Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1894, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES’ Qos us 4 VIEW OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Sa 5 Siig ee sa SOLDEN SUNSHINE Ana Tropical Foliage the Setting of | the Midwinter Fair. OPENING DAY IS NOW NEAR AT HAND’ The Managers Meet Difficulties and Criticism. POLITICS AND THE FAIR Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. SAN FRANCISCO, January 7, 1804. Biter ARE blowing over the sun- set city. The mid- winter fair is being ruftied a little, both on the site in Goiden Gate Park and in the rooms of the direct- ory in the Mills build- ing. Probably it is just as weil for the success of the enter- prise, for despite the wonderful progress ! made there has been @ lack of excitement that is not good. Buiid- ings and statues and fountains and gardens and freaks have grown much more rapidly than they did at Chicago, but the growth has been of a steady, sober-sided type that dost. much by the absence of the snap and dash that characterized the windy city’s work. It is less than five months since the first shovel of earth was turned in the sand- dunes, and the Ist of February will see the conclusion of the carpenters’ work. Most of the buildings are completed now, and a score of Midway features are in running order, but it will take another six weeks to set the exposition proper agoing. The managers count on being able to bring about the formal opening by the 20th instant, but in view of no definite date hav- ing been set this calculation is hardly suffi- cient to overcome the general disappoint- ment at the passing of the originally pro- gramed time of January 1. Now that the public has something to criticise, more enthusiasm and interest is manifested, and that is why it looks as though the breezes that are ruffling the hitherto placid surface of the undertaking are doing good. The first of these breezes came with the protest of some of the con- cessionaires against paying Attorney Mitch- ell, a leading member of the executive com mittee, a fee for drawing their contracts, of which work he assumed a monopoly. Mr Mitchell has been giving much time to ti promotion of the fair, and the fact that the contracts were drawn during his fair offi hours seems to have been the foundation for the complaint. At a meeting of the C sionaires’ Club a majority voted that was not an excessive fee for ten minutes work in contract framing, the gruntied ones paid A Porty-Niner Camp. The “49 mining camp, which is the bis gest concession on the grounds, came near to securing an advertisement that was full of realism. The camp is a representa- tion of one of the mushroom towns of th date of the gold excitement. A panorama of Mt. Shasta is set up as a background, and along the single, irregular streets are located miners’ cabins, saloons, a store, a theater and an express office, in. the fashion of those primitive times. Maj. Frank McLaughlin, the promoter and back- er of the idea, insisted upon a degree of realism that sent his agenis to scouring the Sierras for the real things, and the re- sult has been the capture and transpor- tation of a vast amount of stuff that savors strongly of the days of old, The days of gold, The days of “forty-nine.” Among the cabins are the identical struc- tures in which half a dozen millionaires familiar to Washington's Senate chamber slept, cooked, ate and washed, while they were extracting he material for the foun- dations of their subsequent fortunes from the auriferous hillsides. Among these are the disreputable appearing weather-beaten shanties of Senator George C. Perkins, ex-Senator J. G. Fair of Nevada, Senator Jones, the late Senator Hearst, John W. Mackey, and half a dozen others le: | known to fame. From the home of “Truth- | ful James,” on Table mountain, and tne vicinity of the rise and fall of the Society om the Stanislaus, and the feats of the jumping frog of Calaveras, have been brought picks, pans, shovels, rockers, long toms and like implements, together with tons of the red dirt from which the pio- neers extracted dust in the early fiftie Even the memorable “Hell's Delight” leon of Whimtown, and “Grizzly Pete dance house of Jackass Hill, were purcha. ed and sent to the camp in sections, to be festored to something like their former | Monterey County's Ranchero. arrangement and appearance. All this, with | Pack-mule trains, old sixshooters and aix-horse coach from Tuolumne hill, its sides well dotted with holes made by’ bul- lets fired from road agents’ guns, makes quite a picture, and the ancient residents Rave manifested much interest and prom-| ised much patronage to the various forms | of amusement promised. | Not Realistic Enoug! To carry out the realism candles and Kerosene are employed for lighting pur-| poses, and this laid the foundation for a very pretty row. The camp concessionaires turned over the theater privilege to a heroic actor named Foote, on the understanding that he would produce border plays behind tallow dip footlights, and with little in the way of costumes but red shin@s, top boots, Sembreros, bowie knives and revolvers. | Foote reserved his plans until a late hour, | and then proposed to lead in electric wires to illuminate faney building, with a roof garden on top and all modern’ stage ace sorie = Was stopped by the promoters, d of yielding gracefully he armed twenty in number, with 1 been resurrected stalled them in a rs were so fully im- rit that a case of the saloon keep- army to retake days a bloody imm was but to Manasers, pre | represented court proceedings the entire concession was revoked and immediately reissued to the McLaughlin party, leaving them free to de- cline any further business relations with Actor Foote. Under this plan of proced- ure it was easy to destroy