Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1892, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: er THE HARBOR OF RIO DE JANEIRO. IN RIO DE JANEIRO. First Impressions of the Largest ity in South America. THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC.) An Ominous Political Silence—Surprising *""ual Frequency of Funerals in Kio—Some of the Peculiar Customs—Things for Strangers to Avoid—Pets That Are Uncomfortable. Brom The Star's Travelinz Commissioner. Rro px Jaxamo, February 23, 1892. UR ONLY for so completely alter- ing the program —after tickets had been bought for Buenos Ayres, lug- gage actually on the way to the wharf of the waiting steamer and our having been consigned to the care of the Argentine minister—is the time-honored one that it is = woman's Privilege to change her mind. The moving cause was this: We learned by accident, at the literal eleventh hour, that a pleasant party of Jadies and gentlemen, in whose company we Journeyed some hundreds of miles on the other Bide of the continent, were bound for Rio, on board » vessel lying out in the harbor, which in two hours’ time would sail. Well! A great deal can be accomplished in two hours, by dint of vigorous hustling. aided by telegraph and cable. A man could never ave done it among these procrastinating ™manana people, but all the world is good to Women, and the laziest South American will Destir Rimself for gallantry’s sake when lucre Would not move him. On our side the incen- five was great. Having long outstayed the orig- inal traveling party we find our ranks embar- Fassingly reduced in this third year of globe trotting, and in numbers there is strength. es- iy for foreigners in these wild countries. fe had been dreading intensely the visit to Brazil, imagining all manner of bugaboos to Sffright lone females unacquainted with the Portuguese language, and here was an opportu- ity to accomplish it under the most favorable Circumstances. ‘Therefore bere we are, fifteen hundred miles Rearer the equator than when we wrote you week—reckoning distance from the fact that the French, German and English steamers that ply these coasts on their regular trips be- tween South America and Europe register an average running of thirteen knots an hour. and the journey occupies tive days. A few weeks later, when Yellow Jack stalks abroad on his rd again and to “do” the big Argentine country, the ely Parana and unknown Paraguay quiere, as the Spaniards say. THE HEALTHIEST SEASON IN RIO. By the way, they assure us that just now is fhe healthiest season in Rio, when yellow fever cases are down to the minimum; yet last even- ing, in course of an hour's drive, which hap- pened to he along the broad, palm-bordered venue leading to the main Campo Santo, passed no fewer than eight funeral processions on their way to that city of the dead, whose Population must outnumber the living city a thousand to one. Though every foot proc sion went at a lively jog trot and those in car- Fiages galloped along at full speed it waseasy to tell to which social strata the departed belonged, for bere, as elsewhere, the same treatment is meted out to dead people as when they were ivi according to the scriptural axiom, “To Bhim that hath shall be given.” Those Brazilians who have lived in luxury are escorted to the tomb with the “pomp and circumstance” (and, incidentally, with the vast expense to relatives, who thus have double cause to mourn) of sable-canopied hearse, » score of plumed horses and a long following of hired earriages filled with male-friends—every man of them wearing biack kid gloves, » broad band of crepe around bis tall silk hat and a yard or two more of the same emblem of woe conspicu- ously streaming from his right coa? sleev those whom hearse were all smoking ble eigarito and animatedly discussing politics, or perhaps the financial condition of the family of the de- eeased. In no case are there any women, for, as usual In these southern countries, the “gentler” —and Presumably more tender-hearted—sex are ex- eluded from funerals, and must bid the last Sdieux to those they have loved in the privac: of their homes, a very sensible arrangement among these passionate, high-strung, uncon- trollable people, who boast no Spartan females. ‘The humbier dead, stretched coffinless on a Black pailed board or inciosed in a gaudily inted box, are borne to the place of inter- EXeaton the shoulders of thei friends, while those of the followers who can muster enough mil reis go out on the second-class street cars, ‘We observe oue beautiful custom, that every- body in sight—on their balconics, in the strects, in shops, in carriages, rich and poor, haughty and bumbie—reverentially uncover their heads when a funeral cor: b; involuntary homage to the pathetic “it, all must become when the soul has SCARLET TRAPPINGS FOR CHILDREN. Even grim death is not without its humor- us side in thie strange city. Brazilian ange- Hitas (‘Tittle angels,” as the corpies of children are universally called.) are not arrayed for the Brave in the conventional white or black of Other countries, but in scarlet. There is a Small scarlet hearse for the convenience of those who can afford it, adorned {i and curtains, scarlet p! for the horses, while the lit fs invariably’ covered w i wreaths and bouquets on top of it tie searlet ribbons. To carry out th ness” the child should ha with ‘eternal fit- ed of fever, instead of diseases engendered by dirt and neglect, the prevailing cause hereabouts of mortality among children. The angelitas of Pirie tne poor t0 hire the splendid sear- hearse are conveyed to the tomb en the heads of their parents in a small box, puinted blue or yellow, striped with White, almost identical in contour, and color with those boxes that are continually trotted about the streets in the same manner, Containing bread, cakes and dulces, so that to Bnaccustomed eyes the two are indistin- guishable. We arrived at the cemetery gate just as the soldier's funeral was filing through, and, wish- fing to see the spot where the wanderingg of so Many of our unfortunate countrymen bave ended, we left our carriage and followed the Procvesion—at avery “respectful distauc: Femembering the prevalence of smali-pox and ether contagions. ‘The dead warrior lay upon @eort of double-decked piatform, in full view ef men, with only his martial eloak around Bim, and bad been carried im thi nner through the crowded streets of the city on boulders of bis comraces, from the barrack: S distance of three miles or more, preceded by swwilitary band playing jubilant marches and quicksteps. Uncotfined, he was laid in the soldiers’ corner, to await the resurrection re- yeille. Each of his late comrades took a sbovel- full of the freshiy turned-up earth and threw him: and then, to the exhilarating strains “The Barber of Seville,” they quick-stepped | LIFE RIOTING ON DEATH. ‘The riotous growth and intensity of green in this grave yard is «ppalling, for it is the rank- wens of the battlefield —iife rioting upon death. ‘The splendid EXCUSE | again. mail for a month past | Pao de Assucar palms that fount their plumes in| means certain tha die in Brazil—cr for that matter anywhere in Spanish America. If