Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1891, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1891—TWELVE PAGES. _DELINQUENT TAX LIST._ _DELINQU NOTED GEMS STOLEN. COUNTY OF WASHINGTON— Non-Agricultural—Continued. i. sibel virew, transferred to John drew, transferred , eee A neem mee ee ransterred t0 Benj. non a » Santire and Amanda Wand, Thomas M. D...-- Waters, 3 segas nse SEDRARE ANH, * Fenwick, Ben. J. Farcham. dane. Pieteuer, Laurence ‘Havenner, Charles T., and Thomas E. and Heury P. Wi warn, i homas and Job: hone ! 5 toast Irving, Priscilla. raed Jones, Ca 84.04 a os $1.48 Boary, Edward 4. lly, Moses, executor. « MeEuen; Charles Riley, Androw, gr. rs Barta West. Alonzo Sessions. whe Weems, Bact Worth, Rebecem A. Wales, stepaen 5) About All Feathers. From the Cornhill Magazine. The biggest of all really powerful flying birds are, I believe, the wandering albatross and the South American condor—for the roc I reject outright as worthy only of the most restricted Arabian and nocturnal ornithol- ogy. Seen on the wing, or even with the wings expanded merely, both these great existing birds have a most majestic and colossal appearance. But feathers in such leases are very deceptive; birds out example our well = known little English svift, “which Jooks so imposing in tight as passes overhead with —_ pinions i, is hardly as big when plucked asa man’s top thumb joint, and weighs oul half an ounce. So, too, the albatross, thoug! its expanse of wing is said to exceed that of any other kuown bird, amounting sometimes to nearly ten feet from tip to tip, does not aver- age in weight more than fifteen pounds, which fis just exactly poulterer’s " state- jment for my last ily Christmas turkey. As for the condor, while he spans | tenant being J. D. Morrissey. Another item is JUST A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE. A NEAT LITTLE LUNCH. Theft of the ‘Famous French Blue and Its| The Possession of It Does Not Pay Very | But It Brought Tears Into the Eyes of the Reduction in Size. From Lipppincott's. Thieves have stolen, and broken into several pieces, for better safety of sale, some of the earth's finest diamonds—a worse sacrilege than the wanton vandalism of the Goths and Huns. What stones have beon so treated? Notably, the French Blue, which was reduced by cleay- age into one large and two small fragments. It originally weighed 112 carate and was worth 8,000,000 francs. The famous Regent itself was once stolen from the Tuileries. On the morning of Sep- tember 17, 1791, Monsieur Sergent and the two other commissioners of the Paris Commune perceived that some time during the night rob- rs had made their way in by scaling the colonnade from the side of the Place Lou and throngh a window in that direction. Hay- ing by these means obtained uccess to the great halls of the Gurde Meuble, they had torn off the seals without forcing the lock, carried away the enormous treasures contained in the cabinets and vanished without leaving any other trace of their presence. Several cts were arrested, but were re- leased after a protracted inquiry. An anony- mous letter was addressed to the Commune, stating that some of the stolen jewels would be found in itch in the Allee des Vouves, Champs Elysees. M. Bergent at once hastened, in company with his coliengues, to the spot indicated. Here, sure enough, was unearthed, among other valu- ables, the Regent dinmond, which, probably because of its vast worth, had been ‘obliged to | be abandoned by the’ thieves themselves. Finally one of the culprits surrendered himself His name was Baba—but not Ali. The criminals were convicted and condemned to the galleys, except Baba and Bourgeois, who were imprisoned at Bicetre, where they died. This ended the affair. ——§e DIAMOND JOE'S RAILWAY, The Unique One-Man Concern Passes to His Widow. From the New York Times. “Diamond Joe” is dead. The news comes to New York in a telegram announcing application for administration of an estate valued at $2,500,- 000 in personalty. One item is a half interest in the Crown Point mine at Leadville, the co- a railway, probably the only existing one owned exclusively bya woman. But there are funnier things than that about Diamond Joe's road. ‘There is no use looking it up in the “‘Investors’ Supplement,” for the road is not mentioned there. But on the proper pages of Pocr's Manual may be found this entry: MOT SPRINGS RAILROAD. President—J. Reynolds, Chicago, IN. Secretary—J. Reynolds, Chicago, I. ‘Treasurer—J. Reynolds, Chicago, I. General Manager—J. Reynolds, Chicago, M. Information refused. No bonded debt. Capi- tal stock, £600,000. There are some statistics added in Poor's Manual, but the most interesting part of the story is not there. Mr. Joseph Reynolds—no one Would have recognized the millionaire when alive by that name—-was a physical wreck and none too wealthy when he went to Hot Springs, Ark., to recuperate. Ashe became stronger he reflected on the twenty-two miles of stage ride which separated invalids from the healing waters and be applied to the legislature for a railway charter. It was granted, and in consideration of the limited traftic he was authorized to charge 10 cents mile until the road reached Hot