Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1890, Page 13

———— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON WATER FARMING INDUSTRY. How the Breeding of Fish Can Be Made Profitable. SUCCESSFUL WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION —SOMETHING ABOUT THE HABITS OF FIsH—Aa WATER FARM IN INDIANA AND HOW a ws acs. ISCICULTURE isbring- ing to light many in- teresting facts in nat- ural history and the sub- ject is of growing im- portance. Fish breeding has at last assumed the importance of profi able husbandry. The artificial propagation of yedible fishes, which is shown by experiments - in every quarter to be practicable, is assuming national importance. “It may mover become one of the great producing interests of the Official of the fish commission to a re resentative of Tae Star, “but it undoubtedly adds to the luxuries of generous tables and increases in some degree the food supplies of the a for the public fisheries cal mproved by srtificial means at small expense. The Chinese, who koep a constant supply of fish in their rivers and canals,” he continued, have practiced fish hatching successfully for centuries. Fish are there so cheap that penny will buy enough for = breakfast for a wil family. “An ingenious method of artifi- eral hatching has been adopted. The business ot collecting and hatching the spawn for the supply of owners of private ponds is extensive. When the season for bata ing arrives the 's empty hen's eggs by means of small #, sucking out the contents aud sub- g the fish ova. The eggs are placed for a few days under a hen. Removing the eges the contents are placed in water warmed by the heat of the sun, the eggs soon burst and the young are shortly able to be removed to waters intended for rearing them. France, England, Scotluud and Ireland, among other European countries, are all enjoying a manifest increase of tish supplies from artificial propa- Ration. “With a population of over seventy millions, to become over » huudred in twenty-five years, and no one knows Low soon to equal that of Europe, it is folly to allow so great a delicacy as the speckled brook trout to becomo extinct, fs has the sea-going salmon very nearly upon our eastern coast. The shad is becoming com- parative arce in all our waters. Why should Bot the lakes and ponds of the east, full of yel- low perch and pickerel, be stocked with the Puperior black bass and white fish and other valuable kinds? It has been done successfully in a few cases; why may it not be done gener- ally? —— THE BLACK Bass, renking little below the brook trout as a game fish and surpassed by few species in quality and flavor, was a few years since unknown in the Potomac, but is now found in abundance in the mar! of Washington. Two sportsinen bave kiiled in 2 few hours of a summer day, a short distance »bove this city, with the red ibis Os, eigh ounds of this tine fish. It is said that o waters were supplied with black bass as a result of the introduction of adozen or more, which had been brought from the west in a locomotive tank by a Mr. Stabler and thrown inte the Potomac at Cumberland. The increase in th.s river has been rapid andis in- dicative of what may be accomplished im atock- ing eastern rivers with new species of fish as Weil as replenishing them with old kinds, “Within the memory of many of our oldest inbabitants.” continued the speaker, “our streams were populous with tish, many of the specive now nearly extinct. Without protection from law, inconsiderate fishermen have cap- tured them on their way to the spawning beds, or by @ series of artificial obstructions they have been debarred the passage of the streams. % Many of our most valuable fishes have their home in the sea, but the deep water of the an affords poor facilities for depositing their and therefore they seek the rivers com- ating with the sea, which they ase sometimes to # great distance, overleaping ali intervening falls, to deposit their spawn in se- curity in the still shallows above. 1 fish is eudowed with great power, which enables it to leap a perpendicular height of ten or twelve to overcome an obstruction on its way to the spawuing ground. WATER FARMING. “It has not beon many years since water farming became an industry. It began asa Giversion, It is now’claimed that as much money can be made off an acre of water as off of land, including well-located fish and on the one hand aud ordinary farm- other. “A man who lives near the White Water river, in Indixna, has made a success of water farm- ing. He determined to flood the low land an] to add to his possessions the adjoiuinz higa lnnd for park purposes. His place now includes fourteen acres of water and twenty-one of land. ‘His business is larzely with the water aud only incidentally with the dry land. He first estab- lished a carp poud from which to supply the market and later stocked his waters with basa, and bis lake is now full of them, aud they thrive on the carp.” 4 YROG DEPAR WENT. “Still another department has been added to the farm this season—that of frogs. Four acres of shallow water, well grown in flags, were set apart asa breeding place for frogs, ‘hey breed and grow rapidly. Four thousund tadpoles were put in this breeding pen early in the spring. Many of them now are of @ marketable size. Next season they will be gianis—big, 10-1 long. cultivated bull frogs, Worth €2.00 and €3 a dozen. FISH FARMS ON THE POTOMAC. Avumber of gentlemen living along the Po- tomac river have formed @ company whose ob- fect ia to establish fish farms along that river and its tributaries. Diamond-back terrapin. bass and salmon fish, frogs and crabs will be their specialties. In conversation with Tue Stan ‘ter the president of thecompany said: “Wo urchased nine sites along the Potomac, of which are a mile or two up several of the tributary streama. Our bass and salmoa aud frog farms will be located as far up in the fresh coufluent waters as is necessary for their Successful propagation. The turtle crab and tide water fish's farms will be located to suit Proper conditions. We select low lying lands so situated that we can construct dikes and canals in order to furnish the supply af water ecessary without danger of overflow from the river. We wiil have in our nine farms about twelve thousand acres. The frog farms will be wired off from the fish and turtle portions of cach farm and planted in water lillies and other water grasses, and we will establish our own hatcheries.” The United States fish commission has brought this science of piscicuiture to a high perfection, and durmg the last decade has take for this government the highest prize for its exhibits from every international ex- Libit. The official reports