Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR —____-—__——_— DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ROBT TTUE SPAR BULDINO®, 1101 Pérosyivacia Avene, corner 1ith St, by The Evening Star Newspaper Oompsaay, S. H. SAUPFMANN, Pres't, Now York Otice, €8 Poster Building, partes Try Trrsivs STAR & served te subseribers tn the on thelr own secon 10 cents pos Panswaere’ i the ened powered or Canada—postage prepaid—s0 cents per onth. SaTPSDay QUINTCPLE Swrert S- 3 year, ‘With fcretrn postage added, sao arene ‘fee at Washington, ah ashi . D. o., “scriptions must he paid in advanes. falvert orn on anpliicstion. > ay \ ¥ if ¥.-—e CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL. FEW GREAT SCHOOLS The Calvary Baptist Sunday School Among the Number. HE SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUSE COMPLETED ful and exceedingly popular, and served a longer term than any other one. His mem- ory is yet cherished by many of the older members, and even those who have come to the school tn later years feel that they almost know the man, because he left be- hind him a memory so fragraat with good- ness and kindness. The two men who serv- ed as superintendent just preceding the present administration, Mr. Kendall and Mr. Prentiss, resigned on leaving the city. Mr. Kendall lives near Boston, und Is yet ‘The Description of the Building and the Dedication’ Tomorrow. ‘MODERN, PRACTICALMETHODS ——_s—__—_ ‘ HERE ARE MANY od Sunday schools in this country. There are ai few freat schools—great $2 numbers and great ‘SW. Wesdwate jm influence. A care- eS an active Sunday school worker. Mr. Pren- ful inquiry into the! tise"is filling a chaif in Itutgers College, geasons for one/The growth of Calvary schvol, while al- school being pre-emt- | ways heaitay— Gor 20d -has hud tt ently successful | @Teatest development during the past five Soult poche not | ¥€ars. Ordinarily in churcnes the older baer members do not take an active interest in reveal anything | Sunday school work, and too many think which would be en- tirely satisfactory as the reason. Undoubtedly, each school, in its organization, would be found to pos- sess elements peculiar to itself, upon which fits success depends. There is in this city Bt least one of these great schools—the Cal- that they are too old to witend; leaving the important work to you1g ani often {nex- perienced persons. In Calvary it is differ- ent. Nene Too Old. The pastor himself takes a lively interest in every branch of church work, and he feels that the work of the Sunday school vary Baptist, located on the corner of Sth | ts of the greatest importance. Under the and H streets northwest. It is connected] direction of wise officers, who called ‘with one of the most progressive churches} the pastor into their councils, the best working talent of the church became In- terested in the school, and its growth was assured. The spirit which has brought it to its present position was at work years ago, and as early as 1887 it began to be apparent that the school would before long outgrow its place of meeting. This feeling grew rapidly, and the pastor and officers began to cast about for a solution of the problem which confronted them. ‘The mem- bers present at the opening cf the school year in the autumn of 1888 crowded the lecture room, and relief of zome kind was Imperative. The first primary ¢epartment » Was crowded into one of the church parlors, the second primary into the other and the main school in the lecture room; all of the rooms were overflowing. The pastor proposed the organization of an adult department to occupy the audi- ence room of the church and thus r the overcrowded rooms on che first floo It was a new departure, and, while there was no pronounced opposition, as there never is to a measure proposed py the pas- tor, yet there were many who were by no means certain of even modurate success, and some predicted failure because of di vided interests. They thought the few classes going upstairs wou!d leave the low- er room too much crippled to lo goml work and would themselves not have suftictent force to attract and bring together enovgh to make a strong department. The senti- ment, however, in favor of the new de- parture prevatied, and steps were taken to put the plan into operation. Conse- quently, on the first Sundey in February 1889, the adult department was organized. with a membership of cbout 120, and Mr. Edward Earll, assistant superintendent, was placed in charge, leaving Mr. H. H. fm the country, the pastor of which is Rev. Samuel H. Greene, D.D., bie and popu- Jar preacher and pa: ‘ school has a femarkable bistory and tm ‘th, and its Feputation is known from © oan to ocean. Situated at the 1 of the nation, men and women from parts of the country @re broucht into contact with it. When once they have feit its influence, they seem Bever to get away from it, and the loyalty of its members and ex-members !s remarka- and is undoubiedly a great factor in suecess. To provide adequate quarters for this reat school, a Sunday school building has é Kimball in charge of what was then called Rev. S. H. Green the intermediate department and Miss fest been completed, adjoining the church | Sadie E. ‘White in charge of the primary @lifice on the south. The school will bid | rooms, with assistants tn each. Seod-bye