Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR; THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. C. A. Muddiman, 614 12th St. LOW PRICES. SPECIAL SALE. Moving Only Next Door, 616 12th St. and 1204 G Street. GAINS! ful g00 ver from moving “t with iro » have sold ever 1,000 G and Ga t your boller and give yo f, $11.75. $21.00. 9 Now designs. One Iai Lamps. fot of Night Lamps and Fancy Little ap in store reduced. Garden Hose. 3 nod quality, with couplings and patent nowzh mn, $1.30. Ol Stove. Originally ROMANCE. A WASHINGTO: Here’s a Hint for the Coming Novel of the Capital. From the New York Journal. The Journal last week published the por- trait of the beautiful Oiga Bodisco, a maid of honor ta the new czarina. The peculiar interest attaching to her unique personality is the fact that she is of American descent, and the love affair and marriage of her mother is a very romantic tale. At number ington w for the Orphans of Soldiers that city. They were supported by government in their philanthropic enter- prise, and a very large building was erected of lumber from the old government bar- racks. This building was placed at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street, in the center of the city. Each state had its separate booth, charge of lady representatives, and the close of the rebellion in 1863 a f the prominent ladies in Wash- desirous of founding a Home and Sailors in in the whole ¢ olivited for donations and fancy r the fair. The building was gayly decorated, and for six months durings its continuance it was a ene of great brilllancy, always in the evening with soldiers in the Marine Band being in con- endance, and very many attract- res were introduced each day. nouat realized the ladies was iers and ished in thronge: uniform, stant ive feat about Sailors” Washing The b Orphan Home was est: n. h of Michigan was allotted to a woman of that state, and she 1 herself with a bevy of the most beautiful young ladies that could be found, for her assistants, also women of the state. A device had been arranged to lure the spare dimes from the pockets of the muit t which was called a “Cure for Broken Hearts, looks for ten cents. On one view, as a cure for a broken heart, was the scene of a su the desola' hanging by a rc r was a scene of great bril prominent sing and satisfactory cure than the preceding view. one of the most popular in e of Miss Bar- ton, a young lady of rare grace and beauty, whose father, a native of Michigan, occu- pied a government position. Plamong the throng strolling through the building one ¢ 1g was Baron Bodisco, a nobleman attached to the Russian legation at Washington. H ct aptivated by the charming d of a balm tor and there- f after, ever’ weeks he paid ten cent jearning about the mysterious cure from the fair preceptress. It was a case of love at first sight, and he besought the presid- ing lady for an introduction. After due formality he was presented, and soon rep- resented to the fair Miss Barton the wretched condition of his shattered heart. The cure he prescribed was accepted by her, and she became the Baroness Bodisco, returned with him to Russia, and, after mastering the crooked letters of the alpha- bet, was received at court, and ever since has been a prime favorite, renowned for her beauty and gracious manner. The daughter of this charming mother is a fit representative of America at the court of Russia. Since her marriage the Baron- ess Bodisco has frequently visited her na- tive land. The marriage has been a most happy one, but this romantic narration ac- quires additional pathos from the sad death of the Baron Bodisco, which occurred a few days . after a brief iiine: Who Was the First Tobacco Smokert From the Gentleman's Mazazine. “The learned Camden speaks of Lane as the original English smoker. It is remark- able that so much doubt should have ex- isted among writers even in ElizaJacobean times both as to the date when tobacco was first received in this country and the person whom it was first introduced. The painstaking annalist, Siow, says that tobacco came into England ‘about the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth (1557). | But Aubrey, speaking of Sir Walter Ra- leigh, says that “he was the first that brought tobacco into England and_into fashion (1586). In our part of North Wilts —for example, Malmsbury Hundred—it came first into fashion by Sir Walter Long. ‘They had first silver pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a straw. I have heard my grandfather Lyle say that one pipe was handed from man to man round the table. Sir Walter Ra- leigh, standing in a stand at Sir Ro. Poyntz’s parke at Acton, took a pipe of to- bacco, which made the ladies quit it till he had done.” oat The author of a gossipy “Tour in Wales (Pennant), in 1510, speaking about the great houses and their associations, says that Captain Price of Piasyollin, with Captains Mydleton and Koet, on their re- turn from the Azores in 15%, “were the first who had smoked or (as they called it) drank tobacco publicly in London, and that the Londoners flocked from all parts to see them. Pipes were not then invented, so they used the twisted leaves, or cig The invention is usually ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh. It may be so, but he was too good a courtier to smoke in public, es- pecially in the reign of James.” Again, in the 1659 translation of Dr. Everard’s “Panacea” (Antwerp, 1587), is it remarked that “Capt. Richard field and Sir¢ Francis Drake were the first planters of it here (England), and not Sir Walter Ra- leigh. which is the common error, so dif- ficult is it to fix popular discoveries. These few selections show us how easily origins are lost sight of. soe Bloodhounds Trace a Child. From the Cineinnat! Commeretal-Gazette. ‘The three-year-old son of Marion and Mrs. Scott, at Kokomo, Ind. on a visit from Chicago, wandered from the house and got lost. After a three hours’ hunt by the office bloodhounds were put on the seent of the child. The beasts struck he trail at onc2, and within twenty minutes were standing beside the missing child, waiting for the attendants to arrive. They found tne child beyond the city park, three miles distant. The hounds made no mo- tions toward injuring the little wanderer, although they had been trained to run Gown desperate criminals. - This is a new feature of bloodhound work. BARGAIN: Ranges have blue flame: the | BARGAINS! some are odd piec —a few gre slightly dam- “1 to be perfect cookers—These Tea Kettles are large, and planish Als the Window Sereens- thy nd many other cut-price jude globes, and are hung ly guaranteed to bake, roast, broll, and know they sre cheaper than using will not smoke your kettle or Gas Cooking Stoves. One Jewsl Gas Range. Originally $13.00. 