Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1890, Page 12

the nations. The fakir did not move during the performance. ‘Then again. he took a ring from a spectator and layin: it on the cloth made it stand up on edge and roll down the cloth and do all corts of antics at his bidding, Bever moving himself. “The Chinamen often wear flowing robes when they perform such tricks. but I only saw one have recourse to concealing things in his clothes once. This was in the performance of the trick where the fakir produced from scomingly nothing several large bowls of fishes. I saw him take them from under his robes, but he did it quite clumsily. On the other hand the Indiansare nearly naked when they perform their tricks, These are vory popular in both countries, and their performances are always wellattended. In China they aro often invited to exhibit at entertainments, and they go through with their regular program. But they are at their best in the open air. FEIGNING DEATH. “A good deal has been said and written from time to time about the death feigning of the Hindoo fakirs and priests. Thero can bo no doubt that they train themselves to such a point of physical subjection that they can re- main for many days without nourishment and apparently without any signs of life. There are well authenticated accounts where these fellows were buried and kept under ground for perhaps forty days, when they were disin- terred and after acouple of hours’ work on them by their colleagues they have come back to life in a perfectly healthy state. They bogin when very young, and train thomselves to hold their breath as long as they can. In ime they get to be able to go long periods out inhalation,and ther they gradually get themselves into such satate that they can go into a comatose state, or rather a cataleptic state, at volition. They havo s way of curling the tongue into the roof of the mouth, and in some way stopping up the windwipe. When they are revived the attendant first uncuris the tongue. and all the stimulant that is given isu little melied batter, called ‘ghe’ in India, which secms to restore the life properties to this peculiarly preserved organism, They are y much emaciated. of course. as the life has been kept up by the solution of the tissu: d there ism urishment administerod, ion of theh ‘t ceases, and there is death as far ns one can j a by plercing the skin with needles and n by singeing it, but there is no response part of the ner: urse there is a limit to the this could be main- . hen the limit that the fukir strives, and his whole life isan effort to simulate death, TRICKS OF FAKIRS. Doubts About the Boy Who Disap- pears Up the Rope. THINGS MR. ROCKHILL SAW. —_—— His Observations Among Juggiers of the East—Wonderftul Skil § Feigning Death—“Strange Feats Performed in Chi DIAN JUGGLERS have had a revived boom in the public interest of late through the alleged expori- ences of a couple of young men who traveled in In- dia and made it a point to run across one of these fakirs, whose performances have been one of the great- est mysterics that ever re- ‘mained unsolved. Tate Stan reprinted tho tale of one of these young men a fortnight ago and in this way put tho jugglers on their feet once moro avound Washington 2s a source of conversa- tionai top: it seems that the main interest in ail of these accounts that have drifted across two continents and @ wide 0% of these tri most of which haye como to be ssic, centers in that one in which gler throws into the air a ball of twine, a Loy climba, the end that has been 4g no visible support whatever. ntil out of sight, whereupon st thrown up hav: the boy e! he reappears a icw moments later in the n of the crowd of spectators, Such tricks a# this, and that of growing the mango tree ina few minutes iv sight of the crowd and of thrusting a sword into a basket into which a boy has been placed. the youngster being afterwarl found safe and sound some- where else, have aroused the most intense curiosity among the peoples of all civilized nations, and especially the English and Ameri- cans, and step have been taken again and sain, by folks both on this side of the water nt ow the other, to the end that the secret of the phenuinena might be discovered and the trick exposed, but in vain, Scientific men have searched for reasons why such things should be and have found none. Travelers wh thought themselves particularly smart have tried to pry into the mysteries and have seen nothing more than if they had remained In fact so many unsuccessful attempts a made to sulve the problem that e come to the conclusion that anation of the matter is that some . the most difficult of them, are . and that they are mere have, by reason of con- stant repetition. become accepted as facta, THE STORY DOUZTED. The first apparently actual personal account of an eye witness came from Chicago and doubt has been thrown on this story from many sources. For instance. an editorial writer i fartford Courant, of the dateof August 13, states that there was never such a man graduated from Yale College as Frederick 8. ¥ is alleged to have been “an "86 Yaie man.” and who did the kodaking on the scene of the trick, while his companion, Mr. Geo. Lessing—who was not a Yale man either. although the article so described him—made pencil sketches. It may be remembered tha: these two men tried to discover the fact of whether or not there was a rope in the air aud « boy climbing up it, and to do this they took simultaneons pictures—one with his pen- cil and the other with his camera—which did not agree, the important feature of their di! ference being that in the sketch there was a boy and in the photogr: Whereupon the mvesti concluded that the whole thing was the result of hypnotism, the juggler making his audi- ence