Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1892, Page 9

ll THE EVENING STAR: . WASHINGTON, D. C.,. SATURDAY, - Ld A PRETTY PELT RFR WO THE DANCING SEASON Some Effective Costumes Suitable| for Balis. NOR FASHIC REVIVED. Mirror—Watteau Shert Taffeta 1 Will like to know the velvet treii applique. shirt i a with black velvet tre r thermore i picture a ball: and hi That showiest mare in ante-reom ed her rich wray net of the lace forms the tripple A BALL wrar. minor fashions for bs neieat to the thi has the modern mirror in pnbl y BLACK VELVET WITH FEAT something abont the that will pre- very modish when you | j damask trimmed with sap TH FUR the waist. ‘The real Josephine gown te a different disposition of figure. Venuses—the old-time ones. See t the body just above where line. Weil, that is what you ot got, and what the other women haven't , and it is what the one woman in the dozen sgot. That is what makes the difference be- tween looking as she will in ‘The ball gown here depicted is pe from all those didiculties. THE TAFFETA PETTICOAT. The required taffeta petticoat is a serious ad- dition to the expenses of one’s get up and we cannot all afford it. Homemal w: < eapecially if we to have a lot of the dainty things. Here ut of the trouble. FOR A POWDER BALL. Those that are not worn out are too pt fashion, but the petticoats, and remake them if otseem tobe hung just right. You with a pale blue skirt, a ros le green one, an ecru one. per- cular one. or if the ilk. ore like taf By the w: sin the reign of Charles IX the un- derskirt was made very ance to know that powder ble this season, This is a y variatioa of a fancy ball, and is far | to get up. It ogo to the exp fancy costume, but no one can object to paying ention to the way they do their | effect. The origin of | ut it has been ascribed | tt when the court ladies went to St. Germains they no- sing was the tlour ch | 4 to cover their hair, so as to give themselves a droli appearance. The Indies yw the whitened hair set off the color- nd gave an added briltianey ¥ borrowed the fashion Powder was worn for nearly so that there is a great variety the style of hairdr ‘y ball. THE COMBINATIONS, The last two sketches show toilets suitable for powder balls and at the same time good for other occasions of full dress, The single figure adopts at a fax TWe MORE. y toilet with a petticoat of white embroidered with bunches of mauve ors, aud a plain plise white gauze bodice. The trimming as designed is made of pansy, pearl gray, fresh butter, striped faille and of pale mauve ribbon ruche, also on the Watteau court train, which comes'from the shoulders. The gloves are gray. One of the other pair is seen in white spotte? tulle, with white roses and setin ribbon as trimming, also a white satin bouillonne along the lower hem of the petti- coat and train. The sash is of iron gray surab. The final example is a gown of pale blue ghire velvet; white lace plisses complete the petticoat. Ata powder ball you may wear the towcring headdress of the days of King George, whom we Yankees whipped, or have the bair turned back over a cushion like the Watteau shep- erdess or comb it back from the face and tie it atthe nape of the neck with a bow of black ribbon. ‘Then there are the beauties of Sir | Joshua Hevnolds’ time, including the coiffure of l’Angelica Kaufman, with the pale blue rib- bon or ropes 0” pearls twined carelessly in the flowing tresses. The itself is not very agreeable, but the result repays the trouble. | The bair imtst first be dreesed very firmly and | covered with grease, and the powder should be aren Cres chentnatte tev 5 alien Sota: dimes a white preferred to , and, in this care, the natural hair ust first be sare Eevuine short-waist Josephine gown, but all top the rest of the dozen will wish to, and if they being applied so as to do the'r friends will wish thes didn’t. It is nots forkion that adapt» iteelf, and the one will look cn. the lovelier by contrast. Positively, you must ox the ot es a ‘It must | Cover the face with glycerine or cold cream, it . The of cotton pu eS aris breadth “possible *}iow powder well Josephine ane | ing does not re- | body | honor is not nc and outline the evebrows, if requisite. The | patch gives the finishing touch to the toilet and _ Fequires to be adjusted with care. A patch | must never be put on aline of the face or it will appear to extend it. It should be put near a dimple or under the eye, on the upper lip, or near any feature which happena to be espe- cially pretty. ‘The patch may be circular or crescent-shaped, or the wearer may patronize some of the quaint designs of goodly size which were indulged in by the belles of your great grandmother's time. A coach-and-six or a ship in full eail was a common object on a la face, and birds, cupids, or even demons, were all pressed into service, Excellent patches can be cut outo? black sticking plaster. Modern dress is worn at powder balls, and white, lav- ender, pink or biack look particularly well with powdered hair. Gentlemen wear ordinary evening dress, but a white waisteont and a flower in the buttonhole are imperatively re- quired at a powder ball. soe THE AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD. Foreigners Fail to Understand, but All the More They Heartily Adyaire Her. From the New York Sun. One of the certain and constant satisfactions of Americans traveling abroad is the