Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1892, Page 16

i> 2 santa 1892—-TWENTY PAGES. ‘The Wonderful House Industry of the Peo- rules it is Richmond funetion, because two or JEWELS OF THE PAST. BEAUTY IN FINGER SAILS. MR. AND MES. BOWSER. C located ‘and so far is con-| Gold and Silver Ornaments Wern by the | Directions for Home Manicuring Without | What Resulted Over a Croquet Game fee cerned it sade mtv. orp, bat . ‘Women of Ancient Times. ee of o Professional. the Family Championship. oa From From the St. Lowis ' Ne 183i Sieccubie “they say. at on eo dark NS Whaeeds maaan Jewelers find ideas | The word “‘manicaring” is not found in Web- “What was in thet ben which came up this How No. 13 is Regarded by Super- Right, at 8 point right around the curve on. tbe | tor novel designs in response to the demand for | ste's dictionary. . afternoon?” queried Mra. Bowser as Mr. Bowser stitious Bailroaders. oaping, over the ca gig th ne changing fashions? For «while, indeed, “‘manicuring” became | came home the other evening. een. wasa woman killed there once| Some they invent, of course, but e large pro-| the “fad” of fashionable women, an “That box! Mra. Bowser, did you ever hear finan she was trying to pall her éreaken hhue- | portion of them are not new at all—in fact, | eccentricities of ne rome onarcen 4 of to come of eoquatt” band track, say she comes | quite the reverse, of orna- | were indulged in. nails were vated” | “You haven't bought croquet set?” ALWAYS CAUSING TROUBLE. Beck ier very cnc me BaNE ‘aover | SH® being marty copies Goodenties ingen aaelendl “manus! hott nten becuase a Nenbis? cenemenieveil and thousands of years ago. Nota few go back | Polished to the last degree. . Tl be proving to you that what you don't know: Boycotting Engines That Are Numbered wid’ Ro: 18 and ‘this fect ‘even to prehistoric furnishing mostin-} One hand is put to soak first ina finger bowl | sbout croquet would make a large book. Mira. ‘With the -Bateful Combination of Figures— orton meds | teresting reminders of vanished The | of tepid perfumed suds for « space of five or | Bowser, I've got tireg of your bragging about OMictals as Well a6 Laborers Under the | Do nertom. Lwms menting freight train %/ vetropolitan Musoum of Art in New York, | ten minutes, after which it is carefully dried. | how you use! to beat every ome in tows come, Hoodoo Spell—Stories Substantiating a| [Tue Tht wee before my cxporionce down | where the finest existing colleotions of antique | The first step is the ling of tho nails to the | tien” Superstitions Belief. Stet betepy shgg ree 7} call mo a | Jewelry are stored, is a favorite resort for mod-| Proper length and shape. The edge iseither | “Bat I nevor bragged, and you know we pot coward I concluded to buck against fate. We|ern workers in that trade, who go there to | rounded in crescent shape to the natural out-/ hadn't been married but cight days when— were two hours behind time and had to | study and imitate. Very many of the moat ex-| line of the finger or it is tapered to a slight | when” MONG PEOPLE OF A ioytles, passenger and an ‘extra’ It| quisite derigns which have captured fashion's | Point at the middle of the finger tip. “When what? We started to playa game of superstitious turn of See ne oe wind utae RIOTiDE ® | fancy within the last few years in the shape of | The corners are most carefully filed own, or, | croquet, but you were to bounded debermined mind the figures 13 aud la blow dus. Asisaid before | bracelets, necklaces, brooches, pins, &c., have | speaking more precisely, fled up, for the file | to beat me that I walked off. Yea, I remember ill luck have always been | we were two hours late and I tell you I was | been simply reproductions of found | {f constantly carried from the corner upward. | al] about it, and I want togive you. little synonymous, but this | anxious to get home. When we got sarted oat in tombs on the island of Cyprus and elsewhere, Seatac Spel used to pe on If you can’t play fair, don't play at ae ge pe ® Tanck, “Puept | DUzed centuries before the birth of Christ. "| been left by the fle. “Dm_ so sorry you brought the set home! giving her's little ston, Siesta Severnl glass casos at this museum are filled | Next the cuticle at the root end of the nail is | Couldn't you take it back and exchange it for Pookie, hat everything wae all’ right, Gad! | With ornaments of silver and gold, not one of | treated. This has been, softened. somewhat by | Gouee hset fn Ted light flashed sctoas the treck ahead. | Which was made later than B. ©,, while | the preliminary soaking. ‘Sorry’ Clothes lines! What onearth ts the " | gous The Russian says his prayers before Pes bre kes and then tried to reverse | ™0st of them date back to 90 B.C. and earlier. Point of a delicate curved knife is passed | matter with you? It's got to a pase if BUSINESS IN RUSSIA emir, ee there aoe = the lever, but would you believe it, that engine | 4 majority of them were dug out of the ruins | deftly along under the edge from side to side. | two old People like us can't go out and JESS LL LL.