believe that the trick was performed. MR. ROCKUILL’S OBSERVATION, A Stan reporter had an interesting chat the other evening on the subject of these tricks with Mr. W. W. Rockhill, who recently re- turned to this city from an extensive tour through China, Mongolia and Thibet, during which he gathered a huge fund of information ragarding the peoples of these strange landa. Mr. Rockhill said at the start that he was more familiar with the tricks of the Chinese jugglers than those of India, but that the two classes were practically the same in the nature of the tricks performed, which seem to be unvary- ingly similar in all of these regions. “I de not think that the story of the Chicago ome man i# to be taken without any doubt,” ¢ said, “for it does not seem to be wholly ac- curate. For instance, the theory of hypnotism is quite absurd, for in all the accounts that have come to us of this trick the spectators were gathered together from all quarters with- out warning and were composed of all sorts of people. Itis an established fact that only a certain proportion of the human race i ceptible to the hypnotic influence, and would be a little too much to ask us to believe that any one could so hypnotize fifty or a hun- dred persons, or even greater numbers, gath- ered from the roadsides and inns and shops on the way without any preselection. Ionce heard distinguished scientific authority say that he thought a good many of these tricks could be sccounted for by the fact that jugglers bave admitted to him that they could so fascinate the xttention of their audience on some object, such as their right hand, that with their left they could, without the least chance of detec- tien, take anything they wished from their pockets, any article that might be necessary to Perform the trick. Of course this is simaply x igh degree of skill in drawing the attention of the spectators away from the real object of in- terest aud has no reference to hypnotism, THE ROPE-CLIMBING TRICK. “I have very grave doubts whether this trick of climbing the rope is really performed, either in India or China. I hare never seen any one who has actually seen it done, nor have Lever read of any one having scen it without {here being some reason to doubt their word. You will find many people in China who say that they, or their brothers, and possibly their friends, have been told by travelers that the trick 1s doue, but everything is at second hand. I think that the whole thing started from the remark of an old Arabian traveler who passed through Chins about a thousand years ago, whose writings have been preserved. He mon- tions this trick as having been actually per- formed and from his account hav: grown all the others. Myth of that time. ou the subject, but not a ECSTATIO IDIOCY, “Ihave seen Buddhists sit in public places and by staring at a small pomt, such as a spot on a wall or something similar, gradually be- come indifferent to all exterior sensations and remain thus for and even weeks at a time. Itisone of the tenets of their religion that perfection of happiness comes only when one gets outside of the reach of certain causes w f thoy occur in concatenation, produce ud even death., They argue that if the It comes from the combination of cireum- ces one of the elements is suMicient to pro- duce the others, and so they strive to avoid any one ofthem. These causes are matters of every-day existence, and so it happens that they are contin eavoring to throw them- selves out of communication with all impres- sions and to reduce themselves to what is really nothing more nor less than a temporary state of idi J once saw such a spectacle, a priest who wanted to collect money for his convent, who sat on a bridge aud by staring for a few hours at a star threw himself into the state of cestatie void which is thought by the very religious to be an approach to the true state of happiness and perfection. An attendant sat beside him to collect the money that was given to him and to see that no harm should come tohim, and at long intervals to give him nourishment in the form of a little tea. He sat there, to my cer- tain knowledge, for over a week aud never moved apparently, for I passed that point fre- quently and he was always in the same attitude of apparently fixed attention, his eyes staring and his body erect. I have no reason to doubt that he was a genuine case of an extreme Budd- hist, faithful to his views.” i NEW DANCES FOR THE YEAR. Some Novetties Introduced by the Danc- ing Masters’ Assoc‘ation. The American Society of Professors of Danc- ing held their aanual September convention in New York city and Brooklyn last week. The following new dances were introduced and will be in vogue in fashionable dancing circles this winter: The “Washington Minuet,’’ “Oxford Minue! tlite Lanciers,” “The Portlan “Fascination Waitz.” “L’Eclair Gallop, “Minnehaha,” ‘Vienna’ and ‘Mittlesom waitzes, The objecta for which this society was founded are as follows: To secure advance- ment in the art of dancing, pursue an identical method of instruction, correct and remedy ex- isting abuses, modify, compose, arrange and publish dances with suitable music. and the promotion of social intercourse among its members. Mr. Allan de Cou Mueller repre- sents Washington in the association, ‘The new dances form a decided dition to the old routine of waltz, poika, schottische and lanciers, The Washington minuet isa juet move- ment, with siow. graceful motions, to be danced by any number of couples. , The Oxford minuet is very much like the Washington, the main difference being in the music. The fascination waltz promises to be very popular. It isa gliding waltz, rather slow at first, with a second quicker motion. It resem- bles a gailop. The elite lanciers will probably take the place of