to its old quarters = a lower Four Great Departments. the church edifice tomo! w morn- a S ond in well-organized procession witl| The pe sseyperecen ener aa March tn a bey to the large upper rooms of | entire school. It was only a few weeks the new hous Bive dedicatory exe: where simple but tmpres- ises will be held. The @ehool has be 4 to meet at 0:15, and lass records and collections will be taken, and at a quarter of 1® o'clock the line of Mareh will be organized, the pastor and of- nool leading the way, fol- lowed by the departments in their order, beginning with the primary. The Sabbath Behool choir will take their place imme- @ately upon entering the Sunday school and a processional hymn will be ®ung, the scholars joiming in the hymn as until the wisdom of the departure was man- ifest. The adult school began to develop | great activity and increased rapidity in en- rollment and attendance. The junior schcol was equally active, and the places left vacant by the adult classes were svon filled by new scholars brought in later. The reorganization of the school became necessary, and was effected as follows; The primary department, the intermediate, the juntor and the adult. While the ar- rangement of the school work was not en- tirely satisfactory, yet, up to about two they en’ the room. W all are seated | years ago, there had not been much there will be reading of Seripture, an an- | thought of additional room, as it was sup- them. an tion, a chart, responsive | posed by using the audience room of the Feeding, ria," dedicatory prayer. | church ample provision had been made for hymn of ion, announcements and | the futuce. ediction; and so will be set apart for| It became evident, however, during the Buniday hool purposes, one of the most | year 1892 that for the school to do more Beautiful rooms to be seen im any city, and | effective work it would be a necessity for rfect and convenient for ome of the greater accommodations, and accommoda- to which it is to be dedicated. | tions which would be more modern. ng, Prosperoas School. d January 29, » years has been do- work in the city, and its sprealing certinually. sense a mission ve alw: The and there in sue- time. One, Ken- ~d into a branch Imost self-eustain- Theron Outwater Stickney was the ool end serv- nd went Johngon was resiz ected to! 2. Mr. Stickney Feturn Ss again elected, Serving until p shich cecurred in Mr. L. R. 1 as super- eadent fron il October, MOR whon bees Mr. Pierson i. —xistow. two lower departments especially were | overcrowded, and there was but little room | for growth in the junior department, while | classes in the aduit department had begun to crowd each other, and it became itm- perative that there should be more room for all of the departments. The church, | under the pastorate of Dr. Greene, was also and he, together with growing rapidly, ee Che F pening Star. Pages 17-20. TO ADVERTISERS, (Advertisers are urgently re. quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in ©rder that insertion may be ss @ured. Want advertisements wil. Be received up to noon of the day @f publication, precedence being WASHINGTON “pO. some of the leading members of the church, began to consider some means of providing the room which seemed to be very much demanded. Late in 1892 a conference was held by a number of the workers of the church, and a plan conceived which was thought, if it could be developed properl: would ‘bring about the desired result This plan was very broad, including in its scope the construction of ‘a Sunday school house, the placing of galleries in the church edifice, the buliding of a new church for Kendall branch, and the enlargement of the work at Memorial Chapel, on 5th and P streets. Generous Subscriptions. the plan proposed at the first meeting carried to a larger meeting of the church, where it was heartily approved, and from there it was taken to the church and con- Sregation, and received such encourag ment as to give promise of ultimate and perfect success. It in the an- nouncement that on January 1, 1808, a sub- scription would be taken, covering a period of five yea>s, for the purpose of completing all of the werk which had been planned. The day was very stormy, but a large con- Sregation gathered, and Dr. Greene pr sented the interests of the new enterp-is and at the close of the service called for subscriptions. A full account of this meet- ing was given in The Star at the time. The success of the meeting was remark- able, and the result was a subscription of more than $150,000 for the completion of the work. This great effort was given assurance of success by the magnificent subscription of one of the members of the chureh, Mr. §. W. Woodward, who headed the list with 000. Others gave with Sreat Mberality, according to their means, and in less than three-quarters of an how from the time Mr. Woodward's sub- scription was announced the list was com- pleted, with nearly 500 names upon the honor roll and the sum of about $151,000 pledged for extension of church work. A committee, consisting of the pastor of the church, Mr. Woodward, the superintendent of the school, and Mr. J. G. Hill, architec went at once to Brooklyn, New York city, Orange, Newark, N. J., and Philadelphia to see the mest modern improved Sunday school houses. Returning, the matter of Preparing