Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1892, Page 11

THE FVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY” A * uf PRIL 30, 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 What with tulle gowns, gauze wraps ion trimmed ants, the summer girl will seem at times to be on this earth, but not of it THE SUMMER GIRL. Her Many Attractions During the Coming Season. PRETTY HATS AND GOWNS Some Dainty Costumes for Ladies of Fash- jon—Popular Materials and How to Make the Most of Them—Afternoon and Neglige Dresses. fe iS Brecial Correspondence of Tax Evgxtxa Sta8. New York, April 29, 1892. CERTAIN FASHION- able tailor of this city being remonstrated th for charging such an exorbitant price for pair of trousers re- plied that there was no help for it, as only every other pair was paid for, This is s se- vere commentary upon human vanity, but I opine that you would have difficulty in find- ing = woman who, in spite of ber love of dress, would be willing to strut about in plumes quired so dishonestly. True, there is a legend ~ =<" that « certain dashing y woman, when threatened with an ac- jaw for a dress ordered four years pre- replied: “Hew ridiculous! I wore the ut years ago!” SUMMER BATS. April showers have brought May flowers with & vengeance, and the summer girl bids far to require a table all to herself in order that she may wear her hat into the dining room. But street dresses show no tendency to run to showy ateriala, The tailor-mades, especially, affect low tones, such as dove gray. slate, suede, cuir and putty. Inotice that there is al nplicity about these street . the bottom of the skirt has thr In the fourth illustration you will find pic- tured the appropriate style in which to wear one of these filmy wraps entwined around the neck. The hat, too, is prettily trimmed with chiffon. In spite of thrents of pouf and panier, it is only too evident that the clinging bell or u: brella skirt is to hold its own, notwithstanding its being such a trying style for women who are inclined to be stout, and there seems to be hosts of them nowadays, The American wo- man no longer fits the type to which ail for- eigners thinks she belongs, namely, the tal!, thin, angular and sharp-featured type. It may be that she has abandoned the puritanical meagerness of diet, and hence the change in the national figure.” Anyway, the clinging bell skirt calls for appropriate’ foot trimming, either narrow or broad box-pleated ruches, Vandyke flounces with fillings of Ince in eas- cades, old-fashioned ruckles, made by three runnings of a b edges turned in bars of velvet topped and edged with plush and covered with lace, Fancy trimmings, too, are much in vogue, sucl. a8 imitation feather, pleated vel- vet, passementeric braids and jet, and there is no tendency fo mix these styles of trimming. AFTERNOON COSTUME. The last illustration was s correct deline- ation of a very stylish afternoon costume, the bottom of the skirt of which is in a striped woolen material. having one of the pleated velvet ruchings around its border, imparting a very refined air to the gown, The skirt must have the requimte glove fiz over the nips and the back breadth be cut so bias as to prevent any leat, The velvet cor round yoke, which should be trimmed with passementerie, The back pieces flare some- what below the waist. They have no seam and are made full enough to form a box pleat in the middie, and must be trimmed with the same galloon as the fronts und basqnes of the jacket. The pleated front of the waist should be made up over a buckram lining. The hat worn with this charming spring toilet is of biack lace with bows of yellow and lilac ribbon, and with a sprig of lilac for aigrette. SUMMER DRESSES. You can't go amiss in ordering your summer dresses made up with vests and waistcoats, sometimes made full and covered below the waist with lace or net bibs, or else plain silk vests, fastening invisibly on one side and set off with ornameuts set band or bracewise. The corselet, too, accentuating, as it does, the wasp- like smallness of the fashionable waist, is sure to be extremely popular. 1 saw a very stylish skirt and corselet made up in changeable green silk over a nun’s waist of white silk gauze. ‘The effect was a bit eccentric, but in summer modes are very apt to run a bit wild, underside a bias of velvet to hold it up. young people foulards and crepes de figured with ali sorte of flow ll be favorite summer fabrics, There will be a craze for thin materials, you may depend upon it A SEGLIGE. It you are fond of something a bit eccentric you will find it in my initial illustration, avery pretty neglige made up in Turkish stuff. You cut the breadths bins at the top. inorder to form the pieats and train, and the sides are also bias above the waist. You don't make the usual gores, but substitute very small ones at the waist: and there must be material enough on the right to make the fold over. Cut the left side as usual and finish with a velvet rever. On the right the rever is sewed on with re- versed seam. ‘The cascade in jabot style may be of surah or crepe de chine. There is a straight collar, and pocket flaps and cuffs are of velvet. ‘THE PRINCESS OF WALES. Some doubting souls might deny that there is such a thing for a woman as a sunny side of fifty, but Ineed only instance the Princess of Wales, who still enjoys the reputation of being & handsomer woman than any one of her daughters. Certainly sne is one of the best dressed women of this day and generation, and her taste is wonderfuliy correct. True, she has kept her slender figure, and that gives her mI set before youn very handsome costume for the woman on the sunny side of ifty—either side—for both sides aera Written for The Evening Sta: Woman's History. Beautiful little thing! All a-spring! ‘She caunot walk, She camnot talk, But see her trip, trip, tript And from her rosebud lip Hear language passing sweet, ‘Though scarve a word complete! Yet even now the beauty Well knows, well does, her dutys F treasured doll is press'd. So fondly to her breast, Idonbt if any other— However grand a dame— A truer love may claim ‘Than this small maiden mother! O'erand Kisses off, and reprimands— Anéther Eiss,to calm te close, Girt by gems transcendent rare, Noble children blithe and fuir. Later stills lady old ‘Through her garden glides; Ou her face are manifold Lines of care, as tides wnooth, declining shore— Yet is sunset glory there, All the past and all before— Love, Crestion's heir! Strolling, hand in hand, are they: “Gan’ma, Dolly"s dood today. If she’s dood as dood can be, Don't, please, love her more nor me!