Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1891, Page 13

TRE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, FEBEUARY 28, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES 18 STRANGE BUG TALES. SS ETE ON AND OFF THE STAGE) Sera’ |SPEAKERS TO ORDER |S2-gtSe te Rea ring a Means that certain chosen lieutenants devow is the itch,” by the watch,” wi fine conservative: Some Curious Superstitions and Myths Gredulous nick porsoa it coltadeeet | Theatrical Advertising Ingeniously Regarding Insects. # FULAR LEVEL aownnt, letter and ‘ail the ber- meee Crone pop Nerel ta the |80me Picturesque Features of the Eien Sal barecnng troy Teginring te Dusiness you must go to the Bowery. -Wieldi = Disguised as News. oyun ght he eae rpm Gavel-Wielding Contest. {rest ice edickered for. ‘So and so ie knows ANTS AS BIG AS FOXES. itlaipeinan to practically control the see the genuine sea serpent, at last state. He is informed that 2 mys 5 Surprising Myths Believed the World Over— | y the Am Animal Dealer Revenged Upon Barnem— ladies will HOW THE PUBLIC IS GULLED. | Tis Kier nest « kemired yore of iretom |NO FREE RUM AND CIGARS. |{i* infeence tn "Mr oo a seta the monster has been lassved and is now in the member. in case Snooks becomes Speaker, museum.” Curious Natnral History Facts—Cockroach- Fy Sqreh Bernhardt as = Self-Boomer—The ‘ d for Gergeant-st-Arme and Doorkeeper— | 2! himself. Or he may be promised the chair pedicels een toreguaadaaal Poy 3 Se cee Ostee tester Wettoch | oe corpont inate, Tee : Szsakership Struguies © Matter of Barter |i cnecred at impising cote feet mace Beetles—Hiretlics as Tiluminators, anit lives, and Els Theories, the doubter for a moment and then said: “Iwas | The Fight for the Gavel. influence and prestige, but also the use of @ Perforated : brought up by my mother to always tell the clerk, whose appointment to begin with will Inuterns ith the fire: ; truth, so don‘t think Teome natw: by this ‘ Paya political Suck a position means VER SINCE THE | aroused occasionally by shaking, so that they * Written for The Evening Star. to'distort face. Ite merely a case of HERE ARE A GOOD | power in the Honse and inflnence with the de- a world began miankiad | #all ight up their tominous disks as brtyhitly New Youx, Feb. 27, 1891. ice-of-e-dinner, my friend. I gE. ur. |pattments, through which appointments 4 ‘in | S¢Powible. "The people of Italy beticve that | rats WERK Is REMARKABLE IN THE of the sea serpent just as you pr ¥ pictur. | vorers abd the beads of divinitnn wheere has been engaged in! giow worn are of spiriturl natare, dwelling T hay ith the manager eaqite aspects to @ con- | under civil service rules, may be secured. Ber « weaving @ web of myth | in graves, and so they carefully w¥oid them. Stricaly for devices of disguised advertis- is test for the speaker-| fore the days of civil service reform this im ss : - e and fancy about the in- Ene biggest insect of its kind in the world is | ing. Barnum is getting ready for his annual serpent was hothing but o big amake ship,as a Stam reporter | fluence was of much more importance. In those ae ae” x a sects of the nir, the} the Hercules beetle of Sonth America. which | goason iu town, anda necessary preliminary is | with twonty feet of false body tied on him, and times the cbairman of a committee on appro- = - th and the water, ac- | Sows to be six inchos in length. Tt is sald, | booming of the show in print. The news-| PUt ina tank with bis head held out of weter, * priations has been known to withhold an appro- WAITING FOR E. Sere SOA is wee: whother truthfully or not, that great ntimbers could hanlly help’ doing it for him, | 8° B¢ couldn't drown, ‘That would be the way ! . Priation of 960,000 until, as a condition te ce = nr alia cording to @ naturalist | of these creatures are sunietimes xen on the | P®PeTe ly help doing it for him. | T should déscribe hima if’ 1 were allowed to re- @2\ Capitol. 1t may be anid | the making of it, a young woman in. whom be In the surcmer there are the boats | With whom a Sram reporter was conversing the | mammmn tree, rasping the tind from the | With a menagorie at his command in the win-| member the teachings of my good mother. Was interested was given a place in the depart- ment which wanted the money SMALL POLITICAL CRANOR. Even as things are now, more memberships in committees are utilized as the small change of barter in a contest for the xpeakership, Members are commonly willing to give their tu that the straggle for oe beng sheen | other day. With them countless superstitions | slender branches by working around them with | ter quatters at Bridgeport, a Mon ean at any | But the manager didet oare a darn about my G dail over aon sk tues newibn Sacoate | Gab wananbal by the peoples of all lands and | their horns uutil they cause the juice to flow. | time be loosed, an elephant incited to rampage | mother, aud he was just telling me to go off that important post in SABMEN IN NEW YORK Fa Fa nltine they drink to fatoatension and thus Dens ni join the Salvation Army when Tagreed to the next Congress be- Who desire to see the famous places and the | their doings afford material for much of the rink to intoxication Sesssay ONE bens lapatid soocarstion oe |= ie i= = crowds. But in winier—and this winter—tew | toe tore of every country. From the earliest | Au seuselest to the ground. [slag dea oraberememgar reece [C {085 fe Salvation ‘Army when T agreed to the nent Congron be r i ‘hes are really not the proper men to come t elections i rats sp. s ablic baile, jos and proveasions not be- |): a aa y - cen! jons were Their Chief Aim in Life is to Look} b: iF fesonalh gue’, Oar chatuaas here: ee en year, when the whole outfit bed been brought | down here on the Bowery Point out to us sunita’. Tht eum : exper of twenty utaliats, ha’ on the o to the city and placed in readiness for exhibl- | the beantios of veracity. These are hard citi- feats NOSES AND OTHER FEATURER. ; i is To ‘sa : scp i vase is now being conducted most and Like Private Coachmen. Fears, tastifien to there baving beou iu all that | speculating upon and recording everything Some Extest eatin hr ged Make Mis} tion, word was = down to the icdeing te: ot 4 a Lo oe core a ~ % oi eb sors use an yotee in return for sSeafentons ot cnet time no season like it. that waa to be