENTS. The hug» boiler and coal vault referred to is practically completed and the workmen are at present engaged in putting the finishing touches to the roof thatcovers it over. On top of this a layer of earth will be spread. so that there may be turf andadriveway above. The compartments provided for the purpose will each hold a pair of boilers, a line of which, sepa- rated in couples by brick walls, will stretch the whole width of the vault. Huge brick bins for coal oceupy the rest of the available space, af- fording room for a year's supply—3,000 tons, As fastas the brick archways covering sec- tion after section of the cellar were built the roof of the cellar has been made level by filling in the depressions between the archways with concrete, Sonow there is a great four-acre floor of brick and concrete, with a mighty skeleton of iron girders, to construct the first story above ground upon, This story is called the basement aud the workmen are at present laying the beginnings of its walls. Up to to- day the immense courtyards are the only parts of the structure that bear any finished aspect. ‘They are as deep as the cellar itself, you see, and are consequently oue story high so far. ‘Their pavements are only rough earth, but the walls inclosing them sre of beautiful white enameled brick, with superb buttresses of gran- ite at the corners, so that they are beginning to give a notion of how handsome they will be. NOT A CENT AHEAD, Thus far, after a year’s work, so Dngineer Bernard Green said to aSrar reporter, the library building is up to time and not acent ahead of estimates. In other words, the struc- ture isas far advanced toward completion as was originally counted upon, and it has not cost & peuuy more ai its present stage of growth than was anticipated. There is every reason to believe that it will be completed within the eight years reckoned for, and it is more likely to cost $500,000 less than the $6,000,000 . propriated than to require £50,000 additional, It 1s unnecessary to remark how unusual it is for buildings to come out that way. Already all the cut granite for the exterior walls of the building, the upper part of the ro- tunda and the courtyard walls has been con- tracted for and is being supplied as rapidly as possible. Contractsare to be made at once also for the iron tocompose the floor of the first story above the basement, Enough bricks to build many blocks of city houses are now on the ground, in tiger heaps under sheds, ready foruse, It is estimated that 25,000,000 bricks will be required from beginning to end, and it does not do not to have a big stock on hand all the time, lest a labor strike or some such accident render it impossible to get them when they are wanted, TEN BIG DERRICKS, Ten gigantic derricks supply the lifting power at present requisite. They are so dis- | Altar just mp to the level of | ' ‘ | ing ng into the four great court yards will be bril- liantly reflected by the enameled bricks into the rooms and corridors that open inward, ROOM TO SPARE, As bas been said, for years to come the building will be altogether unnecessarily big. Presumably some of the government depart- ments will utilize parts of it, The librarian will need some pretty large space for his print- ing and binding, all of which will be done in the building, as is very important should be the case, inasmuch as the plan of sending out valuable books to be bound, é&c., involves risk. The first story to the left of the main west en- Now Entirely Completed—interest- | tance, between the main building and the cor- ner, will probably be devoted to the uses of the copyright clerks, On the other side corre- sponding room will be given up to a reading apartment for members of Congress. ‘The basement will be chiedly utilized by the gen- N its present condition the | eral clericai force of the library. A room some- new library of Congress is a | Where will presumably thing to look down upon, | for two reasons—first, be- be appropriated to maps and another to exitbits of a special na- ture. But there will be lots of space left for a long time to come for the unterrified citizen from afar, who realizes that he i the structure, to swing around an on the floor, ———_—e@e-_--___ “AS IN A LOOKING-GLASS.”