Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1893, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1893—EIGHTEEN PAGES. FACTS ABOUT BOOKS. How They Were Made Before Print- ing Was Invented. PARCHMENT AND PAPYRUS. Earliest Literary Efforts of Mankind — ‘Writings on Stone and Metal—The Scribes | ef Antiquity—Curious Stories About An- cient Manuscripts — Frauds in Literature. ———>+_—_ HE EARLIEST WRIT- ings of mankind are supposed to have been scratched on stone with some hard instrument. But it is very certain that the wood and bark | of trees were also en-/ ployed for the samo | purpose. Thus the) Latin word “liber,” meaning tree bark, came to be adopted as signifying “book. Hence the term “library” for a collection of | volumes. “Codex,” likewise meaning a book, originally signified a tree stump and then sawn boards—from the practice of writing by scrateh- ing or cutting wooden boards. Prof. Falconer Madan in his work on “Books | fm Manuscript” describes the method of manu- facturing the ancient papyrusas having been very mumple. It was made from a sort of roed very common in Egypt, the inner rind of which was cut lengthwise into thin strips called “bibloi.” These strips were laid parallel with each other and close together, and upon them ‘ware glued another set of slips laid transversely ‘or across the first. Thus was formed a sheet of the material, which, after being pressed, hammered and dried, presented a fair surface for ink. ‘This was papyrus, from which comes the word “paper.” Papyrus was not made up in the form of hooks, but in rolls, which were sometimes 23 much as 150 feet long. From the strips ibloi”* is derived another word for book, which has come to be applied to the book qitst & 10 say, the Bible. It would soem that the reed prepared @ manner Seomtalh tal pews otal Ge write on. It could be touched but lightly with the pen, because heavy stroke was apt to pierce it. But its worst feature was lack of durability. In the course of vears it became dry and almost as brittle as dead leaves. On this account the greatest care aust be taken of every newly discovered roll of this kind of manuseript. It is commonly put between two shects of glass for the sake of preservation. PARCHMENT THE MOST SATISFACTORY MATERIAL. The most satisfactory material ever discov- ered for writing on is parchment. It will inst in perfect condition for ages, and its surface, while hard enough to bear thick strokes of pen or brush, is yet fine enough for the most deli- cate ornamentation. For the latter reason it was excellently adapted for the illuminated texts of the middle ages. ‘The substance is the prepared skin of animals, especially of the sheep and caif. The better quaiity is from the elf and is called “vellum.” Finest of all parchments is that made from the skin of the caif’s intestines. It is very white and thin and was formerly. utilized chieily for elaborate min- iatures. By far the greater part of the earliest extant writings in Greek and Latin are on papyrus. ‘The material was exported in large quantities from Egypt to Greece and Rome. After the first century of the Christian era it geve vay before hment, but it was mvariably used for papel bails up to the year 1022. Tho em- ployment of parchment iasted until the inven- tion of printing, since which time it has been reserved for sumptuous editions and for legal records. ‘The Chinese first discovered the art of mak- ing paper by reducing rags to a pulp. pouring the latter out on a frame in a thin watery sheet and permitting it to dry slowly, consistence being given by heat. For a long time paper was imported into Europe from Asin. In the tenta century the manufacture oDtaineda foot ing in Spain and from that time it spread rap- idly. Water marks area European invention, introduced toward the end of the thirteenth century. They are never found in oriental per. PePabiets of wood, hinged like a book and cor- ered with wax, on which letters were scratched by a small pointed metal rod, were common at Rome in classical and Inter times. They are believed to have suggesed the form of modern books. For private accounts and notes such wax tablets are said to have been quite common fn western Europe until the time of printing. Various metals, especially lead, have been made use of to bear writing: also bones in prebistoric times, and im ancient Assyria clay, inscribed when soft and then baked. In the middle ages | & parchment book was ordinarily made by tak- four pieces of the material, each about 18 inches by 10 inches, folding them once across, so that each piece formed four pages, ‘and fitting the pieces one inside another. Thus a volume of eight leaves or sixteen pages was produced. Pens until modera times have always been of two kinds—the reed pen, made out of reed, and the quill pen, from a bird's feather. The word comes from the Latin “penna,” meaning quill. The quill pen is a much later invention than the reed pen. The ink of the ancients was commonly made by mixing soot with gum and water. It was black and lustrous, but a disadvantage of it was that it could be readily washed off. However, it is certain that thepeo- ple of antiquity as far back as the beginning of the Christian era understood the modern art of producing ink by mixing acid from galls with sulphate of iron and gum. Such ink is found on manuscripts obtained from Herculaneum, and « bottle of it was dug out of the ruins of Pompeii not long ago. It was still liquid after seventeen centuries. During the middle ages red, le, ‘and yellow inks were used. ts well as gold and silver solutions. IDEOCRAPHS THE. ORIGINALS. Before the use of an alphabet was understood people in writing utilized ideographs—that is to may, pictures to express ideas. Such picture isin common use today among many tribes of North American Indians. It seems | strange to discover that some ideographs are even now employed commonly in the printing of books and newspapers. What is €3" but a Pictorial symbol, saying as clearly as in words, “Look there?” ‘So, too, the Roman numerals, I, I, III. are in all probability pictures of one, ‘two and three fingers heid up. V is the whole hand, the four fingers being grouped together sone. X is simpiy two V'«. The letters of the were originally derived from ideo- hs. For example, “M" was at the begin-| ning the side view of an owl, so philolocists | assert. Its shape has none C ose! —— . d and simpli i it was « hieroglyph, but the (emp represent the head and back of the bird. The owl was called “mulak.” When the symbol became syllabic it stood for “Mu,” and when alphabetic for “M.” ‘Two distinct kinds of writing used to be rec- ognized—the ordinary sort for private use. and | the ornamental hand for important literar: oduetion or chronicles. What the ancients dred to preserve was considered worth em- Dalming m a sort of formal script very differ- ent from that of their letters, memoranda or seribbling. Printing has caused ornamental writing to be almost forgotten. At the same time, nearly every;one nowadays has two hand- | writings—a careless private one and a wholly | different style for formal purposes. { In ancient Greece and Kome the scribes | formed a distinct and important profession. fs known that the work they did was performed Both quickly and cheaply. For example, in| ‘one of his writings the poet Martial reminds a friend that for five denarii—about $3 cents— he could buy the whole of book of | “Epigrams.” It would seemn . many copies of such a work as Mi ” or Virgil's “nid” were needed, dicta- | tion should be resorted to. and it is easy to pi ture a room with twenty or more scribes writing from the dictation of some clear. reader. | But, though evidence on this point is scanty, it | ‘appears almost certain that the scribes nearly | shears copied from a volume in front of in hem silence. } ‘This was the method followed in the religious houses of the middle ages, within the walis of which more than half of the literary work of Europe during that epoch was performed. there were only a few great factories of w and illumination in those day of the largest abbeys rising to an apprec! of the claims of literature. But even the scribe was held in conspicuous honor. In Ire- Jand, during the seventh and eighth centuries, the penalty for shedding his blood was as great E for killing a bishop or abbot and in “was regarded as an honorable addition to a bishop's nam: of a Benedictin apartment of the chap special room was devoted t the purpose, sepa- | tle atudies were ablished in the , each scribe | man named Shapira, who in the y | out the worms are alive and have been lately | ae long to this day in certain old Benedictine statutes, are as strict as can well be imagined. Artificial light was entirely forbidden, for fear of injur- ing the manuscripts, and to prevent idlencss me save the writers were and interruption no permitted to enter the room, except the higher Gflicers of the abbey. There was.a epecial offi- cer in charge of the writing room, who had to HUSBANDS APT TO BE STINGY. Often They Are Not Liberal With Their Wives in Money Matters. 