plans was placed in the hands of the architect, Mr. Hill, and tn a very few weeks from that time a meeting of the congregation of the church was called to see the plans and approve them in a general way. This meeting resulted in the organi- zation of Calvary Baptist Church Exten- sion Assoctation. A board of trustees was elected, and the work of perfecting pians and constructing a new Sunday school house was begun at one The Ground Purchased. Four lots immediately south of the pres- ent location of Calvary Church were pur- chased about one year ago, and as soon as possible work was begun on tearing away the four houses which stood thereon preparatory to beginning work on the new building. The building ts now completed, and tomorrow morning the gre i march in a body from its old quar the church edifice to the main rooin of the Pew building for a dedicatory service. The grcund and the house, with its furnish- ipgs, have cost a little more than $00,000, he building ts weil worth a description. It ts sixty by ninety-five feet in size, fa ing on Sth street. The basement floor is ar- ranged with complete kitchen and dining room furnishings, and the dining room will hereafter be used by the ladies of the social circle of the church in place of the lecture Tcom of the old butlding. On the first main floor of the new building there is a large Sunday school room, which will be used for the intermediate and junior schools. There are two parlors, one of which, on Sabbath, will be used for the primary school, and the other will witi- fuately be used as a Hbrary and reading room, though furnished so as to be well adapted for the purposes of reception at the social meetings of the church. On the same floor there Is a large cloak |room, which will be amply supplied with boxes, hooks and checks, so that wraps, umbrellas and hats may’ be safely care {for on stormy days. This entire floor is carpeted with the best of body Brussels, The walls are richly tinted, and altogether it Is one of the most Inviting and desirable Sunday school rooms in the city. The main hall, on entering the building from the west, Is beautifully tiled, and has a wait coting of quartered oak put up in pan The statrw s. y ts broad and richly carpeted. The entire first floor is finished in oak. the finishing being as beautifully complet. ed as it is possible to be. Above this ts a large room, in which will be located the {adult department of the school, with a capacity for accommodating 1,000’ scholars. This is probably the most complete room of its kind in the United States. There 1s one main floor covering the entire size of the building, and around the east, north and west sides of it there are class rooms fourteen feet deep for the accommodation ot the larger classes of the school. Over {ntertor of Calvary Baptist Sunday School. these is a gallery, all of the space of which is divided Into class rooms, with the excep- tion of the wide corridor around the enti three sides, which will be used as visitors’ galleries. Some Admirable Features. The superintendent's platform is located cn the south side of this room and flights of stairs lead to the visitors’ gallery from cither side. The class rooms are twenty- eight in number, although some of the classes are so large that it was necessary to throw three or four of the class rooms together to acvommodate them. Both floors and the gallesies in this main room are aiso handsomely carpeted, and the ¢€ tire room seated with chairs made to order end espectally fitted in construction and appearance to harmonize with the main features of tne room. the walls and ceil- ings are beautifully decorated and arrenge- ments are made for ighting the butlding both with gas and electricity. In the tower, on a level with the main fluor of the upper roorg is the secretary's office, and immedl- ately over this is the superintendent's room. These reoms are in the northwest part of the building, facing on Sth street. In the northeast portion of the building, on a level with the main floor, is a room elegantly furnished and set apart for the pastor's study; connection has been made from this room tw the audience room of the church so that the pastor passes im- mediately from it to his pulpit. Over this yet is ancther large room which will be used as a committee room and also for a be meeting of the teacners, which may called at any time. The two floc gallery, including the parlor to be the primary class, will ac F 1,500 scholars. The average atte the school has ray mereased during the last four or five years, an-l the enrollment at the rresent time is Since the Ist of January the average attendance has been $92, and during the past three Sal baths has reached an xverage of $73, the greatest attendance being last Sabbath, when there were 1,020 present. of the school are: D. D.; super- associate sr WW. H. Ki The present officers Pastor, Rev. S. H. Or intendent, P. H. Bristo’ intendents, J. M. Buz R. Edward Earll, M Sadie E. Miss Kate S. White, Miss W. E. Evans, R. C. Gotta; secre’ M. Shand; istant secretary, Wil all, Everett; treasurer «and custodian, William H. Pearce; aesis' asurer, D. A. Chambers; assistants, MW. Ihuoftt, T. P. Moran, S.'H. Baker, 3. ‘f. smith. There was earnestness in the effort, and | | TO COIN DOLLARS What Three of the Mints Wili Turn Out. FIFTY-FIVE