Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
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Yol. 66?No. 9,958. WASHINGTON, D. CM SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1885. TWO CENTS. THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Snndtj, AT THE STAR KUILPINGS. Terthwest Corner Pennsylvania Are. and lltn St, by The ETeniutr Star ?wspa|n>r ('ompanj, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. Twr Evrtrvo Star is served to subscribers In the dty by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44c. per month. Copies at the counter. 2 ceat each. Hy mail pontage prepaid?50 cents a u.onth: one year, Sn>: six months. SC. :r..tere 7th st. C. C. DUNCANSON. president. LEW Is ABRAHAM, vice president* EDWIN M. I.AWTON. treasurer. JOHN COOK, secretary, HI* 12th St. mh2S-4t THE ANN!" A I. ME KIT NO OF THE L>- STOCKHOLDiliiS of !he INLAND AND SEABOAKD OAST1 X(i OM PAN V, of the District of Columbia, for the election of nine directors, will be held at the National Metropolitan Bank on WEDNESDAY, April S, 18V?. Poll open from 12 to 'J p. m. SAM' L NORM KNT. Acting Prest. alfred WOOD. Sec. and Tresis. mh2S.apl,4,7 NEW"" EASTER "A RI isTlI AT~D AILY call forth the expression: "The most beautiful In the city!" Also. New Boots for the Circulating Library. 1749 Pennsylvani? ave. mh'JU-eo M Rs. LUCY lht'ntkr. John w. cbwuh John w. macartney. CORSON it MACARTNEY. Bankers, 4 Clover Building 141? f St. Washington, D. C. Deposit Accounts.subject to check at sipht, received from Firms, Corporation* and I ndlvidaals. (ioveriimeut Bon is. State, Municipal and P.aiiroad Securities bought and so d on ife commission. We have tor sale District of Columbia 3.65 per cents, due 11VJ4; 6 per cent-, due 1 bill; 6 per cents, due 1H92, 7 per cents, due 1HH1. Washingten Gas Light Company Stock. "Belt" Line liailroad St ock.Columbia Fire Insurance Company Stock, and other good securities. m27 "LUMBER." The two Important questions before us to-day. In which every Contractor and Builder Is especially interested. are: What is the outlook for the Spring, and will there be as much building done this year as last? To these queries we answer the outlook Is good; very good. Judging from estimates and sales we would say much better than last year. Sales for January and February how- quite an increase over last year, while March opens with a brisk demand for all grades, especially in finer qualities and hard woods. Hardly had we made known our Intentions of furnishing all the Wood Material necessary to the construction of a house, "which Includes Frames. Sash. Doors, Blinds, etc," in any kind of ftnish, from Pine to Mahogany, before we had a number of orders, which when completed, we will classin workmanship second to none. Our arrangements with the mills, which In" elude four, are such as to enable us to make the above assertion, whi'-h, under our personal supervision, will be carried ont to the letter. In order to meet the incoming wants and be able to supply our customers with Dry Stock, which is always preferable to new cut lumber, we piled last fall a number of cargoes of Virginia. Georgia and Florida Pine Joists, Boards. Flooring, etc., which we offer at less than the current prices. In making the above inducements we mean they shall prove advantageous to yon not in one transaction alone, but in all you may have V with ns. Our facilities for delivery, "ON which there will be NO charge," are more adequate than ever'while the attention and quick dispatch to all orders shall not be found wanting. We want your patronage, and the above Is our mode of securing it. We guarantee you Good Stock, Work, Satisfaction and Money Saved. WM. McLEAN A SON 13th and B streets northwest, mh!6 Branch; 14th. B and Csta. n.w. A CARD.?AS THE BUSY SEASON IS approaching there will be a great amount of Household Furniture and Personal Effects thrown upon the market, either as storage or to be disposed ot at public sale, and in view of "that fact would suggest to parties desiring such accommodation that my facilities for the disposition of goods at public sale are unsurpassed, and my storage departments are ample and secure In every particular. THOMA9 DOWLINQ, mhlO-lm 11th st. and Pennsylvania avenue. samuel stshedd! plumbing, tinning. FURNACES, RANGES. LATROBES, ESTIMATES (ilVEN. OAS FIXTURES, SLATE MANTELS, GRATES, ETC. 409 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST. mh!4 the inaugural "vase. The beautiful vases nsed in the decoration of the Inaugural ball rooms, designed bv Gen. Meigs for new Pen*iM AC T ERRA COTTA CO., 1411 G St. Pf-Cc?, MRS. BROWN (COLORED) will give her highly recommended Medicated Electric and Steam Baths. Also, Magnetic treatment, at 305 Missouri ave. n.w. mr2-lm* BROCHES, 1311 E STREET, The French Restaurant near National theater, which la so well renowned foi is excellent cuisine has Just opened a French table d'hote. Dinner, with pint lmtarted claret included, $1. Regular breakfast, 65c. unch, 25c. Dinner, 75a By tne bill of Care a specialty. First-claaa in every respect for ladies and gentlemen. GUS. BROCHE. Ex-Chief Cook at the White House, Proprietor. Will accommodate 50 gentlemen for the Dedication and Inauguration with room and board. mh2-lm roginski A lewis, THE~weld known Sign Painters and Glaziers, are at 908 d street northwest Telephone call, 379-3. All orders promptly attended to. ocl3-9m THE ATTENTION OF VISITORS AND Resident* Is particularly called to PHOSVITJS, the new and popular Brain and Nerve Tonic and Safeguard against Malaria. For sale areated by the (lax* or In bottles by w. c. MILBI RN, Sole Inventor and Manufacturer, 1429 Pennsylvania ava. anil E- F- BROOKS, LK-2S FANCY GLOBES AND ORNAMENTS. Largest Stock of GAS FIXTURES, p. m. All invited. It* WAUftH M. E CtlURCH, COR. 3D AND* A st.s. n.p.. (Capitol Hill).?The newly ajvpointed presiding elder, J. McKendree Rkilvy, I). Ti.. at 11 a.m.: public review of the closing quarter's Sunday school lessons at 7.30 p. m. Seats all free. Come. It* CENTRAL UNION MISSION, 909 Penti. ave. Gospel services every night at 7:30 o'clock, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Daiiv noonday prayer meeting from 1uto 1. Mr. Geo. A. Hilton' will remain in charge another wnk. It* KKWJSftVSALKM CHURCH, NORTH Capitol st., near B.?Service at 11 a.m. Seats all free. Sunday school at 9:30. Doctrinal class at close of worship. Social meeting at Mrs. Mccarty's. u? GOSPEL TEMPERANCE (NOT POLITI^ cal temperance' at Waueh M. K Church, 3d and A sts. n. e., (Capitol Hill), To-morrow, (Sunday), at_3p.ni.. by Mrs. Ci.ara L. Roach, President of the W. C. T. U., of this city, and other interesting speakers. Let everybody come. It* rr^r- RYLAND M. E. CHURCH, COR. 10TH -2^ aurt lists. s.w.?Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:3U p.m. by the pastor. Rev. W. H. Chapman. Sabbath school an I quarterly review at 9 a.m. All welcome. H* rK^THE T A BERN ACLE, 9TH AND B STH. s. w. Services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. snnday School at 9:30 a. m. Praver meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. It rCHURCII OF "OUR FATHER" (UNIversalistl,13th and Lsts.?Rev. Alkx.Kekt, pastor. Services To-morrow at 11 a m. and 7:30 p. m. Snnday school at 9:45 a.m. It* THE R>:vrWM. PARET. D. D? BISHOP of Maryland, will administer the rite of confirmation and preach in St. John's Church, Geoigetown, on Sundav, March 29th, at 11 o'c!o ?k. It JOHN 8. LINDSAY, Rector. GOSPEL TEMPERANCE SUNDAY School (non-sectarian), No. '203 I st n.w.? Remilar session at 3 p.m. Let every scholar be in his and her place, as the new roll can be properly made up. Add:tion-> to the s-hool of teachers ami scholars always in order. A fine library. It* METROPOLITAN M. E. CHURCH, COR. 4^ and C sts.. Rev. E. D. Hcxtlky, D.D., Pastor.?Preaching Sunday at 11am. and 7:30 p.m. Vesper services, 6:30 p.m. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. It LUTHER PLACE MEMORIAL CHURCH, Pastor, J. G. Butler.?Passion week service 11am. and 7:30p.m.to-morrow. Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:45 p.m., and Good Friday at 11 a.m. Everybody welcome. It* WESLEY CHAPEL. CORNER OP 5TH and F sts. n.w.?9:15 am., Teachers' prayer meeting: 9:30 am., Sunday school review service, "The Life of St. Paul in Pictures." 11 a.m., preaching by the pastor. Rev. RichardNorris; 3 p. m.,Sunday school Gospel meeting: 7:30 p. m., revival service; Prayer-meeting Thursday evening. It* nr?? FOUNDRY M. E. CHURCH, 14th AND G sts.?Preaching To-morrow at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor. Rev. Dr. H. R. Naylor. Subject for the evening sermon: "The True and the False." Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Special services will be observed on the evening of Good Friday, at 7:30 o'clock. At 3:30 to-morrow afternoon a Free Gospel Meeting will be held with service of song by the Moody choir. Come and attend this meeting and bring a friend with you. It* ENGLISH MISSION (GERMAN) REL>^?formed Church.?Services in Grace Chapel, corner 15th and O sts. n.w., To-morrow Palm Sunday, at 11 am. and at 7:30 p.m. Preaching by the pastor, C. F. Sontag. A full attendance requested. Sunday School at 9.30 in the morning. It MT. VERNON PLACE M. E. CHURCH L*?south, corner of Hth and K tt-. Prt aching at 11 a. m. by Rev. Sam'l Roouers, l). h? the i.ewl" appointed Presi ing hid r; at 7:b0 by the Pastor, Rev. S. K. Cox. D. 1). Sm day Schcol, 9:30 a. m. The public ?.ordially invited. It* NORTH CAPITOL M. E. CHURCH^ corner North Capitol and K sts.?Preaching 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. by the pastor, Rev. J. C. Hagey. Love feast at 3 p> m., at which the new Presiding Elder. Dr. Reiley, would like to meet all the members. Quarterly conference on Thursday night, after prayer meeting. Sunday School, 9:00 a.m. All welcome at all the services. It* [>-^j?5s GOSPEL TEMPERANCE MEETING will be held at 1630 14th street (Jonadab Hall, formerly clabaugh Hall Sundav afternoon, 3:30 o'clock. Dr. W. W. Gkanuek will address the meeting. Prof. W. H. Tucker will lead the singing. The public are invited Bring Gospel Hymns. It* FLETCHER M. E.~CHURCH, COR. NEW York ave. and 4th st. n. w.?Preaching 11 am.,by Rev. W. H. Laney; 7:30 p.m., Good TemSlars will hold a Temperance meeting. There will be eld Thursday, April 2d, at the church, a Pink Tea Party for the benefit of the school. It* UNION 3C. E. CHURCH. REV. CHAS. w. Baldwin-, Pastor. Morning sermon 11 o'clock, "Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem.* Evening. 7:30, to "Young Men/' Sunday School 9 a. m Sunday School Missionary Meeting 4 p. m, YcunePeoglea' meeting 6:3o. Preaching Good Friday night SPIRITUALISM 37TH ANNHTR?jui sary; To-morrow and Mon l ay night (Sinday, 10:30.^:30 and 7:30): Land7thst>. n.w.;lectures, teMs, recitations, music; Miss u La king and others. Door collection. fF^s. ST. PAUL'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN Church, corner 11th and H sts. n.w.?Services To-morrow rPalm Sunday), at 11 a.m., and 7:30 p. m.: and also every evening during the week at 7:30 except Saturday. Passion week services" Every bo dy Invited. S. Domkr, Pastor. lt? fh-^ss. FOURTH STREET M E. CHURCH. southeast. Rev. M. F. B. Rice, pastor.?9 o clock am. Sunday school at the church and mission; preaching 11 am. and 7:30pjn. by the pastor. Young people's prayer meeting, 6:45 p.m. Missionary prayer meeting Wednesday night 7:30 p.m. All are cordially invited. It* DUNBARTON AVENUE M E.CHURCH. Preaching To-morrow at 11 am. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor, Rev. W. I. McKessjy. Bring Hymnal and Consolidated Gospel Hvmns to the evening servic#. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.and ?.AiO p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. it CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.?THE pastor, Rev. S. M. Newman, will preach In the morning at 11 o'clock and at 7:30 In the evening. Sabbath school and BiMe classes at 9:30 a.m. Music by Mr. BiachoflTs choir. It CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. rev. Irving McElboy priest in charge.?Services Sunday, March '29, 8 am., Holy Communion; 11 am., morning prayer and sermon, Rev. t D.Pitts preacher, 3:45 p. m., evening prayer and address to children; u30 p.m., evening prayer, administration of the rite of Confirmation, and sermon by the Rt. Rev Wm. Pakkt, D.D., Bishop of the diocese. The six rows ot seats across the front of the church reserved (t. r_those to be confirmed; the rest of the seats free. It SECOND-BAPTIST^HURCHrCORNER of 4th st. and Virginia ave. s. e., Kdmovo Hez swem, pastor. Preaching To-morrow at 11 a m. and 7:'25 p. m. 1'rayer and praise meeting Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. It ALL FOULS' (UNITARIAN) CHURCH? lk-ss. corner 14th and L sts.. Rev. Rush r. Shippek, pastor.?Sunday school at 9-ujo a.m. Morning service at 11. Vespers at 7:30. It CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, CORL>?ner Hth and H sts. n.w.?Rev. Sawel. H. Greene, pastor. Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:30 p m. by the pastor. Sunday school 9:30 a, m. All cordially invited. It THE MOODY CHOIR WILL RENDER a Service of i;ospel Song at the Foundry M. E. Church, 14th and G sts. n.w., To-morrow (Sunday), at 3:30 p.m. The public are invited to attena. It* THEMOODY CHOIR WILl7MEET FOR LK?w? Rehearsal. Ac., THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING, at 7:30, in the Rooms of the Y. M. C. A., 14U9 New York ave. A fiill attendance is urged, as business of importance will be presented. It* t%Sr-=? SPKCIAL NOTICE.?REV. DR. RART> LETT and Rev. Dr. Reiley will address a grand Temperance Mass Meeting at Mount Vernon Place Church. TUESDAY EVENING NEXT. Miss Cleveland is expected to be present. It FIFTEENTH STREET PRESBYTERIAN L??Church.?Hon. A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, will deliver his lecture on "Popular Oratory," MONDAY EVENING, March 30. This is a mt?t superb lecture. It THEM KM BERS OF HORROM LODGE, 4- -A. A. M., are requested to meet at sheane hall, on 28th street, Georgetown. D.C., SUNi, March 29th, at 12 o'clock, to attend the Aineral of our late Brother, James a. (ikf.en. All Master Masons are invited that are in good standing. By the order of u* W. W, W. MASTER. SPECIAL NOTICE-THERE WILL BE a meeting of the Stockholder* of th* Columbia Fire Insurance Company of the District of Colombia at the Company's new office in the Kellogg Building, No. 1416 F st. n.w.,on MONDAY, April 6th, 1H*5, for the purpose of electing nine Directors for the ensuing year. Polls will be opened at 12 m. and close at 2 p m Transfer books closed on the day of the election. mh28-7t H. K. WILLARD. Secretary. WOODRUFFS FILE-HOLDERS, FOR i-K-Ii filing Business and Official papers compaotlv and conveniently for reference. They have beennniversaily adopted by the government, and are fkst becoming the standard Document File of the Country They are made of varlcm sixes, and can be placed on ordinary shelving They are also put up in Cabinets containing any desired number. Office and Manufactory: 637 and 639 Massachusetts ave. n.w., near to 7th, and through to K st. mh28-lm ;K^s. DUFFY A CO. RESPECTFULLY ANnounce to their friends and the public that they have opened an office at 607 7th st. for the transaction of all branches of business relating to real estate. They iruarantee prompt and personal attention. Commissions moderate. mh28-2w PERSONS HOLDING MY DUB BILLS LK?23k for Pan-Electric Telephone 8tock, are requested to transmit the same to me and receive in lieu thereof the Company's certificate. m26-3t* h. McNeill. r>r^a? office of the pneumatic gun CARRIAGE company. Room 39, Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C.. March 24th, 1885.?A meeting of the stockholders of the Pneumatic Gun Carriage Company, incorporated under the laws of Maryland, will be held at this office on SATURDAY, the 4TH DAY of APRIL, 1885, at 3 O'CLOCK P.M., for the purpose of transacting important business. By direction of a majority or the 1/lrectors and Stockholder*. mh26-3t* f TRAVELERS CREDITS ISSUED. Lr~--3S. Available everywhere in Europe Cable transfer* to all Important paints. Bills of exchange, foreign and domestic. LEWIS JOHNSON A CO., Bankers, m25-lOt Penu ave. and lOtb st ARTHUR ROONEVS 14TH ST. FURNITURE INSTALLMENT HOUSE. No. 1788. ?irst-class Uudertaking Rooms adjoining, mhll-lm Washington News and Gossip. Government Receipts To-day.?Internal revenue, 9281,571; customs, ?541,859. The Wachusett Ready.?Commander Mahan, of the United States steamer Wachusett, telegraphed from Panama yesterday: "Affairs quieted. Ready for sea." No Pension Cases Made Special.?Gen. Black, the new commissioner of pensions, has isssued an order directing that no claims be made special; that is, taken out of their order?for expedition unless such reasons are shown in writing as will, in the Judgment of the commissioner, warrant such action. The mere statements of claimants themselves, uncorroborated by those of disinterested persons, will not be deemed sufficient to warrant such special action. The Army Medical Musevm Building.? It has been decided to begin the construction of the new army medical museum building on the Smithsonian reservation on the northwest comer of7tli and south B streets. It will be two story and basement, in the form of three sides of a square, with the view of completing the square in the future. The upper rooms will be used for the library of the medical museum, and the ground floor'will be occupied by the working force on the medical record of the surgeon general's office. For Fifty-Seven Years.?Lindsey Muse, the veteran door keeper for the Secretary of the Navy, has served in that capacity for fifty-seven years, instead of fifty-three. He was appointed under President Adams' administration. War Department Changes.?J. S. Bolway, formerly clerk In the Executive Mansion, has been transferred to class one, adjutant general's office, under amended civil service rule No. 22; John T. Smith, promoted to class one, A. G. O.; Geo. W. Weed, promoted to class one, S. G. O., and Chas. M. Kalloch to class two, S. G. O. Among the President's Callers to-day were Secretaries Whitney and Endicott, Minis- j ters McLane and Pendleton, Senators Bowen, Coekrell, Harris, Voorhees and ex-Secretary Thompson, Gibson, and ex-Senator Jonas, Maxey ana friends, Kenna and friends, George, and Judge Selden S. Wrierht, of Cal.,and Eustis, Representatives Caldwell, Daniel and friends, and Wheeler, L. Bradford Prince, late chief Justice of New Mexico; P. B. Reed, mayor of Louisville, and B. W. Jenkins and A. T. Smith, exAttorney General consider changes in the fourth-class offices his time wdll be pretty well occupied for the next few rnontns. There are about 5,000 offices which either are now vacant or there are applications on file for the appointment of new meu. How Army News Will be Given Out.? Secretary Endicott has directed that all news for the press concerning the business of the War department shall be given out through his chief clerk and private secretary. Secretary Endicott, accompanied by Mrs. Endicott, left Washington this afternoon for his home in Salem to arrange his private business matters preparatory to taking up his residence in this city permanently. They will be gone for a week. Mr. Keenans New Employment.?Mr. Henry F. Keenan, the supposed author of "The Money Makers," and at one time Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times, is employed by Secretary Whitney as an assistant in examining and reporting upon naval matters needing investigation. Secretary Whitney went to New York this afternoon, and will return on Monday. Mrs. Whitney is in New York, and will not come here to reside until the fall. Watchmen Doing Clerical DuTY.-rSecretary Whitney has caused considerable consternation in the Navy department by directing that fill employes shall perform the duties for which they are carried on the rolls of the department. Heretofore It has been customary, occasionally, to assign watchmen nnd laborers to clerical duty, and some employes who were always known as clerks, but paid as watchmen, will have to perform the more unpleasant duty of keeping to their beat. There are not many such Instances, and the clerical force will be but little weakened, but the watch and laboring force will be correspondingly increased. The "Time Ball" to Be Transferred.? Preparations are being made for the transfer of the time ball from the naval observatory to the flagstaff on the roof of the new State, War and Navy department building. The locality is much more central, and the point is the highest in the city except the dome of the Capitol and the Washington monument, and the change will permit of more general observation of the drop of the noon ball. The connection with the observatory will be bv wire, and the drop will be made by electricity. The Gowing Court Martial.?The following Is the detail of the court martial appointed totry Passed Assistant Engineer B. C. Gowing for drunkenness, announced In yesterday's Star: Capt. E. P. Lull, Chief Engineer A. J. Kiersted. Commander Wm. Whitehead, Commander P. H. Cooper, Chief Engineer Robert Potts, Chief Engineer Geo. H. White, Lieut. Commander C. A. Schetky with Lieut. B. R. Russell, M. C., Judge advocate. The court will convene at League Island navy yard April 2d. Copies of The Star of February 21* and March 4 and 5, In wrappers, duly stamped, containing the full reports of the monument celebration and the Inauguration ceremonies and the ball, can be had at the counting room In any quantity. Price two cents?not Including postage. Personal.?Ex-Secretary Frellnghuysen has been unwell since he returned to Newark. H. W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, is in town, staying at the Metropolitan. A complimentary private reception is to be tendered to John L. Stoddard, the lecturer, at Ford's Opera House on Monday evening. Mrs. Ole Bull and ex-Senator Paddock, of >.ebraska, are registered at the Riggs. Mr. John Russell Young, United States Minister to China, has, at his own request, been grunted a leave of absence, and will reach home late In May or early In June. Ex-Commander Gorringe, who has been 111 for several months, in New York, is slowly regaining his health, but it is feared that it will be a long time before he fully recovers. Representative Muller, of New York, who has returned to the city from his visit to Florida, Is at Welcker's. Senators Aldrlch. Evarts, Hoar, Jones of Florida, and Miller of California, ana Henry Adams, of Washington,were registered la New York last evening. Representative Eldridge, of Michigan, is seriously ill at his home In Adrian. Judge Prince, of the United States district court of New Mexico, is at the Ebbitt. Senator Cameron expects to start next week for New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California, to t>e gone some weeks. Ex-Gov. Jackson, of West Virginia, is at the National. The Rev. G. Hutchinson Smyth, now pastor of the old Reformed (Dutch) church of New York city, formerly pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian church of this city, will be at Willard's this evening, for a day or two, on his return from Florida, where he has been for his health. Capt. A. H. Goodloe will return to Detroit on the 30th Instant. Mr. Roach Wants Hid Money. he 0all8 on secretary whitney?a new board probable. Mr. John Roach called upon Secretary Whitney to-day, and requested the final payment for the new dispatch boat Dolphin, built by him. The Secretary informed him that he was not ready to make the payment, and wonld not be until he was perfectly satisfied that the vessel comes up to the lequlrements in every respect, and that all the bills and details In connection with her construction are regular and satisfactory to him. As Mr. Roach has shown no disposition to make another trial of the vessel, Secretary Whitney Intends taking the matter Into his own hands and settling the question as to the accumulated horse power. He declines to state what course he will pursue, but It is probable that a board of naval officers will be appointed to take charge of the matter. A Miaalon to New Orleans. effort to secure exhibits for the rational museum. Prof. G. Brown Goode and Prof. Otis T. Mason set out this morning for New Orleans to make arrangements for the permanent exhibition in our national museum of all such material as they can secure for the scientific and the educational series. It is well known that material of the greatest value came to Washington from the Centennial In 1870, and these gentlemen expect to realize still greater accessions from the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial F-Thtbitlon after its close. Work of Hotel Thieves.?Last evening Mrs. N. K- Jesup, of New York, stopping at the Rlggs House, was robbed while at dinner or watch and chain, bracelet, pin and other Jewelry valued at ?1 ,OOa?Mrs. Frank Appel's. room at Wllllard'a was entered bv a hotel thief yesterday and her gold watch with other Jewelry valued at |311 taken off AT THE CAPITOI. TO-DAY. i Republican Senators In Caneni?The Debate on Retrenchment Continued* The republicans of the Senate met in cancus again at 10 o'clock this morning, and resumed consideration of the vexed question of recess clerks and Junketing expeditions. The subject has taken a wide range. It now covers the field of general retrenchment so far as the Senate is concerned. The controlling party of the Senate was never, perhaps, in such a snarl. On the one band some of the resolutions authorizing recess work have beeri criticised as useless, extravagant, etc., and it is understood that while Jthe authors of such resolutions have tacitly admitted that the work they contemplated was not so important or laborious as might be implied, that in connection with the Senate and its duties, there were other drains upon the public treasury which micht be stopped without any detriment to the public, in other words, the debate, so it is said, has, at times, developed a sentiment to the effect that if one Senator could have an annual clerk, whose services are not needed except when the Senate is actually in session, or could enjoy some privilege not accorded under the rules, at public expense, then other Senators were entitled to such clerks or privileges. A good deal of the discussion has been in this line. It was from this sort of talk that the movement looking 'to a cutting off ot needless clerks and employes and to general retrenchment began. The more the subject has been discussed the further the Senators seemed to be from a decision. At one time there seemed to be a disposition to let the resolutions which have been adopted stand, but to preven t the passage of any more; but this did not suit Senators who are interested in pending resolutions. They were not willing to be discriminated against, and the caucus met this morning for the purpose of devoting the day to an effort to reach some settlement. The debate ran on in much the same channels as heretofore, the indications being that the Senate will have to either rescind all resolutions recently adopted for recess work or permit all who have such work in view to get their resolutions through. ,T The resolution reported back by Mr. Van Wyck, from the Mississippi river committee, to rescind all the resolutions added new fuel to the flame of debate. Several of the committees which have actual work to do during recess are exempted from the movement to rescind and from criticism. For instance, the committee on rules, which now has charge of the Senate wing of the Capitol, will have to rearrange committee rooms during the coming recess, besides having to prepare and print a new revision Of the Senate manual, which has been ordered by the Senate. Capitol Topic*. the objectionable beport suppressed. The superintendent of the Senate document room has been directed not to give out copies of the report containing certain newspaper strictures upon the Associated Press. The report is to be suppressed by the Senate, as the committee on post offices and post roads deny any authority for issuing it. mrs. charlotte smith was mistaken. The Gapitol police board have unanimously exonerated Private Frank Jones from the charge made by Mrs. Charlotte Smith that he was rude to her. Mrs. Smith admitted that she had been mistaken in the identity of the man, and expressed regret that she had made the charge. no altercation. Sergeant-at-Arms Canaday, of the Senate, says there is not a word of truth in the report of an altercation between himself and Lieut. Finks of the Capitol police growing out of the destruction, the other night, of telegraph Instruments in the Capitol. Minister Cox's Plans. Mr. Cox will not leave for Turkey until June. He has contracted with his publishers to have his new book completed by that time, under a forfeit of $50,000 for a failure to do so. He has very much improved and expects to get out today or to-morrow. J

Treasury Department Changes. The following-named clerks, having served a satisfactory probationary term of six months each, have received absolute appointments: Frank E. Anderson, of Va* class lAfece of the First Controller. V Wm. E. Ryan, of N. Y.. and Win. Miblackburn, 8900 class, office of the Register. Miss Annie W. Lover ing, of Ky., $900 class, office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Miss S. R. Beatty, of 111., $900 class, office of Hie Treasurer. Miss Emma* Ranney, of Cal., $900 class, office of the Secretary. o* ?The Dickson Case. his counsel anxious for trial?the GOVernment required to fix a dat. In the Criminal Court this morning District Attorney Worthington said that he had been notified as to an Indictment against Wm. Dickson charging him with "corruptly endeavoring to influence Jurors." He did hot know much of the case and had sent for Mr. H. H. Wells, who had special ch ante of it. Mr. C. M. Smith, for Mr. Dickson, Said that the indictment against Mr. Dickson had been found on January 26, 1883, and he wai entitled to a trial or a final disposition of the indictment, for he had been at all times ready to meet this charge. Mr. Wells having entered said that he would be ready in these cases as soon as they oould be prepared. There were seven or eight of these cases. "But one against Mr. Dickson," said Mr. Smith. "There are several of the same character," said Mr. Wells, "and in that of Mr. Dickson there are several witnesses who live at a distance, Mr. Brewster Cameron being a resident of New Mexico." "Mr. Cameron Is here," said Mr. Smith. "We have information that he is in Baltimore, 'and will leave to-day." said Mr. Wells. "As soon as we learned this from the Department of Justice we telegraphed to Baltimore, but as yet have heard no answer." The court said that Mr. Dickson was entitled to a trial, and he should require the government on Saturday next to name a day for the trial.

Death of Mrs. Phillip ?tterback.T* bequests made by her husband which now become available. Mrs. Otter back, widow of the late Phillip Otterback, died at the family residence, near the navy yard, last evening, aged over eighty years. Mrs. Otterback had resided for over half a century in the house where she died, raising a family of nine children. By the death of her husband, which occurred in 1858, she was left quite a large estate, including the well-known White House farm on the Potomac, below Mount Vernon. By the death of Mrs. Otterback bequests of her husband of $2,000 to the Wathinsrton City Orphan asylum. $2,000 to the Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal Sunday schools in East Washington, $500 to the ladies' Female Union Benevolent association and $500 to the Young Men's Christian association become available. Killed on the Railroad Track.?James Wilson, who was struck and killed by a Pennsplvanla railroad train at Charleston, Md., yesterday, as stated in The Star, was formerly a boatswain's mate In the navy, and has been living at Mrs. Scharfs house. 1009 8th street southwest. His relatives live in Philadelphia.

den. ?rant's Testimony. his impicit confidence in ward, and how it was betrayed. Gen. Grant's deposition in .the Fish trial was read in court yesterday. His connection with the firm of Grant A Ward dated from about November 1,1880, when he paid to $60,000, and shortly afterwards $50,000 more. On the 1st of May, 1884, Gen. Grant said he supposed he was worth nearly a million dollars. When he went into the firm he had a very small income, but he had some money that his son hnji saved for him while he was abroad, and his son proposed to let Gen. Grant have half his interest in the firm, so that Gen .Grant would have an income to live uoon. He was questioned at Sreat length as to a letter written to him by Mr. ames D. Fish about July 6,1883. He mid it had disappeared, and he oould not tell what became of It. He did not believe the letter published as that of Mr. Fish was really the one the witness had received. He said there was no reference to government contracts in Mr. Fish s letter, and he had told Ward that their firm must not undertake any government contracts. He had been President of the United States, and he did not think it suitable to have his name connected with government contracts, in which be knew there wasno large profit except by dishonest measures. Gen. Grant said he did not draw out his profits which he supposed he had made, but left them and everything else he had in the firm, and hadn't got them out yet. He drew Interest at the rate of $2,000 a month during the year 1883, and at the rate of $3,000 a month during 1884, up tothetimS of the failure. All that the witness had to the world was swallowed up to the failure of Grant A Ward Ward did not tell him the firm was to danger when he asked him to go to Vanderbllt. On the contrary, he said the film bad $1,300,000 unpledged securities to Wtftrits, and over $700,000 to its credit in bank. Ward's pretended object in asking the loan from Vanderbllt was to save the Marine bank:. Gen. Grant said he had the most implicit confidsnce in Ward up t* the failure, and even after it bad occurred could not believe lor a day or two that Ward could be as represented.

k Sofletjr. Hon. Richard T. Merrick entertained a large number of friends at his residence on F street last evening. Among the guests were Vice President Hendricks, Postmaster General Vilas, Senators Payne, Eustis, Blackburn and Butler, Representatives Barbour, Tucker and Townshend, Mr. Martin F. Morris, Commissioner Black and Commissioner Jsparks. The annual fancy dress ball given by Mr. Marini to his pupils was the occasion for a large gathering at his new hall on E street last evening. The scene In the hall was full of color and animation. Many of the costumes were noticeable for their beauty and originality. After a short list of dances entirely monopolized by the costumed pupils, the floor was given up to the visitors present, who danced until a late hour. One of the features of the hall was an exquisitely rendered minuet, participated in by the following scholars, infancy costumes: Miss Ellen Anderson and Rudolph Swicardl, Miss Blaqphe Medlng aud Ralph Upton, Miss May Freeman and Mr. A. S. Wilson, Miss Anna Davidge and F. H. Loveridge, Miss Etta Rodgers and Willie Kearle, Miss Dora Stearns and Henry Merrill, Miss Bessie Brown and George Burleigh, Miss Josephine Mullett and Walter Wyville. A pleasant surprise party was given Miss Cora M. Basset on Capitol Hill last evening. A large company of young folks were present and a delightful evening was passed. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Bassett, Mrs. and Miss Emily Roth, Miss Lucy Baer, Miss Millie Dyre, Miss Lulu Thome, Miss Minnie Chauncey, Miss Maggie Rowe,Miss Susie Acker, Miss Hattie Chauncey, Miss Etlul Hall. Miss Annie West, Miss Bessie Searles, Miss Laura Dodge, Miss Katie Shaw, Miss Mary MucNlchol, Miss Nellie Jenkins, Miss Lillle Zimmerman, the Misses Lillie aud Effle Bassett and Miss Lottie Crandall; Mr. Henry Johnson, Mr. John Chester, Mr. Frank Hilton, Messrs. Willenbucher, Lawrence and Brayton, Mr. Duncan Richmond, Mr. James Dyre, Mr. Will Duvls, Mr. Arthur Cliffbrd, Mr. Isaac Bassett, jr.. Mr. John Welch and Messrs. George and Arthur Buckler. Miss Cleveland will give a reception in honor of Miss Emma Thursby next Thursday evening. Mrs. Folsom and her daughter, of Buffalo, who arrived at the White rfwse yesterday, will be the guests of Miss Cleveland lor several weeks. Mrs. Frelinghuysen, the wife of the ex- I Secretary of State, Is lying ill at the residence I of the family, in Park Place, Newark. She was taken suddenly ill on Tuesday night, and the physician, who was summoned, found her condition precarious. Yesterday she was better. The physician said her system had been run down, but that she had already improved greatly. Those who were attracted to St. Mathew's church on Sunday last to listen to the exquisite music usually rendered by the choir, regretted the absence of Mrs. McCartee and Miss Livingston, the leading soprani. It is hoped their absence trom the choir is but temporary, as it would be difficult to All their places acceptably to the music-loving attendants of this popular place of worship. Town Topics, a society Journal of New York, has these remarks touching a report which lately gained currency here: "It is said that some or the invitations sent out at the recent reception at the White house, were written by a type writer instead of being expensively engraved, and a contemporary congratulates itself on the return to old-fashioned Jetfersoniau simplicity. Washington society, it is expected, will elaborate on the idea by introducing rubber stamps marked "Regrets," "Accepted," "P. P. C.," "At Home Fridays,,' and the like. It will doubtless be very convenient as well as economical to thus be able to use one style of card, with the above indicated simple modifications, for discharging all kinds of social obligations.'5 The engagement of Lieut. J. H. Giflord, 2d artiirenr, now at Washington barracks to Miss Helen B. Kimberly, of Fortress Monroe, is announced. Miss Cleveland's final reception for the season was held this afternoon. She was assisted in receiving by Miss Van Vechten and Miss Folsom, of Buffalo. Miss Van Vechten will remain a guest at the White House for another week. The Naval Fraud Cases. demurrers to the new indictments filed. This morning In the Criminal Court the socalled naval fraud cases again came up. Mr. A. B. Williams filed demurrers, general and special, to the two new indictments against Mr. W. H. Dempgey. Mr. Worth ington asked that they be set for argument on Saturday next, Mr. Jere. Wilson asked for a week longer, and the 11th of April was fixed as the time. In the case of Mr. Drew, in which there are three indictments pending, Mr. C. S. Moore said he was not ready to file his motions now, but would do so next week. In the five cases against Carrigan Mr. H. B. Moulton asked for time to file motions, which was granted. The Hide and Tallow Association?The Butchers' Hide and Tallow association, of this city, has elected directors for the ensuing year as follows: Theodore Barnes, Robert Smith, Ed. Oastell, J. H. Gllck, Walter Brown, John C. Acton, M. C. Weaver, EL G. Gummell and Ed. T. Woody. The board has organized bv the election of M. C. Weaver, president; Walter Brown, vice president; Wm. F. Hunt, treasurer; John E. Cox, secretary and superintendent.

Last Meeting or the Inaugural Executive Committee.?The final meeting of the executive committee was held last evening and the chairman, Mr. W. M. Gait, was directed to make a report to the general committee at their meeting next Monday evening. As stated in TheStar yesterday this report will announce that the expenses of the Inaugural preparations have been met by the receipts, and that the entire amount of the contributions will be returned. Resolutions of thanks as well as of appreciation of services well and faithfully performed by the chairman, W. M. Gait, the secretary, Dorsey Clagett: the corresponding secretary, Lawrence Gardner, and the treasurer, C. 0. Glover, were adopted. The committee adjourned. Robberies Reported?Last night the show window of Hart Cohen, 1007 7th street, was broken and three gold plated bracelets valued at f 15 were taken. James W. Moore, of the Soldiers' Home, discovered on the 1st Inst, that his pocket book containing $60 had been taken from under his pillow. M. F. Knight, 213 1st street northeast, had his overcoat, valued at $20. taken from the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon. Affairs in West Washington. Drew a Pistol.?Isaac Snowden, a colored boy 15 years of age, was arrested by Officer Hall last night for striking Alexander Rhodes in the face, and also for drawing a pistol on Rhodes. To-day he was fined $30 or 60 days. The Canal.?A number of canal boats pass this place daily laden with wood and coal. Navigation has increased to a great extent within a few days. Notes.?The West Washington Cleveland and Hendricks club held its regular meeting last night at Goddard's hall, but transacted little business. Complaint is made of a boisterous crowd of young colored men who assemble nearl v every night in the neighborhood of Mt. Zion M. E. ehurch on 29th street. There were four arrests made yesterday by the police. Condition of Water at 7 O'clock.?Great Falls?Temperature, 38; condition, 14; receiving reservoir, temperature. 38; condition at north connection, 13; south connection, 16; distributing reservoir, temperature, 41; condition at influent gate house, 8; effluent gate house, 7. Chasing Chickens in a Graveyard.? Lewis Wood and Wm. Nalley were charged in the Police Court to-day with trespassing. It was testified that they were chasing chickens in the Presbyterian cemetery. It was claimed that Wood's chicken was fighting another in the graveyard, and he got over and got it. The court said It was too trifing a case, and dismissed it. An Important Business Change.?On the 3d of April next, the milling business now conducted by Messrs. Herr Clssel,.at the Pioneer and Columbia Mills, the former of which has lately been converted into a patent roller mill at a heavy expense, will change hands, Mr. Austin Herr, the son of Mr. A- H. Herr, the senior member of the firm, having purchased the entire property and business. Alexandria Affairs. Reported for The Evening Stab. School Board.?The city school board held a regular meeting last night, Hon. C. E. Stuart in the chair and Messrs. Marbury, Herbert, Vincent, Strauss, Came and the superintendent. There was no quorum present, but no objection was made to the superintendent's suggestion that certain repairs absolutely necessary be made and that the clerk be authorized to grant a second permit to Art hur Mankin. Death or John H. Thompson.?Mr. John H. Thompson, a justice of the peace in the first ward and an estimable citizen, died yesterday evening at his home on South Fairfax street. Mr. Thompson was one of the last survivors of the soores of Alexandria boys who learned their trade at the "peg factory," an extensive manufactory established here when the use of pegged shoes was first introduced in this neighborhood. The tectory, at first successful, dwindled down until it was operated by a single dealer, tb? late A. D. Harmony, and it finally failed entirely, and the boys who had learned their trades (bund little work to do, as the work of sueoessral factories filled even the home market, so that all the Alexandrians were driven to other occupations. Notes.?The German hanking company has paid all its depositors, and a third dividend of ten per cent to the stockholders has Just been declared. The mayor has made stringent orders for the detection. If possible, of the persons who raise fklse alarms of fire. fish are now coming in inconsiderable quantities to the wharves here and the season at Alexandria is now fully cpmna, Telegrams to The Star. THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN TROUBLES.