-| angels of ‘his life. is no store in Russia war ithe) an aruly homes, and “coulda? be | of the ancient city of Curium, in The | Then, “with fine sharp-carved sciasore, the | {reat war painted balls around the yard with- that has not one of these icons hanging up in nccawenl Wouee ma ing and | t0WR is desc: by the Latin author Strabo. superfuous dead skin is cut away in one long | ont cutting each other's throats over it! You ——— it, and if wish to be ordinarily nse their arguments in support of the {ll-luck idea eer ae ht I caw ‘train It was destroyed about 500 B. C., after a siege, | strip, and there is some chipping and trimming | may get mad, but I shan't. I simply want to the| musk your hat when you enter the store are generally plain, hard facts. No matter | ing over directly in my front. vould it clear | uring which the inhabitants treas- | done at the corners. take some of the brag out of you.” The Queer Stores and Trades of [er cle ephedra re Sethi tae nomabes nik os 46,005 is ncaitd’ Lees Tepeientat err reco eee Hive i tombe and beneath thelr emples, From | The succeeding atop ta the cleansing of natle.| “Tt was with many misgivings that Mra. Bow- ‘yoursel 000, strabo's ription General di Cesnola located ne “ongoline,” id whicl and asmsted to set the Land of the Slava. presence, The baby of our nation 1 there, and thet; in their minds, works | (i eee and se both threw oar strength | 6 original sito and there he unearthed. theee | Bleaches the akin and removes slains ‘and im, | eTjccnmed, ber bat and sesieted 0 setup the o¢ St. Petersburg fell sick during my the deadly charm. This superstition is not | ‘ {he fireman and we both threw our strength | wo derfal curios, The articles of silver, while | the nail brush has failed to dislodge. | Sf enthusiasm and anticipation. —_ stay there few weeks ago and ite nurse sald thes only honored among the lowly in the railroad | °py>** ever, preg nlc tr ecko 1 Peseesrine Sack cries epee oman 't is applied with a wooden pencil all|” “Champion of four counties, eh? We'll TARIFF AND MANUFACTURES.| thecnoabs toon piotuse tn the soem in which business, buteven the great minds thatcon-| knew from the number of cars that it was an | ‘ormed by corrosion to sulphate andother salts | over the surface of the nails. around the root | gee about that! If I don't beat you out of it was and she would not continue to wait upon the child until ono was put up. In every railroad station in Russia there is e shrine of and you can find in one of these bazaars you from a hairpin to » skin’ coat and from toothpick to « trol the principal systems of the country ac- knowledge its potency. In the car record offices of any of the big excursion train and crowded with of silver, so that they are no longer beantiful, dele Re argh ag omg ‘are today aa t new as 5 000 a little and under the free edge at the tips; a thick | coating of powder is laid on fora second to | absorb the moisture, then brushed off, and the nails are ready for annointing with rosaline, « this kind and you cannot get out of sight of a picture of one of the saints, of the Virgin or of the Sevior. There are stores here in which sell nothing but icons and the painting of them gives work to thousands. In making them the workmen get es according to the size of the saints and their number. A good man can make three, each contsining one figure, in a week and as he gets 50 cents a saint he makes €1.50 at this rate for a week's work. Some of the icons are very well painted and those in the ! not that sort of & man, as you ought to know by this time. If you beat me Ill even praise your skill. You may have the firstehot. Hold on. now! What are you going through both arches at once for? “Why, I've a right to. Every player makes both arches if he can.” NEE - “All right—go ahead. ve you every ad- vantage and then beat rou by ‘What sort of a move do you call that?” “It's a regular move. It's my play to go through the side arch, isn’t it?” “Not in that skewjawed fashion, but go ahead. Here—what are you doing?’ « “I'm going through middie arch, course. ‘There it goes. I call that a good shot.” ple—The Icon Business and the Millions in Candles—The Great Bazaars and the Mer- chants Advertisements and Signs. they were 2,500 or 8,000 years ago, only fhe auilifal cleaning having been required. JEWELS OF CYPRIOTES. Nothing can well be more curious than these ornaments which were worn by fair women, | dried inthe interval, the nails ake aprinkled | and, perhaps, by the dandies of a long-vanished | with powder and briskly rubbed with ocknenais epoch. There would be no difficulty in imagin- é . ing that they were of modern manufacture. No| This is followed by a thorough washing of better nor more elaborate srorkmanship is done | the hands in hot water with soap and « hand now, and it is no wonder that makers of jewelry | brush, and after careful drying the nails receive in the year 1892 are glad to imitate them, not | ® few careful strokes of the polisher, from un- always equaling the originals. der which they come forth as dainty and gleam- Those found in Cyprus were produced by | ing as the rosy ear of @ sea shell fresh from the Phenicians and Greeks, ocean. that Carthage, in latter days The needed implements for home manicuring Rome, was peopled by are a nail brush, a nail file, which has a cleaner were a great and highly civilized maritime na- lisher, which consists of a roads, wherein records of all the cars passing | and over the roads are kept, expressions can fre- quently be heard, coming from the clerks, that substantiate the fact that they, too, are believ- ers in the number's mystic to do harm or cause trouble. If a car is lost and “tracers’ fail to locate it for some time they generelly put it down in their minds that thirteen ‘oomprioes ® part of the lost car's number and, strange to say. they are right in their surmise. At the t Baldwin locomotive works in Iphia there isa standing order that no locomotives are tobe numbered thirteen un- leas eg) ordered by the purchaser. This order is seldom broken and several stories are told around those works of the different roads rose-colored unguent that is rubbed on the nail and the surrounding flesh, and is left there for a short space. polishing comes next, The paste havi eet of furniture. There are P ge A stores and clothing stores, stores for selling of household ut stores which han- Ge nothing but leather which di and other stores in books and pictures. chants asa role are Russians in talons stuffed in thelr boo! hair chopped off level with the neck so that it the crown. They pert this har fe tho mide the crown. e and they are usually long-bearded men of the Russian They are shrewd dealers, but very suspicious of one another and go’ on principle thatevet is fair in trade. of them grow very wealt finest houses in Moscow ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Moscow, Angust 20, 1892. AKE A OUP OF TEA with me o la Russe while I tell you some- thing about the queer business methods of this queer people. A bare-footed boy brings in the large brass sam- ‘and by ering light of the lanterns the number on the nger car stared out at me, and that acei- it was accounted for in my mind. der was 713. A car with any other number on it would have cleared us, but the fatal combi- nation of figures on the car and engine bed to come,together, and nothing could prevent it. are te chants. The nobleslooked per nM lll on them atthe int, and a til in recent d chant | that endeavored to break the spell by number- OMASTNG 4 RUNAWAY. tion, although comparatively litte of their his-| ebamole pad with a{madie,’ ‘They should al be | "2 +e pene hel Ive . — een Elaas is uct ax high os tho ofiote class ia Busca. | ing an engine thirteen and the quick retara of | “Another instance wherein the fateful thir | toryie scouted hence Ta ans | of eed merits anda necessarily super-| run of Wen aed eauiltcbectit. “Thee moe ton out of gine tom- They are very superstitious and believe in signs | the samo in a dilapidated condition, with a hor- | teen played a prominent part ocurred on the | Workers were acquainted with many devices | ornamental. right there! You can't play nosuch game on Diers with nothing but and omens. ‘Ther hours of business ere from | ritying record, a candidate for the scrap pile. Chesapeake and Ohio road, and my friend, Ike | *ich have been supposed to be of modern in-| A manicure set, as nowsold in the shops, con- | 1h! ‘here’, és 2 tech enka about 9 in the morning until about 5 in the | Strange to say, when an sccident happens to an wiser: kaa e URaOCAIT 80 smi He after- | yoution. | For example, some of the bracelets | sists of » trey holding scissors, file, polisher and | “What game? I simply through the seoerous amount of £0- take a good trade as our merchants they take | Made. on itor any of fir makeup sured, ‘The | YATd ralatod” the adventure to me. He had | tore ‘They Sue sekestasy? eterna | tater ete ae crchesand his the cabs, and 8 wane beset ts le or any 0 , 4 ‘ gar to affect its favor. Beers ee eee 0 Gd aA aay Toll ek coon | ncn quan with toch phere! ocnrcathy table Popped ats little station called Maple Ridge | by pressing glass with dics. In those times but- | anywhere from @12 to a RR EES ee ‘The Busstans doall their their stores during the holidays nor on San- | gine and the scrap pile is the only sure relief. | One.sfternoon, as usual, for water, but bad t0 | tons were unknown, and #0 it happened that | be bought as low as $3. Sonser as he euved bis quitette Goatn, trading over tea, and days. Everything is closed in Russia op Sunday, ‘THE FATAL WRECK AT HARRISBURG, water at the time. He immediately noticed among the things dug up were e great many Moar age og from 20 {0 50 cents, accord-| «It's the rule as laid down, Mr. Bowser, and this commercial center, end St. Potersburg and Moscow at this time| ‘The Pennsylvania road is the latest corpora-| the engine's number_—13 -om the recy of the | Pins that were used for dress claspa. ing oad scbstantial polisher with ®| now I've got you just half whitewashed.” look much more like Boston than Paris. It ia interesting to watch one of these bazaar mer- chants close up for the night. In the first place One of the prettiest necklaces is composed of small gold tortoises, most artistically wrought, which were strung together. Another has beads wooden or cellulotd handle can be from 50 to 75 cents. Scissors are from up. The tools can be kept ona small Jay ht for cents Moscow, is full of tea honses called traktirs, where tion to suffer for its hardihood in numbering these long-haired merchants sit and suck their one of its locomotives with the fated combina- tender and spoke to his fireman about it, say- “You have, eh? More of your brag! It's your ing he would refuse a passenger run if he had : to handle the lever on that engine. The fire- red hii be of an inch, either! There ‘tea through lumps of sugar which they hold be- he locks up everythi the store and seals it | tion of one and three. The terribly fatal wreck of gold and rock crystal. alternately arranged. | lacque tray, which can with t Seek you ts was by tween their ror 6 pasbp oaks and bargain from shut. Sie thon oomame somite a at Harrisburg, — 26 — —_ ‘up that el! oars por = oe pseaee be There are —- 2 many 6 sings ins variety . ay linen doily to match the buresu| ofjuck. Stand aside nl na and Tu you nel wine git Dediecke la thas takes 2 oistoh | cots eatrauerd Koova to estestine eciicating | O50t rom ine cab to do some ailing. The en-| heavy. Most curious of these are some which | To these should be added a box of Singer nail | "9 toPlas croquet, There!" | Siued peiceener quick teadesin Rusia. It takes and tos “the padlock to the staple “and Joint | was La use on that road. and if ever an accident to go outon a ager train | contain the quaintest little golden bottles im-| powder, a box of rosaline and a bottle 4 Bf Fe man all day tocometoa decision, andhe always | asks you three times as much ashe expects to could be asoribed to ill luck that was one, ure of steam on. Suddenly Engine 13 was hauling the second section of ht in questionand the two ends of the string together and puts some hot sealing wax on them. This he stamps aginable. A few of the brooches also have sim- ilar golden bottles. Now, what could they have been meant for? of bleaching fluid, or, when they are not of steam, the smoke belched rocurable, their substitutes can easily be churches are ofte from the stack and the locomotive gave a leap studded with jewels and the F i i the western express on the ni < found, you missed! Now I shall get. And still the business done is enormous. | fetal work is of gold, Some icons are holier | With his own seal, go that it will be impossible forward, asa horse would if prodded with ‘Aceti : yous Moscow has some business houses which would | than others and the most sacred are kissed by | $0 open the lock without breaking the seal. He ee ae eee eae ene eestor ny | sharp stick. ‘The firoman was thrown off eT a cleansing “au agen a sg tl |" beng eet na bere credit to Chicago, and thereare stores here | the worshipers and candles bura constantly be- | then stands it) front of his close too a ene eae areca eelagrecn | and the engineer jumped aside to vee the engine | Nobody knows, positively, but it is supposed purities. et a ona aa fine as you will find anvwhere in Paris. The | fore them. leaves for the night, and he will say another | minutes behind it. Operator Hayes, in the pot jown the track at an alarming rate of | that they were intended to hold poison. That |" An excellent unguent is made by the follow- slipped just 4 nent gon Tl try it over wealthier Russians buy the most extravagant THE CANDLE BUSINESS IN RUSSIA. pryer hen he opens ip in the morning. This | signal tower at Steciton. gave thosecond section | "P&S", sating the story to me Tke suid: was an epoch during which human Ife was not | ing formula: One ounce of oil of sweet almonds, 4 articles of jewelry and wearing apparel, and the | Speaking of candles, Russfa burns more to every merchant and the croseing and | a clear track. The first section was blocked by to safo asit i nowsdays, and_ there “might be one-half ounce each of and white “We knew instantly what had