you bappen ‘to cherish the Protestant’s faith, you would be put into » shallow hole, among suicides, Jews, heretics, paupers and other poor outcasts belisved-to be [se the pale of Christian charity, and even then not left long to repose ia peace—barely long enough for the com- | parative safety of the living. After a few weeks what remained of you unconsumed by the quick lime that is liberally thrown in at the Ume of interment (the only liberal thing about it) would be pitched into the general charnel | heap of detached bones—heads without trunks and trunks without heads—to await the semi- burning. “Oh schwer esta, in der fremde sterben unbewrint;” but nobody can realize how sad it is to die unwept in foreign jands until be finds himself in danger of try- | ing it. BEAUTIES OF RIO BAY. “ Iam not going to bore you with a description }of the unrivaled beauties of Rio's bay, for other travelers have done it, time and time E a by aud tradition, they are even more entrancing than when the ent mariners discovered tuem, that Janu- sailing through ary day. . whe! | the nar: om the ocean into the | bay, they fancied themselves entering the mouth of a mighty river that led to the en- hanted land and christened it Rio de Janeiro, ver of January,” from the month in which | the event occurred. ‘There is the (Portuguese for “sugar loaf”), barring the entrance as it rises abruptly from the sea 1,212 feet; the | Gavea, with its natural fortification on top, which human foot lias never scaled; Corcovado, the colossal “human back;” Botofoga, Mha des Clobras, the rocky “island of snakes; Ube dos ‘Ratos, “island of rate, all the rest of them, inclosed as by a wall within misty ‘ground of mountains draped with eternal verdure; the white city, with its countless towers in the foreground — surrounded by an amphitheater of ragged heights, so dark and frowning that they exag- gerute the calm of the water and the smile of perpetual midsummer. ‘There are plenty of pictures to show you bow it looks, better than mere words could do. Yet no picture can do faintest justice to tropical scenery. The con- tour, and even the colors may be reproduced, but it lacks the full glory of equatorial sun and sky, the living green, the evershitting clouds, which in these regions of sirong contrasts dis- tinctly change the tint of foliage and flowers wherever their shadows fall, the indeseribabie glow and intensity of animal and vegetable life, the hot air that visibly throbs and palpitatcs, Some of us, feeling all this for the first time. realize in the depths of our souls that some mistake in nature's plan cast our lines in the - * WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1892--SIXTEEN PAGES. break out atany moment. Every day or two ebanges his residence, and never gocs out wi out astrougescort It is said that his bedroom is guarded by « double cordon of soldiers: but who is there to guard the soldiers and insure their faithfulness? Revolutionists have bought them before and may again, as in the case of good old Dom Pedro, whose ‘overthrow was not accomplished by vox populi—for the majority of the people knew nothing about it until it was a fait accompli—but by a small military clique, incited by ungrateful politi- cians at the capital, whom, the generous and unsuspecting emperor bad pr. loaded with fa Fon B. Wan FACTS ABOUT SEA ‘BEANS, ‘They Are the Seeds of Pod-Bearing Vines Which Grow on Land. Cae BEANS ARE SURELY AMONG THE most interesting objects to be picked up onthe ocean beach. There is something of mystery about them that is pleasing in itself. Few peoplo have any notion as to where they come from, but they will tell you that these re- markable seeds are derived from a plant that Grows in the water somewhere. Pretty nearly every perzon who has ever found one has mado attempts at polishing it. The task is decidedly arduous, beginning with the application of sandpaper and winding up with gentle rub- bing between folds of chamois skin to give the final brightness. Sailors devote much of their time to making various trinkets out of sca Deuns, which are most often seen adorning watch guards. Many of the Apaches and other Indians transported to Florida have been set to work at preparing these vegetable curiosities for mar! cing thus supplied with a not too laborious occupation such as warriors could pursue with proper dignity. SEEDS OF POD-BEARING VINES. As a matter of fact sea beans do not grow on waier plants at all. The supposition is not an ‘Unnatural one, considering the enormous quan- tities in which theyare found along the Florida shore and in diminishing numbers northward on the Atlantic count. They are the seeds of several var.ettes of pod-bearing vines which in the tropicui regions of both hemis- Exeh pod, resembling an exaggerated Pea-pod, contains a number of the “beans.” these climbing plants are plentiful along the shores of the Caribbean sea. ‘Their seeds, fall- ing when ripe into the streams, are carried in Vast numbers into the great body of water mentioned. whence they are conveyed by the powerful current of the guif stream around the south end of Florida and up the Aidantic coast. The gulf stream flows close by the east shore of the Fiorida peninsula, and that is the reason why so many of the beana are cast upon the beaches in that region. ‘Ihre varieties are chietly noted—one reddivh und flat, another more round and gray and the third very much bigger and of w inahogany color. This last is nearly worthless for ornamental purposes. It is doubtless an entirely different species, but no botanist ever having investigated this ‘sub- ject of sea beans to any exteut nothing further iw known. SEEDS IMMERSED IN WATER. This is one of nature's most interesting meth- ods of distributing plants chrough the world by setting seeds atlout. Darwin, who devoted some attention to investigating the matte: proved that many kinds of seeds will bear in Mmersion in water for 100 di or even more, aud still retain their germinating power, so that when thrown ashore they are ready to sprout. Not a few species, which wiil sink when green, flout perfectiy well if they have chanced todry before falling intoa stream. in some parts of the world, notably in che Malay archi- cold and colorless north, or is it the “natural = mans” = vagu instinctive, recognition of the birthplace of _ his kind? Gazing at the imperial paims of Rio, than which none finer can be found in the world, one remembers that all the traditions of earth speak of Parauise as « place where palm trees grow. Whoever heard of heaven of the Garden of Eden located where winter reigns during half the year? The most unpoetical of Yankee preachers tell of “the palm trees of Paradise” —not altogether, let us hope, on ac- countof the pleasant aliiterations—and t cid orthodox hymus descrive its climate as “high, eternal noon. “EVERYTHING 18 INTENSE.” But Brazil must be a long way from Parad’ or the place has greatly changed since E: peccadillo. ‘The flowers have no perfume, the birds nogong, death is frightfaily busy every- where, and the people—well, the kindest thing to be said of them is that the majority are not such us one would like to associate with through eternity. A