Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1891, Page 9

- Hs “ “. . THE EVENING STAR:--WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MARCH “14, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. are also of velvet, with adouble cloth sleeve CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT GLOVES. A POEM INCARNATE. NEVER RAN TO WIN BUT ONCE. ‘A CHICAGO HORSE TRADE. nie ein eee ‘ rawneo wh metab paint hat choke ta Oe y pte ees I i imate pellormtcas HAS CHARMS. THE SERV ANTS RULE. Sy CHARTS OF THE COAST bai eae yew ><" Fit Now and no Longer | Such Was eee eee Social | Then rons tenga aS ‘The Granger Sa a Dian | A Londoner Says That 11 a | reverbodgeal with» marrow bordce of feud ea teee Peutic Value. GLOVES OF SPIDERS’ WEBS, NETTLES, ASBESTOS _ Among the prisoners captured by Anthony The Rich Man is Really the Slave of | a ros % From the London Trlewregh | fmming, wad the banque isa bordered with How They Are Engraved and Turned | axo soutcers' seauns—now | renroMeD | gp sty penne ggg eats, Mil rare at | Comstock in his raid on « Barclay street gam- sles rrp aaaaretreatie pe heed tard rho will despair of un ultimate victory this t: is in INTRO! a a disease w! ~ the Domestics He Employs. | The frout of the ekirt is set off with a deep Ont by the Coast Survey. ciuio GLoves OF cuIcKEs aux. | Sid ® fair young mise of eighteen springs | was well-built, muscular fellow about thirty | had a couple of fine horses to eeil. “This rustic, | clared tole ne hens” tormiastiet” Back, flounce of hollow pleata. while dining on a recent evening at the Leland | two years old. His face had such a familiar | who lives in an adjoining county in Indians, |Jeast. ie the happy informeti al Ter easred . IT RATHER THAN | House. look to me that I followed him around to the | came to town with a letter of introduction to ~ conveyed i THE NATTY CHAMBERMAID. ACCURACY A NECESSITY. “How 60, Claire?” inquired Etna, who was ornament is required in gloves nowadays,” said an antiquarian to a writer for Tue Star. “But there was a time when they wereadorned with fringes, embroid- ery and even jewels of price. Also they were perfamed and I have understood that an ef- fort is being made to revive that particular fashion. It is under- stood that the notion of perfuming gloves was introduced into musical contemporary, which relates bow Martyr to that fell malady at last found moans to defeat his persistent “ ever I feel premonitory twi ae happy valetadinarian, “now send for daughter, who is an accomplished perf on the violin, and, after she has bagun to somehow or other the pain leaves me. is the dawn of hope for those who not only ¢ to their forefathers the heritage of a lavish indulgence in feasting, but who have the advantage of possessing mi daughters. When Plato said, only fools take ph the whirligig of tims Church street police station to see what namo he would give the sergeant. “John Jones of Jersey, traveling man,” didn't enlighten me much, though, and it was only when he was taken below that slight limp his gait, which I then noticed for the first tire enabled me to place him. Jones—for that name will do as well as any of his dozen aliases—was at one time a very fast professional sprinter. In 1886 he was mak- ing a tour of the west with his backer, a rascal named McMurtha, and a confederate. Their scheme was an old one. The party would dro} into some little town and get acquainted wi the “sports” in the place. Jones would ran | Some remarkably fast “hundreds” and a match would finally be with some local j sprinter, Jones allowin; The this connoisseur, who has an irresistible liking | for fine horseflesh and the money to gratify it. The writer of the letter of introduction speci | ally urged the city friend to take more than Passing interest in the man from tie courtry. The farmer drove his horses to the gentle- man’s residence and gave hima the letter. just as charming, though a couple of springs older. ee . didn’t you hear?” exclaimed Claire in rise. She isan Ornament to an Establishment in the Taste and Trimness gf Her Attire—Some New Spring Hats—Handsome Outdoor and Keception Dresses. ‘Transferring Maps to Copper Plates—Print- ing the Charts and Preparing Them With Final Corrections for Publication—Agents Employed by Uncle Sam to Distribute Them. What was it?” asked Edna. “Why, where have you been? All the girls talking about it.’ ‘Tell me what it is. Don’t keep me waiting.” “Why, we had a party, you know—” “Yes, Tknow. Bob wanted me to rsiaded him to believe that we could have a tter time home.” ‘ou did!” cried Claire. ‘ell, you two ninnics just don't know what you missed.” ‘Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Why don't you tell Jaire? I'm just dying to hear.” ‘Why-—there was one of the 400 there!” (Copyrighted. ODES MAY COME aml modes may go, but servant girls goon forever, and go their} J own sweet way, too. ~_. They are like the slave who stood behind the Written Yor The Zvening Star. HERE IS A GREAT DEAL THAT IS OF interest in the method by which the govern- ment produces its charts of the coasts of the United States, including the rivers. bays and estuaries that go to make up the irregularities of the country’s shore line, as a Stax reporter discovered in a recent visit to the coast survey bureau. To begin with, of course, elaborate surveys ‘ea, they come of fair stock.” but I | y ‘ | “What do you ask for them?” | “Oh, I think that £300 or $400 will about suit me, because Iam deucedly bard up just no’ friend,” said the city — city man, off your a Tve just r of horses or I would take those | 8 fair handicap. nds, but let me xay to you th Already we are i -n-a-a-t!” cried Edna, bursting | “foxy sports” would all want to back Jones, | don’t know how to sell y You ought of . 