Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1892, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. ATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 Like the American critics, the English are GOLD FROM PITCH. |zzaecisrs se. Saree tac Sc spine Tisited Trinidad in December of Ganeer Otero, who is now at the Empire; yet he o z ¥ fer the f reconcili: the she seems for the most rt to be siaging to The Wonderful Lake of Bitumen in divers intereats fo Uniled action hie ‘eters teunppenslitioe cans ent deaniag So unaggeatl> the Island of Trinidad. 1006, when the colonial government decided |esteniing, Theo enn nto : that the five-eore lot which it hed reserved | fesse ne dante eae sprinnse, bat er which beats a new rhythm should be thrown open to the market by grant-|in one's blood, causes no excitement un the THE ASPHALT MONOPOLY. |i licenses to dig piteh therein. house. You remember how she thritied New A PROLIFIC SECTION. York ‘and how the Puritan blood of Julian — Now, for the sake of illustration, suppose that [anthers wa: 0 stirved by. ‘What the Famous Lake Looks Like—A|® company owned a monopoly of a lake of Thapsodies in au issue of Li —* Stygian Pond Weird and Strange —A Seem. | W8ter; that it was the only lake of such water | theres ‘ ugly Inexbaustible Sopply—The Enor-| i the world, and that the liquid was ao precios Paved to the ‘mous Profits of « Single Co: % esto sell for @ldaton. But let it be assumed ote 1 — at the same time that ite coutrol failed to in- 72-1. % —_+—__—_ ciede one square yard cuperdigally of the lake. | iy Sor i viously t square ¥ was thrown open. ~ : STORY THAT READS | to others unprincipled rivals could get as mach live up the Medura Tapajos, Bio N other tributarier of the Amazon, in palm-leaf huts set around a central malocca; the latter not the dwelling of a chief, as might be supposed, but rather # grand council chamber, fortress, arsenal and general w-wow room. In it are served heads of their 8, which have given to the Mundrucus their title of “Beheaders.” Unlike the Jiveros of south- eastern Ecuador, they do not extract the ‘skull, ut by some savage process of embalming keep the cranial relic ss wensly entire as possible, iu sorting faleo eyes (made of bits of shell or pol- ished ), the long hair carefully combed out and dezorated with strings of rockcock and macaw feathers, feather earrings in the ears | which initials 1 think I t periods of Mr, Justin » the brilliant son of « bril- r. And ‘still th re audiences and dyed strings passed through the tongue by like » romance is’ about | water from that square yard as from the whole ee echo che acrobat ond Che taylan which to suspend it to the rafters. In to be published by the | lake. The case was precisely similar with the — it curiously, on Oteret ful times hundreds of these are ranged around Department of State.| pitch lake of Trinidad. Inasmuch as a smoEN Px oLomy the walls of the malocca or set in rows around | |hole dug in it would ill np immediately | Not very many yours ago fs Is relates ton wonderful | grog, ‘the surrounding asphalt, five” scree | theeser ccim tte A xpndl ot monopoly. TheMeKin- | were us good to draw from as the whole oe a oer ley bill doesnot foster it, | sheet. Imagine, then, the disgust and dis- Conder the best, th rT. was inthe united nor is it profitable either | Comfort cof Me. Ak Barber and bis asso- — dom all all given up to the ciates at the prospect of such a departure, democracy ay, The Pit.” Tt was filled ordivasd es ae ried which would deprive them of their Prostatic with long high-backe ms, devoid ¢ bs amagege- ngs tand | grip on the business and make asphalt pave- | ment country. On the con-| ments cheap for people of the United § — trary the gains de- | It was at this critical point. whet the river of Was dar -~ © rived from it are — threatened ail at once to stop flowing,that | Tec io shared between the | !2¢ Renius of Mr. Barber showed itself. He that « ‘i * rougbt about a concession of the entire the British colony of Trinidad and the Bar-| lake for twenty-one years and subsequently freely i ber Paving Company. This firm, with head- | succeeded in having the lease extended for armics « quarters in New York, has works in other | twenty-one years longer. y secs cities all over the Union. It controls the entire THE MONOPOLY COMPLETE. —< supply of asphalt, regulating the price to suit} To secure these concessions Mr. Barber in-| jana itself, so that every taxpayer who walks or rides | geniously combined large offers of money with over @ pavement of this bituminous material | suggestive threats. On the one hand he prom- contributes to the enrichment of a corporation ‘ al already swollen almost to bursting with gold. mur scleny Q10,000 © year Sot cuctutes The personal income of the head of the concern | "hts, while on the other hand he gave warning the mandioca fields to keep the ghosts away that might otherwise injure the growing food, uF and on warlike and festive occasions they are trotted out on the points of the warriors’ spears. Strange to say the Dyaks of