the Saratoga. e same walking step prevails and the motions are to the right left, but the figures, which are describe being very graceful, are entirely different. ‘The Portland is danced to polka music. It is something hke @ military schottische, with a polka motion. Leclair gallop has a peculiar stop, with a certain amount of attraction to the more ad- vanced dancers, The Minniehaha, Vie and mettlesome waltzes are of the most difficult sort, requiring the highest development of skill. HOW SOUTHERN GIRLS RIDE, They Learn Without Being Taught and Are Perfect Dianas, From Harper's Bazar. The southern or western girl, sweeping across the plains of her father’s raach or through the broad felds of a southern plantation, would smile at the idea of being “taught” to nde. She learned, doing. With some sort of a stuff skirt, long enough to hide the feet and ank! a soft woolen hat liko her brother's,” she ia put in the saddle with the double charge to “stay on” and “not be afraid” And she does stay on, her father’s coimpanion, following as he rides, ‘over the crop,” though the way lies over deep gullies and ditches, where the cows and cattle clamber up the steep banks, or through the almost impenetrable canebrake,. where one band muet prees back the long, lade- hike leaves from her fa: low-hang ng vines of useadine, with its dark purple clusters overhead. But she rides, he aztlessnese is her first lesson, ne with her horse. to know bia force and his THE BASKET TRICK, “The Chinese jugglers are quite as deft in Some things as the Indians, but in others they area trifle more clumsy. I saw one of them [wee the boy and basket trick which has een seen by a great many travelers in both countries. The fakir came into the court yard of the inu and spread acloth over the stone floor, the crowd gathering ina few minutes, A small boy was then thrown intoa basket stand- ing about three feet high, and he kept waving. bis arm to show that he was there and alive. A cloth was thrown over the basket and the fakir thrust a sharp sword or knife into it repeat edly. . in the crowd. I had no theory as to how that was done. It Was simply out of my powers of comprehei won. There w: han for such thiugs as traps, and the crowd stood op all sides of the juggler. so near that such a thing as degeption by slight of hand was quite out of the question. The fact remained i the boy ‘Was uot in the basket when opened, 28 THE FAMILY. “These jugglers are the sons and grandsons Of-other jugglers, who have practiced the tricks as a sort of family secret for many gen- erations back. A son will be a juggler as his father was before him, and plein a better one. for they go ou improving and mventing. Asut in most cases the tricks are the same that circle of the academy, under the gaclight, the class in prim and proper form under the eye of the master :n Kaiten Row or Central, Park— yet ail the same, in spite of these ities of circumstances she would whisper to her fashion-lovirg rist.r: “Ihe methods are the same everywhere; think more of your horse and less of yourself if you would bea true horsewoman; ‘pleasure, and grace come only so. ' F ~~ eee —- In the combined of the First Pres- byterian Church of Morristown, now being recorded the death of a negro huge har: the Hon, States consul at Liverpool. Mr. Johnson was at Baltimore and I sent bis Gers there,and open= ing mine found a supply of E hares, Southdown mutton, Yorkshire hams, grouse aud everything olse his knowledge of the good things of life could suggest. The quantity somewhat astounded me and I has- tened to consult my old friend Gei Pike, then my near neighber, who, ing them over, expressed his admir abundant and so rarea I do with them, Pike?" them! do with them! course!” given “on the slightest provocation,” and I Acquicsced at once to the suggestion of my friend and went immediately to Gen. Pike's room and made up the list of Bev's immediate friends who would be accommodated in my small dining room. eut, and on this occasion Jim Wormley took charge of the feast. occur in the accompanying an introduction to the Tue Stan's readers, though I am sure to many of thowe who were here at that time they wiil awaken pleasant memories, sioner for the exchange of pri war of the rebellion and won encomiums from THE GOOD OLD TIMES. —— Pleasing Reminiscences of Beverly Tucker and His Friends. MEMORABLE DINNER PARTY. ———_ Choice Spirits Around the Board and Their Tribuies to Their Absent Friend —Good Things From Abroad—inter- evting Incidents. ——. ‘Written for Tax Evexrro Stan. HE recent death of Mr. Beverly Tucker, which was sincerely mourned by his many friends throughout the country, calls some pleasant incidents connected with his life in Washington. The mom- ory of them all would occupy more space than Tcan ask even for so genial and so well-krown a friend, The one I now record deserves to be embalmed in your columns, as it in some meas- ure portrays the mode of life prevailing here in those past dayaI am, thanks to your kind- ness, rescuing from forgetfulness. The name of Beverly Tacker is associated with so many scenes of enjoyment here and elsewhere that the more stable characteristics of his nature have in some measure been overlooked. He was a born diplomat, and as such had gained a reputation before the war, and during that un- pleasantness ho was one among the envoys sent abroad by the confederate government. He had previously represented the United States as consul at Liverpool under Mr. Buchanan, and while there his generous remembrance of the friends he left here wus the occasion of the delightful dinners which I propose to tell of in the language in whieh we conveyed our thanks and kindly greeting to our absent friend. Just about Christmas, 1857, I received two rs, one for mysglf und the other for