Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1892, Page 10

10 NEW SENATORS WIVES All About the Ten New Stars Which Have Just Appeared. BRIGHT BITS OF GOSSIP. ‘Who They Are, What They Are and How They Look—Senator Kyle's Love Affaire irs. Senator Hanshrough snd Mrs. Senater Chilton—Ladies From New England. MONG THE BRIGHT- est of the new women in Washington this year are tho wives of the new Senators. They come to the capital from the four quarters of the United States, and, like Minerva from the head of Jove, they spring full-fledged into the thickest of our fash- a 4 fonable society. The position of Senator's wife is an important one in Washington. The Senators rank here as the representatives of the states, and their wives are regarded as the Jeading ladies of the states from which they come. There are certain rales of social eti- quette regarding them. They have to make | calls upon the wives of some classes higher than themselves, as, for instance. the Presi- | Sow, den tor life to the social woman by birth and she kinson. ‘She was nati when family, as weil 2s upon the ladies of their own set wao have been hero longer | than they have. and there sre certain ether classes upon whom in etiquette they abould not call until they have been first called tpon by them. The wives of the cabinet offi- ers now call first upon the wives of the Sena- | Shortly after thi tors d the wives of the Senat ly make the firct enils upon the w justices of the Supreme Court. Every o these new Sena- tors’ wives will give out 2nd receive about a peck of visiting.cards during the season, and the social duties of each will be almost as im- portant to her husband's position as to his political labors. gress this session, but not all have wives to halve their sorrows and double their joya A Dubois, and some are wi tered the senatorial circle are M. Kyle and Mrs. Senator Han looks like a girl smong the fenatora She has dark hair and eyes most charming um descent and her m: Dugat, and her a: Bh Cinefunati when she went there to finish her musical education, and it was in Cincinnati that they were marrie: ‘EYLE AS A PREACHER. ‘Mrs. Kyie went with him. She followed bis fortanes among the Mormons of Utah, among the gold diggers of Colorado and the cowboys of the western ranches. Wherever he thought it was bis duty to gos a missionary preacher she went with him. and she was wita him in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he was prench- tates 'yle preached there for nd Mra. Kyle says that Aberdeen is ns in the United Staten It has about 6.000 _ people, the most of whom are cultured im general ability and culture with the oldest towns of Massachusetts or New York. Mrs. bas put this to practical use in the mu: les and concerts of her husband's chureb. | She is | thoroughly earnest in her views of life, and though she does not like the idea of giving up her whole time to society she will probably ENS, fees Blcwant receptions at her pretty here-on Capitol Hull. uns. WAxSrZOvOR. One of the brightest of the new Senators is Henry C. Hansbrough of North Dakota. He but his anatomy is packed very bright wife ani o thraugh thick and thin in all the varied ex- venturous life and who is lived for quite « while ona farm near Devil's ‘Lake, while her husbend -tayed im the town and ¥ got out to see her a com- a time she . and she speaks with enthusiasm of the cultare and pleasures which surround existence in her old home town in Dakota. Shi 's she likes the northwest quite as well as New York, in which state she was born, and she is by no means averse to Wash- fugton. She misses, however, the heen brac- ing air of Dakota and says she feels better at home than here. Sie is a blonde with bright Dine eves, rosy cheeks and a mass of curly golden hair. MRS. CHILTOS. In marked contrast to Mrs. Hansbrough is Mrs. Senator Chilton. This Texas lady 1s as Her ares are small and delicately chiseled and a8 she vivaciously talks a delicious color comes and im her cheek which mekes one think dark moss rose. Mrs. Chilton comes from one of the first families of Virginia. She was born in that state, but when she was nine years old her father, Mr. W. W. Grin- man, moved to Texas and Miss Grinman ew to womanhood there. She came back to in for her education and she is noted for g married a number of years and hasalarge family. Two of her children are here with her. She lives in Tyler, Tex., where she bas a Deautifal home and where in connection with Benator Chilton she leads a happy life. wens. vitas Mrs. Senator Vilas is by no means a stranger | Bo Washington or to its social life. She was | ‘Social favorite here during the Cleveland ad- ministration, yhen her husband served as Sec- retary of the Interior and as Postmaster Gen- eral, and she comes back to old friends. She | and when the war broke out ina very pretty women, is a famous house- Keeper and she is there up in everything pertaining to society. daughter Moliie ‘of the belles end entertain later in io solniech omens Wisconsin physicians. very near that which owned, and young Vilas used to court ‘Annie Fox when he was stu ‘The two were married at an early future Senator's career, and their life has been ‘Their home at Madison is one of nest in the west. It has an acre or so of ground around it and it is built on the ed; beautiful lake, upon which the family have sail and row boais in the summer and ice boats Senator Vilas is rich. He began life with euongh to keep the wolf from the door, nor his wife have ever known much of the hardships of existence, MRS. GALLIXOER. Jumping from Wisconsin to New Hampshire bright woman in the person of The most of her life rd, the capital of her has had quite a soc: e met Dr. Gallinger, who was in the medical college ther ‘ in love with one snother and were married. Dr. Gallinger began to prac- tice medicine in Concord, and this place has m their home for the Senator Gallinger Bal world a bridge, and their two here.. ‘Mrs. Gailinger tist church and she is me time ago retired from tice. He is well to do, and he and Mrs. think that, the finest thi their daughter, who lives in Cam- ng, who are with them a member of the Bap- working Christian, MRS. SENATOR PROCTOR is 80 well known to the country that it is use- loss to give much of a description of her. She real New England type, quiet, gentl and unassuming. Aside from the War, she became noted ere for nd her home on Massachuset m the scene of many large gutherings, have beon characterized by an of display and by the quiet and dignis tess and her charming daughter. 