American woman, distingnishable everywhere, known a8 an American woman everywhere, and admired 48 is no other product of what most Europeans are pleased to regard as the barbarism on the other side of the Atlantic, How they are able to keep up the idea of America as barvaric with the joyous presence of the American girl 80 often before them is a mystery that no one can solve. There used tobe a fallacy abroad in the world that only many generations of wealth, power and culture could give a woman certain graces of features, form and carriage. Asthese graces never did exist among European women of the lower classes, who are £0 busy at plow- ing and reaping and at draught-horse work of various kinds, it is no wonder that the fallacy existed. But American women have changed all that. There is a romantic notion that princesses and duchesses and the like are gen- erally most aristocratic to behold. It is akin to the other idea that great men are necessarily great to look at. Asa matter of fact, which we all know now, a high-Lorn woman 18 just as likely to have’ huge feet and hands, an angular form and ugly and insignificant features as any one else. But, they were wont to urge, granted that nature makes no distinctions in favor of long | try, still the high-born woman has the grand air,the impression and confident se- renity of manner which the lowly born eannot | hope to imitate. And this has hed on much Jonger than the other fallacy, because it rested | upon an intangible something which people | ate fond of seeing in the high born of earth | | whether it exists or not. But the American women have disproved this. None of us on this side of the water can Jay much ciaim to ancient and lofty ancestry he pilgrim fathers and the settlers at James: town, the pioneers of the border and all of the original and pure Americans were simple | honest people who had simple, honest. virtues, | |and were brave and strong and self-reliant without any props from ancestors or without any great hope o! fame, And itis the dau | tersand granddaughters of these people, eaid daughters and granddaugisters being the fi of their race to have the ndvantages of the ion that is supposed to refine and make | cultured, who have gone over to Europe to see what they coul Now on the European theory those humbiy born ought to be awkward and lacking ire thai tine ing gives. their table manners were they onght to have someth them, some suggestion of meat and the miningeamp. But lo and be-| hold the American woman walking among the high-born women ot Europe has more of dis- tinction in her appearance than the descendants of ten gencrations of courts. the first place, these American women whom it is so pleasant to see on | or at the fashionable rosorts of Europe are | taller and straighter than the E re stoaller | re shape Is are 4s long | lender and their as taperiy Their complexions, too, are more delieat colored, and herein th y other coun- gowns and’ their b any § any milliner of the Boule ms will | bear witness cheerfully 2 des Ital ‘ge measure from two ud vigor and virility of | nd from the liberal of women in Am men, who first run n beeaure they i of the ne education and th » they nners are so frank and their g. The America: something more than look hi which are the chief pointe of ti he can do something more than b} ‘Oui, monsieur,” or * French young girl. know that high breed tinct from comm jean men rily dis- ved | chaperons and elaborate extern: hese are good things for For gene of debaucher defenses. an men to ns of loose morals, and have not been ar ofte: men are the r is vide of the w in Europe is so as she is eminently able to take care of Af. Written for Twilight. ‘The dag is slowly dying And the smn sinks in the west; restless Wind 1s siging, giting to be at rest. ‘The groaning br to shrink and quiver their melancholy song. ‘The golden floot's extingulsned, One star srleams fn the sky, Its fair light uztarnisned, Sparkling from on high. ‘The song bird warbles gently A soft and y trill, While the nigat descending softly ‘Throws its shadows on the hi —Freparic BURNETT. 2. He Had 1,434 Handkerchiefy A very strange case was recently heard in a Vienna police court. A monomaniae, who was formerly a well-to-do baker, had ruined himself by a mania for collecting handkerchiets. At the commencement of the pursuit of this singular hobby he used to pay as mach as £4 or £5 for a coveted mouchoir. His devotion to this fad brought him to poverty. He then fell to stealing. At length he was apprehended, and on search being made by the police in his’ apartments a coll@gtion of 1.434 of these articles was found, all classified according to the special perfumes with which tiey had been scerfted. The magistrate ordered the unfortunate man to be taken to a lunatic asylum. | day | bridgeport, Mase. | THE ASTRONOMERS OF THE NAVAL OPSERVATORY NOVEMBER 19, 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. WITH STAR GAZERS. ce Se aS Moving the Lens Which Found the| Moons of Mars. AN IMAGE OF THE SUN. Wonders to Be Shown by the Government Observatory at the World’s Fair—Spiders’ ‘Webs for Telescopes—Supplying @ Nation ‘With Time—Astronomy on the Stage. —_+—_—_ ATELY THE GOv- ernment star gazers | have been having great time moving into the new naval observa- tory, which is the most beautiful building for astronomical purposes in the world, situated | . on the heights over- / looking Washington from the northwest. Naturally, the transfer from one place to another of instruments so delicate that a finger must not ordinarily be allowed to touch them, lest their adjustment be spoiled, is attended with no small difficulty. But the article which required the greatest care in ils removal was the object lens of the famous equatorial tele- ecope. Until the lenses for the Lick Observa- tory in California were mado this was the largest one in America, being 26!