tangled mass of wild, luxuriant Vegetation crowds close to the city, full of birds of the most brilliant plumage, bugs that look like living jewels, and blossoms of vivid scare purp. d gold ‘that make the woods appear ablaze. There are no deiicate hues nor gentle tints, but everything is intense. ‘Ihe whole country seems painted red and yellow, unpro- tected from the scorching rays of the sun, be- cause the palm trees grow too tall tocastashadow —their round, smooth tranks, like exaggerated telephone towering perhaps 200 feet from the ground before the iirst great leat shoots out. Alas! ‘The trail of the serpent is-over it "in fact as well as figuratively. Many of the ge you never touch aleaf or flower without the uncomfortable consciousness that under it death may be lurking in some guise. ‘And the tarantulas. We thought that long ‘ago in the hot lands of Mexico we had made the acquaintance of pretty respectable speci- mens—so far as size goes—of those hairy abom- inations, but none of them could bold a candie to those that abound in Brazii. Ever since we came there has been one lurking in our hotel bed room, visible only at intervals. when, asifun- imated with an impish desire to torment strang- ers, he will dart trom some unknown source and seud across the floor rolied up in® brown, wooly bali, large asa heu's egg. The instant | his spider ship appears wo rush frantically to | the bell rope and summon the servants, when a general huntis inaugurated, bat always to no | purpose, for the wretch pnts himself out of sight like a second harlequin SOME GooD ADVICES. The very best advice I can offer to the uniai- tiated coming to Brazil is this: Never step out of bed slipperless in the dark nor put a bare like bugs are fatal in their sting, and |* foot down by day without first fooking sharp to where it is going, nor don your hose nor shoes nor any ather article of clothing without first treating it like a bottle of medicine “to be well shaken before taken.” Never get into bed Without first inspecting the curtains and look- ing carefully between the sheets and under the | pillows. Never poke careless fiugers under a table spread or rug or into any darkened cor- ner, nor rashly walk into a thicket or elump of ‘flowers or even xmong rank grass. Never take active exercise in the hottest part of the day, nor expose yourself to the chilly, powon-laden dews of night, nor drink water when you are heated, or ice water atany time. Eschew bananas and most fruits as you wor b arsenic. Waen- ever you meet an overpowering stench in the streets (and that will be at almost every step in some localities) dont stop to scold about it, cover r nose and mouth with your handkerchief and flee af from pestilence—which it really is Avoid, it you can, any spot where an old wall is being torn down, or bit of pavement being taken up, | or adrain disturbed. for those are the very places where the deadly germs of fever lie dor- mant till disturbed. And don’t be frightened out of your senses if, while being entertained in a Brazilian home, you find a big enake com- fortabiy asleep in your rocking chair, or coiled under your pillow. or feel his slimy length drawn ‘slowly across your neck in the night time. It is only the useful and harmless house snase, which people keep, as we at the north do cais, for exterminating mice and roaches. Thave not yet learned bow to spell his Por- tguese name, but have been introduced to him, so to speak, a number of times, and | live'in hourly dread of bis attempting to cul- tivate a closer acquaintance. He is commonly from about seven to twelve feet long and is dressed im gray, mottled with black. Alre: we have been offered several of these so-called “beauties” to take home with us ay souvenirs of pleasant(?) visits, and when we have declined the honor, without being quite able to disguise our shuddering horror, have been asked with surprise, “Don't | you have rats and roaches in your country? ‘And it is impossibie to tell one’s kind enter tainers that we infinitely prefer million and roaches to their favorite pets. Here dogs are few and cats are fewer, but every famil has parrots and monkeys galore, not to m | tion the useful housg shake, as universally and numerously as we foster canary birds and kit- | tens. | ‘THE OMINOUS POLITICAL SILENCE. ‘The political caldron is just now quiet in the | Brazilian capital, but all the same it is seething | below the surface and the silence is ominous. | Although Gen. Da Fonseca, the deposed presi- | dent, whose legal term has not yet half expired, | is just now seriously ill, so that his enemies en- | tertain cheerful Of is demise, it ts by no will not regain control tthe face of the sky have their roots set deep in of the administration, for his friends are sur- decay, and in that decay are ti: odors, came het and ‘unretreshing. of fever | prisingly end death. . = time the eum bed disap-| the ease. peared, but evening breeze, reeking with | umerous, cousidering facts of Gen, Peixotio, the present occupant the executive ebair, is a rather fi ing | gevtioman, ia early middle lite—a Port ‘tuguese Wethought of the old sawaneut agreen Christ: | to the backbone, bat evidently he ls not enjoy- and « fet gra’ eoasou ts of Sen be ard, for though the | these February days muust be coid at home. Hiut, thank heaven, in ‘God's country” can such fat- found. Whatever you do, friends, don't ing the greatness that has upon him. ‘fo teil the truth, the man is seared almost into im constant terror of the poe Oy a) or bullet, of of another revolution which may been thrust peiago, vast quantities of ‘vegetable matter are always floating about onthe sca. On the Mo- luceds the trees seem to dispute with the way. of ocean for the possersion of Not oniy are their roots and often porti their trunks immersed in the water, but ing crowns incline im the sume dire bathed by the tides. ‘1h pl that the numerous curreuts of the Molucca s: are charged with seaweeds, intermixed with flowers, fruits, cocounuts and nuts of other palms and even whole trees STRANGE PLACES POR SEEDS. Much driftwood is thrown upon all islands, even inthe midst of the widest oceans. ‘Ihe natives of the coral islands in the Pacific get all their stones for tools fiom the roots of drifted trees, Irrecutarly shaped stones thus embedded in tree roots froqucntly incluse small quantities of a them, aud this earth usually coi which are ready to «pront. ‘The carcasses of Lirds on the water often carry seeds in their land. In the Malay swaliow seeds and with the swiitness of the horse convey them for long distances undi- gested. These birds are excellent swimmers and sometimes traverse consideravle expanses of water. Seeds of grasses Lear immersion ex- cellentiy, which tact accounts, in some m ure, for their wide distribution over the ae wth, REMINTING SILVER COINS, Why $100,000 is Appropriated by the Sun- dry Civil Bill, HE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL THIS YEAR contains a provision by Congress of $100,- 000 for recoining uncurrent silver coins, ‘There are at present between fourteen and fifteen millions of dollars’ worth of abraded silver coins in the treasury which need to be reminted. ‘They have been #0 worn in peo- ple'’s pockets and in other ways incidental to their circulation as to have !ost on an average aboat 3 per cent of their bullion value. By law the government ix obliged to give their face value for them, which it can well afford to do, inasmuch profit on their origin coinage was so big. Every haif dollar contains only about thirty-seven and a half cents’ worth of metal, and there is x proportionate gain on the mi Uncle Sam scooping in the difference between the bullion value and face value of each coin, This is cht a very profitable business that no private individual is permitted to go into it. Formerly it was different, and there were private min in various parts of the country which issued 3 of their own stamps. arly all of the uneurrent silver coins now in the treasury are half dollars. This is be- cause more half dollars have been minted than there 1s use for iu the business of the country. Comparatively few quarters and dimes are in the lot, for the reason that they are wanted ia active circulation, A dime changes hands ten times for once that a half dollar is moved from one person's pocket to another'a Just now there are about 129,009,000 silver dollars in the treasury vaults. Whate weight of the metal this represents on2 gets « notion of from the fact that one mi ver doilars weigh thirty tons, People find them too heavy for ordinary handling, and so they are stored away in great bins here, while paper representing their vulne serves usa substitute for them in trade, Owing to the recent fall in the price of silver the actual intrinsic worth of these masses of white metal ut Washington has considerably dimin- ished of late. Itiv not surprising that people should hoard and hide away gold, inasmuch as it is the only substance which can never be- come cheaper than it is now. It must not be supposed that the $100,000 appropriated by the sundry civil bull is to pay the expense of reminting the coins. It is merely to reimburse the treasurer of the United States for his loss on account of the abrasion. On every $1,000 recoined there is a loss of nearly 30." It is not expected that the treasnrer shall pay this out of his own pocket. So, after the coins have been reminted, the difference bi tween their original face value and their fai value after recoining is figured up and the amount is transferred to the credit of the trens- urer, so as to make his cash square. The £100,000 will yot go very far toward reminting the fifteen or sixteen millions of abraded silver, buty sum is set apart each year for continuing this work Last year #150,000 was appro- printed | Only & few years ago there was $26,000,000 worth of abraded silver in the treasury Sa Quite Evident. ae «war's Ja fare tu Charles - a?” cee ro married, been” Zo carsowaries | ALWAYS ON THE MOVE The Persistency of American Pleas- ure Makers, SPRING RESORTS POPULAR. ‘The Pleasure Seekers Must Be Where Some- thing is Going On—The Advantages of Washington as » Spring Resort—Why the Young Man Went to London. T WAS A BAGE RE- mark made to a writer for Tux Srap the other day that the most per- sistent pleasure makers in the world are the pleasure-making Amer- jeans. Of course, they constitute a small pro- Portion of the popula- tion. If you will stop & moment and think of the number of people of your acquaitance who have no occupation and merely kill time and svend an income, and then think of the people who are bread winners, you will realize how very many there are of the latter class aud how few there are of the former. Perhaps you hear a good deal of the pleasure makers, and so you do in one way, but all day long in the office or the counting house the people who do nothing are never heard of at all. Some of them are quiet and lead quiet lives, but others ave hot in pursuit of a good time, and itis this set that pursues ple: more persistently than do similar classes in other countries. i must go away.” The remark was made by one of these lively people last week. “Why?” “Oh, well it's getting quiet here now and down at ——— they are just whooping things = Js the scenery protty down there?” was ed. ‘Oh, no!” he replied, ‘not particularly, but there are lots of people, and there is something going on all the time.” ‘That is, after ull, the main thing, and ife spring resort were started in the middle of the desert of Sahara and people were told they could have a jolly time there the probability is that it would become a fashionable resort in a very short time. RESORTS EVERYWHERE. ‘The truth is that the classof wealthy trav- elers has increased so of late years that now the country is dotted all over with resorts especially designed for their oceupancy. Al- though Floride is more of a winter’ than a spring resort it is nevertheless a delightiul place at this time of year. Its growth of Inte years has Leen marvelous. It is not iong since it was decidediy primitive, and people going there expected simple accommodations, simple food and little or no society. It was resorted toasaplace for outdoor sports, fishing and boating aud riding, and it took some time to there. But now you can go down in » al hotel train, and ufter you get there can flirt on a hotel piazza all day and dance nearly every night. ‘Iwo hotels have been in opera- tion'for several years which are probably the most palatial structures of their kind in the world. Uniews he goes in cearch of it ne Kuest does not see much of local life. He eats French cooking, i waited upon by serv- ew York aud he associates with m every quatler of the globe. Some are foreigners, many are from New York, New E west, very few' are from the stuoneat allare trom Florida. ing is true inu less degree of the resoris in Norih und South Caroli THE SEA SHORE IN SPRING. pring is, h@wever, the time when the seashore in mild latitudes sought by the and gayety - e to go far ton to And them. There are nsic there, there are men there, are bull rooms, there is excitement aud pewure. Itix here that you will tind the vaitd, the person who thinks she is an invalid, man and bis y who travel ply becwuse they have the money to do so the young mun who is there to see the girls and to show his cloth WHY A YOUNG MAN WENT TO LONDON. It ix related of one of the latter class who makes Washington his tenting ground ducing & portion of each year that he went to London last spring to see some of the sights and to the requain of some of the distin- who set the fashions in trousers and other articles of apparel in that metropo- lis. What the professional heavy swell saw was well worth the trouble and expense of the vo age. When he racked by ct wer a cutaway coat iu the afternoon or should he wear a frock cout? Should hiv derby brown or should it be black? Shonid his collar stand up straight in front or shouid the points turn over? “Lieve were important matters which he could not decide, and ax for shoes— why, they almost drove him crazy, for it is of a oment whether their toes’ should be or rounded or almost square. wuaT HE saw. And so ke went to London and paced the fashionable quarters of the town to study clothes. Parliament was ia session, but he did not goto usee the lords and commons. West- miuster Abbey stood with wide