HANLAN AGAIN DEFEATED BY BEACH. LOUIS RIEL'S REBELLION. American Indians Said to Have Joined His Forees. ALARMING SEWN FROM MAMTOB4. Major (roxlrr and Hfw Writ Cap* tnred?Reil Maid To Have I.SOO Men and Nix Amorfran Cannon?American Indian* Joining Him. Chicago, March 28.?Tlie Daily News' Winnipeg special says: A telegram from Brandon Rays the mounted pi?lice have captured Louis Genvilie, an emissary of Keil, who had been sent with letters to the Indians and half-breeds of Broadview, Oak Lake and liaie, St Paul. The papers were not found. The prisoner says he left Reil six days ago, and that he had then six American cannon and 1,5(X? men. and that he Was being Joined by the American Indians. Major Crozierand his men, he says, have been made prisoners. Gen. Middleton was informed of the capture and ordered the prisoner brought here, lie arrived on a special car yesterday afternoon, and is locked up for examination. A large s)>ecial train left here yesterday lor the with the rest of the troops, and (Jen. Middleton In command. Sufficient supplies for two weeks were taken. Major Crozler sent word U> Battleford recently that au attack upon the fort by the rebels was Imminent. He had between 150 and 200 Indians under arms and three pieces of artillery. Great uneasiness is felt here over the report that American Indians are going to Join the rebels. All the Canadian Indians are now known to be uneasy, and some are threatening to rise. Reports come from districts and towns throughout the country ot farmers organizing companies and drilling for delense. excitement at toronto. Toronto. Ont., March 28.?The excitement here continues unabated. From an early hour this morning the approaches to the drill-shed were crowded with people waiting in expectation of seeing the departure of the troops. The Royal Grenadiers mustered at eight o'clock and turned out three hundred strong. After they were dismissed the queen's Own mustered, ani showed a creditable turn out of 543 men. There is the wildest excitement among them. The selection of 250 men from each regiment will not be made until definite orders are received. The mayor lim intimated that the city will look alter the wives and families of the married men who may go to the front. THE A\UI.O-R(SKIA\' WAR CLOI DK. Russia Silently Preparing for War? Ku^landNeciirinif Fa?tt Atlantic Steamer* for Transport Service. London, March 28.?The Daily Sews says that the statements in the Glofte of yesterday, that Earl Granville had proposed to Russia that both the Afghans and the Russians should retire ft-oin the disputed territory while negotiations were in progress, is untrue. TSe New says there nre no specific points now at issue in regard to the advance of outposts. The question now is whether Russia is willing to submit the frontier question to the decision of the Joint commission. In an editorial referring to the Duke of Argyll's inference from Euri Granville's reply to one Question and his failure to reply to another, that the government undoubtedly considered that PenJdeh belonged to the Afghans, the News says that Earl Granville tacitly avowed that that was the government's view. The Time* learns that the Russian government has ordered that 50,000 tn?ops be massed at Boker,on the Caspian sea, and has instructed the governor of the Caucasius to go to St. Petersburg for a consultation. england securing the fast steamers. The steamship Arizona Was taken by the government, with the option of purchase. The America will be fitted up with guns, but for the present she will remain at the disposal of her owner. The government expected to secure the steamships Oregon and Alaska. These measures have been taken because Russia made overtures to English steamship companies for the purchase of fast 6teamers. russia silently preparing for war. Vienna, March 28.?Advices from Russia say that preparations are being made for war, and that silence has been imposed on the Russian newpapers. the afghan army. Teheran, March 28.?On the return of the ameer of Afghanistan to Cabul he will convene a durbar, and ask the notables to agree to an increase of the Afghan army. Rawalpindi, March 28.?The Nizam of Rawalpindi writes, concerning the threatened Russian invasion: The Indian people consider that Russian rule means despotfsm.corruption of Justice, tyranny and oppression. Russia may introduce civilization into Khiva and Bokhara, but in India her rule would mean retrogression. The Scottish Land League. Chicago, March 28.?The executive committee of the Scottish land league of America has decided to raise $20,000 by July 4th, to be used in agitating a land bill for the Crofters, assisting the needy and defending their legal rights. Close of.a very Old Cotton Mill. Baltimore, Md., March 28.?The cotton factory known for the past fifty years as "Grays," at Ellieott city, has been closed indefinitely. The operatives are going elsewhere in search of employment. The closing of the mill will be a severe blow to the neighborhood. General Foreign News. parnellites oppose the government. London, March 28.?In the division in the house of commons last night on the Egyptian financial agreement the Parnellites opposed the government. the alert to go to canada. London, March 28.?The government Intends to place the Alert at the disposal of the Canadian government for exploring Hudson bay. Atrocious Wife Murder in Canada. Quebec, Ont., March 28.?The news of a revolting murder has just been received from Matane, below Rimouski, where a man named Portras literally tore the body of his wife to pieces with his nails and teeth, and then fled to the woods and has not been captured. He is a brother of Portras, who, a few years ago, cut up two of his children to bait for traps. Oxford Wins the Fniversity Race. London, March 28.?The forty-second university boat race was rowed to-day over the usual Thames course, from Putney to Mortlake. Both banks of the river at Putney were lined with spectators long before the hour for starting?12:30 o'clock. Oxford won the toss and selected the Surrey stake boat. Both crews made an excellent start The Oxonians reached the winning flag post fully three lengths in advance. The result to-day was expected, as one of the Cambridge crew became very 111 a few days ago and there was no time to train a proper substitute. Tne time of the race was 21 minutes 36 seconds. A Denial From Ex-Senator Hill. he says he had nothing to do with the printing of the objectionable report. "Denver, Col., March 28.?The attention of ex-Senator Hill having been called to the charges of the Senate committee on post offices and pott roads, respecting the publication of an unauthorized report by that oommittee, he says the charges in every Important particular are absolutely false, and that he did not order any printing done in the government printing office after his term expired. He denies that he directed the clerk of tne postal oommittee to have additional copies printed, and says the only report he ever ordered printed was that of the committee of investigation printed in the summer of 1884. From Wall Street To-day. New York, March 28?'Wall Street.?The stock market was strong daring the first half hour this morning, and fairly active. Opening prices were generally about higher than they closed last evening, while St Paul showed a gain of W Pacific Mail and Jersey Central V and Northwestern was lower. After 10:30 the market became more quiet and prices yielded a Auction. Loaning rates are generally fiat, and in no case more than 1-128. Just before 11 o'clock prices stiffened on a more active trading, and at that hoar quotatloos show gains of to per cent for most stocks, although Northwestern, Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Lake Shore are a shade lower. Total sales for the first hoar wen 78,000 shares, an Increase of 11,000 shares over yesterday. Geu."Graut Takes a Morning Drive. New Yokx, March 28.?Gen. Grant did not sleep before midnight last night, and at that hour Col. Grant administered a hypodermic Injection of morphia and the general then slept. After he had breakfast he went oat driving In Central Parte, accompanied by Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sartorls and Mrs. Fred Grant- As soon as the general ast up this morning he said he was going out to drive In the sunshine. sa brack wins the seoono WW sis LINOTHa. Sydney. March 28.?In the sculling Mi tot between MuUu and Beach, the latter wim bl six length*. Owm DlfM Wants to Iama4rr. Sdauv, March 28.?a rnmor pre rails her* this afternoon that Osman Diana deatm u surrender,but upon what terms to not stated. Cairo. March 28.?It to reported that tb? Beniamer* and Gedln* have attacked and we verely defeated the Hadendowas near r""' a birm feeling in mexioo against the guatemalan dictator. New Orleans. March 28.?A special to th? 7\me*-Democrat from the city of Mexico say*: Over twenty Mexican officers have left for Central America tojoln the forces of H*n Salvador and Nicaragua. The -services of then* veteran officer* have been solicits by the rovernmeut* of Nicaragua and San Salvador. Tne war feel. Ing Is rapidly extending. A largely attended public meeting held last night. Erery speaker advocated aggressive action towards Guatemala. The meet ing was frequently later* runted with cries of "l>own with Barrios" and "Death to Barrios." Inssns Millionaire Dnrant. New York. March 28.?Mr. Charles W. Durant, the millionaire, who was yesterday adjudged a lunatic. Is still at the residence of his son, Frederick C. Durant. Au ordsr was Issued by the court that the custody of the elder Mr. Durant should be had by his daughter, Mrs. Bowers. This order the s. >n refused to ol>ev. To-day Mr*. Rowers' counsel procured a writ of hal?eas corpus from the supretne court requiring Frederick C. Dnrant to produce his father In court. The orderts mads returnable on Monday next. It 1* suppoced that young Mr. luirnnt will l>e committed for coutempt in disobeying the order of the court. Telegraphic Hrlef*. Frederick 8. Winston, president of the Mutual life Insurance company, of New York, died last night In Fernandina. Fla. Alexander Sampson, calendar clerk of the Texas senate, at Austin, last night dangerously stabbed Tobias Mitchell, correspondent of tlie St. Ijuis '~nion a man suitable to succeed him. It was rumored to-day that ex-Representative Dorshelmer will receive the appointment, and it is argued that ft would please the "mugwumps,** as lie was the great orisinal "mugwump," having been a republican, and left his party for the same reason that the others bolted later ou. dn.l>lo> cum is also spoken of for the place, but his friends want hlin to be collector. Ha meets with an oltstacle to his ambition in this direction. however, in the omtosition of Bom MoLaughlln. who would do auvthlng to heat him. marylaxpeus who asi'ike to office. Mr. George May and Mr. J. Swan Frick ars spoken of as likely to be secretaries of legation under Minister Mcl^ane at France. Among other Marylanders mentioned as candidates for office are Mr. I). (4. Mcintosh, of Towsontown, who wants to Ik? lT. S. district attorney for Maryland, and Mr. Charles elllon; but we fear further injury to our cable and interference with international communication." The dispatch ha* been referred to the Secretary of the Navy. Secretary Whitney Is of the opinion that the cutting of the cable calls for no action on the part ot the Navy department, as the damage was done on land and has been repaired. Tite Treasury Commission.?'The Treasury department commission met this morning and considered written reports from the heads of divisions of the bureau of internal revenue, giving a description of the manner of conducting business, and recommeudiug such changes as they considered expedient. These report* were made at the request of Commissioner Miller. The Postmaster Gctbal h Im?pbc?ww^? Postmaster General Vilas has been devoting a portion of a day at intervals recently to visiting the different divisions in the Poet Office department, with the view of ascertaining the method of doing business, and what the condition of affairs is in the department. He has a list of the emplovesof the department. With the exception or the appointment of the First Assistant, there have been no changes made in the officials of the department, but it is expected that before the Senate adjourns nominations for the other two assistants' positions will be made. The Oklahoma Boomers.?Gen. Hatch tele graphed to the War department to-day that Capt. Couch had Informed his followers that he would not move into the Oklahoma country on Monday, as announced, but that they should be in readiness to move at a future data. They are now at their old camp and number about 500. The U. S. S. Wachusetts has been ordered from Pensacola to Central American water* to protect American Interests there. Her lmm?diate destination Is La Union. A Lucky Navy Department Employe.? Good luck has befallen an old employe of the Navy department. Capt. Geo. F. Brown, at present employed In the library of that department, recently received from the Japanqm government, through the State department, $15,000 In nayment of hi* claim urged for many years, for the destruction by the Japaneeo of the schooner Wilmington, owned by him. Capt. Brown was formerly a captain In the volunteer navy. It is understood that he ha* been enabled to purchase a comfortable home lathis city by hi* windfall. Army Orders.?The leave of Lieut.OoL Zonae R. Bliss, 19th Infantry, 1* extended seven months. Leave for one month and fifteen days, to take effect when hi* service* can be spared, is granted Capt. William R. Hall, assistant surgeon, Unites States army. Colonel Wm. F. Volkmar to-day tendered his resignation as aide to the lieutenant general, and it was accepted to take effect at noon to-day. He Is now captain of 6th cavalry pending his confirmation as assistant adjutant general There Is already a good deal of speculation as to who will succeed him on General Sheridan's staff. It is learned, however, that Colonel Vol k mar's appointment was a surprise to General Sheridan, and he has. therefore, given no tii ought to the selection of his successor. The Newsboys' Aid Society.?A meeting of the Newsboys' Aid society was held In the parlore of Temple hotel yesterday, the first .vice president, Mrs. Bishop Andrew*, presiding. Thanks were voted to Mr. Staples, proprietor of Willard's hotel: Senator Stanford. Mr. G. C. Willard. of the Ebbitt house; Prof. KmtaNT and his band, W. G. Metzerott Co Mrs. Henrietta Mills, Mr. Springsteen, Mr. Hensley, Mme. Bouligny, Dr. Sunderland, Dr. Huntley, Dr. Bartlett, Dr. 8hipj>en, Mr. W. B. Moultoa, Messrs. E. E. Jackson, Barbour Hamilton, Qphonzo Youngs, C. G. Corn well, Mr. Jsrvl* ant others who contributed to the entertainment recently given to the newsboy* at Wlilard balL Mrs. Judge Drury, of Chicago, addressed,.the society, giving much Interesting Information concerning the work Chicago to doing for the boy*. o A Man Who Looked Like GtnTBAD*? Thomas F. Kellum was charged in the Police Court to-day with being a suspicious character. Officer Byrnes said that KMlum had beqn special officer, and complaint* had been mr^T against him for "beating" bis board, ft.Ms also testified that at the Le Droit dining ranis he asserted he haa been a spy for Mr. Lincoln, and that he had been taken for GulleaiL but he was not. Lieut. Arnold said he regarwd BUB as "unsound." Kellum said that he bad eaM from Boston to work up his pension He claimed that he was a knight of honor, and bo was no tramp. He promised to leave town,and his personal recognisance wa* taken. A Dredge Not a Vessel.?Judge James has had under consideration in the District Court the cases of Cornwall 6 Cumberland agV the steam dredge, No. 7, owned in Jersey City, and now at work on the fiat*. Mr. Nat.Wilson, tor the respondents, raised the question of Jurisdiction, claiming that a steam dredge Is ndta veoeel within tne Jurisdiction of the admiralty court. Mr. E. B. Brlggs. for UbeHants, claims that a steam dredge, which to merely a. desire A scow, fitted up with dredging apparatnk Is, In every sense of the word, a vessel subject to the admiralty jurisdiction of the United Btatee district court. The court sustained the point thai the dredge Is not a vessel within the inrMft^ tlon of the oourt, and dtomlaaed the libssa. Am Alleged Treasury Clerk in TfMMpjftbL According to the New York World of MD.e woman named-Mrs. Allen, "formerly dnis the Treasury department at WsshlwguWMPyybS arrested In New York last night for crtapgk a disturbance at the Bijou Opera Hones, in in an intoxicated condition. aonnnMM bf another lady, who said she lived on lStasttOOt. Mrs. Allen attempted to go into the tboater without tickets. The doorkeeper uilMud her admittance, and ordered her away tea tkl door. Two young men who Interfered in Mr behalf were tnrasned bythe doorkeeper and Mia. Allen was locked up by the police.

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CITY AND DISTRICT. UHMRHItt A F W BOSK. Tfc? Horticultural Soflcty Lfndi Ii La France nd one of Mr. Bancroft a impor ted roses. Mr. Grady at that time vr?^ in the employ of Mr. Bancroft. He did not know the value of it, for he had sold cutting" at fifty cents. Mr. Fields said that they had ttrown it under flats, and found that it eouid be forced a* easily a? any oi the tea roses. They believed that T oould be raised easily outdoor*, but had not yet et It out. Air. Clark said he thought th? aociety hud done good service In recommending good plants and Bowers when there was so much fraud perpetrated by salesmen. lie offered a resolution recommending to the community the new and beautiful rot*?, a seedling raised in this city e*Uad the American Beauty. Mr. Saunders said that fraud was not always perpetrated knowingly, for socio plants will (row in some places ana not in others, as is tincase with certain grapes, lie mnv'fl that the words "to be grown out-.f doors or under glass" be added to the resolution, and in this form it was adopted. It was decided that each member should furnish a list of roses grown out doors for the June meeting. OVERWORKED BR.1IXS. Collapses Caused by Strain and Worry? Dr. Job neon Telle How to Preserve a onml Hind In aKsnnd Body?rneqiml Development of the Body. Dr. Joseph Taber Johnson, in his lecture on "A Bound Mind in a Sound Body," in the V. M.C'.A. rooms last Monday evening, said: Unsoundness of mind and body was frequently inherited from unsound parents, who have destroyed their vitality by lives of luxury, dissipation, crimes and acquired disea.-e, which have descended through various generations, t nsoundness of both inind and body were acquired by too early and too much schooling. After referring to various diseases, caused or aggravated by overcrowding and over-heating school rooms, the speaker gave instance* of the overstrain of the Dervous v?tem in the colleges, male and female. These break-downs were not conlined.he aid, to the colleges for young men a.id young 'Women, where there had be?n too great meutal Strain aud too little healthful exercise in the open air, but instances of the same kind occurred in the military and naval academies. Tbe systems of averages and competitive examinations destroyed the soundness oi many minds and bodies. The over-work and mental strain and worry connected therewith in the live* Of clergymen, jurists physicians, politiclajis. statesmen, editor* ana Congressmen, were referred to at some length, and many instances Of break-down and nervous exhaustion were mentioned. Intellectual work was shown to be productive of longevity. Statistics prove that of 100 Workers oi unusual brain development and power, more of them are alive and capable of continuing their labors at 60 and To years than ol an equal number of uneducated men who are simple day laborers or muscle workers. i Brain work, however, which has to be accomplished in a hurry, or under a strain of body and accompanied bv friction and worry, is rapidly exhausting and largely contributes to the constantly Increasing number of collapsing me a and women, who can hardly be spared from tUc places they occupy. Referring to unsoundness of the body, the doctor said: "Stand on some prominent corner,say 9th and For 15th i street and Pennsylvania avenue, at about 4 o'clock p.m. for an honr, and watch those who pass, and yon wiJl agree with me as to the 1 email proportion of perfectly sound men and wdmen employed In the departments, and also 1 of the promenaders for health and pleasure at that time in the day. Many have pale faces, round shoulders, hollow or flat chests, one shoulder higher than the other; some have big heads, broad foreheads, but small necks, feeble bodies and bow-legs. Few stand erect, walk gracefully and appear sound." It was demonstrated by the lecturer that the various out-door occupations did not. as was popularly believed, produce soundness of all parts oi the body. Some members were de- eloped to the exclusion and at the expense of others. Thus a man who aits and breaks stone all day develops powerful arma and back, but has no legs. Men who bend over on their work, asln digging in the ground, have strong arms and legs, but become round-shouldered aud flat chested, and die quickly of the various disea-es which attack the lungs. A strong, heartv sailor la no walker; he is unequally developed;" has to 1 get his sea-legs off before lie could run any distance. A farmer, who is supposed to lead the most healthful life, has no spring or elasticity to his muscles. He walks in the city as if he were walking on ploughed land. The svstematic exercise of all the muscles of the bod'y, as in Well taught calisthenics and gymnastics, was suggested as a remedy for theoverand under de- elqpment of the different members of the body above referred to. The over-strain of heart and lungs In (he rowing and running matches was referred to, and a warning note was sounded. He entreated his hearers to aid in the development of sound minds in sound bodies In tne rising generation, so as to fill the important places In the church and state, lor the future good of tbe country and the race. "Criticising a School Man.'* OB PER CAPUT V. PER CAPITA. To the Editor of The Evexixo Star: Three days of grace have expired, yet no pro teat from "Oorrectiom'' tothe effect that he did not mean what he said In Monday's issue. This Is i surprising. The Star may have done a kindly act tn receiving that essay on per capita, but it was cruel to publish It. A criticism so vulnerable to criticism is rarely met with, charity might even now consign it to oblivion, if ailence would not give currency to errors which Ignor- i ance has fathered and arrogance fortified. A crttle, a Mrs. Mai a prop. in trowsers, who prides himself, on his parts of speech, a philological philanthropist, who rushes into print to correct another a mistakes and furnish grammar gratis, complacently reposes his infallibility upon such a aenience as this "per caput and i not per capita Is the proper word" A phrase composed of a preposition and a noun. Is'-the' 1 proper word.'* If he were not a corrector, this solecism might be attributed to haste or carelessness, but criticism is like malice aforethought; there is in it premeditation and deliberation: a fault-finder should be free from fault s. "Let such teach others, who themselves excel And censure freely, who have written wall'" Perhaps "Orrrection' did not str.p to think about anything. The fact that wr efiwitn received the imftrhnatur of The Star should have warned him to consult something of more authority than his own understanding. But he neither conferred with the living, nor communed with the dead. Johnson, Webster, Worcester and others, when in the flesh, stood by per capita, and now, no donbt, their spirits are Buttering around per capita as the parent birds nutter around the nest which is threatened b r a piratical hawk. 3 i The man who slnrere'.y wt?hes to instruct takes steps to inform himself, but I am afraid that "Correction" Is more desirous of crit- I 5?e man than of enlightening manv The slightest investigation would have shown him that per capita, meaning singly, 13 authorized by good and general usage; that It la to be round in every dictionary and quasi-dlo tlonary, from Webster's unabridged to Rooet'a Thesaurus. It he had consulted Andrew's LatinJCngllsh lexicon he would have found that the accusative plural, by m?tonomy and distributive^, is thus used, e, g.: "In capita. In distribution, to or for each person,"' and the same construction would give per capita, by each person, by the head, singly. Andrews alludes to a similar const ruction In the Hebrew, while Liddell and 8cott give a like example In the Greek. **JTafa tphetu. tribe by tribe: separateiv," reference being made to the Illlad. etc. The analogy between the construction of per I annum and that of per caput Is confined to Correction s creative lmaglnation.hu Latin learning being of that dangerous "little" species whleh Pope warns against as productive of extreme rashness in, and Inconvenience to, the poeaegsor. With grammar and lexicon let v Correction retire into temporary obscuritv. wUb. ?1W* 8iliCe 11 be declined with thanks. After suffering a reasonable philological quarantine he can return to oj word critics, provided that he ha* by Player, fasting and studv.both *SL^S??f5enc* and understanding, for no man target whose arrow L? aimed with ill-will and feathered with an ignorance that Would disgrace a high school boy. Verv trulv B. G. Lovejoy. Courtship In England. To the Editor of Tbe Eveslsu Stajk: 2 saw an article In Saturday's paper headed "Marriage Promises In England. I presume toe writer knows but very little about courtships in England. There is no eonntrv where parents are more strict over their girls "than in Ingla&d- It is true, as the writer states, that a* soon as a young rentleman begins to show the daughter attentions the totier wishes to know what it means. The article atates that as soon as engaged the young people are throwa 59^*^ tbwujr,h lWare man aud wti*. That is disgraceful, and ft iscertainlv n?* v Mew often do we read of the girts in 4? America having two gentlemen coming to see them until the night of their marriage Much *22 would it have been If the father bid Mbd out the iutentlons of one and made tha eabee "cut stick," as the writer calls it, before it eo?ee to a shooting case. s wore it There is one thing, tbe English keep marrlace as a sacrament, and there are not half as many dlvoeoe caees la Eagland as la America. **rw. __________

THE PBMIDCTrfl CVPBCTL The Ancient unit Honorable Record ?f the First Presbyterian Church. TITE EARLY DATS OF WASHI*GTO!?\ AXD ITS PRIMITIVE CHCBCH BB*LDi>-O*?TUK VIK0T CHURCH AND DR. srsuaaiASD.

The history of a church organization, especially when it dates from an early period, Is so closely interwoven with that of (te commnnity in which It it planted, that It la 'difficult for the chronicler to write separate aaerly had suddenly been changed from agricultural lauds Into city lots, much of which lay beneath the water and heavy vegetation of a swauip, and nearly all of "which fronted on streets which ran through forests still unbroken. The bound of the hammer and the mn^lc of the trowe^as heard as the new city began to tivke shape and form, and buildings were ere; ted for the accommodation of Congress and the executive departments. Five years before the seat of government was finally moved to this District the presbytery of the Presbyterian church in this part of the country met in Uladensburg, which then, owing to the great depth of the Eastern Branch, was almost a seaport town, as sea-going vessels from foreign and domestic ports found th dent Lincoln. Mrs. Senator Wade, Mrs. Trumbull, and other ladies interested in a school fbr colored children wished Mr. Douglass to deliver his lecture for tbe benefit of thhr charity Mr Douglass was willing, but no hall in the. city ?>uld be procured where a colored man would be allowed to speak. So the ladles came to Dr. Sunderland and asked for the nee of Machurchi The dootor gsve his consent readily, but there was opposition among the members of the seZ slon. However, the permission was obtained and Mr. Douglass spoke, bat tM Intense feeling which this incident created among tbe members of the congregation resulted in tie Withdrawal of u large number of families to other churches and a breach was made la social and personal relations which time has foiled to heat^^^ IS THE LATTER DATS. During the long pastorate of Dr. Sunderland the church has seen many changes. In 1859 the old building was reconstructed under the direction of the late Dr. Wm. Gunton, and assumed its present appearance. From time to time families have left the eld ohureh and formed church connections la other Darts of the city, so that the term, the old mother church which is so frequently used In reference to the First Church, nan a peculiar appropriateness. The cbnrch has had a roll etf twenty-eevea ruling elders. The first three were Geo. Blaeden Kiifm B. Caldwell and Oapt John f it Tt-'^ n good joke! Don't you think*? He-he-he a good joke. To fall in love with a little nink and whit* chalk and not know it. TeU them? ijue^ S? r 2*?16 of m-v business to go telling a 21 h *iLo?k herVou fool. all that beauty naav at,,?^ shop for a thousandth Dart of lift that 11 cost you.' Oh, no. I would not be telling you if yon hadn't come around j^km* U^he,yaJ' 5"ou did. I'm in the ladies? confidence, don t you see. Now you think vou S2J?M en a lady paints, don't you?'' he VlPJln,n8: a U,tle pi'Ik box around between his fingers. "Well, maybe vou can if she 1 brv-Sh or a trowel- But they don't do that now. Aot many of them. Tliev don't use paint at all. They used to use rouge and enamel andI such things, and everybody could see it. lo paint then ranked high un in the d^gH?rL?wSin4' and th9re weren t many who aared do it. Now nine out of ten women add ti artificial beauty to their complexion lostead of the old-fashioned paint, thev use ikavS!UTb5?iS5 slttt^es ????r coior? hite powders were used first and it w?9 thought to be all right for a ladv to put meen tun or starch on her face to take the bJeiu^i^i'nlr'^r,Stiled t0 11,1 t'ng, and now the ?i l,* complexion has become a science instead ol an art. They have powders how for every complexion, and they arevo de leately tinted that you can't discover them on the face. The pure white powder showed very plainly and gave the face a ghastly appearance. To correct this they tint the powder so a? to make it exactly tlesh wloPr? They dust it o'ver the face and wipe it otl-or ruther t#i, with a towel, and the comVery lre.?to,?like roses and spring hi^ young girls use it, though I Tiavl be&rd it swd?I would not iik.o to sslv it mvsoif ^toatjheylook much sweeter without it.' But s artificial softening of the.cnm?oS??~imn2?n that nica d(jn't know that It isn t natural. Most of them don't see anv lul?*T?i!8el1a?(? wouldn't appreciate it if they did. The girl has the most beaux in the bail room who applies the powder most cleverly. Another thmg young ladies don t powder and fix themselves up for balls only. Thev are ilat*eh in?der ed ?on the street, iri the hoke and i h ,i would take your breath awav if catUw^fa^ f?U thV amount of these little d'elit5*tely tinted powders we sell. "Here's some brunette powder, it comes in three shade, white, pink, and brunetu-'' and lie handed the scribe a box of pow"That ?at 1k?d like ground orris root. i liat s a. new thing. Since brunettes huvp come into fashion, they have been opposed to using these pink and white powders, as it took away the olive richness of their complexion so so'ne Yankee compounder invented this. It is rtlivi "d jHst 8Uits the brunette complexion. Bye and bye 1 presume they will have several different shades. One for the real genuine strawberry blonde, another for'the timid tow-head, another for light brown hair bine fyes and pink cheek*, and still another or the KS?S*M so up tu :vlB l y*1- might as well let you "nto aH the seciet. But don t ior the would tell anvbod v ie.rf,' i.s ior the eyebrows. You see it has a hah round point. When drawn across the place where the eyebrows ought to be itmaket a mark just the right width and shape. Thev come in all shades. And this little fine pointed pencil is for marking out veins in the lace after t has been powdered. It is used to make veins to the temples and across the cheeks: this is thought to be very pretty. Thev come in dif1? according to the depth the vein ni^K^ t appear from the surface. Across an alabaster temple they would be clear blue* on the swarthy cheek of a brunette they wotdd uv? a b[owu?to Huge, like that. i her0 is a thing that is rapidly making kissing unfashionable," and he held up a little wooden tube filled with a coralcolored paste. "This makes women stop kissing altogether,, except when both t>aitles understand it, and then thev ined pastes made of white lead some funnv a? ciUeutH happened on account of the sensitive^ol'toelead to acids and thelike! I onct ,ffdy wh? vent to a ball with her face fixed with some lead preparation. Ourlmr the evening her lace began to ehan"e color irettinir first an ashy pale, a^d finallj-^W lSlSSf W hile she was chatting awav gallv to an ad^iriUg ^TCle of lrieQtis the transition^ twfe greatest consternation prevailed. ,er ?inc at once and sent for a doc tor, but the trouble was soon discovered. The the paste." 6 re*1:" "Bnt Jtut to ahow you how ridiculous this ttoing is, continued the policeman, apparently enjoying the keen and bittng air, veiy much to the listener's dismay. "Some night when I am Qtf duty I may get a carriage and to to the theater, and when I oome out I can say tomv lieutenant, 'Here, you eail my carriage^a?^ h? would have to do it, you know," andthe m11o? man paused a moment as hit mind dwelt ttngerfngUr upon this picture of hiTlm^Sa-I don't thiak," be went on at last, "that 2?.#OT*,22?*l,i,?be,***ot?d to do this kind oi duty. The tbeat?M should have their own man to io this work, and not have it dons it ih? PUtolte expense. If! write this aU oat do you Sidid. wattW U," Weon" Xbe listener was so benumbed that ha moia ot talk and making a dumb SbSrt^the officer which might have been lnterorotad to maac that the piper would anything be would write, or t&t tb? C,r would lUte to puceh bis head for keeoln^tdm tffrtlwL1 th8 001(1 lon*' h*nulMd down died pitHeellng his innoeenoa. The boiler of the it-tamer Mark Twmtm SittZSL i T 1 THE JTEW ARXT XEDIfAL BFIIDIVO A Handsome Flw-pro?fStrn?tni* to be Erected Hr the Great Medical Library. One of the Important measures enacted by the last Congress was the passage of the bill making an appropriation of $200,000 for the erection of a fire-proof building for the records, library and museum of the medical department of the army. The selection of the site and the adoption of a plan for the proposed building was cdmmitted to a commission composed of the Secretary of War, the architect of the Capitol, and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This commission, as stated in Thursday's Star, have held a meeting and practically decided upon a location in what it known as the Smithsonian grounds, at the corner of 7th and Bstreets southwest. Theproposed building will be 150 feet from the National Museum building, which is considered to be a sufficient distance for architectural effects. The commission have not as yet decided upon the plans, but those prepared and submitted to Congress will probably be adopted, with such modifications as the reduction in the amount of the aj?propriation asked for will require. These plans contemplate a brick building three storleshigh and 240 feet front, with two wings, each or a depth of 120 feet. The library, it was proposed, will occupy one of these wings; the museum the other, and the middle portion will be reserved for offices and the storage of the hospital records. The exterior will be plnin, with a tower In tlie center, and in general appearance it will not look unliko the National muFeum. After the plans are adopted the Secretary of War will designate some oftl'-er of the army to superintend the erection, and it Is thought probable thatCol. 'asey will be detailed for this duty. It is probable that the work of erection will begin about the 1st of July. The necessity for such a building has been felt for some years. As Is well known, the library, museum and the war records are now crowded In the building on 10th street, which is historic in having been the theater where President Lincoln was shot. The building is not only too small, but It is only partially tire-proof, and there Is danger the valuable contents may he destroyed by fire. The erection of this building forms an important epoch m the history of the medical llbrarv, whicn has grown to such proportions as to demand an entire building. It is now the largest collection of books in the world which Is devoted exclusively to medicine and the closely allied sciences. It contains 67,000 books and 75,000 pamphlets?more than two thirds of existing medical literature. For mauy years there was a small collection of medical books and Journals In the office of the surgeon general, which was probably commenced by Surgeon General Lovell about 18-30. At the commencement of the late war. this collection consisted of about.850 volumes, mostlymedlca!textbooksandJournals. In 1862 and 186S, while Dr. Hammond was surgeon general, about 380 volumes were added, being chiefly works relating to military medicine and surgery. A catalogue published in the fall of 1805 shows that the library then contained about 1,800 volumes. The catalogue of 1872 placed the number of volumes at 13,000. In 1874 there were 25,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets, and si nee that date the growth of the library has been uninterrupted. This rapid increase Is largely due to the fact that physicians donate their books and pamphlets to the library. An Index catalogue is now being prepared, and five volumes of the proposed twelve have already been issued, giving the subjects in alphabetical order, and under each is a list of the books, pamphlets and everything in the library which relates to the disease. It is stated by competent authorities that this library not only contains more medical literature than the British museum or the National library of France, but that It covers a wider field and is a better practical reference and working collection for medical purposes than either of the great libraries referred to. The librarian of this great collection is Dr. J. S. Billings, and he is assisted by Dr. Robert Fletcher and Dr. H. C. Yarrow with the necessary clerical force. In addition to this valuable library there is the Army Medical museum which contains some 22,000 specimens illustrating the wounds and diseases incident to war and armies. The latest appliances for the treatment of diseases and the new inventions oi apparatus designed to illustrate anatomy are found in this collection, and in conjunction with the library it is believed to afford facilities for medical study and rcsearcn that have hitherto been unobtainable in this country. It is therefore resorted to not only by medical men and writers in this country, but those from foreign countries who conre here to complete their education.

Correction of Mistake. disbursing officers are within the civil service rule*. To the Editor of The Evkvivg Star: In the list of employes of the government reported from time to time in the newspapers as being exempt from the civil service rules, it is noticed that disbursing officers and others occupying places of a fiduciary character are mentioned. This Is evidently a mistake. Section 176 of the lie vised Statues provides that 'the disbursing clerks authorized bv law In the several departments shall be appointed from clerks of the fourth class (S1.8O0), and shall each give a bond to the United States for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office according to law in such amount as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and with sureties to the satisfaction of the solicitor of the Treasury." Thai law has been strictly observed in all the denfltments. The present Incumbents of these offi'M hare been designated from clerks of the fouiw class, and in almost every instance have rise* from the lowest to the highest grade of clerkship In their respective departments by laithfnl and honest attention to official duty. The only Instance known of a violation of tlie above statute was in the appointment of Col. Bnrnslde to be disbursing clerk of the Post Office department. He has been reported a defaulter. The United States has entered civil suit against his bondsmen to recover the amottnt of the defalcation. In making defense his bondsmen claim that Col. Burnside having been illegally appointed a disbursing clerk, tbey are not liable for the loss sustained by the government. If, therefore, any of the present disbursing officers in the several executive departments should be removed, their successors will have to be.appointed from a clerkship of the fourth class in their respective departments, and said appointee must, in order to reach that grade rood deal of disesttlsfactlon with the routine methods of the public schools; but of48.214 children between Oand 17 yearsoi age, both Included, there were 2S,3.>7 enrolled in the public schools. In 188t>. the United States census shows in this District 47,72" children between 5 and 17, both ages included. It Is probable that, three years later, the num ber between 6 and 17, the school age, was at least 47,000. But in November, 1883, th great, many parents preferring to pay tuitior charges rather than send their children to tb? public schools. And why are so many children taken out of tht public schools during the school year? Bet wee r November, 1883, and the following Juue, th? falling otT in the number enrolled was 2,873 and in the number in attendance 2,209. As the number enrolled was only 20,061, the showing is most damaging. It appears that the man agement brought in a good deal less than lial of the children of school age. and could not pre vent them from running out again like watei through a sieve! On the facts, modesty wouit be the virtue in order for the managers. Th*>n IV y n^v. j.-r i W-*w !?wor|h. Outer i ani H 1 I e ?h Hunt ProfV- IV Mo. At aula *v I Snnui, Jerrvid, :?k*kcns. h roti* i-r: l luiil HN iliiiur ^o s. tVa?b> lnctoit; Wm. lii. Untyit.t -on. i Given competent editorial service, and the reader need not be told that this is one of the most delightftil group ol books of the period, i Nothing possesses a greater charm for the average human being than personal chat. of the proper sort, and wheu it refers to personages i about whom so large an Interest centers a? those named abore.lt lacks nolhlng to flnwand hold attention. Of the pereonnlity of the editor ltttlri *>r nothing Is seen, save in a few nas^s uf Ir.tnv ductory uote. a chronology oft he leading events In each lite, the list of authority quoted from, and an excellent index. For the rest, he let* i Ins characters themselves or their friends sneak: and it ia only right to nr that t:ie oetae> uons ore as a whole Judiciously and happily l made, and that the editor has overlooked v>vy llttle, li anything, worth u-dni: in sneli connection. It is thcefore needles* to say that each i is a wonderful interesting volume.?fu-t of t he one likes to have at hand for half Imut's reading, whether at home, on a Jmm MJ. or at a pleasure resort. In appear:)yee they are attrae? tiveand unique, thongh the portraits are a? a rule hardly up to the standard chosen for the letter press. SIARJORIK DAW, ANT OTHFR PTORTFP. Bv r^iLV^. Ainmcn. Boston: Hourhtori, Mlriun Co. W*tiinu: \Sm. Baliaiitvtie Son. i A ?ARDEX 11 v Ch \ri v s t>riv Houeliton. MlUlin A: Co. ashin^rton: m. Balluntyne dt son. I As regards quality of contents und attractive; nessof appearance happily Joined together. It f will be no easy task to excel the two volumes named above.?the advance couriers of a new r aeries projected hv the publishers, to be known as -The Riverside Aldine Series." As muv be Judged from the title that all the s 5Squi?.,u>* the ca*e have ,>e"n hiirlv met. 1 lie Hi verslde Press has ion>r been laniou- for the quality of its work, and the n-?w -.erics will t H^ke rank with the best ofits product*. In sixe the volumes are convenient for handliuu the paper is heavy and good the tvpe lar-/.- and clear, and the binding plain and elegant,?the f whole presenting a retined and grace tul effect f As for the books chosen lor this form of imtuor. talitv. they are all prime favorites with the best class of readers. They may, Indeed, i>e called j modern classics, and are wholly worthy the honor thus conferred upon them, as wiil i>e un} derstood when it is stated that Lowell. Ilow ells, Harte and Burroughs an* announced as 81111)112 the authors whose writings will l>e included in the uew series. AT THE SION OF TITK I.YItK r.v At ?Trv I?or. f SON. New \orfc: Henry Holt 4 Co. Washington: Brentano Brothers f To most readers of the newspapers of the day much of the attractive poetry in this ex| ceptionally handsome volume will be famil> lar? f?r Mr. Dobson is one of the few modern l writers of verse in the enjoyment of such claims to immortality as wide contemporary jx.pu1 larity can give, although t*>meof the i>?-*t tJiincr I" the collection appear here for the first time. VN hatever Mr. Dolrson writes is chaructet i/ed by freshness of fancv, gra^eof^tvle and tiirine--et. but it i- doubtfulwhet her the 1 collection contains a -dn^le piece .vhi.-h will add J materially to his fame. ?_>i the louger i> many Sanskrit phrase* and elaborately accented words, that serve t?i con1 fuse rather thau enlighten the average reader. t EiXlAR POK AXU Hlis CRITICS. p.v SAR \H f Hklks Whitman. Second -?u. With 1'or trail. Providence: Tibbitta A Preston. Tills is a reprint of a sympathetic and apprei dative estimate of the genius of Edgar A. I'oe, published a quarter of a century ago, to vindicate his fame in a general way, and e?peci.*dl> from the assaults made upon" it at then rue of his death by Dr. Rufns tlrjswoid and other unfriendly critics. A sort of revival of inten-st in Poe affords the opportunity for anew edition of the little monograph, which is well worth reading on its own account as a verj- cliarmmir literarj* production. Since there must a limit to the supply of suitable material, it follows that the series of "Stories by American Authors." projected some time ago by Messrs. Charles Scribner' s Sons, would have to come to an end some time; but the reading public will nevertheless r^ret t learn that the tenth volume. Just out, is to be the last. The standard of excellence adopted in the beginning has been well maintained I throughout, and the set makes a very attractive cabinet ol light reading, well printed. sub?tnu' Ually bound, and furnished at a surprisingly low figure, even for these times of low prices. Under the title of "Birt hday Flowers," White, Stoke? Allen have published a pretty little card-board-and-frinjrebrochure, containing half a score of suitable* poems, illustrated with colored drawings of flowers, after nature, br Susie Barstow Skelding. whose talent in that'line of art we have heretofore had occasion to comJ mend. In both text and plates it is well adapted for the purpose intended, and will make a valued keep sake for a young lady with a taste for sentiment. i The admirers of rteneral Gordon will find t much to interest them in a neat little ribbon| tied compilation from his letters, etc., made by {i?ura c- Hollowav. and published bv Funk AI w agnails. They give the reader an excellent idea of his character, in showing the lofty estimates he placed on duty, religion and the varied responsibilities of life. MIn the Distance," about the best, if not the very beet, story Mr. George Parsons Lathrop has written, has been added to sjcribners" cheap paper-cover edition of novels. Zl~?L The second or February number of Mr. Hickeox's very useful Monthly Catalogue of United States Publications has been issued, and is now ready lor circulation. Saturday Sinilew. The man who runs the restaurant In the Capitol at Washington has, in defiance of the theorv that a public office is a public trust, shut down on the credit system.?Chicago Xeu-s. A scientific journal in reply to the question, "What is foam?" publishes an article two columns in length. It could have been answered more briefly: It Is what you pay five cents :or and blow into the spittoon.? Binghainioit licputMean. Jinks.?Your wife is making a cragv quilt, isn't she? Minks (laughingly.)?Why, yes; but It is a great secret. How did you know? Jinlu.?That patch on your coat looks as if It was sewed on by yourselt. Minks (sadly.)?it vr*G.?Pr>iladelphia Call. He saved, and be saved, and be saved, Economical, good Mr. HusbandAnd when he had got all he craved, It went to his wife'ssecond husband.?Lift. "Oo in there. El Mahdi," said the doctor, who lived opposite the roller-skutlng rink, as he placed a two dollAr bill In his wallet wiiich he had Just received from a skater for dressing his scalp. "El Mahdi!" exclaimed the patient, "why do you call the bill El Mahdi?" y 18 the ftU1 s P^phet, you know," replied the doctor, as he smilingly showed the patient out.?Norton Courier. A. oouple got married for a second time on Monday at Washington's tomb. That's good. It is time there was some repairing done there.? If. Y. World. A writer in Harper's Bazar says "the ears should be so placed as not to be higher than the evebrow or lower than the tip of the nose." People who are dressing for a party should not forget till*.?Philadelphia (ML If the bad little boys ever got into the United 8tate8 8enate chamber and yelled out, Go up, old bald head!" it would take a powerful sight of bears to do Justice to the occasion.?Pitut/ura (P*nn.) Chronicle-Telegraph. Horseshoes were unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and yet thepeople ol these nations had cdnsiderable luck. They escaped the d vnamite seare, the erasy-quilt scare, tramps and the roller skating mania?LoweU Citizen. A rural gentleman, standing over a register in a city store, attracted some attention to himself byobsercing to his wife: Marlar, I guess I'm goto' to have a fever. I feel such hot airs a~runnln up my legs."?Exchange. Ruskinsays: In all things throughout the world, the men who look for the crooked will ee the crooked, and the men who look for the Mrafadit can see the straight." If Mr. Ruskln would only come to America for a vear or two and get civilised he would know*better than Many a free born American citizen has eeme to grief beeaoae he looked for the straight and found nothing but a bob-tail flush.?^bmervUle Journal. ^JBtororo win* A l&KBnen Max.?A Mrs. unrig, who has been selling Jewelry and costly ft?s among the leading families in Montreal, has beared out with several thousand dollars' worth of property she had been intrusted with. Trie detectives have learned that she has eloped with amanrted man. Her paramour, who belongs to one of the ftrst flunllle? leaves behind a wile and two children, Mrs. Harris has also taken with her a selection of the most valuable of her ftwa daughters' wedding presents. j RELIGIOUS NOTES. rHI RCHa 1IZK1 AVD S fjl Hamllne M. K. chnreh has haa|> omfly renovated and lYesooet1. After the wp. j nion. la?t sundav. by Rev. M p. m.; March So. at the church of the Holy t riHss; Incarnation. April 4. Christ church, ^'"trinwn, April 5. hi 1) v m and Trinity at A ,\1 p,.,m,:1A"Tn,1ni A?,rtl 12. at 11 a. m.| Anacoatlay April 12. at 4 p. m.; Christ church, nav v yard, \prll 12. at 7:30 p. m. The Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, ml- 4 t honch eighty-eight ream of are. on a recent Msttation preached bineteon sermons. j The Presbyterian* have fifteen Indian mis Ions, with an acerbate of 1.2Mcommunlettite and ten schools m operation. Tue w ill of the late Edward KnrU, of Baltimore, truest hs S2.000 to the Memorial Evan! gellcal Lutheran church in this city. At nnton, Pa., union in ?e 11tvgs are being held, in which Methodists, Presbvteriana Haitists and Disciple* work together." ?A story is told of an eminent preacher in New York city that, after vlsitine a ladies' society which were making: garments for the Hotteritot.s, he fathered up a liand of dirtv, ragged urchins from the streets. and marehaling thetu into the room where the sieter* were busilv at work, exclaimed, "Ladies the Hottentots have arrived!" A union took place a f*w weeks ago l>etween a M^'hodist and a Baptist church in a western village. The Baptists agreed, for the sake of unity, to uive up close communion, and the Methodists cave np sprinkling. A recent fire In the Ea*t Montgomery av- enue Methodist Episcopal church, PhiladeW p iia. Pa.. damaged the building to the extent of $15,000. Bishop I .inns Parker. P. p., of the Method's? hpisi opul church south, died recently at i New Orleans. j Rev. Timothy Mullens. of the HoUton conference. M. E. church south, died recently at his residence in Athens, Tsnasmt. The Presbyterian ?ceueraJ assembly's lierman tI.?-ol'>uleal school nt Dubuque, Iowa, In Its three departments--academic, collegiate and thcoloKieal has twenty-eight students, all Oer. mans, and candidates for the minii-trv among the n of the Baltimore annual conference of the M. E. church there weie some change* made in circuits. ToRladenaburg circuit,on which Rev M. K. Hammack Is the minister, Perklii ehajw-l near Spring field and Bowie, on s.v eni circuit la?t cat wi iv added. 11k latter elrti ii now cml?> Rutt- rinore McCormlck, of the M. P. church, who recently died at Oration, W. N a., had seen nearly six Ihousand persons converted. Tweuty-nli e churches had l>eeo ballt by and thmujrh his Instrumental!tv, and nine pars' inures built or bouuht. The following sensible rule U recomineudcd to church goers: Having entered the |h-w, move f aioiur. IK> not block up the end of the ;ddng sorrow to Copernicus tlmt lie never had a glimpse of the s wilt-footed planet that travels nearest the sun. Audacity is the prominent characteristic of I the smallest of the nlanetnrv bn.t horbood. The j most painstaking observer has not succeeded in finding out the cauwj of the undue acceleraj tion oi lii> perihelion point, and it is generally j conceded that the science of astronomy has at j present no raeaus capable of solving th* problem. He persistently hides from view any small planet or planets revolving nearer the sun than himself, though astrouomert have j traveled inanv thousand miles, hoping to dis- cover iutra-Mereurial planet* during a total solar eclipse,and he manages to keep the secrets j ol his physical organization bidden within bis own domain or iu the dense atmosphere that probably surrounds his tolid crust. We know j with certainty little more about him than when the telescope was first Invented. Ama tcur astronomers.with ordinary teleecopes.have seen bright spots on his surtaoe indicating an i axial rotation of about twenty-Jour hoar* j blunted cusps or horns,interpreted as due Cotbe shadows of mountanseleven miles high; a deviation from a spherical form; and even a hoi? through the center. Practical astronomers,with the most powerful telescopes in the world, fall to see these marvels on the disc of our fleettooted brother,and give little credence to them. i Nearly all that is known of Mercurv may be j summed up In a few words. He has phases like the moon. At eastern elongation, be appears like a half moon, before that time he is gibbous, alter that time he takes ou a form of a crescent. These are his phases while evening star. The same changes occur In re verse 3 order while he is morning star. Jupiter is evening star. Ii Mercury wins the first place for the number of Incident* he contributes to enliven the anuals of the month. Jupiter deserves high rank for the splendor of his appearance in the nocturnal skv. He is first and foremost for sire and brilliancy among t he starry host, an object beautiful to behold as he makes his way over the celestial road, followed by his twinkling attendant, Regulus. Planet and star keep at about the same distance from each other during Uje month, tor Jupiter is in stationary aspect and varies little in his bearing*. It is well to enjoy the present he?j lug aspect of the prince of planets, for Lis course tends to the south, and he Is approaching the apheliou of his orbit. HIx years inuei Intervene before he seemingly completes the circle of the Eodiar. and comes round again in lSftgL to perihelion and greatest northern declination Saturn Is eveniug star, and liolds his court in the western >kv, having passed the meridian before it i-dark enough for him to be visible and sinking helow the western horizon herore j midnight, alien the month commences. He, like Jupiter, at nearly stationary during the month. Neptune is evening star. He is very near th? sun. and the first ol the four grsat plieets to disappear below the horizon. Uiauus is evening star. There is nothing noteworthy in his course. He U, on the 1st 12m. east and 36' north of Eta Virglnis, a third magnitude star in Virgo, having changed his I position but little since his opposition. He atay I still beseenwith the unaided eye, thot^h the V I telescopic view is more satisfactory. Venus is morning star, though nearly lost to I sight. She is very near the sun, and will aoon I pass beyond the great orb. Mars is morning star, receding slowly from I the sun, and approaching the earth. At the I end of the month be rises about baif an hour I before the sun. THE MOON. I The April moon (nils on the 29th, at fourteen I minutes after 1 o'clock in the morning. The I waning moon is in close conjunction with Mars I and Venue on the 14th, the day bshw fcer I change. She is at her neareet point to lit?ij J and Neptun* on the 10th, in oonjunottoe with f M Saturn on tbe 18th, with Jupiter cm the Md, I and with Uranus on the 26th. The moon's oon- I junctions in her April circuit are not note- I worthy, for they are either Invisible or moon I and planet are Dar apart as they paas on the oe- I lestial road. I Our fair satellite, however, gets np a charm- I ing exhibition on a more southern belt at the I earth's territory between the limiting parallels I of 28? north and 38? south latitude. She occulta I the planet Venus, on the 14th, at 9 o'clock in I the afternoon. The cloee conjunction occurring I in this vicinitv, for moon and planet aie then I only 6' apart, beeomet in the more favored be I I of the earth's domain a beautiful occupation I The slender creaot nt,ouly ten hours before nr? I moon, occults tin fairest Qf the man thai I time nearly a rounded orb. Moon and plane: I are in turn hidden in the blase of sunllglo M Conjunction and occulUtion are, therefore in 4 mM visible to tbe naked eye, and in this reenect we are as well off as our southern neigbbonLThe I phenomenon may be obeerved with the *M of a I powerful telescope, for through Its light-when- I fti Aft Kr}fi\nx Pl?*>?t may be TolSwed in I full daylight, till she to nearly ready to nam be- I yond the great luinina^yT^ I