Reverdy Johnson, from the United nglivh pheasants, Albert What shail ‘Do with Why, give a dinner, of resent, P I asked, Well in those days a dinner was The invitatious were sent whose names wes, nav need e present generation of ‘The gue: 4 GOODLY COMPANY, The Hon. Wm. Hunter was for many years the able assistant secretary of state, whoso mom- ory is connected with so many of the negotia- tions of the department. Mr. Kingman, “Ion” —ny article of last week telis of him, and his Presence on this occasion was as necessary Hamiet to the him? One of the “old regime,” Walter Lennox, one of the brightest men Washington has pro- duced. district attorney and other positions of honor, Col, Jas, G, Berret, ‘our genial mayor,” who is with us yet and of us. valedictory at Georgetown College 1 have never forgotten, and whose brilliant talents would have won for him a lasting fame had he been obliged to exercise them. Jack Savage, one of the men of '43 and one of the brightest of them. Poet, painter, historian. Clem Hill; who did not know He had held the position of mayor and Hugh Caperton, whose His name invokes memories filled with enjoyment. Arnold Harris, a graduate of West Point, who had served with honor in Mexico. estimate of bim in * graven on his tomb—“Good soldier. gallant gentleman, frank foeman, loyal friend.” Gen. Pike's ‘he Wake” should be en- Charles W. Boteler, one of W whington’s well- known merchants, and as genial & companion as ever lived. Buckner Bayliss, another old standby, whom every one knew. given from personal experience of years of the game painful visitant he begs for Bev exemp- tion. Arkans: his state in both houses of Congress, Charley Winder, one of the brightest and most accom- plished men in a very brill day made up the social life here. James C. McGuire, one of Washington's old citizens, whose memory will long remain with us in con- nection with art and kindly hospitality. Walker, the private secrotary of Mr. Polk when President and nephew of Mre, Polk, whoso ca- reer during the administration of Mr. Polk and for years afterward has left a host of the most charming memories. Jonah Hoover needs no introduction, Mr. Pierce and a universal favorite, he was one of those rare men from whose lips I never heard a word of unkinduess expressed toward any human being. E. M. Bev's nearest friends and a gentieman of old school.” Linkingwater" of America. who for fiftpseven years of his life was book keeper of the Ni tional Intelligencer under those American repre- sentatives of ‘The Cheerible Brothers,” Messrs, His toast, on. Robt. W. Johnson, Senator from who for years had represented it set who at that Knox Marshal of the District under Tidvall was one of he Maj. Thomas Donoho, the “Tim Gales and Seaton. Robt. Ould, one of the most talented and accomplished as he was one of the most genial of men, A thousand memo- ries linger round his name. He was commis- 8 during the all who came under his charge for his kindiy exercise of that important duty. Gen. Albert Pike! who does not know him, and who, know- ing him. does not love him? These verses ar his and they voice his kindly nature. We are the twenty who met to discuss the generous gift—the viands spread before us, Of those who thronged the table only three remain to be reminded of that event—Col, Berret, Gen. Pike and your beg ere With this intro- duction and the explanation that where the names of the guests appear they were signed at the table. A TRIBUTE PROM EVERY GUEST. AFTER DINNER To Reverley Tucker, esq., Greeting: Dear Bev, this greeting goes to you across the At- lantic brine, From the littie room at Johnny Coylo’s, where we were used to dine, And whore we met today to eat your mutton and your game, Which lately over that same brine a welcome present came, Of course, our host himself presides, this memor- able bight With Fie Be ingman on his left, Will Hunter on it, At the foot our genial mayor, better Known as ‘om Berret, On either hand of whom Clem Ilill and Walter Lennox sit. Between these jovial chiefs your friends around the table thron, Hugh Se of martial fame, Jack Savage,full ‘of song, gaers Takis, ¢ harley Boteler, who was never to nown to tire, Buck Bayliss, Kobert Johnson, Charley Winder, Jim MeGuire. Knox Walker, from far Tennessee, by Jonah Hoover sits, And Albert Pike of Arkansaw the glass no’er pre- termita, Nea aan Major Donoho, and royal Robert a Just twenty, Bev! you recollect the room would no more hold, In pray hs 39g me St. Marceaux, Veuve Cliquot, ray, In Licbfraumaiich, Latour, Lafitte, and ruddy Komanee, In ripe Amontiliado we remomber you, old friend, And aes Buel wo the feast enchantment ni Now while old songs are caroled and all hearts are full of glee, “Tis moved and seconded, and all without demur 00, ‘That each shall send you greeting in these free eas} ‘Tat redolent of Tan shalt stir the memoriss of old times, "Tis ordered that the host himsolf the first wish shall ex And drain the orimming bumper to your health and happiness, Con! need, _peceperoes, fortunate, unvexed by sar vay dary ita pesaiacda a ce Ce eee ead Cas Tne Tout Sriende prove ‘May your life's current smoothly flow, nor vainly wore performed long ago, and their changes are simply minor ones in the method of banding things. There are a few new tricks devised each generation. I saw one remarka- bie p ece of mystification. The fakir sat in the midst of his square of white cloth, and hand- sus a bystander Sores ane ee him to think s country. hd ht of Turkey, and hen ho opened his hand be elds This was repeated with all of servant of Dr. John Johnes, eighty-one “frightened to death — Me i — a mai in touch?” asked coho of ‘ing alo So ya iH touched him tors dve and an for he had sue Sean is an ela Your Er be And when ‘May all your paths be pleasantness, your