66] SEE A GOOD DEAL OF THE MEAN side of human nature in my business,” said a woman hairdresser the other day. “But provide all that was necessary for the work—| the worst of it is shown by husbands. There desks, ink, parchment, pens, penknives, pumice | isn’t anything meaner in all this world than a stone for smoothing the surface of the parch- ment, avis to give guiding marks for ruling lines, reading frames to hold the books to be 4, rulers and weights to keep down the pages. ‘The seribe himself was forbidden to maxe any alteration in the text, even when the original which he was copying was obviously wrong. Sbsolute silence enjoined, and, some method of communication being neces- sary, signs were employed. For example, if a scribe wanted a pagan work to refer to he scratched his ear suggestively in the manner of a dog. BINDINGS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, The bindings most commonly used for books in the middle ages were of leather fastened over solid wooden boards. But the finest volumes i were clothed in ivory, silver or even gold. the sides being carved or worked into embossed figures and set with jewels. The work done by the scribes at the monasteries seems to have been very cheap. Inthe year 1800 their pay was ordinarily about 15 cents aday. Some of the remarks added by these hired writers at the end of the copies of books made by them are very amusing. One of them says: “Nune seripsi totum; pro Christo da mihi potum,” which means, “Now that I have written it all, for Christ's sake, give me a drink.” When one reads of a manuscript in gold or silver it must be understood that the letters and not the background are of those substances. Usually the efféct of such colors was heightened by previously dyeing the whole leaves of parch: ment a deep purple. On this tone the gold and silver, as well as red and white paint, showed toa great advantage. The gold was laid on with extraordinary care, so as to produce the glittering effect often seen in medieval illumi- nations, in which a single may contain more than 100 separate and delicate pieces of burnished and shining gold. To begin with, a pectliar light pink clay, fetched from the east and much prized in monasteries, was placed on the parchment, after the design had been drawn i line. Then « sizing was put on the sur- face, after which the gold leaf was laid on, and finally the gold was burnished by hand with an agate. ‘The oldest writing in the world known about | is an insertption im Egyptian bieroglyphies preserved in the Ashmolear Museum at Ox- ford. Itisona stone which was the cornice over the door of a tomb. The date of it is not later than 4000 B.C. The oldest piece of lit- erary composition in existence is a roll of pyrus from Egypt, now in the Louvre at .. Tt was written about 2500 B.C. Oddly enough, it is an essay written by an old man on the degenerate character of the age and the peopie as compared with a previous epoch. So it would secm that this business of running down the contemporary generation is by no means new. ‘The showers of ashes and streams of lava which poured over the houses of Herculaneum sod Pompelt reduced the papyrus rolls in the rivate libraries of those cities to black lumps. Nevertheless, when many of them were dug out during the last century, it was found that not a few of them could be unrolled and deciphered. Fae similes of them were taken immediately atter the unrollinz, which was fortunate, inas- much as the originals quickly exhibited an in- clination to decay and fall to pieces. DISCOVERY OF THE CODEX SINAITICUS. The oldest known edition of the New Testa- ment is called the “Codex Sinaiticus.” It was written in Greek about 400 A.D. Thostory of its discovery reads like a romance. In i844 Constantine Tischendorf, the editor of the Greck Yestament, visited the Convent of St. Catharine, at the foot of Mt Sinai. In the middie of the hallway, as he crossed it. he saw a basketfrl of old parchment leaves ox their way to be burned and was told that two baskets had aready gono. Looking at the leaves closely he perceived they were is of the Old Testament in Greek, written in an extremely ancient handwriting. He was allowed to take yy forty-three leaves; but the interest of.the + was aroused, and they not only stopped the burning, but refused to part with any more of tho fragments. ‘Tischendorf went back to the convent later, but could obtain nothing more. He had made rea for departure, when the steward of the house, as a matter of curi- osity, produced out of a wrapper of red cloth a bulky volume, which turned out to be the whole ew Testament, with the Greek text of the Epistle of Barnabas, much of which was hitherto unknown, together with the greater part of the Old Testament,-which had so long been sought. In a careless tone Tischendort asked if he might have it in his room for fur- ther inspection, and that night he spent in copying out the Epistle of Barnabas. Finally he hit upon the happy idea of asking for the volume as a gift to the Emperor of Russia, In this way he secured tt, and the manascript is now deposited at St. Petersburg. In this connection mention should be made of Constantine Snmonides, a Greck, who was the greatest literary forger of this century. For many years he made a businese of selling old manuscripts. He owned a large number of genuine manuscripts, and his stock in trade also included many counterfeits. His custom was to present first some genuine ones, and, when his customer was off his guard, to sell him some of the forgeries. England and Germany af- forded the main field for his operations. At length he was exposed and his peculiar industry ceased to be profitable. He inst appeared promiiuently before the public in 1861, when he boldly asserted that he himself had written the whole of the “Codex Sinaiticus,” which Tischen- dort had brought from the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai Of course, the statement was received with incredulity; but Simonides declared that, anticipating skepticism on the part of scholars, he had placed certain private signs on particular leaves of the book. When pressed to specify these marks, he gave of the leaves on which were to be found his initials or monogram. The test scemed a fair one. and the manuseript at St. Petersburg was carefully inspected. Every leaf designated by Simonides was found to be imperfect at the part where the mark was to have been found. De- liberate mutilation by an enemy, said’ his friends. But many thought that the wily Greek had acquired through private sources a note of some imperfect leaves in the man script and had made unscrupulous use of the information. A GREAT LITERARY FORGER. The latest of the great literary forgers was = rT 1833 de- | manded $5,000,000 for an alleged ancient frag- ment of the Hebrew Pentatench containing an eleventh commandment—*Thou shalt not hate thy brother.” But to such a point has expert knowledge of such matters arrived—in fact, at- taining the rank of a science—that successful deceptions are almost impossible nowadays, ‘The most celebrated trial in connection with frands of this kind was that of a person named ‘Vrain-Lucaa, in 1870, for the most unblushing manufacture of autograph letters. These pro- ductions he sold to M. Chasies, a member of the French Academy and a collector of autographs. During eight years, from 1861 to 1869, he supplied this eredulous gentleman with no less than 27,000 autographs, for which he received 140,000 francs, These included letters of Julius Cwsar, Cicero, Socrates and Shakespeare, and six were from Alexander the Great to Aristotle. One was from Pontius Pilate to Tiberius, and one from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene. ‘The cream of it was that nearly every letter was in modern French and written on paper which in many cases had the water mark of a flenr-de-lys. i Prof. Madan gives a few points on how to get rid of book worms,which are te the lover of Titerature what moths are to the housekeeper. The preson se little foes are easily de- tected. If there are small round holes, where book worms have been, hold the volume up so that any tine dust in the holes would drop out and tap it with the fingers. If dust does fly Under such circumstances a further inspection will probably show a white about a quarter of an ason be summer or autumn the small ged beetles into which the worms turn. ‘The volume should then be put into an air-tight box with a saucer of strong benzine and left for a night, at the end of which the animals will be dead. The worm lives not on work. the pages of the volume, but on the paste of the binding. oe A Live Western Boy. The teacher of a school in @ western town had occasion to rebuke one of his pupils, little ndup, for laziness and neglecting He said to Tommy: x lessons better I'L pa is awful tgun rigl jealous. n who ealled A about call- etter go ¥, for pa is awful has not yet told his pa, a i a word ab th ssor jets him do as he pleases in school and gives kim a quarter every Saturday afternoon for candy. as do ch long, or if He is laying mean husband. For instance, one customer of mine has a husband who is a vegetarian crank. He never eats any meat himself, and so he will not have any bought for the household. His wife used to get pretty nearly starved. For » while she had an arrangement with the green grocer by which he procured for her and sent home beefsteaks. Tho steaks figured in the family bills as so many pecks of potatoes or 60 many quarts of beans. “She used to have beefsteak at lunch when her husband was down town. But one day he came home unexpectedly in the middle of the day and then there was arow. He said she wasa deceitful creature, and she replied that it wasn’t ibie for a person to be sincere and truth- lon a diet of bread and butter and greens. However, he used to watch her more closely after that, keeping an eye on tho refrigerator, and even insisting upon doing the marketing himself. I believe his theory was that the eat- ing of flesh rendered people more fleshly. He thought that the consumption of cab! and m peas reduced the element of ani in Entec beings and wes caloulated to render them more soulful. “So his wife, not being able to obtain any substantial food, began to grow alarmingly thinner. Finally she decided on a new plan. It was suggested by an accident. A dealer in second-hand clothing called at the house and offered the highest cash price for any garments that might be discarded. The lady bethought herself of an old coat of her husband’a. With the price of it in her pocket—she always had to account strictly for every penny that she got— she went down the street and indulged in a luxurious meal ata restaarant, She confined herself to meat; there wasn't a vegetable on her bill of fare. “By and by the oid clothes man became a regular visitor. On each occasion he carried away a pair of trousers,a waistcont or a coat. With fair but not extreme economy the price of one article would frequently pay for two or three meals. That this sort of thing could not go on forever was quite evident. One day the husband discovered that the greater part of his wardrobe had disappeared. His wife attempted no concealment. She said frankly that, being driven by hunger, she had sold the things to buy food. Furthermore, she was determined to persist in that course until a proper allow- ance of money was given to her to buy meat or anything else she liked. She expected that the furniture would go next. In short, she openly defied him. “Now, what do you suppose that man did? He gave in helplessly, and there has not been ‘any trouble since, [ believe. That case affords a first-rate illustration of a theory of mine, which is that the only way to manage a man is by firmness. ‘The average husband, if he ean bully his wife, will do so, and that is the reason why most women are bullied, more or less. There wae a lady T knew in Chicago whove hus- band was a worse than the vegetarian crank of whom I have been speuking. He was apbysician, and it was a pet notion of his that people generully ate too much. So he weighed out a portion of each kind of food for every member of his family. At each meal he ga to ench one so many ounces of meat,so many ounces of bread and so many ounces of vege- tables. If his wite had had the nerve to refuse to stand such nonsense it would have stopped right there. As it was she and her children always looked half-starved. “Everybody knows that it is a practice quite common with fashionable women to borrow money of their dressmakers, the loan being added to the sum total of tho bills when they jcome in. There are plenty of men who, while | perfectly willing to allow their wives to ran big accounts at shops and elsewhere, are reluctant te supply them with a respectable amount of spending moner. Their notion seems to be that women are not to be trusted with money to spend. It is a very curious whim, but surprisingly common, ‘The average wife of arich man rarely has a dollar in her pocket that she can cali her own. That is one of the freaks of mean husbands. But, under such circumstances, women get money from other sources of supply besides the dressmaker. They get small loans on account from the butcher, the grocer and other tradesmen. The grocer and the butcher cannot well refuse, be- cause they do not want to offend a customer, and they know that they will get the money back. But their obligingaess in such matters sometimes gets them into scrapes, “There is another variety of moan husband worth mentioning. This sort tells his wife that they must economise, and sends her and the children toa cheap farm house in some lonely country place for the summer, while he goos | gallivanting alone to Europe or to a fashionable watering piace. I knew one woman who came out ahead ina little game of that sort. Her partner-in-hfe having gone abroad ona pleasure trip, pretending that business called him away, she spent the stmmer at Newport, -wkich was not far from the hole into which he had poked her, and at the end of the season the bills were sent to her husband, who was a jrich man. There 1 no doubt of _ the fact that men would make better husbands if they were managed with less petting and more determination. Most of them are only over- grown baties and need to be trested very much | in the same way. The first thing that a woman ought to insist upon when she gets married is a fair share of the family money and the right to spend it as she chooses without accounting for it as if she were a servant. If such measures were pursued mean husbands would not have a show in this world.” —— Dreams. From Chicaco Evening Post. “Yes,” said the youthful club woman to her Jobn, “‘my new gown has come home, and it is a dream!” “Strange that there should be such a coinci- dence!” mused her John, “but my spring suit is also a dream!” And he moved into a duskier corner where frayed edges and shiny seams were less noticeable. or All False. From Puck. Bertie Swingor—“What is Miss Serélefe going to do about the picnic?” May Blume—“She hasn't made up her mind yet. Bertie Swinger. to do even that?’ Se Good Points. From Puck. “Great Scott! Does she have rs to be akinder skittish anermil, Mistah Watson, but I’se doan’ aa starbin’ de berry bones out’en his jide.”” ‘Mr. Watson (as the mule grows restless)— “Yo' doan’t, doan’t yo’. Well. jes’ I den. No goin’ ober his head dar——’ An’ de backward spring is jes’ as good.” THE PRINCESS’ CHICAGO RECEPTION. Eulalie Is Greeted by Mayor Harrison in New Silk Hat. From the Chicago Herald. Now the train was at the end of the journey. to the carriages in waiting on Canal street. the police to keep back the crow strip of carpet to do the honors. Bnt about that hat. It was not without difficulty and sore trial and trouble that it was made to behave itself. To be sure it was Jim Quinn who built it, and he has been studying the shape and size of Mr. Harrison's head for years, but it isn't in an hour or two or three that a man who has, since the day he was born or very near it, worna of the slouch variety,can prevent his first silk hat from dancing a hornpipe on his head. Soit was with the worthy mayor. He struggled like a hero with that hat yesterday morning before leaving home. He leld it be- fore the stove and warmed it and coaxed it, and tried to sprend it into shape by making a hat Dlock of his knee. All to no use. It bobbed about on his pate with as much liveliness as if there was. lillipatian dancing master inside it. ‘There was one remedy that had not yet been tried. The mayor had thought of it from the beginning, bat it was too great @ sacrifice to ¢, and all for the sake of wearing a silk hat. But then, royalty was to be received and it would never do to welcome the infanta in @ black sombrero. “I'll do it,” said Carter at length. When he says that he generally does it. So he hied himself to his favorite barber shop. AWAY WENT CARTER'’S HOARY LOCKS. Those hoary locks which have become his- toric, that John Ruskin beard which the zephyrs of scores of springs and the winds ofas many winters have played and toyed with—all should be given to the sheara. To shed the locks and allow the beard in all its lovely shagginess to stay was out of the ques- tion. But ifthe new hat was to be worn the locks should fall; therefore the branches of the beard should go. Itwas the old story of “*before” and “after.” ‘The mayor went into the barber shop with a messenger boy carrying a band- box and with his hair and beard in full bloom, so to speak. ¥ He camo out with the silk hat snugly fitting bis imposing cranium—his lougilocks gone, his whiskers trimmed. ‘The transformation cansed a little confusion when the royal party alighted from the train. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor said“‘No, no,” ina nervous way to Eulalie, when a tall, heavy-set man ina long black coat, Invender trousers, terra cotta gloves and a glistening tall hat, eminently be- coming, approached the infanta, Eulalie thought he must be the mayor, and she was right. But Mr. Chatfield-Jaylor had seen the mayor only the evening before and that man bore no resemblance to the sleek individual to whom Eulalie was about to extend her hand. ‘Mr. Washburne whispered an explanation in Mr. Chattield-Taylor’s ear. ‘Are you sure, Hempstead?” “Devil a doubt, Hobart,” ‘The infanta was slightly puzzled. But Carter was welcoming her in the name of Chicago, “whose mayor I have the honor to be,” he explained in a loud voice for the benefit of ull the donbtmg ones, Eulalie was reassured and she graciously gave her hand to the mayor, He took off his hat with grent success and kissed, with emphasis, the infanta’s gloved hand Some beys who were sitting on a freight car drawled out an ‘‘a-a-w” when the mayor made the salute, The infanta looked up quickly and laughed at the gamins’ comment on the kiss. ‘The Duke of Veragua, his wife and daughter, the duke’s brother und Mr. Chatfield-Tay next saluted Entlalie, who was soon sailing glong the crimson carpet on the arm of the mayor. ‘They passed along between the lines of aldermen, every man like a light house (their coats were Yirown open and their studs were shimmering in the sunshine). Some of them said simply, “How-d’-do;” others said, barely, “Welcome.” Alderman Mudden, who is weil up in these things, uttered, without a tremor in his voice, the salutation: “Hail to the charming Infanta of Spain.” “Hail!” said Alderman Powers, and from that on along the line the balance of the city fathers echoed the greoting, “Hail!” It was very prettily done. It pleased the infanta aud she kept bowing every time she heard the word “Hail!” She bowed, too, to the throng outside the railing, for cheers kept coming in volleys ail the time from the moment the princess had ap- peared on the platform. Ser ig gigas tate ‘The Hatching of Butterfly Broods. From the London Spectator. Tt would be difficult to pictures more elegant or more interesting sight than the hatching of the butterfly broods in the ‘Insect House” dur- ing the past few days of almost summer heat. The glass cases, filled with damp moss and earth, and adorned with portions of tree trunks or plants suited to tho habits of the moths, are peopied by these exquisite and delicate creatures, as one after another sepa- rates itself from the chrysalix case in which it has been sleeping all the winter and, fluttering upward with weak and uncertain movements, ex its fall beauties to the light. The wings of the largest kind, such as the great orange-brown “Atlas” moth, eroas wide as those of a missel-thrush; and the great sizo of this and other species increases the strange likeness to bird forms which is 80 marked even in the smaller English hawk-moths. The giant moths of the tropics, unlike the rest of the in- sect world, have faces and features not devoid of expression. Some resemble birds, others cata, Some are covered with long, soft plu- mage like the feathers of the marabout or the plunies of swans. Others aro wrapped in a silky mantle like an Angora kitten, or clothed in ermine and sables. ‘The depth and softness of these downy mantles make the impulse to stroke them suggest itself at once yet, when the head keeper lifts them from the branch on which they rest, as a falconer lifts his hawk, the feeling that they aro neither moths nor ‘ani- mals, but long-winged birds, is equally irro- sistible. . ee Fellow Feeling. From Quips of Buffalo. “You have been in the army @ great many years, but I have never heard of your eaptur- ing anything,” said an old coqueette to a some- what venerable officer. “You ought to have a fellow fecling for me,” was the reply. “How so?” “Because we both know what it is to grow old without making any conquests.” + From the Boy’s Point of View. From the World's Fair Puck. “Well, Johnny, you've been to the fair, eh?” onclusive eaSONS FOR ADVERTISING IN The Evening Star: BECAUSE IT IS THE FAMILY PAPER OF THE CITY, BEING TAKEN AND READ IN EVERY HOMZ, BY PRETTY MUCH EVERYBODY, AND ESPECIALLY BY THOSE HAVING MONEY TO SPEND. BECAUSE IT 18 PUBLISHED AT AN HOUR OF THE DAY WHEN ITS READERS HAVE THE TIME AND INCLINATION TO CONSULT ITS ADVERTISING COLUMNS, AS WELL AS TO READ THE NEWS. BECAUSE ITS ADVERTISING RATES ARE MUCH PROPORTION TO EXT ALITY OF CIRCU IN eS [SS == WASHINGTON, \G THE VERY LOWEST 1N ‘“dME UNITED STATES. ‘There was a mighty roar of welcome from the crowd that thronged the viaduct at Adams street. As if in echo to the shout, the booming of guns belching a royal salute over on the lake front was heard. She was really in Chicago, and Chicago's round of greetings had begun. A pathway covered with a crimson carpet ex- tended from the platform away across the depot, up the stairs and through the entrance ‘Tho aldermen hedged in the carpet and helped layor Harrison had induced his new hat to sit steadily on his head and he was at the beginning of the ‘TYPEWRITER “The Remington Standard Typewriter is the official writing-machine of the World’s Columbian Exposition.” H. N. HIGINBOTHAM, President. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, 327 Broadway, New York. Washington Branch, - - ap15-JewI3t AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAYs. ATCLIFFE, DARR & CO.. AUCTIONFER ‘20 PENNA. AVE. NS BRADBURY GRAND UPRIGHT PIANO FORTE (SEW), SCHOENINGER PARLOR ORGAN. SILK PLUSH AND RAW SITK PARLOR u SUITES, PARLOR CABINET BOOK CAS BRARY AND MARBLE TOP TA PL CHAMBER FURNITURE. —_-MATTRES SPRINGS, BEDDIN: . . LAC CURTAINS AND LAMBRYQUINS, PORTIER FINE OIL PAINTINGS AND WALL FL : FINE CARVED DINING TABLES, WARD- ROBES, TOILET WARE, VERY RARE MAS- SIVE MUSICAL CLOCK, TWO FRENCH MAR- BLE CLOCES, 300 PIECES ROGERS', TAPT’S AND MERIDIAN BEST QUALITY SILVER WARE, FINE BRUSSELS CARPETS, 25 RUGS, ke., &e. ALSO CABINET OF RAKE OLD COINS, ABOUT 3,000 PIECES, APPRAISED VALUE, 2.600, ALL _CONTAINE! THE FLATS NO. g12 PENNSY) VATA AVE, N.W., WHERE ON TUE & THIRTEENTH, BEG! eS et HiohESE Rippers, NTO THE HIGHE: PEERS EhgeTs OF & FARES nods are ail of the finest quality and having new within « year are in excellent con- tion. “ihe attention of the public is therefore i- Feoted to this salc as an opportunity to secure destra- Dio efiects. Permission ‘to Inspect ean be had upon rere. ie auction. ATCLIFFE, DARR & CO., AUCTS. R ‘oho PAL AVE. NW. VERY DESIRABLE New TERFE-STORY BRICK HOUSE. CONTAINING NINE ROOMS, OLL~ - - Le Droit Building. LAK AND BATH, WITH ALL MODERN IM- PROVEMENTS, BY FURNAC! us . 210 M STREE: AUCTION SALES. On THURSDAY -APTERNOO 1 JUNE FIP- TEENTH, at HALF-PAST FIVE OCLOCK, we will FUTURE DAYs. FOTURE DA\s. offer for sale in front of the premises eub lot 47, in JRATCUFFE, DARR & CO., AUCTIONEERS. CHANCERY SALE AT AUCTION OF A FRAM! HOUSE, NO. '126 PIERCE STREET NORTH- WEST,” ON A FIFTEEN-FOOT LOT, RUN- NING’ BACK WITH THAT WIDIH TO A PUBLIC ALLEY. By virtue of a decree vamed June 7, 1893, in Fanity Cause Wille A, Hall eval. Supreme Court, District of Cola: Tite A. Supreme Court, District of Colur= Dia, the undersienad will selon SATURDAY, JUNE i SEVENTYENTH, 1803, AT FIVE O'CLOCK P. i. in front of the property, the nart of lot thirty-one iM square fire bundeed and sfey-soven (O57),in Wash ington, D.C., bezinning at the northwest corner of said lot, therice east fifteen (15) feet, thence south one hundred and thirty-six (130) feot seven and one-half (is) inches, thence west. fifteen “Ca). feet, thence north one hundred and thirty-seven (137) feet seven inches to the place of bewinning. ‘One-third cash, one-third in one in two years: uotes tbe given ‘for rred puyments, secured by deed of trust on the | remises sid, and bearing interest at 6 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, or all cash, at the murchaser's option. A derosit of €150 is required at e thine of sale. Terms of tale to be complied with in ten days or preinives resold at risk of defaulting pur EUGENE F AUNOUD, S20 be are) : ARNOLD, 438 La. ave., TE, CACELL WILLIAMSUN.4N0 La-ave,.§ Trustees. JRATCLIFFE, DARR & CO., Auctioneers. THREE VERY VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS ON NORTH CAPITOL STREET BETWEEN M AND N STREETS NORTHWEST. BY AUCTION, On FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE SIXTEENTH. at FIVE O'CLOCK, we will offer for sale. in front of the vremives, bart of Jot 18, in square G72. front each 16 feet on North Capitol street, and running bacl Slavin Aieopuleimrotgy Sten te ag in this rapidiy improving section of te city. ‘Terms: One-third cash, balance in’ one and two years, 6 per cent per anniim, secured by deed of trust on the property sold, or #lLcash, at the. op-lun of the purchaser. A deposit of $200 required at the sae All conveyancing au, recording at purchasers cost. “RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO. JeO-dkas, (7, & SLOAN & CQ. Anctioncers, 1497 @ st. le (Successors to Latimer & Sloan). SALE OF BRICK RESIDENCE AND STREET NORTHWEST. of trust dated Janui ‘tad duly recordod in iber 154% at, folto 401 ine of the land records of the District of Co- ns, and at the request of thee arty secured thers. ‘wo Will sell vuction in front of the Ay 1893, AT FIVE O'CLOCK 10, 1891 etieq., M. 169.and 170, in William Z, Partello'ssaddivision of reain lotsin square ntub-red $43. 08 per Plat, to corded in the mrveyor's oillee of District of Columbia. Lot 189 fronts 18 feet by adepth of So feet, and im tin= proved by a brick residence, 23 ‘No. 636 Q Street northwest. Lot 170 i y 3) foot in alley, and is improved by a brick. st is very sina le. property, and should comnand attention. rered Darinents, ‘will be All recording ‘and con. Veyancing at purchaser's cost. 200 wil. uired at time of sale. Terms to. be complied with fa hitecn days or the property 1aay bs resol cee Peon NF, WAGGAMA JeO-dkds CHAREES HANES | Trustees, 7[PHOMAS DOWLING & SON, Auction Ol E at. nw. LOT OF CONDEMNED MATERIAL, BELONGING OTHE DisTRICT GOVERNMENT, AT AUC- DNESPAY, JUNE FOURTEENTH, 1893, at TWELVE O'CLOCK ML, we will sell at prop: Fara. comer of Canal and Ist stroe's sonthweat. Buscies, 1 Wavon, lot of Old Iron, lot of Parrels.lot of Harness Dlankots, $e. by oper of the Colma stoners D. THOMAS DOWLING & SON. ctionsers CHANCERY SALE AT AUCTION OF A LoT 17 B OMFEET ON L BTV EET SOUTH: SEEWEEN GUTH AND NINTH STRE DTS WAST, TMe PROVED BY A TWO-STOKS BRICK HOUSE, By decree of ‘the Supreme Court of the District. of Columbia, made in Equity cause No. 14451, Jane V. Amold etal. va Elizaieth Bet ‘the un- dersigned wi AIDAY, NTH, TS at HAL Tr FIVE O'CLOCK BM, in froni of the property, part of square mine fundred an thirty (900), in the city of Washington. D.C.. begtu- ning for the same K7 feet west fro:s the northeast cor- her of said square. rnuning thence west along L at risk and cost ef stroet south 17 feet: thence south 62 feet; thence east 17.83 feat; rth B75 feet; tence west BS cet thence north 32.25 feet to the place of begin. ning. “terms: One-third cash, one-third in one year, and one-third in two vears, nutes. bearing 6 percent per anniun interest. payable semi-annually, to be given for the deferred yayments, secured of ‘trust ‘on the property sold, or all cash, at the re option. A deposit of #150 is required at the ume of sate. ‘Ferns of wale to be complted with fn ten daye, OF Brcinieesconald'at rink of dedaniting purctsser.” Coby ances co TF, ARNOLD, Trustee, 458 La. ave. DANIEL W. GLASSIE! Trustee: 458 La: ave. JPENCANSON BROS. anctioneer SALE OF PROPERTY ON POLK eT.NHait JEFFERSON STREET-UNION: 1345, folio 248) nno of the land records of the istrict. ot Col Wwe will sellin fr-nt of the Rremises, on WE the TWENTY-FIRST pay i DAY, UNE, A. D. 1803, at FIVE O'CLOCK P, those certain pieces or parcels land and jises Known and distinguis! as and being in Uniontown, in the County of Washington, District of Columble nd Known upon the plat ‘or said Uniontown as being lots numbered 157, 155, with the improve.xents,t hereon, together i 5 Furuta, privie longing or in balance in 6, i2 and 18 saring 6 per cent per an- pum interest ble semi-annually, and to be se cured by a dead of trust on the property sold, oF ail ‘erms: One-third montns, notes to be given Gath. a the option of the purchgeer. Conveyancing, C5 urchaser's cost, A deposit of @z00 Teqiifred at time of aa\e.. ‘Terms of sale to be com- plied otherwise the trustees re: Meith in, fifteen a5 Korvo the right to resell the property ‘At the risk aud isto: defaulting purchaser After Sve dara’ advert meni Teaave in some newspaper published Washington, D/C. siete sch ce ™ CHRISTIAN G. LEDERER. HENK YH. BERGMANN, ATCLIFFE, DARE ® OO. Aucts. = R ‘020 Perinsylvania ave. nw. AUCTION SALE OF VERY VALUABLE [M- SEOVen MEAT, ReTATE ON QUVENTERNT Bi STREET NORTHW! STORY AND ( ELLAR ROOMS, WIT! MENTS. on “TUESDAY, ALL OVE- JUNE THIRTEENTH, | A.D. we 1893, AT HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK B. ‘will sell, in front of the premises, aoe SUB LOT zis, SQUAI 5 oD 1741 Fronting 21 Es i it will be in two yea by the ‘The purchase money (over and above the two trusty mentioned) to be paid in cash, $200 of Nhich will be required at the tine of ‘OF all onal atthe option of the purchaser. Terms to’be com| with tn fifteen days from the day of sale, otherwise the right is reserved to resell the ‘at the risk ana cost of the defaultine purckeste “Ait caver: ancing, recording, &c.. at the cost of the, 5 _sesdkds MATCLIFFE, DARR & Aucta. POXCANSON BROS. AUCTIONEERS. TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE BEING’ NUMBERED 1. FIRST STREET NORTHWEST, HAVIN ROOMS AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. By virtue of a deed of trust. duly recorded in Liber Xo. 1683, follo 477 vt seq. one of the laud records of the’ District of Columbts, we will ell in front of the remises on THURSDAY. THE FIFTEENTH DAY JUNE, A. D. 1893, at FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., all that certain piece ‘or parcel of land and premises sit- uate in the clty of Washington, District of Columl and known and distinguished as and being part of original lot numbered eleven (11) in square num- fered six hundred and sixteen (816), beginuing for the same 22 feet 6 inches south of the northwest cor- slong Ist street north 17 feet an: ieginning, toxether a ee the name belonging or in any wise ai ning. ‘Terms: One-third of the purchase money in cash, palance in one and two years at 6 per cent per anaim interest, payable semi-annually, and to be secured 8 deed of trust on the property sold, or all cash, at the Opticn of the purchaser. A deposit of $200 ‘will be Tequired at time of sale. Conveyancing, &o., at chaser's cost. Terms tobe complied with in Gays, otherwise the trustees resetve the right to the property at th ‘and cost of defaulting chaser after five days’ advertisement of such some newspaper published in Was! JOSEPH R. EDSO. my25-cod CHAS. BBAILE! J.» ¥pe Real Estate, Insurance, &o. EXECUTOR’S SALE OF DWELLING NUMBERED 1700 DIN STREET NORTHWEST pepe ae oe yabie auctio 3 Dav. THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF UNE A D. kag, “at HALE-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK F. ME. ict numbered 14 in square numbered 305, fronting 20 {eet on Oth street northwest by a ‘Of about as feet tovan alley. with « 10-foof “alley ‘lonasides tin: ‘the improvements. ways, privllorts an ‘appurtenances to <i wer in me vested, I nv adwetling house, mn ird*of ‘tho’ purchase money in cash, one and two years. at 6 per cent per annum vy semi-annually, and to be secured by a deed trust on the premises sold, or allcash, at the optic tthe purchaser. Conveyancing, &c., at purchaser's cost. A deposit of $200 required at time of sale. Terms of sale to be complied with in fifteen days, otherwise the right reserved to resell the prop- erty at risk and cost of a aser after five days’ advortis sat of such in some Rewspaper published in Washington D. G- coon atts BT. TUPPER, Executor. DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, We6 dds Square 14, fronting 15.66 feet on M street mo-thwest by adepth of 64 fect. improved by an elexant nine= Foom brick house, wiih all modern improvements. This property is situated within one square of the je cars. making it » mos: ‘TCLIF! ARR + AU [ONEERS. RATEEE PARE SO. Oe AVE WW fe ienea,. Wit EAL ESTATE ON NINTH STREET BE- | Soucia subject to two lente ofan Pee hes ‘WEEN REET AND FLORIDA AVENUE (? ate iret due Jane ROnTHWest BY AUCTION. Sor 83.508, ‘ext, second due Jana Si, e per cent. terms, over and above the trust, to be paid in cash. No. 1672, at fo'lo 447 et seq... one of A deposit of 8200 required at the time of sale. Ifthe of the Listrict of Colum! ter of sale are not co1 ied wi tecured thereby. the undersigned trastons Will | frou the dey of tale ricki is reserved. ty socal or for ania ‘property at the risk and costof ibe des ine pur- Yeoh, a: HAL PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P. X.,'thetal- | chat after fie dave atvartisgment of such resale fowite deneribedrea ntte situate in tecity ot Wesk- Eonveyanciag sal recording at the cont "ot ihe pur Plece of parcel of land and premises known and dis | x8d&ds RATCLIFFE, DARR&CO.. Aucts ‘oat juare numbered three hundred and ninety- ARGE, FINE. FLAT OR APARTMENT HOUSE, faregiddinv and tye ay ye L NUMBERED 1933 L STREET SOnrnwrst for the vain ghnt on, the Hine of ih st. wast | “On FRIDAY, the SIX1PENTH DAY OF JUNE. AD. SSathwestern comer of anid -squars and thence run- | 240% AT FIVE O'CLOCK. M..we wii weil in frgut af southwentern corner of said square and thepoe run- | the premises that beautiful. property known aa 1333 [ing porth alonr ist J, (20) feet, | Street norstiwest, fromtine 2h feet ch ton north se ence east to, the eastern oF rear line of guid lot; | oF L strect by a depth of 1:ENect Ginches tow B0-toot Pees eet entra Siocet and the noes of borin: | alley. This property alsohas s six-foot side alley. thence west to the sald stree ta hereditaiments | The lot is improved by'« large four-story brick dwell- x tometer with, alt the cesemponte, noreditaments | {2e° Gy apartment housa, containing $7 tocen: with and Sioa all _— eens Sa a [ferme One-third to be padin cach, the rewiaue in | bolls, furnace and pteam, heat. rata. ke The ‘wert forfiatvor elerant dwelling. It is now under wood rental. “Tt is seldom such a piece of properti Presents iteelf at auction for a desirable @nvestinent Renson of sais. parties leaving city. ‘Terms: One-tliird cash, balance in one, two, three and four years, with 0 per sd a ftitet semiannually: or all curl, st option of purchaser or " aay, 3 OF Dacompliod with within Oftees dave from the day of | terma to suit purchaser. Conveyancine, Ke, atthe the property at the risk and cost of faulting pur- erst. A dey i. #1.000 required at chaser after ivedays'advertisementinsomenewspaper | Sale. Terms of saloto be complied with in fifteen published tn Wastington. conveyancing, re- 8. otherwise the richt reserved to resell the cording, &c., at purchaser's cont. property at the risk and cost of defaulting purchaser * SOBN 8 | at pa ‘Trustees. mane oe Se advertisement of su wh Fevale in some my24-dads IRVIN MOULTON, IWEDOs 4 lined DUNGARSON Bate, as SYTHE ABOVE SALE I8 POSTPONED, ON AC- tof the rain, until MONDAY, THE TWELI pIanes, Dae sO. OF UUs tek Ar HALE Past FOUR Peis ta bois oe front oe VERY VALUABLE AND DESIRABLE DWELLING, HAVING NINE ROOMS, ALL MODERN TM PROVEMENTS, HEATED BY HOT Wi ELEGANT LAW e (NU AND KNOWN AS NO. 1410 TENTH STRECH BETWEEN O AND P STREETS NORTHWEST. On TUESDAY. JUNE TWENTIETH, 1803 at HALE-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P.M., we will sell in front of the prosulaen ‘SUB LOT 28 IN SQUARE 263, Fronting 18 feet cn 10ihstreet with a depth of 105 feet toan alley. improved by an elegantly Uuilt dwelling. gontaining nine rooms: ail modern inprovemen! Reated by a perfect » ‘of hot water. ‘This house was built by the owne: for his own and the work being done entirely by day's labor, ‘ by coptract, tts therefore an exceptionally sub- SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTAT! BEING NO. 1130 AND NO. 1203 SEVENT! STREET NORTHWEST, > By virtuo of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, passed on the Lith day of May, 1893, in cause No.” 14037, tn Equity, the under siened will offer for sale at public auction the toliow- ing qescribed real estate fon TVUKSDAY, JUNE Fir FEENTH, 1883, at FIVE O'CLOCK, P. ML: Lot 10_ in Caled Shreve and others’ subdivision in <quare 448, recorded in Liber N. K., tolio 275, in