Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1894, Page 2

z THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE. Many Royalist Suspects Arrive at Honolulu. pone eer eel Sen MEASORES 10 PREVENT A REVOLT a ae of the Party. Organization Union _ A NEW FOREIGN MINISTER ee ee SAN FRANCISCO, March 10.—The steamer Australia, which arrived here to- day, six and a half days from Honolulu, brought the following Hawatian advices: HONOLULU, March 3.—Every steamer that has arrived here during the last two months has brought a number of steerage Passengers, who have seemed to have no Visible means of support and no good reason for coming to the islands. This has eccurred so often, and Honolulu is be- coming so overrun with these strangers, that the idea has become prevalent that they have come in the interests of the ex- queen. It has been reported to the government and on seemingly good authority that the agents of the ex-queen have been recrult- img men in both the United States and British Columbia, principally the latter. For some time the government refused to believe such rumors, but of late suspicion has been aroused and active steps have been taken to nip in the bud any plot that the royalists may have of seating the queen by force. It ts claimed that a number of thess men, wever, enlisted in the army and are ready at the first sign of any trouble to join the royalists in an attack upon the government. Keep Out the Disloyal. A bill was passed by the councils on Thureday last that will stop the coming of any more people of this class. It is to the | @ffect that any alien who lands here must furnish good evidence that he comes with Ro intention of hostility to the govern- ment, and that he must be able to show his means of supporting himself while here. Another bill that was passed the same day provides for the deportation of all per- sons now in the islands, in relation to whom there is probable cause to believe that | entertains any unlawful intentions contrary to the established system of cov- ernment. Such perscns may be arrested, and if found guilty be banished from the eountry for a space of six years, or may be imprisoned at hard labor here for one year. A prominent government official said yes- terday that it was the intention of the gov- ernment to vigorously enforce this law and to stop the arrival of any possible help for the royalists. It is estimated that over 250 of those “suspects have arrived since the first of the year. Annexation Club Disbanded. The Annexation Club, which was formed at the time of the revolution in January 1893, has been disbanded and a new orgaz ization, calied “the union party,” has been formed to take its place. It was the cld club was growing too large to be satisfactorily d A platform ha: been adopted favorable to the sup- visional government, but is opposed .o the Asiatic ation bill now before tke coun, This bill. which has already passed the second reading. of provides for che admission “hinese plantation !uborers. k in the new party's platform strong vers the importation of Portuguese la- borers in the place of Chinese. The mem- bership list of the party is becoming very large. ) more New Minister of Foreign Affairs. F. M. Hatch, who was formerly vice president of the provisional government and a member of the advisory council, has deen appointed minister of foreign aftairs in the place of President Dole, who found the duties of both offices required too much of his time. The appoint: ent of Mr. Hatch left a Yacancy to be filled n the advisory council. For this there were three ncminations, one made by the American League and two by the council itself. The latter two wit drew from the contest, leaving the league’ candidate, D. B. Smith, alone in the race. It being generally understood that Smith was bound by an oath to the league that would conflict with his oath as councll- lor he was rejected by the councils by ; Vote of 6 to 4. The league is a s2cret organization, and it is said they have threatened {f their candidate was not elected to overthrow the present govern- ment. This, however, is not generally believed, though it is a well-known fact that the league is attempting to get hold of the gov- ernment and to practically take the reins ©f power tnto ite own hand: Royalists Have Hope. The royalists claim to maintain a pacific attitude and positively deny that any roy- alist gatherings take place. They have Passed word around that news of good im- port to them is to arrive on the Oceanic, @ue here March 6. Their leaders are still ‘Very confident that the United States will Pight their wrongs, and say they are not at all uneasy as to the final outcome of the matter. & jfiral Irwin's Departure. Admiral Irwin will leave here the middle of this month, but if he goes he will make @ final inspection and survey of Pearl Ha‘ bor, which has so often been spoken of as @ coaling station for the United States ships. The Philadeiphia has been ordered to be ready to sail in April. —_s—_——. Important Reforms. Assistant Secretary Hamlin has gone to New York to confer with the customs of- ficers in regard to the administration of customs affairs at that port. A number of important reforms are contemplated. + e+ Defateation of Salem Bank Ofticers. The official figures of the defaication of Treasurer W. H. Simonds, jr.. and Teller Clarence Murphy of the Salem Savings Rank of Salem, Mass., have been given out a8 $75,243.50, divided with $f to the ac- eount of Murphy and §: The bondsmen of both have refused to Make good the defalcatton. —-6e- Might Change Axpect of Affairn. It was anounced yesterday, in New York, that Herman Clark, the absent member of the suspended stock brokerage firm of Hunter, Clark & Jacob, would probably re- turn to the city by Sunday. It was added that his story might put a different com- plexton upon the affairs of the ‘irm as made ublic. The assignee of the firm said he Rad not heard anything from Clark. He de- ¢lined to say what steps he would take in event of Clark's return. —-—+e+___ A Remarkable Body of Water. From the St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. “Reelfoot lake in western Tennessee is @me of the most remarkable bodies of Water in the United States,” said John EK. York of Troy. “It is popularly supposed to have a subterranean source from the Mis- sissippt river, it having no visible outlet or inlet, but the evidence seems to be decided- ly against this theory. I tried to fathom it once and while this can be done at some Places, yet there is a considerable area in the center where no line has yet been found long enough to touch bottom. It is Rot affected by the rise and fall of the river, but has