The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1891, Page 3

8 8rd -_—-+—__— ivertising farnisned on appli vole advertisements will not All remittances y draft, postal money order Vetter, Money forwarded . isat the sender's risk, In ¢ amount and what it is for y stated. should bs ad-dressed LISHING, CO. Washington D.C g SATURDAY A’ N.W., WASH. D C,. 3EX CAN BE HA wiers, 318 3rd street, s.e. s,M_ Street. between 12th ruggist. corner 16th and iouse, 348 Pennsy.vania Ave, EW YORK CITY. ireen, 429, 6th Ave, STON, MASS. . 934 Cambridge st, VAY, Oct. 24th 1891 Tocals. High View Park. RENT—Two unfurnished dakitehen at 1035 17th y High View Park sited Rooms with or with- 1, 2202 14th st., n. w. J- High View Park. Nicely farnised rooms cold water, modern im s for single gentlemen 1523 Pierce st.. n. w. June 20, t. f. lligh View Park. y farnished room for rent Apply at 1416 17th w. Oct-1-mo, High View Park. Class table board can be 6193 17th street pn. w., at ible rates, Oct-1-mo. High View Park. \NTED—At this office a boy end to a horse and to work in Call before 9 a. m., and 1 o'clock p. m. lligh View Park. ANTED—At this office two collectors. Apply at once. veral percentage will be given. High View Park. Charles Minor, left the city k for Wilberforce Universi- dy the ministry, High View Park. Spencer Murray has opened :ud coal yard at the corner nl V streets, vo. w. High View Park. }. E. Draper of this city ean extensive tour through Ss of Virginia with his dra- up and met with decided High View Park. hn tH. Coleman of Chica- y of Washington will be the boly bonds of wed Miss Minnie R Henderson - ay evening, October 28, | High View Park. ‘RE DIMOND PINS &e. ler of the Commissioners tus on accepting di- s, watches, gold chains, sordinates to D:strict It is regretted that the s did not think of {25 Cents. some time ago and then ‘boring men would have High View Park. (etc ent xdministration bas suceceded in getting a~- e surplus pilled up by ked Dem: crats, but-in cre« : cit. This is principal- sions, nine-tenths of her deserved or re- are merely given to Were we to have an- during a Republican ‘tion, aud go on buying votes with what mon- felt in the treasury after a peace, bankruptey Surely await us.—San Fran- ater, t editor will assert tha eu, Who fought in ite | war are not eatitled Yes the Republi- cudly to the soldier reason alone the sol- 4st to support the Repab- ee High View Park. PERSONALS. Hon. John C, Dancy and Prof, J. ©. Price of North i left the city, Carolina, have Rev. N. M. Carroll is in the city. Hon. John R. Lynch lef city for Ohio this week,” Hon. B. K. Bruce will not be i the city for some time. nee Mr. Robert H. Terrell hb: for Memphis, Tenn. on Judge Anderson who has been confined to his bed for some time is improving. High View Park. MUSICAL #sNTERTAINMENT Long before the stated time a large gathering of our best people assembled in the Masonic Ha'l to witness the Draper musical enter- tainment. Prof.Draper was assist: ed by some of the best local telent in thiscity. The singing was ex cellent. The dramatical part of the performance was superb. In this Prof. Draper maintained bis reputation as a born actor. His temperance drama was one of the best and most effective ever wit- nessed by a Lynchburg audience. This entertainment will be repeat ed on Monday, October 19. at the Masonic Hall, tor the benefit of the Court street Baptist Sunday School organ fund. Prof. Draper says that it will be better than the last. We tace pleasure in saying that the Draper musical entertain- ment is ove of the finest we have ever witnessed.—Lyuehburg Coun- selor. — High View Park. ica cia SPECIAL NOTICE. The Star Concert to be given at Ebenezer M. E. Charch, corner 4th and D streets, s.e., under the auspices of the Anthony Club of the above named church for the benefit of the parsonage fund on Monday, Noyember 2nd, 1891, will be participated in by Madam Lizzie Pugh Dougan of Indiuapolis, who will appear tor the first time in this city. Madam Dougan is a lady of rare gift and culture in sweetness and flexibility and undoubtedly the most pleasing soprano singer in America. She is at present engaged at the larg- est halls in Philadelphia. Mr. Jobn Butler dramatic reader und one of Philadelphia’s favorites, Lula Baily the baby star of Phila delpbia, a sweet contralto voice and captivating appearance who willalso appear. Madam L. Slade a soprano soloist a Washington star who never fail to hold her audience spell-bound. The famous Ebenezer Quintette composed of five young men. Miss Mannie D. Sears Snowden accom- panist, who won a prize over New York’s leading artist will make her first appearance in Washington. Lhe Oriole Glee Club the above named person are hardly famous than the Ebenezer Quintette, their verture into the realms of music 8 heartily encored and justly ap- [-preciated by critical audience wherever they appear. Madam Elizebeth Perry, Madam Martha, | Steward, Miss Mary Day, Mr. Wm. ‘, Steward, Mr. James Dorsey, Mr. Ww. Green. We feel safe to say that this concert will surpass any that has ever been witnessed in this city. Officers of the club: Mrs. Lot- | lie Richardson, president; Mrs. M. J. West, vice-president; Mrs. R. C. Brooks, secretary ; Mrs. Fan- nie Fletcher, treasurer ; Prof. J. W. Fowler, marshall. Admission, Reserved seats 35 cents. Tickets in charge of Prof. J. W- Fowler, 318 3rd_ street, 8.e., aut also for sale by the committee at the door on the evening of the entertainment. Secure your tickets early to avoid to rush. Rev. A. Dennis, pastor, W. P Ryder presiding elder, H. A. Snowden, business manager.