1! Proctors are rich. Every one knows of the Sen- marble quarries with their hundreds of workmen, who pour gold into the family treas- in and week out the whole year through. Every one hasheard of their fine house in Vermont, and few, owing to the lack of snobbishness and ostentation on the part of the Proctors, strange to say, envy them the There are seventeen uew Senators in Con- | possession of their wealth, ities, whi of the b ury week! Senator Charles Gibson is perhaps the hand- few are bachelors like Messrs. Hill, White and | somest of the new Senators. He is happy in wers. Among ne | Raving | wife wh es from the northwest who have en- | himself. one genplan % Senator | families of Virginia. She is a sister of Mra. ugh. Mrs. Kyle | Randolph Tucker and is one of the most is the wife of the new Senator from South Da- | aristocratic looxing ladies of Washington. She Bota. She is a very pretty woman and | is tall and statel; ni ves of the old | plexion and beat nd a | among She is of French | exactly the same type nowhere else. She is ‘ame was Anna Isabel | a brilliant conversationalist and a woman of quick understanding and ready sympathy. She was very well to do when Senator Gibson mar- and the two have a very pleasant stern shore of Maryland. Their nt ina fine suite of apartments is much finer looking than ibson comes of one of the old cept in moderate weather with that rich- ‘ul black bair so often found ried her, at the pious old college of | home on tl ‘Oberlin when she met young Kyle, who was then | life here is studying the theology of Congrezationalism | at the Shoreham, and here Mrs. e ims seminary there. The two fell in love with | ceives her friends with true southern hospi- one another. and Kyle followed Miss Dugat to | tality. Senator John M. Palmer may be President of the United States and in that case Mrs. Palmer mistress of the White House. If so She isa woman of fond of books may Young Kyle then started out to preach and | she will mai mueb culture, and she is moi than of dress.” She is fond of long walks and ind though she does not care for @ she is thoruughly up in social matters and understands how to entertain. Mrs. Palmer was born in Springfield, Illinois. She was living there when Senator Palmer fell story is that oid gentleman on bation as to certain small vices which he bad contracted for a ried him. Senator fulfilled the conditions to’ the letter an sed agrecable, and it. will” rank up | {M64 f00ds-goo2 man and finally ended his ‘much f hi a’ . much interested in her busband’s work. She Kyle is noted for her musical talent and she ‘acuda is queiia weer ack that women are growing better with it She been prominent for yea movements that tend to the advancement of nd she is one of the managers-of the e at Springfield, an orgauiza- tion which is helpful in its influence aud far- reaching in its results. Senator Pal ismere, a quiet hotel, within a stone's throw of the White House. society this, Wi P front of the vessel it is struck. ‘The harpoon is never thrown, the pole being long enough to enable th back of the animal close to the back fin. When the dart bas thus been fastened to the fish the line attached to it pole being retained in the hand. As soon as the rope has run as far as the stricken creature will carry it the line is passed into o small boat which is towing at the stern. Two men Jump into the boat and pull upon the line ingat the time he was clected to the United | i 10 mer, 0 the story goes, believes th: 3 in Illinois in all her se: Senator Brice is perhaps the richest of the new Senators and he will probably entertain extensively here before his senatorial term is ing wife, who is now rich in her own right. as Senator Brice is said to have given her €500,000 when he made a big pot of money out of the ¥ ld Ler she should take this sbrough | if he lost every cent by speculation, and be has, but she | it is said, given her other amounts from time over. i keep it even to time, which make her the possessor of more pip money than, perhaps, any other the capital, with the exception of Mrs. Brice is noted for her charity. Nothing that she knows to be worthy ever appeals to her in vain, and the work done by her right hand of which her left knows noth- Mrs. Brice comes from the daughter of a prom- Sere named Meiley and i Gen. Meiley, a prominent railroad man in New Mexico, and’ formerly adjutant her musical talont and skill. She has been | state of Ohio. Mra. Brice spent mer in Europe, and she brought back with her her daughter, Miss Helen Brice, who bas just finished her ‘education across the water, and who is_a bright, attractive and accom gn ford. ing is said to be larg Lima, Ohio. §I inent pes eis, I 1. Senator and Mrs. Brice have two sons in rvard College and & younger one in the preparatory school. Mrs. Senator Peffer, the wife of the Farmers’ Alliance man, did not come to Washington with her husband. To use the Senator's words, “She will appear in'the spring, when the trees the flowers shed thei She is, he tells me, not a society the sense of the word, fine social nature and is refined She has been with Senator Pe: whole of his varied career, his trials and sharing his ‘s sympathizing with mecesses as farmer, She isa true wif the word and fcall? the whiskered Senator's Mrs. Peffer is by birth a Pennsylvania woman, and she first saw the li dent Jackson's first term, in 1832. Wm. Barber, was of English-Irieh , and the family came to this country in 1877. Barber was a famous pay the first paper mi around this mill in a short editor and politician, ht of day during i manufacturer. in Cumberland count time ings. Mrs. Peffer wae only two n abe came into Pay to live. It was here town with her parents met Mr’ Peffer ACreatureWith Armed Snouts Which It is Fun to Tackle, A FIGHTER IN THE WATER. Not Infrequently They Become Obstreperous and Attack the Vessels Which Pursue Them-The Danger of the Sport Makes It Particularly Fascinating. UMEROUS CURIOUS instances are on record of attacks made by sword fish upon boats ‘and even vessels. Every onehas heard the fa. mous couplet quoted from Oppian in rela~ tion to this interesting monster of the deep: “‘Nature her bounty to his mouth confined, Gave him a sword, but left unarmed his mind,” Old fishermen say that a temporary insanity sometimes appears to seize these creatures, While under the influence of it they will make entirely unpro- Yoked assaults upon craft of considerable size. It is not surprising that when barpooned they should retaliate by attacking their assailants, Quite commonly they resort to the offensive under such circumstances,so that the pursuing sloop or schooner is often obliged to run into harbor, leaking and almost sinking. NEAR THE SURFACE. A sword fish, when swimming near the sur- face, usually allows its dorsal fin and a portion of ite tail to project out of water. It is this habit which enables the fishermen to tell when the game is present. The creature moves slowly under ordinary conditions and the fish- ing schooner with a light breeze finds no diffi- culty in overtaking it. When alarmed, how- ever, it exhibits enormons strength and agility. Sometimes it is seen to leap Copia out of wi Its long. lithe, muscular body, with fins snugly fitting into grooves, is 7 adapted for the mort rapid movement througl the water. Prof. Richard Owen, testifying in an English court respecting its power, sai ‘The sword fish at full speed strikes with the accumulated force of fifteen hammers swung with both hands. Its velocity is equal to that of a swivel shot and the shock is as dangerous in its effectsas that of a heavy artillery projectil THE EARLIEST ALLUSION IN LITERATURE to the existence of the sword fish in the western Atlantic occurs in Josselyn’s “Account of Two Voyages to New England,” in which the author writes: “On the twentieth day wo saw a great fish ealled the sword fish, having a long and strong sword blade on his head, with whieh ho pierced our ship and broke it off with sealing to get loose. One of our sailors dived ani brought it aboard.” Evidently the creature was well known i Pliny says: “ sharp pointed, wherewith he will drive through the sides and planks of a ship and pierce it 50 that it will sink.” One vessel engaged in hunt- ing sword fish bas @ record of baying been struck twenty times. RUNTING THE PREY. The sword fish never come to the surface ex- cording to Dr. G. Brown Goode. A vessel pursuing them has always a man stationed at the mast head, where, with the keen eye “which practice has given him, he can easily descry the tell-tale back fins at a distance of two or three miles. When the prey is sighted the watch gives shout and the craft is steered in the direction indicated. The skipper takes bis place ina sort of “pulpit,” so-called, at the end of bowsprit, armed with a harpoon which has a detachable head. He holds the pole which forms the handle of the weapon with both hands, directing the man at the wheel by voice and gesture how to steer. There is no difficulty in approaching the intended victims with a vessel of some size, although, curiously enough, they will not suffer = small’boat to come near im. HARPOONING. Although there would be no difficulty in bringing the end of the bowsprit directly over the fish, 9 skillful harpooner never waits for en the prey is from 6 to 10 fect in xpertto punch the dart into the allowed to run out, the until the fish is brought alongside, when it is killed with a whale lance stuck into the gills. Then it is litted upon the deck of the vessel with tackle. ‘THE PURSUIT OF THE SWORD Fisa is much more exciting than ordinary fishing, resembling as it does the hunting of large ani- mals upon land and partaking more of the na- ture of the chase. There is no slow and care- ful baiting and patient waiting in this pursuit. The game is seen and followed, outwitted by wary tactics and killed by ekill and strength of arm. There able an antagoni: or les animal, but there le some j men themselves. Sometimes” their boat is thrust through with the sword, wltich is a most tremendous weapon, and on occasions persons have been killea in the water by the augry prey. However, this only renders more inter- esting the sport, which is said to be one of the most fascinating in the worid. Old fishermen engaged in it as a business have been known to fish for sword fish all night im their dreams, always danger from so formid- ‘ot only is the vessel more ked by the infuriated eril {to the fisher- ely to bo. a: ixing their handsand skinning their knuckies inst the top of their berths while spearing the imaginary monsters. FEROCITY OF THE SWORD Yinw. There are any number of stories respecting the ferocity of the sword fish. In several well- authenticated cases they are said to have pierced the sides of vessels, projecting their weapons through eopper sheathing and several inches of planks. Itis related thet on a calm day in the sumer of 1832 a Boston pilot was rowing bis little skiff leisureiy along, when he was suddenly roused from bis seat by « thrust from below by asword fish, which drove its sword more than three feet through the bottom of the boat. With rare presence of mind the man struck the sword with the butt end of an car and broke it off close to the bottom of the skiff before the fish could withdrawit. Whether oF not this tale is true, it would appear th is usually impossible f word fish to with. draw its weapon after ig thus driven it into a vessel, Cares are on record of the find- ing of such s broken off in the sides of craft which had been pierced, What the fishes which were thus deprived of their instruments of offense managed todo without them can only be imagined. There docs not seem to be any reason for taking it for grantnd that they could grow others. Attacks by sword fish are ——— by insurance companies among sea ti ‘COMPARED WITH THE SHARK. Such a large and formidable animal as the sword fish can fear but few antagonists. Others of its own kind, horse mackerel and sharks, are its only peers. Doubtless the last are its worst foes, In 1864 there was exhibited to the Bos- ton Society of Natural History the jaws of a shark in whose stomach nearly the whole of a large sword fish was found. It was a tiger shark, the most ferocious of its kind, and ten or twelve wounds in its flesh gave some notion of the conflict which must have-occurred. In 1878 a small mackerel shark was captured in Gloucester barbor, and in its nostril was found the eword, about two inches long, of a youn; ord fish. When this was