Borneo have a similar custom of preserving their ene- mies’ heads, and are provided with blowguns, almost identical with those of South Americans. Like most other Amazonian Indians, the Mundrueus cultivate @ little mandioca, corn and plantains. They know how to prepare farina meal from the mandioea, and also to brew a sort of intoxicant resembling chica. ‘They have gourd vessels, some of them quaintly carved. rude pots of baked clay and utensils of wood and stone. Their canoes are hollowed tree trunks, und besides the blowguns for kill- ing birds. they have bamboo spears with Rolsoned pointe and arrows tipped with the leadly curare. By the way, the latter is now generally conceded tobe neither a vegetable Poison nor the venom of serpents. as was for- merly supposed, but the putrid matter from de- t was that « play rtal, that an actor ath of ancient eggs, nd vent in cheers or that privilege of bieing was was to the pit that the flocked for thetr les pitites”” cir rights and re move t introduce high prices, ewallow tails on the the house.” [well rememibe 4 = cayed human bodies, the arrows being stuck is estimated at €30,000 » week or $1,560,000 that if they were not granted be would make about twoly pos for wh “4 THE “CORTEJA” EN ROUTE TO THE PALACE. |intoa festering corpse and left until soaked full annually. arrangements for the transferring of the as- th thick of ter. The “*pitil v8 aren divided off und me of the deudliest poison known. Fanniz B. Waxp. The Barber Paving Company obtains its as-| Phaltum-producing industry to other places alt from an extraordinary lake of pitch in | Where he had learned of the existence of avail- and complexions generally the color of an old th 1 ant mixture of many nationalities. And, like | rnteresti: cae ltzel Ht t their sisters in all hot countries who lead’ lives | ‘"{*re#tine Contents of the Haltzel House In of inactivity, they are inclined to excessive fat Curious Tribes of Indians Which | and shapelesness, to the growing of mastaches | ( elles pus ou ; ene ee ox TOILET FOR A WEDDING. | and a tendency ness at an age when JE Co v1 ‘TEEL EMBROIDERY AT HEM, ¢ Inhabit the Country. | northern women eames seeched thelr | Kekind in the general march of modern im-| on2.0% OD BLUE CLOTH WITH\STERL fi >IDERY AT HEM, OV manager. Me came Jif the arrangement tone. He re DB vinidad. It is a circular basin of black bita- | able deposits. At the same time a part of his lururioudy cushioned stalls, After nN \f q shoe, while the majority show unmistakable 9 men, having anarea of only 110 acres. But this | demand was that the government of Tr asif by prearta ODDITIES IN BRAZIL. traces of negro or Chinese blood or an unpleas A OL EANDNAES. dopesit, formed from vegetable matter. by | should not permit anybody to dig for pi aly Pe chemical processes in nature's laboratory dur- | the public lands. In r to the at ing past ages, is an inexhaustible maine of | €eneral of the colony he said: “The cro riches. Anybcdy who has seen a large round | lands in the vicinity of the pitch luke He was hissed heartily and them pond, mostly dried up, with little streams of | have large deposits of pitch earily « asked to remove the barrier. He decliaed, and \clear water irregularly intersecting its bed,|tainable and equal in quality to the | threatened tes the police, Then the pit | here and there patches of vegetation, and a| lake pitch. To o de to us the right to “moved,” the t wept away and for SILK TEEL EMBROIDERY, | Sushy looking place near the center with fish | Win asphalt from the lake and at the samo time om no stalls were SILK. CHEMISETTE OF WHITE | bubbles coming up, the entire surface blackish | te allow the public to obt from the © bern grad- | and uninviting, can forma very fair idea of | lands in the neighborbood is to de- verme — | the general appearance of the lake. Its con-| Prive the concession to us of all value ed in other directions it bas been I wri enue voxpetetoGons! The juvenile belles | tents aro nearly pure asphaltum, with a small | Other words it would break prime. TROPE SILK BROCADE. A SASH OF WIDE BLUL VELVET! KIgi - 1 ¥ F BLUE CLA 1. Le APE mate Transplanted Portagusc civilization has | PTOYement that has sot back toward the heights | BODICE OF BLUE CLOTH, LANGE La flourished well under the blue skies and in the | ¢¥er since the first Scotch settlement was made | SLEEVES OF BL BNR ones RECEIVING HONORS BY PROXY | genial climate of this portion of the new world, | down by the water side is the old Baltzel house, | _ LACE A — and the Brazilian Indians—a more gentle and | on M street near 32d. It cannot be said tobe in OF PALE GREEN § OP HELIOTROP EATHERS ECL OF BLUE has a > monopoly. oe F tractable race than the savages of North Amer- | the bloom of its youth nor in the best state of | [) mrp rl 0 rs S | caw gue | th: An od logi- | Must be preserved at all rds. In the same DNIVEN INT RN ER, | youtl picturesque this season and often fantastic, | Proportion of earthy matter. An old geologi- | must be | at most of the Black and Tan is the Prevatting Among | = ee to their conquerors