Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1898, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1596-26 PAGES.: For Sterling Silver Button Hook or Nail File—twice the length end size of the above reproduction. This is but one item taken from hundreds we show—and {s intended to index the remarkably low prices at present Prevailing here. 50c. tons — we're through 2 Chase to make this re ord low price. FOR SOLID SIt- | VER HAIR BRUSH AND | i | COMB, in a handsome fyory white silk-lined case. This ts a fair sample of the inclosed ern sant 8 oetpoertnteceneeteteenteeteeegeteeraned HOO way we price cur Ster- | Lag Silver Toflet goods. | No One Shows a Finer Stock of Sterling eededetoedetntetotted Anything and everything worthy In the way of Sterling Silver ° articles y for personal adonment, for practical or for Silver $f ornament—we have. In additfon to this line we me showing a splendid assortment of Cut Glass pleces, Rronzes—articles of Sil- G ral q = nee 5 é £ 'No One Can Undersell Us ¢ Bs oe zy $ | n ONDS! $ 2 $ ws = As the largest importers of Diamonds fn the south we are enabled 3% $12.50 to purchase at prices far lems than competitors cam hope to necure~ For this Beautiful C1 again, we do all setting and mounting onrseives—we can naturally %% Se ee niet stones, fellate less price and give you Diamonds minus the middlemen's Ka This ix the same yuailty Profits. Furthermore, we do what no other Jeweler in this section icing that _steces aroun to offer—WE ARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE ABSOLUTE- % fown ask for. 22 and §: Sef LY THE LOWEST quoted by anyone—anywhere! : $ i $ 3 z H $ g z z : 3 z ¢ % $ = Es : 3 3 sd 1 SJ . = = 8 3 oe | $ { TF ea | Seetresets e etetetetetetrecntetntetecetntntetectetet Sefonsoasees THE SXOW CAMEL. inhospitable is even more ee marked t of the southern The Two-Humped Skip of for the lands of sun and heat. it | Bede’. no southern invasion of the Indian Sead cad aes cece plain, and such carvvan > Indus valley ¢: and return before | thern species, the pro- Thierpark vurg, and st if er of wil anime a a: the greatest importer of wild animals both | TGC OUR thicse™ ug treleiigtcol “The hest ani- of hurger, and a bed of eno’ "he writes, | only the stronger, srian camel. These camels . Before the summer heat it sheds : ‘hina its But by September it grows a gar- dise China to See gis : porns ey {| meut of fur almost #s thick 2s a buffalo Ct Sse d 8© | robe. and equally cold-resisting. It is far They never need} more strongly built than the south the deep snow.) camel. It does not 1? when on m 5 ewt. to G| pery ground, though it falls on moist, ndike all and weil as the 1 srelter, and sleep © © They m Jlip- hey can carry fi and also go clay, which yields to the foot big horse. frozen show it stands firm! level country far, parily it developed iMeulty of I can deliver , there is none. | wanted or £00), )-humped harder foot-pad than the southern specie rartly it has a kind of claw-toe nd the pad of the foot. It the er between the male > Arabian camel n the parent- is us mdon or Grimsb: New York.” 1 |, of wh! this bellef « hat many y . marched two thousand rcendant camels four d migrate: the Indisn Ca in ice an camel ke: Asian | snow, and lost only one animal, and that line. The E act the only } by an accident. Europeans who are acquainted with thi universal oi rt of northern A Monster Devil Fish. sia, while in Europe itself it has not| ,, i Ween seerdisiuce’ tha cevolt o2:4he Trom the Portland Oregonian. in the reign > Empress Catha The largest and most horrible-looking that m cetopus, or devil fish, ever seen in Pertland | ccntractors, he s CHANGE IN PLANS Certain Work Suspended on City Post ~ , Office Interior. — : BUILDING WITH INFLAMMABLE WOOD Building Would Be a Veritable Fire Trap. EXPLANATIONS GIVEN case Mr. Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury, kas ordered a suspension of work on portions of the interior of the new city post office. As explained by Mr. Taylor, the suspen- sion is temporary and will not affect tne bulk of the work in progress. Postmaster General Gary has asked for a rearrange- ment of the rooms of the building to mect his ideas of what is necessary for his de- partment and to secure more room. Some legislation by Congress will be necessary to carry out the Postmaster General's ideas. The deficiency appropriation of $150,000 to complete the building carried with it legis- lation giving the entire fifth floor of the building to the executive offices of the Pest Office Department. Plans were made accordingly by the office of the supervising architect and the contract let. Mr. Gary new desires to have the southwest corners of the buflding set apart for these execu- tive offices, beginning at the second floor and ending at the seventh. He also desircs a rearrangement of certain office rooms. In parts of the building where the plans called for many separate rooms ft is now intended to take out partitions and mak large rooms for the use of certaia divisions und bureaus. Mr. Taylor says that the regular con- tracts for electric lights, telephones, boil- ers and heaters have rot be:n interfered with except re the: e in contact with the stoppage of work on the parti- tons. ir. Taylor says that the: pians will not increase the cost or dziay the final completion of the building. The ys, will lose no time, as they will go on other work not af- fected by the change of plans. ven a temporary delay in the completion of the post office is regarded with suspicion by the citizens, who hoped to see the open- ing of the city post office coincident with the occupancy of the building by the de- partment, and they incline to the belief that the delay is only another pretext for changes in | keeping the city post office out of the new building. Ix a Fire Trap. Car toads of geod fire maierial are daily being put in place at the new city post of- fice, and it does not require an expert in ecnstruction or a practical builder to tell at a glance that the new building is far from being fire-proof. A reporter of The Star visited the build ing today and asked Superintendent Stew- art what the car loads of lumber that were being delivered at the building were to be used for. He replied that it was all to be used as scaffolding, and every foot of it would be taken cut. But Superintendent Stewart was not reliably informed, for surely, under the circumstances, he could not have been in the building. Above the sisth floor the men are working like be: putting into position thousands of feet of lumber. And it is all for the most part good, dry pine from Geo:gian woods, or well-seasoned pine from the forests of North Carolira. The Star man asked one of the colored workmen if he thought the wood would burn. He said: “I knows dat de pine frum Georgia will burn, but bein’ from North Carolina, L kin speak more to de p’int. =f dat stuff even gits 2 smell of fire, good- heney. You'se high up nigh heaven hyar ninth floor, but ef dar eber is a fire you'll think you’se right in de deb- bye, on di Sethe tae ted from the hanks | was displayed in front of a fish market at olgs great wa fas Boas aes : : ites hoses reat wail of China. | sq and Ankeny streets recently and at tracted much attention, being surrounded by a crowd all day. It is !mpossible ac- curately to state the length of the tenta- cles or arms of the monster, as some were festooned on the hocks in the vicinity of the one on which the monster hung, while cthers were coiled in the snow on the side- walk. It was evident that the reach of the tentacles would cover thirty or forty feet. The sack-shaped body could be dis- the remnant nd when, after five months, t horde, reduced from six hundred thousand to three hundred and fifty thousand sculs, together with the pur- suing Bashkirs, plunged into the waters of the Lake of Tengis, “like a host of lunatics pursued by a host of fiends,” they were still riding on the on which they started in the of winter, and lan rivers. “Ox, cow, ass, sheep or goat, not | tended so as to hold a good-sized boy, and one sur’ rites De Quincey, “only | the thing, when alive and in good “pas- the came se arid and adust crea-| ttre,” probably weighed 10) to 150 pounds. tures, ng like the mummies of some | At least these figures are an average of antediluvian animals, without the affec- | the estimates made by the crowd. The tions