Springs. Strangely enough the road was very slow in reaching Hot Springs, and the fare continued for over a dozen years to be 10 cents « mile to a point just in easy reach of the town limita. * Lut the suspicion grew that the road was making too much money, and the heartless | legislators about 1885 compelled the comple- tion of the road and reduced the fare to 5 cents a mile. nat that rate the road is sup- posed to bout $100,000 annually on a cost to build of $300,000, so ‘that tl t that the road is probably the only one in existence without one bond outstanding is not very sur- prising. It was also to be expected that Diamond Joe's envious neighbors should covet such a gold mine. So it was quite in the course of nature that the Memphis gnd Little Rock should under- take to parallel it.” But the’ Hot Springs rail- road eseuped being choked or swallowed by enlisting as its champion Mr. Jay Gould, Mr. Gould's Missouri Pucitie system includes the | Iron mountain, which connects with the Hot | Springs Company. Rival roads would divide | the business, and Mr. Gould dearly loves mo- nopolies, of which he has a share. So there was a race of surveyors anda fight in court, with the result that instead of there being three roads to Hot Springs there is still only | one. Considering that Diamond Joo started his business career by earning $1 a day asa bark peeler it must be admitted that fate used him not unkindly. He and his surviving widow, nee Morton, were both natives of Thunder Hill, Sullivan county, N. ¥. He made his first money by saving his wages; then he took contracts to supply bork to the same tannery where Jay Gould gradunted before he began tanning hides in Wall street. He borrowed money from the same man who started Jay Gould in life, to wit, Zadoc Pratt, who began steamboating on the Mississippi. Soon he owned a fleet, and ac- quired experience which enabled him to specu- late in grain. It was after one of his rounds with the wheat-pit tiger that fate brought to him the chance to build his unique railroad. psa taabit 9 AN ARMY kKUMOR, Gen. Stanley to Be Promoted an-l Succeeded by Maj. Forsyth, A Galveston dispatch says: The report is current in military circles that Gen. Stanley, commander of the department of Texas, is to be promoted to major general and ordered to the Pacific coast for duty. The report further states that he will succeed Gen. Gibbon, now commanding the department of the Pacific, who is to be retired shortly. Maj. Forsyth! who took a prominent part in the recent Sioux campaign, is mentioned as the probable suc- cessor of Gen. Stanle: gecesi The Mummied Woman Was a Man. From the Minneapolis Tribune. There has been a long veil of mystery and romance enshrouding the mummy whic Tho Lowry loaned for exhibition at the public brary. Something like a year ago Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who is supposed to. be an exalted expert in such matters, was in Minneapolis and was called on to shed some light on the in- dividuality of this mummy. With a great flourish of trumpets the result of her inves: was prociaimed to an anxiously waiting wi Her observations were limited to the exterior emblems, for the “inside facts” were not then . Miss Edwards was quite positive that the body way that of a woman, Amen-hotep by name. Miss Edwards wrote out the following as the correct reading: A royal offering to Osiris (god of the dead) of beeves, cakes, geese, cakes, —-, the priestess of the Lady (goddess) Hathor grants to her ka (ite prineiple); sepulchral meals, cakes, barley beer, beeves, geese, —. cakes, pure water and barley beer to the Osiris, Ainen-hotep justi- ied. ‘The spell was broken last night. Prof. Hall, assisted by Janitor Rnnge, opened up “Mra, Mummy,” placed the remains on a table and removed the musty bandages which enveloped it and found—that there was a sad mistake somewhere. Vither Miss Edwards had not read the hieroglyphics correctly or the ancients had misplaced the body. The body unfolded to their gaze was certainly not that of a woman at Wl. Of this there could be no doubt, and as soon as the professor and his assistant recov- ered from their astonishment they read the typewritten inscription furnished by Miss Ed- wards and thea laughed loud and long. As the wrappings were eut away it was found that Mr. Mummy bad been m life a man above the aver- age size, with powerful hands and a wonderful frame. ‘The inuscles stood out prominently, {o,the police and made a complete confession. | ‘Welt in the Long Run. “It doesn't pay to know just a little about things,” said one of those men who are always after “general information,” to a Stan re- porter. “Judging from experience I thor- oughly agree with the gentleman who said, ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.’ For ex- ample, Ihave never been able to eat an egg with thorough relish—though exceedingly fond of them for their flavor—since I learned that the little spot on one side of the yelk, toward the butt end, is the germ of the chicken. You may cook an egg in what fashion you ‘plense; but whether it is boiled, poached or fried, you will find that germ always conspicuous, when once you know it is there, and you cannot eat the egg until you have carefully removed 4t. It would add considorably to my happiness if I could be- lieve today what I was taught in the nursery, that the white of th makes the bones of 8B the subsequent fowl and the yelk the flesh, in- stead of knowing, as I do, that both are merely the food by the consumption of which tho germ is developed. MAKES RIM A BYPOCHOXDRIAC. “But that is only a very minor instance. My slight knowledge of pathological anatomy, amounting to the merest smattering, is a source of continual distress to me. Though an ab- stemious man, on the whole, I cannot indulge in a glass of any alcoholic’ beverage without realizing that J am subjecting my to the action of a ‘heart stimulant’ my chest causes me to imagine, despite myself, that the tubercular bacilli are beginning o get in their deadly work upon my pulmonary system. Prestimably, it is only a tritling intercostal rheumatism, but I am none the less uncasy. A simila feeling in the small of my back makes me think of Bright's disease. Supposing that I swallow. an orange seed by accident, it occurs to me at once that there is ’a chance for its getting into a certain useless sac attached to the stomach, where, if it does, it will occasion inflamation that is necessarily fatal _be- fore long. I know that my intestines are a prey to certain vermiculor par- asites, as are those of every one else: but they do not occasion me so much annoyance as the possibility, always existing, that painful con- erections of lime may be forming in my bladder or my liver. TAKES AWAY THE POETRY. “A superficial knowledge of physiology takes much of the poetry out of existence and re- mtoves a large part of the gilding from the $ub- lunary gingerbread, as one might say. Having acquired it, a man realizes rather painfully that he is largely an elevated animal after all, though hitherto he has imagined himself chietly mind. “Supposing that one’s partner in the german is a thin girl, he cannot help figuring her out as an articulated skeleton and setting an esti- mated price upon her as a ‘preparation’ in that guise. ‘This does not apply, however, when she is an acknowledged heiress. “Imagination is always opposed to facts and by as much as the latter are calculated to dis- e] agreeable illusions they are destructive of Enppiness. ‘Therefore, Lam inclined to think that however desirable knowledge may be r specting things with which one has no pe sonal and intimate concern, it is most comfort- able to know a very little about one’s self and one’s environment. ‘Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.’” ————+e-—____ THE SAME OLD ROUTE. A Shrewd Old Observer Points Out the Foree of Habit in Man. From the Chicago Tribune. When it was the old man’s turn to have his say on the peculiarities of man he asked: “Is there any one place that you go to day after day about the same hour?” ‘The rest of the party thought that was too easy, and almost toa man it answered in the affirmative. “It's the only place where I have credit,” ex- plained one young fellow, but the old man did not deiga tonotice the remark. “Do you always go by the same route?” ho asked. “Do you stick to the same streets, cross over at the same point, and so on?” There wasa moment's pause and then one of the party spoke up. “Now you call my attention to it.” he said, “I recal’’ that I do follow precisely ‘the same route every day. I follow it as closely as though it were a beaten path through a meadow, I never thought of it before, though.” ‘The rest nodded approval and the old man went at it again. “df a friend is with you,” he said, “don't you instinctively insist on bis following the same route?” One man admitted that he had gone so far aa to stop on a corner and argue about tho routs because his friend wanted to 80 a different way. “Exact said the old_man, “and if by any chance you do go by a different route you feel that something is wrong. Of course I” am_ re- ferring only to trips you take regularly. Am I right ht? ofa creature of habit man is,” he said. ‘And he's consistent, too —yea, indeed. If a horse wants to travel over ‘a route he has traveled regularly he'll hit the animal with a whip and get red in tho face as he talks about that ‘blamed fool horse.’ And he'll talk about this man ané that man being a slave to habit. And yet I'll bet there isn’t a man in C! Ko who takes a trip from one certain point to another at regu- lar intervals who isn’t « good deal more cranky about the route than any horse that ever lived. Of course, it’s a small matter, but it shows what habit is.” And the next day every member of that party made his usual trip—whatever it was—by @ new route, and so far as heard from they as- sert that it really took some will power to make the change. ——_—_+ee_____ An Elephant That Could Count Twenty. From the Spectator. Mr. Arthur Clay sends the following instance of the sagacity of the elephant. It was told me, he says, by Mr. Quay, at the time a con-com- missioned officer in the first battalion of the sixtieth rifles, but now one of her majesty’s Feomen of the guard. In 1853 his regiment was marching from Peshawur to Kopulvie and was accompanied bya train of elephants. It was tho duty of the mahout in charge of each elephant