Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1893, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. AUGUST 19, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES: through j in beauteous time ts, I dare say, an enjoy- ment which can be get from no other means of summer outing. And since the advent of the pneu- matic that means for giving pleasure has | Written assumed proportions | for ef no small dimen- sions. The old solid- ‘The Evening Star. tired bicycle and the bad roads never did go well together, and tales of disgust can be told by every one who has ever attempt- | €2 long trips on that vehicle. But now that the wheelman rides on ait the disagreea- | bieness of the rough and sand roads about obviated to such an extent that where one had to fume and foam and al- low beads of perspiration to chase each other down his curved spine, to say naught | of the time consumed in blessing the county | officials, he can spin along with compara- | tive ease The bad roads still exi: however, and if one would wait for better he had better | sive up the idea of tourin; The writer spent_a week of pleasure on the is from Washington to Pittsburg and along that route, through the Potomac to Cumberla: ike to Pittsburg. Not a mile was uni le. At many places stretches twenty miles of hard, smooth road, as good as a track, tempts one to test his speed, but when ‘out for a pleasure jaunt he Wants no interference from this city Idea. Better count that time lost that is used for scorching through the beautiful country. ‘The enjoyment of a tour can be had by l_except those who go racing over hill and daie with their eyes riveted on the &round before them: who get on the road early and are fagged and saddle worn at night; who eat their meals because it is meal ‘time and stop unwillingly only long enough to munch necessary food. i made no itinerary and left Washington without a route. 1 did have a mackintosh, aiso a deter: tion; the latter was to make enjoyment for myself and to make the Lest of the roads as [ found them. It rained on the morning of leavimtg, but the asphalt on Lith street had dried and that, with the knowledge that it had not been raining long, made me expect more of the pike than I should have expected, and until reaching the th street road I was brimming over with courage. But as I left the asphalt and struck the road something of*a sudden gave way and I found myself skating around through the mud trying to keep my equilibrium. But it availed me nothing, for the whole road- way gave a lurch and I, with a grand sweep and & michty plunge, was lowered to earth, with my spirits and the bicycle on top of me. A little incident like that was, of course, necessary, and with that assurance I partly | raised my spirits. It took less effort to! raise the wheel, so, with a tinge of cau-{ I remounted and slipped, splashed and foundered along to Brightwood. What a/ sight I was when I reached there. I was bespattered with mud from cap to pedal | pushers and nearly tired to death. i I sat down to rest and reflect. Presen| an electric car came glong and with it a thrili and a few ungallant longings to re- turn. The idea of giving way to such feelings, to think of returning to the city in an elec- tric car: I went behind the blacksmith shop and shamed myself. With tecth agrit I rede on to Silver Spring and found the roads at places a lit- tle better, then to Slico with a more no- ticeable improvement. i was becoming en- couraged. Here the hiiis begin, and the road being so well drained the rain had rather bettered than harmed its condition, leaving it hard and smooth. ong, came near regaining my 4 had a chance to enjoy the air and beautiful landscape. I would vary the entertain- »y metaphorically kicking myself for rt wanting to ride back to the city. men! Caucht in a Rainstorm. So T rete for an hour or more, trying to make myself feel at ease and unconscious of the low-hanging clouds. Presently a drop of rain struck back of the ear and lashing down my neck. With a Tremor T raised my eves and found that it it was three minutes off and S three Tailes om, ‘aod Set nd tna few minutes noticed smoke Curling up il at 2 bend in the road QMiknew 2 rescuer was near, but it was foo late, and notwithstanding the mackin- fosn whe I reached the porch of the farm re Twas somewhat A kindly “at_oM lady answered my knock. ‘She Bfiba’me Into the kitchen, where 1 hung My cap and coat behind the stove, and By pel myself in a big blanket which the handed. me. reeable people quainted. 0 pl air up to fre T dried ont ata. tim: exchanged views with the farmer, w SXtner “talkative, about farms a ant cattie and a great many other sub- jects that Tdidn't know anything about ‘The wife was busy preparing the a when Tarrived, and T alle meal. Mate me to stay and hetp them e he fac in They proved to be very soon became ac- the it. Afterward. the rain having ceased, I struck out for Frederick: city. Of for Frederick. A few miles of mud road brought me to Ridgeville, then a pike solid and Yad though a country of rolling scener the city ‘The afternoon after that morning of ex- periences was deliehtfal. After crossing the railroad beyond Ridce- ville lone rows of locust trees line the rosd- way.at places forming perfect arenes ahove fts ma af surface, and for .ailes along the w erfurne from thelr sweet blos soms scented the air. ‘The eff. the refreshing morning rain | : greens were wher. and colors «! a more brit! as are so familiar the roadway, and face darted a frisky fonaliy leaving re the on ¥ Httle chipmunk. for the flower-hed reamner Ine, however, to its sheltering crevice when there was cause for al ‘The binds seemel t overflowing with melody. from the wood. the meadowland came their merry roundelays, and with their songs still reneating them- I “1 into the quaint olf city by the M. . Over the Btae After a good night's r meal I took to the road ing being bricht and be 3 morn- fal, and summit of the street and historic old which, it is said, assed what re house om the creek, from Bartara Frietchie, th her four-score 3 Bravest of all in Frederick town, | @efiantly waved her tag in the faces of acs and ten, | | went trickling down the mountain. | summit, where the descent began. The sight | ridge was anyt SCENES BY | fighting was done. jin Gen. Stonewall Jackson and his men, who were leaving the city for the Cumberland valley In September, 1882. I followed their route across the valley and up the mountains, and at the same time followed Gen. McClellan's course, for with his 7,000 men he went in pursuit over the same some pull the steep mountain side, but I was ly compensated for the fa- tigue it cost. The views obtained even be- fore reaching the summit were of rare beauty. Frederick's spires and housetops could be seen peeping from behind the 1 tervening woods, while the undulating flelds and woodlands stretched for miles and miles through the blue and purple ‘atmosphere to the north and south till blurred into the hazy distance. Sparkling springs of the purest icy water gushed forth on each side of the roadway at intervals dnd formed little rivulets, which I refreshed myself many times at these grateful fountains, while I loitered in the delightful atmosphere, gazing on the splen- dor of the outspreading miles of nature and jogged along toward the backbone of the idge. Soon T rounded a turn in