14.00, © : 1 4-buraer Perfect Gas Range. Originally $24.00. Now $16.00. 1 4burner Perfect Gas Range. Originally $22.00. Now $14.00. 4-burner Dangler Gas Range. Originally $18.00. Only, $14.75. fs'75. Now them. on pipe ss Re ou het watef from a Now Now $13.00. 896 Gas Rin; .8-burner Gas Stoves. Originally ¥ Zburner Gas Stoves. Originally $2.75. Now 1 3-burner Gas Stove. Originally $1.75. ner Extra Hot gts Originally Now $1.50. Be Stoves, slightly cracked, $3.75. 95. Now Gas Stove. Now © move. give Large Copper-bottom with each Gus Range purchased—betore xt door—10 days hence. No. 4. Onis All are adjustable to fit any width of window. Miscellaneous. Moving price, Moving pric x Moving price, $1.28. ‘offer Bot, $110. Muddiman, 614 12th St. Headquarters for Backus Steam Heaters, Agency for Welsbach Burner: A CURIOUS INCIDENT. The Son of the Baronet Was a High- wayman. From the Strand Magazine. A gentleman had been staying on a visit with a certain baronet, and when leaving behaved very liberally to the domestics, having distributed among them a more than usual amount of money. He was to proceed on his journey alone on horseback, and just as he was putting his fcot in the stirrup to start the groom, who assisted him, and had been a sharer in his bounty, contrived to approach him closely and whispered, unperceived, this startling | warning in his ear: “See if your pistols be loaded as soon as i you are beyond the domain.” The gentleman, while riding on, forthwith | did so, and, to his astonishment, found that the charges had been withdrawn. He at once reloaded the weapons, placing a bullet ineach. By night time he reached Wortham heath, and on coming upon it he was stop- ped by a masked and mounted highway- man, who rode up to him fearlessly and | leveled a pistol at his head, intimating that he must have his mone. The gentleman fired instantly in self-de- fense and his assailant fell dead. To gallop to the nearest habitation and give the alarm was the work of a few minutes on the part of the traveler. He returned within an hour with men and lights to the spot, when, on taking the mask from the bleeding corpse of the hign- wayman, he, to his horror, discovered him to be no other than the son of the baronet whose hospitality he had so recently been | enjoying. This son ad, of course, been one of his friendly and“social companions dur- ing his stay. An tnquest was held, when it -vas found out that tt was indeed the baronet’s sou— a gambler ruined by play—who had been in the habit of waylaying wealthy guests as they departed from his father’s hous: +00. STRIKE CALLED OFF. Tke Old Man Lucked the Sympathy Needed to Appreciate It. New York k ks “Wiiliam,” said the old man, lowering his countenance so that his son could look into its innermost wrinkles, “I notice that you have nox piled up the wood that I this morning called your attention to.” “No, father,” returned the youth, “I am on a symputhetie strike. “Wou—would you take the trouble to in- form me,”* gasped the old man, as he reach- ed down from its accustomed nail the fa- miliar fragment of leather tug, “who this strike Is in sympathy with?” “Myself,” responded the noble-looking youth, at least as noble looking as a youth can be who is doubled over a sawbuck, while the old man deftly engaged in a num. ber of strikes, rapid in their succession, but utterly unsympathetic in their character. “Where I made my mistake,” sobbed the bey, es he went back to his job at the old wages, “was in not burning the woodplle while tho strike was In operation.” gg Im the Track of the Storm. From the Chicago Tribune. The terrible whirlwind had done its worst. Stately monarchs of the forest lay pros- trate. Ruin and desolation marked the path of the funnel-shaped monster that had swept with resistless fury over the land, destroying everything that stood in its way. Here and there were the scattered frag- ments of many a dwelling chat had been the abode of peace, happiness and pros- perity. Desolate, despairing men and women wandered among the ruins. Now and then there was one who bewalled his fate with loud lamentation or bitter curse, but for the most part the victims bore their sor- row in sullen silence, and there were not wanting those who found consolation and even cause for gratitude in the fact that their lives had been spared. In an upper room of a house that had es- caped the storm lay one of the injured. “How long has she been unconscious?” inquired the physician. “Ever since she was picked up and brought here,” replied one of the watchers. “There seem to be no bones broken,” he rejoined, “‘but the shock has been severe. We can only hope for the best. I have wit- nessed the effects of many a cyclone, but this one—" The young woman on the couch opened her eyes. “A cyclone,” she muttered feebly, “is a rotary storm of widely extended circult, its center frequently being many miles from its outer limit or circumference. This was a tornado. It was not a cyclone. This mig- use of the term is, however, almost unl- versal, except among educated persons.” “From Boston?” said the doctor, in a low tone. ' And the watchers silently nodded. ———_+e+ - Heard in the Stilly Night. From the Enstern Argus. The man In the upper berth leaned over its edge and jamming his frown firmly down on his brow, cried in a aarsn, coarse voice that was audible above the rattle and rumble of the engine: “Hi, you; down there. Are vou rich?" “Heh?” ejaculated the man in the lower berth, almost swallowing his Adam's appie. “Whazzer mazzer?” “I say, are you rich?” “What's that, sig! Rich? What do you mean by waking me up in the injddle of the night to ask me such a question as that?” “I want to know—that's why.” “Well, then, confound you, I am rich. Now I hope your curiosity is satistied and you will let me go to sleep.” “Very rich?” “Milliozaire, confound you. Now shut up and. “Well, then, why in torment don’t you’ charter’ a whole train to do your snoring mre From th: coder. ——_-e-_____ Piney Point Hotel to Opem Sunday. The hotel at Piney Point will be opened Sunday for the season. The steamer Sue will leave at 5 o'clock Saturday evening, stopping at the Point. KATE FIELD'S DEATH — = Tributes Paid Her by the People of Honolulu. CURRENT EWS FROM HAWAI The Is'ands Are Overflowing With Wealth. RACE PROBLEMS — + Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, May 28—The eruption of Mauna Loa, which has furnished topic for: my last two letters, is quite played out, after some splendid pyrotechnics. Most of the Amherst Eclipse party from the yacht Coronet visited Kau a fortnight since, in- tending to ascend the mountain. On their arrival all glow on the cloud above the crater had disappeared and they contented themselves with the usual every-day in- spection of the heavily smoking pit of Kilauea, which the Volcano House people anxicusly assure everybody is heating up at such a rate as to make a fresh outgush of the live lava a certain thing right away. So we all hope. Such long suppressions of fire there as have lasted the most of twenty months past are not on the records at the Voleano House. Now that “Madam Pele” has finished her picnic on the big mountain, she ought to be ready to attend to regular business at the usual headquar- ters. The dense reek of vapors pouring up from the black abyss of Hale-a-mau- mau proves that the furnaces below have not lost communication with the upper world. On_their return voyage by the steamer W. G, Hall, our Coronet friends, on reach- Ing Kona, were permitted sorrowfully to minister ‘to a much-beloved and dying woman, Miss Kate Field, who came aboard in hope to reach rest and something like home in Honolulu. Dying no one supposed her to be, although seriously ill with a sudden attack of pneumonia. Dr. Adriance cf theaoronet had gone to her relief, and by her desire had helped her to board the steamer. After reaching the ship she rap- idly developed alarming symptoms of pros- tration. By the next morning she so be- gan to sink that the ship was hastened and reached the city several hours ahead of time. The sufferer lived iittle more than an hour after she had reached a friendly home, borne by sailors from the Adams. For a moment before the last she became conscious, so 1s faintly to smile in recognition of Mrs. Dr. McGrew Miss Field had been so agreeably conspic- vous In Honolulu and had made so many warm friends that her retura thus in the grasp of death inflicted on us all a most severe and saddening shock. Miss Field's Funeral. The funeral was attended the following day by a crowded assembly at the Central Union, which is quite the representative American Church, and for that reason se- lected by Dr. McGrew, who, like his la- mented guest, {s an ardent American pa- triot. The casket was fairly buried under the coplous floral contributions, prominent among which was a large red, blue and white tribute from the Honolulu press. A kind friend received the precious remains into his family vault, until American friends could be heard from. The attorney general had sailed the previous evening for Yokohama on the swift Dort bore a dispatch for the Chicago Herald, announcing the sad event. Miss Field's death was evidently the re- sult of continued overwork in travelir She was a resolute and persistent explorer, but unfortunateiy at the age of tifty-tive, not @ Ureless one, as she needed to be to match her will and enthusiasm. Astride of mules and por for weeks she had toiled over stony trails in Puna, and the muddy roads and deep canyons of Hilo and Hamahua, bent upon seeing and judging of conditions in the remote out-distric Her last toilsome journey was the 5 mile ride from Kohala to Kona, in part one of the worst on the island, ries of those hideous clinker la which I have descanied in these She reached the hotel of Miss Part Kallua, worn out, and with sharp symp- toms of pneumonia, but still determin bress on and compiete the remaining nine- ty miles of evil trails remaining before reaching civilized roads at Kilauea. She pu: on ten miles farther the next d. to Greenwell's, near Kaawaloa. There, bodily worn out, ‘she finally succumbed, and consented to change her course for Honolulu. She seems to have borne up un- Ul safely on board the steamer, and no more effort was needed. Then nature ut- terly gave way, and the collapse was final. Well—tt is not altogether an evil to die in the active pursuit of one’s career—in the harness. Yet one would rather that our gifted friend had somewhat spared her wasting frame, and so lived to share the rich treasures of her experience and knowl- edge of mankind with us all for a few more years. Especially will supporters of the Hawallan republic remember Kate Field with grateful sorrow. She was a mest faithful friend and earnest advocate of our new and rising state. Portuguese Agninst Orientals. Our Portuguese fellow citizens continue to be demonstrative. This is apparently under the influence of persons of perhups demagogic character. A so-called mass meeting was held on Union Square, near the government buildings, a few nights since, attended by a few hundred Portu- guese, who were addressed in their own language. Their chief grievance dwelt upon was the one already mentioned, and which is felt by nearly all classes—the ercwding of Astatic immigrants to fill all branches of occupation. It will not tend to quiet their uneasiness that two Japan- ese steamers are now due with 2,1) more Japanese laborers to swell thelr already alarming