® art owner of expectorate Advertising on Bar Room Mirrors the Latest Theatrical Dodge. Dramatic edvertising has taken a new and artistic departure. Consumers of stimulants atter the perpendicular method have been in- terested to observe recently that the mirrors ot Washington drinking saloons were decorated with highly ornamental signs executed in paint, descriptive of a comic play just come to Bor thie | towa and the performers taking part in it, This is the very latest device for attracting the public to the theaters, “The artist who does that work,” said the manager of the company to a Star reporter, “draws a big salary, he gets $45 a week and expenses, He travels ahead of the company With the advance agentand makes it bis first business, on reaching a town, to visit all the most popular saloous, making the best bargain he can with the proprietor of each for the use of his biggest mirror during the time he wants it—say for a week before the show opens in Washington and for the week it runs here. One saloon keeper may be willing to give the privilege tor bill board tickets, while others will charge more or less in cash, Wherever the artist succeeds in making an arrangement Istactory to himself he sets to work and covers the looking glass with the advertisement. Our man is an expert at the business and the decorations he produces are very tine indeed. He uses dry powered water-colér paints and carries about with him for his work atin box with five little compartments for the paints and a sixth for water. ‘Lhe white paint he employs is nothing but a mixture of chalk with a little ordinary lime, such as scene painters mix for their purposes. Besides this, he bas black, red, blue and brown, ‘The spacing of his letters he does with a string; white artistically applied festoons the lettering with stalactites of ice, while red sets the advertisement aflame with fire. ‘here is not so very much to the busi- ness, perhaps, but we have found it a most suc- cesstul method, Nota man comes into a sa- loon where an ‘ad’ of the sort is displayed wit! out reading it, and by hiring the use of mirrors in twenty gin mills we place our announcement before many thousands of possible theater- goers, When our artist has finished bis labors in one city he leaves for another in company with the advance agent, This isa fresh idea this season and is sure to be taken up by other traveling organizatio: “PANTS” AT 90 CENTS A PAIR. Clothing Reduced to Lowest Terms— Good, Though Not Dudesque. The sign that hung outside of the little Penn- sylvania avenue shop swayed to and fro in the wind above an extensive out-door exhibit of men’s clothing in all styles, which mostly hung on pegs, though a few full suits illustrative of the latest spring fashions were draped upon a row of patient wooden ewells with bright red checks, staring black eyes and no feet, What the sign said was: “Pants at $3 are very well for rich dudes, but for gents of limited means our 90-cent pants are just the cheese,” The tailor who kept the shop lost no time in correcting Tuk Stak reporter's notion that these 90-cent trousers were second-hand, He took down a number of pairs of them from a shelf and showed that they were not only quite new but very presentable, mostly neatly made, and of a stout striped: cotton material which Was white and fuzzy on the inside, “They are made in Baltimore by the thou- sands of pairs,” the shopkeeper explained. “Girls do the work, and they get 16 cents pair for turning them out. A skilled work- woman can make three pairs in @ day, for which she gets 48 cents; less practiced hands earn proportionately less money. Starvation wages? Oh, yes; but no worse than for other kinds of factory labor. Here are shirts for 25 cents apiece, The cotton costs something, the manufacturer's profit is 3 cents on each shirt, Thave to make my profit, and so the women who make them can only be paid 8 cents apiece. If they are skilful they can make posed that any weighty object can be lifted at {12 8 day—that is 40 cents. Forty cents a minute's notice from any given spot within the great fenced imclosure and set down in any other spot desired. Some of the granite stones used weigh as much as ten tons aud portions of the pillars may be even heavier. The derricks are 100 feet high and tremendously powerful, for it is necessary that they should be able to handle things gently and easily. Stones must be lowered into place and set in contact with the utmost delicacy, for the slightest jar would be likely to break off @ coruer aud spoil one of them. To work the derricks a fifteen-horse- power engine is established in ench courtyard, Additional smaller derricks will be needed jJater on for the roofing of the rotunda, ‘Iwo hundred and twenty-five workmen are laboring every day in the library inclosure under the eye of Superintendent Green, but probably 400 more are doing contract work outside, so that at least 600 are engaged upon the building. THE ROTUNDA, As for the rotunda, you can see it now, out- lined with brick walls in octagon shape, 100 feet in diameter, four feet more than the rotunda of the Cupitol. In the middle of this, on the first floor above the basement, Librarian Spof- ford will be intrenched in state with his assist- auts ona platform surrounded by a circular sk. The floor around about will provide space for # serica of concentric circles of desks for readers, the librarian’s post being the cen- ter of each of the widening circles. A gallery will surround the rotunda overhead, from which spectators can look down upon the scene on the floor. Beneath the gallery will be coves all around, shut off for the use of stu- dents and others who wish to be alone and par- ticularly quiet, A RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM, When a reader desir book it will not be necessary for one of the librarian’s assistants to make his way out of the rotunda by one of the aisles and go look for the volume. An order for whatever is wanted will simply be conveyed by a rapid mechanical device from the libra- rian's desk down through the floor beneath the rotunda and to whatever section the book is to be found in, The attendant in charge of that section will take the volume from the shelf and transmit it swiftly, in the same manner, to the librarian, who will promptly hand it over to the applicant, In the arrangement of the volumes in the new library building the stack system will be employed. This method of keeping books is approved by modern authorities beyond. all others, By it no display is made of them; they are simply placed on iron shelves face to’ face, with just euough room between for passage They will be kept perfectly dry and will lenty of fresh air, which is as essential to the preservation of books as to the health ofhuman beings. The notion of metallic shelves is in itself an admirable one. Books of themselves will not burn; they may smoulder a little, but you cannotfairly set them on fire alone. ‘THE READING Room. ‘The reading public will be accommodated in the rotunda, though eventually it will doubt- less be necessary to furnish additional room for such purposes. But for many come this great hall will afford pevecal these, as much space as will be requisite. In fact, the whole library is built on that Principle— not for today, but for centuries hence, The shelf room provided, to begin with, will only hold 1,800,000 volumes, but though that is mors than twice what is needed at first a look has been taken into the future and ready for shelves to contain led made by which an stacked in the | a da! is fair pay nowadays for work in factories, It is the old story; girls could live infinitely better and be ever 80 much more comfortable at do- mestie service, but they would lose caste, and rather than do that they will slave and starve. You can buy most things in the shops today, in the way of linen and undergarments, as cheaply as youcan make them yourself. Do you ever think that hundreds of thousands of women sulfer privation and misery to produce such cheap things for their fellow-beings who are better off and could most of them very well afford to pay living pric — Written for Tnx Evenixo STAR, My Withered Rose. ‘ake this fair rose,” she said, “and think of me,” As thus she spoke her sott eyes fled with tears, For we were parting—swore fidelity, Hoped soon to mect again—suid, “Time on- dears.” It was a summer evening, rich the air, In rosy clouds the red sun sank away, A gentle breeze brought flowery fragrance there, As her dear head upon my bosom lay. And hope our vision to the future led, And charmed our souls with her enchantment sweet, Love's glorious orb her matchless beauties shed, E’en from her azure realm to our retreat. We parted and I went far o'er thesea, And wandered many years ‘neath other skies, We have not met again, but still from me A longing heart to her oft backward flies. Delusive hope! Away the years have rolled, Tis autumn and the bloom of flowers is dead, And in the durling’s batr of purest gold Has time well woven many a silvery thread. Perhaps she has forgotten, does not grieve, But on another's bosom finds Tepose, And allremembrance of that summer eve Has long since faded like this withered rose. We hope—believe, yet cannot know our fate! Experience teaches, hope dwells but above, And some have legrned the lesson—oft two late— ‘The instability of human love! —DsWrt C. Srsacus, Washington, D.C., May, 1890. ——_———+e+______ An American Aldermaa. From the Chicago Tribune, William Murray, a guest of the Grand Pacific, who is one of the biggest linen manufacturers in Ireland, tells a story which has a local interest. ‘ou hear of any number of bogus noblemen in this country,” said Mr, Murray in the hotel rotunda last ning, ‘but an American who affects a title in old world is somewhat rare, A year ago this summer I arrived at a little town in the south of Irelandcalled Dungarwan, The people were excited over the presence of an American official. Flags were flying, bands playing, and everything was inf As I was somewhat acquainted with the United States I asked the name of guest so royally enter- tained. Nobody knew, except that he was one of the big; men of the United States anda native of Ireland. Elbowing my way through the crowd I went to the little hotel and there learned that I was to have the honor of be: under the same roof with an official who e| Rgxt to the President of the United States. I t to the register to see if the Vice-President Ibe rere Pema ee ays cn ad saw this on the “‘Hedmond TL, alder- mach amen oe ———__— -+ee_—___—__ Marriage Reverses the Order. ‘From Kate Field's Washington, FUNNY CONTRIVANCES Uncle Sam’s Big Collection of Them in the Patent Office. SOME REMARKABLE IDEAS. The Latest