the road at the of that coast ahead, winding down into the valley, would have been sufficient cause for great delight, but it was the sight that met my gaze that held me spellbound. I was so thoroughly enraptured that I could with difficulty ‘refrain from uttering aloud my feelings of delight; 1t was of such surpass- ing beauty, and all so sudden and unex- pected. A Beautiful View. It was the charming little Middletown valley, peaceful and quiet, spread out below me like a huge piece of crazy patchwork. To nothing could it be more truly likened, for the different colored fields and woods, orchards and meadows, reflecting streams, roadways, farmhouses and villages, stitched together into a whole of odd shapes and sizes, with the hedges and fences, and the bushes which grew along the small streams. gave it that appearance, only on @ erand seale. ‘The village of Middletown lies nearly oj posite, half way between the two moun! ridges, which hem the valley ia so effect- ually from the world to the east and west. ‘The rich. well tilled farms nestle closely up to the village, and stretching away in pano- ramic beauty up and down the valley, till the eye blends them with the hazy air’into the sky. About on a level with my position and im- mediately over the center of the valley floated lazily along a small bank of rain clouds. So evenly were they strung and so slowly did they travel that 1f wou not have been a ‘hard matter to imagine them made of something more substantial and suspended mechanically from the tops of the two mountain ridges. ‘The sky above was clear and the sun was shining brightly; but from somewhere came little clouds which jomed at the head of the bank. I watched it for a time and saw it grow darker as it expanded; soon the mass began to tumble about and move to the north, then came a flash and a rumbl of thunder, followed with a sprinkle and then the shower. I had the novel experience of seeing a rainstorm manufactured! The rain didn't last long. | So. celectantty uitting my position, T coas' lowly down the. mountain side, enjoying the landscape le. "The vide through the valley to the opposite hing but tiresome after a scene like that, and with the partial knowl- ce already ‘had of what I should behold when I reached the summit again to look | | | out over a grander valley—the Cumberland. Old South Mountain. At Turner's Gap, two miles from Boones- boro’, I left the pike to wind myself up on old South mountain, where the lighthouse ands like a sentinel guarding the beautiful valiey. It is rather unpretentious In appearance, but in its whitewashed simplicity, shining in the sunlight, with dark forest’ trees for background, ‘can be seen from any point in the Cumberiand valley. During the battle of Antietam, the federal soldiers used it for a signal station, and from its commanding position can now be seen most of the points of the battle ground | made famous on that awful seventeenth of September. From Pen-Mar to Harper's Ferry the scene extends; and when this living picture is once seen it'can, I venture, never be erad- effects of the two rivers which join forces here, and whose waters in ages past cleft in twain the rock-ribbed barrier to the east, now Maryland and Loudoun heights, ‘The Shenandoah valley stretches away to the south, and 1s followed by the river of the same name into the garden spot of Vir- ginfa. In this valley during the war troops marched back and forth through sunshine and storm and cold and snow, now Union, now confederate,going to and from the front. On the other hand flows the placid Potomac from among the green hills, where I was to join It in a day to follow its lead to the west. Hagerstown was my destination that evening, but I had no thought of hurrying. Instead I lazied along, napped at places by the shady roadway, sketched at nature's pictures, “and enjoyed to my heart's delight the pleasant country scenes. And not until evening, either, did I saunter into Mr. Hager’s town. A.J. ——se ISSISSIPPI METEOR STORY. ion Terrified by the of One as Big as a Hogshead. From the Americus, Ga., Times-Recorder. J. K. Mattox, a well-known citizen of Simpson county, Miss, who owns an ex- tensive farm eighteen miles southeast of Brandon, gives a remarkable account of a huge meteoric stone which fell near his res- idence on the night of July 21. Mr. Mattox states that about 10 o'clock at night he went out into his barnyard to see that everything was right about his premises. The night was somewhat cloudy. He had visited his barns, and was on the point of returning to his house when all at once he heard a peculiar hissing sound overhead, and at the same instant a lumin- ous glow fell gll around him, as if the moon had suddenly emerged from’behind a cloud. He looked up, and was almost paralyzed at the sight of a brilliant, fiery globe de- scending through the air with the speed of lightning, and shooting a comet-like tail far up into the heavens. So rapid was the descent that it was only visible for a sec- ond, but in that brief space, he says, he suffered an eternity of unspeakable terror. The fire ball struck the earth with a duli report scarcely 300 yards from where he stood. It was some minutes before he could re- gover the use of his limbs, when, running astily to his house, he aroused the family and several laborers’ about the place, tellin them a comet had struck the earth an they had only a few minutes to pray. In a short while the whole plantation was up, and women and children were heard crying and supplicating heaven for mercy. They could not get closer than about thirty yards on account of the heat and noxious fumes of sulphur and gas which the stone emitted, ‘The stone sizzled and steamed and shot out jets of steam or vapor from a thousand pores. By daylight it showed up a dull, dingy black, and was full of pores, which still shot out jets of vapor of an offensive smell which almost stified. The stone {s evidently imbedded in the ground for some distance, and shows only about a foot above the surface. Mr. Mattox estimates it to be about the size of a hogshead. There is no doubt whatever of the truth of this statement. ‘The stone will be put on exhibition at Jac! son as soon as it can be handled. Mr. Mat- tox hopes to realize a handsome sum for It from some of the great societies interested in meteoric collections. Tt is certainly the largest wanderer from the realms of space that ever found its way to earth. ee eee. MORE BRITISH NAVAL FAILURES. The Score or So “Torpedo Catchers” Prove Unable to Catch Any ins. From the London Pall Mall Gazette. ‘One of the most serious pieces of news in connection with the naval maneuvers is re- ported by the correspondent of the Stand- ard. He states that when ordered to ac- company the royal sovereign at full speed the torpedo catcher Niger could not steam fourteen knots. Now the Niger is one of the latest of an immense class of vessels, nearly thirty in number, which has been turned out by the admiralty to perform a specifie duty. The torpedo catchers are small boats of from 700 to 90 tons, with en- gines of from 1,500 to 4,500 ho1 power. They &re intended to be the British reply to the very large force of torpedo boats which the French have placed in the channels and in the Mediterranean, ‘The thedry is that in anythihg approaching to a sea-way they wiil run down and destroy the fleetest tor- pedo