thet ® | preservation. but it contains some relics of ‘ye F OR LI | I L E.F L K 15 | but nothing ean be too extravagant in design t6 | cal port estinsionthe quantity in sight at fosep tes geet hy Nirah igs vor "acne agg “4 the theater A pets care lont ite pos aati jo. hae 3 2 ook well on a four to ten-year-ol ‘ ons, but since this reckoning was do not ask the right to win asphalt from | glory as been under the bai “, Brazil's Inhabitants, Says Fanny Ward—| izinal races has taken place. Had the — ware: > be as Povop dies ital Lected Cate —— | cibebatshownin theiica pec sias tHe | made soveral hundred thousand tons have been | those jands, We “merely ask that the | gud is, asa rule, so well iu the elute thet the Some Flenennt Feople Who Make Parlor | been colonized with Anglo-Saxons inatead, such | not min the rather dummentlod settings in i | pretty face of a bedle in minature looking ont | Temoved without perceptibly diminishing the | 0Vernment shall not ullow others to plabipachrot: Ornaments of Thelr Enemies’ Heade—An- | fusion would not have been possible. Fottu-| which thoy héve to be viewed. How Children Should Be Clothed for | from its frame of brim, is model that mill be | ¥uilable supply. jE edie per Beagle Peron | ie a other Curious Festival. gal and Spain had felt the influence of the | Tye house is old-fashioned, with gabled win- ryher extensively duplicated next winter. Not| waa THE Laxy oF ritcu Loos xixr. _| {hat the colony should pl ot tenets | laces and itomacu late and _ area taeniticn Tudored tren the Tndlens | dows and « “‘one-eyed hall” —that is, one minus Autumn. only will auch nts, made of soft felt and often | There ia something altogether weird and | Savers’ of pitch innd” not be able | other * coon fn ae only in degree. So the mixed brown and white | @ vestibule. The hallway is lined with pic- trimmed with fur, be worn by little girls, but A pene SHORT HAIR AND TROUSERS. s strange about this lake of pitch. Its surface | to ship the product advantageously , also by young women, ot DEW “ Sara S scare tainers ft dhat” bate will bo dreseer, than | 08% 89% present a continuous sheet, but gs colons! nding’ itwelf in sn dilemma | Mow Tonge an are usual. and therefore will be worn on occasions | traversed by a network of channels in which | §fanted evervthing and the monopoly was | Uv vctiaed for stalls be Special Correspondence of The Evening Star mingled easily with the darker shade of brown, Pons. Bmazrt, September 10, 192. | and having been since largely adulterated with PEAKING OF BRA-] African blood. not to mention Mongolian and tures, some of them old and signed by master them, for if hands, others more modern, the work of that xtraordinarily large school of lightning impressionists who held cx- where hitherto bonnet i the rain water collects. Its aspect may be | thus rendered complete. The prospect is that | Tm ts made tor them by moving the pit bar- rilian estan in a pre-|¢YerY other nation under the sun, the term | hibicions om the avenue last winter and puinted ae | appropriate, Theos hate maybe de ceincn re | likened toe piece of marbled paper ‘There are | the price of asphalt will be maintained by the rier still further back, This fe vious letter, we forgot | “bidek-tnd-tan is no misnomer hereabouts. %xB6-inch landscapes in from one t0 threo |e. tort Fauntleroy Style of Bove Going |* general way, an low crowned and wide | about ascore of email. islands ucatterod over | ComPAny. if it docs not go up, and inasmuch | Hirt nights. The Drury Lav : ~ minutes, One of the largest pictures in the hall ieee : brimmed. In some cases the crown is uniquely | the lake, which are covered with vegotation, | *# there is no reason for supposing that thy ose get agg he Ps the grea is “Christ Walking the Waters," signed by | Out—The Proper Dress for Little Girle— | Preved and to the brim ie given some, capri. | some of chem supporting trees twenty er thirty | lense will not be inidefinitely rehewed the rea- heater goers ae orteja,"“which ; Gasper Poussin, and another, “The Bandit's| Belles in Mininture—Returning to Fash- | Gious touch of adjustment. ‘Some of the tou, | feet high, These islands do not extend down. | *0Rable oxpectation is that the United States RE 2 omer 4 erence during the days of the | Prisoner,” bears the name of Kusp. ‘There is| jones of Years Ago. | nets show broad crowns, with narrow, cap-like | *4rd very far into the lake, but appear to be | ¥ill depend in the future, as in the past.f Scouse aA Tq empire was the chief s also a “Head of Job,” @ copy from the original | brims. Ostrich feathers will be used plentifully | merely sttperticial accumulations of soit, When | indispensable material upon the Juarber I coene ar S he ae hae 4.) +. social event of the year 2 pe et bend cr atinn Comrie en a ee m trimming bats, placed separstely ata rule | one of them is destroyed the sephalt beneath it |Company- = ____ a ees Gee ae eee APs eel y be « thers e hall, and not in a close group. us it comes that | Tises to the general level. Although the action 1 3 curious afrangemen' ey