pulled out the bi fat the wound was to erel, blue fish and other comparatively small fry. ‘They ri strikin; Sori ad iy peg en ae al Jeft with their swords until they have number, which they thereapon proceed to de- your. Sometimes ic to thror fish fen, When female shad is killed thou- possible young die also. The sword fish taken by the fishermen beats no such us burden. Old fishermen who have ‘and dremed sword eh by: andreds declare that they have never seen wn them. Considerable quantities of aged ah are annually salted in barrels at New Being npeit as a delicacy they are In great demand in certnin sectiona, patticu- =, ly in boy eee per valley, where — may} found in almost covery grocery The flabermon haves theory to ten ettect, thst the sword fish can see nothing directly in front of him, owing to the peculiar way in which his ayes ced, and it is stated that theso He ei OUR MASTER DIGIT. Strange Significances of the Haman Thumb— It Has Served Many Curious Uses, From Chambers’ Journal. Would-be hypnotizers should avoid trying conclusions with persons possessing longer Jointed thumbs than their own, for if there is any truth in palmistry the strength of one’s will depends upon the formation of the thumb: the will power of its owner being great or little according to the length or want of length of its upper joint. How the thumbs of Roman holiday makers were formed mattered nothing to the defeated gladiator, whose fate hung upon their being bent forward or backward, a method of decrees ing life or death to which, perhaps, we owe & man at another's mercy being said to be under his thumb. i The Irish hero, Fingal, had the felicity to be under his own thumb, that member serving him as a danger sigual, aching in # pe- culiar way whenever trouble ‘impended, when he had only to put it into his mouth to become immediately instracted howto overcome the difficulty of the hour. 80, by the pricking of her thumbs telling her ‘something wicked this did the weird sister know of Mac- beth’s approach before her ears caught his footfall. When @ new member was initiated into the Westphalian Vehmgerichte, and swore to keep the secrots of the suciety from wife and child, er and mother, sister and brother, from fire id sword, from the things warmed by sun or’ nourished by the rain, he did so with the thumb and two fingers of his right hand upon the cross hilt of asword. An oath so taken was held irrevocable, and not to be an- by even the pope himself. In olden times it was the pressure of the thumb upon the wax of a document's seal that made the deed a valid and binding in- strument and 1 verbal contracts the thumb ratified the bargain, Goths and Iberians com- pleted an agreement by licking and joining their thumbs, as Scotchmen once did and Moors still do, and rystic lovers once be- trothed themsclves by licking their respective master fingers and then pressing them to- gether, as they vowed to remain faithful to each other for ever and a day. Shoulderings, jeerings and biting of thumbs were the favorite provocatives to quarrel with ‘oughs” of St. Paul's Walk in Shakes- peare’s time, and many a braggart brawler bit the dust for biting his thumb ata better man. Ingoldsby's vulgar little boy much shocked his benefactor when he “put his tiumb unto his nose and spread his fingers out”—a derisive bit of pantomime in vogue among the ancient Assyrians. ‘Yo cay a man works by rule of thumb is to Feproach him with exactness; but when ex- chequer tallies were in use a noteh the width of a thumb represented exactly £10. When drapers employed tho clothyard wand the possession of a narrow thumb was an ad- vantage to an aspirant to the counter, as in measuring goods the buyer width in every yard, but the adoption of a measure imbedded in the counter deprived slim-fingered ones of their advantage, and the draper's customers of thei It 1s by the thumb the miller te: acter and qualities of the grain spreading the sample over the fingers by a pe- culiar movement of the thumb, he gauges its value by the thumb itself. Cornelius Ketel painted his pictures with hi it is still the picture-cleaner's safest When sewing was rendered easier by the invention of the thimble, or thumbeil as it was originally called, that useful article was worn upon the thumb, not the finger nese dentist, disdaining appli. nces, finds his thumb and finger all sufficing in the extraction of the most stubbora of aching teeth. According to the epilogue writer of the seventeenth century it was then easy to dis- tinguish the country from the town gullant in a theater, the latter being known by putting his periwig in order with a comb, while his provincial brother was content to’attain the same object with four fingers and a thumb. A Chilean merchant used to defy forgery by placing one thumb on the paper le wished to sign, and tracing its outline; then he placed the other thumb across,outlined that,and his signa- tare was complete. An impression of the thamb in ink would better serve the purpose, for we have Mr. Francis Galton’s assurance that the pattern made by the cuticle of the fingers do not vary so much between various periods of life, nor alter suiliciently by reason of other conditioi to lose their individ- uality. ‘The Chinese have long been aware that the impressions of no two thumbs, even of the same individual, are alike; and impressions of every criminal’s thumb are taken by the police and numbered for reference. He may disguise him- self ashe will, make up ashe can, but a com- parison of the impressions of his thumbs with that in the police archives settles the identity of an old offender beyond doubt, Children have come into the world sparsely provided as regards the members of the han some with but a thumband index finger, others with no thumb at ali, or with hunds like that of Mr. Cwsar, who represented Herfefordshire during the’ last century, which was as nearly like a lobster’s claw ns a specimen of humanity cou d be expected tocarry; a species of maifor mation he shared, according to the records of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, with a whole taunily of negroes dwelling near Paramaribo in 1759. Mated. ‘Two flowers blossom on one stem, ‘Two streamiets mingling run; (And love and habit blending make ‘Lwo lives as truly one. One in each interest, hoy Wh: One in aifection’s bond, though two, ‘To