numbers. Exactly how this in- flux of Asiatics is to be checked does not clearly appear. Perhaps if there was more will the way would be found. But it is too much for the pecuniary profit of our planters to continue the incoming of eheap labcr. Arnexation would promptly sdlve the problem, by means of the immediate ap- plication of United States laws prohibiting further immigration from Asia. Annexa- tion would also insure a rapid immigra- tion of white workers, who would speedily outnumber the colored races. As this abler class took up lands for coffee and other industries the Asiatic laborers al- ready on the ground would render them most valuable assistance. It seems not improbable that sugar produciion may ulti- mately decline and give way to other indus- tries. It Is claimed that beet sugar can be produced in Californta in quantity and at rates to defy competition from other sugar- producing countries. At the same time, it lcoks as if our plantations had not reach- ed the limit of their productiveness. This crop of "96 is an exceptional one. I know of two plantations which this year are ex- ceeding all expectations. One with an ex- pected crop of 5,000 tons is turning out 6,500. The other, instead of an estimated 9,000, is yielding 11,500 tons. When the Nanters do so well as this their money power is bound to be felt. Thrift and Sugar. At the same time, it is clear that this prosperity in the chief industry of the country tends to promote prosperity among all classes. And whatever materially checked and hampered the development of the plantations would have a depressing effect upon all branches of industry. For six months in the year the wharves of Honolulu are overcrowded with shipping employed to move the crop. Large num- bers of laborers, chiefly Hawaiians and Portuguese, find lucrative employment in loading and unloading these vessels, both those in the foreign trade and those busily plying In the coasting fleet. All this busi- ness growing out of the sugar industry makes Honolulu a most busy and thriving city and employs many thousands of labor- ers and artisans. It is true that a con- siderable proportion of these are Asiatics, who keep down wages most seriously, and yet wages are generally higner than be- fore Asiatics came and helped develop the plantations. The rapid recent growth of this city ts very marked. On ail sides are springing up new dwellings of all grades, from the mansions and villas of the wealthy to the cottages of laborers. New streets are fre- quently opened. Real estate is constantly changing hands. This is unquestionably ty the effect of commercial prosperity, due to the growth of sugar. Many new blocks of substantial brick and stone stores have recently ‘been erected! Honolulu is rap!dly changing and enlarging, as it has never done before, Atl this gives employment to both skilled and unskilled labor, and it may be doubted if at present there is any considerable rumber of unemployed per- sons who really desire work, or if laborers have any substantial or, pressing grievance just now. * As an example of. unreasonableness in the complaints made byPortuguese orators may be instanced thélt outcry about the indignity of having to be registered with a thumb mark. The new law requires every male over fifteen to take out a certificate of registration, upon which, as well as on the stub, is to be placed the imprint of his inked thumb. Thig ts a means of abso- lute identification, andthe only possible one. The registration js irequired chiefly ‘as an indispensable means ‘of enforcing any regulations designed to limit and control Asiatic immigrants. To its efficiency the thumb mark ts indispensable. The consti- tution permits no distinction of laws be- tween races. All classes must be under the same rule. The Thamb-Mark Law. The obnoxious thumb mark ts thus ex- pressly designed to promote and secure the very object for which the Portuguese are clamoring—to check the immigration of Asiatics and to hold them in control. And now their orators inveigh in one breath against the competing, Asiatics, and in the rext denounce the obnpxious thumb mark intended to check those Asiatics. It is true that many white men express a strong sen- timent against the thumb mark, as some- thing like a brand, belonging to convicts. One man writes: ‘To enable a plantation to capture a runaway Chinaman or Japan- ese, forsooth, every selférespecting man in the group must be subjected to the shame- ful indignity of leaving the impression of his thumb on the stub of a certificate, must be degraded to'the place of~a crimi- nal. The requirement is simply infamous and revolting. It is only paralleled in mod- ern history in atrocity, humiliation, in- famy and abomination by the fugitive slave law While this excited citizen thus raves and tears, large numbers of our best people are quietly registering themselves, and pressing their thumbs on the paper with a pleasant scientific interest in the intricate markings of that member thus developed, and in the endless variety of their convolutions, which so differentiate one man from another, and which, never changing from infancy to old age, supply an indisputable criterion of identity. Among the earliest to impress thumb upon paper was President Dole. Over 2,000 of all classes have in ten days followed his excellent example. A Cloud on the Horizc I must add a word or two about certain unfavorable statements in the San Fran- cisco Call, attributed to Rev. E. S. Dille, D.D., of that city, who recently visited us. The eminent character of that gentleman, end his earnest friendliness to us, seems to call for a notice of his remarks. Dr. Dille is reported to have said: “The provisional government (sic) is apparently running as smoothly as its best friends could wish, But it 1s not a government of the whole people. More stability is needed, Tne Ka- nakas are intensely dissatisfied. In the other islands distant from the capital there 1s plenty of rebellious feeling. When the leaders come, the timid islanders will again rise in the interests of a native ruler. Rev- olution is