ascertained respecting these sore offices one morning that an elephant ha ther ; : will grow steadily more energetic the * enable the a lie candice ok to poral persia ng SCT YI YOU EVEN TAKE NOTICE HOW] Licked ‘up a tremtadeos tempos The ve | UNE tbe trath. to. them "is preposterous. | moment when, about four weckabetore the new me of them ure apt to doubt that the snake We | House is organized in December, the various ATALK WITH A STABLEMAN,! Tostndy hacks and hackmen there's no bet-| Herodotus, the father of hi tory, writing in commonly addicted people are to Porters who went to investigate suw as docile | show then is really the sen serpent. Ono man : ~ ° ter place then Chatham Square. Andas there's | the fifth century before Chriet, tells a very ro- | Making faces?” snid a philosopher at the Cos | an alephant ay ever was, but his inclosure wae | got into strong argument with me about it artes ¢ a apeongeic ape alia to vopeeseat sales Of coures, teasoae no better pla shere's no ‘better time than | markable yarn about certain snts in the coun- | "0" Club toa writer fcr Tue Stan. “Observe | shatterod, a dog lay dead and un eloquent maa | the other das, and said a be knew 44 waee! ¢ ind henrieian ee Pwr m — : tain limitations upon the trafic in them, Then comperition is dull. If one looks too poor | try of Pactrica which were bigger than foxes, | tho persons you meet in the course of ony day | was there to deaecibe the wild scene of brute one when be oune over trompoeitnd and ft und | in obd tieece ‘was the custom for each cont. | shill anf Ime ante one hae the better chance for ab-y MONg somewhat less in ize than wolves | and you wili hardly find ons ont of ten who is | rage and homun terror, Of course, there wae | OU hel Re came over from Ireland and it bad | , Tn old pense at his headquarters convivial | the appaiuterents independte Pedestrian, one hae the better ebance Hibbs ob) hone extraordinary insoots lived underground, | no¢ more or Joss given to grimacng inciden ¢ in rebuttal and uo legal rea-| jig me for having deccived mim wasly explain. | delights in the shape of Uyoor and cigure ad | The Denemene intopend wf So f Paani en hoe fe Pt wea Paired, boing brought up trom the | Aly to conversation. Some screw theirmouths | #02, to doubt the truthfulness of the wit-/inf to him that ft wus generally supposed by | Hbitum, so that the oil of electioncering was | ways most Useful es a medium of exchange Be Tolls About the Idlosyneracies of His Cus- tomers—The White Horee Superstition— Macks and Hackmen in Chatham Square— c é During the present week, howover, a rt q " made easy by ch ted ote for Speake: ng swop) aos are on you. slightext Lend | depths, and the natives wore accustomed to go| YP in an annetural way, others constantly S worked a carious revenge devpecouane Aenea ie Serie eeakes| mame kc mae ist daring the oc, wien | carpi ebay at eee wort of of the body, and a score of voices are raised ix | with anoks to collect it, choosing for the work | wrinkle their forehoads, and so on with ail . imports and sells ull vorts | of it had red hair others were bald. Now it is | there prevailed in Washington « much greater | manipulation will be actively in progress here Written for The Evening Star. clamor and as many figures spting eager — the hottest part of the day, because then the | sorts of absurd aud unnecessary distortions of | of dumb creatares to showmen. Barnum used not the sweet ard balmy trath, good st | laxity of morals and behavior than is now tol- | eight’ months from now. At time the BF. CABMAN, ALERT AS HE ALWAYS 18| OMY proffer. Buton sunny morn Juin, | RUM, whieh wore trightfully Herce, wero hidden | feature. Mubite of the sort are very undesir- | 20 be one of his heavy customers, but vf late has | that ia going to satiety this class of citizen. grated. It was carried to « point of abuse | new and doubtful men, as is usual, will be the to the beckoning ned of the publte, to. the | ny aula cusomer ie act show | icons totes. Uo arriving at the place | sie not only becatise they are ugly, but eleo | “cult directly with a Germancousera 80 tha | “ty 4 Young man ‘ho had questioned the | which brongt sbout a sudden change, and | chief objects of interest from the polut of wiew — nd jee et ergeting things in Chatham Sqr e& the plunder wax to be obtained the men ’ ’ A ig | dealer has di veracity of the shouter rowarded the latter for en things have been altogether | of the Lieutenants, and the prime subject of faintest quiver of an encouraging eyelid in bis | is t out to Gill their maucks ax quickly | for the rensov that they make wrinkles and | thas Barn — “108 | bis pleasant volubility by giving ima cigar cto longer is the best Kentucky whisky | tal about town will, be the rulstive direction, has yet one aspiration in his heart, | Doss. gives an extra touch to lid bucsen and /ax possible and get away with the | permanently affect the expression. Often do T | edvertising, by having » baby elephant make | and’ expressing the hope that he might some | spilled regordiem of expense and Deernt came strength and’ qualifications of” the ene which neither long years of service nor the buf-| Tields ae to, th ielighta of « ttle com-| utmost — expedition, for the ants, | see a really pretty girl actually make herself | his way into the upper story of an adjac! fit | day get into x position that would ‘not expore | seattored’ broadcast among the boys when a|didates. One aspirant will be represented foting winds of heaven or fortune ever destroy. | Meni ry Teh, congenial souls. ie Ener | ee ag et Cth, that, helt dwell- | + deous for the moment by a facial contortion | Tetidence, wedge himself om ball, | him to the icy winds of winter Ax he moved | light for the speakership is ou. The smallest |as recommenden tr vrai and long service, i | man has little chavce in his life for the futer- | ings had been disturbed, would pursue them, i Pads . way, remain thore several days, and finally 5 | away the stouter reniued his work amd cho | display of stim: jowadays would be another will be credited with He will never confide toyou hissecretinsomany | chango of ideas. ‘There w probably no public | aud, inasmuch wa they were 2nequaled in swift, | Which is intended to signify intense interest, taken ont by means of a temporary uriige, | freeing Huouter