Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1890, Page 6

‘ THE LARGEST TELESCOPE. M. Camille Flammarion on the New Possibilities of Astronomy. From the N.Y. Herald's European Edition. ‘The progress of astronomy depends on two things—instruments and men who use them. Galileo created the astronomy of observation by constructing his telescope, which he pointed toward the heavens and by letting the world know what he had discovered through it But for Galileo and his investigating, inquiring, independent mind the telescope invented be- fore his time would have done nothing toward the progress of the science. But, om the other hand, without that invention Galileo would have discovered neither the mountains in the moon vor its phases, nor the spots on the sun, nor tbe stars in the milky why, nor any: {other of the great discoveries for which the wor'i is indebted to him. In one word, he would not have transformed the science of astronomy. According to the value of the man so is the valine of the instrument. But if men capable of using instruments are necessary, instru- ments are also necessary. Sir William Her- schel. Schroeter, Fraunhofer, Arago, Lassel, Dawes, Lord Ross, Warren, De La Rue, Secchi, rrington, Huggins, Hali, Buruham, Janssen, hiaparelli, Pickering and their rivals in as- tronomical observations only made their bril- liant discoveries because they had at their dis- posal instrxments of greater perfection than those used by their predecessors. We are just now traversing a great epoch in the history of science. After remaining stationary during more than half a century, the science and the € at present making great and es forward. THREE GREAT TELESCOPES have recently been successfully constructed, the hke of which would have seemed a fantas- tic dream to our predecessors. All three of them were constructed in 1886. One at the observatory of Nice has a free opening of 74 centimeters and a length of 18 meters; the eecona at the observatory of Bouikoua, Knssia, has the same diameter, but a somewhat smaller opening. which, by reason of the character of the mounting, only measures 70 centimeters in a little shorter focal distance and in length 15 meters; third at the ob- servatory of Mount Hamilton, Califormia, has for its objective a lens with an opening of 97 centimeters and a focal distance aud length of 15 meters, ‘These magnificent instruments we see. from the very fact of their successful construction, have proved that it suffices to be boid in order to succeed and bave demonstrated that we should not be satisfied with them: that it is possible to goeven further. Is it rota uatural ambition for an astronomer to pene- trate further and further into the depths of the infinite and above all else to determine the natnre of other worlds—to lift up a corner of the veil that hides from us the immense mys- tery of creation? A STILL GRANDER TELESCOPE. It is hardly four years since the instruments of which we have spoken were completed, and already opticians are at work on a lens greater than all three of these lenses, which will have a diameter of more thana meter. The lens of the observatory of Mount Hamilton measures 36 inches, or 91 centimeters, of free aperture, vow a lens of 40 inches, or 1 meter diameter, is desired and is being constructed. This ob- jective is composed. as every one kuows of two lenses, one of flint, the other of crown glass, juxtaposed, mutually completing each other by their optic properties, producing as perfect achromatism as is posaible, This objective lens is being made for the University of Caiifornia and for the observatory of Mount Wilson. not far from Los Angeles. where Mr. Pickering bas recently obtained some excellent photographs of the moon, Saturn and Mars. On one of these latter a heavy fall of snow is perceived, which in twenty. four hours covered, on the planet Mars, an ex- tent of surface as vast as the area of the United States. It is easy to understand that men of intelligence and feeling, who understand the true grandeur of humanity, shouid take a deep interes¢ in such progress as this. We have the right to be impatient and feel keenly. Astron- omers are in the position of Moses when he Was within sight of the promised land. POSSIBILITIES OF OBSERVATION. For example, we have Mars before our eyes, All the observations made thus far lead us to think that this planet must be inhabited, as is our own, and perhaps even better inhabited. We see in it continents, eaes, coasts, capes, bays, rivers, waters, snows and clouds. We witness all the effects produced by the seasone. We see distinctly rectilineal lines extending from seas to seas and putting them in commu- nication, which seem to b3 canals. It has even been thought thst bril'imt points. geometric- ally arranged, have been obsecved, which may be intended as signals frm that planet to ours. How, then, is it possible, not to wis for com- plete conquest and to attain at Jast a solut.on of the enigma? Well. now, if that objective lens of forty inches i cast and successfully completed a new and gigantic stride forward can be made. It is now no longer anything more than a question of money to construct an equatorial teiescope with a diamete: of ons meter and fifty centi- meters and . le :gth of twenty-tive meters, ma- neuvered iu « cupola larger than the dome of the Paris Pantheov, and with a magnifying power of four or even five thousand folL To what unexpected discoveries would this supreme effort of your great nineteenth century lead? This is a question which it is impossible to answer. but we have the right to dwell on the word “unexpected.” It must not be forgotten that it was when searching for the limite of the colors in the solar spectrum that Fraunhof discovered spectral analysis, and that it was while seeking the parallax of the stars that Sir William Herschel discovered the orbits of double stars, and it wag when seeking for Asia that Christopher Columbus discovered America, In any event, auch a telescope will enable us to eee for the first tims the seventeenth magni- tude stars, which must be scattered over the depth of heaven in * c: |g oF 813,009,000 stars, while the moon will be brov zhi, so to speak, Within touching distan:>, Canna .