Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. FOR AUGUST. stars now visible at 9 p.m. To compare with the PLANISPHERE This chart shows the princi horizon; its center, the zeniih. Its circumfe hold it nee is the at least the recommendation of being # A A GU ble. One ef the mest stron marked of } the old consteliations is the r It requires but a slight effort of « tion to @ sal: in th F {out insect. How to Find Some of the Most Noted To ) uw. T. . th Sky Lanterns. _ perenne es mr THE OLD CONSTELLAT a small ge at group which f the Arcier, { aid of a Iitile i into the likens his back rerm of Five £ Arch form © posit Oi ) The Stream of Mcteors That the Earth is Going Through. an the constet wn as the of tne will or A and in nt the ival in ze: tainly no betier diffleult to nce in col Vee one of the provement on the ing star are of tenths of a n come wil form one typical star < | featuces of the Arcturus be wae Weekes st stars which envih Is © stream now mony of their . game condition physically belongs to the class most illustrious representative—stars which are supposed to be in an earifer steve of world-life and to be Intensely hot, as well as Intensely brilliant. Between west and southwest end near the horizon may be scen Spica, the Wheat- ear, the principal star in the cons! i Virgo, and in mid-heavens, toward the | southeast, Altair, in the Easie. ‘These stars | are both of Sirian type aad are about | average first-magnitude stars. [ rert of | ere ticularly hand tot masses of exceed the e, therefore, rded as-a sort of | Antares. ica! dust, too fine to be seon by he A Uttle to the west of south and in the | farsest telescopes, These minute ceiestial | midst of the sparkling array of stars which | podies are associated in shoals, ur clk form the Scorpion, ts Antares, sometimes calied the Scorpion’s Heart. decilediy red star and belongs to mil of them elrcbing ar in the same erbit. be Nisened to the mar A main boty, which Antares is a su avcther of the five classes into which the ath and « r stars 2 .W arranged according to the breadth, and which is character @ their light as analyzed by the individuals that are spectros: ‘The red stars, me: which 0 or 300 mi are of re recarded lers that he as dee xtinetion as | > separated fre Reminsr ste thet they tiered in greater or less number are env entire line. the vapor of carbon—whi absorb a large portion of their lizht, 23 t eh \ rays of the setting sun a anl| The crbits of these m j e vapors and the th tirged by t atmesphere. s or Maecnt plane, but m A word star magnitude: venient to cla earth's 6 t, and it Is to this circu ify the sturs according to of more than eighte woe to the meteor that { The meteor itself fs in often when it is struck @ aione that we know of the existence ; their brilliancy. Sixteen or sev of these minute bodies. When the carth ‘magnitudes are reckoned, of which the | encounters one of these meteor sireams ii first six embrace al! the s visible to the | Plunses throw sckless speed | second, and im its w notion, and hit ta But since the siars are of all the brightest raked eye. degrees of briliiancy, from down to the faintest vistble throv nat they must merge into; meteor. Entering the earth's with a speed fifty or a huniir eral classes, but atmospher i times that cha large | ’ | telescope, it is obvious that there can be no | moving in a contrary direction. The cs | ¥ell-marked dividing line between the sev- | lision is a frichtful one and is fatal to the | i a faint star of one meenitoc one anoth being inlistingwishable from a bright siar | of a rifle ball, it beeowes heated by the friction of the ‘air to re whiteness, | star of one magnitude is, however, about | and usually within a second of time it hes two and a half times as bright as an aver- age star of the next lower magnitude; and @ comparison of the numbers of the stars been entirely con splendor. sually the earth med with a streak of of the class below. A typical or average | | its passage through in the several classes, arranzed according | a meter stream encounters Cnly the stras- to this scale, brings out the very interesting | ier: but occasionally the main boly of fact that each ciass contains about three | the army Hes aeress its poth, and then oec- | times as many stars as the clase next | cur those grand phenomena known as “me- | above It. There are, according to the usual | teor show when millions upon millions computation, twenty stars of the first mas- ixty of the second, 200 of the th ¢ fourth, 1,109 of the fifth and 4,00 | | fof these luc athered up | | of the sixth, making in all about 6,00 siars ! { by the earth in the course of a few ii The August Ts move in an orbit rs_occur