MILLION IN TWO YEARS The Actual Cost of Minting for Each Coin. THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES Written for The Evening Star, ASKED MR. PRES- ton, the director of the United States mint, the other day what the mint bureau \ was prepared to do in case the Bland bill became a law. We can begin coin- ing standard dollars as soon as the bill is signed,” sald. Mr. Preston. ‘There are three mints at work now—those at Phila- delphia, San Francisco and New Orleans. When we stopped the coinage of siiver dol- lars last May we put the Philadelphia mint at work recoining fractional currency. For five months past it has been working ex- clusively on the coinage of gold. The San Francisco mint has been coining what gold was presented, and also recoining the frac- tional silver. The New Orelans mint has been working on fractional silver and some gold. The suspension of the coinage of sil- ver dollars virtually closed the Carson mint, and it is now run as an assay office. The coinage of any more silver will not go to Carson. The San Francisco mint has on hand enough silver to keep it busy coining dollars for about sixteen months. The New Orleans mint has about twelve months’ sil- ver on hand. Altogether, these two have about one-half of the 42,000,000 ounces of silver to be coined under the Bland bill. The remainder of the silver bulion which we own (and there is in all about 140,000,000 ounces of it) is held at the Philadelphia mint. It will take the Philadelphia mint probably two years to coin 21,000,000 ounces of silver. It would not pay us to ship any of this bullion to New Orleans or San Fran- s Under the government's contract with the United Express Company it would cost us § on every thousand to transport the bullion to New Orleans. It is better to let the Philadelphia mint coin all of the stl- ver which is not alread jan Franc or New Orleans. Besides, there is no hurry about the coinage, for under the Bland bili the Secretary of the Treasury can issue sil- ver certificates to represent this $55,000,000 as soon after the passage of the act as pleases him.” Last Coinage of Silver Dollars, “Was the last coinage of silver doliars in May, 18082" I asked. “We coined 137,000 silver dollars at the Carson mint in May,” sald Mr. Preston, ‘and since that time the only coinage of silver dollars has been in striking off proof pieces at the Philadelphia mint. Seven hu dred of these proof pleces have been struck since last May. They are wanted by coile tors of coins, and the mint charges a slight premium for them. With this exception, there has been no coinage of silver dollars since May, 18¢3."" “bo you think that the coinage of the new dollars wil! at all increase the circula- tion of the silver itself?" “No. The circulation of silver coins does not vary much. The only way to get silver into circulation is to stop issuing certificates in the one, two and five-dollar denomina- tions.”” Dawn ia ite waniieatene snict at Phila- delphia are silver bars which welgh in the ageregate 118,000,000 Junces. This silver is from .WYS 1-2 to 1.000 tine—that is, so far as it can be made so,lt 1s pure silver. These bars are of different sizes. None of them exceeds 1,200 ounces ght. The jority ranges between S00 and 1.000 ounces. co Some years ago silver re‘iners used to bring iw 2,000-ounce bars, and not infre- quently these heavy bars broke the cru- cibles when they were put in the furnace to be melted. Therefore, the director of the mint requested the refiners not to cast bars af more than 1,200 oun One reason for the slight imperfection that is found in bars of silver is the accumulation of dirt on and m them—a slight accumulation, but unavoidable. Another is the oxidation of the suriace of the silver bar. There are other minor causes. ‘Theore ly, the sil- ver bars are without alloy. Theoreucally also, the silver dollars turned cut by the mint from a certain amount of bar-silver should represent the weight of that silver plus the weight of one-niath as much cop- per (silver of standard fineness containing hine parts of silver and one part of copper). But in fact there is a creat waste of the precious metal as it goes through the mint and the amount of silver Which Uncle Sam gets back in dollars is not the amount Which he intrusts to the melter of the mint. This waste varies according to con- ditions. At one time qwnore than twenty years ago) the waste was so much above the average that the Secretary of the Treasury had it investigated; and the in- vestigation proved that the wastage was on a sliding scale which could not be fixed and which depended largely en chemical conditions which 10 one could control. ‘There is another theory which differs from experience in the haniling of coin. The common understanding is that one coin weighs as much as another coin of the same denomination whon it is issued from the mint. As a matter of fact, there is a constant variation in *he weigh: of etand- ard dollars. Moreover, there Is a varia- tion in the fineness of standard dollars as well as in different parts of the same dol- lar. So, while one part of a dollar may come up to the govesnm standard or even exceed it. another part may fall be- low that standard. The variatioa is not large, but it is unavoidable. Therefore, when the assayer of the mint wishes to obtain the quality