¢ inches in diameter. It cost $20,000. This precious thing was wrapped in the softest of old linen sheets, packed in a box between mattresses and conveyed in @ spring wagon at a funeral pace over four miles of road, up hiil_and down, reaching its destination safely. The new ob- servatory will have eight telescopes, two of which the public will be permitted to use for amusement, one of these haying a 5-inch and the other a 9!s-inch giass. AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. The exhibit of the naval obsersatory at the world’s fair will include a five-inch telescope, through which visitors to the exposition will | be allowed to gazo at whatever is. most inter- esting in the heavens both by night and b: It is also intended to show a picture of the sun on a large scale, a pencil of rays being thrown through a lens by a mirror forty feet intoa dark ro mn this camera obscura a huge ima orb of day will appear on a screen, rhowing the tremendous flumes whic! niles above its surface and also th which are flery chasms eap- able of swallowing up hundreds of such planets asthe earth at a gulp. At noon each day the | astronomers in Washington will drop a time | five feet in dinmoter on top of tho main | building at the fair, It has been suggested | that the newly discovered fifth sutellite of Ju- | piter ought to be secured for exhibition at Chi- cago. It is such a very little one that the star gazers suspect it to be merely a captured as~ teroid. They entertain a like surmise respec ing the moons of Mars, which were original found by the big glass of the equatorial tele- scope at the naval observatory here. Possibly the earth may capture an asteroid or two some day. There doesn’t seem to be any reason why such a thing might not happen. TELESCOPE LENSES. The great telescope of the Lick Observatory, | by which Jupiter's new satellite was. disc ered, has an object glass thirty-six inches in | t the Chicago Uni ¢ will buy the forty-inch lens w rough at the Clark factory i This mighty gla: the University of Southern Cali- but that institntion has failed to pay for Clark thinks that he ean make a telescope forty-five inches in diameter. A limit of size of the fnet that lenses be mad thas ghe distort the im: 1ously It is not possi- nto hold th pie glasses are | ich keeps the details of its Each one actually consists of sand the other of Paris b processes secret. two lenses, on crown glass, | all colored ‘rays that the light which comes to | ye of the observer is perfectly white. Par ‘The big gh shipped in the rough to the factory at Cambridgeport. Alvan G. Clark is the only man living who understands to perfection the art of preparing aud finishing | them. First they are ground down to the pmper rhape with revolving concave after which the surfaces are caref {polished with fine rouge. @ tools, | ully smoothed, hen the lenses adjusted in a big tube hat of a tele- ‘Tl tal is pointed star, of which should appear perfect! round when seen through the glasses, But in i $8 oUt Ttis reality the image is sure to be more or of sha use of ine de in remedying these defec Mr. Clark is ehiétly exerci He goes the lenses with a bit of rouge on his thumb and rubs the surfaces here and there, polishing nitesimal thickness in this spot aud ave paxsed throug! d at asingle star is perfectly round and the lenses are finished. Even the finest of them contain many little bubbles of air, but they do no harm, ave looked all over the world for s ch gossamer filamer arucbnids are utili lines extends across the ter into ders’ webs. ts spun by industrious | for cross at right angles with each other eld of view, so as to divide the Int- athematical derfuliy strong for their exec nd also for the y moisture or temperature, neither or contracting under any conditions. Specimens were obtained from China, because it was imagined that the Inrge spiders of that country would perhaps produce a particularly excellent quality of web. However, it was found that the best web is spun by spiders of the United States, such as are plentiful in the neighbortgod of Washington, Accordingly, expeditions are made early in June each year t6 get from the fences and barns hereabout the cocoons of the big.