comfort, strengthen, guide. ‘When passion’s torrid zone ia p: Hearts only draw more near; And stlent sympathle Strike deeper year by year; ‘When every little fault is seen, And every fleeting inood, And all the nobler nnpulses Are shared and understood. ‘Yet still our secret, separate dread Will sometimes cloud each mind: Ah! whic must face this cruel world When leit alone behind? W. E. H. Lacy. Ladies Who Can Throw Somersaults, From the St, Louis Kepublic. “Tm all black and blue turning somersaults,” was the startling announcement that came from the lips of a pretty young woman yesterday. The speaker was Miss Jane West. Miss Rams- den is perhaps the only woman in a theatrical company who can turn « complete sumersault on the stage. But during the week she loft the company, and the task of flip-flapping fell to Mins West. This young woman is diligent and light on her fect, and she undertook to turn somersaults, too. But her efforts were not a complete success. Thanks to a buoyant dispo- sition, the elevation was accomplished with considerable ease, but the return to earth was too emphatic. “Suppose yon let the somersaults alone,” said the manager, sympathetically. ‘The acro- bats will attend’ to that, You can’t afford to make yourself black and blue, you know.” ‘And so Aliss West hasabandosed iip-Hape. FIFTY YEARS AGO. ‘posit Some Reminiscences of Well-known Botkanen niin Wiki iranin; Mr Sherman, Judge Hatian of Tome Sherm Tow CHANGES IN OFFICIAL LIFE.| Gx Jos’ O' Mekibben, Beater Resgan aed Morrell and Gen. 5 “Come, gentle Spring, thy scepter seize! Banish the 7 Come, make the dull earth merrief!” Sosang the poet. When she cama, tions administered by ‘This cruel, heartless, fickle dama the readers of Tax Stam ‘She smote him with malarial not one has convicted He rallied toward the last of May, ‘Tue Stan correspond- ‘Sat up and wrote: “Oh, blithe and gay of errorin thestate- ‘The sun shines in the sky; ments of events which And summer comes, all sweet and fair!” have transpired during She came,—and, tu the dog days’ glare, his fifty years of per- Four doctors said he'd die! sonal knowledge as re- He lived, and in October wrote: Jated in these columns. “Oh Fall, the colors in thy coat My esteemed friend, Entrance, absorb ust ‘The chestnut bends beneath its store!” A limb broke, and that night till four He tossed with cholera morbus. % Mr. Hamilton Clemente of the Department of State, mistakes the locality I mean when I speak of the Mr. Gibson who kepta paper atore | - And when, at last, Old Winter came, on Pennsylvania avenue between the establish- ‘The poet loudly sang his fame— mont of the Messrs. Galt and Tux Star office. “King whom the snows have crowned! have horetofore montioned Mr. Richard Gib- cel ee raed beet —— son, of whom Mr. Clements speake so feclingly, = SOU sl who yas hi tether, aa wher rea te a ee Fears in the house corner of D and 12th streets. a Mr. Clements saya: “That gentle, kind and Sigman Eee AN EBONY SAMSON. Feats of Strength of a Noted Negro Athlete porate ul at Madison, Ind. member, was constracted for themand stood on | Madison, Endl, Giapstch. tthe Ohlesgo Pennsylvania Theve works excited the | Herald says: The recont death here of Horace Sreatost enthusiasm, as you will learn by refer-| B. Stapp, at the advanced age of more than feerseee, ‘The ro cer besingbohanitrped 4 ninety yoars, recalls many incidents of his life ley. after the removal of the Quebec and | that are worthy of more than passing mention. Niagara Falls panorama, by his flying horses, | Without doubt he was one of the most remark- which I have little doubt you oftentimes rode | able characters Madison has over claimed as a upon for a penny or two a ride.” citizen, and certainly few were better known,as THE PANORAMA he was a resident of the city for more than fifty referred to und the flying horses are vividly | years. His only colored rival for prominence recalled to my memory, and subsequently Mr. | passed away afew years ago in the person of Vanderlyn, the painter of the “Landing of | Rev. Chapman Harris, a noted apostle of free- Columbus,” exhibitod a panorama at the same | dom, who, like Stapp, passed the greater part place. Pauley’s Museum was removed, with | of his life in Madison. For years honors were the fying horses, to a building on C street next ai 3 to the Bank of Washington, where one of his | Pretty equally divided between them. But their ominence wa through widely « attractions I remember was Miss Honeywell, | Krated channels, figisis won Iie be nctatigg the lady with no arms, who cut protiles with aves in their flight to Canada, her toes. Ina second letter from my con- rested on his physical powers. And femporary, Mr. Clements, he confounds Wm. | yet contrasting these two men, bne would at F. Bayly with the Mr. Gibson who kept a paper sight select Harris as the physical giant. He store near Tug Star office, but, bless me, Mr. | was head and shoulders above Stapp, but the Bayly was a modern, while Mr. Gibson occupied | jatter, though smaller. wae far superior in the store 1 alluded to when was a small boy, | strength. Ho was not more than five leet three and Mr. Bayly and I were about the same age | or four inches in height, but his munive ie came some twenty years later. Mr. | shoulders and muscular arms at once attracted Clements says: ‘The house you cite as occu-| attention. ‘Toward the close of his lite lie lost ied by, Gibson was previously occupied by | much of his oli-time agility and grew rather Mors. Dupont, whose ‘mixture’ of snuff was | corpulent, but bis wonderful powers seemed to famous the country over.” Off again, my friend. nor th but slowly, and though well into th Mr. Duport, and afterward Lewis Johnson, and | nineties he was daily seen upon the streete ana afterward James Clephane, and afterward was almost constanily employed. He was born James P. McKean, and then Wm. F. Bayly, | 2 slave in Scott county, Ky., and was the panes eiGalee be Boer — anya: | Property of John Branbaim, Whose plantation "He did lave the superintendence er sarc | wason the Elkhorn nt what is known as the + Big Crossing, twelve miles from Frankfort. Panoramas in New York, but it resulted in | rhage tear eghl ly ky, Hisslave name was Horace Branham. When yet @ very young man Strap scarcely knew NOTED PAINTINOS. the limits of his strength. He would catch a He painted “Ariadne” and “@aias Marius in | young and wild horse in his master's field and the Ruins of Carthage,” which were exhibited | throw it to the ground, feat often witnessed here, as Ihave often heard Mr. Gibson speak | DY Sueste st the of them. I recall them and their exhibition | young Strap ag secured Mr. Vanderlyn the order for the paint-| and witness the ease with which he vanquichea ing in the rotunda. The “arindne” was in the ory collection of the laterJames C. McGuire. ‘The ty exhibition here of “Columbus at the Council | nesta aenttoed mena oF aherar of Salamanca” by Wm. H. Powell, now in the | Was highly pried by bis master wlegy ane collection of Mr. James Brown, the banker, | oral ccoasisne’ vefeced or_ hi secured him the order for the “De Soto” in the | would certainly bave brought thateum an mace rotunda, as the exhibition of “Washington in any of the markets of the far south. When Crossing the Delaware” secured Lentze the | the ‘ola master died the slaves owned by him order for “Westward the Star of Empire. were divided among his children by the casting CHANGE IN SOCIAL AND OFFICIAL LIFE. of lots, and Horace was drawn by Betsy Bi The material changes which mark the prog- | #8™ Siapp, wife of Gen. Milton’ Stapp, then a ress of the age in Washington, obliterating Sif Sapp, weceived [ran epee ery to landmarks of the past and leaving in their | child as her share of theestate and sold them place improvements combining beauty and| to slave traders. The other slaves were dis- comfort, are not more radical than the change coe of in like manner among the other chil- in the fone and manner of social and official | dren. Horace’s mother, on account of her age, life. The beavy, dignified official went out | Wa8 refused asa gift by all the children, and It had “lin- | Horace’s father, also bought hier ‘with gered superfluous on the stage” from a period | money given him by his master. She was the long anterior to that epoch, but like ruffled | mother of twelve children, Horace being the shirts, knee breeches and the minuet it disap- | tenth child, peared under the new dispensation, which dates | _ After the division of the property Mra. Stapp trom the close of the Mexican war and the set- | visited the plantation to claim Horace aud was tlement of California by the Argonauts, then offered $1,500 for him, but the offer was felania ca ccna Geneon refused. Instead of being sold Stapp was hired = 2 out for ten years at $100 a year and at the ex- Up to that period the Senate was a very dig- piration of ‘his time he was given his treedom nified body. There was no invasion of the|andahomein this city by Mrs. Siapp, with youthful spirits which now prevail. In keep- — he = = ys re an ms ing with that dignity cloaks were the fashion | Member of the household at time Henry then, and hence the name of ‘cloak room,” | tuodonnds unten cool Soe a many which remains as a reminder of the time when, that still stands in front of the Stapp mansi: not unlike the Roman toga, Senator Benton, | "A; about this time Madison’ wast oe a aes the Senator from Missouri, wrapped in many | greatest pork chia oeieas ie Magucted “ rs of broadcloth, strode (Col. Benton always | Fr'the apsence’ of the laber-savine mecitre roue, he never walked) into the Senate cham- | gh4 appliances of the present day there ween, ber, “every inch a Senator.” Ho was one of the | Sver-present demand for men ay Peeesidinqoer| handsomest men of that period, as uniike the | tndulance. Stapp found omployneee ie, “4 young bloods of the Senate today as were Cicero | of the nunmerons houses ‘avi hie con rte] or Cato. “The merry Jest, the practical joke, the | bowers were soon manifested. He could hau sparkling repartee, were uuhoard aiid’ the | PR"hops ‘with, apparent ‘ak tame ee rumbling of forensic debate. They were re- | strength of three men, Tteeea bromanae fond served for the dinner table, the social forum. | Suty So carry hoge trem the heoes rey epee Some few Senators of that period have de-| Ding blocks, andeit wus While be was thar oor scended into our age, bringing with them the | Pis® Diock® ® performed perhape the most re- Ponderous appearance and the markable feat of his life. One day it became INCAPACITY TO SEE OR RELISH A JOKE. = an ee Is it within the rango of imagination to sup- is jorkmen stood by in anticipation of Stapp's first defeat. He pose Judge David Davis ever saw a ole? @id- | SUS nimscll upos the ton that heed pores ney Smith's suggestion of a surgical operation | yet asked for assistance. Without the slightest toenable Scotchman to get a joke into his | hesitation he permitted the, great, hog to ve head would be indispensable in the case of | lowered from the hooks to his shoulder and he Judge Davis; nor woud be altogether useless | moved off with his burden, but very slowly, in the case of Senator McDonald, while Senator | for, as he himself afterward admitted, the load Sumner would dety the whole college of sur- | bore so heavily upon him be could soarcely lift geons to inoculate him with humor. The Sen- | bis feet. The weight carried on this occasion ute of today is as unlike that I speak of as it it | was 840 pounds That this feat was actually represented a different civilization. ‘The toga | accomplished has been attested by many credi- ind the senatorial robes are today among the | ble witnesses. It was never excelled, even by curiosities in the national museum, where, with | Stapp himself, though many hogs of great size tie uniform of Washington, they are cherished | went to the slaughter pens. as relics of the long past. The “grave and| Hislong term of employment about the va- reverend signiors” who today tread these halls | rious houses of the city was not devoid of per- and display their eloquence are clad in shoot- | sonal encounters, for though good-natured he ing jackets and cutaways. was quick to, resent an insult, and was a lion when aroused. On more than one occasion eee rn Tee eee was assailed by numbers, but was never van- The first invasion in the ponderous style of | quiahed except when weapons were used. He the long past was made from two of the young- | would seize an antagonist in his powerful arms it sisters of states, when Oregon sent Seuator | 20d the crushing embrace which followed, once felt, was never forgotten. Among those who Semntth ‘sod Mpreds sont Senator Sits