to prepare twenty chupatties, or flat cakes made of coarse flour, for his charge. When the twenty chupatties ‘were ready they were placed before the elephant, who during the process of counting never attompted to touch one of them until the ful! number was completed. On the occasion related by Mr. Quay one of the elephants had seized the opportunity of his mahout’s attention being distracted for a moment to steal and swallow one of the chu- patties, When the mahout, having finished the preparation, began to count them out, he of course discovered the theft, and presented his charge with nincteen in place of the usual number. The elephant instantly appreciated the fact of thero being one less than he had a right to expect, and refused to’ touch them, expressing his indignation by loud trumpet: ings. This brought the conductor of the ele- phant line (with whom Mr. Quay had been in conversation) on the scene. Having heard the explanation of the mahout the conductor de- ided that the mahout was in fault for not keeping a better lookout, and ordered him to Provide the twentieth cake at his own cost. When this was prepared and added to the pile the elephant pted and ate them. Sr Slavin Spoiling for a Fight. Frank P. Slavin has authorized Billy Madden to match him to fight or box any man in Atner- ica for any amount from $2,500 to $10,000 a side, the championship belt and the champion- ship of the world. Slavin says that he will give John L, Sullivan $5,000 if he fails to stop him in six rounds. He also agrees to give Jake Kil- rain €3,000 if he fail knock him out in t once ace thc shoulders were broad and heavy, the chest all an and the whole aj nce of the body—it body it can be callsd~"was euything but woman —— —~+ee—____ Dickens’ Youngest Son. From the Pall Mal! Gazette. Mr. Edward Buiwer Lytton Dickens, the youngest son of the novelist and the momber for Wilcannia in the parliament of Wales, is for the most part a silent M. 9’ recently he made an unhappy excursion into spa from wing to wing some eight feet, his length rene fh doubt if he would pluck into anything corre- sponding to his magnificent outer sho ough Lain bound to admit that I have ne Personally tried the unpleasant experiment. <r la Gor. Pattison of i and days the region of debate. {t was during the dis- cussion on certain alleg i Young Dickens et | Lave said that “he knew as much of to rounds, providing Kilrain boxes fairly. Stavin also agrees to make Dominick MoCaffrey a present of #500 to box him six rounds, or he will give the same amount to George Godfrey. Slavin does not forget either Jim Corbett or Peter Jackson in his sweeping offer. He agrees to box either ten rounds, or fight them accord- ing to Police Gazette rules and forfeit 83,000 if he fails to knock either of them ont in to deposit $5,000 to back up these fart steele Shite Mackay, the Comedian, Buried. The faneral of John A. Mackay, the actor, place yesterday afternoon in by Mitchell and stand ready propositions. FL F. ie Young Man Who Gave It. ‘From the Chicago Post. I have a friend who is one of the most talented young men in the west. The other day he came into my office and made a cold- blooded bluff about taking me out to lunch, at the same time flashing a $100 bill before my as- tonished eyes. I took him up, right then and there, of course. We went to the Richelieu and ordered in the neighborhood of $16 worth of food and drink, and pitched into it as if we hadn't had anything before for twenty years. It was a safe bet that this remarkable exhibition of generosity meant that I was to be called upon to give up something, and sure enough, I was. “By the way,” he remarked as he was light- ing his cigar, “by the way, old man, I want to get vou to do something for me.” “All right,” I replied promptly. A friend who blows you off toa $16 dinner is entitled to soft answer. “What is it? “I hate to ask you,” he went on, puffing slowly at the cigar “I am devilish’ difident about asking favors of my friends, but you can do this, and I don’t think that it will give you very much trouble. You know I have never struck you for any kindnesses, long as we have known éach other.” “That's so,” Lanswered. “Go ahead, I'll do anything I can for you.” “Well, you see, he went on, “it’s like this. I am—no,” he broke off, suddenly, “I can’t bear to ask it of you.” ‘There were real tears in his eyes. “Don’t let yourself be disturbed, old fellow,” Teried, very much affected. “Remember, I'm your friend.” “No, I can’t do it,” he said, when he had re- covered his composure. “I can’t bring myself to ask you right to your face.” By this time I was very curious to know what the trouble was, and so I proved a soft mark. Hie had counted on that. “No,” he continued, “I can’t tell you to your face. Perhaps I might beable to write it down and go out of the room while you read it. Will you promise not to look at it ‘until I have got clear outside?” Of course I promised. What else could I do? So he wrote four or five words on the back of the wine card, folded it up and hapded it tome. Then he shook iny hand esfusivelyBaid I would never know how grateful he was to me for my kindness, and went out dissolved in tears. When he had shut the door behind