or sibilities of flesh and blood— ng tentacles were thickly covered with these only lifted their speaking eyes to the eastern heavens, and had to ail appearance come out of this long tempest of trial un- scaihed and hardly diminished.” These “innumerable camels” were ali of the Bac- trian breed, and evidence of the extremes of cold and heat endured in this enterprise of the Kaimucks may be found in the fact that during the beginning stages of the flight circles of men, women and children were fo frozen stiff round the camp fires in the morning, while in the last stage the horde passed for ten days through a with only an eight days’ rrived “without sensible se creatures on the shores of lake. ckers from end to end, those near the d—shrunken when the fish was killed— being large enough to cover a silver dol- lar, and probably when the fish was alive and abie to expand and contract them would cover a disk between the size of a muffin plat> and a soup plate. The crowd gathered around listened with open mouths to the story of a fisherman, who told them that the devil fish had swamped and smashed a boat and chased the crew ashore. —. When a woman resolves to be more eco- nomical she imagines she has to go right down town and buy something, to prove her resolution to buy economically.—Atchi- sen Globe. The Famous Store—King’s Palace New Department Store—The Famous Store. King’s Palace Has the Best Showing of Easter [lillinery. Of course! King’s Palace always does have the best assort- ment of Millinery and Wraps to be found south of New York, and this Easter the display is bigger and better than ever. It is superb in its loveliness. Our milliners have provided every conceivable style that Paris, London or New York has produced, and in many cases they have improved upon tae originals. © We will be open tonight until g o'clock for the convenience of Easter buyers. Three Reefer Bargains. $1.50 Child's Reefers...... seeceeeee sesso. 88C $2.50 Child's Reefers. c Ceree teres $1.48 $3.50 Child’s Reefers. ti tttete eee ee eeee ee. $2.48 ap Hl styles, nin braided and embroidered. A handsome lot of tasty and Stylish goods, excelienUy made and excellent cloths. 2 GREAT SPECIALS. 3,000 Best Straw Hats, worth up te $1.50, for 59c. The newest of new shapes. in black, white, colors and combina! the fashi je shades incinded, such ax turquoise, bur ig the shapes are the ulira-fashionable Shepherd 1 Short-back Sailors, with plain and tyre brins. Choice for only 2,500 bunches best Flowers, worth up to $1.50, for 45c. Se corth $1.50, and not worth le: be Those in combination Hiren's hats. Choice will be wanted for of entire wt... A Special Sale of Suits. 20 Al--silk Lined Suits, $9.48. ‘The most stylish Tatlor-made Suits in Trimmed Hats. $4 and $5 Trimmed Hats, $2.98. We challenge any milliner: ¥ store in Bor fe, Caual these hats under $1 and. cheviot, serzes and ladies’ cloth, in Celene and most pleasing ef- Mack and all the latest shades, ‘such that is fashioustae 2 (0) #8 robin egg, cadet, navy, green, ete. becoming.......... ° ‘They are lined throughout, even to the sleeves, with black or colored taf- feta silk, new fashioned fan skirts, Juckets make reefer and fiy-front style. ‘They cannot be found $9 48 ° anywhere else for less $12 and $15 Suits for $5.98. $1.50 Trimmed Thelma Turbans, 88c. A most stylish and chic muck worn now in Paris. them tn blacks and colors. Milliners will ask you at least $2 for them..... $6 and $7.50 Trimmed Hats, $3.98. street hat, We have 88c. than $16.00 to $20.00. Fine Tailor-made Spring Suits—Stylish Bonnets. too. They are the latest Cheviot Serges—in blue and black—with panies scar. im black and ‘Z-inch reefer jackets, handsomely lined able burnt Ecome with silk—and skirts made in the latest Flowers, moussclines, ribbote. ‘steel acd fan style. Every garment in this lot is Thinestone ornaments, ostrich, dotted net aaa {nd straw braids have all contributed to perfect fashien—and fin- ished as our workmen Know how, at. KING'S. 812-814 7th Street. $3.9 PALACE, 715 Market Space, il's house The working elevator in the western part of the building ts carrying heavy loads of long white pine sleepers for the floors. They are 18 feet