Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, es 21, 1896-16 PAGES. Woodward * roth, 11th age Sts. Open Evenings until Xmas. 11 aes) N. W,, Are showing exclusive specialties, unobtainable elsewhere, in Paris and Vienna Art Novelties, Imported Especially for Holiday Gifts, And invite careful inspection of this charming collection of unique one- of- a-kind gift things, which they personally selected in Europe last sum- mer, confident that it will be an easy and most agreeable task for their patrons to make selections, and the Extremely Moderate Prices At which the goods are offered will constitute one of the very pleasant features of the exhibit. French Jardine Ss, Gzamisitely painted by, h ch cs ‘Ornaments, with $7.00 to $: bronze mountings. m to $5.09 decoration. $3.00 ‘onyx m0 Holiday Dress Silks. We have made preparations, as those who give preference to Silks cut any length desired, whether it be same in a neat box, which will enhance its gift fitness. Amongst the most favored weaves this season are: Moire Velours, Moire Antique Faconne, Brocades, Siciliennes, Peau de Soie, Satin Duchesse, Tafetas Glace, In black, medium and dark shades and evening tints—ranging in price irom $1.00 to $3.00 the yard. Lower priced goods if desired. Ist fo Substantial and Elegant Gifts. We have on sale a superb collection of Exquisite Waists for Evening Wex, ae Chiffons, Satin Brocades and Rich Flowered Kffects—reproductions of the tatest "pai blue, nile and variou jesigns Lilne, Prices 2a floor. Boys’ Bicycle and Golf Suits Make most acceptable Xmas Gifts. We are now offering a lot of these suits at reduced prices as follow: Bicycle and Golf Suits, All-wool Scotch Plaids and Checks, Hned er unlined: pants are double in the seat. "Sizes 18 years. Reduced from = -$3.50 the suit Navy Blue Short Punts Suite. Sizes 3 to Small sizes have sutlor collar. Reduced 25 the suit. Lamps For Holiday Gifts. We invite attention to a large col- lection of beautiful novelties in Lamps, comprising odd and quaint ux other pretty evening tints. ange from $10.00 to $24.00 Each. designs in Pompeiian, Egyptian, Venetian, Cloissonne, _ Japanese Bronze, Delft, Baleric, Rookwood, Roval Copper, Gilt and Onyx, etc. These are one-of-a-kind styles, and well worth seeing if only from an artistic standpoint. Special line of Banquet Lamps, complet slik shade. Eact Memething entire! lamps is made of lease combined very Also a variety of of from with ew in Giakes tc Banquet tinted shells and old riebly ars and unique tn design. e stsles ranging in price t French Bronze Clock Ornaments. Each, $1.50 to $1.50 nd Cravat Boxes, E: Vienna Handkerchief, Glov | Unted leather, eatin Hned, gitt trimmings. Vienna lizard and ¢ Clocks and r silver trimmings. Bach Viena Einpire Fass,” suse and ‘ail ogne Bottles, hand palnted—Louls XV decorations, Ea $1.25 to $16, Lemaire Opera Glasses, peart and ‘eather mount- 7.00 to $30.1 ings. Each... Latest Paris Purses, leather lin Sterling Sliver 3 Cracker Jars, heretofore, to meet the wishes of as Christmas presents. We will for waist, skirt or dress, and put Two Spec Special Values in Women’s Wrappers. These make very acceptable pres- ents for chambermaids and other household help. Very fine quality Lawn Wrappers, made perfectly plain and full and belted in at waist. Vulue $1.38. Each 690. Extra ine 2m ‘rappers, very fall, Watteau back, caeliea yoke. Value $1.68. Ea..03c. floor Holiday China. Thousands of articles, which are better and more attractive in design and shape and lower in price than ever before. We name in part: German China Chocolate Pitchers, each. Se German China Salad Bowls, each... . he German China A. D. Cups and Saucers, each.10c. Germaa China Tea Cups and Saucers, each. ..15c¢. German China Coffee Cups Saucers, each .25e. German China Bread and Butter Plates, ea. .10c. German China Salad Saucers, each. .... 100, ‘Limoges China 13-pe. Ice Cream Sets, each. .