happened. if 3 It ee en ee ea anon Sonn ery, 17 | theater of Be hour of eecing, °°“ "™E| Sarena lacs taeqtar tombe wort of talon, | 7B0 Pare of eeu had boon so grenue wo | CCguug einen quick eure death vaald be | woz: malt over het wate, then ar anil old, | yoy en's ako ree? anywhere in the world. Just under the shadow | Europe. She uses about 60,000,000 pounds of eae cee zal and before it could get under headway again | blow the throttle open and let the steam into | then considered an honorable and dignified way | and a little up with ef te holy Kremlin there is now being built -andles every year, and one of the great sources the second section crashed into it. the cylinders full force. She was now running f getting out of the world. The strings of the of income of the churches is their candle} The Russians do not advertise a great deal away and we knew that she would goon at an | ©. Suing Neh ——s vast bazasr hi st cover Engineer Hugh Kelly, with atwenty-five-year e necklaces described had naturally disappeared | ®4ding luster to the nails is oleate of zinc. A| foo mua Sse’ anplnt i paeemer pry i oped many | ales. At the door of every great cathedral |and = Rassian business advertisement looks | recom, was inthe cabot No. 18. fe had hi poor ong Awe Lge s a Ag = ae when the latter were discovered, bas pane powder for the nails is made by mix-| ry — vasiness here which cover acres. There | here ara candle peddlers, eho ave counters | queer to American eyes, There aro thirty-six c “iar aprey ee for the guiding | Stacie, What to do was cvident. ‘The ranseay Senge and restored aces as paltores ee. cigsakes, Par of finest emery powder and gore.” More economy used ildi: 7 a ii rou lindin, orm, * Funs' period, fe ee eee ne eens | ckipers a fast on they con band them out | Mitters in ‘the Russian: siphabes, and these let-| (807 cs cn his: gaue his Salthfal aresman anor Sante eres aay aoa lost was wal_| samy of whlch Tepresent the jowelsy as'well as|_ ‘The hands should be washed and the nails ay: cut by wide which are roofed with | These mon are dressed in the uniform of the | ters seem to be a combination of the Greek, | it" too, and cried out: “Hard down, Hughey, pelake bet wean the tems a 4 ae | clothing worn. brushed in warm water with a liberal supply of | Mra. Bowser ‘and oaf upon which open stores about | Church, and they take in pennies by the bushel. | Chinese and the Arabic characters. A great | the red's agin’ us.” feuly pounding dempesa in ontart and was! Some jewelry fn shown at this museum that | soap And. bristle brush, mot too «mall. ‘They rejoice. ity foet front with show windows, | I watched a couple of them fora long time at | majority of the lower classes cannot read them | Qn wont the air brakes and back went the Clear the. track? and! motifs. the wan 2k’ | i# even more ancient than what has been de-| must be carefully dried, the flosh about the| peor ‘These windows are filled with beautiful goods, | the entrance of the Kazan Cathedral in and the result is thatit hardly pays the merchant | Jever, and as the wheels locked and the train rack and notify superin- nail being pu: scribed. It is the work of artisans of Babylon. back gently while wiping. St. Petersburg, and in the course of half an hour I amult & r d . tendent. Uncoupling our engine our This brings into view the ee ours in going from t toadvertiso. You see few posters about the cities | slid along with a mighty aweep Kelly opened P Evidently they were not acquainted with the is brings into view te white onyx | more sah Go degre om open getting out into | SW at least 300 men, women and children buy | and the sandwich man is absent from theso Rus- | wide thetelistle and. sont Tore one lose, der Fe rors the, throttle, open, the fre-| art of polishing prerious stones, because the | OF half moon at the base of the nail, which ie you'd SS candles. It took two men to supply them, and | sian streets. Many of the ta cannot read | speiring shriek. Ese ree Stee coal fad we 1m | sapphires, rubies and‘emeralds composing the eet the candles they bought were of various sizes | the signs on the stores, and for this reason nearly “It'sall up, Hughey,” said the fireman, and | PUrsuit. We enough water in our tank to| nee} in the collection are net facetted. edge to| Mrs. RUSSIA'S TARIFY METHODS. and of differeat peices. Some bought as many | every store has painted on its walls pictures of | the brave engineer's only reply was: st for some time, and trusting to Providence | ‘They are merely poli and none ‘The goods sold aro jargely imported and it is | as @ dozen and others were satisfied with | the articles sold within. I saw a barber sign | 'sgtick to: hes Hasree’ eed) once more he | $0 Dring us out safely we began the faatest ride Ay iy of ehormous value isthe ber tell carious to see how the government watches the | one. I wondered what they would do with | the other day here in Moscow which consisted opened wide the whistle and silently they shes bs cep cwgrne The pore bar about of » Babylonian idol, which bears mallet payment of duty upon ther. Every imported | them and walked in behind them. The interior | of a bare-armed man shaving a patient, who eat Iwo minutes the start of us, and for the first stuck to their posta. That last weird scream of the whistle broke on the ears of the crew and somo of the sengers of the forward train, but before they sdecstood its leaport tt was amotbored by the terrific crash which followed. With a majestic sweep the engine hurled itself into the rear of a 7 the first section, and pushing, and smoking, ma and snorting, and straining, and groaning it went on and on. The rear car was lifted clear from its trucks, dashed forward, and, with a ripping and tearing of timbers, was forced bodily into the coach just in’ front of it Driven by an irresistible force it plowed through the end, crushing down every seat as if they were paper, and killing and crushing the helpless, frightened passengers where they Tt smashed the other couches, broke the back of the baggage car, reared it up on an end, and then 13 stopped as if exhausted. There’ was just one moment, during which only the fierce of this church is as large as the hall of the “ upright in one chair, while just opposite him sat a lady who was holding out her arm, from which a stream of blood was spouting and upon which another barber was performing the opera- tion of blood letting. In another part of the few miles‘at least would gain on us. Our hope . lay, du heoping pace withher for ome distance, | spo gla waa hret meer Vat. plenty of tore and then ly closing up the gap between eee Be long aus, If wo passed the firet few stations safely it | Pretty bottles and whew 2 was quite probable that the track would be clear for us after that. rinse caee ous tice “Campbell was the first station, and we whizzed by ata rate of speed which made the station appear like a little streak of brown. Five miles had been covered, and we felt sure we were holding our own in ‘the exciting race, Three miles further we sped by the little town of Beaver, and Perkins, which is one mile fur- ther, seenied to bea part of the same place, and thus the race continued. As we pro- ceeded we saw crowds et pene gathered about the stations, who cheered poas we passed, but their cheers scarcely readied use of Congress. Its halls were hung with folden icons and there were jeweled | on the pillars and set into| the solid silver altar of the back of tne church. Before each icon there was a silver candlestick with a stem as big around as Grover Cleveland's thigh and rising from the Boor to about the height of the epot_on. which President Harrison's hat rests. The tops of these candlesticks were in the shape of a dise and each top had a number of holes in which to stick candles. The worshipers whom I fol- lowed trotted from one of these candelabra to another, lighting a candle before each and matting it up to burn before the picture. Witte they stood and crossed th¢mselves be- fore the saints I saw other candles being Passed upfrom man to man, finally reachin hands of the church officer who presid GREEK Ax} nowa® oxasa. During so many centuries of burial under- ground these objects have undergone a most curious change. Decay—for glass will rot. like almost anything else—has split up their substance into laminea, or a sort of flaky formation, so that while preserving thir original shapes the interruption of light by the laminea causes them to assume the most brilliant iridescent hues, purple, green, red, ce. One plate obtained by Gen. di Cesnola looks like (a fragment of rainbow.’ Most, ro- markable of the bottles is one that is still half full of a liquid ointment, which was put into also be clip) rubbed on the flesh ywrth. Good Queen Anne had the habit of biting her inger nails at one time, and was emulated in it Suppose that innocent id bad been « witness to your actions!" our ears above ~ “My actions! Why, what did I do?” d over each candlestick and being lit by iisses of the escaping steam could be heard, ac-| the thundering of our lo¢omotive. After we | it not lose than 2,500 years ago. by her faithful —— very much as the ladies | — «y cdg mind, Me meee mind! 1 him and put before the saint. There were proba- companied by the punting and throbbing of the | reached Narenta, thirty-three miles from Maple | Water contairiing lime, percolating of today copy the Princess of Walts’ bonnet. ° bly 500 candles burning at one time in this one | ri i So that a lady of those days who wished to through wounded engine, and then from out the mass the ground where the little vessel was buried, Ridge, we began to expect some trace of the We Know and you