any rights the | latter may have had, and then ejectment by the police was both legal and easy. All the Black Bart and Roaring Camp scenes will now be produced by candle light and @ fresh company. The Scramble for Office. With the approach of the opening the selection of employes is giving rise to more breeze. This time Director General De i | | j | | | | Mr. De Young. H Young is in it. It is charged that it re-} quires as much political influehce to secure an appointment as gatekeeper or guard as an election to the United States Senate. The director general has been looking for a senatorial toga for a long while, and his absolute dictatorship over the fair pre- sents fine opportunities. If half the charges be true, the fair is a large political ma- chine, and only good ward workers can ex- peet anything in the way of benefits to be derived from six or seven months’ employ- ment. So far De Young’s journalistic con- temporaries have patriotically refrained ‘rom attacking him on this ground, and complaints and charges are limited to’ word of mouth among such persons as have un- successfully sought employment for them- selves or others. One honest cause of disappointment is general. It is over the fact that there will be no display of fish by the state commis- sioners. They applied for space and help at an early date, intending to set up a hatchery and show the state’s pride in the way of food fish, salmon and trout, in all House of Humbotat Redwood. tages of developement, from the spawn nd wiggling minnows up to magnificent fifty-pounders. Financial aid was refused y the fair managers: no state funds were available. The commissioners headed a subscription listy and enthusiastic anglers put their names down for sums aggregat- ng $8,000. Thus armed, the commission- renewed their application, only to net with the information that an exch concession had just been made to private parties. The concession is for a salt water .quarium and a marine food restaurant. its managers propose to lease fishing tackle. permit the capture of fish in the rock-walled tanks and their transfer to the cooking nge of the restaurant. One tank is to be Gilet with fresh water and trout and the disappointed commissioners have vowed revenge for their exclusion by a prosecu- tion of any person who dares to go trout- ing before the Ist of April, the date of the »pen season. ‘The Midway Revived. But all these litte unpleasant happenings cem to have done the fair more good than rm. They have created talk and parti- sanship, done something in the way of ad- vertising, and excited a vast numbe> of peo- ple who were previously content with the calm drift of the enterprise. The fair looks like a success—later on. At present it is only a success as far as its plaisance fea- tures are concerned. The Japanese villace is in full swing, @ tribe of Esquimaux a-e displaying furs and cracking whips, beer is iv Southern Colifornia Building. on tap in Heidelberg castle, the ostriches are preparing to multiply, Tucks swarm in a Cairo street, a 125-foot edition of the Fer- ris wheel is making revolutions, seals and sea lions and other monsters from Santa Barbara channel are splashing in the “am-| phibia.” trained lions are. roaring, Chinese | are violating the cubic fir law in. their handsome structure, Colorado miners ace) mining, South Sea islanders and territorial | Indians are living in their own peculiar} habitations, Kilauea is spouting fire in the | Hawaiian building, Ceylonese are brewinz tea, and half the nations of the earth are | in some manner. Altogether | there are shows enough tb line over a mile | of irregular road (one of the winding park drives) and to consume $10 or $12 in admis- sion fees. In the fair buildings proper there is little to be seen as yet, although all the main structures are suffiefently near com- pletion to receive exhibits. Most of the ex-| hibitors of perishables, or goods susceptible | to damage, are holding off on account of | the damp condition of the buildings. Call- fornia sunshine has been rather infrequent during the past month, and the green lum- be> and wet staff have absorbed the heaven- dom moisture instead of drying, so that the air of the interiors is more suggestive of pneumonia than a gay show. Pleasant weather is predicted from now on, however, and a few average days of sunshine and high temperature will remove this objection. The orange crop is unusually luxuriant. and the northern and southern citrus belts are engaged in keen rivalry in displaying their golden products. In one department at least the midwinter fair will surpass the Chicago exhibition, and that will be in the display to be made in the big horticultural building. i Washing the Hands. According t German physician, the art of washing the hands is not an easy one. To insure absolute cleanliness, the hands must be first carefully washed with potash, soap and water as hot as can be borne, and then with a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, or one per thousand solution of corrosive sublimate, or chlorine water. When the finger nails are dry and break easily, vaseline rubbed on after washing the hands will do a world of good. Mani- ures first bathe the hand a long time in hot wa then with scissors and knives clean and cut the nails, remove the super- fluous skin about the onyx, then polish the nails with buckskin and fine powder, wash- jug the hand again in hot water with soap. After drying, the nails are polished with a fine brush ally rubbed with a resy unguent to give them a shell pink. | —_—_—_—_______. \ FOR DYSPEPSIA Use Horsford’s Acid P IR. Harrishe Schwartz, 3 1 charming effect, , |The conquest of | partly covered TACRIMINAL WARRIOR. Anthropologists Discover Something Surprising About Pizarro, THE CONQUEROR'S MUMMY IN PERU. It Reveals