show that by re- Pienishing the rivers with native fish the sup- ply has iucreased more than three-fifths, be- fides the species pecaliar to the rivers and their tributaries of the Pacitic slope have been stocked with fishes peculiar to the Atlantic rivera, and vice versa, FIsH WATS. Many of our rivers have obstructions that Prevent fish from ascending as far as they stations in various sections of the country most} hich oly wad quickly coonspers cars in which to safely and q transport the young fish by the millions from one sea- board of the continent to tne other. central station at Washington it has estab- lished aquariums for the purpose of experi- menting in scclimation and bybridizing, as weil as to afford an exbibit of nearly every species of aquatic life. The mode of areating the water by s jet of air introduced into and ascending in bubbles through the water bas much simplified that part of the matter. The office of the plants at the bottom ist extract the excess of carbonic acid gas due to the breathing of the fishes and restore the oxygen. ae erer HOME MATTEKS, Every-Day Hints and Seasouable Sug- gestions to Prudent Housekeepers. Oxz Tapiespooxrc. or Burren is one ounce. Dox’ Use 4 Spoxas or linen rag for your face; choove instead a flannel one, Four Tastesrooxrcis of Liguip make one wineglassful, or two ounces, Srintrs or Tunrestise will take or drops of paint out of cloth, Apply till the paint can ts scraped off. To Crean Laur Tors axp Bonyens, take common salt and strong vinegar mixed, and rub them well, then rinse in soapsuds and rub dry; they will look like new ones, Cixar Borttxo Waren will remove tea stains and many fruit stains, Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent it spreading over the fabric. New Parenixa axp Parxtrx@ should gener- ally be done in the fall and the house kept well lighted, or the best white paints will turn yel- low and fancy colors wili lose their bright- ness. Lonsters May Be Scattorep Lixe Orstens. Put into a buttered dish; spread fine bread crumbs an‘ lobsters in alternate layers, havi the lust layer crumbs, Add bits of butter, Pepper and salt; moisten with milk and bake. A Goop Remepr for red hands is to take oné ounce of glycerine. half an ounce of rose water and as muth tanning as will stay on « ten-cent Piece, aud mix thoroughly; apply at night. To a Parr or Suoxs that have become stiff and uncomfortable by constant wear in the rain apply a coat of vaseline, rubbing it in well with a cloth, and ina short time the leather will become as suft and pliable as when it was taken fromthe shelves of the shoe dealer. Ceverr 8svcr.—Cut up and stewin halfs pint of water until tender two fine heads of celery. Cream up a teaspoonful of flour a lar; i gneiss of butter, add tocelery with salt aud pepper andacup of sweet cream, Stew a moment and serve. Delicious to eat with game or poultry. Prope rx tax Country who are annoyed by flies should remember that clusters of the fra- grant clover, which grow abundantly by nearly every roadside, if hung inthe room and left to dry and shed its faint, fragrant perfume through the air, willdrive away more flies than other fly traps and fly papers can ever collect. Dzssciovs VeLve1 Murrivs.—Sift one quart of flour with a level teaspoonful of salt in it. Rub into the flour thoroughly four ounces of butter. Mix it with one teacupful of good yeast and as much fresh milk as will make a Very stiff batter. Beat four eggs separately, very light, stir these in and set in a moder- ately warm place to rise. In three hours it will be sufficiently light, Bake in old-fash- ioned mufin rings. Camnaceex Buaxc Maxor.—Boil a heaped handful of Irish moss in a quart of new milk, flavor with s cupful of white sugar and a few drops of la, rose or kirsch (cherry) ex- tract, Then strain itand pour into a mold that bas been wetted with cold water. It will turn out a delicious blanc mange, while the iodine in the carrageen moss is most agreeable to delicate throuts or chests, To Maxe Deuiiovs Grape Wine take twenty pounds of grapes, place in a stone jar; pour over them six quarts of boiling water, and when cool squeeze them with the hand; after which let them stand three days with a cloth over them, them squeeze out the juice and add ten pounds of granulated sugar, and let it re- main a week longer inthe jar; then take off the scum, strain and bottle, leaving a vent uutil doue fermenting, when in again and bottle tight ‘0 AvorD TuE Opor which too often fills the house when eabbage or other greon vegetables are boiling follow these simple directions: Put your cabbage in a net, and when you have boiled it five minutes in the first pot of water lift it out, drain for a few seconds and place carefully m a second pot, which you must have full of fast-boiling water on the stove. pty the first water away, und boil your cabbage tall tender in the second. Dox’ Berisve You Can Ger Rip or Warx- gxxs by filling in the crevices with powde Instead give your fave a Russian bath overy night—that is, to bathe it with water so hot that you wonder how you can stand it, and then, a minute after, with coid water that will moke it glow with warmth; dry it with a soft towel and go to bed, and you ought to sleep like a baby while you: skin is growing firmer aud coming from out of the wrinkles, and you are resting. To Axx Wao Have Hap Exrentexce with the insect variously known as the carpet bug or buffalo moth the following recipe will be in- valuable, for it is suid to be sure death to them: Ono onnce of alum, one ounce of chio- ride zine, three ounces of salt, Mix with two quarts of iter and let it stand over nightin a covered vessel. In the morning pour it carc- fully into another vessel. so that ali sediment may be ieft behind, Dilute this with two quarts of water and apply by sprinkling the edges of the carpet for tke distance of a foot from the wall. ‘ibis ia all that is necessar: Prvearrce Triste a La Creme.