boat. Their speed is supposed to vary from nine- teen to twenty-one knots. As a matter of fact, the whole class, with ‘scarcely an ex- | ception, 1s a notorious and dismal failure, Few of the catchers can average sixteen knots; many have failed to. maintain an even lower speed. Their funnels become red hot when the boilers are being. push=4, and tongues of flame from thelr furnaces Indicate thelr approach at night. The French have many torpedo boats capable of running twenty-five knots and upward. ‘To set a vessel like the Niger to catch one of these boats would be like pursuing an ex- press train In a hansom cab. Jt is to be Fegretted that in building six ships of the Hawk class, vessels of 215 tons and. 3,600 horse power, without trying one boat of the series, the admiralty are repeating the fault that has incumbered the navy list with over a score of failures of the Niger type. Seong pombe Inoculation for Yellow Fever. From the Mrdteal Record. Dr. Domingos Freire, a distinguished hysician and scientist of Rio Janeiro, who Ras made a long and painstaking study, of yellow fever, claims to have discovered the specific micro-organism of the disease, and has prepared from cultures of this bacillus reventive vaccine by means of which he believes that he can render unacclimuted individuals immune to yellow fever. ‘These claims have not received general acceptance, and are flatly disputed by many, among whom is Surgeon General Sternberg of the United States army, who has studied Freire’s method in the latter's laboratory, | and rejects his alleged discovery of the i crobe of the disease as unproven. This re- jection gave rise to much controversy, less, perhaps, on the part of the principals than on that of their followers, which is even yet unstilled. Dr. Freire has reasserted his claims in a brochure published within the last year, and only a few weeks ago an ac- tive ‘correspondence was going on in the pages of a contemporary between the friends of one and the other party to the dispute. At seems to us that here is an opportuni- ty for Dr. Freire to prove the correctness of his theory and the validity of his claims to the discovery of a preventive vaccine, which will be far better and more convine- ing than the shedding of gallons of ink. Let him induce the Brazilian government, in an auspicious interval between revolu- tions, to send him to Santos, with full au- thority to practice his inoculation upon all who are willing to submit themselves to the experiment, and as drowning men will catch at straws the wretched survivors of the plague in Santos will doubtless be only too ready to take advantage of anything that promises them immunity. Then let Dr. Freire go to the doomed city with his assistants and establish his laboratory there and vaccinate all who come. feated from the mind, Following the ridge to the north a gliramer from the lookout at Pen-Mar can be seen; to the west nestles the prosperous little city of Hagerstown; and far and near are strewn the numerous smalier settlements. At the foot of the mountain can be seon the | housetops of Hoonesboro’, and you can count them, every one. Sharpsburg les to the southwest, five miles as the crow flies, and shines from behind the green hills while opposite, across the gap to the south, rises Elk mountain. At Sharpsburg. I coasted nearly into Eoonesboro’ after re- tracing my steps from the monument, and after resting and enjoying a cigar at the “tavern,” rode on to Sharpsburg over one of the hard, smooth Mmestone roads for which this valley and her sister, the She- nandoah, are justly noted. In thet queer old town, where the in- habitants underground far outnumber the population, I satisfled the inner man in a “tavern” opposite the shell-searred house whe-e Gen. Lee had his headquarters dur- ing his stay in Sharpsburg. iv 1, on my wheel, Burnside’s twidge, the bloody lane, Dunker Church, the field which is known as the cornfield, ‘and other places on the grounds where the worst Then, the nation’s cemetery, I had places pointed out that I could only reach with difficulty. Lines of battle were shown; where the divisions chazged and fought nd changed positions; where batteries were and routed; ‘where reserves were where they Bivouaced and camped and piled the dead. and where the generals stood to engineer their forces. Harper's Ferry. Harper's Ferry is only a short distance to the south. In this picturesquely quaint eld hamlet, where the hissing geese guard the streets and pickaninnies stare at | strangers, I tarried long enough to note | the moss-covered old stone houses, which | along the river at the base of Bolivar, from the tower | | If he succeeds in rendering the remaining | | inhabitants of the place proof against the | | attacks of yellow fever, the plague will be | | stamped out and the name of Dr. Domin- | gos Freire will go down the ages along with | | that of other great benefactors io the hu- | man race. And his fame will not be posthu- mous, but he will have the happiness of | hearing his praises sung througaout the | world, and honors will be heaped upon him in numbers to satisfy the most ambitious. This is Dr. Freire’s opportunity, and our only wonder is that he has not beiore this recognized it and made it his own. cee —__— Colorado Gold. From the Ros‘on Herald. It is difficult to understand the reported | great exodus of miners from Colorado. It appears that within seventy- Denver there are rich gold fields which 0: require a little more intelligently devoted labor to be enormously profitable. A singlet county in this belt now has a daily output of 3,000 in gold. ‘Though its area {s less | ” square miles, it has ten or fifte he quertz veins of Ruggel Bear and bett is about seventy-five mies long and| two miles wide. Gold in large quantities | has been found on the surface and a few| five miles of | feet below it. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold has been plucked from the grass roots in this belt of which no record has been made. Hundreds of claims are held by poor prospectors who do not know what to do with them or lack the capital to develop. There is said to be gold enough within a radius of eight miles of Lake Clty to pay the national debt. ‘There is enoush gold in the quartz veins of Rugged Bear and San Miguel guiches to supply the wortl's demand. But it needs more capital and bet. ter methods, and the profit. will’ follow. Here would ‘seem to be an ample field for the silver mine owners and their employes. ss A Natural Conclusion, From Texas Siftings. Minnie—“I had such a shock last even- ing. Just as I started to go into the house agreat horrid man jumped out from be- hind a tree and tried to kiss me. What do you think of that?” Mamie—“I think he must have been crazy.” -ses The Toast That Caught Them All. From the Argonaut. Alphonse Karr, the gardener-poet, was present at a banquet given by the followers of Hahnemann, the founder of home- opathy. Toasts were given to the health of one medica! celebrity after another by different members of the company, till at last the president remarked: “Mr. Karr, you have not proposed the health of any ‘ The poet rose and replied modestly: | | \ | | ® and from whose heights one gets the scenic “I propose the health of the sick. i INTERESTING GOSSIP AboutTasteful Decorations, Tempting Dishes and Prevailing Fashions, ARRANGING A