2 not only se Burope bya lady whom tho Doge Domenico | |) evcier tenis her eyes | “foxy sports” wou! ‘our team. You onght | “passes” of the motist will not only sei n ‘ = rs nd wh tha’ federate arrived | to ask at least beginm pI bon bod: P| can alo niwter _ lioman victor and must be made and maps produced, on which | Seivo brought from the east as his bride. Ac-| "One of the 400 was there!” repeated Claire, len Gudie oe Feet ce abtnentay tn | thaltiamemeenet nner, blow about | the body asleep n also minister to, amid the acclamations not only the features of the land are repre- | cording to history she seems to have beon a sitting up a bit straighter. ‘A gentleman or lady?” ‘gentleman. well as excite, a mind disease: nomena of “suggestion of which thi ©} of the multitude whis- 7 pered to him that he } $# was but mortal. For when the millionaire has finished his splendid mansion he finds that ie mast await the pleasure of the footman to placing a goodly sum on the local man. Jones, of course, would lose the race; his party would ‘ | leave for the next town, and the “sports” you didn’t tell me he was going to be | had the “straight tip” and were “playing a .. You area mean, jealous girl!” Edna | copper-bound cinch” would realize that they bitterly exclaimed. | had been “played for suckers.” ee dear, for I didn't know it myself till I| |The last town which the party struck was got there. | All the pi andy pedigree. wants to bay a team, but you proach him as vou did me. He wi your horses. If do some bragging I think I can fin tomer. Drive past my office on La $ at 10 o'clock in the morning two or three tam sented, but also the depths of the coastal waters, by soundings recorded in numbers. When these drawings are finished they are sent into the coast survey office and are placed in the hands of highly skilled workmen, whose task it is to engrave them surprisingly luxurious young person, it being her daily practice to bathe her fair body in scented waters, although she was content to wash her face with nothing less pure and pre- cious than dew, which was gathered for her each morning by scorcs of slaves. Writers of that period criticise her much for these and on copper | other extravagant practices, such as weating F wanted to avoid a crowd, I suppose,” | cathe afquainted'with Jones, T'aariim ton | Inthe morning the ge a wanes tor mock : P . sactices, ) orning the granger did as he wae | wielded by. th peroomnlity [ othegatiar ranger ime babekelewu aeeed Parariaperee estat aes pints | HUE drenee, ut that «time cuormously costly, | said Edna. “But you ought 10 have seut for | once or twice in practice, and, having had some | directed. ther handkerchief was, shaken aid he th oy drink a swallow ex Dy 2 : ively employ: pon, | and eating with a fork of gold. is ant; that light and heat are not under h + ee See Se Fingers were those days, with the addition of napkins, considered the proper tools for conveying food tothe mou Any way it istrue that this oriental femalo altogether corrupted the hith- doctor as to the me From this to the «til held out by easy and proce, {his prescripti charming ” in ob experience in athletics, was ‘satisfied that he could easily beat the half-breed Mexican and alleged phenomenon in spite of the three and one-half yards which he was to concede in the I gave this opinion to a man named Mar- before it is; completed, because the task is a long one and 40 dificult that each e usually makes one particular kind of execution his specialty. A has not the was beckoned to come in. the man, friend. sa titt's fine team you are driving; is it for | In the office fas be hi * ‘The last illustration presents a very stylish be had seen the night before and bis | and refined dress for publie or private recep- tions, of white cashmere lattice worked with I shonld have done so. But, dear, I didn’t think of you nor of anybody. How could I? “Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Was he nice?” “He was cream caramels.” rol, that he may not even receive a friend ced the interview, ‘uples in making & t wait fifteen minntes, and that : . ened men of all ages, expecially the m laa tience to d which is shown by dots piain-mannered Venetian dames and daza-| ‘Oh, dear! And did he dance?” well-known sporting’ character of Albu-| ‘Well, I dunno. bat which has been jealously deign. to ask him what he'd like | fon Guderakist, “With ie legos © very hast: | put i 80 thickly wick the. ateel point under a | sele of the gleventh century, so that, their elty | Yes, indeed! And-I-—danced uerque, who asked my advice, but told him at | “Have they a Gascly caapiteal pecraitientes ner. {, the children 0 | soine long jecket—a combination of black and | magnifying glass that 10,000 of them are con- | later on became a namo for prodigal Inxurious- same—set—-with—him ‘Oh, of course. Yon always were a lucky girl. Did he dance well?” Claire clasped her hands upon her breast and gazed rapturously toward the ceiling. But she nt do. We al prac «. We should e same time that tho race was almost sure to be crooked. “Trust me to look out for that” said he. “Tye had some experience with these people before. I'm going to see this man Jones.” “You bet they: pedigree? have. I pale-gray velvet, with black designs in braid 7 on Vv | and gray fur, as' shown in the drawing. The front rovers are in gray and black striped faille. or occasions of ceremony, such as afternoon | gatherings in the world of art or literature, a tained in the space of a square inch—about as mach as one man can accomplish in a day—and prefers to make lettering, while B findsit more to his taste to put figures for soundings in their places than to show hills by fine lines ness, as did Sybaris of old. PERFUMED GLOVES. “Perfumed gloves were not introduced into England until the reign of Henry VIII, and it Victoria. hold their heads hig! “Why, half the ti ant me re way up in the they did not