* —SzaTox Doxono. ‘Washington, 1892. duchess satin, trimmed with jet and lace. The lace flounce, ornamented with bows of broad ribbon, ex tends around to the back breadth. The front of the skirt isset off ite full length with » strip of yellow silk covered with lace. The corsage is pointed, front and back. and has leated basque: of lace. At the back the sques fal! scarf-like to the bettom of the skirt. The covsage is covered with jet em- broidery. and there is a collarette of lace ar- ranged lic a bertha and set off with a jabot of yellow crepe de chine, below which there is a plastron of lace running to. point at the waist. The sleeves have deep Ince cuffs. The princess form. eiter complete or ending with a bodice over blouse effects. still holds ite place of favor with young folks, especially when they have thoso slender figures now so popular. Itdoes seem ridiculous to cali « fig- Ure or a face fashionable. but we must choose & type for the summer girl, otherwise she will lore balf ber charm, ‘There Was Ne Tragedy. From the Chicago Tribune, In his excitement his voice rose, and the two men in the next room heard him say, with startling distinctness. “You're a liar—understand? What you say is foul, deliberate lie, and I tell you so to your face. The manin the next room, with his chair against the door connecting the two rooms, gotup and hastily moved away; and he aud his companion waited silently for the climax. fou're a dishonest scoundrel!” went on the voice. ‘Your enmity isa greater honor than your friendship. Your associates show that. ‘There'll be trouble there in » minut said alistenor. What's the trouble about: “Don't know,” replied the other. “I didn't overhear the tirst of the conversation. But I'm giad to get away from that door—a bullet would come through it mighty easy. “If man said that to me,” continued the voice, “I'd shoot him—understand?—I'd kill him, 1 wasn’t askulking coward!” ‘The two listeners held their bresth until they heard the man in the next room continue in a lower tone: “That's what I said to him, a ‘Ho!” said one of the listeners. ‘He’ just telling what he said to some one else. “What he says he said to some one olse,” Corrected the other. “I know the class.” Cornell's Crews Afloat. The Cornell crews were able, owing to the fine weather, to get upon the water nearly two weeks earlier than usual. They have been row- ing daily since March 26, and are making ex- cellent progress. The make-up of the two crews has not been settled yet, but the men are rowing about the following positions: 'Varsity—Bow, Kelly; *93, 98; 3, Gilson, "M4; 4, Dunham, "$$; 6, Witherbee, "3; 7, Marston, long | Hall,’ ’94. Freshmen—Bow, Zciduondo; 2. t lower sleeves are also run with the ribbou, | Hightmen;, Hager; 4, Sanborn; 5, Pitcher; 6, and so are the yoke and collar. In order to| Troy; 7, Shape; stroke, Robbins. The substi. keep the lining from showing in case the | tutes are Collins, Nichols, Crumb, Freeborn Diouse were disarranged you should bind the | and Smith. side seams with® strip of the material. The| The decision of the intercollegiate regatta @orsage closes on the side. On the right of the | committee to hold the race at Ithaca during yoke there are smail bows of the ribbon, commencement week was a surprise to almost To SECURE CLINGIXG EFFECTS every one, but Poca ono wel eee and great interest ‘mn aroused among the ekirt foundations are discarded, nor is it ne- Rcdente, who have the prospect of using one cessary with woolens that can hold themselves | *¥ ences coat some up to line the whole skirt; deep false hem is patie oer sufficient. Nor is the balayeuse made any Se ee ee eee jain silk flounces of the same color as the Tkict, scalloped with s piaking machine. ‘The | Tom—"She seemed infatuated with you and tendency is stitl to lessen the fulluces of the | yet she refused you?” skirt at the bottom, without disturbing the | 7") io “oye” train, but care must be taken not to get it too scant, for the effect is very bad. I don’t see y velvet jackets, the woolen sack mateh- ing the color of the dress being greatly fected. Itshould have broad revers, and ona jabot or chemisette of silk gauze bright color, to lighten up the street costume, Gauzy effects are to be one of the moaish fads of the coming season, which, by the way, are very becoming to the girl of ethereal trpe, ving her the dreamy and uasubstantial which many prefer to the plump and rosy CLOTH RUN WITH RIBBOY. In my third illustration you will find pie- tured a pretty house dress in woolen material run witk ribbon, Of course, it must be made princess. You make the back and sides all of ‘one piecs. ‘Their seams extend to the bottom of the skict and are very bias The front is only pactly made into the form of corsage and r being composed of two 2, Barr, 5, Wagner, orsage parts, the roke and blouse portion, a '92; stroke, dent enough.” Dick—*Well, Itold her she was the only ‘woman I had ever loved.” Tom—‘You forgot thet you were a wid- jer.” Dick—“By Jove! that's a fact.” ot eaibcsrtae aon A celobrated French chef is said to nave the e:t of serving eggs ih 500 different styles, ‘Tom—‘I wonder if your declaration was ar- THE STOP WATCH. The First One Used for Timing Made Here. city of Was which 1829, says “is now built up.” THE OLD OCTAGON BUILDING. ‘When Tax Stax was temporarily removed to the Tribune building I passed the old Tayloe mansion, with its grand octagon front, and won- dered some ‘novus homa” did not buy the old mansion, tay the ghosts which for so man A WASHINGTON INVENTION | Jeiur have, held undisputed | possession. snd ned 0 ge ere fo nent the guecuy vel ead vels an Records Which Support the Fact—Some-| heard, or thought I heard, the belis Tho thing About the Old Mansion House in | Sisters of Charity at one time occupied the Alexandria andthe Good Fare It Furnished | house, and I was there once, and the Venetian mirrors were in the walls of the draw- —A Story of Washington Irving. tng coeur Sack Dale Oven were alive he might find there a chapter for his very remarkable book, “Footprints on the Borders of Another World.” While minister to SN A RECENT ARTI- | Naples h pass ‘his of mine in Tas \d Mrs, Crowe's “Night Side of Nature’ Evesrxo Sta Istated, | contains many remarkable instances of ghostly on the authority of | appearances, but none se universally believed Capt Fo AL fer, | 28 this, which has for many years retained its that the first stop wateh | SUPeFnataral reputation. it chance for an enterprising reporter to spend the night in ever used for timing | the old mansion and give us the result. races was made by Mr. WHAT BROKE UP JACKSON'S CABINET. Montandon, s watch-} An old friend ridicules the iden that Mrs. maker of this city. | Eaton's escapade had anything to do with the Some dispute arose, | breaking up of the cabinet. It was a scandal and my friend and ora-| aud served as a pretext. In 1830-31 he was ail ‘q| Working on the Telegraph, Duff Green's paper, ele on all racing and and sct up a part of the Calhoun correspon political events has sent me volume ef the | ence, which was the real cause of the rupture ican 1 i etween Gen. Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, re- y fackson had, he said, been le elieve John S. Skinner, an authority on all turf mat-| that the movement made in the cabinet of Mr. ters of that period, which was never disputed. | Monroe for his arrest and trial for invadiny Mr. Skinner was for many years postmaster of | Florida, then Spanish territory, was the wor Baltimore, and, subsequently, under tho whig | Of Mr. Crawford, and that Mr. Calhoun was 1} : friend and supporter. Gen. Jackson had o administrations, assistant postmaster general. | ST! Ia the ‘eptember number of the American | tained from the President, through Mr. John 6 . Rhea of Tennessee, unlimited power in conduc ‘Written for The Evening Star. Intely invented by Mr. Mostandon of Washing. | (itoUts . Secrerary of War, acquiesced, ton measures sinall divisions of time with great | iting exdienent, and ne seven ee accuracy and would, wo should think, be ackson’s ‘cabinet were personal a very valuable acquisition to all gentlemen 1 friends of Mr. Calhoun, their re- who own running or trotting horses and wish essary to the harmony vf the in their private trainings to determine the | ,aministration. My irieud the publica- speed of their horses correctly. It divides | {ion was delayed for some time-nad dures tat fime to the sixtieth part of a second, is put | period Duff Green sought to obtain the eery- into action by a slight pressure on s spring | foe. of Mr, I. M. Duncanson, father of Mr, C. and stops On removel of pressure, It has | °hencanaon, then owner of @ large pitting three hands on the dial plate, ono making the | Caice here, to establish « peper in Renee minutes, one the seconds and ono the thirds or | Soua ths ‘Calhoun cateer telling wee eee sixtieth part of asecond. It is so nicely con. | eebouse the Calhoun, cause, they were pre- structed that we found, upon frequent trials, it | PuPoiTe, Vou dis vamphick. Ma? Deca could be started and stopped within two-sik- | Potused to cousider the communication as con- tieths of a second, The cost of these time- : fidential, and told Gen, Jackson of it and of keepers in a silver case is ¢120." Mr. Skinner pay tastes : sayr, “one of them has been purchased ang| Df Green's intention to oppose his re-eleo tion, and Gen. Jackson determined to e tablish a newspaper here that would sus| the administration. Inthe summer of 183) a friend of the President showed him a powerful article in the Frankfort (Ky.) Argus, and inquiring who its author he was informed it was Mr. Francis P. Bi then clerk of tho court and president of the leading state bank. ‘the President at once ten- dered him the position of editor of the paper to be established. and Mr. Blair, from his de- votion to Gen. Jackson, gave up these lucrative positions and removed to Washington and es- tablished the Globe. The Telegraph became the opponent of Gen. Jackson's administrations and was the organ of the Calhoun party. Col. Benton’s hostility to Mr. Calhoun was unre- lenting, and Mr. Webster relates how he had tried In vain to effect a reconciliation in the very last days of Mr. Calhoun, It was, my friend says, this rupture between Mr. Calhoun used by the United States ordnance depart- ment, and we have heard the intelligent chief of that department pronounce it the best in- strument of the kind that has ever coi under his observation.” I had spoken of ir. Montandon when writing of this watch and re- call him most vividly. He was a Swiss, I understand,though 1 thought he was a French- man, a very gentiemanly, handsome old man when I knew him, and cstecmed by everybody. THE MANSION HOUSE. Iam reminded of a hotel at Alexandria which ought not to be omitted from the list of those hostleries localiy famous for their good fare. he Mansion House, when I knew it, was kept by Albert Newton, and iis father, a'part- ner of Mr. Gadsby, had kept it before him. It was a favorite resort on a Sunday, where a good dinner, such as today I don’t think eau be sur- passed, was set for 00 cents, In season canvas | and Gen, Jackson wh back ducks and terrapin were always on the | irs, vill of fare, aud reguiur boarders paid €25 per | dent, Gen. Jackson's acquaintance with Mr month and were fed on that fare. ‘The eook- Eaton commenced when she was a young g' before her first marriage, and when he was the Senate and boarded at her father’s (O'Neill’s) hotel. Joux FP. Coyne. =e THE DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS. ing at that house was as famous as the fare, and the table wines then were Madeira, port and sherry—champagne was not so universal as nowadays—and ‘such wines as cannot today be found, except in some private cellar. Mr, Newton subsequently kept the Bx- change at Norfolk and his reputation as a hotel keeper was fully sustained there. In an arti. cle some months ago i stated I had purchased terrapin frequently at $3 per dozen and my statement, by the same element, whose horizon is bounded by the last ten or fifteen years, rid- iouled the idea, ‘Talking with Mr. Alonzo Mills of Alexandria, who was with Mr. Newton in the Mansion House, he not ouly confirms my state- ment, but says on more than one occasion they bought terrapins, regular diamond bac] #2 per dozen. Linquired of one of the restaurants here whut they paid for terrapin and the buyer for the house told me ali the way from =30 to $50 per dozen and for extra size as high as €60 per dozen, Before the days of sleeping cars and the bridge over the Susque- hauna at Haver-de-Grace,when we used to take the ferry bout to cross, in scusom the deck of the boat was covered with canvas backs at €1 a pair. Ihave bought many a pair, indeed, never returned from a visitto New York without two or three pair added to my baggage. Now they are $6 a pair in the market. For years be- apprehension was felt everywhere fore the war 1 sought all my liquid supplies | for the safety of the seat of the United States from that old wine merchant, Jobn Ui, | government, Buthman, who kept onty the best, and I paid |” “And it was notfor promises made or in- for Hennessey brandy $4.50a gallon. During | ducements held ont by the government, but the war, frou: 1861, 1 paid for the same brandy | under full apprehensiou of