a tide corresponding with that of the sea. The oldest settlers can remember when the land where the lake ts now was a fertile farm. One night was an earthauake distinctly felt, but doing very little damage to the sur- ig country. The next morning the land was gone and Reelfoot lake was there and has been there ever since. It is one of the most noted fishing resorts in the south.” ——_—_-+e+—____ Death’s Choice. From Life. Death and the devil met one day. And both began to discuss the way That each would like to travel. Said the devi}. “Give me a coach with cush- ions of fire, Stuffed with the bones of perished souls, With wheels of brimstone, with red-hot And horses with eyes like burning coals.” Said ‘th. “That may do very well, But it bore me, old boy, it'll look like As for me,” laughed, ‘Ha, ha! Ob! give me m troliey carl” done as | to Simonds. | IDISTRICT HISTORY |One Way in Which It Will Be Gathered and Preserved. Formation of the Colambia Historical Society and the Gentlemen W! Are Its Founders. week, a conference was held in Columbian University Friday afternoon for the pur- pose of exchanging views as to the best means of gathering and preserving the hi: tory of the national capital. ‘The meeting was called to order by W. J. McQee, the author of the call, and the need of some | instrumentality to coilect and preserve the historical records was briefly stated. To effect a temporary organization Dr. Well- ing was called to the chair and Mr. Mar- cus Baker was made temporary secretary. There were presnt also Dr. Toner, Prof. G. Brown Goode, Mr. Spofford, Mias Kate Field, Lawrence Gardner, M. I. Weller, | Theodore W. Noy: Judge Wagner and Mr. Worthington Ford, and a number of communications from other recipients of the call were laid before the meting. | The Columbia Historical Society. Different plans for gathering and pre- | serving historical records and for develop- ing interest in the history of the national capital were proposed and discussed, The | question whether the ends coull ve ac- | complished by increasing the local member- ship and widening the local scope of the | American Historical Association, or by strengthening the Memorial Association, re- celved special attention. It w&s the unant- mous opinion that some organization is re- quired for collecting the scattered and | rapidly disappearing records of events erd | individuals prominent in the history of the }eity and District; and the discussion | brought out the prevailing opinion that the | most effective organization woud be a historical! association co-ordinate with those already established {n many of our staies. Accordingly it was decided « institute such an organization under the name cf | the Columbia Historical Society. With a view to permanent organization | three committees were appointel. Dr. | Welling and Messrs. Spoffo: Toner, Nico- | lay and Hagner were appointed a commit- tee to draft a constitution; Justice Morris and Messrs. Ros Taggart, sioode and | Gardner were made a committee on charter, and Messrs. McGee, Hubbard, Hood, Noyes and Weller were charged with the fixing of ‘offices and the nomination if oiflcers, The | three committees were instructed to co- operate and report action at a future meet- | ing. | | | List of Founders, The list of the founders adopted is as |follows: Mr. Henry Adams, Mr. Marcus Baker, Dr. Swan M. Burnett, William EF. | Edmension, esq., Miss Kate Field, Worth- ington C. Ford, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, Lawrence Gardner, Dr. William W. | Godding, Dr. G. Brown Goode, Judge Alex- B. Hagner, Kev. Teunis 8. Hamlin, joner of Education William T. Har- John Hay, James F. Hood, esq., | Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Right Rev. John £. Hurst, Miss Elizabeth B. Johnston, Right | Rev. John J. Keane, Mr. S. P. Langley, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Rev. Randolph H. McKim, Justice Martta F. Morris, \John G. Nicolay, Mr. Theodore W. Noy Major John W. Powell, Rev. J. Havens | Richards, E. Francis Riggs, esq., Com- | missioner John W. Ross, Mr. A. F ford, Hush T. Taggart, esq., Dr. Toner, Michael I. Weller, esq., Dr. James |C. Welling, Representative William L. Wil- son. The Object of the Soctety. In no other part of the country are his- torical records more interesting and im- portant than in the District of Columbia. | Set apart as the home for the national cap- ital, this District is most inseparably con- nected with the country at large; its growth in population and social character repre- sents the development of the nation; its history is an epitome of that of the coun- try. Yet, while there have been sporadic movements in the direction of systematic preservation of the history of the District, jit ts a remarkable fact that the District ts without an organized instrumentality for promoting historical research and preserv- ing historical records of general character. The e: pre: Columbian University was to supply this deficiency and to institute a society which may by a large membership, by public ad- dresses and printed publications, diffuse in- | terest in historical matters and bring to- gether the data for a complete history of the District of Columbia. not stmply as one | | HAS WARDEN BURKE RESIGNED? Rumor That He Had or Would Do so— Other Changes Suggested. It was rumored about the city hall this afternoon that Warden Burke would resign his position in a few days, if, indeed, he had not already handed it in to the District Supreme Court, by whom the warden of the District jal 1s appointed, and under | | Whose control the prison is. No verification of the rumor could be obtained, aithough the story was said to have come from one in a position to know. Another rumor was to the effect that not only had Warden In response to a call issued early in the | Burke resigned, but also that the resigna- tion of Deputy Warden Russ and Prison Physician McWilliams had been requested by the court. It was stated this afternoon that, while the court had refrained from publishing any decision in the matte> of their recent investigation in affairs at the jail, the con- clusion was reached at a meeting last week that the best way out of the matter war to allow Warden Burke to hand in his resig- nation, thereby relieving him from the pain of a dismissal. Members of the court declined to discuss the matte:, and Warden Burke stated to a Star reporter today that there was nothing new that he knew of. The warden’s friends say, too, that he is, hot @ man who would resign while under fire, and that if the cou:t think that he should go they will have to formally dis- miss him. While the rumor that Warden Eurke had or would soon resign