Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1890, Page 11

a pa THE EVENING STAR: .WASHINGTON. D. C.. IN THE POLICE COURT. Officials Who Help Justice Hold Up} Her Scales. THE JUDGE AND HIS AIDS. Malta Hundred Cases a Day Passed On by the Judge—The Duties of the Clerk, Prosecuting Officers and Other Of- ficials—liow Business HasGrown, —— ROBABLY no conrt in the country does much work in the same length of ime as the Police Court of this city. Monday mornings the number of prison- ers about doubie those of other morn- | ings, probably because the disorderly classe select Saturday nights as the time for celebr: ing and spending their hard-earned money in Fiotous living. Itis often said that the large number of prisoners in court on Mondays is due to the fact that it represents the accumu! tion of two days, but the reports show that seldom do arrests made on Sunday number more than 50 per cent of those made Saturday night, and often it will not run over lgor 20 per cent. The new rulo for trying cases, adopted by Judge - Miller, has proven successful, and the business of the court, or the legitimate business, as Judge Mills calls it, is disposed of in short time. Then follows aclass of cases that the judge thiuks should be settled elsewhere. ‘yhese case comprise family rows of ail de- scriptions and what the colored court habitues call “prejudy eases.” They are charges brought generally by one woman against another, as the result of a petty quarrel about a love affair or some other trifling concern that really amounts to nothing. These peopie Judge Miller bas discouraged as much as possible and such prosecutions are gradually decreasing. The liquor cases occupy more time than any other particular class of cases on account of the large number of witnesses brought tocourt and the contest that is invariably made by counsel forthe defense. In these cases the most perjury is said to be committed. Often a dozen witnesses will appear on cither side and the testimony of one side directly | contradicts that of the other. The Police Court i# one of the best-paying institutions belonging to Uncle Sam. Not only docs the court pay expenses but it turus in » surplus ever and above expenses of something like 92,500 each month, or about $30,000 auaually. JUDGE THOS. F. MILLER, Judge Thomas F. Miller is a West Virginian by birth, but he came here when quite young and he is virtually a Washingtonian. When practicing bef: the bar he attracted the at- tention of the jadges and particularly that of the late Chief Justice Cartter, who often re- marked that Lawyer Miller was the most prom- ising young mewber of the District bar and often predicted his elevation from the ranks. He distinguished himself in a number of homi- cide cases and saved the necks of nearly all whom he defended. He figured in the Hirth tourder trial and afterward in the celebrated Dailey case. His arguments in that case have been printed in neariy all the leading medical journals. In his present position the judge finds his task a bard one. He does the work which was laid out for one judge when the population was much smaller aud the number of policemen was not more than one-fourth as great as now. Each addition to the police force swelis the number of arrests and the number of trials must necessarily increase ac- accordingly. ALL KINDS OF CASES. The judge hasto hear cases involving all grades of disorder and crime, from a simple “drunk and disorderly” to the most serious in- fractions of law, excepting only capital crimes, The list of those appearing before him for judgment includes vagrants and bums of ev. description—fighters, thieves and all who a: arrested, no matter what charge is involved, except murder. In cases that are indictable by the grand jury ihe judge of the Police Court hears them only as an examining magis- trate and has only to find probable cause from the testimony offered. From a mere handful of cases when the court was first established the business has increased from time to time, for the uses stated, until now it is not an unusual thing for the judge to dispose of fifty cases in a day. Often the docket of the day contains more than twice that many. In the course of a year something like twenty thousand cases are disposed of. The record of this year promises to be even larger than the preceding one. It ix not only when the judge is on the bench formaliy hold- ing court that he has to give time to the busi- ness of the court. He ix constantly appealed to in behalf of some one who has been unfor- tuuate enough to get behind the bars, Some Want to secure releases, while others are satis- fied with reductions of sentences. Parents in- tercede for their children and children for their parents, so the judge's time off the bench is often as much occupied as when he is actu- ¥ saying “six months,” “five dollars” or im- posing some other penalty. CLERK PoTrs, Mr. Jos, Y. Potts, the present clerk of the court, has only heid the position for a couple of weeks, so that he has not yet become thoroughly used to reading charges against persons and concluding with the inevitable question “Are you guilty or not guilty? The duties of the clerk are entirely diderent from those of the judge, al- though in the ab- sence of the judge the clerk has to a. sume some of th Fesponsibilities of the court and answer many questions of persons who would Otherwise uselessiy annoy the judge. Like the judge, the clerk hours are twenty-four J. ¥. Ports, in each day. He in the night o be kened and asked to take bond for the release of some one who has been placed behind the bars, For years it has been the duty of the clerk to look person- ally after the record of the United Staten side ef the court, on which are tried cases of viola- tions of laws of the United States. Among them are such cases as assaults, larcenies and all grand jury cases. On this sido of th the cases do not generally run so heavy, al- agh there is never a scarcity of them. trials the clerk makes out commitments and releases and then each case to be docketed. DEPUTY CLERK HAMPER. ‘The duties of