the sur- ‘Yeyor's office of the Districtof Columbia. And, imine. distely thereafter, lot § in the subdivision cf parts of | stani‘el building. It is near ali lines of cas, and a good lots 27 and 28 of ‘Andrew lothweli's subdi of | and growing better reichbo hood. It will be sold square 425, being the northern 14 feet of said lot 28 | subject to a deed of trust for 85,500, payable in June, and the southern 13 feet of lot 27. the said subdi- | 1807, bearing interest.at the rave per cent per Vision being recorded in Liber B, folio 136, in the | anniim. oftce of the surveyor, together with the improve-| I vey over and above the ents, consisting of a brick building. No. 1203, and | to be paid incash, cwo hundred dol.ars (8200) of which frame building, No. 113) 7th street n.w. ‘Terius of sale: One-third ia cast, of which a Gepostt $200 shall be inadeaipon each parcel at the tine of sate, the balance in twO equal instailisents, payable Feapectively In ope and two years after date of sain, With interest atthe Tate of Uper cent per annum, of will be required at the Piled with in fisteen days from the @ay of ale, 0 Wise the right is reserved to resell the Milcash, at the option of the purchaser. If the said | "= ferms of sale s-e not compiied. with, im ten days the | JPATCLIFFE, DARR & CO.. AUCTION! frasteos may resell, the said property st public sale 920 PENNA, AVE. NOW. Upon notice by pul ‘one newspaper in = chy'tor not less than five ays, such ssle to be at the | CHANCERY SALE OF VALUARLE REAL ESTATE and cost of the defaulting’ purchaser. Veyancins to Le at the cost of the purchaser, JAMES G. PAYNE, Trustee, ‘Court House. U.S. GEORGE E. HAMILTON. Trasten, Je5-akda DIZF stn. w. CUANCFBE, SME. OF IMPROVED, BEAL rs: J TAT. CONSISTING OF NO. 305 TENTH STREET SOUTHWEST AND VACANT LOT pAbJOINING, ‘ice a ‘virtue 0. a decree passed yuity cause No. 12.7o0, MeL. Sutdmore et al. va Enuna Grom et al. Supreme Covir.. D.C., the undetsizned will offer for sale on TUESDAY. THE SIX1H DAY OF JUNE, 1803, at FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., in front of the prem> ines, the following described real estate, to wit: Allcon- | IN WEST WASHINGTON, DC. IMPROVED A PRICK DWELLING, NO. 2907 M STREE!’ ieTHW EST. . < ins paseed on tbe Slet day yatty ewcee No. 14! Walker etal. are complainants and Charles Wardell et al are defendants, the siched trustees will offer for aale at tubite auction im Fibeeeae’ Day OF JUNE, Take at FLVE 5 c GRLOCK FM. the ‘ollowing described reat sxtaver Sifuste and lyin tm Georgetown, Ditraet of Colum Seventyrsisht if) and ows hundred, and Seventy-rieht (178) and che serene Bine (170) in Beal's addition to. the cit of “Georse- Town, In the District of Co tinbia, desc-tbed an fol Award PART OF ORIGINAL LOTS FOUR (4) AN] ‘fur the same the Une of QRSQUARE THREE HUSDIED AND Furry OE M treet distant, Uhicty-nie 0) heat Rise MO Gh inches west from the northwest corner of Briase Beginning at the southeast corner of raid lot 5, and running thence north on 10th st. 45 feet 11 inches; thence Went 91 feet 7 inches; thence south 45 :eet 1) inches to south line of lot 4. and thence east incues to the place of be“wmninsg, torether witl of way for the purpone of y of ea: lote fon (4) and five (5). in the east lin» of said-lot five (5), at a point 64 And Green streets and running thence west Bridwe or M street twenty-five (25) feet ten 1G) inches, thence north sixty (G0) feet, hy twenty-three (23) feet four <4) inches, ‘thence twenty-three (28) feet. thence eat two (2) feet six (8) inches and thence ‘gout’: thirty-seven (37) feet to the place of bexinning. improved by a brick dwelling, No. 2007 M street northwest. 5 fee: aright sy 1 inch south of the northeast corner of said lot five (5), Terms of sale prescribed by said decree: One- Seeccraehotncnct eect ihr feanames | thine! ta Suns inmost te ule be * 7 tre ssevand two year Mideast line of said jot five (3), and thence south? | the day of sale, with interest. for which “deterred feet 6 inches to the place of beginning. ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash, one-third in one ‘and one-third in two luctes to be wiven for Isterred p syeccured by deed of trust npoe Payments the notes of the prfchaser or purchasers Shall be required, said notes “o be secured by deed of ‘trust on premiges sold, or all cash, at the option of the murchaser. A deposit of $100 will be required at the ime of the sale. Ail ancing and record! at Dremisee sold. and'bearing interest at the rate of cent per annuin until paid, payable semi-ann: ‘all cash, at the option of the ser. $200 to be made at time of sale. Terms complied with within ten diy, or premises to he re- soll at risk and cost of defauiting purchaser. Con- the per at Is. oF | the purchaser's cost. ‘Terms to be complied with In fifteen dar: froin the day of ale, otherwise the tras toes reserve the tight to resell ai the cost of the de faulting purchaser on five days' notice in The Eveu- Sta ie SOHN J. WILMARTH, Teyancing at purchaser's cont. - EDWARD A. NEWMAN, Trustee, nor 45 at. m | ran D 3. HOLDSWoRTH GonbOs. JACKSON H. RALSTON, Tranter wa-dide i0 dh at. ney nw. myt%-dkds C.G. SLOAN ® CO.. Auctioneers. | 1 ATCLIFFE, DARE & 00., zuctioneers, GZ-OWING TO THE STORM THE ABOVE SALE Hemeteenisons aw. is postponed until TUESDAY, JUNE THIRTEENT! * ned unt TEERTH, DESIRABLE IM. 8, Lors 116 AND 111, SQUARE 239, Fach lot fronting 10 ject on 1th streot, with a depth of OS feet to an alley, lot 110 being improved by & three-story an basement brick :esidence, comtainins Brooms, bas-ment. ea and fremt cellar, with all modern i provements; lot 111 is improved by three- Story dwelling. wich tack building and cellar under entire house, has 9 rooms and has all modern provements." This property is ou the cars, in a section where values are rapidly ine ‘Terms of ~aie: One-th td of tho purchase to be paid in cash, the balance iu one aud two years the day of sale: the dairrred payinente to bear interest Fate of § per cent per annum, payable seni- annually, and to besecured by adeed of trust upon the premises sold. or all cash, at the option of the vurchaser or purchasers. A deposit of 8200 on each Fequired.at the time of sale. | Tesms to tm cote resell te or waiting purcbier. All con- ‘at the cost of the pur- chaser or purchasers, PERMISSION TO INSPECT PREMISES CAN BE HAD UPON APPLICATION TO THE AUCTION- EERS. RATCLIFFE, DARK & 00., Aucts. ‘RATCLIFFE, Dare & AC R 920 PA. AVE."N.W. JRATCLIFFE & DARR, Auctioneers ROMTHWEST Bi THE TNO, THERE : = TRUSTEFS' SALE OF FRAME DWELLING, No. FSIDENCES NOS. 1715 AND 1717, By pos SECOND STREET NORTHEAST, foe tig — itis saver irtue of a certain. trust to us, bearing ji 1803, date the 2d day of her, A.D. 1802 and duly | at HALE-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P."3i., we oder the: da: September. A.D. 1802. in | for sale, in front of the premise iber No. 1714, fol of the District ‘of trustees, will sell at ‘etseq., of the land mabe in front ofthe Roreta ey BE Weapal, ERE TWERTY. URTH DAY OF MAY. A. 1883, at HALF- PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., all that certain piece fhe ‘city’ of Washine‘on, District sof “Columbia: and known pa as and being part ¥. bifttyone (51), in Susan I. Burche's. subdi ‘of square numbered — sae! Re eS as said bis, in ‘book. W (surveyor of fhe District ‘oro Sithin the following wetes aid'esunds visr Bara (ol a the same on the wont aide of : the Hi tained street ‘th finan alts re een oz nc neha ine : front “98 Pato six of } s ‘TIONEERS, Ihe purchaser, ast §; Li ‘AM E. ED! a CONSTANTINE H. WILLIAMSON, Address, OmETOR. H ‘Trustees. myll-d&ds 500 Sth st. nw. S2-THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UNTIL skTuRDAy THE Tain DaY OF IUNE Ise a the same how WILLIAM # EDMONSTON, Ne Trustees. SONSTANTINE H. Aisox.