The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1893, Page 4

(PRE mORRRRNERoRERID Hr— * sa Radin Mags BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL. The Krupp works have 5,542 far- aces. England - supplies America with Indelible ink is made from banana juice. Georgia taxes every cigarette seller $200 « year. In India the Government runs the opium business. qheading, Pa., made 75,000,000 cigars last ‘year. -This country mines 20,000,000 barrels of salt a year. Mexico exported 43,750,000 pounds of coffee last year. The annual liquor bill for the United States is: $1,484,000,000, There are several jockeys at New- market earning $15,000 a year. An electric cigar lighter has been in- vented for the benefit of smokers. The Union Pacific Railroad is figured out to have cost $108,778 per mile. There is more money spent for eggs than for flour in the United States. The hog-pack of last year exceeded that of the previous year by 1,100,000 hogs. The aggregate of salaries of post- masters appviuted by the President is $5,396,000. Russia produced in the past ten years, it is said, 875,680,400 gallons of pure alcohol. There are about 130 duly qualified female medical practitioners in the United Kingdom. The damage to wheat and oats in Michigan by smut last year is esti- mated at $1,000,000. The production of distilled spirits of .@) kinds in this country last year was 117,186,114 gallons. The natives of Liberia prepare a sing- ularly intoxicating beverage from « common mushroom. A New Hampshire man has invented a machine that trims and punches belts in one operation. Dublin claims to have the largest brewery in the world; St. Louis the biggest in the United States. Ten million pounds of tea were brought into the United States last year, an increase of nearly a third. It has been discovered that the weight required to crush a square inch of brick varies from 1,200 to 4,500 pounds. Most heavy tunnel work is now done by machine drills, driven by com- pressed air, which also serves to veuti- late the works. Commercial travelers support two- thirds of the country hotels, to say nothing of instructing the proprietors how to manage them.—Hotei Mail. ! Inashingle mill at Gray’s Harbor, Wash., recently, the entire works were kept running all day on a single cedar stick, which made 188, 500 shingles. | Some of the English pumping engines perform work equal to the raising of 120,000,000 pounds one foot high by the consumption of 100-weight of coal. New York jewelers are displaying rare ornaments carved upon the pits of the olive, plum, peach, lai-chee and cherry, and on walnut and cocoanut shells, mounted with gold. According to the International Tele- graph Bureau of Berne, there were dis- patched in Europe during last year, 207,595,000 telegrams, and in the re- maining portion of the world 88,422,- 000, a,total of 296,017,000. The estimated wealth of the United States, that is, the value of all lands, buildings, railways, etc., is put at $64,- 000,000,000. The amount of money of all kinds is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury to be $2,108,130, 092. GRAINS OF GOLD. Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. ; + If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old. j When a man’s coat is threadbare it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. The secret of making one’s self tire- some is not to know when to stop.— Voltaire. t Many preachers spoil the bread of | life with butter of their own make.— | Ram’s Horn. The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and make good use of leisure. Riches massed in haste will diminish ; but those collected by hand and little by little, will multiply. —Goethe. There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happi- ness, and instead thereof find blessed- tiess, Carlyle. No one ought to complain if the world measures him as he measures ‘others. To measure one with his own ick may be hard, but it is also faire ‘Phe plea that this or that man has ine time for culture will vanish as soon las we begin to examine seriously our present use of our time.—Matthew Ar- ingld. Man’s life means tender teens, teach- lable twenties, tireless thirties, fiery forties, forcible fifties, serious sixties. sacred seventies, aching eighties, short- ening breath, death, the sod, God !