All the Marks of the Criminal Type. THESKULL THAT OF A VILLAIN ese a Se Sco Written for The Evening Star. URPRISING NEWS has reached the bu- reau of ethnology re- specting the recent disentom>ment of the mummy of the conqueror Pizarro, in Peru, It as that the cornse ex- hibits certain abnor- malit which are extremely inceresting from the point of view of anthropoto- gists. The skul. re- veals all the marks of the criminal type, as recognized by scjence today. As shown by it, the military hero so worshiped and revered even now in South America was a 3 murderous and bloodthirsty brute. The cranium has even the so-called “fossa of Lombroso," which modern criminologists have never discovered except in confirme and habitual enemies of society. These facts, extraordinary they may seem at first blush, need afford no surpr: to persons familiar with the bloody care of the indomitable invader aad expiorer Peru was most blood and some of the leading acts im the ing scenes are seen throwsh the mist years as base treachery and horrible ity; for to this degree have times changed of and manners softened since Pizarro brough* a new culture and the Christian cult to re- place the culture and cult of Manco Capa¢ and Mama Huaco. He was the founler of Uima, the city of the kings. A striplinz in wunny Seville when Columbus returnei trom the most momentous voyage the world has ever known, his life was molded by the inspiration of conquest. He rove above all obstacles by individual prow: Pizarro accompanied Balboa to Dari 1 thus contributed to the liscovery of the Pacific. In 1522 his dream of conquest in the half-fabulous El Dorado among the Andes \ook shape; but it was not until i that he saw the shores of Peru, and years more passed before he « tered the land of the Incas, came with power and prestige and captai1 general of New “astile,” rible hardsnips were endured before whe actual invas on began, his experien thirteen follewers on the Islaad of without ship or stores being an ¢ tragedy. Fearful dangers a1 | were met with later, as, when on ( waters of the Amazon, starving S| were carried on less leader, The Explorer's Death. In 185 he founded Lima. The conquest was extended into Chile, but before long dis- sensions arose and a-conspiracy was formed to take the life of the commander. Pizarro was now old; yet, when beset by assassins and deserted by his men, he defended him- self bravely until he fell overcome by nurn- bers. His body was shamefully mutilated. Nevertheless, a few hours later, it w: buried in consecrated ground. Ecclesiastical authorities took charge of the corpse, and the coffin inclosing it, identified by’ suc- cessive generations of church officers, has been carefully guarded as one of the most precious possessions in the Cathedral of Lima. Thus its traditional history is com- plete. The three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Pizarro’s death was recently celebrated at Lima. Under joint action by the munici- pal and ecclesiastical authorities, a critical examination of the mummified body was un- dertaken. One object in view was to set al! possible doubt at rest as to the identity of the remains; the other was to subject them to anthropometric examination. The re- sults obtained were astonishing. It was found that the shape of the lower jaw, the conformation of the cranium, the presence of fossa of Lombroso, and many other pecull- arities gave the sxuil a marked likeness in all important respects to that of the typica! criminal of today. The lower jaw is a striking feature, projecting far beyond the upper. It indicates the indomitable will power and brutp-like character of the man. ‘The Mommy. The coffin, on being opened, revealed a bedy almost completely mummified. It was by remnants of clothing, which seemed to have consisted of a short cassock of black silk, a Mnen shirt, finely embroidered, &e. ‘The cadaver was com- pletely desiccated and of a light brown color, similar to that of ordinary Peruvian mummir At first glance it was observed that the hands, toes and certain other parts had been cut off and removed. Without going into details, it was evident that the most important of these mutilations had en, Th Y heud- air’: the shoulders of their tire- Pizzarro’s Coat of Arms. been performed immediately after death, while the hands, at all events, had been re- | moved comparatively recently, whom is not known. The skin was whole and intact over a great part of the trunk, though destroyed in some places by insects. It was found desirable to cut off the head. The face was almost e ely bare of flesh. asked, why did not the fleshy covering of the face become mummified like the greater part of the body? The reason is clear, is evident that the skin and flesh of the though by head suffered from wounds and contusions. | wnich hastened decay in those places. The left eye socket was empty, but the right one contained the eye, dried and reduced to ! that the | the eyes were remark- | very small size. bony arches over ably prominent and massive. The closing of certain sutures of the cranial bones showed that the man was between seventy and eighty years of age. On the right side of the neck rapid deca’ which had evidently preceded the mummi{. fying operation, had destroyed the flesh exposing the vertebrae. This was evidence It was noticed | Cleslastical authoritic It may be! It, of a wound, which must have been mortal, because it necessarily divided some of the large arteries. It will be seen later what important light it throws upon the identity of the body. It was observed that the knee joints were so abnormally large as to amoun to a deformity. The internal organs as in every mummy, were transformed into a dark brown powder, dry, with a peculiar odor, and in the cavity of the trunk this was found mixed with pellets