only at Intery: visible to the naked eye. Since only one- haif of this number can be above the horizon at any one time, and about two- thirds of them are so faint as only to be visible to keen eyes and on the cleare: nights, it will be seen that the pojr estimate of the number of the visible sta’ is quite wide of the truth. They are to be Teckoned by hundreds, not by myriads, as is commonly supposed. The pheto tem, above alluded to, subd Jes each meg- nitude into tenths. Thus, a star bordering on the first and second magnitud: Different Syste: The direction in which a meteor is seen to move upon entering the earth's at is different for eacl ing to the same sysiem always move | rection; that ts, thelr paths h one another. Y from - to ra me me dant rns a_cony The Augus' ————— the heavens they m pertant of the from the now be studied at are cali > they 2 this radiant is It can casil uion te the this a4 locating , Jupiter stars. Juplte nu o'clock, Venus at about 8 o'clock cury an hour ly Ali three may ¢ seen above the eastern horizon an or #0 fore su . Mercury vw its gezatest western clongation 1 of the month. Ophine he ) modern any on , Uranus and Mars are evening and are all above the horizon at 9 he positions shown on the planis- And there wes a mistake in the bill.” hepe not, elr, I—" here was a mistake, sir, of $1 In adding ne feures. Here's the dollar. 1 always Ww ie Good heavens! What's the matier? Boy, > poctic, have | come here, quick! He's in a ft."* vd I wo fea in eny direction. Some of them cross! y; CAFES CHANTANTS The Star Attractions Who Now De- light the Parisians. THE HETHODS OF POPULAR SINGERS Guilbert and Paquerette Explain How and Why They Sing. FAVORITE SONGS. a ern Cocresper dence of The Evening Star. PARIS, July 17, 1804, HE AVENUE OF the Charaps Elysees fs all ablaze with lights on each side They are the lights of the great summer pifes concerts, or efes chantanas, as you choose to call them. ‘There are four establishments, the Alcazar, the H Jege, the Ambassa- rs and the Jardin ¥ is the althoug' will he in Pari the ne hese things, city you mertiime D pass } , where y poke an ting on sof > of the cx the ¢ the con -reciting iin Jin the n She is a} sim not too pret intelligence aud woman h hitve as it akes on d fle. G And wh “La Promis heees to teint eit. [tis like her powe show in to p vo Guilbert takes breathes in mire air; v an lise waat Ts: art : piece In a the n act. And seek, by sii; into the skin of the personage, to reproduce exactly the sensations of which the words evoke the tde: if every ene who sar tove song at what a world w °,"" of which 1 have spoken, will be fount her own deseription of one: te it out—and got Sho is sepposed to be hall iting a letter. It is the let littie peasant giv, at once naive and to her tance. He is doing his three military service and abseat two years be fong. ‘The village boys are Sh paying cou joes not like any of them, but icholas that he had better come «quick same, “Now,” says Yvette, “there is the first act of the piece.” My little Nicholas, ed to write to thee, F t's come to me, Whlie you remain down taere in the armee acti dam in Xou see m That is my position, * says Yvette, bezinning to expound take the iine ‘While you remain down * ‘Down there’ ts the great city, he has put a foot. ‘Down re,’ to h the unknowa land where auti(ut ladies sieal the sweethearts of the village girls. Therefove, T accompany that ‘down there’ with a brusqie movement, in which there fs a little of rand a great deal of grief. But this rapid movement of the arms toward the horizon ought to be at the same Ume made s' ani rounded, the slight, wearled gesture of a girl who fs un- easy. Then, ‘l am in inaction, That is my position.” When I say these words, my shoulders sink down heavy with the labor of the d. ™my arms become limp, my hands clumsily idle, and in the littia abandon of the shoulders you feel the duliness, at the same time naive, of the country girl.” A Little Comedy. The second verse recites the two years fn which she has remained faithful to the ab- sent one. But she says this “widowhoo@™ must finish. The third verse, says Yvette, is in itself a Mttle comedy. Up here ali the young men Court me—I'll not diseemble, I not like their ways, None of them you resembi But sometimes I have thrills, When they pinch me I tremble. I feel I'm growing weak; You'd better come back quick. I feel I'm growing weak; You'd better come back quick. All through, says she, this stanza must be iven with shades. “It is extracrdinary ow many different things it comprises. First, to excite the Jealousy of her the village girl declares, with complacency, that ‘all the young men together are court- ing me.’ Bel eects husband must sure- ly be disquieted at that news. But she must not goo too far, She quickly reassures him. “But none of them resemble you!’ That line I make tender, tender, as tf she were saying, it to herself. So Ne will be reassured and flattered. But, in‘he? simplicity, she mus conceal nothing, ‘2 1 bave tnrilis! 1 eay that slowly, hesitatingly,” and so on. Likes the American Custom, ‘ I @o not know bow tha pretty little Parquereite studies her songs, althongh I have a speaking acquaintance with her husband, who is the singer, Louls Verande. Their marriage created some sensation in New York @ year and a half ago. The lucky youth was singing at Koster & Bial's A STORY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. | WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY aR. THUR SPEBRY, sel Saas HE RUSINESS OF the company will be making new silver ware out of old. Near- ty all the silver ware! and Parquerstte “had an engagement at in the world Is plated ‘ory Pastor's, w she was guarded very jealously her parents. He saw oe ee been in use a year } the silver ts worn off | in spots. We put the worn-out silver ware irto an electrical bath that takes off all the silver save a very thin layer, but makes an equal coating of bright silver all , loved her, eloped with her and mar- d her before a magistrate, as quick as one, two, three. He says Amorica is the greatest country. The fact that you can ly marry a girl there in spite of the opposition of her parents fills him. with entausiasm. “If only the marriage laws, were more like that in France,’ a, “there would be nore happ Parauereite has been this mer the star of the Jardin de Paris, as Judie ts at the Alcazar and Yvette Guilpert at the | OV€T 80 that it looks just as it did when it Ambassadeurs’. Her great song is also | Was brand new. We not only make the oid that of 2 peasant giri, but very different. | ware new, but we also dissolve enough sil- She comes in riding on a de iS. conscious, awk » is the only pretty girl in ver off from it to pay for the process ten over Great scheme, isn’t it? Peo Paris wday' who does gcod, Asendies $0 crazy over it. We" will sell planis burlesque. To sing songz, the | to the hotels and they can have new silver ‘bain de 2 e every week. Yow, we should lke to have you accept tv of the Renewing Association er War gui¥ you’'N give be vive ares of the sdock.” oad magnate, talked ave wear on his false ail street. al ad shares to he balance as treasury you call for it,” as- reed of a ealied ba try f Unen tied tent he Bren Sath s ter, whose ter” with had org nen aS at AN ©DD PRICE he dark | yion’s ich of a figure wit therwise mig father's curse | anve very well th her coach- cee nm brought | sed by a Paris led on reve Veinter for His Canvas. ie is related by M. The brother of M. a ntot She had read 1 been printed about the concern that Buster’ m with it. the things she had | inet extricated. She ome say about this worthy, and | clusion that “Rats” was a | r woukl be fleeced with the Very well, then, she in a wood. His enthusiasm for hi we the poeiry of the = th clence of the pa: le him wish to posse yor 8 bill of Med M. rious to Ch: it wasifound that the accounts running with the two tradesmen for fully twelve years. ‘The one amounted 0% franc the other to mez, M. Psrier paid the b: ving a muscle) His Corot cost him 46, oo) francs. Today he would not take three that amount for ft, but, nevertheless, ims were bolstering it up at a y ani also that Buster had either sold all his holdings or else was waiting for a better price. She thought the chances were that the latter supposition was the correct one. Viola went to olf Scaggs and had no diffi- eulty in buying his holding of “Rats” shares at the market price. Scaggs thought it was time to get out anyway. With Buster she had more trouble. He had twenty thousand shares that he was sure he could unload gradually to good ad- vantage. But when Viola showed him her assigument of stock from old Scaggs, and told him she was prepared to announce his retirement from the directorate in the next day's papers, Buster weakened. The out- come of the interview was that Buster took the three $5,000 governments that Viola had brought with her, and assigned the whole of his “Rats” shares over to Cecil Totting- ham Featherstone Skivington. This was Viola's husband. He was the youngest son of a gvod English family, who had run away from his gambling debts. On her way home Viola picked out a handsome suite of office rooms @ stone's throw from the stock exchange, and had her husband go down and lease them the next morni They were already hand- somely fu’ 1, and by night the letters “R. A. T. 8." in