ae: ie in every city. Up to} though, a8 their owner says, “What is the differ- The tar og, | finer and cortller feathers will have to be used, | 18 0 alow as to be imperceptible te the eyo the EUROPEAN Nor! paeond Shek aes Aehuen ae ceo +f i the last few months of y ence? ‘A rose by any name wonld smell as New Yore, Oct. 21, 1892. | Pott will be in great favor alike for bonnets and | entire lake is always in motion, so that the The English Critics Gecoming False Proph- | put ir chine comfortably on the berrs iW) pretended republican- 4 sweet,’ and for my part I don't think much of HILDREN’S CLOTHES | hats, but they will be trimmed richly with vel- | islets are continually being transported from 2 pom : ) Close upon the other wide is the last ow rs | Wy) bed iam cortejus always oc- peal poy — so heres re included in woman's | Vets, satin ribbon and braided chenille. one part of it to nnother. It is said that some- Hs: [ctate. to which, ee 2 oe oe oe Se ee urred on Dom Pedro \ : —_—— Lippeiuecnl! sremeeiscu houghtsand tribulation: times one of them «inks into the lower regions THE POPULAR PIT AXD ITS OCCUPANTS--WHERE THE PLAY WAS GIVEN A LONG LIFE OR IN THE OLD-FASHIONED PARLOR of bitumen, to be again thrown up at a dis- upstairs the collection of pictures includes and might tance, its verdant hue changed to the black dy birthday of dress. Just now the or oftener these abo be given on every anniversary of his acces- i . tond mother is costum- of the pitch, About the islets thousands of | PROMPTLY KILLED—MIS® FRANCES WILLARD— |" e hemeclves by an interest sion to the throne, or on the natal days of any bepter Lassa et peau ee = fel ing her hopeful son for beautifal butterflies and more brilliant hum-| Tux vurrism w. c. T. v. ing study of flesh colors. member of the royal family from mway back to = Sraly artnto plece Of work with soft feal the late autumnand early ming birds gather, while higher in the air flocks ee SCENES AT THE PIT pooRs. Palen’ <2 qualities tng tunes dae tinte and dark richness of bair that would at- sara rari of gaudy paroquets and cuckoos disport them- | Special Correspondence of The Evening Star No sent in the pit can be booked. It fea case © grandinther King Jose Pp tract attention in any surrounding. There are eo eclves. The richness of the vegetation and the Loxpox, October 8, 189 iret come first eurved, ond. n the ure-loving folk in the United States cele- here also eight or ten specimens of what were | Jow bas only just had his superb array of birds and insects afford a strik- ISS FRANCES E. WILLARD, PREST senate ult to “Wd peed brate Washington's birthday, St. Pat- many years ago a popular form of art, little skirts of infancy taken ing. contrast ‘with the gloom of the stygian | donk of Oo Wails Wenen’s Oh praetee sqelen-tindpe eset near Physic Tiek’s, the Fourth of July and divers other sai ox saa eight or nine-inch pictures done on copper | Off the doting parent fs lake. lent of the World's Woman's Christian ngth enubles tb cecasions by baile, &c. Bat in Brazil Sy | with a minute smoothness of finish that calls to | iaGianiy: Hee THE SURFACE OF THE LAKE ‘Temperance Union, sails today for the United 4. Once you secure your se ne a Of the 12,000,000 people now occupying | mind, only faintly, bowever,some of the mocros- | y a 2 is bard, so that a horse may be rid-| States i the Cunard steamer Etruria, accom- : will attempt to deprive ye there is «deal more tlummery about it and de-| Brazil not quite one-third are “Caucasians,” copical triumphs of Meissonier. The most in- | great struggle in the mat- “J 5 y 4 sich as rreeaborynr eve $peting mye of man worship than would be| and in the majority of individual cases they | teresting objects in the room are two small | ter, of course, is whether den over it, except for the space of about | Panied by Lady Henry Somerset, whose g1 : ee ee eee tolerated in the landof the free. It was well | are so largely “mixed” as hardly to deserve the | pictures said to be the work of Rubens. One | or not to cut off the dar- | an acre in the center, where the pitch | the las been for some weeks at Exstnor Castle, | TV, Seuanaak ol |name. Another third are negroes; less than | ig the finding of Moses, and the other a meeting ys 5 iy eck le, but in places | one-tenth are Indians, and the rest come ander | of Mars and Venus. A modern addition, though : ‘ paint — ; remote pital, where he was obliged | the general head of Metis. or mixed beyond | if the pictures be genuine one would hesitate to fathe er requests or to receive it by proxy, so to speak, the cere- | clazsification. The first, the educated, gon-| call it'an improvement, has been tude. to | insists—according as he The i is soft and bubbling. A man walking across this part of it sinks to above his ankles but at times it would probably be dangerous to venture there, lest one be engulfed and find a | ; ; the World } erally wealthy and comparatively white Portu- | these pictures by their owner, who is somethi i or doesn't—that it fi horrid grave in the inky depths below. Every- | ™O™#l_ prosented