danger and from a $16. Everything went up thenand never came | patriotic wcuse of duty that said volunteers down. came loyally to the support of the at Soldiers of 1861 Whose Pension Were Ruled Out. The memorial presented by a committee representing the D. C. volunteers to the con- gressioval committees on pensions this week says: “In April, 1861, your memorialists be- came members of the severa! organizations called into the service of the United States in the District of Columbia under the proclam: tion of the President, or prior thereto. In those memorable days, when all was doubt, danger and uucertainty, when the duly elected Presi- dent found it neeessery for his own snfcty 10 come to the national capital in dixguise, and when Ins inuuguration could not have taken place but for the presence and protec- nn of some of said orgumzations, which had been received into tho service of the United States government by virtue of a comtuission issued to the late Gen. Churles P, Stone, a inspector geucrai of the District of Claims “When they presented themselves to i mus- in they were informed in d@tinct Precise language that those” who not serve the full period of time required could still withdraw and ‘step out of the ranks, But only a few, whose places were at once filled by others, did avail themselves of this opportunity, while, on the contrary, it ean be proved that some feared only the possibility of being rejected. “The goverument reserved to itself also the xplicit right to discharge said orgunizations sooner if it found that it could dispense with their further services. ‘Thus said voluntcers placed themselves, life and limb, completely at the disposal of the government for a period not exceeding ninety days, but with a distinct acservation on the part of the government to discharge them at any period prior thereto. The solemn and sacred contract then and there entered into between the United States government on the one hand and these patriotic citizens upon the jother placed therefore @ plain limitation of ime, Not upon these volunteers, but upon the Vnited States government itself, restricting its juthority over these organizations to their prviees to a period not exceeding three jonths, \‘"In strict accordance with this solemn con- + the United States government, in graut- igy an honorable <ischarge to individual mom- * of said organizations, explicitly stated rein that said volunteer was mustered out t reason of expiration of his term of sery- ‘But, unfortunately, any "of whom A STORY. OF IRVING. The article on Washington Irving which ap- | *¢¥ peared in Tue Stax of last Saturday was, a8 is | ould everything about that great author, most in- teresting. Mr. Irving retuins a nearer place in the hearts of American readers than any one who preceded or has succeedet him. Speaking of Irving with Dr, Pope sowe time ago tho €octor told me while he waa student in New York he frequented the Astor Library, and the medical alcove was near the historical alcove that was occupied by Mr. Irving every day for months while preparing his “Lity of Washing- ton,” and he would avail himself of the doctor's youth to get down books from the upper shelves. On one occasion Mr. Irving lost his eye glasses, and after hunting for sowe time he called the doctor and asked him tojoan him his young eyes to find them, He left, yowever, withont them, and the doctor contiyued the search and found them in one of the books Mr, irving had becn using. When he found them the doctor became possessed of the desire to keep them and started ont to find « pair to match them and saccueded in finding ina store on the Lowery a fac simile of them, samo weight of frame, gold and a little stronger in tho tight, ‘The doctor bought them and on Monday when Mr. Irving returned to the library he said, “Mr, Irving, I found your glasses,” and handed him the paic be had bought. Mr. Irving thanked him and put them on, and ga‘ y have improved since Llost them, Lean see better with them,” and he took them off and ivoked at them and the doctor confessed the change he had made to keep those Mr. Irving had worn so long as amemento of him. Mr. Irving was pleased, and asked what be had paid for thei your momorialists, f entered said volunteer rganizations at subsequent dates, rang- ing from one to eight or nino days made him receive tho amount, saying he in- piter their ncceptance into. tho service, tended to change the glasses anyhow, and these jin order to completo said erganiza- just suited him, and gave the doctor the ones { tions, now find themselves most unjustly de- he had worn so long. ‘The doctor prized them | prived of the Denofits of the pension legislation and for several years kept them, but after com-| enacted by Congress, under an erroneous an ing to Washington they were stolen from his] wrongful acceptation of terms used in said cfice. Although Mr. Irving died as Inte ag| legislation on part of the pension 1859 there are very few alive now who know| bureau, Said ~~ burcau has rejected him, Your correspondent of last Saturday| the applications of your memorialists and Dr. Pope are the only ones I can} for pension under the unjust allegation of » Seeali failure ou the part of your memorialists to serve for the full period of time for which a they had enlisted, notwithstanding the fact I had the pleasure of spending an hour sur ° that in each case an honorable discharg two with Mr. Irving in the sanctum of Win. ‘t\] reason of expiration of term of service, with Fitz-Green Halleck. N. P. Wil “In view of the fact that your memorialists at Inman, Henry William Herbert (Fra fe nk For-| the time of their enlistment were received and ), Albert Pike and the veteran Wal accepted int e service for the explicit and oon pm of like celebrity. What a galaxy| mutually well-understood purpose of completing gathered daily at that little oflice in Barciay| and filling up said organizations, then street. There all the magnates of the turf con-| and since termed, designated and known by gregated, Col, Wm. RK Johnson, John C,| the name of ‘ninety days’ volunteers’ or “three Stevens, and there I met, somewhere about the] months’ men,’ in view, early forties, Mi ly, who rode Eclipse in]the fact ‘that it the great race with Col, Johnson’s Henry in] with the government to retain 1823. He was the trainer of Eclipse. and after] thom in the service to the utmost limit of Henry had won the first heat the rider of| the time of their enlistment (if it should not Eclipse, Wm. Crafts, was taken down and| be its pleasure to grant them an honorable Purdy rode the two winning heats, Heferring| discharge by re the to that race in the Turf