—Take a rather stale sponge cake which has been baked in a deep-fluted mold, place it on a glass dish, make several tiny oles in it and pour over it as much of the sirup from a trimmed pine- apple as it will absorb, addi the sirup a littie at a time about every half hour until the cake is thoroughly saturated, Chop a few slices of the pineapple, just roughly, put it round the base of the cake for # border, and pour over the whole some delicious thick ream. Sprinkle freely with blanched almouds and pistachios cut im very thin strips, and can- died cherries cut in quarters and serve, Iris 4 Mistake to suppose that cold drinks are necessary to relicve thirst. Very cold drinks, as rule, increase the feverish condi- ton of the mouth and stomach, and so create tlirst. Experience shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve thirst and “cool off” th body when it is in an abnormally heated con- dition betser than ice-cold drinks. It is far better and safer to avoid the free use of drinks below 60 degrees; in fact, a higher temperature is to on goes and those who are much troubled with thirst will do well to try the ad- vantages to be derived from hot drinks instead of cold fluids to which they have been accus- tomed. Hot drinks also have the advantage of aiding digestion, instead of causing debility of would) To remedy this various devices have been adopted. The fish ladder for a time served at considerable falls, then the fish way Was introduced, Col. McDonald, the superintendent of the Qsb commission, has devised an improvement, the particle falls again int toot of ay is reached, utmost locity that can be attained om due to the difference in elevati bottom model : E lt le 5 4 i i é | the stomach und bowels, A. 00s Cement Mortar Under Water. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. ‘The use under water of sacks of cement mor- tar is in certain cases of the greatest service. Itis probable that no other process will peunit work under water which will secure #0 perfect ® contact with old masonry. A notable example of this may be cited in the viaduct which is now being bailt across the Loire for the rail- from to Gi dug thro @ water bearing sand to the marly Scans which forme the subsoil of the valley. Insome Of these excavations the bottom is disturbed by vioient currents of water coming either from the water bearing sand into the pit, or from cracks which are frequently met with in the limestone and the waters of which spout out in the bottom of the excavation. This water could not be carried is ‘Hypnotiom is a great tize any one, and what I “sg here, THEY EXPECT TO LIVE United States Senators Seem to bea Tough Lot. DOES SIZE LEND GREATNESS? Ancestors Generally Leuag Lived— Mixed Paritan and Datch—Reports From Ingalls, Mawicy, Mandersen, ‘Teller and Others. — Written for Tax Evzxixe Stam, HAT causes produce the masterfal men of countty? Why do somomen, in the art of doing things and in the possession of dominant qualities, soar above their fellows? T had noticed that almost all men of superior effectiveness were physically large. There have been exceptions, of eourse, in such men fs Napoleon, Stephen A, Senator Spooner and Jay Gould. but while exceptions do not prove any rule they do not disprove it unless there are enough of them. It still re- mains a fact that almost all of the commanding men of this last generation have weighed from 225 to 275 pounds apiece. Till Fuller was called here from Chicago there was, I think, but one or two members of the Suprome Court who weighed less than 200 pounds. Sohave most of the great Senators and Representatives of the Carlisle, Randall, Recd, Plamb, Hawloy, and most of the great business captains, the Van- derbilts, Stanford, Armour, Flower, Norvin Green, Horace Porter, John G. Moore, Henry Villard and Russell Sage, and all of the groat orators, without « notable exception, Beecher, Gough, Talmage, Moody, Jo Cook, Ingersoli— all large men. There is some subtle connection between mere bignoss and success. Is it that big men are able to pass for more than they are worth by their very size—to impose their demands on the world by the mere weight of ponderous momentum? Or is it that large men actually have, as a rule, more vitality than small men and 90 are able to effect more ina given ti SIGNIFICANT VITAL BTATISTICS. I suspect that the last named might be the roal reason. I have made some inquiries con- cerning the ancestors of some of the masterful men of the Senate and Honse with rosults as to vital statistics which may be regarded us signi- ficant. Probably no man in this Congress, pos- sibly excepting the Speaker, will appoar in his- tory as having done as much as Senator John P. Jones of Ni He is a man over sixty, with dead-white hair aud goatee setting off hi animated pink face, and no other man bas done half 60 much aa he to change the mind of Con- gress concerning silver. He is thoroughly tired of the long session. and says he wants to go home and see his mother! On inquiry I find that his mother, a Welsh woman, 1s now eighty-six. His grandmother, who came with the famiiy from Wales at the age of seventy- seven, lived to be ninety-seven. Judge Taylor of Ohio, chairman of the House judiciary committoo, to whom I repeated these facts, remarke ‘Well, I believe the Jones family is tough. My partner, Joues, is a speci- men of a long-lived family. His mother had six brothors and sisters, who lived to the aver- age age of ninety-seven. One of them, an old maid, was spry asa cricket and used to ride all over the country on horseback. At the age of one hundred aud three she went off to Kansas to take care of somebody's baby, and I haven't heard of her since.” Senator W. D. Washburn of Minnesota is of long-lived stock, though his bevy of distin- guished brothers did uot fulfill the promise of vhoir ancestry, having all diod before they reached seventy. One of his grandfathers reached ninety and two of hi andmothers lived to be eighty, #0 he looks hopefully for- ard. His mother died young, but she could afford to, having given tothe world two gor- ernors, four members of Cor two United States Senators, two United States ministers to foreign nations, one major-general, two edi- tora, qne novelist and one successful inventor. Judge Field of the Supreme Court could tell evena more remarkable story. His ancestors wore long-lived, his father, Rev. David Dud- ley, dying at ninety or so, and his mother liv- ing nearly as long, after giving birth to seven sons, like the mother of the Gracchi, all of whom became eminent. Timothy became an officer of the navy, Matthew a noted civil engi- neer, Jonathan president of the Massachusetts senate, Cyrus projector of the Atlantic cable and a millionaire, Stephen a justice of the highest court in the land, Henry a famous preacher, editor and author, and David Dudley the most distinguished American jurist. The last named and eldest is now eighty-six, aud the three other surviving boys are trottin, along toward the same mark. But they ¢re all sturdy and vigorous, bearing in gait, voice and demeanor few of the marks of age, and some of them will very likely see the oue hundredth mile stone. SENATOR INGALLS’ GOOD CHANCE. Some men who have felt his tongue Jashings will be sorry to hear that Senator Ingalls has a chance to live long. His father is still living and hearty at eighty-six and his mother at eighty-two. Some of his grandsires passed the same age. The name was borne as Logall by his ancestors who came to