life be Hroging, like your Morning and Meridian, sunset calmly comes may al T like the good old-fashioned toast, Health, Peace Heath'bn grat wrme With soctal cheer and fo0 of nence, ‘Peace without duliness, Competence without AN this, fn loving kindness, Bev, E Kingman ‘wishes thee. = Preserve you from, all {ils this morfal state that vex, se ail annoyances that sting, all troubles that perplex, May no great sorrow sadden you and no bereave- ment Tne generous heart we love 90 well, thus wishes Clement Hill ‘May canvas-backs and terrapins still be within your means, ~ May pheasants not destroy your taste for homely wl and greens, Nor sation rolls corn bread displace, nor any royal fish Make you coutemn Potomac shad, I, Arnold Har- ris, wish, May time take from you none you love, nor any friend estrange, Nor kindliness and confidence to cold indifference change! Nor doubt or dumb suspicion of an old friend’s truth spring up! To this C. W. Boteler drains an overflowing cup. Let others wish you what they please, this wish, dear Bey, is mine, Soon may your chimney corner be once more your only shrine! Athome with loving hearts around, no longer an estray, May you find happiness indeed! I, E. M. Tidball, pray. you want to borrow may you finds loyal fortunately fush himself, will be rejoiced to end! ger oes want the ready willa friend in need ald, And may you never want the moans—Knox Walker's wish is sald. will be less than kind, may she not cruel be, Nor iu her wrath afflict you with the last calamity, May you congressional slavery ‘scape, whatever _.__ else betide, This Kobort We Johnson asks, and asks no boon side. May you full long with appetite and palate unim- paired, To feast ou fist and flesh and fowl be mercifully spared, Without that peualty the gout, which some for pleasure pay, May you that luxury enjoy, I, Buckner Bayliss, pray, Health, wealth and peppinesst may you this three-fold boon attain, May gnvy; hate and malice seek to injure you in vain! And if, dear Bev, between us, power again be Put to choose, May you “= wished-for office win andJ. D. Hoover May you ne'er lose your taste for wine, nor thin .__ potations choose, Nor off yours yet or foundered, Bev, to drain your glass refuse, Long may the generous life blood of the grape your wit iuspire, And drive away duil care, old friend, wishes James C. DicGuire. Whenever you're reported dead, and many @ | manly eyo With tears attests the soul's sharp grief, may it be proved 4 lie, May such a wake be given you as once was given me, And may I, Albert Pike, and all these frionds be ere to see. honey againa President you help to nom- ate, May Mende Of the pickings be at least a con- sulate! Due meed for loyal services may none from you thhold, wi Nor those you help ungrateful prove, thus wishes Robert Ould, Should sorrow sadden you, my friend, or fortune prove unkind, Receive th» butfets dealt by Fate with firm and equal mina, From Whatsoever quarters ill luck’s cross winds wildly blow, May you as safe at anchor ride as Thomas Donoho, ‘ Dear = 1 elghana” Savage, drink with all my sou! 4 May Lote arrows of hard fate your portly person 38 miss; Lord love you, Bev! and bless you with those bless- ings manitold, Which round the home-hearth clustering, are more than place or gold. May those dear ones at home be spared to make with their sweet eyes, Thathome wheu toit you return, once more 6 paradise, May you with them to cherish you, long walk life's pleasant ways, And fallasieop with them at last, this Walter Lenox prays. ‘The last wist. 1s assigned to me, and as when old friends part, Hand lingors clasping hand, and heart seems clinging unto heart, So I, Hugh Caperton, #0’ all with one accord do ory, While the voice falters at the word, Dear Bev! old friend, good-bye} The letter. duly signed, was sent by the next steamer, and, as Bev told me, when he bri the seal and read the verses and the familiar signatures, with wet eves and choking voice, he announced to the vice consul that he would go home for the day, a8 he was not feeling very well. Recovering, he sent for some friends, tor of course he made friends wherever be was, to enjoy tho “greeting” with him, and they enjoyed it. In a few weeks we all re- coiveda copy of the “greeting,” beautifully engraved iu fac simile. OTHER OLD FRIENDS, Mr. W. M. Burwell was absent from the city or he would have been crowded in to the din- ner, as one of Bev's oldest and best friends. When he returned and read the “greeting” he said he would add a postscript, I can only re- call the first two lines: “I didn’t eat your mutton, Bev, nor did I drink Coyle’s wine, And now, cold sober and sincere, I add this postscript lin Many of Bev’'s friends were absent by reason of my circumscribed dining room, Alexander Dimitry was in Costa Itica as American minister, and consequently the dinner was peaceful. Dimitry was disputatious always,and I remember at a dinner given tog the chiof justice of Canada or ‘some great legal light of that gion, Dimetry undertook to enlighten hig in Canadian law, which Jack Savage resented, and some pretty sharp words passed, when Jack, concentrating all his wrath, called Dimetry *« gressional cemetery of dead languages ‘The nume of Aruold Harri brings up another old army friend, Rip Arnold. Major Aruold was, I think, in commaud of Fort Brown, which was surrounded by the Mexican: some time we were unable to relieve them, After a long delay relicf reached them, Arnold Harris commanding the relieved troops and conveying provisions, for the gurrison had been on shortallowance for along time. Rip Arnold threw his arms round Arnold Harrie as he entered the fort ind asked what he had brought. ‘Oh, allyou need,” was the repi; “meat, bread and « barre! of whisl “Good heavens, ouly ove barrel of whisky! Ob, Arnold! why