him, and not till then, I unfolded the card. And this was what he had written: “Please pay for th THE OLD LAD lunch.” + Sa GOD BLESS HER! Astor House Extravagance in Candles Aroused Her Attention. From the New York Times. Addear old lady from the country sat with her son, also from the country, in the big din- ing room of the Astor House a few evenings ago. Men who have come to New York from the country, if they had seen her, would have been reminded of their grandmothers. Her face was kindly and there was just a little color init. She wasn’t very tall and her figure was comfortable. She woreashawl. Her bonnet was a little one and in the front of it was some white lace. Her gown was of bombazine and of somewhat ancient cut. ‘The big, brightly lighted room interested her. So did the people at the tables. While the son as engaged in the somewhat perplexing task of selecting the supper the old lady talked amiably with the waiter. She told him that she hoped Landlord Astor and Mis’ Astor were pretty well. The waiter explained that Mr. Allen was the landlord, whereat the old lady expressed polite surprise. When the waiter had gone with the order she devoted a few mo- ments to studying the chandeliers. They rep- resent candle: “I wonder,” she said, “how under the sun Allen ever gets up there to snuff em. ‘Snuff what?’ asked her son. ‘Why, them candles; they're so high up.” ‘The young man did not answer. The old lady again gazed at the chandeliers reflectively. “They ain't no need of ail that light,” she said. “‘Mis’ Allon must be a power- ful wasteful woman.” Her son was apparently a man of few words. Her criticism was unnoticed. Presently the waiter brought the bread and the plates, and what the old lady evidently thought was a superabundance of knives and forks. reeted him pleasantly. “Back again, bey?” she said, “You're pretty quick. But, Horace,” she added to her son, “vou somethin’ more than bread, “didn't it will be here shortly,” put in the waiter with a polite bow. ‘The ‘old lady gave hima sweet smile. “I'm pretty hungry.” she said. Several of the diners had overheard her ob- servations. Some of them were hard-faced | business men. They didn’t laugh at her. They only regarded her with lively interest. She smooth out the tablecloth carefully and in- epected the silver, evidently with approval. The waiter brought the mealand gave the old lady close attention, which pleased her im- mensely. She smiled on him and asked after the health of his family. As she rose from the table she said to him: “Tell Mis’ Allen I like to have her recipy for that snow puddin’, but I'm in a hurry. The waiter bowed and said 1 Hehe that he And as the old lady d out would do of the door one of the diners raised a glass of me and exclaimed: “The old lady—God bless jer!” ———__+-es___. Skin Grafting by Machinery. From the Boston Herald. On Saturday morning, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a little instrument, invented by Dr. Mixte>, wonderful in ite simplicity, con- structed so as to separate quite large portions of epidermis from the subcutaneous tissue, was used for the first time. The patient had been etherized and had undergone operation for the removal! of a cancerous growth from the left nd the wound thus made was quite an gzlensive one. ‘The instrument was applied to the anterior portion of the right thigh and long, were’ taken off and transplanted to tho "exposed surface of the breast. The operation of removing the skin and transplanting it to its new quarters did not occupy more than about six minutes. A very few days will guflice to restore the de- nuded surface of the thigh to its normal con- sion, leaving few traces of the reparative process to which it has contributed and, other things being equal, the surface from’ which the cancerous tumor has been excised. will heal over by first intention, thus saving the patient from a prolonged and painful period of convalescence. Of course every precaution is taken, by the use of sterilizing processes and antiseptic ‘solutions, to reader the operation thoroughly aseptic, #0 that the chances of in- flammatory discurbances from bacterial sources are reduced to the !owest minimum. The thickness of these delicate human pl ters probably does not exceed one-sixtieth of an inch, and the resulting hemorrhage is not more than what one sees on slight abrasion of the skin, or it may be compared to the san- guineous oozing one gets from too earnest ton- sorial attention. ‘The advantages of the new over the old method of epidermic detachment are obvious. It is expeditious, the sections of shaved cuticle are larger and ofa more uniform thickness than can be obtained by the most dexterous manipulator, -and the chances of successful grafting are enhanced by the fact that the skin is transplanted while ‘the cellular elements are in their full vital activity. ———_+er— ‘The Heroism of a Child. From the Chatterbox. In the Bodleian Library at Oxford is a most touching record of heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of a child. ‘The lower door of St. Leonard's Church, wandering in were tempted to mount to the upper part and scramble from beam to beam. All at once a joist gave way. ‘The beam on which they