**turtie-back” spiders, Each cocoon is composed of a single silken filament wound round and round, though there ace apt to be some breaks in it where Mistress Spider left off work for atime. Attempts bave been made to use the cocoons of spiders like those of silkworms and exquisite fabrics have been manufactured from them. Unfortunately it was found impossible to make the industry a commercial success, owing to the combative inclination of these creatures. When kept to- gether they will always gobbie each other up in a short time, the result being a single very large and fat spider and one cocoon. The five-foot time ball to be dropped at the world’s fair will be made of canvas ona steel frame. It will bo wound up each day to the height from which it is to fall, and it will be set and electrically connected in such a manner are Woi | pur | ashore and 1h jet | the fr publish corrections in the newspapers. Such time balls would enable mariners to correct their chronometers. It was chiefly for this cea! in faci, that the time zorvice was orig- ly established, SUPPLYING NAVAL smttps. ‘The most complete existing collection of portable instruments used in connection with navigation is kept at the observatory for supplring the ships of the United States navy. It includes the finest and most costly devices of this description, from small telescopes in leather cases to the contrivance newly invented by an officer in the service for deter pitch of a ship in a storm. There ari astronomical email Loutfits with which one may go h set up @ miniaturo observatory at brief notice. All navai vessels that go to sea must have their chronometers regulated and tested at intervals. For this purpose a meat refrigerator has been put into tho new buil: bya Chicago drm, ‘The chronometers, wilt be laced in this cooling apparatus, which is of e latest and most improved pattern, the temperature being reduced by ice overhead to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, The ice having been removed, the air inside the box will be raised to 95 degrees by hot water pipes su! rounding it. A chronometer which ‘endures such extremes of heat and cold vithout being affected will be to withstand similar influences on a trip from the equatcr to the arctic. Fach ship is provided with four chronometers and a watch, the last being arried in the pocket of the navigating commonly. These watches are regularly the chronometers. ‘They are of American make. To such a point of excellence has the manufacture of watches in this country attained that timepieces of this kind, costing $16 or S18, are found to run within fifteen seconds a month oF absolnte accuracy. Foreign watches are not init with them at ail. SCIENTIFIC SPECTACLES. Astronomical science is now finding a pre- sentmont on the stage in the shape of what are called “scientific spectacles” or “Urania” enter- tainments. The lecturer on extra-mundane matters carries the sun, moon and stars around with him from city to city, together with as much scenery gyre company is ordinarily equipped with is style of educational show was orl nated in Berlin, and it has been introduced on alarger scale in this country by Garrett P. viss, the well-known astronomer. Instead of mersiy throwing magic-lantern’ pictures upon @ screen, sconces on the moon and other plancts are actually exhibited by elaboi ge setting, assisted by tho finest kind of scene painting and most ingenious mechanical contrivances. For instance, views on the moon place the audience seemingly on the very sur- face of that orb,from which the spectator looks ff and beholds the earth andother worlds shin- ing at brigh i i of inky black- ness. ‘Thisis becanse tho moon has no atmos- phere, the bright blue of the heavens as scen from the earth being due to its surrounding envelope ofair. Eclipses of the sun and moon, as well as many other phenomena of shown. Astonishing! such aa sunrises and s by means of rows of electric light above and betow the stage. Some of the bulbs are red, some blue and gome white, and all are controlled by asingle instrament in such a man- ner jazdacape can be il- changing hues. The sun isan aré light of 18,000 candle power, in- closed in an iron box lenses upon the bac power is em- e illustrated Ny various dev Volcanoes rem to throw up streams of lava, while ste clouds from a perforated pipe nt of the stage. Lightning ft ler Ka sheep- poden frame with bells of mst it so as to vibrate with Rexx acu. which > OF BRIGANDAGE. EQTIQUETT Outright Robbery Cansidered Dignity of the True Ba: Reneath the dit, We have seen a girl ms flash up wi cely out of her t anything were said 2, > “Que vonle: is si on a tue 0 Mfe she Que ne tue pas queiq A bandit in Corsica never robs any on if he wants money he gets it, not by plunde rich touriits nor by ing a dil but d bids him send ac e or take the consequences, Ti 1, especially last twenty. acted as if t ‘y around b They hi ost always in- ing the profits of any under- they may have secn going for- few years ago the i a concession of the ri, ber of trees in the fo The Belle Cosei maded a share ii nily refnved, we will shoot na singto t st Vi: heard of this and de- t. The m: but the two bandits said: iy one who attempts to sso certain that ngth the maire be was better th to the mountains to captur Coscies and thoagh eager for the hi the two Belle genderms have be reward attendant on been no Anti Coscie has waited until the time during which tho law proseeutes for murder. is will do the same, and a gover in Corsica wil! have been founded. ' oes A Bishop's Welcome Caller, ‘The latest story that is told about Phillips oks is to the effect that quite recently, being engaged in work, he left orders with the | servants that on no account was he to be in- terrupted. But shortly after he had retired to his study the door bell rang and a friend from York sought admission—Stock Broker Nichols, who had been a classmate of Bishop Brooks in college. ‘This early caller did not fancy the idea of being turned away, and while he was remoustrating with the servant, lo and behold, Phillips Brooks emerged from his study, welcomed the visitor with