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i HOME MATTERS. h* kcyedy for ix mb ago? house decorations ?a comfortable chair? dainty bis. ccits?othkh appetizixq things. Home Remedies.? Carbollzed crwmollne, robbed briskly into the small of the back. Is recommended. by good authority, as giving immediate relief from lumbago. Continue the rubbing for a quarter of an hour. A Simple Method of decoration for the center of uninterested front-door panel* is found by Inserting in geometric patterns some goodsized brass-hearted tacks. If inserted before the painting, they may be made of the same color as the door. a Pretty Corner Ccpboap.d Is made of plain deal, upon which is traced a conventional pattern of plum* and blossoms. The background is covered with oak staining, and the J pattern is shaded with sepia. This may be easily made at home, and when French polished it has the effect of inlaid wood. For Light Window Curtains materials are now in use which give var.ety to the old and well-worn imitation laces which so long have figured as the proper thing. From simple cheese cloth to Indian silks,one inaygo through a long list of materials more or less expensive, which may be used with good effect. Buttermi i.k Muffins have but to be tried to become a standing breakfast dish. Beat hard two eggs into a quart of buttermilk; stir intiour to make a thick batter, about a quart, and lastly. a teaspoonful of salt and the same of soda. Bake in a hot oven in well-greased tins. Muffins of all kinds should only be cut just round the edge, then pulled open with the Angers. Dainty Biscuits.?Beat very light one egg; pour it over a pint of flour, add a wine-glass of milk, and chop in one tablespoonful of lard and butter mixed. Work thoroughly together, break up pieces the size of marbles, which must be rolled as thin as jour nail. Sprinkle with dry flour as you roll tnem out to make them crisp; stick with a fork and bake quickly. Potato Salad.?Boil six or eight potatoes, and when cold cut them in very thin slices; a salad bowl must then be rubbed with half a clove of garlic; some finely chopped chervil or parsley strewn over the potatoes in the bowl, and pepper, salt,oil and vinegar poured over the whole, and well stirred; the quantity of oil should be in the proportion or. Abernethy kicked his foot through j the pane ot glass in his patient's room, because he couldn't get him to have his window down, the excellent physician was thinking as much about his own safety as that of his patient. s Secondly, physicians know that they must live a by rule when attending cases during a pesti- s lence. The body must be kept up to the health a standard. In times of epidemic let everv one see to himself, attend to every rule of health, live regularlv, and keep the stomach most care- v" fully In order, and be abstinent. There is no other way of defending the Fortress of Life S aeainst invisible foes." n "This living according to rule," said my n friend musingly, "is a terribly hard thing to a have to add. At leas:., I am sure most people .i find it so." 1 "Few people." I replied, "think of doing anv- thing of the sort, until actual danger to life h stares them in the face. Some one else, I believe-has made a remark similar to this v before uovr, but it is worthy of being repeated." "And It is true," added Horton. "I have been thinking a good deal lately F "Most people who are laid low do think" I aid. "I have been thinking," said my friend, "that most of us err by eating more than is neces- P arv." 8 "How very/ true that is, Horton! Why, In care- fill regulation of diet?a diet that should in- j, ?llne to the abstemious?we have one of the best r defences against invisible foes of all kinds. 0 4 This is one of our po?ts, and should be held at j, all risks. If we care for life at all?and not for t life only, but comfort while we do exist. It Is t a fact which all should bear in mind, that over- t eating not only corrupts the blood, but destroys nervous energy."?A Family Doctor, in CXutell't j Family Magazine. E I.leotenwm lireelv Apinjr Oscar Wilde. I A* ashington Letter to the Buffalo Express. k I attended a reception given by an Oregon 11 Senator wife last evening. Lieut. Greely was i there. Imagine him a tall fellow, with long black hair parted in tho middle, Just like a woman. He.posed and was admired and lion ized. He look it all very grandly, and his air was that of one who considers himself a great t Individual. He s a very dainty and not at all 1 t arctic-looking person as he appears In the draw- 1 Inn-rooms of ashington. ^ou would think to c look at him he had quaffed society sillabub all c his lite, and had never eaten raw marine or c stewed sailor. His lionizing is carried to an r extent that is giving him a sort of Bunthorne e iituation. There are lots of "rapturous maidens" i surrounding him, and he s got the stago Doses v downline. a Hfnl Whlut and Domestic Whiit El. A. Proctor In Longman's. What Is the real game of whist, the reader nay ask. if domestic whist Is not whist at all? 's not the object the same? No doubt it la. The >bject of whist Is to secure as many tricks as xwsible. High cards tell at whist as at bumbleauppy (I thank thee, Pembridge, for teaching ne that word!) Nay, in quite a number of lands luck tells as much at one game as at the >ther, and If the whiBt player is of sordid mind, is many are, he rejoices at the dull hands in vhich he has only had to play out winning rards as much as the veriest duffer of domestic vhist at the way in which aces and kings take .ricks. But whist is a game of science, a game railing for the exercise of keen perception, vatchfulness. memory, patience, and trust in he established laws of probability. It may tound like exaggeration to say that whist is far >etter calculated to develop the mind than nany things taught at school, yet many a man an perceive a real gain to his mental qualities pim whist practice who would find it hard to ecognize any golayer can convey information to his partner in rarious ways; and it is urged that. Instead of riving their minds to points of whist strategy, >layers now have to do constantly looking out or this signal or that indication. Many of the >ld players determine to have nothing to do vith all"this signaling, but, alas for them they lave no choice. It is too strong for them. Though they may never signal themselves. hough they may resolutely refuse to respond o any signal made by their partner, they must lotice the signals alike of their partner and >f the adversaries, or all sorts of disasters will lappen, for which their partners will properly iota them responsible. Thus, a player Biglais for trumps, and presently his partner esponds by leading him a trump. Suppose low one of the other players has failed to mtice the signal. He falls naturally into he mistake of supposing that the p ayer who las led trumps is strong in them, and that he other adversary is presumably weak. Under his mistake he presently forces what he sup>o#es to be the strong trump hand, but in realty enables the weak hand to make trumps vhich would otherwise have fallen idle. Or, on he other hand, having a chance of forcing the itrong trump hand, the player who has failed o notice the signal refrains religiously from loingso, Imagining that he would be helping he enemy instead of cutting down his trump Irength. Under these circumstances a partler, if of the reproachful sort, can rebuke much nore effectively than where his own signal has nerelv been overlooked. To the reproach, 'whv"did you not lead me a trump when I sigrnled?" there is always the ready answer, "I aw Your signal, and I declined to respond to t because I object to the signaling system." Jut what answer can be made when your partler savs: "My good sir, you played the enemy's rame;*there was Y signaling for trumps and rou deliberately forced Z, giving him Just the rick which made their game; or you failed to Orce Y, though that was the only way to save ur game!" You cannot answer that you saw he signal, but preferred to sacrifice the game ather than act upon it. You are obliged to ,ell the truth (and what could be more pain- ul?) that you had failed to notice the enemy's .ignal. Whist?the real game of whist, I mean?delves its interest entirely from strategy, by vhich either tricks are made by cards which vould not, but for such strategy, have power to ake those tricks, or by which the plans of the idversaries to achieve such ends are detected ind foiled. Tricks may be made by high cards, >ut there is no interest in that. Any one can ake.a trick with the ace of trumps. Tricks may >e made by finesse?that is, by playing, instead if the best card, a lower card which may or may lot take the trick according as the Intermediate sard or cards lie to the right or left. This is beter, but the finesse pure and simple is a matter if mere chance, and so far as the actual gain of i trick is concerned there is no more scientific ov in the success of a finesse than in the eapu"re of a trick by a high card. There is science n the finesse, but the scientific interest does lot depend on the direct success or failure of he finesse at the moment, but on its bearing ipon the general play of the hand. Again, tricks nay be made by trumping winning cards of pla 11 uits. There isoften good science in bringing his about properly, not by the course lead of a ingle card or from a two-card suit, but by so arranging matters that the- ruff, when made, hall not impair, but utilize the trump strength vhich lies between you and your partner, pecial pleasure is there in the cross-ruff when ngeniously secured and properly employed; till more pleasure in tempting the enemy to a ross-ruff, which, while not lasting long enough o give them more than three or four tricks, ust destroys their superior trump strength. Jut the great delight of whist strategy lies in he manoeuvres by which'small cards are made o conquer large ones, as when a long suit is uccessfullv brought in, or the enemy forced >v skillful "strategy to lead up to a tenace. Nor s* there less pleasure in noting and foiling the ilans of the adversary for achieving these same nds. Nay, to the true player there ought to be ileasure even in noting the skill by which he enemy achieves success, but I fear me his is more than most players of whist attain o, however earnest may be their whist enhusiasm. I *o? Meteoric Dnst. I 'rom Nature. You all of know the shower of falli ng stones?the Vugust and November meteors; you know that hese are lumps of interplanetary matter career-1 ng through space, mostly doubtless round the un, but not aggregated together into planets. I told lumps of Iron they mostly seem to be, tossibly fragments of some ancient world, Kjssibly relics of the old nebulous world naterial, never yet aggregated Into worlds it all. For ages they may have been rushing ilong, some almost isolated, others crowded toetlier. and so thej might rush on for millions if vears; but a larger body bears down upon ome of them; they feel the gravitative Influence if the huge mass of planet; they are deflected roni their course notwithstanding their proligious speed, and a few dip into its atmosihere. In an Instant the terrific friction strips ff their outer coat, scrapes and rubs the surface ill it glows with a white heat; streams of white- I lot particles are still scraped off, and form a I uminous trail, but the white-hot masses plunge m, and one perhaps escapes to resume its n?nderings, disturbed a little by its encounter, iut not destroyed; another may be rubbed ri fragments altogether; another may be heated o rapidly and unequally as to explode; while nother mav enter the atmosphere at a very noderare velocity?may be heated, indeed, and iolentlv scraped, but not destroyed, and may mbed itself in the ground, to be dug up by ome peasant as a thunderbolt and to be preerved in some museum. The frayed particles of uch meteors must constitute no inconsiderable ortion of terrestrial dust; and since it comes rom altogether extra-terrestrial sources, it is to is of most intense Interest. One other visitant roni other worlds we know of. and that Is light. I .ight is found to be charged with information, hough it took man many centuries to learn low to read It?first with the'telescope, now with he spectroscope, and next with who shall say hat still more potent revealer and analyzer of lidden truth. Meteoric dust may not be so laden nth information as light is?certainly we have lot vet learned to read it. It is only within he last few years that, at the instigation of Sir Villiam Thomson, a committee of Section A f the British Association was appointed to conider the question whether such dust could be ollected and detected at all. Under the ble and enegetlc guidance of Dr. Schuster his committee ha* done good work, and some ust from the ice fields of the Himalayas and rom Greenland has been definitely proved to e meteoric. The New Style Hats. j THAT FASHIONABLE MEN WILL WEAK DURING THE SPRING SEASON. j 'rom the Philadelphia Times. j "There will not be much change in the style f hats this season," said a prominent Chestnut treet hatter yesterday. "The high silk hats ,re a little higher and straighter?less of a bell hape and with a little lighter curl in the rim. 'he derbys are much the same, only there is a light deviation in the direction of square rowns. One of the new things is a reddish irown tan and a greenish gray, with a bronze and, both made In London. Altogether, the lew styles show less change than they have in nany seasons. Tweed hats will be worn to ome extent, but there are many imitations, 'he real tweed hats that come here are of English make. These tweed hats are usually rom on rainy days or for traveling. The high Ilk hat remains the most dressy article of ead wear for gentlemen. The derby, however, I rill be the most worn."

A Foolhardy Club of Thirteen. 'rom the New York Times. The "Thirteen club," which annually sits own at dinner on Friday, thirteen strong, rides Itself on having overthrown the so-called uperstition that thirteen is an unlucky num>er. In point of fact the club has shown that it i as ignorant of the nature of ill luck as it is eckless in trifling with it. Has no ill luck vertaken the reckless members of this foollardy club? Did no one of them lose money on I he election or in connection with Jack-pots hat seemed outwardly full of promise, but iroved in the end costly delusions? Has no >ne of them been afflicted with plumbers or gas nspectors, and have all of them escaped sick- I tess or matrimony or visits from undesirable elatlvesor sermons lasting forty-flve minutes? f they have suffered in these ways, how do they :now that their sufferings are not directly due o their audacious dinners? Over>pres*nre in Schools. ^rom the New Yoric Tribone. The highest medical and educational authorl- I ies in Germany and England are loud and peristent in their warnings against physical harm nid nervous ailments caused by over-pressure n public schools. The danger is greatest in the ase of girls between twelve and fourteen years f age. although it is not to be ignored in the ase of boys of the same age. It ought not to equlre much argument to convince practical ducators that entrance examlnationsof ninety >er cent entail continuous overwork and ner-ous excitement and imperil the health and anity of girls of that age. The Han Who Lived to be a Hundred Because He Wanted t? From the Saturday Review. Cornaro's regimen?which consisted of eggs, soup, bread, pancakes, and such like food, with wine?was, as he tells us, Intended for himself alone. All people should live temperately, but the temperance of one man is the excess of another. Cornaro's method is the simple one that each man should find out for himself what la the suitable quanitv of food and drink for himself, and then live accordingly. The charm of Cornaro's narrative consists in the garrulous naivete with which he sets forth his simple creed and practice. Italv, he says, was suffering from three great evils?first, from flattery and ceremonies; secondly, from the effect of the Lutheran doctrines; thirdly, from debauchery. These three evils, or rather "cruel monsters or human life," have destroyed respectively social sincerity: secondly, the religion of the soul; thirdlv'the health of the body. The first two plagues he leaves to be dealt with by some "gentill spirlti," who will banish them from the world; the third he undertakes to extirpate himself, being convinced that Italy before his death will return to her former "fair and holy manners." To this end he gives his own practice as an example to be followed, at least In its aim and spirit. His daily allowance of food was three roils, the yelk of an egg, with meat and soup, the whole weighing 12 ounces; his dally allowance of wine was 14 ounces. On one occasion, after he had slightly increased the quantities, he became in a few days "choleric and melancholy," and soon foil into a violent fever, from which he only recovered by returning to his former regimen. He never ate or drank to the extent of his appetite; avoided extremes or heat and cold; was careful to have sufficient sleep. To keep clear of grief, melancholy, hatred, and other perturbations of the mind was alsoanessential part of his system, though temperance in eating and drinking will do much to counteract mental troubles, as well as to nuetrailze the effects of bodilv hardships. Once when powerful enemies broug*ht a suit against him he kept his equanimity, and won his case In the end, while his brother, who had led an irregular life, died of anxiety while the case was still going on. If men were but temperate as he was himself they would live to be a hundred years old. He himself intended to do so, to die at last, not or disease, but of "pura resoluzione." If he had had a good constitution to start with he would reach 120 years instead of only 100. He did, in fact, die very nearly at the age of 100, if he did not surpass it. He is sure that, having on earth led a life pleasing to God, he will by His mercy enjoy the heavenly life alter death. Until he adopted the temperate life he never "knew that the world was fair." The temperate "fanno brutto 11 im?ndo." Even the deaths of relations and frienffs troubled him little, so calm and equable had his temper become. These and other doctrines to the same eftect he published in his lirst treatise, written when he was at the age of 83; three years later he followed it up bv a second, the "Compendio del la Vita Sobria;" five years later still he published a third; and, finally, at the age of 95, he brought out his "Loving Exhortation," urging his readers to do as he had done, and to enjoy the happiness he had found. Not a little of it, he tells us, was due to the fact that many of them had followed his advice.

Soothing Syrup* and Popular Remedies. From the National Review. Opium forms the basis of innumerable remedies, and very effective remedies, sold under titles altogether reassuring and misleading. Nearly all soothing syrups and powders, for example?"mothers' blessings" and infants' curses?are really opiates. These are known or suspected by most well-informed people. What is less generally known is that nine in ten of the popular remedies for catarrh, bronchitis, cough, cold and asthma are also opiates. So powerful indeed is the effect of opium upon the fining membrane of the lungs and air passages, so difficult is it to find an effective substitute, that the efficacy, at least the certain and rapid efficacy, of any specific remedy for cold whose exact nature is not known affords strong ground for suspecting the presence of opium. Many chemists are culpably, almost criminally, reckless, and not a fewculpably ignorant in this matter. An experienced man bought from a fashionable West End shop a box of cough lozenges, plesisant to the taste and relieving a severe cough with wonderful rapidity. Familial* with the influence of opium on the stomach and spirits, he was sure before he had sucked halt a dozen of the lozenges that he had taken a dose powerful enough to atlect his accustomed system, and strong enough to poison a child, and do serious harm to a sensitive adult. Yet the lozenges were sold without warning or indication of their character; few people would have taken any special precaution to keep them ovit of the way of children, and the box, falling Into the hands of a heedless or disobedient child, might have poisoned a whole nursery. The New Orleans Street Car. Letter to San Francisco Argonaut. Speaking of cars brings to mind the great politeness and courtesy of the southern men. I have seen three or four of them rise simultaneously to offer seats to an old and ragged negress, and never siuce I have been in New Orleans have I seen a woman standing in a car while a man occupied a seat. In New York many handsomely dressed and attractive women have become accustomed by long experience to cling to the strap of a swerving Dob-tail car, while a dozen or fifteen men sit comfortably. One grows accustomed to that sort of thing, and does not realize what a man's duties are until it is brought forcibly before him, as it is here by the manners of the men of New Orleans. The admirable part of it Is that they do not discriminate in the least. A ragged woman of wretched aspect is treated with the same courtesy on every occasion as her more attractive and younger sisters. In passing up her fare, stopping the car?in fact, in every little attention that can be paid to a woman passenger?there is positive competition among the men. Every street car driver here Is called "Gallagher." The only slang expression in the place is that which is addressed in a chorus to the driver, after a woman has alighted, by the men passengers. She steps off the car, and the driver sits comfortably ahead looking at the mule. He displays every inclination and intention of sitting there forever, until three or four passengers raise their voices and cry, gravely: "Let her roll, Gallagher." Upon this he lets go the brake and the mule trots daintily on its blithesome way.

Mexican Hotel and Home Life. What Mexico needs more than anything else is a good hotel. It is about two hundred years behind the times in this respect. The city has Ave railroads, a splendid street car system, telegraph wires to all the world,a telephone service with 700 subscribers, six daily newspapers and any number of weeklies, electric lights, the best bath-houses in America,but not one decent hotel. Those who have to remain in Mexico any length of time invariably go to housekeeping, ana can thus live as comfortably and economically as anywhere in the states. There is no aristocratic quarter in Mexico, and it is fashionable not only to live on a business street, but to have a saloon or a meat market on the ground floor. Everybody lives, in flats, tne houses are usually three stories high, and the top floor is considered the best. It will rent for $100 a month, while the second floor rents for $40. When a house is to be let in Mexico the owner sticks an old newspaper In the window. It isn't very tasteful, and seldom improves the appearance of the house, but it is economical, and understood by the community. Servants are cheap and plenty, and you are* pretty sure to have several descendants of the Aztec kings about the house if you hire one, for It is the rule here that the whole family go with the father or mother when they go out to service. Your cook brings her husband, her children, and pretty nearly all her relations, and tney are fed from your table and sleep under your roof. The husband may be a shoe-maker, or a saloon keeper, or a hackman, but he lives where his wife works. There are usually rooms enough in the house for them all, and the only food they want is plenty of beans and what is left from your own table.

Philadelphia's Cable Road. DEFECTS WHICH WILIi COST A QUARTER OF A MILLION TO REMEDY. The cable road of the Philadelphia Traction Company, constructed through twelve miles of the principal streets of the city, has been found to be radically defective, after a cost of $600,000 to the projectors. One of the engineers engaged upon the system expressed the opinion to-day that $250,000 would be required to correct mistakes and make the road practicable for traffic in cold weather. When the Iron conduits, through which the cable passes,were laid, iron rods were run through the stringers and bolted to the top of the conduits Just below the slot where the grip passes down to the cable under tne street. These rods were expected to counteract the pressure of the ground, and keep the slot open. Every change of temperature, however, has been fouhd to affect the width of the slot and hinder the passage of the grip. Work was begun to-day to remedy this error. The ground must be torn up over the entire twelve miles of track already laid, and substantial new ties and iron braces are to be inserted in place of the defective ones. The projectors of the road visited Chicago to examine the system in operation In that city two years ago, and attempted improvements in Philadelphia which will now cost a quarter of a million to undo. Tbe President Hankering After a Ty1 pbold Rest. From the Louisville Journal. A Louisville man in Washington insisted on seeing the President. Great efforts were made to bluff him off, as Mr.Cleveland was very busy. No offices, they told him, could be filled before the 4th of July or early in October. He said he wanted no office, but the Presidential menials winked and asked him what he was giving them. After a long time a Congressman came along, took pity on him, and got him in. Mr. Cleveland looked careworn,but Inquired kindly* "Whatoffice'did you say, sir, you would like V> "0,1 don't want office," said tbe Loulsvlller pulling a long fiat bottle out of his pocket, "I merely called, sir, to leave with you these specimens of the micrococci inhabiting our wells. Why, sir, you have no idea how much excitement there is in our town about 'em." Mr. Cleveland looked surprised, and then be said "Thank you, sir, thank you; I have been thinking for some time of contracting the typhoid fever in hope of getting a rest. God bless you, sir. Whenever you are in Washington, make the White House your home." The happy LoniBviller is not yet back from Washington. xplwlm sad Tint. From the Philadelphia Times. "Speaking about dynamiters," said a naturalist, "I have brought a Daw specimens to illustrate that feature in low lift?as there ate dynamiters in the lower animal kingdom as well as in the higher, and curiously enough, we might say the same of the vegetable kingdom. I remember a few years ago I was traveling on a small vessel bet ween some of the West India islands, and at one place had purchased a number of curious seeds, placing them under my birth for safe keeping. I was sitting at the small table, hanging on with both hands, in company with a negro passenger, when there came an explosion that sounded as if a barrel of powder had gone off. Something whizzed by my face so closely that I felt the wind, and another projectile struck me full In the breast. The negro was not so fortunate. He uttered a loud yell as the sound came, threw up his hands, and with the blood spurting from his face went over backward with a crash that brought the skipper and crew down the hatch in a nurry. We picked him up, and first he swore that I had shot him and then that I had hit with with a club, but in a moment he recovered from his fright and we began to investigate. "The man had been struck fairly In the nose? a blow so powerful that It was several hours before the hemorrhage could be stopped. When I rose from my seat something dropped upon the cabin floor, and I afterward picked it up; and what do you suppose it was? Nothing but a sect ion of one of the seeds, and they were the explosives. The heat of the cabin had in some way affected them so that they went off like cartridges, and us each of them was made up of several pieces, it had somewhat the effect of grape-shot. One struck the negro as related, another missed my head and shattered a looking-glass behind me, another struck me in the chest, while still another, curiously enough, took off the handle of a pitcher, or monkey cooler, that stood on the table. Four of the seeds didn't go off, and you may be sure I put them in a strong box. A number of seeds," continued the speaker, "have a similar habit of exploding, ana it is generally a provision connected with the dispersal of seeds. In the west I have seen trees explode with a report that could be heard nearly a mile; in this case the frost was the cause. There certain insects bore great holes in the bark of trees, rain finds its way in and freezes, and away goes the tree as If you had placed a torpedo in it, showing what the expansive power of water will do." Esthetic Poker in Boston. From the Chicago Rambler. The Intellectual game of draw-poker has taken a firm hold on the dwellers in cultured Boston, and the teachings of the Concord School of Philosophy are for a time forgotten. Our special correspondent writes us that he recently overheard several fair daughters of the Athens of America indulging in this pleasant pastime, when the following dialogue ensued: Anastasia.?"Is It my aunt? Oh, yes! well, there's a solitary check." Clytemnestra.?'"I will bestride your destitute of sight, dear." Proserpine.?"Well, draw your cards, girls. I will remain Patrick." Millicent.?"Well, I will wager a half-score of checks." Anastasia.?"I behold you and elevate you five." Proserpine.?"I fear that you are feigning to possess more than you really have, but nevertheless, dears, I call you." Auastasla.?"I have a homogeneous trio of aces." Millicent.?"And I a Robert-appendaged flush." Proserpine.? "While I hold a quartet of knaves. Millicent.?"Well, dear, then you take the ceramics." Western Rivals in Politeness. From the Detroit Free Press. They sat together in the smoking compartment of the sleeping car alter breakfast and were very quiet for a long time. At last the fat man remarked: "It is curious how traveling affects some people. For instance, my feet are so swollen that I can only keep my boots on with positive agony." "And odd that I am affeeted just the opposite way," replied the other. "My feet shrink so that I could almost get both feet into one boot." There was another long interval of silence, diiriug which each stole anxious glauces at the other. "In such a case," said the third man, who sat opposite, "I should advise you to trade boots." "Willingly," was the response in chorus. As they were making the exchange the porter came up with the remark: "I duu reckon I got dem ar' butes mixed up, tween you two gem'len, and each of you has got on de wrong pa r." "I knew it all trie time," said the fat man. "So did I!" added the other. "Hut I'll be hanged if I let any Wisconsou man outdo me in politeness." "And WJsconson don't take no back seat for Missouri!"

Hoi man Hunt's Last Picture. From a London Letter. "The Triumph of the Innocents" has at least the merit of being a wholly new and original rendering of the story of the "Flight into Egypt." The Virgin with the Child in her arms Is mounted upon a she ass; St. Joseph, his carpenter's tools slung over his back, is leading them and hurrying them across the plain of Philistia. Close by is a village with dogs prowling round it; the distant hills are studded with the watch fires of the soldiery, towards which St. Joseph is turning anxious eyes: it is night, the moon and stars are shining. So far there is nothing in the picture which is not tolerably obvious and which another painter might not have invented. Mr. Hunt s own conception, that which gives the picture its name, is the procession of the spiritual bodies of the alaln Innocents that accompany the fugitives from Bethlehem. The Holy Family are In the dim moonlight, the Innocents are radiant with supernatural glow. The Innocents are stepping on a stream of the water of life, which moves forward as they move and here and there gives off bubbles of glowing color?'"airy globes which image the Jewish belief in the Millennium that is to follow the advent of the Messiah." In the largest, brilliant with all the hues of the rainbow, there is faintly shadowed the vision of Jacob?the earliest suggestion of a belief in another life.

The Mahdi's Military Resources. From the London Standard. The mahdi's military resources Include 15,500 Egyptian regulars, who were originally taken prisoners or deserted to the mahdi's catnp. It Is not known, even at English headquarters in the Soudan, how many native warriors have joined Mohammed Achmed, but he possesses armaments for an almost unlimited number. Besides the arms and equipments of Hicks and Baker Pasha's forces, which fell Into the hands of the enemy, the latter has an enormous quantity of provisions and ammunition, which the Egyptian government had stored in Sennaar, Kordofan and Faohoda. As far back as two years ago the Egyptian authorities at Cairo admitted that the mahdl had captured 90 field guns, 15,000 Remington rifles, and 3,000,000 cartridges. Since then the garrisons of Berber, Shendy and Khartoum have capitulated. At Khartoum, also, the mahdl found a vast quantity of ammunition and 5,000 to 6,000 negro troops well armed. The rebel army is also copiously supplied with siege artillery. Both Sir Charles Wilson's and Lord Charles Beresford's steamers were fired upon by heavy riverian batteries. There are a large number of Turkish and Arab officers with the mahdl. The black recruits are drilled by fugitives from Arabi's army, and the mahdi's artillery is worked by Turkish Topskis, who are held to be the best marksmen in the world. Shooting Wild Geese In Maryland Waters. The St. Michael's Comet, Talbot county, Md., says: "Herring Island in Miles river has be" come quite a resort for wild geese and swan* On Monday last Mr. Joseph Jefferson and John Eaton shot into a flock of nine wild geese and killed seven. Thursday Messrs. T. Porter and J. Eaton killed two swan and one wild goose on the island. One of the swan measured seven feet one Inch from tip to tip of wing. Capt. J. O. Morris and Dr. T. J. Smlthers killed eight swan and four wild geese, besides ducks, shooting from a sink box in Eastern bay. In shooting geese at night a number are usually wounded, and get away from the gunners in the darkness. They are generally picked up in a day or two by some of the canoemen, who are generally on the lookout for them. As one of our tongers w*s coming home a cold windy day this week he espied a crippled goose on the flats, and Immediately steered for it, but his boat failing to quite reach the fowl, which he saw was getting away, he jumped overboard Up to his waist in the ehiUy waters. On reaching the object of his desire his disgust may be imagined when he found that it was an old wooden decoy goose flashing breast up." A Lenten Story. From the New York Star. A story was told to me by an Episcopalian rector yesterday. A lady called at the house of a poor but worthy family in the garb of the new sisterhood. In the course of conversation, a girl fourteen years of age, informed the visitor that she was to be confirmed by the Bishop shortly. "That's very interesting, and what an you to be confirmed in?" asked the visitor. "Why, don't you know?" replied the girl in astonishment. "What were you confirmed in?" referring, of course, to the spiritual nignta^p^ of the rite. "I? Well, I was confirmed in kid slippers and white muslin."

A Wholesome Change. From Frank Leslie's Weekly. A great number of Chicago girls have given up their situations in shops, millinery and other establishments, and have engaged as servants in families. It would be productive of good were many of the same class in New York to follow the example of the Chicago sisters. Few shop-girls, as those employed in millinery stores, earn more than f6 a week, while many receive as little as 92 per week. Domestic service in a respectable family at 912 a month, the lowest that is paid to competent girls including board, is much preferable to even the highest of the sums mentioned as paid for service in stores or shops. Thta Twr B*yi Wait Tops. A ?mn's vrrws 01* curious changes in tbi juvkxilk xarkkt. Prom th? Sew York Times. t} On the broad, even pavements around the City Hall and In Madison and Union squares the whip top has become about as big a nuls- f| ance as the roller skate. After school hoars busy pedestrians most take to the roadway or t, run a gantlet of flying whip strings. It Is not uncommon to see fifty boys at one time In the space of a block mercilessly flogging little chunks of painted wood until they whirl and humlike weatherglgs in a gale. When each of lr two boys endeavors to whip his top to a certain goal first the sport becomes as exciting to him as It to uncomfortable to passers-by that come Ji within his reach. Another game is for each boy to flog his top so that it will strike and J, r a while It looked as though the latter alterative would have to be accepted. But Col. chlltree became convinced of ner genius, and owed that she would have a fair chanoe. fallack's theater was hired for a matinee. Camille" was chosen for the play, a first-rate >t of supporting performers were engaged, jnsiderable advertising .was done, and the ggregate cost. Including beautifbl cosimes for the star, has l*-en carefully coinutedatnot less than S2.tKH). Thin is a high gur* when it Is considered that there will robably never be a repetition of the experilent. The newspaper critics say tin* morning jat the baroness was a ridiculous failure. She as a most unpromising novice,and they don't dmit that she has any histrionic merit whatver; but she was hniulsome, though disadvanijred by the glare of ftiotlijrlits aiui a theatrical lake-up. Oil'the stage she is quite charming, [er height is medium and her build compact, he outlines of her figure aiv pleasing and she nhanoes their qualities by artistic dressing, [er photographs get attention when shown i;i le windows of Broadway stores. She would ave a round face but for a high forehead.which le shades with a frizzing oi her brown hair, [er complexion is light, alter the Russian nianer, and her eyes are lilac?not ot the watery unety, but tender and expressive. Her mouth not* too small and she smiles bewltehlngly 1th it. She speaks English with a foreign ac?nt. and her gestures are coquettish. Col. ehiltree violently disagrees with tliecrttica in lelr estimation of the baroness' ability to act Camille," but his policy of meutorship tor the iture is not divulged ics yet.

Metamorphosed Into a Boy. rom the Philadelphia Record. A subject, apparently a young girl of fifteen, ppearod for clinical operation at Jefferson ledical college a short time ago. The patient ore short dresses, looked like a young school li&s, and had the manners of a girl. The ouble with the patient was an Inability to ?fain secretions of the kidneys. I>r. \V. H. ancoast made an examination and discovered fro exceedingly interesting facts: First, that is subject was not, as the parents had always apposed, a girl, but a boy, and that he had een born minus a bladder. Dr. Paneoast xplained all this to the class before which ve operation was performed, and then roceecled to supply an artificial bladder, a jrgical feat first accomplished by Dr. l'anjast's father many years ago and now not an neommon operation. The parents of the suposed girl, now transformed into a handsome oy. at first refused to credit the facts related y the doctor and would not keep the subject in oy's attire, dressed in which the professor had turned him to them. A further operation as made at the request of the parents. This as done last week and so fully developed other rgans that doubt was no longer possible. Now. 1 addition to this metamorphosis, the lad lias pen given a boy's name in exchange for the ft*uile one with which he was christened. Prof, ancoast has-recently also had another case of >mewhat the same nature, although not quite ?interesting, the subject being a bov of four ears, who had always been supposed to be a Irl. The operation in each case was about the ime and both patients have recovered. Artemas Ward's Will. rom the Lewi*ton (Me.} Journal, March 21st. Among the archives in the vault of the Oxford >unty probate court at Paris Hill Is a copy of le will of Artemus Ward. Ward died in Eng.nd of consumption, and his will was made lere. The copy Is inscribed on two heavy leetsof parchment about two feet square, In le most elaborate style of the scrivener's art. lie copyist must have spent many hours In .shiouing the big capital letters of old English xt and the flourishes which decorate the inrument. The parchment was sent to theOx>rd county probate court in a heavy tin box, taped like a cigar case, only on a larger scale, iing about nine inches long and three iclies wide. The box is secured by a pad>ck, on which are stamped the British coat T arms aud the letters V. It.'' The stainent begins: "This is the will of me, harles Ferrer Brown Ward, known sis 'Artoius Ward.'" The testator directs that his xly shall be buried in Waterford Upper Vllge, but In a codicil changes the place of his itombment to Waterford Lower Village. He -queaths his library to the best scholar in the hools at Waterford Upper Village, and his tanuscripts to R. H. Stoddard and Charles awson Stanlev. After making several bequests i his mother and relatives, he gives the balance his property to found "an asylum forwornit printers."' Horace Greeley to be the sole ustee, and his receipt to be the only security be demanded of him. An Oxford county lan, referring to the will, said: "Either Arteius intended that his will should be a post orteni joke or lie was robbed; for upon his *ath a very small property was found?hardly lough to pay the minor bequests, let alone undiug a printers' hospital." Rome Baltimore Writer*. rom the Literary World. The son th has fully its share of late of women ho support themselves by magazine and ory writing. Mrs. Charles Tieman, author of le popular Homoselle" In the Round Robin ries, has finished another novel, called Pronquitv." She is a native of Richmond, Va., is lived In Baltimore since the war, and has rltten stories for Harper's" and the "Ceniry." Anotlier Baltimore writer Is Miss K. M. oiand, who has worked for nearly all the >uthern magazines aud for "Harper's." Mrs. ugela Crippen Davis, of Louisville, has been riting southern character sketches for ten *ars, and her work Is much admired in the >uth. She used to lecture, and now she has realistic novel ready. James K. Randall, who rote Maryland, My Maryland.'' subsided ito newspaper work at Atlanta, Ga., after his le successful song, and has not since attempt1 literature. He is now a Washington corre(ondeut, and has a daughter named Maryland, ter his song.

Seth Green on Eels. rom tbe American Angler. I do not know how eels breed. I have seen *jple who said they had seen the spawn, and her parties who said they had seen yo u ng Is in the mature eels nearly ready to hatch, ike youself, I have opened them from day to ly at all seasons of the year, and never have en any voung eels or spawn. My opinion Is ley hatch In salt or brackisk water, and go up le streams when they are small. They can go j any dam or fall when they are young. They awl up the dams and falls, clinging to the cks under the sheet of water the same as an igle worm would. They would go up any 11, no matter how high, if they got there sfore thev were five inches long. There are enty of eels in Lake Ontario, but none above Lcept they have been transported or got up iroughthe canal. They are so large when iey get to Niagara Falls that thev cannot get er; they are so heavy they fall before they it to the top. How to Measure Fields. om the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. During seeding time farmers often wish to ake an accurate estimate of the amount of nd In afield. The accompanying table has >en found useful and convenient for the purtse, and may be cut out and preserved for future ference: 5 yards wide by 968 long contains an acre. 10 yards wide by 484 long contains an acre. 20 yards wide by 242 long contains an acre. 40 yards wide by 121 long contains an acre. 70 yards wide by 69^ long contains an acre. BO yards wide by 60^ long contains an acre. BO feet wide by 726 long contains an acre. 110 feet wide by 397 long contains an acre. 180 feet wide by 363 long contains an acre. 220 feet wide by 198 long contains an acre. 240 feet wide by 181^ long contains an acre. 140 feet wide by 99 long contains an acre.

May Out-Arthur Mr. Arthv. om the Louisville Commercial. "President Cleveland has perfectly lovely es, remarked a Louisville society belle yesrday, who is just hack from Washington. "Indeed," said her listener. "Yes, and the prettiest teeth yon ever saw. aey glisten like pearls, and he knows how to iow them, for he Is always smiling in the most scinatlng manner imaginable. His cheeks e rosy, too, and he has a bee-u-tlfql dimple In s chin, to say nothing of a superb moustache id a hand as son and white as a woman's. All all, he Is a very handsome man, and lust the st of a fellow to keep the women at his feet, e knows his powers of fascination well, and is vain as a peacock. I don't mean that he is dn la the ordinary way. Just the opposite. Is vanity Is of the autocratic, dignified son at is sometimes called self-respect, and It eases rather than offends." "Is he easily impressed by women? "Not a bit of it I tried him desperately at the rtl, but he wouldn't flirt at all." "But If he should ever come to Louisville," Ided this most charming young lady, sotto x?, "we'll bring him down."

Are (be Jews s Disttset Bsee? om the London Telegraph. Are the Jews a distinct race? was the ques>n asserted, denied, and learnedly argued on lesday night, February 24th, by various ement Jews, Including the Chief Rabbi delegate, fore a crowded meeting of the Anthropologi1 institute. All the peculiarities of the Jews at are apparently racial were minutely disssed, with the result of leaving two very dlsact impressions.. One was that mixed mariges between Jews and non-Jews are so infere that the average number of their progeny tes not equal the number of the parents; con uently naif-castes tend to die out The other u that the question of the distinctness of the ce was in other respects an exceedingly lllcult one to decide. ^mm? DRY GOODS. XiANSBURGH Su I3ro.S. 420, 422 424. a* i) 426 seventh street. spring goods are sow open in every department. and the following astounding bargains will be offered this week to those who are on hand earlyf ,11 44 ooo Ml 444 c g 11 4 44 o ii 444444 c o _ iii 44 oco _ is all that lansbvrohs will ask tuts week fok choice styles in paris sattkens, of which they own iso pisces second floor; take elevator. II J O *1^ ivi aam nm? for fine heavy 8tockinette jerseys. with satin how an1> plaits, will be sold at the above price this week only, second floor; take elevator. *!1 c??8 77 11 cj. 77 11 -"22^ c 0.j 77 111 ooo wilt gkt you. this week.at lansburohs* a black all-wool nun 's veiling,full40 inches wide. msb oco u o o o k. u co _ h55s" coo per yard for best mf.rrtmac dress prints is very i/)w when you consider they a re better sty i.EsJ than those op fered by other houses. m5m coo Jjj* Z yards. all new paris dress goods. bourettb effects, high noveltier. all shades and styles. great inducements offered in choice dress goods. figured indfs pongee at hty.. choice china pongee. 60a, the best value in china pongee liver offered. great bargains in black grosorain and satin duchess silks. 24 in. colored surah at 91. pin check surah silks. printed ch a lle dk la 1ne. choice styles. colored velvets, allsha dbs. very cheap striped black silks alfl. worth 62, larue stock of fancy black Goobs. parasols and sun umbrkllak silk em broideriks. i.argest stock OF choice goods to be found ln the city. one price w. m. shuster a sons, 919 pennsylvania avenue, n. r. the best is the cheapest. ahl9 719 extraordinary bargains. 719 closing out odds and ends hhwawtm? of cost. 1 lot Three-Button Jouvln's kid glove8, slightly soiled, at 75c. pair, former price $2 pah. 1 lot Four-Button Do., 61.2o, former price 62.26. Small lot Two-Button Do., at 25c. 1 lot Eight-Button Length mousquetaxre, sorted at $1.25, former price 62.25. 1 lot Ladiee' dog skin gloves, 75c.. former prto* 61.25. 1 lot a11-Linen Colored Bordered hdkfs., at 10c. 1 lot Fancy silks and pll'shes at half price. 1 lot leather bags at balf prti^e. 1 lot flowers, new (foods, at half price. The above goods must be closed out within the next ten days to make room for spring supplies, and great bargains will be offered at i e a. DAVIS', 719 Market Specs. Don't fail to see onr large and elegant ?f?11 of ladies' underwear. We are offering Rirgains in these goods and In vile comparison. New stock of parasols and sun umbrellas. All the latest novel ties at the very to went prison. Call and secure bargains at e. o. davis*, mh!9- 719 Market Space. j^argains i bargains i great bargains in shirts. at the branch baltimore shirt factory. The comfort shirt, made of Wameutta Cotton, and Richardson's 2,100 Linen, (Reinforced). finished r?ady for the wash tub, for only s5 cents. this la the Finest Shirt in the market. Ask to see our crown diamond 8hibt, of Fruit of the Loom Cotton and Fine Linen BnennMT only 50 cents. These Shirts are cut lengthwise of the cotton, carefully made, and will glveentiresatisfaction. We have Just received 250 dozen mept8 fancy half hose, which we Intend toeeU at 25 cent6 per pair, at mh!3 1002 f street northwest. Gtood !News To A tt The late patrons of f. h. wilson, and ay frianilq will be pleased to learn that genuine bargains 1 can be Obtained at 409 7th stkzkt NobtsVwt. Cur Gent's 63.50 Shoe will outwear any other shoe equal price. i shall continue to make to niearare the oalebeetad 65 Ladies' Shoe, and Gent's 65 Waokenpheet Blurs. which have given entire satisfaction. geo. w. rich, mhfl Successor to F- H Wilson. 406 7th SL n.w. Blockade Hemoved.