was very general this afternoon, no one particular man secmed to have been thought of as his suc- cessor, although it was bellev>d by many that the choice of the court liy between Court Crier Robert Ball and Deputy Mar- shall John R. Leonard. — PUT YOUR HEAD TO THE ENGINE. A Wideawake Sleeping Car Porter Tells How Old Travelers Sleep on the Cars. From the New York Sun. “How will you have your feet?” the porter asked in a Wagner car coming from Buf- falo. “Feet to the engin said the passenger. “If you travel much you'll have your head put next to the engine,” said the colored man. “No,” said the pass r, “lL am afraid there might be a collision, and then I'd be thrown with all my weight against my head." The porter chuckled. “I beg pardon, bows,” said he, “but I no- lice dat all de ratiroad men has their heads but toward de engine—and all the commer- cial travelers also. ‘Ihe biggest arguments is in favor of dolag that way. in the nrst place, there ain't many head-on collisions. There's more danger of a rear-end collision. The reason is that every passenger train hes its own right of way, and runs regu- jarly every night, and is looked out for by all the trains that’s running ahead of it. Therefore the most dat.ger is from some- thing behind which don’t know when we have stopped or broke something, and which runs into us unexpected!y. ‘‘nere ain't any one looking out for any kind of collisions, ‘cause when they come it mat- ters mighty little which end you're putting torward—your head or your feet—but if you insist on looking out for "em from behind— I'm a-telling you.” “Any more arguments?” “Got plenty more arguments, boss. You don't want to sleep with your feet toward the engine, because if you do the draught through the car blows right agin your head, and when it gets cold at night your. head and chest are exposed. Put your head to- ward the engine and you feel cool without | gitting in no draught. It's just the same way in summer. If you sleep with your feet toward the engine you can’t have your | | windows open, with the screen in ‘em, with- out getting the wind and fine dust right in your face, whereas if you sleep with your (head to the engine you get the cool air and purpose of the conference at | no draught and dust.” “Is that all you know?” “No, boss; I hain’t told you the biggest argument yet why you should have your head made up toward the locomotive. ‘Ihe Most serious thing of all is the circulation of the blood in your body. You been hav- ing your feet made up toward the engin eh? Well, I reckon you don’t never sleep very well in the cars, do you’ Your nignts res’ is usually broken, ain't it? Well, sir, lemme make up your head to the engine an’ you'll sleep like you was a baby. Dat’s be- cause the motion of the train is so strong and steady that it sends all your blood to- wart the end that’s furthest from the en- gine. Put your feet to the engine and all your blood rushes straight to your head and gives you a restless night. Put your nead to the engine and the blood goes away trom your head, leaving it cool and easy so as you can res’ like a child.” “Put my head toward the engine ana stop talking, will you?’ “Yes, sir; all right, sir; anything you say, sir. You won't gredge me dat quarter in of the territorial divisions of the Union, but the morning, I'm a-tellin’ you.”" as the site of the national capital. ae MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE. Has Pinarmio Glogannett! Drowned Himself in the River? It was reported last night by Geo. N. | Blackburn, a colored trooper of company |K, Fort Myer, that while going across the | Aqueduct bridge at about 7 o'clock he saw a man suddenly jump over the railing and jinto the river, eighty feet below. There | (A lapse of half an hour. from between curtains. porter.) “Solomon; Diogenes, porter! Any argu- ments as to What part of a train is the sat- Then a voice It addresses the ‘There aren't no use of arguments ‘bout dat, sir. The safest place on a train is the middle of the middle car.on the side rur- test from the other track.” “Good night, Cicero. HOW GLACIERS ARE FORMED. jwWas a slash, fifteen feet in height, a | More Ice Must Be Produced Than the muffled cry a moment and then silence. hurried to the spot where the man had been last seen and found @ pair of shoes lying | there. | against the rail | attitude. He was white, the: | no particular attention’ had |presence. The affair was reported to the | police and two boatmen began at once to | drag in the vicinity of the spot where the | man is said to have gone down. The dark- | ness, however, prevented their efforts from being successful. The shoes were brought to the station. The report soon spread that the suicide was Theodore Stockman of Georgetown, but that gentleman was found alive and well at his home on Prospect avenue. | This morning Mr. John Roney of 315 | Fennsylvaria avenue, a shoe dealer, called at the seventh precinct station and identified | the shoes there as a pair he had yesterday sold to his neighbor, Pinarmio Glogannetti, | an Italian fruit dealer residing at 317 Penn- yivania avenue. The latter had not been | seen since early yesterday morning by bis | femily. When he left home he was under the influence of liquor. About one year ago | Giogannetti attempted ‘suicide, and there was no doubt in the mind of Mr. Roney that this time he had succeeded. The Italian, if dead, he has left a wife and two children. The policeboat Joe Blackburn will today assist in the search for the body. les Appointed to the Naval Academ: The President has complimentel Capt. Robley D. Evans of the navy, who engi- neered his recent expedition among the water fowl in the Dismal swamp and ite tributaries, by appointing his son a cadet- at-large to the naval academy, the onl, appointment of the kind at his disposal at this time. +2 Personal Mention. Governor O’Ferral of Virginia w: floor of the House today. Mr. Landis, private secretary to the Sec- retary of State, has returned from a brief visit to Chicago. Assistant Secretary Uhl of the State De- partment has gone to New York for a few days. E. Hez Swem, pastor of the Second Bap- tist Church, has just returned to the city from the funeral Service of his father, who was a physician for more than half « cen- tury. Gen. Miles, who is in the city as the guest of Senator Sherman, expects to leave here tomorrow for Chicago to resume his of- ficial duties. a Army Orde First Lieut. Walter H. Gordon, eighteenth infantry, is relieved from duty with the world’s Columbian exposition, and will join his company. The extension of leave of absence granted Maj. John C. Mallery, corps of engineers, is still further extended three