long, four inches wide and two inches thick. In every room in the building these sleepers wil! be laid, and Uppn these wooden floors ure to be laid. But by far the most dangerous part of the entire building is on the ninth floor. This is a perfect fire trap. The big slanting roof of Georgia pine, with its heavy coat of hard oil finish, glistens in the subdued light from the manmoth skylight. The roof on this floor furnishes the ceiling for the rooms that are to be located there. Now the rooms are being laid off, and the attention ef the reporter was directed to the wooden sash that is going into every partition. Should a fire originate on this floor it would spread with lightning ve- locity. One of the carpenters in the building talked freely with The Star man. He said: “I have been a carpenter and builder row for twenty-five years, and I tell you this building is the poorest excuse for a fireproof structure I ever saw. Look around you and see the immense amount of in- flammable material in view. Yellow pine and North Carolina pine are good, quick burners, and, well, you know the rest. Look at the window sash in every room in the building. All of them are made of wood. But this is supposed to be a fire- proof building. If I were put on the stand today I would swear it was not. Now, there is no excuse for making that sash of wood. Right here in Washington we make iron framewcrk, and iron don’t burn. But what's the use of talking. You can see for yourself. Down on the first floor the woodwork commences and ends on the roof.” ——__. —_— AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Church Services—Sales of Real Estate —Briefs. ‘The office of the tenebrae will be chanted for the last time at Trinity Church this evening at 7:30 o’clock. A sermon will be delivered by Rev. John A. Conway, 8.J., vice president of Georgetown University. The scrvice will be followed by adoration of the relics of the true cross. At the chantirg of the office last evening the church was well filled, Rev. James T. Cesey, 8.J., delivering the sermon at the close. This afternoon at 3 o'clock the sta- tions of the way of the cross were read, in commemoration of the death of the Savior. Mass of the presanctified was cel- ebrated this merning at 9 o'clock, with the chanting of the passion and the adoration ef the cross. The services tomtorrow will commence at 8 o'clock and include the blessing of the paschal candle and font, prior to the celebration of solemn high mass. ‘Thomas J. Giles has bought of John D. Croissant and David D. Stone, trustces, lots 29 and 40, of block 25, American Uni- versity Park addition. The price paid is given at $1,200. Joseph J. Waters has sold to Mary E. 8. Davis a part of the subdivision of Friend- ship, at an unnamed consideration. Charles H. Steinbraker has bought of John H. Sis and Richard T. Boarman part of the “Church of England” lot, in square 1278. The consideration is not named. The property is located on Sith street, near @ street. The dancing classes of Prof. Henry Schlosser will hold an Easter soiree for their friends Monday evening at the hall, 3007 M street. George M. Mars, a private in Troop A, Sth United States Cavairy, stationed at Fort Myer, reported to the police yester- day the theft of a gold watch, which was taken from his locker at the post. + Patriotism and Basiness. From the Chicago Tribune. The proprietor of the shooting gallery had been stancirg in his front: door ail afternoon und weiching the crowds pour- ing into the establishment of his rival across the way. “Bill,” he sald, calling his assistant, “1 wish you'd slip-over there and find out what the attraction is. He's getting every- — Mr. Page Not Able by Judge Kimball for pairs to the sewer conn idence, as ordered by the health depart- ment. - case was disposed of! had not complied with the order was be- cause of the unsettled condition of affairs WAITING Foh PEACE. ~ to, Make ° Sewer Connections Mr. Nathaniel Page gms, today fined #25, to make re- at his res- ball before the Mr. Page told suis, the reason he between the United States and Spain. “I have,” replied the @durt, “given you more time than you asked to do what the health dspartment has