$5.00 Limoges China 56-pe. Tea ES each. Limoges China Cracker Jars, each. Limoges China Cups and Saucers, each Lineges China Limoges Chiea Limoges Ch! omb tind Brush Kimoges China. Salad Bowls, each 3th floor. Wood ward & Lothrop. Elphonso Youngs Co. CHRISTMAS NUTS. Greatest variety of the choicest and rarest, nuts ever gathered to- gether by any other store in town. We have outdone all previous ef- the finest forts to put before you nuts the world afford: Ont crop of ge Creole pecans in this city bout town were carried over in cold Largest and meatiest Grenoble Walnuts you'll find anywhere. All such nuts as genuine Princess Paper ell Almonds, California Paper Shell Almonds, extra large Istrian Filberts, New York State Shellbariks and Valencia Shelled-Almonds are here. STALL-FED TURKEYS. Finest Turkeys that you ever tasted—finer by far than those which we had Thanksgiving, which you praised so ghly. All have been stall icd—are just fat enough to be fine. LARGEST MALAGA RAISINS ~—-not only largest, but the largest clusters. Almost fine as the Wiesbaden Stuffed Frutes at 5o0c. box—extra delicious. HOME-MADE CAKES. You won't find finer cakes than se we one home- ade and of ingredients from our n stock. Fruit Cakes which can- t be equaled— montis ld. Other varieties received fresh twice a day. 5-Ib. boxes of assorted fruits glace for $1.50. The purest of candies. The most delicious cae pudding. Elphonzo Youngs Co., |$ Gifts For the men folks! It's not bard ride what to give the men, fails, aft ng over our immense stock of “givables. ax Suspenders, Xeckwear (expecially ‘strong von the Se line), Shirts. Handkerchiefs, Hosiery. lars, Cuffs, etc. Lowest of low prices pre- P. J. HALL,908F St weeee ““CHEER(” The wind Rint let ie whistle as it will; We'll keep cur Christmas ‘merry “Heap on more wood! XRRRER MERRY Next to ai nd delight of the dear Tittle ones, the “good cheer”? of Christmas depends Qj r the table. Fill it bonnteously! tus fil It. We have every rave edie ie and drinkable requisite. Just a few hints: Delicious Candies. Whitman & Low Almonds. Kennedy's Fruit Cakes. Home-made Fruit Cakes, jPaslish Plum | Puddings, Deeeveeeeeeee ics. Wiesbaden Stuffed Prunes. Imp. Conserved Fraits. Clean Seeded Raisins. ine a a Make a Change! “change” Is often for the best! why not change your book recount We'll see that you never OP GS, +\Fine Groceries, 1413 N. Y. ave. *| de2i-m,w, 5 \° ie, le, le le le, jo! le je! i! e e = CXERREREREREE ES DOr etreeetetetetetetec ont Seaentetededetetnrenntndntntntn aetetentetetegetetetetetetrtetetetet ree See ° « Es E22 SSeseo y Moorsooreeosnooonroe: refeoentonteateesente sete ef oofetoate OTHER UPRIGHT PIANOS REDUCED. Terms, $6, $8 and $10 month! $350 Rogers Bros. Upright. $400 Baumeister Upright. Now - - - - $225 $500 Webster Upright. Now... $600 Superb Bradbury Upright, style 5. SLIGHTLY USED PIANOS REDUCED Terms, $3, $5 and.$8 monthly. $150 Chickering Piano. $200 Haines Piano. Now $500 Superb Knabe Piane: $500 Decker Piano. Nearly New Organs Reduced. ‘Terms—$2 down, $1 week. $10 down, $7 monthly. $50 Smith American Organ. Now $100 New England Organ. $125 Weaver Organ. Now No exchanges. Used Bicycles Reduced. We have a few Ladies’ and Men's Slightly Used Remington Bicycles, which Ne shall offer at a reduction until, Chrtat- member, we carry a full line ont the Tiemingtoa and Orient Bicycles for ladies, men and children. Swiss Music Boxes Cut. $15, Boy + $20 Bor, with zither. Bor, with zither 10-air Bradbury Factory Warerooms, 1225 Pa. Ave. and 1216 E Street, FREEBORN G. SMITH, Manufacturer, W. P. Van Wickle, Manager. . Now Open Evenings until Christmas, Several ot the Piano bargains offered in Saturday's Star and Sunday Post were snapped up his morning before 8:30, you can see the necessity, for hurrying if you wish to avail yourself pf any of these redactions. Here 1s just’ one out of the crowd of wonderful Plano, bargains bemg offered during our Manufacturers’ Christ- mas Reduction Sale. -$ A Magnificent Slightly Used Full Up- right Grand Piano, case of beautiful dark, rosewood, full nickel hinges, top and fall Cost & Only. board. $10 down and $7 monthly. ‘The lowest price and the easiest terms ever quoted in Washington for an equal grade Upright Piano. Beautiful Hard-wood Stool and Japanese Sitk Scarf included. Now = - $195 $290 reise te S275) NOW... Now - = - = - = $75 ig eae une Sener now: - - $190 $100 $65 and $75 Regina Music Boxes, $30. Just 8 left; large size; 5-tune sheets and solid oak table with each box. Made to sell for $65 ‘and $75. Your choice........ Phone 747: LOUVRE GLOVE “HOLIDAY HINTS." Never have we shown ¢such an assortment of - Gloves--so many kinds-- +so great a number--and at such reosonable prices. The popular styles--the fashionable ‘‘fads’’=- the new creations are all here. We give a handsome Glove Box with every purchase—free! you'll want to adorn your It's understood wines are those * Order some of as holidays—ex- the following fo iuscatel >” gal.= =75c. Sweet Catawba,¥, gal. 50c Golden Gate Claret,,,, 40c. o All wail and ‘phone orders receive Do pt attentic liveries: made 090 to all parts of the city. Joho ecrans o 6/4 /42ST=PHONE 998, | SPOELODOCHLOS soveseoeeescees juusT RECEIVED 3 A NEW SHIPMENT OF 3 {FUR NECKWEAR AND MUEFS, $2 30 Hlectrle Seal Capes, $12.50. Hlectric Seal Muft, i Jackets, MARTIN WOLF, FOR LADIES. Glaces, Suedes, Fourchettes, Ideal Fasteners,, and the very latest fads of the European fashion leaders: DIAMOND CLASP, SILK LINED, RUCHING TOPPED, PERFUMED GLOVES. Prices range from 93 cents for guaranteed real _ kid gloves, by easy steps, up to $3.25—$1.25—$1.35—$1.50— $1.75—$2.00—$2.25—$2.75— $3.00 and $3.25. | etetote MEN’S GLOVES. We show every kind made. Unlined and lined in Fleece, Silk, Wool and Chamois. For riding, walking, dress and even- ing wear. Fine Dogskin Gloves for 95 cents. Elsewhere sold for $1.50. Seal Driving Gloves $3.25. Elsewhere sold fot $5.25 to $7. Gants de Suede from $1.50 to $2. ; Mocha, Reindeer, Castor, Buckskin, from $¥ to $2.50. Kid Gloves for street and evening wear, in the correct shades, from g5 cents to $3.50. Besides the above we carry a full line of Mittens in Mocha, Buckskin and Cape Goat. Search where you will, no concern in any city in the coun- try can show you'a finer line of Men’s Gloves. . »- for In Boys’ Gloves a complete assortment in Kid and Dogskin —with and without linings— from 75 cents up to $2. Gloves for Misses-—in 2 and 3-clasp and 4-button Kid and Dogskin—and the famous Ideal Fasteners. Styles for every use —street, dress, evening, skating, &e. —85c. up to $1.50. These | Gloves are fittédjto the hand, and will be cheerfully ex- changed if not suitable—after Christmas. LOUVRE GLOVE CO., 919 F'St. IN THE STORE WINDOWS. Men Rarely Look in on the Exquisite Displays of Rare Lace. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ‘The greater window of one of the great- est establishments in Olive stteet—a fa- mous resort for fair shoppers—was filled to its capacity with a veritable cloud of the dainty and delicate, lace-edged, fluffy things that well-dressed women wear, and two comfortably attired gentlemen stopped to admire the display. Men that had business and thote that had none or were expecting some shot an open- eyed wondering stare at the now thor- oughly interested pair and twisted their necks as far as they dared to see how long they would remain before the window. deemed it bad form’ undesite esting con- pee “There's a ‘point,’ anda bit of pure ol Trish point, and I'll stand: bowl of. “orack- en’ but I can place myifinger on the spo! on the map of the easti-coast of Tretend where that bit of lacevwas: made.” oe ey re anime bist inaeres lasses, there : “Near Belfast, you know, Dick, and right in the heart of the linen country Se best of Loe is grown, ‘scutched’ and made into th Inest of threads and linen like sheeny ‘alle Then they moved off together and as the der one remar! ittention their WORLD OF SCIENCE eaeceesescere. HOP FECSIICSOS Proposed Electric Road to the Top of the a THE GREATEST DEPTH OF THE SEA\ @ Experiments to Daleritine the Point of Coldest Cold. reawal iy WATER IN THE SAHARA pee aan wee Written for The Bi Thomas Commerford Martin, the vell- known electrical authority, during his re- cent trip abroad, made a special journey to Switzerland for the purpos» of inspe.:t- ing some of the electric railways in the Alps and has brought back some hitherto unpublished data concerning the new road to the summit of the Jung frau. He says concerning it: “The building of the new electric road to the top of the Jurgtrau will be, I think, one of the greatest engineering feats of the century. I have witnessed the begin- ning of the work and have been over most of the route to be traversed by the electric cars, and I must confess to a feeling of awe when brought face to