Boston in 1628 and founded the city of Lynn, The visible Ingalls’ line reaches back five hundred years previous to William the Norman. his folks hav- ing come with the Saxons to England under Hengist and Horsa—though the Senator admits that the circamambient fogs somewhat obscure the family tree. Senator Cush. K. Davis of Minnesota has a fine ancestral guaranty of life. His mother is living at soventy-tive and his father. aged seventy-nine, goes about the streets of Wash- ington about as lively as any young fellow of fitty. “I ought to have @ good grip on life,” said the Sonator in reply to my question, “for my first American aucestor, Cushman, landed at Plymouth, Maea., in 1622, eight generations ago, and adding up the combined ages of the interesting egies to whom I am indebted for existence find that they averaged over seventy-seven years.” From curiosity I sought ‘ushman family book from the library and ascertained that Senator Davis's ancestor, Robert Cashman, was born in 1580, and that he served the first Plymouth colony as # quarter- master and general provider. He was the busiuess man of the concern and helped the various i dee pe to fitout and get off. He also preached sometimes, as all those men did, and the first publivhed sermon preached on this continent was his, GEN. UAWLEY'S LONO-LIVED ANCESTORS. Tasked Gen. Hawley, Senator from Connec- ticut, what sort of chance he had for a long life. “A good chance I think,” he said, “In three geuerations I have had fourteen ances- tore and I am unable to hear of more than one who died at less than seventy-two. All the other thirteen seem to have gone to heaven between that ageand the age of ninety-six. And I see that the vital statisticians have set the ‘chance of life’ forward, and they assure us that the average mai lite is three years longer than it was half a cent ago—the in- ereused tendency to nervous disorders being more thé offset by the better food and the in- ventions and contrivances for mai forty-one of an acute divease, but my mother and other ancestors | ogi lived longer. The general seems to have a goood hold on life, but my brothor Charles appeared to have, too, so we cannot tell, Iam e: “Telior” a “sit ie;"be said, “and Tam told by those learned in genealogic tore that all the lors e@ountry were originally Datch ‘Tel- ‘ D.C.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. while yet ve FROM NEW "HAMPSHIRE. I casually encountered the Senators from New Hampshire in the marble room and asked them about their vital statistics, They amiably s father died rather tye sores Site Sot he roe, her ancestors stayed on earth a good while.” ‘My ancestral line was of tenas- father was ity,” said Senator Blair. “ ki at thirty; my mother lived to a good old age. One grandfa' ved till eighty and an- other died at forty-eight, I cannot at deduce any conclusion as to my own chances, am afraid.” ‘I doubt very much,” said the junior Sena- tor, when thé conversation turaed on athletics, “if gymnastics and special exercise have much to do with health. ®maneats too much, I suppose he needs a good deal of excrcise, asa furnace will soon become congested if you eep shoveling in coal when the fire biros slowly. ts and drinks only as much as he really neods, I doubt if he requires any more exercise than we got walking about the Senate wing. I never take deliberate exer- cise; walking for the sake of walking is dreary business.” His colleague, who is known as ‘‘the reformer of the Senate,” acquiesced and expressed the opinion that plenty of sleop and reasonable temperance in eating and drinking woutd keep the average man alive as long as his existence was absolutely essential to the happiness of his fellow ine: WHEN GEN. BANKS WAS SPEAKER. I went across the street to the pariors of Gen. Banks, In response to my call he walked alertly down the stairs with elastic step and milit bearing, quite recalling his appear- ance when I first ‘saw hi thirty-four years ago holding the gavel Speaker of the louse. He wears a great shock of hair and an abundant mustache, too. as he did then, but instend of coal black they are quite as rye a man’s of seventy-five should by jothing isthe matter with me,” he said, ind Ihave stayed here all summer when a | many others th ate they must go hom ancestors were hard workers who attende: strictly to business, and they were mostly stout and hardy, growing strong and li g Jong.” ‘There are only four or five men living who voted for the general on the 133d ballot as Speaker of the Thirty-fourth Congress, and I asked him how the present Congress compared with that, “It may be as quick and as cute,” he said, “but it doos not seem to me 80 business-like and clear-headed, Parties knew whut they wanted in those days and they acted together for its attainment. I was Speaker of a House which my own party did not control, Orr of South Carolina was the leader of it, if it had a leader, and be’ was an able an brilliant man.” “You must have been sometimes tempted to count a majority,” Is ver but once,” enswered Gen, Ranks, “Once, when the House was thin, I did count a | spa from men who declined to vote. ‘The ecision was challenged and appenled from, but after a long discussion the opinion of the chair was sustained, with, as I remember, only nineteen votes against it, It was accepted by 8 majority on both sides as good parliamentary low. Iam not certain but it was necessary to resort to it again during that Congress, but I think not. So Mr. Reed’s method is not only not new under th in, but both parties thirty years ago thought it was right,” Gen. Banks occupies the same seat in which he sat before he was chosen Speaker, but not the same desk, The handsome House deske were sold at auction twenty years ago because they were too large, ROFFUT. $< Written for Tax Evewine Sran. DRIVES ABOUT WASHINGTON. What One Can Sco in an Hour’s Jour= ney on the Bladensburg Pike. is re 67: as ca th of thi It th thi 80 N_ article in your ever-progressive paper on the beautiful suburban sur- roundings of our delightful city and of its many elegant drives over good, hard and smooth roads in the north- wostern section up into Montgomery county suggested to my mind a drive out in the north- enstern section and into Prince George's county to note the character of its roadbeds, buildings and scenery all along ths line and to give the benefit of my observations to the many of your readers who like to enjoy a few hours’ ride on @ pleasant afternoon. Starting from the cast front of the Capitol and going out Maryland avenue on a splendid road, compact and smooth, without a jar possibly, except at a few crossings, you go on until you strike the old Bladensburg pike at the ‘old toll gate—the