Register I find Capt | term of service” ae izations, asitactually did,) it iscruclly Cox of Washington with Gen. Rid ve organizat john Allen of Phi unjust, illogical ‘and insufferable that the; the judges, ‘The fe sural. be eer, et Gain font oe » indirectix, ll with ine utmost considerably, Fashi It was one of the formed the labor of emall for enlisted had been voluntarily tho government; that the Written for The Evening Star, ‘TOOLS OF THE STONE AGE, Manufactured at the National Mi After Primitive Methods. A MODERN PALEOLITHIC MAN AND HIS WoRK— TURNING OUT STONE IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS BY THE MEANS SAVAGES EMPLOYED—THE AX- CIENT WORKSHOP ON ROCK CREEK. There is a man of the stone age at the Na- tional Museum. He spends his time in fashion- ing primitive implements and other objects out of different kinds of rock, using no other tools for the purpese than such as were em- ployed by people who lived in the vanished epoch mentioned. The object for which these labors are performed is to obtain some prac- tical acquaintance with the methods utilized by the primeval savage in his arts and indus- tries, It has been imagined that he must have expended an enormous amount of work in making his arrow-heads, hammers, &c., but the fact seems to be that such was hardly the case, Human beings in a crude and untutored stage of existence have no relish for toil, and on this xcconnt wonder has always been felt Fespecting such an article as a stone ax, which archmologists have declared to be the product of the efforts not merely of one generation, but of soveral, being handed down from fathor to on and taking shape so gradually that tho in- strument begun by an individual might be finished by his grandchild. Mr. J.D. McGuire, the paleolithic gentle- man referred to, has’ made one of these axes in two hours, employing only such tools as were used by the savages, Inasmuch aa he lacked practice in the art it is to be presumed that the primitive man whom he imitated could do the work much faster. It must be remembered that whenever the latter required aweapom or implement he did not take any chance rock to carve it out of. On the con- trary, he went to the most convenient stream and collected a pebble that was as nearly the shape of the object he wanted to make as possi- His motive was always to save labor, ich was extremely disagreeable to him! hen he chipped the pebble into form or pecked” at 1¢ with another stone until it as- sumed the required contour, finally grinding the edge, if one was desired, upon a piece of saadstone, and perhaps polishing the article by rubbing it with eand and water. By such pro- cesses even a very obdurate material can be re- duced to shape quickly. Obsidian or volcanic glass will flake into kecn-edged fragments suit- able for arrow heads or spear heads at a blow. WHAT HIS EXPERIMENTS HAVE PROVED, Itisthe same with other implements and objects of various sorts such as have been pre- served as relics of the stone age, These ex- periments have proved that they were much ensier to manufacture than has been supposed. Mr, MeGuire has produced a number of sculp- tures in relief, aiter the pattern of those of ancient Mexico, using no other tools than stone hammers for pecking at the rock. To com- plete his demonstration of this interesting subject, he has reproduced the methods of drilling throuzh stone which were practiced by primitive man. Numerous bored articles from Central and South America, us well as Pipes, tubes and pearls from North Aw similarly treated, show that the art of drilling well known to races living in the pure age stone. Some of these holes have been bored through twelve inches of thickness, Ever so many cylinders from ancient Babylon and ptian searabs, imade of jasper, carnelian and other extremely hard stones, ‘with small holes drilled through them, have been found. showing that drilling had been brought to high degree of perfection twenty-five centuries and more ago. ‘The primitive drills which were doubtless employed by theso people have been utilized by Mr. MeGuire for boring stones of various h so simple, they do exceed- The earliest type was a straight stick, rolled back and forth ebetween the palms of ‘the hands, with asharp flake of flint for a point. An improvement on this is the familiar “how drill,” which was just like the former, eave that a cross piece was at- tached to the upper eud of the stick, to bo held between the teeth of the operator, and bow with a string passed around the stick was held in the hand and worked back and forth to give the revolution, A further improve p drill,” which could be times a minute, while was a still better device, even’ more simple, which went somewhat oa ‘the principle of utop maimg 3,000 revolutions a minute, although consisting of nothing more than a ick thrust through a flat block of wood, with cross piece to,be held by the teeth anda piece of cord. With this last instrument a flint point ean be made to pierce hard stono with surprising rapidity. However, copper points were employed very anciently. the metal being readily procured in its native stat ‘Ihus the mystery which has hitherto in- volved the manufacture of implements and weapons during the stone age has Leen toa great extent cleared up. It is pleasant to know that the primitive savage did not devote the labor of generations to the fashioning of a sin- gle ax, which one unlugky blow might shiver, When such an article could be completed and made ready for attachment to the handle within an hour or two, and whea arrow heads and the like couid be formed almost offhand from the pebbles of the brooks, his leisure must have been but siightly consumed by hi small necessities for ex-rtion m the manufac- ture of such things, It is true that for every sach object completed there were a gréat many which turned out failures, owing to flaws or other causes. This is evident from the enor- mous quantities of such failures left behind in the work shops of long ago. Where there was an unlimited supply of pebbles of all shapes and sizes, there was no use in bothering with raw material that was not exactly suitable to the purposes in view, SPECIMENS OUT FOURTEENTH STREET. Any one who cares to examine one of these ancient workshops can do so very easily by going ont to the bridge which crosses Rock creek at 14th street, At that point is a hill fifty fect high, the entire surface of which for distance of one-cighth of @ mile aud to a depth of eight to ten feet is composed almost wholly of partly made paicolithic implements. ‘They can be picked up by the cartioad, and it is almost impossible to put ono’s foot down