face with the difficulties to be overcome. One gets but a poor idea from the published accounts that have reached this country. Tink of cutting through the center of some of the highest mourteins in the world and con- structing a street car route up an altitude nearly fourteen thousand feet ubove sea level! This new electric road will revolu- tionize Alpine travel. Invalids can be placed aboard the cars and in an hour and forty minutes be set up on a mountain peak which no one but an experienced mountain climber has attained. ven the Alpine Clubs approve of it. In the future he may climb the mountain and Cescend on the cars, or vice versa, or if a climbing party be overtaken by a severe storm the members can find safety and civilization via the nearcst station. Alpine casualties will decrease. “The difference in level between the ter- minal stations of the road will be seven thousand feet. The length of the road will be twelve kilometers, or seven and a haif miles. The fare for the round trip will be nine dollars, or its equivalent in francs, with proportionate reductions for passen- gers going only part of the way. At least ten kilometers of the road length will be in tunnels, with openings at frequent inter- vals from which the tourist may obtain momentary views of the surrounding scen- ery. The maximum speed of the cars on grades above 15 per cent will be five miles an hour; on lesser grades it will be slightly increased. Harnessing the Water Falls. “The motive power for operating the road will be obtained from the glaciers them- selves. The water falls and streams will be harnessed and made to operate turbines, which tn their turn will be transmitted along the length of the road. The cars will be Nghted and heated by electricity. The last is mcst necessary, as it is esti- mated that the temperature of the tunnels will range from two to ten degrees centi- grade below zero as the summit {s ap- proacked, “The great difference in temeprature of the air at the opposite ends of the tunnel, it is belleved, will be ample to set up a circulation of air sufficient for ventilating purposes. In fact, it is feared, as I have pointed out, the currents may be so strong that it may be necessary to close the por- tals in order to control them properly and to avoid the entrance of warm moist air from below, which will cause the deposit of moisture on the inside of the tunnel, and coat it with hoar frost. “The first section of the road will be ready for traffic by next August. The whole line will be completed in five years. The rack rail type of road will be employed. The track gauge will be one meter and a minimum curve of 100 meters will be adopt- |. A maximum grade of 25 per cent will be the Hmit and all down grades will be avoided whenever possible. The heaviest down grade (10 per cent) will be between the Monchjock and the Jungfraujock. But these considerations of engineering detail will not affect the tourist. Even the sci- entist must be impressed with the aesthetic side of the case. To travel to such an alti- tude in a street car; to be conveyed into the clouds by means of the very force which emanates from them, and to stand with the Alpine world at your feet will give an im- ive idea of what modern engineers can ing Star, Depth of the Sen, One of the most interesting discoveries in the domain of oceanic physics that have been made during the past twelvemonth is the determination of a depth which ex- ceeds by nearly three thousand feet that which had hitherto been assumed to be the greatest depression of the oceanic trough. A sounding made by H. M. S. Penguin, Capt. Balfour, commander, in south lati- tude 28 degrees 44 minutes, west longitude 176 degrees 4 minutes, brought up the bot- tom from a depth of 30,882 feet, which is 1,800 feet more than the greatest elevation on the earth’s surface—Mt. Everest, in the Himalaya mountains, 20,002 feet. A previous trial had been made in nearly the same locality, but in recovering the sound- ing wire in the usual way by steam power, it broke, owing to the excessive strain oc- casioned by the sudden rising of the ship in the sea-way, notwithstanding, as we are f:formed by the Journal of the Royal Geo- graphical Society of Australia, that the most modern