junction of if street and boundary—whers the rgeato the north. This section is It up rapidly, the character of its gs not being so costly or elegant as in the northwost, but of a character to show that ire being sought after in this hith- arto neglected northeast section. ON THE BLADENSBURG ROAD. Soon after passing the boundary the first notable object that strikes your eye is the ex- tensive green house plantof Mr. Strauss, said to be the largest with one or two exceptions in the United States. The immensity of these continuons lines of green houses is somewhat wonderful, a veritable crystal palace, an ob- ject of admiration truly worth seeing. A few minutes thereafter on this splendid road you pes the Catholic burial ground, picturesque ‘ount Olivet; next comes in sight the beauti- ful grounds and well-planned buildings of the Reform School. A few hundred yards further on and we pass the place of the late Clark Mills, once famous for the foundry where this great American genius toiled on his casts and wrought in bronze. Immediately thereafter you pass the home of the Rives, built many yeurs ago by John C. Rives, the partner of the older Francis P. Blair, and who for many years published the Globe. Right here is where the District line ends and the Prince George's county line commences, Just in sight and few rods from the rond can be pointed out a little ravine, the veritable spot where many celebrated duels were fought. A little further on and you the grounds, pretty and plens- antly shaded,of the Washington Highland Club, largely composed of members of leading real estate firms. After crossing the finest Belge in southern Maryland, built by the county over this branch of the Potomac that has by many tortuous windings ascended so far to the north- east, there henves in sight the historio village of Bladensburg, renownetl for its battle, of which there seems to be a well-founded im- pression that it should not be deemed the pride of our militiamen, also famous for its duels and the celebrated Spa spring. HYATTSVILLE AND RIVERDALE. to the west and in a few minutes ig town of Hyattsville is reached, the most extensive of all of the suburban towns near Washington, The eounty keeps the road in thorough repair, smooth and com- pact, well trenched on tho sides, so that the water can readily run off, A mile farther on directly north and the new subdivision of River- dale 16 reached, better known as the old Cal- vertestate. Your paper has so lately related the romantic story of this estate that I neod only mention with purticularity what has been done that conduces to the pleasure and satis- faction of our drive. A system of sewerage not Unlike that devised by Vol. Geo. Truesdell at Eckington has been introduced and the road- beds thoroughly graveled and rolled, made hard and smooth as a plank floor, Now, be it remembered that only a little over an hour been spent on the road, with only a toler- ly fast utepper, and perhaps » distance of eight miles encompassed, when we commence on our homestretch, after recrossiug this same Eastern branch over two compact and solidly tor re} e to mi te: a in dis mi thi rer toy a th built bridges to the east of Riverdale m: PICTURESQUE SCENERY. Here let me say the scenery around about these bridges and along this stream ean com- pare favorably with the romantic region of Rock creek. We turn into the old country road just at the southwest corner of the large farm of Mr, Renj. D. Stephen, whose house, built on a commanding hill in the northern distance, “lends enchantment to the view,” and whose large, clean fields of grass, stretching out in jortheasterly direction nearly as far a8 the eye can reach, betoken fine and good tillage. Immediately south and on the same country road we the beantiful cotin- try seat of Mr. P. W. one of Wash- ae oldest retired ts,and then large estate of Mr. K. O. Lowndes comes into view, where the well-known and beloved Bishop Pinckney lived for so many yeara, gigantic statue, erected by Chares, a pupil of Lysippus, did not the harbor, but stood at its entrance. It was more than 105 feet in height and was very possibly employed for the purpose of a light- house, though this is not positively known. It Apollo, the sun god, and tradition says that ships in fulleail could pass between ite legs. Less than sixty years after it was bu earthquake overthrew it and was about 260 B.C.,and fragments of the statue and the ships erected a yet more magnificent tomple on the old site, which was tho temple celebrated asa wonder of the world. It was 425 fect long and 220 fect broad and was columns 60 feet in height, each one of which was contributed by some prince, To build it lar on one side. 1t rose on its three other si brick and stone, was a beautiful garden, overlaid with a sufii- cient depth of fruitful earth to provide for not ouly turf and flowers, but the most noble trees, All the most beautiful things in the vegetable way known to Babylonia or that it was possible to obtain from other countries was planted in these so-culled hanging gardens, Seen from a ders of Ptolemy to the gods, efit of sailors.” Josephus, the grout Jewish historian who lived in the lifetime of Christ, the cyclops of aucient myth were no’ one-eyed giants but simply lighthouses. theory would seem to be s1 by the faet that Homer speaks of Ulysscs coming upon the island of the 6 ae the oe without being eware that 13 may live a good) SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. Marvels Which the Ancients Classed in That Wonderous Category. THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES, THE EPHESIAN TEMPLE OF DIANA, THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON THE PHAROS, THE PYRAMIDS, THE “‘vocaL MEM- HOR” AXD THE MAUSOLEUM, OU OFTEN hear men- tioned the “Seven Wonders of the World!” And yet how few peo- ple there are who can tell you what were these seven wonders. Ask the most gener- ally informed man you know, and it is prob- able that he will not be able to naine more than four of them. It was about the year 250 B.C. that the seven wonders were first enu- merated and set down as including, to begi with, the famous Colos- sus of Rhodes, which is said to have bestrode the harbor of Rhodes with its brazen legs. As ® matter of fact, this “Na bestride believed to have been designed as a statue of an tered it. This mained lying where they fell until the year '2 of the Christian era, when they were sold old brass to a Jewish trader. ‘The trader paid $180,000 for the fragments, which loaded 900 mels. On such a scale was this gigantic figure that it was said few men had arms long enough to embrate its thumb. Ite construction consumed twolve years, and through its body a stairway led