know, but I’ will keep it from him, poor child! You ean ran into the house church and when you remember that this goes : of wreckage there came the awful shrieks and | gitive. id not let up on our speed, and as | sealed it up hermetically with a stony deposit, | Perform her morning nail toilet with due def-| now’ This may smur- on all over Russia every Sunday and every holi- A RUSSIAN PEED STORE. Ghar dying. there were no sharp curves we hada view of | so that the ointment has heen Kept from evap erence to fashion had literally to go at it “tooth engl aloe beeen | gpa yn hg day and during most of the days of the week | ‘a stool was a man having a tooth | Engine 18 had done its deadly work and like | the track fora mile ahead. Finally, from be- | orating. It is doubtless the oldest cosmetic. 4m | aud nail. my papersand get things eo thet cor you can see where the’candles go. A large | Pilllod, and the ign intended to conver the fare | Many of ita predecessors wus consigned to the | hind a patch of timber, we sighted her bowling | existence. child will have a trusty ‘eppointed and Part of the candies used are made in houses | pulled, and the sign in ‘a dentist x shaver | Sfp heap. Thirteen passengers were killed in | along at a very sharp rate, but I knew we were | Mummies are cheap in Egypt. For « lon KINGS OF THE Zoo. be taken care of after Tam gone and yon are and not in large fac’ , and in fact the house | _ r aia eee bene a fact that also gave the supersti-| gaining on her fast. A piece of upgrade was | time locomotives were run between Cavis au, pod bung. Run in, Mrs. Bowser. Nothing you can ingustry of Russia ms to surpaes that of the | Sehecta « narcay ‘and on the walls at the side | tious food for thought. head and we now felt sure that our prey was | Suez with no other fuel. _ But the corpses of | The Biggest Lion in Captivity Now at the say will ever blind me to facts again. tastorian ; J is eotimated that there sro 160,000 prs rong ys Geren cs odavey bem i FR within oe iy ao ae royaland otherimportant’ ye preserved Philadelphia Gardens. M. Quan. own homes, and one jeri statea that Psa cows grazing. During the past week an Evenixe STAR re- #radually we drew up in ¢ runaway | in this manner according to the hest style | Prom the Philadelphia Record. people ‘out $750,000,000 worth of goods every year. These p their goods themselves, and in some instances they work for the factories. QUEER TRADES IN RUSSIA. Russia has in fact many queertrades of which colonies who make a specialty of breeding and The cats bring from 5 to 15 cents and | the peddler collects them ina bag. kills them soon as he gets away from the villages in which they have been boughtand takes off their from the home of Tolstoi, in there are eighty families who do nothing else but raise canaries, ple in many cases peddle | we know nothing. Along the Volga there are | The dairy signs are cows with maids or men milking them and the tea signs aro usually gaudy Chinamen, who are sipping tea. Even the newest inventions, such as the trpe- writer, the bicycle and the camera, are painted on the signboards in this way and sometimes the whole front of a store will be covered by pictures, each of which represents some article sold by the merchant. The windows are filled with samples of the goods sold and not in- within. Every merchant makes his calcula- tions with @ box of wooden buttons strung on wires, justas the merchants do in China, and curious features that I will treat of them in another letter, Fray G, Camrexten, porter ran across an old acquaintance, an engi- neer now retired, and during the course of con- versation the unlucky thirteen subject was broached. The old man is a fluent talker and told many stories wherein the superstitious idea was paramount. He acknowledged the fact that engincera, as a class, were very super- figures’ 18 were held in tho decpest fe had stood on the footboard stitious and abhorrence. the bad curves, the weak trestles and give the history of nearly every town of importance. He was library of thrilling stories and = “To take out an engine numbered 18,” he said, ‘‘was considered a foolhardy thing to do until not more than 100 yards were between us. Both engines were going at a speed of thirty-five milesan hour and I called to the fireman to take the throttle. Then I climbed down on the pilot and waited for us to come up. I was on the point of making the leap for the runaway when what should that engine do but jump the track, turn over on its side and roll down the bank. I gave acry of horror, as I thought my time had come, but my fireman, as quick aa a am positive that had that engine been of any other number it would not have ran away, and if it had we would have recaptured it all right, “During the chase neither my fireman nor I ove thirty odd miles we could only estimate, for