ive. | (aoe him vent it wnesesidarea Milly th, one Both have crossed the dark river, but the mem- i dateatar ‘ermed, attack him, for defeat and perhaps per- ory of thom willlive while witand humorremain. | manent injury was sure to follow: No dignity, however intronched. could resist | "Stapp continued to be employed about the two such innovators; slowly but inevitably it cheep oie ad gave way, and when the Hon. George Vest was | Poiustcy’ He thon begun ras ane of the sent from Missouri to take the seat of Col. Ben- | sriUsttY. He then began deaying, an occupa a fow years. On the ia aclu oetas ctacePaes, Among | vary day of hia death he bad beon at work, and one of the most distingulsbed, tlk Senator from | pay rrrnine home when he was stricken with Maryland, Roverdy Jounson, who did not feel | Dents dise iiier ctartenlcuees Seems he was soiling his t in hearing or telli oad joke. Ho was at full of wit dad Lumotas | #%O,300% neither of whom bas developed un- any of those who came after him, but he ining exception. There was a gentleman ho represented Oregon since Senator Vest has Impervious to. joke that the Slisourl Sonates ola In the lowest spheres of life the force of in- riend that when he told Slater abe looked at me as if I was peg has ventive faculty may be detected. The burglar yellow fever and he was freezing ship.” himself as a mechanical genius may be a rival AN EVENTFUL PERIOD. of nature. An honest genius of an inventive Among the visitors in Washington this winter | kind invents a lock; straightway another in- is Mr. Wm. D, Bishop of Connecticut, whose | ventive genius of @ dishonest kind picks that introduction into public life was in the Thirty- | lock. A man, not a burglar, but a professed filth Congress, Ho represented his state from | lock picker. picked a subtle lock of a bureau 1857 to 1859. An eventful period that was and which, maybe you re- 5g if} ff : 7 3 E : i From the Xinetconth Century. itbas been proved over and over again by others besides Jerome and Tertuilian that the fire of hell is a terrible reality: that it Poreal, material; continont fm the midst of the Atlanti¢ ocean, of which so many remarkable stories are told—is undoubtedly a myth, bat it is entirely certain that there was once « real Atlantis,” said Prof. Magee of the geological survey to a writerfor Tur Stan. “During thatancient epoch which we call the paleozoic, nobody knows how many millions of years ago,thore wasa great and middle of what wo now know as the North Atlantic oceam. It was about 1,000 miles long from north to south, and nobody knows how wide it was All \ its mountains its constituents ere Probably sulphur and fluid piteh. The sulphar stinks This is satisfactorily shown by quite @ swarm of learned authorities blings bave been easily quashed. How can in- irits be burned? By Hew can material bodies be By the anclogues of der, or, again, by virtue, or, again, lofty continent in burned forever? the asbestos and the « ® certain salting, antisept by an omnipotent implanting im the fire tain force which b: a large rivers, It was a mighty land mass, and we have urns but consumes mot tense heat are manifold. and the confined na- there is also the anti- The fact of the ¢ Cacodemon. him- liar and the father of les, may in this matter be consicered n eredibi witness, Atallevonts he would rat thay exaggerate its force peristasie of external c we beat is proved by How IT 1s KNOWN, “How do we know all this, youask? By the traces of its former existence which this geological Atlantis has left behind in the shape of sediments deposited by its rivers. Where are these sediments found? chian mountains are entirely com In that distant age of which we are speaking the eastern part of the United States had not as yet been uplifted above the ocean, When this portion of the continent did emerge from the sea the sediments I have spoken of came up with it, forming the Appalachian other features of what is now We know that the rivers of the vanished continent must have been long and large, because no small sireams could bave transported such sediment. ENTEKESTING sTUDT. “You may weil imagine how interesting it must be to the geologist to explore, hammer in hand, the Appalachian bills for fossil forms of life which existed upon this ancient and my terious land mass so many thousands of cen- fhe climate of the geological Atlantis this much may be said: It was very warm and moist, the air probably so Inden with carbonic acid gar that mammals, Lad there been any, could hardiy have breathed it with comfort, Malaria and other miasmatic diseases were afloat in the atmosphere. Co re unfavorable for human lit now in that dreadful region known as the Delta of the Ganges, where Europeansare unable to survive. I THE PALEOZOIC AGE. “The land of the vanished continent was dwith rank and gigantic growths, not- ably with huge pines and giant mosses—the coal plants destined to furnish fuel eventually These plants grew more laxuri- antly near the sea. It was great time for in- specially cockroaches. The pale you will remember. is called the age of cock- roaches because of the enormous numbers of them found im fossil shape in the strata tnid down during that epoch. Ages were yet to jas, a Cisterian thenich, in Ron’ saw Satan, with a fa horns. Walter asked bir riain Walter, when sick, Well, the Appala- urgand Drach« a, that if that district « tains ‘were both made of arc Place where the #ou feriori Jungi posset hell fire is probably §reen, no light but rati darkness visible. the sense of serpent areas thick as th quiry and abstruse; and God, a Saye, is the most knowing. This rigid and early doctrine of rated by tue fathers with m: ng ingenuity of the hu They Are ¥F Mr. John Aitken’s theory of fogs is gaining credence, and it is certainly one t to recommend it. hat it covers the ground be r. Aitken attributes the fogs and rain to the presence solid matter in the atmospher Tyndall was the first to « atmosphere could be tilte & comparatively pure s opinion that water v | denses on these particles, either bri down as rain or remaining suspended with them as mist or fog. Chloride of sodium derived from the sea ts the most extensive fog prod: is the common base of town f. Gests that it is well that it the sulpbur has an autise nant air, and saves us from wor This is good upon the scene. Mr. Aitken is of In the