& Frammanios. Pee to namaly = erases Foreign Notes of Interest. Kocheforte publishes his declaration that no one connected with the Intransigeant ever re- ceived a sou from the treasury of the Bou- langists. Figaro has received a request from Duchess Uzes that her name be not connected with matters appertaining to the Boulanger affair. ‘The request is couched in peremptory terms, A circumstantial account of his late interview with Prince Bismarck has been published by Herr Abranyi, The exarch of Bulgaria has appealed to the czar to adopt a more conciliatory policy toward Bulgaria. A report is in circulation to the effect that } Plant them an the pope intends addressing a brief to the Paris congress to consider the subject of in- augurating a Jeague of Catholics which shall be devoted to the work of reconstructing the temporal domain of the papacy. The cellar of a brewery in Stoetteritz, Sax- ony, in which a number of men were at work, collapsed Saturday. burying sixteen of the workmen. Of these seven were killed and the Femainder were severely injured. tis learned that after the land purchase aud tithes bills have been passed by parl ment Rt. Hon. D. H. Madden, attorney general for Ireland. will be made one of the lords justices of appeal for Ireland, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Justice Naissh. Solic- itor General John Atkinso will succeed the t — Dowes of the exchequer division ench, _ At the meeting of the Primrose League in Somerset, England, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett said that. offensive as the Parnellites were, he pre- ferred them to the Scotch radicals. The Austrian traveler, Dr. Baumann, in a Jetter dated Buegunsoga, July 17, says that his party hag marched for « fortnight through entra! Africa in mountainous territory nev before explored. oe ae Identified by His Teeth. Chief of Police Loderick of Plymouth, Pa, hes arrested an absconding Hungarian named Dominick Bulovitz at the request of the Sheuandosh authorities. He is charged with Stealing $1,000,the property of a fellow boarder. The main clue to the identity wasa pecuhar formation of teeth in the upper jew. Loderick received information of a man who might ®nswer the description and found him in = beer saloon. Inviting him to drink he seized him from behind and forcing his jaw open discovered the marks of his identitication. Baulovitz immediately acknowledged he was the man wanted, but was indignant at being acensed of stealing $1.000. He stated that all be took was $600. Being searched $580 in gold was found on his person. He was returned to Sbenandoan. ———_—-+e0-______ Max Juhn Will Not Go to New York. Gov. Jackson of Maryland declines to sur- render Max Jubn to the New York authorities. Jubn was indicted in New York city charged with grand larceny in getting €14,000 worth of goods from H. B. Claflin & Co, for the firm of Jubn & Adler of Baltimore, knowing the tirm to be insolvent, ———9e— Excunsion tickets, Rockville fair, $1 round CITY IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES How Some Communities Have Bene- fited—An Idea From the Country. From Garden and Forest. ‘ Only a few years have passed since the first village improvement society waé organized, but scores of these associations are now doing good work in every part of the country in se- curing for rural communities mote favorable sanitary conditions, improving roads and path- ways, beautifying public squares and the grounds about public buildings, educating the public taste, andimn many other ways making country life more attractive and satisfying. There would seem to be little need for similar associations in cities, where the government is more directly charged with the duties which these societies have assumed. There is aboard of public health to look after the city’s drain- age and general cleanliness, There are park commissioners charged with the supervision of its public grounds. There is a board of works to look after the highways and in many cases the planting of teees, and yet there is little question that an active association in every city, which should churge itself in a general way with functions similar to those performed by the rural improvement societies, would help to supplement official action by directing it in proper channels and making it more effective. Organization is always effective by uniting the desultory efforts of individuals, and that much good can be achieved in the special direction indicated is proved by the effective work of the Metropolitan Gardens Association of London, the City Parks Association of Philadelphia aud the Tree Plantmg and Fountain Society of Brooklyn. A report of this last-named organization has just been received, and from it we learn that of the 70,000 trees now standing in the streets of Brookiyn a considerable portion have been planted under the auspices and at the sugges- tion of this society. After it was formed, some eight years ago. many public meetings were held, circulars were issued, and articles calling the attention of citizens to the value of trees in city streets were published in the daily papers. But the work was carried on in still more pra tical ways. Various nurserymen were asked to furnish information as to the number of trees they had in stock of different varieties and the prices at which they could be obtained, As the time for planting approached the society secured a store house, in which samples of trees from various nurseries were kept on exhibition and suitable persons were always in attendance to give information as to the proper methods of planting, the varieties most useful, and the places where they could be ob- tained at the most reasonable prices. When it was desired the society not only furnished trees at cost price: but sent skilled mer to charged for the special service only