open arms, bade him enter and talked with him an hour er so. Tho servant felt deeply moriiticd and made bitter compiaint to the bishop after the caller had de- parted. “Tremember distinctly,” “that you told me that that called. “Yes,” answered the bishop, “I did say that and I meant it. But there's ail the difference in the world between Gabrie! and my friend Nichol bound to see Gabriel anyway in the next world, but as there is some doubt sad tho servant, ‘on would be so busy a wouldn't see the Angel Gabriel if he that the breaking of the circuit at 12 noon will release it. The cable by which it will be con- trolled has already been Inid, connecting the new observatory with the entire Western Union telegraph system. Within thirty days it will be im operation, the touch of a button at the Washington end of it instantancously transmit- ting notice of the hour over 350,000 miles of wire. When that button the whole country witl listen, and the hands of 70,000 cleotric clocks all over the United States will point to the correct minute and second. There are 7,000 such clocks in New York city alone. All railrays, factories and industries of every kind pay attention to the ‘Three mini- utes before noon each day ail the Western Union lines are cleared of business, every operator takes his finger from the key, circuits are opened, and, at the instant when the sun passes over the seventy-fifth meridian, spark of intelligence is flashed to all parts of country. It requires leas than one-fifth of & second to reach San Franciscé. DIFFERENCE OF TIME. about my seeing Nichols there it was only right that I should see him here when he took the trouble to call upon me.” ———— +2 ng the | A RARE LIBRARY. The Books Contained in-the Scottish Rite Temple. RARE AND UNIQUE VOLUMES. } How the Librery Was Started and Now It! Has Grown to Its Present Proportions—_ Some of the Most Vaiuable Volumes—The Pablic Will Hereafier Be Excluded From ‘Their Use. HE LATE CONVOCA- tion in Washington of the Sapreme Council of Scottish Rite Masonry enacted a piece of leg- | inlation which is likely sults of a hig! able natare. rule docs not takeeffect until January 1, but when it does the coan- cil’sedict may have as an outcome the prac- tical dismantling of a library which is probably | the most vainable, Masonically, in the world, and, considering the collection’s numbers, one of the rarest and most unique in general sense as well. Comparatively few people at the capital with a literary tarn of mind are doubtless aware of the existence of a library here to which they might have had free access during the last ui years outside of the congressional collection under Mr. Spofford’s supervision. such a librar; | But there is and ever since the Scottish Rite temple at Sd and E streets northwest the col- lection has been steadily It_now numbers about 15,000 titles ly 6 books all told, and while in point of aggregate contents and variety it docs not begin to com- | Pare with the 600,000 individual works on the catalogue of the Congressional Library, im the direction of costly old literature, antique speci- mens of trpographical work and literary as well as historical curios of an all-around char- acter the government's possessions are, if Anything, inferior. To secure the 19,000 yol- umes entailed an outlay of nearly $100,000; but many of the rarcr class of works were picked up in, old book atalls for comparatively ttle or nothing, and these gems are next to Priceless now in the present owners’ hands, MOVEMENT To START THE Lipnany. As carly as 1850 Measra, Frederic Webber and Ashton 8. White were instructed by the Supreme 1 to purchase choice books as the nucleus -y for the headquarters of the organ- tion known as the Southern Jurisdiction of > United States. With the assistance of Gen, | Money the library soon assumed fair propor- tions, and within four years quite 10,000 vol- umes occupied the quarters prepared for them at the new temple. Then Gen. Pike. as the | head of the Supreme Council, generously offered to donate his entire private coliection of 6,000 volumes of the choicest variety, which ‘the s Mason had gathered during forty years of trave | and oddities to be found on both sides of the The Supreme Council, bowever, t accept the gift without a va uable consideration, frecly as the proposed donor exterdedit,and tinally pnrehared the col- lection at an eppraisement of $30,000, set upon | it by disinterested judges. In this way the or- | ganization became possessed of G ireds of books and mi d inembers of the fraternity to be est exposition of Masonic principles ex- Besides, there were rare specimens of and general curiosities, he works of a mora i Gen. Pike kept enlarging in until his death, in April, i891, THE PUBLIC SHUT OUT. At the October convocation a rate was de- od obligatory on the sceretariat that, be- § with 1593, non-members of the Seot- | tich Rite should no longer be permitted to have | free access—or, indeed, access of any kind the costiy rows’ of books stored in the temple. | Directions were also given whereby members | in twenty-ni es and territories, from the to Texas, ing such books as they appl by mail for use, | the | qu Be c went them a Western mei and th a consistories had y contributed to the $100,000 sted in the library, which, being located in Washington, was practically dea | them for use, unless the Supreme Counc’ piohibited, fort the | gation