speak. very small bonnet should be worn. The one here represented is in gray silk gause caught up by black Jet and trimmed with black and white cock’s feathers. _ An exquisite silk and velvet creation in the line of spring outdoor costumes consists of silk skirt made up over a taffatas or serge four dation and ornamented with jet or dull whi pearl beads, sewn evenly over the front, and a lace flounce set baldachin style. ‘The waist is of same material, with the jet or pearl beads on *o much of the front as is Visible. Over this dress is worn a remarkably stylish velvet jacket with basques about twelve inches in length. This beautifully designed jacket must be made to fit the figure snugly and be closed at the waist for several inches with ornamental fast- enings. The basques are quite wi in front. There is a Medicis collar, whi i waist has a straight one. ‘The silk waist must be closed at the back with hooks and eyes. ‘There may be embroidered effects on the front of the jacket. The early spring tulle hat will be worn with this silk and velvet costume. It has a narrow brim and is mounted on a wire frame, garnitured with bows of black velvet and dull red roses at the back, with a gauffred lace ornament in front. The long feather- | weight umbrella which belongs to this costume has all the grace of the slender cane carried by the court ladies of the epoch from which this graceful garment is borrowed. Figured materials are much affected for the reason that in skillful hands the pattern may be turned into a very pretty garniture for the dress. Braided effects will be very popular and they look extremely stylish on the sleeves aud lapels and pocke: flaps of the jacket cor- sage. When velve: lapela are used stylish bro- caded vest patterns should go with them. FASHIONS IX SHOES. ‘The pointed-toed shoe has quite disappeared and round or square toes are affected by those who wish to do exactly the correct thing on all oceasions. But I need hardly add that the sutin slipper still keeps its point. It was to be expected that heels should feel the effect of the eraze for old French styles and asa conse- | quence they are as unreasonable as they are co- | quettish in their size and angles. ‘The black | silk stocking seems to be hard to displace, al- | though one often sees attempts to keep the | colors of the shoe and stocking in perfect har- ony. Judging from ali signs the late spring and | early summer styles will hold fast to the jacket ies and vests most dainty little muslin apron, Fifine migh relative or perhaps She is no I y white some poor | gove its long strings, and ine pow- heads, cucls her dikerchief : thi never allowed in any refined uptown ons hold. : = a taking . tration I take great pleaswre |“ "Flower iar: to be popular—a single € able | flower Poppies and chrisa: « ams will be favorites for those who like up figured sateen wit! ve. Another novelty in this set tolerably high, butterfly fan, in which these apron in harm gaudy-winged insects will ‘seem to have cap is neat! shghted upon the leaves or flowers trailed upon coming &: shape. the sticks of the fan. But such articles are far eTnament to any househol too fragile for knockabout use, and young that in the brief space o: | ple will prefer to set the gold butterflies in years we sha‘l have sqre | Pp we effects as are attained by the | of those epochs when msof men and women terial, the same cut, 4 the same size. their man with a sharp eye. He read the other day abont some hunter on the plains who was pur- sued by @ relentless eyelone. In sheer dosper- ation the hunter turned and fired his trusty he rapidly approaching fannel-shaped Instantly the wind began to lose its id in less than a minute the landscape as.aday in June. . Betis shut himself up and wrestled with secrets of nature. At last he struck pay ravel, and his patent ix applied for. isa large robber ball filled with gun or dynamite,” he explained yesterday, @ quixtand re- 3 quits sharply i in remark: in black tulle. emt down by gold p the tulle m front velvet bows ou toj k ve ia the : He farther explained that the propelli strument: was 40 arranged that it always ated at the cyclone. The ball was thrown after the wind had attained a certain velocit; Mr. Betts kas had a great deal of trouble in arranging this last detail. Forke found that he set it at too low a notch the machine would go off ina stiff breeze and throw the rubber ball of dynamite over into a neighboring pas- are or down into a cow lot, doing great and ediate damage to the cows without any material advantage. ‘Then again, if the ma- chine were set too high, it would not get into active operation until ‘afler the entire family had crossed the dark river and the cyclone was in the next county. Mr. Betts says there is no question but that a dose of dynamite will knock any cyclone cold ‘The machines ean be put on ht pole out of the reach of goats and children = — le ft three bands of mauve velvet. At the there is a small bunch of mai ich tips from which their 7 anothe with gold gal- ette in frontand » bunch loca. It has a jet of ostrich tips bebind. Foxes Seeking Lower Levels, Some years ago, says the New York Herald, foxes were very plentiful and destructive on the outskirts of Cornwall and other towns and villages along the Hudson near the foot of Storm King and in the shadow of Crow Nest, hand and every dog’ xem and they were driven back tain, and 1or a long time the them no mor g the past two months Cornwall bas fact that the foxes are by no net and that they have as keen an appreciation of the flavor of poultry as in the years gone by: ‘The extreme cold ‘has driven | them down to the valleys in search of food and warmth, and the chieken yards of the farmers have been in instances depleted by their rails. ‘Iraps are set for them wherever their tracks ar® seen. but « fox is not