the amout that they had paid for the labor. After the trees were planted instruc- tions were given as to their care, devices for protecting them from horses and other dangers were explained, and efforts were made to create @ feeling that the city trees were com- mon property and that every city had & personal interest in preserving them. In order to properly educate the young this society urged the legislature to puss an act for the encouragement of arboriculture, this resulted in the appointment of arbor day for the state, and in its celebration public exercises are conducted by the various school officers throughous the state and partici- pated in by all the children of the public schools, Of course, this general work is but a small portion of what the society is constantly doing. As an example of its special watchfui- ness it may be stated that when some of the trees, notably the maples, in the city were suf- fering from the ravages of an insect, a compe- tent entomologist was called in to make a study of the cause and to report upon the best means for overcoming this evil, Altogether there is no good reason why asao- ciations of this sort could not be made as help- ful in the city as in the country. Without naming all the directions in which their in- fluence could be exercised for good, it may be worth while to indicate one in particuler, and that is in protecting public parks It is not always. perhaps it is not generally, true that commissioners of city parks have any adequate appreciation of their true function.: They can- not be trusted to repel the attacks constantly made on the parks; they often side with the assailants and organize attacks of their own. In this city, for example, it is constantly hap- pening that the city officials who would hardly assume to make plans for a monumental public building consider themselves perfectly com- petent to design an urban park or change the design of one already made. It has never dawned upon them that one of these works is or ought to be as truly a work of art as the other. Only a few days ago the mayor of this city suggested in an off-hand way, and yet in his official capacity. that the entire system of walks and drives in Central Park should be re- modeled. He was troubled by no doubt that his plan would be infinitely superior to the original one or that he was perfectly qualified to direct such an undertaking. Similar attacks upon the integrity of our parks, efforts to per- vert them from their highest use and even attempts to obliterate them or to confiscate them to some alien use, are happening every year. Central Park has been saved as by fire, simply because there has been intelligent op- Position to its destruction made in « few news- pavers, These assaults will probably grow more frequent and more urgent as population presses about it more densely, and the time may come when a well organized defense will be needed to keep its woods and meadows from being utterly trampled out or covered with brick and ‘stone. A voluntary association which would, in addition to other duties, devote intelligent attention to the preservation and proper management of parka could find anample field for labor in cvery considerable city of the Union. san o2 ee A Mystery of the Sea. A mystery of the sea has at last been cleared up after a lapse of twenty-seven years. In 1863 Andrew Baxter, a well-known sea captain, liv- ing at Batsto, Burlington county, N. J., sailed from New York on a voyage to the Pacific. His family heard from him on his arrival at San Francisco. He sailed from that port and has never been heard of since, the supposition being that he was lost at sea. Recently the Seaman’s Bank of New York city sent a letter to the postmaster at Batsto asking if any relatives of Capt. Baxter were living and saying that he had left asum of money on de- posit in that institution, The only living rela- tive of the missing captain is Mrs. Dailey, wife of James J. Dailey, foreman of the composing room of the Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Dailey was communicated — with by the Seaman's Bank, and immediately sent proofs establishing her identity. On Wednesday last Mr, Dailey went to Mount Holly and took ont letters of administration on the estate of his wife's tather. The money in the Seaman's Bank war deposited in 1863, be- fore Cupt. Baxter sailed from New York, and was something over #400. By the accumulation of interest in the interval it now amounts to over $1,200. panel Mt — Mutinous British Soldiers. Another military revolt of somewhat lesser magnitude than that which lately distinguished the Grenadier Guards, but just as obstinate. is a cause of trouble to the English army authori- ties at present’ Twenty privates of the Sev- enth Hussars have been’ taken as ex- amples and sentenced to celle and pack drills The mutinous conduct occurred at Canterbury, when the troop to which these men belong was ordered to pre- pare for foreign service. This order was a signal for open insubordination, the men in- duiging freely at canteen and then refusing to parade for stable duty. hey were at once placed under arrest, but breaking away from the guard house they continued their boister- ous actions, smashed windows and indulged in loud and blasphemous language, rennet Minister Smith in London. United States Minister to Russia Charles Em- ory Smith and family arrivea in London last Friday and out up at Brown's Hotel. Mr. Smith expressed himself as greatly pleased with his reception in Russia and life in St. Petersburg, and the enjoyments, both social and official, that he has found there and the whole-souled hospitality of the Russian higher classes, Mr. Smith is on a brief leave | of absence only, that he may make some neces- | sary preparations for the winter. ee Death in a Honey Bee’s Sting. Near Syracuse, N.Y., Alexander 8. Baker, a wealthy stock raiser, was stung on the nose by « honey bee and died within ten minutes. The physicians say that it was one of the strangest cases they ever knew. Thirty-two