a fow days agoby the Wozld's | Ledbury. J am requested by Lady Somerset to | or ye ¢ neil position go to the pit | send to Tae Stax a copy of a very beautiful | doors and wait their turn for r These }and artistically emblazoned birthday testi * are the most conscientious and earnest ter gocrs. Nearly every day during the i 2 . ta | “4 Ben se vy begin to gather ay early as 4 o'clock. days before | guese, Brazilians, Spanish-Brazilians and] of an artist herself, by dashes of gold in is time for the boy to be guished from a body who has walked on asphalt pavements | W- C.T.U. of the British empire to Miss | {U"tiers stand untif the ale pone wapira) thats ceremoni-| Saxon-Brazilians, whether planters, politi-| prominent places. The gunwales of Moses’ ark | cir, ‘The mother agrees readily that the skirts knows how readily they absorb and are softened | Willard, who also received many telegrams, | > 4) or great oc 4. in thin enlightened city of | cians. merchants or gentlemen of leisure, are | and the trimmings of Venus’ costume have been | Sih) g1be mother agrees readily that the skirt f by the,rays of the sun. That orb shines with | letters and birthday gifts exprossing the love, | first productionof a Sullivan opera n honor of Empress Theresa's birthday. | naturally the ruling elass; asin all nations of | lighted up in this way and sundry. flashes of gs 9 % The president of the province issued elabo-| mixed races the whitest, though in ever so | glided sunlight woven throughout the somber | C°Verins be substituted, but she is sure to have erature of the great, ahect of Bitumen varies | feity and eympethy of her friends on both | or the initial performance < Nomen tar dene rately gotten-up invitations, bidding all the | small a minority, are the controlling element. | Sjouds, \"1l fast. spread tron thie Rees te | 8 So0k_cEY over the ‘cropping of his hair. oss 30 dageume 6s AD Geqenen we sides of the Atlantic. Ragas opeeds esi feeign consuls and local authorities end| To thee sheubt be addel ths scltiers, for ekocivoat b : However, it is a plain and sure chronicle a ms Me ae ee ey ine cdi teagan k," the artist explained, i four hours. Thus during the hot part of the | “Beloved president." says thetestimonial, “the | tors’ fund beuctit matinee at the Lycct ehareb dignitaries and prominent citizens gen-| though the rank and file shade from black | “hut Max Werl advised me to take it off again, | Of, Curent, fashions to write it down that ace <4 mae Sean to seg a | min” : . & ed : icine day the pitch sometimes fairly boils in the | sadness that enshrouds your coming toourcoun-| june 1 saw three ledies. with camp stools and erally:and the failure of an invited person to| and tan to ebony they aro officered by white | so I guess I will. Dice, | Srereaeeiroas Millay bore are icotmacleredi/ the | (To) return to Juvenile tntlele Madly Sook at | ak yor or 7 faethe: Gatt aluayes kar | sey surabie “any dheececedinn af cement Ee eee ee places at the sae Tok! bare, been looked upon as equiva: | men of commanding talent and influence. It} | The same attack that put the gold pasemen- | {ord Faunticroy bus gone. clear out of. sight | (be fourth picture for such adress as fushion-/ an abominable smell of . sulpburetted come. Yours is «lose in which each of us hove | 7:30 a, m. waitlng for the doors ent to declaring itself ut “outs” with the ruling | was they who wrought the recent revolution | terle trimming on Venus’ Mother Hubbard gave | Ai ouis rarely tee an Coetapie of has vic, | tble mothers put on their little daughters for | hydrogen, which in the kind of gas generated in — Sn open : people are not be eager soa an — eas antainet Ae | a full coat of glitter to a pair of old oak chairs, | The Little boya of the various Astor mothers home wear. In this case the gown was made | bad gs. Here and there over the surface are Er ae Fir chsemoacegesoesre ci <a °Y | always without en Lewebore Teta ete tie ae utetde | family heirlooms of curious design, brought | not only have close-cropped heads this fal. bat | Of uavy bine flannel. with a narrow white stripe | swellings small and big which are filled with the | #long life of courage and triumphant entry |," july tale sees over a hundred years ago. One | Rot, ay ee | init, “A little bertha was white lace. The boy | gas. It is fortunate that the material when | into eternity, hus taught us it is ‘always better | jcals, us do th» rait and sendy womders. the beginning of his term and are capable at| artistic curiosity, of the parlor collection bop eH ees pl pce ° r tion ip @| und adornments. The initial picture shows one | and the girl in the fifta picture were #k ed | compact will not burn without a wick, for! farther on.’ We cannot, however, refrain on | sionally id nigger minsirels” or @ any time of any sort of political overturning. | | picture by James Henry, Hachett. Fallstd'y | andiadoram eta wzactly af he appenred to | &# they played in Central Park. otherwise the entire region, including the | this the anniversary of your birth tenderly to | §ToUD of singing and dancing girls will per- They came originally frows the scans, wag | noitee,” painted on boards instead of canvas. | the artist in Sth avenue. Tt will be scen that | tine or teu Years old. His suit was nautical to | neighboring village, might suffer the fate of | Yat | form in an adjacent alley and reap a harvest of , ‘The tongue and grooves are opening a little : ~ 7 : | some extent, the trousers being of nary blue, | Sodom and Gomorrah. Nosoundings bave ever | ¥isb you many years rich and full of useful | 01 “0° fu Fey oon lobar hoover meiner oor ET age and display the peculiarity to ad: | Bp Tibbons o: any ofiies SimSams dre cm a ee eee ee ee ee te eee eas col ths dupth of te Deen ae, Inbor. In approsching you with our congratu- | Fee Tvceum. ay tanlipigeate ant ab puta asnanaty sme sae A BEAUTIFUL MINIATURE. which are still fashionably retained, were here Dies ® year or so older. Her gown . ‘TRE SOIL OF THE ISLAND spring solely from our love and gratitude. We there have a decided advantage: are many names to designate the different | Another fine piece of work in the parlor col- | displaced by regular trousers. The waterial, Page nn nanan eon in the vicinity of the lake rests on a substratum | lay this tribute in your bands because from | Hi! belug a shades of colored citizens. Scientifically, the | lection is an ivory miniature of the Key.Stephen | a3 mothers inclined to follow this model may | in color. 2 of asphaltum. Inasmuch as the latter readily | you we have reaeived the mosmge of | We sutsitig doors of « public Bouse, | Walters lighter ones are classed as mulattocs, quadroons, | Balch, founder of Presbyterinnism in the Dis-| like to know, was heavy navy blue serge, with- _ THE PARLOR LAMP. yields to pressure it is not surprising that| Woman's grestness; because, looking buck | StteNd on. the crowd, over whose beads the octaroons. melarioids, leuco-melanoids, &c., | trict, 1300. It is a beautiful piece of workman- | Ut apy decoratiow@whatever. But such a suit| She 1s a wise woman who sets her parlor lamp i Silk ree MA SA a tae on the story of the past, we see nove | eee ee Tgubds and ectd a. and tocaliy thore darker: than mulattoes are | ship, and one of the few fictuzes of the old | "2Uld look well with the collar and plastron in | not ona center table, but on a good high|tetmaticdoes, Although the calm nene] | other to whom her fellow-country women | Sitit*ich and other liquids and soitds are being Known as “motifs” aud. “gritfes.” ‘They are | cleigyman now in existence, Alongeide of at Lite aud white stripes or with embroidery on aj Des Ons Ceanen Mable, but on a gy ish | to tumble down. Although the palm-thatched | ther to ho coutinually passed, — Puaxcis J. O'Neta. found in every walk of life. from highest to pep hotograph of Se us ‘Tustin, chap- | Vite or light blue ground. pres ma : rare of the pedestal, which cottages are light, a — ae aap tee | know that life lowest, on the judges’ bench, in the cabinet, | Jainof tho Senate twenty years ago, anothe Re ee Tee ee re eee ence | ee eee ee Sewers, apparently cndengeoiee ike | Wesn pricelew and uniimcking toil in the cause under’ priestly robes, as college professors, | interesting relic of a bygone age. “wo marine See entre abe 8a blonile she put @ Feo | on ee a aa eek ae ee ne ibe | which eeeks to bring humanity nearer ite di- authors and orators. ‘Some of the most cele-| pieces by Lanman abdut clove the list of noie- or low chair and lote the light sift wold, dost | mates, though the dwellings often look like | Vine ideal. Your great heart, which knows no brated beauties of the country are negreser, | worthy pictcres in the room, but the furniture through her hair and makes halo. of ft around | card houses ‘on the point of fallin limitations of creed. class or mation, but beste who ride in emblazoned carringes and fill theit | and ochamenta aro of themselvos worthy of Tee eT ee ee ete, OF i around | are a the cepbaltem too Gradual te nenee | Only with the pulations of humanity, hee opera boxes with a blaze of jewel cataloguing. On the mantel is one of the old shide a deey orango if the has the color to | accidents, Furthermore, whens cottage seems | t#Fown out. the life line of ee, BRAZILIAN TRIBES. tausical clocks of gold and crystal. It plays two stand itor rose. “I knew a brunette who never | on the point of falling it ina» likely aa not to | ud today ae x oe eee rye Brazilian Indians are said to be about the | tunes, one a dreamy, rhythmi-al Italian waltz sked bat blonde women to her house and | regain its plumb, the posts resuming the per- The pit entrance at A Lesso From Pact and the other a lively jig. Tho furniture is ao: Dy hoe lace OE ad sind | Pendicular through anew movement of the | Fdiant existence. You have stood for the ugliest human beings on the face of the earth, | *T Sf heavy old ead Rol miecbers aiania gion erie foodlegg rs rs — = cient Whee the pitch is dug from the | forces which level up end not down: your life not excepting the “Diggers” of lower Cali-| other things two antique pier tables with tops has guests for, isn't