Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1892, Page 13

THE MIGHTY AMAZON. Majesty of the Greatest River in the World. THE JOURNEY TO PARA. First View of the Great Water Highway—A Vast Network of Rivers Which Touch Every Country of South America and Afford Fif- teen Thousand Miles of Navigable Waters. ‘From The Star's Traveling Commissioner. Pana, Baaztt, Ang. 2, 1892. HERE IS AN OLD Portuguese saying con- cerning this world- renowned rubber mar- ket which stares us in the faco at every turn aud runs as follows: “Quem vien pars Para, patron: Quem bebem assai. fleon.” Freely translated it sig- nifies to the effect that whoever comes to Para — desires to stay; whoever drinks assai cannot get away. It is lettered above the doors of saloons, painted on sign- boards, carved on stone bridges. and in our case, as that of most visiting foreigners. the first line of it at least is true, though not on account of the magical virtues of assai. It may as well be explained right here that assai is the national beverage of Brazi', aa chicha is of Chile and,pulque of Mexico, the name being that of a certain species of palm, from whose dark, plum-like frait a mild, non-intoxicating sort of sherbet is made by rubbing the pulp throngh sieves into jars of water. There are Assai stands at every step in all the streets of the city and the natives never tire of the «weet- ish luke-warm stuff. which is drunk on the spot, served in small, round gourd +hel of twenty reis (about one cent) per gourd. PULL NAME OF THE CITY. The fall name of this rubber emporium Santa Maria do Belem do Gram Para, but in this busy nineteenth century nobody has time ay ital. The outer world has shortened it to Para (pronounced Pah-rab, with the accent heavy on the last syllable), but Brovilivns, who insis: on other than the modern geographical names for all their cities—ae Pernambuco is called “Recife,”” Bahia, San Salvador, and so on to the end of the chapter—pnt it down on their charts and maps as Belem. As acity its history Gates back to the year in which Shakespeare died (1618), when Don Francesco Caldeira erected the queer old fort whose foundations still re- tain. with the intention of closing the Amazon river for ali time to come ngainst foreigners, multitudes of whom had already begun to trade with the tribes of its upper waters, for Para is not @ seaport, as is generally euppoded, but is tuated eighty miles above the ocean on the mighty Amazon, or, rather, on on of “this _hydra-like walled the Kio do Gram Pars. At this point several lesser rivers flow into the larger one and the city is built upon a long, harrow sula formed by the debouchment of two of them, its @xtensive anchorage almost jand-locked by densely wooded SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY CORRRCTE: To reach Para from Pern take an American steamer—one \d Brazilian Mail S. 8. lis York mith a cargo of coffee and sugar picked at Hid de Jnneit for five days enjoy from your own ‘venac e bow: is agein times Saint om Pe 0, we were reluciantiy compelled by and all the maps on board, as- sisted by our own vistal organs, to admit that the school geographies are in error in. teach that Saint Roque is the most easterly point of South America. Cape Saint Augustine, half ade- gree to the southward, ought proper that distinction. ‘The latter point wa: sighted by Europeans on nett--by Pincon. in the year 1500. To the right of it, but invisibl on the cle: of days, is the tiny Island of F > de Noronha. Brazil's penal colony -a um n rock amid | Weteof waters, move than a hu from the main land. You do not fnformed when the good s! Atlantic. for its turbi tide, utterly refusing t Atlantic, tells its own s while yet far out of sight ous ocean, may actually dip up fre: Ite southern moath. called the Gram Para and aptly described quin Miller as “Dark an wide like an ccean, much like but moreike a sen,” separates to « grest Island of Marajo, which is lar. whole state of New York, with towns tations along its shores and an une Jorest in the interior. It ie diticsit ceive of the enormous extent of this dred miles need to be Rio do by dreadful; a rt neircte the Jou- + than the river of the worid, with its tangled network of | tributaries, channels. densely wooded try of South America except Chile and Pata- gonis, and bas been likened by some travelers tw a vast archipelago and by others dubbed the | Mediterranean of the western Rising as it does within sixty mi Pacific it crosses the continent to the Atla and with its affiuents furnishes more 2 th: 50,000 miles of navigable water, half of which ix available for steamers. ‘TRIBUTARIES THE AMAZON. Itaeight principal tributaries are each over | 1,000 miles long and more than 250 other branches unite to form its main stream. The largest ship that ever was built could sail straight up from its mouth 1,000 miles, while for hun- reds and hundreds of miles’ along its lower course are lateral channels, technically called igaripes (canoe paths), in travel without ever entering the main the bayous of the lower Mississippi valley du- plicated on a greatly enlarged scale. The Ama- zon basin is more than three that of the Mississippi, including « vast un- trodden forest fully 1,560 miles long by 1,000 miles broad, whose edges only have been ex- plored by « few nturous rubber hunters faud seekers after tortoise shell wood, mahogany and ocher valusble timbers. At ite mouth the Fiver i 180 miles from shore to shore and 320 feet deep antaren. the most important in- terior city of Brazil, it is ten miles wide: aw: off on the Brazilian frontier it is seventy fect deep. and 2,300 miles above the sea it is almost 2 mile geross. hardly be contert with one name. The native Indians still call it. ae their ancestors did, the Parana-tinga, or Parana-uaseu. discoverers, believing it to be a fresh water #ea. named it Santa Maria de ia Mer Dulce, and no: ‘until 1540 was its name changed to Amazon by one of Pizarro’s soldiers—that champion liar, Don Orellan’, who descended it from Peru and told marvelous tales anent his adventures with the female warriors he found along its banks. ‘The name “Amazons,” by the way, which is properly put in the plural, to indicate its width Father than as we generally render it without ‘the final s, belongs only to that portion of it Sween its mouth and the Rio Negro. From “Biack river" to the Peravian frontier it is the Bio Salimoens, and that portion of it in Peru is locally known as the Maranon. Its most eoutherly tributary, the Mandelra, rises in Bolivia, close to the source of the Rio de la Plata, and its greatest northern tributary, the Bio Negro, is connected with the Venezuelan Orinoco by a navigable canal called the Cassiquari. ? 