not so remotely tmpossibie, and even now the seeds of rebellion may be sprouting.”” ‘The good divine fell into the society of a coterie of royalists during his trip to the voleano and was evidently much impress- ed by their views. Our public men, and those who best other classes, do not at all feel the situa- tion to be the critical one which he repre- sents. They see no signs whatever of un- rest or cf disposition on the part of any to make revolution. ‘It {§ certain that af- fairs have never sitice the overthrow of monarchy been so ftee from all cause of \neasiness as now. The Portuguese agita- tions have no element of revolution in them, cr of oppositicn to the government. They are directed solely agaiust Asiatic immi- gration. A mischievously Inaccurate statement of the excellent Dr. Dille is the following: “Another question which comes up with all ifs unpleasantness fg; that of finance, The national purse, always a slender one, has been pretty well emptied.” Overflowlag, Wealth, It is true that last year insurrection and cholera exhausted the treasury surplus. That is all right again. Taxation has al- ways been light, and can easily be in- creased. The country as a whole is over- flowing with wealth. The provisions just made for revenue promise a large surplus cver current expenses. A loan for over $500,000 for public improvements ts being cre one cent lower than any previous s; and it is a -ommon opinion among business men that evena lower rate would sell at par. Such is our public credit. The improvements authorized are largely roads and wharves, of such a nature as to en- hance property values to an extent such as to increase revenue from taxes far above’ the interest on the bonds. Dr. Dille has evidently been misled by the royalists he encountered, or else the Call, which fs controlled by our enemy, Claus Spreckels, has misrepresented him. Some statements, much worse and mor@inac- curate, appear in a Denver paper, as made by an actist, Hilliard, lately visiting here, but he is not a witness of any weight. It is significant that Hilliard was in the em- ploy of John D. Spreckels. KAMEHAMEHA. ne COMMODORE MARCH. He Wasn't Going to Act as Court In- terpreter Unless He Was Paid for It. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A gocd story was told lately of Com- modore March of March's Point, Fidalgo Island, whose ready wit is well known to the habitues of the Hotel Butlet, and, in- deed, all over the sound. The commodore was called a3 a witness in the Point Rob- erts dispute between the cannery men and the Indians, and the lawyer on the other side, with a “what-can-you-know-about-it air,” put the question to him: “How long have you been in this part of the country, Mr. March?” Mr. March has a pretty chin, and he shaves his white whiskers to either side to show it off. When the question was so suddenty put, he softly caressed the pretty chin and slowly and meditatively said, as to himself: “Forty, forty-five, fifty,” ond at length answered: “Fifty-five years.” “Fifty-five years!" said the lawyer, and then, as if he were addressing Christopher Columbus, asked: “And what did you discover, Mr. March?” ‘A dark-visaged savage.” “Dark-visaged savage, eh? what did you say to him?” “I said it was a fine day.” SS day? Yes, and what did he say to you?” 2 Mr. March rattledzioff a whole yarn in Chinook, and kept ion, tothe mirth of the whole ccurt room, unt!l peemptorily cut off _by the gavel of the Jadze. “I asked you what reply the savage made to you, Mr. March. ‘Please answer tne question,” said the trate“ross-examiner. “I was answering. “Tell us what the savage said.” “That was what he sai.” “Then tell it to us in English.” “Not uniess I am commissioned by the court to act as interpreter and paid the customary fee.” The lawyer thought.a moment, looked,at the judge, who could‘not resist a smile, and said severely, ‘Mr..March, you may stand down. Yes; and coe ——_____ ‘OF ‘STARS, eee Handred Millions of Shining Orbs by Late Computations, The latest computation on the stars vis- ible in both hemispheres puts the number of such shining orbs up to the high mark of 100,000,000. The astronomers have odd ways of estimating the number of these brilliant points of light, says the St. Louis Republic. By figuring from the apparent diameter of the full moon it is shown that the area of the whole sky visible to man Gn both hemispheres) is 41,255 square de- grees. The area of the whole star space, according to this mode of reckoning, is only equal to about 200,000 times the area of a full moon, figuring that the moon's apparent diameter at that time is slightly over half a degree. This would give 2,424 stars to each square degree, or a total of a hundred millions, which would be equal to 500 stars on each space in the sky as large as a full moon. NUMB! One know both natives and | ed, to be placed in Honolulu at 5 per | WHEN THE HOUSES AGREED Legislation Finally Arranged Yesterday Afternoon. - Sessions Held Last Night—Measuares Passed by the Senate—The Ad- journment Resolution. As anticipated in The Star of last even- ing, the two hovses ‘of Congress late yesterday afternoon reached an agree- ment on the pending questions involv- ing the District of Columbia and sundry civil appropriation bills, ard having agreed to the ccnference report of those bills, adopted a concurrent resolution providing for the final adjournment of Congress at 4 o'clock this afterncen. The Senate won its fight for the erection of new public buildings, the provision for wich was made in the sundry civil bill, and was fcught by the House. This was not brought about by ccnference, but was the result of the action of the House, which wes brought about by a yea and nay vote after a prelonged and at times lively dis- sign. The vote on the motion of Mr. ‘annén to recede from the disagreement to the Senate amendments was, yeas, 100; nays, 88. This action being announced in the Senate, no further deliberations were necessary ‘pon the sundry clvil bill, and it was at once sent to be enrolled. After the arnouncement of this result in the Senate