open doors in- viting him to enter aud study the historic sopulcher, but he preferred the study of the tatiors’ stocks of masculine adornmeuts. Lut he found that the variety of apparel woru in London was even greater than the variety worn in Washington or New York. He saw one noble young earl come out of hiv club in a owt hatneg aisle tec Giiale hat; he saw one Pall Mall dandy in a cutaway cont and ane other in a fruck coat. Lord Randolph Churchill had pointed tes to his shoes when he saw him, and the younger Ponsonby appeared in shoes almost square. Here was a pretty todo. Had he crossed the Atuntic, lost $50-—-or as he now sayx, ten pun’ and cight—at poker in the smoking room, had been horribly sick, and ail for the suke of being as much at seain the matter of styles in London as he had been literally at sea on the Atlantic ocean. After he had spent two weeks of this perplexity he de- cided upon a happy way out of his diticulties. ONE MAN His MODEL. He would study the clothes, not of the men of London, but of one man of London, and the subject for his study he decided should bo his royal highness, the Prince of Wales, After this decision the young American found an absorb- ing cccupation in following the prince. When- ever he heard that Wales was going to witness a particular theatrical entertaimment he bought a ticket and went too, and be followed the ro: “sport” into the race course and the cricket field. He even had au idea that be would learn to play baccarat and get really into the prince's own set, but somebody warned him against this and represented that it cost more than he could possibly afford to associate with the heir to the British throne. ME ALMOST KNEW THE PRIXCE. But he saw so much of the prince and thought so much about him that he began to have a shadowy idea in his mind that he knew him, and when he returned to America this shadowy idea assumed definite shape, and now he always speaks up and defends the prince when disloyal Americans make fun of him. He eveu goes so far as to declare that the prince is a very affable, agrecable man “after you get to : do not b: the rich old st a pointed know him,” and that, as for thatbaccarat scan- dal, if people really knew the true inwardness of it there would be a decided change in public opinion—a gentle suggestion that he does know the true inwardness of it, but is not at liberty to disclose it. He wettled also the ques- tion of clothes, and there is not a suit that the Prince of Wales wore when this young man was in England that bas not got its duplicate in the latter's wardrobe. Therefore, when Washing- tonians meet this young man again they know that they are gasing upon what may ai- most be called a sprig of royalty, since it is ss with precisely the same verdure as royalty. : ee rushes from one place to another in search of it and insists upon having it twelve months out of the year. WASHINGTON THE SPRING BESORT. ‘There is no reason why anybody who is look- ing for a spring resort should go away. The person who does leave isin the samo position as one who lives in the Catskills and takes a journey in order to have ocmse meonntala scenery. If you will i up a wn os of outside cities you will find in som that Washington is advertised asa spring re- sort, just as Fortress Monroe or Virginia b are. Atno time of the year are there more atthe hotels. Of course this is as it should be. Soon there will be such foliage as few other cities such parks as no other city has, and such interesting things to see as can be equaled nowhere else in all the rid. It ie the best place in the orld to come to in the spring. If you do not care for the city, just take jorse and buggy and drive around in the ighborhood. KG it is historical matter you want goand investigate the score of battle fields or dueling grounds, or go to Arlington or Mount Vernon. If you want to see progress and modern construction you have it here. If ou want tosee bits of quaint antiquity you aveitin Alexandria; bul you must hurry up, for Alexandria iteelf is waking up nowadays and has joined in the onward march with her younger sister. eee eae FROM A JAIL TO A FORTUNE. A Prisoner's Father Dies and Leaves » For- tune of 61,725,000. Frank Schohay von Ringloeffer, a millionaire, was released from the Pittsburg work house ‘Thursday on » writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Stowe. Ringloeffer's father was a prom- inept railroad contractor in Bohemia, He died recently leaving a fortune of 5,000,000 florin: or $1,725,000, Most of this will be iuherited by Ringlocffer, as he is the eldest son. Ningloeffer went to Pittsburg eighteen years ago. He suc- ceeded John B. Schlosser as steward of the Du- quesne Club. While holding that position be became involved in trouble with a woman, and was tried and convioted on the charge of tak- ing money and entering a building with # fe- lonious intent. He was sentenced to the work house for four years, and whilo there escaped, but was caught. For this escape he was sen- tenced three additional years. He served five Years and was released on a technicality. About ¥14,000 of his inheritance is now in New York. Ringloeffer will not go back to his native land, but will begin business in Pittsburg. = ne OPENING A NEW COAST LINE. Rational Company Leaves Philadelphia. The steamer Camden, the first vessel of the New Mexican International Steamship Com pany, designed to ply between Philadelphia and Tampico, touching at Havana, Progreso, Campeche, Frontera, Vera Cruz and Tuxpan, returning by the same route, sailed from Phil- delphia yesterday on her first trip. ‘the Camden is 265 feet long, flying the British flag at her stern and the Mexican’ flag ather peak. The smokestack is painted with the Mexican colors—green, red und white. She is commauded by Capt. Bland and has no pas- senger accommodations, being designed for the carriage of freight only. ‘The next vessel of the newline will sail some- where bet a the 15th and 20th of this month- and in th: | those following regularly there- after it is designed to have accommodations for travele: —— +02 The Democratte Campa'gn Committee. At the meeting of the democratic congres- sional campaign committee Wednerday evening chairman, Lawrence Gardner of the District of Columbia, scevetary, and J. L. Norris of tie District of Coiumbia, treasurer. ‘The chairman was wuthorized to appoint the executive com- mittee. ‘Ihe following are the names of the members of the committee wo far as thoy have been fur- nished to th Alabama, John il. Bonk Thomas ©. McRae; C: form 3. Geu: Colurado, A. E. 3 Kinley; Conneticut, ——"; Delaaare, Jou Caus¢y; Florida, Sie; ken I. Malle Loses; Malo, Joseph . Forman: Tnsix Towa, Yhomax Lo ntick nat, wma Linois, A. O. McCle gas, 8. PN Nettene Maryland, ewetts, Johu k. Andrew; unesotr, Missotird, Ses ptou; Mussa- an, Justin Be . thomas George Luiher ¥. 