upward to the head, whence e spectator could desery the coast of Syria roceoding to Egypt in a great irror suspendod from the neck of the statue. THE TEMPLE OF DIANA, Next of the seven wonders was the Temple Diana at Ephesus, in Asia Minor, in its time e great metropolis of the eastern continent, was burned the same night that Alexander, destined to be called the Great was born, and e priests said the disaster occurred because e virgin goddess was so busy attending to the bringing into the world of the son of the Macedonian conqueror that she was Jed to neg- lect the ususal care for her most cherished shrine, This Diana of Ephesus, though a yirein, was considered to have especially under er buman rac tions of Juno, and her worship was followed with an accompaniment of orgies more than suggestive of the adoration of Venus—so much iperintendence the reproduction of the thus usurping many of the fanc- in fact that they were a scandal to t! world, Erostratas, an obscure peraon, set fi to the temple, as he himself confessed, for the sole purpose of rendering his His was the celebrity as Guiteau’s, and doubtless he was a madman, At all events, the temple was burned, and although Alexander himself sub- sequently offered to rebuild it at his own ex- ense, On condition that his name should be inscribed upon it, the Ephesians declined. me immortal. mo sort of morbid ambition for THE 6ECOND TEMPLE. They, however, aided by all of Asia Minor, upported by 127 ok two hundred and twenty years, The main altar was the work of Praxiteles and Apelles, the otber great artist of that epoch contributed asplended picture of Alexander the Great. ‘The materials of which it was composed were white marble, cedar and cypress, with great quantities of gold, It contained paintings and Statues of a value beyond computation. despoiled the — of much of its treasure, and it was finally the fali of the Roman empu Nero urned by the Gotha after THE THIRD WONDER. Third of the seven wonders was the world- owned ‘‘Hanging Gardens” of Babylon, ected by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, please his royal Medear spouse Amytis. 0; site his superb palace, on the bank of the fuphrates, which ran through the midst of Babylon, the monarch erected this wonderful ound, rising from the plain terrace upon rrace to the height of 250 fect. Perpendicu- 8 five pyramidal stages or stories, each 50 feet height, and upborne by hage pillars of ach terrace thus supported istance the forests seemed to have leaped into iduir, Fountains flowed and streams coursed through artificial meadows. Gardeners did their utmost to make the place a voritable paradise, each sta aspect from the others. Garden houses and luxurious apartments were scattered here aud there, while fawns and other tamed animals of the fields and woods gamboled about. From below a winding staircase led within to the top. whither the queen could be carried at h pleasure, way, was Babylon, with tens of thousands of slaves cap- tured in war to labor for him. in the ascent differing in This marvel, unparalleled in its yof execution to the king of THE WONDERFUL LIGHT HOUSE. The fourth wonder of the world was the light house called “Pharos,” erected three hundred years before Christ by Ptolomy Phila- delphue, Pharaoh of Egypt, 2n rock in the harbor of Alexandria abouta mile offshore. It is recorded that the architect, named Sostratus, having cut his own name in great letters in the solid stone of the building, covered over the lettering with plaster sous to preserve his own fame for all time, long narrow Then in @ plaster he recorded, according to the or- Ptolemy, the inscription: “King the saviors, for the be: cords that a fire was always kept burning on of the Pharos that was visible at night for istance of 40 miles ont at sea, According to somo writers the tower greatly exceeded in height the largest of the pyramids and huge mirrors were employed as reflectors; but their authority is not aceepted by modern autbori- ties as reliable. It has en been suggested. laughed Se rei This tly disposed of ough the idea has been ‘THE PYRAMIDS, Fifth of the wonders of the world were the Pyramids of Egypt, which still remain as groat ® marvel as ever. A course, for the tombs of Egyptian monarchs, that people having so strong a belief as to an eternal fa tectural dwellings for habitation in this life, construction of mdusolenms for their accommo- dation after death, The later modification of building, as exhibited c and in the Tower of Babel, presently to be de- They were constructed, of ture that they devoted their archi- attention not to copra 3 superb ut to the yramid is buts = lonian style ribed. Between vende the only difference statues as haunted in this way the peasants of the country throw them down and fracture The sixth of the world’s wonders was the “Vocal Memnon,” also of Egrpt, declared im its time to be the most astonishing of the curiosi- ties in that “land of marvels.” Not long before the birth of Christ the Pharaoh Amenophis III built 9 magnificent temple on the banks of the Nile and placed on either side of the road ap- Proaching it the two most tie statues ever carved. They were nearly 70 feet in height and were intended to be likenesses of self. Each of them was cut out froma single block ot reddish sandstone. One of them, as was subsequeutly found, hed a fracture in ite sub- stance, and at sunrise the warmth caused the particles of stone in the crack to split, thus causing @ very sudible sound, which was imagined to have a supernatural origin. For 220 years — came from all parts of the civilized world to hear this vocal statue ery outat daybreak. Crowds flocked to it and inscribed their names and remarks, visible to | this day on the sandstone surface. Alas for the superstition, however. Septimus Severus had the stetue repaired, and it thereupon | ceased to give fi its masical noises. You | can see the statues now if you cure to vinit | thom—the greatest of Egyptian collossi, | though the temple before which they stood bas entirely vanished. THE SEVENTH. | Artemisia, sister and wife of Mausolus, King of Caria, created the seventh wonder of the | world when she built, to the memory of her dead husband, what she named a “Mausoleum.” So superb was it that it has given its name to all pretentious tombs from that time to tuis, which are called mausoleums, Artemisia died of sorrow in the year 350 B.C. Such were the seven wonders of the world. ———_——— LOSING A- LOVER. Miss Millefleurs Has a Melancholy Ex- perlence for a Summer Remembrance. ¥ DEAR,” said a pretty young woman newly re- turned to Washington to her most intimate friend the other day, “I have just received by mail the most utterly exasperating