the deputy clerk ure even more arduous than those of the clerk. Mr. Joseph ‘Harper has filled this position for a number of years, and his familiar- ity with the faces of those who are regular attendants and hin knowledge of the prac: is of much assist- » to the court, Th: al occupies a room on the 7th street side of the Police Court build- ingand attends to the business on the District side ofthe court. This Bever knows at what minute aw: bo is going sle embraces all cases 0? violations of the Din- neers, and ug from in- toxication are included in the District list, One of tho busiest men about the court is the warrant clerk, JORENH HARPER. Columbus Harper, who is known to Mr. bis companions as “Lam.” to the deputy clerk and they coun of Justice Harper, who held « position for a long time under Judge Sueil and who subse- quently acted as judze of tho court daring the judge's absence on leave. The b sine of the ‘Warrant clerk has greatly increas d during the He is @ brother years. This is because of th increase in the number of persons who like to run to court and have their neighborsarrested. Many of the warrant clerk's patrons are col- ored women, who pay regular visits , to court and procure warrants for tlcir neighbors or rivals in love in order to get a chance to swear against them. On the other hand those who have to defend such charges make a fight and if they win the laurels they are champions of the particular alley or neighborhood in which the parties re- side. If. however, the complainant wins the suit and she can say that her neighbor hadto Pay $5 she is the happiest person in the city until some one has her arrested and she hns to drop a $5 note. Then nothing is heard of her until she gets another opportunity to swear against some one. ‘Tho warrant clerk has to listen to tales of woe all day long. he first of the warrant seekers reaches court long before the opening hour, and the steps leading to the door often remind one of the entrauce toa | country meeting house where the worshipers arrive before the sexton. The prosecuting attorneys, who are alvo officers of the court, are charged with the duty of drawing the in- formations charging the defendants with dif- ferent violations of law. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MULLOWNEY, The representative of the United States is Mr. Alexander R. Mullowney. Although only twenty-seven years old he has proven a success- ful prosecutor, He re- cently received a token of the appreciation of his valuable services by # the district attorney in i the form of a substan- tial increase in his s: “VY ary. Mr.Muilowney was ~” born in August, 1863, in Richmond, Va., while is parents were en -onte from Louisiana to ithe federal capital, which latter place they reached in February, 1864. He received acom- mon school education; was acierk in the cus- tom house, New Orleans, La., from "78 to ‘80; then returned to Wash- A, R. MULLowNeY. ington, D. C..and_pur- sued the studies of architecture and law re- spectively until 1497, when he graduated im the ion from the National University was admitted to the bar and re- d the appointment which he now holds. He is a member of Columbia Commandery, K. T., and is also a prominent member of the Co- lumbia Athletic Club, Tis duties are confined | to investigating violations of the United States laws and he hears the statements of hundreds of witnesses every week before tie cases are taken into court. Many of the moro important | cases originate in this court and the prose cuting officer has to uudersiand bis business thoroughly in order that his cases may not fail at the beginning. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY DUMONT. On the District side of the court the prose- cutor is Mr. Neill Dumont. This officer prob- ably prosecutes more cases than any other one man in the country. He was born in Massa- chusetts in 1844 and has two bullet wounds which he received in the late war. Graduating at Ann Arbor, he engaged in the cotton manu- factures and practiced law im North Carolina. While living in the latter state at Charlotte ho recived the republic: nomination for Con- gress, but he de r several years he practiced law in this city before he Was appointed to his present position. His work is rendered exceedingly difficult on ac- count of the uncortain condition of the District laws, and especially those relating to the liquor traftic. DEPUTY MARSHAL M'CAFFREY. The officigls who handle the thousands of dollars paid in principally by the poorer classes are Deputy Marshal Jas. E. McCaffrey and Lieut. Cornelius Noonan of the police force. The former represents the United States and the latter cares for the District funds. Deputy Mar- shal McCaffrey has held his present office during the incum-. beney of Marshal 77 Rausdell, He was/g born in this city in 7 1857, and after grad-/ uating from Gonza College went to In- dianapolis, where he was elected to ofiice pe by the city coune JAMES E. M'CAFFREY. court | | the Atlautic. He has made himself a popular officer, and no one who ever filled the office succeeded in maintaining such good order in the court room. _ Lieut. Noonan is a veteran police officer, hav- ing been wmoug the first to put on the blue uniform and do duty for the preservation of good order in the city. During the years he has held his present position he has handled many thousands of dollar’ and never has there been a difference of one cent between his ac- counts aud those made up from the court records, Bailiff Kendig has charge of the front gate lead- ing into the bar of the court. and. among other things, it is his duty to call the collateral cases and witnesses, Bailiff Kendig guards the wit- ness stand and calis the prisoners from the dock. He isa kind-hearted offi 1 in well liked by the prisoners, who always receive kind treatment at his hands. Policeman Madigan has charge of the prison- ersand is known as the turnkey. Each day after court adjourns the prisoners are driven to the jail and work house by Dick Anderson, who is known by every one who has ever rid- den in the vehicle called