3icKinney ivivsenheiner, New Yor! North Dakota, W . Warwick; Oregon, — Wau. Mutehler; Rhode sian South Carolina, Geor, G. Johnson coat fexas, Joseph W. Lailey Virginia, Wm. A. Jone Vermont, B, Washing- John D. Wisconsin, Juhu L. sciteheli; Wyo- Baird; Arizous, Marcus’ A. ; Oklahoma, . Caine; Lise B. Smuliey tou, Hugh C. Willuce; West Virgi Alderson Three Words. ‘There are three lessons I weuld write— Ahree words as with a burning pen Tn tracings of oterna! light, Upou tie hearts of tnen: Have Hope. ‘Though clowds environ ‘And gladness hides her face 11 5 Put thou the shadow from thy brow— ‘No night but hath ite morn. Have Fuith, Where'er thy ‘Ihe culin’s disport, the tempest s wratl— Kuow thou: God rules the lists of heaven, ‘The inhabitants of earth. rk is driven— Have Love. Not love alone for one, But man, as man, thy brother call, Aud scatter, Uke te circling sun, ‘rhy charities on all. ‘Thus grave these leasons on thy son!— Hope, Faith and Love—and thou shait find Streugth, when Life's surges rudest roll, Light, when thou else wert bind. —ScuILLER. ee —_- People of the Earth. From the Youth's Companion. Exactly how many people there are in the world it is impossible to say, since no census is taken of many populous countries, like China, while the number of people who live in the jungles of Africa can only be guessed at. As long ago as 1866 Behm, a leading German authority, estimated the ‘population of the earth at 1,400,000,000. ‘Tn 1880 the same authority set the figures at about 100,000,000 m« He did not base the new estimates on the ral inerease of the people of the world, but explained that more accurate figures and estimates had enabled him to more closely. wo years Inter Mr. Behm estimated the earth’s population at 22,000,000 less than in 1880, the dlecrease being accounted for by the fact that new investigations had compelled the reduction of the estimated opalation of China from something over 400,000,000 to about 850,000,000. . Probably the estimate for the year 1891, made by a learned German statistician, is the most nearly accurate of any yet made—1,480,- 000,000. 1t is believed that the world's increasing at the rate of nearly 6, ‘The most populous continent is contains two countries—China and whose swarming millions outnumber the peo- Pile of all the other countries of the contineut. ‘The most d nvely peopled continent is, of course, Europe, umber of people in Europe is known with » great degree of accu- racy, There are about 360,000,000, and the continent which accommodatesall these people is so-small that there are upon it'an average of ninety-three to the square mile. The people upon the two continents of North and Nouth America, without the aretic Foglons, aro lees than 123,000,000 in number, oF aly eight to the square mile. pulation is ),000 a year. which india— John L. Mitcheil of Wisconsin was elected | OLD RESTAURANTS. Where Washingtonians Ate and Drank Many Years Ago, KENSEITS “BEEFSTEAE.” A Tavern Kept by a Retired Member of the Prise Ring—Other Hostelries Where Solid and Liquid Refreshment Was Dispensed tn —\——__ ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE OLD TAVERNS OF Washington, whieh some friends suggested as furnishing an inter- esting theme for an ar- ticle for Tae Sran, would, if » fulland de- tajled account of them were given, fill several columns. The old tans and taverns of London almost every writer who bas depicted Lon- don in any of its many phases, for they were the rendezvous of all the literary or noted of the period of their long existence. “Talbot Inn,” or, as is was originally called, “Tabard,” from its sign bearing the representation of » herald’s coat, was, as late as 1841, in a good state of preservation, as may be seen in the engraving in “Knight's London.” It was built in 1383, and from it Chaucer's Canter- bury Pilgrims started after __ refreshing the inner m The Mermaid” was the resort of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, Beaumout and Fletcher and Coram. The “Devil” Tavern, however, was rendered famous, for its walls’contained some of “rare Ben Jonson's” poetical effusions, writ- ten under the genial inspiration which was dispensed beneath its roof. The “Boar's Head” immediately calls up Falstaff, Bordolph, with his “malmsey nose,” and’ Pistol, Dame Quickly and Prince Hall. ‘The “Mitre” Tavern was the resort of Dr. Sam Johuson and Boswell and 80 on, until those of the present day with all the modern improvements entertain the men about town, THE FOUNTAIN INN. I find in an old directory of 1821 a tavern in almost every square—well, not quite that, but in every inhabited square. My memory dates from the “Fountain Inn.” where for some years David & Jonathan Appler were the hosts. hrough the long vista of years Iean recali the large swinging sign with a fountain and flowers. How long they remained as pro- privtors I caunot say, but they were succeeded ¥ Jock Dougiuss, 4 genial Scotchman, who re- ved from there to the east side of the ican Tiicater, on Louisianaavenue, and hig ru there was the resort of the patrons of the drama and the members of the theatrical pro- fession. 1 find Jock Douglass was there as late as 186, thougl the theater bad been ed intoan assembly room and a bowling alicy kept by Moses Copp. On the west side of the’ theater, on Louisiana avenue, Ernest Guttschlich kept the “slakspeare Tavern” for He was there in 1821 and I find in he hept a boarding house in the ahat wasa famed resort before lass came to divide the custom. 8 abound near a theater and a Ou the corner of Sth street, | Wuere for some years James Kennedy kept a tavern, which ut that day was of some con | ble iaportanee, for a dinner was giv | Lataycite. The printers of the day, when nierg to Congress, were otic’ inting Severance, john S. Gal the Spirit I believe; George Lamsdaic, his partuer subse- New Oricuus Peayune. Years + Tthimk, in 1566, on kis way to Europe worge Keudail explered aa thai remained of the old onice Where he had “worked ut case” Ju that same neiguborbood was t the corner of 7th and E, dicy as early as 182i, and treet near E was the “ihree Tun heps by Washington Robey. A RESORT POR NARKET PEOPLE. Further up 7th street, corner of I, was — famous resort for the market people. There was a iarge wagon yard, and on the night before the market, then ns ngw, three times a week there was a large crowd on hand, Some » iter, about 1840 1 think, Owen Con- y kept the “Parmers’ Hotel,” northwe: rot 8th and D streets. On the aven strect Warren, the Falstaff of the da; vern cated the “Falstaff,” and after his widow kept it. It was on the vouth side of the avenus, about where the Youngs’ coach muking stops are now, and, by v ¥3, betere those shups were built, George, x the painier, but what he ‘called a and exhibited bis Indian paintings, and among tho attractions was a local er of some tame nauied Angelo. A friend Whose memory of that period can be relied on id some years afterward and the last time he lo he was whitewashing the fence of ashington race curse preparatory to the spring races. ‘he corner of 6th street and Pennsylvania avenue has been from time immemorial a ree tauraut, for in 1822 Wm. Bayley kept « porter cellar and oyster house there,and in subsequent yeurs, loug “after, came Snow and Shad, and then Wm. Walker, and afterward P.M. Dubant, and over it for about the same length of time was a famed resort for those fond of faro. Col. Jas. Long was the first proprietor. He was the owner of Boston, the kiug of the turf in his day; and on 6th street, adjoining