on the part of the general p | and authorized the move, which is soon to be Under this argument the was passed, but the great objection now being urged antong Washington metabers is the more | thin probable loss of many valuable books, which can never be replaced, through the neglect of distant members to’ return them, and the common wear and tear of constant ship- ment to and fro. Bat whatever may be the re- | sult of the experiment, it cannot be repealed until I8M4, when the next convocation occurs, the most valuable portions of be numbered among the miss- demand, though, Col. White #. will be largely for the works of a par- Masonic nature and in the line of fiction, in which event the rare classes are not | so apt to drop out of the tiles through the ac- nts of transmission, THE MASONIC DIVISION. Although targe in numbers and furnishing very complete data of almost every description, the Masonic division of the library consists in the main of publications of comparatively re~ cent years, Aside from the many expositions from Gen. Pike's own pen, the bulk comprises published reports of grand lodges in the United States and supreme lodges abroad, over a large number of which royalty presides. This por- tion of the 19,000 volumes is of course largely valuable for its completeness more than for any other reason, but the lower gallery contains the specimens which would delight the heart of the most exacting literary conaoisseur. Possibly the rarest’ book among the number is the “Divine Poemander of Hermes Trisma- gistas.” ‘The original manuscript and printed Copies of this philosophical treatise on the wis- dom and power of a supreme being were in the ireck language, and have probably been lost for hundreds of years, as no traces of either jare known, But the ‘work was translated into Latin by Marsilins Ficinas during the fifteenth century and again printed at Venice in 1493. The copy in possession of the Supreme Council was struck off at that time and Dr. Elliott Coues of the Smithsonian, who edited the ornitholog:- cal definitions of the Century Dictionary, se- cured it while abroad in 1889. It was pur- chased for » mere song, but the ancient book is | priceless now, for perhaps there are not more than five copies like 1t-in existence. The old Latin idioms would scarcely be intelligibie | to the average modern Latin scholar, | but Dr. Coues made copious feot notes on tho work, and presented it to Gen. Pike, who, im turn, gave the Greek philosopher's masterpiece into the keeping of tho Scottish Rite. original covering of the book is still intact without a rent, and the type is large and clear. Considering’ that the printer's work was performed within one of four cen- Supreme Council took possession of its new | Aibert Pike and the liberal expenditure of | d searching for any literary rarities | Pike's | d by ths | re allowed the | mbers were mainiy | | great ——— THE ISSUING DAY. the gem when rammeging for literary treas ina dingy Paris book stall and ai the sanse tim: purchased an edition of the mo irs of Marshal | Suchet, Duke of Albufer contains the thor's oe pre f the book a then the French m et of war. . | 2. Tike a rare copy of an old | Interesting Soenes on Saturday om drama which was once owned by Horace Wal pole and bears bis autograph, and dorens of | Volumes on travels round out the first half of the library. the Reservation. REVIEWS AND JOURNALS earn In the matter of reviews and jourm Garr organize i@ particularly rick. A reports of the Royal Academy ran in series to within tho last year or tro, | Roval Historical Society is honored in th way. The most interesting set of jor r INDIA SUPPLIES. - All in Activity at the Commissars"s Store House and at the Post Traders’ Shop Mew the Wards of the Nation, Men and Womem, Gamble Killing Beeves for Distribution, j though, comprises tairty-f entire output of the Royal Asiatic Somety b tween the vears 1832 and 1482. numbers of this collection were very obtain and causod Gen. Pik; hundreds of dollars. Two bundr | bearing on t ik lore of all nator j phi wn toa fine copy « t he auspices of the E | Text and Cla: n Hist > from aleo 80 for Written for The Evening Star bring t cach p be with “Sanday—Mon- and goes all right last day, thea i lay.” Saturday te to them 9 meaningless 1 th atare. Among these ai ic and Collecta | ticularly rare in Hi word, but ‘Issue day” six large 4 is the day of the whole | reeulta m x. 1873 to 1876, but the set is a sabscription work — | not yet complete, althouch it has eo far drawn Friday the wagons | $434 for its representation. in to arrive, an@ ; , there is nothing {more highly prized in the library than tw | large and fifteen emailer portfoli perbillus of Basilics di San Mareo, in V Historical as it is, and one of the most superb pieces of foreign architecture, the Cathedral | St. Mark, or the Church of Gold, as it is som times called, was never honored’ with a finely Jengraved illustrative publication until 387: | After ten years’ constant work the elegant ad. the houses or wicki. ept_on issue day oF . Those who have no uckier frie x iver bauka, isy all Friday putti sacks of sugar, crackers, peanuhe, varying in piico from 5 t Very little is sold on Frida Brofer trading after the o er y, a8 the Indians crowd atrives, tion wes completed fo ».and already || About sunset in with | the seventeen folios aro regarded by connois- | head of fatted aro to be killed