the van.” pacha tein The Wonders of the Bottom of tho Sea. From Ocean. Atthe depth of ebout 3,500 feet waves are uot felt, The temperature is the samo, vary- ing only a trifle from the ice of the pole to the burning sun of the equator. A mile down the water has a pressure of over a ton to the squaro inch. If a box six feet wide were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles there would be a layer of pure galt 230 feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In many bays on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at thom in @ storm one would think the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion gocs on. Sometimes in storms these waves forty feet bigh and travel fifty miles an hour— The force of the sea dash- tock is said to be seventeen tons for exch square yard, Evaporation is a wou- derful power in’ drawing the water from the sea. Every year a layer of the entire sea four- teen feet thick is taken up into the clouds, ‘The winds bear their burden into the iand and the water comes down in rain upon the ficids, to flow back at last through rivers. Tho depth of the sea presents an interesting problem. If the Atlantic were lowered from 6,064 fect the dis- tance from shore to shore would be half as Sreat, or 1,500 miles, It iowcred a little more | than three miles, say 19,680 feet. there would be aroad of dry land from Newfoundland to Ireland. This ia the plain on which the great Atlantic cables were laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow, A drying up of 660 feet would leave three different seas and Atrica would be joined with Italy. The British channel is more like a nd, which accounts for its choppy waves. bt hes been found difficult to get the correct soundings of A midshipman of the navy over- came the difficulty and shot weighing thirty bounds carries down the line. A hole is bored through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed, moviniz easily Back and forth. In tho end of the bar a cup inside coated with lard. ‘Thi to the line snd a is dug outand the © bur is mude fast ng holds the shot on. When m1 of the sand, or whatever may be on the bot- tom, and a drop shuts over the cup to keep the sand in. When the ground is reached a shock is felt, as if an electric current had passed through the line. ———~re0—___ Holland’s Danger From Germany. There is considerable uneasiness in Loudon political and courtcircles over the condition of the King of Holland. Bismarck always cast a covetous eye upon the land of dykes and canals, and the bratal remark of the iron chan- chellor when informed of the serious illness of the king in 1894, “Weil. if he dies Germany will get square with him,” occurs to many. Calike Belgium, Holland bas no protective guarantees from the other powers and, there- fore, must stand or fall aione unless France should come to the rescue. Realizing the gravity of the situation a special mission has been sont to Paris consisting of confidential agents of the regency. Meanwhile the anxiety in Amsterdam has been transmitted to London, too gray Hairs Hele Re- out to cure them. Be Wisk ix Tink, You have hairs for one so young loocing. iwi the best preparation SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1890—-EIGHTEEN PAGES. THIS IS OUR OWN PARK It is Going to Be the Finest Zoolog- ioal Garden in the World. SOME G@REATOBJECTS IN VIEW ‘The Minds of Animals, Perhaps, to Be Studied, as Well as Their Habite—How the Management ts to Progress in Its Work-—Staking Out the Roads, OW that the National Zoo- logical Park has become an accomplished fact, the management in charge is starting in with energy upon the task of prepar- ing this future play- ground of the people for use, Plans are being de- veloped for transforming tho tract of 167 acres into ay & pleasure garden of an- imals the like of which does not exist else- where in the world. Very little that is deter- minate has been decided upon as yet, but from a great accumulation of suggestions and pro- jects the final schemo is rapidly taking shape. Already the park has been fenced all around, save where it includes the portion of a ceme- tery near the east bauk of Rock creek, The association that owns this burying ground is removing the bodies as rapidly as possible, and as soon as this has been accomplished the fence will be completed, It is of plain oak palings, with three rows of barbed wire above, tokeep the small boys from climbing over. This fence was the occasion of serious prelimi- pary discussion, and it was agreed that it should be as simple and as inconspicuous as possible. ‘The principal entrance to be used for the pres- ent will be-on the cast side of the park, at or near where the Quarry road enters, a bridge with rough masonry piers aud arches of lugs laid lengthwise with the stream providing a passage across the creck. Probably the Quarry road will be continued into the park, and the roundabout course that it is proposed it shall take is being laid out tentatively with stakes, so that it can be seen how it iv likely to appear. The people of this city may get to the park in future by the 1th street car line, if, as scems probable. that road builds a bob-tail along Kenesaw avenue, which leads almost up to the proposed Quarry road gate. FEW THOROUGHFARES DESIRED, It is not desirable to have many gates, be- cause that would imply numerous thorough- fares, and it is particularly desired that the shy animals shall be able to find retreats, A postion of the park which lies toward the south end, pretty well shut off from all the rest by the great bend of Rock creek at that point, ie to be set aside from public use altogether and be employed for such purposcs as breeding and | caring for sick animals, as well as for offices. in the seclusion of this reservation the beasts that are desired to breed will enjoy such natu- rel conditions asare favorable to that end. Here SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS of many sorts will be conducted, possibly even extending to psychical matters, Up to the present time no attention worth mentioning has been