easily snared, j if | fice, communi ro) Tha‘well done, wili makes mountain stand right up from ‘the flat paper seemingly and even exhibit the shape of the elevation with accuracy. It is alla matter of copying, but it takes a great deal of study and practice to per- form it correctly and as it should be. DRAWING AND TRANGFERBING IN SECTIONS. ‘The map is transferred from the original drawing piece by piece, taking a section of not more than 4 few inches square at a time, until the whole is complete. A little sheet of very thin transparent fish giue is laid down over the part of the drawing to be copied and fastened securely. Then the engraver, seeing the lines of the drawing clearly through the fish glue. traces them upon the fish glue sheet with a fine steel point that cuts slightly into the substance. After all the lines beneath have been traced in this way upon the fish glue film the latter is removed from the drawing. When it is held up to the light the small piece of map is seen tobe accurately copied upon the fish glue. Thereupon the operator rubs the side of the film on which the tracing has been inade with pencil dust,which catches in the little scratches made by the steel point, so that it remains there after the surface of the film has been gently rubbed off. TRANSFERRED TO THE COPPER PLATE. Next, the film is laid in its proper place upon the smooth plate of copper, with the traced side down, and is held firmly in position while the back of the film is rubbed with a blunt in- strument. When this has been done the film is removed and there remains upon the copper plate a perfect reproduction in pencil lines of the original section of map. It is only neces- sary for the workman to go over these lines with his gravers, that cut into the metal, in or- der to complete that part of his task, after which he goes ahead with another section in like manner, until the map has been transferred entire to the copper. Such lettering as has to be put on the map, in the shape of a title. notes of information, names of places, and 80 on, is not traced, bat is drawn directly on the copper with graving tools specially made for the par pose, after careful measurements have been made to determine the exact the words are to occupy. The plates employed are of the very finest selected copper, hatamered #0 as to make them hard. HOW THE PLATE 8 PRINTED. Now, the plate is ready to print the charts from and it is taken into the printing room for that purpose. First it is gone all over with a big roller full of ink, after which all the ink is rubbed off it, first with sponges and then with the bare , until it is perfectly clean, the ink only remaining in the lines of the engrav- ing. Even the rubbing of the plate in this way is quite an art, for if it is not rubbed just right the ink will be rubbed out of the lines and an Imperfect print will be produced. After the rubbing bas been completed and the plate has been made to shine as brightly as possible it is patinto = powerful prese that is worked by d with a sheet of paper that has been pro- viously moistened, and presently the latter comes out with the perfect map printed npon it, while, owing to the great pressure exerted, nota particle of ink remains on the plate. Be- fore the nextcopy can bestruck off the plate has to be inked again, and so on with every print. ‘The charts thus produced are dried for twenty- four hours in a hot room. and from this process they come out rather rough, so that to make them smooth again they are’ placed between sheets of leather and subjected to a pressure of 250 tons. HOW CORRECTIONS ARE MADE. ‘Then they are ready to go out of the office, unless, as is very likely to be the case, there are corrections to be made. Buoys are con- stantly being changed, fresh wrecks are oc- curring to endanger navigation and all sorts of other things are happening that must be re- corded up to the very date that the chart is ‘blished. For this purpose the. light house Board is continually ‘ia communication with the chief hydrographer in the coast survey of- ing the very newest informa- tion respecting buoys placed or removed, altor- ations in light house wegvige, &c. Besides, there may be other emendafions of moment and all must be made ere a chart can be finaliy approved. A special department is devoted to this work and the experts there give their at- tention to erasing from each chart what should be erased and putting in whatever is needed. If the situation of a buoy bas been changed they scratch it out from the old spot and put it into the new one with a little ink stamp. Where red danger buoys have to be introduced they put them in with red ink, and one young womun devotes all her time to inting with red paint the red wtreals of li Thrown by certain color to mariners on the sides where there is ly each chart issued is stamped words, “Aids to navigation corrected to date for information received ro March 14,” or whatever the day may be. tions aa these are called “tem and they are not enter per plate by changing it. ALTERATIONS IN THE PLATE. From time to time permanent corrections come in, from resurveys or otherwise, and these necessitate alterations in the copper plate. Ordinarily they’ are made by simply bammerin flat the metal surface and re-engraving on the same spot whatever it is desired to put in. But sometimes it is neces- sary to erase something. by cutting away the copper surface, which is made level again by turning it over and beating it on an anvil from Y correc. upon the cop- remained for Queon Elizabeth to make them fashionable. In her time everything wes scented, especially all parts of the apparel—tire hair, the shoes and even the jewelry, which was made to contain sweet-smelling sabstences in cavities provided for the purpos. “During the reigns of the Georgeu the prac- tice of wearing gloves at