years ago he was stung on the back of his neck and nearly died from the effect, Since that time he hag not bad a pulse more than forty-five, it is said. Five years ago he was stung with a similar effect and then sold his apiary. He was at the home of his son when stung last time, aes Hannibal Hamlin speaks of himself as the healthiest man in Maine, notwithstanding his eighty-one years. His friends say that he re- rap His head is kept grets getting himself mto an overcoat last $600,000 THE WRONG WAY.. Murphy is Noted for His Honesty and Has a Fortune of $100,000. =. It is about sixteen years ago, says the New York World, that Isaac Murphy, then a lad. of fourteen, began his career in the saddle. His mother wasa slave belonging to Hunt Rey- nolds, and Isaac owes his good manners and his success in life to Mrs. Reynolds’ careful instruction, The men whose memories go back to the days when two-mile heat races were being run recall the slender lad witha face like carved mahogany who rode Bob Wooley to victory on the old Nashville track. It was ina two-mile beat race, end the boy rode so well that he leaped at once into popu- larity. This was Isaac Murphy's first notable victory. His has been a brilliant record since that time. In many a famous race has Murphy carried the winner past the judges while thou- sands in the grand stand cheered themselves . He was a master in thesaddle. Never before on the American turf was there a jockey whose judgment of pace was so good. “I need no watch when Isaac is up,” said old Eli Jorden, trainer for Hunt Reynolds. ‘The yaar tell pace better than the watch.” is fame increased year by year, and when the turf grew so that the old-fashioned stables like the Fleetwood became too small to p the great price Murphy's services wei he engaged himself to Millionaire ~Luck, Baldwin. He rode all of Baldwin's famous horses from Mollie meeey to Los Angeles and it 18 a matter of history how well he rode them, Before Murphy signed his contract with Baldwin be ineerted in it @ clause that when- ever Mrs. Reynolds wanted him to ride one of the Fleetwood horses he would be allowed to ride. He has hed this same proviso in all his other contracts. After he left Baldwin Murphy rode for Ed Corrigan, but he did not like Cur- rigan’s methods and lefthim, Since then he has been riding for Mr. Haggin, Daring all these years Isaac oe was the model jockey, He was never in the paddock except when he was preparing to ride. He had no race-track associates, he declined the friendship of the book makers, and was never known to gamble. He was courteous to every one, and when he left the race track he went home. It became a proverb among racing men “as honest a jockey us Isaac Murply,” and to all other good qualities was added in- tegrity. As the years went by Murphy began to ac- cumulate money, He first bought himself a handsome home in Lexington, Ky.. and then put his money into other property.. He now owns nearly an entire block in Lexington and has other Property in central Kentucky. He is worth perhaps €100,000. He married one of own race several years ago and isa good husband. He rode Proctor Knott in the Omni- bus stakes at Monmouth last year and Mr, Scoggan, Proctor Knott's owner, openly charged him with being drunk. Murphy ex- plained to his friends at the time that he was constantly troubled with faintness caused by reducing. His mother weighs nearly two hun- dred and fifty pounds and all bis family a big people. ‘de said th family tendency was strongly marked in him and that he became so exhausted from training down that he had to resort to some kind of stimulant. Since then there have been intimations that he was drinking too much, but they have not been generally credited. Among the great horses Murphy has ridden have been Salvator, Kingston, Fordham, Han- over, Proctor Kuott, Falsctto, Buchanan—in fact, there is hardly a horse of the first class that has appeared during the past ten years that he has not gnided to victory. It is universally believed by those who watched Tuesday's race that Firenze could e won if she bad been properly ridden, as ‘irenze was the hot favorite, not only at Mon- mouth Park, but in pool rooms all over the country, It is hard to estimate how much Murphy's riding cost betting men. In an ordinary race a book maker will stand to lose $2,000 ‘on a single horse. As there are about ninety book makers this would make 180,000 in tne most common- lace selling race where the masses of the pub- lic are not interested. In Firenzo’s race the | gots were deeply interested, and they proba- ly bet $350,000 Tuesday at Monmouth Park alone. In addition to this there are a score of pool rooms in New York, Chicago, Louisville, Bt Covington, Albany, Philadelphia. Boston, San Francisco and other cities. ‘Ihe rooms will bet almost as much as the book- makers at Monmouth. There are probabl¥ one hundred and fifty of them all told, and it is a low estimate to put the money they took in from the public at $250,000. The total amount loxt on Firenze could not have been far from $600,000. ae ge SUMMER DINN 3 ERS, An Inviting Series of Menus for Hot Weather, From the Philadelphia Inquirer. The dinner in summer should be a much lighter, more dainty meal than in winter, says awniter inthe New York Triune. Let the cloth be pure white damask, with little color displayed in the decorations, except in that furnished by the flowers. Little neck clams are, of course, particularly nice to introduce the soup, which should be aclear consomme or a delicate crenm soup. The heavy English soups, like calf's head and oxtail, belong tothe winter table. Mulliga- tawny is an Indian soup, which belongs to sum- mer, and is properly served with a chicken or game dinner. Most varieties of fish are only in season in summer. ‘The greater part of the fish sold in winter is refrigerated and cannot be compared in flavor with perfectly fresh fish, for no refrigerated food loses so much by being frozen as fish. Heavy, hot roasts of beef or mutton may often be discarded on