Thing in Flying Machines— Remarkable Suggestion: tigation of Water and ai Vices in Electrical Science. a ees LL that has been written about that wonderful museum of original ideas, the collection of models in the Patent Office, has scarce begun to give a notion of the extraordinary freaks of human ingenuity therein displayed. It might be appropriately regarded as a cham- ber of horrors, if one could know what trage- dies of disappointed hopes, productive of lunacy and suicide, are represented by these multitndinous contrivances, A Star reporter learned by investigation the other day that flying machines and devices for securing per- petual motion are turned out on new plans as plentifully as ever, as is likewise the case with every imaginable sort of product of more or less disordered inventive faculties, So far as the navigation of the air is concerned, it must be owned that the problem has not yet been proved insoluble, but, unfortunately, the inventors do not seom to advance a particle with it. The patent most recently granted in this line, only a few weeks old, is for an equip- ment as nearly like @ bird's as possible, with folding wings and tail made of enormous feathers of tin and silk. But the gentleman who suggests this apparatus for aerial exercise equips himself at the same time with @ balloon | bigenongh to support his weight while he Cal And those would-be flyers who do not expect to avail themselves of balloons arein no case able to devise any other method of elevating themselves in the atmosphere than by in- clined fans or sails revolving. These ought to raise them, of course, but in practice they don’t, somehow. One man, after he has once got up inthe air by means of his revolving fans, expects to make his way in any desired direction with propellers at erch end of the little boat he sits in. Another thinks to utilize # kite of vast area, within which sails revolve, while 2 basket is suspended beneath, ‘The kite has a fish tai! for steering with. Still another nas two cylindrical balloons, between which and beneath hangs a boat; the latter has two large paddle wheels like those of a steam- boat, and # propeller in the rear besides, curiosity in this way is an air tricyc paddies worked by the feet and a bail neutralize gravity, FOR NAVIGATING THE WATER. Not less curious than the devices for sailing in the air are those for navigating the water. For instance, there is a model of a boat that is to be propelled by a gigantic windmill nearly as big as the vessel itself, Of course in a calm the windmill would not go, but that difficulty is provided against by a treadmill on deck which is worked by a horse when cat's-paws are lack- ing. Another craft hasa steam engine ou board that pumps in water through @ pipe at the bow and shoots it out at the stern upon a sort of water wheel, which in this way is made to revolve and forces the boat ahead by the action of its paddies, This latter notion, by the way, is engaging the attention of om or and inventive talent even now. One man has thought that in the conch shell was to be found the ideal shape for a propeller, and his model is made on the pattern of two such shells put opening to opening, It has never been adopted by navigators, however. Im- agine two enormous revolving cylindrical screws, many feet in diameter, extending be- low the water line on each side of a vessel from one end of the craft to the other, and you have another queer contrivance for propulsion, the threads of the screws being designed to act upon the water and drive the ship onward, PROPELLED BY A WEIGHT, One of the funniest of all the devices of this sort is in the shape of an enormous weight hanging like a pendulum from an inclined mast into the hold of the vessel, The waves make the pendulum swing back and forth, and the energy thus produced is utilized by an elab- orate mechanical arrangement to run the pro- peller at the stern. When there is no wind there are no waves, necessarily, and when there are no waves the ship comes to a stand- still, But it can afford to do this now and then, inasmach as the power it uses costs noth- ing. There are other contrivances for utilizing the motion of the waves not less interesting. One is a vessel with its back brgken in the middle, so that the waves hump it up and down and thus produce power to work the propeller. It is not explained how the people on board are to keep their feet under these peculiar circum- stances, One would think that they would be afilicted with a variety of seasickness unusually intense, A seeming improvement on this is in the form of two separate boats, across which a frame work is stretched endwise. Wave motion is supposed to propel this also, though, asa mat- ter of fact, it doesn’t. Perhaps the queerest thing of allisthe model of aship the entire bow end of which, comprising about one-sixth of the vessel's entire length, is made to revolve by the mere progress of the craft through the water and its revolution operates the propeller at the