did you bring #0 much bread?” ‘By the by, if am not mistaken, Gen, Ned Reale made his way through the sfexican lines and con- veyod orders to the belenguored garrison. A feat of great daring and courage. AN INCIDENT in the life of Mr. Beverly Tucker has nevor ap- peared in print,I believe. He went from England to Mexico when the confederacy failed and while Maximillian was on the throne. ‘The Barrons, the wealthy bankers of the Cit; of Mexico, wero the bankers of Maximillian’s empire, and gogn after Mr. Tucker's arrival it was very evident the empire was doomed. The Barrons sought Mr. Tucker and asked him to take a transfer of their vast estates, including the bank in the City of Mexico, as they ferred confiscation. The legal transfer was made, Mr, ‘Tucker took possession und the American flag over the estates when, a fow days after, Juarez centered the city. ‘The estates Mr. ‘Tucker held for some weeks or maybe months, but as soon asthe Barrons had made their with the new government the proporties ere reconveyad, " THe MasTER sPrerr. ‘The allusion in Mr. Winder’s toast to onr frend as “‘Barnym” refers to the fact that he was mastér of the revels which wo entered into congress: was developed, and * seign- iors” descended from thelr thrones toadd to sent the moment I accepted Gep. Pie's aug gestion, and th the Gen. Pike, hunded ote ae v, T-think, ‘to be copled ox engrosted, loeviagt blanks for the signatures, GEX, PIKE'S WAKE The dinnere and the evening entertainments of that period were alike in that particular. “The Wake,” which became so well known,was the outgrowth of the return of Gen. Pike to Washington after he had been reported dead. His obituary,read from the ley provi,” was written in sad earnest by Alexander Dimitry and was ready tu appear in the columns of the National Inteiti when the report should be cunfirmed. ‘The day after ite preparation I met Gen. Piko on the avenue and we greetod each other most cordially. Why, Pike, they said you were dead!” Weil, if Lam, I haven't been ‘waked!’ By Jove, you shall be on Friday night”—and he waé waked! Spontane- ously his friends came when they beard of it, not waiting for invitations, and from this greet- ing grew the joyous night immortalized by “the corpse,” who, with attendant pall bearers, ned to his obituary read by Alexander Dimitry. Gen, Pike's reeponse was very bewuti- ful; he proved the reportto be false gnd the fun began. ‘Yo illustrate how impromptu the poems were that were and sung that night, I will mention two incidents: Gen. Martin McMahon was told something was expected from him, and be went into the library and in a littie while he handed in his poetical contribution, Mr. Randoiph Coyle’s contribution was written in thie way, as were some others, ‘The letter contributed by Maj. ‘Thomas L. Smith, for years the register of the ‘Treasury, 89 well known and so kindly remem- bered, deserves to be rescued from the few copies of -“Tho Wake” extant, and I will per- perform that duty in one of my contributions to LHe Srak’s columns, At that day th seemed to be always a readiness ty social en- joyment, which noeded uo pri ation. The ilow of wit, tho joyous song and the hilarity were as genuine as they were free from any tinke of vulgarity, The flow of wine was uninter- rupted trom the opening of the supper room until “rosy morn,” and yet uo debauchery. The wit was free from taint, the double en- tendre were inoffensitc—in tact we wore almost boys again in our joyousness, Was sometimes embarrassed by the impres- sion the song of Pike's return from hades con- veyed--that | was the keeper of a restaurant or @ hotel—und on one oecasion a gentleman to whom I wes introduced at the Metropolitan Hotel insisted on gomg to my house, sending his baggage there, changing his hotel, in fact. Gratifying him by going with him and some friends to my house on his own imvitation, he discovered his mistake on reaching there and made ample apology, but held the song re- sponsible, THE BODISCO FAMILY. Tue Star recently announced the return of Madame de Bodisco, the daughter-in-law of the Madame de Bodisco so well remembercd here, with her so popular and gallant husband. How beautiful she was and what an excitement her Marriage occasioned. Years afterward she te- turned to America as the wife of Major Scott of tho British army, still very beautiful. W, demar Lodisco, the nephew of the Russian minister, was so well known here and so pleas- antly remembered. He was one of those ice spirits who met round the festive board at Hugh Caperton’s and Robt Ould’s and Mr, Hunter’s—almost the same guests on each occa- sion—whose wit, humor and enjoyment never flagged. Isaw Mr. Waldemar Bodisco in New York frequently while residing there, where he was consul general of Russia, Sadly changed, however, by the sad domestic aflliction ho suffered, Joun F. Coyie. -—e0e. WHERE PIGMENTS COME FROM. Sources From Which the Colors Used in the Arts Are Derived. 18 MARVELOUS how man has oxplored the animal, vegeta- vle and mineral kingdoms of creation to find pigments for use in painting.” So said a distinguished chemist yester- day toa writer for Toe Star, and added: “Many of theso pigments nature has only been able to produce by centurics of elaboration in her crucible. ‘The ancient Egyptians sought vainly to discover some cheaper way of producing the exquisite ultramarine than by burning the rare and precious lapis lazuli brought from Asia. From their time to ours persistent experiments have been made with the same end in view; but only comparatively recently has chemical sci- ence analyzed the substance of lapis lazuli and been onabled thus to manufacture as, successful, imitation. “So much for the most beautiful of the biues. The most brilliant and gorgeous of the reds, called vermilion, is derived, as perhaps you may know, from native vermilion or cinnabar, nore of mercury. However, it is nearly all made by artifice now, a mixture of mercury, sulphur, potash and water being heated until it exhibits the bright color desired. Another pigment long famous that has been replaced by an imitation is the celebrated ‘orpiment,’ the golden sulphide of arsenic known to the Egyptians and constituting the ‘auri pig- mentum’ of the Romans, It has been dis- carded for an artificia! sulphic arsenic known as ‘king's yellow.’ FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. “A good many kinds of pigment are earths from different parts of the world, Raw umber isan earth from Umbia, Italy, tinctured with oxide of manganese; burnt umber is the same éarth after it has been subjected to the action of fire. Yellow ochre and brown ochre are earths colored with a chemical preparation of iron. Earth suitable for making yellow ochre is found in all countries, though most of the best of it comes from Oxford, England; in Egypt there used to be localities celebrated for producing it. A transparent kind of yellow ochre from Sienna, Italy, is called raw sienna; when burnt it isburntsienna, Vandyke brown is a bituminous earth from Cassel, Germany, light red is made by burning yellow cologne earth is produced by burning vandyke brown, Genuine Indian red, so much valued for ite subdued and beautiful color, is chiefly composed of sesquioxide of iron. Usu- ally, however, itis replaced by a very success ful imitation, OTHER coLors. “malt is ground blue glass colored by oxide of cobalt; it was invented in Saxony 300 yoars ago and is still obtained from that quarter. Flake white is carbonate of lead and Chinese white is oxide of zinc. That dazz color, scarlet, is a combination of mercury and iodine. The vivid emerald green is obi ed by com: pounding arsenic and copper with acetic acid. Gamboge exudes from a tree in Ceylon im the shape of agam. Indigo is got by fermenting au infusion of leaves of tho indigo plant of India, Intense blue is « purified extract of in- digo, ‘From another vegetable source. the root of the madder plant, carmine madder, rose madder, pink madder. brown madder und pur- le madder ure obtained. For producing these euntiful and durable. colors the madder plant is largely cultivated in Turkey, France and Holland. By feeding young animals with mad- der root their bones may be colored pink, and thix phenomenon kas been interestingly exhib- ited by experiments in feeding young pigeons one week with madder root and the next week without it, the result being that their bones when cut in two showed in sections series of concentric layers of pink and white alter- naung. “Brown pink comes from a certain kind of oak bark native to North América and called the ‘quercitron.’ Italian pink and yi are alvo from quercitroy k, got from resinous secrctiol branches of a certuin sort of tréein Siam and Bengal. OF ANIMAL NATURE. . “Nota few of the pigments known to the arts are of an animal nature. For inatance there 1s Indian yellow, which is deposited.by the urine of the camel and has been used jn Indis from the earliest tames. Scpia is secretion which the svall cuttlefish.in common with its terrific baicepm ong giant saeid, aud giant — e [or pose of darken! Teor chen it is frizbtened wuatSeonts 6 nee nt is MR. CLEVELAND’S NEW HOME. A Quaint Old Cottage at Tudor Haven Purchased by the Ex-President, X-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has a new summer home in Massachusetts, having. it is said, been induced by Mr. Joseph Jefferson to leave Marion and establish ‘& habitation at Tudor Haven. A corre- spondent of the Boston Globe writing of Tudor Haven and Mr. Cleveland's new cottage says: Tudor Haven and its 100-acre tract of unex- celled shore property has gone the way which all the sandy beaches and the sightly hills on Buzzard’s bay have gone—into the hands of another of that rapidly growing class which has learned to appreciate the natural beauties, the salubrity an shore Eden. . Just down the beach on the exclusivences of this south the left from the bridge. below the Whittier Club house, where the slow waters of Monument river gurgle ont over the clam al into the sea, on the far- ther blaff stands Tudor cottage. THE TUDOR CorTAar. It is a low, picturesque, unpretentious dwell- ing--one of the first of the shore cottages erected on the bay a dozen or fifteen years ago. Somber in coloring and of an odd architectnral design, it carries an air of honest worth which charms mocracy much the same as simple quict and the leader of de- it charms even a casual observer who notes the attractiveness of the spot. Itis a half hour's walk down the railroad track, over the hills and through the oak and pine groves to this Tudor Haven with its melan- Ww highttal views, hat memories of of Eliza- beth, of Henry, the much-married, and above all of the grand old’ English homes where Bess and her lover Cecil, Lord of Burleigh, visited val progresses, «The name hath a fine sound in sooth,” but there is a sad ring in its tone. fifteen years ago Frederick T of illustrious lineage, came Some twelve or udor, who boasted from England to this country and soon after, with the true Briton’s instinct for sequestration, purchased the beautiful haven so far a’ bustle and gave it his proud ay from the city’s old name, The place bears witness that he loved it in days goue by. but time-time and death— strolled through the beautiful forest and claimed hospitality at the hearthstone in the pen. Frederick Tudor’s ruling passion was for horseflesh, and he beeame noted here as a turfman, but upon his death it was necessary to sell the place to satisfy mands, his creditors’ de- ‘Through the gnarled and riven oaks and the somber pines and out