months on surgeon's certificate of disability. on the To Count Money. Arrangements have been made at the Treasury Department for the transfer of the United States mint at Philadelphia to the new superintendent, Mr. Townsend, April 1 next. It will take a large force of men several weeks to weigh and count the coin and bullion at the mint. » the sound of ruMed water for | Blackburn | From the Fortnightly Review. | Amount Melted. The most recent researches, according to Mr. Falsan, show that the thickness of the ice has been usually underestimated. A The trooper had been preceded over the| terminal moraine on the Jura at Chasserou | bridge by two other occupants of the fort,| {s 4,000 feet above the sea, or | and, calling to them, notes were compared. | above Geneva. | The two in passing had seen a man leaning | of the ice should have had sufficient incline emingly in a thoughtless | to flow onward as It did, it was probably '¥ noticed, though | 5,000 or 6,000 feet thick below Martigny, and been paid to his) 4.000 or 0 feet In order that the surface 5,000 feet over the middle of the lake. It is certain, at all events, that what- ever thickness was necessary to cause on- ward motion to some outlet or lowland, where the ice can be melted away as fast as it is renewed, indefinite enlargement of a glacier is avoided. The essential condition for the formation of a glacier at all is that more ice should be produced annually than 1s melted away. So long as the quantity produced is on the average more than that melted. the giacier will Increase; and as the more extended sur- face of ice, up to a certain point, by form- ing a refrigerator, helps its own extension, a very small permanent annual surplus may lead to an enormous extension of the ice. Hence, ff at any stage in Its development | the end of a glacier remains stationary, either owing to some obstacle in its path or to its having reached a level plain where it was unable to move onward, the annual surplus of ice produced will go to increase the thickness of the glacier and its upper slope till motion ts produced. The ice then flows onward till it reaches a district warm enough to bring about an equilibrium be- tween growth and dissolution. If therefore at any stage in the growth of the glacier a thickness of 6,000, 7,000 or even 8,000 feet is needed to bring about this result, that thickness will Inevitabiy be pro- duced. We know that the glacier of the Rhone did move onward to the Jura and beyond it; that the northward branch flowed on beyond the Soleure till it joined the glacier of the Rhine, and that its southern branch carried Alpine erratics to the coun- try between Bourg and Lyone, 230 miles from its source. We know, too, that throughout this distance it moved at the bottom as well as the top, by the rounded and polished rocks and beds of stiff boulder clay which are found in almost every part of its course. ee sce Rigors of Ri ian Polt From the Loudon Daily News. A case tried the other day before the cen- tral tribunal of Odessa affords still ancther proof of the extreme severity with which passport offenses are treated in Russia. Periodically the police in all the iarge towns and cities make raids upon the night |asylums and common lodging houses, and persons found without passports, or “‘pa- pers of legitimation.” are sent per ctape to their birthplaces. A few weeks certain Michael Breyd, a Russian subject, was one of a batch of poor peopie without papers arrested by the Moscow police. Breyd stated that he belonged to Odessa, and was accordingly sent there. terrogeted on his arrival he deciared he knew not where his friends were, whether he had any relatives livin, had been abandoned by his parents when quite young, and had no recollection of them. He was tried as a vagabond—there being no criminal charge whatever against him—and was sentenced to one year in a disciplinary regiment and to be afterward banished to one of the remote settlements of Eastern Siberia for life. In the event, concludes this cruel judicial fiat, of there being no room for him in the disciplinary a? he must at once be sent to Si- ri [SS ements A KNOWN QUANTITY. It is the practice of The Star to Print on Saturday a sworn statement of its circulation day by day for the preceding week. It would seem self- evident that the advertiser is entitled to this protection, but The Star is alone in this custom as far as Wash- ington is concerned. Below will be found the statement for the week just past. The average circulation exhibited is believed to be nearly, if not quite, double the combined circulation of the other Washington dailies, and fully five times that of its afternoon contemporary. Circulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, March 8, 18°4.. 41,579 MONDAY. March 5, 1904. . 34,848 TUESDAY, March 6, 18°4.... WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1894... | THURSDAY, March 8, 1394.. FRIDAY, March 9, 184 34,716 34,848 34,077 + 215,733 Total... 5 sas. Daily average. : I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of [uz Ev2v- ING STaR circulated during the six secular days end- ing Friday, March 9, 1s¢4--that is, the num- berof copies actually sold, delivered, furnished | Ormailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide | Purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted were returned to or remainio the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Oo. Subscribed and sworn to before me this tenth day of March, A. D. 1894. CHAS. W. DARR, Notary Pubilc, D. c. ENTERTANED BY MR. WIGHT. Guests Invited to Meet the Officers of the Bonrd of Trade. | A reception was given last evening at |1767 Q street, the residence of Mr. John | B. Wight, who is the secretary of the board of trade of this city, to meet the officers and directors of the board. Mr. Wight re- |ceived his guests, and each one was fur- | ther greeted by Mr. B. H. Warner, the pres- |fdent of the board of trade, and was in- | troduced to the officers and directors, who | stood in a line near the door of the prin- ‘cipal parlor. The formality of a line, how- lever, was not preserved during the even- jing, as each of these gentlemen were soon surrounded by a group of acquaintances. 