stern, The inventor does not state how the ship is supposed to get started, FOoT POWER. Small boats to put on the feet, for the pur- pose of walking upon the water, water tricycles and water bicycles have already become pub- licly known. A surprising sort of life boat is made of two eylindrical shells, on wide of the other, and, no matter how often the outer shell may roll over, the passengers in the inner shell, which is hung like a pendulum, mast always remain right side up, The great trouble about life boats at sea is that thoy are very apt to turn bottom upward or get swamped in being launched; but this trouble is obviated by a craft of the sort that has two air-tight cylinders for sides and is right side up no matter how it falls into the water, which automatically sets the boat into shape to re- ceive its passengers and crew, the oars being ready fastened in their places for rowing. SAIL DEVICES, Many glass cases in the model rooms are filled with attempted improvements in sail de- vices, The most extraordinary of them all is represented by a miniature ship with one enormous mast extending at an angle of 45 degrees from the middle deck toward the bow. ‘his mast is equipped with avast amount of complicated frame work supporting half a dozen ages sails in the shape of parasols au { umbrel- , to be raised in the same way, two Lig three- cornered sails andahuge square sa. The whole affair looks very much like a Chinese tent —_ Close by is Abraham Lincoln’: for getting vessels off shoal places in the Ohio and other rivers. It consists of accordeon- shaped air bags of enormous size, which were to be built into the hull of the craft and in- fiated in cases of emergency, to buoy her off. ‘THOUSANDS OF MODELS, But these are only @ few of tho queer and surprising ideas expressed by the 156,000 models in the Patent Office. There is an entire sewing machine made out of a single strip of copper two-thirds of an inch wide and haifa dozen inches long. One end of the strip is sharpened long, fine point, to make the needle, and the affair is worked very much on the same principle as an ordinary sewing ma- chine, with one thumb and foreduger. ft will sew, too, but not conveniently enough to make it worth while. The beam of a plow patented many years ago is a gun as well, which was very convenient when Indians we cause the farmer could so read: horses 01 cultural instrument, Many other ities in the shape of ins there are, such as canes and umbrellas that one can shoot with if there occasion, Also @rifle, the entire skeleton stock of which is a tube filled with hundreds of cartric luckily it will not work fast enough to make it serviceable. Then there is a revolver that wiil fire big bullets or little ones, just as may hap- pen to be requisite. 8 killin, means of a ladder left handy for that purpose and communicating by a ventilator hole with rong’ buough; to limb s ball le promos aod climb a FO an attached to his wrist to ‘summon i assistance, Anothes octits 16 a6 acrenged that it tes gorpee moves its forehead the lid springs open. EEF if i flops along and steers with his tail feathers. | .| Another wonderful electrical device is the formed that way by nature. Other bars and | pieces exhibit other metals joined in the « | manner by placing two ends almost together and fusing them with a powerful electric current passed through. In this way metals which | could not be welded together at all formerly are now made amenable to mechanical science. “autographic telegraph,” through the medium of which you can write a letter in Washington | aud have it instantaneous!y recorded in fac simile of rour own hand-writing at San Fran- cisco, This is the utmost advance in tele- graphic art so far achieved. FOR DOMESTIC RCONOMY. Among other models at the Patent Office is one of a chair, the rocking of which plays an organ inside of it; %lsoanother rocking chair that works an automatic fan and a cradle that rocks the baby to sleep by clock work while its mamma goes out to her club, There is a remarkable rat trap, inthe shape of a pe- culiar circular sheet of tin, that is set upon an open barrel. To an attachment is hung a aud the minute an impudent rodent ches it « spring causes the tin surface to re- volve once, letting him drop into the barrel and’ resetting itself immediately, ‘eady for the next vie in this way the whole barrel can be filled with rats without a change of bait. Auother curious trap is an imitation rat that has a piece of toasted cheese stuck on the end of a li spear that projects from its nose a short di tance. When areal ratcomes up to nibble at the cheese the spear jumps out about six inches and impales the u nother device of domestic economy is appiied to the common fowl and 1s called the “hen per- It is simply a piece of strong wire, shaped like a loug fork without a handle, and fastened about the hen's ankle with the prongs extending rearward. In this way the fowl is rendered unable to scrat J not being able to move backward, b © the prongs