—- Joseph Cook. . Hurried-results are worse than none. We must force nothing, but be par- takers of the Divine Patience. * * If there is one thing evident in the bk history it is that God hasteth n All haste implies weakness. -— George Macdonald. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. <~As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estaté but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn‘costs nothing but it may sprout into a prodigious beam of timber.—W. M. Thackeray: A Physician says practice at singing wards off consumption. a THE STORY PAID HIM. Self-Gratification an Eminent Attorncy's Fees, The most eminent consulting lawyer of Paris at one time in the last century was the Abbe May, says the Manchester Times. His opinion had great weight in forming the decision of the judges, and he was often consulted in import- ant matters outside the law. His fee for an opinion was usually a large one, The story of one of his excepiional fees is related by M. de Bois Saint Just in his history of Paris. Accure from the country called on the abbe one day, and after compli- menting him with earnestness and sincerity on his creditable and deserved reputation, said that he was involved in a lawsuit which he did not under- stand. He asked the abbe to advise him whether he was in the right or in the wrong, and whether he had better carry on the suit. livered to the great jurist an enormous So saying he de- package of papers covered with almost illegible hand-writing. The abbe cheerfully accepted the task and told the cure to call again in two weeks. He was pleased with the good, simple- hearted energies to clearing up the case though man and devoted his best ie was obliged to put other matters aside in order to do so. The cure eailed on the day appointed, took the abbes .written opinion and read it through critically. with the enthusiasm and clearness with He was delighted which his rights were set forth. He embraced the abbe gratefully and cried: “Ah, monsieur, no one could be better pleased than Iam, and I want you to be satistied also. Please take what is due you,” Here is mon«y, mon- siear. and he threw a three-frane piece on the table. the abbe picked up the coin, took Not to humilate the good man, thirty-six sous from his handed his client the change. one said, when he told the story, that purse and Some- as usual he had lost by his disinterest- edness. “Lost !” said the abbe. you count the pleasure of telling the «And do story nothing.” What Singers Eat. Not long ago.a list -was published of the drinks favored by the great singers of modern tisaes. Different wines were vegarded by different vocalists as pos- sessing desirable qualities, and London stout was the prime favorite of a very large proportion of vocalists. A writer in a musical journal attaches as much importance to what singers eat as to what they drink ; and as he has had a large experience in engaging singers for important tours in this country, his opinion is worth listening to. He says he never loses time in looking for a fine vocalist in a country where fish and meat diet prevail. He has found that yocal capacity disappears in families as they grow rich, because they eat more meat. The Italians who eat the most fish— those of Naples and Genoa—have few fine singers among them. In Ireland the sweet voices are found in women of the country, but not of the towns. Norway is not a country of singers, be- cause the people eat too much fish ; but Sweden is a country of grain and song. The carniverous birds croak ; grain-eating birds sing. This is a very sweeping indictment, but it does not alter the fact that many of the best singers of the day include a moderate quantity of meat in their daily bill of fare. Precept and prac- tice, however, do not always go to- gether. A reporter of a New York pa- per called on an eminent tenor one night at an opera house for the pur- pose of ascertaining his views on the question whether or not smoking was injurions to the voice. The singer, who had just come off the stage after a long and exhausting scene, said he consid- ered that smoking was a decidedly bad thing for the voice; and having given this opinion he offered a cigarette to the reporter and lit one for himself. Her Breach of Promise Case. A well-known attorney in Datroit, when he first hung