of a certain “meit,” he takes his samples from the melting pot and not from the ingot. But all of these variations are so slight, comparatively,that they are not of commerctal importance. There is no discrepancy between the coins which go out from ‘he mint which would warrant a banker In refusing to accept any one of them, because it was below the standard. Certainly there could be noth- ing above the standard to axcite the cu- pidity of anyone, when the silver doilar is worth, intrinsically, today about forty-six cents. A Record of Every Bar. For every bar which 1s in the vaults of the mint at Philadelphia there is a record on the books of the superintendent. That trecord shows the weight and fineness of the bar. Many of the bars on storage were bought In 1890, when the Sherman law ficst went into effect. They have remained {untouched from the time when the stamp of the assayer was put on them. Now they will be taken out and melted with copper to form an alloy. The exact pro- portion of silver to copper, as I have said, should be nine to one, but in the melting a little less then the measure of copper is used, so that, by adding copper later in small quantities, the alloy can be made as nearly as possible of the exact standard. It is easier to work the alloy down by adding copper than it is to work it up by adding silver. The copper and the bar silver are put In the crucible together. The crucible used for melting sliver {s of hand-wrought Iron. These pots cost $15 each. Each of them M1 ‘hold about 1,800 ounces at a time. Each pot ts good for 250 melts. It will cost the mint about $4,500 for crucibles to melt SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1894— TWENTY PAGES. the 900,000 ounces of silver. Gold is melted in a black lead pot, which costs about one-tenth as much as the iron pot, but the black lead pot is ge about thirteen melts. No silver passes through the iron crucible. A little is ab- sorbed by it and this is recovered when the crucible is melied after it has seen th last of its usefulness. Nothing that could yield any of the waste silver is allowed to get away from the mint without chemical 1 for only treatment to extract the precious metal. The melting pots, the slags, the ashes from the furnaces and even the outside pickings from the b linings of the furnaces are ground and sifted to obtain metallic grains, | and these grains from the sieves chine, which extr And the very pass in the wa ttling va fi cleaned out are retined. The residue put into a sweep ma cts the smaller pacticles. minute particles of metal ter of the sweep machine to and These wells are t very long Intervals and they always yield a little gold and silver, The assayer takes from the crucible both top and bottom samples of the melt. If it is of standard fineness the ingots are Y 1 to the rolling room. The reason the assayer ta his samples from the moltn metal, as I have said, is because the silver alloy is very Hable’ to. se: tion—that is, a partial separation of the silver from the copper—while cooling. An ingot has been knewn to vary from Sov to 923 fine, and still to average 900 fine. When an ingot passes the assayer it is taken to the ollirg room, each melt being separate. In the rolling room the ingots are passed through graduated sets of rolls, which reduce them to long strips of about the thickness of the silver dollar. When the ingot has gone through the rolls nine times it is anrealed in an open wood furnace. This annealing process takes about fifteen minutes. After the annealing the strips are pasved through the rolls four or five times more, and then are taken to the draw-bench to be a little further re- duced in thickness. Before they are drawn on the draw-bench they are greased with tallow. The first few strips put between the draw-plates are tested. A few planch- ets or blanks are cut from them and weighed. If they need a further reduction they are drawn again. If, by any mistake, the strips should have been drawn too thin there is no remedy but to send them to the melting-pot. Punching Out the Blanks. When the strips have been made of the | necessary thickness, they are passed through machines which punch out of each | | the circular “blank.” Before being passed on, these blanks are weighed with the clip- pings and the defective inguts to show Just how much of the melt has been lost; and this is carefully noted. When the blan have been cut they are separated into drafts of $15,000 each and passed on to the adjusting room. Here the forewoman puts 250 blanks in each of a number of pans. Hach pan has a number corresponding to the seat occupied by the adjuster to whom it is to go. The adjusters sit at Marbie-lop tables, each with a delicately adjusted bu. ance vetore her, These balances are sens lve to 1-4 of @ grain of weight. Juster has a standard of weit, Unis She lests tur an hour or pertion of the blanks runni: dow the standard in Weight, su os tu enable the chet weigher io aajust nis delivery of heavy, light aud standard weight cis, so Uhat the weight in bulk shall correspond to the standard prescribed Ly law. Aiter an average has Leca obtained each adjuster wakes a counter w tnree- teach a ana with two the pro- above or be- hi grain above the standard, and with that tests in the balance all of the bianks. Ali that fad’ below the weight of the