ROOM, Princess May Receives a Wedding Gift of Interest to Americans. HOW WOMEN DRESS. eee OUSE DECORA- tion is always inter- esting, and to any one who watches do- mestic art the wide- spread ignorance that prevails in regard to general decorative ef- fects and harmony of color seems deplor- able, and the result of this ixnorance causes distress to one with a sensitive taste, even in the homes cf friends, where one should experience rest and pleasure. He who can afford to secure the guidance of an expert need not be greatly exercised about the treatment of his house, but to those whose incomes are very moderate real art 1s also possible, owing to modern enterprise and ingenuity, which have pro- duced decorative fabrics and furniture in excellent designs at prices that would once have been looked upon ag entirely out of Proportion to the merits of the word. To have each room in the house furnished and decorated in @ manner appropriate to its use is an early principle to pear in mind. The drawing room with short-legged “gossip chairs” and se eral really easy ones to recline in; the din- ing room should have an “ingle nook," (he Ubrary a “cozy nook,” and the hall a cheer- ful fire, which is next in value co the warm welcome of the hostess after cold, long Journey. There is melancholy, satisfactory limits of the no, further necessity for using Ly designs wal pers. cholee’ can be had. within pie nnest purse. A room origi- nally dull can be relieved and given # pleas- ant decorative effect by a pretty, cheerful wall paper; and if bath enamel—within the reach of the most modest decorator—is used in transforming old gilt mirror and picture frames (which must be frequently sized) into deep Ivory an apartment of ghastly old- fashioned arrangement may be. positively illuminated with cheerfulness, P™ As an illustration, a dainty bed room of moderate expense may be fitted up after the forging plan: Have the walls papered with pale blue with a wide apple blossom frieze, finished with ivory painted rail: the ceiling paper be cream and gold, ‘and have all the woodwork painted antique ivory, almost a buff shade. Drape the win- dows with dainty French cretonne lined with a faint shade of old pink, sind arrange inner curtains of soft cream’ Ynuslin. The basket chairs should be painted tvory and draped with the cretonne. If there is a fixed wardrobe have it enameled also, with the panels filled in with cretonne to match the hangings, tightly stretched over and made neat at the edge with a tiny wooden molding. The bed can be Araped in Ttallan style by fixing a slender at the head each side to sup- 3 let with a movable bracket at port the curtains. These are simply screwed on to the wall and he can be moved any way. On the floor before bed, Hurean and mantel can be laid soft colored, ineapens- ive Japanese rugs. In wealthy artistic homes fancy run: riot among the styles of Louis Quinze, J cobean, early English, Dutch or Italian Renaissance. A very effective style is the mauresque decoration, especially in favor for corner embellishments rooms, libraries, dining rooms and_ halls, this: corner treatment being intended to “mask” ugly angles. The woodwork of exhibits delicate Aral the mauresque_ style b arches and tracery, and Is oftenest enameled in ivory, which enhances the dainty efect, although, the woodwork Is also very e in Arab red or Alhambra blue. A courageous idea of decoration has re- cently been attempted in the home of a London artist, where the priaciple acted upon—first, that a room is a backround for human beings, and, second, that the pic- tures on the walls of rooms are an integral part of the scheme of color—has been ca: ried out with such success that the pictures seem like jewels in thelr places. ‘The reason for this is the minor decora- tions, wall color, cabinets, curtains, car- pets,’ do not clash with the pictures, A snow scene has been placed on a white a primrose ‘sunset on ‘a’ primrose and on a purple background in a wall, purple and gold room hus been hung a painting of mountains bathed in purple distance, while over the mantelpiece’ a sheet of heather “returns to the keynote of purple like the last chord of a song.’ Savories and Hors @Oeuvre. These appetizing little dishes have of late been brought very much to the front on well cared for dinner tables. In many houses they have almost superseded the sweet dishes, and they are so very nice, both in appearance and taste, they place great attractions within the power of the housewife. In serving hors d’oeuvre are placed sepa- rately on a plate, one to each guest, while saVories are served on a dish and handed round, each guest helping him or herself. However, though this distinction exists, it is not essential, and either can be placed on the table before the guests come into the dining room, a separate helping for each guest, or in little dishes along the table, so placed that the various diners can conveni- ently help themselves. In the latter case are the inevitable olives, also sardines, slices of di it kinds of sausage and an- chovies. When served separately they are a little more elaborately prepared. Another popular fashion, lately introduc- ed, is handing round several kinds of these hors d’oeuvre and savories together in a low dish having three bowls attached to one handle, so that guests may choose one most to their taste. Some Tempting Dishes. A delicious savory is curry toast. For this wash and pound four ounces of an- chovies with a little curry powder, a little vinegar, a little mustard and enough butter to make it all into a smooth paste. Spread this mixture on hot buttered toast and let it get thoroughly hot in the oven. Garnish with water cress tossed in oil and vinegar. Deviled biscuits make a tempting relish. Butter some water biscuits generously on both sides and dust them with pepper; rub a slice of good cheese to a smooth paste with a little made mustard, and cover one side of each biscuit with this mixture. Grill them over a clear fire. For a savory sandwich appetissant pound, together to a smooth paste one rt of fresh butter and See of grated armesan cheese and made mustard to taste; butter some thin slices of bread with ‘this mixture and lay on half their number a thin slice of bologna or any other sausage. Press the rest of the cheese-spread bread on the above, cut them into neat, narrow sandwiches and serve on a bed of mustard and cress. A pretty hot savory can be made by fill- ing tartlets of rich puff paste with a sav- ory meringue of whipped white of egg and Parmesan cheese and setting them in the oven till the meringue is crisp and of a retty pale fawn color. ‘The pastry tart- ie 's should be baked before the meringue is put in. A similar savory, cold, can be made by substituting for the meringue some cold stiff whipped cream with grated Par- mesan to taste. Pile this up in a rocky manner In the tartlets and serve. A quaint savory is caviar sandwich. Slice some white bread very thin and cut off the crust. Then with a cake cutter cut it into small rounds. Spread delicately with but- ter, then with caviar, and lastly sprinkle with green onions, chopped very fine, Lay | another round of bread upon this and pile the sandwiches high on a dish. Garnish with finely chopped parsley. Princess May. Princess May received one wedding gift that might be of interest to all Americans. It came from