tm seursas worth double the $622 originally ex- | the morni weighed, then | pended for their purchase. | Copies of coins as far back as the widow's | mite of biblical times are a fairly I | entation, but the most unique exhibit of engravings made in 1785 from the collections of antique gema belonging to Earl Pere: Hon. C. F. Greville of London. These are now in the British Museum, and from the fact that rther engravings of the kind are not likely be ever reproduced the local possession 1s an oddity among oddities. RARE ANCIENT FoLtos. Ancient folios aro plentiful, and some of the firat are thors of Montfancon and “Antiquities Explained and Represented in Sculpture.” The latter comprises seven volumes, and all were then call out to the 2 One Kunset, one FUR come up, then me cat yor Everything affords soment. Friday night is spent around the campfires telling stories, smoking and gambling. Ofttimes some poor pil or she has, and the next day hy? the trader, must trust him fe ar and coffee, ‘There is nearly always h buck:-Kin im reserve to purchase the luxuries of life, of sogar, peanuts and raising, and some of the necessities. PRINCIPAL OAMPLING GAMES, Their principal gambling games with cards are “kerchnck’ ns struck off in 1721. A Virgil printed at Parm - "and “‘netooch.” In the former by Rodomain in 1788 is one of only twenty-five | the dealer shales the cards,then deals ot many copies, and three volumes of Pitixo’s Lexicon of | ©" the around which allare sitting as Roman Antiquities. 1738, and seven volumes of | there w ors inthe game. Each player Caylus’ Antique Egyptionnes, done at Paria | Places his bet of 5 or 10 cents or “two bite” Upon any card he choors from the deck are equally rare in their class. Some idual works of fiction of the heavier '¥, dozens of the original editions printed sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in- cluding the old romances of chivalry about the time of Charlemagne and Beowulf, and_ publi- cations of the Palestine Exploration Society are interlarded with the rarest of treatises on North and South American Indian languages ‘The amount of research required for these last mentioned works can scarcely be estimated, and the value of the productions is bound to increase in the course of years. But if an iia mense amount of research was necessary in the instance referred to, the calculations fiend | would be compelled to brush up his arithmeti- | cal progression theories to figure out how mach | of astadent an author must have been to cor- | Tectly translate the Lord's Prayer into 155 lan- | uages. Yet that is what some unknown | author did, and Bodomain printed the result of his labors at Parma in 1806, This book Gen. Pike also donated, and from is remarkable get up xlone it would be valua- ble aside from the fact that the copy belonging here was the private edition printed for Prince agene Napoleon. the adopted son of the great Corsican and at that time viceroy of Italy. Like of itscompanion books in_ the library ‘Oratio Dominica,” as the title donom is and obtained ata small cost. It evidently drifted to the French metropolis after the fall of the first empire, | and then escaped notice until Gen. Pike discov- | ered the prize. Although a large effort in size, Page contains a small, darkly ruled square, within which the real printer's impressions jNere made. The title and presentation to | Prince Eugene are contained in the earlier | Pagesand numbers of others succeeding are | devoted to the introductory treaties covering what the author declares as his object in the Latin tongue—the dissemination of the Chris. | tian religion. The prayer follows in each lect known to the earlier Christian na noue are omitted from Hebrew and Persian and Chinese. Altogether it is | fal composition, The carde are dealt id soon ns one is turned corre= fponding in color and kind to any one on the board, then the one who bet on that card gete all the money on the blanket. Netooch is similar to plain poker, ®utme “jack pot * Th d, while crossing and rect orm = and all time weaving the body backwatd and forward in time to an original song, the money | changes hunds. The other one—ouly two play © atu time guesses which hand contains the ver. Saturday morning bright and early the ainary ix opened and the chief clerk takes” his place at the door. As the squaw comes inf) With her sacks and bags he takes her ticket, om | his the nam number of people in hors family. He calls out to the comminsary cierte how much flour she is to receive and it is dealt’ out from an immense flour bin. She passer om to the sugar other clerk gives her the share of sweetness, then to another, who gives her rice, provisions, tea, coffee and salt. Others follow inher train and they ell stand jabboring away at eupposed partiality of clerks. Perk a miserable, pitible old witch, has fewer prunes than her younger «is- ter, Letta, so she hastily grabs = handfal and starts off, but the clerk clutehes| and com- pels the giving up of the stolen fraita. | She leaves the room mumbling the firet English word an Indian learns, It begins with a D. ‘They leave their rations et houses or stores, and shortly before noon go down tothe corral, KILLING THE STEERS, Around this large inclosure is one or more representatives from every family—white ae well as Indian, All are crowded close to the pole fence waiting for the Indians who kill the peeves, Here