Col. Long's, was the celebrated fard bauk of Jake Dixon, of whom so many legendary stories are told. On the south side of the avenue, between 6th and. 43g, where is nowa drug store, a very cele- brated restaurant was kept by a cordon bier Jean Baptiste Letourna, that was the resort of the gourmet. He moved to Capitol Hill. ‘This restaurant was frequented by members of Congress before the day of House restau: rants. There was given a very handsome sup- per to Jas. Sheridan Knowles by the Typo- graphical Society on night when a favorite actress hada benefit, at which Mr. Knowles was to appear, but could not. There was con- siderable feeling at his failure and a disposition to resent the disappoifttment on his pearance, but the printers of the rally on that night and an explanation cepted. Knowles was here about 1837. ‘TWo OPPOSITE THE NATIONAL. There were two restaurants opposite the National, one kept by Mr. De Saules, who at one time kept at the old stand of “The White Swan,” 7th and E streets, but removed to the avenue. Among the nightly visitors to De ‘Lavern, ras gone. ig was repeated every night, for Wentworth came in for hie night cap nightly and De Saules always thought he géve two “hot scotehes” for one. Next to Saules’ was Pat King’s “ Hall.” That was the of the actors and actresses who appeared at the “Adelphi,” coach ; and beyond that, next was another f resort, the Mr. John H. Buthman. Here the and merk of Gis silane ant eta ty ““ : H : : i 5 t FE g. E HI H i i | *F ik if i it uy fi ii t i #8 & : Hi i r [ F i ay : i, ify | H i i hi HT ett uf i fi it i I i every house had on its sideboard—huge ma- hogany affairs they were, too—in cut glass decanters wine and brandy and brokeu loaf | sugar anda mudlor to crush the sugar, and | toddy spoons. No whisky in those days and » dranken man was a rare sight. I an fashioned tavern—the house still but little changed—on the corner of C a: a kept by two brothers, Frank an After Kensett moved from the corner of and D streets Johnny Fi = ,) the place. A jovial Irishman he was an: of humor and San se nt oat bh eee a tween und 21 re ‘and amo: Gen. Dawson of Louisiana, coat and boots with articles of apparel. in and in the inost x -T manner drink and ask Mr. Foy to drink with dollar eay “good morn! laying down a half and walk out. Drinks, by the bye, were then it.” One morning some 6% cente—a “f'penny Sa aah Arh oee ganas Foy lowing bim with said:“Bojabbera, ain't he's payeock of © ANDREW BANOCOCE'S PLACE. On6 of the famed taverns of the period, later than some of those I have been speaking of, was Andrew Hancock's, still in the same spot, and with the numberiess curiosities on ite dingy walls, but not the Hancock I knew. Standing at the bar, behind which Andrew him self presided, and a jovial Boniface he was, I have seen a dozen Senatore and members of Congress. After he retired he left to his gon the old place. Richard Francia, one of Washington's old colored citizens and esteemed by everybody, dispensed the liquid consola- tions. mains, but the spirits have departed. On the opposite side of the avenue John H. Eberhach commenced business in a little frame house next to the house then occupied by old Mr. Travers, and beyond that was a vacant lot on the rear of which his sister, Miss Travers, lived in « queer rambling house.’ Gautier sub- sequently built on that lot. Eberbach remained there, a confectionery in front and « bar in the rear, @ quiet place, but so well patronized he made quite a furtuneand built the large restau- Tant on the southwest corner of Sth and B eets. The successor of Eberbach was Green, and for years he kept that house, which was the resort of many of the best people of Wash- ington. From that place Sebastian Aman gra uated, and his place on 9th strect has the same reputation as Green's and Eberbach's. A very famous restaurant of the early forties was the one next to Jackson Hall, kept by a man named Jenkins, and another kept by John Pettibone at the corner of 9th and Pennsylvania avenue. Both of these were success:ul, but changed hands and gradually died out. ' The old- restaurants of Boulanger, Favier, Guesta jautier are among the things that were and their places have not been supplied, at least, we old inbabitents think #0. When Mr. Boulanger was in a good humor, and would tuke the trouble, be could prepare dishes fit for the table of Lucullus. Gautier, too, kept an admirable establishment and made a revolu- tion in dinner giving. I remember, vears ago, don’t know when, but along in 1838-9, asi remember, James Johneon kept a restaurant on the corner of 1ithandF. It was very cole- brated for its cooking, and from there gradu- ated James Wormley, that admirable caterer and most excelient man. The lovers of good living owe himadebt of gratitude. John Weicker, too, brought with him additional attractions for the bon vivant. I find myself among the moderns, and I have hardly touched upon the old taverns that abounded in the city in the early days. The restaurant Dickens mentions, “the City Lunch, staring him in the face as he looked out the window’ at Wil- lard’s, then Fuller's, on the morning after his arrival, is still occupied as a tavern, or saloon they aae called now, and has always been since it was built, a good many years ago. AN OLD BILLIARD SALOON. Another old landmark and resort which would hardly come under the head of taverns Was a billiard saloon where the Owen House is now. It was kept by Walter Stewart and was the resort of the lovers of billiards in that region, among whom was Gen. Gibson, who came every evening to have his game with the Proprietor, and while they plaved no hilarity was allowed. It wasa very solemn perform. ance of earnest and careful calculation. The entrance wasup the alley by an outside fight of stairs, On 10th street Mrs. McGonnigle kept the “Globe Tavern,” in the house next to Williams’ Auction store. “Tho Thespian Corps, of which Columbus Drew was the bright star, held their meetings there aud gave representations in the parlor. F street seems to have had a good many taverns. Abrabuin Butler kept the Union it was designated in later years, and Wm. Dowling before him, and in the square James Dougherty, and bet th and 15th John Dumbietou kept a tavern, and on the corner of 15ti: street and Penusylvania avenue John Kugjobn, a colored man, had an oyster house. J am only skimming the surface, for the tav- erus were numerous in that early day. The tavern kept by George Kensett on 13th street was subsequently occupied by Kullman and the actors made ita resort, and it was an ad- mirable cating house, but that was in modern times, when Charley Fiiut had removed from lath street, where lie began, to the house then just vacated bv Mr. Kives and where subse- quently Joe Hall had a faro bank. Shoemaker wow occupies the house. Jesse Burch kept a tavern on 14th street two or three duors from the corner of the avenue. John Usher kept a tavern for some years where now John Russell keeps, ‘There was no other tavern in that row, Whero they now abound, until you reached the 11 ———————————— = __ A NOBLE MINION. Good Work Carried On by theLadies of Epip®- any Chureh. WHAT RAS BEES ACCOMPLISMED I NIKE TEARS I SOUTH