without stepping on specimens, ‘This locality must have been used by the savages of lon ago for many centuries, You will not aiscov. there any finished tools, because the accumu- lation consists only of ‘failures—those which were found unsatisfactory and thrown away. Nevertheless, it is very interesting to wee these products of the labor of people who lived in and about Washington so far back in prehis- toric times. Just such stone hammers, partly finished, can be found there as were dug up by Schliemann in the oldest buried city beneath ‘Troy. ie hill of Hissarlik in Asia Minor, where the remains of Troy were excavated, was fitty- throe feet in height over bed rock, the eleva- tion having been formed by seven cities, euch built upon the detritus cover the inst, Digging down, the third city reached was the burned town ‘of Troy, which the Greeks de- stroyed more than 3,000 years ago. In these remains were found the supposed treasure chest of Priam and a great number of beanti- ful articles mado of gold and cther motals, showing that man at that time had attained a degree of civilization. Underneath were four other cities, ono on top of another, and in tho remains of the lowest of all these towns were discovered polished stone implements of the finest type. This lowermost city could not have been in existence less than 6,000 years ago, which gives some notion of the degree of enlightenment which mankind enjoyed at that prehistoric period. Amore striking illustration of this subject, however, is found in Egypt. On the site of the famous statue of Rameses the Great, in the ‘Nile vall detritus to a depth of nine feet has accumulated since the time when this remark- able memorial was erected, 3,500 years Seventy-two feet below that implements, pot- oper have been ; an e ‘then was mankind acquainted with the Boot metas and with prosebes for misses turing vessels of burntclay, ‘These fairly civilized evidently. What a ¥: of time must have been required for learai such arts, How many myriads of yearsmust have elapsed between their era and the life time of the brute-like human who fashioned the = effective e EXTINCT CATS AND DOGS. Curious Feline and Canine Creatures Which ‘ Used to Live. “There used to bo cats im North America 200,000 years ago,” said « paleontologist tea ‘writer for the Stax. “Groat carnivorous cron” tures of the feline tribe roamed over this coun” try then in enormous numbers, They are al’ VICTIMS OF A BAD HABIT, That Have Strange Waye—Thets Dreaded Foe the Wasp. “Spiders are wonderfully fond of the music made by stringed instruments,” said an ento- mologist to a writer for Tux Stam. “It is not because they enjoy melody, but simply for the reason that the sounds to their ears resemble Men Whose Absent Mindedness Lead Them Into Stormy Paths. From the New York Tribane, The absent-minded men are hopeless case, One of them played one of bie old tricks the other day. He was walking down avenne, when he Faw some one coming tor the buzzing of captive flies. By gently touch- | €xtinet, and have left only their bones bebind | him whose face secmed to be familar. His owa ing the strings of a guitar one can often cause | t0 tll the story of how they lived and what | story best explains the situation. spiders to come down the walls or from tho | they fed upon. One often reads of tho art by | “I was conscious,” he anid, “that Ihnew te ceilings, They will even walk over the strings-| Whieh the naturalist is able to restore the ekele- | man ver) well, but I way thinking and while doing so they appear to be eagerly | ton of an animal from a single bone, and in fact | end his approach did not make a searching for something, moving about ex-| * €¢0¢ many mistakes have been made throuch | fued impression on my brain. I was « citedly and looking fierce and hungry. over-confidence on the ions that when he saw me he gave n start and Partot learned gentie- | men in reconstructing fossils by theary from insufficient material. but there 1 no possibility of mistaking the testimony afforded by the teoth. They tell ail about the manner of ex- “A kind of spider native to South America is remarkable for the great length ef its logs and has a very sin; method ef defending took astep toward mewith his hand outstretche@ And yet ali that did not recall mo sufficiently thonghts to enable me te realize very singular — — attacked it gathers its feet ~ istenpe = by their former owner, giving ac- | Clearly just what was happening. Tsaid. in an gether, ni curately the habits, diet an oxi absent way, “How so you ¢ ad walked on as te the beast memes rt ghim every day pears lik | “Thus it iw very fortunate that teeth last | or as if L were only sl chy acquainted with no point for an onemy to strike at, There is} longer than any other ebjoctsin nature, At| him. Fren in that minute Twas awake te another species which fights by throwing a net | this day are found ine perfect stale of pre- | the fact that there was a quoer light in his face about ite adversary. I have seen a duc! be- | servation the molars and incisors which aud that he returned my bow very sti tween two individuals, in which each tried to tocbew with bythe mighty repti me a couple of entangle the otber in snares eunningly cast, | millions of years ago. It is frem L je that it flashed inte the dexterity with which they avoided capture t science declares man te be carnivorous man was one of my « being wonderful. At length one was tripped, | ouly by habit and ». mature, i poke friends, whom I bad not and presentiy the successful combatant began | that the other day to a young man in search of re, and that when be revolving round and round her opponent, the | information, who replied impoiitely: Thad worse latter being soon wrapped in a silvery cocoon, | hen.’ When I asked him what he meant br «him a cold bow. I then, which was its winding sheet. that he said that the dentition of a hen would arned to hurry back ater “Among the most remarkable spiders is the | cortainly not indicate that it was carnivorous | him, but, he was gone." Dolomedes, which runs over the of | by nature, and yet it evidently was so, Judging Here is another extreme case which seems water in pursuit of its prey and dives to escape | from its addiction to worms and preference. £ the trath of which the from its enemies. | Stranger still is the Argy-| flesh in general. Towever, as i war going to A New Yorke Toueta, which builds its house wherein it lay 18 oggs and rears its young at the bottom of streams, Some species are exceedingly fere- cious, though none more so than the huge gra; Lycosa,with a black rim round its middle, whic! will chase peopie on slight provoeation. This fierce creature, which lives partly by catching birds, haa been known to pursue men on herse- ack. “Dr. W. H. Hudson tells of such an adven- ture which he met with while riding seross a plain covered with dry grass. Pursuing his ray at an oasy trot he suddenly observed a great spider chasing him, leuping swiftly along and keeping up with the horse He simed blow with his whip at the ferocious insect, and the point of the lash strack the greund close to it, when it instantly leaped upon and ran up remark, the piercing and eutting of these cats of long ago are the edapted instruments for cutting purposes that ever were seen, being uuequalod by any manu- factared tools for suck usa, For example, there was the ‘gomphodus,’ which wasas big as the largest panther had two toeth in its upper jaw resem gers, cach five inchosin Tength. As we for penetrating flesh they are unrivaled ai carnivorous animals rocemt or extinct. are rather like the tecth of some bhage fesh- eating dinosaurs, the ‘terrible reptiles’ of the mesozoic epoch, which bad cuttin nothing eouid ri inconceivabiy bloodthirsty. fierce, however, Leome most perfect'y | } at the pier an Oak~ ed up to him and cried the stranger a were coming and moot with delight. “T) I thought you. The New Yor bla: ray you would like to have me er looked at the other maa im Tm afr mistake. 1d that ther out here? Iwant you te ature Quite as nd even more formidable by don’t b you before, I can't i you can the lash. It was actually within three or four mean.” ches of the hand that held the whip before were two species of thi “Oh, if that's the case,” was the reply in tones tho latter was suddenly dropped. These great a held the ficld in Oregon du: ton, “Iwill not trouble you, But hairy spiders aro very formidable in appear-| period I speak of against all rivals, It w Jast to re your very remarkable memory I ‘ance. When sp) d they stand erect on Roubtedis'a grost destroyer ef life among the ose to well youthat I know you. Tam you the ad Then, droppi all eigh scar baet ize of he ne adversary, n, dropping uponalleight| “Our kuewledze of one of these species is feet, they charge to the attack.” due to'a very fortunate chance. Nome years WASPS THEIR GREATEST ENEMIES. ago an explering party was sent into the Join \-Tho greatest enemies of spiders aro warps, | })s" Miver valley in Oregon for the puro = - a fa: which donot kill them outright customarily, | for such troasures, water having but simply disable them for the purpose of | out of hills, which were formed origina utilizing them while living as food for their | detritus deposited durimg myriads of young. The wasp, as soon as it has paralyzed | It happened that the attention of oue m¢ the victim by stinging it, drags the now help- | of the expedition was attracted by something less spider to a hole. “Placing it in the bottom | that looked like a skull, half projecting from of the hole the captor lays an alongside | the summit of the pinnacle of acrag. It was of 11; then, coming out, it fills up and obliter- | in fact a skull, and the shining of the gre ates the bole with dust and rubbish, flying away | teeth was what caught his thereupon in quest of other prey, As soon aa| up the cliff and fetched it down with mu it 1s hatched the young wasp grub feeds upon | difficulty and danger to life and limb. It was the living body of the unhappy spider, waxing formidable pogonodon, fat and ‘finally crawling out of the hole a e epoch there were nu- winged and perfect insect, ready to continue species of cats, ali of them since the war against the spider tribe. extinet, which varied iu size all the way from piders are singularly defenseless animals, | that of a household pussy of tuday to the Their small cutting weapons and supplies of | Saber-toothed tiger. Not afew of them were poison afford little protection against the at- y fierce and eorrespondingly de- tacks of their insect foes. These latter, being The teeth they have lefs behind tell winged, are able to swoop down from abo: tory of the way oe lived, describing, ax themselves protected by invulnerable shields | well as words could it, their extren and armed with deadly ‘stings, With relation | ferocity. ‘They attained the ‘climax of their to their focs spiders are placed by nature in a| type in the saber-toothed tizers, bigger than situation very similar to that of human beings, | either the lion or the tiger of today,which had having soft ‘and unprotected bodies, — ed m appearance, Good-day, sir Wht to him at beast ture tears it up, withe wing what he is doing, aud throws the bite of pap t a it, Th ion the subject upon which he had been working, and working verr hard, and for some time, too, As h viewed the whole article b do deadly work with the 1 tore i: ail into the finest bits got ap with a sigh o! tthe work was completed to his eat t di of absonte All his labor and 8 were Kone in fragments of worthless Paper and the thought made him faint aud canines a foot in length and shapediike curved ing no natural weapons worth mentioning and knives with saw-like edges. They roamed the being equipped with very slight muscular | continent in the time of the gigantic 18. strength compared with the animals they have | such as tho megatherta, and doubtless did to contend against. Their survival in creation, much toexterminate the latier helpless and where causes for their swift extermination | vegetable-eating beasta, They wore plentiful in would scem to exist, is due to the exercise of ‘Texas, where the remains of 2 good many have superior intelligence and cunning, as is the been dug ap. case with mankind. “Unfortunately for thom the specialization Electricity in # surgical Operation, “Dr, Hudson says that this superior tatelli- of function was carried so far in their case as | FP apn gence is closely related to the web with which | to be the means of theirdestruction. Not ouly | Quo of the most delicate surgical operations tho spider is provided. Imagine the case of | wore these exaggerated teeth useless for biting | ever performed in San Francisco was that t@ anarboreal man born witha cord of great} purposes, but they could not be used tocut | which A. Bachm, a patient at th Jength attached to his waist, which couldeither | with unless tne animal's jaws wero closed. | Sosuty tesa bjocted be dragged after him or eartied in acoil, Ex-| Bosides, they were #0 in the way as to prevent | COUNtY Hospital, was eubjocte Perience would teach him to put it to use and | the beast from biting off large pieces of flesh, | ©P¢Ttion was remarkable in that an endoscope practice would make him more and more skill-| thas interfering with its