178 FLOW, CURRENT AND TIDE. ‘Thirty million cubic feet of water flow out of the Amazon in every sixty seconds, its ordinary eurrent is about four miles an hour and its tide fs perceptible 500 miles from the sea. favors Bavigator on this fuvial highway, for ‘the current is eastward, while tide winds blow ‘westward from the Atlantic, eo that ships going Gither way are assisted by stream or wind. Its @vnual rise and fall is another curiosity. Its ‘tributaries are subject to a constant succession of freshets, so that the main stream never runs low. As most of the affluents are in the south- ern hemi the river has its greatest flood when the sun is south of the equator. The jual rise in September, increas than a foot in twenty-four hours, The ference between its highest aud lowest levels is about fifty feet, and at flood time enormous qreas are covered with water. great forests be- ing submerged, so that tops of tail trees, stick- ing out of the to k: at the rate | @_ southern conti- > turns into the | which boats may | ream — | 8 as large as | Naturally so big a river could | Ite European | be heard several miles away, increasing as ‘pproaches. LIQUID PROMONTORIES. “Presently you see a liquid promontory twelve or fifteen feet high, followed by another and another, and sometimes bye fourth in oe ‘the whole channel and ed spread whol nel ivance with prodigious rapidity, rend everything in their way instantly uprooted by it, and often oonsider- able tracts of land are awept away. Fortunately, those accustomed to navigating the river know then to expect a piroroce and get into ® shel- ter lace until it passes.” Pare is eminently a commercial city, devoted to the Amazon river trade in rubber, cacao, Brazil nuts, io. It, occupies level ground closely environed on three sides by a tropical forest and fronted by immense iron ware houses, built upon wharves. Ite equare, barn- | like casas are mostly of enormous size, two or | three stories in height; not one of ite lio | buildings looks worth the trouble of visit, and | the only touch of turesqueness to redeem it from the commonplace is added by the numer- ous old churches and convents. narrow, regular streets are pave with square blocks stone and weil lighted by electricity. Hackney coaches abound; every business house has a | telephone, and tram ears of both broad and | narrow gange run in all directions, even to sub- urbs three miles distant, which are crowded by the woody jungles. Fayre B, Warp. seers ‘CONSE: STENCY. MASCULINE The Fastiuiousness of the Average Man Van- ishes at the Free Lunch Counter. | From the New York Recorder. lunch counter offers a fruitful fleld for observa. tion and cogitation. The average New Yorker who has money enough to command a fair share of the com forts of life prides himself on being rather fastidious about his vicwunls. He insists on | cleanliness above ali things. He becomes very ndignant if at a restaurant a plate is set before him that bears the imprint of dirty fingers. His knife and fork must bear no trace of the service they have done for the guest who last used them. His cup and saucer mugt be immaculate or there will be trouble for somebody. And if he should discover in nny way tha* the food set before him waa someti which had been pre- viously handled and rejected by other patrons of the restaurant—why, he would take a fit right off and when he recovered he would bring suit against the proprietor, confident, in the assurance that any jury which wasn't tampered | with would award him heavy damages. | Bat when he confront: a free lunch coun- ter in a saloon all this fasti He sees dozens of hands ps tents of various dishos to be more or les without any sezsa asness vanishes, tive of ardent thirst, To the student of human nature the free | ing over the con- | ich ure all supposed | save: “During three days before the new and pecan rasa FIN DE SIECLE. food eno he hight Hail in oe tne minutes. The noise of this terrible flood What the End of the Present Cen- tury Will Bring Forth. SOME RARE STATISTICS. Estimates ne to the Future Population of Varions Countries—Woman in the Twen- tieth Century and How She Shruld De- velop—Other Reflections. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Panis, August 27, 1892. VERYTHING HERE, from fashion to folly, i¢ now labeled “End-of- the-century.” “Only think,” says « journal of the boulevards, “for cight years more we shall have fin de siecle witticisms, fin de siecle Aisillusions, fin de siecle crimes. It is enough to make one howl!" Just as at the end of : thd last century, people are already beginning to dispute the exact ter- mination of the nineteenth and commencement of the twentieth century. It will be very dis- tressing not to know to which century we be- long, Soltis proposed that the government hould fix the fin de siecle by official decision, | At the proper time placards like thextrical pos. | toys should be displayed: “Tomorrow, close of | nineteenth century! Day after tomorrow, open- | ing of twentieth century! Entrance free!” | | Even such scientific men as Camille Flammario and Bertillon have had a sharp correspondence | on the subject, and there seems to be no way of | [settling the problem. On: party maintains | | that the nineteenth century will end with its | | hundredth year. that is, after ninety-nine years, | eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-three | hours and fifty-nine minutes in other ‘words, | | at the end of 1899. The opposing