Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1896, Page 13

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Let us show you what really perfect laundry work is. My, how we are growing! But then you know we are turning out the cleanest, whitest and best. laun- dry work in America. Perhaps that has something to do with it. Simply a question of. time before we have all the Jaundry work in Washington. A postal—your name and address — and the thing’s done—the wagon will call! THE YALE STEAM LAUNDRY, F. H. WALKER & CO, | 514 roth St, 1104 14th St. Se Metantntitetetetetntetete WASHINGTON, D. ©., SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. a Sudugndegutegetettitegeiteegutndetetithteidhtndeeditegetnddetntnitntntny sSeetees Plant 43 G St. ‘ASoegengoagingeegeegecgeagongont by ntentenied UNCLE SAM’S BOYS Organization of Those Who Formerly Wore the Blue. NATIONAL CORPS, ARMY AND NAVY Seventh Annual Session to Begin Here on Monday. OF THE ORDER ————>—__ OBJECTS The seventh regular session of the Na- tional Corps of the Regular Army and Navy Union will meet in this city Monday next at Elks’ Hall, corner 9th street and Pennsy! ia avenue. This organization was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the first garrison was named George Washing- ten. The following preamble shows fully the aims and objects of the order: “There ‘e thovsands of honorably dis- charged regular soldi , sailors and ma- rines, who have spent the best days of their iives In the service of their country, whe re today total strangers to one ancth- er, and “The army, navy and marine corps of the United States of America are the prin- cipal guardians and strongest supporters of the government tn the protection of its citizens, their honor and integrity, their lives and liberties, as well as In the en- forcement of the laws against the en- croachment of foreign powers on the fron- tier, and in subduing those harassing ond barbarous enemies of civilization—the wild ional Commander. and treacherous Indians—who have been a source of bloody strife for many years; and considering it our duty for the purpose of fraternal recognition, and the enhancement of social relations between its members, as weil as fe to re mutual protection and benefit, th parated by reason of discharge; and strengthen that fraternal fee which binds together the regular lie ailors and marines of the Tnited Stat 0 have rendered faithful service to t rnment; to do all in our power to promote and elevate the social and material standing of the enlisted man, and the man before the mast, and to en- courage and abet legislation for his benefit; to strenuously insist upon the enforcement of federal and state civil service lews, when mandatory preference in the way of employment is given to honorably dis- charged veterans; to care for the sick and distressed, to bury the dead, and to provide for the dependents of departed comrades and shipmates. Therefore be it Resolved, That we, of the regular ser- vice, who were honorably discharged from the army, navy and marine corps of the y organize the Reg- y Union of the United for the purposes and mentioned. This organiza- known as the Regular Army objects a tion shall t and Navy Union of the United States of America. This body derives and exercises its power a: hority from and by vir- tue of a tifieate of incorporation from f the tate of the state of Ohio, Ohio, the 3ist day of D. 1888; and shall be known and » National Corps of the Regu- Navy Union of the United and shall be ed and obeyed as such, and ® power vested in it for the National Officers. coming con tion the ses- national corps will be held such places as may be de- termined before adjourrment. The following are the national officers: B. Morton, national commander, C.; F. H. Altekamp, senior . Portsmouth, Va.; Armin |. junior vice commander, San Cal.; Richard J. Fanning, ad- the the Je Frarcisco, jutant g Columbus, Ohio; James P, Leckwood, paymaster general,’ Evanston, Ill.; John Schumacher, inspector general, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; Jobr E. Cox, national chaplain, Owensville, Ind. The membership of the Regular Army and Navy Union extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is also represented on board the ships of war in the United States navy in all parts of the world. The present head- quarters are in Washington,and the adjutant general's office at Columbus, Ohio. The membership is over six thousand, and the rumber of garrisons 146. It numbers among {ts members, both ac- tive and honorary, some of the most dis- tinguished names’ borne upon the army register. Among them Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, Major Generals Nelson A. Miles and Wesley Merritt, Brigadier Generals John R. Brooke, James W. For- syth and Edward S. Otis. In the navy Rear Admiral George Brown heads the list. Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, retired, was an active and zealous member of Gar- ison N6. 28 of this city. This membership is not confined to the service alone, as the National Corps has made some of our great statesmen honorary members in consider- ation of the active interest taken by them in the welfare of the order. The meeting next week of the National Corps will probably be the most important sirce the Union was organized. Upon the result of its labors depends largely the fu- ture prosperity of the order. The session will last for several days. During the stay of the National Corps the local entertain- ment committee, composed of members of the four garrisons in this city, will endeavor to show the visitors appropriate hospitality. On Tuesday, the 19th, at 9 p.m., a grand ball will be given at Washington ‘barracks, and’in the evening a large complimentary excursion and planked shad dinner will be given at River View. There will be over one hundred delegates present, and there will also be a large at- tendance of members of the order, accom- panied by ladies and friends. A report will be made to the press each day of the doings of the convention. Nearly every state in the Union wil! be reepresented by the dele- gates. The headquarters have been es- tablished at the Hotel Vendome, corner of third and Pennsylvania avenue, where a great deal of business will be transacted through the work of the several commit- tees. National Commander Morton. Joseph Bruce Morton, past commanier of Gen. J. M. Schofield Garrison, No. 28, of Washington, D. C., and ex-chairman of the cemmittee on the state of the order, was bern in the city of Madison, Ind. His father was an Irishman and his mother the descendant on her father’s side of Irish blood, his maternal grandfather being the first cousin of the illustrious Horace Greeley, whose mother was a Woodburn. At the age of nine years he was sent, with his two brothers, to England, where he received a collegiate education, graduating at the Ox- ford examinations at the age of fifteen years. He stood third in a class of 945. On his return to his native country he engaged in business with his father in Michigar and Chicago, and at the age of twenty-four years was enlisted In New York city by Col. Arthur McArthur, as- sistant adjutant general. He was asvign- ed to the second cavalry, and served for five years at Fort Ellis, Montana, was soon made a corporal and sergeant, and dis- charged as such in 1875. His next service was as clerk for the equipment board of the marine corps at Washington, D. C., and on the dissolution of the board he enlist- ed in the second artillery at Fort Mc- Henry, Md., serving at that post and Washington, D. C. At the former place he served under Generals French and Bury, and at the latter under Captain Breckinridge, now the inspector general of the army. Upon his discharge from the second ar- tillery he enlisted in the general service de- tachment at headquarters division of the Missourl, under General P. H. Sheridan. In 1884 he was transferred to headquarters of the army to perform the clerical work incident to the target practice of the army uncer Colonel Blunt, who, upon Morton's promotion to be chief clerk at army head- quarters, considered him an expert in all that pertained to his special duties in that ine. From the time he organized Gen. Schofield Garrison, No. 28, until the pres- ent he has been a conspicuous figure at every annual session of the Nativaal Corps, always zealous in the performance of his duties as chairman of the committee on the state of the order, always solicitous for the welfare and the prosperity of the or- der. ee Strategic. From Puck. Barker—“Did you tell him that he lied?” Karker—“Not in so many words.” Barker—“How, then?" Karker—“I told him he ought to be send- ing war news from Cuba.” Holding his own.—Life. LONGEVITY OF ANIMALS. Some Supposed to Live for Hundreds of Years, An article in the Journal d’Hygiene (Paris), translated for the Literary Digest, says: “Man lives to all ages, but in the animal kingdom, on the contrary, the duration of life is almost exactly equal for all indi- viduals of the same species. But we can know with exactness the real duration of life only for animals in servitude; we do not know whether it is the same in the savage state. Rabbits and guinea pigs live seven years; squirrels and hares, eight; cats, nine or ten; dogs, ten or twelve; foxes, fourteen to sixteen; cattle, fifteen to eighteen; bears and wolves, twenty; the rhinoceros, twenty-five; the ass and the horse, twenty-five to thirty; the lion, thir- ty to forty (a lion in the London Zoolo; Gardens reached the age of seventy years the camel, forty. The length of life of the elephant is uncertain; according to Aris- totle, Buffon and Cuvier, it lives two cen- turles; some