MM FULL SUPPLIES OP BCHLITZ'S MILWAUKEE LAOEfL now in store and for sale in casks ajtb bottles by the agent, SAMUEL C. PALMER, depot: 1224 20th* at a.w. T*vix*?4at. aftu An Opportunity Fob A t.t. to buy reliable and fibstcla86 clot* ing at manufacturer's prices None should delay, btit call st ones, and seeoorrtoohaf men*, boy? and children's glotkxmfc AT OUR SPECIAL 10 and 90 per cent reductions 10 and 60 per gent reductions 10 and 20 pee cent reductions We guarantee every buyer shall hare the Ml worth of Ms money, and that every garment wf osttfaall do good service to the wearer to the fall (mm 6# ib coat, and bring iAe purchaeer back to as egnla. koah walker a ocx, tailors and cxowbs

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THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON: lATtRPAT March 29. 19*3. CROSBY NOT E* Ertffor. Tbe Errnfnc Mar has a rrynlnr, prrmnnrni bona fiile dailv rlrrnlmion more lliun treble that ol any oilier daily paper published in aahington, anil equal to that of all the _other daily paper* here added together. Whether it be true or not. as has been published, that the President and hi* private secretary recently lound their desire fr> take a Sunday stroll through the publicgrounds soqth Of the executive enclosure seriously Interfered with and finally thwarted entirely, by encountering locked {rates on every hand, it is to be hoped that the powers that now be will give orders for the immediate removal of tliese unsightly and unnecessary obstacles. They not only aerve no good purpose, either to the ye or in fact, but they exist without law-j ful right. Especially Is this true of the White lot gates on 15th and 17th streets. The original official plan of the city calls for an open thoroughfare between those two streets south 1 of the White House, and formerly it whs a much traveled roadway between the eastern and western parts of the city. A desire to extend the privute grounds of the executive mansion led. however, to changing Its course from a nearly straight to a deeply curved line. This Action, followed by material obstructions to travel on that route, caused by the storage there of building material for the new treasury and state departments, eventually led to its practical abandonment as a thoroughfare. Tiie result has been a serious depreciation in property values on both sides of the reservation, low and trifling improvements in the neighborhood. and the congregation of an undesirable population in a once favorite locality. It does not appear that any formal protests were made against this Invasion of popular rights, or. If made, that they were heeded. Those In charge tor the time being therefore felt encouraged to go a step farther, and set up the massive and costly barricades now existing at the several points, so that the public might at will be excluded from the grounds altogether. Whether this was the purpose in view, or whether the real object was merely to provide temporary work and afterward permanent places, as watchmen, etc, for an army of subordinates, is not clear: but it is certain that the money thus spent was wasted, and, as is l>elleved, without warrant of law. But, whether the gates In question exist by proper authority or not, they are not needed. That much is self evident. There is nothing in the space thus enclosed to be stolen or carried away by visitors, and furthermore, there is no disposition manifested here to remove or destroy public property as is abundantly demonstrated by the daily experience of all the small reservations scattered throughout the city, many of which have not even the semblance ol a low fence about them for protection. There is no reason to suppose that the whole stretch of park reaching from 11 th street to the Capitol grounds wouid not fare equally well at the hands of the public. The grounds embraced therein are not a royal or private park, In any meaning of those terms. They belong to the people, and the people should st all times have free access to them. Let all the gates accordingly be kept open, or, till better, let them be removed altogether. It Is said that the Independent republicans mean to hold President Cleveland strictly to account for his course towards Postmaster Pearson. They decline all compromises, and Insist on the re-appointment of their man. In one aspect of the case this is getting to be decidedly a matter of spoils. The independent republicans made one of several political elements that together elected Cleveland. Are we to understand that there was any bargain, or that they have "claims" which must be recognized? Some years ago. It will be remembered, Con(raess, being In a liberal mood, distributed several millions of dollars among the states to promote agricultural learning. The "pork"' dret%to Washington a large number of scholarly and amiable gentlemen, each Intent on getting as large and fat a slice as possible; and It is a matter of tradition that there was never known such persistent and shrewd lobbying as was done by these same eminently respectable gentlemen. The amateurs beat the professionals. And it may be that the reformers are mow to out-machine the "machine" in demanding "their rights" and "their man." Tbe threatened war between Great Britain and Russia bids fair to make a great disturbance In the ocean passengers serv ice between Liverpool and New York. According to London dispatch two of the swiftest and most popular steamships, the America and the Arlgona, have already been called into government employment. It is reported that Russia has been trying to charter two other famous steamships, tbe Oregon and Alaska, and to pre- vent this disposition of them the British government has decided to engage their services. All thegreat passenger ships are so constructed as to be easily convertible into men of war. in anticipation of Just such emergencies as the present. Their size and speed also qualify them for transport service. In the event of war Russia would doubtless try to strike at England's commerce, and it might become necessary tor the latter power to withdraw some of Its lines or put Its ships under a neutral flag. In that case w? might find our long sought opportunity to revive our carrying trade. General Grant's testimony in the Ward-Fish scandal will be gratifying to the country bv furnishing additional proof that he had no knowledge of the real condition of thiugs, and %-as himself one of the chief sufferers from his partner's rascalities. In accordance with his usual habit he trusted implicitly those in whom he put his trust, and he seems to have been drawn Into the net by a species of adroit manipulation Whioh any man might have found it difficult to escape. But it was a sad day for the General when be cut loose from his conservative old Philadelphia friends, like Mr. Childs and the Drexels, to make a fortune by the speedier and moire reckless methods of Wall street. We have beard much of the cohesive power of pnblle plunder, but we are now entering upon an era that may demonstrate that the spoils may succeed where all other means have tailed dissolving the solid south. So long as the better native element was massed against the carpet baggers the south stood firm in the democratic faith. But now comes in the question of the spoils, and unless human i nature has changed at the south siuce the war thismeans Jealousies, rivalries and political division*, not horizontally as now. but perpendicularly between ambitious factions. It would be singular if success destroyed the unity and by that means the political strength of the QUth. 4 Some fault is found with President Cleveland tor appointing so many old men to office. But y we should remember that a man cannot wait twenty-four years for a chance at the public ?*lh Without finding some silver threads among gold. If Cleveland is to honor any of the ttled-and-true 'fore-the-war democrats, hlsselec^ nsmnst fail largely among grandfathers. t Whether war breaks out between Russia and England or not, this country has got the benefit or severul large orders f>/r ftx>d and weapons. l_ And in case of actual hostilities we snould no doubt have still larger calls upon our resources. ?r Is a great evil, but it is a consoling reflection to think we can make some money out ?I It. RD HAJtJOtSii" the CONCORD COLL A It. we nave on h*wi a Itrn stuck of the "CONCORD aU de*cripUou, at Lowest Prices. w Coupe, Carnage and Ro*d Harue*? a specialty LtTZ BRO., 41*7 i'fciiuavivaai* Avenue, Satthsls in *r*at varietykJwaat che. ruppert, jto*. 409 and 40? 7TH ST. N W. headquarters for the WUTVI1 CHILDREN S" CARRI Atffe COMPANY altoo a ellljune uf t*av*ltno and lunch baskets, f** A LA ROE YMMXKFZ car eajstek bugs displayed. nblf 41 DRY O OODS, I SILK PARASOLS, fXXC DRBgS ?OODS. w. w. burdstte 4: co. Oo. HTL, rt?. and 91 per yard. Ke^eivinK new Hiiks daily. Also, French and American ^atine*. Gingham and Batiste in treat variety. VH) Newnnrl Keatirlfnl Parasols andsun Umbrellas, in all the new shapes and colors. hosiery, hosiery, hosiery. 1.10 dozen Ladles Hose.fttll regular, in BlaCk,Browfa, >avv and Garnet. at 25 cts, per pair. BO dozen Ladies Hose, fall regular made. Black and all colors, at 40 cts, 50 dozen Gents Half-Hose. French Met, at 90 eta. 75 dozen Went* Half-Hose, full regular oil colore, in Mack, Brown, Navy, Unmet and Cardinal, at 25 cts. per pair; these goods are worth 87 eta. 500 dozen children's Hose, full regular ell colors in all shadPs. from 20 cu. up to SI per pair. Also, an immense stock of Domestic Goods of the best brands. CARPETLNOS AND MATTINGS ON OUR SECOND AND THIRD FLOORS. We keep nothing hut the best goods, all of which have either been imported by the firm or bought direct of the importers and Manufacturers

w. w. burdbtte 400., mh2?-4t No. 928 7th at. and 706 K St. What Ark The "Wild Waves saying. 1 we are not faxiliar with ths language of the waters; don't dabble in watered stocks nor deal in watered clothing. we stand on terra firm a, and you can always get an answtfk plain to what is meant by I adler on the brain. every little boy on the street can tell you that adler j broke the back of monopoly prices in 1 the district of columbia and IS proud j of the good and glorious achievement which he accomplished despite the stern. stubborn and strenuous efforts of the leaders of a powerful monopoly to crush the "interloper." ADLER WINS BECAUSB the people are with him. make a note of the following: 400 pairs Dexter Hair-line Pants, all Wool, $2.78. 300 pairs Cheviot Pants, all Wool, 92.50. 100 Spring Overcoats, Silk facings, all Wool, $4.73. Men's Caasimert* Suits. $7.50 and upwards. Boys' Cassimere Suits, $4.50 and upwards. Chrildren's Cassimere Suits, $2.50 and upwards. Men's Prince Albert Suits, aU Wool, diagonal, f 11 and upwards THESE and a thousand other special 1 BARGAINS AT

ADLEG'S ten per cent clothing house, 827 and 829 Seventh street northwsot, Corner Massachusetts Avenua strictly one prick j Be sure that you are In the RIGHT PLACE. See "ADLER" over the door. gyOpen evenings nntU 9; Saturdays nntll 11. mh?a Opening Of Spring ^Millinery. WE WILL EXHIBIT ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT OUR ENTIRE IMPORTATION OF

PARIS TRIMMED BONNETS AND ROUND HATS AND OUR USUAL ARTISTIC COLLECTION OP 3 FRENCH MILLINERY GOODS, TO WHICH THE PUBLIC IS KINDLY INVITED aar no cards. i i* bl0ut, mh28-2t 710 7th street northwest. JThen and Now. The time was when shirts where made like cofftee s.nrks. but now they are made to fit; that Is, the more advanced m alters have recognized that it Is of more importance to comfort to have a well-fitting shtrt than a weii-fluiiig coat. UnU* there it some controlling reason in regard to details of construction, there la ho reason why one should have his shirts made in preference to purchasing ready-made ones. I keep In stock first-class unlaundered SHIRTS, in all sizes of neck measure, with dIBerent lengths of sleeves, so as to be able to furnish satisfaction, for the small sum of ONE DOLLAR. j If the styles suit you, they are the best purchase vou can make, for practically no better shirt can be made at any price. If you will have lower priced (I will i not say cheaper) shirts, I have them, with linen boeoms. and with the same perfection of fit an the highest priced ones, for the moderate sum, each, of ONE HALF DOLLAR. It is cheaper to buy shirts without starch, but i have lots of starched one, for Three Quarters, Foar Quarters and Fire Quarters ONE DOLLAR. Plaited or shield bosom, and open back or open front shirts. Cheviot Shirts, collars >. (LA MELS-H AIRS. BENtGALlNK8,'rAMISE. AND IONLACLOTHS l PRIESTLY S ENGLISH HEN RIETTA6 AN D I DRAP D' ALMAS. COURTAULD'S ENGLISH CRAPES AND VEILS. rAPE BORDERED NUNS CARMELITE FOR VEILS. LUPIN'S HEMMED CRAPE BORDERED AND FRINGED THIBET, CAMEL'S-HAIR AND grenadine shaw!& NEW MOURNING PARASOLS AND SUN UM- BBELLAS. IMPORTED JACKETS AND FICHUS. SUITABLE FOR LADIES WEARINO BLACK PE KINDT'S CELEBRATED KID ULOVES. BLACK MILANESE SILK GLOVES wl h?- beaton perry, Perry Building, Pennsylvania ave. cor. ?th st. Established 1840. mhtS WASHINGTON: 87 7 Market Space, Pa. ave., near 9(h st. 1 NEW YORK: BALTIMORE: 112 Fifth avenue. 204-2OG W. Balto. 9t. wm. knabe co., MANUFACTURERS OF 5 GRAND, UPRIGHT, and square pianofortes. We he? to announce to ourWa'liinRton patrons that, Seslrtng to offer them greater futilities In their deal- j tags with an, we have opened wareroomH at 817 MARKET SPACE, PA. AVE, near 9th st., WASHINGTON. The same are conducted directly by onrselve*, and nwtomers can deal with us there to precisely the same advantage as at our Baltimore and New York establishment*. A fall assortment of our various styles of GRANDS, UPRIGHTS and SQUARE PIANOS will constantly be found on hand. wm. knabe co. pianos for rent. Tuning and Repairing promptly attended toby ex- 1 pferienCed workmen. nih2S:li? Imported Jerseys. A FINE STOCK IMPORTED JERSEYS, PLAIN AND EMBROIDERED, FROM $2 TO $5. SAME GOODS KEPT LAST SEASON. SEASIDE SUITING, ALL SHADES, 50c. TRICOTS. 75c TO 81. REAL PONGEE OR CHINA SILKS, $1; USUAL PRICE, fl.25. BLACK AND COLORED SILKS, 75 AND $1; REi^UC ED FROM 81 AND $1:10. 100 GRO. FANCY' DRESS BUTTONS AT 20c. A CARD (DOS?.); FORMER PRICE 50c. NEW LINE SATINS 25c., SAME STYLES, FRENCH GOODS, AND JUST A3 GOOD QUAL- ITY. OUR 10c. DRESS GOODS COUNTER WILL BE CONTINUED A FEW DAYS LONGER. SOME 3F THESE GOODS SOLD AS HIGH AS 50c. WE HAVE SOLD A LARGE QUANTITY AND STILL HAVE MORE. 1 GEO. J. JOHNSON, nih28 713 Market Space. On Tuesday, MARCH 31st, j LND WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1st, WILL DISPLAY FULL LINE 1 0* i FRENCH PATTERN BONNETS. AND ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN MILLINERY GOODS. YOUR INSPECTION IS SOLICITED. VERY RESPECTFULLY, YOURS. I MISS BETTIE TOMLINSON, mh28-2t 1140 7th STREET N.w. IMmes. X ino rANS,#04 T st. It VTfANTED-A BOY. ABOUT 15 YEARS OLD,To tt ffced press; mast have experience. Apptr at N\ BUNCH'S gae-power printing house. 814 and 310 Stli 1 P 'v- It w XJSTANTED?AN EAST WASHINGTON BOY FOR TT all work in a Drugstore. Apply to 301 Pennijivania ave s. e. It XJST ANTED?A COMPETENT NURSE WHITE T T or colored, to take charge of Infant; wage* good: ererences must be satisfactory. Appiy loll G st. It* WANTED-A YOUNG MAN TO DRIVE ORfr eery wagon; must understand the care of horses, fcpply to W. 3. BROWN A CO.. cor. 2uth and H sts. ?7"ANTED- NEAT. TIDY WHITR GIRL TO do general house work; no cooking. washing or roiling; mast couie well recommended. Apply at 1309 loth st. n.w. It* \T7"A'NT?D-;5 MILLINERS. APPLY AT NEW IDEA STORE.926 7th st n.w. at once. inJS-lw* \\TANTEEN-A NURSET WHITE. AFPLY AT i V once at 905 New Jersey are. n.w. mh29-3t* XlTAKTED-MEN OF ANY TRADE OR PRO? lesion. otit of employment, for permanent nosiJons, with living salaries. Call 9 to 12 dallv. FREMONT J1ADLEY. Room 3. 37 Fst. n.w. mh28-3t* \\J ANTED?A WHITE GIItL TO (X?OK AND I K> tUegeneral housework ior a small familv. Applv, ivitti reference, at 211 3d st. s.e mh'iS-if" WAXTED^AN EXPERIENCED NURSE FOR child one year old. Apply at 25 1st *t. u.e 8 to 10 a.m., 1 to 2 or 6 to 8 p.m. mh28-3t? WANTED?A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED \V oman in a lamilv of two persons. Must be an Jxcelle.it cook. No laundry work, (rood wages. Must have reference. 37 B st. s.e., Capitol lliil. inh28-2t* \\f ANTED LADIE'?ks. PRICE COOMBS. Employment and Room Renting Agents, 926 F st. n.w. mh6-4w* Y\TANTED?ONE' OR TWO RESPECTABLE t V Roys to learn the florist business; must come well recommended. Apply to E. MILLER, Florist, iueensto^rt, near Brooks' station, B. A O. railroad. inli2G*3t* WANTEI>?LADIES TO WORK FOR US AT their own homes; entirely new business: no [wiints, glass pictures, canvassing or pedrtlin?. ThH is strictly genuine. Earning from #1.50 to *5 dailv, ac?ording to time devoted. l*articular> free. Columbia Trading Company, 144 Tremont st., Boston, Maas. WANTED- A RESPECTABLE WH ITE GIRL OR a'oman for general housework In a family of two: to washing: must be good cook: good ages paid to a competent one; references required. Call 2018 G st. mh26-3t* WANTED-A BOY OF 16. WHO UNDERSTANDS drawing. A Boy to learn the stereotvpe business. (Vlso, a Boy who writes a good business hand. M. IO\Cli, 41811th st. n.w. nih26-3t WANTED?A GENTLEMAN FAMILIAR WTTH silverware. To a first-class man we will pav 84er week. Apply after 9 a. m. Room 10. Fireman's Insurance Building. mli2d-at? WANTED-IN A SMALL FXMILY A WOMAN to do general housework; must stay at niifht: refjrences required. Apply 106 F n. e.' mh'2e-3t* WANTED-A SUCCESSFUL CANVASsER (young man preferred) to sell and engage others ;o sell "The Child's Bible" in Washington and vicinity. More than 400 engravings. One agent has sold 65 In i town of 674; one 73 in a village of 794; one new igent has sold on an average more than ten books a lay fol-four successive weeks. A rare chance for an interprislne man who wishes to build up a business ind Is willing to work for it. No salary man wanted. JABSELL A CO. (Limited), 822 Broadway, N. Y. mh26-3t WANTED-A STEADY WHITE GIRL, TO Cook and do general housework in a small family. Must be competent and bring good references. None others need apply. Inquire at Corset store. 430 10th st. n.w. mhlrt-2w* W~ anted-ladies and gentlem en7 in City or Countrj-, to receive light, easv work at lom? all the year round. Salary from $1 to $3 adav. N'o canvassing. J. FOWLER A CO., Boston, Mass., Box 5117. mhl6-Sw* WANTED-LA DIES BY CRESCENT ART CO. to take light, pleasant employment at their own lomes (sent by mail any distance): S6 to 810 per week can be made; no photo painting; no canvassing. Por flnll information please address at once CRESJENT ART CO., Revare. Mass. mhl2-36t* WANTED-LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. IN cltr or conntrv, to take nice light and pleasant ipork at their own homes: $2 to SO a day easily and juietly made: work sent by mall: no canvassing no namp for reply. RELIABLE M'F'G CO., PhUadelahla, Pa.. Box 1593. nui 10-341? WASTED?MISCELLANEOUS. WASTED-HORSEeTcABTS AND HAKX^:S>; must b? sound and in good condition. Address Star office, stating price and where they can lie teen. It* VITANTED?PARTNER IN ELECTRIC BATH TV business; with some capital. Address Dr. KARSHNER, a. w.cor. 8th and D. n. w. It" \\T ANTED?ANY PERSON IN VIRGINIA TT or Maryland having a dark Bay Horse, 16'? lands high, 5 and not over 6 years old, weigh about 1,150, upheaded, with good knee action: sound, safe uid reliable In deuble or single harness, will find a purchaser by addressing D. B. H., Star office. mh28-3* \\T ANTt*D?A GOODP A IR^LATFOBMlsCALEKl *t four to five tons capacity, in perfect order. Address J. K Y., Star office m27-St* WANTED?TO BORROAY $100 TO $250 FOR A few months, on $3,000 worth of personal property; good retereuce given; by a person holding a secure government position. Address Box 121, ^tar rtfice. mb27-3t WANTED?FOBfCASH?ONEORTWO VACANT Lois from 15 to 30 cents square foot: no agents. Address, stating size, GOLD, Star office. mh26-3t* WWanted?to rent a house with a Store suitable for a grocery and provision, with itable preferred: or willing to buy an established business. Address Box 140, Star office. mh26-4t* ANTED?PUPILS IN STENOGRAPHY BY au experienced short-hand writer. Terms, $2 50 ?er month. Call after 4 o'clock p.m., or address REPORTER, 636 Mass. ate. n.w. m26-3t? WANTED-A ONE OR TWO-HORSE TREAD or Railroad Power; must be in good order and (heap Addrejis or apply at 434 Pst. n.w. J. H. HOLLIDGE. mh26-3t? ANTED'GOOD PRICES PAID FOR RARE United States or foreign stamps, entire stamped envelopes and department stamps. Send on approval ay rejLstered letter or express, stating lowest cash price. Address L. ADLER, Jr., Box 37, Philadelphia, mh26-lm X\T~ANTED?QUITE A SMALL MODEL MAV y ker's or large Jeweler's Lathe. Address E. B71211th st n.w., with price. m26-3t? \XTANTED?EVERY ONE TO KNOW THAT J T nature grew Palm Leaf Fibre erpresslv for bedhnn *t 1222 F St., four doors from 18th, up first flight. mnl8-8m W^TED-SECOND-HAND CLOTHING, WAT ohes.guns.plstols.Jewelry; Also flirniture. stoves. ^Vlci.'b0u?t- S?81 Price 8.Guggenheimer, 701 7th a w.Note by mall promptly attend w to.j 12-3m? \rrANTED 8TEAM CARPET-CLEAN1?g"by i'iiA XXT-ANTED?FIFTY HEAD OF HORSES. FOR TV jatyjuid coimtryase. Parties having Turnouu o sell willcaU at W.F.QEYER ACO.'S, Cst., between and 6th st. n.w. Also, the cheapest place to hire Horses and Carriages. Horses and Carriages for gg X\TANTED-EVERY LADY TO BE HER OWN JfVMv??K?1*k?r.,bsr >^nlng cutting and fitting by It tailor system of actual measurement, tt fa taught at 1237 Penxisyivania ave. n.w. fe23 viri-VTfeD Iha^ reliable Felt Derby* st 92 and S2.50. A. 7th at. Genaral stock of Hats snd t urniahlngs cheap. f5-3m XX7~A^^EP?INSECTS AND THEIR GERM KXtK, B"2T$BACK,SMn* *u'^- j 616 Lonlsian* ava. W ANNOUNCE THAT JOHN H." TT. BKALL, bateman A Co.'s Bank, 1411 F st.n. Commissioner of Deeds for erery State and Territory, y. s. Conuuiastooer, Examiner a&dNotary. Always In office from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. m2 PERSONAL. Q.ERTRUPE WECJLIAMS?SEND YOUR AD^dren to yoor Chicago fldead. GDORGE, star ofWJBLf FIRM OR INDIVID"PSni HEREBY NOTZFIXD THAT I 1^ to any de?Q orobligaUoos .A.T I i 1 Jl I _ I I WANTED--SrrPATTON8. XXTAXTKO-itY A LADY WITH EXPERlEJ?Ct: and refrrenees, a position s? secretary or office clerk. Address Box 109. Star office. ^IT AjrrKiv-SlTUATIONS by two GIRL* A? disb washers in a restaurant. Apply to H?*d Cook at 1323 F sv n.w. It* WANTKD-W ASHING TO 1X3 AT HOMi: I references furnished. Apply at 325 23d w.n.ff.* ANTTTO?POSITION, IN ATRY POODS. X> tk>n or carper bouse. by a young man of *!*"ence: best of recommendations. Address Bo* 121, Star offiea. It ANTED BY SETTLED COLOBED situation as Driver; excellent driver and bftlef: well acquainted with citj*: willing to make himself gensraily useful. Uood references. Address 2tr-3 L *L u.w: It* WANTED?BY AN* EXPF.Rl ENCED YOUNG lttrty the Position of seamstress in a private t:\mlv: references exchanged. Address ENERGETIC. Box 624, at?- P. O. uih2*"3t* AITANTED-A LADY TEACHING ENGLISH V branches. rau?K- and French desires a posit Km as visiting or resilient governess, either in c untrv. lJest reft reacts. Address MUs B.. :>fflce. mh28-3f W^m ANTED?A YOUNG MAN. EXPERIENCED iu the Drv (Joods and Notion business, desire* a Situation. Address Box 12?. Star office. mh20-6t* "\T 7" AN TED TO MERCHANT TAILORS A first-class (.Custom Cutter, well acquainted with the Washington trHde, is opto for engagement. Please address E. BERN HARP. ?07 H St. n.w. Ulh26-3t? W^rn ANTED A YOUNG I-A1Y SPEAKING French. German. English. twhp music, desires position tii Governess: best references. Miss P. ftWIESNER, S3 7 th St., New York. ?nh20-at* Vjrr ANTED-PLACES FOR HOUSEK EEPERS VV seamst resses, ladies' maids cooks, nurw l chfliubermaitis.men cookswalters, waitresses .ami ot iter help. with references. PRICK A COOMBS. Employment and Room Renting Agents, 92 Fst, n. w. ninB-lw* ~I TT A NT ED?BY A WKSOORAFHER AN i) type-writer a situation: lias h?d 12 years practical experience in '.w office: will work cheaply. Address J. W Star office. mh25-5t? wxnted-rooma t*7"an ted-two or three unfurnished \v Rooms for light housekeeping purposes. Address Box 149, Star office. It* Wm ANTED-A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE, without chlldrefc. want three unfurnished Rooms on the first floor, in northwest section; best of relerences. CAsh in advance. Address, with price, C.A.K., Star office. It* WANTED -TWO UN FURNISHED ROOMS, W with board, for lady and two children, aged lO ami 12: nott'iwest sertlon: convenient to Treasury; price not to exceed $40. Address 11. B.. Star office. mli28-2t* WANTED?TWO OR THREE UNFURNISHED rooms by 1st April; rent mast be rsasonabie. Address Box 1*23. Star oMce. mli27-2t* ANTE D?A T ONcE A SMALL STORE, with five or six Rooms, for millinery, on 14th St. n.w. Address "MILLINER.'' Star office. mh27-3t* wanted-houses. ANTED-A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE,WITH no children, win take charge of a furnished house; best references given. Address B. S. B .star olHec. It* W ANTED A SIX-ROOM BRICK llOU^E. price not to exceed !j>3,000; state location and price. Address J. S. W., Star office. mii2S-^t WANTED-TO PURCHASE 12 OR 15 SMALL HOUSES.4 to 6 rooms each.from SSOO to $1,500 each for cash. C. H. PARKER. mh27-3t* 4^ and E sts. a. w. \\T ANTED?CARE OF FURNISHED HOUSE V for the summer, by a gentleman and wile; no children. References given. Address R. E. L.. Star office. m 27-2t* "ITTANTED?A PHILADELPHIA LADY WOULD tY like to take charge of the home of a Seugier. Member or other party leaving the city for the summer or longer: hest reference. Call, or address. Mrs. MAINE. UJ4 9th st. n. e? city. nih26-3t* FORTRENT?ROOMS. T7?OR RENT-AT 702 Kim ST. N. W.. AT SUMJL iner price, one second-floor suite of handsomely famished rooms. mh?S-?e; charming outlook Also other Room#. Reffcren'-es. 212 North (Capitol st. n.w. It* _ IT*OR RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS, FRONT AND back on rexnid i:oo;, at 9:'.4 E st. n. w. H*| I IM^Ort RENT?at2120 H st. N. W., 3 UNFURntsbed Rooms r n s.ixjnd flror and one on t"lrd, for honB"kei ping, Te mi moderate. References ^xchaiig st. Apply uiUr 4 o' k. It* Ifirvbn rent?otO will ren*t two large. pertly furnblied aeconrt story rooms. References eiciiange?l. 14:S9 Pierce Flare. It* OR RENT?913 NEW YORK AVENUE. VERY desirable south front Roorts, nicely furnished, wtth Board. It* F^HOR RENT?1105 F ST. N. W.-A NICELY FURnLshed Single Room, with all modern Improvementa. Rent $h. It* FOR RENT-TWO NICELY FURNISHED Rooms for gentlemen, at SOS 11th ?t. n.w. Apply with reference. mh2b-3t* Fan or rent-two communicating rooms, nicely furnished; second floor; southern exposure; also one"hall Room. 705 H st. n.w. mh'2S-3t* OR RENT?TWO UNFURNISHED rooms, heat and gas; bath on same floor, terms moderate. Apply at 1321 Rlggs at- m&M4t* For rent?3 unfurnished rooms. on first floor, in a house with all the modem lmprovements: rent, fS.50. 1462 T st. n.w. mhaft-2t* For rent-parlor AND one CHAMBER, en suite, 2il story, nicest Rooms for summer In the city. 459 c st. n.w. ato28-8t* II ^OR~RENT?G24 I STREET N.W IN SMALL family of adults, a pleasant ftirnished front Room, on second floor, wltn heat, gas and bath; flo to auiet party. It* ORIENT?ROOMS WITH BOARD, CORNER I of 11th st. and Massachusetts ave. n w.t references exchanged: terms moderate. 1016, oortier 11th st. and Massachusetts ave. n.w. rnh2H-3t* OR RENT-ONE LARGE FRONT room.SIXV ond storv; handsomely furnished; $12 pe* month, with gas and heat; one $to and one $0. 1142 7th st. n.w. mh2S3t* OR RENT?1341 15TH ST. n. w.. a finle large second-story front Room, furnished: rent low; private family. mh'J8-3t* OR RENT-FURNISHED AND UNFURNlSHed Rooms: large parlor, suitable for office; one square from Interior department. 809 h st n.w. mh28-2t* 1~7ibR RENT-FURNISHED. TWO cx3mmuni. eating Rooms, second floor, at low price; choioe boarding house, 1129 17th st. mh2S-3t* Fmm or rent two nicely furnished Rooms on first or second floor, in a modern house, ne;ir two lines of cars; board if desired. 1203 s sv. n.w. mh27-3t? t7?or rent?1239 12th st. n. w.?two unX? furnished communicating Rooms on the 2d floor; bath on same floor; heat ana gas. mh27-2t* or rent-the pleasant parlors of 424 5th st, n.w.; the terms moderate, with all modern improvements; the location central and desirable. _ _ mh27-3t* For rent-three unfurnished rooms for housekeeping, at 413 8th st. n.w.; no children wanted." mh27-3t* I~ ^OR RENT?929 K ST. N.W., furnished Rooms, double and single, $5 to #10, with or without board; table board $15. mh2 /-3t* For rent handsomely FURNISHED Rooms at summer price. 1010 Connecticut ave. mh27-3t* FOR RENT-PARTIES NOT INQUISITIVE CAN rent one or two Furnished Rooms, with Board, gentleman and lady or gentlemen only; two In flunilys Louse has modern conveniences and convenient to H street and Brit Line oars. Address O. W. X^ star office. m2 oughtares between Penna. ave. and F st. mhlS-att* FOB RENT?MI6CELLAKEOP8 Fa

FOR RENT?HOrSKS. j {~j?OR RF.NT-TWU'XKW FIVK ROOM H,>; s, head of (hernuui ave., Mt Pleasant Reut MO w'r Worei piMsite. It* F" ORRENT?HOI SFT705 11TH sf* fo RO?MS and F^uj-nitui* K>r sirte; lK.a*e now filled with .*1 paying boarders. ft FDR RJb^NT-THK VERY DFXIRARLF. f AV"- i window brick House, 1207 11th St.. n.w :7r??>ni tt dr MM! THOS. K. W AGO A M A N. 7 F" st. a.w I I^OR RENT- FVU.Y Kl RMsHIH 9-R.?OM House for t!v>> summer or longer; terms v. rv n, erate. Inquire f t 1457 ?t. n.w mh .'s -M I^OR RKNT VTRXI Ml K D H ?V K. *22 1: v V T Plar*. If not rentedby Aprl! 1st fti'iilsh.,! t will be for rem after that date. For parti ?larm:ali conveniences: I?.'>. PII'-n. E. WaoGAMan. Pi 7 F st n w. mh>-, t FOR ISST-TES-BOOil HOUSE: HUL water and ras, I at robe, bathroom, speaking Cay window. 1717 N.J. ave rent. f-jtt. ion fiven the first day of April. Applv at HOB L st 11 a mt?aa-3t* Fob REJtt-very?;desirable H o f v within ot;e-qusre of Capito. p?i 121 Maryland ave. n.e. Inquire at 140 B" St. n.e., near'.v 1 ppoelta. mh:2S-;$t" I^OR REXT-RRICK ills HTM 5 l? st n.e..6 rooms, $15. Al.Hi 111 F. I 1 1?iX. H-2V F at. n.w. mh2*-:tt 1JV>B BFNT-iM HOKTHlt, PRtKl IP A lA t irn!sbe I, on ?c st. w a- joth, 1. j ttomllv o1 t vr> o? 1? e, a-ter pa i of e r >ii a window. b?i k rifcrt!??"i. iio.v 10, ~.??r ill ruti2?s-:tt* For rent i-rifxFsh ed~ seven ke(ldin|r, 910 French j street, between 9th ann Hrth and It and s m.? ii w.oiie 1 square (Yoni Pink: wlil rent for one year or I j r at ^4U per month: u re F si. h.w. mli.8 't OR KK8T-H(K m Vermont ave.. opp. ArUticton Hotel. 18 rs $,t(Hi ft Iowa Ciri'le, 13 r? furnUhod i.v? I 1444 N st. u.w.. 14 rs., partlv furuishiil ltHi 8o:uh side X. bet. 14th and K">th, 11 r., ftirnislH^l 1J,*> I 1444 N St., 14 rs., unfarnisUeil 75 i 1818 M St., 9 rs 75! 1444 8 st, 9 rs.. fiirnlshed 7*. 1444 8 St., 9 rs.. unfiirnlKhed rnt 143-J Wst., lo rs 40 For inspection appiy to Pili2H-.t JXO. A. PRFSTT. ISoR RENT1842 Vt.av..f.,13r.$'200 17M Sst.n.w .Rr >j r>o Wr.R *Comi.av?l#r.,.ia? 1V st.n.? ..tirs 2 J. 1421 Q.m. l.,f\?r., 1 lr ,.l?Ki l,Vt2 14 st n.w ,.r>r .'i 1 40 715 10tlist.n.\v.,2r 2,"? lull \v st. n w ,?>r 1>> HO 11th st.s.e.,?r 25.4U 4w M st. 1 .\v...v i.Viki 941 1st. ti. w..7r -2o 2tU3 loth st.n.w .,?;rl.*. JAS ROHHI s, 1314 Vermont are. mhl9-2w* FOR RENT?AT~1 ;Ru HTWOOD. I 1S2R t'olumb a v* .f2,\00 2112 .Mass. av 110.MI 2tM?S i:?:. ,.7r. u.'mmi 1010 lyth n.w.,13r.l?xi.tK? .?nt Ml K> 1 ?ir 1022 19th n.w.. 12r..75.?K? lll:?\'^t n w 7r r>39 E Cap., ltfr ...Via 0 192U it; n or l.Ytto fiOOH.I,av,str.?tdw >f.4">.tHj 4t;4 K n.w., rear. .r>rs..)s..t?u Also. n mimlier ot wclJ-lofTitM Fttmlshed ITotises. Call at office for Weekly Bulletin, is?'iefl every Saturday afternoon. Laixllords can have tJieir houuet. advertised free by placniK Uiem 111 our hands, mil25 B. H. WA RXER, HD? F st n.w. r?OR BRST-W-W, SEW THRRMTOE Y I A brick dwelling: all nitKlern lmj.ro\ einents tlnlshed In latest *tvl*; 1704 19th st. u.\v.; kk two storr brick, 2219 D st. u.w. \VM. F. HOLT /.MAN. 1321 F St. n.w. mli25-4t For rent?house 910 ioth s r. n! \v.7 T5 rooms, modern improv*nients, larce vard; rent $75 per month. Applv to A. A. WIUsoN, cornet 7* j, t. and Louisiana ave. n.w. mh'25-lOt j FOR RKNT-FOCR ROOM BRICK HUI SKS Just completed, 4e- 1 tween New Jersey ave and 5th *t_. anVAI.KF.R.63Q Ixmisiana ave. n w. FOR RENT?ONE TWOhSTORY RRICK HOUSE with 8 rooms, bath room and modern improvements. The rooms are fresco-paltited. 024 22d st., between F and G. The chariots running to the lion*1. Inquire 403 7th st. n.w. mh24-?t Ir'OR-rfTnt-thf. stonf ma~nsionT~o\ f:r. looking the entire city, now belnt: reni ?ieleil after the most approved modern style; aehghtfullv cool In summer; wide lawns; pas and water. Will be readv for occtipancv after April loth. Well suited fur entertaining. For key and permission to Inspect apply to PARKER A TUWNSEND, mh23-3w Real 1 .state. 1418 F st. For rknt-ftrSt-th St., Or 12. 2127 L st. 7 r ;io.45 1818 20th st..6r 12.00 100ft 8. st. 0 r. 30.?K? 51ft 23d st.. 5 r 11.50 I 2423 K at. 8 r 25.50 722 24th su, 4 r IO.OO 1315 22 St., 8r.,m.L..25.50 1154 l?thst, 3r 8.O0 mh21 WEBCQTT A WILCOX. 1907 Penn. ave. TT'OR RENT-THAT VALUABLE RUSINE8S JL PrCpertv^ 617, on 7th st. n.w., opposite General Post (>flioe; four stories high: a large brick stable in the rear, wtth or without tlie honse. For further in- I formation apply to W. K EDM0NST0N, 420 5th sl P.w. 121-lOt For rext-tn anacostia. one 8 room Haute, nearly one acre of ground; Fniit trees; Stable, etc. $;ioo per vear. One 8 room House, large lot; variety of Fruit; Stable. $-260 per year. Two 0 room Houses. $12.50 per month. Apply to H.A. GRISWOLD, Auacostta,D.C. mh21-lmo FOR RENT?HOUSE 182S H ST. N. W~BIIAUI tifUl three-story pressed brick Dwelling; thirt'-eu rooms with all modern Improvements; for rent from May 1st at 405 per month. Apply to JNO. A PHKsCOtT. 1416 I" st. n.w. mhl9-2in TT^OR RENT? X? BTR.O. HOLTTYAN. Fst.n.18.18r $300.00 Rst..n.l5th,llrs..f|100.00 G St., near 19thst., 1300.00 189 H st. n.w 83.33 Lafayette sq., 17r...262.50 1759 Pst. n.w., llr_..s.i.3:l Lafayettesq., 17r.,f25o.OO Cor.?..n. 14th.f. 8O.00 MSt.,Thomascir.,T25t>.0t? 7lO lothnt.n.w..l Iowa Circle, fhr 100.66 102113thst.n.w.,yr?o Mst.n. 9thst, 10r.fl50.00 162313thst.n.w.,yrii1409 Mass. ave.....$166.00 182 X st tR?.33 1025 Conn, ave 250.00 1757 P st 75.00 K. H. ar. and 8 st-.150.00 1811 H st 75.00 1324 16th st 150.00 173814thst.su A rsoo.oo 132| M st 100.00 70115 st, 2 olhcc ra25.00 6023 I st IOO.oO 703 15 st. 2offloe rs.25.00 27 lowa Circle IOO.OO 705 D st a.e 25.00 19068undrlaDdPL 91.06 FURNISHED. K(rt.,n,rC0nn.ave.f333.33 Mst.,nr Thomasc.?150.00 Farragut sq 300.00 15th st.n r R.L av.15o.tHJ N St. n r wthst 2 of northwest ??s-ttoa. Ja* WfH Oollil,!. Usl two Ol UlA.ll OH SSnLnSi 1 -."-HI. $7.5O0 Jts.StH). 0*. rW>u\ Brick Boum* cm 6th r month: 6?5.0??0 for th* 4. w 61,TOO soMwpwHc. uood i*u?lnt?e Corner, v k' iKl Huriu. w Hnutw nr. 4% A.a w. ;B3.01H? ami $;i.."Kjiv K-rtK>iu Kr?i-( ,?u R at %W- S3.WO, A n?w ?t-room llowr, corner Hth, ou Hit S.':*?? 7th st. S.W.: 64.000 7r.??m Hri'-k. I3w H7 Penii*ylvanta-,av?\ mliW-k P"R SALE?BRICK VlOEWK C "TNK^R 1"T J (i.?.; tfn pooav modern iniprox rnients. prtre, 6!M?I0. At v;.v WIXVTT WIUX>X, 16u7 K'linsgrlvanlaave. mbSS-Jk V?OR MAI.r-XKW RRTci~ HoCSK^Klt.HT moms; f.irnaoeand ?.l iM?vl- rii imjuov u?m?. K M B *r 22c! M t pride. f7,V?0 Apply VfW/TT A i Lrt? of our leading ?vpn'i?, Cortataliw 14 rtvmie wRb celhir, sta..ie,I1i?* |ion?e ha* hard Wind tii MIKM.V 6X II,m ?T, 1 -N.W r... m- ?i.?l lialh: -t i?> uli |iartlRU,i?r t?v>-tavivSh^Sry \i:\vi t Jiiick K'i*lrably d. ^ood t?rm?. and t H.'Uvfs in tli?> u.?. n.e.. i.w. twid s-?., m? in un i froui?l>u;,1 W^.tlje in- 1 t.t purcltaw-rc to tim| -'Jni' I7?('K s I.K-NtW \XD HAXhst ME IJTTI.K wx-riH.tn Hrtck: !atrwt'?'. Imih. w?t??r-o!V SALl A ttiUNF.R PROITRTY XKAR Miuiton sqr.ai*." K.i?'fif vjniifi. lot SSxtMV 7looiH lio.'.Hf iiti Xlar. IMIH' hri.-k ntablv, d:. utity u takfii ui (,ii*i mn'tiiiii of the clir. a vtO lo? priw. W.M, p. TOUXU, I :to3 F st. "w; mb.'T-lm SAI-E-VEitY HESTSAm,K nrsixKSH I 1 roj>erty llmi K ?t.., aujotntng NV. B Moam A j. il WAHNKU. jnU.,-j|t MVrM n.?. 1V?Hv\ I K T WO TWUSWRV HR|? K HOlVfiS on K ?t.. at a ia.?* Umi w ill p?; ]ti j^.i ut.t. li U WAHXER. _ mh2J-3t ?l?i p atTnV. V;;H SALE NKW *XD VERY HKMKABI.E 1 llir -i-st.Hy ltiM.se, N St. II 11 rouiua iiiimIj ?*rn hniah; d^irabie .is *tu iii%?>Htui ?t H WARXKH. mb.,-.{t HIM Krtl. n w 1 l/?.n:ill 1^8,11?6 _424-J, M 4I? |MM> i'~\-h 714 7l?i H -t Iif. 5,1mMl .ui.l.7rs.?.?K*? ysi l>si. i,.w 4.7??0 7 5L41 .1 Jt!l *t '' ??L l r.\- sin, st n t*. wt? l IM1M l.A I b.liirear.&^KKi si-fth-i n.w Hra. 4.'/iM> V13i> k 5.UW) 1 \bt.l l.V\ .'.nti n w 4,ji*j j Til?IU. E WA.H.AMA^. 1JIOR K.M.E-i HKA1' 3 .fKV ?'.. b. w.. mitli'i; w fl'U mi. pri.-*- U i? brick bouan on t 3d u.w.; n ut at &10 b Prlt* fl ,7?K). C. H. PARKER 4 ?mh2.-3t* 4t?j and Ea w. I |^?>n RALE-kkyeral SMAIJ.~hoxuis^~VOWL J i.Ih or excliftnee In dlf ri nt imits of the flty. 1 V JOHN sHKI'.MAS,W, F*. TJH>RSALE- r verai small new Rrt. H'xia?s In R?at WasbI Inrtou; a erat-t lasi Uivt tiuniil Addrno FIR^Tt'LASS Star ufli.v. mli26-3t* I^VK SA !.K?Y1KY 1)1-^1 UABLK' AM) tilCARly new 9 room 3 atorv brick hou?*s on lAth t WjSJJti. WTiU lx sold on ?-a^y u-ruu PARK1R A TiJwXfsEXIJ, 141hl-'?t. ii. xv. mb3M';t IT'OR SAI.K?Hol'SfcX IX ALL PARTte OF THE JLlt*w and all modern imi>rov*I menta. tAt'ORXSTKUT* UttAPLLT. iiib24-6t 9'Jf Fat. IT'OH KAI.K-XEAT V\*??;fil?exciTuf tiik'i.atk" "ADM 1KAL Stl TT."20,J8 ft iHreel .,?0 Apply (.'HAS. EARLY, mbI3-3m 701 lfttli ?L. up ?talra FOR SALE?2 ELEUAXT NEW HOUBERr 1? nxirns each cor Vaas are and Iftth at n w- tha bouMa are built In the aimt mibatantial manner, pr^a brick fronts, brow n atone trimminas, bar wlodo>r?. lorciies, cherry wood mantela with looking [1mm handsome tile tarings and lieartha. open firv gratm- in i every room, furnace,gan fixtures of crvatal knd gold brotire. ami the inside finish in of California red-wood .1 polished: plumbing ItriKlM; hnmm open lor impac tion. For ftirtber information apply to the owner, R. er c^tit interest. sfMntred on well B .inproved fruit farm near A 1 Kanaaa metropolis Worth live limes amount.. Wit. li. SLATER l4ofe Pennsylvania ave. Xt? C" 1 ROC EP.Y STOKirrnp ni^yT AXD FIYTT-Hl^ mraale. Inquire at corner 5th and Q ?a n.w. It* IjWR-SALi; a "(ompleteT">RiKTixcTbir hce, with osial.lisbod line of buainaas. The offioa is complete in everv partk-uUr, Including 4-horae pow er utto'' oas h neiae,4-2t* For sale?cioar store axd pool rooh. doing a 1.0 d butdnaaa Owner wishes to engage In other bualn^sa. Inquire at 467 Peanai Ivaela art, m27-8t* I EXOIXE FOR SALE. I Three borse }>ower Horizontal Enalna, with V four horse upright boiler, cylinder i?V in diameter 0 I inch stroke, good as new, to be sold at a sacrifice to I immediau- purchaser. Apply at Type Foundry, 316 I St fa st- mh27-2t? t I -|?ARE i-HAXCE FOR PARTIES WITH CAPP 4 A V taJ to buy a well established and good paying bus- 1 UjX.oWn*1J,ob,i?*'CK6JBCOlT LIXS, 1265 9th St. o-w. a V 61 conducted as above for Ike paat PMra Aflist- I rate opening for an energetic w>MaM.wVifc?L. the businMs! to make a competency la a fow rea^^ I Only reason for selling, the deelre of it nreeent I owner to retlra from active work. Far I aa to terms, Ac. apair to OBO. BREfTBAJrftl I mh2a-6t? OddFeilowa' Ha*l. WMkiSSKKa I JOHX iCIT^H,FLU 1 Nt I Xotary Public, 1 lUO P^Msqrivanla iij. I ui-ii^^su?er,.?sast ifSJKM I u*d?. a nBfc I ^agg5?r;' -i