} ii: anetione front, of the trem: PaRlizanction infront of the bre on MONDAY, CUE NESEY ENT DAY OF MEL AD. 180! at FIVE Ov lowing described ‘res! ‘exta Washinrten, District of Col ‘Lot mumbcred thirty-two Ci of Benen and Joseph 5 Bors’ aubdivision of lots Bfteon. wevewt Sndseventeen (13, 10 guq 17) of Fisver and Davsages ovgvehuncred aod sixty-one sie recured sy the Disthicteurveyurs pace cuhty-eisht, ‘hook thirteen (3) to: fee her wifivall the timprovermentes &: “Terms: One-third cash, the remive in two equal instullments st ons and two years, the deferred fare tents to bear interest at the fate of per cent pod ae hum. payable semi-annually, sccured ‘by deed of fe-THE ABOVE SALE IS_FURTHI T- goned until TUESDAY, THE SIXTH Dav OF JUNE, D. 1803, at the: ta-THR ABOVE SALE Is THER POST- med until MONDAY: SUNE TWELETH, aD, 3, at the same, hour snd place. WILLIAM E. EDMONSTON, ey ry ‘Trustees. of the purchaser. A dey it of SI juired upos COSNTANTINE B, WILLIAMBON,} Serer, apeeset Se soantred wpen with in fifteen days from the day of sale the ustees reserve the riht to resel: the property at riskandcostof the defauitiag purchaser after Ave days" advertisement of such resale in suine ews; aper ed in Washington, D.C. All conveyancing C, & S0aH-2 00. anteneen on oe SALE OF Y, NO fal ‘ALUABLE LOT 0: Tr0h; VARUABLE LO End recording at the con: of the purchases, THIRTY-THIRD STREETS. GEORGETOWN, PERRY B. TURPIR: Brees. benny “3 my27-akds PERRY B. TURPIN: Truston cover! 1802, 3% r Ripipemeee actsitcemielie ier 25 |p arcurre pana eco. acre Gol the request of the party secured thereby, wo will soli gt public auction, {ufront of the | TRUSTEE'S SALE OF ARLE UNIMPROVED RY PROPERTY NAR THE 1 OF (HE EX. 2 TENSION OF CONNECTICUT AVENUE. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Co; District of Columbia sitting ax a court cf equine in the watt of passed March 27, 1 inset ux. vs. Sfary two with interest at, cent annura, | equity docket 33, th; ‘omi-annualiy.and sectred upon the property ublic Buction 1B fro Ea ten days the | county of Wasuington, Dist ‘and recording at of waleate not comupifed wiih in Columiuia, town, reserve the right to resell the property at ihe | #5 part of « ‘of tand call Mt. Aur; at de. Tiak and cost of the Papshseer scribed by metes and bounds a=followes 2” Set 0. EBAUGH, ‘Boeinning 13.4 perches from tie south end of a W. D. SWAN. tract of land called part of “"Fictchail's Ciratee™ oot my23-dbas ‘Trustees. | running thence north 39 dezrees west Ihe perch = thence south 00 dexrees east 2} perches, theme eee t2-THE ABOVF SALE I8 HE! EBY POSTPONED | 52 de; ees west 14 perches, thence north 3 desteos H, 1893, same hour seo-d&eds ‘until MONDAY, JUNE TWEL! and place. By order west Ibis perches 10 the plice of berinnins contiee ing 14 acres and 22 he or ~walepeaazsias Tertns of sale wore oF leva. ah, ‘One-third {ACCTION SALE OF UNHEDEEMED PLEDGES. ird intwo years, motes toto ies ee ¥. WARREN JOHNSON, Auctioneer. = ag a by deed I will sell blic tion at 1009 FE st. n.w. annum from t ay ot le MONDAY. JUNE TWELFTH, 1893, at HALE-PAST camealip or al ea ae SIX P. M., all coods on which interest remains un- A deposit of $2 ‘Of Gold, Silver ‘Charis, Bracel Terms da, Contracced. consist ale fetal Watches, Ciccks, C ings, Jewelry of all kinds. ‘Diamonds, Clothe #, Musics) Instryments, Pictures. Typewriters, exces AGE, WARREN JOHNSON, Auctioneer, SIDDONS, Trasteo, 1533 Fat aw. AUCTION SALES. FUTURE Days. RATCUIFE, Dane co.. avCriONtERS, CHANCERY SALE OF VAUTARLE 4 AL ESTATE ON FIGHTH STREEE Bi ED TREET AND RHODE ISLAND Ni HWEST, BEING THE Two- aoe , 2 1617, BY AU By vi District as r K P.M." ali that certain ‘parce! lend and premises iyine and being in the “city Washiueion, ‘District of Columbia, and knows @istinewished ax and bajne lot uninbered ton CO) ia Brent s sfequare numbere’. four btm Seed and twenty (420), Lowether with the iuprove- ‘Terms of sale are one-third (6) of the purchase money ty be raid im rach, one-tnied (30) th ve eae and one-third Gg) in two years thereafier, with iwter: {it OR the deterred payments from the day of sale, to be secured bs fod wud suificient. deed of srust oF ae UPOR the iweiuises so sold, <F the trastaes Ray accent ail cash. A deposit of #200 required ¢ time of sale. Tf the terun of sale are Dot comit $ithon the day of sale the trustees reserve-the, Fuente Hoey ee, Broverty’ at “wie isk amd cows of the der c., at the cost of the purchaser. Sn Feoondiaie TALLMADGE A. LAMBERT, 10 5a EDWARD H. THOMAS. = ~. ‘Trustees (C, & SLOAN £00.. Auctioneers, 1407 G st. n.w. oA Successors to Latimer & Slosm. Ae “G. G. SLOAN & 0O., Austonegms. NITED STATES MARSHAL'S SALE —3 Uae ota writot bert ncies aed ealat ae ee, office of ‘the Su'reme Conre of the Diss ot fume bia and to me directed, I wil! sell at publicasie cash in front of the court house door of neil Distace on TUE-DAY, the TWENTIFTH DAY OF JUNI Thad, at TWELVE O'CLOCK M._ wil the righ Sine claim, interest mane a oan toll ) a seria’ sy. to, wit The east IB fost tyr ah foun alloy Bfect Geis tuches wide ef Tot 18 srese Secty of Washinton, District of Osh S Eeiher with a of was over the aforraah alley, Snd together with allan’! singular the linprowemen SE preop wiized and levied ‘upon ‘an the prover john Larkins, and will be sod to wa No. 30095, at law, in favor of Charles A. Artuur W: "Pairtax, tracing ap Arondel DANIEL M.RANSDELL. ©, 5 RATCLIFFE, DARR&CO.. Auctioncers. my Biase aC MEDICAL. &c. Di Bronigs Invioorartxe comprar doy! Nerve Stimulant and Tonic. Srall'tee =, Nervous Debility, Nev (Over twenty-five years’ experienon. SURGEON SPECIALIST TO GENTLEMEN ONLY. Bladder and Fic: howte or 3 ts, or Chromic Bicod or Bila Dineonas, Vaustion, Nervous Debibity. SCIENTIFIC, SKILLFUL, BUCC TREATMENT GUARANTEED. HOURS: $105:30p.m.:8to¥ pm Ponig, _tyli3m CONSULTATION FREE. NOTICE. CHANG: OF OFFI Ver bad. baciees Grates Ly Thy tea" Revwe hue thon boars wile Bae pe ish Sop asrena 8 Sim. tof pun. culy. 0.5 CARLETON MED. STRANGERS, TAKE NOTICE—DRS BROTHRES ‘and Gray” treat all Gals estabi ‘aivertiaiue inonses aie 45 years. 905 Bata. PROFESSIONAL. ae es Open Sundays. Hesidence, a ota ata TON ©. an: WalCor, Susi 1 83r wee CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROL- ‘ME. BROOKE TELLS ALL THE oF Mit ‘Ai Qamnews sonata. batter wad gen on m to 8 pm a SOc. each. Bi Fork ave. new. near Och ot EANER. THE ENGLISH AND i seashore: 20, returning Sept, 50. Ofice hours Sem. to bp 3 mt 5 nm. 1808 4th st ow. eee LoOitie Fowler THE WrLi-KxowN twatnente, Hou Sl Spa ted ene Marryat’s book in No For ame sage. 818 H st. aw. my l>-lm* PIANOS AND ORGANS. = ——4 JPRIGUT PIANO, SAME AS NEW: HIGHEST ene “X RAKAUER”™ PIANOS DO NOT REQUT! Keeney ee AT Sees a G. 8. 5 Agt., 1208 G. Tr Sreaxs Its Wonra In every tone it sends forth—the famous DECKER PiANO. Many a performer owes lace part of bis success to this PIANO. ‘We have “Decker'y", all styles of cases plein and fancy—auy wood you like—aay Price you Ike, SANDERS & BLA TMAN, 954 F An : S, 938 FST. XW. RAMP TRAMP, TRAMP—THAT IS iT beeain WErmer ste ‘amping apd call at We Plane Ware Rooms and ses that siahty: weed iano which jax been reduced ToS ANP snREPAIEING GEORGE. BLY. iano tuner and repairer, Workshop in the rear; orgame tdned = eee \HURCH ORGAN FOR SALE— A two-manual organ store, costing originally $3,500, wiil be commons dow figure. — ELLY ‘SIC STORE, tay22-1m ST eee we ILLIAM ©. FRISSELL. Wwe 36TH ST. Sw. Stchange. Poe ores! STIEFF. Paicdescotioa kisi o rove wind come oc oostne meme aon PRPeRe Oiler, arnaeew. SUEDNWAL, CHASE. GABLER, BRIGGS PIANOS, SS Organs and Wilcox & White ony Jor sale OF rect. DKOOP'S Music Store, D20-tr 225 Pa ave. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. Errs:s Cocoa. BREAKFAST, “Py a thorouch Knowle eof thenat ira! lawewble® pert vite ton amd tion of the Hine properties of wa Egon, hae prowl ‘yreakaat avore’| beverage, whic tn Sites its by the ede diet ‘that a constitution “UNIT wttone enced to To ‘of eultie ete | JAMES EPPS & CO., Homeopathic Chemists, Lew on, England = Stam ent