gold shone from the win- y, dows, and a fairly good picture of Queen Victoria hung on the wall. Now,” said Viola, to her rather puzzled husband, “you ere the active member of a syndicate recently formed in London, and I am your typewriter. Here is a list of di- rectors of the company, a controlling in- terest In which is owned by the London syndicate you represent, Tomorrow morn- ing you can call on each of them and tell them that Mr. Scaggs is forced by ill health to withdraw, and that your friends in Lon- don wish you to succeed him. For the pres- ent, however, your London friends think that otherwise the directorate may very Well remain as it is.” Viola's plans worked to perfection. Scaggs gould not say anything, because he had no holding of stock, and, beside, the annual strike was in progress on his railroad, and he had no time to devote to the matter, Half a dozen reportes3 Waited in the ante- room while the directors were meeting, and some of the papers printed pictures or ihe wealthy young syndicateer in connection with their accounts of the reorganization of the wonderful company. Of course, no Which Senantor W Yrom the Ci Record. The Washington Heste “Do you take sugar, Senator? The Statesman (a! found it, no! Whd As if this carth fn fast thick pants were brea thin, ubla Khan.” Coleridge. j of the stock than 1 which | ¢ | said Kent. | caped uninjured. 15 O%e recognized the pictures. The steck Went up ten points. wk Sarees ches sts at to be done, and he decided on = owned by thé Engtish syndicate was out of the market, as the syndicate was a legiti- mate investor and not a speculator. “It wili be child’s play to corner the rest.” he thought. Se he bought and bousht till his whola resources Were invested in the stock, Everybody was sure that “Rats” would go higher than ever, and there was litle selling, except from Chicago, and that was held stiMly up to the ruling prices. Of course, all this selling was done by Viola, but she did it so cleverly that it was never even suspected that the English syndicate was unloading. Claytcn was in over bis head, and began to sell a little very cau- tlously. “Rats” dropped at once. Viola bought, and the price, Kent up a litte Then she threw bef iast block of 1 shares on the market, and her father had to buy them. To let the price weaken would mean rain. wily the next morning each of the ts” directors received a telephone mes- sace summoning him to a very important meeiing of the board at the head offices. When they were all seated around the big table Viola's husband toid them that he wished to resign, as he was about to re- turn to England. The syndicate he repre- sented would leave the selection of his suc- cessor entirely to the American sharehold- ers, in whose discretiOa he expressed un- bounded confidence. “How many shares does this syndicate now control?” asked Kent, who was the first of the directors to recover his votce after this astonishing announcement. “At the time you did me the honor to elect me to the presidency { told you the extent of the holding: I representé@,” an- swered the retiring oftcial, as though hurt by the apparent distrust. “At the secre- tary’s office on the site of the proposed works in New Jermsey you will doubtless find al, you wish to know about the trans- fers of stock that have been recorded.” Kent had been foolish enough to buy @ few shares of the stock in addition to what Buster had given for the use of his name, yest holder on to bis e, rang up se of his broker and shouted into the me, “Smith, for heaven's sake sell Then there was a crash. Secretary prest, who had also in 4 in more hed the tr gold re Girectorate dash- nan the enti 2 Then e locked it. It was Aas she saw him Vicla p' r hat ¢ a hers and talk . w hand ia thre i out of the w ve ever seen her dolag anything.” B at sort of a loo! aw of yours?” tell us, Cl curly brown “Skivington i the entire directorat “That was his nam r boom of Tri bell, as it rang the hour of 2, eta all. It meant ruin to Clarton, f ull have had time to do very ange before the closing hour. To the heavy losses, bet Clayton's « his frail financial bark “So that is the sort of a daughter you fs ed, is it?" sneered Harépre t have cleare thousand doMars out of You had better hunt her up and if you can’t forgive her.” the directors lef meditations, while they y Church ‘ded them hi broker je at the m: tor till h'to ring the electric ala: came and broke open ine n the fireme: doors, ee BY THE CYCLONE ROUTE. How the Williams Family Was Moved by a Nebraska Zephyr. From the Chicago Inuter-Ocean. A cyclone played pecullar pranks Inst night at the home of Peter Wiliams, a furmer in the southern part of Omaha. Whea the storm