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FOR SALE?LOTS. _ sa ?e~very chka f-several va? A cant l?(? on Dnh st.. betwe* n north A and B st?. l-?ii. Special bargains if sold at once. W. E. Bl'REOKD. wvi F at. n.w. mh2S-3t 1>II BALE- A rHoICK BUILDING UH ON A l?th s'. n.w., iiwr T. i9f'.et front: price, $1,700, on terms to suit. LOUIS P. SHoFMAKKR. m!i2M-3t 920 F st n.w. J* ,SOR -ALB-CHE A P-A rXf'T N MT I'l.KASANT, opt sit* Geii ^?iir> rwMenoi'. 50 feet front 00 ?w~aw *vt. Price. 14c. p*?r s j mie foot. A. S. AY* WOOD,cnnwa 0th and K aw. n.w. rn27-3t* T,-" R s? VLF AN ENTI HE SQUARE NEAR KKSA dall'.-een. containing over t*o ncres of uround and a iron'age of over feet a'. $10,000, about lO nts a foot; splendid investment. M.X.HU11HKB A :td and East1 apitol sts. mh'J7-:it yois" SALE WlIOLE (jt'A P. i. IC\IT JC squares, onarter square^ toge her with lot-* i.i parcels ami lots. at low figure*, to which we invite 1 the attention of buyers tor building purposes or for peetilMion; we also have a fine line of houses on Caphol Hill. ranging from $1.6o0 to 16.1X11), Apply to SI. M. ROHRER .. at tli? very low price of 76 centa per foot; $1.50 a.s*ed for adjoining lot' I'ARK I.K i\ TOWNSENI), 141S F st. mh25-tSt JIALK-L' >TS? WE AN OFFER GREAT -A iiwlticements to parties who desir# to bnild homes, or tor investment in lot*, at Orel: Park: 7th and 9th st. ears: water, sewers arid asphalt streets run 1 Li!'X tDtlji-pHTK. Cash f.r tlrae. Aptlvto mh24-2w A. L. BARBER*Co.. Le DroitBuilding27?0 H SA LE-LOT ON" I >T. i HTH A N t> IOTH nt SH per square f.yit 'inrludirc 4-*-"tory buiPfg now under 1 n:a. of $1 .soO per yftti i his is one of the n, .st desirable lots in this city for a fir*t-cla.?s business building. SWOKS1STFDT A BRAI1I.KV, mrn mh24-6t 17*6R sale SOME OF Tm~M?ST DFsTra p. 1.1; Lots on Columbia Hciirhts at n turtrain if sold at once. swoKMSTKbT A BRAHLEY. mh24-lm 928 F st. 1"~ ^or sale-one of thfT moht^lbTible Lots in the northwest.one ?juare est of British Le- gatlon. south side of N street. :t2 bv IOI feet, and run- jJ Ding to SO foot alley. an be l urcnaaed on reasonable terms by application to 3'J'^ 12th st. n.w. mli'24-*>t I^OR SA LE?tli atui R ^ts., 1 1 fronMng 1 it; fi.s 111.011 l'yth bvonly 43 fL5in on R.wide parking, splendid corner for tine residence or hloek of i giwid bouses. Several lots on Ma's. ave.. P nnd 1* sts,; corner 2'kl and L ?t>.. .">4x 101: corner Vt. ave.Mod V ft lots on College Hill. Meridian Hill Sliotwood Pia- e. Le Droit Park and Jit. Pleasant. GEO. F. (iRAllAM, Room St? load Btiilumg. mli23-6t* I*>"oR"sale Li >rs-COLEMBlA HEI?HTs!f4TH j st. extenri'si. We can now aril desirable Lots. 15 to j 60 cents, in this beautiful location, one-fifth cash: hal- ance tn one. two and three years; 5 per cent interest 1 Street cars, water, and sas. Applv to 1 A. L BARbour A CO., mh8-lm Le Droit Building, Washington, D. C. I~>OR?A LE? A Frontage of 270 ffeet on New Hampshire ave. i HEFTY it DYER, mhl9-10t R*a! Estate and Insurance, 13th and F n.w. OR SALETwo l beautiful I.ota on Massachusetts ave., between UOth and 21st sts.. facing south. HCFTY A DYER. nhlD-lOt Real Estate and Insurance. 13th and F n.w. f ^oit SA I.P;? A Front of 127 fret 44 inches on SI st.. near j New Hampshire ave. Superior inducements to builders or capitalists. HEFTY DYER. mh!9-10t Real Estate and Insurance. 13th .?n?l V n.w. F" OfTsALF- several fine Lots on R St., between 9th and 10th. cheap. HEFTY A DYER. j mhl&-10t Real Fstate and Insurance. 13thand F r.w. j OR SALE-PV! UMNO LOTsTlN* A LL PARTS of the city, at low prices and on easy terms, all and see our list. WALKER* WILSON, luoti F st. n.w. ftis-lin FOR SALE?MISCELLANEOUS I^OK SALE ?BY A PERSON LEA VINO THE city, a handsome set of Ash Chainher Furniture: nearly new; reduced price. Apply at 1105 13th st. n. w. It* 1 For sale-txp. carpet. $i3;;refrigerator. si 1: ?'e,v.nt O. Tl C'i a 1 ea Set, fH* R g.">0 Domestic, and one Singer Machine lightly used: complete, with all attachments. $20 With 5 year*' guarantee, at Auerbach's, 7th and H sts. Prompt and particular attention to mail orders. mhJs-3t F~~ftiTiALF.-EC.oS FOP. HATCHING FROM MY prixe pens of White Leghorns and Cianic Biuitams, winners at world's expositions. New Orleans and New York. W. G- LFE. 171> 1 ?th st. n.w. mh"i8-2t* I^OR SALE-A SE "I iNDHAND.!UMPSEATCARrlagi': city make: price >75. Call at 218 5th st. s.e. mh2S-3t* Fop. sale?a family going abroad will sell handsome Furniture of a 12-room house, or rent house, within a square of War and Navv Departments, north of avenue. Apply to Bo* 14?. Star offlc m2S-?t* TpOR SALE?OOUPE AND VICTORIA OF REV. Jl I>r. D. F. FORREST: excellent condition: reasonable terms. Can be seen at stable of residence. 1324 16th st JO?, n >HKf>T. 917 F st. mh.8 3t* FOR SAI.K.-I.AROF STOCK OF NEW, SECOND^ haud Oarriaijes. Buggies and Phaetons, 25 newDayton agons of my own make. 3 sises, at a reduced price: 20 new Racine Sprins Wagons, 4 sizes. I am the sole a^ent for them for the District. It will par you to give me a call. Ail of this work at reduced prices, and so.d on time to suit purchasers. Factory, 123o Prospect ave. Repository, 1234 32d st. mh2S-?m JAS. K. PROBEY. For sale-at a baroain-a f"irst-class Family or 'oupe Horae: six years old: fine drivergood ki te action: weighs i.hm l is sound and eer:t!e must sold w ithln one week Tobes?^u before am and after 5 p.m., at 1025 14 th >t. n.w arter -U1 and 4:30 p.m.. at OLCOTT'S Stables. mh2S-2t? XT?UR saLE-A FINE SADDLJE HORSE; ALSO A. used to the harness; a bargain. Inquire at stables 1309 12th st. n.w. n.h27-3t* pOR SALE-A Vs-1 sen BRITISH CHALLENGE 4 J. nickel plated Bicycle: good as new: cost $195: win MU very cheap. ItniUire of or address M. D. P National hotel oftise mh27-3t? I. Fob sals on* fi rf and blroi.ar phoof j tk inches fn*h. 39 inchee wide 19 inches deep inside: price. iS5. Cau be seen at C. SCHNEIDER'S. I2t>7 F st. n.w. mh27-3t J-'OR SALE? Square tiraad Piano: best New Y'ork citv maker. JI or addrev H. 173?? K st. n.w. mli2t>-H* "pOR SALk A "NICE BROWN MARX; OWNER JL leaving city: price low. Inquire at OLCOTT'S Sta"* H oppijaite N>tw York ave. cliurch. mh20-0t For sai.f hfd feathers, only is cents per pound. They are fre*h, clean and drv picked. Ai. orders rrecHri by mall promptlv delivered. A. Sr.lTZ dt RRo 12:i8 I st. n.e. mh2&-lw* i For salf. a complete sit of congrii^ ional Debates. Annals of Oong-esn. Congressional Globneand Rm orcti, Beaton s Debate*, at ASHBY'S BR SAI.F. A LARGE BAY HOI?E. EIGHT yevs i id. sound and wiil work sihhI in anv Dlace PMce $125. t. DA iteH, Wholesale Fe?"-d, cor" r'.h 1 apitol and D st. n.e. mli9-lm I VOKaAIJu TWO 22 IT. OUTRIGGER BOAT* A fotir 20 It. Outrimr^r Boa's, two Dt ft. Ounninir 1 Skiffs, two 17 ft iiatU^ea. JuUN CUMBERLAND WW n.w. mb8-lm* j V?h S.-\I.E?SEVERAL SECOND-HAND'LAS A da;:lett?-s. ?'oupeletts. Coupe Rockawavs, Coupes. Broughams and Victorias, new and seeond hjiod l4ia> tons. Extei.s:' U-tops arid Buggi-?. and also other new ?'D HUB tJv/t^urban property for sale on easy terms, and t exchange for improved and unimproved city P_r,->t>erty. We also have city property for sale arid exchange. Several country places Tor rent. _ WM.H. MAIN CO., m28-lm* St Charts* Hotel. 3d aud Penn. ave. For sale?four acr ex'op land VEftV near biightu nod. Price >i2M) per uc. e. terms to wit. LOUIE P. SHOKMAKER, mii28-r>t 9ti0 F st n.w. I^OR SALE OR EXCHASGE-FOR CITV PROK ertv. In Baltimore or Washington, deMrable Country He?'lenoe at Ammendale Station, Baltimore aid Oh;o Railroad: 3?> aeres.good House ana Outbuildings, desirable neighborhood, near school of Christian Brot hers, Catholic and other churches. Pull inform*tKjn given on application to Mr. JOHN E. SEMMES, 2'.' >t. Paul st.. Baltimore, Md. mh2*i-th., Md. ml4-s,w2w TT'OR SALE?EXCHANGE OR RENT, A LARGE 1 historic lrgliiia Mansion; newiv repaired; well adapted fjr summer boarding or boardinflrscbool. with farm , veil immediately. Apply at ft H St. n.w. m20-0t* For hale-a farm of no acres, with large ten-room House aud all necessary outbuildings, situated in Montgomery county, Md., on Metropolian Branch of B. rU 1st. Address J. LORrNG U iUTTlNurON, 1221 Pennsylvania ave., Waehington. mh20-3t F"UU rent-a fine fruit and DAIRY Farm, three miles from this city; 100 acres, nine room dwelling, tenant house and ample outbuildings. It. A PHILLII'S, 1428 New York ave. mh2.>lm If'OR RENT-NEAR MARRLEHEAD, MASS., A several handsomeSummer Residences onthe north shore ofeMassachusrtts Hav, 15 ifTlles from Boston. THOS. J. FISHER tudts.3m JAMES H. K1RBY.S7 Frout s't.N.Y. IVOH RENT-AT FALLS CHI'RCH, VA..ALARGOS new House; location healthy: large grove and plenty fruit. For information apply to C. W. 1TTTS, Koom 7. H07 Louisiana ave. mhl6-2w* ipOR SALE?TEN ACRES-OVER AQUKDUcf 1 bridge; within full view of city and Georgetown; ine 14-room House and other buildings; good water, fruit, do.; land In excellent condition; $5,000, or exmange lbr city property. We also have several other lurms of from one acre upwards on easv terms, in vicmity of Washington. WALKER ?fc WfLSON, mh_'_ 1505 Pennsylvania ave. T ,n,AWM0NEy TO 10Ay 0N RfJPOfSALS FOR SAND. I Washi.vwon. D. C., March 24 1 rka I Proposals are invited for furnishing, delivered atthe new 1 enslon Building, eighteen hundred (1,800' cuMc tarda of clean, sharp raver Sand. Bids will be rL I ?eived at this office till NOON. ATOLL SEC?)N1) I wil1 f,e opened in presem.-eof bidders o mav attentL ^amules should accompany Drot>o- I sals, w hlch should be addressed to the undersigned mi,o? ?o, c. M c MEIGS. I m,i??>.?8,31 Supervising Engiaaer and Architect. I A BCHITECTS OFFICE, U. 8 CAPITOL, IaJ d WA3UJN?TON, D. C I li Proposals for constructing Iron GreenhouseOarden. wm be rer*)red at tLio oiLce until 1 ui.yn WEDNEBDAY.Aprll 1, 18SS where I SeenS specifications for this work can now be By order of Jol ut Committee on Library. I mh!2-eotapl I >ROPOSAI^ FOR STATIONERY. I t. Navy Departxkitt, buskac of Peo Visions and Clothing c^,, ^hin-oton. D. C., March 10th. 18S5 I propyls, endorsed proposals for Stationery I Will _be received from manu&cturers or dealers oufe I ut this bureau until ELEVEN O'CLOCK i ?T I APRIL SECOND, 188^amJ optuWr^^Ut-elv er ln. Prfesence of bidders for stationer}' to I bje dellvered at S4Vy Yard. Washington, D C? rl^y fays from date of contract. I 'Ihe bids must be for the articles in detail a-ltk price per unit of^ h, aiid^e l?w^ J^reSat* bhl for all the article# wil/ be received. wregat# bid Bijilprs are referred to tlie InnnArtftf p. i t J and i lothlng at the WMbin^^W^Yard^T^l0^9 fcngi anusaft isssstr propo^l not _ Paymamer Oeneral^U^*Navy. j Proposals for plastering. I OrFICK OF Sl'PKRViaiNu EnOINEXR AM) ARTHI- I "Wwai; 1685, at TM O P.M., in presence of bidder* *vwkto^hl ^^^cid^tionsofthe mh21,24.28.ap4gr.5t'dn> KDgUlter Architect. ATTORNEYS. 'HARLra J. GOOCH, SOLIfTTOR OFPATENTtt Wth SdF^^bST andEipen^t. Cloud bLSdirS and 1- t>t?. Good work, good reference* nuwiur I ate cUar^es. Twenty-one years' experience. d31 I V" H. MILLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LA\V~ Rooms 2 aud 4, Gun ton Law Building, I _ Residence, 240 North CfcpttofiL mh^B*" &AMUEL H WALKFJ^ Pubn? Attorney Jy2 630 Louiaiaoa av'a next to City P. q I THE TRADES. 1 Sawc ORDERS FOR FRINTIWO SOLICITED lUinie YV ok?n Heeding renewed strength. or who rnm>r from Infirmities peculiar to their sex should try ?BB KRK OO W W W NN N m RSS? BR R O OWWWWXNN"? s SBB RRB O O WW WW JtSN BSSa B R R O O WW WW NSH R bb It R OO W W N SN BSSS IT RRR oo NN w II R R O O NX N II RRR O O NNN IIRROONNN U R it OO N NN BBB IT TTTT TTTT FEB RRR KSSB B II T TE R R I 5 BBB" II T T EK RRR ^SSq B B II T T E RRK2.? BBB II Y T EBB K K bS6b THE BEST TOXIC. This medicine combines Iron with pure vegetable tonic/, and is Invaluable for Di?eaies peculiar to Wv?>en, and all who lead sedentary lives. It En- Efrcbesand Purifies the Blood, Stimulates the Appetite, Strengthens the Muscles and Nerves?in fact, thoroughly Invigorates. Clears the complexion, and makes the skin smooth. It does not blacken the teeth, cause headache, or produce constipation?ail other Jtxm medicine* do. Mr. Taylor H. RaDcliff, 467 I st. s.w? says: My wW'e suffered long from Female Weakness and Chronic .JDyspepsia. !-he tried Innumerable remedies with little or no benefit until she used BROWN'S IRON BITTER1*. Now her health is almost perfect. We heartily recommend it. Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BROWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MD. IjAMW Haxd Rook?useful and attractive, containing list of prizes for recipes, information about coins, etc., given away by nil dealers in medicine, or mailed to any address on receipt of 2c. .stamp, mli'28 Opening Day." Souvenirs.' rpP AAA h A Pi f** PPP A A L A A II bSS8 Satchels, all stylus, for $1.29. 81.98 Satchels, all styles, for $1.62. 25a Pockeibooks, all stvles, for 19a 49a Poeketbooks, all styles, for 37c. 98c. Poeketbooks. all styles, for 83a 25c. Fans, all styles, for l!?a 68c, Fans, all styles, for 54c. 98c. Fans, all styles, for 83c. $1 ''Elite'. Kid Gloves for 89c. $1.98 Kid Moiisquetalres for $1.69. 81.50 Gent's Kid Gloves for SI.29. 25c. Lisle Thread Gloves for 21c. 98c. Silk Mousquetaires for 79c. 39c. Lisle, also Cotton Hose, for 29c. 69a Si.'k Finished, Lisle Hose for 49c. 98c. Silk Hose, white toes and heels, 71c. 48c. Merino Underwear for 42c. Genuine "Lubln's"' Extracts for 33c. Genuine "Pears" Soap for 9c. Champagne bottle Bay Rum for 13a Florida Water, large size, for 31a Clark's O. N. T. Cotton for 4c. 25c. Manicure Sets for 19a 35c. Wire Hair Brushes for 19a $1.25 Nightgowns for 97a 98c. Corset Covers for 82a 29c. Drawers for 25c. 81.27 Chemises for 88a 29c. India Linen Aprons for 25c. 60c. Bustles for 44c. 81.26 Preach Woven Cnrpets for 99c. ?2.25 Satteen P. D. t orsos for $1.85. 73a Woolen Shawls for 50c. 82.98 Jerseys for $2.55. Embroideries, 10 per cent discount. GENT'S. GENT'S. $1.50 Kid Gloves for SI.29. 25c. Linen Hdkf's, for 21. 47a Scaife, all styles, for 39c. 25c. Satin Windsor Scarft for 19c. 08c. English Puff Scarfs for 57c. ?2.25 26 inch Silk Umbrellas for $1.88. 9c. "Palais Royal" Dress Shirts for 78c. 60c. Spring-weight Night Shirts for 44*ew York Stock Market to-dav, as reported by special wire to H. H. Dodge, 539 15th street; Fame. 0. 2:45 Jiame, 0. 2:45 Can. Pac 37^ X.J. Central 33^ 32\i pan-Sou 31^ N.Y.Central 190^ b9Va Cen. Pac 3P*4 31^ ST. Y.C.& St.l. 2*? Ches dt Ohio.... 6L> Do. pref. 51* Do. 1st pref.. 9V Xor.&West p Do. 2d pref... V Nor. Pac 173* "mi C.B.\ lOti'n Oregon Trans... 12 l'ja Den. &R.O.... 7V Ont.& West_... hC E- T. Va. (i.. 3'., i Pac. Mail 52 -52C E.T.\ aitGap 6Vj Peo. 1 K l.{?. E"e 12^ l27a Reading 14*,."."."." 2ds 66 Kock Island. 113J4 115^2 111. Cent 1-J6 126 Koch P I. B. it W St. Paul 70U '76C Lake K. it \V_ 14 Do. pref. lOSVi Lake shore (52^ 61 St. P. Omaha 25 Ixju. .. March 28.-Cotton dull-middling. 111,. I-lour active and firm. Wheat-southern wwiu'rn easier, closing dull; southern red, oo^f ?;.iR?^the?rn amber- Xo, 1 Maryland, 9 ?,a9.>; No. 2 western winter red. spot, and March. 00 ;^p May, 9i)-^a!t0-?: June, Lorn?southf-ru nrm; western mixed, spot. 49ioa50; March, 49T, a50: April. 4!>i4n4tUH; May, 49Vi4?i^t: steamer,48l-, t>id, fresh. Oats iirm and uuiet?southern t, ,western white. 37a38: western mixed. 35a30Pennsylvania. :u?a38. Rye steady and tirin, 72a75 1 revisions steady and quiet. Sugar?couner refined quiet. lO-Vill. Whisky steady, 1.2l?al?21. other articles unchanged. Freights to Liverpool per steamer dull?cotton, 1 l-(>4d.; flour, ls.tJd.;grain,4d. .Receipts flour. ?,589 barrels:wheat.28,000 bushels:com,70 00o bushels oats, 4,000 bushels; rye, TOO bushels. Shipments?wheat, (MX) bushels; corn, 95,0t)0 bushel*, bales?wheat. 468,000 bushels: corn. 172,000 bushels.' thieago .Markets. CHICAGO, III., March 28-11:15 a. m.-Wti*nt opened w.ak, sold down to 811^ for Mav. reacted to SIS1' ,s ,:,'w May corn is 42: Mav oats 31 Pork May, 12.2 4 W Lard?May, 0.92^. The weather is cloudy and cool. CHICAOO,III., March 28,-Closingpricps; Wheat? March ,7i4; April 77^: May. 82"4; June. S4i^:Julv, Corn?March, 38; April. 38; May, 41",? June 425?: July, 43^j. Oats-March. 27"e: Aprft, 27"?: Mav: 31V; June. 311}. Pork?March. 12.12l, \Pril' 12.12^: May, 12.37Vj: June, 12.4o.julv, 1 2.50 I.ardMarch.b.85; April, 6.85; May, 6.92^; June, 7.00; July, rf.Urffa. The Meridian Post Office. the contest GOING on OVER a federal OFFICE IN MISSISSIPPI. There Is a dispute over a post ollice in Mississippi similar to that which has raped over the Indianapolis post office. One of the most important and best paying post offices in Mississippi istiiat of Meridian, which is in Representative .Singleton's district. Mr. Singleton in the belief that the Congressman wid a Star reporter to-day that the citv i3 already divided into factions over thequestion He said, in fact, that the entire Congressional district was more or le*s asltated abut it, and that Postmaster Genera! Vilas will be requested to delay action until the people of Meridian can be heard from. Acccordins to this gentleman the democrats ol the city and district are mainly supporting Representative Singleton in his claimed prerogutive of naming the postmaster.

Transferring the Carp.?The very inter esting operation of transferring the young carp from their winter quarters in the mud-bottomed pond at the edjre of the flats to the summer pond just south of Babcock lake was performed to-dav before quite a pleasant party of spectators. Prof. Baird and Dr. Hessel superintended the work and probably a hundred thousand little carp were secured and trans ferred in big tubs over to their summer quarters The big ones, some wetphing nearlv thirtv I>ounds, were taken to put in the breeding waters. District Government Affairs. MISCE U.ANEOUS. A liquor license was yesterday issued to Timothy F. I>ee. REVFNX'esFROM LICENSE FEES. The total amount collected on account of license feeson March 1st, 1885,was $120,711 01 At the corresponding period last year there had' been collected on account of license lees $100.980.33, a difference in favor of this year of $13,725.28. new sewf.rs to be constructed. Yesterday afternoon the Commissioners came to conclusion, after examining the case that new sewerage, to cost about 12,000, shall be constructed this season. The new improvement will be along Oth street southwest and on Boundary and w streets northwest. This will be accomplished hy a lessening of the dimensions of the boundary sewer and placing new severs in the streets named with the money saved by reducing the capacity of Boundary sewer. Transfer* of Ileal Eitate. Deeds in fee have been recorded as follows: J. P. Town to Ellen F. London, lot 31, sq. 974; $000. J. F. Jackson to Catherine Ann Arnett and Alice A Smith, s. 6, sq. 250; M. Lansburgh to Julius Lansburgh. iot3, sq. 203$3,000. Jos. A. McDermott to Vv. O. Brian lota 9 and 10, sq. 507: 85,580. Thos. Fitzpatrick to Bridget Allen, lot 72, sq. 850; $050. The Children's Country Home?The board of managers of the Children's Country Home held its annual election on Wednesday last. The following is a list of the members for the coming year: Miss Mary L. Wilkes, nresi-, dent; Miss Townsend, vice president- Miss Rodgers, secretary; Miss Niles, treasurer; Miss Macomb, assistant secretary; Miss Bostlck. Miss Hunt, Miss Humphreys, Miss Hockaday, Miss King, Miss Law, Miss Matthews, Miss Patterson, Miss Roy. Miss Sutherland, Miss Simpson Miss Wilson. Miss West. The managers hope that the public will continue its support tptliis charity, which they are anxious to est/iblish upon a more permanent basis. The experiment of the last two years has so conclusively proved its usefulness, that they feel fliey may confidently appeal to the community for its future maintenance. The home will oe reopV ise arrived at Richmond last evening from Washington, and the wish of the public is that he will appear for the state. As yet he has not definitely determined whether his private busti,'^'Pl5'U,? W1&1 U"' JU _ A Xl'THVfAL rr*D. Correspondence Between the District Commissioner* and Superintendent Wilson in Relation to a Recently Pale lished Charge-Mr. Wilson Say* There Never Was a Xormal Sehool Fund? And, Consequently, There Was Xo Shortage. The following correspondence has passed recently between the?Disfr1ct Commissioners and Mr. Wilson, superintendent of public schools: Office of District Commissioners, Washington*, D. C., March 24. 18b5. J Ormond Wilson, R"]., Superintendent Public School*, D. C\ 8lr: "With respect to that portion of your letter of the loth Inst., requesting an investigation, which refers to a charsre published In a newspaper in this city -that there Is a remarkable shortage In the funds of the Normal school, caused by the loan of several hundreds of dollars to a well-known hanger-on of the school system.' the Commissioners direct that I should inquire of you whether any such fund exists or any ftind that accrues from contributions, payment by the District for services or otherwise of the pupils of the Normal school. If your answeris in the affirmative, the Commissioners desire to be furnished with a detailed statement of such fund since lis origin? who is the custodian of the same; from what sources and through what means it is created, and whether any of it has ever been, or is now loaned to any person. The Commissioners also desire to be informed whether any funds are in your hands or in the hands of any other person'within your knowledge, resulting from any concert, entertainment or exhibition held In the pa?t under the auspices of the public schools; what were the objects of any such concerts, etc.; when they were held; what sums, if any, were realized therefrom and who holds the same at the present time.'" Very respectfully, Jamks Campbell, Acting Secretary. mr. wilson knows ok no such fl'sd. To the above Mr. Wilson made reply a? follows: Office of the Sup't of Public Schools, Franki.in Building, Washington. March 25, 1&S5. To the Commissioners District of Columbia: Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th inst., and in reply have to submit the following statements: I know of no existing fund of the normal school accrued from any source. There are no funds in my hands "resulting from any concert,, entertainment or exhibition, held in the past under the auspices of the public schools." I understand that there is a little over one hundred (ailOO) dollars in. the custody of Mr. 15. (j. Lovejov, chairman of the committee in charge, the proceeds of an entertainment given by the "Lawrence Barrett club." to be applied, when a sum sufficient for this purpose shall be obtained, to the erection oi a monument to'the late MayorSeaton, an earnest friend ot the public schools. In respect to the funds in the hands of "any other person," I have only the knowledge obtained from the reports made to the board of trustees from time to time and printed in the minutes. I enclose herewith marked copies of minutes containing such reports. Very respectfully. (Signed) J. Ormond Wij,,son, Sup't. another inquiry. Thursday another letter was addressed to Mr. Wilson, as follows: Office ok the Commissioners. D. C.. Washington, March 26, lfcoo. Mr. J. Ormond Wilson, Superintendent l'ublic Schools, D. C.: Sir: I am directed to acknowledge receipt of your communication to the Commissioners of the 25th inst., in which you say that you "know of no existing fund of the normal school." If such a fund has existed the Commissioners would be obliged to you if yoo would inform them oi its origin and disposition as requested in the letter to you of the 24th inst., in order that all rumors and statements in regard to this matter may be set at rest. Very respect fully. (Signed) William Tindall, Secretary. the normal association. Mr. Wilson replied yesterday as follows: Office of Sup't of Public Schools, Franklin Building. Washington, D.C., March 27,1885. The Honorable Commissioners, District of Columbia: Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 20tli inst., and in reply submit the following statement: The Normal school has never, within my knowledge, had anything that could properly be called a fund derived from any source whatever. There is a Normal Association, made up of graduates of the school who are engaged in teaching in the District, which elects its own officers and controls its own affairs, and it contributes and tias in its own custody funds for its own purpose. On a previous occasion, in connection with the name of Miss Macqueen. I informed you that during the school year 1881-2 the Normal school performed the serv ices of a teacher in Miss Bartlett's school, during the earlier part of the year, as a substitute, when Miss Iiartlett was detained at home by illness, and during the latter part of the year, after her death, as a teacher temporarily employed by the local committee of the division. It received pay for the services thus rendered, amounting altogether, including $122 lone hundred and twentv-two dollars) received from Miss Bartlett, and (ninety-nine dollars,! from the District, to $221 (two hundred and twenty-one dollars.) This money was earned by the Normal school and was to be expended for its benefit. Much of the care and labor incident to this service fell upon the principal of the school, and it was therefore deemed proper that the expenditure of the sum should be left largely to her suggestion. The money was turned over to me for temporary safe-keeping until called for as needed to pay bills. No part of it was ever loaned to any one or used by any one, but it was kept in my possession until thus called for. It was nearly all expended more than a year a^o. 1 have called upon the principal of the Normal school for a statement of the expenditures, aud herewith enclose a copy of the same. Very respectfully, (Signed) J. Ormond Wilson, Superintendent. o Amusements. Albaugh's Opera House.?M ile Rhea will open her engagement at Albaugh's next week with a presentation of Howard Carroll's play, "An American Countess," which was produced for the first time in this city not long ago. The same company is now supporting M'lle Rhea that was with her in her former engagement here, ineludingMr. Edward J. Hurley, Mr. John Sullivan and Miss Mae Clarke. The American Countess" is now presented with much better effect than when seen here earlier, owing to the fact that frequent repetitions of the piece have made the company thoroughly familiar with the lines and business of their roles. "Arcadia." "TheSchool for Scandal," "An Unequal Match" and "Canaille" will also be done by M'lle Uliea and her company during the week. The Thursby Concert.?Owing to the demand for seats for the Thursby concert from school children, it has been df>eided to issue admission tickcts to the pupils of the public schools and their friends at greatly reduced prices. They may be had at Ellis'. Mr. A. I... King, whose fine tenor voice was heard with such effect in the "Stabat Mater" concert not long ago, has been engaged to assist Miss Thursby. together with oilier talented vocalists. Tub Stoddard Lectures.?At Ford's next week, beginning Tuesday evening, John L. Stoddard is to give his series of illustrated lectures, which have brought him fame and fortune, aud have gathered about him the largest" audiences of any lecturer, native or foreign, now before the public. He finishes this evening a highly successful week at the Academy of Music, Baltimore, and will give the same "lectures here. Two evenings devoted to the history of the bloody French revolution of 1789, an evening with Charles Dickens, and two evenings of reproduction of the tourist s experiences in Europe, offer a sufficient variety of topics. Unique and beautiful illustrations are to pe given with all. Herzog's Museum.?The patronage of this house continues large. The bill for next week will be Hnusually attractive. The Dime Museum.?The attraction announced for the Dime museum next week is the great spectacular and sensational drama, the "Sea of Ice." It will be presented by Miss Lottie Church, a charming young actress, who has been drawing crowded houses In the north and east. She will be supported by a good company and the play will be well mounted. There will also be many new curiosities in the museum. Thkateb. Comique.?That popular comedian, Harry Montague, will appear at the Comique next week in "The Widow's Legacy." There will, in addition, be the usual interesting and varied olio, including Hamlin and Keeler, a lively song and dance team; Ada Newcomb, serio-comic; Murray and Marock. very amusing Irish sketch artists; Augustus Albert!, an excellent Juggler. Solke and son and a lively ballet. The Courts. probate Court?Judge IJagner. Yesterday, estate of Jonathan Taylor, citation issued on administrators. Estate of Jabez Pittard; order directing payment of life insurance. Estate of Jeremiah Sheclian; order authorizing guardian to make repairs. Estate of Henry Kelchart; letters granted Francis Reichert, and bond fixed at $400. In re Catherine Bradbury; order appointing J. W. Bradbury guardian of orphan children; boad *275. Fighting in Manitoba. THE REBELS REPULSE A PARTY OF POLICE, KILLING TWELVE OF THEM. In the house of commons at Ottawa last night, the following telegram from Lieut. Col. Irvine to Sir John Macdonald, dated "Fort Carleton, via Winnipeg, 27th of March, 1885," was read by the premier: "The party under my command have just arrived. When near Fort Carleton I found that Major Crozier, with a party of one hundred, had gone to Duck Lake to secure supplies there stored. They were met by some hundred rebels, who endeavored to surround Mujor Crozier's force ofpollce and civilians. The rebels fired first. Wnen the firing became general Major Crosier retreated In good order, arriving at the fort at the same time as my party. Ten civilians of Prince Albert and two policemen were killed and four civilians and seven constables were wounded. The num. her of rebels killed Is not known." Detachments of A and B batteries, of Kingston and Quebee; the Queen's Own and Tenth Royals, of Toronto, ana the Infantry school, under command or Col. Otter, have received marching orders, and will proceed via the Canadian Paolfio railroad to the northwest without delay. LETTER FROM MAX O'RELL. Author "John Rati and Hi* Island.** livklt mvixw of the svuofkak itu'v tioi*?bad blood bitwses john iuuand JUHKjrr crafkac?frbnck vixws about SOAP? PEN PICTCRK of the MAHtU. Special Correspondent of Th* Evrns# Star. ijondon, March 1*, 18S5. The British lion ha* bwn fed upon large siloes of humble pie this week. Lord Granville has lndulsred in apologetic platitudes which have aroused the indignation and contempt of (the French press. "The Emperor William." says the Rarprl, "has cause to rejoice. In be annexed Austria, in 1870 he dismembered hnuw, in 1?85 he has suppressed England.'' Of course it is not the honor of England that the French have at heart so much as her recon' ciliation with Germany, which causes them some anxiety. It may be said, however, that traditional pride was the mainspring of the strength of old Kngland. and her public humiliation may d" more to destroy her prestige in India than several defeat* in the isoudan. It is a curious thing to note how the English I papers delight in reproducing all the bitter sayings of the Parisian press on the subject of England, and how carefully they refrain from reproducing whatever Is said in their favor. It would seem as If they had set themselves the task of proving that Jacques Boiihomiuo hates John Bull. A stock exehange canard had taken ita flight the other day, about 1 o'clock, and gone and settled among the offlees of F!"et street. One hour later Ix>ndon was covered with newspaper contents bills, announcing In letters of Ave inches long that the French troops had been annihilated by the Chinese In Tonquln. Two days later the little French garrison gained an Important victory oxer the Celestial troops,and the same contents bills announced the sad intelligence in minute type, carefully hidden among other more or less uninteresting news. On the other hand, the French seem to be very busy, at present, proving that the Russians cannot fail to be soon masters of India. Oh! the dear neighbors! To an impartial observer, who goes on his way philosophizing, and keeping IiIb eyes open to what passes on each side of the Channel, it is really a very amusing sight to see how the two countries set to work to inspire sentiments of love and respect in each. And, since I am on this topic, I should like to explain away an international grievance, in which the Americans appear to side with the English. When English fieople alight in a French hotel and find no soap on the washstand, do you believe they conclude from this that the French carry soap in their trunks when they travel? Not a bit of it. Thev conclude that the French do not wash, or that, if they do, their ablutions are Iwrtormed by means of a corner of their handkerchiefs dipped in water. Mark Twain, the prince of American humorist*, exclaims upon i entering the bedroom of a French hotel: "What, waiter, no soap! Don't you know that soap is indispensable to an Englishman or an American, and that only a Frenchman can do without it?"'

The English and their American cousins may perhaps be astouished to hear that a Frenchman would have as much repugnance in using hotel soap as any of them would In using a toothbrush that they might find on a hotel washstand. I will make bold to inform them even, that a great many French ladies are so particular as to carry about with them a supply of bedroom towe ls when they travel. Chucun.net roult voyez-vovs. A rumor has been current that Mark Twain intended visiting England In May for the purpose of giving readings from his own writings. The Athenaeum It was which made the announcement. Some inquisitive person dronp?"d a line to Mark Twain's manager. Major Pond, quoting the statement and asking if there was anv truth in it. His answer was laconic. Here it is: "Not so far as Mark Twain or Major Pond knows."

The great Durham matrimonial ease is finished, and his lordship will have to keep his wife, as the judge decided that at the time of the wedding Lady Durham was not insane.

The result of this case will be that shyness will henceforth be at a discount in the matrimonial market, and inteuded male candidates for matrimony will have to ascertain that shyness which they believe to be a veil of maiden coyness is not a symptom of vacuity of mind. The clever American lady doctor, who is now lecturing in Loudon, said "the other day: "In the choice ot a wife, no loss than in the purchase of i a horse, some previous conception should have been formed In the mind of what was wanted. To avoid imprudent marriages among young people, she was in favor of the establishment of committees f Investigation to question candidates for matrimony.' There is truth in this. If men were to choose their wives as carefully as they do their horses, though th? ideal is not high, a great deal of wretchedness would be avoided. It is only for Anglomania and Gallomania to make a little more progress still, and France and England will soon be speaking a kind of Anglo-French gibberish which, let us hope, will unite them in new bonds of friendship. In 1711, after the victories of Blenheim and Malplaquet, Addison lifted his voice against this irruption of French words, and asked that the law should interdict the use of them. Oh, Addison, stop thv ears and veil thy face! This Is what I read iu the No. 116 of the Mew Monthly, in an article signed by an aristocratic lady: "I was chez moi, inhaling the odeur mutquee of mv scented boudoir, when the Prince of Z. entered. He found me in my demv-toilftte, blasie nur tout, and. pensively engaged in solitary conjugation of the verb s'ennuyer, and, though he had never been one of my habitue*, or, by any means, den notres, I was not disinclined, at this moment of deUmsement, to glicte with him into the crocchio restrctto of familiar chat!" Let us exclaim: Wanted an English academy!

The French gained a brilliant victory over the Chinese in Formosa on the 4th inst., but with what result is not yet known. Most French victories are as brilliant as they are barren. In fighting the Chinese we have this difficulty to contend with, as most Christian nations "have when they fight eastern people, that the euemv are ever ready to go an d enjoy the happiness which they believe awaits them in a future life, whereas most of us Christians prefer postponing the day instead oi courting with alacrity the moment that will change fleeting joys 'into eternal ones.