a warm summer's day for broiled lamb chops served with maitre d’botel butter; or for fried chicken or broiled cutlets; or for a delicately crisp | roast of spring lamb with mint sauce, Curries belong to summer, and they offer an agreeable change to the appetite which has become jaded by a monotonous winter dict. A bottle of curry powder should be purchased at the beginning of each summer season to in- sure its being fresh; as it costs but 25 cents a bottle, it is no great extravagance to throw out what has been left over from the previous year and is probably stale. Chicken and veal are the most suitable meats for a curry, but Jamb and some varieties of fish are also do- licious prepared in this way. Fricussees of lamb, chicken and veal are always welcome summer meats, Asarule the dietshould be more vegetarian in summer than in cold weather, wien the green herbs, roots und fruits of the earth are in perfection, Wise gardeners arrange the sowing of their crops so that there is a contin- uous supply ef Tresh. tender green peas and corn and other choice vegetables from the first picking unul frost appears. It is a little more dificult to insure tender salad greens, Noth- ing grown for this purpose in the heat of mnid- summer is ever 80 crisp and delicious as the lettuce and other plants that spring out of the cool earth in the early spring. ‘They are’ na- ture 8 own purifiers of the blood, which inas be- come clogged with the heavy meat diet of win- ter. Lettuce that grows in the head is not as much cultivated throughout the country as it should be, though it always can be had in Bos- ton, New York and other large markets. The heart leaves of this lottuce make the most di licious galad greens. The dark green leaves that grow on the outside of the head, like green leaves of cabbage, should be thrown, away with the stalk, as they are not fit for salad. Only the bleached head, which is crispy and cream like. is used, There is no excuse for heavy desserts in sum- { mer. Light batter puddings are almost the only pudding suitable for warm weather. The v: riety of cold custards, iced desserts and creams is so large that there is no excuse for greasy, rich pies and puddings. Good housekeepers need not be reminded that perfectly ripe frais is ~ be served in perfection ice cold, but never ices ————————- Why He Was Turned Down. Gov. Biggs of ware has appointed Chas, M. Cullen of Georgetown to the vacancy on the state bench created by the death of Judge Paynter. Mr. Cullen is a Yale man and one of the ablest members of the Sussex county bar and a staunch democrat, A. P. Robinson was urged for the ition and public sentiment favored his a; ne sree Mr. Robiusoa sometime ago met ie chief ex- ecutive on a train. For somo unexplained reason he delivered an opinion considering the propriety of a man’s wearing wavy white locks, as does Gov. Bi This opin: not uched in tie faety r =e col part elegant langen nor was it in other ways flatte: to Delaware's pie! chief magistrate. little frank ship, a post that he much coveted, Living With a Broken Neck. A special from Sedalia, Mo., says: F. J.Wood+ ward, @ former conductor on the broken in » wreck on duly 10, arrived here yes- winter, as if made him a little he is the second e sensitive to Berean whe ever Jived after * AUCTION SALES. RATUTTE PARE 8 Oe cant rena ave. a. “Tite SPUR EV ACIORTE GEAR 3 Gk WALRUL AND OTHER W. EN Cl ‘Oni IATTRESS! M Ta- ¥ AL RUT BAT MACKS, DESKS DINING AN ey ‘WAKDI Ni AL ae ORnTH Al NT OF CARPETS AN! HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFYECTS AX AUCTION AT OUR ROOM: 920 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. N. TUESDAX, SEPTEMBER SECON 1t ‘TEN U'CLOCK AM. JUNCANSON BROS, auctioneers, p= ‘9th and Data nw. tabe iste atone Sraciose Sales Kovine TOM ORNOW e place at onr Spacious mms MORNING, “TULSDAY. SEPTEMBER SECOND, mame TEN O'CLOCK, COMPRISING IN PART WALNUT MIRROK (FKENCH PLATE PIER), ONE BALLET, DAVIS & CO.. SQUARE PIANO, WAL- RUF PARLOR SUITES, ODD Fast CHAIRS AND ROCK LARGE WALN: LYING BED ‘SIR $125, NEW), EXTENSION TABLES D, 1890, AND DINING CHA , ASH AND OAK BED SUITS. INGRAIN AND’ BRUSSELS ry rfON-TUP MAT- CARPETS, HUSKS AND CO TBKSSES, BEDOING, TOILET WARE, CHINA DGLASS WARE, &c. 80, Alarge assortment of Furcy and Staple Groceries moved to our store for convenience of sal SOAPS, STAKCH, PICKLES, CHOW CHOW, CAT- SUPAND CANNED GOUDs, WASH 1UBS, BAS- KETS, &c., &c. ALsi AT TWELVE ocLock” M, ONE SIDE-BAR BUGGY, 1t UNCANSON BROB. Recirrse. DAKE & CO., Auctionee: DAYTON WAGON IN GOOD ORDER AT AUCTION On TUESDAY MOKNING, SEPTEMBER BECOND at TEN ¥ -K, we will sell im front of our sales a Pa, ave, n.w., one Dayton Wagon ii good order, ms cash, au30-2t RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO., Aucts, ALYER B WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. WALNUT FRAME PARLOR SUITE,CPHOLSTERED IS RAW SILK; WALNUT CHAMBER SUITES; a TABLES rt cS; W WALNUT WAKDKOBES : WHAY ASY CHAIRS, COU aa, s, COUCHES 8, HALL RACK A: T WREAKFA LAUT EDSTEADS, BURA’ MAY TICE BEDDING; BUOK SHELF? BRUSSELS A. PETS AND’ A MISCELL. (ON OF HOUSEKEEVI rEMBEK SECON SDAY, SEPTE O'CLOCK A. street. corner D northwest, ageueral ag: sortmentof Household Furuiture, to which we ask ion of buyers. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & saideuce, » Auct ATCLIFFE, DARR & CU., Auctioncers. E, CARPETS:&c., CONTAINED ‘OURTERNTH STREET GIN PART WAL., M.T. AND OTHER CHAMBER FURNI- TURE, TWO SETS PARLOR FURNITURE, GILT AND WAL. FHAME Pikit MIRKOR, SQUARE PIANO, ROSEWOOD CASE, DINING “ROOM FURNITUGE, FEATHER BEDS, PILLOWS AND BOLSTERS, HAI AND HUSK MA'TTRES CONTAINS, PICTURES, VELVEI AND ALL IN Flapt-CLAss. DILION, On WEDNESDAY MOKNING,SEPTEMBER THIRD AT TEN O'CLOCK, we will well at residence No. 2007 street northwest all the furnitu ‘con: tuined therelu, being the effects of a lpdy leaving the city, and to which we fuvite the attebtion of honse- keepers uud others in search of fine household goods. RATCLIFFE, DARK & Co., Auctioneers, \uctioneers, FOUR BEAUTIFUL BUILDING LOTS ON NORTH SIDE OF LSI REET BETWRE ST STREE AND THE IN ERSECTIC iD NEW H. > 4 On GksD ¥’ FOURTH, AT FIVE O'C! 4 e will front of the premises four Building Lots 17 teet 6 inches frout by adepth of 100, bein division of Urposes. ‘Terms: One-third cash, nce in one and two eats, with interest at 6 per cent per annum, secured yy deed of trust, or all cash, at purcaaser’s option. ‘Terms to be complied with ip hfteen days; otherw: Tight 19 reserved to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days’ notice of such resale in some newspaper published in Wash: ington, D.C. A deposit of $200 ou cach lot at timeof sale. All conveyancing, recording, &c., at purchaser's at au d&ds RATCLIFFE, DARR& CO. HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, UNDERWRITERS’ SALE OF A LARGE LOT OF MER T TAILORS CLOTH. DAY, SEPTEMBER THIRD, 1890, jes rooins, at TEN A.M., I will’ sell for account of the underwriters about 350 Lots of Fine Cloth, in-patterns for Suits, Overcoats, Punts, Vests, Xe. Some of the stock has been slightly damaged by fire and water, but the major portion will be found in. wood order. Sale absolute. Jerms cash. THOMAS DOWLING, rity Auctioneer. 10.. Auctioneers, uctioneers, R CLIFFE, DAKE «, ASSIGNEE'S SALE OF A WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF GROCEMES, “CONSISTING OF FLOUK, TEAS, SUGAK: al ED GUODS, BOAP, . YEAST POWDER, S, TOBACCO, CIGARS, SHOW CASK, ILL, BASKET VINeGAR, SCALES, LAKGE ING, COUN? is OlL CA’ E ICE BOX, A TAIXhD EY 5001 HWES' By virtue of adved of assignment given to me and ly_recorded I will sell ut auction on the prentses, $‘third street southwest. on WEDNESDAY NG, SEPTEMBER THILD, commencing at EN O'CLOCK, all the stock contained 1m the alove- med store, to which the attention of the trade aud rivute Duvers is called, ‘Terms Cash. WM. TWOMBLY, 321 435 at. n.w.. As » RATCLIFFE, DARR & Co., Auctioneers. au2s-dts CG., Auctionee 20 Pennsylvania ave. n.w. LARGE COLLECTION OF HOUSEHOLD FURNI- TURE, CAKPEIS, &e., Ct IN THE ROUBLE HOUSE, No. 1827 1 STREET NORTH- ry 1HURSDAY | MORNING, On SEPTEMBER FOURTH, COMMENCING A’ S O'CLOCK, WE WILL SELLAT THE A. NAMED HOUSE ALL THA FURST) Ube COSTAINED, THY REIN, ft) CONSISTING SPAMOM SUITE: WALNUT, CHURKY, ASH AND OLHER CHAMBER Ee WARDROBES, ROCKERS, TABI 8, CHAIRS, TREADS. BUREAUS, WASHSTAND, LOUNGES, DL. NG CHALKs, Ke FRIGER- us CAKP £13, 1UGS, = » ke. sty t ‘ is male presents an excellent opportunity to parties uraidhing., HAICLIFFL, DAIUe& CO. Auctioneers, .. Auctioneers, ‘uth aud D sta. nw, LOKIDA “AVENUE (BUGNDARY PROSPECT STREET, SIXTRENTH AND Fit TEENTHSTREE’ NEST BLOCK OF GROUND IN THE CITY FOK SUBDIVISION, On, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER THIRD, i890. at FIVE u'CLOCK, ‘we will sell, in trunt of the prctuises, all of LUC! MERIDIAN HILL, FRONTING OVEL "400 FeEL ON “BOUNDARY CMe. 00 FkeT ON SiXiEENTH 1 ON PRUS- AND FleTRENT! PROP SiRebT, ‘his property is song the best situated in the Dis- to great advange aud uveriooks the here otte Leris: One-fourth cash, balance in two, fourand five years, nO.@s to beck U pee ceut interest, payable semi. unnuuilly end to be secured by deed of trust ou prop- erty, or all cash, ut option of purchaser. A deposit of #2000 required ut sue. ‘Tera to Le coimpied with 7 otherwise right reserved to Lay of purchaser. Conveyancing, ‘ost, DUNCANSON Bi OF PLOPENTY ON D STREET IKST AND SECOND STREETS By virtue of u decree of the Supreme Court of the District o, Coiumbia, bolding a special a im equity, passed in equity cause No. 1221%, James ys. Charles Koue et. I will sell ou MONDAY, TH! EIGHTH pay OF BER, A. D. laut HALP-PAST FIVE O'CLUC. Ye M.., premises, #1. that certain piece oF pai of lan elty of me ton, Db. » kuown and deseri! GINAL LOId 2 AND 3, IN DQUARE O80, beginuiny for the sume on south 'D strevt 4.44 und runniay theuce exstwacd!y ou the no! Said D siseet 13.73 fect (15 feet 9 inches); thence north wardly at ht angles to suid D street ove hun- red i-et more or less tu the rear line of said Jots: ee epee ed an ence woithw iy one bum it, © less, 10 bexinuing, improved by small frame re louse. ‘Terms of sale : One-third cash, balance in two equal Jnatallmente, payable in vue aud two years trom date of sale, notes Leuriuw interest and 1o be secured by deed t ob property sold, or all cash, at option of purchaser, Adcposit of $100 at time cfeale. Con- veyancig, &c., ut cost of purchaser. Terms to be complied with in ten days, otherwise right to resell Property at nek aud cost of defaulting purchaser. NEY Wisk GAuLnET Ts trusten, ‘street Dw. DUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers. auv6-dads ATCLIFFE, DARK & Cu., Aucuoneers. 4nUSTEES’ SALE OF A DESIRABLE TWO-STORY **hay waRDUW Fuck House “Noe TES FOURTH eTREET SUUTHEAST. _ By vistas of & deed of trust duly recorded tn Lier Nv, 0:2, folio 378, et ‘of the receran the District of Columbia, and ut (he request v secured thereby, Leeil xt publ ‘on Fr BEPPEMBLI 4D. : ‘ Hy i ‘ iF i ‘The coolest point on the island facing inlet and ocean Accommodation 500 guests. Superior table, ‘For circulsr address Gehedule in Effect May 16, R. HAMILTON. ND AVE. ATLAN- Ee B streets. 10:37 Pome Comfort and 8 at 10 pm LS Gg ehaea Tecei ves 2 to 8 eee ns Se us ROBERTS & SONS. ELKTON, OCEAN EN! gentocky ‘AVE. LE ‘istautle cits, %. 3 ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect June 26. 