cuunter- ance are put in a pan by theniselves anc classed as “lights.” All that weigh more than the counterbalance are filed until they are reduced tu is w y are put in another pan r ‘neav- " The “heayies" to expert hers, Who test them, The “lights” are ent to other experts, who have a counter Weight three-fourths of a grain below the Standard of the dollar. The “lights” ar all tested by this counter weight, and any that fall below it are sent back to the meit- ing room as condemned. After the adjustment the blanks and their filings are weighed, and the exact loss of weight in this process is noted. Then the blanks are taken to ‘the milling machine, where the edge of each is thrown up. The blanks are then put in cast-iron boxes, sealed with potters’ clay and placed,in an annealing furnace heated by a wood tire. From this e the blanks go to an acid bath, whi es them and gives to the surface of each that dead whiteness which is a characteristic of coin fresh from the mint. This process also removes all dirt or grease. The actd does not remove any of the silver, but it removes a very lttle copper from the alloy. The loss in silver is chiefly from this whitening process and the cutting process. The blanks remain in the acid about five minutes. Then they are thrown into a _re- volving “riddle” with sawdust to dry. The drying takes from five to fifteen minutes. Then the blanks are again weighed, anc finally are sent to the coining machine, where they are fed to the dies, which stamp the coin design on each as it falis from the hopper. Through the coining process the light, heavy and standard coins are kept apart from each other. The chief weigher unites them in drafts of $5,000 each, so as to make the delivery uniform. After the delivery the assayer picks out indiscrim!- nately from every $2,000 one coin, which is placed in a linen envelope, sealed with the assayer’s seal. The envelope is marked with the particulars of the mintage of the coin. The envelope is placed in a box,which is not opened until the annual assay, when it is opened in the presence of the commis- sioners appointed by the President to ex- amine into the accuracy of the mint work for the year. This is, in brief, the process through which all of the fifty-five million dollars will have to go. The cost of minting them will be 11-2 cents each. It will cost the Treasury Department $825,000 to do the work, and, as T have said, it will take about two years to complete it. When all of the silver bars have been converted into shining dollars, these dollars will be put in sacks holding 1,000 coins each, these sacks in boxes which will hold two sacks each; and most of these boxes will find their way to Washington, to be stored in the big vaults under the treasury building. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. ——— ee Quick Actio: From the New York World. There is a story told of a certain actor who is very fond of little games of chance, at which he is very lucky. He was passing through one of the uptown side streets after a dinner st which liquid refreshments had been plentiful. To put it plainly, and not to beat unnecessarily around the bush, he was a trifle unsteady. He came to an organ-grinder, who was making the even- ing hideous, and whose receipts were taken in by a little frolicsome monkey. The or- gan was covered by a green cloth. The actor saw this, stopped and fumbled in his pecket. He produced a dollar and threw it on the green cloth. Instantly the monkey seized It and gave it to his master. “Well,” muttered the actor, as he walked awa: “that's the quickest game I've ever played.” ‘ow, Jimmie, I'm going to give you a hard thrashin’, D'ye wanter know What f Son—Nossir, I don’t, cos if you tells me what fur then I’m goin’ to say I hain’t dun it, ‘en you'll lick me twicet as bard fur lyin’ about it"”—Life, arts of a} ®iven to those first received. | TARIFF ODDITIES ° , dolls and every other re- At a pinch they may efe seizures of gems have on has been comnmuni- able. | Cate: from abroad in the shape of ° q > gover 1 ie | Some of the Peculiar Features of the * ect that nova ies i Free List. s that { on, if | | : mii take. < r a SKELETONS, EGGS, &c., NOT PROTECTED R Bets 3) pe the proceeds : | of the sale of the diamonds or what mot Instend of Coffee. | Tariff on Cut Diamonds Does Not | There is a tariff on acorns and dandelion . | root © are imported in con- . ncourage Smu: lin, % is from abroad. They are 8 eging: | ground and us tes for coffee. Cologne must pa ; but the time ma yet arrive wh scented = to satisfy jare great which a the suntry will produc quantities: nd. There States |THE TAX ON FIRECRACKERS Written for The Evening Star. HERE IS NOT A] si little humor in the | ¢ new tariff bill, 1tis | aise orange e chiefly tariff } by no means so a document as pop- ularly supposed. On . but gre the contrary, the ob- | —— servant person may | fore long will make th nderful blooms skim through it and | cheap. pick out here ana}. It is the same way with mushrooms. These 2 now imported in great | there solid chunks of | ition Prance, where thar Gas entertaining and even d artificial: in caves. But before w y information. | Icng all that are needed to supply the ad © pre hi » the item of |%and will be pre 1 in this country. being ted to a consider: ew Jersey skeletons, for ex-| ample. They