feeding. ‘There is | oF small electric light was used during the prov fal in handling it. He would begin by employ- | reason to beliove that sometimes these ander | cess. ‘This was thrust into the thoracic cavity, ing it, ns the monker docs its prehensite tail, | teeth got aught on the canines in the lower | 31,1 by its illumination the action wt the hose ayi2g himself from branch to branch, and | Jaw in such ® manner as to hold the mouth | 20 lainly visible, ‘Th ‘first finally, to escape from an enemy or in pursuit | wide open and prevent itfrom being shut azu:n, hangs wae plainly viele, bis io tho of his prey. he would be able by means of his| thus causing starvation. One magniticent | C%® Feported on the Pacific coast where the cord to drop himself with safety from the tall- | skull was found in South America not iong age | electric endoscope was used in difficult surgery = pe lind os _ ag i sarap Wage the testh thus caught, showing | with beneficial results, je would also utilize it for bindit t the owner must ha ished from . od wit ‘ together and building himeclf a re In| this cause.” It is interesting to consider the |, DAch:A was afflicted with am abscess, which close fight he would endeavor to entangle bis| fact that these saber-soothed tigers | b*d formed in the pleural cavity and attacked adversary, and at last he would learn te make | like the eave bears, which were twice as heavy | the left lung ‘The operation was an exceed 4 suare of it to capture other animals, as grizzlies and probably quite as ferocions— e. and in order not to shock “To ail these and to a hundred other uses the | Were contemporary with human beings on the pation tion of the intention of the spider has put her web, And when we see her the physicians was made to him The sick man was quickly anwsthetized and the inflated breast was exposed to view. & and ter were obliged to fight spread her beautifal geometric snare, held by | them. Their bones are found in cousideravie lines fixed to widely separated poi iscatoration on the left side shor trouble jay under the ti: 1 numbers in the caves of southern Frauce, she site concealed in her web-1 which were the residences of Primeval men among the leaves where every toueh on the and De, Ellinwood began making two deep imciric aad women in the ancient stone age, 100,000 far-reaching structure is telegral yh years and more ago. People in those times the communicatmg lines as fai which the blepd f ger b sick, And yet he himself declares that there isno help for him. Me considers himself « peless case,” and tries to make the best of bad Wait —a straying and capricious mind A wor must have regarded all other creatures as bo- nerve had been touched, we must ire the “t wonderfal perfection to whieh she has attained in the use of her cord. Dy these means sho is able to conquer creatures too swift and strong for her and make them her prey. When wo see her repairing damages, weighting her light fabric in windy weather with pebbles er asa fisherman weights his net, or cutting loose captive, whose great strength threatens the ing roughly divided into two classes—those which they could eat and those which could eat them. The saber-toothed tiger belonged to both olesses, tho isste of the conflict in each case determining which should gobble the other. With none bat the most. primitive must have had buta p: kiy ligatared w flaps of flesh were the third rib to view, ed for three inches, and a dark aud bloody open- when it was cut ing was revealed, through winch the thoracio cavity and the pace between the lungs could destruction of the web, we begin to perceive that this wonderful arachnid acme of a highly developed kind. be seen, Dr, Hirschfelder inserted the endo- scope through the opening in Laehm’s breast and the Lght was turned on, illuminating the iuterior of the cavity with remarkabie distinct- ness, ‘The heart worked slowly, owing to the effect ofether. The aorta dilated nnd fell with every heart beat. The lung was alxo plainly visible, During the one hour anda half consumed m making the operation the action of the beart was distinctly visible, and the unusual sight was tho subject of much comment upon the part of the operators and epectators, Whea the process was completed and every vestige of pus removed, tho endoscope was withdrawn and the opening in Bachm's breast closed, ‘The operation was a high! one in every particular, and Eaelim s condition shows that he is gaining etreugth. That is What a Pilgrin Was, From the boston Budget. ‘Teacher—“Now, Jobnny, since I have told you about the crusades, perhaps you cam tel me what a pilgrim was?” Johnny—"A holy tramp, mum.” ———— ‘The Female Book Agent and the Wicked Mams From Lite and snares, Tho carvings on bone left behind by these ancient folk fre- juently ge rgd the chase of the mammoth, they did net hesitate to tackle even so enormous a ereatura. ‘During the period when these wonderfal eats were so plentiful in North America there were numerous dogs and dog-like beasts also. all ef whieh havo since become extinct. The biggest species was as large as @ good-sized bear. In that part of the country which is new called Colorado and Dakota there were several kinds of a mals about the were Johnny's Opinion. From the Boston Herald, rf tionists pass him and their odd) door steps with Thump! Step higher, Uncle Big-Hat,” &e. grandmother from the country heard and was horritied. She at once proceeded to him a lesson in reverence. “Don't know, Johnny,” she said, people are working for the as the prophets used to do in It is wicked to make fan of them. Ones some children cried out a8 the prophet Elisha passed, ‘Go up, thou brld head!” and Ged sent two she bears eut of the woods, and they them all up!" Johony’s eyes grew big, bursting into tears, he chilled the pious ex- tations of his anxious teacher by exclaiming tween hissobs: “I—think—it—was—e—d—e poet) Bge 5 Commenting on the penetrative powers of ———— the small esms lately intredaced inte the Attacked the Wrong Dog. From the Philsdelpsia Record. ‘There was a tremendous rumpus and excite- ment in @ prominent drug store on Chestnut street near 12th yesterday afternoon, A fsir maid, strolling down the street with a large mastiff, stopped in the store for soda. The place was crowded, and among the crowd wese se other ladies with two other ‘he mastiff butby a lightaine atlcaoes, than mastiff, but by a. they decided that by combiming forees. might take a fai out of him. ts ont dite the apeostol tess Sagas cae! it ‘the sir was filled with owls, dog hair, female shricka, wis and a soda water, ckages and. malo aiden if Hi x HH u ‘are He fe f i i 7 i ur i? : t