Sulgrave, a secluded Oxford- shire village, where the ancestors of George Washington lived and died as lords of the manor. The gift was in the shape of a cake stand, madc of oak grown in the village and beautifully carved with the Washing- ton arms. By her marriage with the Duke of York this princess has attained a notoriety not heretofore acquired by princesses, not even by ‘actresses, singers or famous divines. Patti has probably derived some personai gratification, possibly some pecuniary gain, and certainly constant advertising reaching a value not to be lightly estimated, by al- lowing her name to be associated with a particular brand of soap, and the feel- ings of Lilly Langtry on finding her name attached to an advertised perfume may have been quite enviable, but for Princess May to have her popularity made illus- trious in London shop windows, where one May see exposed and labeled the “Princess May” slow combustion stove, must be too completely, though unconsciously, humor- ous to be agreeable, of drawing | A Chat About Fashions. Women have been accused of dressing to please the tastes of men, but either that is a false charge or they do not always un- derstand that in the opinion of most men simplicity is the greatest of all merits in the art of dress. Men appreciate quite as much as women do every detail of a perfect tollet, but they are not capable of yielding to the passing idea of a gown overtrimmed or befrilled—it does not appeal to their admira- tion as does the well-built tailor gown. Yet women cannot be guided entirely and always by simplicity, because when severe simplicity is not the mode a woman’ ‘3 charms do not seem to be shown off to the best advantage in that style of dress. It is always better to follow the fashion, what- ever it may be, to the extent, at least, of not losing sight of it, although if one is to err it would be better to err-on the side of Simplety. im returning to the styles of i3X be well if the 4 = ed in time it wi belles of today could be to save them from su eccentricities of that date thu: w rously unbecoming—the bell-shaped skirts and exorbitantly wide capes on the should- ers, the puffed and distended slcoves de- tracting from a trim, neat effect, which combine to" rob women of Skirts excessively wide are unw of the ere ludic- aven= fent and ungraceful, and furttier, the ex- treme tightness that is in né for the upper portion of many skirzs is decidedly unbecoming and lacking in xrace for any foman who has reached an uge beyond However, whether they be becoming or unbecoming. sliuple or elaborase, the pres~ ent fashions will soon melt into eth 5 Whereas, when the thrifty 1X demes bought a handsome gown it lasted. them for years. That was a luxurious period, and dress occupied women's thougnts quite 4s much then as now, but fashions changed far more slowly. A rapid revolution in style has some ad- vantages. If our pretty, becoming. com- fortable, sensible things are snatched away from us before we have had time to enjoy them thoroughly, our ugly attempts are en- gulfed as well. “Among the latter are the goal scuttle bonnets, have attempted to’ revive. A wel ted romtenns aa recently declared, most e leally, tt “persons: styl will not wear them.” hansen Another antique horror that looms ahead threateningly for the autumn and winter season Is the “Spencer,” a kind of long pelisse, with tight-fitting body fastened by two rows of buttons, having wide revers and deep cuffs, and a jong skirt gathered on yada ied od noble army of plump er raye in“ neers Women ary pencers.”” May Worth While hideous fashions sometimes are tm- Posed upon us by Paris edicts, it is always Possible, in any era of fashion, for a wom: to find graceful, becoming ways of gowning herself if she will have the independence to consult her own face, figure and circum. stances,instead of following percipitately the most prominent modes. Natural Forms, At the present moment everything points to a return to natural forms. High shoul- ders have received a diminishing blow, and the natural slope of the shouMer is now seen again. The “going-away” gown made by Redfern for a recent distinguish- ea bride had a coat sleeve entirely free from the exaggeration even of a puff. As examples of unexaggerated lovely gowns from one of the best French houres, and from Redfern, designed to refute the assertion that wealthy women, when seen together at any “smart” function rowa- days, seem to be wearing the ugliest fash- jons of the century, a plain, simple dress of blue serge is worth mentioning. It wi made with a short jacket and a pale yel low batiste shirt embroidered in. black. The hat that accompanied it was of sun- urnt straw, trimmed with black ribbon. ‘Sunburnt” ‘straw is high in favor, muny gowns are crowned with hats made of it~ one especially picturesque example, worn with a costume of cornflower-blue serge, was sunburnt chip, trimmed with @ large bow of cornflower-blue ribbon, A stylish white serge from’ Reati three rows of graduated gold waved braid at distances on the skirt, while the jacke! @ kind of long bolero, has curved “ch. Knife” pockets, so called from their res blance to the curved blade used for chees: To be worn with this is a hat in the ne and fashionable color, toast-brown. It. is rather a large sailor shape with a gvod deal | of brim in brown fancy straw, and is tron-| med with a wreath of small ivy round the | crown, and a few deep red cherries at the back, two or three of them resting on the crown, The “Swallow dress’ Rovelties produced b; The material ts foul: different colors. So: known m has " Is one of the latest | YY a famous modiste. | ard, and is printed in me are in blue shades with the swallows in white, some in cafe- au-lait tone with black swallows, some are tender pink. On the skirt the swallows are arranged in pairs, but on the bodice they | fois DToduced very carefully, between | The mention of swallows brings to mind a fresh desien for a diamond brooch—a large owl with outspread wings. If with this ‘should be worn the decoration ‘dis- played this summer by a celebrated Jew er who evidently has Egyptian tastes the owl might seem to have excellent reasons for reading his wings ‘This fearfully magnificent hair ornament consists of a Jong, slender snake, entirely composed of brilliants. The tail’ encircles the coiffure | and the body rests on the head, the head of this “serpent of old Nile” nestling in. the fringe of hair and forming the forehead Jewel. In the head of the Cleopatra ser-| bent fs a large brilliant of extraordinary size, and the eyes are emeralds, SAPPHIRE. — A Cent Coined in Gold. From the Commercial Gaze'te. A mint proof tn gold of a copper cent is a great rarity, but W. L. Boyd of 214 Spear’s wh: jaitimore, has in his possession a eee proof of the first cent issued by the Jnited States government. It is over 100 years old. Under the confederation, on October 16, 1985, Congress passed an ordinance for es: tablishing a mint, and on July 6, 1787, the first cents were coined, 300 hundred tons in copper being ordered of James Jarvis, the contractor. This coin was called the Fugio cent because of the inscription on it. The at obverse bore a sun dial meridian, on one side of which word “Fugio,” referring to the time, while on the other was the Below the dial was the legend, “ Business.” from which the ¢ name “Franklin