are on the free list, being re- Island, aswell where Sarded as necessaries. Obviously, no one | American farmer is obtaining a knowledxe can get along without a skeleton. To the | °f the fact that here ts ‘op of the fu- to the rich man, inasmuch as the former | that it can be grown in winter. is compelled to work for his living, while the latter, if boned like a turkey, might Amber and Gristies. stil vepene comfortably tm a teuteutt ana| “Or © oP the fee Ee. Ths ee Ree be fed by his valet. About 1,50) skeletons |®2™ of am extinet It |are imported into this country every year, ' 5 ¥ rts of the of | Rearly all of them from Paris, where theart | POT} Ga where the hed. hi of preparing such osseous remains is un derstood better than anywhere else in the |” | world. They cost $4 each, but one can | ™ | buy a nice skull for $6. fe Turtles are free, too, as well as snails and | “* shrimps. So are fish skins and fossils, | ‘4 | People must have fossils, and there would be no sense in making them expensive by |? tax. It is the same way with the eggs of all kinds of insects They will pay tariff. Imported varieties of bus brought within easy reach of wishes to raise them. Bees will come in | It 1s without duty under the head of “animals 1 imported for breeding purpose: Fish Eges aud Joss Sticks. Fish eggs are set down in the free list, | and likewise joss sticks. Co: “as no desire to make religion a luau: 'y to the Chi-; nese in this country. Two familiar volcanic products, lava and pumice, will not be re- mines, picked 1 of it is gath- cast up by the it was more was a by ies for forks, to 0 and no} a pe are thus | furni | | | ess are but they ferocious quired to pay customs tax. Inasmuch as | = Se there are no active voleanos worth men- 2 ee |tioning in the United States, no infant 7 is quite an in- industry is threatened by thi nd thet |No duty is placed on ice an beings been suggested that icevergs m BS oe ed down from Labrador to Bo: Bg h— York, to be broken up for marke! owing pigeons tunately, the water off the Auantic the creatures is so shallow as to render this plan ¢ | showed in | of accomplishment. | h, One observes that the alter k an& white. metals iridium, osmium, palladium and The Lacquer Industry. | Magnesium—all of them more valuable than | Lae is out down as free of duty. This gold—are free. On the ovher num leaf must pay 30 5 The foil of this new metal is is a resinous increstation formed by on the bark of o Th Juse to a considerable extent. A like duty | 4, az is assessed on gold leaf. One doilar’s | Maresh the evant ae worth of gold will make 100 leaves of or- | Make their way through the crust and be- dinary commercial size, 3 by 3 inches. gin life for the — Ses oe See Fire crackers are set down at 50 per cent | of the tree ney never move from the Jad valorem. All of them are made in| branch on nh they hatched, and China—that is to say, the small ones of | eventua t the bugs would miliar pattern. Attempts have been rf uy uld be no more of t birds and other made in this ¢ hem by machinery | perish out success. a States found to t it is the hands of sixty persons P jished and tied up with | k There is various ants r have been infested with lec Insects, and could be produced, but had the disadv to fresh places, tage that they would not explode. lor colonies. Lac is this purpose the most artful m juncies of India. | fails to do work that requires the by thousands ol j ulation of human fingers. 4 for making | fuctories each little cracker passe: In pacts of | bunch for mar- | | ket. duty also on magic lantern |slides. These little paintings on glass are {imported in great quantities from abroad, | ‘ where they are produced at an incredibly | jcheap rate. Some of them are done in | 4tied biood, eggs of fish and birds, hoofs } Water colors, but the best are in trans- in the raw and kelp: also broken giass and | Pwrent olls. Masks are assessed at 25 per | Ratural teeth. Artificial teeth must pay to aed that the latter might be utilized propagated artificially, as is in India. ong other things on the free lst are |cent. All of the pasteboard ones come , come in, There is no duty on punk. it is | from Germany. The method of their manu- | imported for use in making matehes that |facture is very simple. A comic face is | lighted in a gale of wind and for modeled first in clay, and from this a pies- ter mold ts taken. In the mold the mask is formed by successive sheets of moist paper pressed Into it, the final process being | the painting. Snuff Consumers. There will be a tariff on snuff, of course. The coasimption of tobacco In -his form in the United States is enormousiy larger than most people rn. mounting to millions of pounds annually. The old-fash- purp It is an odd pro- aw . When @ vessel has im any harbor or river of the United States for two years and has been abandor owner, the person who aises it may bring in free of duty ail the ndise of any description that ia found on beard. RENE BACHE. feces ate = BICYCLE FOR THE NORTH POLE. xplorer Wellman to Carry a Chieage { Wheel for Propuision on Ice. | From the ct Herald. | One of the novel fes nm of th been sunk foned Germans in this country take snuff, music and it is said that Roman Catholic addicted to it. Canadiaa are employed in cotton mitis, in New England, have the habit almc a woman. But