comes Coohor, “Sharp Eye” and | of the Woods, who always shoots through e of his game. They stand with guns raised, waiting till the moving beasts turn toward them, Bang! Each shot brings down a steer. All is confusion as the affrighted steers rush hither and thither, *triking their horns against the poles. No harm is done, but the squaws and bucks perched on the fence are euddenly scattered. ‘They now shoot quick and fast, as the anle mals are never still long enough for aim to be tak: Hardly before (ho last “‘spotted buffalo” has fallen the waiting Indians, with knives in hand, Jeap or creep under the ‘poles and to carve the still strngpling animals, | steer will against ite jit qa Couneil would no! cumstances, Outside of a few serial publications, which are nog yet complete, the hbrary has probably reached its limit in size, for the new rule pra: tieully precludes further purchasce, But if the entire collection should ever be sold its addi- tion to the Congressional Library would make Uncle Sem’s literary property the fi nt of quality ; h weveral foreign libraries are three times its size in quantity. Supreme part with it under any cir- horrible to see them trying to walk, streaming from the mouth, from | whews tongue bas been cut, and great pieces hanging from haunches or neck. The of laughter from these Indians make us think “They are neither men nor women, ‘They are neither brate nor human,” for brutes would have more pity than dees eup “red brother.” TURN ADOUT IN THRCHOICE PrecEs, Though some get good pieces and others not they are sutistied, as they themselves did the dividing, and next weck some one else will have poor and others good. “Turmabout,” you A ery part of tho animal is used by them. ‘The tongue and heart are “dainty bits,” while the brain and entrails are nsetul, the former to soften the buckskin while being tanned, the latter they fill with a sausage meat composed of the scraps of meat, bread and fruit, After the last bit of, the anianal, even the skin, is disposed of all the store, Trade is rushing for awhile and both clerks will be so busy that many little leave the store unpaid for. They are not in the observance of the seventh commandment, ‘They pay money till their: then trade with buckekan, As soon as the supply of in” they turn to the shelves of transaction here would be a the woman folks,so a man mi Squaw will point ‘to a piece of fully red and green—and her aborigine band will say “Coch” (no good), aw immediately point out one more pleasing critical eye, and, with never @ murmar, she cepts the chan: is not made wi cient. Ther buy a great deal-of canned fruit, as great father in Washington does not such luxuries, and really the rations them do not last half the week partly their fault, for the first is little ——__ His Appearance Deceived. From the Detroit Free Press, “Speaking of bunting,” said a punter, “re- minds me of a little fun I had some four or five Years ago. “Three of us, more or less sportsmen and all | Jolly fellows, were stopping at a small place on the ehstern shore of Lake St. Clair, It was in ‘ovember and the ducks were pretty thick. We did some great shooting, I can tell you. Jne day the landlord announced that a nephew of his,a young man just over from England, was coming up for a few wecks’ sport and he gaessed we'd find him pretty near @ dandy on the shoot, Well, pretty soon the young fellow arrived, and our first ‘glimpse of him decided evers thing. The boys said thoy didn’t believe he had ever seen a wild duck, much lees shot one. “He was one of your swell hunters, all togged out in corduroy jacket and high top boots, with one of those patent reversible fore-and-aft ca ds pair of eveginsces astride his nove. He showed us his gun,a double-barreled pistol grip thing, and blowed a pile on ite fine quali- thes and at the wonderful exccution he could do with it. ‘It came from England, ve know." Would he go atter ducks with us in the morning? ‘Oh, yaas, he fancied’ he would, j though it wonldn't be mnch sport: he was ac- customed to shooting woodeock, aud ducks flew £0 beastly slow. Well we fixed up things among ourselves that night. We picked out some of our oldest decoys and anchored them out in a bayou a short distance from shore, then tarned in for the night. ar friend was up bright and early next morning and was anxious to show his skill. W made some excuse about not being quite ready, but told him that if he would go over to yonder bayou he might ota shot before beenktest. He put much splashing of an thew St cantion wal ensssoc cuter sight im the reeds. Allowing him time to reach our decoys, we followed and soon heard the bang bang! of his gun. Before we could him we heard another double report. Explod- ing with Ioughter at our success we hastened to e “Did he fill hoger chery! op fe “No! Say, be four as can- vas-backs a8 you ever saw.” ; 3 f ! i # exam) pa 3 (iF F i] se ot E i e I i. & turies ago, when this country had not been dis- covered above # twelvemonth, the whole is re- markably well preserved anda literary rarity ‘among rarities. ‘WEALTH OF ANCIENT HISTORY. Hundreds of other books range in title from ancient history by ancient authors and essays on the oriental and Asiatic peoples to complete He HE 2 5 i sf &F i te i ‘French Faage Reena eshte From Truth. ‘Wine and women” go together in the song, | wa but wine grows dearer as it grows older—and | hay, here they part. former