out his shingle, didn’t know anywhere near as much as he knows now about the mysteries of the profession, if the Free Preas is to be relied upon. His first client was a young woman who wanted to bring a suit for breach of promise. He asked her to tell him all the cir- cumstances, and she did. When her story was finished he shook his head doubtfully. «J don’t know much about this,” he said. wife 2?” “Yes, sir.” «You say he asked you to be his “And you said you would?” «Yes, sir.” «Then he left and didn’t come back any more ?” “Yes, sir.” «“Um-um,” hesitated the attorne you ask him to be your husband ? “Of course I didn’t.” “Did he promise to be ?” “No, sir.” “Did he say anything further than for you to be nis wife ?” “No; sir.” “Well, my dear miss, I don’t see where there was any breach of promise, do you ? The fact is you-were careless, and I don’t see how you can win this cause. You'll have to be more particu- lar next time. You"—but she didn’t wait to hear any more of his advice; she bounceé out and got another at- torney. did The Hysterical Hen. City Man—What the blazes is tue matter with that hen ? Farmer—Nothin’. She has just laid Ge Man—Great Scott! one would suppose she had laid the foundation ot a brick block.—Texas Siftings. Columbus was a weaver. WHAT CURED HIM. AN AUCTIONEER’S PATHETIC EX- PERIENCE. Some Facts Gleaned by a Reporter Who Was Curious—Making Fun Over a Cradle—The Baby was Gone, and the Empty Cradle Brought a Big Price, There was a resting spell with the autioneer, and the Free Press reporter standing by his box looked at him. “Gone ?” inquired the reporter, as the auctioneer sat down, tired. “Well, I've been going all the morn- ing, and I ought to be,” responded the auctioneer “You ought to be a funny man, a great American humorist, or something of that sort,” suggested the reporter. «Josh Billings was one, and he got his start at the block,” said the auc- tioncer, reflectively, “and some auction- eers are given to that sort of thing yet. I was that way myself when I first be- gan, but I had’an experience that cured me of the habit before it had fixed it- self permanently.” . ‘The reporter turned a face full of in- terrogation points on the auctioneer, and he kept on: «I was called on once to sell by auc- tion a lot of household furniture, be- longing to a man and his wife who had been married four or five years. All J knew about it was that a death some- where necessitated their removal from my town, and as they had no money, they were compelled to sell their effects to get enough to move on. Well, | was having a picnic in my young, fool- ish way, guying and _bantering, and making various brilliant and witty side remarks on the articles as they came under the hammer, so to speak, though I don’t remember ever having used a hammer, or seen any other auctioneer use one. After I had disposed of a lot of stuff a cradle was put np. There were several young me: of my acquaintance in the crowd, and I smiled at them as I turned the cradle ‘round and began to rock it, humming alullaby as I did so. ‘Empty is the cradle, baby’s gone,’ I said, and wa~ going on to say something else to get.» laugh, when I happened to look dow into the face of a woman close to the platform I was standing on. She was dressed in faded black, evidently given ler by some woman larger than she was, and there was a-look in her eyes and a tension of the lines across hei forehead and a pitiful weakness about her quivering lips that made me stop She stood close to the platform, anc the crowd was all at her back, so they had not noticed her. She didn’t speak. but as I stopped, she looked up at me with the tears starting, and lifting her hands in a muteappeal of remonstrance no words could describe, she gave iu great sob of agony and turned away. « <J_T didn’t know,’ was all I could stammer in apology. And I didn’t know that it was her baby’s cradle ] was selling, and because the cradle was empty her heart was broken, and ‘she could no longer live in the house that the baby had left. The auctioneer was feeling his story visibly. “No, my boy,” he went on, “I didn’t know, nor did the crowd, but they al! did pretty soon, and I told them a story that had no fun in it for any heart there, but it took just.the same, and | got one hundred and fifty dollars for that eradle before I was done