came on be was on h way to the barn, but before he reached it the wind picked up an outhouse from its foundation and horied {t against him, throwing him asainst the wheel of a wagon and jamming him between the spokes in such a manner that he had to stay there Afier the blow was apparently over his granddaughter was about to enter the house, when she saw it move from {ts moor- igs. Throwing herself fiat on the ground the building passed over her, and she es- Mrs. Williams was in the house and was | unable to escape when the frail structure was whirled into the air. It collapsed in the twis air currents and was totally destroyed. irs. Williams was found later in a dazed condition on a part of the roof on the Sievers farm, several hundred feet away, pinned down by a large trunk. She was badly bruised and her clothing was torn to shreds. The house and barn were torn to pieces and scattered all over the surrounding country. A team of muies in the barn was unin- jered, the wind carrying the structure away and leaving the animals standing on the dirt floor. ———_ ++ —_-____ An Unjast Suspicion. From Texas Siftings. A conductor on a 123th street cable car picked up a tatch-key which somebody hat dropped, and turning to cld Judge Peteriy who was one of the passengers, asked him if it belonged to him. “No; of course not. I'm a married msn.” ae His Victory, From Life. “Oh, Mr. Longhead, I just saw Charley Groene elopirg with your wif “Goon; Now I’m even with sold me a horse last week.” him. He SOME LAMP SIGNALS — Used by Railroad Men to Conirol the Teaias, Lamp signals, use ontr at plight, ere indeed very interesting to siady. A 1600+ motive with two green lights indicates that a train follows, which is considered @ Part of the train leading and must be ne- corded the same rights, Should the leading train have some cocasion to slop at a place not scheduled for it to stop, It must im- mediately send a Cagman with red jamp or torpedoes to protect iL Many accidents i part of some tretntm precaution for ihe safeiy of the tr flagman often must ge to the rear, s6 trestles or washouls, and fre left behind to take th picked up by the next train, to go back far enough or fast enough often results ina smashup. There ave, of course, general rules tatd down, in which the luop has no part, and the train dispatcher takes an important part. A dew of dhe si illustrated here, if followed ia would prevent many collisions. Signal A-Swung ax signal to stop. ss the track ts the Signal DB- norors t the signal to Signal C—Swung verti full erm’s leagth ac is in motion ts signal th fy im ncircle at Strack when trait Signal D—Lowered and rau is the signal to move ahead. —s—_ ERPENTS AR NOT NERVOUS. Strange Muscular Power That Asstets Them ta Fascinating Their Victima, From the Fortnightly Review. ‘The power of contiauing motionless, with the lifted head projecting forwernd for an indefinite time, 1s one of the most wonder- ful of the serpent’s muscular feats, and ts one of the highest importance to the ani- mal, both when fascinating its victim and when mimicking f®ome inanimate object, as, for instance, the stem and bad of an aquatic plant; here it is only referred to on account of the effect it produ on the human mind, as enhancing the serpent’s strangeness, In this attitude, wiih the round, unwinking eyes fixed hn the be holder's face, the effect may be very curl ous and uncanny, Ernest Glanville, a South African writer, thus describes his own experience. Wh a boy he frequently went out into the bow iu quest of game, and on one of these sol tary excursions he sat down to rest in th: shade of a willow on the k of a low stream; sitting there with check resting on his hand he fell into a boyish reverie. Rtier some time he bec Way that on the white, ee ‘Scream there was stretche in a vague a line, which had not been t 4 He continued for some time + ing at without recognizing what wes, but all at once, with an tuward shock, beca:ag fully conscious that he was looking at a large snake. “Prese! without appar softly and silently w reared its head abor It there, erect and fixed on me in qu flashed upon me then that good opportunity to t : homan eye on snake, and 1 se the task of looking it dows ish effort. ‘The bre ck, about which the » a ripple, were as if cary the cruel, unwinki: coming and goiy flow the brigh Gradualiy © of sickening fear €4 to It, we move, but with a ery 1} ing a fallen willow br E repiiie with a species of furs the idea of t the form of a great serp: ht in some deen, 4ark pool & man fneautiously approach a to the water he would be } the power of the great gle finally drawn down againet less and speechless, to Clsappeer in the black deptha, orever