cent,” inas said to have uttered that sententious re mark. The reverse bore a chain of thir- teen links, each of which represented one of the original states, In the center were the words, “We Are One,” surrounded by with the sun | ring inscribed with the words, “United | States, Mr. Boyd's gold cent is exactly as here described, but there are sevei the Fuglo coin, most of the differences be- ing of minor ‘importance. One of .them, however, has the name of the country as “States United.” Another, which is very rare, has each of the chain links marked with the name of a state. After the Fugio coins were made the government put out no other coinage until 1791, when the eagie cent was issued. Only one other proof in gold of this cent fs known, It is not in as good condition as Mr. Boyd's, and sold recently for $125, One of them was sold in the Pratt collection in New York in October, 1879, and was clas fed as “unique” by W. Eliott Woodward, fhe numismatist, who ‘prepared the cata~ lozue. | Proofs of the Fuglo cent were also: made in silver. The gold proof is of very fine metal, and is of bright yellow, being nearly as large as a silver half dollar. ‘The mark- ing is very distinct, little wear showing upon it. varieties of soe. A Successful Storage Battery Motor. From the Sacramento Record-Union. We have information that leads us to believe that the storage battery problem in electrical science has been at last solved. It is a source of pride that the solution, if the story is true, is the result of the inventive genius of’ a Californian. Some years ago, when the storage bat- tery was tri: on street cars in this city, the Record-iUnion advised against it on the ground that it was uneconomical, un- der ‘the well-known laws of mechanics relative to the exertion of force to create horse power that is to be equal to the force exerted. We then said that with the ad- vance made by science to that date the storage battery could not be profitably used, and the experiment here made verified our statement. Rut we have it now that the difficulties in the way of building an economic storage battery have been overcome and that a car bas been running for a week in San Francisco with the new battery at a third Jess cost than under the trolley system, and that the economy of the new batter: has been go far demonstrated that electri- cians now concede the great end desired to have been attained. Let us hope that all this is true and that before many months the trolley poles and wires will disappear and the new. storaze battery become, as is promised, the chief motive power for street cars ‘and other light machinery, soe Rare American Coin: From the London Daily Coin collectors have long appreciated the difficulty of making 2 complete collection of ews. American specimens. The United States coinage of is very rare, and a dollar o' has often sold for as much as half cent is s and a half dollar of the same year is worth sixty times its original value. While the half ceat of 134 is common enough, all the other coins of that year are rare, the dollar of that particular date be- ing the rarest of all American coins. Only eight are known to exist out of the 19,570 that were coined. The lowest price that one of these now changes hands for is $900. ‘These prices are encouraging to collectors. rare as to sell | FREAKS IN MUSIC: BOXES. Some of the Queer Shapes They Come In. His Guests ‘Tunes in Many Curious W ye. All sorts of freaks in music boxes are in fashion just now. |. At @ dinner party you pick up a glass water bottle to help yourself from it, and, to your surprise, it begins to play a pretty tune. It keeps on playing with mysterious harmony while you fill your tumbler and until you set it down again. What looks like tce in the bottom of it 1s a concealment for a bit of machinery that produces two tunes. The price of the article, music and all, is only $3.50. After dinner your host offers you a cigar. You choose one and strike a match on a corrugated surface attached to the cup from which you took the weed.’ At once sweet music begins to be heard, the striking of the match having released’ the spring that Starts it. This piece of mechanism is wound up by a few turns of the ash receiver, which makes @ part of the smo! apparatus described. “The price asked for such a con- ivance at the snop is $7.50. in the aressing room provided by your entertainer on tts same occasion you may have found a toilet set in a box on the bu- reau. When the box was opened very likely it began to play @ tune, the musical ma- chinery being concealed ‘in the lower part of the receptacie. At the conclusion of the dinner a fruit piate is set down before you. Harmonious sounds proceeding from it excite your wonder, and your hostess ex- piains ‘that the pretty piece of china is joaded with melody by winding it up. It plays for five minutes and has two wunes, Une can get such plates for $10 each. if the hostess has occasion to summon a servant by means of a call bell the insti ment responds with a tune. No winding is needed in this case, the pushing down of the button at the top’ supplying the power to run the mechanism for half a minute or so. ‘This contrivance costs $6. On the sideboard a water pitcher which resembles the Water bottle, having within it a concealed music box. Adjourning to the drawing room you venture to look inside of a photograph aibum on the center table. On being opened it begins to play. ‘On the mantelpiece is a miniature Swiss chalet, in the front of which appears the face of an eight-day clock. Every hour the timepiece plays a tune, instead of striking, a hidden music box being run by the time- keeping machinery. It has six tunes. By the way, clocks are made nowadays which go 4) Gays without winding, But their mechanism is exceedingly delicate, and any jar is likely to put it out of order. How- ever, your attention is withdrawn from the timepiece by your host, who offers you a Pinch of snuff from a gold snuffbox. No, you do not take snuff. It is just as well, for the snuffbox is not a real one, Your host touches a spring and, the lid of the box flying open, out pops a little bird in bright feathers, which warbles most beauti- fully for two or three minutes. Then it pops back again, the lid shutting upon it ani concealing it from view. The contriv- ance is quite @ complicated one, the mech- anism being as elaborate as that of a watch. It is run by a spring and clock- work, with a little bellows and a whistle. You Cannot buy one for less than $150. The bird in this case is very small—not more than an inch long. But you can get a full-sized artificial songster in a gilded cage, which will carol to your heart's con- tent for the trouble ef winding it up. You can have a canary, a robin, or a nightin- gale, a8 you choose. For $169 you can pur- chase such a bird, with a porcelain vase and imitation flowers, among which the feather- ed warbler perches. ‘The mechanism of | clockwork, bellows and whistle is the same. Two songsters of this kind render melodi- ous the diningroom attached to Phil Daly's gambling house at Long Branch. Music boxes have bezome wonderfully cheap of late years. Nearly all of them are made in Switzerland. Although forty-five per cent duty is charged on them, you can buy one with a single tune for as little as 40 cents. For $1.45 you can get one with three tunes. These are of the