Fentmed. his work and dbo | Jsplay of impropeletys bat If youre poroee: | ei ers a conser eee ee = words. He proves himself rather with oppor- | employe, the night watchman — with | ness by any other animal, not one of the rob- | emphasis, surprise or whnt not. ‘This i with several accidents accompanying the pro- reat sea serpout, ledics and gentlemen, caught | ally known to the candidate he will take an op-| the other lacks, &e, Some of ‘he candy tunity and by his seneitiveness to possibilities, a the public talks as little. hg i aloft bers coula have oe being torn to pieces | age of nerves, and nothing is more ren anasnal and interesting was the | in net while cruising in the Pay of Biscay and | portunity of conducting you into an ad: ining | daves will be making @ running merely for the asit were. The alacrity with which, » passen-| °° bi* high box, for honre at « itme, he has op- | hat they not had a s y s m ortunity for observation. but no com ger in his cab, bie badge w concealed, the | Fie pasenger's appeals to Lim are not a « ir following, wit « view He. Probebly he will offer you a domestic lia- | to securing # chairmanship or good place ons nt. | other chroniclers of the sawe period make an illustrated column apiece to it several ‘lays imilar statsments regarding theme juscets_ | ORE not to be permite in succession. ‘Nobody is doing any devective |! jong stark. A nomber of | quired than such nervous tricks ae these. They | matter that the principal morning papers gave | now imprisoned ina tank ninety-eight fect in | room, where there is a water pitcher and a bot | sake of displaying. thet ngth. ° ts Ry We foes ee aud a match as well, ° ill be the made inn spi ictt xympathetic rew weong them Nearchus, who-apeaks of havi sit how prevent them: work to ancertain how, beyond doubt, the cle- ceeding will be most | . be ‘That quick steceato rapplag on the tcon several of thetr shin, whee were beens | °F would suggest that in every family the | phaut got into the predicament. Anyway, the ONE FAIR DAMSEL'S WOE. gg teh ay cere pt ye cahaana bo semieaeee te PR gm | by the irate passengors within, or the dir as those of leopards. St has been surmised | members should take notice of such litile tricks | establishment is immense! ¢ exploited, aud Bar- —-- of ‘heir contests for the speakership, offered | Cox was a typical oko candidate. : and corrections called through the half-open | thet the ants in question were, in reality, the sebseah thers he abot num ‘isn’t in it” at atime when he ou The True Stozy of What Befell a Washington | their friends no more profuse hospitalities oa * aa door, and the sometimes noiay di fimail Yoxer of Thilla, which may Inve’ bron | ove another and corzect them by gentle aug- tn eter eae Scots ne moe pratese hosptuliaien | DANGRRS OF XEW CONOMESEMEN. relative to rates, make up f01 Tepresented by travolory ag ants because they | festion, Ft have found, that method, rire | oche emf seatvenity pte the two great competitors for this |, A*for the new men in Congress, above re- the scene of the communic: lived in holes in the groundh the Find are monslle altoethor ancenselous, |, be eminent Sarah Bernhardt bas put ia on ny - onor through so many yeurs past both ve. | ferred to, they will de their best to cast thets him. But at Chatham Square there are none THR FEROCIOUS BLACK ANTR OF aUTANA. Sel ee me Saeed of x means of | dustrious weck et extra publicity. Sarah has | 66 St rt Sine TO cead tome tae an aan {the last twelve. | votes for the man that be gol to win, end wil) of these things sud he bas timo for repose. |» “4t ‘ cody En ae eel ta Teer ae | let haw big dag tallow ne ade & eqn aoe, her bosom fFiewl, “L found n gray bait | Month the one te prec eat weap 4 A ‘he clovaied Caine rail overheud, cole sare. Tn the forest of Giana do actually dwell | correction.“ it tw wonderful, ow, ther grow | Wt Met bis dog follow her nto = stage sowne, thie morning, which I em sare must be the re-| house and. the other by death. So now ite: | Puutiher of three eect a cree orem, te y rumble by on the streets; ome very ge and caedingly ferociona - J ' af H Ms ri Aen ay a tet pry 4 - = ¢ and reeroas, and foot passenuérs aud peddlers | black ants, which throw ap hilly fifteen aud Apr meyer opera gee Oy abe ng cariot hi shew sete tes trae tee ek Aaa tactic surg? Se piciema eons cope? . Pdheagnenpe. plaaplig di mclledlged + chat hoi poms vane ta Oe edge their way through. mut then the sweet- | even twi eight. ey wil ot hes- rr vl ‘i a Byrn he 8 x > ¥ * abt: nd is he ie ers while ¥ “s av heart, forall that, utd someianen the mothers | Sune Wastes ede ee Rese es He iactake of the mpiei of wnamaiabis | anit hn leclied to explain theme tea lectin | Bored word snd honor uct to tell— Fanuing, unless pomtlt hy rartenariy | Control ofthe nation ealfairs they are lost the fan tees aren cues, and somoetinaes the ieters | upnally givens wide berth. ‘The traveler Me-| (ual n&t partake of the spirit of, unemiahle + ant lie lectined t0 explain them, thus lou “t promise.” fatored’ few behinl the arres. "Td do othe nue 6 tan patacdioen comer aan Maton te oot beckons “tetin [snp “geome Protea See i Gros tuany dowestio establishments, where angen- | things the has been Fann “Well, you know young Jimmy Traddles?” jae would be to rink exciting criticism ata Mouse. not listeted te if whee, goto chence te 3 : 2 fon of one of these fortresses and tte inal H enport in a publi “Teed * fight wth him were little.” | eriticn: time, and perchance to lose cold- ord, and = open door of hia conch, mies op a itanta in away that wascersinly extractdioe, | #2 comments are baudied about rogurding the | enpo P sed t fight mrih ime when we were little” | ezise Perchance to love cold-water say a word, and perhaps unable to secure even “He took me to «upp oand, with ite censpicuons lettering, removed meiderstion of a billif they venture te ith jaunty aye Teaning ou the door. One | 4 trench was dus entirely around it andMlled | atures and other physical attributes of this | of their respective borg mols mand t actress and a grout se : wre. les ti least of life ts all his | \y; ~ grea ‘ ian vt, for WHERE THE LIQUOR FiLows. ipeaus aie scascateal cx soet coaunass e- condentrated ‘eepece into pls the bast otal al point “then train of arty aiwaye sect to be atopioot dis-| Bat anaticcre wn tree depos hasdi caprmayanet aie ecloatcacecd Be plenty of drinking done at such | liniaons ir ce ever-conatant de- | head is be em a it 1 7 U Oe ave int a native actress of minor lone : ‘i . a bore | co taste TGoukiing. private.” Hiels sever| groupe and mmeks,"‘Siszhcte uf ene abaie Dreces with cannon ballte, ‘The savaemaated £2 | pute in households.” The feature in the most “So T bave hesrd. He way have been iinger- | "mes about the headquarters of candidates | Some Mean Old Bachelor's Yarn. balls. 