of lime. From this last fact it is known that the corpse was originally buried in a soil with which | | lime was mixed for the purpose of pres- | | ervation. The only organ remaining in the | atdomen was the bladder. Treatment of the Body. Examination being completed, the body was treated with the utmost care. To be- gin with, it was cleaned by applications of a solution of bichloride of mercury in alco- hol. Then a coat of carbonized glycerine was applied. Next, the head was reattach- ed to the trunk with stitches, and some of the bones of the left shoulder and elsewhere were fastened together with copper wires. The hollow parts of the trunk and the skull as well were filled with carbolized | cotton. All the skin and bones were finally varnished with a preservative varnish. The | | mummy was photographed in different po- ‘sitions and was at length sealed up in a | Wooden coffin for delivery to the municipal , commission, The clothing and other ma- aw LCAEKO | 1 { Wins: { terial were likew a hand- ed over to the civil au who in | turn placed them in cha of the Vener- (able Metropolitan Clapter. | | She Sevoud Barint, { | ‘The chapter. as heretofore, will in future | jcare for the remains in the Chapel of the, Kings of the ¢ sdral at Lima. Before | ormitting it again to the tom», the ce tcck the body of the j conqueror from the wooden coffin and pla {ed it in a case of white marble with glass | on three sides, reclining on a cou ed | With cherry-coloved ck le h cove: glass bo! i | contain the dust-like substances from | j the internal parts wes put into a small | is with vase and lid of white | mirble. ‘This crystal was deposited | jimside of the large case at the foot of the |mummy. One of three copies of the report | made by the committee in charge of the ex- jamiaation was inclosed in e gilded th tube sealed with red wax and was placed within the large white marble case. ‘Thus les | Pizarco, | How He Died. | The committee in charge considered that | the identity of the body was tablished by the examination. Fortunately reliable historical details are yet extant as to the manner. in which Mizarro died. it was the 1541. -At 9 ofclock in the moriiing the conspirators assembled in the house of Don D: Aluzgro. The conqueror had been warned of his peril, but took ao great precauticn on t acy count, merely refraining from going out to attend mass, and hearing it at the palace instead. No care was taken to fasten tie great door of the building. So the imsur- boclutely gents entered unopposed, crying, “Death to tyrants!" Guards and ati 8 fled or hid themselves. biza hastening to an inner apartment, put on 2 breastplate, and, un- steathing his sword, prepared wo defend himself with desperation, Vizarro, meeting the infuriated assassins at the door of the room,received the thrusts ef their weapons upon his cloak, whieh was wrapped around his left arm, at the sam time dealing mortal blows at enemi Frenzied at the delay, the chief of the mur- derous crew, Juan de Rada, seized one of his companicns, named Narvaez, and threw him bedily against the conquistador. The latter re ed him on his sword, thrusting him through with it; but, while he we striving to disengage the blade, he received a@ terrible wound in the ne and feil in peol of blood. s is all history, the ac count being well authenticated by witnesses in writing. Marks of the Wounds. Unmistakable traces of the wound in the ck, a8 already described, were found on mummy. History states that Pizarro was struck with a sort of arrow very shatp- ly pointed in the breast, und of this injury also there is evidence in the cadaver, the upper part of the lef( chest having suffered from decay, The corpse was left where it fell while matters of state called the chief th conspirators to the city. At this time it was profaned by shocking mutilation. Pizarro was very severe in military dis- cipline, and there were many who would have been oniy, too giad to wreak ven- geance upon his*helpless remains. The lat- ter were finally carried of at night by friends and were placed in a vault beneath a church, It is not known what became of the hands, which, as the condition of the body shows, Were cut off at a period long sub sequent. According to public rumor, they were taken and carried out of the coun not many years ago. In a letter adress to the then Emperor of Spain, in 1345, de scribing the assassination, the corporation of the city of Cuzco states that after the geath of the conqueror, “in order to dis- honor and ridicule him, the murderers com- mitted upon his person many inhuman and infamous things, which, that your majest may receive no further pain, we refrain from describing.” This evidently refers to the mutilation at the time of death, which has been already referred to as exhibited by the mummy. It is observable that the back of Pizarro is uninjured, showing that he died like a man. Striking Fentares. As has been said, one of the most striking features of the body is the projecting under jaw. This agrees with the evidence of many portraits of Pizzarro stil! preserved at Lima. In fact, says the committee, a comparison ef the dead countenance with these lile- nesses makes the proof of identity comp!ete. The peculiar chin ind'cates a determined nan—the mon who, as lieutenant of Nunez de Balboe, distinguis by cruelties to the poor Indicns; seized the im- mortal discoverer of Pacific, his own benefact of the “famous thirtee} taatitained himsel in the midst of disasters on the isli Gallo. . The skull is abnormally anatontical 1 is extraordit. on the cts of the coa rdileras, nee is to the effer more ti e desert ¢ the He fable ev hen he the wilds « r to his are, polos, About From Hy Ramer. A pet cat or ered when it tly constd-} ter to drink | not sutticle en Ww at regular tir ce provided it to} sleep