8 the parlors filed up and the guests moved about freely, it was evident from | | the hum of conversation that an evening | reception, even without the presence of | ladies, does not lack one of the chief feat- | ures of such functions. The handsome par- lors and. spacious hallway, as well as the | broad landing on the second floor, were | adorned with flowers and fi e plants, an | orchestra was stationed in the hall and | rendered selections during the evening, there was a bowl filled with a refreshing | compound on the second floor and also one company was representative of the city in the various branches of business as well as in vrofessional and official life, and the opportunity which was thus afforded the members of the board of trade and others to meet together socially was evi- dently highly appreciated. The board of t-ade by these social events is doing a great deal toward cultivating that friendly feeling and personal acquaint- ance which is so useful among the repreven- tative men of a city. The executive ability displayed by the secretary of the board, Mr. Wight, who has rather recently assumed this office, place in the community. The evening was spent in social intercourse, and in the din- ing room a handsome collation was served. given in honor of the office-s of the board of trade that there should be more or less allusion to that organization. This was es. pecially the case since the growth and pros- perity which had marked the last few months of the history of the board has been so pronounced. The increase in m- bership since last December has been nearly 200, and in other respects the board Is ¢is- playing a vitality that makes it worthy to be the representative of the interests of this city. The expressions of appreciation on the part of those present for this opportun- ity to meet 30 many of the leading men of the city was generally heard, that in the future frequent of @ similar character would be given either under the auspices of the board or through the ente:prise of some of the members. Among those present were Judge S. J. Peele, W. D. Baldwin, John Tweedale, L. G. Hine, Dr. Thomas M. Chatard, John C. Heald, Major B. P. Mimmack, W. A. Hun- ge-ford, John T. Marchand, George William McLanahan, George C. Gorham, Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, W. H. Moses, W. B. Bryan, Gen. George H. Shields, Charles 8. Bradley, A. W. Pentland, emg * B. Wight, Col. George F. Huff, Thomas Wiison, Frank P. Reeside, P. V. DeGraw, John ©. Beall, W. C. Dodge, H. M. Hiester, T. A. Lambert, A. Lisner. William F. Clark, Col. Henry F. Blount, Ross Thompson, R. Goldschmid, Capt. Gus- tav J. Fiebeger, William B. Gurley, R. W. | Tyler, Archibald Greenlees, Representative John T. Heard, T. L. Holbrook, ex-Justice William Strong, Thomas G. Alvord, D. R. McKee, C. B. Rheem, Louis D. Wine, Wil- Mam E. Clark, Matthew G. Emery, Dr. | James C. Welling, Charles B. Bailey, M. Sells, M. W. Beveridge, Rev. Dr. T. S. Ham- lin, Rudolph Kauffmann, Major Charles F. Powell, W. P. VanWickle, Senator Charles J. Faulkner, George C. Maynard, Julea Guthridge, H. W. Fuller, Charles W. Need- ham, G. F. S3wartzell, Bishop John F. Hurst, Prof. Ouls T. Mason, H. P. i . Godwin, {Justice Andzew C, Bradley, Berith Wilkins, |B. H. Warner, SE. Wheatley, John J. Edson, Col. George Truesdell, Isadore Saks, Frank Hume, E. B. Wight, Justice Lou McComas, 8, W. Woodward, Theodore Noyes, Col. A. T. Britton, George T. Dy lop, John If. Mag-uder, C.J. nd Robert H. Gunnell aia ——— THE DESK OCCUPIED. Col. Truesdell Appenrs Today at the District Bulldin;;. It {s now Commissioner Truesdell Bright and early this morning the new Commissioner made his appearance at the District buflding. He was greeted by Com- missioner Ross and escorted to his desk, where a large bouquet cf handsome roses was awaiting him. Col. Truesdell was in the best of spirits and pinned on the hand- some gold budge of office with the remark that he hoped to deserve it. Later a mam- moth horseshoe of lovely American beauty roses, lilles of the valley and hyacinths came. A number of prominent citizens eslled during the morning to congratulate Col. Truasdell. A meeting of the board was immediatciy called for the purpose of organizing. Commissioner loss was elect- fa president and Col. Truesdell vice pres- dent. Chicago's Public Building Committee, Chairman Bankhead of the public build- ings and grounds committee will today an- nounce the names of those members who will go to Chicago and investigate the reeds of the city for a new pubile butiding jin place of that which is now considered |ursafe for occupancy. The cotamittee se- leeted by the chairman will, it is expected, leave for Chicago the latter part of next week. Mr. Bankhead will be one of ihe a that a bill he ts interasted will be cailed up on Wednesday, prefers that the start for Chicago be deferred until after that date. H. H. Moler, assistant sergeant-at-arms of the House, has been designated to ac- company the committee to Chicago. Annaal Sermon to Odd Fellows. ‘There will be an annual sermon preached to the United Order of Odd Fellows of Hillsdale, D. C., tomorrow at Campbell A. M. E. Church by Rev. Dr. G. W. Bry- ant. The lodge will meet at Douglas Hall at 1 o'clock and proceed from there to the church. ae To Retire. Maj. Thomas E. Rose, eighteenth infantry, will go on the retired list Monday, and the following promotions will result: Capt. A. A. Harbach, twentieth infantry; First Lieut. J. 8. Rogers, twentieth infantry, and Second Liout. H. Humphrey of the twentieth infantry. —_—_-e-+___— Gloucester fishermen vigorously object to the changes in the Wilson bill reported to the Senate finance committee. 34,765 | at the entrance to the dining room. The) is recognized as contributing | largely toward giving the board its proper | It was ‘natural that as the reception was/ d the hope | SOUTH AFRICA. In the Opinion of One Who Has Tried It, No Sort of a Place for a Worker. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I sailed from London January 20, 1893, for Cape Town, returning the latter part of the states again. Miners thinking of going to Johannesburg would do better by stay. ing at home, even if times are very quiet here. The average of mine=s | Cape Town is about ten weekly, and they are nearly all from England. They nearly all branch out for Johannesburg, and natur- | before an American, and you wil find this | in all branches of business, professional or otherwise. The colored peopit2 do all the | laborious work in the mines, and as for the positions the white man would take I sup- pose there are about fifty waiting for on | opening. A good miner can earn 825 week, and I think a good miner can earn more here, and then again he cin live con- siderably cheaper here. He would have to | pay for board in Johannesburg about $10 weekly. This is speaking of board alone. When I left Cape Town las: May there were hundreds of men in Cap? n from all parts of South Africa looking for em. ployment. Lots of them manage to gct down from the inte-ior, and the ‘iret chaace they have of returning to 2 cither by working their passage or otherwise, they