over the sandy hills to the cottage on the bluff runsa finely gravelled drive that in itself must have cost a small for- tune. Entering the forest where the yello light sifts down through the rustling leaves and touches the dull greens end browns beneath with a glint of gold, one may take the broad winding drive or the narrow, which is romantic enough to leafy bridle path, merit a different spelling of the name, for never could youth and maiden wander through the “dim aisles” without wishing it were a bridal path. Quiet, so quiet. man whose You think of the dead turf- eautiful house and lands have be- come another's and—whir-r-r—five—eight— fourteen—no. a dozen—a bevy of quail, gray fluffy balls, rise at our feet from the underbrush and are gone, while every nerve thrills with the sportsman’s desire, and—a kingdom for Win- chester, Emerging into the open you notice only the low house, tinted with the tones of gray and and brown that nature giv woods, A sweeping drive, the beach. The wind comes head on by the Elizabeth Isiands, fro: to unpainted nd harmonizing with sands and shore. dy in grays for an artist to appreciate The low gables, the wide porch, the And such a beach, up Buzzaré’s bay, m Vineyard sound, through Hog Island Narrows, and carries great masses of pearly foam high like downy white chickens run about volition, one may walk up the loveliest thoroughbre imaginable, but the worst them so gritty. Frederick ‘Tudor's love architectural pretensions as block, whence many a lithe saddle, The house itself seems oblong cottages with steep tility. From the biuff where it is and Buttermilk bay, distance at the right to the land completed have begun, walk the nearest wa: ound a back coun’ torsand things in general zard’s bay, and its soc Haven, land to move up and live alongside of him, Perhaps the ex-President in bea Cleveland was driven awa! the story goes in polite circ part by the tact that a local The owner th be induced to for which he ewe A Stickler for does not know how to open them, and ii very hard work to crack them open with» stone, as the novice must, and besides it makes denced by more than the fine driveway. stables belonging to the estate have as great Cape Cod Ship Canal Company and the ulti- mate compietion of that great enterprise. ‘Tudor Haven has been valued as high as 50,000, but the selling price, $20,000, it is stated = i an example of how inflated value ch property have to tumble on this shore before they can tind a purchaser. attempted to sell him a cottag: beach land adjoining on the water front. his own idea, it appears, of Jue of bis house and sandy soil or else an idea that the distinguished gentleman could Rey high for a shore a ——— = the village gossip at Marion, and much re- gret is exprogeed that the quaint little town shouid lose ith great attraction. up on the pebbled beach, while little baby foam flakes that look are detached and the gray stones as if of their own Down through the sedge grass at low tide Acy sell an the bench ook pick d Wareham oysters of it is every one 8 for horses is evi- The the house. Six broad, glazed windows light up as many roomy box ‘stalls, and every arrangement for equine comfort ‘is complete. beside the front doorsteps stands the old horse- At the house young guest ut the hospitable manso has sprung to her cushioned to be three small gable roofs buit side by side, no two of exactly the same size, and the whole surrounded by ® wide veranda. It is very quaint, gray and weatherbeaten, and yet bas the indescribabie sign manual of gent- perched in the full sweep of the breeze may be had a panoramic view of the entire country sbout, from Bourne with the donjon tower of Jefferson's castle rising above the forest in the Narrows where no visible, beyond Mashpee at the left, Already the spirit of euterprise permeates the place and preparations for the extensive improvement which another season will see JOE JEFFERSON A NEIOBBOR, It is only a mile anda haif up the Narrows by water from Tudor Haven to Jefferson's cot- tage, but it isa good two miles anda half to and to drive one must go road through the woods, @ distance of not less than fo’ ably more, for Cape Cod miles will stretch re- markably, both in dry and wet seasons. Joe Jefferson, who is revolutionizing mat- miles and prob- in and about Baz- and mfisummer ap- pearance in particular, is receiving the credit of having brought about the change at Tudor He has prevailed upon Grover Cleve- the bay from Marion and come has faith in the from Marion, so in that town. im real estate owner e and tract of rts, Prhte is Form. ‘LAKE AND OMIO KAlLWaY. Behodule in Effect May 18 Traine Jeave Tnton Depot. Oth and R streets 10.5? 2M. for Newport News, vid Point Rortoie daily Arnie at Old Point a Fees daily for stations ta Kentucky and Cincinnati. uch without change to Clim ma, Limited, datiy. Sots run thrown withe ibule Nleoper for La ‘uilmnau Cars are open te HW. rULirr General Passenger Agent, RAILROAD. _av12-tt ALTIMOR “et Leave Wasiineic AN® onto Rn efiect J mm. sa sand, express daily 9.300 : F a ang pointe in the Shenandoah Valen, be Te and Clev. * Baltimore for Washington, week days, if bo, 720.800 BH, Bk, ‘ations, *7 00 p.m. iy wt LAD opulited Brawoh, 30, Th1ssd ame mn. 0:40 &m, and 15:30 pm * trom Chicago’ daily 1 ‘Guemmatt avd st. Le um; from A itisbung 7: Sires Frederick, ‘4 ou and Chest oth “4:50, 78 Wetween Baltimore and om, 1, New York for Washington, °9 200, *30, *5:00 fun and’ "Let Philadelphia for Washin “1130 am, 1140 "4s, WU Boon, * 30 pan F lutermediate Fisiadelyiata, to :00 bam ireins Jena 411-30 ean, xii, Traine leave eat pomt abu aud at depot, . SOULLy Gem. Pawn, As Masuscor. VLD SCENERY, BILEL RAILS 1CEN 1 EQUIPMENT, in effect May 14, Lau0. 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