authors say even four or five. After his victory over Porus, Alexander consecrated to the sun an elephant that had fought for the Indian monarch, and gave it the name of Ajax; then, having attached an inscription to it, he set it at liberty; the animal was found 350 years later. The an- cients attributed to the stag a fabulous length of life, but Aristotle observes that what is reported on this subject has no foundation. * * * Buffon says that the Stag takes five or six years to attain full growth and should live seven times this period; that is, thirty-five or forty years. ‘Though precise observations are wanting, we know that fishes, especially the large speci: live a very long time. According to Bacon, eels reach sixty years. Carps have been known to live at least 150 years, and they then seemed to Buffon as lively and agile as ordinary carp. Dolphins, stur- geons and sharks live more than a century and attain a huge size. Pikes have been seen weighing 1,000 pounds, which indicates a_very long existence. A pike caught at Kalsers-Lautern in 1497 was nineteen feet long and weighed 350 pounds; it bore in its gills a copper ring with an inseription stat- ing that it had been put in the pond of Lautern by order of the Emperor Frederick II; that is, 261 years before. Whale fishers have exterminated the huge whales of the polar seas; those that were formerly met with were of prodigious dimensions. It is supposed, with some probabil live several centuries, and t even reach an age of 1,000 years. The lon- gevity of fish is attributed to the long duration of the development, to their low temperature, and to their feeble vitality. “On the other hand, we .neet another class of animals whose passions are lively, whose vitality is very active, and who still live a long time—we mean birds. But it is not known with any degree of precision how long these live, except that their lon- gevity is great. We see the same swallows returning to their accustomed nest for a considerable number of years. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of 103 years. According to Buffon, the life of the crow is 108 years, and no observation authorizes us to attribute to it, with Hesiod, 1,000 years. A paroquet brought to Florence in 1633 by the Princess Provere d’Urbin, when she went there to espouse the Grand Duke Ferdinand, was then at least twenty years old and lived nearly 100 more. A naturalist whose testimony cannot be doubted, Wil- loughby, had certain proof that a goose liv- ed a century; and Buffon did not hesitate to conclude that the swan’s life is longer yet; some authors give it two and even three centuries. Mallerton possessed the skeleton of a swan that had lived 307 years. This is quite enough to prove that among the larger animals, and also espe- cially among birds, the duration of life, relatively to their bulk and height, is very long; it is, on the contrary, very short with insects; many of these live less than a month, rarely a few years, while the life of the ephemerids is but seven to twelve hours, and in this brief space they accom- plish the principal functions that nature requires ,of organized bodies; they are born, reproduce and die.” ——— ser. An Intensive Calculation, From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. An Ohio farmer having given a detailed account of his operations fcr a year on a $9,000 farm of 160 acres, showing a net return of about $400 after paying expenses, including the support of his family, a South Carolina paper rises to remark that such farming would not be regarded as profitable in that state. It mentions the case of a South Carolina farmer who netted last year $386 from a single acre, planted first in tobacco and then in turnips. This figure applied to 160 acres would mean profits of $61,760. The average tiller of the soil would be willing to throw off $69,000 of this amount for his arnual net returns, and yet the hint given regarding the possibili- ties of intensive farming Is clearly applica- ble to the agriculture of the future. ——_—+e+_ Not So Much Champngne Nowadays. From the New York Sun. Recent statistics show that we are drink- ing less champagne and more beer, and the figures are instructive. The statistics of the custem house show that the import of champagnes decreased in 1894 about 25,000 cases, aud in 1895 more than 11,000 cases. Apparently the champagne drinkers con- soled themselves with beer. The total con- cumption of beer in the United States for the year ending last June was 334,469,661 barrels, which was an increase over the consumption of the previous year of Se 000 barrels.’ Our consumption of beer aver- aged about fifteen gallons for every man, woman and child in this country. The average consumption cf beer varies great- ly throughout the Union. It was largest in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wis- consin, and least in southern and prohibi- tion states. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP An Addition to the Improvements - ina Residence Locality, ACREAGE PROPERTY AT AUCTION Big Hotel Enterprises and What is Said About Them. SOME NEW BUILDINGS gee An excavation is being made on the east side of Connecticut ayerue between M street and Dupont Circle for a residence which Col. Ernst, U. S. A., intends to erect. The lot was purchased about a year ago, and the plans of the house were prepared, but actual building operations have only just been begun. The lot is quite a spacious one for a city residence, the froatage being 30 fest and the depth 105. Nearly the en- tire building space will be occupied by the new house, which will be some eighty-four feet in depth. It will adjoin on the south the residence of Mr. Charles J. Bell, which, in connection with that of his cousin, Alexander Graham Bell, has a spacious .ewn surrounding it. The house of Col. Ernst will be built on the party line, yet arrangements will be made so that some of the windows will open on the lawn of the adjoiniag property. The negotiations for the purchase of the lot were closed in January, 1895, and the price paid was $4 per square foo Acrenge Property Offered for Sale. There was considerable interest manifest- ed fn real estate circles in the public sale of the Kall estate. As 1s well known, this tract comprises some ten acres, and is the largest piece of undivided property adjoin- ing the borders of the city in the north- west locality. It comes down to Florida avenue between Massachusetts and Con- necticut avenues, and is a long, rather nar- row pzece, containing in all some ien acres. The property was duly offered for sale by Thomas Dowling & Co., auctioneers, but was finally withdrawn. Wher this tract is divided into building lots there will be a continuous subdivision covering the cntire area from Massachusetts avenue extended to Connecticut avenue extended. A Big Hotel. Reference was made in The Star not long ao to a project for the erection of a large hotel building on the present site of the Willard’s Hotel buildizg. It is said by men who are familiar with the hotel busi- ness and with the needs of this city in his particular that if this plan is not ried qut something of a similar nature will certainly be given yractical shape in the near future. It ts believed that there is a demand for a hotel building of spa- clous proportions and medern equipment, such as have been built in recent years in other cities, and it is thought that it is only a mere matter of time when such a building will be erected” here. As an ex- perienced hotel man said recently in talk- ing of the matter: “Washington {s not only a fine winter resort, but it is a splen- did summer resort.” When he was asked if he meant the latter in the full sense of the term, he said of course there were a couple of montns when the weather might be considered somewhat warm here, but for the balance of the year, in his opinion, Washington excels most of the winter and summer resorts, and equals some of the best. Question of Location. Of course the question of a suitable lo- cation 1s an important one, and there Is some difference of opinion on this subject. ‘There are those who believe that the hotel of the future for this city should be io- cated some distance from what is now looked upon as the center of things. On the other hand, however, it is maintained with equal force that a building of this sort should be convenient to the hotels and theaters, and near to some of the principal poinis of interest in the city. It is likely, however, that when the new ho- tel is built it will be in a location that will be a compromise between these two views. Two Apartment Houses. Francis & Schneider, architects, have cempleted plans and specifications for a {cur-story apartment house to be erected on Massachusetts avenue northwest be- tween 10th and llth streets for L. H. Schneider. The lot, 20xS5, will be covered completely. Each flat will have five rooms, kitchen and bath. The bath rooms will have tiled floors and walls and be wains- coted in tile. The front will be red pressed brick, trimmed with brown stone, and the mansard roof will be covered with tile, and there will be a square tower. The inside trimmings will be in white pine, and the staircase will be finished in oak. The building will be heated by steam, and electrical fixtures will be used throughout. ‘The same architects have prepared plans for an apartment house to be erected on 12th street northwest between O and P streets for Mr. D. B. Gottwalds. This heuse will cover a lot 25x85, and will be four stories and attic in height. The front will be red press brick trimmed with light stone, and will be finished with tower and mansard roof. The first two flais contain