night for beauty’s sake ran high, perfumed pomades and unguents being plastered inside them to soften and scent the skin. At the same period it was much the fashion to take baths of milk, the younger ladies finding them beneficial to pulchritude, while the older ones sought vigor and renewed youth in baths of wine. The wine and milk thus employed were in some cases distributed 1@ poor. Gloves of chicken skin were snp] to have a particular cosmetic virtue, while at that same day also gravid cows w commonly killed for the purpose of obtaining the skins of the unborn calves. "So fine was the texture of the gloves manufactured from such ins that a pair could be folded and inclosed ina walnut shell. NOT KID AT ALL. Most so-called kid gloves are not kid at all but lambekin, while those known commercially ax doeskin or dogskin are actually made from the hides of sheep and calves. In France today kid culture is a very great und important indus- try. The young animals are not jitted to roam at will, lews they injure their precious skins by scratching them in bramble bushes or otherwise. They are kept confined in coops during the progress of their adolescence, #0 s00n to be cut off by premature death, and are fed with milk and nothing else, lest any coarser food should give corresponding quality to their little hides, “By such feeding they are made big for their age, and larger and more delicate skins are secured. Sorae time ago a specutator wrote to Mackay, the bonanza millionaire, pro- posing @ combination for buying up ail the oats in the world and ao establishing a monop- oly in kid leathe: abl scheme was devised by some Frenchmen who had a notion of establishing a rat preserve in Chicago, supposed to be the worst town in the world for rate, to supply Paris with a sub: tute for kid as a material for glove making. FIRE-PROOF MITTENS. “Gloves have been made of far queerer ma- terials ere this. For example, very good ones have been manufactured out of nottles, while asbestos, which. you know, is a form of’ horn- blende rock of fibrous consistency, is much utilized nowadays for weaving mittens with which t> handle hot metals or other fiery sub- stances, one advantage by them being that in ofder to cloan them it is simply neces- sary to throw them intc a flame. Another curious material which has been employed for gloves is the beard of the mollusk known as the ‘silkworm of the sea,’ which ia so much cought by the fishermen of Sicily for making into articles of great fineness and delicacy. Gloves have also been made out of 9] ” webs, which would be a very useful commercial sub- stituto for silk were it not that the spiders in- sist upon gobbling each other up, and it is not, in the nature of things, possible to keep each spider in a cage by herself when she is at work. SHichines have been invented within the last few years by which gloves can be turned out entire automatically, without the aid of human hands, save only for the turning over and bind- ing of the edge around the opening. OF ANCIENT onIGIN. “Gloves are of vastly cncient origin. Many authorities in archeology are of the opinion that they wore used by the men of the caves haps 240,000 years ago. ‘This is believed rom certain engravings upon ones dug up with their remains in the south of France, but there ia some dispute as to whether the pic- tures referred to are intended to represent gloves or hands merely. -It is quite certain that gloves were worn by the people of Babylon and Nineveh.” Xenophon in jin’ speaks of the remarkable of the Persians, who not only umbrellas, ‘being not content — wi shade of trees and rocks,’ but in winter went. about with coverings made of hair for their hands and fingers. It has been suggested, by the way, that gloves may have originally come into use for the purpose of protecting from thorns the hands o! ring people. A cele- brated Roman glutton came always to table with gloves on, £0 as to be able to handle and eat the viands while hot, in order thathe might be able to devour more than others of the com- luxury carricd ith =the ‘ords would not have don to her thoughts. Was he nice lookin, bing at a last straw in hopes of ‘sa from sinking into complete despai “He was a dret e lost in revery. he picked’ up my handkerchief. bowed —you saw Mansficld bow as Bean mell in the minuet scene? Well could learn somethin comes to bowing. pe j ing from him when then his voice! i BS on a summer morning in the countr, “Oh, dear! oh, dear!” cried Edna. you?” him had not my card been filled.” him. ‘T'don't know. Even the managers didn’ have had the awning out.” Didn't shey have it out?” thought?” when two reporters did come he and Jim wen to them and got them to leave out his name. papers?” Wi ein that so? How reckless of him. ular goe! ‘Just wouldn't I. Ihave drawn this pi from memory. If you won't tell I'll show you.” ie of the cover. h, ain't he sweet a spirit of mischief, four hundred: her watch with a suap. epee FADS OF STATESMEN. Washington Lights. Senator Ingalis has two or three hobbies, around old book stores; coat always buttoned from top to bottom. Mr. McKinley pronounces “United States” very much in this fashion: the President he is always the the United States.” of the United States” and the treasury is “the treasury of the United States.” Senator Reagan of Texas is never happy un- less he has strings or pieces of cord to play with, twirling them about in his fingers, teat- ing their strength, tying them in knots and then untying them agai ‘An odd fad is that of Congressman George Adams of Illinois. Mr. Adams, though never at sen, is passionately fond of sea storion. Io reads all the sea tales he can get hold of and amuses himself drawing diagrams of the sailing courses of ships described in the stories and 0’ the scenes of wrecks and disasters. Senator Wolcott is the only left-handed