it?” land deposits the hole from which it is taken | Ball ‘chant itself in ite own beatitudes after fornia and the tribes of Tierra del Fuego. The | of black Pompeitan marble. There are many en- scon fillsitself up. Thus an excavation that | YOUF own life's service’. for you have under- % Botocudos, who are most noted, have advanced | graviags among the collection, some of artistic ° ielded 3,000 tons has been known to fill iteelf | 8t00d the divine motherhood that has made the ywers. According to universal custom on | faF enough to till small patches of land, live in | worth, and others with merely interesting his- .. up within « few months to a level with the sur- world your family r vse gale days the consuls appeared in their | bts, raise eattie and weave mate for sale. The | tories. One of the latter is the “Madonna della S Peaadiiig granule: Tho testimonial is signed by the following | uniforms, the presilent and officers of the army and navy in f bis robes, priests Portuguese gave them their singular name | Segottia” of Raphael, an artist's proof trom a s : Somerset, president; G. E. bishop iu { fTom the word potogue, meaning a barrel bung | old copper plate by Conrad Schwartz, the . y HOW THE PITCH 18 GATHYRED. Morgan, secretary; Mrs. J HL. Raper, treasurer; from their habit of wearing large, round | fortunate progrietor of the old farm above ~ 7 ‘The Barber Paving Company, which has the | Helen L. Hood. recording secretary: HH. Whit- a 5 : : Georgetown. . ? Airy “hey 4 exclusive right to get asphalt from the lake, | $l) Smith, 1. Ormiston Chant, K- Hugh Price " nin 5 A good example of the old colored engravings i rocures its supplies from the central portion, anal r eae ag mg en under lips projecting | long (and it is to be hoped permanently) out : pr betes pitoh is dug with picks and coke up Sake T Oden a. tits a ee a haltiog lak a is.se the of fashion, ia La Dernier Demand, after / : a in lamps, Which are nt se, 8 hand into bar-| ardson,’ A. E. Ridley, F. Balgarnie, E. Pearse ads mak nee | ¥ discontinued; but both sexes still] Another elergy:aan of note who is repre- Be " Tut faraway In the bot part of the. dogeare | amd F. Stewart, committee. | |. except thuve living in the | sented in the ancestral gallery is the Rt. lov. . \ c 3 z 18 THE CRITIC'S PowER WANINO? mony began with x Te Deum | 2€#F neighborhood of white settlements. The | Bishop Seabury. The plate is interesti \ stuil is eo liquid that shovels are used instead e J i 5 f picks. The work is performed by excavat-| Ibelieve the great musical and dramatic ter which the gorgeous but | "e0 Varnish themselves all over with bright | the inscription: “Dedicated with res z es ; arched tn solemn proces-| Fellow paint made from the bark and gum of | esteem to. Benj. West by his friend and pupil, x er tee ha cee Ee Aepth | critics of London town have no very deep-| Prof. Hicoppi—““Now, gentcmens, 20 Chea bemded ya military | *Pecies of palm; and the women “dress up" a8 | Thos. Spenoe Duche. London, 1735.” rooted respect for their brethren on our side of expansion. Obsairve! = hese holes the latter begii . al’ sire. Arrived at tho| ‘ An interesting though not particularly beau- A HoY's MANLY DRESS. Mterased, the Dottom Hing up ter the geese | the water. The American, of course, lacks the upa flight of tiful relic of a dead and forgotten art isan old| The second fashion plate showa another level, so that withina few 2 ty no ‘trace re- { Culture of the gentleman who writes within the wily curtained | transfer on glass of a picture of St. Lebbeus, | manly dress for a boy, much hike the other in mains. The old proverb, that one can- | sound of Bow Bells. But I am afraid the latter tically pushed | 4g dated London, 1798. a . 2 z its outlines, but in this case knee breeches and not touch pitch = splay digs read does not WITH OLD SILVER AND CUT GLASS ‘ockings are a part of the outfit. The coat is hold true here. If if did the place would be i e the house is stocked. There are wine ginsros | single breasted,/and ander it Is s veat battoned intolerably loathsome. ‘The ‘material can be | teuhick ayn Anthow thee sanaer Siaioas of) and tankards of all sorts, punch and cake bowla, | Up to the turn-ov ar. Such a coat is suit- taken in the hands and molded into any shape | the critics since the present season opencd. and salvers and fruit dishes, all of them dim and ble for a boy of six to ton years old, When a new book is given to you, sy without staining the fingers. Certainly there | they have been many and strong, have not been grimy, but clear out and heavy as quarts. 