of the persuader stick into the ground when she tries to do #0, she must needs keep on going ahead ail the time, which conduces to the finding of the greatest possible number of bugs and tothe cheap nutrition of the bird. There is A PATENT BOOTS CAT that is made by the pulling of a string to jamp and startle pigeons for sportsmen so that they may fly quickly and be dificult to bit. Also there isa trap to be nailed on the top of any tall pole, which closes up instantaneously upon any pigeon that lights there. Rubber earth worms for fish bait are curious things, and so is a contrivance that dumps the servant out of bed by clock work atthe proper time in the morning. Specimens of cloth woven out of glass spun inconceivably fine are likewise in- teresting. The stuff is most beautiful for curtains, filtering the light — through ats substance in vari-colored rays, Cylindrical trunks, designed to defeat the efforts of the baggage smasher, would appear so well adapted to that purpose that it seems a wonder they have never been adopted. But of all models in the Patent Office the one that attracts the most attention when it is shown off is called, indifferently, the “mechanical jacka: It is a device best described combination of two whistles, a tin hora with a reed pipe inside it and a double flat circular tin diaphragm. It is worked by a sort of pis- ton pump, the handle of which is jerked with one hand while the instrument itseif is held in the other, and the mixture of shriek and low that it sends forth is too horrible for to give a notion of. It was intended ori for a fog alarm, but it appears to b actual use for assisting at “shiv such as are given in rural districts in celebra- tion of weddings that chance to be unpopular, pecan Me isocssesitabasdna HE WON HIS BE Two Masqueraders Deceive Their Host and Fellow Company, From the Boston Courier. A trick that was amusing for the complete- ness of the deception was recently carried out ata masked party. The dancing was kept up until midnight and supper was postponed uutil that hour in order to delay the uamasking. Just as the guests had reached the supper room acouple of policemen presented themselves at the door and insisted upon being allowed to go into the house, Finding the host in the midst of the guests and the fun of the surprises of the unmasking just at its height, the police- men demanded of him the namos of his guests, “The names of my gueste?” the host repeat in surprise, es, sir; we must make a list of them.” Make a list of them?” the gentleman re- peated again, with growing indignation. “What an insult! I never heard of such a thing.” “Can't help it, sir; we have toobey orders.” The guests were as indignant as their host, but there was nothing to do but to submit, and some very sagely remarked that the simplest thing was to give the man a list and let him go, as no harm could come of letting the police have the names, although, of course, they had been sent for under mistake, While tie list was being written and the company were stand ing about, with muttered expressions of indig- nation or sympathy with the host, one of the policemen stepped coolly up to the supper table and helped himself to a glass of cham- pagne. “Look here, my man,” the host said angrily, “the law may give you power to come into my house and take a list of my guests, but it cer- tainly does not give you auy claim on my wine.” “Why, I thought that was included in my in- vitation,” the policeman responded, dropping into his natural tone and pulling off his wig to disclose the familiar head of one of the friends of the host who had sworn to him that be would come to the party without being recognized. “Of course, if you say so, my dear fellow, I Will let it alone. The confused langhter and exclamations of the entire company answered. — see se. ROYAL MUSICIANS, There are Many Expert Players in Reigning Families. From the New York World. ‘There are surprisingly many expert musicians in the royal houses of Europe. Queen Victoria and her daughter Louise play the piano and organ with great skill. The Prince of Wales knows all about playing the banjo and his wife is an excellent pianist, The Duke of Con- naught can do wonders with the flute and the Duke of Edinburgh is hardly less accom- plished in handling the violin. The czar rforms famously with a silver trumpet, fhe Empress of Austria is one of the finest zither players on the continent. The Queen of Italy does the most difficult pieces of Italian and German composers onthe piavo. The Em- ress of Japan excels in playing the “koto,” a _ parle re ary not uulike an overgrown zither, The gifted Queen of Roumania is cele- brated among her subjects for her extraordi- nary performances on the harp and piano. King George of Greece extracts melody from castanets and wine glasses with the skill of a! variety show artist. He plays almost equally | wellon the Hungarian “cymbalum,” concern- ing which his daughter, the Crown Princess | Sophie, is also learning as much as