paid to studying the minds of the animals below man in the scale of creation, ‘That branch of research has bec: relegated to keepers and trainers, as if it were not a sort of knowledge worth obtaining. Atali events, scien- tific observations may be conducted on this ground regarding the habits of beasts and birds and the limits of specie i This latter question is When two animals of the same genus—hke the dog and tho wolf, for example—are found to be unable, when mated, to produce fertile off- spring, they ure cousidered to _be of distinct species, Such is a rough definition of the meaning of the word species. ‘the horse and the ass are of d:fforent species, because the offxpring of the two 1s not capable of reproducing its kind. If tho mule wero so capable the horse and the ass would be set down zoologicaliy, as being of the samo @pecics, though of different varieties. Take the caw of the puma, which is found, with variations in shape and otherwise, all the way from far uorth to the other end of South America, Are these different pumas different specics or different varieties merely? Such questions may be settled by experiments at the National Park. If it is found that these various pumas, when bred together, produce fertile young, then it will have been settled that they are all of the same speciew and merely differ in point of variety. It is hoped that the park will afford naturalists opportunities for adding a great desl to present knowledge of zoology. Incidentally, the creatures that die will be carefully dissceted and their anatomy studied. FOR EXHIBITION. Immodiately north of the administrative res- ervation is the great space—at some elevation and separated from tho secluded part by the bend of Rock creck, toward which it slope gently downward—where tho efforts of th park” management are to be altogether ex- pended for the present. Around this bill will wind the proposed road and distributed about it will be the animalx on exhibition. Very likely, as the plan most lately considured pro- poses, the tropical carnivora will have their inclosure at the highest part of tho hill. On the other side of a broad connecting road for carriages it is suggested that tho great bird houses shall be, where the macaws will squawk, the parrots eujoy conversation, the canaries sing, the gay-feathered fowls display their bril- liant plumage, and so forth. Comfortably out of hearing of the roar of tho lions and tigers, the elephants will solemnly tread their grassy and roomy paddocks, uot disdainful of the succu- lent peanut contributed by visitors, while the buffaloes in another spot will be given at least two or three acres for themselves to dixport in, Eventually it will be discovered what parts of the entire park are best adapted for the resi- dence of various beasts and arrangements will bo made accordingly. Of course, it ia not in- tended that they shail be contined to one sec- tion when the great pleasure tract has been putin proper order. At present the manage- hient is ovliged to restrict its operations to a comparatively small area, because Congress has given it only $95,000 so far to spend. It cost $14,000 an acre to make Central Park what itis, but then it must be considered that there was vory little to begin with. Probably €3,000 an acre iv ull that is weeded to put this park into shape. For 167 acres that would moan a necessary appropriation of about $500,000 al- together. Itremains to be seen whether Con- gress is willing to be generous to that extent. To show that this sum is not an excessive de- maud, it is _sufficicnt to refer to the Cincinnati Zoological Park, which recently spent $245,000 in getting started on a comparatively small scale, : NOT TO INTERFERE WITH NATURE, The idea entertained by the management is to interfere as little as possible with the purk as nature made it, It would not be easy to im- prove upon it, save by the building of roads, the construction of some ponds, the planting of krass on slopes that have been deuuded by water, and the filling up of gullies that drain- age rivulets have made through the meadows. As for ponds the park docs not afford many advantages, large fiat places for the purpose being lacking. “One plan considered has sug. [emppaw « line of ponds at the south end of the ill spoken of and on the north side of the big Rock creek bend, a strip of land being left be- tween the stretch of ponds and the creek for @ breeding and retiring place for shy birds. No planting of trees in the park is contemplated, save around tho edges, where it is likely that rapidly-growing maples, poplars and cotton- woods wiil be started, the object being to shut away from the park ail that is outside of it, in order that tho visitor may feel himself as much secluded with nature as possible. BREEDING BUFFALO, Such success is anticipated with the breed- ing of animals in the National Park as has never been achieved hitherto. Most particular at- tention will be paid tothe buffalo, which is now so nearly extinct that only 1,000 Tepre- sentatives exist of the countless herds that used to obstruct the passage of transconti- nental tralus, Of those fow surviving buffalo 256 are in captivity. ‘two hundred more are unconfined in Yellowstone Park; they are safe from destruction ualess they roam beyond the boundary ot the government reservation. Also there are 85 hoad‘running wild in the United States which have thus far escaped the hunter, and, in addition, more roam the northern British possessions as yot unshot, A consider- SS of Ugheetae ae will be weve m ‘ark and it is hoped that wee breed freely. The surplus will be distributed to other zoological gardens and to private individuals and companies which de- sire to te them. The buffalo, however, will never me & common las for private herds are inevitably dispe: the tens Bot tne Sed is pad a ee in vided for in such a manner in That is RO reason why one years or indefinitely longer it should not be there hence still supplying the world with perfect speci- me Hj the American bison. Otherwise, generation from now the wonderful beast will have