were standing displaced. ing, wl e younger, over caught held of his comrade t Ieee tate nee ful position the poor lads hung, crying vainly for no one was neur. the ns to the beam be- le could no longer su He callod ouvto thelad be- done for. three strips, about an inch wide by eix inches | © las-| Miller of this city. GEEMANY’S EASTER GAMES, ‘Ways in Which the Land of Many Holidays Celebrates One of the Brightest. From the New York Herald. In Germany it is the Oster Hase (Easter rab- bit) who gives the Easter eggs and all the good- ies found in the Easter nest. The nests are made in various ways—some- times out of twigs interwoven with ivies and those peculiar gilt and silver leaves, laces and flowers one sees nowhere else but in Germany. Again, a pretty nest-shaped basket is chosen. ‘tnis, lined with bright colored silk or cambric and the outside decorated with paper, flowers, wreaths and bows of ribbon, bits of lace and many shining ornaments, makes a very attrac- tive looking nest for the Easter rabbit. Inside are » goodiy number of eggs of differ ent colors, also small sugar or cake rabbits, chocolate ‘lambs, mice and chicken: tions of every queer sort; cakes baked in the shape of pompous looking scidiers, sailors or wood choppers: cake women with funny poke bonnets or caps; sugar children in all sorts of odd or fanciful dresses; toy animais, fat little pigs and plump biddie hens with their broods of tiny Easter chicks—all more or less elab- ornately decorated with spice, seeds and fine sugar drops, nuts, &c. Playing marbles of every delightful color, size and variety, are part of the nest’s treasures, aso books, games and toys, if the nest happens to be large enough to hold all. ‘The eggs are first boiled a half hour or more to make them very bard, then they are dropped into solution of cochineal dye, a strong dye giving a deep red color, a weaker solution pink or light red. Biue, yellow, orange and green in different shades are aleo colored by using simple dye stuffs well heated. Sometimes the eggs are painted in pretty fanciful designs specially suited to please the children. TING THE EASTER NEST. Early on Easter morning the children start on their hunt for the Easter nest. ‘They frolic through the house, peeping under sofas, chairs, tables and in odd corners. They scamper up- stairs and down; then out into the garden they rush among hedges and grasses, climbing trees, fences and walls in their eager search. ‘The child who finds it first cries “Oster Hase! Oster Hase!” Then the children flock to the spot, eager for a t the pretty nestand the cunning rabbit who sits upon it. ‘The finder is privileged to take the nest from ite hiding place and to distribute its contents among the other children. Everything is la- belied with the name of the child for whom the gift is intended, so the division is always ami- cable. Next to Christmas and New Year Easter is the most delightful holiday of the whole year for the children. he German childrea have many unique games which belong exclusively to Easter. Among them is agame of marbles, played thus: he Easter eggs are cut off squarely, per- haps one-third of the distance from the broad end. They are then set up, say three or four fect from the wall and in triangular positions. ‘Three or four may be set at once. Sides are chosen if there are more than two players. ‘Then the children roll their marbles with a deft thud against the wall or base board. If in the rebound a marble touches one or more of the eggs the same becomes the property of the side to which the marble belongs. Then the opposite side must “set up,” and the game is only won when all the eggs are captured by one side. Candy animals and cake people who are able to stand alone are often victims in this war of marbles. Hineinwerfen (throwing in) is a great game with street boys. They buy cheap eggs, ther break the shell at one end, removing the egg meat. The break is large enough to admit How a Pretty Little School Ma‘am Became @ Colored Woman. A pretty young school ma'am occupies small room in the very topmost floor of = boarding house in this city, says the New York Telegram. She keeps her room as neat as a new pin and is never tired of arranging and rear- ranging it. The top room is very cold and the young teacher is obliged to heat it with a little oil stove. One Sunday, during the cold snap we had awhile ago, the young Indy got up about 7, lit her off stove to warm the room, and turned in again to take a map. She awoke about an hour afterward and found the stove smoking. She turned it out, and then, woman-like, took a peep at the looking glass, She started back with an exclamation of horror; her face was as black as coal. Looking round the room she found that her pretty white bed was covered with black and that all her greatest treasures were ruined. She Tang frantically for hot water, but the colored servant who answered the bell up her hands in dismay and exclaimed: “Oh, miss, youare a colored w now, and Will never be able to get white again. This was too much for the poor little school teacher; and, aitting down on her bed, she in- dulged ‘in a good cry. Ina moment or two she happened to catch sight of her face in in the glass, and