five rooms, kitchen and bath. The third and fourth flats contain six rooms, kitchen and bath. The bath rooms will have floor and walls tiled. The structure will be heated throughout with steam, A G Street Store. The same architects have prepared plans and are erecting a store, with flat above, to be known as 1303 G street northwest, for Mr. Joseph J. Snellenburg of Philadelphia. This building, though quite .small, heing only 15 by 47 feet, will contain a store and five sleeping rooms above. The store will have a large plate glass window, which above is formed into a bay .window run- ning two stories, finishing ih a balcony. Messrs. Espey & Bean are the contractors. Mrs. Glennan’s Residence. Edmund J. De Lacy,, builder and con- tractor, is erecting a fine modern residence on New Jersey avenue near Florida avenue ncrthwest for Mrs. Margaret.M. Glennan. It has a circular bay window, and is built of press brick, with stone trimmings. ———— Zimmerman's Grext Finish. Prom the Philadelphia Times. “To see him win the half-mile champion- ship was something to be remembered. The final heat saw Parsons, Iredale, Zim and Lewis. All went well for a lap. Parsons was leading, Lewis rext, then Iredale and, finally, Zim—hemmed in. It looked impos- sible for him to get out in time for the run. Parsons and Lewis were knuckling down to a spurt, coming up the ccurse'like a house a-fire, and the people wete humming with suppressed excitement. | | ‘Only 200 yards to go-why, man, Zim’s beaten; he can’t ‘get up new.’ So sung a lusty-voiced youth. But the words scarcely were uttered when the American com- Menced to move. With an electric shove he dashed past the field in the twinkling of an eye and fled up to the post forty yards |, ahead of all. He will never forget the ova- tion that crowd of 31,000. people gave him. The Austrelians know how to applaud a sportsman, and they gave it to Zim all right. Every one could see that he was pleased.” EARER FLYING THAN EVER. Prof. Langley’s Steam Bird is a Long FlUght in Advance. From the New York Sun. It is believed by those interested in aero- nautics that Professor S. P. Langley’s aerodrome 1s a long step forward toward the achievement of man’s power to fly. What Professor Langley permitted to be made public was printed in the Sun yester- day. It was far from definite in descrip- tion, either of the new machine or of its manner of flight, but it was enough to arouse the greatest interest among those who have followed this little practiced branch of science. In general, it set forth that the aerodrome, propelled by a steam screw, raised itself to a height of 100 feet, in a course of regular spirals of about 100 yards in diameter, thus traversing a dis- tance of about half a mile. Then the steam gave out, but instead of tumbling to the earth, it swept slowly and gracefully down until it landed gently and intact in the water. This experiment was tried at Occoquan, Va., on May 6. The aerodrome used measures fourteen feet from tip to tip of its aeroplanes, and its framework is of steel. Its rate of speed was about twenty miles an hour. A second experi- ment was equally successful, the flyer go- ing in a direction different from that it took on the first trial, and landing safely about a quarter of a mile from the start- ing point. Mr. frank J. French of the American Engineer and Railroad Journal, who is an expert on aeronautics, and who knows Professor Langley, is one of those who be- lieve that the aerodrome is a distinct ad- vance on anything that has heretofore been invented. He said yesterday: “From the meager data given out by Professor Langley. it {s difficult to judge with any certainty of the nature of his centrivance. If it does what is claimed for it, however, that is, if it rises in spirals and returns to the ground gently, it excels in stability and in its ability to rise to a point directly above its standing point anything that has gone before it. I take it for granted that the aeroplanes, which corr pond to the wings of a bird, are able, and that the aerodrome for its propelling power solely upon the propellers, the aeroplanes serving merely as sustainers. Now, here is an application of two principles. The first is the piane principle, which Lilienthal of E has so successfully demonstrated in his scaring flight against the wind, that an aeroplane properly balanced will, for a time, support weight and sail against the wind. The second, a corollary to this, is the principle successfully proven on a large scale by Maxim, that aeroplanes propelled with sufficient rapidity will rise from the earth, just as a kite can be raised in a dead calm by running with it. Maxim built a huge aeroplane to run on tracks, but had to build an upper track to hold’ {t down, because he did not dare send a m it, not knowing how it might 1i grave of Australia built a big for