wedding invitation imaginable.” plain why I must tell the most absurd story. “This summer, as you are aware, I spent at Mount Desert. One par- ticularly charming man I met there. now how one comes across people at a water- | ing place without knowing much about them. The§ man I speak of was from Toxas and enormously rich, He was good looking, b manners were delightful and he was most ac. complished. That he was a person of larg means no one was at firstaware. He was i troduced to our set by some swell New Yorker: who kuew him intimately and who left for Newport the day after. Every one liked him | offhand, and interest in him was heightened | iby the fact that no one kn anything in particular concerning him. His introduc- tion was such as torender him most acceptable, and all of the girls were as disgusted as could be when they learned that he was married. How the fact was ascertained I did not know. Certainly I should uot have imagined it from his ways and appearance. If you are an ob- server, my dear, you must have noticed that a married man almost always has something indefinable about him that outwardly distin- guishes him from the bachelor, just as I have heard men say that the youngest married woman had always a different expression from the maiden. However, you are aware that men find it amusing to go off to watering places and toassume the virtue of bachclor— hood, though they have it not, and the im- position is too often not discovered. I admit that I had set him down as being as yet unfet- tered matrimonially when I first saw him, and it w isappointment to me to leurn that I was mistaken. For, of course, marriageabie young men are scarce at summer resorts, and they are always desirable, even if one is very far from wishing to marry them. Married men are all very well in their place, but, to a certain extent, from the poiat of view of us girls they are persons neither of one sex nor the other. The only really interesting mar- ried man is the wicked one, who is unre- strained by his own domestic attachments from paying attentions to the young women he meets, Some girls don't mind that sort of | thing, but I have always thought it was a great | mistake to permit it, if only for the réason that it is likely to compromise one.” ‘But what has allthis to do with the wed- ding invitation” ‘ou shall see presently. This very charm- ing man of whom I speak began payiug me attentions, andI rather enjoyed them up to a certain point. But I soon perceived that he wished to carry them too far. In other words, he made love tome. Had I known him to be single it would have been a different matter. Icould not well have regarded him otherwise than favorably, because he had every personsl advantage, and it was by this time pretty woll understood that he was rich, But, under the circumstances, I rather félt that the assiduity with which he pursued me was insulting. He proceeded a: length to uumistakable love- making. One morning when we were sitting oi e Fock! ether he said, tender!, ‘Miss Millefleurs, you are a lawyer's daugh- ter. Permit me to ask you when your futher has established a cluim agaiust @ piece of property what is bis usual course of prove- dure, if he thinks that the claim may possibly not be secured?’ ‘He gets out an attachment,’ I replied Promptly. Ihadserved my father somewhat as his secretary. “So I supposed,’ he responded. ‘Now, I have formed an aitachment—one of a v earnest ture. You may, perhaps, ve heard of shyster lawyers, as they are called, who, having a ciaim of a very dubious nature upon a piece of property, get out an attach- ment upon it, hoping to effect a compromise rofitable to them flow, euch ism position. y attachment to yourself is as re: poss ble, though my claim is, alas! only too dubious. “I ghould think it was, very much #0,’ I — dryly, moving away from him about a foot, “Iam too well aware of that, Miss Mille- fleurs,’ he rejoined. ‘But I had hoped that you would make allowance for certain disqualitica- tions which render my appeal to your interest only too unworthy.’ ‘My dear, I thought of the man's wife and his presumptive children, and it was with some indignation that I exclaimed: “I do think your appeai most unworthy, sir,’ Teaid. “Permit me to bid you good morning.’ ” “Well, deare: interrupted the confidant, “allow me to ask once more what all this has to do with the wedding car: “simply this,” roplied Miss Milleflours, “The wedding invitation was for the marriage of this very man to Lulu Knickerbocker, with whom I quarreled 80 irrevocably last spring. The rou | ™ REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Handsome Residence Sites and What They Cost. {YER TENDENCY TO SECURE AMPLE OnoUXDS BT ‘THOSE WHO BUILD HANDSOME HOUSES—a GOOD DEMAND FOR RENTED PROPERTY—OTRER Bat TERS OF INTEREST. A notable transaction during the past week was the purchase of the fine building site at the southeass corner of Massachusetts avenue and 16th street, fronting on Scott Circle. The location is one of the best in the residence por- tion of the city, as is demonstrated by the price paid, which was more than was ever paid for a residence site im this city, The lot is, however, of unusual dimensions, having a frontage of about 140 fect and a depth of 120. At the price per fout paid, which was €7, the sale reached the large sum of 693,500. The Dew owner, Mr. Jesse F. Carpenter, is consid- ering plans for the erection of a handsome residence there, but it has vot yet been taily decided whetber he will retain all the ground included im the purchase for his own use or dispose of @ portion of it, He will no doubt allow for ample lawns about the house. The tendency, of which this purchase is a fliustration, to secure generous building sites when a fine house is to be erected is very marked im some of the re- cent transactions in this class of property. There is, for cxemple, the purchase made Mrs, Chandier, the widow of ex-Senator Zac Chandler. She bought a lot at the northeast corner of 16th and K stroets, where she is now erecting ® handsome house. The ground is more than 100 feet square and it cost her 863,000, which is at the rate of €5.50 per square foot. This may appear to be # great deal te pay for a residence site, but the iy at the southeast corner of 16th and I streets brought even a higher price. The present owner, Robert J. C. Walker, paid €65,000 for and as it is only 751100, with some back ground, the price per foot was about €7.30. On the south side of K street between 16th and 17th streets Col. Henry Strong has begun the erec- tion of a handsome resideuce. The lot bas « frontage of 71 feet and the price paid was avout $39,000, The lot adjoining on the west the former home of Secretary