will, The boat I came beck with to London was the Tartar, and eleven worked thei> passage home, end, having so muny applications, had to refuse a gout ny. A stowaway 1s a common occurreac | Board in Cape Town is $6.25 a week.and if you wanted a position as clerk. book- Keeper, telegraph operator, 2tc.. they would offer you what they call to say, it doesn’t matte: a you may be, you have to commence with © or $6 a week, and you think yourself lucky if you can get that. age a hundred applicants for on« situation. I took my brother-in-law fran England with me. He was earning the-e $10 a week, and he tramped around Cape Town seven weeks and finally got a position. «nd | have just rd from him, and he is ut present earning $6 a week at the same lace. As many people are returnirg from South Africa as are going—that is, between 400 and 500 weekly. \fen that do vet positions, | after they have raved, if ever they do, $200 to $400, return to England for xo. Employers will not acept « diploma from the United States .f any kat !¢ doesn't matter how high the reputatio1 of the cx !- lege may be, and anyone heading “here wi?) only be too sorry he ever left home, as it costs more to get from there than It does to reach there. The whole thing is there ts tco much English about it all round, and after having the freedom of this cowitry you will find a great difference between South .\frica and here. There are two or three prices on some of the necessaries in Cape Colony, and this ‘s the cheapest place to live: House rent, :rom % weekly; flour,6 cents pe> pound: potatoes. 30 pounds for $1; butter, 50 cents to T3 cents per pound; bacon, 35 cents per pound. a ee ae A AKE CHARMER. jut He Outdid the Professio: His Dart Handling of Repities. From the San Francisco Examiner. Dr. Gustav Leipnitz,one of the best known HE WASN'T | German-Americans west of Chicago, died | yesteniay morning at the German Hos- | pital. He was eighty-three years oid, and | until within a week ago enjoyed the best of health, with the exception of a local troubl of the leg. Dr. Leipnitz was one of the most famous and picturesque of the old-time characters in San Francisco. He was wide- ly known by the suggestive title of “The Snake Doctor,” and for the last fifteen or sixteen years was proprietor of the drug store at 23 Sutter street. “The Snake Doctor” earned his sobriquet by his overfondness for reptiles of all kinds, and especially for venomous Rat- tlesnakes were his particular pets. In his | time he has owned many of these deadiy reptiles, and though he handled and ca- ressed them more lovingly than the average | person would care to handle a harmless gopher snake, he never took the precaution to withdraw their poisonous fangs, nor was he ever seriously harmed by one of his pets. Leipnitz did not claim to be a snake with his serpents than most of the profes- | sional charmers are, but had a theory as to how to handle dangercus reptiles and how not to handle them, And, unlike a good many theorists, “The Snake Doctor” had no hesitancy in making concrete ap- plication of his abstractions. | “It's very easy to handle a dangerous serpent,” he used to say. “The secret lies in not making any rapid movements while handling them. All you have to do is to move gently and with care, so as not to | Startle them. By nature the snake {s not aggressive and will only strike when it thinks there is danger threatening.” | And then, to further illustrate his theory, | “The Snake Doctor” would go to his tank jin the show window, pass his hand gently | under a big, viclous-looking rattler, lift it | tenderly and carefully out of its warm | blanket. and let the (coll itself about his arm. And he would Not let you speak of his serpents as treach- crous. “They are not near £0 treacher- ous as I have known men to be.” he used to say. “You only have to treat them right; that is all.” Dr. Leipnita’s collection of snakes in his how window on Sutter street has been one of the features of the town, almost, for | May, and was only too glad when I reached | janding in ally the employers prefer an Englishman | a} There are on an aver-| charmer, though he was far more daring | treacherous reptile | THE INSECT LEAVES. In Form and Colo: he Resemb is Striking. From Harper's Magazine. | There is, perhaps, no other group of in- sects which in form and color are so gen- erally imitative,and which naturalists have found more difficult to detect in their haunts. Their bodies often resemble (he roughened bark of the trees among which they live; or they scem to have crowing to them little flecks of lichen or moss, which ; add to the deception. The «disguise of the | walking leaf Phyllium is the more rtrihing to a naturalist because he will notice thet whereas among all other members of the tribe the wing covers (when they exist) are greatly abbreviated, the true in Phyllium, the wing covers, the only member which could be made to resemble a leaf to perfection, being greatly devel- | oped, while the wings are aborted, as if the wing covers were here developed for the express purpose of this mimicry. Twenty-five years ago,at the Jardin d'Ac- elimitation, at Paris, some of these walking leaves were exhibited alive. They were placed on growing plants, from which the larger part of the leaves were stripped, that he insects might not too easily conceal hemselves. If a large placard announcing j the presence of these creatures had not drawn atgention to them, certainly no oue | would have recognized anything extraord!- nary, and even as it was, many a person, after examining the case with care, left without seeing anything but the plant.and with the opinion that what the placard told them to look for was some minute ob- ject too miscropic for their sight. Even those who knew what to expect had often a long search to discover what was in real- ity in full sigat, The same was true of the living sneci- mens at Edinburgh. Of one of them Mur- j ray says: “For the greatest period of its Mfe it s0 exactly resembled the leaf on which it fed that when visitors were shown it they usually, after looking carefull the plant for a minute or to, that they could see no insect. It ha-l then to be more minutely pointed out to them, and. although seeing is rotoriously said to be believing, it looked so absolutely the same as the leaves among which it rested that this test rarely satisfied them, and nothing would convince :nem that there was a real live insect there but the test of touch. It had to be stirred up to make it move.’ Se oe THE ANCIENT MARINER. The Circomstances of the Origin of e Frou: the Gentleman In the autumn of 1797 worth and Poole went on a walking ex- pedition from Alfoxden to Porlock Linton, and Lynmouth. On the road Coleridge re- lated a remarkable dream which had been dreamed by John Cruikshank, a resident of Nether Stowey, and which he had been thinking of making the subject of a poem. As the trio walked on, the subject was worked out. Coleridge sugested that an ancient mariner should be punished for some crime by ghostly hauatings. Wordsworth,who had been pernsing Shel- vocke’s “Voyages,” published in 1728, und had been struck by the author's description of the albatross, then sugcested to Cole- ridge that his ancient mariner should kill one of these birds, and be junished for his cruelty by the tutelary spirits of the re- gion in which the act ‘vas perpetrated. And so originated “The Anci that weird poem the merits of of our readers, we doubt not, been slow to appreciate. that in Shelvocke’s narrative an albatross is shot in the hopes of causing some im- provement in the state of the weather. On this fact, or rather the expansion of this fact, Coleridge's poem was based. Thomas De Quincy has, tn his “Recollec- tions of the Lakes and the Lake Poets,” will have We may mention fallen foul of Coleridge ‘or not having ex- pressed his obligations to Shelvocse. “In the year 1810," he says, “I happened to be | amusing myself by reading, in their chro- | nological order, the great classical elreum- navigations of the earth, and coming to Shelvucke I met with a passage to this | effect: That Hatley, his second mate—i. | Meutenant—being a melancholy man. w: | as possessed by a fancy that some long season of foul weather in the solitary sea which | they were then traversing was due to an albatross, which had steadily pursued the} ship; upon which he shot the bird, but | without mending their condition. There I at once saw the germ of “The Ancient Mar- iner,” — J put a questiron to Coleridge ac- } 1 ingly. Whether Coleridge v.as ignorant of Shel-/ vocke’s narrative, or whether he had read | and forgotten it, surely matters but little. | “The Ancient Mariner” was finished and) sent to press, and in due course made its appearance. | coe Hl GREEN GOODS WITH A VARIATION. | A Scheme That Shows Ingenuity a Phase That Proves Tempting. From the Hartford Times. i Another and most tempting phase of the green goods scheme has made its appear-| | ance. It was tried in Hartford this week, | but the man whom the crooks intended to meke their victim was too “fly” for them. | They took the warning and skipped the, tewn. This is the plan of the game: A stranger comes to town and selects his | | victim, usually a saloonkeeper. He makes ry opposite is | ¢ more than a dozen years. Latterly he has | the saloon his hangout and spends money had two hideous-looking Gila monstets in| freely. The proprietor soon notices, if he his snakery, and these he handled with as|is at all observant, that every time the much freedom as he did the rattlers. In his collection there were gopher snakes, | “Tanger Pays for anything he passes out garter snakes, black snakes, and most ali|® Crisp, unwrinkled bill. The stranger be- the varieties indigenous to the coast. A| Comes very friendly with the proprietor, few years ago he had a deadly little black | and one fine day he say: asp, that was brought to him by a friend | who had just returned from Asti it In with his other pets, but it soon died. Since then the doctor has collected only such reptiles as can stand the San Fran- ‘isco climate. Sao ak MAD FOLKS’ FANCIES, fe Idens Entertained by mates of a Lunatic Asyl From the Scottish American. At a lunatic asylum I recently visited I was under the bellef that there were no men in the world. Just to test her, the partyef visitors among whom I was asked her how many men there were in the room at that moment. males.” In the same asylum there is incarcerated an eiderly lady known to the other Inmates as “Silent Jane.” Some months ago she committed an offense against a rule of the establishment, and was severely reprimand- ed in consequence by the master. She there- upon gave expression to a resolve never to speak again, and up to the present time she has faithfully kept her promise, although persistent efforts are made to get her to talk. As the master of the asylum, who ts a bit of a wag in his way, remarked, should think she was unique of her sex. The only noise made by the old woman is_a sort of humming, and, despite the strongest temptations that have been held out to her, she never utters a word. T once met a lunatic whose special mani was the making of beds. He was so fo of making beds.that he voluntarily nade thi she replied; “they are all fe- i} formed the task with marvelous regularity and speel. He could make a bed perfectly in less than two minutes, and such carefully made beds were never seen before. I remember another lunatic of zhe mas- culine persuasion whose peculiarity was the fact that he knew just seven songs. He was uader the delusion that he was a sort cf Sims Reeves, and promptly at 5 o'clock every night of the week he started one of the baliads forming his repertoire. He sang one song on Monday, another on Tuesday, and so on. He would never give an encore, nor would he change the order of songs. He has done this for years, and will prob- ably continue to do so until the end. a Book Plate Collecting. From the London Daily News. Philately, or postage stamp collecting, has now reached the dimensions of an in- dustry, but in the race for popularity the comparatively new department of artistic research dealing with “Ex |doris,” or the collection of book plates, ids fair to run it very hard. It has a society to itself, and the literature around it increases very rapidly. Artistically, a collection of “Ex Libris” is much more interesiing than an agglomeration of postage stamps. The lat- ter are seldom or never works of art, but are useful as an Incentive io geographical research, while book plates are, as a rule, high-class specimens of the engraver’s skill, and a collection of them really forms a study of history—an epitome of the rise and fall of historic families. In Germany much greater care is bestowed on book plates than in this country, althouxh sev- eral English artists have turned cut work not unworthy of comparison with anything produced on the continent. | But before I go 1 wish you would give me saw a woman about fifty years of age who | whole of the beds in one dormitory. He per-{ “Well, I must say good-bye tomorrow. | back those new bilis. I w i for them.” “Why, what for?” “Well, I'll tell you. That money I've been spending here is not right, see? I've grown | to like you, and I don’t want you to get ‘into trouble.” | The victim is astonished. Probably goes examines some of | to