Mr. Allison, as chairman of the committee on appropriations, brought in the final ad- jcurnment resolution, fixing upon 3 o'clock this afternoon, Immediately Mr. Stewari tcok the ficor for a financial talk, being fol- Icwed by Mr. Butler, who caused consider- able amusement by’ his remarks. At the corclusion of these speeches Mr. Allison modified his resolution by fixing the hour of adjournment at 4 o'clock. Mr. Butler was tired of talking, and as he was desirous of going on after supper, Mr. Allison moved a recess until half-p: 9 o'clock, when it was agreed the Senate shculd meet in order to permit the formal announcerrent of the signature of the Vice President to the enrolled bills. Tiis was necessary in order to get the bilis to the President last night or early this morning. ‘The Horse agreed to the final adjourn- ment resolution after a brief debate with- cut divisicn, and took a recess from 7:30 until 9:30 o'clock. A Formal Session. At half-past 9 both- houses met, with the slimmest possible attendarce, it being the understanding that no business was to be transacted and nothing done but the pre- sentation of enrolled bills. The galleries were well crowded, however, as it was the popular expectation that Congress might adjovrn juring the night, and there were crowds of people on hand eager to be “in at the death,” £0 to speak. They were dis- appointed, however, if they anticipated any lively scenes or incidents, for the proceed- ings were dull and uninteresting. The House, indeed, at 9:30 took a recess for an hcur, as ro bills were ready, and left the gallerics on that side wholly without any ans of diversion. : mn the Senate side the proceedings were not interrupted by a recess, however, ator Bacon occupying the chair cont ly from 9: until 11 o'clock, when an ad journment was had until 11 o'clock toda all of the bills that had passed having been then enrolled and signed by the presiling officers, There were two or three efforts to get business before the Senate, but nothing 8 done except the most formal matters. There was a discussion in regard to the un. derstanding about the order of busine: Contrary to expectation, Mr. Butler did not take the floor to resume his speech, but sat quietly in his place while the minutes rolled by. The usual scenes attendant upon the last night of Congress were not in evidence. Everything was quiet and placid. T! taurants were comparatively desert there were no surging crowds in the corri- dors and lobbies, such as frequent the halls of Congress when a session is about to die. There was no disorder, and at 11 o'clock the Tholus light on the top of the dome was extinguished, the House having adjourned at 10:50 and the Senate at 1i, both houses to meet at 11 o'clock today. Passed by the Senate. Before adjournment yesterday, the ate passed the bill, Sen. 2954, in relation to contempts of court; Sen. 3058, to increase the pay of letter carries n. 2555, provid- ing for the breeding of foxes in Alaska; H. R. 4580, to punish bottling frauds ainst the internal revenue Ia) H. R. 3, in regard to courts in Texas; H. R. , for the construction of a bridgé across . Louis river between Minnesota and Wisconsin; H. R. 9447, to amend the act re- lating to losses of postmasters; the joint resolution, Sen. “Res. 8), for an inquiry as to the feasibility of establishing a naval coaling station on Navassa Island; Sen S10, amending the act pensioning paymas- ters’ clerks in the Mexican war; jhe joint resolution, H. Res. 201, extending the time of payments due from settiers and pur- chasers on all ceded Indian reservations. Ffom the Gextlewoman, “Pluffing” is the slang, or shail we rather say technical term (it sounds so much bet- ter), for a well-known effect of the me- chanical irfluence which very long runs sometimes have on actors and actresses in the repetition night after night of their roles. Here are two amusing examples of the kind: When Miss Fanny Coleman was exciting Londoners to mirth by her excel- lent comedy acting as the Duchess of Ber- wick in “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” she one night’ added unwittirgly to the humor of her performance by the following trans- position of words. In the first act the duchess (who is about to confide to Lady Windermere’s married son a piece of scan- dal in which her daughter is too young to participate) ought to say, “Agatha, dar- lins, go and sit on the balcony and look at the sunset; the dear child is so fond of sunsets!” “Whereas Miss Coleman, with metuous gravity, rolled out the words, ‘Agatha, darling, go and sit on the sunset and look at the balcony. The dear child is so fond of. Oh what, indeed? but as consciousness of the situation dawned upon the actress’ face, the audience broke into a tumult of good-natured applause. On another occasion, when Miss Marion Terry was giving an order to a stage foot- man, she ‘gently but firmly commanded him, to the intense amusement of every- body on the stage, to “carry the tent into the buns!” oo The Ring California Gave Pierce. From the San Francisco Cnroaicle. One of the most curious as well as most valuable of American rings was presented to President Pierce in 185 y the citizens of California. It is of massive gold, weigh- ing upward of a pound; the circular por- tion is cut inte squares, which are em- bellishcd with beautifully executed designs, the entire group presenting a pictorial his- tory of California. The seal of the ring Is really a lid, which swings upon a hinge and is covered with the arms of the statc of California, surmounted by the stars anc stripes. Underneath is a square box di- vided by bars of gold into nine separate compartments, each containing a pure specimen. of the varieties of ore found in the country. On the inside is the following inscription: “Presented to Franklin Pierce, the fcurteenth President of the United States.” ——_-+e+ : He Was Informed. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. An impertinent young man asked Saran Bernhardt in her dressing room at the Grand Opera House, St. Louis, how old she answered the witty ac- tress. “I was eighteen years old at the birth of my son Maurice. His father was thirty-four years old, and he would be now twice that age ff alive. According to that I ought to be twice eighteen years also, but you had better figure that for your- self.” The fun of it 1s that the proposition of the madame was correct, if her solution was purposeiy misleading. The fhquisiiive young man did not understand the joke, however. +e. Ex-Senator T. C. Platt left New York fer St. Louis yesterday. He was ac- companied by Chairman Hackett of the re- publican state committee, B. B. Odell and Louis F. Payne. that we are offering in our great Shirt Waist Sale. They're fresh from the Holzman factor broken, picked-over styles. We bought 3,000 altogether at a Price that permits us to offer them to you at less than the wholesalers’ pay. The $1 ones are 58c. Ours Are All Holzman Waists The $1.25 and $1.50 ‘ones 68c. —and are not a lot of size- are It’s easy enough to announce a sale 6f Waists, but it’s quite another thing to give value—give variety—give satisfaction? Ours isn’t a make-shift. But an opportunity we sought—and now we're giving you the benefit of it. Wright & Ditson's "96 Champlouship Ball— regular price 5ie.— OUR PRICE, 35¢.—$3 98 a do: Wright & Ditson’s ‘96 Club Ball price regular OUR PRICE, 2%. $3.43 a dozen, Plain Rubber Tennis Bulls—regulation size and weight—258Msewbere OUR PRICE, 19¢, Single Court Nets—regular price, $1.25. OUR PRICE, 89. Double $3.50— Court Nets—thound regular price, OUR PRICE, $2.75. ‘Tennis Poles—r.gu’ar pric BR PRIC - Ste. A PAIR. Double Court Nets—regular price, $2— : OUR PRICE, $°.48, « Jointed Pules—polisied OUR PRIC S wright & Ditson's Dry Court Marker —regu- lar price, $2— $ . OUR PRICE, $1.69. es a Tennis Sundries. Saks and Company, Hemp Guy Ropes and Plain Pegs vesular price, 35. OUR PRICE, 2c. A SET. Callan Gay Ropes aud Polished Pegs—reg 31.5 lar pri OUR PRICE, Sie, A Wright& Ditson’sRackets- Star Racket regular price, $1 OUR PRICE, 7 Surprise, Racket reg The Hub Racket —regular price, $2.50- OUR PRICE, $1.05. The Park Racket—regular prive, $1.50 OUR PRICE, $2.39 Spalding’s “Geneva Racket—regular price, s OUR PRICE, $1 palding’s Greenwood Racket regular price, $3.50 OUR PRICE, $2.45. Spalding’s Slocum, Jr, Racket price, $4— ular OUR PRICK, $3.5, 4 Pa. Ave. and 7th St—*Saks’ Corner.” Setetebeedeteencedtencededetnnncetntenencedeeneneetetet Sheen DESCENDANT OF L'OUVERTURE. A Washington Girl Who Knows How to Shoot. From the Chicago Chronicle. Dr. Beatrice Schultz, in whose veins flows the blood of Toussaint I'Ouverture,the once celebrated black chieftain of Hayti, and of Antonio Maceo,the Cuban insurgent leader, is the finest pitsol shot among her people in Chicago, and is an elocutionist, writer and social leader as well, As a marksman she can hit the bull’s-eye ten times in suc- wa tin can in the air and send five bullets through at ere it reaches the ground and shoot holes in a dime at ten paces distance. She can tuke a revolver in each hand and send two bul- jets simultaneously inside the center ring of a target at thir pa She can break glass balls and shoot birds on the wing, only she says she doesn’t like to kill the ds. And once, she says, she frightened a flying footpad nearly out of his wits by sending a few bullets through his gar- ments after he had made a dismal taiiure of an attempt to hold her up. Her love for marksmanship, Dr. Schultz feels, is an inheritance from her great an- cestor, L’Ouverture, from whom she 1s de- nded on the mother’s side. Antonio Ma- ceo, she sa has also the blood of L'Qu- verture in his veins, for a part of the Roupe family, to which L'O: related, removed to Cuba with the Maceos, Dr. mother was a Roupe and was pa an. She married M. Cartier, a weaithy French planter in San Domingo, and removed to Washington, D. C., where she still resides, and where Dr. Schultz was born. Mme. Cartier has a locket which ence belonged to L'Ouverture’s wife. It contains the cnly photograph of L’Ouverture in the United tes. Dr. Schultz 1s a tall, handsome woman, neariy white, and with blonde hair. Yet, in her large eyes and prominent nose can be distinguished a resemblance to her ne- gro ancestor, Toussaint I'Ouverture. She is twenty-six years old. Her education was obtained at the Howard University at Washington, and at the Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn. She afterward took a course of study in the Harvard Medical College in Chicago. She speaxs French,and is a skillful pianist. She married a New Orleans besiness man when she was only eighteen, and has one child, a hoy of eight years. As an elocutlonist she is clever, and in her school days won several prizes through her ability in that art. Her passionate love for the dramatic art led her to study many of the best things in English literature, and finally to take a special course of dramatic training, pre- paratory to a professional stage career; but the realization of her dream was pre- vented by her early marriage. Her hus- band died four years ago, and she has since devoted herself to the study and practice of medicine. She writes poetry, and 1s writing a novel on heredity. Her family owns valuable property in Washington. Although she has only lived in Chicago during the last three years, Dr. Schultz is well known among her people here, and is prominent socially. For several months she was matron of Provident Hospital, and when she resigned her position a year ago the colored physictans of the city gave a superior entertainment for her benefit at Bethel Chureh. Dr. Schultz resides on Ar- mour avenue near 35th street. She enjoys a good practice, much of which is among white people. . Warning to Hair-Tonie Dealers. From the Baltimore The “hair tonic” business will not thrive in the future if a decision handed down by a Virginia magistrate a few days ago is ac- cepted as a sound and just construction of the law. It appears that the proprietor of a drug store at Accomac Court House laid in a supply of potent fluid, which was guaranteed by the proprietor to produce a flourishing hirsute