contrivances had been avail- ed of to diminish this strain, by passing the wire through a block #ttached to an ac- cumulator which, with its rubber springs, had formerly proved quite sufficient for its purpose. In the successful sounding the wire was hauled in by hand, the operation lasting two and three-quarter hours, The Coldest Cold. In recent physics there is nothing more interesting than the remarkable experi- ments carried on by Prof. Olszewski of Cracow, attempting to reduce the new ele- ment, helium, to a liquid or solid form, that is, freeze It. The object of Prof. Ols- zewski's attempt was to gain further light upon the question which has so long inter- ested physicists as to what is absolute zero —the coldest cold in the universe. If heat be simply the rapidity of the motion of the atoms and molecules which constitute mat- ter, it follows that as the temperature is reduced, this rapidity of motion becomes slower and slower, so that there is a theo- retical point at which it would cease, a temperature where all matter is “dead.” It is an observed fact that gases increase or-diminish in volume with every degree of temperature, Centigrade, added or taken away, and the inference from this was that the numerical expression of absolute zero was therefore—273 degrees C. For a long time this was accepted as correct. Several years ago, Professor John Dewar of London succeeded, in a series of very in- genious experiments, first in liquifying oxy- gen and then the air itself, and finally of j freezing the air; the latter, by the way, makes a beautifyl crystal. The boiling point of liquid air at atmospheric pressure Is—220 C., and therefore Professor Dewar. thought that he was within 53 C. of the temperature of space. Now, however, Pro- fessor Olszewski has attained to—264 C. in his endeavor to liquity helium, that is within 9 degrees of the theoretical coldest cold, and still his helium does noi liquify, and still he seems as far off from the ob- ject of his search as was Professor Dewar when he stopped with frozen air. He is like a polar explorer who has gone hundreds of miles beyond the farthest point reached by any previous adventurer, only to tind his pole of coldest cold still far beyond his reach. The deduced point at which this rare and tenuous gas will take en a liquid form is 832 C., and ét-seems pos- sible that there are other substances whose Srecsing point is yet below this. Those ate more familiar with Fahrenheit than Centigrade. eatin will —— appre- CASH OR, °REDIT. A reputation that credits us with “DOING é An Enviable Reputation- is the simple secret of our snecess, their friendliness brings us new trade. any che who wishes for L plece of furniture—a hand. 2 Don't hesitate in a case ke this, @ -urniture Items. @toliday Prices. Steboard, very richly carved solid cak, « rare spec Smee Ser wen $7. 75 DP notatered int tapestry. Mit $14.50 4 Sana Dame nig sk, solid oak, polixhed pler Rocker, im mab @ : iG) oak, antique ‘tinish... nilnieres aad ‘Tubourettes, ip accommodation ts required at times by every one, Today vou may tx con lamp, a gilt chair, AS WE WOULD § eORY.” That se and satist Ts. and netucally dit aystem ts much appreciated. 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In the inner tube was helium; surrounding this was a strata‘of liquid air, and surrounding the latter, in turn, was a strata of —_: nyo dy gen, and finally outside of all was rata of rarefied air designed to protect the oo . Now, when each tube was succes- sively exhausted, the substance it contained was expanded, and as a result reduced in temperature. This, in turn, drew off the # the coldest cold, and then in turn what is tke hottest possible heat, there might be a basis provided for some very vaiuable spar ulations in physics. Irrigation for Sahara. M. Raoul Pictat, the eminent Swiss phy- sicist, in a communication made before the ‘late associated geographical congress of Genoa, announced his conviction that through a proper utilization of the sun's radiant energy the greater part of the desert tracts of northern Africa could be reclaimed to a condition of not only moder- ate fertility, but of absolute :uxuriance. A personal examination of a portion of the Nile region has satisfied aim that enor-