artificial bird that was propelled for nearly half a mile by steam propellers, but the in- vention came to grief when the st out, for it fell to the ground with great force and was smashed. “What Professor Langley appears have achieved is the discov ry of some to r- Tangement of the a*roplanes; first, to give great stability so that the equilibrium 1s preserved after the power gives out and the downward flight begins; to cause the fly! follow a spiral course. This. [ should suppose, must be achieved by flexible wings which would adjust themselves to the proper angle as the aeroplane curved. If you have ever ‘econd, & machine to watched a hawk soaring upward you will understand what I mean. Its course is al- ways spiral. Every previous flying ma- chine has either gone aguinst the wind or outstripped it in speed, since the machine must depend upon the air for its lifting power. Hargrave's machine, for instaice, if it ran out of a brisk southeast wind into a brisk northwest wind, would come tum- tling down, probably. ‘I should suppose, from what I have read of this new inven- tiop, that, supposing it went up in a good breeze, that part of its course with the Wind behind it would be about on a level, and that when it reached the quadrant of the circle where it ran into the wind it would rise rapidly. “Some time ago Professer Langley was experimenting with a six-winged aero- plane, believing that an increase in the number of wings gave an increase in eta- bility. I should not be surprised to hear that this was a six-winged flying machine. At any rate, I shal! await with great in terest further information, as this would seem to be the most important advance in years in acronautics.”” This is not Professor Langley's first fly- ing machine that has flown. In his ca- pacity as secretary of the Smithsonian In- stitution he has had time and means to de- Vote to the study of aeronautics, and has made many experiments, the most success- ful previous one being that of December 13, 1894, at Quantico, Va. ‘The machine had four wings, of which the front pair meas- ured S feet, and the rear pair about balf as much. The body, of aluminum, vas 4x2 feet, and weighed but two pounds. Pro- Peller blades one foot long, moved by steam with great rapidity, gave a heavy thrusting power. This air craft traveled 900 feet on a straight line against the wind be- fore its motive power gave out. It lighted in the Potomac river without much damaye to it. It was directed by a ve al rudder, Prof. Langley and its wings were rigid. y does not tell whether the steering of his aerodrome is done by rudder or by the wings. A man who has known Professor Langley for years said yesterday: “It is surprising to me that he should have allowed even the little information that did come out to be made public. He is extremely close-mouthed, not. to say crotchety, on the subject of his inventions. to my mind, the foremost s in this count He has tied him: theory, but has always n open- minded and willing to give his time and ex- perience to any new idea which scemed to promise any results. The fact of his gi ing out any information about this acro- drome ts sufficient indication of his belief that he has solved the problem of fight.” ~ 200 not f to no Penrls Before Swine. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Four local newspaper men were compar. ing notes tly on the restaurants th have known. re ice in Chicago not long ‘aid one. “Friend teok me through a big cheap jewelry factory. Rubies by the quart, diannonds by the pint. Gold rir till you couldn't rest. ‘What's here?’ 5 i asi 5 to a glas creamy pellets. “ ‘Pearls,’ said the foreman. “Ten cents a gross, We sell ’em to the cheap restaurant mae id jar filled with drop one in each plate of oyster : the foreman, ‘What for?’ says I again, Beek ‘ound in stew. Does not ary oysters. Grand kick coming. Finds pecrl. Grins ecstatically.. Sneaks pearl into vest pocket. Eats stew. Doesn't in. Pays check and goes away smil- EVER NEW AND FRESH. Many Persons Originate the Jok@ About Brenking the Camera, From the Utica Observer. “I hope I didn’t break the glass in the camera,” she simpered, as the photoge rapher bewed her cut of the door. Then h+ went over to his desk and picke ed up a little book that was filled with fige ures. “Scventy-three thcusand cight hun« @red anc sixty-four,” he said, in an under= breath, as he made an entry. The door opened again, and a breezy: young msn, dressed in his best, and peep= ing over the ccrners of a collar-that just escaped the corners of lis mouth, entered. ‘I thought I would ccme in and sit for some rictures, if you have a”camera that you think will stand the racket.” certainly,” said the photog- down & moment,” and then he went over and made another entry in the little book, murmuring, “Seventy-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.” When this negative was secured and the chappie started out, he laughed and re- marked that he “hoped he didn’t break the camera.” “Oh, no,” said the photographer, gravelyy And then he made another entry in the lite tle book, end nodded at each Hable, as he pronounced venty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. “I have teen at this business about twen- ty years,” he remarked to the reporter. “Ten years »go I commenced to keep a reo= ord of the instances upon which I should hear the elleged jcke about breaking the glass In a camera repected. The last time the gentlemar who just left repeated it made the seventy-third thousand eight hundred at.