1 rather « clover thing, too. ‘This was Lille : too old for it nor too florid of hue. and long | 4nd texture cover the horses, whose noses, | Escape, were all burned in tote stent by tt Rake Daa yah amiotion kag’| Vote. Ghetookan sige pacer ta ples PR FIN re laked mgd rg pars epee negtegeg after fate has so stamped him with signs of | “¢eP buried in bags of oat g balf | cross the fiery gutter. On more than one oc e “nag pn: in a farcical piece, and one of the episodes re- | tan he should have in the corner of the sup- | Cl sivle of condue public service that, even to the casual eye, he | not Portion to the ground often sa early as Je | caaion ante ave done so much damage in con- | fem Persone’ Huaal 0 ig F street or Pennsyl- | quired her to omorge into view clad in the | Per Foom, after bringing me some tefrupinand | se cnn ic o J o clock in the morni: is a sight not want- d eT - “dl r he ‘i dm cl id i ‘0 na} aii hos lost all laim to distinetion his agpration | ing in the picturewqne thie romp of ment aud | ya wobec prep corn rotons ome coard'ta he bashed anQ seaaat hy ee tater | cea anel ached Ue nee: | aeatiae toward the private lingers. One sees it as one | horses, in this dusty, bustling district, and the the hills of the white ants, known as very nearly all the peopl sbashed and am y her skirt- | and I asked a young ian whose face was famil- wr | Who are not ming for the speakership. The | Prem the Lewiston Journal cid atyle of o: ing the fight for that office | At one of the teachers’ institutes held « few the modern fashion of Years ago in Maine « rule was in force that who- for the more important of ever entered the morning session Jate should positions in the House—the tthe door and of Reript- es of sergeant-at-arms, doorkeeper and aa qr eigenen + i i : rw ‘oven that are twisted to ouc lees (Condition and the curtain was to fall liar to me to bring me one. He did soprompily | postmaster pectiulariy. Aspiraute fo. these we. oquettion fam aeme pit ot eer oe Sees Ses ARs Bie scallion, tases Mecca, | ST chanéen of i eatecemticd coerce | tee, tie ume eee bein eur | Butthe mort curionsthingisthat doator every | almost instants. Thin scene had ‘been given | {0 engaged bim in conversation. “1 thought | Poste of dignity begin ‘their Cork long in ent | Pression of an iden for the edifiestion of these thet half-unconscions movement of the shoul-| tits Their rather patronizing sympathy for fod i % tho bea Toft there until | :000 noses are inclined in the caine direction wo MOULDS of the flay a6 an-1 (re Peepers ‘ly to my first | Y@Ce- Already many of them are here en-| present at the session. There was present af ey A ee ee “the Vanderbiits and other rich chaps who | his flesh was eaten trom bis be re unti ked a dissin- ter and with no particular comment | be was rather bashful, and bis reply to ins aged in canvassing the members clect. They _ the session a plain littie old maid «“unappropri- THE STABLEMAN'S CONFIDENCES. tried to run cabs and couldn't” is delighttul. = ee A physiologist why this vo und he | upon it; but itseems to have been desired by | remark was simply, ‘Yes, mecs.’ His accent | Will open their hendquarters in Washington ated blewings,” I believe they call then: now, ) It isthe prosperous proprietor of the up- Sereuarreey 18 90 VER Lowey. said that it.was because people, asa rale, blew | Lilla to imprevs herself epee public attention | made me sure that J was safe in saying: before lates for Speaker have en- | Who was continusily saying and doing imappro- sauna aman ‘idea & hi a A belief is, or used to be, current among the | their nosos with their right hands. Xs well as | in tights. She is» notebly pretty girl and| ‘I think Imet you the othe: night at the | pore” pat Willard’ the Metropolitan and | priate things. “It seemed to ‘come natural to town stable who will you into his confi-/ 4 long period of observation among drivers Mormons, who suffered grievously from the | 1 can make out, our noses are to 4 considerable | clever in her acting. She has demorstrated | French legation?” i jeg, | te National. | Among themselves they will vie her. She was late one morning, was this ~“un- Gence, |For this you must get bim at « quiet | of all kinds has led to the discovery that none | Devt that the locust wuss cron vet the | ¢xtent what wo make them. Xo two people | thut she ts also ingenious, A few days before | |“ "No. mors: 1 donot think so.’ be replied. | as to who shall spend the most money-and give approprinted Maing,’ end xausne ta, the moment, somewhere about noon, when most of | apparently ever use glasses, certainly almost | °° Shine the oon the | seu their bandkerchivts in quite the sume man- | the production she vowed ton reporter that she | But we haf met on other happy occasions. away the greatest quantity of liquor aud threshold she electrified those within by re- he morning cabs are coming in and the con-/ neveron the box. An old family conchman | *Piler and the buffalo. In Chine the popular | nr. A, whose nore is u decided snub, habitu d never, never wear the tights which the| “By this time I was convinced that he | cigars. suavely: “1 love those that love Me, on of sending those for the afternoon has | who wore spectacles and who whistled when the | Lotion is that insects of this description are | (5 wipes it skyward, while B cncourages tho | dircetions in her part demande Instead, she | was an attache of one of the foreign | “That ie a great season for the colonels and and those that scck Me early sball find Me” not vet begun. It is then that he has seated | family stayed too long in houses or stores is | batched by the i downward inefination of ix probowis with | would put on top boots, or something else thut | embassies [have a weakness for foreigners, | majors and'all the ether deal teats ot ketene — soe