his cash drawer and | the money. He swears that it is real, but ughs at him. | the stranger la “Real? Why, I'll sell you cords of that! | stuff for $30 a $100!" Then the stranger goes on to explain the same old story, but with this cae | “You've seen thi ‘xposed in the papers how a man is bound ive you other | |a hundred times, and | to lose his money if he runs against the ‘game. Well, if you'll do business with me | I'll put the money right in your hands be- fore you pay me a cent!” That certainly looks reasonable, and let us suppose the victim bites. He agrees to | “do business.” He says he will buy $100, ‘worth. The sharper then tells him to meet him the next day with $100 in $5 bills. Thi | meet. The she: ~4 Tper produces a large en- | velope. They count the money and place | jit in the envelope. The victim is directed | | to seal the envelope. The stranger then) | Says: j envelope in your ; Presence.” Suiting the action to the words he takes out a stylographic pen, spreads out a newspaper on the bar to write upon, writes a number across one end and three initials in the middle; then, as he blots the | vriting with the newspaper, fou keep this envelope with your money in | it, and when our agent calls on you to-. morrow he will count the ‘goods’ into your And when you are convinced that it He will recognize | the number and initials and receive it as! payment.” ' With these words the stranger hands the victim his envelope, bids him good-bye, and | | takes his leave. It is needless to say that | he immediately leaves town, and that when the agent fails to arrive the next day |and the victim opens his envel he finds | it filled only with pieces of ik paper cut to represent the $5 bills! | A few words will suffice to explain the trick; for it is as truly a sleight-of-hand trick as any Jewett or Herrmann or Keller can do on the stage. The crook has two envelopes precisely alike. One he prepares by marking it with a number and initials and filling it with the required number of may sheets of paper. This he folds inside | of a newspaper and puts it carelessly in| his side pocket. ¢ The other envelope he keeps in readiness to produce at the right moment to receive the victim's money. When he has seen the “bundle” safely inside, and sealed, he takes out his newspaper, spreads the en- velope upon it, writes on it, opens up one corner of the paper, ard puts it under-| neath and blots it. Then here comes the change, which is simple enough. He takes out the dummy envelope and hands it to the victim. It fs all so natural that any one might be deceived. The victim thinks that his money dves not go out of his sight for @ moment, but it does, very much so. | | —— eee Ficklenens. From Judge. She—“Her heart is like a novel—easy to He—“Yes; and like a novel in a circula’ ing Mbrary—not to be kept longer than two eke | dium tint. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. are the opening, the highest and d the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as Fe by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exeheage Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 's) Broadwa! ran Sugar, pta. Amencan Tobi i American Cotton Oil Atchison Canada Canada Pacific... Chesapeake and Ohio. c. C. and St. L, Chicago. B. and @ and Northwestern. Denver and Dis. and Catt e ... Lonisville ans Long isian L. National Cordage Co National Cordage, New Jersey Cemttale New York Central N.Y.and New Eugiaud, ¥..G. and St. Lone; Northern Pactte Northern Pacitic, North American. Pullman P. ¢ Richmond Ty is 3 PRESEE : Company, ser. Company, ser. B, Dompany conv. Gs, Ligut conv. 3x, 125 bid, 126 Potomac Tel. ‘Ss, Se, P. & A, ‘Trust bs, A. & 100 bid. Weruington ‘Muskrt ‘Company Ge, 103 bid. Wi Marke: Coupauy exten. Ge, 106 Vid. Masouic Hall Asso) ation 5.5 102 bid. ‘Wi Infantry, ist. Se, 102 tid. Washington it ry, 2d, Ts. ational Bank Stocks. —Bank of W ow” 350 Magy 2 it, +. ad |. Metre- tan, 270 bid. Ceutral, 280 id. Secomd, 140 147 asked. Citizens’, 180 bid. 140 asked. Co- juuibia, 120 bi tal, 110 bid. West Bnd, 201 bid. 108 asked. Traders’, 163 bid. Lincoln, 2 bid. sand . Washington Sate Ratiroad Stocks. Ws and Electric Light Stocks. —W: * 7 % rence Stocks. Firemen’ ‘Gas, Vid, 137 asked. Franvlin, 4 bide Metropolitan, "70 ‘ad. 60 bid. Potoma ‘Arlington. 156 man American, 135 bid. 16 asked. 44 asked. ie” lusurance Stocks. — Real 12 Did. 120 asked. Columbia Tithe, @% bid, 7y asked. Washington Title, $ asked. | a. “el Stocks.—Pennsyivan'a, 47 asked. Ches- ¢ and Potomac, 47 bid, 50’ asked. American Cihorbuwe 2 bid.’ Pueumatic Gun Carriage, .40 Miscellaneous Stocks. Washington Market.12 bid, Great Pulls Ice, 120 bid. Bull Run a5 bid. Lincoln Hall, 100 asked. Inter-Ocean ing, 100 asked. —<——— istom Marketa. vaukers and brokers, ’ Mare 10. 1894. es avy ST wy ag eo, ay os 6. as ea ae aes biked Be Ee BY By Se =, 2 nZ ne i 21.20 us i ns nw US Wet 1 11 sm oe s sa ov 6 Hr Ser 670 6: 7° So Oo 5 5S 5.85 ost 5. Sat oJ a by ‘sample, Gén6i, Maren Stadt: te el, 40% by shipments, 72.857 Dushels: x , Saddty; do. on grade. No. 2 white western, “SBa3N! em, bushels. Rye firmer—) 17,20 dushels: stock, choice timothy ‘ha L othe i, Sond ne oT, ay SE From the Ladies’ Home Journal. The newest color out in Paris indicate that we shall see a red even through the warm that source comes the news reds or chrysanthemum shades this spring. Color has become ant that one of the first questions wach season by storekeepers alike is in regard to what shades worn. No matter how lovely a tint ir = ecoming to the wearer thus un 0 2 the study of stylish and appropriate one of actual necessity for a well-dressed woman. the importers’ and manu- caterer sony brown will rank firet. In this line modore, marron, cafeine and trappiste are the better. golden browns are cafeine and Ef i! i £ lll u HH saomeet pg ~ ‘yemalion are remarkably handsome golden — are Siam, Melilla and Java. fashionable two are very Hilda, a reseda blue ‘tint. Two bright are known as fougere and mousse. a Gelicate blue green; emeraude, vivid tint, and Russe, a dark water ate all repeated on the latest cards. Six whitish or willow from a nearly white tone to a These are marcotte, roseau, palmier, sedum and cycas. first three are only St for evening wear. A Parisian fancy for combinations and mil- linery is caspienne, which connoisseurs claim will be a rage. It strongly resembies fresh leaves or stems, and has a my softened brightness. 190 meres Not Obinined by the Heaths, # per, the Commercial-Gazette will tomorrow -—“T don’t see how you can affora to marry with your expensive tastes. You only have five thousand a year.” Ferguson.—"“Well, my same amount. That will income.”