party Lolds | | that, however this may be, the twentieth cen- ‘tury’ cannot possibly begin until January 1, | | 1901, just as the second decade of figures in | numeration begins with eleven, while ten closes | | the first The doubtful clement is therefore | | the year 1900, which, according to one party | belongs to the nineteenth century, and accord- | | ing to the other, to the twentieth. PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT CENTURY. A master of statistics in the Kevne Rose has | made a prediction of what the world will be at ADVICE TO PARENTS. Again, parents who wish to get rid of their children should not induce them to enter a led meat and rotten je and rascal, you keep meat under the skin; mow this is not seen at first glance, and so along comes @ brave man who believes it is fresh, whereas it is Totten; and therefrom he has his death or takes some grave malady. Begone, rogue and rascal, youare an assassin’” Such other people are the batcher who sells ram’s meat for good mut- ton, the merchant who pute water in his wine, the innkeeper who poisons his guests with moidy soup. They are aildisloyal to to their Chistian brethren and to their own souls. It is all the samo to them that a man should die, provided they gain a fow pence. Theso ser mons, as the compiler remarks, form only a small'part of the many religions threads by which the priests led their people. Certainly no fin de siecle pulpit even could explain to young men and young women wil that Herr Kotelmann has here gathered together. HYSTERIA IN BADRS. But, by way of contrast, nothing ean be more chic for the ordinary reader than the title of a momoir recently read before the session of the | French Academy of Medicine, on “Hysteria in | Babes.” It is baved on the observation of over 200 cases, and purports to show how common hysteria may be at a very tender age. The writer attributes to it rauch of what ia called ill-nature in a young child, often showing itsel? by unnsual cries followed by tgembling and rolling a3 in rage upon the bed, or again in those bursts of laughter for which the young are corrected, and in night terrors. ‘That hysteria isa disense of the day comes out very plainly from anothor medical report just published. In 1820,a apecial medical ser ice was organized for the great Palais de Justibe Paris, with its assemblage of courts of law. | Dr. Floquet has been the oficial physician from that dis in constant attendance during the sessions of court. He has been called on to care for 3,700 patients, who have given him 4,100 crises of hysteria. During the Inte trial of a notorious abortioni:t he was in constant attendance for fifteen days at the Cour d’As- | the end of another hundred years. Tirst, the climate will not have changed sensibly. So ondly. in population Europe will have 73,000, inhabitants: Asia, 1,090.000,000, while Ame: | | 000 | ica | ns of squeamichners be- | will have reached 685,000,000: Australia. 30,000,- | 2’ ‘oming apparen: in bis int department. | 000, and Africs, 100,000,000. The chie? ineréae | He calmiy helps b 8 piece of ham ora | isin America first and in Europe next. In the | cheese and proceeds to consume it | former Spanish America has the heaviest hiest des ee disturbed by the retlectic choose for the gratiication of his appetite had hed by many fingers—some probably lof w: ing —before he secured k to help himself to beans or potato salad or a mussel or two, it isn't a clean fork that he employs. It is a fork that he picks out of a jar of dirty which the man whe Ins ; That makes not the slight- him, however, in a saloon, anrant it would justify him put when he gi if he ue: > get his dri pay if he detects mixing him a cocktail in a glass that is not per- | clean nis, the philosopher would aay, tenda to show that the average man is more of a creature f reason and that what fastidious- ply based on custom. Written for The Evening Star. In september. How sweet the voice that calle From ba» falls in me. where the downy seeds are fying! How soft the zephyrs blow. me and go, ens where the rose is dying! Amid the stubbed corn The blithe quail pipes at morn, easants drum in hidden places. stream 1 busy spide their dimy laces. eve, cool shadows fall Across And on | Along the e | The pearty vaps Where broad and red the harvest moon is burn- ing. ‘The cricket chirps An, fairest samm airtel ¥ askance the nuts a-browning: And haste ing. southward ere the skies be frown- lakes and creeks, which penetrate every coun-| Now comes a gentle breeze. ‘Through fragrant cedar trees, And round about imy temples gently lingers In kindly playfuiness, Like to the fond caress Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers. | The potten-dusted bees Search for the honey lees at Inger in the last Lowe rs of September; | While plaintive, mourning doves Coo softly te their loves Of summer past which they so well remember. And patriarch swallows call thelr flocks together, To My from frost and snow, And seek for lands where blow ‘The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather. What thougn a sense of grief | Comes with the falling leaf, Aud memory makes the past grow doubly pleas- ant; In all my autumn dreams A future summer gleavas, ‘Surpassing ail the giories of the present. . —H. Tuomrsox. September, 1892. oo | Washington, D. From the New York Times It is a feature of this generation that it is animated by the spirit of never too. late to begin. We read, to be sure, of the stern perae- verance of Cato, who mastered Greek after eighty, and of Plutarch beginning the study of instances are is proves that they are very uncommon. omen even more than men, uatil now, have been prone | passively to accept the limitations of years, and | as early as forty settle back with the | “It is too late for me to do anything.”” In that “university for middle-aged women,” | the women’s clubs, however, they are learnin, | more wisdom, and the results of it are be; | ning to show. A case to illustrate is that of \amarried pair who found, after their little | family was growing up around them and the | burden