with it, and then gave it back to the poor young mother iu the faded black. dress.” The auctioneer remounted the block, and the reporter, blowing his nose vi- ciously, ambled off after some news, Oda Bits From Baby Lips. Little Harry, three years old, was in- formed by his mother that his aunt and little cousin were on the steamer home- ward bound from England, and that he ought to ask for their safety in his prayers. Accordingly, he included them nightly in his childish petitions, until they at length arrived. ‘The evening after their return he said his prayers. as usual, at his mother’s knee. He puused a moment, and then she was astonished to hear,— «And, oh, Dawd, you needn’t bother any more about Aunt Fanny and little Joe. They dot here all right.” A certain mother in a Rhode Island city selected an inauspicions Sunday to take her small boy to church for the tirst time. It happened to be a com- munion service, and the latest. comer was deeply interested in all that oceur- red. At length’ he exclaimed, in an audible and delighted whisper,— “Mamma, mamma, they’re going to pass the cake, ain’t they ?” The oldest son of a Harlem honse- hold had been to Europe for an extend- ed trip, and on his return a small brother, four years old, followed him about with open-eyed and open-eared admiration. There was a famiiy din- ner to commemorate the young fellow’s return, and the four-year-old appeared at the table for a moment on*his way to bed. He was as bashful as children usually are at such times, until sud- denly he said,— i “Pa, is damn a Freneh word ?” “No, my child,” said the horrified parent. “You must never say that again.” “Well,” answered the unterrified in- fant, “Brother Charley says it is French for ‘Oh, .my,’*and he ‘always says it when he puts on his collar.” Brother Charley’s sentiment toward his youthful relative can be better im- agined tifan described. Greater infantile acumen, however, was displayed by the small boy in a suburban town, who swallowed a penny. “Kitty,” called his alarmed mother to her sister in the next room, “send for the doctor ; William has swallowed a penny !” % “No, mamma,” interposed the fright- ened victim, send for the minister.” “Why ?” faltered his mother. “Because papa says our minister can get money ~~! >f anybody,” a CONSTANT ANXIETY. mpany the Is. Nervous Troubles That Ac: Ownership of Diau 5 Women who own diamonds ure not altogether happy in their possession. They are in constant fear of being robbed, and go about the streets like traveling safety vaults. Some women carry their diamonds around their necks in chamois bags, like scapulats; others adjust them around their waists. They seize the most unlikely places to stow their diamonds when not in use, but do not seem to lessen the chances of loss or anxiety. Last winter, a young woman pinned a six hundred dollar diamond to the bottom of a silk skirt for safe-keeping. A week after, forget- ting this, she put on the skirt and merzily promenaded the town. When she sought to wear her diamond it was gone. After a week of anguish, it was recovered by the offer of one hundred dollars reward. where it had been picked up. ‘we weeks after it found its way to astrange washerwoman. The nrental agony which accompanios such exploits tends to whiten the locks. A woman with soli- taire earrings of unusual value wore them concealed in gold balls. In a sleeping car these were removed, and she was brought back in a piteous state of collapse. Another woman, believing that her person isin danger from the possession of such valuable diamonds when travelling, pins them in the folds of the window curtains and hides them under the corners of rugs. The next morning she had forgotten the precise spot, and, after ransucking the room in a state of comparative frenzy and per- haps losing a train, the missing jewels are found. Thesame woman, in Paris, once hid her diamonds in a slit in mattress. The diamonds, after a week or so, had made.a considerable tour of the mattress. Not being found, the maid who attended to her room was charged with theft; detectives were called in. A pretty imbroglio was set in motion, when the enterprising land- lady had the mattress opened and the diamonds were found. People who do not own diamonds have this compen- sation, and it should not be lightly vained--they do not