—Avi., High View Park. POINTs, A smile uulocks the door or ® frown bars the gate. The day a mau marries a good wife he takes a big step tv heaven The more we love God the pur- er our lives will be. High View Park. — The Republicans of the first dis- trict will ran Capt. Geo. D, Gra ham as the administrators candidate against Jobn A. Moss, an anti-ad- ministration candidate tor the Re- publican convention that will be held in this city after the meeting } ofthe Central Republican. Com- mittee. Sigh View Park. HE WAS A CLEVER THIEF. — _The present age is not unique ip its ex- hibit of skillful thieves and thieving. Professors of this taking trait of charac ter have been rampait always. The principles are eternally the same; only the form changes, Tt is a long distance from Philadelphia to Arabia, but in the latter country, as an old story relates, lived a famous Bed- ouin chief, Sal Ammonyac. He was a Patron of art in all ite higher shapes. Once they brought to him a handsome young prisoner of war. “I will give you your liberty,” said the shiek, “if you deserveit. What can you do? Are you an artist?” “No poet, painter, musician am s Hd was the youth’s reply. “I have but one talent. Ican steal the sheet from the bed you lie on.” “Ab, ha! good!” exclaimed the chief- tain. “Bim-bam,” he continued, turning to his vizier, “get up some job to try this youth's attainments. We must reward merit where we see it, no matter what its kind.” Bib-bam reflected a few moments and then propounded his plan. = You have just presented, oh, sheik, a Priceless diamond to your beautiful favor- fte, Fatima. Borrow it from her and take two of your most faithful followers, Give it into their hands. Promise them that if for three nights they successfully watch and preserve it from the skill of this youth, you will make them captains of your force. It will rouse their am- bition, and ambition is one of the most Powerful of the passions. a i was the chief's reply. “Solet it be.” ycuth brought it—stolen—to the presence of the sheik. “How do you explain it, wisest Bim- bam ?” the latter inquired of the vizier. That functionary had no answer ready. “It may be,” he ventured at last, “the guards know not how costly was the Jewel they watched. You do, oh, sheik. To-night, then, guard it yourself, for av- arice is stronger than ambition. ” “Just so,” returned his master; and that night he watched beside the diamond himself. But it was as before. In the morning the youth brought it, filched again, into his presence, Astonishment was no name for the feeling that reigned in the royal estab- lishment. Bim-bam was to again lighten the situation with thesun of his intellect. The vizier, after getting off the Arabic equivalent for “I'm stuck” several tines, at last hit upon another suggestion “After all, oh, Possessor of Countless Camels, you were not the best guard. Remember the stone was not yours. jut the beautiful Fatima’s. Let her watch to-night. She is bound to guard it with her life, for both ambition and avarice are weaker than vanity.” “Excellent, by the Prophet!” cried the chieftain ; “we'll fool this cunning youth at last. Fatima, who really was worried. < the possible loss of her ring, = My than willing to undertake it.6 iu Accordingly she startyVirgia and)DING Early the next mou..ittla @ rushed into the tent. “Well?” “The diamond is stolen and the youth disappeared.” “Stolen—gone?” almost shrieked the oldchief. “What will my darling Fatima say?” “I don’t think you need bother, oh, Shiek, what she thinks,” remarked Bim- bam dryly, “as she has gone with the youth, probably to keep the diamond company. "—Philadelphia Times. “THE LAND OF FIRE.’* Those Queer Savages at the Southern Extremity of South Ameri “The most interesting and strangest people in the world who ever came under my notice are the natives inhabiting the great Island of Terre del Fuego,” said Captain Terrenby Jameson, of the British army, when at the Palmer House yester- day. The captain's regiment is stationed at India, but the soldier is away ona three months’ furlough. He is returning home from a trip through South Amer- ica. “The island which is situated at the southern end of the Continent is called the ‘Land of Fire,’ because of the fires which the natives never permit to go out,” continued Captain Jameson. “In every hut or hole in the ground along the coast where the natives live a fire is kept perpetually burning, and on a calm day, when viewed from the ocean, hundreds of streaks of smoke can be seen circling toward the sky. The fires are kept burn- ing, some say.on account of a strang> religious belief of the Fuegans, as the natives are called; but the real reason, I think, is because they have no way of making fire if the blaze becomes ex- tinguished. It is supposed the fire was originally