of caring for them seemed to absorb levery faculty, that each bad put a valuable | talent aside to rust. The wife's fingers itched | to draw—her artist eyes saw designs in every- | thing—while the husband had a good doctor in a salesman. And one day the wife rose to the situation. She left her two little ones with their father and spent six months in » German city, studying night and day. On her return, after » litte effort and | waiting, she secured ‘a ry in a Print factory, and then it was the husband's | turn. His place in depart | ment of a chsteonle house preset, ng more, | buta clase of young medical students was augmented by # man of forty, whose |and devotion to the setenos’ brought him rapidly along. ‘ALl this was five years Today the wite is still busy designing, 1s tablished in a growing each happy baving found ker and his litework. Easy to Identify. From Harper's Bazar. Bank Teller—“You will have to be identified ‘as Mrs. Spingler. madam, before I cau let you have the money on this check.” Mrs. Spingler—“Do you know my husband, tthe partienlar morsel he | ss to the | 4 crease. There is this difference, however, that | of increase in po ady noticed in France, will Italy and England. As for follow in Gert the different nations at that time, Russia will have 940,009,000 of popniation, Germany 115,- 009,000 wud France cnly 50,000,000. China will 4 550,000,000 and in all. probabiii rh civilizatio the greatest vil have 150,000 40,009,000: the " Argentine d Chit, 30,099,000. ‘The two | civilized nations which have the grea | power will be t 1 | wil ving together ov ¢ Eagii-h language will’ be ),000,000, Ruse still be little current am 700,000 by a langua other | tions on account of its structure and alph Spanish ond Portuguese will como next wich | 285.000,000. while French, including the i | habitants of Indo-China, Canada and’ Algier who speak that language, will, like German. nit 100,000,000 nly. In th anguage will have the sdva These predictions, however fs tastic they may appear, are based on a careful | | study of the statistics of this cent: the probabilities for the next which can be foreseen. The illusory element comes from the | uncertain political futtire of the differentnations. | THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CF PARIS. | As ia well known nothing is more advanced | in the life of the century than the municipal council of Paris, ‘They have gone back to an- ciont times for a persoual tax which they wish | to impose on all bachelors, but there are difti- culties in tye way. First, it is common enough in Paris that s man who i» rightly a bachelor or celibate may at the same time be burdened with | family. Now the end proposed is to tax onl? le ter. who have no burden of this kind. | Accordingly it was thought to replace the word | | eelibataire by the paraphrase ‘men living alone | without a family.” But in this case a great | number of poor wretches would fall under the | law, whereas the fine was aimed at the well-to- do who are unwilling to take on themselves the legal obligations ot a family. So the idea of celibacy had tocrop up again. Then it was | asked what means should be taken to find out who are the celibates and who are not. Here even the municipal council drew back, thinking 80 dubfoas an inquisition would shock the ren- sibility of the very Parisians. A boulevardier, who bas been married more than twenty-five | Years, seized the occasion to give a new deriva- tion of the word celibataire, which, according to him, must come from the Latin coelum habitare—to dwell in heaven. Perhaps in his case marringe has been a failure. WOMAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Jules Simon, the venerable academician,incon- nection with his son,Gustave, whois accinpetont | | physician, has published a book on “Woman in | \the Twentieth Century Twelve editions were sold in the first month and numberiess | others since. The father modestly attributes | this success to the collaboration of his son, as a book of his own during the whole of last year did not go beyond tue third edition; but “une doubted! ubject which hus sold the book. is too conservative to suit modern ideas, and our revolutionints are saying | that his title should have been “Woman im the Seventeenth Century.” Many parts of the book | certzinly appeal to those who do not wish t break abruptly vith the past. The author dis- | claims any desire of demanding new political | rights for women or freedom in the marital | union. But there are serious reforms on which | he insists, “I compluin of that article of the | civil code which forbids the search after the | paternity of chitdren of unmarried girl, Tam not with my century when it renders divorce easy, when it hides religion out of right forbidden object, when it, replaces” education | with an orgie of instruction.” ‘The son's part | treats especially of the duties of mothers and | nurses and of brgiene and physical exercise for | women, He insists much on the capabilities of | women for measuring out drugs, snd winds up, asa Frenchman should,by saying that a woman who noglects being amiable és guilty toward society! HYGIENE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. These questions of homely hygiene and medi- cine bring up the researches which an oculist of Hamburg has been making into such things as | they existed during the middle ages. It is | quite the fin de siecle spirit thus to ‘look be- fore and after.” Herr Kotelmann has been reading the sermons written in various German dialects during the thirteenth. fourteenth and teenth centuries. found very curious | fifteenth He has found very curi things on domestic economy, the treatment of the shin, dict after childbirth, the behavior of the patient toward the physician and sv on. It ecems these old-time preachers of Germany en- tered into the most familiar details in their in- struction of the and, whatever attention they paid to woul, they did not pe De I cap Eo Nl , one @aya,, comes from impurity of the blood in the first Rises. but secondly from meiancl and from hon the stomach ‘the mind becomes feeble, so vapors which mount head dulls the opin goon soul and body toget tant apenag = pe Pare the food. Often, at grea ‘thing is too salty, too fat or too is bad, but is served out “there is ia too fat!” For cook is not ‘the zeal eipe to the thousewile. you have s aeons have the benaat ‘of Strasburg, who name of Geller to make | considered witchcraft and sorcery was at m | got rid of them ouly by using certain powerfal | will come. How can | Work of | her genius genuine, the professor c | fear for you | they have ne: sises. There was not asingie day when one or other of the fifty accused persone was not seized bya nervous attack. He has also been called on to treat congestion of the brain, apoplexy, 3, with fifteen attempts at snicide, two st murder and one assault with vitriol. AYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS, Dr. Charcot, who is the great authority on hysteria, is also a specialist in regard to certain mental diseases which have been greatly stud- ied of late yeara. Ho is supposed to have greatly added te the proof that what was onco | nothing more than the effect of hypnotic tion. Now some mischievous Fi hunted out that another Charcot, declared in by an inn! of sorcery, in th himself to have been | bie xrmy of and he! | | don’t object to watching the shrieking course ofa rocket and tl! gunpowder can b: the exoreisma, which were more potent than the Witches’ charms. A late article in the Centu r startled E a majority of Am! belief in witeticrafi by the stateme ricans etill hold to the | Perhaps, after all, it isa | more comfortable belief than the fin de ciecle | ttribution of everything to hysteria, hypnot- | ism or madneas. ‘The recent misfortune of M. Guy de Maupassant has drawn gencral attention to the mental statas of writers in particular. | Dr. Charevt has erviewed on thesubject, | his reply, though briof, ir startling. of letters tH, of them crazy. What aston wander abou na, a me is that any of them Bat the turn of each | you wish that talent should | anced head? They will go along with a we all pass my wa} ‘The only same people are those who eat, dvink and sleep.” ‘The recen. | mbroso, the celebrated Italian stu- dent of criminal and abnormal psychology. on nd Madness” has been greatly talked late number of the Nouvelle Revue | d what he has to eay on neurosis in | of genius. CONSOLING To GENIU=z8. One of these women is Marie Bashkirtitet. After bringing forward reasons for considering iders cer- ied ii, three of tain qualities which wecom which he deciares to be the hasis of moral folly. They are the oddness of her character, her lack of affection and her immense vanity.’ He ren. ders the pr niore striking by siimming up the morbid heredity of this gifted girl. All this is decidediy not’ consoling to people who consider themselves geniises, for the things he | notes may ve found more or less in every char- | acter andevery family. One writer has made a | ertinent summary of the whole thought of the | aris press on this subj He declares that | Lombroso himscif is most certainly an unbal- | sneed man, aud tnat he is off with the determi- | m of finding madness everywhere. While | keeping to himself the secret of wisdom, the | conclusions of iis book will torment many men of talent and othera, without really lemonstrat- ing anything in regard to them, Hence this sensible advice: “Dear comrades, be without es. The naylum is not wnit- ing for you. Do not rend Lombroso, I beseech of you. Do not generalize what is really an isolated case. Dono: feel the pulse of your brain while it is in the pangs of travail.”” POLITICAL MADNESS, In his turn M. Bal. the eminent alienist, has given a very interesting conference on political | madness. His end was to show the danger to weak brains of frequenting public meetings and especially of the discusrion of legislative mat- | ters. Among many curious fac i brought up from his own experience he de- tailed at length the history of Le Clou,whom be had carefully examined. It will be remem- bered that this unhappy ian not only perse- cuted deputies and iunicipal councillors, but imagined himself to bo constantly persecuted by them. He made himself a candidate at the last elections and gained a certain renown by | paid by the hour. M. Bal says tha: the things which Le Clou g' have perfect sense when taken separately, and that only the connection between them ‘is in- sane. ‘The newspapers hero are saying that had the slightest doubt of the truth of the teachings of tho eminent professor concerning political madness, For twenty-four years Dr. Magnan has been at the head of the immense asylum of Sainte Anne and 80,000 patients have paseed through his hands. He says: “It is a curious thing that the diseases of which the cause {s best known to us are not those on which we have the most in- fluence. We know very well that lesion of the brain which causes general paralysis, yet. in this kind of caces we obtain only feebleamelior- ation: nevertheless this paralysis is frequent. It especially strikes thore who over-exert them. selves, who habituate themselvor during long years toan irregular life, to dining at 10 p.m., to keeping awake all night, to toverish work. ‘What revenge it takes on doctors, lawyers and fonrnalistal Let those boware who do not put Practice the rage proveription of the three eights—‘eight hours of sleep. eight hours of work and eight hours of play.’ 4& STARTLING PRODUCTION, M. Jules Lemaitre, an eminent critic and re- fined writer, adds to these common causes of madness, which is so characteristic of thie fin de siecle, debauchery and alcohol, and winds up with a startling prediction: ’ . “I bave the feeling that there is another cause which is more general. We are all of us isolated—ds isolated in Paris in the full midst of the crowd as in the deepest desert. are no beliefs “ er tt GAARA ih Ue icavipadae UDOT DE SOME BRILLIANT FIREWORKS. How the Veterans and Visitors Will Be Entertained. PULL PROGRAM OF TRE GREAT DISPLAY THAT 18 TO BE GIVEN ON THE MONUMENT LoT— QAANT, STERMAN AND SHERIDAN To APPEAR IN COLORED