two Hun- | garian professors of music can teach her. | Prince Henry of Prussia is one of the best teur musicians on the continent, He pla: piano and violin and is a composer of consider. able reputation. j _—— | A Cowboy Sermon, From the Champion (Mout) Herald. “Lots of folks that would really like to do right think that servin’ the Lord means | A TTF A RRR RRR ae ar ewe x AS T AA KRR or a Cc asa T AAA RK R x 44 fT @ AR RK K UBS 178 NATURE AND CURE BY AB LIGHTHILI, MD, 1017 15TH ST. NORTHWEST. Cetarrh mantfests tteelf by a discharge from the head, Dut oftener ofa purulent, ereenisl ter, which in many tnetances ie so copious thad Tatients foci as though their whole bead is ine ate of corruption The discharge often ledges ind ove the soft palste, requiring al- juowt constant hawking for ite removal. Oftem scales or incrastaticns are blown from the Bos- ils, either solid or pf « tubular form, The breath ts offensive, and somotines fevoltingly fe ell and occasionally the taste, te tm- Ted, the bearing becomes af fected. noises in the head make their appear Suce, and the eyes are apt to become irritated end watery, Thi oad feels f Compressed, eapectally above eyes, d severe neuralcic pain ts often ex Ferienced about the face and head. The patient coughs more or lesa, bas 8 capricious aDbetite, «bes A between the ften seriously impaired, Cold is taken from the least exposure, and step by Step the tuflammation epreads watil it reaches have demonstrated tu, anes, Tepresenting the disease tm every form aud tu ali its various stages of de VYelopment, Our treatment reaches the die eased parts in the most direct and positive MiaLuer, instantaneously penetrating every cell avd cavity of the bead with the most bene. I resulta, So effective is this plan of medi- that even & single application ts prom ductive of immediate and decided relief, and by treatment the discharge @induisbes, irritation te allayed, the tuflamma- ion subsides, ulcerations are made to beak, Unt fnaliye radical aud pormauent cum is eetallisbed. DR LIGHTHILI, For Thirty Years Specialist For the cure of Catarrh, Deafness, Asthms And diseases of the Throat, Ear and Lungs. Can be daily consulted from $ am. to 12m, and from 3 to 5 p.m. at No. 1017 15TH ST. NW. Herdics pase the door, 91m Is Tus Yorn Buy you ant anything m Furniture, China, Glass Kuives and Forks, Window "Shades, Mat= ‘Ke. it will pay you to read over the lost “ou the street by a Lappy bencain- ting, Ou C. following list secker: Mra, CLOSEBUYER Bought of Grasty, the Pusher, pieces, silt plush, 3 Spring Koller sD 1 Set Bone Hand 4 ste r teat wos stalking About GHASTY, the Pusher, and at what other 1 fchar Of course Tuah's growing busiuess nt slurring athita, We are tay aud We re ho utter Where you live. kemenber the awe and place. M. C. GKASTY, -6ra 1510 Orrs Are Nu For the public we will Of registered P! B.8. WIL at onr enstomersant the Pour store open all Lasht im charge ast IAM> & CO., DEUVOGISTS, « MA~ONIC TEMPLE. : Ayer's Hoar Vigor... Ayer's Cathartic Pi Bay Rum, tw b. ugh Sirap Brown's Jum, Gig scing Bron: ows Sirap Hy jc Williams’ Com, Siru, ods Narsaparilia, Horstord’s Acid PL: Prussian Couzh wb Comp Aarwapari Kose Tooth shoutin’ themselves hoarse praisin’ His name. | {i} Now, I tell you how I look at that, I'm workin’ for Jim here. Now, if I'd set around the house here tellin’ whata good feller Jim is, and singin’ songs to him, and gettin’ up in the nights to serenade him when he'd rather sleep, re be doin’ just like lots of Christians do; but Iwoulda’t suit Jim, and I'd get fired mighty quick. But when I buckle ou my chaps and rustle among the hills and see that Jim's herd is all right and hain’t sufferin’ for | water and feed and bein’ run off the range and branded by cow thieves, then I'm servin’ Jim as he wants to be served. And if I was ridin’ for the Lord I'd believe it was His wish that I'd ride out in the ravines of dark- ness and the hills of sinand keep his herd from bein’ branded by the and run off to where the feed was short and driukin’ holes in the creek all dry and no cedars and pines for shelter when the blizzards come, “I don’t see how I'd be helping the Lord out it I laid round the ranch eatin’ up the ib meg ony tg Pt down on my prayer Bones ana fyin’ the Lord u; askin’ for more. The Bible says some! somewhere — 7 i é ; 5 : a Epa tee prerasione vf digeation and wunritign, No Troubl. Ask yvur Drusyiet Boe Ua! GLATFFUL—< ErPs's COCOA DREAKFAST. “By a thorouch knowledge of the natural laws .d I think it would do lots of people good to ‘ < it over. When a crittur has had his moral pO ty since he was acalf and been | ies with « till the devil took | Suis wee st Neg eee} 2 cress tapltucy te Bitton "Haaser wetle the hair's long- | Ocr thers I* & m : whose atthe cow | Eve tiost sues an op Borin a been huntin’ salary , milk. buntin’ souls.” ioheh-pouns tasty gone eked oes or Exprysr.—See JAMLs 1215 & CO, Lemur pathic Chemiste, Washington Sunday Herald for particulars* | sui7-saméia ae dou. Loglemd