have to take care of them Yawn All You Please. According to current ideas, yawning in good society is un improper sign of weariness ; according to the teachings of physiology, it is a long-drawn, forci- ble inspiration, followed by a shorter respiration ; according to Dr. Naegeli, a German physician of note, it is one of nature’s many remedies, the proper application of which depends upon good judgment. In yawning; not only the muscles which move the lower jaw are used, but also the breathing muscles of the chest ; and he who yawns to his heart’s con- tent also raises and extends the arms. In the deepest inspiration the chest re- mains extended far a short time, the eyes. are-almost entirely closed, the eurs somewhat raised, the nostrils di- liated. Inside the mouth, the tongue becomes round and arched, the palate stifly stretched, and the uluva is raised, almost entirely closing the space betweemthe nose and throat. At the beginning of the inspiration a cracking noise is heard in the ears, a proof that the duct leading to the hearing also succumbs to this stretching. If the yawning has reached the deepest point it will require from one to one and a half seeonds for it to be- come noticeable to the hearing. In order to observe this, let one place him- self at a sufficient distance from a clock, so that its ticking will not be easily heard, and yawn deeply. During this deep breathing the sound of the clock is not perceptible to the most careful listening. All this simply goes to show that yawning sets a number of muscles to work, and particularly those which are not directly subject to the will. Although one yawning does not pre- sent a very agreeable appearance, it is very agreeable to oneself, for the stretch- ing of the muscles causes a feeling of comfort ; it acts like massage, and is the most natural gymnastics of the lungs imaginable. Dr. Naegeli, there- fore, advises people not to concern themselves with so-called decency, but every morning and evening, and as \.often as possible, to exercise the lungs and all the muscles of respiration by yawning and stretching, as many chronic lung troubles may thus be pre- vented. Dr. Naegeli orders the patient troubled with too much wax in the ear, accom- panied with pain, to yawn often and deeply. The pain will soon disappear. He also, in the case of nasal catarrh, } inflammation of the palate, sore throat, and earache, orders the patient, as often as possible during each day to yawn from six to ten times: successively, and immediately after to swallow. The re- sult will be surprising. If one looks upon yawning as a natural massag~ for certain organs, he will reach a satisfac- tory explanation of ‘its curative prop- erties. A Terrible Punishment. Men have a natural horror of shop- ping at its best ; but send one of them to match shades, and he shrinks from the ordeal like Macbeth from ‘he ghost —Take any shape but that !” «I come here, sir,” said the angry citizen to the superintendent of the street car company, “to get justice. Yesterday, as my wife was getting into oue of your cars, the conductor stepped on her dress and tore off a yard of it.” “Well, sir,” calmly replied the super- intendent, “I don’t know that we are to blame for that. What do you expect us todo? Get her a new dress ?” “No, sir. I do not,” grimly replied fhe other, brandishing in his right hand a piece of cloth. “What I propose to have you do is to help me match this | cloth !” The wagon-tongue has nothing to say, but it gets there ahead of the rest of the ontfit,—Puek, She had dropped it | Thos. H. Clarke, REALESTATE AND LOAN 908 F Street, N. W., WasHincton, D. C —— Ee Subecribe to snd advertise 1D the Brg, THE INDUSTRIAL BUILLD- ING AND SAVING CO. Leaus money to boy or baile homes, Shares $1 euch, payable m othly. Dividends declared ev- ery January. Secretury’s office: 609 F st,u.w. Open9a. m t 5 p.m. Monthly meetings at Lin- seln Memorial Uburch, cor. 11:6 .ud Rats, n. w, first Monday ight in every month. Heyry E Baxzr, Secretary. Advertise in the Ber. a Rooms with Board: In first *sa8 house and in a popular portt ofthe city, Cars pass the dvo 922—11 st n- Special Overcoat Fifty Cents “Per Wee} $5 CASH ~~ AND~~ 50c. Per Week Will bay you a home j; OITY OF Bowig, " ™ 50 CTS. PER WEI, The first opportunity of colored people to seerre lag on Weekly