brought from a rolcano in the Cordilleras centuries ago. “The Fuegans are the most brutal tribe in the world, and are as fierceand savage as tigers. They have no forehead to speak of, their hair growing down to their eyes. They are large people, and no other tri! ever ventures too close to their territory. They live like beasts, however, always eating everything raw. Their chief diet is the fish that are washed up on the beach during storms, and frequently they secure the carcase of a whale that he- comes stranded on the beach. The bodice: of the sailors also furnish them wit! food. Shipwrecks are frequent along the coast there, for some of the most severe hurricanes pass over that part of the country. “The fires the Fuegans keep burning are only used for warmth. The climate is quite cold, but the natives are thinly clad, the only garment used being acloa's of some kind of skin. This they always swear over the shoulder on the windward side. But even this they will sell for a cheap ornament or a choice piece of fool. When I was there I saw a Fuegan womir eel a sailor the cloak off her back for a string of beads, and she walked away ip snowstorm in a nude condition, con- tent with herbargain. "—Chicago Tribune That night the soldiers guarded the | Precious stone. The next morning the | DEALS IN HUMAN BONES. A PHILADELPHIAN HANDLES MANY OF THEM EVERY YEAR. A Redchamber of Horrors—Tivo Th sand Skeletons Imported From France y, and Many Prepared Here Description of the Business. To deal in the bones of human beinzs would be an occupation repuena: | most men. Yet in the vicinity of 6 | and South streets, says the Philadelphia Record, lives an old Frenchman who | finds more pleasure iv this occupation | than anything else in life. His store isa veritable den of skeletons. The weather beaten sign swinging over the do creaking dismally with every gust of wind, bears this simple legend: “M. De Robaire, Parfumerie.” From which it is evident monsieur would have the world believe that he deals almost exclusively in those perfumed waters so dear to the | feminine heart, Every family has a skeleton in the closet, however, and monsieur’s family, which consists only of himself. is no ex- ception to the general rule. He has his skeleton, in fact he has scores of them in closets and otherwise—the majority | otherwise. The truth of the mat | the old Frenchman deals in skelet: Living as he does in a neighborhood thickly populated by ignorant negroes, who are, as a rule, very superstitious, De Robaire has found it necessary to ply his queer trade as secretly as possible The “doctor” has occupied his present quarters for the last quarter of a century, and enjoys quite a large practice among the colored people, who would have nothing to do with him did they suspect the weird doings above the little shop. Such another bedchamber as the one occupied by the old Frenchman probably does not exist, and how monsieur man- ages to sleep the sleep of the just among | such grewsome su sundings is an iu- solvable mystery to the few who have | been admitted to it. The walls of the small room are orna- mented with skulls and crossboves. and real life size skeletons, or, rather. death size skeletons, in all sorts ef grotesqu positions. Four hideons skulls grin f their positions on top of the four posts of the bed, and elose to the side of bed stands a skeleton with arms outstretched doing duty as a clothes rack. The whole is dimly lighted up by a feeble glimmer of light emanating from a lamp made of a ghastly skull suspended from the middle of the ceiling with thongs of tanned human hide. De Robaire himself is an odd looking man, and the resemblauce between him and oue of his own skeletons is . striking. He has gaunt, wolflike fe: tures, his thin upper lip and bony chin being adorned with an iron gray mus tache and imperial. His head is e: y bald save for a few bristly red hairs standing up on his forehead like a st bonfire, aud under a pair of bushy eye- brows of the same fiery hue his smali black eyes glitter like coals of fire For ascore of years he has been ear on his business in the old place, h emigrated from France in 1865, coming Aivart to Philadelphia, where he estab- himself in business. For a time -e had a hard struggle to keep body and | soul together, owing to the number of competitors in the field. together with the dullness of business. It seou became necessary for him, in addition to his other trade, to set himself up as a drug- gist, and he still runs his little shop, though principally as a decoy. te in the 60s, when the Knights of Pythias were organized in the State, the demand for skeletons incre 3 they were used to a great extent in the lodge rooms. De Robaire prospered, as a con- sequence, since most of his competitors had meanwhile given up the business. Of and on during the following 20 | years business was brisk and dull by { turns, but the old man has amassed a | small fortune. and there is no reason | why he should longer continue in the | business except that he hastaken a liking j to his work, such as every true artist | does. He is an artist in the full sense of the word. There is undoubtedly no one who can articulate a skeleton as