FINES, Perhaps to the thousands of visitors who will | bein the city during encampment one of the features of the entertai will be e+ ;Pecially attractive will be the fireworks dis- play, Everybody ia interested in fireworks. ‘The peculiar mode of celebrating the national natalday naturally tends to foster a love for such displays with the great maj. of the people. There are some persons who claim that they detest the noisy demonstrations of Fourth, but at the same time they dud 1a oT, x Briftiant Gres. Flight of 25 15-inch shells, Display of 20 24-inch bombs with latest nov- elties. Flight of 20 4-pound rockets with revolving stars. Battery of 1,000 aerial saucistons, fon times. Flight of 20 rockets changing twelve times. Saivo of 10 30-inch bombs, weeping willow silver sheen, Magenta, tarquoise, old gold, é&e. | Flight of 20 34-inch bombs, | fired by electricity. | Display of 20 4-pound asteroid rockets. Ascent of 23 prismatic tourbellio umbrellas in ascens ad deseen ting. Salvo of 10 tropes, lilies, essence of moonlight, &c. A faithful portrayal in lines of biari the majestic architecture of the Capitol build oh run its flery¥ co: is that fireworks isa It comes ter of ma\ 1 i The fact 0 com! rery pop the people here ought to have some entertainment of this kind. They are going to have it, And what ism there will be plenty of room for the bigge: can always be only.” Here th prep rnd only Pain will be displayed to a wondering and admiring crowd. The program of the Pyrotechnics is < long one and embraces many novel feutures never befcze seen, SOME OF THE SET PIECES, In addition to the rockets, bombs, colored lights, fire wheels, torpedoes, &°., there are to the great made up | Display of | quid fire. | tach: | whice and blue, representing the statos. Discharge of 20 4-pound calliope cending with « loud screaming noise, an the limit of theizaltitade emitting musical sta Mammoth fire waeels in six ami tered with the United State eagle and shield 44 large wheels, representing the states, revol ing around it, constantly changing, and fi ence. Display of 100 24 ducing chrvsi and dragons, inch bombs (Japanese) three mutation: | ful effects ever attempted. 70 by 100 in size. | _ An assortment of aerial wonders, serpents, fire clouds, butterflies, eccentric aerial con ortionists. be three set pieces which will be elaborate. The cuts given reproduce the designs. In one the portraits of Grant, Sherman und Sheridan will appenr in colored fires. with patriotic em- Dlems ‘and ahalo of colored fire. Then the raceful outlines of the Capitol building will be ought out with the vivid touch. of the fer brush. As especially approprinte to the 0 sion another piece will show the figures of a soldier and sailor with hands clasped re senting the comradeship in peace of men who THE FULL PRoORAM. The fall program is as follows: A salute of 21 aevial bombs, illuminating the grounds with 200 prismatic lights and changing colors four times. Display of 250 4-pound rockets in sets of ten, with changing effects. Ascent of 5 gas bombs with powerful mag- nesium lights burating in a flood of jewels. A device showing the portraits of Gri Sherman and Sheridan in colored fires, A burst of 100 large rocketa of liquid fire, 100 | of silver streamers and 100 of snakes. gold und paradise plumes, Grand flight of 100 lar Columbia Lonquet, fired by electricity taneously. Battery of 1,000 hissing snakes. Salvo of 10 pairs mammoth 60-inch bombs. Discharge of 00 aerial torpedoos. Device representing the blue and. the gray Fi | Roman candles, 2,500 large rockets, forming a gigantic peacock’ plum A TANGLED TALE. The Young Stenographer Got Matters a Little Mixed, From the Chicago Times. There are stenographers and stenographers and there is as great a difference between them there is between a flock of geese and an oil well, : Mr. Grippe, who travels for a wholesale house located in this city, knows this as thgroughly as anybody. While on @ trip into the “rooral Aeesiricts” recently he stopped at a country hotel in which a stenographer had opened au office for the convenience of the public. H® knew he ought to write to his wife, but his time was 80 taken up with business that it waa just train time, and he hastily dictated the follow- ing to the young lady amanuensis: “Dear Wife: Reached here all right and am feeling likea real trump. I’m-after business this trip and will not return until after 1 get it. T'm burning my bridges behind me so that I cannot retreat. You will pardon this short let- ter, but one sheet is all I have time to get off. A Dead Man's Face. ~ From the New York Sun. Baker City I happened to look up from my | my ae Do you find « revolver there?” ‘es. ‘Pull it out and see if it is all right.” riotic emblems surrounded by a halo of A prismatic fountain 75 feet high changing inch bombs, produeiag a shell or shells, Indian jugglery, shooting stars, belio- fire of | instruc 20 4-pound rockets, producing li- Ascent of 20 4-pound asteroid rockets,each de- ig 41 floating stars, alternating in red, tions, cen- eh ing with an immense wheel 250 feet in cireum- pro- | been paid on it. authomums, fans, lighted lanterns Adevice consisting of Chinese pagoda in being one of the most beauti- grasshoppers and Salvo of 5 48-inch bombs, Pain’s mammoth sparklers, shell of shells, torrent of illuminated bombs, forming the Magical illumination of the foliage of the park by one ton of prismatic composition placed in chosen positions and fired simul- showing two soldiers shaking hands surrounded by the flag and war trophies. Rep! all roduction of the American Horseshoe with 100,000 feet of granulated fron in tion, surmounted by a battery of | The grand finale consists of a bouquet of About half an hour before the train reached book and noticed the man on the seat abead of me. which was turned so that ke was riding backward. His face was pale, his te:thclenched “Something about the heart. Please feel in “There are six here, and the weapon sooms to be in perfect perfect order he Turn me to the window—so, Now give me the gun. “But you can't hold