Sten trying since last September to have done, and now you want further time. -+ “Have we got to wait until peace is de- clared before the proper repairs to your sewer connections are made?” the court wanted to know. “No, sir, I don’t mean that.” .We can’t allow the trouble between the United States and Spain to interfere with the operations of the health department,” the court responded. Mr. Page said he did not have the money to do the work, and that it was impossible at this time to rais> any money, either in Wall street or in Washington, on such se- curities us he owned. Judge Kimball answered that he would impose the fine stated, and at Mr. Page’s request the court took his p2rsonal bonds to pay the amount of the fine during the day. Mr. Page asked if the payment of the fine would end th> case, and Mr. Pugh told Mr. Page that he would be at once again notified to make the repairs referred io and if he did not comply with the order he Would be again summoned to court. a WARNED AGAINST IMPOSTOR. Man Who Secks Money of Presby- terian Clergymen. Maj. Moore has sent to the police depart- ments of other cities a communication in the nature of a warning to intended vic- tims of an alleged imposter. The message reads: “Please notify clergymen, especially those of the Presbyterian Church, to look out for an impostor of the following descrip- tion: Twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, short and stout build, brown hair, short mustache, short feet, very high in- step, roils his eyes while talking. Secks to obtain money by representing himself as the relative of some cleryman of dts- tant city. Claims to be an electrician. “Has imposed upon clergymen in this city, Pennsylvania, New York and else- where This man is not wanted here. This notice is given with the hope that it may lead to his arrest and conviction as a va- grant wherever he may be found.” Se Senator McMillan Ahead. Mr. McMillan had the highest number of votes at 12 o'clock today in the voting con- test for the clock now going on at Ever- ett’s, 1225 F street northwest, the proceeds of which go to the buiiding fund of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Humane Society. Votes have been cast as follows: Gray, ; Elkins, 130; Hitt, 115; Frye, 73; McMil- lan, 158; Spooner, 41; Hanna, 142; Reed, 137; Davis, 41; Newlands, 104; Proctor, Thurston, 23; Quigg, 30; Teller, 22; Olm- stead, 30; Burrows, 53; Quay, 39; Foraker, 71; Bartholdt, 53; All!son, Fairbanks, 80; Stewart Ba: Sprague, 64; Dingley, 24; Chandler, 28; Brewster, 12; Platt, #0; Dalzell, 28; Vest, 28; Boutelle, 12; Henderson, 37; Cullom, 21; Pierce, 8; Joy, 10; Foote, 16; Murphy Cockrell, 17; Burnett, 6; Wheeler, 20; Dinsmore, 19; McClellan, 6; Clarke, Mo., 20; Wellington, 23; White, 21; Hale, 8: Penrose, 2; Wolcott, 1; Jones, 4; Mercer, ; Dockery, 16; Mason, 10; Johnson, Ind., 22; Aldrich, 25; Money, 18; Wadsworth, 25; Bailey, 30; Burleigh, 12; Mantell, 12: Babcock, 5; McEnery, 2; Gallinger, ’1 Warren, 14; Gorman, 14. ——_>+——_ For Appointment of Delegates. Mr. H. H. Hart, general’secr2iary of the twenty-fifth national conference of char- ities and corrections, has invited the Dis- trict Commissioners to appoint two or more deicgates to represent the Disuict therdin. The meeting will be held in New York city May 18 to 25, and will be Atteade:! by dele- gates repr2senting all the prinsipal citics of the United States and Canada. The invitation has beéa referred by the Commissioners to the superintendent, of charities for the suggestion of th> names, in addition to his own for appointment as delegates, Soden doeedoronrongondorcoeCorconconcmnceetertendengenterededesteterngatntng Soe Seta Segoe reseede eoageaseaghesonfonsoesenonrenseatontees secon fonthe sSorcoazeesorswaseeseeSeeseagonseeseatonsees ae ee a a eeagoas >—— DEER ON LONG ISLAND. a Da Farmers Declare They Destroy Crops and Orchards, From the New York World. There is a small but potent revolution brewing about Sayville, L. I., and in the course of a weck or so they may hear of it in Albany. The trouble with the farm- ers is that some inspired Icgislator desires to further protect the deer herd against the farmers, whereas the farmers need