neither of us had time to look at our of the art, are very valuable. There is one in the Metropolitan Museum that is identified by the accompanying inscriptions as the Princess Tounofirte. She isdone up in a remarkable- and unusual way, being wrapped ins sort of basket of papyrus recds outside of the usual linen ban The top of her coffin is a carved and ited board, done in low relief and representing her as she was in life, with white gown,and costume complete. Every de- aliing Gils, which ane Gal Sak he fas aad for many years, and on nearly every road in | flash, reversed our engine,and, although we also | tail of her person {s carefully reproduced, oven | Thus William Penn, wo is now the largest Which aro ‘umally disposed of to peddlers | fequently articles STeuuapended on the walls the country he could tell ‘where were located | {timbed the rails, our engine remained upright. | to her dainty almond shaped mabe, Bio wes | tice in captivity, was obtained for the amuse- blonde and evidently very beautiful. Though the died more than 3,000 years ago, how inter- esting it would be toknow something of her encyclopedia of railroad information. 3 story. grand tour of Europe, has been admired by skins, which are shipped by him to the fur | ply the larger, establishments keep book so; | torr Toa scquaintances liked to hear him hed spoken up to the time we sighted the on- millions of people, from crowned heads to beg- centers of the empire. In not far off | Oo" Daaking’ shadade of Meesla canes ten ot | 00 ine ‘us. How long us to cover Chicago Amazes the Britisher. From the London Times. The largest, noblest lion in captivity reached the Zoological Garden yesterday and is ready to receive callers. A groat healthy, formidable- looking beast he is, curiously enongh, chris- tened William Penn. The big fellow was cap- tured in South Africa when a cub, ® couple of hunters killing his paronta, He was bought in Liverpool by the Zoological Society. ment and instruction of mankind. His has ‘deen an eventful career. He has made the and has been able, notwithstanding the ——_—+e+_ JAPANESE ART IN METAL, iron bars that shut him off from liberty, keepers and eleven would-be workmanship is of great skili and grace. A , and in Tambotf there iss section where pigeons are bred for the sake of thelr skins, which are sold at the weekly bazaars and at the fairs. The feathers are, of course, left on the dking and they eventually form a of some lady's cl or | Ket Ta siding dotn the Volgs ah every station at which the boat stopped the pevbowas would come to the wharves with their wares for sale. ‘Tartars trotted around with long bars of what I | thought was booswax for sale, but which turned | out to bea soap which is much noted in Rus- sia. Here [also found all sorts of leather manufac- watches, but it was fast envugh for us, It was afterward figured out that we trotted along in fhe neighborhood of veventy-two miles an to slaughter six in my time and I have known engines so num- trainers.” Te bered to be boycotted and left standing in the round house for months. No matter if the roday he occupies the star cage of the lon house of the peeglly the beat joness, whose apartment adjoins already begun to cast in his direction glances by no means unfavorable. striking Chinese picce is a bronze vase, of very Graceful shape, with eight decp swells outward; on two opposing ewelis curious cat-like ‘There are over 1,300 factories in operation about Moscow and you can see the smokestacks | standing like sentinels here and there over the ee ee ee ee Ao iden THE TEXAN’S PET CENTIPEDES. After They Got Loose Their Owner Had the Car to Himself. From the St, Louis Globe-Democrat, “Iwas going to New York some time ago,” said H. C. Forest, as he took aseat in a little ex- ‘Woman's Beauty Her Best Lawyer, discovered the facts and then I quit. It was on the Santa Fe road down in Tans, About three months before I gave up my job, at a hear Pecos, my engine struck © wagon and farmer. On the return trip I struck and killed him, and then T struck @ woman who was lant on “The Influence of Beauty.” In the course of it he said: “If it were said that a jury could find only an ‘© man on horscback on the next tri on I black brierwood pipe that was strong enough to curl the hair on a wooden Indian. When he started to retire he picked up his perforated box. The cover had come off and the little man i ; i i i t Hh ! f | I : i 4 F 1 it i i I i i id FF Hl 1H iy i 4 igF Hl bit Hi | A idl i fl f E ef i ijt if z i ai Fi i ' i Fa RE i i i & ES I i i i i Hi F i ef apt it d i 3 ti $ 4 Hes i ii i | li cf ij Fe ; f t a i Ht i z Hi i i e eee See teach, “Thies ecld al over Earcpa, Uther So by E t j fi ge t t i i families | through peasants i H Hl it By z = i ie af gt e 4 iH ai § fie t i i . 8 & ii it Pi at ge i F, HG Hf fF Bs BE et aril § i i I