it.” THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. ‘Written for The Evening Star. CAMPAIGN SONGS OF 1860. Some Recollections of an Interesting Epoch im American Politics. EFERENCE TO A NUMBER OF THE campsign songs of 1840 ine late num- ber of Tar Evaxixe Stan awakened recollec- tions of that eventfal period, which come back to the writer with a freshness strangely fascin- ‘ating to one who now hastens with rapid strides toward the years of three score and ten. The Presidential year of 1840 was an era of Poetry and song. Ohio, because of its inter- est in old “Tippecanoe,” probably produced ‘more rustic pocts than any other state of that period. The popular song: “When this old hat was new The used to say ‘The best among the democrats Was Harrison and Clay, was by a rural songeter by the name of Streator, then a farmer of Portage count) Ohio, who was a most active participant in the conflict for whig supremacy in the national government. not, afterward clected to the Ohio for a term or two and did much, especially axa poet, toawaken interest among the people, Which culminated in the triumphs of his party! Lorain county,Ohio (the writer's birthplace | alco produced a man of equal poetic predilec tion Mr. Henry B. Kelsev, the son of a Connec | ticut emigrant to the wilderness of the “West- jern Keeerve” in its early history. Asabel | Kelsey was a venerable specimen of a New | England Yankee, weil skilled in mechanics, be- | tides being « public teacher of morals and the author of a small work on “Universalism,” in which he discourved with ability oh the legislature | family.- His son Henry commenced life as a district school teacher, two citizens of Wash ington now living having felt the weight of hi pecagogue rod in a manner never to be forgot- ten. We refer to the present coroner of the | District and the writer. both of whom received n from Mr. Kelsey in the rudimental sciences of tha: day. The poetic talents of this = gentleman soon brought him into prominence Flight of 20 24-inch bombs, producing an | ®%4 for many years secared kim a Inerative of- aerial wheat sheaf fice, for those early times, in his native county. His songs were as popular in other slates as in | his own and helped to awell the popular carrent 1m favor of Gen. Harricon. The “Log Cabin,” | Published about 1840 by Horace Greeley, gave | § wide circulation to the rustic poe:ry of that | dar, while every county newspaper scattered as | Widely as possible every such production that was likely to answer its great political end. The writer recalls the wonderful scenes of “log cabin and hard cider” times, the like of Shich will not likely occur again for # centary. He had the privilege of hearing the great stamp speakers of that campaign — such men as Wilson Shannon, Thomas ( ‘in, Thomas Ewing, Eli- the Whittlesey, William Allen, Judge Storer (now in Congress), Gov. Bartley and others of jess notoriety —representing the best ability in | both political parties. Among all others Thomas | Corwin excelled, both a» an orator and hamor- every element entering into bix mental com- tion to make him the liou of his party ‘en his gestures often created something like an electric shock, rometimes to the cousterna- | tion but er to the great | crowds, who would travel miles to eer and hear him. No speaker in a draw a |lazger or more enthusiastic company than Thomas Corwin, He was popularized then as | baving been a teamster boy in the war of 1812, | while Gen. Ex: wtatized by carry- ing with him the appel the old “potash | boiler.” In early life. like others ina new | country, his time was de d to clearing bis lands of timber and zaaking ashes, from which | was manufactured “pearl ash.” which com- | manded a ready sale in the great cities of the je —<_— STRANGE TOUR OF AN It Has Been All Over the United States and is Still Traveling. From a Madison, Wis., Letter. An old, badly worn ehoe passed throngh Madison in the United States meil Monday. An old shoe with half of the sole worn off and hoies find in the m: sands of miles an but this had t: It is probably still traveling, as it was sent on from here. There are about 200 tags | the lacings and something like rks. ‘The shoe came to Madix to Minneapolis from St to St. Paul from Seattle, to Seattle Portiand | from San Franei 0 from | Honolulu, to Honolulu from & | is hard to trace its cour-e b | it, among them being those Lake City, Denver, Omaka a’ | cities in the east and some in the south. Where it has gone from Madison ix not posi- | tively known. When it was found in the pouch it was thrown to one side. Later ¢ the clerks picked it up and discovered the dis- tance it had traveled. He read some of the in- | scriptions, added one and threw it into a tail | pouch, the one that happened to be nearest at | the time. It went cast, but the exact destina- | tion of the pouch he does ot know. The shoe was started from Boston by one of the postal clerks there—the first tag shows that—and there is a request that it be returne there. The idea was probably to see how it would travel. and if it ever does get b: k | than any other shoo ever did beforee But it | maynot get back to the man who started it on its | stal | | journey. As no postage is paid on it any p keep it a8 acouvenir, but so far it seems to have been a point of honor with ali to keep it goi When it is stopped somewhere the inscrip- tions and postmarks will gi | journey and a1 The inseript interesting one it she ladison wns: wandered west, wuany © weary way. Seeking yet not finding rest, a big city. Pass it on to the village.” ‘Then it wus sent to Minneapolis, ew FROM HEAVEN, DROPPED A Meteor in Idaho Said to Be Half Goid— As Large as @ Box Car. From a Boise, Tao, Special. the Bruneau valley, Owyhee county, was made light as day by the fiery glow of a large meteor that shot earthward out of the southwestern heavens. Jack Ronald, who witnessed the flight of the aerolite, said it appeared as large as an ordinary box car, and that as it slanted downward it emitted alternately a deep red and a dazzling white light. He could hear « humming noise aa the heavenly