Blaine on Du- pont Circle is now being improved b; nce which is being erected tor Miss Beid, She paid €30,000 for the ground, which has a frontage of 54 fect and extends through the Square from Massachusetts avenue so P street, Mr. Alexander Grabam Bell, the inventor of the Beli telephoue, and his cousin, Chas. J. Bell, some time ago paid between $40,000 and 50,000 for a building site, For this money secured a frontage of 125 feet on Con- icut avenue, just south of Dupont Circle, at €4 per square foot, A WHOLE SQUARE PURCHASED, Some time before he loft the city last spring ex-Senator Van Wyck paid about $33,000 for a building lot. He secured at auction the whole of the triangular square fronting on Dupont Circle, where the Courch of the Holy Cross stands. Some day, perhaps, the ex-Senator will build a residence there. be blackened walls of the Tracy house ,on Farragut Squére ed by the new owner, Capt, A. 5 It may be considered that the price paid for the property represents practically # value of the groun He, therefore, in that view of it, paid 230,750 for alot which is 40x 100 feet. ‘That is at the rate of nearly §7 per square foot. Around the corner in the adjoin- iug square the building lot at the southeast corner of Connecticut avenue and I street cost the United Service Club £28,000. The lot is only 50x121 feet and the price per foot was #10, which is the highest price ever paid fer property in the resident part of the city, A haudsome house is being erecte it the northeast corner of Massachusetts avenue and 20th street. It adjoins the Chinese legation building and whea completed it will be occ pied by the owner, Mr. Hunt of New York. He paid for the ground 500, it is only 60 by 100, but the price paid was €5.50 per foot. The above are only a few of the recent purchases, There are a number of other instances where ms of money have been paid for resi- dence sites, The policy of building with some liberality as to space left around the stracture is doing a great deal toward beautifying the resident sections of the city. THE GROWING CITY. There will be very few vacant hoases in the city this winter if all the people who are said to be looking for houses are supplied. The rea! estate agents report at demand. One agent tolda Star man that if he bad s hun- dred houses in addition to his usual list for reut he believed that he could find tenants for them. He based opinion upon the number of inquiries received daily at bis office, The renting season, which begins about September 1, keeps the real estate offices rather jively. iients are reported to be no lower this year than last and the prices of vacant ground aro firm, with a decided upward tendency. Ae shown by the figures taken from the bi the office of the buildiug inspector and Pe recently in Tue Stan. a larger number of houses have been built during the present year than during the corresponding mouths of iast year, While the building activity has “been marked in tho castern sec- tion of the city it has been general in all parts of the city, It is argued from these facts that the population of the city is increus- ing rapidly. For otherwise it to claimed the large addition made to the house capacity of the city would have had the effect of reducing rents. Instead of that it is stated that tenants are found for the houses as fast as they are built, and it is thought thet a fair proportion of the occupants of the houses are new comers to the city. The late census showed the veariy growth of the city during the past ten years had been over 5.000, and it is evident that am equally large ratio is still the rule. A PROSPECTIVE TOWN, Surveys are being made of a tract of land north of Takoma Park. It is the intention to make a subdivision of this property and in a short time, po doubt, another of those flourish- ing settlements will spring up which now fori such an attractive feature in the country ell along the line of the Metropolitan Branch. ‘Takoma Park is to have a stroet railroed. It will be @ park enterprise exclusively. The starting point will be the depot and from point the track will extend through the streew soasto bring the distant points within easy access of the railroad. When the Brightwood railroad reaches Takoma Park the residents can be independent of the steam railroad, if they so desire, when they make « trip to this city. 4 NEW LAW SCHOOL BUILDING, Thomas J. Fisher & Co. have sold in connes- tion with A. Damman for Joseph Strasburger to Georgetown College property fronting 62 feet on the south side of E street between Sth and 6th streets northwest, It is the intention of the new owners to erect on this site » fine building for the use of the iaw department of the college, The Georgetown Law School will then be provided with a building which will be nasty thing was altogether responsible, as I have since learned, for the misinformation that the man was married, and her object in cir- culating it was to keep the other girls off and secure him for herself, as she did after I had refused him without realizing it. There's one comfort—having quarreled with Lulu, I shan't be obliged to send her any ding present.” ——— Horses for Women. Emme Moffett Tynz in Harpor'e Weokly. A man has his horse, his dog, his gun, his boat—all those things which give decision, ‘armness and poise tocharacter. Let a woman have her horse, if she can, waiting before or after the hours of needle work or study or housekeeping to give her freedom from staid- ness or morbid ht, to bring exhilaration and new life and companionship with the green fields of sprit tumn roadways overarched with crimson-tipped ma, snow-sweeps of winter. from her will place her clear-eyed and erect aud in @ line with life from twelve to aixty. specially adapted for the needs of the school, coterie encasane THE “PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.” A Collection of Faded Pictures Thag Will Be Out of Date Next Year. From the New York World. Do you keep your old-time photographs? If you do you know what a wonderful collection you have of frieuds of long ago. “That is Will Steadfast,” you say. “He used to be an old beau of mine until I ‘went back’ on him.” “That is Jack Fickle. How I loved him untit he ‘shook’ me!” That dear, delightful little bunch of loveli- ness seated in a wash bowl and clothed in nothing at ail is yourself, so far outgrown that infantile state as to make it seem past the credulity of man to believe you were ever thus. That fearful-visaged, awkward, lanky, — ith stant bye as now the man Zillion, who -f ax ortant thet be he “‘gits his pic! The seutimental, faded girl by the vase of Sowers was your ~~ Oma friend years ‘ou quarre “Gaze on the whole collection with a sbudder uy i E i