himself on the two rear legs of « ip back | sometimes remembered in the streets, and an | { ? vigorons puils at the end. ‘They do this quite | woul princely enongh, without reducing | 3 they do firt 20 charmingly. Se 1} tion about town. Having nothing in the world Gold is Orthodox. chair, with boots touching the air-tight stove, | old public cabman was once seen driving down ‘ aneousciously, but the repetition of the opera- | her legs to bare outlines in public. Then the | giggled and said: to occupy them save the pursuit of free drinks From the New York Morning Journal. redand white from misused fires, the inevit-| one of our avenues with apair of heavy-rimmed | Srettest a id Hon many times a day, , rom carly | manager, of course, declared that she would | | “It is very nice of you to say that they were | they devote their time 16 making the Trond cf ‘The tende: spot and purse that Jobn D. ombed dog curled up for warmth un-| spectacles on his nose. but so far ax is known | *2fered, it childhood, must gradually aifect the contour | have to wen: the lights or resign her engage- | happy occasions.’ rg the various Ieadquarters, conversing orsct- payonqier iron eee aces teat 3 me derneath and the shallow tin basin for water on Faery the only instances on record where of the part as tho fleshy tissues and ment. Well, the opening night came and the | ‘**Ah, mademoiselle must know it! he re-| arly ou politics and proclaimin;, their adher- wnereng ang, sa ‘The vigilant bookkeeper, eternally scrateh- | gtasses have been used by coachmen or drivers, Arabs | grow and harden. 1 once knew | audience was aler{ to the extraneous interest of | sponded, with an air of ectasy. ence to the interests of whatever candidate may {0 Teligious and charitable projects, expecially ing at orders and accounts, siteata desk. Cor-| "There ig @ certain general resemblance all < bare whose children had all of them the occasion. Lilla dashed out at the right | “But vou foreigners are so given to co happen tobe setting up the whisky they are if they are connected with the Baptist fuith, riage Se er and ee cabmen bear to each other that does nut be- fog on tad fen a welts eee: were rell-abuat a geet termi cod en a that one hesitates to believe anything a the moment, Sy this ingenious keeps a swarm of begging ministers at his 4 e y nee ~~ , fe bod y Ni os Wain, taant baserel ne samarann eomen| and pose pechape: Few, people Seer donee | otra” According to. the wtatomant of these ms her {0 the stage she declined uutil the uprose |" ‘Ak, moes,’ he aid, sighing heavily, “se tip pretty tach all the time te eectiied | doors most of the day expressing the temper and character of the | cabman's face to see whnt his features are, | PeDle, the locust hus the head of the horse, | prevent them from spreading. You will notiee | had nearly spent itvelf and. then came out with ladies of Amerique are s0 vary venutectul.’ | 45. the tational capital, whither’ they hace . z calied nome te men who had used them, stand upright in the | Certainly no woman has the fortitude. Thai tho eves of the clephant, | that the victim of catarrhal trouble is likely to | ® cloak draping her persou completely. “Evidently he was not so. bashful as I had | drifted since tho war, they can get along per- he oo xplaining aoe unmistakable = mek b eal ng fener GS Es lave a nose with a slightly bulbous extremity axe. ee ae ~ Merge smowrel pana fectlywell without any thing to ent so long as they Tent sere yay Ss uieh eal vades room, avy ae stale id the result of unmerciful tweakings, and so it is ao 8 wi vou! a im r con- ve plenty of al 5 yd r oom though no pipe is lit hore—an re in the legs of the | ith every one who abuses this ’nsetul eitr of | tt ™ yell-planned and neatly executed anne. iu this worthy cause : sidered that American women excelled as to| “The canidates know better than to offend !°F; Ay dragon. A common belief in thi 178 eta are oemeyaeer cereeanrne itary apiny pr lgelopy beanie ypadoa/ premsocny le aay , meee,’ he replied. “Par- | Those eestenns te see cont a matere, | church. Sas 0% Je of torture to which the nose is subjected. 'y “ “In effery reepec' . “‘Par- ose gentlemen —many of m persons of “SUS. . ” Zs aly that the wing of the insect is alwa; hed | The almost invariable inclination of the nose | Datk tights matching the rest of the costume in | ticularly in ze beauty of—what you call it—ah, | position in the south before the whe meteoy | Lunt doesn't mates.” Jak Ge ean; i cither with @ lester W, portending was, or the | to the right is presumably due, as { was told, | colo: are icuoux and do noi suggest | yes, their hides.” Ahem to pennilessness —wield a certain influence concn Ar } letter P, oe | base Diodorus Siculus, | 49 ‘the practice of manipulating the moelling atall. Lilla knew that fact, of course, | “I couldn't help Fisting era at that, but I | in Washingt They areonly loafers and dead who lived about C., described a tribe of | 9, tus with the right hand. So, you see, if do. But did she seek that refuge | checked myself and corrected him, saying: beats for the reason that work ix beneath their locust caters in Ethiopia, who were accnstomed | SPPate not to reconsile ourselves io erenked ? Oh, Her tights were of that y skins --not hides. dignity. Theiracquaintance is most extensive, “ind to procure thelr yearly supplies of food by set-| noses we must be careful how we pull them | lightest yet bright shade of lavender which bjeoted. with an accent of doubt, | they know personally almost every member of ‘And you dare to tl} ting much combustible material afire in @ val-| Sng must cultivate trom early youth a con- | passes on the stage for fles color and were in | ‘I baf been tola that if is not proper to epeak of | Congress and they are employed 0 no small ™8 you kissed that young Hankinson last ley when the swarms of locusts passed re to venient ambidestrousness in the use of the | radical contrast to the durk purple double: and | Young ladies’ shins.’ es for petty lobbying purposes, as go-be- evening!” “{ don’t hnow whether it’s fashion of 50; ¢) that they were stifled by tho smoke and fell to | Mouchoir. cloak. which set them forth as vividly as though'| ‘Then I giggled some more, but, noi wishing | tweens and otherwise. Purthermors, thee are Weeping Daughter—“The—the mean thing ng eo ol the ground in vast numbers, to | appre Srwne _eoe something hud suddenly rendered a set of con- | to pursue the discussion further, I changed the | potent in the making of rumors. No-one who \-kiseed ine firs: ” sition,” the proprietor will tell sou “I've | shalanz of gesticulnting men who greet her at | fathered in heape with salt’ and. 80 proterr ‘Tea Incbriety. coaling skirts transparent. gublect and anid, as Usaw the delinquent Jimmy | fas not made legislative science » xiaty ee : thought about it a long time, but you can’t tell | i station or a boat is one of the most alarming | Owing to their peculiar dict these people never | prom the Boston Traveller. THE SCHEMZ DIDN'T WoRX. ae idage Seaking his ‘ay ity any direction, that | realize how much influence rumors have in Low some of my customers feel about a white | objects she knows. And when to the wild 8 | lived to grow old, being eaten up by maggote : my day ‘yas Tuesday and I should be very " Ginriod in : horse. There are some who will white | tomime te added chorus of fearful sound ail | Which bred in their flesh. People havo come too much to think that in-} ‘The waste baskets in the office of big news- |", UY 2A 3 Ming, rs. Started in a hotel r Locust aro muel pleased to bave him call. I pormisted th bs Rcsecin~ Ah i From the St. 4 horse home. ‘They won't drive bebind one. Rossibility of independent choice and action | Wed for food in Africa today. Flights of them | temperance applies only to those who are in-| papers are the receptaclon of most of the |PriSin fizctiner halts jParmitted sue or, & Tumor passes from monk fe |. “Oh, Charli “ leserts het re alcoholic liquors. I Rags H 5 . a € . There breathes no woman who | &€ consided such a blessing by the natives in temperate about the use of a schemes of publicity invented by actors, but | plate—a courteay which he thereupon pro- mous, mining the credit of each responsible *he nestled a triffe closer to him, “1 om so glad could stop at that time for calm, detiberate | san? parts thet the rain doctors are ¢mployed | think it's time we began to includeasinebriates | here ig un instance where, by mischance, the sweded to bestow also upon seven or eight other | person who speaks of having heard it, until it you are not one of those Indians.” study and choice. And those who are wisest | +0 fetch them by their incantations, those who a temperate about all strong | matter deserves to get into print—in a way. | 4'"I#in my immediate neighborhood, extend- | pots to tye accepted nt trnth and soln and" “Well, should hope so. But why, partion- take refuge under the protecting wing of a CRICKETS AND REARHORSES. drinks, especially tea. It isa great deal more | A fairly well-known actress wrote out a ramoz |'s With the utmost coolness a line of the | Even laws are change ‘ liceman and leave the choice of the sub-| In certain parts of Africa crickets are said to trite than true that the fragrant Bohea is ‘the | that she had = Privately married to a Wall | plates m order to avoid the vulgarity of piling | 9 judge or colonei bee ble if 1 dou't send a docked tail. It's pretty with bim. , * re after this had been dupli- | them along one arm all the way from his finger | faischood in a publie place and thus set it in | “Because they are disarming them.” hard sometinies to know what they ail want | “it ‘one, however, really wants to. stndy the constitute an article of commerce. Peoplerear | cup that cheers, but not inebrintes.” Right met super srg vrpone, be thing g ane then be was glad it hadn't happened te h ant i ? by the id of @ friend, she incl it | tips to bin chie, Then, waving a napkin Keres bp tact oat an gure cnt apy [ee Tneee hut" feos orci | meta iinet ea. ‘pettn ve ra tac wien fat tang x | tet, naan emer part of the oy | ml aie Tae ee Not Account for Bk i r ila’ rt Vt tea. When warn s pa, upen. a atk v uner's side he Cariient ¢ puld No se ove btigat et Bry bane | Bans tamed Troe hess sles | See le Satan ‘eee | tetanus arg th ary S| samo pontie ad "indigant” ae | "Wik het ity woods ng sation | Jot “toment. “i'l i eat ttt rm ane et poehasege op oak prime ‘ined Genes, berthed me sumed Serrien, when Gon re evil, while othere Cotalder it to be a hecblnney | health in thas yielding artical exhilaration ao story. sone sets of _coruminies- == oat ae | Sutumn. 8 ich Menas those it is desirable ww f mt You seem rather ‘blue’ this evening, a0 ws 9 wh ¥ i le she re; ‘I know, but what can Ido? It > , care! placed lopes, reing : nel [pene ae pom eo es Se crosman collide ries inctcoal dock room Ca aaheun, 0 ‘nskels: ia the foarte pear brights, and ono hasn't a right | but an socident bap ned in the mailing of served it, 1 think. because there was DICKERING POR PLACES. He—“Yes, I have had a headache all day and ody in the street. If the drivers do thet, its | enpetiis nes pe nigh a aan can es- | One, of the, most og Mich i 0 commen tn | #60 among one's friends and be Qu.” irre upon pe topoagpr tented act The candidates for the position of door- I don't know how I came to have a; their own risk and their own profit. Some-| are uttered in half-eubdued tones, with ghosts | Washington. The popular beliefs are familiar il i ‘des Grtcaee abet tor -Paabeaan oie bao keeper of the House are in a position to scatter She—"What were youdoing last night, eh, See” Hen ite way, uptown, where it don't] of solemnity haunting them, then it is that the | % to its powers of prophecy and other euper-| Shot the Horses to End the Runaway, | the act forgot all about them until inte thet | Worse for a superfluous glass of extra drs. As promises quite profusely among the members whieh one detects the hot ironof the over- heated stove, the demp of balf-dried biankets and something of the stable beyond. ‘Our prosperous proprietor is altogether at home here, undisturbed by the stamp of the Enpertinens pealel the telopeee bell soma? impertinent peal of wit rade and intrusive ae the mau who blusters inte your house without knocking. OBJECTIONS TO WHITE PORSES. stork, the wings of the e: fle and the tail of the * snid the rich man, “your money by it. Many a time hus | jar), paid money to state a /7!3 matter, L guess they do it. But they don’t do | cabman out revelation. N natural attributes. “Presumably the notion as | From the Dallas News. Nest sen ch to | it was I made him take ms