disappeared from creation as utterly as the lamented great auk, a century ago one of the most common of arctic birds, a single egg of which is now worth three hundred guineas at auction. OTHER BEASTS TO BE PROPAGATED. ‘What is to be done for the buffalo will be at- tempted also for the disappearing elk, moose, antelope, caribou and other beasts, which will be kept and propagated in the park. All these wil breed well in captivity if only there is room enough. The fast-vanisbing beaver will be given sparticular attention, as well as the enormous sea cow, which great water mammal threatens soon to become extinct. Even the dangerous ae bear, equal to eight ordinary men in conflict, will ha’ chance to repro- duce its species in a strong inclosure, and if a [ores of the sea elephants from the west const of North America still survive and can be cap- tured efforts will be made to obtain offspring from them. Most difficulty is oxpected with Rocky mountain sheep and gonts, which are too much used to great heights to be hkely to thrive at lower altitudes, Among the easiest avimals to propagate in captivity are the tiger, lion, elk, puma and deer. Bears are bred readily under such con- ditions, but their young are not easily reared. This propovition, however, may be reversed by the new methods of treatment and keeping to be observed in. the National Park. Even the birds, which rarely multiply when confined, will probably do so with the opportunity a: forded them on the banks of hospitablo Rock creek. : HOW THE PARK WILL DE SUPPLIED. The park relies for its supp! of animals upon the generosity and public spirit of the people, It is believed by the management $ quickly as readincss is declared to such contributions offers of specimens 'y description will pour in from all parts of the United States, Eveu now the Smithson- ian Institution has many gifts proffered to its zoo, which is to be the nucleus of the future collection, Many of these offers it is compelled to refuse for want of room. When the time comes for an announcement to the public that such gifts will be welcome there will be no lack of responses. Unquestionably this playground for the nation will betore Jong contain tho finest collection of animals on the face of the earth. Such beasts and birds as are now housed in tho rear of the main Smithxonian building will be transported to the park very simply by means of express wagons. United ‘States con- suls are expected to makg valuable contribu- tions at the government's solicitation, and naval officers will bring specimens with them from foreign lands, Agents for the Nat.onal Museum, too, will gather in live birds and mammals from various parts of the country. THE BEAR CAVERNS, One of the most wonderful as well as de- lightful features of the new park will be the department for bears. Close to the south of the Quarry road entrance is a long and pre- cipitous cliff, in the face of which it is pro- posed to excavats real bear caverns, ‘These caves will cach have a large enclosure in front 80 that visitors coming from the park side can view tho boasts with safety in acoudition ap- proaching that of nature. One great object entertained by the management is to piace each beast in an enviroument ns nearly like its natural baunt as possible, So much being accomplished, the most favorable antici- Pations aro entertained as to its health, happi- ness and propagation. Pools will be provided somewhere for the accommodation of seals, alligators and other aquatic animals, Such, at all events, is a description of the Projected park so far as itself aS idea of its future has been developed. ge Written for Tig EVENING Star. CLOTHES FOR HOWLING SWELLS. Valuable Hints for Washington Dudes Fresh From New York. ed women in the world w York, Thatis admitted Probably as much ean be overywhore. Hfsaid for the Now York men. At any rate ¥ itis certain that they lead the fashions in this country. Novelties in dress which thoy assume and thus stamp with their approval be- come thé correct form in other cities a year or twolater. Itisby about that length of time that the dudes elsewhero are behind the howl- ing swells of the metropolis. However, the young men of Washington can catch up for this once by paying attention to the following in- structions as to what the model dandics of Gotham are now wearing. According to their incontrovertible authority the recipe for being areally truly.swell is at present and for the coming winter absolutely this: THE HOOD scany. You must wear to begin with avery broad acarf of silk or satin. It should be white, either perfectly plain or with inconspicuous figuros running through it. The figures, if in color, ought to be very light iu tiut. Sueh a scar! costs from $5 to $7. Neckties have been steadily growing more expensive of late years, This article of attire has been called the “center of dress,” and too much thought can- not be concentrated upon it. Some of the gilded youths of New York spend as much as 2500 a year on ties, Itis necessary that the wearer should tic them himself, though acertain kind of scarf that is made up in such a way that its edt? may be varied at will by differ- ent methods of folding is permissible. In no case is a cravat regularly machine-made possi- ble, Broad scarfs such as those spoken of above canbe procured at a fraction of the haberdasher'a prices, though equally hand- some, by purchasing # yard and « quarter of rich and heavy wilk and splitting it up the mid- die. Have the cut edges hemmed and you are provided with two beautiful ties for not more than $4 at the outside. Thoy may be tied either in tho ordinary sailor's knot, making the loop full and broad, or in puff shape, THE SCARF PIN. Your necktie is not complete, however, with- out @ pin, and this must be stuck always in the right-hand upper corner of the sailor's knot dnd nowhere else. Too much emphasie cannot be laid upon this very important point. Furthermore, your pin ought to be, in prefer- ence to anything else, a single pear-shaped pearl, The really heavy swells in New York wear real pearls; but one of any size costs $150 or $200, and so Roman peurls are adopted toa considerable extent as substitutes. A fine pear- shaped Koman pear] a little largor than a pon and of such excellent quality as to be with dif- ficulty distinguished from the thing imitated may be bought for 210. Real pearls of a pink- ish hue are in grcat demand for scarf pins and are also imitated. COLORED SHIRTS. If you have any sympathy with the movement in favor of transforming men into birds of brighter plumage you can wear a pink shirt, The proper tint is almost red. Lest you enter- tain any doubts regarding the correctness of this garment, it is as well to explain that the Prince ot Wales has appeared several times lately with a pink shirt on—hence the fashion. Your tailor should not cut your waistcoat quite #0 low as last year's style, and he ought to make your trousers perceptibly less baggy. Your trousers must be kept always most care- fully creased. Many of the swellest men in New York wear white waistcoats all the year around, One thing not to be forgotten is that a swell New Yorker is nover seen on the streets with- out gloves, save in July and August. A man seen inthe metropolis so late as the lst of October with uncovered hands has sacrificed his reputation forever. THE LATEST RNGLISH DERBY HAT is smaller cogsiderably than last year's, the top lower and the brim narrow, with » very tight curl With the silk hat it is much the same asto the brim. For walking shoes you ought to get the sort newly introduced, made of enameled leather, They are more ex- pensive than patent leather, but they do not crack so easily, Tan shoes are so greatly in favor that ever so many of the best dressed men in the metropolis are wearing them so late in the season us this, the Duke of Marl- borough among the number. They are keptof the color of beautiful mahogany by daily appli- cation of 4 sort of paste made for the purpose, In gaiters the proper thing is white and not brown. hd With this recipe for being a swell to serve as & guide there is no reason why any Washington dude should bea bit behind New York fashions this winter at all events. id, by the way, a (aes is the corroct thing for the button- They only cost $1 apiece, te, Memes SPs ar Christina Williams of Baltimore, s mulatto, cut her husband's throat from ear to ear while the latter was asleep. In endeavoring to es- cape the woman the man cps ber out win- dow and died in s few hours of his injuries, Felix fags Sod been confined in the in- ‘sane pavilion of Bellevue Hospital, New York, fore ne se Adgasnare Cleveland and nom- inating im for Alliance COPYING THE ENGLISH How Frenchmen Copy John Bull's Fads and Foiblea, AFTER THE PRINCE OF WALES ——._—_ Tennis and Five O’clock Teas Becom- ing Fashionable tn Paris—Difficulties to Be Met With—English Literature Not Popular. —__—_. ‘Written for Tax Evenrxo Stam, NE is interested in observing, amid the animosities of the past—the “John Bull, who sold his wife at Smithfield,” and “Johnny Crapaud, the frog eater"—the modern attitude of the French toward their hereditary enemies. The moment the Prince of Wales arrives in Paris a dozen replicas may be seen of him in dress, attitude, manner on the Boulevard. The fat Frenchman is in an ecstacy because he can make up easily into the “boule dogue” style, and hylif sets well on his plumptitude. He even rouges his fat throat and ears to copy more nearly the great imperial, until, alas, in his last visit to the great exposition the prince presented an extraordinary pallor—the pallor of ill health—which was very confusing to the French barbers. The French women, who have long «ince bowed to the superiority of the English habit, stood out for a long time inst the “British uniform,” a waterproof and an umbrella; but of late years they have invented their own waterproof, a very pretty moditica- tion of the English enormity, the only dread- ful peculiarity of which i, ike Lady Macbeth's hands, “it smells to heaven” of sulphurous india rubber, CERTAIN FRENCH ANGLOMANIACS have taken to thick, flat-footed shoes and to men’s collars and cuffs,the ves shirt, but after two or three wal and after seeing several male disdainful lorg- nettes aimed at them,the little heel begins to grow and the collar gotsa coquettish turn. A Frenchman does not take kindly to anything unbecoming in dress, Stylish ladies in tl bourg still refrain from patronizing Worth, because he is an English dressmaker, and, as as they say, stiff and un-French, Even those who are determined Anglomaniacs are curi- ously unlike the stiff English Mees whom they try to copy. The greatest cfforts at copying are confined to the horse people. At the races in the dog cart, in the matter of “breakes,” nd “‘sport- an approaches as nearly Knicker boots” as he can, and about as nearly as he does in his language. He is delighted when in England to shoot the “grouses,” and he is de- voted to “rowing men.” On the Seine one sees an aquatic imitation of the struggle on the Isis and the Cam, and one crew will declare that the other crew is all “humbog.” It is amusing to sve a group of young French poo- ple playing Jawn tennis and having atterward “tea tive clocque.” The “‘clubmans” of these sports and of the ‘‘criketers” are about as much like English poople as Dick Swiveller was like a marquis of the Lowis Quinzo period. ‘They are doing a thing they do not like to do. ‘They are drinking tea which they detest. They are getting dyspepsia from it, but they are to the reality in his * happy, because they are ‘so English, you know,” DIFFICULTIES. There‘are three or four initial difficulties which beset the English-speaking French. They never master the possessive case, Mrs. Stewart's dog is always Mrs. Stewart dog, or Mrs, Stewarts’ dog. “Never do they get’ the apostrophe in the Tight place. Sometinies they have the sand tho apostrophe in a little later, as “the English Woman Reviews’s,” &c., instead of the English Woman's Review. But is not for us, who make such intolerable mis- takes when we atttempt these beautiful I guages, to laugh at these French orrors, It is only permissible to smile, as