It has been left to a Frenchman to furnish the world with the best appreciation of the Mahdi, that more or less problematic personage who Is now causing so much anoyance to John Bull. M. Darmesteter lnis Just delivered, at the Sorbonne, a lecture in which he passes In survey the long series of Mahdis who have li.ved from the time n was directed to report at the President's house for duty to-day. PATnorcx.?Ths brisk demand tor tickets at Brentano's at this early date for the special "Patience" to be given at Albauah s, April 25, Indicates that it wllitw an entXrtfuooees in every To the Editor of Tub tvttiiK? Ha You. with your unfailing murtMy, printed whtt a "Dyed in the Woo) Democrat*' bad to mv to a onnwpondvnt who had mM nm to him. the denioted the tmwtrtit ticket or any other?" Ant.?Yea. Have you? 2. "Have you attained the age of M^orttjr*" An*.?If vou had read the article you au* laquire about you would have *eeu that tBe writer had said, and he said truly, that be had been received at the White Bouse (and by tbe Pnesld*ut) as early a* 1828. 8. "Did you attend ehoot at the rwhllc expense at Annapolis or at Went Point?* An*.?No. It la verjr true, in the "Dyed In tbe Wool Democrat*'" opinion, that Wes* Point and the naval academy at Annapolis have turned out from their academic halt* graduate* who h:?ve in after life proved themselves brillIxnt. bmve and usefttl to tneir ?*ut all American gr?>at und brilliant men were not educated at the public expense at Wcet Point or AnnapoIU. It*nee your friend the "Dyed In the Wool iK-mocrat." la here! 4. The fourtn query i? t Ion* to quote bat the ?n?wer Is: If everybMv ?av /oO.OOO o Washington eity, and possibly 50,000 mor?f seeking post office*. ftwign missions, 4c.) Inrtsi' that the President must either Keep the Sseetitive M in^ion closed to the public, or only open it to the whole 'JftO.OOO?more or lew la gv or stay kwhj, at "their own sweet Will*," then there can be but two or three alternative*, such as an open air "marching ban*," au iron man with pump-handle attachment,?or prepare to bury our excellent Chief Marbitrate! T peeler the opeu air plau. Rt h. Is too long toqnote.but may be answered tliat the "limitation* in the matter of attire should ?>e the invited guest preference, but preferably plain, simple. clean inner and outer varment*, of'such reasonable rich nee* an senstble men and women usuallv appear In public in. A D*" -D-ty-rni^WOOI. DEMOCRAT. P. R,?Your v* sensible and very re anon able correspondent, c., in your paper of the Mtb instant.comes nearer the mark than tbe "Plain American Cttlxen" or the "Enquirer." For twenty years, more or less, officer* of the army and navy have been ardrrtd to call on the Pre* ideut at a particular time and tn e prttcribwd uniform! No Secretary-, or any one elee, ha* tbe lawful authority to order officers to perform merely social Acts or duties, end tnoee *n ordered really fail to pay a compliment to tbe President. A. D. W. IX THK Vessf.I, Not LARUB KKarsH.-Llcnt. Geo. M. Stoney. who was placed la charge of the expedition to make exploratiiNis la Alaska, has reported to the Navy department from Washington Territory, that the cuast survey vessel Earnest, which was selected to convey the exploring party to Alaskan wviters from San Francisco, is not large enough and not suited for the purpose. Lieut. wtoney has, therefore, been ordered back to 4an Francisco, pendiug the decision as to whetiier the party shall l>e conveyed to their destination b> other means or not. Mr. M. L. McHLicx*>.je, of the treasurer'* office, has been appointed secretary of tbe ounimission investigating the Treasury department. Engineer PKtSDLi RESToRFn TO Dt'TT.? Civil Engineer F. C. Prlndle, of tlie Ilr??oklyn navy yard, was recently *uk|M-ndod from duty by Commodore Chandler lor publishing bis acquittal by a court of Inquiry, on charge* of squandering money upon dredge, and a request for his court martial was made to the Navy department. The Secretary has ordered "his restoration to duty, stating that his course did not warrant his wing court| martialed. but lie has addressed an official communication to 'otniitodore Chandler, calling his attention to certain irregularities, which cropped out during the examination of the court of Inquiry referred to, affecting Civil Engineer Prlndle and B. F. Burt Iks, his chief clerk, and directing that the persons referred to be required to give an explanation. The irregularities are that the sum of fifi.OOO was shown by the books of Engineer Prlmile's office to have been Irregularly aceounted for. and that Mr. Rurtiss several years ago, before he was connected with the yard, bribed or attempted to bribe Engineer Prlndle in the matter of awarding a contract.

Thk Rkpi blican SPLrr is Virginia.?'The rupture between Senator Mabone and Onv. Cameron is retarded as permanent in Richmond. Copies of the resolutions adopted by the conference held by the anti-Mahonlte* at the governor's mansion on tlie 18th have been *ent to the Influential and representative republlj cans in the various districts. As vet Senator MuLione has made no reply to the oopy forwarded to him. The opinion is expressed by some prominent republicans here that Mabone will call tbe committee together shortly and consider the impendliigtrouble in his party. When Your Ltvf.r is Ott or Order nse t>r. Jayne's Sanative Pills, and you will assist the biliary system in regniuing a healthy condition, and get rid of many distressing symptoms. MARRIED. BEI/TTER-8HFA. On Februafj 8th. 18*8, at the parsonage of Eev. Dr. W. Murk land, csrasr Cathedral and Franklin sts., Baltimore, Miry lead, MIECHIAEL BELCHER to JANE J. SllEA, both of Washington, D. C. DIED. BALLIXGER. On March 27th, 1886, MART E1* wite of William Ballinper, aged sixty-one years Funeral service at tier late residence, No '431 Fourteen h street southwest, tomorrow 'Sunday,,at IjBO p. iu. Interment at Uratnesville, Va COBVBN. On Friday, March 27, 1885, at 3:18 p m., after an illness of three days, MaMIK EVA COBl'RN, only child of Annie and the late James Coburn, ageu 4 years. 4 motiika and 21 days. Little Mamie was oar darling. Pride of all our hearts and home. But an angel fame and whispered. Little Mamie, do oouie home. Home is sad?O, Lord how dreary. Lonesome?lonesome every spot; Listlug tor her voice till weary, Weary, for we hear it not. Heaven retalneth now our treasure, Earth the lonely casltet keeps. And tbe sunbeams love to linger Where our darling Mamie sleeps. By H kb Morwna. Funeral will take nlace from her late residents Vo. 4M2 First street iiorthweat, on Sunday, March Wlk at 4 o'clock p.m. Relatives au d friends are looted to attend. DORSTER Im parted this life, at 7:16 p m., JTLIA B beloved wife ot the iate William Ed* la Jjorsu-r, aged sixty-three years. funeral from her late residence. No. 1820 Eleventh street northwest. Monday, at 3 o'clock p. iu. Mew Bedford, ForUaiiU and Pro\ Idenuc papers please copy. FA BR On Thursday. Mart-h 26th. 1886, at 1 ajn.. of oneumonia, FKANCES A. 1 AH 11 a^ed infi threv of Fairfax. Va Mother, home is so lonely a lthout you. Funeral from her iate resilience, N'ltglala avanoa, Saturday, at 3 o'clock. e FELDMAN. At 8 a m., March 28.1886, after a long illness. Mra LOUISE FELDMAN, nee Franks wife of the iate William Feldtuan, aged Itir *ye*r*, 4 months, 6 days. Funeral will take place from tlie MSldeno* of het brother-in-law. Mr. Chas. Fischer, 023 Reventh stre*t Friends respectfully Invited to attend oa Monday, March 30th. OKA NT. On Saturday. March 28. IMS, at a.?a.. WILLIAM T.. son of Mary K. and the hMe IWbet M. Oram, in the thirtv-flfth year of bis sge. Funeral will take place from his lets resident*, 1215 Fourth street northwest, on Moaday, match 80, at 3 p.m. Friends of tbe family invited to attend. [Portsmouth, Va, papers please copy.] JARBOE. At 6i30p.m. March 28, 1886.ADAWAY C. JAKliOE, a native of St. Mary's county, Md., in ths seventieth year of her ape. Funeral from her late residence. 812 Third street northwest, on Sunday at 3 o clock p.m. KelaUees snd friends are respectfully invited to attend. [81. Marys county, Mi, papers please copy.] JONES. At 6:80amon March 27th, 1885, of pneumonia, ELIZA-BETH M, wtfa of Oeo. T. JOnes, of Cincinnati. Funeral will take place Bonday, March 29th, at S|80 fjn., from her late rosidencs. No. 818 Indlaaaeeseua. 'riends are Invited to attend. W1 LEWIS. Departed this Ute March 30,1886JVJCBE LEWIS, aged seventy-uine year*. Her funeral will take plaos at the Third BafHst church, Franklin street uurthwest, 8uaday, at two o'clock. All friends are Invited to attend. O'ITERBACK. At bsr late lestdsao*, No. 1106 Eighth street southeast, on Friday, March 27tk. 1886, at b:30 o'clock p.m.. Mrs HA KAH OTTEJEBaCV. relict of the late Philip Ouerttaok., la fhe sighsy s?i?ni1 year of her age _ Funeral will take place from her rssHlsegs. oa Tuesday, March 31st. at three o'clock p.m. Frtsefls respectfully invited to attend. PAGE On Starch 27,1886. at 4 am., KAfLKIET. the beloved wife of nanlss Page, In bar forV-sbird J Taneral from her residence. 1818 M 8X8 ae?thwesi, oa Monday, at 2 o'clock pjn. TOM*dS SM Natives are ievlted to attend. TURLEY. Oa Saturday, Merck 98th, 1888,1??0 a.m, at the rssldenc* of his bro(herda-taw. Mare Janney. esq.. X o. 1607 L street northwsaL BSUUJifv. TURLFT, la the twenty-sixth year erhlseca Funeral notice In Sunday papers. bSs0^. iscaaSft eighty-eighth year. Funeral from Mount Oarmel church, at 11 o'oteck on Monday sooraiag. e UNDERTAKERS. TAMES BELLED', ft tSpERTAKER, Corner of O a and Bew Jersey maw. Fsnsnal attention to all details offlinerals. lis CAJJS ^miBTim, ioi 7tk washi5oto5!I\>To^ L Urn M B0TELEB. FURNIOTIN0 UJBEETAEM. Mea 818 ^sensylvania avsnn* aertkwsst mi fH i 8tkt?^ T^neaeesnyasaa |?f w. BABY WW. UNBEBTAEEB AXB MLACTXOAL MukownDMri mm

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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. *Hr.HFMl!STS AST) LEITI RKS-IRVINO S OBF.AT SICCKSH?THE X. V. T5I05 8QCABt OOXFA5T ?THE BOSTON I DEALS, ETC. The engagement of the Boston Ideals at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York, is regarded as a failure. Some of the New York papers were very severe on the organization. Minstrel performances have never been permitted in the Fifth Avenue theater. New York, but when John Stetson had his lease renew* d recently he insisted that the clause interdicting burnt cork exhibitions be striken out. Thatcher, Primrose A West will be the first minstrel organization to appear at this theater. "Adonis" gives no sign of abating in popularity at the New York Bijou. If hiis run over 2o0 nights and still the people are not tired of it. The revival of "Diplomacy" atWallack's, j New York, is regarded as a substantial success. "The Private Secretary" at the Madison J Square, and "A Prisoner for Life" at the Union Square will be withdrawn at the end of next Week. "Sealed Instructions," the new piece shortly to be produced at the Madison Square theater. New York, will have in the cast Miss Millward, J. H. stoddart, W.J. I* Moyne. H. M. Pitt. Herbert KelCey, and Mrs. Denison, a Baltimore amateur, who has been on the Madison Square list for a long time back. Mrs. Denison comes Of a good family in Baltimore, and her husband Is a man of wealth. It is hard to understand what the London. nt*st of his meager Abilities. In McKee Rankin's revival of "The DanItes" in San Francisco last week, the part of Waxhe* Wathee was played by a genuine Chi nasi an, whose name was billed as Alphonso Ah Gow. and who made such a "hit" that he has been engaged for the remainder of the season. Mr. Irv ing surprised many people by de. lining to witness the special performance of "Adonis," given for the theatrical profession in j New York last week. In this burlesque Mr. Dlxey imitates Mr. Irving's eccentricities of "voice and manner. The great actor's critics j have, of course, been quick to say that he re- sents the imitations, and did not wish to listen to the shouts of laughter with which it is always received, but those who know him well say:? "The Guv'ner is never small or mean about anything. you know, and he likes a joke." The Hasty Pudding Club, of Har\ ard, will give a theatrical entertainment at the University Club Theater, New York. April 6, in aid of the University Boat club. The play will be an extravaganza written by the students themselves, entitled "Joan of Arc; or, the Old Maid of New Orleans."' Horace Howard Furness, of Philadelphia, Is the possessor of Shakspeare's gloves. They j were given to Garrick at the Stratford Jubilee i In 1769 by John Ward, the actor, who had re- celved theni in 1746 from a cousin of Shake- peare,with the assurance that they were genu- i me. On the deatli of Garrick they pa-sed, with all other personal effects, to his widow, who at her j death bequeathed them to Mrs. Siddons, who in j turn bequeathed them to Mrs. (ieorge Combe. of Edinburgh, her daughter, who bequeathed 1 them to Mrs. F. A. Kemble. who gave them to j Mr. Furness. ?Miss Maggie Mitchell will recount some of her experiences on the stage iu the April uum- ber of the Jirouklim Magazine. i ?Henry Irving's farewell engagement in New 1 York has been a great success. The weeklv receipts have run up as hisrh as aiu, was clear profit lor Irving. On April 4 the New York Union Square stock company ceases to exist. Born on the 17th day of September, 1872, it has lived a use- 1 fill, prosperous lite. It has ushered into success many at present well known plays, and several of the original company still answer the roll call of thirteen years ago. Among the plays originally produced by the stock company, and which at present have a hold on the American j public, are "Agnes,"' "The Two Orphans," "The Banker's Daughter," "A Celebrated Case,"' "French Flats" and "The Lights o' Loudon.'' There is one man in New York?and a musical director, too?who has never heard "Pina- lore." He is Adolph Nowak. the leader of the 1 orchestra at the Standard theater, and until the rehearsals began for the production of the opera on Saturday, April 11, he had never heard the music u00 weekly, in addition to his traveling ex- penses. Mr. Clemens is seriously considering j the advisability of going to Australia next 1 season. j An American lady has been selected to j support Mine. Marcella Sembrich, who created such a furore in "Lucia" here last winter, at the Imperial opera in St. Petersburg next sea- son. This lady is Miss Asncs Huntington, who has Already established for herself a brilliant reputation on the concert staae, both in this Country and in Europe. Miss Huntington was 5 originally a pupil of Achille Errani, in New York, thence goingtoGermany, where for three j 1 year* she studied under the famous J. B. 1 Xampertl, the maestro from whom Mine. Sem- JmU IF obtained those methods which add so signally to the effectiveness of her great natural gilts. So distinguished was Miss Huntington's 1 Kuceess when she made her debut at a concert 1 in Dresden, in February, 1882. that she was at 1 once selected to take a leading part at a 1 eu findUMu* concert at Leipsic, an honor never Ixtlore accorded to one so young, and but once before to an American. Since that time Miss 1 Huntington has sun? in concert with great 6ucce->* In Germany, France. Great Britain and In this country. At the Worcester festival last September she carried off the honors ol the oc- cutoo. i England th. Russia. j SCRTCa OF THE TOWN WHICH IS THE CACSE OF Ul'ARIEL. Herat, the present bone of contention between i England and Russia, is comparatively small -for a plane of such paramount Importance, containing barely 50.000 inhabitants. It is situated in a slight depression on the summit of a zocky ridge 2,650 feet high, forming oue of the Westernmost spurs of the great Safeid Koh (White mountains) range, which runs across northern Afghanistan from west to east. It is rarrouuded by a wall which, measured from *he base ofgthe earthen mound on which it stands, attains a height of 75 feet, which is considerably exceeded by several of the 150 towers that strengthen it. But these defenses, though seeminglv formidable, are now, like those of most Afghan fortresses, fast crumbling to decay from loug neglect. The citadel, like that of Cairo, stands on a steep r??ck in the center of f the town. There are four bazaars, which lie ja*t within the four principal gates. The place Tias a consul rable trade with Persia, India, Turkestan and western China, the chief local products being saffron, assafretlda, saddlerv, ?Sp*. cloaks, shoes, carpets, sables aud dressed Sheepskins. The name of the town is said to be derived from the Heri-"Rud," or river, which Sowk along the southern base of the ridge upon 3 hich Herat stands. 4 A Jtew Danger to Druffffista. From the Chicago Times. A very disagreeable and possibly dangerous result to the occupant of a North Side drug store was averted yesterday morning by the neglect of Mr. Frank Men to put up the following prescription: "Potassa permanganate, 2 drachms; glycerine, 1 ounce; mix. M. sig. Use externally, f: Dr. Cooper." Tb'.mau w*>o gave it to be put up walked rapidiy out of the store, promising to return in few minutes. Mr. Merz was too good a pharmacist to put up the mixture without thinking over the effects of the combination, and he hjrived at the conclusion that the "permanganate" in the prescription was a dangerous thin* to handle in connection with glvcerine. It is *ell known that glycerine is violently* acted uuon by those substances which easily give up OXygen, such as peroxides of lead, of maganese Jjersasnganates, bichromates, chlorates with acids, nitric acid, hyperchlorite of sodium. Ac The oxidation products of glycerine are formed with such rapidity as to cause an explosion, and consequently Mr. Frank Merz co'n: eluded that it would be wise to leave the comShortly after the prescription was left at the store another man entered, bought a cigar, and looked around in an Inquiring sort of way, and finally retired with a disappointed air, as If he Bad been chested of the ftin of a local blow-uo ItU unnecessary to add that the person who &Me^PlJ^hoPri0n neV6r murn?"l to the store SERVANTS IX EIROPE. ('harnrtfri0 to $100 a year. The work of English servants never overlaps. It is rigidly defined and strictly adhered to. It Is annoyance in an English household that this is true, for often certain work goes undone for the reason there Is 110 one 'whose place' it is do it. In Germany. France and this country servants will turn their hands to almost anvthing. but not so in England. It is deemed derogatory to do mother's work, and one gets accustomed to liear, 'It is not mv work," and the work goes un- lone. There are two sides to this. We do not put a blacksmith to mend one's watch, and perhaps a maid of all work is good at none. English servants as a rule do well what they undertake to do. The relation between master and man,between mistress aud maid, would be to an American? confess it alway was to me?irksome. It is an 1 jnnatural, restrained and forbidding relation, rhe servants are held at arm's length, and their icrvility is universal. 'Sir' and 'mam' are used with every breath, and the raising the hand to 1 ;he head by the man-servant, and the halftccomplished courtesy of the maid-servant are 1 so mechanical and as if done by machinery that 1 t is offensive. It is very seldom that there is any love lost between the family and the servants, iny more tliau between employers and em- 1 ployes in England. The relation is purely a jommercial one?so much work for so much fay. In case of a servant falling ill he or she is ilmost instantly sent off to the hospital, re- 1 turning to the family only when able to return 1 to duty. In France or In America the family w ould feel under a natural and humane obligation, as well as restrained by sympathy and iffection, to care for the servant while sick. As compared with America trained servants ire as a hundred to one. There is practically no difficulty whatever In hiring most capable Vid most worthy servants. Their ways are not is our ways and their thoughts are not as our thoughts. They are not pliable and manageable and will ill suit American domestic ar- rangements and habits, our fainii'arity with i servants, our inquiry into their family aud per sonat affairs, our calling upon them at all hours and on all occasions to do any service required would all be resented and would lead to an- 1 urchv in the household. They can do, each, one 1 thing well. They will take their places and keep their places, but they have no genius whatever for diversity of employment. In any country the very best remedy for a bad servant is a good master or mistress. Remember that servants are human; that in this country they are educated and ambitious. Give them the respect and consideration due them, and above all teach servants that labor is honorable, and that any work well and faithlully done receives recognition and a suitable and sure reward." o* Vigils. I. Once more the flight of time I hear In that lone bell across the snow; Twelve frosty echoes, blow 011 blow. The "Ave! vale!" of the year! Long-silent voices, once so dear, Keturn tonight; the haiuls we pressed Stretch bark to lis to b** caressed Through folded glooui the worlds draw near. II. Once more Orion's sword of gold Is gleaming in the air afar. And at his feet the tinv star w e call our home lies dim and col tefl yZ that he scut another tooth." "Vou don't aay so! How many has he now*" "Five It makes him awfully cross." I dare say It does this hot weather." Well, good-bye! Don't forget to come down." fco, I won't. Don't you forget to come up. Goo^-bye!" And they aep IXDIAN COURTSHIP. The Plat# Fiuhlon of Wooln* til Wed> dia( l?nn? Sqnawa. From the San Francisco Call. The narration by Sarah Winnemucca of how Indian maidens were wooed and won the Piute nation shows the strictness of that people In regard to the mingling of. the sexes. The old chiefs daughter gave the following account of a Piute courtship to a Cull reporter a few days ago: "When a girl reaches womanhood and her family desire to indicate to the tribe that their daughter has reached the marriageable period, she makes her debut, as you say in English, but the Piute girl comes out in an entirely different way from that adopted by her white sister. Just betore she reaches womanhood her grandmother has especial charge of her. To that old lady, whose years are supposed to have brought wisdom, the girl is given. She schools her in domestic duties, and explains to her the nature and importance of the wifely relation. The girl then goes with two older female relatives to a teepee, which 1b a small wigwan, where she remains with them twenty-tive days. During this time she performs work which is supposed to be strengthening. It consists chiefly ot piling wood. Three time* a day, at morning, noon and night, she stacks five piles of wood, makiug fifteen each day. Ever}- tive days her relations take her to the river to bathe, and at the end of the time she gives her clothing to her attendants and returns to the family lodge. Very frequently the wardrobe which she presents her female attendants is quite extensive, and is regarded by them as a valuable present. When the young girl has spent twenty-live days in the teepee, she has made her debut Into the society of her tribe and that is considered as a public announcement that she is ready to marry. "Of course, a pretty, shapely girl is in great demand, just as a belle is in j our society. A girl with a handsome face and line black eyes and flowiughair as black and glossy as a raven's wing, and a willowy, graceful form, is the object of a great deal of attention from the young men of the tribe, and often of the older men, too. A lovely Indian girl is as much sought after in her circle as a great beauty is in a lx>ndon drawing room. But, oh, how different the two kinds of courtship are W e have no parties in the wigwams to which young folks go and get acquainted and court. The young men and giris have no theater to attend, and no long walks home after the play is over. They never go riding together nor strolling through the woods along tlie river bank. They never Idle together in the canoe on the water, plucking lilies and flowers. Although they seem to enjoy much greater liberty to roam fcud wander whithersoever their fancy may lead them, yet they are kept as close as prisoners. Piute courtship lacks freedom, and yet it is not devoid of that intense excitement that attends love-making the world over. "You may suppose that the girls ahd young men would" steal out of their lodges of moonlight nights and have clandestine meetings, and woo in that way, but they never dare to do it. Indeed, they never speak together. A word never passes between them, Put still a girl very soon knows when a young man is interested in her. He tries to catch her attention by his horsemanship, or his skill with the bow. or his athletic accomplishments. He rides by her at a furious speed, and returns again and again. In this way ne attracts her attention ana informs her, although he does not speak a word, that he loves her and would like to marry her. But this does not comprise all of his courtship. At night, when the Indians huve retired to their wigwams and are sleeping, the young man rises from his bed of leaves and skins and goes to the lodge occupied by the girl he love?. He enters silently and sits down beside her couch. A lodge is circular in shape, and at night, when the inmates go to bed, they heap brushwood and logs on the lire in the center of the tent, aiuKhen lie down with their feet toward the lire and theLr heads toward the outside or circumference of the wigwain. The Indians sleep on leaves and robes, and are covered when sleeping with skins. As the young man enters the lodge he can see by the flrelight where the young girl is sleeping, and he goes directly to'her side, often stepping over other sleepers, and sits down by her bed. It is customary for the young girl to sleep near her grandmother, who is expected to rest lightly niter tlie girl has made her debut. As soon as she sees tlie young man enter she awakens the girl, who rises and goes to where her mother is sleeping, and lies down beside her. As soon as ?he does this the young man rises and goes out as silently as he came in. "Not a word is spoken. He does not touch the girl while he is sitting by her as she sleeps. Hnce begins to woo the girl all familiarty and friendship ceases. He is never invtted to eat of food prepared by the family of the girl, and her brothers never otter him any tiling on the hunt. His presence is wholly ignored. If the girl does not like him she tells her grandmother, and when the young man comes again at night, that good old lady rises from her bed, takes a handful of hot ashes from the lire and throws them in his face. That's the mitten. If he persists in his attentions and continues to come again and again, tlie whole family unite in heaping Indignities upon him, but the girl is never a party to this. Her brothers and sisters and father and mother throw ashes upon him, dowse him with water, flagellate him with stout switcfles, and drive him from the lodge. Sometimes an Indian persists In spite of such assaults, and goes again and again to the tent where the girl is sleeping. Sometimes his perseverance wins her neart, but not often. "'If the girl likes him and is willing to marry him, then she tells her grandmother, who informs the girl's father. If the family think it is a suitable match, the father invites the young man to the tent and asks him in the presence of the girl if he loves her and will take good care of her. Then the father asks the girl if she loves the young man, and tells her the duties of a wife. If both say they love each other, the two become engaged, but even after that they do not talk together, neither do they go about together. A day is fixed for the wedding. A great feast is prepared. The relatives of the girl and the young man sit around a great camptire together, the young man and the girl sitting side by side. The food is in baskets. The girl has carefully cooked a basket of food for lier intended husband, and as she hands it to liim he seizes her wrist with his right hand and takes the basket with his left. That is the marriage ceremony. The girl's fatner then pronounces them man and wife, and they go to a lodge, where they live together."

Another Arkansas Statesman Heard From. SEN ATOR CROCKETT'S GREAT SPEECH ON THE RAILROAD FREIGHT BILL. The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette prints In full the speech delivered in the senate of that state by Col. "Bob" Crockett on the bill to regulate railroad freights. Following Is one of its eloquent paragraphs: "Sir, for whom are we legislating? For ourselves alone? Alas, sir, heaven will never Bmile upon such selflsh legislation. In a little while vou, Mr. President, and my venerable friend, the father of this bill, whose snowy locks are even now being tossed by the breezes of another world, and I will have passed away and quietly sleep beneath the sod. The winter snow will drape the mounds above us with a winding sheet, but the sting of its bitter cold will be all unheeded by us. The spring birds will sing their sweetest notes in the swinging branches above our graves, though their music will not be heard by us. But Arkansas?God bless her! ?like a gentle mother, will fold us to her loving breast and drape our beds with sweet flowering vines, sing soft lullabies o'er our dreamless rest with the low, sweet music of murmuring winds. Alter us will come another generation, who, if they find our state standing Bhoulaer to shoulder with her Bister states in the battle for development and material prosperity, through our wise legislation, will rise up and call us blessed. But, on the other hand, it they find her dwarfed by unwise and restricted legislation, they will spit upon the graves of those whom they should honor. Let us remember that Arkansas Is a growing state, and legislate for her on the plan that my dear old mother, of blessed memory, was wont to cut my clothes in mv boyhood days. She always cut my breeches two years ahead, and I always grew to them, and, alas! sometimes 'got too big for 'em,' and when I did?but that was my mother's business. Sirs, let us cut Arkansas' breeches?but I see I must drop the illustration or change the sex Of our state, which I would not do Ittr the world? God bless her! We do not carry this selfishness into our private life. If I were to find my old friend, Lncle Bob McConnell, puttingout fruit trees, and were to say to him, 4 Uncle Bob, why trouble yourself to put out fruit trees? they'll never benefit you,' the old man would straighten himself to his full height and reply, No, Bob, I'm old and will probably never see these trees blossom or fruit, but I have children and grandchildren, who, as they climb these trees and pluck the ripe fruit long alter I'm dead, will say, 'Grandfather planted these trees with his own hand,' and they'll bless the old man, as they eat the fruit, for his kindness in planting the trees for their benefit. So let it be with us. Let us frame laws that will build up our glorious state, instead of dwarflng her by hostile legislation against railroads, the grandest of agencies of modern civilization for developing the resource of a new state. Let us not say to capitalists abroad, 'Come and look upon our broad prairies, our fertile valleys, our magnificent forests, our mines and quarries, which are sleeping untouched for want of transportation. Com*, help us develop these grand resources.' And when in response to our urgent pleading they do come, let us not turn upon them and throttle them with destructive legislation. It is true, sir, that while we do not stand upon our borders and welcome capitalists 'with bloody hands to hospitable graves,' we do stand upon those borders and welcome them with such obstructive legislation to disastrous bankruptcy. I stand not here to-day as the special defender of the railroads, as railroads alone, but I do uphold and would protect, foster and encourage them as the means of building up our beloved state. II is for Arkansas and her brave sons and felr daughters who shall come after us for whom I plead. Sir, in the core of my heart I believe that this bill and all others of kindred character are wrong in conception, and if adopted would be ruinous to the railroads, and at an inevitable consequence the ruin o! Arkansas. I cannot support the bill, and earnestly hope that It Will not pass." 4 New York Mjllinery Stork, 930 7th st. n. w. IP YOU WANT ribbons in all widths, colors and QUALITY; STRAW HATS AND BONNETS, IN THE LATEST SHAPES; PLOWER8, FEATHERS, LACES, AND FANCY GOODS GENERALLY, AT PRICES THAT PREVAIL IN THE LEADING LOW-PRICED HOUSES OF NEW YORK, VISIT THE NEW YORK MILLINERY STORE, 930 7TH ST. N. W. JUST OPENED WITH THE LARGEST ASSORT KENT OF THE ABOVE NAMED GOODS IN THE CITY. THOUSANDS OF UNTRIMMED HATS OF ALL THE LATEST SHAPE AND COLOR TO SELECT FROM, AT PRICES THAT CANNOT BE MATCHED. RIBBONS BY THE YARD OR PIECE IN GREAT VARIETY. LARGE ASSORTMENT OP FLOWERS ANI FEATHERS, ALL NEW AND FRESH FROM THE IMPORTERS. NEW YORK MILLINERY STORE, 930 7TH ST. N. W. m20-tu.th??& d^ut a ^million of bottles imIN TOE CUSTOM-HOctlPSATISFACT^ CHID e.f JlSSjJ!* of LADIES' GOODS. M"* A. T. WHITING, 924 pennsylvania avenue, Hu Just received from New York all the SPRING 8TYLE8 la It* STRAW goods and FINE MILLINERY. Ms& Selma uppert, 008 9th street, opposite Patent Office, Received a new and elegant line of Infant's and Children's WHITE DRESSES, SLIPS AND ROBES, LACE AND SHIRKED CAPS. LONG AND SHORT MERINO CLOAKS, Plain and Embroidered, for Spring wear, in Mother Hubbard and other styles, and all kinds of CHILDREN'S FURNISHING GOODS. mh28 Mrs. j. baer, of baltimore 193 N. Gay St, Cordially Invites the Ladies of 'Washington to examine her Imported Hats and Bonnets, and all the latest novelties of the season, on THURSDAY, APRIL 2D, 1W85. mh26-6t* J C# Hutchinson, EASTER OPENING OP FLOWERS, I which are the most perfect devised and beautiful that the Parisian makers have been able to produce. "spring millinery." Large assortment of Drew Trimmings, Buttons, Ac. Fancy Gold Mixed Braids, from 4c. per yd. upwards. Best Black Silk Jerseys, $0. "This Is a special bargain." Black Jersey Newmarkets, made expressly for Spring. Fine Imported Jersey at $3. Large assortment of Imported Visites, embracing a new style "Close-flttlng Vlsite." Foster Gloves, Improved hooks, new shades for Easter. 7 riev.se. Paris. [mhl9] 907 Pa. ava Palm I^Losmko. For preventing and eradicating WRINKLES, for PRESERVING the SKIN, keeping It smooth and fre e from pimples and blackheads. Everything can be I said In its praise, as nothing ever known has been able to do one-half what PALM KOSMEO can do. Use it on the little faces and bands that are exposed to the rough wind and you will be convinced of its merits and that it is "worth its weight in gold." Price SI and $2 a box. Can be sent by mall. KOSMEO POUDRE. The finest powder ever used, and considered In Its effects more like enamel than anything ret discovered. It is very fine in combination with Palm Kosmeo Can be used with every confidence. Price, 50c. and $1 per box. Can be sent by mall. Mrs. LANGTRY'S SECRET OF BEAUTY for the complexion. It Is exquisite and a great improvement over any liquid yet invented. It gives the velvety appearance to the sltln without the disagreeable painty effect of all others now on sale. Guaranteed harmless In every respect. Price $1 and $2 a bottle. TURKISHJROSE LEAVES, an Indelible tint for lips and cheeks; can be used on the most delicate and sensitive complexion without injurv. It is the refinement of art. Price, 50c. and $1.50 a bottle. Only sold by Mrs. C. THOMPSON, 32 EAST 14TH ST., NEW YORK, and Miss LOTTIE DAVIS, 931 f st., n.w., mhT-sAwlm WASHINGTON, D. a MME. VON BRANDIS. MODISTE, Formerly with Lord A Taylor. New York: Wm Barr Co., St. Louis, Mo. Suits made at the shortest notice. Superior Fitting, Reasonable Pricw, and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Evening Dresses. Bridal Trousseaus a specialty. mhl7-lm* 907 Pennsylvania ave. (over M.Willian's). !\Tme. 13uller, Late with (ieo. White, Ladies" Tailor. Has Just returned from New York, and will open her Fashionable Dressmaking Parlors, 416 12th st. n.w., nearly opposite Palais Royal, MONDAY, March 23d. Dresses made in the latest fashion at reasonable prices. Cloth Costumes a specialty, made by competent tailors, at short notice. m!i21-9i? "\fOTICE MADAME VALMONT BEGS TO XS( Inform her patrons and customers that she is prepared to clean and get up all fine LACES. CURTAINS of all descriptions, "MADK AS A SPECIALTY," in the most approved styles. Established since 1856. 713 11th st. n.w. mh9-lm* MISS M. CAVANAlGIl HAS MOVKD HKK Dress and Cloak Making Parlors from 491 Pennsylvania avenue to S. E. Cor 9th and E streets n.w.. Over Riley's Dry Good store. Entrance on 9th street. mh2-lm* French dyeing, scouring and dry Cleaning Establisment, 1*205 New York ave. n.w. All kinds of Ladles' and Gents' Garments Dyed, Cleaned and finished In the most superior manner. Plush Cloaks, Velvet and Party Dresses a specialty. Ladles' Dresses done np without being ripped. ANTON A CAROLINE LERCH, formerly with AfFlscher. Ja23-3m Anton Fishers Chemical Dry Cleaning Establishment No. 906 G Street Northwest, THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE, i Ladles' and Gentlemen's Garments: also. Velvet and Plash Cloaks, Crape Veils, Laces, Gloves, etc.. are perfectly cleaned by this superior process. LADIES' EVENING DRESSES A SPECIALTY, i Gentlemen's clothes cleaned by this process will not lose their original sbapt?: and grease spots guaranteed to be removed effectually. Price $1.50 and 91.75 per suit. dl O U G L A S S' ANNUAL SALE OF LADIES COTTON UNDERWEAR, EVERY GARMENT OUR OWN MAKE EVERY GARMENT FULL LENGTH, FULL WIDTH. PERFECT SHAPE, MADE IN THE VERY BEST MANNER, OF THE BEST MATERIAL. CHEMISE, 25c. to 95.00. NIGHT DRESSES, 50c. to $5,001 SKIRTS. 39c. to $7.00. DRAWERS. 25c. to $2.00. CORSET COVERS, 26c. to $3.50. The finest assortment of Hamburgs we have yet shown. Jal7 DOUGLASS', 522-524-526 9th st i 1 ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, 430 Tenth Street Northwest, Makes Corsets to order in every style and material, and guarantees perfect fit and comfort. Her Specialties Are? French Hand-made Underclothing, Merino Underwear and finest imported Hosiery. Patent Shoulder Braces, and all Dress Reform Goods, i French Corsets aud Bustles. I'Children's Corsets and a $1 Corset (Miss H'sown make) that for the price Is unsurpassed N. B.?French, German and Spanish spoken. mrl4 JROCHON, CORCORAN BUILDING. First-class Hair Dresser from Paris. Three Patents and Five Medals from Expositions of Paris, Lyons and Vienna Manufacturer and importer of HUMAN HAIR AND FINE HAIR WORK Ladies' tine Hair Cutting and Hair Dressing. Hair dyed and shampooed In a first-class manner. Wigs to order. d8 53715th st. n.w. housefurnishjngs. IN OBDER TO M AKE H00M for the introduction of a new line of first class Cooking Ranges, we now offer the celebrated columbia and washington RANGES, at NET COST. Also, Heating Stoves, to close ont remnant of fall stock, at 10 to 25 per cent discount W. a JENKS JA X FAMILY STTPLIES. 1 CjlLVER SPRAY FU11R. MINN. PATKNT, $1.75 sack, the finest In the citv. I). ELLIS. Sole A cent, mh25-lw* ;M and A st*. s.?. .A. Full Jjine Of (troceries THAT MUST BE SOLD. GRANULATED SUGAR. ?V- P^r IS. BEST PATKNT PRO' .'Et*s FLOl K. j>er t-M. BEST FAMILY FWI R $5.25 per bU. BEST JAVA AND MOCA COFFEE KNOWN TOTHi:TRADE ROASTKI> AND GROUND 28o. per IK POTATOES AND APPLES. WHOLJ-iiALE PRICES. Terms strictly cash. POOLF. BROOK E CO.. d30 1*44 Louisiana aveuue. CCC F.F.K RRR FFR SSSCCF. R R 2s C F.K RRR FK ?SS? CCK RRE 8.2OOC EF.K R R EFK ?SSs the celebrated minne90ta PATENT PROCESS FLOUR, Is without a doubt the most RF.ACTIFCI. and the most Ni TKiTKgs Flour in the world. The Millers have not only the most pei-fVs-t Mlli, containing as it does all the most improved Machinery invented up to the present time, but thev produce a Flour Uxscrpasskp ny any mill in the world. To Srove that, we would simply 'state that a larjre quality of this magnificent Flour is shipped annually to Europe and eaten at the principal fonrts of the" old world. We Gtarastkk that it is made from selected hard wheat grown in Minnesota and Dakota. It is an acknowledged fart, that in this Flour a perfect separation of the glutinous particles of the wheat berry and a thorough elimination of all weak and starchy matter has at last been reached, and is consequently more Nctritioi-s, yieldlnc more bread to the liarrel than any other Flour. The best trade admit* that from it* nread making qualities it is the cheapest. as well as the best, for either family or baker's use, and unsurpassed by any Flour made. Every sack and every barrel is warranted to give entire satisCacttou. sterling s st. louis fancy. One of the most beautiful Winter Wheat Patents j ever offered to thetrade. It is unexcelled b^anv other Patent except Ceres, and will please the most *41acting housekeeper and satisfy Uie most ikstidious epicure. (ilLT-EDOE. A magnificent Winter Wheat Patent RELIANCE. A splendid Minnesota Patent Flour, made by tbe celebrated Hungarian process. It is a very cheap and beautiftil Patent, within the reach of all classes, and we guarantee will give satisfaction to every oue who will try it. GOLDEN HILL. The old reliable stand-by and the Standard Family Flour of the District. It is equal in quality to a great many high-priced Patent Flours, whilst it can be bought for considerable less money. We defy competitors to bring forth any Flour superior to CKKIS, STERLING, GILT-EDGE, RELIANCE or GOLDEN HILL, and we feel assured that any housekeeper who tries them once will uever use any thing else. For sale by all grocers. Wholesale Depot, corner 1st st. and Indiana ava ae!3 WM. M. GALT A CO. ~PIANOS AND ORGANS. Steinway pianos. The Rest In the World. Together with a large assortment of other Pianos constantlv on band, at the Music Store of EDWAltD F. DROOP. Partner of the late W. G. M ETZEROTT CO, 925 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Sole Agent for Steinway Sous'. Gabler Orovesteen. Wheelock, Marshall, Wendell aud other Pianos. iub20 heinekamp pIANOS EXCEL ALL OTHER MAKES FOR WORKMANSHIP: POWER AND BRILLIANCY OF TONE, AND EXTREME DURABILITY. OUR NEW SCALE UPRIGHT URANDyn^y IS A MARVEL OF POWER ANDHTIC SWEETNESS OF TONE. BE SURE AND SEE IT. WE TAKE OLD PIANOS IN EXCHANGE AND j ALLOW FULL VALUE FOR THEM, GIVING J LOWEST FACTORY PRICES. PIANOS OFOTHER MAKERS SOLD AT $10 PER MONTH. WAREROOMS, nihil 422 9TII STREET N.W. D1 A PER MONTH WILL BUY A HANDSOME 7M.U SQUARE OR UPRK.HT PIANO of best make,at SIDNEY T. NIMMOS. 433 7th street northwest. $5 PER MONTH WILL BUY AN ELEGANT ORGAN of any style and finest make, at SIDNEY T. NIMMOS. 433 Tth street nortl '.vest. A LARGE STOCK OF SECOND-HAND PIANOS and ORGANS, some but slightly used, at great bargains. SIDNEY T. NIM MO. 433 Tth street northwest. A VERY HANDSOME STEINWAY PIANO, but little used, at an immense sacrifice; will sell on monthly Installment of $10. SIDNEY T. NIMMO, 433 Tth street northwest SEVERAL VERY FINE PARLOR ORGANS at prices ranging from $25 to #60. SIDNEY T. NIMMO, 433 Tth street northwest AN ELEGANT UPRIGHT CABINET GRAND PIANO, but eight months old. at tremendous bargain, and payable in monthly installments of $10. SIDNEY T. NIMMO. fel2 433 TTH STREET NORTHWEST. G. L. WILD Sl J^RO., T09 Tth street northwest, sole agents forw*"r?ri the STIEFF and K RAN It'll A BACll l'l+TTT^l ANOS and Gallv's Wonderful Self-playing* Instruments. Several bargains on easy termsin Pian9 41* st. s.w. f!9-2m* R. ROBERTSON, THE WELL-KNOWN PHYslcian and surgeon, and the oldest reliable specialist in Baltimore City, can be consulted in Washmgton every Wednesday and Saturday by all in need of medical advice or treatment, at his private rooms, 456 C st. n.w., near 4V> st. from 2 to 9 p.m. Mam office, 30 N. Liberty Baltimore, Md. felO-3m Db.H aines* I GOlDEN SPECIFIC, A POSITIVE CURE FOR DRUNKENNES8 OR I THE LIQUOR HABIT. It be given In a cap of coffee or tea without tbe knowledge of the person taking it is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy care, whether the patien is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It has been given In thousands of rsnm. and in every instance a perfect core has followed. It hkvam fails. The system once Impregnated with the Specific, It becomes an utter impossibility tor the liquor appetite to exist GOLDEN SPECIFIC 00., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio. For Sale by TLK. helphenstine, 3 KBBITT HOUSE DRUG STORE, j Corner 14th and F streets; also corner 14th street and Vermont avenue, Washington. D. C. Gall or write tor circulars and toll particulars. dl9-eo