in, Pe » to attention, and they yearn for companionship. A cat likes to be talked to, and though » only by purring and rut f against you, her eloquent eyes gentle move- | ments tell when she is happy and when she feels neglected. ‘The loneliness of a cat left by herself in a city house last summer, while the family were absent in the coun- try, was emphasized by her extravagant joy when the occupants of che house re- turned, Her physical well-bemg had not been negleeted. Arrangements had been made, and were carried out, by which the favorite was sumptuously fed as usual, and her bed in a comtortable shed was soft and sheliered. Nevertheless, when the people of the house were again at home, the cat could not bear them out of her sight. She trotted up stairs and down, she stretched herself before the door of the maid who was kind. est to her, and persisted in spending her | nights there; and if she saw the least sign that people were going out, her distress was frantic. The poor thing had suffered agon- ies of loneliness, and weeks elapsed before she was reassured, and willing to remain by | | herself in any room. | Dogs and cats are sociable creatures, and | enjoy Mstening to conversation. How much) of what is going on around them they com- prehend we shall never know, but an intel- ligent dumb animal certainly understands a | good deal of what he hears. A French yodle, bought in Paris.and brought to New ‘ork, moped and drooped, and was very for- lorn, until the friend of the family, who spoke French as’ well as she did English, came in one day, and began to chat in the soft language which was the poodle’s native tongue, The dog brightened up, gave every ign of pleasure, began to improve, and re- gained his appetite just_as soon as the peo- ‘ple about him spoke in French, | | Written for The Evening Star. \ be exp) | ;houth, which they fitted perceetly, | hi )#g0 Was a sort of Mardi Gras garment, , Another faverite way of cheating the cus- BOMBS IN THE MAILS. Explosives Not Allowed, but People Will Send Them by Post WHAT POSTMASTERS DO WITH THEN. Queer Things Caught in Uncle Sam's Waste Basket. IN THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE (RON EER F PEOPLE WILL send explosives! through the mails—/ as, for example, the infernal machine re- | celved at the Gangee | (Mich.) post office the other day—the gov- ernment knows of no way to prevent It. Of course, if they are shipped in unsealed packages, they can be examined and -ie- stroyed. Postmasters not infrequently come across queer-looking parcels, which they geel obliged to investi- with caution. Perehance the torn pper of a suspectel bundle reveals a} virical box covered with tinfoil, inside | which a tie sound is audible. The! if known, is notified that he may | of sen have the article returned to him, if he likes, | by express, Otherwise it is pul where it} ean do no harm. i One day not long ago a box frankty! labeled “Dynamite” reached the dead let-| ter office here. A messenger was ordered to take it oui into the courtyard of the Post Office Department and open it gently. mabiy the notion was that one small re or less was not of much import- fe proved, as had been Of articles suspected to which come through the mails are fluids. They ere promptly dis- even innocent liquids being ‘‘un- ‘under the law. The postmaster, destroying the contents 9f a parcel, forwards the wrapper to Washington, where it is placed on file for record. Thus, if inquired about, the fate of the inclosure can be determined. Sacred Packages, However, no amount of suspicion would warrant a post office official in breaking the seal of a package on which letter rates are paid. It is absolutely sacred. Accordingly, it would appear that the proper way to send explosives by mail is at full postage. Uncle Sam cannot prevent that, though every year large quantities of firecrackers and torpedocs, shipped as fourth-class mat- ter, are seized, as well as numberless boxes of cartridges, percussion caps, &c. A six- barreled revolver at full cock, with every chamber loaded, once came into the dead letter office. It was addressed to a lady in Springfield, NL, who could not be found. ‘The deud letter clerks are not astonished at anything. They have got beyond that. In the packages which they open they be- come accustomed to finding such things as raitesnakes, centipedes, tarantulas, Gila monsters and alligators from Florida, all man. alive and squirming. They classify with composure such inclosures as petrified frogs, stuffed gophers, Toltec idols, gold nuggets, spirit photographs, skulls, Indian scalps and human ears. A common occur- rence is a bundie of old letters tied with a ribbon, usually containing a finger ring, and a last note, saying: “I return herewith your letters; ail is over between us.” This excites no sentimental feelings on the part of the hardened postal employe. Rather will he pause for a second to tickle the horned toad found in the next parcel. Dead Letter Office Stories, Many a romance is worked out through the dead letter office. The following story is merely the narrative of a coincidence, which is surely one of the most extraordi- nary on record. On April 2i last a letter was mailed in New York city, addressed to Mrs. Jones, Ludno Lodge, 44 Church Walk, Liandudno, Now, this place is in Wales, but the “Llandudno” was so illegible that it was taken for “Honduras.” Accordingly it went to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Formerly there had lived in Tegucigalpa one Philip Mills Jones, M. D. He had left there and gone to Santa Clara, N. Y. The letter was forwarded to him. It proved to have been eetually intended for his dead wife. Speaking of coincidences, here ts another true story. Once upon a time a gir) bought a very pecullar moss-agate ring. She sent it by