pretection against the deer. So they say that if the bill gocs (through they will rise up and ignore it, and in protection to themselves slaugh!:c every animal that in- terferes with their turnips and farm truck. ‘The law now protects the deer, save on four Wednesdays in November. Even with the horde of hunters that harry the deer on these days the herd has multiplied amazingly, and with a boldness foreign to their general nature have raided every gar- den far and near, to the desperation of the Ie nawueee hayera (dectdeal tarteytociturs nips, cabbage and cauliflower. Last sea- son their depredations were extensive. Merteorione HE distribution of our importers’ mences this morning with tremendous excitement. / ing--10 a. m. great an early morning visit is advised these who cali tomorrow. a guide Fiowers. 48c for samples of $1 to $2.25 bunches and wreaths. On first floor bargain tables. - | | ; E Hats. | Ribbons. 49c for Untrim-;| | 15¢ and asc. for| | 23e yar K- ‘ H . | yard for ex med Hats, in every | choice of C Jet, | pensive Fancy Rib- HE above are “Specials wanted shape and | color. i a dollar. Second floor. i Tomorrow-- THE PALAIS ROYAL. EADQUARTERS for Millinery, and there’s still another reason: The clearing sale of Trimmed Hats commences here before Easter--tomorrow with the follow’ At $9. Choice of all Im- ported Hats ticket- ed $12 to $15. And $15 for those from | $20 to $30. | be equally ic. =the counters are besieged. Some worth Ornaments. | 38c. to $1. the reduced prices, as told of in the beginning of this announcement. ng reduced prices: At $7.50. Choice of the $10 Hats, mod the imported; said to surplus stock of materials com- Steel and Rhinestone | Worth ! J The regular stock includes every possible the Untrimmed Hats at 49c to $3; the scarce and wanted Flow Silk Ribbons, in 43 shades, at only 25¢ a yard, ar 1, of course, the Trimmed Hats and Honnets at morning at 8 o'clock, At $2.48. Choice of the La- eled after dies’, Misses’ and L Children’s $3, $4 and as artist- $5 Trimm Hats | and Bonnets. L At this writ-- While the supplies are Here’s bons for hat and dress trimmings Some worth 6oc. yd. Not he 4$-inch ble are Taffeta Millinery need. satire to $ T is not too late to secure a costume for Easter Sunday and the price will be half of one made by your Only two price hints given here: modiste. E ter Seals, Stamp Box lessen the overcrowding. busy hours--8 to 10 aan. and T $1.25 for $1.50 Gloves. The “Palais Royal” 4-button Suede Kid Gloves, in white, black and every fashionable shade. Self, white and black stitching. Also Men’s best Lon- don-made Goatskin Gloves. $1.25, instead of $1.50. fo- choice of $9.9 Plain and braided, and tans the colors. for $16.9) broadctoths. ASTER greetings. Our grecting tomorrow to friends and patrons shall be practical reductions in prices of just what is needed for Easter pres- ents and the little additions to one’s toilet. First:—All $1 Sterling Silver Articles are to be 89c tomorrow. The picture is of a Matchbox, stamped and guaranteed sterling silver. And only 8gc for choice of $1 Paper Knives, Let- s, Cream Jars, Dressin ¢ Combs, Hat and Clothes Brusi HE problem tomorrow is net to attract more visitors, but to To induce a call during the le i to 4 p.m.—we quote the jol- lowing special prices and fit tiie Glov: $9.97, worth $12.50. fu covert cloths, Fiy-front and blouse jackets, new-cut skirts. Black, new blues, greens $16.98, worth $20. Tight-fitting Sults of imported Venetien and | Some silk lined plain, with strapped seams others with fancy Jacket, and skirt with bayadere tucks. at our risk: 96c for $1.25 Gloves. Ladies’ and Misses’ 4-button and 2-clasp Glace Kid Gloves, in black, white and all the scarce modes, grays, pearls, etc. Also Men’s and Boys’ English Dog- skin Gloves, with automatic fastening. c Tallor-made Suits, cheviots and serges. and Fiy-front throughout, some es, Whisk Brooms, Darning Eggs. Memo. Tablets, Corn Knives, Nail Tooth Brushes, Infants’ Comb sh and Sterling Silver Easter Spoons Veils. Parasols. Mouchoirs. Combs. 