seas around about the continent gigantic sharks and armored disported themselves together with marine reptiles, big and small. which has ciapsed since then is so vast that science does not attempt to make any estimate respecting its duration. years have gone by since the real Atlantis sank out of sight beneath the ocean that the period is an eternity compared with the brief apcn of a single human life.” a THE INFORMAL WEST. So many willions of broached be true, SS ae 8 eae Cheerfal Unconventionality. From the Brandon Bucksaw. The lavish western hospitality which insists upon treating @ guest asa very great person- age has not yet been replaced by conventional coldness and formality. Not long ago the wife of a literary man visited relatives in a western city. Her coming having been duly announced by ® local paper, the day after her arrival no Jess than five private carriages were placed at isposal, including drivers. She could not accept them all, but did not failof an opportunity to drive out and see the very fine country about the town. Within forty-eight hours she had received no fewer than fifty calls from - | came to pay their compliments an: them with great generosity and enthusiasm. But the crowning experience was to come. With another rela Sunday school meetin; seat modestly at the back part of the honse and hear what went on. Entering the hall the two ladies were beckoned to by an usher. .¥, Ina They followed him, ana before they were full aware of it were upon the platform close by th minister's side and facing the audience. - Thi carbon, it would be more cleanly, and gether better for us. How He Brought Each One Inte Promi- mence by Writing for It. From Blackwood's Magezine. Scarcely an inetrumeat in the owbestra escaped Mozart's attention. he wrote concerti for violin and a@chestra which, though without the emotional element of Beethoven and Spobr, are greatly prized. To the tenor violin, which bad beca deemed worthy only of filling up tutti passages, be gave a voice and place of its own im the A born Wolinist, ded @ sort of ling to take a ‘The clarinet wav raiked to great mportance by him and forthwith took place a « favorite solo instrument. In nearly ali his wores it re- storfil work, the larinet and strings, t concerto, wiich be com- posed for Stadier, have imparted © the instra- ment an all-age reputation whicbean never be ceived especial beautiful and exceedingly quintet in A major for and the fine clarin proceeded to make an address, in which be eulogized the fame of the literary man and the virtues of his wife ending by in- viting her to address the children. But the eastern lady, who was shy and retiring in disposition, could not even at- tempt to rise; perhaps her knees would not have held her if she had attempted. She sat still; quite overwelmed, with downcast eyes. ‘There was a painful silence, the ministor broke. “If then,” he said, “our friends do not care perhaps they will rise and give as as hard a demand tofillas the other. The ladies snt perfectly quiet and there was another still more painful silence. nothing to do but go on with the exercises. It | cared for. was an awful experience for the lady from the ite of it she spent her time in the finding the people hen his sparkling genius qent itself in writing for that fine reed instranent, the basset horn, the splendid properties of which be deemed more surtabie than eve the clarinet For the cboe Mozart did much, according it a prominenwe which it had pretous composer. cho: part, and in the No. 12” is some fine, f diiticult musie for his “Kequiem.” which presently ——— see -—_ Lemon Juice for the Complexion, Luring this kind of From the St. Lo John P, Watson says: There was | Weather the hands and faccshould be carefully People of ligh complexion usually suffer greatly during cold weather from hands aud faces. for sale at the drag store for end the | and all are good enough, Wut a very simple way to keep tie hands from ‘campy sore is to rub them with be Then wash them well, rw in a bit of or glycerine and powderhem ell with arch, jemon juice remove particles ores and also Whitens the skin. so of lamon, juice on both the face and hands will kee them white soft, and prevent the uecesif of washing them sev- ou hands neck’ ond. gs Gucia on neck an. and use only the best, ath tepid warm hearted beyon: place attractive and interesting. “Seo The Old Spinet. be corner grim and ‘Where spiders spin their silken strands Molested by no sunlight ray. ‘Yet dames and d: Have loved its music; a Sone fokuae vaseline Toften fancy ghostiy, {dead of nigut, while unseen eir long-forgotten skill display. ‘The little catkdreu—where are Many must dave danced, I kuow, To measures fancifi From that old spinet, Some cavalier of other lands ng tis roundelay, of the reprimands ‘Of her whose heart he ‘Or some despairing made it sharer of his woe, And bowed his weary head to pray spinet, yeurs ago. From the 8t. Lonus Gi: ‘There is in Missowfi « lake, perched on top of a mountain, it surface from 50 to 100 feet below the leve of the earth it fed by no surfa@ stream, untouched by the wind, dead as theSea of Sodom. ‘here is no int of equal alta@de from which water could w within hundeds of miles, and yet it has a periodical rixe of thirty feet or over, which is in no way affee! longed to away; Behold it still resists ‘There's music in it still, hands ave dust that that old spinet, years ago. weeks in Webs@ county and the return of fair weather wil find Devils lake at it lowest int, while i may reach ite highest poims Suring 8 protreted dro th. —_———+02 —____ A Boy's Essay. From the Minnepol's Journal. A little boy® the North Side public school recently hanéd in to the teacher the following composition® “Our Breath:” 4b is made of air. If it were not From the London Saturday Keview. ‘Mr. Hulme tells good story of thelate Sir John Crampton, our minister at Washing:on, who sent his carriage to be repaired, When he went toveehow the work had been done he meu was shut up tua black hole Initia, erboncese ot, into ‘that there hole ‘age morning nearly every one ) Girls wear corsots which aq thet Girls cannot ram hotle like bors cause their din; If Twas a gict “Got any weddin’ clo’s here?” he asked of 3 os polite clerk in © Woodward avenue clothing = ; the Pacific Methodist. ““Grandina, is oor teef good?” i #1 2 7 i The ‘bain't iH