cylindrical pattern, somewhat resembling cans of Pressed’ meat in outside appearance. Chil- dren have them for playthings in the nurs- ery. Their melody is produced by the con- tinual turning of a little crank. For $2.0 one can purchase a rectangular box with four tunes, which goes by means of a spring, just like a big one. A very pretty it for $15. box with elght tunes can be The small cost of labor in Switzerland renders it possible to produce these boxes at such prices, Of course, the most essential parts of the mechanism are the roller and the steel comb. The little pins projecting from the surface of the roller catch the tecth of the comb and make the music. Necessarily, the adjustment of the pins on the roller is a slow and careful process. They have to be put in one by one by hand. Women do this work, the distances of the pins being gauged by a mechanical contriv- ance. ‘The comb fs cut out by machine and ts filed down by hand to the tone required. BY the automatic shifting of the roller it is made to serve for several tunes. But not more than eight tunes are put ordinarily on one cylinder. The fewer the tunes the het- ter the tone of the instrument, the comb he- ine finer. When there are many tunes, wider spaces must be left between the teeth of the comb for the pins to pass through which are not intended to contribute to the music. = One style of music box is made with two combs for the reason just mentioned. This is called “sublime harmony.” The volume of sound produced by it is much greater. Such a box with ten tunes costs $%. Other 3 are called respectively the “piccolo, rremolo,” the “guitas and the “man- according to the instruments which re supposed to imitate. The comb of iccolo” has an octave of short and fine teeth, giving very nizh and a most shrill notes, like the little fut it counterfeits. These notes, high above the staff, produce a beautiful effect. The “tremolo” has a quaver in every note, like the singing of a third rate tenor. This is very pleasing to some people, thoush not to good judges of music. Attached to most of the music boxes nowadays ts a levice for giving what {is called the “zither effect.” ‘This is simply an arrangement for bringing nto contact with the teeth of the comb a strip of tissue paper. Its effect on the notes is very much like that of a sheet of naper laid upon the strings of a piano. It is not pleasing to the educated ear. ‘The finest type of music box 1s a com- plete orchestrion four or five feet long, with bellows and reeds. It is a compleze orches- tra in a box and will All jJarge room wit! sound, having sweet bells and rolling drums to help out the ensemble. An instrament like this costs $1,060. Some people make the objection that such big music boxes look too much like coffins. To get over this dim- culty, articles of furniture resembling side- boards are made to inclose thera, with shelves underneath for extra cylinders. | The best music boxes are commonly made with interchangeable rollers. One of the latter can be readily taken out an substituted for it at Moment’s notice, with fresh tunes. For such an orchestrion as the above described each extra cylinder costs $189. Another ‘style of orchestrion is run by an alcohol motor, which keeps it go- ing for two hours continuously. All. you have to do is to light the lamp and off she The instrument uses ee ic sheets, like an orguinette. ‘The music costs 7 cents a yard. It comes in books, @ single volume containing a whole opera, which unfolds itself ey by page and is fed automatically to the machine. The lat- ter is a contrivance with strings, which are struck by hammers. It sounds ‘very much like a piano and costs $1 Another new style music box Is accompanied by as many big sheet iron disks as one cares to buy. | Each disk ts one tune. As it revolves per- | forations in it catch the steel teeth of the comb. Music boxes-cost a little more now than they did in 189, when the duty on ghem was only 2 per cent. The manufacturers say that the musical phonographs have not done their business any harm. +o. Rillions of Gold, but as Yet Unmined. Frota South Africa, An experimental boring 2500 feet 4 was*recently made in the Witwatersran gold ticid, with a view to testing the lie of the auriferous deposits. The result was of the most satisfactory character, and the “strike” has led to calculations of the hid- den wealth of these fields, and possibly the following by Mr. Scott Alexander may be interesting as showing the rich possibili- ties of the future: Circumference of basin, 4) miles; diameter, 127 miles; area, 12,58) | ites, or 360, Ow square feet, aking average thic of eight series of blanket beds at 6 feet cequal to 48 fect), equals 16,834,0053,056,000 cuble feet of reef oF at 15 cubic feet to the ton, 10,521,433,160,00) tons. . Per_ton (very’ low), value of | gold 6 578,196,224,000, or one billion | five hundred and ‘seventy-cight. thousand adred and ninety-six millions two and twenty-four thousand pounds sterling. Taking the population of Wit-| tersrand at 40,000 souls, this allows each | 454,906 128. 64. | The Pace That Kills. | From Lite. | prizes, so that the luckiest girl is the Tr FIFTEEN HAPPY WOMEN. Work Accomplished at the Montreal Benevolent Society Home, ‘There ts no sectional feeling about Paine’s cel- | Ty compound. It is found in Wousands of homes im the north, the east, the south and the west. it ‘ws above party and politics. ‘The strong and truthful statement made a short ‘time ago by an old Physician in New York that “Paine’s celery compound ts life and health to thousands of sickly and suffering women,” is fully and amply borne out OY results obtained in the Ladies’ Benevolent Society's Home, Montreal. People in every section of the world have heard of the charitable and Christian ‘work done by wealthy and philanthropic ladies of Montreal in the noble institution just referred. to, which has been in existence nearly sixty~five years. A year ago it was deemed advisable to introduce Paine’s celery compound into the home, as so much had been said by the Physicians in favor of the great remedy. Indeed, many friends, contributors and workers for the home, had themselves used Paine’s celery compound and obtained astonishing benefits. “Never in the history of this long-established institution,” reads the Teports, “was anything re- ceived with greater demonstration of joy and thankfulness. “Fully @ score of worthy old ladies, suffering from rheumatism, nervous complaints and other | j | ‘Grave troubles, soon found a new life, energy, vi and a freedom from pain that other medicines he@ falled to accomplish. ‘The old ladies rest sleep better, eat better andare freer from ‘than they have been for years.” ‘Tre ofliciais of the Montreal Ladies’ Benevolent Society have not been slow to recoguize the fact ‘that the 014 ladies ‘under their care derived great good. The lady directresses have oMelally writtem, to the proprietors of Paine’s celery (COMponbd, Che ressing their hearty thanks for the good @one. Above is a photograph of group of the womemy benefited—as “happy & group as canbe tmagined,®: ‘Says the Jetier that accompanies tt, “mage happy by that life invigorator, Paine's celery conpouna® Its because old age to most people means dee Uility, loss of powers of mind and body, and @ growing weariness and weakness that it ts @readed} ‘But there's another kind of old age now possible, ‘One cannot defy death, but he can disease. Nature meant old age to be hale and sonnd, and by attending closely to the means of repait of the body one may lite according to mature, to # grand old age in the best sense. Paine’s celery come pound makes a food old age possible t many. Paine’s celery compound ts © true sgurce of a4 2 litt Fy if agains! 