19¢ temerrew for $4.98 Saad 23 13c se =e | 1S¢ for Pe new styles 25¢ Vells. And only Bie for Te Paris Veils, the cholce of Hand: rel Pompadour Combs, Side 1 Hair Pins dozen in box ck mabe ene Seostestetoctoctetetestoteetesteteectentet> $1 5. tomor- ° row for those Jewel Belts you have doubtless seen $1.98. Al Hairdressing D5c ivr. Many ladies are now learning the cor- rect hatr dressing for ster bonnet or hat. Mrs, Vaile...Balcony And these. {an binck for se Mothers. 89 init er ! | . | $1 Dresses, KIlt Snits, sparklt and fanes ef- American | fects. AM the latest Hats and other gar- those imyerted novelties of ments for little boys Paris. | the season. und girls, SAL Eisner... see The Palais Royal, seeeeeeeee--G and rith Streets. Sostoetontostontontontontonteecentesteeto. eS deedesteesoeteedencontontoniontondeshondonsensoetondonsontosionienieiongeniensonte | Manicure. Scarecrows and lanterns in no way Iintimi- dated them, dogs could do nothing against them, and it was against the law to hound them except on the four days in November. . In the midst of the deers’ depredations delegation of farmers from Bohemian- ville protested to the board of supervisors at Riverhead. They told the supervisors that the deer were destroying their crops, and demanded protection. The supervis- ors said they could do nothing. Among these farmers was Carl Munkel- witz. He had tried everything to keep the deer out of his cabbage patch. He set up scarecrows around the field and at night hung out lanterns. After a night or so the deer got accustomed to these devices, and in the morning Mr. Munkelwitz found his field torn up from one end to the other and most of his cabbages ruined. ee here,” he said to the supervisors, uu won't let me shoot the deer, so i can’t protect myself against their ravages. Now, what am I going to do? You should at least pay me damages.”” The supervisors grinned at this and guessed not. They had mo right to pay damages, but they told the farmer he must under no circumstances shoot thoge deer. So Mr. Munkelwitz went home and again despairingly set out his» scarecrows and lanterns; but they did:nogood. The deer returned as usual, atid insdespair the cab- bage patch was abandoned. In another orchard: near Sayville nine- teen out of thirty-six young fruit trees in one orchard were ruined by the bucks. They had either browsed upon the stems or knocked their horns against them until the bark was worn off. A little farther to the From the Chicago Tribune. ‘A German statistical scientist, in an arti- cle in the Magdeburg Zeitung, calls atten- tion to the remarkable attributes of the year 1898. No man in the present genera- tion has lived or will live under such pecu- a condition that has not appeared since the year 1651, and will not appear again until the year 2119. Peo- ple imbued with a superstitious belief and members of thirteen clubs ought to watch : ple year. clesely the events of this remarkal he numeral 1898 can be As te"thirteen, and the four figures which liar circumstances, divi added together gives twenty-six, can also be divided by thirteen. The nu- ar 1898 also belongs to the yur-sided numbers, xisted since the Take t figure meral of tae yei remarkable ero ee is which only eig! v‘ birth of Christ, 1898 being the ninth. 1898, for Sxale: from the third an: cnd and fourth fs received. iar year numbers Se 1898 Combinations. ided by thirteen, subtract the first d the value of the sec- These pecu- have been 1010, 1121, 1232, and a great er of these hunters came vn the line. srtstaatalorays been the worthy object of the South Side Club to protect the deer, and in the effort to do this it employs a large number of gamekeepers, who drive all trespassers off the grounds. This, too, has aided the increase in the herd, for the deer have learned to seek the club pre- serves when the hounds got on their trail. opposite sex who was following a scientific course in a neighboring city. The young weman had “gone in” for art, literature, ler guages, music, ete., and was inclined to patronize the scientific young man, who had had little time for such things. “How many hours a week do you devote to literature?” she asked. ‘None this year,” was the reply. What languages do you study?” ‘Nene. I read German; that is enough.” “Doesn't your professor read some great play of Shakespeare with you? Don't you study some great world poem? Don’t you udy something about art or music?” o. 1 have time for none of these things.” I study metallurgy,” replied the young man, who happened to be an embryo min- ing engineer. I study thermodynamics. 