growth upon the most hal@headed man in the county. The store- keeper disposed of this “magic restorer” to several neighbors who were destitute of capillary adernment. To these customers he sold the tonic with the manufacturer's guarantee, that it would restore to chem the hair which had adorned their heads when they were in the first bloom of youth and beauty. The ingenuous baldheads used the tonic with a vigor equal to the desire with which they yearned for a suitable covering for the domes that had too long been exposed to the elements; but, although their faith was great and their energy tremendous. they were not rewarded by a crop worthy of their exertions. As the roystering blades of the time of the Georges used to boast that they could take four bottles of port and “never turn a hair,” so 9!so might the baldheads of Accomac aver that they had tried each a half dozen bottles of the tonic, and if a hair had been turned out it was not visible to the naked eye. When they were convinced that the tonic was a fraud and the capillary outgrowth which it was guaranteed to produce was an iridescent dream, they flatly refused to pay the drug- gist, on the ground that the contract was void, as they were still as bald as they were before they applied the “restorer.” The iruggist thereupon declined to re! burse the manufacturer, and when sult was brought to recover, the Virginia justice de- cided in favor of the baldheaded men and the druggist. ——_os During the official trial yesterday of the new French iron-clad Jaureguiberry one of her boilers exploded, injuring nine men. | S DEAFNESS CURED. A Fee Did It for a Crusty O14 Rich- mond Lawyer. From the Richmond Dispatch. Where the Valentine House now stands Stood the residence of Daniel Call, a dis- “Unguished lawyer. Mr. Call was @ very tall, thin man, loosely jointed, so that when he walked his arms had a great swing and his head moved from shoulder to shoulder. When he sat bis legs would be twisted round each other, and his jaws ever. seemed to partake of the general ra- laxation—but not so with his mind. Once a client ertered Mr. Call's office and found him writing. He took @ seat, and told Mr. Cali he wanted his legal advice. Client—“My father died and made a will.” Mr. Call (writing steaaily)—“You say your fath-r died and made a will?” Client—“Yes, sir; my father died and made a will.” Mr. Call (still tention)—“umph Clisnt—"I say, Mr. Call, my father died and made a will.” Mr. Call—“Very strange!” (writing and not noticing the man). Client (taking out his purse and laying a fee on the tuble)—“Mr Call, I say again, my father made a will and died.” Mr. Call (all attention)—“Onh, no derstand eacn other; your 1 will before he died. Why « So at first? Well, now, go on ting #nd paying no at- , we un- her made a n't you say Jet's hear.” ——-- see THE THIEV MANUAL, A Book = tructions to Those Who Practice Burglary. From the New York World. There is a Hterary man in Paris whose talents are displayed in an odd way. Per- haps the most singular book ever published in y country is one which he wrote. A copy of it recently fell into the hands of the Paris police, and when they read the title, “Manual of the Perfect Thief in the En- virons of Paris,” It is needless to say that they read It with Interest. The work bears out its name and is intensely practical. It treats of the most successful and improved Ways of “cracking” country houses. The introduction contains this siatement: “The environs of Paris are divided into four sections, each of which is controlled by a band of burglars, having its own center of Operations, aud never passing beyond the boundaries allotted to it, as in that case it would scriously interfere with the work of the hand operating in the neighboring sec- tion.” Several chapters describe the best methods of disposing of stolen goods and how to prepare them so as to prevent their identification. The author, when caught, gave the police much useful information, which resulted in the imprisonment of many of his comrades, and he ese: ped with a light sentence, though on his release it is likely that unless he emigrates his career will be cut short by a knife or rey iver. He is a man of exceilent family, received a fine edu- cation and once served in the French army. = oo Me Went Back on Hin From the Lewiston Journal. An old gentleman who was in trade in a@ Kennebec village for more than half a century used to relate an 2necdote of a business rival who was a famous liquor seller in the days when “everybody kept it.” The temperance agitation of i844 had changed the notions of many persons in Maine es to the propriety of selling liquors, and at length the watter of for or against the traffic came up for a vote in towa meeting. The seller alluded to was very strenu- ous in his opposition to all restraint in his Lisiness, and labored heartily with the Voters to resist the encroachment on their “rigats.” But in the course of the vote tt became ne ry to have a division of the house. All for the traffic went to one side of the room, all opposed to the other. The common use of alconolic drinks had left its mark upon the faces of its victim: ard the crowd that assembled on one side of the town house to insist on their cus- tomary toddy was not so pretty as it ght have been. To the surprise of every one, the famous old seiler, after a moment's hesitation, deliberately went to the temperance side. “What are you ever here for?” the as- tonished people began to question, “You don’t belong here. That's your side over there.” The old man looked around with disgust, and retorted “You don't suppose I’m going over there in that crowd of red noses, do you?” Curiously enough, a lock’ at the uncanny assemblage of his customers had appalled im. stomern. ——-- +0: Was Barreda. From the Cincinnati: Enquirer, “Got a highly lavdatory letter from Statesman Barks in response to our present of a copy of the dictionary,” said the secre- tary. * said the publisher. “Have a Lithograph copy of it made and print in every paper in his district.” “Can't do it. He has misspelled four words.”