man in the upper branch of Congress, ‘One of Senator Cullom’s characteristics is his smile. The Senator from Illinois, who looks like Abraham Lincoln, and who may some day be President, is always smiling. He smiles when he is good natured and when he is not, when saying unpleasant things as well as pleas- ant, when praising or damning. He cannot help smiling any more than hecan help breath- ing, and it follows that Mr. Cullom is a man who makes many friends and few enemies. His colleague, little Senator Spooner, is a “dry” smoker, and goes around half the time pany, ‘The fashion of wearing gloves was much protested aguinst by the old ftoman_philoso- phers, but it came to prevail none the less with the decay of the ancient severity of manners. ‘THE LANGUAGE OF GLOVES. ‘During the middle ages gloves were made of such value that it was customary to leave them as legacies. In those days to bite the glove was a sign of hostility. Scott speaks of a young gentleman of Teviotdale who, on the morning after a drinking bout,observed that he had bitten his glove.: He asked a friend present at the night's orgy with whom he had quarreled, though he himself had no recollection of an} occurrence of the sort. Upon being informe: he felt obliged to challenge the porson, and the challenger was killed. Gloves in former times had a recognized place in the regalia of royalty, being dyed purple sometimes because that was the kingly color and monarchs were on occa- sions invested with regal authority by the giv- ing of a glove. The glove had also an inti- mate association with hawking, which was the sport of noblemen par excellence. Hawks were considered emblems of dignity and their pos- session was confined to the landed gentry and nobility. Captives endured imprisonment rather than with an unlit cigar between his lips or in his fingers, n Butterworth puts his arm around you if you stand beside him or walk by his side. Joe Cannon never fails to rest one hand oa _ your shoulder while talking to you, as if to reassure you that he means to do you no harm with the other, which he uses for purposes of ‘gesticula- mn. ——_<or_—_____ Lucretia Borgia Rebabilitated, From the St. James Gazette. ‘The distinguished art critic and historian of the renaifsance, M. Charles Yriarte, has at- tempted in the Figaro what may be called the rehabilitation of Lucretia Borgia. Thanks to Victor Hugo and Meyerbeer the public in gen- added Edna, grab- it herself m,” waid Claire softly, as if ‘And once he smiled at me as When he 1, Mansfield sounded like music of far distant church bells “and to think I wasn’t there. Was he introduced to “No, but Jim said he would have introduced “Oh, well, you danced in the same set with ‘Do you think he will come to the next know he was coming to this one, or they would | Wasn't that horrid? I wonder what he “Why, his name couldn't have been in the papers, for I knew all those whose names were in. “No. It wasn't in them. He only came on Jim promising to keep Mis name out. Every time a new face would be seen at the door he would ask Jim if it was a reporter's. And ‘Why didn't he want his name put in the this is Lent, silly. And the 400 don’t | Lent.” I bet he indeed. Jim says that he can ftirt di- ish we could meet him. Would you re itto Edna promised, and Claire drew forth her little watch, and, pressing the button, revealed the cherished young nobleman pasted on the cried Edna. Then, in hat s his number in the “You mean thing!” said Claire, as she closed Oddities im Speech and Actions of Some rays the Lowell Critic. One of these is rooting nother is red neck- ties, and the third is wearing tight-fitting “Y-o-un-i-t-o-d St-a-a-tes,” and if ho has occasion to speak of President of The Senate is “the Senate ‘ Murtha over the’ di last town they had “‘cleaned out. that he was bein; to get square. Martin had in some way learne of this and it paved the way for a propositio which he made Jones—Joncs was to run to wi and was to receive #750 therefor, $250 He claime: |r | on the local man that became a trifle suspicious. Well, the race was run. another jependent and exns} Perhaps the backer suspect 80, he said noth on the marks waiting for the crack of the pistol he stood at the finish looking quite uacon cerned. rating manner. t move a muscle had fired two shots at jacket pocket. “D—n you,” he led, sav: agely, “you'll never run another race throat and thrown him to the groun ‘was seen that the front of bi Tanning trousers was stained with his blood. va," he almost shricked to the pros: Then it Before a hand coald be raised to vent him he was stamping McMurtha v shoes and fairly tearing the skin in shreds. Both men, though, had spoken the truth. had severed a tendon and made him perma been pierced by the long «pikes of Jones’ shoes When I last saw McMurtha, six mon: was sitting alongside the stree: in C} ing lead pencils. On sign, “Pity the Blind. ——_——~rr_____ cage From the Chicago Tribune. Thave had considerable experience with them,” said George Bancroft of Tallahassee. life among the coral reets off the const of Florida and Key West, and has made a study of eler has a fine collection of coral with him, bout relate. ever tamed the polyps,” continued Mr. Bai croft, as he took a fine specimen chet. could ¥: Thad no used to my coming, but one day aft tenth visit I noticed the pols their cells, After several more | the little fellows becam: so bold as to remain | on the outside and finally they became so well | acquainted with me they would remain in sight. |Lhave stood by the side of that four-inch- square specimen for hours examining the thousands of # on it. “Scientific men claim that the coral grows slowly. not more than an inch in 100 years, but Ihave proved that the scientific people don't know what they are talking abont, for ihe piece containing my coral pets in six months grew