1 study lithology, the theory of probabilities, cifferential equations, quantitative analysis, blcw-piping, electricity, hydrodynamics.ore- cressing, mining law, assaying, political economy, the strength of materials and sev- eral other things. These I must know scmething about by June next or my ex- aminations will cause me trouble. I put in four hours at lectures and recitations and three in the laboratory five days in the wcek. Saturdays 1 work from 8 to 5 in the assaying laboratory. I have no time for fine arts or world poem: ae THE CABANUELAS. Mexican Superstition That is a Home- Made Weather Bureau. 7 i 1787 and now, From the Chicago Chronicle. westward is another fruit farm, wh 248, 1454, 1565, 1676, ‘of young trees had been set out in'the spring, | The last time the peculiar condition OF) In the northemn section of the republic of ‘Three days later the ewner discovered that | thirteen existed was jn ~ and the fig- | Mexico the pastoral classes still cling to a the deer had browsed) on fourteen of them and that they were ruined. The following night the owner waaiready for the deer. The law said he. mugt not kill them, but he said nothing of other,means of getting rid of them. So when the moon came. up the farmer was waiting: behind a fence with an eight-bore duck gun loaded with rock salt. ' Late in the night a buck, followed by twd does, jumped the fence;.and after sur- veying the ground prepared to lunch off a 2 divided by thirteen, evenly be divided by, thirteen, snd airteen. a Had No Time for Fine At From the Chicago Post. In the days when our fathers were birch- ea the ambitious young man who worked 5 throvgh conic sections was thought to be getting dangerously near the confines of the mathematical world. It is true that scientifice mathematicians had gone much farther than this, but then very little of thelr abstruse lore had found a place in the college curriculum. Language and literature formed the backbone of the ures 1, 6, 5, his way native superstition. It is cooquially known as the cabanuelas, and is in effect a home- made weather bureau. 25th to the 30th of January, inclusive, tne days are divided into two parts, from mid- night to noon of the 25th being January and from noon to midnight of the same day representing February, and so on to mid- night of the 30th. This leaves twenty-four hours to be divided up among the twelve months exactly as the firs: twenty-four days were. Each hour representing a montn, from midnight to noon, being “las cabanvelas al derecho,” and tien counting backward form noon to midnight of the Sist each hour to a month “las cabanuelas al reves.” In order to illustrate how this complicated system of weather bureau op- erates a sample case may be given: The 3d of the month coi to the third month, March. The 12th will, there- fore, be December, ami coming backwarl with “las cabanuelas al reves,” December will be the 13th and March the 22d. In like manner March will be represented by the twelve hours from midnight to noon of the 26th, and by the hours 2 to 3 a.m. and 9 to 10 p.m. of the 31st. Now, should the weath- er during these days and hours be the Same—that is, should it all be shine or all rain, ¢te.—it is considered by the “caban- uelistas” as an infallible sign that that 15 the kind of weather that wii! prevail dur- ing Merch of that year, and the farmer can govern himself accordingly. Should, however, weather during the different por- tions of January assigned to March differ, then the weather during that month will be variable, and those versed in the caban- velistic science have a full code of rules for ascertaining what portions of the month will be rainy and what days will be fair. Rtkied eves ono inhi A Rural Bargain. From the St. Lovis Globe-Democrat. “You say them shoes is wuth $1, but you'll take 75 cents ef I pay cash, won't you?” “Then you'll fling in a pair of woolen sox, I guess?” “Reckin 80.” ‘Hold on; owe , Shoes hain't got no