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Wf THE SPRIXO FASHIONS. sprino colors?full draperies? sew suitings?the mohairs agai5?solid dress f rusts, etc. Braid Is worn on costumes, hats, bonnets, wraps and jacket*. Hat9 Will be Wors almost to the exclusion of bonnets this spring. Entire Skirt Frosts of angora lace come Smng spring importation*. Some of the new shapes of straw bonnets look like a hussar s helmet. Tinsel Threads give effect to many of the new spring woolen novelties. Among other Faxcifcl Bodices, are some with lengthwise organ plaits. Park Ecrce Eta mine striped with moss green velvet is exceedingly pretty. Gold axd Silver Braid will be used to excess in trimming spring cashmeres. Tailor-Made I>kf.shes are trimmed with many rows of black Herculese braid. Cockade Bows made of bright-colored ribbons are again worn on the fronts of dress waists. Chenille Dotted Etamine Cloth?an airy rammer textile?will be a favorite evening dress labric the coming season. The Wool Velvets so popular in winter will remain in vogue, the fabric of lighter weight, the figures contrasting in color. The Short Dolmans andVisites made of velvet, brocade, ottoman and broche fabrics We again in fashionable favor, both here aud abroad. New Face Flounces, forty inches deep, embroidered in /in1 on n foundation material made of square meshes, are among the latest Importations. Bison Cj.oth is so ruueh like serge that one writes of them all under the -am>- head; coarse, sleazy and light of weight, which is their chief recommendations. Newm yrkkts and long dust wrnps with pagodasleeves will be made of the eheck for traveling nu eover thr the hair, corsage and bouquet. v Ribbon Garnitures will be worn in the greatest profusion upon spring and summer toilets, especially the latter, but an immense quantity is even now being used bv leadin" dressmakers on costumes both for" dav anS evening wear. They are emploved as stripes piaced Horizontally or vertically on the ski rt.ns a finish to wide or narrow flounces, as bows and ends supporting drapery, bordering* to panels and tabfier*. with butterfly bows down the center of either of these, as loop-edglngt to F basques, tunics, and square-cut corsages?In every way, in short, that fancy dictates. Lace will t>e equally used,from leaguesof the "fancy" qualities out on with a prodigal hand from throat to skirt-hem, to a few yards of th?? costly real patterns used only upon' the corsage and sleeves of rich and expensive silk or satin toilets. Ksnapnrilla'!) Sympathy. and why the application of a cold brick to his cerebellum was keceshart. From the Detroit Free Press. t Professor Sarsaparllia Hunter then offered the following resolution: "Urtoiitd, Dat in dis struggle between England an' dc Arabs de sympathies of dis club go out ftir de latter.'' "You offer dis, do you?" queried the president, as be looked from the paper to Sarsaparllia and back. "Yes, sah. "You sympathize wld de Arab, do your" "Y e?, sah. "Any per tickler reason*'' "A werry^ great reason, sah. De Arab am recking to abolish slavery In England." KThere was si period or silence so deep and nftal that Shindig Watkins blistered his *1 the hot stove without realizing It. urother Gardner finally said"Glveadam Jones in' pickles Smith will de professor to de aunty-room an' rub de ISJ back of his neck wid a cold brlek. If dat doan1 eirei!i a?cur? w*u hlm to de Idiot asylnso." The professor acted like one who had been knocked down by a brick bouse, and after the robbing process above referred to had been completed he explained that the resolution had been drawn up by a tin peddler, who bad ygnmlMil Urn new Un pan to present it. ONE NIGHT IN THE COUNTRY. I happened to come bom? late that night, for I had dined some old friends at the club by way of sparing ray wife the trouble of entertaining. Now, Fanny was the most amiable woman In the world, and, of course, 1 never felt nervous about ret urning at any hour I chose. But the truth was, she had given up her happy country life for my cake, and I knew that she secretly regretted those rural delight*. I also knew whenever I was detained later than usual at I the club, that feeling was especially dominant, j So I thrust my hands deep into my ulster pockets and tried to think of some pleasant topic of conversation with whleh to beguile her Into cheerfulness. As I drew near home my I fingers came in contact with a crumpled bit of paper in the depths of my pocket. This I knew I to be a telegram, which recalled the fact that my agent Lad that day taken a lruit farm near Yineland to socure a debt; and this, iu turn, suggested an idea. I would tell my wife about Cooke's bargain, and emphasize the news by displaying the dispatch. Softly opening the front door I groped my way along the dark hall to the nursery, where I was sure to find Fanny, and almost equally sure of waking the baby. "Is that you, George?" she asked in a discouraged tone, without turning her head. The wicked Idea of disguising m.v voice to note the effect crossed my mind, but I thought of the telegram and resisted the temp! tation. Of course, Fanny. Hon cozy you are here! Turnup the lamp* I have something to show you," I said, cheerily, as I smoothed Cooke's telegram before her. "What do you think of that, Fan?" 8hc rubbed her sleepy eyes and gave the cradle a little jog with her foot to keep the baby quiet. "O, George, how good you are!" she cried, joyfully. "Have you really bought a farm? When are we to go?" "Why, you wouldn't move in March, would you?" I asked, for lack of something better to say. "What shall we do with this house, George? And the furniture? Hadn't we better sell the horses aud carriage and get something a little more suited to country roads?" 1 saw that my wife was wide awake now, so I yawned and replied that we would have plenty of time to think about that, and remarked that it was getting late. I suffered an occasional twinge of conscience the next day, as now and then I recalled my wife s innocent prattle About our farm. I also began to fear that I bad not behaved with my usual wisdom in the attempt to strew my own path with flowers on my return from the club. As dinner time approached I shrank from meeting Fanny, and atlastsent hera note to say that I would not be home till a late hour, and begged her not to sit up for me. But I might as well have gone home like a man. It wfts only deferring the evil hour, when I must confess that I never had the remotest idea of living in the country, even though I might be the possessor of forty farms. Still, day after day I put it off, while I was forced to hear myself praised for unseitlshness, or to listen to my wife s schemes for the educa| tion of our boys when they should be out of the reach of schools. By-ana-by our friends began to talk of our departure as if it had been a settled fact. In vain I assured them that it was all nonsense, and we were not going away at all. They took the pang of separation more philosophically than one would nave imagined, and I began to be a little sensitive. They even inquired whether I meant to let or to sell the house, what we were going to do with our servants. and if ourpew in church was for sale. All this was rather hard: but when on our eighth anniversary, our neighbors gave us a little surprise party, presenting us with a silver berry set, appropriately marked as "a parting testimonial of esteem and regret," I was in despair. After the company was gone my wife gently reproached me with a lack of cordiality to our guests, but I had not the heart to confess the reason. I do not know how 1 ever managed to restrain my feelings till she left the room. Then I locked the door, aud, turning up the gas, critically surveyed myself from top to toe. Was I a demented lunatic? If I were still In the full possession of my mind, why did not rav hair turn white? I was nearly driven to suicide. What could it mean? Without one voluntary step on my part I was literally driven out of the city?talked and smiled out of my own home. "It is past endurance," I said through my clenched teeth. "I have still a roof over my head, and I will have my freedom. I will let my neighbors know "George," softly called Fanny through the nursery door, "did I tell you tha't.1 showed Mil. Howe through the house to-dav, and she has as good as promised to take it at your own terms for five years?" I groaned sotto voce, and I was glad that Fanny could not see me at that moment. "Did you hear, dear?" she insisted. "Yes, but I am too tired to discuss anything to-night. Do get the lights out as soon as possible. I am completely worn out," I answered fretfully, but with great sincerity. "Poor George." Bighed she. "You need the rest and quiet of the country as much as I." So scarcely knowing how, our pretty house on Fourth street was let, furnished; and the 1st day of May found the Warren family on wheels. The purchase of the farm had been accepted "sight unseen." as old fashioned boys used to trade jack-knives. If I had even dreamed of occupving the house I should have paid It a visit, but nothing had been further from my mind, and I naturally felt very anxious as we neared Peachvllle. It was one of Fanny's hobbles that our boys should be removed from the town and its vicious influences while they were yet blissfully unconscious of evil. Looking at our new home from that standpoint, it was certainly a success, j Our nearest neighbor was a solitary old man, as deaf as a post and at least a mile away. The village was twice that distance, and the roads so heavy that there was little danger of contaminating associations from that quarter. My heart was heavier than lead as the norees toiled through the saud between the station and our home, making the new carry-all creak In every joint. I We found the house prettily embowered In vines whose leaves would no doubt appear in due time. Tildy, our maid of all work, declared that it was the dirtiest house she "ever set foot in," but Fanny said that was what everybody I thought who was not used to moving into old houses. It was Fanny's nature to make the best of things, and at the end of a month she and Tildy had contrived to make things snug and homelike. And I was not at all unhappy. Indeed, my own Indifference caused me the gravest foreboding at first. I seemed to be paralyzed. Perhaps my neighbors had recognized my mental disorder and attributed our chauge of residence to it. As time went on, however, I returned to j my old self. The humdrum life I was forced to lead grew Intolerable. The spell of longing for my old haunts came upon me. I I Just about this time I received a letter calling me to the city upon a matter of business. Fanny i made arrangements for me to go by an early j train, so that I might return that same evening, for she was timid, and dreaded the thought of I my absence for a single night. Upon my arrival, however. I found that I could not do this. I therefore telegraphed to mjr wife to that effect, and also that Mis* Jones, whom I had Invited to visit us, would go in my place. Fanny was 1 fond of all young ladies, and Miss Jones in particular. So I flattered myself that I had made such a satisfactory arrangement that I need be in no haste to return. I was hardly able to conceal mv boyish delight with which I entered my club that eveni!>g. Mv friends were glad to see me, in a way; but I felt that they were less enthusiastic than the circumstances demanded. They greeted me with. "Well. Warren, you begin w> look better," and "Glad to see that farming agrees with you, George," till I felt like knocking every man down that I met. The salad was flat and the wines insipid. I thought of Fanny's I dainty table with a sigh. I even stole a glance at my watch to see if I could catch the train and get back that night. The thought of my I wife made me uneasy. She would be lonely so far from neighbors. She had owned to me that even in the midst of our pleasant home on Fourth street, with Tlldy in the nursery, she had sometimes been so nervous In the long nights when I was away that the beating of her own heart sounded like a knocking at the street door. Or when the little curly dog pricked up his ears to listen, she dared not guess what be might hear. I wondered that I had not thought I of this before. There was a slow train leaving at midnight which would reach Peachvllle 1 about two in the morning, and I resolved to take it. I had not a minute to spare, and as we crawled along at a snail's pace I was puzzled at my own Impatience to get back. It was long enough after two when Ileft the train and began my homeward tramp thcough the deep sand. Funny in the meantime bad received my telegram and hastened to meet Miss Jones at the station. It was a lonesome drive for the I little woman; so she took Tlldy and the boys along, tor the new carry-all was very roomy. I As she returned with her guest her heart sank heavily to remember that there was no one f there to greet her. Still she tried to keep up a l show of cheerfulness, as with a laughing "Open, Sesame?" and three loud knockssne unlocked the door and entered. Tlldy hastened to prepare supper while Fanny stowed the boys In their cribs. Then the two women sat on the piazza, talking as women will as long as they dared. When no excuse could serve to keep Miss Jones up longer, my wife ruefully lighted her to our pretty guest chamber, dreading beyond expression, no doubt, the return to her own quarters. "I hope you don't feel lonely, dear, away-up here?" she said at last, taking up her candle. "N?n?o. not lonely exactly," returned the I girl; wa little afraid, perhaps." "Afraid?" cried Fanny, and the eold chills crept along her spine. "Yes, a little, because yon were all away so long and the house was left alone. I only thoogbt some tramp??" Fanny interrupted her, saying as calmly as she could: ,TThen come down and staywlth me. I shall be glad of your company." How glad my wife was I am afraid Miss Jones guessed by her eager invitation. She told me that if Miss Jones bad finished the sentence about the tramp she should have feinted. So the two desoended to my wife's room, which was in the "L" and opened into the nursery, as well as upon the piazza. I suppose that they had unconsciously frightened each other, for they carefully inspected all the fastenings, which Tildy had secured hours before, and began to prepare for bed. They talked till they were tired, then each tried to make the other believe she was asleep, lying with wide open eyes and ears strained to catch the hum of an insect's wing. What a cdmrort it would have, been If the call of some watching sentry eould have assured them boar by houT that all was well. At last sleep fell upon them, bat how long they slept the/ could never ten. Fanny wsi wakensd by a feint sound as of some one trying the outside door. A lamp bad been left burning in such a position that the door could be j distinctly Men. As she listened, it slowly opene-'.. "Shut that door!''she cried, with the voice of a clarion. It slowly closed. Up sprang Miss Jones la mortal fear, her face as white as her pillows. The poor things looked at each other In silence. Again the door began to open, and once more Fanny commanded It to shut. The order was obeyed; but suiting the action to the lurking falter in my wife's voice, no doubt, the movement was less yrompt than before. With one bound Fanny sprang to it and turned the key. which was still Inside. Then the women held a long and anxious consultation, neither trying this time to conceal her fears. There was no use in waking Tildy, who would only add to the panic bv rousing the sleeping children. Dreadful as It seemed, the only alternative was to call for help. So they crept upstairs, and thrusting their heads out of the Windows, they both veiled like Indians: "Murder!" "Fire*' "Thievps!" "Help!" Alas, their only neighbor was a mile off and deaf at that, and echo only answered. They descended aud waited. Not only did the noise continue, but they distinctly saw the knob turn. They had begun to barricade the door, when Tildy appeared. Miss Jones afterwards told me that Tiidv's black eyes gleamed out of her white face like the eyes of the "Brothers of the misericordia," from behind their masks. Just then the baby.lifted up his voice. My wife hurried to the" nursery, and had only succeeded in reducing his shrieks to a simple whine, when Tildy uttered a bloodcurdling cry: Teddy Is gone!" Satisfied that it was too true, Fanny took up the alarm with variations. "My boy is gone! They have stolen my Teddy!" As near as I have been able to get at the facts, the uproar inside had risen to its height, when a muffled pounding took the place of the tinkering sound Which had so long been kept up. The lo*s of her child now seemed to rouse my wife to heroism. She bethought herself of my pistols, which she could never before be persuaded to handle. Calling loudly, I warn whoever is tampering with that door that I am going to shoot she pulled the trigger, and almost dropped the weapon at the report. Tildy says that she and Miss Jones nut their fingers in their ears: but poor Fan hadn't the chance. Another shot, and another, until the six barrels were emptied: then all was still. "Hark, Tildy! What was that?" whispered Fanny, clutching the woman lor support. Somebody was coming. Was it friend or foe? They listened. Straight up the walk, up the steps, along the piazza the lootsteps came, and stopped at the very door which had been so bravely defended. The women now gazed at each other helplessly. "Hello, Fan! What Is the matter? Open the door!" shouted, for I was alarmed to nnd the household astir at that hour. As the door flew open I struck my foot against a little heap of clothes tightly wedged into the jamb outside. "Oh, George! Our boy Is gone! Teddy has heen carried off by burglar*!" sobbed my wife. "\V hy, no he hasn't, Fanny. Here he is!" and I picked UP the little fellow from the floor. '\ou little lamb!' cooed hlB mother, taking him from me and covering him with kisses, 'Did the naughty man steal mamma's bov?" Teddy did see no man, only papa," replied the astonished child. "Why, my blessing! Then who did take you out of your little crib and carry you off?" "Nobody took me. Teddy go out on the porch^to get a drink of water, and mamma say, 'Shut that door!' so Teddy can't come in again." "Did you unlock the door and go out alone, dear? I now interposed. ''Yes. Teddy open door, but mamma sav No, >o. Then naughty people make big noise and scare Teddy,'" "Then what?" coaxed Tildv. "Then mamma play with papa's pistol. Papa told mam ma not to touch/' he added, severely. "Then I came, Just in time to spoil the fun. Eh, Fan?" I said laughing. But my wife was not in the humor for Joking. She sat crying over her child for a long while without speaking. Suddenly she asked: "George, how did you happen to come home, after all "0,1 had a variety of reasons; but the principal one was I was homesick for the country."? Chicago TVibune. Pantheism Confuted. From the Examiner. When schooled to resignation, I had ceased To yearn for niv lost Eden: when I knew No loving spirit brooded in the blue, And none could see his coming in the East. I looked for comfort in my creed: I sought To draw all nature nearer, to replace The sweet old myths, th?* tenderness, the trace Of God'B dead world of faith and reverent thought. Oh. Joy! I found the stern new law reveal Romance more rare than poesy creates: Your blood, it said, is kindred with the sap Which throbs within the cedar, and, mayhap, In some dim wise the tree reciprocates. Even aa a dryad, all the love you feel! You and the great glad earth are kith and kin. There is one base one scheme of life, one hope On that and this side of the microscope. All things, now wholes, have parts of many been. And all shall be. A disk of Homer's blood May redden a daisy on an English lawn. And what was Cliaucer glimmer in the dawn To-morrow o'er the plains where Iliou stood. No jot is lost or scorned or disallowed: One law reigns over all. Take you no care. For while all ijeings change, one life endures, And a new cycle waits for you and yours, To melt away, like streaks of morniiig cloud. Into the infinite azure of things that were. And soon the selfish clinging onto sense. The Uniting that this Me should never fail, Loosed quivering hands, for oh! of what avail were such survival of intelligence If all the great and good of (lays gone bv? Plato, HypaUa, Shakespeare?had surceased Had mingled with the cloud, the plant, the beast. And trod were but a mythos of the sky? And when I thought, o'ershadowed with strange awe How Christ was dead, had ceased in utter woe With that great crv, "Forsaken!" on the cross: I felt at first a sense of bitter loss. And then grew passive, saving, "fie it so 'Tia one with Christ and JuJas. 'Tls the law." But when my child, my one girl-babe lay dead, The blossom of me, ray dream and mv desire, And unshed tears burned in my eyes like fire. And when my wife subdued her sobs and said, "O husband, do not grieve, be comforted. She is with Christ!" 1 laughed in mv despair. With Christ! OGod! and where is Christ, and when My one poor babe? and where the countless dead? The great glad earth, mv kin, Is glad as though >o child bad ever died: the heaven of Mav Leans like a laughing face above my grief. Is she clean lost forever? How shall 1 know? O Christ, art thou still Christ? And shall I pray For fullness of belief or unbelief?

Jfiss Cleveland's Lecture, DIVIDING THE HUMAN RACE INTO THE BOOSTERS AND THE BOOSTED. The Evangelist of June 28,1883, contained the following report of a lecture by Miss Cleveland, the present mistress of the White House: The great address of the commencement at Elmlra Female college was that before the alumnse by Miss Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of Gov. Cleveland. This was so good that we give your readers a full abstract. She somewhat resembles Anna Dickinson In looks, but her delivery was very effective. Her subject was "Altruistic Faith," nnd for her illustration of this she took Chedidja, the first wife of Mohammed, who was rich, a widow, and much older than he whon she married him. When asked why he did not in later years put her awav and take a younger wife, he replied that he loved her best because she believed in him when all men despised him. This was the fervent effectual faith of one soul In another. It was her faith that wrought out Mohammed There Is faith In God, In self and in humanity The first produces the others. Give this full growth and the others will have full sweep Our creed should be enlarged to add to "I believe In God. the Father," I believe in myself, or in you. This threefold lalth should be taught. Faith tn others Is faith In humanity, first in the abstract and second In the concrete. The first Is that general altitude of mind which is hopeful and expectant of humanity. It looks to a goal of final good. It is not pessimistic. It believes that life is worth living infinitely, and Infinitely worth saving. But it most not stop With the abstract. Life is laid out in definite door yards. A whole milky way of generalities may not give a rushlight to any human beine It must touch humanity in the Individual if tor good. It must look Into almshouses and asylrtms and prisons and the darkness of the cities'night. The faith which believes In another does not require negatively, first, that its professor be a female, yet It is oftener found in a woman than In a man. Men believe in themselves, and are occupied with themselves. Second, this Is not Inseparable from the bonds of matrimony. But she would have a woman moderately married She need not be a buttonhole bouquet to a man' nor be dead In love with him. They may have felth In each other. Third, It is not hero worship; It will serve, but not worship, it believes that he can be and do one thing. This was illustrated by Mrs. Carlyle. Cbedl^ja believed tn Mohammed. Affirmatively, this faith is that faculty of mind by which one discriminates what I am good for and best for. It sees that this, and no other, Is your way. It discerns the ordinary and the extraordinary in you. It divines you; It appreciates you. Whence this felth w to the gift of God. Chedidja Is a Theodora. Miss Cleveland did not believe In self-made men. There to at least one Chedidja in every life. Your own faith will at times need the support or another. This will be when all men despise you and you despise yourself. You will have much hunger and thirst, and will crave wealth and health and affection, but your keenest craving will be for recognition to ao something to be somebody, to accomplish something, to do a good piece of work, to do your best] It may be at housekeeping, or dressmaking, or tn literature, or in art. It to In you and it ought to oome out. You all have human testimony to this. Home one will say to you: "Go on and you will conquer." You may listen to and obey that voice. She despised self-sufficlngnetis. You oan get along alone, but yon have no right to set along; you were born to show not how Utile but how much you can do. We want more life and taller, and need all the help we can set. Men would fall but for Chedidjas. She would make a new claasiflcatlon of mankind, and divide them into boosters and boosted. The boosters are the important, and do the most food. It may be well to boost a man, but hotter to boost a woman. Be ChtKildJas and do the thing next to you, and by your frith assist othars. Altrytotlc faith to most reasonable. This abstract will give but a feint idea of the thotjfhtftil and practical character of the adVaaoiA Optician Cou e UMf STREET NOBTHWEST Just C lose Enough. "Have n close shave,sir?" "No, thanks, not very close. At least not quite sc close as the last Presidential election.' Your correspondent had just enscoc&ed himself lnx urtonsly in a chair in the neat barbe shop, No. 131S Morgan streA, St. Louis, and was sinking into dreams when the above question and the necessary answei broke the spell. "That election did go away down to the akin, sir. an Sotted*11 "U,B*0f*6 upwards at our M. A. DAOT^, and addrwsR?gorleans nationalrank, AUCTION SALES. ITTI'Rr.PiT!!. WALTEK a WILLIAMS A CO., Auctioneers. WALNUT FRAME PARLOR SUITE. UPHOLSTERED IN HEP; WALNUT WHATNOT. WALNUT MARBI.fc TOP CENTER TABLES. w alnut hall rack, walnut exte*. SIGN TABLE AND DIN ING ROOM CHAIRS_. walnut chamber suites. walnut I WARDROBES, WALNUT BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS AND WASHSTANDS, HAIR MATTRESSES, REDDING, BRUSSELS. INGRAIN AND OTHER CARPETS, HEATING STOVES. WALNUT MARBLE TOP SIDEBO ARD, ONE I DINNER SERVICE, HAVELAND CHINA, MOSS R08E PATTERN CHINA. GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS. ETC. On MONDAY. MARCH THIRTY, at TEN O'CLOCK, tve shall sell, at the residence of a geatl??man declining housekeeping, No. lHOl G street northwest, the above assortment ot" Furniture, worthy I the attention oi buyers. Term* cash. mh.!7-2t WALTER B. WILLIAMS A CO.. Aucts. ALTER B. WILLIAMS A CO. Auctioneers. SALE OF AN ELEGANT COLLECTION OF ITALIAN SCULPTURES, LARGE HALL VASES, AGATE AND CARDIGLlO MANTEL ORNAl MENTs. FRENCH BRONZES. MAJOLICA ORNAMENTS. FRENCH PORCELAIN PLATES. ENGLISH CHINA TEA SETS, PEDESTALS. FRENCH PLACQUES, AND OTHER WORKS OE ART 131 PORTED BY. MESSRS. VITI l J}?0* AND 70 ?OLD AT OUR SALESROOMS. CORNER TENTH AND D STREETS, ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH THIRTY-FIRST. APRIL FIR-T 1 AND SE' OND. AT ELEVEN A. M. AND HI REE P. M. EACH DAY. i ..Thecollection will be arranged for examination on instant. mii27-"it jjjl NCANSuN BROS., Auctioneers. ENTIRE WELL KEPT HOUSEHOLD FURNTl TIRE, CARPETS, Ac., CONTAINED IN 1 DWELLING No. (!30 R STREET H^UTIIW EST, CONSISTING IN PART OF HAIR CLOTH PARI.OK SCITE, WALNUT AND ASH CI I AM BER SETS,COTTAGE SET.BEDSTEA DS, M-ARBLE T. 18S4, in equity cause No. y i-5'^ wherein George W. McCoy is plaintiff and Mary K. Jackson et al. defendants, 1 will sell at public auction. in front of the premises. ,n MONDAY, APRIL SIXTH. 18S5,at FIVE Oi LOCK P.M., the following described real estate in the citv of Washington, District of Columbia, to wit,: The south half of Lot numbered 27, in .square No. 515, fronting 30 feet on the wf st side- of 4th street, between K and L streets northwest. Terms of sale: One third cash, the balance in six and twelve months: or al! in casn. at the option of the purchaser. Deposit of SlOO required at time of sale. Terms of sale must be complied with in ten (lays from date oi sale. All conveyancing at cost of purchaser. JAMES H. SMITH, Tiustee, mh26-dA5 perches, thence north "Ji-i0. west 8.02 perches, thence south S9->. east 14.05 perches, to the intersect ion with the west line of 7th street road, thence with said line of said road south U^o, east tyo-j perches to the beginning, together with the improvements thereon, consisting of a dwelling house and several smaller buildings, stables. Ac. Terms of sale: One-third cash, and the balance in I notes at one and two years, bearing interest at six per i cent per annum from day of sale,and secured bv a deed of trust on the property sold, or ull cash, at the option Of the purchaser. A deposit of ?200 will be lequirnd when the purchaser's bid is accepted. If the terms ot sale are not complied with in ten days ltom dav of sale the Trustee reserves tli? rieht to resell at'the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. All conveyancing and recording at purchaser's cost. CHAS. C. DUNCANSON, Trustee, Corner 9th and D sts. n.w. DUNCANSON BROS., Aucts. mh26-dAds r |iHOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Real Estate Auctioneer. TRUSTEE'S PALE OF IMPROVED PBOPERTY BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF GEORGE AND REBECCA LOWRY (DECEASED.) By virtue of certain deeds of trust, of date Au- gust 15,1884.and now recorded, from the widow 1 of George Lowrv and the heir Pennsylvania avenue, Dwelling-house 1229 New York avenue, and Store-bouse No. till 7th street, Washington, D. C., with the lots of ground attached thereto, beginning sale with No. 2140 Pennsylvania avenue. Terms made known at sale. _ mh23-dAds WILLIAM L. DUN LOP. TrH?ee. J^UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers^ TRUSTEES SALE OF DWELLING AND STORE, ON SEVENTH STREET, NEAR BOUNDARY NORTHWEST. By virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded iu (ft* Liber 967, folio 413 et sen., one of the I.aud Re- n>e secured by deed of trust 011 premises sold, or all cash at option of purchaser. Terms to be complied with in seven days, otherwise Trustees reserve the right to resell at risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days' public notice of such resale in some newspaper published in Washington, D. C. A deposit of SlOo required at sale. Conveyancing, Ac., at cost of purchaser. JOB. BARNARD. It mhl7-eod&ds JNO. A. PRESCOTT. J 1 rtwe?HANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE LEASE OF LAND, WHARF. WATER AND EXCURSION PRIVILEGES ON BLACK ISTON ISLAND, OTHERWISE KNOWN -4> MONTE CHR1STO, ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. Upder and by virtue of decree passed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on the seventh day of March, 1885, In equity cause numbered 9191, in which Eugene Mitkiewicz is the complainant and Edward Abner the defendant, I shall offer for sale, for cash, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, the FOURTH DAY' OF APRIL, 1885. at TWO O'CLOCK P. M., at the auction rooms of Duncan son Bros., corner of 9th and D streets northwest, in this citv, the lease of all that property situated and being on ?lacklston's Island, St. Mary's county, Md., containing twelve acres, more or less, anfl described,according toMcWilliams' subdivision of said island, recorded among the land records of St. Mary's county, Md., on the 28th dav of December, 1883. in Liber J. F. F., No. 7, folio 115, as follows: Beginning with the northern Intersection of Potomac avenue on the river front, running =outh on the west side of said avenue 320 feet to McWilllams street, thence in a western direction on the north side ot said street 960 feet to St. Clement's avenue, thence in a northerly direction on the east side of said avenue 775 feet to the river front, thence In an eastern direction along the river front to the northwestern intersection of Potomac avenue, together with all the buildings and improvements now on said reservation with the wharf known as MoWtUiarus' wharf, and all the water rights and privileges to the same belonging, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon erected by the parties to this suit as partners, the same being not subject to removal at the expiration of the lease. Said lease runs for a term of five years from the first day of March, 1884, at a yearly rental oi $500, with the privileges of a further term of five years from the expiration of said term, at a yearly rental ot ?750. The lease carries with it the wharf privileges, the sole right of landing excursionists on the Island aud conducting an excursion business. There is a good Hotel and Dining Room, several Cottages and Batb Houses, a splendid Dancing Pavilion. a Store, and every thing necessary for a summer and excursion resort. Immediately after the said sale, I shall also offer Tor Bale a large quantity of Bathing Suits, a Cooking Range, and other personal property. The lease can be examined, and the fullest information obtained, at the office of Newton A Berry man, 810 F Street, Washington, D. C. Terms of Sale: Cash. 1 JOHN L. VOGT, Trustee, 429 7th st. n.w, Washington. D. C. DUNCANSON BROS., Aucts. mhl4-s,tu,thAdba rpHOS. J. FISHER A CO., Auctioneers. CHANCERY BALE OF MOST VALUABLE AND ELIGIBLY SITUATED CITY LOTS FRONT. ING NINETY-TWO-AND-A-HALF FEET ON LAFAYETTE SQUARE AND IMPROVED BY A LARGE BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, KNOWN AS NO. 21 MADI8ON PLACE, AND AS THE RESIDENCE OF THE LATE BENJ. OGLE TAYLOE, THE SAME BEING WITHIN A HALF SQUARE OR BLOCK OF THE PRESIDENTS HOUSE, SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS AND THE ARLINGTON HOTEL. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia passed on the 6th day S7!9 of March, A. D. 18S5, in Equity cause, No. 9269, KM wherein Mary Lomax Tavloe, Eugenia Phebc KM Warren and others are parties, the undersigned Trustees will sell, at public auction, in front of the premises, on THURSDAY, THE SECOND DAY (OF APRIL A. D. 1885, at FIVE O'CLOCK P. M? all of original Lots ten (10) aud eleven (.11), in square numbered two hundred and twenty-one (231), in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, with the improvement*, consisting of a spacious Dwelling House and Stablea The south 671? feet of this property has an even depth of 145^ feet, and the north 25 teet has a depth of 95V> feet. On the south, east, and partially on the north, the property is bounded by wide alleys, making the same most desirable for a Dwelling In its present condition, or for the site of a hotel or first-class apartment house. Terms of sale as prescribed by said decree, to wit: One-third cash, and the residue In one, two; three and four- years, with Interest from day of sale until paid. ?t the rate of six per centum ptr annum. to be evidenced 1 by promissory notes of purchaser,secured by retaining the title until the purchase monMr is paid, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser. A deposit of 9500 to be made upon the acceptance of any bid. If terms of sale be not complied with in two weeks from day of sale the Trustees may resell, at the risk and oosfc of de- 1 fruiting purchaser, upon giving two weeks' notice hy public advertisement. 1 Further information can be had of the undersigned. GEO. F. APPLEBY, Trustee, 420 5th St. n.w. I Wit X. EDMONBTON, Trustee, 430 5th st n.W. 1 W1C TAYLOE SNYDER, Trustee, mb!4-dAds 500 D st. n-w. F?* Other AaetiMS las Stk F??4. I V f UJXJJJJAi financial^ Revolution In Wau IStrkkt STOCK OPERATIONS. COMMISSIONS REDUCED OXE-Bil f Modem* operat.ms In XO, 30. 80 or 60 Shares lsgitlmately conducted. BELTON A ROBERTSON. BANEEKS ANT) BROKER4*. No. 12 WALL STREET. NEW YORE. fMembers N. Y. Mining, Stock and Pt-trolfum Exchange buy and sell on the Exchange all active railroad and other stocks, in lots of 10 TO 1,000 SHARES. ON $3 TO $5 PER SHARE MARGIN. Commissions one-half usual rates. Full information sent Free on application. ,(Sa. Ap25 i Aurania. Sat.. April4 Orgoom Wed.. Ap. 29 i Umrria Sat.. April II Acbama. Sat.. May 2 i Servia *?ai., April is umbkia Sat., May 9 and every wednesday FROM new YORK r ates OF passage?$60, $80 end $lO0, accordins to accommodations. steerage at very low rates, steerage tickets from Liverpool and Quef-nstown and all other parts of Europe at lowest rates. Through hills of laden giv?>n for Belfast, Glasgow. Havre, Antwerp and other ports on the Continent, and for Mediterranean ports. For freight and passage apply at the Company's Cmce. No. 4, Bowling Green, or both steerage aud Cabin to OTIS BIOELOW A CO., 605 7th street, Washington. D. C. VERNON H. BROWN B at. s.w. in25-lm" M~AI>AME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR Ladies. All female complaints quickly cured. Can be consulted daily at 1245 7th st. n.w. Office hours from 1 to 9 p.m. with ladies only. mh2ft-lm* EAD AND BE WISE-DR BR( rfjTERsTSifB i st. 8.W.. appealed before me and made oath that he is the Oldest Established Expert Specialist in this city, aud will guarantee a cure in all cases of venereal disease, and Airnish medicine, or no charge; the poor furnished medicine free. Consultation and advice free at any hour during the dav. Subscribed and sworn to before me by Dr. BROTHERS, April 2d, 1884. mhi'l lm* SAMUEL H. WALKER, Notary Public. Motts homoeopathic female pills^a never-fidling remedy for all Female Complaints, Obstructions and all Disease produced from irregularities. For sale only at 906 B st. s.w. Sent to anv address. $1. mhl4-lm* DR. LEON. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND only reliable Ladies' Physician in the city, can beconsulted daily, lltt D St.. between 1st and 2a n. w. All iemaie complaints and Irregularities- quickly removed. Prompt treatment. Correspondence aud consultations strictly confidential. Separate rooms for ladles. Office hours?llto 4 and 6 to S p.m. mhlO-lm* R. ROBERTSON, THE WELL-KNOWN PHYslclan and surgeon, and the oldest reliable specialist in Baltimore city, can be consulted In Washington every Wednesday and Saturday, at his private rooms 456 C. st. n.w., near 4^ Ft., from 2 to 9 p.m.. on al private diseases. Both sexea. consultations oonfiden tirl and a cure guaranteed In every case. Main office1 3u N. Liberty st., Baltimore, Md. fel6-3m consumption; i have a positive remedy for the above disease; bv Its use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured. Indeed, so strong Is my faith in its efficacy that i will send two bottles free, together with a valuable treatise on this disease, to anv sufferer. (Jive express and post office address. Dr. T. A. slocum, 161 Pearl st., S. Y. n29-eo*K6m A CARD-TO ALL WHO are suffering from errors and indiscretions of yonth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, ti. Severe ones, ?8 to 912. Pamphlet free. CIVIALE R KM Emit. AGENCY, 160 Fulton st., New York. ap3-thjs,tu DR. DODD'S nervine No. 2?a permanent Cure fur Nervous and Physical Debility, Loss o Vitality, caused by Indiscretion, excesses, be an expert without a peer In the wide worldintb* i treatment and cure of Private, Nereons and Chronic Diseases. Lost Vitality, impaired Manhood and Abuses of the System, Bladder, Kidney and all diseases ofthe Urinary Organs. Recent cases positively cured In 4 to 1 6 days. No mercury or caustics used. Can be consulted every Wednesday and Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m., at his Office, 466Cn.w. Refers to leading physicians orBaltimore.Main 0ffice30 N. Liberty st.. Baltimore.MOT SURGERY. AC.-"The vite for Keattk an F daily toalkt depend." and thousands visit Dr WHITE'S establishment 1416 Pennsylvania avenue opposite Wlllard's hotel, for the successful treatment of Corns. Bunions, diseased nails. Vascular Excrescences and all diseases of the feet. Dr. White's twenty filth consecutive year of practice in Washington Fee, i fl a sitting. (Baltimore establishment. 11 North utaw st.; mh25 Tk TBS. DR J. 8EMM Ed. SURGEON CHIROPODIST, MANICURE AND DERMATOLOGIST. Corns, soft and hard. Bunions, Inflamed and Sore j Joints, Club or Ingrowing Nails absolutely cured without pain or blood. Hundreds of testimonials of the elite of Washington of remarkable cores. All should try Mrs. Semmes' method at oaring Bunions. Sure, sate and permanent. Office: 1223 F sL, 4 doors from 13th. up one flight. mklS MRS. M. A. FRENCH, MAGNETIC HEALER, and Business Medium. Is again at hetna, lTM /th st. n.w., where she will be plsassfi to reodve bar friends and patrons. ml0-las* ~Y?ME.ROS8 reliable CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROLOGISPT. can be consulted on business and all aOalrs of U?s. 1 All in trouble call. Satisfaction given or ne pay. Residence, 1010 11th street nectkwesL >5 1 Semen so cents each. 408 l street, between 4th and 1 Mh streets ncnthwest. )el4-Ww? j ad ami: payn (residrort) manicure Hang Nails and Biting of NaUs positively cored; Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails anoaUdiaaaawoftk* Feet successfully treated. Single treatment, either bands or ffeet, (L Rooms 6 and 6,946 Pa. ava.n^6m nnHE CELLULOID TRUSS. X That never tweaks, orrer_ wears out, always clean, and can be worn while bat hing. 3 Is Kir sale at CHAS. PlBHJCR'S, 4 623 7th street northwest. 1 Mrs. FISHER (terotas bar attention to the waataoi Lady Patvona, Ml 4 GESTLEMEyS GOODS. Shirts Tc Order. rrixforckp rhtrtw to Order foe j9 00 plaited bosoms to Order for _ jt.? THE LATEST STYLES IX OOLLABS. CCWTt AXD NECK WEAK. im KUAt, collars and cuffs laus dried ft* SB. ?aeh nihil tj i'st keckiveiu a Large Line of xkckwu*. for 50*.. 76a aadfl. Fi)H ].ln? of Fall and Winter UNDERWEAR M lowest prices. Large Une of PRICKS SHIRTS constantly oo hanA charles hyatt. Proprietor. thompson's shirt factory. w# f him( hottliirmi f ry> Opposite m*ptoa^ potomacriver_boatsr

t^ti-amkk t. v. ARROWSMITH. FROM SEVENTH BTREET WHARF. MONDAYS. thursdays and saturdays at 7 a m Returning Tl'wdays, fridays tad SUH da YS, touching ht all River landings a* tkr as Xonuni creek. currioiuan. St Clement*' Bay and L%?n ardtowu. Connect* with u. a o r r ai shrphwds. john padgett. Agent. c. w. ridi.fv. Manager. ma 14 pOWllAC TRANSPORT ATI OX LINK steamer sue. caft w c okoghkoax. will rw.im? the route between baltimore a xt) WA*iliINpiv lo STEPHEN SOX BRO.. 7 th at wharf. Office:?12th M. and Pennsylvania av. nw. iwuil-4mih >~lea'viar tth-street to wharf tuftvlavn. Thursday* and sundav* at 7 o'clock am. for hiver landing* a? fkr an Mat to x l"r?'k. returning on Wednesday, Friday and m?m?r atwruuvmi.v por Information apply to u. l sheriff, 1114 Pa a*a a w.. Or to rr.hw o^t. jones, Agt. wfcc wharf. iow fare to norfole-steAmf.B LADY j (>p the lake leaves ?th street wharf. Washing >n. Monday, Wednesday aud Kildaj at 6:00 p m First-claae Fare, 76c. Hound Trip, $1.26. ja'm Direct to skw vork. freight steam ers johx gibson and ec. eniuhy laawe Pier 41 Earn Hiver. n. y very saturday at 4 p.m.: Sth street wharf, Washington, every wel> nekday morning. Freight at ioweet re*sa._ jwo N orfolk and fortress moxroel The popular steamer geo roe LEARY leave* 7th street wharf cm mondays. WEDNESDAYS and fridays at 5 p. m.. stopping at Ptnear point aud Cornfield going and returning Connect Xnrfolk with all railroad and steamboat hum. Saetare rooms and tickets at r. aud O. Oftios, 14 th and Pennsylvania avenue, St Marc hotel, and Knox ktpress, 603 Pennsylvania avenue, who will alao cheek baggage from hotels aud private reaidenoea Por tarther information inquire at company's offios, 7tb street wharf. Telephone call 746-3. _dS william p. welch, General4|Mt VERNON! MT. VERXON! steamer w w. corcorax Leaves 7th-street wharf dally (except Sunday) fbr mu Vernon at lu odock a m^ rvturalsg, mtfta Washington about 3-'m p. m. aelO L. L. BLAJCE. Captain. railroads! rjr?he virolnl\ midland RAILWAY. the short line to the SOUTH AND southwest. Schedule iu effect march 22. 1sr6. 9:10 a.m. .vttt' OKLEANS mail daily, making clow connections ^vjuth and xouih w?*t Dally except Sunday, wiUi C. and O. Railway Pullman Mnplac Rutleit cars from New y ork and Washington, to Atlanta. Pullman Sleeping cars from Washington to New Or loans without change of cara 6:1U P.M.?LOUISVILLE past line. Daily via i hariotisville to Cincinnati, Louisville and all AVest eiu I'oiuta. Pullman Sleeping cars, Washington tc Louisville. 10:40 P.M.?southern mail axd EXPRESS Imily to all points South and Southwest via Itanville and Charlotte. Pullman Sleeping cara from Washington via Oanvlli?, Charlotte and Atlanta to New Orleans: also, from Washington viaCharlotta and Columbia to Augusta. Manassas Division Trains leave Washington at 9:10a m. and 4:15 p.m. daily, except Sunday. WarTent?u Trains leave Washington at 9:10 am. Mad 5:1u p.m. dailv. For tickets and Information Inquire at Company's oft.ee, 6 EKMcr-r March 1&TH, 1SS5. Trains leave Washington, from ataUoa. earner of 6th and b streets, an follows: For Pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited Fiiwiass of Palace sleeping Cars at 8:40 a. m. dally:Fast Line t?:40 a m. dailv to Cincinnail and SC Louis with Sleeping Cars from Harrtsburg to Cincinnati, and Hotel Car to St. Louis: daily, except Saturday, to Chicago, with Sleeping Oar Altoona to Obirago Western Express 7:40 p. m. dally, with Faiaer Oars to Pittsburg. Also connects dally far ClilOMn, wttb Sleeping Car Pittsburg to chicago. Mall ExpreM, 1 u!x> p. m. daily for Pittsburg and the Wan, with Palace Sleeping Car Washington to Chicago. BALTIMORE and potomac railroad. For Erie. Canaudalffua, Rochester. BnShlo, Xlnaara, 10hm> p. m. dailv, except Saturday, with Pa la ee Oars. Washington to KochPSter. For Williamsport. Lock Haven and Elmlra, at MO a m. daily, except Sunday. For New "S ork. aud the East, 7:15, 8A0 and 11M a. m.. 2.uo, 4:oo, 10 p. m. aud X20A night. On buudav, 4KX), lOKKi p. m. and 12:15 night. ximlud Kxpressof Pullman Parlor Cara, 9:40 a m. dafty, except Sundav. For Boston without change. 200 p.m. every ?Mk (lay. On Sunday, 4 ho p.m. For Brooklyn. n. y? all through trains ooanast at Jersey Cwjr with boats of Brooklyn Annex, aimdinp direct transfer to Fulton street, avoiding daflble ferriage across ntm York city. For Philadelphia, 7:16, 8:30, and llsOO a. 200 4^x).6kjo, lOOOq. m.and 12:15night. OnSundw, 4,0gAO, oho, 7:40, 10:00 p.m., and 12:15 night. For Pope's Cieek Line, 7:15 a.m. and 9M pjn. daily, except Sunday. For Annapolis, 6:35 a.m. 1206 and 425 pjn. dally, except Sunday. On Sunday, 4j00 P.m. alaxaxdr1a and 1 redeer ksburo rafl/way, and alexandria axd washnfgton railroad. For Alexandria, 6 00. 7<?0, 9:26, 114)1 and 11*6 a m.. 2h5,4: jg. 4-.45.6h1, 8h5 and 11.87 p. bl On Sunday at oho, 9:25,11 hi am..8h5 p.m. For Richmond and the Sooth, 6.-o0 and lllOl a.m. daily, and 4:4& p.m. daily, except Sunday. Trains leave Alexandria tor Washington. (m, sho 1(?h0, 1o.10 am.: 1h0, 8h5, 3:23, 6:10, 7iOAind 11:35 p.m., and 12:10 midnight (aaoapt mneer.) On Sun<lay at 8ho and 10J.0 am 7h& and u)s p.m., and 12:lo night. Tickets and Information at the office, mil tframt aprner of 13th street and Pennavlvania avenue, inl at the station, where orders can be left for the ?'<3S5^,0pl!Sftr General Manager. General Paaaangsr Agaat. rphe new orleaxb fast line SHENANDOAH VALLEY SOUTHER* STOOIAL VIA shenandoah juxc.. i.cray aim ROANOKE. The New Route to the South and Sooth west. schedule IN effect march IS, 1ss&. 9:25 a.m. daily. New Orlean* Fast Llna Fof all points on line of Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk and Western. East Tennessee. 1'lialsls ana Georgia Rrtlroads. Atlanta, Macon, Jafltaaovllle, Chattanooga, Memphis, Mobile. Hear Orleans, and the south ana SouthweaL PuUaaan Palace Sleeping Cars between U ashlngtoA and New Orleans without change. Connecting at Shenandoah Junction with Pullman Oms, hew York to Atlanta 8:40 p. m-Bdaily. Memphis Expresa For aii patata South, Southeast and Southwest. PuXUnaa Palace Sleeping Cara between Sheuandoah Tanatlrn and Memphis without change, 'nnnaatfrW at Cleveland, Tenn., with Pullman Cars tj Sew Orleans without change Trains leave b. dt o. r. k. Passenger mat km. earner Xew Jersey avenue and c street. Por tickets, sleeping car reservations and all Information apply at ticket offices, S19 rraas ave.. 1961 Penna ave.. and at depot b. a o. R. R., and aflftoa or the Line, 507 Penna ava, where orders will be takeu lor baggage to be called for in anypart of the city. aQenm Paaa and Tkt. Agt. j^altimore and ohio railroadl bchedule in effect8cxday.dbc. tin*, tss< until further notic*. Leave Washington from statinn, corner af Natr toraey avenue and C street For Chicago, oho aum., and 10:10 pa, Mb, liii iwul imtau^biwjtkscsl thia train for (kat time. For Cincinnati, LouisvQls and St Lntria dally at MO p.m. and 10:10 pjn., with Through Had Palaoe Sleeping Oars to above triaa. wtOaeus change. ^i.m. train is a Past fainR-K TVtSta Cincinnati ana St Louis, arriving mdncmanttanxt morning at 740, St Louis ?30 ml gaiUjtln is charged on this train for nat tuna Por Pittsburg at OHO ajBL, with Partar Oar, and 9:40 pjn. For points ?a the Shenandoah Yalim aallaaaS nnd powta south, 9:26 aui. and SAO pjn. daily. Por Way Stations batnean mMmim and -tiSXX, _ Da j? fxoap i-undarto Wins a"iak._ gasaXkSfSUDi 4