when she saw the White streaks that the tears had left on her black cheeks the absurdity of the whole thing had wept before. It took soveral days before restored to their neatness. ——___+e- —____ THE FRENCH KATKER LIKE IT. Orleans’ Youthful Escapades Have Not Made Him Unpopular. A special cable dispatch to Tux Evextxo Stan from London says: There is now little doubt that the Duke of Orleans was in Paris last week, as asserted by Le Matin and 1° Intransige- ant, in spite of the feeble denials of the French oficial press. The story published in the Times tothe effect that the prince is in Tiflis is entirely Without foundation. In going to Paris incog- nito he bas only imitated Prince Victor New poleon, who boasts of his frequent visits in disguise to the French capital. It is now ad- mitted that M. Poacher, the faithful tutor who has so long been in charge of the erratic prince, resigned because he found that he could no longer control the Intter’s taovements. ‘The same conviction has forced itself upon the various agents of the Count of Paris, who is himself at the present moment quite in the reabouts. The youth's dark as to his son's THE FINN Travelers Who Wonder at the Honesty of the People. It might be rash, perhaps, says a writer in the Saturday Review, to assert that among the criteria of a nation’s civilization security of life and property deserves a prominent place, but it is certainly quite safe to affirm that in no other European state, not even in Sweden j and is and property #0 | Finland. The confident, mat- coing, the two pfennig piece being probably the largest used in the game. A boy holds up an egg. the other boys pitch, if possible, their coins | through the broken shell. ‘the player who suc- ceeds in doing this wins an additional coin from the holder of the egg. Egg rolling is not exclusively German. {t is a simple amusement, but it takes its place among other Easter gam: ‘The children search out a sharp the hillside. They set the eggs upon their sides and give them a gentle push. Some eggs are great rollers and sharp lads know the kind to choose for tis purpose. The game is often very spirited. It gives plenty of exercise. The game is not really one of skill, but of posses- sion rather. Beautiful Easter cards and books and hosts of pretty Easter souvenirs grace the shop win- indeed, Germany is @ land of many holidays. Easier is one of its brightest. sum niet cates THE FIEST “TEAS.” pitch upon | | ter-of-fact way in which trunks, parcels and portmanteaus are left for hours in the public streets of cities without any one to look after them could not fail to edify an Englishman or a Belgian, whose portable Property often seems to disappear by magic. On arriving at Helsingfors or Abo by sea I have myself occasionally left my trunk on the 1 — for a couple of hours till the departure of |the next train, meanwhile taking a drive the country’ around; and although on one occasion my portmantean. was not even locked I never lost anything. In the country districts the houses are fot the most part unbolted, unbarred and unlocked. More thay once in my excursions I have come up toahouse, the occupants of which were miles away at the time, and yet not a door of it was bolted or barred. Then, again, it is no uncommon thing for a blooming girl of seven- teen or a young married woman to drive alone | in the pretty school ma'am and ber room were | pristine duintiness and | Oldest ! Largest ! Cheapest } Best ! The Evening Star | is the Oldest and most firmly estab- | lished newspaper published in the | District of Columbia, having won the | high position it holds in the confi- dence of the people of Washington by forty years of faithful and unswerving devotion to their interests, without regard to any other influence or con- | Sideration whatsoever. struck her, and she laughed as heartily as sho | Tue Star is the Largest paper Published in Washington, with a general equipment and printing facil- his | ities three-fold greater and better than | those of any other Washington paper; and, having the full Day Reporte; of both the New York Associated | Press and the United Press, supple- | mented by an unequaled service of | Exclusive Special Dispatches from ali prominent points in America and Europe, it prints more and fresher Telegraphic News than any other Washington paper can possibly sup- ply, furnishing at the same time a | greater amount and better quality ot | Local, Domestic and General Intelli- | gence, and a lurger quantity aad higher grade of Original and Selected Literary Miscel'any than any papes 1 | An Ancient Custom That is Universally Fol- lowed Today. From the Detroit Free Press. in her cart adistance of fifty or sixty miles through dense forests and by the shores of gloomy lakes, conveying the family's butter, cheese and to market in town, and then to return home alone with The custom of tea drinking is as old as the Chinese empire, and as early as 800, A. D., a duty was levied on the tea that grew wild on the Chineso mountains. But it is within two centuries that its use was adopted by the Eng- lish, when the East Tea Company imported and it was sold at $25.8 pound. Its use was confined to the royal houschola. In the reign of