neatly as he, and it is no idle boast on his part | when he claims that, with eyes blind- | folded, he can take a mass of bones | representing the human frame aud build | up the skeleton as it was originally, with- out one bone out of place. | The “doctor” while standing in his | workshop a vs ago, with his sleeves rolled up over his skinny arms, thus held | forth on the subject nearest his heart: | “This skeleton you see me operating on Thave imported from France. You will notice the high polish on the bones, due | to a method of preparation practiced only by the French. They clean the bones by | a process of maceration with muriatic acid, the whole operation requiring two or three months’ time, while iu this coun- try the bones are hastily and carelessly boiled and come out rough and dirty. In all my 20 years’ service I have never come acr a Chinese skeleton. “The different prices of skeletons aro based upon their degrees of hardness and whiteness, upon the development of the bones, and the amount or absence of fat in their extremities. For this reason the French article is decidedly of more value than the American or German. Up to this year over 2,500 skeletons have been | imported into this country, but the become scarce of late, for some re: | and to supply the demand I find it | necessary to manufacture them of paper. | Of course I have a stock of them in my | bedroom, but I would not part with any | of those. Mon dieu! I have come to look upon them as dear friends and com- panions. Here you see some of my arti- ficial skeletons made of papier mache, with artificial teeth, and the whole cevered with a white polish, which the appearance of the genuine erticle. T can make three of these e: eek. and they bring from ¢10 to $15, while the im- ported genuine article costs from $30 io $35, and the domestic $20. But then the imitations are bor tonly by secret so- cieties. “Yes, I have grown old in the business, and love it. I have articulated and handled over 5,000 skeletons in my } time.” ves TT Te a ee ee a J. . Coolidge TARNESS ATTACHMENT Patented Novemper 13rn, 1888, —— —— J.S, Coolidges Harness attachment is the best thing of the I kind ever put on the market. It is so arranged that any one can secure it to any harness, in three minutes, without cutting th same In auy way, right out in th harness in two minutes, and the siyle without the least trouble or e street. [tcan be taken off th harness returned to its forme exerti It saves time in hiteh- Ing and unhitching as a horse ean be attached to the vehicle in less than 30 seconds and extricat al ornament to the baraess and contaiz get out of order, the case being can be lengthened or shortened movable secured so as to allow ed in less than 5 seconds. It is nothing in its parts to 8 so constructed that the straps as is required. The Bolt is re the spring to be removed when wora, The particalar advantage this device possesses over oth ers Consists lu the construction o f the seand arrangements of the straps, whereby the same may be attached to any harness without cutting the same, as bi order to use devices of this chara To the loop ot the Bolt may be ing connected with the driver by horse runs or becomes uumanage: will draw the bolt 12, aud the spring 24 will ez side and release the animal from cau hitch or uuliteh a horse without the Tiousands of the attachments Ww Park. DEATI(s, Dr. C. M. Hammett, Health Offi- cer, presents the following report for week ending October 17th 1891. Numbers of Deaths 11 Oise lred 45 jer annum: white 2% 292 Total population 2 sere under five years of age Dea'b per 1,000 colored were under one year old, an wer 60 years. 23 of tie deaths ce curred in bopitais and publie insii- tutions. The death by cia were us follows: Zymotic 3 Situ Violence 1, Th: cuuses of death were Dipltberia 9; Consumption Di- arrhoeal 4; sipelas 0; Typhoid Foyer 7; Mal vial Fever 3; Scarier Fever 0; Puenmonia 7; Congestion of the lungs 3; Bronchitis 1; Mea-- sles 0; Whooping Couzh 13; Kid avy Diseases 2, Menginitis 3; Cau cer Births reported: 23 white 32 white females; 25 color- od males; 21 colored femules. Mar riages repurted 24 white; 8 color- ed. Still-births reported 4 white, 4 colored. 1 il ik help tale ‘The death rate during las! week | he last annual | 3 23 against death rate of 22.3 Mere than the uverage number ot persons 8 over sixty years of age deceased, | children | shile the d2aths among ander five years of age wese bex low the mean rate,being only 32 ber cent as compared with 36 the tbarmal number. Tre sudden turn from the warmth of September to the much Colder weather of the lest two weeks, lis evidently been the of wb increase of acute Juog s, the report of this week slowing eleven deaths there-from, whie curing the week previcu- there was but one fatal case from this ¢ of ccmplainis. Dipts theria sull prevails in the extreme wes'erly position of the D strict atd on the high lauds sround feunulytewn, With an decasions] sporud:e case w the city. Fa‘ai c ses of scarlet fever have noi been reported for several weeks | One case of death from the “Grppe” eontracied early in ibe spring was reported last week. 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