the «re teachers and nally wh ures of the Wellman arly , Orth polar expedition will be the sntro- ‘4t'Y | auction of a winter cycle of remarkable t to | hs test demand is by | ease of propulsion and consequent speed, Foor whites and negroes m the soyth, who | the invention of a Chicagoan, A. T. Firth. “dip” i — ~ sees a in is-| The mach was sucesssfully tested on tening a stick, dinpiag it im snuif, making | 5). aa Regge eer . & little ball, and putting the latter between | t€ lake front here during the recent freeze-up, and Mr. W shipment to Aalesund, Norway, 10 ac- company the explorers on their journey the Hps and teeth. liman requested its Soft felt hats must pay duty. These are male of rabbit-fur usu- ally. Chiefly to suppty material for this | aereent to London annically: fern erate | northward. The machine is built upon the shipped to London annually ustralia | ch bhseashk sak baneh Suan Gk Ue and New Zealand. in this way eome small | nes of the bicycle, of steel tubing and alu: benefit is got out of the plague in those | minum throughout, and is attachable to countries. The fur ts cut off by machinery y safety in a few minutes. An edditional and passed through’a blower, which throws | fork is run fro: the front fork of the bi- it upon a revolving copper dise. As it ac- | cycle frame to forward ranner, thence comulates it adheres together and forms aj to the rear runner and up to the vicy sort of cloth. frame again. The weight of the rider is Evidently there is more sporting blood in! thus entirely upon the rumners or skates, the Senate than might have been tmagined. | which are made of the Mghiest material Thgt body has cut down the tariff on dice | possible. The power of propulsion is fur- and billiard bails, as well as on playing | nished by the driving gear cf che Dicycle, cards, Shaving may or may not be regard- | the chalm gear being attacned to a propelied. ed as a luxury. Anyhow, razor blades are | drivewheel set in le frame piveted required to pay duty. Immense numbers | at the back of the machin owing this are imported from England, to have handles | drivewheel to be constantly upon put on them here and to be sold under the names of various manufacturers. Lenses, brought over in the rough, for spectacles and other purposes, are likewise dutlable. This applies to great telescopic glasses, which are fetched from abroad in a rude state, to be subsequently ground into form with emery and rouge, the final touches be- ing done by rubbing with the bare hand, face of the ing all irregularities met. ice or snow, and thus ov Tue sure upon this drive-wheel ts us own weight and that distributed to it throagh the ae- the tion of the rider upon angle of strain from the djusted and changed by raising ing the pivoted drive-wheel frame that the friction upon the driving mechanism te pedals. The y be so Human Hair and Dyes. brought to the lowest possible point. Human hair must pay 20 per cent. Wo- -_-- — men wear so little that is not their own A Green Lizard’s Appetite. From the St. Louls Globe-Demecrat. Charles H. Fry of Central America tol rather an amusing story at the Laciede lart night. “Down in my country,” he sald, “one of the first things you get acqauinted with is a small, bright green Mzard. They nowadays, comparatively speaking, that the quantity imported is only a small fraction of what it used to be. The “chignons” of @ quarter of a century ago, by the way, were sald to be composed largely of hair! from the heads of African savages. Quite a good deal of the hair that comes to mar-| are quite tame, harmless and very : ket is made up into artificial beards and | When caught by the tall they mustaches. One can buy a mustache of |): ) r,cnion of slippine real human hair for a cent, though, for a | “@r fast first-class mustache, the price runs up to $2. A duty is set on coal-tar dyes. It seems | Was <_< astonishing that all the colors of the rain-| of thes Gory te | bow should be obtained from such a sub- | files. It me quite bold, and in one <f stance, though not more so than that the | its quick movements jumped on my foot. I made a sudden grab and caught it by the tail. With a wriggle it was off, leaving that portion of its body still in my band As I had no particular use for tt I threw it on the ground. In a few minutes I no- ticed that a lot of ants ha scovered the Same material should be made to furnish | such a great variety of medicines as are now on the market, with names ending in “tne” and “ol.” The latter fact is due to the circumstance that coal tar ts an ideal organic base for the chemist to work with. The Senate has pared down the duty | piece of tail and w zit of as on cut diamonds from 80 per cent to 15/| fast as they could heir hole a nee by. per cent. There 1s no use in putting a high | When they had arrived al most to their tariff on gems, because it would merely | destination T noticed the Hzard a few _— offer an extra inducement to smuggling. | away intently watching ,the s and is Precious stones are so enally concealed that | missing property. Just as the ants wer it is ordinarily impossible for customs in-| making a final pull to their nest the ilzar a, seizing his bit darted out among them. set t Vidert relish. of @ tail, swallowed it with © spectors to discover them by search. They are conveyed across the ocean in cakes of