mail to a friend as a Christmas pres- ent. The gift never reached its destination. Three years later, while visiting another city, she stayed at a boarding house. On the opposite side of the table at dinner she saw a man who wore his necktle through a ring. it was the missing moss-agate. She asked him where he got it, and he explained that he had bought it at a dead letter office sale in Washington. In some manner it had found its way into Uncle Sam's waste bas- ket and had been put up at auction among the 40,000 articles which thus accumulate at the Post Office Department annually, The Department Musew The most extraordinary of the things which thus drift in are preserved for exhibi- tion in a little museum at the department. Among them are several sets of false teeth. On one occasion not long ago, an elderiy couple, evidently from the rural parts, was examining the curiosities. The old man, af- ler gazing for some time at the teeth, de- h excited. A vigcrous discussion petween himself and his w: she sing him and trying to restrain him m speaking. But he would not listen to i imally broke out with: my teeth! I would know ‘em ed that one of the sets of teeth lonsed to him, but had been jost in il, That he was not mistakea he proved by putting them into his Having the pr iver a receipt tor them, he walked away with them in aph. On another Cccasion, a man who had lost mise teeth similar fashion, suspected vc vund their way to the dead | fie made application for them er, to Whom were sent veral pers which seem- in a general way to the ished. They were all re- roment with au indignant t they were “just common hat th le-eription arned to the dep siore could not by any possibili- ty beleng to so refined a mouth” as that of the writer. An article which excited no Mttle sur- prise at the dead letter office some years covered all over with pictures of playing | cards. It was finally ascertained that sucn | gowns were made in this country for ex- portation to the Howalian Islands. Na- tives of more or less distinction, it ap-| peared, were in the habit of wearing them | on occasions of ceremony, considering them | both dignitied and beccming. in Is? the steamer Oregon sank in the} harbor of New York. Divers fetched up from the wreck such valuables as they | could find, together with many sacks of | mail. In the sacks were found hundreds of rs of kid gloves wrapped in newspapers. nis is a common method of smuggling. toms through the trans-oceanie post is to do up dutiable articles in bundles of herbs which are supposed to be samples. Thousands of articles are found every year in the mails without wrappers. Not very long ago a handsome gold watch was thus discovered in a post box. No clew as to its owner was ever obtained. One the- ory suggested was that it might have been dropped in by a pickpocket anxious to get rid of spoils that would betray him. An- other possibility was that a gentleman of a convivial turn, instructed by his wife to mail a letter, might have indulged in a few drinks, then suddenly remembering his er- rand and dropping his timepiece through the slot in place of the epistle. The Auction Sale. An auction sale of accumulated dead packages is held annually by the depart- ment here. The one which took place last month netted nearly $4,000, This was prob- ably more than twice what all the goods disposed of were worth, but they are bought “unsight, unseen,” and the suggestion of gambliag about it attracts purchasers, At }them as particularly the same time, all of the things composing the contents of the blind bundies are duly catalogued by the post office officials, so that the buyer iias a rough notion of what he is barguining for, though having no op- bortunity for inspection. “Cheap jewelry” figures largely in the stock offered. The original parcels, numbering 40,000 or more, are all unwrapped, and the merchandise they contain ts condensed into about 6,000 packages. All printed matter is thrown away, excep: books. Most of these are sold, the residue going to the library of the department. Most numerous among the articles dis- posed of at post office auctions are hand- kerchtefs. Next come men’s neckties. Th'rd in point of number, strange to say, are Catholic medals and rosaries. It would be interesting to know why so many of these pious emblems are continually travel- ing about in the mails. Among other things listed for the sale the other day were Tazors, dark lanterns, packs of playing cards, poker dice, cigars, poker chips, stog- tes, hair curlers, wire garters, pads, bun- fon plasters, trusses, dental forceps, electric belts, hypodermic syringes, abdominal sup- Porters, Colls, artificial birds’ eyes, mos- quito bars, artificial whiskers, coffin’ plates and Hawaiian stamped envelopes. All of the things thus gathered at the dead letter office are kept for two years before being sold. They are stored away on shelves in several rooms beneath the Post Office Department building. trouble used to be had with rats, which While silk handkerchiefs were regarded by eligible for the same wedding cake, which way to the dead let- emptied. But they purpose. Boxes of frequently find their temo tost fond of most for stuft~l with bran Twon pene and, eolls rodents were destroyed and driven away by means of ferrets. and since that time this sort of mischief has ceased. Mrxazinexs by the Thousand. The dead ietter oftice gobbles thousands of magazines. If such Publications are im- Properly directed or lack sufficient postage small trouble is taken to deliver them. They are distributed among the charitable insti- tutions of Washington. In the same way sreat numbers of Christmas cards find their way into the appreciative possession = Hoe charity children of the District. Most of the packages go astra: ut Christmas time. They lack Gore e