1 ON THE STAGE, i root or powdered sandal wood among | a8 fow things oe ea this | able to diminish the box office receipts and silver is in all sorts of archwic forms, such as The revulsion against what we may call sissy | the pages. The new odor of a book is not pleas- | 57¢4" P 4 eye | managers are laughing in their gold-lined though bilions of tons of black : Ba Gmoes- gre now seldom seen in use, toast racks, choco- | boys has extended to theatrical audiences, and | ant ard why not, have vour books seem to have | boiled ‘Sut of the exrth, fedmy the canner Gees capclammaten et tbs omit ie aoa ee : . sticks, toddy muddle F : i : Aa = ; poset es a fbony oor p Mong ort peel no longer is the infant actor liked except an individuality? By the way, a friend of mine | immense subtcrranean fire. enthusiasm of the stalls has been as genuine as ; fortunate animal is overdoing the culture busi- into fs incid C6 it makes her maid read all the bo n n r+, of the old drinking days ia a cutcglaw bese | Mbsidiary and incidental performer in a play. 3 oka 1ME ENORMOUS PROFIT. that which rolls over the gatlery railings. Take nt of the x beer mug, with a silver iid, on which’ stands a | eee ean mentions Evgrmallos. ead bebe tecce hed Armadale The company gets its pitch from the Inke at | the uew light opera of ““Cigurette,” for instance. n one side | F small ‘silver goat rampant, with his fore feet | There had been gathered enough of the Fatt: Ker hair is boing brushed sho asks ‘the maid |a cost of 40 cents ton. It sells the ‘material om the other 4 q Testing on a silver cask. sate leroys and Ediihas of several years back fora | qWestions about the books, to inform herself | in the United States for $14.a ton. This leaves 2 ao the an ners ned aga fond of poking into odd cor” | caat which ranged in ago from five to eightoen, | tthe one) time of the maid's Sdelity and the |y air margin of profit even after tho rental of ommander Ge and stirring up ry fr ce of a) : tents of the books. “ stan grove | i 4 De poe fashion the O1d hoes renege vets | in height from three feet ‘0 five @oet nine, and | conten $50,000 annually has been paid to the colony. of wealth. ‘The old carved furniture with ite f AETUANINO TO OLD FARMIoNs. For this price the colony not only grants es- 7 m i hts as to the lake, but also prohibits dusty horscbair covers studded with tarnished T have been looking over an old fashion book, | ¢lusive rig! P b : brass nails, theseverely plain whito walls andan- a) and do you know what we are coming to? We | Competition by forbidding any persons to dig ——— - . wo cg . 3 tique chair boards and the ragged rag carpets on shall be back in 1836 in less than no time and bilumen-prodncing lands the came sells eet te Ge portrase, Ge e , ties Gast hort bom set cf tae oebcert cd 1 ) ‘ frights wo will be! That ix thoeray the cape | owns or holds by lease nine-tonths. The’ re- \ effect over the shoulders is going. Buck will | maining tenth belongs to private individuals, F houses of Georgetown that almost a bundred j . ? come lope, short will the ckirte be clip; end it lone would produce” enough to a4 MUNDEUCUS—PRESEAVED HEAD. ears ago looked patronizingly down on tho and. it is hard to believe we will think ourselves | the market but for the fact that the owners are »me civilized ladies do, by applying a/| Struggling little national capital on the other *|Iovely, but we probably will. duty of | erit steaks of white and red to their faces, | fide of Rock creek. r r ! aks 0 and red faces, she Gables shoals sear her dress only | 81. ly is to pay urms and bosoms. Though many of " Qa tat the throat, : ‘arrangement Botwcudos are now partially civilized, we are S ff You that she could per Middaae Ar effected by w ee on tesured chet thoes of the der interior aro yet ‘ way go toward the $50,000 jently, tent. In cannibals to the extent of ea! sir tives 4 a Ey short, trols grasp - | taken in Like the Greeks of the Homeric in ca ememan — music | age, th wher | unburied af ider it the greatest of evils to lie rit Jenth:so they delight in making 5 z i h ; sell ohe i by | tutes ard trumpets of their enemies’ bones. 1 : Every one will thon say: “Really, Miss X. looks the t in| have the questionable pleasure of owning one P , first c@me out.” bond : the at-| of these ghastiy tgophise, which hae Sve Noles, “healed fogs Ee Rteg- towed ep > | ae I ‘ ‘that is w! ‘thinks they Hi the beauty, wealth and fashion of | and is ornamented with tufts of red and yellow _— hecd ns | feathers attached to the bone by strings; but it PERSONALITIES. requires somebody more courageous than your The ladies of Para are as renowned for their | Se to test its value as # musical in- ty ae the belies of Lima; but one seldom | “ynent bs Personal experiment. > So's a glimpse of any female members of the | do not remember, who arean almo.texact coun- e the streets, for they live terpart of the Pueblos of Mexico and Arizona— * their Moorish great simple, peacefal and industrious. They live Mothers, even taking their airings in closed | near the coast and are doubtiess descendants of corcinges. Only at ebureh, the theater and | those Pinzon and other early voyagers first, en- Corte}es they may be seen: and the the, curi- countered. But unfortunately they are few in t to be disappoint agh | nom rapidly dying out, for among beantiful and hair glossy | their fierce neighibers the tarm unto him the end abundant, their features are Portaguese | other cheek also” principls is disastrous to life frill fal in iy 3 iH Fs i ft fe i i i i li i i q FA i i f frit! t i tii Fi i