payments o: ,? “ents a week or Two Dollars ; er monty _ 100 LOTS FIR Ske. - bes Fe of Bowie, St. Maryland. Only 20 minutes»; from Washington: Double tee 22 trains atop daily. Fare to and rom Washington, only Six centg by commutation ticket, The june. ion of the Baltimore and Poto. mae snd Pope Creek Railroad Felegraph and Express offices Ube best depot on the Baltimore and Pot -c ra lroad, Stores, uburchesan. —hools ulready built The most bealthful spot in the State of Maryiard. Title to Prop- erty perfect. No Taxes, snd pur. chasers of lota will receive their — with certificate of title PAIGE OF LOTS OMLY S19 TERMS OF l’URCHASi:: lll dol» lars cash and two dollarg per Month, with no interest, Halt casb, 10 per cent discount; all cugh 20 per cent disc unt. Money will be advanced t ties des:ring to build. If abusband purchaser dies, before bis purchase is completed, a deed iu tee will be given to pe widow, if the property nas beep improved, or if not. the amount already paid will be returned ber _ be above presents an opportu. nity never vetore offered the Uol- ored people of the ety of Wash ington to secure a@ valuable lot either as an investment or fora home on monthly payments, snd ate oy ‘© par We have bzen cntting right and left; t the same time, entitled them uto oar OVERCOAT SALE evor! 0a vote and a voice in the Goy. izce we have put them before the ‘ablic. For the aeason, that the ‘vles and Qualities of these Over- --ats cannot be purchased at the eanufacturing price for what we :e selling them at. Dow’t miss ia slaughtering sale, as there is vly a small lot left. & JULIUS COHEN'S * CHEAP CORNER, seventh and L Streets, n. w. established Fify-tve Yeas. RAVEN & BACON, —— a RAVEN PIANOS, 1$ East 16th Street, New York City. sUY FROM THE MANTFACTURER AND SAV3 50 PER CENT. y piano guaranteed for six years, ive days trial ai'owed that it 1aay be thoroughly riticised bs Yourself and friends before paying for ©. Look at the prices and send for riptive Jatalogue before buying elsewhere. Vo. 1, Upright or Square. $230, worth $400 No.2,“ “ 260, “ 600 No.3, “ 290, “ 600 ALL 7’ 2 OCTS¥ EB. of every person conteropiati DS, PLAN '$ * BULBS. tiiss’s Colored thousands of Ilastrations, and nearly 130 pages, telling what to buy, and where to get it, and namin, prices for honest. goods. Price of GUIDE only iocenta, ‘cluding a Certificate good for 10 cents worth of Reade JAMES VICK, SEEDSMA: i ‘o-hester, N- Yo Meat Ded 3 Rites Peat Papper Cn) : AFRO«AMERICAN PRESS, tT8 Bones By t. Cartan fam Crnowm Ocraxo, 560 Pass. SLLUSTRATED with 160 FINE PORTRAITS, (SAMY OF WHICH HAVE NZVER BEFORE BLEN PUBLISHED), 1, ., ohn B. Russwurm,P. A Beli, Stephen Meyers, RB. Wari, Willis A. Hodges others. A new chapter in the world’s history. ther Evoke encmaicnpedta aietaten ta - jai whopremaice ore app wax wi 3 ‘se Lermes and exclusive territory to S WILLEY & CO., Pususnens. ond WT feara £2 Sramcrais Mare | ij | } | or CAMPBELL CARING ICN ernme:t of the country. Those who apply first, will have the first choice ot lots, Already mauy have made their homes in the “Gity of Bowie, and lots purebased on the above terms should duuble in value with. ip ibe next six months For farther information apply to W. Canvin Cuasz, Agent, 1109 I Si.,n. 7 Owner, 505 D Si., n. Wy Washington, D, (” CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK OF WASHINGTON, D. ¢. 609 F ot. n. w. Receives deposiis, lor ns mouey tlavsects a general burkug busi ness. Location central snd con- venient. F street cars and herdie run in front of our door—9 hb st cars run #@ few rods cast of vur buildi: g, 7th street and Lihat cars unly two block away. Dr. U. B. Purvis, LL. U. Bailey, OrFicexs: President, Jro. R. Lyneb Vice-Pres., Joseph W. Uole Cashier, Douglass b. McCary Tressurer, L. C. butiey Secretary, H. #, Buker DIRECTORS. Jno. R. Lynch, L. C. Bailey! dJuseph W.Cule, = W. McKinlay Jubu A, Pierre, J. A. Lewis W.EL =a J. R. Wilder - 8S. Montgomer. J.T. Bradura, ne et W.3. Lotion, J. A. Jubueon, A.W. Tuueil, H. b. base, ed Moat Strickland, FINE SHOKE- No. 989. Pernsywwama Ave., . ¥ Wazhiugton D OC. 5 {R08 Bi tures Dyspepsia, lii- digestion &Debilityv riscr Departments, under forty ¢ ws and Instructors: Theological, Med Nege, Preparatory. Normal and lady Bor information address— Rav. J. E. Rawxix, D.D., LL D. B. Jonxson, Secretary.