WASHINGTON—A BAKDSONE MINSION BUILDING ERECTED AFD A CHAPEL XRARLT (COMPLETED—HOW THE WORK 18 CARRIED OR. TEARS AGO THE LADIES OF THE Chureh of the Epiphany organized « mis- sion in connection with the church work and since that organization the good work has been carried on in South Washington, and nows new chapel is nearly c: npleted which, togetbit with @ mission building, will cost nearly €50,000. ‘The new chapel is located on tie northeast corner of 12th and © streets outh- west, and the mission building edjoins it on 12th street. This is one of the most complete buildings of ite kind in the country and is larger than any similar institution in this city. The building is « large four-story pressed brick structure and each floor is constructed te ‘meet the needs for which it is intended. ITS INTERIOR ARRANOEMENTS. On the first floor is « dispensary, thet is lee used ase reception and hat end cost room, the second floor is the large room, men's mosti ibe are held, and there is alse a On the third floor are 8 large kitchen and pantry. The fourth is not in use ae yet, it being ladies to make @ children's should the necessity arise, creared several fold. The Sun und freon pd of Mr. —, |. Davieand itendance is very large, membership now being about 400." One feature of the mission fs that while ft ts conducted by the ladies of an cbareh — ork Socatased am of all nominations, the i persons: into a church whether it be ire -g euotber piace of worship. ‘Then « great amount of charitable work isdone in various the nature of the work carrying those in it into families of persons where there is et lens member attempting to live onder Good influences. THE TUESDAY EVENING wEETINOS. The regular Tuesday evening meeting fer men is largely attended. The average attend- ence is nearly 200. Those who attend this meeting bave their hate and coate cared for on the first floor aud when they reach the landing at the head of the first flight of stairs they are rected with « hearty handshakeand kind words from one of the ladies. To this indy they give their name, age, occupation, church relation, residence and the number of persons in their family. These men are firen the freedom of the large reading room and library and in addi- tion to the large selection of books they can amuse themselves at 4 game of chequers or dominoes. During the evening they are served With coffee, sandwiches and doughnuts, for which no charge addition to this meeting there is a regular monthly social, to which they are all invited. Mra Hodges, who is at the head of this work, is assisted by Mrs. A. B. Kennedy, Miss Mary F. Waite, Miss Mame Gordon,’ Miss Matte Skidmore, Mise Katie Gordon, Miss L. Geiger and Mrs. Hannah Holmead. ‘The reading room, in addition to the books in the library, is papers and periodic permitted to take home. VINITING THE FAMILIES. During each week the members of the com- mittee of ladies in charge of the work visit the fumilies of all the men who attend the meet- ing and in that way they have succeeded im getting many children into tue Sunday school, as well as getting older ones ia the churen. If during these visits the Indies find any poor families they render What assistance they cau and also advise the mothers and fathers whe seck their advice In connection with this work there is no tem- Perance pledge used, but the ladies do what good they can im that direction. “Since the establishmeut of the mission,” said one of the persons interested, “a large amount of good bas beon done and the lives and babite of many persons, especially im the vicinity of the mission, Lave Leen changed. one REFORMED. In the way of an illustration a story was told of 4 man who called at the mission one even- ing and waated the ladies to give him « note te Lis wife asking ber to let him return home. ‘The man was intoxicated aud the ladies know- ing the family, informed him that they could give him uo such note. They took ham ta charge, told him that be could expect ni better than be had rec and gave him such « iccture that he said be in- tended to turn overs new leaf and bebave hian- self. ‘The ladies it, bus did not bave mu: pro: “he you really mean the next mecting.” Tbe man did so ud he bas not tasted liquor since that time. is, gud these the men are corner, where Greason kept or keeps yet. One of the resorts of the military was the “Virginia House,” kept by Harry Sweeting, on © street near 6th, Harry was a well-known man about town und very handsome. He was. pio- neer to the Washington Light Infantry and on parade mace a very fine appearance. The Benters, father and son, kept for some rs eating houses and taverns first on the nue neat the National, and then in the rear he Metropolitan Hotel, and afterward cor- ner 6th street, on the south side of the avenue. When the war began between the states taverns, hotels and saloons sprang up like mushrooms all over the city. Every available al every vacant lot was utilized for that and other pareve connected with the supply of the je army that surrounded Washington. When peace came they disappeared, many of them as suddenly as they came. ‘Many semained, places, however, and now are old-established PRED. COZZENS' PLACE. One of the acquisitions to Washington, which came with the war and romained after it was ended, was Fred. Cozzens, the author of the “@parrowgrass Papers.” Mr. Cozzens kept wine store next to the corner of 14th street on the avenue, and this store became the resort of the literati’ of that period. Fred. Cozzens was ‘one of those who contributed to the old Knick- ine while under the edit of Willis Gaylord Clarke, anda very brilliant set they were and an admirable mind as one of the many around Fred. Cozens. ned “Pacific” reached me and I be who The note ‘am very happy to make the corrections ps <n pene the artist who portraits which s Of the 1,800 names on the roils 240 have been confirmed. THE DAT NURSRRY. ‘The principal ferture of the mission is the day nursery, on the third floor. ‘This branch of the work is under Mra Thomas, who takes great interest in the young ones and sees that they enjoy themselves during the time they are in the nursery. The =~ ‘on this floor is set apart for @ genet y room for while in a smaller room there are se’ cradles where the weary ones may take a during the day. In the rear of the plas is the nursery dining hall. In thie isa k table that is not very high ber of cbairs are vided for if i ungeters seem to dislike the appearance of The orening, although they are happy to revue when their parents come for them. POPULARITY OP THE INSTITUTE. In the caso of persons unable to pay for the care of their children no charge is made, but those who can afford it pay Seontea day for one child, 7 cente for 2 or 10 cents for 3, pro- Siete Sacsemee somcay motes Sot ihn conmeatees poset leave the children when they want to go Pup Seals and Other Counterfeits Mate Out of Wood in Alaska HUT UP IN A DRAWER AT THE Ba tional Museum, where nobody has the privi- lege of seeing them, ise curious collection of decoys. Perhaps the funniest among them is pup seal about « foot ande half long, quite i { | He if i i Hf i l i tht Li pst ; H Hi 1i;/° ui | He i sf i v i ih sate i i