one may always atthe imitations of the English character which one sees, Afternoon tea has become a French fashion where one gets ices, “ponche” and everything but good English tea, The weak, feeble, luke- warm decoction which French people call tea reminds one of the lemonade which the mar- chiouoss made for Dick Swiveller. If you pre- tond a great deal you can make out that it is tea. Tho wonderful book of Alphonse Daudet, which was made into a play, “L'Immortel,” hada phrase which became @ proverb. ‘Iho rug for lifeur's” were tho men who ambi- tiously sought to push their way to the front. ‘The strug for life was a word used as a noun, verb and adverb, aud had much that was gram- matically amusing. ANGLOMANIAG DOCTORS, Tho Anglomania has 60 affected the doctors that they will neglect all other patients to at- tend to a countess, or a member of the royal family, Unable to fix upon any real royal family of their own, the members of the medi- cal profession in France have so peremptorily adopted the royal family of Engiand hate matter how illany person of another nation- ality may be, it is saida French doctor would leave them “in extremis” if a queen ora prin- cess or a duchess of the English oligarchy were ill or had a finger ache. ‘Ihis has definitely in- jured some otherwise clever men in their pro- fessional life, Because while snobs are un- lovely ang to be avoided in all social inter- course, @ medical snob becomes positively dan- gerous. LAUGHABLE EFFORTS AT IMITATIO! Frenchmen try with various degrees of suc- cess to adopt English phlegm. ‘To this end you see many vivacious and graceful Frenchmen in the Bois attempting to be melancholy, gloomy and awkward, Thoy keep it up for a short walk, but if they meet one or two comrades phlegm drops out. They “ob-er-nob-ci,” as they would say, and the bright, cheerful Gas- con blood mounts to the oye and cheek. Then they remember! The binacle jumps to the eye and they become pan-English and talk of mobiame, ‘fluir tage” (they are very great on this word), “black boulage” and “Inglis” as A Frenchman who has got half glish language is very fond of He orders s “grog” or a he quotes the songs of the “colo hole” or the “ciders cellars.” He says he bas put himself outside of um- steaks,” and he soon becomes American and erders “coktels” and “sherry gobbiers,” buthe can never bring himself (and the more honor to him) to copy the American extravagance in viands and flowers ata dinner. A Frenchman is always frugal. He has learned that the first expense indulged in by the English in hor: flesh, leather outfits, good harness, good c riages and thoroughly good clothes, 1s always an cconomy in the end. Therefore he Anglomauiac when he spends money freely for all these things and has his reward init. But he can never be brought to see what reward there is in flowers at a dinner or too much to eatand drink. “Catch money if you can honestly, but catch money,” bas entered their wise heads long before it entered the heavier Anglo-Saxon brains. They are quite ready to marry an American heiress, but they nevor wish to copy American ways. They de- piso American men. There are wide differ- ences of character, as consummate a gulf be- tween the English and French character as is that watery channel which runs between, which none of us like to cross in bad weather, ENGLISH LITERATURE IN FRANCE, It was Voltaire who first said that he was the first Frenchman to make his countrymen read English literature, He had the advantage of a choice era and could introduce to them Boling- broke, Pope and Swift. He has had a long and immortal following, culminating in th. person of ine, whose “English Literature” is the best and most comprehensive of all collections and criticisms. Racine, Moliere and Dumas have, however, created an immense number of types of French men, but in none of these, except in their de- sire for imitation, can find the excuse for ‘Curacteres” countrymen, but we find no excuse for the an- jomaniac. The French are sanguine, the nglish are melancholy. ‘he critics of La Bruyere say that he is “trop descendu dans la particulier;" we might say this of a French- man. A Frenchman has a great talent for de- tail; he is what an Englishman would cal] fussy. usiness, Mis theater, his music, his after- aes his regard for holiday, his de- votion to his little journeys to Versailles, St. Cloud, up and down the Seine, all are duties DISLIKE FOR ANYTHING GERMAN. duke’s top boots, But that hardly holds good, | The French have not loved their German con- | querors. nor have the fashions become per- emptorily German in Paris since the siege. In fact, the German language is tabooed—while atthe public schools now English is taught, and it is required of the young French gentle- men that he shall speak English, and in every shop, hotel and in the galleries of art one finds English-speaking assistants, It would be bard to finda city or town in the world where En- glish is not spoken. In Paris one finds English at every turn. It is hard to find any Anglomania in French literature; none at all is visible in the drama. There the great genius of the French people remains as in a citadel, inapproachabie. A CAPRICE. French Anglo mania is therefore a fashion, a caprice, not so slavish as it is in America, ex- cepting inthe case of the doctors, It is a genuine admiration of “Le Sport,” of the manly element of the “Boxe,” which’ means to | them the half brutal element, left out of them- | selves. Their admiration for English fashions | has doubtiess much of gratitude behind it, for French emigres were glad of warm wraps when they ran over to escape the horrors of the French revolution or of the Coup d’Etat. Per- haps a “rumateake” tasted vory good after the horse flesh of the commune. Jf a ood mem- ory is three-fourths of talent it is certain), half of true gratitude, Imitation is th cerest flattery, We see very little mania in England, although the Paris and all women buy t es there, excepting perhaps a few old English Indies; we see no aping of what we once called French manners. but in Paris we