150. Mrs. E. WILE. we Washington from station tY PARK, N. J. FENIMORE—O: a ocean; capacity 200 guests, r. NOBLE, Proprietor. _ itd FIRST AVE, ry ton and pointe in the Shenandoah Valles. tusiore, week day (8-00, 45 ininvutes 213, $° minutes) ee IERKY-STONE COTTAG: TH ing, Fishing, Oysters, Craba, Claus, ¥} alaria, Cold, pure, soft Water, twice daily from Old Pomt to’ Cape Chari y m: bus tu cotti r week; $30 for . WISE, -stone P.O., Northampton Co,, Va JOLONIAL LEACH, VA. 68 MILES FROM WASH- ington, on the Lower Fotomar, pent of August, spectal redu 2 per week, Fishing, cra and other a ies: rail to ‘Terms $1.75 per SEs tees shy £, re Pay ou the Potomac river for im W. 1. CRUMP, Proprictor. OULD POINT COMFORT, VA. surpassed in appointments, table and general at- the uccommiodatious, euter- ts viven thatet any resort of ed States. Music twice a day Monroe Bend; nightly hope. ‘httul surf bathinie on the coast: woud suiling, fishing ana drivii of forewn and American abip tions, drills, parades, caunon and rif Abroud expanse of ‘sult water surout Comfort, hence there are uo taud breezes, no malaria, 7 je heat. ‘Lhe event ‘ool aud vetreshing. Se F ie me YGEIA HOTEL E £ so! td on. Terms, less fo1 tainments and ainusem te prog wiped ena recat aaluinaton on Sunday ‘ ations ott Met rope ~ Hiwhtful and the - mu Met: item Branch charming wariue views in the World. scriptive pamphlet. "3010-c02 34m F._N. PIKE, Manager. IN THE MOUNTAINS. Aitteburg 7:10 am. 550 iy. ORK AND PHILADE: w Lork, Trenton, Newar! re how open. Kooms may setter or iu person to J. Hotel, Baltimore, Md. om the 10°30 p. w. opeu 500,10: 00, *12 00 noca, Ey re Water Gap, Pa w open. 1. W. BROADHEAD. For iwtermediate Pudecelphig 16:00 pm. ing leave New York tO am, *25 ! io ag artic aces a aa ae b Rointe between Baltimore and ERKELEY SPRINGS, W. VA.-THE ST. ELMO SE Se am, TER, 1] remain open during September and Uctober. iu for years past. Deer, wild i, squirrels and rabl at ddress Mra, 8. it Washit Hh 8.00 putea Philadelphia 1 et turkeys, partridges, p iu profusion. Bleck bai rates for these mouti Berkeley Springs, COUNTRY BOARD. FEW MORE BOARDEKS : advantage of town aud gen i m For buston *2.50 p.m., with Pullman jug car running througif to Boston without change sie Bridxe, landiug passengers in B. uud a tic City, 4:05 and 10 am. 5 wu. 12 noon and 10:30 pan. FOR Bay Kibor. tu. 1:30, 4:30 pm. Sundays, eek days, 6:30, 8:30pm. Sus- an, “Dally. {Sunday only. Jor and checked trum hotels and res:- Company ou orders Jett ai Penn. ave., und at depot Week days, 9:15, pam si '3u 8 tation und close to Blue Mi Fooms large ; «ood water ; table first-class ; te, three tratis dai Mrs. JNO. A. LYNCH, SEPTEMBER_AT SHAKPS- ric Antietam; fabing, huntng ; ms attention to gues by Ui 7 Union Trau week rese Ucket offices, 619 and CHAS, 3. T. ODELL, Gen. i, terme sound BL Va ST AND SOUT “FERRY WILL | DOUBLE aka! EN EV B'S FERRY WILL - ERY. find the very best accommodation at th: cinerea SIFICEN (EQUIPMENT. y the day or wees; termi ny. Su0 a Mis. M. KOLB. MOUNTAINS OF Maly- ‘erry); open throuchout the CLAKK, Keep ‘Ir; House, Camp Hill, t3 ate; references givei OMFORT RES laud (near Harpe: fall; unexcelled f, week. W. Viteburg aud the West, Chic tubule Camm at 10-30 Hast Line, 10:00 aa daily to Chicas us, with Eleeping Cars Wie to (staicaavolis, Tete . se Aittebunm tw Columbus ‘Ch. cago and Cin* ‘lor Car Wask- aud Sleeping Cars Harris: Cweunati, acd guia, Catcage and rest, af 7-40 pu. dalis, 0 AG_RIVER BOATS. ORFOLK AND OLD POINT. On and after SATURDAY, AUG. 23. FARE, ¢2 ONE WA amers Leave Gih street wi hursday and Saturday. Suu urther suformation Leleptione ct Piney Point exch trip xouy and returu! porouac RIVER LANDI ‘RAMEL wMlonday, Weduesday and Frida Wiviug Car Harrisburg to Ste Lo: Cinemas. Western tap: with Sieep ing Care Wasi lis, connec -ikK dal; Sleepers tor Loussvis dining car Pittsbu fire Went, with iineuyt Sieciee jest, with ibrowgh ii dittabury to Chicago. BALTIMORE AND POTO) For Kane, Cabandairos, woctes Es ; $3 ROUND TRIP. to iGehmend and Chicaeo. \¥, for Pittsburg and Pittsburg. cud MAC RAILROAD. kez and Niagara Pall iL at S p.m. Ti st 10:00 p.m. tug. myd-6mn Kochester daily: for Buz. sacoptsaturda ter. end Elmira, at 10-504, tm. daily, except Sunday, - dasly, undas. illiausyort daily, 3:50 p.m. ‘HILADELPHIA, NEW DAYS.” THURS- vuxuing 1 Lk » Va, Leousrdiown and-St. Clem- acdiate jahuinge, tcmar h Di abd DUNDAY eve: 40 a.m, 2:10, 33:1 iuited Express of caaly, except Sum ed Express with Dinine .DELPIA OXLEY, days ana +24 Pm. daily. 5:15 pm. every day. ents Bay, Md. touching wt in i DuguMy, SYRUF, | <i Bays a, kcatee Ut talents cS dual, di AKYLAND AND _VIRG! x Company's Steny apres, Sunday o1 rt dor Bosion wituout change, © Bruvkiyae NY: itimore and landings Every Monday & 4 v'clock pu. 7 lernage across VENSON STEVENSON & BRO., For Stiaitic Cit Telephone 743-3 D FORT! TPakY. from Yt XO. NoKFOL Bteamer GLO. | MONROE. duye, Weduesdi Mi Fridays. et B pris ERCLUMWE ye, Weduesdays and Fri s, wl LUpIVe CONNECTION WILH Bo: STEAMEKS. Far 9:00, 9:40, 10 ore, . 8:1 1-00 and 11:40 am, =:10, 3 30, 3:00,” 5:40, "6-00, mm. Un Suni Db PROVIDENCE single; rouud tr and O. ucket offices, wiey's, 14th und New York ave. for gure at eom pan; 445-3. WM. F. Wi # ms at Pa, ave. und fi further \utormatio’ yEcept Sun sf For Auuapolis, ;:20 and 9:00 a: ». xcept Sunday. Sundays. y-00 UTHERN RA cr MAX 11, Iso at For Baltimore and River Landings Steamer SUE, Capt, Geownexan! leaves Bteyhensuu's whart every bunday at 4 o'ciock p.m Por turther atormation 10:00 p.u Accuusmoaation mutico 7-45 am. end 4:55 pau. week days: 7 40am, Suudaye, For iicRiioua or Accomodation. 4:3: ave Alexandria jor Washington, 10, 10:15, 11-07, anes Te $0 and 10:57 am 4:35 p.m. week aay: STEAMER HORT ROUTE DOKDDEUT Rast kapresy St it the office, northeast aud Fuunsyivauia avenue, and at re orders cal be left tor the checking of Siitation srom hotels apd residences, tmy12] General Passetiver Avent, AND DANVILLE RAILKOAD Co. le su @flect JULY 13, 1bo0. East Tennessee Mail, ‘duly, for Warren. ‘Charlottesvill : P Dtaiions between “Al py -— xandrs Adanta, Bristol, “Ano is, Bept. 16. 7:30 alm. state rooms, exeeijent table, laxurious Brices: Ast cabin, $5 angi op faloun appointnen Ward 4 Lerth, securing to location ; teerage ut low Tales. ADI . Res0xp, -, dehedult _PIANOS AND ORGANS. . KRAKAUER PIANOS ARE ALWAYS SELECTED y ponte os CULL U! Pi : ahin’s TEMPLE “bine’Tuning and Kegulating.” RE FFF Fre RO OF Mail daily for Culpeper, Char- and Ohio ' Route, rx, Kocky Mount, and chburg and Danville, ‘a > aud Pulluan Slee; to Columbia ana Augusta, Pui! juan Slecpers Washington to Cineiunati vin Gand Frize Medal Paris Exposition. indorsed by over 10U music j durability. Old Pa :00 first premiums; schools aud colleses tor taken inexchanwe. ‘The he place of a Grail. 