are wholly blank on the outside, or have lost their wrappers. At the same cheerful season thousands of letters come into the dead letter office addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole,” or “Santa Claus, Arctic Re- gion.” Some have stamps and others not. They are mailed by children in good faith, conveying requests for such gifts as are de- sired. On one such note, addressed to “Kris Kringle, Hartz Mountain: came back from Germany a while ago, scrawled all over by sixteen different postmasters with statements to the effect that no such per- son could be found. Only the other day a lost letter reached the department which was addressed to “Marshall & Son, Ltd., Gainsboro’, Tt was from St. Petersburg and contained a draft for $30,000, Instead of coming by way of Europe it had traveled across Asia to Washington via San Francisco. The “Ltd.” showed that it was meant for a firm in England, where business concerns common- ly put “Limited” after the commercial title. Accordingly, to wind up its journey around the world, it was sent thither. _—_ BRICK IN THE OVEN. ONLY A Yet Some Housewives Might Object to the Use It in Put to. “Why won't you take off your wraps and stay and lunch with me, Marie? I don’t think it at all friendly of you to insist upon going when you know this horrid cold will keep me in the house all day. I think you might stay for a nice little gossip—can’t I persuade you?” Mrs. Noodles was very pressing; the wood fire was blazing merrily, and the prospect outdoors was anything but cheerful. Still Mrs. Boggs was obdurate. “My dear,” said she, “if it was any errand but a search for a a. wer I —— stay only too diy, but I must get some one eae — last cook burned everything from the roast to the hot bread, and Tom does get so cross when his meais are spoiled.” “I have an excellent cook who never burns anything.” said Mrs. Noodles. “She has such a nice plan of keeping a brick always in the oven to set things on to prevent them from scorching.” “Indeed!” sniffed Mrs. Boggs. “Have you ever noticed if the brick was kept in the oven at night?” “At night! No; it never occurred to me to look for it. But why should it not be there?" “It will pot be there, my simple-minded friend, because your admirable cook un- doubtedly ‘takes it home with her every evening to sleep with. “To sleep with!” exclaimed Mrs. Noodles, “Most certainly. It is an old trick among cooks to warm bricks all day in the oven in order to have them thoroughly hot to an- swer the purpose of a warming pan at night. The brick is wrapped up in nel and re- tains its heat for hours. I don’t think you will find it in the range if you look for it this evening.” “You don’t really mean that the same brick is carried back and forth every day, spending the nights In my cook’s bed and the days in the oven with my food! How perfectly dreadful! What made you tell me?” “I thought you would like to know,” re- plied Mrs. Boggs. “I always want to know what goes on in my kitchen. I had a cook last year who warmed her bricks in my oven for months before I found out the use to which she put them. I admit, the idea is not pleasant, and I sincerely trust that my new cook will not be addicted to bricks. Wish me luck in my servant hunt, 4ear, and kiss me good-bye.” a ee, Colors Associations. From the Domestic Monthly. There was a time when the propriety and harmot.iousness of juxtaposition of color was ccnsidered and when to use in associa- tion tints which did not either blend well or contrast well was thought to be such an outrage upon good taste that the wearer of these incongruous tints was at once con- demned and spoken of as not knowing how to dress well. That time is past. The explanation of much which is found in fashion is quite too often the mere rage for novelty, This ts the state of things just row as regards color. It needs only observation to convince the student of styles of the truth of the above assertions. A gown of crude, faring amber is seen with revers in scarlet satin. A gown of a violet green has revers in a red, not deep but light. The shades of violet having a red tint are associated with light blue. A crude blue, verging on cobalt, is placed with a canary yellow. Nothing can be more disastrous than such an association of tints, but we pause to say that a certain amount of good sense is displayed when they are thus used, inas- much as they may be found in the use, with them, of lace copiously displayed and brought up between the face and the fabric or of velvet shown in a similar way, and again, of silk or satin. Were it not for this arrangement of soft- ening trimmings, the feminine world would long ago have uttered one general shriek of protestation, but the love of variety and brilliancy of color now so general kas car- ried the day and color simply revels. Nothing can add more to the cheerful- ness of life than color unless it be beauty of contour. We see cclor in the east, we find it in all the European cities and prov- inces and its evidences are simply aston- ishing in the work of mere savages who seem, frequently, to be inspired by the very innate instinct of color and whose work puis civilization to shame in its harmony of blending tints, and this all artists know. But the use of color as now seen and dis- played purely and simply with a view to variety is often shocking. The avoidance of trangeness is the keynote of taste as re- gards hues whatev-r may be the margin al- lowed as to shape. Harmony of color re- wires study, but it is worth the trouble of study to comprehend ft. _ “On @ Bicycle Built for Two.” From Puck. Nearly all women have good hair, though many fare gray, and a few are bald. H. Halr Re- newer restores the matural culur. wud thickens the Growth of the hair, postage, are misdirected, | RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNEK OF 6TH AND & . NEARY Lsvd | 11.08 ast. 