Henry VII a refreshment consisting of tea and cakes was called a voide. On the occasion of the iage dinner of Katharine of Arragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales, the court chronicler wrote: “The even- ing refreshmen: called voide was brought in by fourscore earls, barons and knights, walking two and two. Ipocras and comfits were offered. One noble servitor presented the golden spice late, the second the cups, while a third of lower rank filled the cups from a golden ewer.” Since then what Washington Irving calls the ‘otherly teapot” has become @ power in the world. People have learned how to make tea as well as to drink it. In its first stage one En- glishman had it served up as greens, the water in which it was boiled thrown away. There has never been discovered @ good sub- ituta for tea. During the war of the revolu- tion our forefathers adopted # “liberty which was made from @ four-leaved’ plant led ‘This plant was pulled up i of their leaves, the leaves were then put into an iron kettle, and the liquor of the stalks poured over them. After this process the leaves were id_upon platters and carefully dried ina oven heated for the purpose. ‘Tea, favored with v and rum, is a pop- ular drink in Germany. ‘The rum prevents the tea-drinker from lying awake at night. Dr. Johnson and Sydney Smith were both in- yeterate tea drinkers. The former said that “he never gave his tea kettle time to cool,” while the latter gave as asure recipe against the prevailing epidemic of his time, “a tea kettle simmering upon the hob.” Now, that some calculating soul has1 iscov- ered that 400 cups of tea can be made from « pound, we may expect a very mild decoction of the “‘cups that cheer but not inebriate,” as the Poet Cowper sang. ———__ceo___ The First Confederate Gun. A Chattanooga correspondent of the New York Suu says: The-first gun made for the con- federate government is owned by Mrs. H. I. The owners of Libby prison, now in Chicago, are in correspondence with Mrs. Miller for the purchase of the historic relic. The gun was made by Mrs. Miller's father, W. 8. McElwaine, at Holly Spri Miss, in the summer of 1361. It was carried through part of the war by a yor Holly Springs, a friend of Mr. Me Originally it had rifled barrel. About the middie of the war the barrel was injured by a Bridgeworth, was lett open and two young boys | ¢re Finnish honesty is proverbial. In trade the Finns, as a are not only scrupulousl honest, they are heroically, quixotically sa. tradesman will tell you the whole truth about his wares, even whea he knows perfectly well that by doing so he loses a customer. whom the partial truth, a slight suppressio veri, wil have secured Kim. "nts eres sxactly the kind of apparatus I am look. ing for,” I said toa merchant in Helsii fors some months ago, in reference to an arti- cle that cost about £15, “and I will buy itat once if, knowing what I want it for, you can honestly recommend me to take it. 0, sir, I dono: recommend you to take it, nor have I anything in stock jast now that would suit you.” And I left the shop and pur- chased what I wanted elsewhere. “Here's your fare,” I eaid to a tin the interior, who had driven me for three hours through the woods on his drosk; handing him 4s. “No, sir; that’s double my fare,” he replied, returning me half the mone: And when I told’ him he might keep it for his honesty, he slightly nodded his thanks with the dignity.of one of nature's gentlemen, from which — and cringing obsequious- ness were equally absent. WILL PROBABLY BE LYNCHED, ‘Three Negroes Who Kindled Fires in Als- bama. The fire at Russellville, Ala, Tuesday night caused a loss of $75,000, with only partial insurance. The fire was incendiary and three negroes have been arrested charged with the crime. Itis expected that they will be lynched. ‘The Sterling Wheel Works at Ohio, was Gamaged to the oxtent of €15,000 Wednesday night by escaping natural gas niting trom a watchman’s lantern. ‘The watch- man was badly but not fatally burned. Insur- ance on the building is $12,500. An Old Bostonian Dead. Silas Potter, one of Boston's oldest wholesale shoe dealers and bank directors, died Wednes- day. Ho was a liberal contributor to charitable and religious societies of Boston, and he aided largely in the cause of negro education in the south and in the establishment of schools and churches in the far west. Sneezing Hereelf to Death. Among the several hundred cases of grip j i | i jt i f f i | | | i Being delivered at the homes of regular subscribers for the ‘rifling | sum of ten cents per week, THE STAR | is much the Cheapest paper published in the District, quantity and quality | of contents being considered. Tae Srar’s circulation in the City of Washington is more than three times larger than that of any other newspaper, and the number of its readers more than five times as many, It is therefore in that (or even greater) doubt, even. It is the common testi-{ mony of the business community, and generally admitted. Note This Point. Tae Srax gives the exact figures cheerfully opens its books and press i f ; i i Ae SEE MEN LE Ooo HRN OTEERE ONO O88 ute we ws He i f $ there ie no ground for argument or | SA an meee nena A Se meen eae