firebrand dropped through the air,and occasionally there was a sound as of line of a high hill, atid a few seconds later he heard a sharp and resonant explosion. Seq eran ag on his beart, I| ““Within the next few moments Konald saw «ix | fan for some water, but before I returned he | souiler aerolites thoot through. spect bet ‘he j bad fallen over. I helped him up, gave him | °ovid not tell whether any of them struck the water, and then whisky. and presently he asked: | © 7n “ator the fall of the big meteor the air {Are we near Baker City?” was ci with electricity, which so affected “Yes, within yond miles.” | Ronald's horses that they became sick, stag- “What's the trouble?” T asked, Sees Sects Sach eer Ronald madea search for where it had lodged. Adams, after con- pektowbect hsble genase ee Lee Sonn endl now Mi ‘ould thanks for all Four rouble | e7-_ It has the of balt-emelted ving a dim suspicion of | iy assured him that the stone is rich in go not how I could in- et oe vot do ‘Adams, who isa reputable man, says he is A an slowiy into the depot | sure he has found the serolite ‘that was seen by amar end proced himsslt: | Ronald and himself. He declares that he was intone ay han there were | when it strack ihe earth. and that he felt the mae wee baton bald bet cant | heat and electric atmosphere which surrounded Maken Eis’ Hlovsi una 'ses | 22 incandescent bolt. When he arose. next ttar, as" be. termed i, be found ‘stumps “and shoot bead arith Tox, but it's no use to] Louder eprinkled with fine mind, amd, cor Tlooked up at the car window. There ant | fecly conjecturing that the meteor must bave my fellow traveler, eyes down and (SB pnt ST {he mark of doath'se plain on hi fase thas ail | 2 streem y cerry ay weer om ps could read it, His finger wae on the trigaer of | [4 “il haul the stone to the railrosd and is pistol and the barvel of the weapon rested |foracientisc partonss HaThickt ike mao = ree. pet pW RA peg yon we yd one co Loko Seren none ona, WHE, E Streator was, if we mistake | final | | restoration to happiness of the entire human | OLD SHOE.) the uppers is a rather unusual thing vo | veled thou- | not Lcent of postage had d to the holes for | °0 of them have | the stamps of different post ofices on them, | together with inscriptions by different postal from Minneapolis, | It ‘ore that, bat it | has the stamps of any number of post offices on | Oakland, Salt | 1 any number of we the record of ite At St. Paul it was inscribed: “Too small for On the night of Angust 20 the upper end of —<—= MENTAL TELEGRAPHY. ‘Mew a Commercial Traveler Talks With Mis Wife Every Night. “I write no letters tomy wife when I «m away and I get none from her,” «id Walter Kipling, & commercial traveler, to # St. Loniy Globe Democrat man. “Correspondence by mail is too slow and telegraphing costs toe much money. We have hit upon a plan that saves stamps and telegraph tolls and is much more vatisfactory. No matter what part of the world Tam in I go home at 10 o'clock every night end remain half an hour, sometimes longer, How do Imanage it? Easy enough. At thet boor my wife goes into the sitting room, closes the doors, places two easy chairs vis a vis, «ite down in one, closes ber eyes and concentrates ber thonghts upon me. I go to my room at the hotel, turn out the light, close my concentrate my thoughts on my and expecially upon my wife, and presto! |T occupy the easy chair our little |sitting room direcdy in front of Ber. A | perfectly intelligent conversation neues etween us, although nota word is en. She tells me how things are going on om whether the children are well, about ber own health, which has been delicate for years, ber pes and fears. We have bed this i telegraph in successful operation for rears past and the service is constant! growing better and more satisfactory, W have verified its accuracy a thousand tiuwe and rely upon it as implicitly as others Go on the written page. Neitherof us is « spiritnaliet and we discovered our ability to communicate in this manner purely by accident.” | The material position of the student is not enviable one. Poverty and want stare fia dn the face wherever be goes, and his personal ap- Pearance leaves mach to be desired. In 1850, when the Russian government wished to limi the number entering the university, the mot effectual way of stopping the influx was by giv- ing notice that only these would be reosive who were able to dress themselves decently and keep up an appearance suitable to their rank By far the larger p1 of students are sons of officers whove e burg and Kiew <The gain aires in the year to keepers. Out of 4.000 in Pe ninety belong to the peacnt mum that a student keep himself at the ity bas been’ oalen: lated at 375 rubles or nearly £60. Linagingtion can hardly picture the condition in which the atndent lives: sometimes without fire or light ree or four of them often occupy the exme room, and each pays I's rubles (4s. 6.) = month for his “corner.? Cases have een known where he had only 5 copecks (2 . day to buy food. ‘The purchase of books ander these circumstances is not to be thought of, Some credit is due, however, to the gowern- ment for the assistance it has afforded. A large percentage of «iu have nlware beep ase sisted by the state. In IS77 82 per cent were aided by the state. In versity of Moscow for f 130.236 rubles (in round nam- credited in 1890 to rtipendae ng from 209 to 600 rabies ¢ distributed among 429 «tu- fF 435 of 3,334 stadenta, in the first half year ata of the «um ions, vai These w a year dents in the first half year und amo the second. And, again, 642 had their fees remit and 690 in the second. In Kier 690 owt of 2,000 were released from payment. Besiies this, 2,000 rubles were distributed in Moscow in sums from 4 to 50 rubles in cases of great necessity, ing the same year the society for helping poor students paid "over 10,000 rn~ bles in fees and provided 1,813 men with dim- | mers. | | As We Imagine It After Listening to its Proud Father for an Hour or So, From Puck. a coe SMITH'S SMART BABY. will undoubtedly have covered more territory |