'PEXASKiCANIA LIMNTED—ratimae a and State itoom, Scoping. toa ag a Parlor Car to a 11:05 ed LINK’ -For Pittsburg, Parlor Care teburg. 3:15 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. _— — Parlor Car to ——— 4 a Cars, Harrisburg § Cincinnati aod eae, ing Curs to Chicago and Harrisburg vo Chevelana. rat Car to Chi 110 PMS SOUTH-WESTERN EXPRESS. Pollmae Cars ‘7 ar co Se: Lets ane Regine ant Biaag jai t ti. 10:40, PM. PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman Sieep- Car to Pittsburg. tagara , except Sunday. 1145 A. M. for Winteaeport and Renovo dail Pat Sunday. For Willtamaport daily, 3: 7:10 P.M. for Williamsport. Rochester. Buffalo and Niagara Falls dally, except Saturday, with Sleep~ ing Car Washingtou to rhester. ‘Canandaigua, Rochester an@ N "Palin daily. except Car Washington Washington to Rock NEW YORK AND THB . know for Richmond, Sacha 4:25 PM. week days. ~ rig ee ag 40, 9:45, 1921 Mon Bnindey 10:05 P.M. 8:02 a for washington, 6:05, 624%, 7.08, 4ND DAXVILLE RAILROAD. —~ W. HUIDEKOPER AND RECEIVERS. 1898. , Peqnaptveats ree Lynchburg with railroad westward, daily, daily, except San- THE CREAT SOUTHERN FAST MAIL.—Daily,, tes Puliman Bullet Sleeper Xew York and Washington over the NEW SHOR LINE vis Columbia to Savanaah and Jacksonville, tmiting at Danville with the Pullman Sleeper tot Charleston via Columbia and at Greensboro witb for Augusta, ge carries a Polimes Sleeper New York to Atlanta, where rect connection is made fer Birmingham, Mont- gomery and New Orleans. 4:45 p-m.—Daily for Charlottesville and Inter Mediate stations, and through train fer Prout and Strashore, datis. except Sandur. 10:48" p.m. WASHINGTON Ax. SOUTHWEST EN VESTIRULED LIMITED, composed entirely of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers and Dining Cara, rups over the NEW SHORT LINE via Columbia te ‘a, Savannah, Jacksonville and Tanya. Dh tng Car Charlotte to Jacksonville. Also operates Pullman few York to New Oricans via Atianta and S New York to Anbewille via ary, Washington to Memphis v Birmingham, . TRAINS Dining Car Greenboro’ to Mont- OX WASHINGTON AND OBIO DIvis- Gaily for Rom Wil and 625" pan eatsor Kon iy 225 p.m, except a5, for Herndon and ‘iutermedint oe. , arrite Washington §:20 a.m. 2:45 p.m, Round Hill, and 6:53 a.m. daily, except Sunday, from Herndon only. south arrive Wash- Through trains from the ington 7-13 a.m.. 2:55 p.m. and $:30 p.m. Manas- sas Division 8:40 “a.m. daily, exece: Sunday, ond 8:40 a.m. daily froin Charlottesvile. Tickets. Sleeping Car reservations «nd tnformatiog ul avenue, and at Passencer Station, Peunsylvacis Railroad, Washington, D. C. W. GREEN, Gen. Mon, ae 1. & BROWN. Gen. Agt.. Pass. Dept. d25_ BALTIMORE AND OHIO AD. SCHEDULE Ty EFFECT NOV. Ho, i508. Leave Washinzton from station corner New Jer- fey avenne and C street. For and rm Vestibuled Limited cS pam, ncinnati, St." Tails and Indianapolis, Vee- tibuled Limited 3:30 p.m., 1:40 night. express deily 11:30 Pittsburg and Fer Lexington and Staunton, 12:30 a.m. 1:01 a.m., &.m. and 8:40 p.m. 8; 3 Hits, s:n0, 3.30 me? 10:00 8:40, For am. stopping at prin- stations onig. 4-30, S30 ms oe SE ADPEPHT ant A. For Phil York, Boston and the East, daily 3:35, 8:00 (10:00 e.m.. ex. Sun. Dining Car), (2-00 Dining Car), 3:00 (5:00 Dining Car), 8:00 (11:30 p.m. Sleeping Car, open at 10:00 Raffet Parlor Cars on ait day trains. For Atlantic City, Toro ea and 12:00 noon, 12:00 noon. Schedule in effect November 0, 1893. Trains leave daily from P) on cas bp Union station B. an@ tn America with Through the handsomest and most je solid train ser Vice west from Washington. 2:00 P.M. DA ' finest In@ten- ing cars Washincton apolis and St. Louis without change. ay cia to Cincinnati. from Maysville serving breakfast. Arrives 1, 7:55 a.m.; Indianapolis, 11:30 a.m., and Chi cage, 5:45 p.i.; St. 30 ‘p.m, is, P.M. DATLY—The ‘famons “I. . ¥. Lime Pan A — mg ~e be igh errand man sleepers inna zt Louisville, without 5 at Cincinnatt 6:30 pw Lexicon, 6:10, pin Loulevt r Pm.; Indiana; m.; Chicago, 7: . gat Be Tamia 18 a fonnecting in Union dcpok or aM points, 10:57 A.M. DATLY—For Old Point Comfort ‘Seon eae "DAILY _Pxprom f a © Ps or Charlottesvilie, Waynesboro’, Staunton and prince pal Virgiuia polots; daily, except Sunday, for’ Rich Puliman locations and tickets at fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania 220 ‘ ——__ POTOMAC RIVER BOATS —= WASMANGTUN STEAMBOAT CO. “LIMIDD.” From tb st. terry whart, on MONDAYS, | WEDNES- ain, Steamer Wakeficld DAYS and SATURDA’ creek, Leonardtown and St. termediate | landings. ite THURSDAYS and SUNDAYS. ow . _ 820-06 wt Manager, NEW PALACE STEAME: Haly KANDALL | Leaves Kiver View wharf, 7th strect, Sunday, j Tuesday and Thursday at ¢ a.m. Landing at aff wharves as far down as Maddox crock. Returning on Mondays, Wednesdays ond Mriday bm. Pas fenger accommodations first-class, Freight received aa iy ¥y Age xandri | ES. RANDALL, H ap2T-tr Proprietor and Manager. NORFOLK AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT Cor DAILY LINE _RETWEEN WASHINGTON, ag Fonranas MONRUE and a % NORFOLK, wa, ‘The new and powerful Iroo Palace Steamors. WASHINGTON AND NORFOLK—SOUTH nownn, Leave Washington dai'y at 7 p.m. from foot Teh st. wharf, arrive at Fortress} at 0:30 a.m. pext day. Arrive at an Where rajlroad connections are made for ail pul. South anc southwest. Sir at oO pm. Norfolk daily at 6:10 p.m. Teave Port singros at T:lu. [uu Arrive’ at Washianter ae 6:20 a.m. next day. Tickers on mole tt 512, 6 nia aye. ane — fer thekots via the Tel -phone 730. aplert YS at for Newiat bay and ine on JNO. CALLATAN. Gen. Spt MANICURE. MADAME PATS, Mace wdist, 703 15th sr. and ‘manufacturer of AND cuinor. Lmport oe Re aod oer n aditor, | rarn od statement