directly out of the F ‘I don't know what I was doing efter 10 it down bere, and they don’t drive where they | hea intanes, Ca 88 @ revelation. No one | netur mappored sanctity iy derived from itefu-| | Deputy Marshal Tom Smith returned here | thé edigors: by miewenger, eesoraion be waa | supper rocts just in tine to Ovctbiens the ‘he perme cra ary dg. her cues oe ck. oughin't. If I saw one of my cabs standing in A CABMAY'S BARNIXOS. Forite “praying” attitude. If a girl takes 1 | today from the territory and tolls of a thrilling | rection which her mistress had left, ‘The vec | teresting foreigner tell another. waiter cocetchecasrae Mani Earn por penn see front of « saloon I'd order him home, I 7 ‘the mantis to the junction of three roads and asks experience of his « few nights ago. He and | shot was that the enonymous accounts of the | 4001 that he had ‘fait un gomplete ima oer econ oe nd orchcres ro you will vote for Disiributing the Credit, Wouldn't care who the customer was. It} To make money the cabman must average $6 | it from which direction her lover will come it Sepais Mecthal Rocks poate ‘us | Mincringe GIA Dot rence the oMices aati tan | Ou Ia ike ta plus belle da be eck Sate of ee east te tho Repromntative- man City Gur. would spoil all my trade to have oue of my | Or @7aday. Certain of them, bent on private | will respond truly. When the insect kneels it | Deputy Might nad dere crete | same day that the denials atrived, aud co the | “LGoodness!" ejaculated the confidant. Sent k ane ee eT oat Simpoml, supposing ~ ay, ot a sabe banging round in that way. speculation, will often rent cabs and horses | sees an angel in the way. Supposing that it,| prairie between midnight and day. In eross- | ame Jay that os a violent contradictor | | “You may woll say #0, my deur. And now that Lom clected. n $1.80 appointment. To Without any intention, probably, of lighting from different stables for $15a week and so | alights upon your hand, you are about to make | ing a ditch Booker, who was driving, pitched of something that bad not been published at all. | *uppose that the creature should actually call!” | each one wi Se offen te te alte ee, candidate Senator Gorman of Marylaud, Gov. Russell of ply a small trade of their own. Nocab without | the acquaintance of a distinguished mn. | head first over the dashboard on the ground. seit aa ears Sel nek te la eo eee matter of bas | Nasachass the defeat of the isos cen stand in trestof the same {it it “Injures gos : in any h it | The horses became frightened and ran,” Smith 2 ee ene Siioe Be decizes can bo obtained | sores bill. in no other way. | Such is politics ikewise the would-be scrgeant-at-arms hasa considerable number of places to dispose of on Hometising Wetiee, the same conditions, soveral disbursing clerk. From the Cone ¢ ships among them. So, t90, has the capectant Well, Jo postmaster of the House, who has the prospect of employing a large corps of assistants neces- sary for carrying on the business of a post om d y, wi Waiting for chance customers. Hotels have | does but rarely, yeu will lose » valued friend | was in the buggy helpless, as the iines had | _ Thre is not one fashionable theater in Now Weer den citer These at taste pee | Con emeag hete tes mantis, as. it| fallen cutaide: “fic bad ve Leownige ot ine | York-—bocause there are many. This was not however, can be called by any one. No cab ia | bears a charm against evil. In the works of | country and did not know what moment he | #0 until late years, and now it is called to mind sent from a large stable in winter without hot | Piso it is stated that the mantis changes into a | would go over a precipice or intoa barbed wire, | because Theodore Moss ts accused. of ‘wrong- soapstones and rugs, making it ible for the | green plant of two hat breadth. The feet | He was afraid to jump lest he should break his | doing as businoss manager of the late Lester st of ore comfortable pe fixed into the ——e Fone: (gin wd neck Koc lined peeoereee his pseoy Walleok. The accusation teplies that Wallack’s juxury priv conveyance, es) rom these roots grow, ve an! yj and in firi at the horses, an ree OT ine in public favor, ay to rit; cially thoue of Paris, is never attained, how. | degrees becomes a vegetable. Although this | frcrtakan fring. the, hersos, and thr ciel bone z, your te ek, hi 4 orsen a great testimouial entertainment, dics ahileh tecatihcen onet “f ¢ slong pretty well. Don't take Sree ta LaRue’, made of perfumed paddings, | seoms like on absardity it is in reality not im- | cost Smith $100 apiece, but he got the inan he | and finally bis death in comparative pore, wert paced ts aed Oe rege di Guiginas bottles aad mirvere eet tn elivers possible that such « thing may have oocurred, | started after. sy while Mows became vory rich, were ‘proofs that matter an in delivered in und sent outfrom a mor'nadrik or (vouday wow. Fact ta, Cm ‘The cabman has had a share of abuso in his | {for it is true that an insect will sometimes, the shrewd manager took advan poe ey Ne lhe le end day and justice is seldom done him, yet he is | under favorable conditions of heat and mols- aul tiiet ths sbeelen Guat eee both careful and quick. He abuses few privi- | ture, produce « plant of cr: mic kind. ; Seta of ieee He is often, sad. the hae been long bom mpsunen ap po i — pheno with good stable, he is always a man to be in the ground an edible mushroom that is ver} ° on gene? ates tess ta beaks ete oe highly prised commonly’ grows It often hap- | Words every second, is & rate of speed which to thelr owners. “Mistakes mare uedom or never | pent fat the ‘cryaalis of « boo, or wasp, or | seams almost beyond the power of articulation, made. He is complacent and. am sun. | cricket throws out a stom 4 that was the measure of the torrent shine of storm; he sits unmoved ou his box and | respect into vegetable, though at the root the | 7°, ust 74% bea: YE commands with cheerful good claiming the fulfilment of the promises made in order that they may pay political debts of their own by bestowing the situations thus ae Even the post of chaplain of the louse is always the subject of active elec- tioneering. Candidates for the office have no shell and external appearance of the parent in- | 1uent exposition and appeal poured forth in to offer, ‘keep no headquarters