516 11th st. nw, 3:40 p.m.--Daily, Strasburg und intermediate stations, 4:35 p.m.—Duily via Lyuchbusg, Bristol and Chat. Yuliman rs Wastauston to Arkansas pouts. daily tor Manassas, except Sunday, Memphis, counecting Whence for tern liman Vestibule ‘rain Ws With & Pullman Sleeper tor Louisville. 14:00 y.2u.—Soutbern £3 a BROS. Sessa Danville, “Kalewh, “Anhovilie, Cua Al Mon! New daily for Lynchburg, jotte, Columbia, | D ESTE: cuts takes is" part Pee ma 1 ment ond Kepairiuw. elepiove 629. We cose at 5 o'clock during Jul: memes econ sone. ote fuse inctou t Augusta via Dauville | $24 Obio division leave Wash- b.ni. ; retaruimg leave Kound Hi daily Ebr ———. LADIES’ GOODS. ke OLD Dyed and Antena in AM, 1308 8th at. ee] _ ian of ry try cf} “Ha re fnssa wn] tf} oe THE EVENING STAR is offered to the px® lic, in good faith and with confidence, as THR BEST LOCAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. In point of fact, it may be truthfully said that it is without ap equal in this respect any where in the world These averments are borne out by the figures &:ven below, which are compiled from the *worn weekly statements printed in the paper on each Monday in the year, and condensed | from the sworn tabular statements showing the average daily circulation of the paper during the year 1889, published im Taz Sram on the | 18th of January, 1890. | Briefly stated, the pointe upon which the above claim is based are these: That— 1. The Star has three times the circs- lation of any other paper in Washing: ton! 2. The Star's cireniation in Washing- tow is double that of all the other daily Papers published in tht city added to- gether!! 3. The star has a larger and fuller circulation in the city where printed, in proportion to reading and purchase | ing population, than any other news paper in the world!!! 4. The Star has the largest regular and permanent home circulation of Qny two-cent aftcrnoen paper in the | United States !11! In support of these claims and to show the constantly increasing circulation of the paper, attention is invited to the figures following: DAILY CIRCULATION I¥ 1835-86-87-88-88, ISS3. ISSG. IS5S7. ISSS, 1SSD, JAX...20,486 23,388 23,470 26,386 27,541 Fes. Arn...22,572 24,227 25,575 27,166 May. 22,474 24,359 25,742 26,722 1,933 23.902 25,116 27,453 1,406 23,186 24,870 26,363 29.650 ‘21,445 22,364 24.839 25,521 25,595 SxPT..21,033 22,302 24,903 25,324 25,478 21,497 21,701 24,807 25,946 30,329 22,049 23,651 235,697 25.514 31,053 DkC...23,000 24,657 26,466 26,752 31,635 Increase ....... Of this remarkable average aggregate of 30,090 copies circulated daily, no more thas 1,102 copies are sent out of the city by mail, sud 1,106 go to suburbam places, by express, railway trains, etc., leaving as a net circulation an the city proper the PHENOMENAL PRO» PORTION of 92% PER CENT, or AN AGGRE- GATE of 27,882 copies! Of this number, 21,142 were delivered daily by regular carriers at the homes of permanent sub- ecribers. The remaining 6,740 copies represent the sales over the office counter, at the news stands, cnd by uewsboys. But of this latter number a very large proportion is supplied reguiarly to per manent resi Jente of the city living in lodgings, &c. (not hou holders), so that its whole circula tion may be literally said to be in the family circle. While ite aggregate circulation there fore gives Taz Stan a distinctire and enviable position in modern journalism, the fallness of its home circulation, the extent to which ft fs relied upon by members of the houschold, and particularly by the pare | chasing portion of the community, are | the marked characteristics of the paper, {to which no other datly journal now published can furnish a parallel. This is no idle boast on the part of the paper. j It isa well established fact, demonstrated to the full satisfaction of the sagecious and enter- prising bueiness men of Washington, who seek and know where to find THE LARGIST RETURNS FROM THE MON PAID OUT FOR ADVERTISING. This is proven by the growth of Tur Stan's advertising patronage. Nothing can more surely illustrate the article is beld by the public than a constantly increasing demand for it—day by @ay, weel: by week, month by ; month, and year by year,—in the face of ad- | Verse claims and pretentiouscompetition. The | figures following tell the story on this point: NUMEER OF NEW ADVERTISEMANTS /RINTED Lt 1885-86-87-88-8u, 1SS3. 1ISS6. ISS7. 158s, 1589. JAN.....2,783 3,200 3,615 4,076 4,550 3.647 3,924 4,529 4,669 4,603 5,494 S472 4,986 5,558 5.395 5.171 6,033 4,522 4,606 5,529 32st 3.915 4,489 R170 3.505 4,604 4,517 4,904 5,590 5,313 5,412 6,559 5,035 4,659 6,107 34,038-54.S01 63,523 But it is not alone ia numbers that the grest increase of advertising is shown. The larger space required for advertisements during the year 1889.8 compared with that occupied im 1888 is even more striking. ‘The average daily space filled by advertise ments in 1888 was 25.10 columns, or 7779 columus for the year; whereas for the year 1889 the daily average was 29.75 columné, or 9223 columns im the aggregate, being a total gain over the pre vious yearof1444columns! And this, it mast | be remembered, consisted exclusively of the | ordinary everyday business advertising, nothing in the way of tax sales, poll liste, eioction retarns, etc., such as occasionally swell the business of political organs, being included ip its patrom age. In conclusion, it is only necessary to say that, tm proportion to the extent and high charactet of its circulation, Taz Stan's advertising rates take rank with the very lowest in the country, and to odd, finally, that every statement hercis made canbe abundantly verified, THE CI CULATION OF THE PAPER IS SWORN TQ ITS PRESS AND CIRCULATION ROOMS ARS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND ITS BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED BY ANY ONE HAVING AN DITEREST IX THEIL EXAMINATION“