at least an inch. It is rather hard to de- scribe how the animal works. The little fel- low is a mere sack containing a stomach. It is a compound animal and increases by gemma- i ging from the original urface. The upper surface is decked out with tentacles and the body is separated by a number of partitions that extend from the stomach to the outer skin. Between these walls of flesh the carbonate of lime is deposited and in that way the coral Z Mr. Bancroft has many specimens of coral with him. One kind he calls the pepper coral. When touched with the tongue it will cause tears to run from the eyes of the owner of the tongue. Itis worse than red pepper. Th coral, the traveller says, is not sought for as it was years ago. ral ornaments are not popular at pres ent,” said Mr. Bancroft, “and until there is a craze for them the trade will not be extensive. ‘The London correspondent of the Bombay Gazette reports that Lord Wenlock, the re- cently appointed governor of Madras, belongs to that “mysterious social hierarchy,” as it has Jones, it seems, had had a quarrel with Me- jon of spoila from the cheated and had threatened cash and a check for $500 dated the day after the To this scheme the sprinter readily Then Martin staked every dollar he could collect—about 4,300 in all—on the result of the race. So confidently did he place his money [eMurtha’s confederate ‘Of course it was ‘too late then for him to do anything about it. ‘Murtha had bad uarrel with Jones, who was acting in something. If but when the racers were As the runners breasted the tape, however— Jonesa yard in front—McMurtha walked to- ward him. and before the panting athlete could im from a revolver which he had kept concealed in his It was impossible for a moment to tell whether Tones had been hit or not. Before the last word was fairly ont of the shooter's mouth he had leaped toward him, seized him by the 18 white muslia ‘and you'll never shoot another aly in the face with his long, sharp-spiked running The pistol ball which had lodged in Jones’ leg nently lame, and both McMurtha’s eyes had his chest there bung “I know that coral animals can be tamed, for Mr. Bancroft has spent several years of his the work of the little coral animal. The trav- | ad +h piece has something interesting to believe I am the first person, however, who =“ rom his “That piece I found on a reef in Florida and as I was anxious to notice how fast the coral grows I placed it in the water where every week and note the change. | lea the coral animal would become about the its some of ifferently from any part | “Can they make good ti “Greased lightning ain't a circumstance.” “What do you ask for them “Fifteen hundred dollars and not a conti- mental cent leas.” “Well,” said the friend of the man to whom the letter of introduction was presented the night before, “I’m looking for just such a team. The price suits me. the w: i horses.” The farmer was almost paralyzed, because he thought that six or seven hundred dollars would be the outside figure. And he went home to Lake county satistied that “those fellows up in Chicago are smarter 'n chain light- ——_—_+0- _____ BROKE THE RECORD. A Walter Who Surprised a Patron by the Promptness of His Attendance, From the Sen Francisco Examiner. In these days of popular cynicism as to the reliability of human nature an incident that occurred at a down-town hotel afew days ago cannot be too widely disseminated. A gentleman in the breakfast room, who had just finished the extended perusal of all the morning papers, was startled by the unex- pected reappearance of the waiter with his ‘meal. Warmly grasping the hash hander’ s disengaged hand; he saidkin a voice choked by emotion: “I knew you would return. They sterted a rumor acouple of hours ago that you had eloped with the cook or something, bu: I said: : give him time, gentlemen—give him a chance. It will ali come oat right in the end.’ 1 knew you would turn up again, if only to bring me the oil eruet with a fly in it.” And the excited guests gave the lightning waiter an enthusiastic send-off as he left again in Lallast for an invoice of buckwheat cakes. +208 HOW DREADFUL. dl a n in iy v 1 it A Beautiful Woma: ‘From the New York Mirror. She came into the room, where he sat alone, with a glittering knife in her clenched haad amid the folds of her dross. Her face was white and drawn and her eyes were wild and haggard looking. He, the man whose name she bore, sat by te grate fire, deep in thought, and never heard the slippe-ed footfall of the beautiful woman who now stood behind his chair with a strange, cold smile upon her lips. Suddenly, with a gasp, she cast the kaife | from her toward the bed of glowing coals, but it sank silently into a divan at the other side of the room. cannot,” she moaned, wearily. “I can- not!” and she fell ina white heap upon the floor at his feet. A pitying, Kelceyesque expression broke across the Gothic granite of his cheek and he , tender, seventh regiment Vhat is it, my darling’ But she spoke no word, only raised one white hand towards him, in which was clasped a lead-pencil. f f She had been trying to sharpen it, poor girl. pestle Levies cl, MARRIED THE ROAD. A Conductor is Spliced While Rattling Over the Ties. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. got a queer request from a conductor for & pass the other day,” said a prominent Chi- cago railroad man in the Southern corridor yesterda; je asked for # pass to one point | for » young lady whom he designated as Miss ——, and from there to jieago for the same young lady as Mrs. ——, his own name. I in- quired how this was, and whon I received the explanation I allowed the passes. Ho was on his regular run, and did not care to lny off for a day, even h he was to be married. He had his home all nicely furnished in Chicago, and the young lady was to mect him at the sta- tion where her parents lived. “A minister was to board the train there also and they were to be married on board his train. Everything off went all right and they were according to the program. only trouble was that the marriage service was a little longer than he expected and he had to suspend operations for a couple of minutes for his train to makea station. They are now quietly living in Chicago and have a very pretty Uttle home. “The train crew furnished the wit- nesses to the ceremony and altogether it was an ideal railroad man's wedding. Several ts were received by the young cou | She proceeded to illustrate her position as t Ibsen is net] If the curing of gout] ls of « Stradivarius i# tm) scribe the healing chestra, we should be 1 either at a cornet-a-piston ¢ rp has such ancient of melan power : loubtt ite remedial capacity be the range of efficacy which the cal instruments possess in the tend the wick room ik is dread anticipa authority that th doctors were th reported by some Scotch w a strike. soo - ME WAS FIXE Tt Was an Important Occasion and the Old Man Wanted to Do Justice to It, From the Detroit Free Prew. A man who appeared to be at least sixty-five years old end was lame and gray and almost toothlens entered a Mi shop the other day and said “Guess Tl kinder slick up a little for the spring campaign. Guess you may shave me ‘id the barber, as he got seated = me goahend and fix you up you were going to get married to- whispered the Did anybody tell ye? , not exactly ou tumbled? Well, it's coming off tonight, and T Torter fix up a lectle. How old would you judge I am? Well, you see, you have sort o’ gone to seed by neglecting ' your appearance. 1 can you #0 you won't look a day older than—than | fifty.” a jo look purty old in the face, but ou fix me up there and I'll throw away this “ane, rub my legs with liniment and fur the next week I'll jemp off strect car without ite stopping or break my back trying ! HE LENT HER A KNIFE, How a Girl Appreciates a Courteous Thing Delicately Done. | Prom the New York Herald. There are some lovely men in the world, even if they are scarce.” It was a pretty girl who was thus philosaphi- cally mingling optimism and pessimism in her view of the less assuming half of humanity. follow “The other day Trad to godown town by myself. Iaia not #overy used to going down town, and thre is a preponderance of maec This time I went on the elevated road and got off at Rector street. It was about 11 o'clock im the morning and the train and the station were ith men. There was not a woman, « to be seen when the lace of my ‘ht in something just and with « loud, triamphant 2—zig ripped off to the extent of about two ards. ere war all this whi toone side and began try across, but the lace was an strong as the sewing had proved weak; not a thread of t would give. Every oue of the stream of men passing tarned his bead to look at me struggle, and I could feel my face crimson with exertion and mortification. That kind of « situation has & hasheesh effect, and though it seemed like hours I suppose it was only # a gentleman, busily talking, to passed close to me and, hardly t my way held out an « he walked on very oad the eet took upa purse, which they gave ple | and return him his knil fe. My too deep to express itself in what the “the smooth, hollow phrasce of society.” 1 notsure that I Bene their release by relin- er siime ir hawks, and in the time of Ed- ward Ili the bishop of Ely excommunicated a as an old settler sai: if you have ahen that you want + torkeep the safest place to put her | is into a fex trap, for that’s the only place the back. This latter is the way in which en- ravers of visiting carda wipe out old addresses fr order to put in new ones. It is the simplest known to many readers. This woman, forty- two years of age, of Impington. village three miles north of Cambridge, lost her way in re > a fox won't go." Scores of hardy young ave lain out all night, armed with shot- watched! for foxes until their frozen hardly have pulled a trigger if an intended vietim was carry of a m ten yards from the muzzles of their pieces, but the ® hunter, to the marrow, went into the kitchen felt round hat at- 4 nd 5 ‘own is flat and round with wide brimin front. It ist bebind and held by a bow of in he ts, too, by lying outside their burrows 1@ | until their unfortunate little victims hemis out, when the long, hangry cat catches a mouse. — a broad with a steel star in front. eries, is | tame rabbits are also A LOVELY OUTDOOR cosTUME. The lovely outd inside aad a has bat one dart on ¢: ‘nd easiest thing in the world to do, but the; would have their customers believe that it very dificult and they charge accordingly. TO PREVENT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM SHRINKIXG. const survey office for preventing photographs of maps from shrinking unevenly, 90 as to af- ‘There is » special apparatus in use at the | ¢ person who stole a hawk from it h in his i It was in dress. ber the story of the lady at Francis the Fair, who threw ber court of ve into an a is always paper on ving been moistened, it does scalloped and embroidered. The ‘are also ornamented in the same way, | under the stoop ‘motive ‘ou the sleeves. had been lying onan old ! must be lined with ‘anne! and silk. ¢ rolled upand into the cavity. inclosure for wild beasts. It fell alongside lion, and she dared her lover to go and fetch did so, and then threw the glove in her face, renouncing ler. Thore were few transactions of importance into which the glove of old did uot enter asa symbol. It was a of security; conveyed a defiance, served as a token of good faith, was em) ‘asa messenger between lovers and was a ‘of constancy.” a cardinal, without the use of a fan, Ambrosiana of Milan, where is the lock of hair before ecstasios. Brobably, re: | ried Ha i i SI a