3 when lightning struc] je where he was and wn hi and body. It burned his clothing wherever It touched his body, and tore the shoe from his right foot and threw it nearly across i ig the one. He was too frightened to pray, and he looks half scared even now. He will always bear on his right side, from | the tips of his two outside fingers, which were next to the bullding, to the sole of his foot, the white streak ‘which marks the | track of that flash of lightning. It is the | most remarkable case I have ever heard of, | and T have asked physicians and scientists how lightning could produce such change of color in the skin, but have never received @ satisfactory explanation. ————« MONEY AND MAI AGE. Why Jewenses Are a Glut in the Mat- rimonial Market. From the Hebrew Standard. Thousands of pretty, young and accom- | plished Jewish maidens who are languish- | ing for husbands may be found in every | portion of this city and Brooklyn, because eligible Israelites demand that their brides | shall be equipped with a n’dau, or dowry according to their stations in life. As a majority of the girls cannot furnish the re- | quired marriage portion and will not ab- jure their faith by wedding those of other creeds, they virtually place themselves “on | the shelf,” ‘and thereby largely increase the old maid ie. It ts estimated that there are over 20,000 young Jewesses in this city employed as saleswomen, milliners, typewriters, book- keepers, stenographers and public and te teachers, who are eager to marry, but 0 receive no offers. Hence anxious pa- Fents as well as Jewish leaders are seeking to solve the great domestic problem of Gotham’s Israelites. During the past twenty years there has existed a great rivalry among Hebrews in regard to training their children: conse- quently a majority of the girls have been overstrained, and thereby have become un- fitted to be the helpmates of young Hebrews of moderate incomes. These young ladies, after graduating at college, have been piled with music, painting and all ornamental studies, to the detriment of their knowledge of cooking and housekeeping. A tove of ease and luxurious display has often be- gotten extravagant tastes, which are an- tagonistic to the simple methods of life so conducive to home comforts and domestic happiness. here are happily exceptions to.the rule, but these cut a very small figure in the grand total of those whe scare off rather than attract matrimonially inclined Hi brews of moderate means. / ‘Those who possess ‘wealth estimate in ad- vance the cost of maintaining establish- ments befitting their means, and insist that their prospective wives shall contribute their financial! quota to the inevitable ex- penses of wedded life, so that no matter what station in life a Jewess may occupy, If she desires to marry she must @ossess | | considerable cash. ‘To alleviate this unfortunate condition of affairs hymeneal, the professional schat- chen has had a temporary vogue, but en- lightened Hebrews shun these unscrupulous | marriage brokers. In their place the matchmaking mother or widow abounds, and is more successful in securing victims by reason of her facilities for “pairing,” under cover of social courte London also has a xuperabundance of marriageable Jewish girls who tack the re- quisite cash contributions, but this evil has of been ameliorated by the organization wedding portion societies and dower ¢ These are sustained by weekly assessm upon the young lady members, and at sta!- ed periods lots are drawn for the dower frst to be married. ‘There are a few like associations in Chief h includes Ls Rabbi Jacob’s diocese. wh low, Essex, Mott and Rayard stre here there ‘are certain tmoressive formalities attending each matrim kagement so as to make them ecclesiastically binding. WHEN Use Horsford’s Acid Phoxp' TIRED OUT Dr. M. H. Henry. New York, save: “When come pletely tired ont by projonged wakefulness and overwork. it is of the greatest vaine tome. Axa beverage it possesses charms beyond auyihing Ii know of in the form of medicine. | Bet around, isn’t it? A JACKSON PARK SKETOM. A Tough Day at the Pair With Oiticen ‘Train, From the Chicago Herald. “Been out to the fair?” asked « young fele low who sat astride a fireplug. “Been at the fair! exclaimed the fat man with some show of life. ree eet —— 5 : Yes, I've been sthere and 1 shut up and gp out of {Somebody your” {Pessibly.but I'm not kicking about that. Ee 38 he dragged me up begins with p. ed to ride a camel dragged me back to Java big ape there. He said he could do it guess be did. for the monkey over against the bars of his “Ack, ack.’ On the car remove: Vegetables from his buttonhole out: “The fair ts a te nesday, 110.00; ‘Thu little off; Saturday, 146,00, Cosmos! York is deader’n a mackerel.” “A man in the last seat came forward an@ laid his hands upon Mr. Train. “Take that off! Take that off the citizen. “Theu there was a fight. See that on my ja I tried to say this swelling ds the result. When I got to 38th street I left the cable train. a7, ue other Train as weil. Where is he? § don’t kn ‘The last thing he sald to me wae this: ‘Feir gigantic success! New York be 4——. I must stutter in an earthquake. is free of thieves. 1 started the firac to England. 1 own Omaha. Meat makes a man turn green. Good night, cosmos” “Now, that is what I have had going home and run the risk « asking me if 1 have gone int business. It's about time those can en, a Frosen Fruits. From the New York Mail and bxprem, A good thing about the banana ts fee is imported nearly all the year aroun4, is quite as cheap in winter as it is i sum- mer. 1t is especially appreciated in winter in our climate, because of the many other fruits. And this reminds that my good friend Eugene Black eminent pisciculturist, ‘once undert my Suggestion to put some away in his refrigerator in midsummer see how they would come out at Christmas, The day before Christmas I received @ solidly frozen watermelon. It was a re freshing sight. I left it for hours is Wateg to get out the frost, and thea chop Ye open with a hatchet. It was solidly. The beautiful red inside was still solid and sweet, but the moment the wana air melted it it became an insipid, gyushy mass. The next year Mr. Blackford sent me for my New Year's dinner some corn ‘on the cob frozen. It came on the table’ looking as toothsome and smelling as petizing as the het corn of October, but of me the sk Was ashes to the taste. I think this wae, the end of my friend's experiments with frozen fruits and vegetabk From the Atchison Globe, When a man hasn't enough money te jaw he is in luck. Saving money requires as much gemias as writing poetry, and it is cf a heap better sort Some men are so stingy that they fefase to use bait when they fish, Every man who goes to the devil saves others who are traveling the same road. From Vogae. Great F at new society #epor- has not mastered the a journalism.” 1 the matter? says “hundsgmely, smartly gowned.* see Trying to Cut a Swell, From Life.