¢ sixty-sixth. Had he remained a few mii utes lerger he would doubtless have sprung it tvo or three more times. “It is the commozest so-called joke In the world. Next to ‘Is this hot enough for you?’ cr ‘Is this cold enovgh for you” St 1s one of the commonest expressions. The old and wise, young ard fcolish, homely, nandsome, plain, pretty, fat, lean, tall or short—everybody that cor talk—se think it is a brand-new juke, and th s0 ceiighted with it that they sometimes roll the chestnut around five or six times in a visit were of half an hour. I expect to reach a hundred thousand before t inercement season pretty school girls, break a heart than anything else great fun to s re each other me about derger to the camera wh pretty fuces are posed in front of it be Excited His Cur! From the Detroit Free Press. “It beats me,” he sald, as he laid down his newspaper, thoughtfully. “I dunno’s I ever thought of it afore, but now thet ft does come ter my mind, it certainly beats me.”" “Whut air ye talkin’ about?” asked his wife, anxiously. “Literatoor,” he answered. “Course we've seen it showed up in the newspapers time an’ ag’in how all an editor does is ter set down weth a pot o' paste an’ a pair o’ scis- sors an’ cut out things ter put inter ‘is paper. I don't see nothin’ so beatin’ “Certainly, about that. “But this is the question. Some feller hes ter git them pieces up in the fust place. It never struck me afore; but I'm blest ef I wouldn't like ter know who the feller is thet starts in an’ gets up them there things fur the editors ter cut out.” “OR A ROL all who visited these really Grand View! OUR TERMS of a lot will enable you to lay BEAR IN MIND §2,7c0 IN GOLD | GIVEN AWAY TO BUILDERS. To Bach Person buying LOTS of us at ST. ELMO DBL RAY after May 1, 1596, and commencing to Build a “House thereon costing _not less than $1,000 before July 1806, and’ completing ‘said House ‘before Nov. 1, 1896, we will give GASH PRIZES as follows: — 1500 “ 1250 “ . And to the next 10 persons building under above condi- tions $100 each. A FEW Agents are on the plats, &c., apply to Are so easy that a trifling sum, pe That ST. ELMO and DEL RAY are steadily going ahead. PRICES OF LOTS: $75, $100, $125, $1g0, $180. FIRST PAYMENT: $1. WEEKLY PAYMENTS from 75¢. to $1.25. lo PER CENT DISCOUNT FOR CASH. Monthly Payments Arranged If Desired. PARTICULARS. 30 trains stop daily at ST. ELMO and DEL RAY. The new Mount Vernon Electric Road will ST. ELMO and DEL RAY have over 40 attractive residences, Electric Light can be had at almost nominal cost. Alexandria City Water, which is famous for its purity, A School will shortly be established on premises. Alexandria City Markets are within 5 minutes’ ride. TI. - Titles to these properties have been examined by the District Title Insur: We furnish printed Abstracts of Title. property every day (Sundays included). For further information, free tickets, E OR PROFITABLE ST LLAMO = DELRAY ARE UNEQUALED. These properties must be seen to be appreciated. Pure Water! _ FREE LIFE INSURANCE. FREE IMPROVEMENTS. = fr Pa house complied NO TAXES. NO NOTES. NO MORTGAGES. NO INTERES READ WOOD, HARMON & CO., Thirteenth St. N.W. 535 lili ‘e Words of highest praise were expressed by beautiful towns in the past two weeks. Go tomorrow. Pure Airl SPECIAL EXCURSION TOMORROW, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1896, Leaving the Pennsylvania Depot at 2:45 P. I. FREE TICKETS (for adults only) of Our Agents at Depot. thaps otherwise foolishly spent, applied weekly toward the payment the foundation of HOME and FORTUNE—BEGIN NOW! To invest is no risk. give a 15 minutes’ service in less than 30 days. : 3 Stores, a church, a post office. , is on the property. = Perfect Drainage! A5-CENT FARE | UNTIL 1990. To the Head of Every Family Purchasing Lots of us at either | ST. ELMO or DBL RAY and building a House thereon cost- ing not less than $1,000 be | Nov. 1 we will gu: entee a Se. FARE twice each | @ay to either ST. ELMO or | DEL RAY from Washin, until the year 1900. 4s assign: ad goes with the lot, thas increasing its value. Above inducement ap- plies only to Lots purchased after May 1. 1896. Te CAREFULLY. ance Company.