do see English jock- eys, dudes and an attemp: at the surly British “boule dogue,” which is generally a failure, ME. W. Suxewoom ——___ see BUGS OF MYTH AND WONDER. Two Crawling Creatures Regarded by the World With Superstition. STAR REPORTER Iearned that two bugs, common in Washington, are regarded = with superstition. Ono of SY these is what housekeepers are accustomed to call the “earwig.” It has 100 legs, more or less, makes its nests in people's ears and is an object to attack with a slip per at every opportunity. As a matter of fact this creature is not an earwig atall, An carwig is an insect, while the bug with many legs so common here is a “myria- pod.” The differences distinguishing the two are too technical to be worth defining in detail, but one of them is that @ true insect does not have more than six legs, whereas some of the myriapods have more than two bundred. This particnlar myriapod has fifteen pairs of lege, The carwig, properly so called, is rare in this country, though plentiful in Fug where it inhabits gardens chiefly, though sometimes it lights, It is about an inch in length and its rear is furnished wit ord of long forceps that may pinch a li Most remarkable among the traits of the ear- wig is the way it has of brooding over its young after they are hatched from the eggs. 1 of the very few ins progeny after the have come int y the world. The earwig docs not make nests in people's ears, notwithstanding the popular notion to that effect, and it ismore closely related to the grasshopper than to anything else, SHOULD By ENCOURAGED. Whereas the earwig is an out-door animal, nocturnal in ite habits, the myriapod kuown hereabout by that name finds houscs its most convenient habitat. Instead of destro: housekeepers ought to encourage it, be: is a deadly enemy to flies and most pa to cockroaches, It is a predatory cri feeds upon these ob; mauner in which it attacks Prey is most interesting. It will approach a le The and devours its cockroach quictly, and, leaping upon it, will embrace it with its legs, passing its victim toward its head from one pair of legs to an- other until it gets it within reach of its jaws, Then it bites into the body of the cockroach and devours the soft parts, throwing away the outer shell when the latter is emptie: Very often this “cermatia forceps”—for such is its scientific name, and it has no very satis- factory popular one—sees a second cockroach while it is devouring the firstone. With i prey in its mouth it leaps upon cockroach num- or two, grasping the latier between its legs until it bi finished cockroach number one. Having polished off cockroach number one it passes up cockroach number two to ite jaws and proceeds as before. iapod—the term signifies ‘‘thousand- generally imagined to have a poisonous bite, but entomologists do not be- lieve that it ever attacks human beings. It is most cleanly in its habits, spending its entire leisure making its toilet; its preterence is for damp houses, probably not because it prefers dampness itself, but because the flies and cock- roaches it preys upon frequent such localities, If you touch one it falls to pieces, shedding its legs in a reckless fashion, THF REARHORSE. The other bug reforred to 18 found outdoors most plentifully in Washington and ix popu- larly known as the “rearhorse.” Probably there is no insoct world about which so mar superstitions are tained. 1t is commo: called in other the world tie * the “praying mant: . and by many other mames, It is the most formidable enemy of the caterpillar that com- mits such edaiioas upon Washington trees, and is thorefore to b regarded with decided prejudice in its favor. If you will look carefully iu the you will find upon the bare twigi little elongated clusters of rearhorse ergs, though the creature is not so casy to discover in the summer time, because 0: of mimicking in color and app wise whatever it rests upon. It has a first con- sin known asthe “walking stick,” which is so like « twig in appearance, with joints and shoots corresponding, that you would never imagine it to be anything else unless you took it in your hand. The mantis grows to be neariy three inches long. and from its eges are fre- quently hatched out not its own young, but other insects, which bore into the eggs after they are laid and subsequently come out of them in the shape of flies, A MANTIS AND HIS PREY, It is avery remarkable thing to observe a mantis in the act of approaching a caterpillar or other insect that it wishes to devour. It walks stealthily toward its intended prey lifting one leg after the other ever so slo until it is fairly upon the object, which it zea With its powerful forelegs and proceeds to devour. ‘requently the mantis flies about toward sunset; it does not bite human beiags, though it may pinch a little. ntis name is Greck for “soothsayer”—gets this name from the fact that for ages past it has been thought to fortell events. It is cailed the " because, while making for it holds ita forejegs in the air in very much the attitude assumed by a person in prayer. On account of the resemblance ot this attitude to the one they themselves assume in supplicating the ‘Deity, Mohammedans reverence the insect particularly. The superstition regarding it extends as far as the south of Africa, where the Hottentots believe that to kill one would cause the destruction of all their flocks and herds and future happiness, Among them, if a mantis alights upon the head of one of the tribe, that person is looked upon as a saiut, Other people believe than the mantis fortells death and famine. If « child is lost and aske the way to a place the insect will point out the direction. In Europe it is commonly consulted for advice in undertaking any sort of enter- rise and is supposed to indicate disapproval v lowering its head, Young girls frequently ask its advice on questions of marriage. short, it is a divinity among bugs, Amply Provided For. From Onee a Week. pray victim: Feasrrens. Canrers Axp Sroves CHEAP FOR Casy OR ON CREDIT AS CHEAP a8 FOR CaS. 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