arpe, ora? carries out our St. Paul's Church last Monday by the Rev. Dr, aT their | From the New York Morniue Journal, “No indy wants to see the cab she calls in, or | Humor. ace Ciba: sie hams anu | Slo Seam tee Nara ee eee | Pabica Nesta Sty Soo ppd aed friends canvass busily for them all tho mime, Frank Ehret atience tow great deal of hie Koes to church in, or drives to « ball in loafing | .,Of ,coume, there are cabmen and there are | tated anita sprinted page ins convereational tone and Three dollars a day is fair pay for a short daily father’s real estate Lurinos nnd recently rented around street corners. She wouldn't let her | rumors float: cabs that prowl at night without WRITING To Cockoacuzs. ine the immensely increased difti- prayer, and there is a certain prestige uttached gmall house ia Harlom near the river toa to ition, so that it is much desired of = Parsons, ‘There wasa bitter fight over it at YOURé man. ‘wo days later the young tenant, the beginning of the present Congress and the | Wildly excited, came to him mud asd: ale ag el won by the barest of majori-, “Say, do you kuow that house own carriage do it, and we can't afford to let sts or numbers; cabs that before the day of commonly believed land Our cabs do what private carriages don't do. “I | Seymenausmbers:¢ things to hoopitale; | -a'see eget cid of coche nee ee eat tell you a man who wants to ha ood busi- | Cabs that drove at uidnight to dark docks on | 604 Way . ness bas to keep his eves open and to look | srrands never whispered’ ‘But cabs sod sem | to them e written letiér, saying: “Ob, roaches, support at soi Denial’ Probeaa'a as tooLnesams Tone gained distin Feput pretty near ‘these ‘curtain dame troubled pairs you rented iter the vepetition of his the = ago : hase nat go now | been 0 ties, thanks to the sympathy felt for Lis blind- | me? Well, the cellur's chock full of water.” ts close as he would after his own.” He can't | serge. “Pride has departed and forall thet ast | Sod Davey woe neighbors.” “The letter seust be | abort, and #0 it was in time, for it was dnished From the Cincinnati Entertainment. eae ae ee ee ee eee bave his carriages prowling round the streets cret services that aspiration toward the private pas hace Bay most swarm, sealed. ip sorely Are mis tion, vat io repent aeons seinsecsiMloniicisieh dap tas Mehais re House, nome ag it bo 0 | se largely dem- champagne’ iy quested Mr. Ha Bt are gencralltel hemes OF eran | "nice marke the better man ie mee Remsen, | Cane eee en sae reapecty ane 2 ak caervelad fasts amet ngoe | See eponl eee ee ee A Rich Pivanthroptat, * . ele ~ society. great E flor your drivers, t00; 1 = cockroaches io to seal up several of tint insect 2 | deal of amusement, and, in nddition, displays | in the prayer will travel by a cha ria spades ‘all over | the fact that few persons are either good ob- | he sountty and su Sourse, these’ and other | Commodore Gerry is very particulst about them. | We bare to keep certain ones to look | prom the Norwich Bulletin. remaining roaches will all go to the finder servers or have good memories. The mem-| subordinate offices are decided ‘caucus | bie-dress, with the exception of his headgear, Hons, to listen to their perlentinn cides | Prot. Brewer of Yale recentiy told » good espe, nome aid beg ee bors of the observation party are asked by the | of the majority the Saturday night before the | especialy when he wears « beaver to the opera getting mixed up in them.’ Sut there low't ant | uake story. Years ago he was in California | 81458 Toaches, they will to observe the new Congress opens. im the evening. ‘This hai isthe most oattered n ‘any- ihe triped and other « Bes ~ | 80 frightened as to leave the In Eng-} What American families have not yet achieved host farnishings isa cndaee they 60 chunes haw tena! ~ yer} thing wo important in the trade ax not to look | and had Sines sarveyor's inatra- | land hedgehogs are kept in Litchens to destroy | to any great extent and theconditices of tare, oie ys men will work to get euch sorvauts’ (nnd worn tile in New York. Senator Evarty Kita on the street teat don't tor ast tts | Dein bs ita Sera esta et im Se Socturnal fe tholt "bablis ua uttle Deasts are | scan life seem not toencourage aréreal country bop-rhyeing Places attached 10 the bouy‘in whlch they have {famous plug would have a regular politician's mark of the public off them. They’ ‘the | found that he was standing on s four-and-a- | fond of such prey. sabia ses A homes, from which the dwellers shall go to is best and who exer Gy gh nae ae | Cae kaennaad eee hs niited aah het numbers off their lamps if they The alt. fost saltieemsthe—s lange. vistews ad Bale Tn ibe Arguaties & weevil known as | town for the winter, and where their principal scribed tors. The cence pen Ev" | «5 commeinise soak wi nee ee ee there's | ing fellow. But the snake was so pinfoned the “diamond Tequest for ties and their more serious expenditures number of pega poe cod povaabes cen) tants Ungiy Se. Foams. whether you wash to 0 A fed werd Bethe West adie ts iadhat | been the ricb. Kmarioams teal” sther evening one Becker an ex-Hemtors” aud ‘ex Weprocentes | a man,” he explained, “has a brand vew a hf ann |e os en eee semper ued et Br aida tes cael sie ecmanen ot ouugcesge bie, Snry sn be Se atiy rerals, unless it oblige an old customer, ia eaten in shape of 0 | Cath potent te She staater; So ae rat yy oe oy I Ry a undreds of people whe tte ee SS SS ean big white worm, which is found in the now live in town for pleasure party” ture and, failing to wecure re-election thes | havent new look upon it wit! pieasace omens pera mets = ict Deneil mabes he setsetchicn eens Insined of ree rerms when Pervoas to fora mut get back to che political srena is" some | ain then they are eatin with their ow AVOIDING FUNERALS. Bet tees butterflies and | electric railroads the ‘Observation. shape, if only to The funeral, one discovers very soon, is pabeaqeendly a Seppe dy rather the bete noir of theeabman. At Chat- white maggot, one. more ham Square, ander the checkered shadows of that the backs of other the elevated rosd, where eabs are not cabs, but furniture are sound, coaches and backs, and the drivers in one ‘actually mere enee, therefore, are not cabmen at all, some com convivial it will occasionally open his heart. a 4 ¥ t s i ; 2 a SNS