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LOCAL MENTION. The Wfnthfr. Office ok the Chief Signal officer. Washington, D.C., March 28, 1885,10a. m. For the middle Atlantic states, fair weather lit the northern portion, partly cloudy weather nd local rains in the southern portion, slightly ?older northerly wind*. t For Hunday, local rains are indicated for New g England, the middle and south Atlantic states, with slightly colder weather. Fuir weather in s the lake region. f It is Desired to call the attention of ofll cers of the armv and navy that Mr. Bobekt Luckkt, representing the custom department of Messrs. i Ifevlin Co., of New York, will remain at the j ?bbitt hous^ until Tuesday, evening March 31st. A rery full line of samples, comprising the latent novelties for spring and summer wear on exhibition. Also a complete line of military s cloths for uniforms. Mr. Luekey will be pleased to make apfiointinents and take orders. Prices moderate. Terms liberal. Fit guaranteed. I The New England Mutual Like Insur- 1 ante Company.?In spite of the unfavorable f elements which were brought to bear against s] life insurance in general during the last year a the forty-first annual rei?>rt of the New Eng- 1 land Mutual Life Insurance Company shows i that this excellent institution has increased In i public confidence and favor. The present as- 1 sets are 1 5.872,635.1 2. while the liabilities are 15,158,861.75, leaving a surplus of 9513,- 770.37 to be distributed among the policy j holders. i At this time, when the public is greatly ex- I Cited by the uncertain fluctuations in business f aud investments, the following extract from c President Stevens' annual report will be found I Of special interest. Speaking of life Insurance a as one of the surest methods of providing for the co ntingencies which are liable to arise he t ays; "No better method has been devised in the world's history to provide against the nn- 1 certainty and irreparable loss of a productive >n the social and v literal vumlttion of the community generally, so r: thai a well-founded, well-conducted iustitutiou of this description is a subject of public interest, n as its beneficial effects are at least equal to a those of any public charitable or philanthropic institution; and these effects are produced with- fl out any donation, sacrifice or act of beneficence a by the public or by individuals, being the natural and easy results of the spontaneous thrift, u prudence and forecast of individuals in con- ri ducting their own concerns." tl Stamped Linen Tidies at 17c. each. Monday. Mrs. M. B. Bruce Co., 433 9th st. n. w. g Man's Ivokihs Never Closed on a Better f specimen of the weed than the Violet Plug Chewing Tobacco. Nothing charged and a most welcome gift. What you purchase of the article p afterward will always be up to standard. It f will be the ruling brand. Luchs Bro., 525 7th street n.w.. agents. For Medical Purposes.?The pure Bye c! Whisky, 4 years old, which we offer at 33 per sl gallon, is the best. N. T. Mktzger Jfc Bro., Grocers, 417 7th street northwest. d s? Aloha tl The new perfume?see beautiful story hook at drug stores free. Eastman's Aloha Perfume. A Panel Picture and a capstone setting of the Washington monument presented to every n litter during the next four weeks. The very best cabinet photographs $3 )>er dozen, with a thirteenth painted. 1109 Pennsylvania avenue. Kets Kemethy. Fussell's Ice Cream and Charlotte Busse, 1427 New York avenue. Mme. C. P. Miller. 1334 F street. D Is offering the remainder of her stock of Street, c give them a call. Their prices are as low oi as the lowest. v I Hats Now a fine lot of the old famous Sour n Mash Whisky. Try. before buying elsewhere, tl at Chr. Xander's, 611 7th st. n.w. $5 Worth for $3.?Call and examine the Gents'Calf Hand Sewed Walkenfast Shoes, in t Laced, Button and Congress. Only $3 a pair, worth 85, at the Family Shoe Store, 310 7th street northwest. ei p Dr. Lton's Perfect Tooth Powder.? p An Elegant Toilet Luxury, 25 cents. d Justh'8 Old Stand. 619 D st. n. w.. Buys si Gents' Second-Hand Clothing. Note by mail v promptly attended to. d B. R. CHASE^umbrella maker, 1314 Pa. ave. a; New Arrival of spring neckwear. Prices? "Bock Bottom." Franc's, corner 7th and D, fi the only strictly one price hat and gent's fur- i, nishing store in this city. "grand Opening of French millinery on -1 Tuesday and Wednesday next at Blout's, 710 lr 7th street. 01 fr Mrs. A. T. Whiting, 924 Pa. ave., has just d received from New York all the spring styles in 1 straw goods and fine millinery. 1 The Spring Opening at the Palais Roval D commences Monday, March 30. New spilng p styles, the pear approach to Easter, and the D souvenirs of the "opening" will create busy 2' times at this popular establishment. 1; "Spring Opening."?Mrs. i. v. Slater, 931 F st. n.w.. on Tuesday and Wednesday next, March 31st and April 1st, latest novelties and designs in imported bonnets and round hats. No cards. Madame J. P. Palmer, Modiste, 1107 F street, begs to announce that on Tuesday next, March 31st, she will make a special show of soring millinery, comprising all the latest nov- eltles from leading European houses. j Sixk Velvets, all colors, reduced to 95 cents. L Children's English hose, no seams, all colors, 15 d cents. Gros grain dress silk, 95 cents. Spring d calico. 5 cents. Double width dress goods, 15 1 cents. Summer silks. 36 cents. C. M. Towson, T 636 Pennsylvania ave.. south side. t died at his residence, near Emmorton.ves- terdav, in the 88th year of his age. He was'the Ii father of Mrs. B. Peyton Brown. t' Mr. Edwards, manager of the colored base ball nine, in the city to-day and engaged Myers and Holmes, formerly of the Mutual 1 nUae of this city, as catcher and third base respectively. Frum Brentano Brothers we have the London illustrated weeklies of March 14th, filled with g myre or less a?-curate pictorial sketches of the campaign in Egvpt. D Yesterday in t>ie Court in General Term the oomphduant's appeal in the case of the Westham Granite Co. agt Chandler et al. was dis- 8 misled. 11 The first game of base ball of the season will be piuyedat Capitol park on Monday between thy Nationals and the Brown University nine. Yesterday a colored man named John "Brown, P living in Jackson alley, while employed at work t on a cellar at the corner of 2d and F streets northwest, was run over by a cart and received severe injuries on the leg. P American Guard Council. No. 1, Order of Uni- ted American Mechanics, has elected the fol- V J' K' Morton.C; G. W. Golden, t, C.fH. G. Divine. B. S.: J. E. Harding, F. S.l V B. K Snyder, treas Hugo Wise, ind.; k Bey- nolds. exam-Wm. Bowman, O. P. L The colored citizens of the fourteenth district adopted at a meeting last evening a resolution 8 inviting the residents of the thirteenth and fifteenth districts to meet them in conference upon the best means of taking part in the V emancipation celebration on April 16th. ft The fair of the Union Veteran corps, first com- panr, at Abner's hall, last evening was enlivened by the presence of the Washington Light Infantry and the Corcoran Cadets. The voting u in the articles will close this evening. Copies of The Star of February 21 and March t 4 and 5, in wrappers, duly sUmped. contain- Ingthe tuil reports of the monument celebration and the inauguration ceremonies and the ball, call be had at the counting room in any quantlty. Price two cents?not including postage. J, Wosks OF ABT.?The sale of the Viti collets tlon of works of art will commence Tuesdaynext, at 11 o'clock a.m. and at 3 o'clock in the s afternoon, and continue daily until all are sold a at the gallery of Mettm. Walter B. Williams A r Co.. corner H?th st. and Pennsylvania ave. The Collection comprises Italian Sculptures, large Hall Vase*. Agate and .Cardlgllo Mantel Orna- n meuts, French Bronzes, "Majolica Ornaments It French Porcelain Plates, Pedestals, French a Piacques and other works of art. They will be s arranged for examination on Monday. t AWOXO THE FH9HEBXEIT. rollers of the Oar tind Heine who Work All Winter?Only One Miad Caught Ho Far in the Potomse-The Prospect of the Season. Yesterday a Star reporter took a survey of he river front to ascertain the situation of iffairs among the fishermen. A well known ind reliable old fisherman when asked what vere the prospects of the fishing season opening arly, said: "What Is popularly known as the ishlng season is in fact the season when shad tnd herring are caught in the river. There is 10 beginning nor ending to the fishing in the 'otomac river and its tributaries. Fishing is arried on all the year round, more or less. At he present time there are giilers at work down tream; they are, however, doing but little, rhe winter fishing Is hardly over yet. These [illers take their trappings and nets down to he lower river In the fall season and when the w eather permits during open spells 'continue to ish all winter. The principal catch is perch md catfish, which they send to their igents and nsh dAtlers In our markets Hie meshes of these srill nets are about the same size as are used for shad and herring. The nets are always floating with tne tides; they are of various lengths and sink th$ same depth as the shad nets. Of course none but the large size perch and cat tish are caught, the small flsh >as*ing through them easily. Whenevera fish jets caught its situation is at once made known >y the movement of the seine corks whiat them, and the boatmen row to the spot, Iraw up the net and capture the fish. These *>ats are kept lively in making these captures, md when these boats are filled the fish are at >nce dispatched to market on passing steammats. This is briefly the modus operandi of rinter fishing. The past winter hits been a ailure altogether in consequence of damage lone to the giil nets by ice. It is stated that >ut of upwards of one hundred gill netters in lie lower river tliis past winter, more than one bird of them lost all their nets and fixtures by he ice suddenly breaking up while frozen in olid, and tearing the nets, which float away nd sink. All have lost more or less, and many lave been compelled to get new outfits altoether. These outfits are quite expensive to his poor class of people, and it keeps tlfein ramped all the time. They are, however, on he spot and In time for the early shad and hering. and if they have good luck make money ist in the season for this kind of fish." "Has there been any shad caught yet this ear?" asked the reporter. "But one shad has been taken in the Potomac Iver this year that I have heard of." "How is It that shad are exposed for sale in ur markets?" "Oh," said the fisherman, "these shad are sent ere by railroad from the rivers and bays of lorth Carolina and from the Savannah river, leorgia, and the herring are sent in the same ray trom Nova Scotia and the extreme eastern ivers: they are not the Potomac herring." "This first and only shad caught in the Potolae," said thy fisherman, "was sold for $2.50, nd Jim Regan bought it. I think." "How about these giilers?do they remain shing in this way during the season for shad nd herring*?" a-ked the reporter. "Yes, they keep right on, floating their nets p and down the river nearly all the year jund." "The seine haulers are a separate class, are hey not?" "Yes, their work is different; theirs is a much reater outlay for fixtures, and their work is jnlined to their own shores and large seines; ut sometimes they do not do as well as the filers when settlements are made, their exenses being much greater." "Are the seine men getting ready to leave )r their shores?" asked the reporter. "Some of them are nearly ready to start, but ley will not start until the weather Defines warmer. Others are already at their tiores, fixing them up so as to be in working rder for the first catch. Very jew have taken own their working crews'for hauling the ?iue. There is much to be done yet before lej will be in readiness." "What are the prosj/eets for this vear's run?" "No one can tell," said t he fisherman. "JSome r the boys express the belief that it is going to e a successful season, as there have been so iany years of failure, but no one can tell uutil le time comes." Xot An Epidemic. he mortality from pneumonia asd other diseases less this year than last. The prevalence of zymotic diseases in this istrict has recently been commented upon by >rrespondents in sucli a way as to produce the npression that this class of disease, particu rly pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever and ronchltis, exists here in an epidemic form. Au iquiry by a Star reporter among the promient physicians shows this to be very far from le true state of the case. Health Officer Townlend yesterday, speaking to a Star reporterln 'lerence to these statements, said that a few eeks ago there seemed to be quite a number f such cases in the District, but the last week's ital statistics report indicated no material inrease over the previous week, and that since len there appears to be an actual decrease, and le cases of a much less stubborn character aan before. There has at no time this winter een noticed anything like an epidemic in any f the diseases named. He said these diseases ad been prevalent more or less all over the [>untry, judging from his official correspondnce, and in many other localities much more revalent than in Washington. In Philadethia. New York and cities further east, these iseases had been quite prevalent. It was also matter of fact that they had been conderably less fatal this winter in this icinity than last winter. Comparing the eath rate here with the four disises?pneumonia, bronchitis, consumption, nd scarlet fever, with last winter, taking the >ur wiuter months when they are most fatal? ecember, January, February and March, with le corresponding months this year, he showed y records In his office that there had been less itallty this winter than last. In December, 883, there were 63 deaths from pneumonia; 1 Dec., 18S4, there were but 24 deaths reported fthat disease; in January, 1884, 38 deaths om that disease; and January, 1885, SO paths- February. 1884, 38 deaths; February, 885,64 deaths; March, 1884.42deaths; March, 885, 49 deaths; total for the four winter lonths this year up to the present date, 169. 3 December, 1883. there were 20 deaths reorted from bronchitis, or throat diseases; in ecember, 1884, 14 deaths; January, 1884, 2 deaths from the same disease; Januarv.1885, 3 deaths; February, 1884, 26 deaths;*Februry, 1885, 22 deaths; March, 1884,17 deaths; [arch, 1885, up to the present time, 12 deaths, otal last year .rom bronchitis, 85; total this ear from same, 61. In December, 1883, there ere reported 66 deaths from consumption; and l December, 1884, 64 deaths; January, 1884, 2; January, 1885, 69: February, 1884, 80; ebruary, 1885, 78; March, 1884, 64 deaths; [arch, 1885, 53 deaths, a total for last year of 02; total for this year of 264. The record of eajhs from scarlet fever runs the same way. ri I)eeember, 1883, 7 deaths were reported; >ecember, 1884, 16 deaths; January, 1884, 16 eaths; January, 1885, 13; February, 1884,21 eaths; February. 1885, 13; March, 884, 31 deaths; March, 1885, 27. otal deaths from scarlet fever last year, 75>tal tills winter, 69. These figures are from' fficial records in the health office. From the tatistics it appears that young people are more nbject to pneumonia than the elder ones. In iccember, 1883, when the death rate from neumonla was so heavy, 34 ofthe63deceents were under 20 years of age. Other months liow a like proportion. The record for the pre?nt month of March shows that about fourfths were under 20 years. The large death ?te from pneumonia In February this year is ccounted for at the health office as in a meaure due to the large iufiux of non-residents ho died Trom exposures during the ceremonies ttending the dedication of the Washington lonument. Dr. Townshend thinks our vital tatistic records will compare favorably with :iose of any of the large cities in the country. New Piano Warerooms.?Messrs. William :nabe Co., the long-established and celebra?d piano manufacturers of Baltimore and New ork, having found It necessarv to open a ranch wareroom in this city, have fitted up in legant style the store, No. 817 Market Space, rhere they have on hand a full stock of their lagniflcent grand, upright and square pianos, lcluding the latest departure in the art of iano making?the inlaid and marquetry fancy rood upright pianos. The Washington public as now precisely the same facilities here as at tte Baltimore and New York warerooms of lessrs. Win. Knabe A Co., including the adantage of a complete assortment to select rom. Whereto Borrow Money on Real Estate eople who have property to pav for, and mortr ages to pay off, should Inquire into the assistnee and advantages furnished by the Equitale Co-operative Building association. Monty is dvanced in any desired amount, flrom $100 [.ward. Seven years and three months is iven to return the principal and interest in loutlily installments. Payments can be made it at any time of large or small amounts, or a ettlement made in lull, and interest is onlv hurged for the time the munev is held. If a art of the advance is settled, tne monthly intallmen ts are reduced proportionately. Kleiners are extended every facility and eneouragelent to return advances and pay for their roperty as rapidly and as soon as possible, ommissions and heavy expenses are avoided, iver $460,000 are now advanced to the memers. Pamphlets, explaining the advantages ?nns, how to proceed, etc., are furnished upon ppllcatlon. Subscriptions for new stock In he ninth issue will be opened April 1st, 1885 'honian Somervilie, presideut; J no. Joy Edson! ecretary. Ofllce, 91. F street northwest. Messrs. Walter B. Williams Invigorating drink, is also the most economical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is rarranted absolutely pure, and is reconimendd by emiuent physicians for it* highly nutriIve qualities, and is unsurpassed as a delicious everuge. Baker's Chocolate and Cocoa prearations have been the standard of purity and xcellence for more than one hundred years. W. W. Bitrdette Co., 928 7th and 706 K treet, will begin a sjiecial sale of dress goods nd hosiery on Monday next. See advertlsenent. Spring Opening. Mrs. M. J. Hunt anounoes her spring opening of millinery and idles goods on Monday and Tuesday next t No. 13oe F street northwest. She states thai he has some of the handsomest bonnets from be New York, London and Paris markets. v. f. ja i The It Dominie Chnrek faM. The fund for reconstructing St. Dominic'* church has been increased by the following subscriptions: Mrs. B. Culiinaue, Thomas Colli us, 950 each; Eugene McSweeney, Michael J. Keane, f'25 each; John Fitxgerald, John Shughrue, Patrick Phillips, John Casey, Edward HaJey, $'20 each: Mrs. Sheehy Mrs. Noble, Major John B. Prout, Daniel A. Ktlligau. Mrs. Catherine Donnelly, Mark Cunningham, T. A. Richards, John K Kelly, John Tynan, Taw. rence Gardner, James Connors, Mrs. Julia Smith, Tulley Moore, Mrs. Hugh Leddy, Peter T. Cunningham. P. O. Alexander, Henry McOrann, W. J7 Sibley, Mrs. Mohck, Mrs. P. Sullivun, $10 each; John Langdon, W. J. Green, George A. Jones, Thomas Cannon, Wm. W. Lelshear. Mrs. Horan, James McCann, Charles Clark, Mrs. Fannie Francis. Mr. Lyons. Joseph F. Hagen, Wm. McGuire. Eckerman i Hill (Syracuse, N. Y.), Maggie Colbert, Mary E. Flaherty, E. F. Brooks, P. J. Devine, John Mo> Laughlin, R. K Smith, S. E. Young Richard Casey, Kate McNearney, Hannah Wise, Mrs. Ellen Clark, George Kraft Son, Dr. C. V. Boar man, Otto C. Ruppert, Singleton A Fletcher. Mrs. Shea, Towers Green, John Shea, Jerome J. Lightfoot, cash, George Delaney, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. C. G. Htolpp, McQuade 6 Sohns, Dr. H. Cook, Thomas Sheridan, MarSaret Calvin, J. H. Kengla, Win. S. Anderson, .C. Baum, $5.each. Absolutely I? ure. KRH OO Y Y A t, RROOYY AA L RRR O O YY A A L R H O O Y AAA L R OO V A A I.T.tx BBB A K K n NN N GOO B B AA K K II NN N GO BBB AA KK IINNNG B B AAA K K II N NN G GO BBB A A K K II N NN GOO PPP OO WWW DDD EES RRR PPOOWWWWD DE R R PPP OO WW WW D DEE RRR P O O WW WW DDR R R P OO W W DDD EEH k H This Powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wbolesomeness. Mote economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low tests, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Roy ax Bakixu Powdeb Co.. 106 Wall street, n. y. ap6 TF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM A SENSE OF extreme weariness, try one bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It will cost you but one dollar, and will do you incalculable good. It will do away with that tired feeling, and give you new life and energy. TTAVE YOU A COUGH? SLEEPLES8 NIGHTS need no longer trouble you. The use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, before retiring, will soothe the cough to quiet, allay the inflammation, and allow the needed repose. It will, moreover, speedily heal the pulmonary organs, and give you health. mh24 V 0 SlLKS! SlLKS!! SlLKSM! FANCY SILKS, 37VCOLORED SILKS?Garnet, Green and Blue, 50c. BLACK SILKS, real cash value $1.25, reduced to 1. COLORED SILKS, excellent quality, real cash value SI. reduced to 75c. BLACK SILKS, VERY FINE QUALITY, actual value reduced to ?1.50. Special bargain. HANDSOME BROCADE SILKS in Cream, Pink, Blue and While, reduced to $1. NUNS VEILING, pure wool, widest double width, in Cream. Pink, Blue and Black, 37VCOLORED AND BLACK SATINS, 50a COLORED SILK VELVETS, $1. HANDSOME BROCADE BLACK silk velVETS (cheap at $'.?50), reduced to $1.50. BROCADE COLORED SILK VELVETS,$1. BLACK CASHMERE SHAWLS, pure wool, $1.50. FRUIT OF THE LOOM BLEACHED COTTON (actual cost) 8c. NEW YORK MILLS SHEETING, widest and very best, actual cost '25c. LADIES' CLOTH SUITING, in Grev and Brown, one yard and a halt wide, immense width, 37V. Beautiful New Style BROCADE DRESS GOODS, all colors, 1*2 yards fur $1.50. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, all pure linen, 45c CARTERS, 711 MARKET SPACE, mh24 Near the corner of 7th street. Something For The little fellows. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE ASSORTMENT OF SPRING SUITS FOR SMALL BOYS, RANGING IN SIZE FROM THREE TO TWELVE YEARS. PLAIN JACKET SUITS FOR SCHOOL AND PLAY. "NORFOLK" AND PLAITED JACKETS IN PLAIN AND FANCY PLAID CASSIMERES, FLANNELS AND CORDUROYS. THESE "NORFOLK" JACKETS ARE THE NEWEST AND MOST POPULAR. FOR SPRING WEAR THE CORDUROYS ARE SPECIALLY DESIRABLE AND VERY STYLISH. E. B. BARNUM CO., mh27 031 PENNSYLVANIA A VENUS WHEAT J^AKING POWDER. WHAT PROF. SILUMAN SAYS OF OUR WHEAT BAKING POWDER. "Messrs. Martin Kai.bfl^isch'sSons: "Gentlemen:?My examination of your 'Wheat Powder' develops an unexpected value to It from a sanitary point or view. It certainly restores to the bread the Potassia and Magnesia Salts, which the milling removes from high grade flour, and It avoids completely the chance of disaster which attends the constant use of small doses of Rochelle Salts, such as all the tartaric acid compounds carry into the svstem. As the flesh fluid contains ten times as much Potassium Salts as of sodium, It is evident that the waste of the tissues is supplied from your preparation, as it cannot be from those preparations whlca contain only Sodium and Calcium compounds besides the tartaric acid. There Is no danger of setting up an alkallnecondltion ot the urine with dicalcic phosphates In feet it appears to me that you have a very strong case! Judged from the physiological side, and this convic- i Hon has grown on me the more I have examined the case. (.Signed) b. slixutajs." For sale by G. G. COR NW ELL SON, 1418 Pennsylvania avenue*. The trade supplied." fl4-s,tu,th,6m-4p BBB A U U MM MM ssba B B AA U U M MM M s BBB A A U U M MM M sssb B B AAA U U M M M a, J 2 BBB A A UU M U M 8ss8." WE WILL OFFER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS TWO DECIDED BARGAINS. T SUMMER 8ILKS, GOOD QUALITY, CHECKS AND STRIPES, AT ONLY 60 CENTS. GILBERTS BEST 6-4 FANCY SUITINGS, BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS, WORTH $1.25, AT ONE DOLLAR. WE HAVE OPENED A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF JERSEY SILKS. NEW DESIGNS AND EXCLUSIVE PATTERNS; HANDSOME SURAH SILKS, IN COLORS. AND CHECKS. THE BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES ALWAYS ONE PRICE STRICTLY. AS WE SELL FOB CASH ONLY,WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICE THE LOWEST. !bbb A Sg 1&2S r s?s in n S BBB A A UU M M M ?g?S Z mh27 418 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. HALL TYPE-WRITERS?>40 APPOnrea nrr>niE SERVICE THAN ?lt>0 WRITER Hall" ihily sustains Its claims over Its rivals: is the attraction of the day. Its great merita Advantages sustained by many daily visitors. Hall" guaranteed to do all that any other TrDewriter can, with much they cannot. High como^tixoUciM ??j>? ogc., ijgiT ..JW 7 -"1 HEMORRHOIDS, totwd, bleeding and itching. positively cured by cuticura. A warm bath with Ctticura Soap and a single ap plication of Cuticura will instantly allay the intense tchlnc of the most aggravated case oC Itching pu?a Tw" Raiment, combined with small doses of Curocv%a Resolvent three times per day, to regulate and strengthen the bowels, overcome constipation and remove the route, will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Wes when all other remedies and even physicians mil ITCHING PILES. THE PRICE OF CUTICURA NO ACCOUNT. 1 was taken, for the first time in my life, with Blind Files, so severe that I could hardly keop on my fcet. I used various remedies for three weelcs, when the disease took the form of Itching Piles, and growing worse. By advice of an old gentleman I tried the Cuticura. One application relieved the itching, and I was soon cured. I wish to tell the world that in case* of Itching Piles the price of the Cm cur a is of no account. From an unsolicited quarter. O. C KIRBY. 02 west Street, Concord, N. H. PILES 20 YEARS. A MARTYR FOR 20 YEARS CURED. Having beeh a martyr to Piles for twenty years, I was advised by a (Mend to try yonr Cuticura Remedies, which I diu, and am thankful to state that I am now perfectly relieved, and hope iiermanently so. New York. RICHARD NORMAN. P. S.?I would send you my address, but I prefer to remain In obscurity. ITCHING PILES I began the use of your Ctticura Remedies when you first put them on the market, and know of two cases of Itching Piles that have been cured by the use at my suggestion, of these remedies. Virdeu, 111. F N. MARTIN. ALL THAT YOU CLAIM. I have tried your Cuticura Remedies, and find them aH that you claim, and the demand for them in this section is great. Higgston, Ga. AUGUSTUS W. COLLINS Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier; Ctticura, the great Skin Cure, and Cuticura Soap, an exaulsite Skin Beautifler, are a positive cure of species of Itching, Scaly, Pimply, Scrofulous and Inherited Diseases of the Skin, Scalp and Blood, from Pimples to Scrofula. Sold everywhere. Price: Cuticura, 60c.; Soap, 26c.; Resolvent, $1. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., BOSTON. Hands and Skin from Cuticura Soap. (jtrand Easter Sale or GLOVES AND HOSIERY w'., at the BOSTON DRY GOODS HOUSE v w -v r x' ?7 vO GLOVES." HOSIERY. Having feceived our To-day we inaugurate a cpKTVn qtyv'p niJ SPffJal Sale of Ladies-and SttBSlS?, ?F tfildren. specially pr? EASTER HOStERY, ^LAT^'htvi "W ?*ve carefully LAltST STYLES selected, and are undoubtfflly the best values we AND have ever placed on sale. NEWEST SHADES Ladies' Ollbolled IN GLOVES. COTTON HOSE, thatching the whltetoesand heels, CardSPRiWfj lnal.Seal.Navy and Black, smHa extra value, worth 37V>c. DRESS GOODS, dkc. Ladles' Fine Black 4-Button Kid Gloves, in SILK H0SE' DlXirowu.^1115111^ ?SS0rth PER PAIR. Ladles' Extra Fine Col8-Button Mousquetalre SILK HOSE Suede Gloves, in7'anary, Br?Wn* 1??Weheels and toes; colspienaid quality, ore?Cardinal, Navy, Seal, ONLY $1.75 PER PAIR, m^d? ahd^li^k4 6and 8-Buiton Perl- not Suede Gloves, in Browns. Ecrus, Tans and RIBBED HOSE Gravs, plain and embrold- ered backs m self colors. double knees, white toes and heels, in Garnet, Card pal, Brown Navy and OEKT*8 0 LOVES. 2?, J aW O..V. 2-ButloD KM Gloves, embrold- RIBBED HOSE red backs In self-same colors, in Light and Dark elegant qualitv donhie Gray' best qultl" knees, split feet, in Brown "y. only and Navy Blue. 7 inch 42 at ?i cents, rise and fall 2 cents 91,91.60 and f2, per pair, per siie. WOODWARD LOTHBOP, -v J- ,a. boston dry goods house. ON* PBICaC ONLY. 921Pa.av [mh27] 912 Dst V I J*retty Clothes for the little fellows. it is a noticeable fact in the clothing business that the first rush each season is made for the children's seasonable garments. -parents airnnr to think that they can better delay their own change of clothing rather than their children's, and so when spring comes the lads are hurried in for lighter clothes, and the roys dressed, even if the father waits for his new suit or ovebcoat until a more i convenient season. in our well-selected stock you will find a large Variety of styles and a i.tbebat. assortment of fabrics, with at.t. grades and prices. our line of children's shirt waists is as extensive as any house in the country can show. do not fail to see the saks' shirt waists in percales and flannels. A. BAKs" CO the boys' clothiebs, mh27 316 AND 818 SEVENTH STREET EA T* ii i fc. h cards and novelties u^ISa?jBannerettt for 16 eta, 26 wv _ CITY ITEMS. Am OpM See ret.?'The unparalleled merit and popularity of Dr. Bull'* rough Syrup. 1 II Per Gallon. 75*. %nart Settle. No. 1 Rye Whisky, best In the world for the money. Orders by mall. McQec'g, 9th. near D rt. sAw-lm Blent** Opeelag of Pattern Hats and Bonnet*. on Tuesday and Wednesday next. 710 7th street, 2 Every Believer la True Keonomj~ goes to Auerbach's Sewing Machine Room*, 7th and H sts. Elegant assortment; all kinds; correct prices; no drummer*, hence, no two profits; send for catalogue. 1^ ftneelal. Our spring stock of Fine Shoes is now complete, which for quality and quantity Is far ahead of any of our former attempts. We can eaaliy suit and fit the most fastidious. Special merits of our this season's goods are their increased flexibility, thus Insuring perfect ease to the mo?t tender foot. Our prices are. as usual, l?eyond competition. Our square, honorable mode of conducting business is too well known torequire special mention. Wk. Hahs Co.'s Reliable Shoe House, 1 816 7th st. and 19*22 Peuno. avenue. Frank's Jewelry More. -157 Pa. ave. Received, new designs In Silverware and Cutlery.l S Button Kid Wlove*. Light Shaden, 25e., former price $1. Summer Silks 35c. per yard, at 1 Baltimore Store, 908 7th St. n.w. Johnson's Oyster Saloons and Restaurant for Ladies and Gentlemen, 440 and 44*2 9th street. Received t?nday, choice lot of Suddlerork Oysters, extra large and fat, for roast, broiled, ERKORM ANCE THIS EVENING OK Hie Grand Romantic Sj>e?-taoiilar Melodrama. is 5 acts hud IT scenes. ?oOlled THE ROMANY RYE. SFW AND BEAUTIFUL SCENERY! An Unrivaled Cant, and all the Great Scenic and Mechauical Effects' MONDAY NEXT, March 90. RHEA, Th* distinguished society Star. in i "The American Countess.'" "Arcadia," "School fbr Scandal." "An Unequal Match," aud 'Canine." i ih'JS jpORD'S. TWID FIN. SOLID KIN. SOLID FUN. DROMKO FAREWELL TO-NIOIIT I'ROM ko karevveli. to-night DROMKO KAREWELL TO-NIGHT. Don|t Kail to See This Funniest of Plays. Don't Kail to See TltK V'nnu est of Plays. NEXT WKKK-TIUK STODDARD LEcTUP.ES. Comlng-THE LE?*MLDs Coming-DION Buldi ArU. nih.'S FORD'S O PERA I loUSE JOHN T. FORD Manager THE I STODDARD LKoorsoi?en at 1 and p.m.; overture one hour later. Carriages may be ordered at 4:lO and lo.lo p.oi mb24-5t fJ^HEATER COMIUUE J This Week?Every Evening and Daily Matinees. PETRIE AND FISH'S MARVELS OF TWO HEMISPHERES. LIVING MODELS. NAC-NAC. Fifty Young Ladies in attendance in our Free Cafe. mh23-6t ^HE WASHINGTON ROLLER RINK, 9TH SWEET AND RHODE ISLAND AVENUE. ?OPEN? MORNING. 10 to 12 a. m. AFTERNOON. 2:30 to 5:30. EVENING. 7 3u to 10-30. GOOD MUSIC. BEST FLOOR SOUTH OK PHILDELPHIA. FANCY SKATING EVERY EVENING. 7th and 9th street cars direct. mh23-3m D~ LME MUSE I'M. Pennsylvania avenne, near 11th street. ANOTHER (.HAND PLAY. Produced in Splendid Stvle. Every Afternoon and Night This Week, The World's Greatest Plot.-an Actor, JOHN W. RANsONE. Assisted by Miss ELLA RANSONE and their Popular Boston Dramatic Company, In the ThfiUiugSpectacular Drama, ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. With New Scenery and Appointments. tST Mr. J. W. Ransone in Five CI Mtiges of Character and all his Great and Original Songs. New and Novel 'uriosities in tue Museum. Admission to all only 10 cents. Box Office open from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. for sale of reserved seats. m23-6t T^ATIONAL ROLLER SKATING RINK, 011-613 E STREET, Near Post Office Building. NOW OPEN, 7 P.M. 12,000 Feet hard Maple Floor Skating Surface. Ladies and Children afternoon admission, with skates, mr2-lm 25c. gCRLBNER'S BICYCLE St^IOOL. INSTRUCTION FREE TO PURCHASERS. COLUMBIA AND ALL FIRST-CLASS BICYCLES. TRICYCLES AND ACCESSORIES AT FACTORY PRICES. BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES SOLD ON INSTALLMENTS. WM. C. SCRIBNER FEN TON HALL, E STREET, mh9-lm* NEAR 11TH NORTHWEST. CHOICE SEATS FOR ALL THE THEATERS. BRENTANO BROS. jal7-3m Pennsylvania ave.. cor. 11th st. SUMMERRESORTS. J^EW COLUMBIA HOTEL, Cape May. New Jersey. 1^4 IimHt f Now open for the reception of guests. This is one of the finest and most substantial brick hotels on the Jersey coast. Has all the modern improvements. Thoroughly heated. Terms reasonable. The New Columbia will be for rent from June 1st. This is a Splendid Chance for Hotel Men. For terms apply to JAMES MOONEY, 206-8 S. Front St., mh28.ap4,ll,18* ftirnlshed. fe3-3m A. R HUNTER jJuKX rpHE VICTORIA, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-THORJL onghly heated, gas, etc.; hot and cold sea A A water baths, sun parlor and rinkytv^^w i directly on beach, free to guests. fe2-3m M. WILL LaIIs. rpHE WAVERLY, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-OPEN X all the year. Hot and cold sea water A A baths In the house. All the comforts of a first-class hotel. Coach meets all trains. JOHN E. MIFFLIN, Manager. fc2-am MRS. J. L. BRYANT, Proprietress. DENTISTRY. i OAMUEL L SCOTT, D.DA, O fifteen years experience In Dentistry. 0ffi?.1207 F st.n.w. Preservation of the Natural Teeth a specialty. oc22 DB. STARR PARSONS. COR 9TH AND E STS J n.w. Filling a specialty; also, the cure of toothache without extracting. A local anesthetic, used on the gums, alleviate* pain of extracting. Gas given. Charges moderate. u2 TVR. T. M. TALBOTT, DENTIST, 437 7TH ST.. ly three doors from corner E Dentistry la alt 1 Its branches. TeeCh inserted #7 per set. All work warranted. Jsal i __ excursions. C^OOK-8 C.* RAND Kxcubsioh TO WUJHADO AND CALIFORNIA. lMMh| THE MAMMOTH CAVK OF KENTUCKY. THE YOSEMITE VALUY, And other ??urw of greet InU rraC To U?vt on THURSDAY. MAY 7. 1HH6 Pullman Cter*. Flrst-olaa* >1.4*1 AcwmmoitaMon, Carnage Drives. wd all Nw??r Expenses included. occupying eight Full descriptive pn*r>uii. with map of Um routa, writ fr?"e by mail on application. AMnv THOK OOOK A SON. fr2.Vi*?.im "?WI Hniadway. N. T. auction sales. f|MlOMAS DOWU.NO. InaiWMt. CLOSING SALE OK ENORAVINliA, OLEOOHAPHS,?i. I will clo?e out the balatiiv of this large sftofc at mjr AlVlion R 0:u?, on MUNtVW. \1 A R. II TH Hi. T1ETH. at T lillF.F. ???d llALF-PAST SEVEN P.1& Every Picture uuM be sold. It _ f|lHOMA.H DOWLl N??, Auctioneer. AUCTION SALE BY CATALOGUE or 80 ORIGINAL OIL PA 1 NTlNuS OF AMERICA* HCENKKY. f

MY CHARLES LAN MAN, AT MY SALESROOM. 11TH STREET AND PENSSYLVASIA AVKNl K. ON THI HSDAV, APRIL SECOND. iNSft. COMMENCING AT ELEVEN 0 ociakk a.m., and will be continued at THKKK OVUH K IN THE AFTEKNOO*. EXHIBITION I>AV I'RIOR TO SALE' Many ofhh Artcbw r? pn-M nt 'nr.-* of historical interest. and ar8: 1*1,AI AND >EAL RlNl.S; CHAINS; l.(li kK'l>: HHAru m *?ETs JEWELRY; st il.lli SILVER AN li PLATED WARE CUTLl KV; L' K'Ks. M I'SHAI, MEt RANDAL INsTHUMKNTs: i.r.Ns REVOLVERS; PICTFRES: i.KN T> t'1.4*1 It I NO I.A DIE'S WEARINli APPAREL: PIANO; lIliiANN M ACH1NI>; CARPETV ,Vi AT AUCTION. On WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL FIRST, commencing Ht TI N o'CLii Bros., Mil and D st* u. w? u large wsortment of I'nredcemed Pledges. All parlies interested will please take notion My entire l>usme*s witli^toek ami lixturm K Mill>, VAItUH S DESloNs AND COVE1UOS: CHAMKi R FURNITURE. MAID*.ANY itiKNER CARINi.T, lM ?Oi\ ASEs. IA UNoES, MARBLK TOP I'ABLE. EXTENSION 1 A RLE. HI NT NO ill AIRS, HATRA'KS. SEWINO MAi'HlNEB, PI 4 Tl'HrX, TOILET SET-. LA M RRfcXJl' IN8 HAIR A NT i I'ITI R MA I'TRINM-JS. PILLOWS AND BOl-sTERs. sPKINi.s, CHINA AND ol. VSSWAHE. liltl">SELS AND ul HEHl KPE'l's, C4HIKIN4. and IIEATINli tSTOVL*. KllX'lfEN REQUISITES.**. 7 AlJti, k FOR ACKYil^NT OF A MERCHANT TAILOR, EI.B- 1, AN I .MisFIT CI.OTHINU. OEN I> FURN 1S11 1 Nli 4*4 KlD>. A A l-Hll. BY ORDER 4iF THE EXBCUTOR, ONE FOURPASSENiiER PARK PlI.ETi.tN. W illi IDLE: ONE TWoPAsM.Nl.ER I'll.EloN. Willi l*OLE AN11 -II AIT LOl -INi.l.E AND Do! RLE HARNESS. AT Al'lTION. On Tl'l-SDAY .MoRNINti, MARCH THIRTYFIRST, AT TEN 111 1/ M 'K, we will wll in front and within our salearootui, Mtli and 1' at? ilw., a geuerfel ci>ll49i*tioii of Hou^eliold and oilier tiootla, Vo wlitcb thl atlenli)>n of buyers is called. "iy ALTER R WILLIAMS 4 CO., AUfU. 11ANDSOMK CHAMBER SUITER, PARLOR SIT1? I PID?LSTEREI? IN IMPoRI ED MATERIAL. HANDSOME ETEOEREs. LIBRARY SlTTES. EAs\ 1'HAIRS, 11 INCH l LIBRARY TABLES. HALL RAi iv., MIRRORS. MOQUCT CAItPEls. HODY !lKl"S-?F.Ls AND OTHER CARPETS, BRl ssELs H VJT. AND STAIR CARPETS, CORMChS, 11EATINU STOVES, I:D On TUISIlAY, MARl 'H THIRTY* FIRST, commem-lug ai TEN O'l l.i x K A. M., we whall sell at r?-?idenee. No. 13.1"? F wtreei. oji|K??ite Ebbltt House. tb# above assortment of Furniture, whicta commends I be attention of buyers. mic-'s-'t Walter b Williams oo.. Aucts. TyALTBi B. WILLIAMS A- t"o., Auctionoen. parlor suites, upholstered in hair CLOTH: COITAOE FURNITURE, BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS AN D \YASH*TAND6. BEDDING, HEATING SIOVES, iNORAIJf CARPETS, CHINA. Ol.Ass AN 1' CROCKERY W.VRE, KITCHEN UTENSILS ETC. On WEDNESDAY, APRIL FIRST, at TEST O'CLOCK A. M.. we -tball fell, at No. 617 M street northwest :m aeortii'Mt of bousekee|ilng article* iuii2s-;it Walter r. wiluams it oo auci?. rpHos. E. waitOaman, J Real Estate Anrtloneer. TRUSTEES' SALF. OF VALUABLE LOT 8. W. CORNER OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND TWENTY-FIFTH STREET NORTHWEST. Bv virtue of a deed of truit, records in IlborjM liKiH. foli, except tbe south sixteen (101 feet six tl; inches front on twe?tv-liitli street, by deptli of ninety-two t?'i) feet, ftala will b4; made subjeot to a de?Hl of trust, recorded In j liber No. liayi. tolio 4VtO, securing one ytf a from January 11 Ism. with iuterest at fl per cent, payable seml-ann'.ially. _ 1 Terms: One-third eusli: balanee In eijnal Instalmentt J in six, twelve and eighteen months, for which aotM of purchiiser, bearing interest from day of sale, and secured by deed uf trust on property Sold, will be taken A deposit of 91 mi will rl at time of sale, and all courevandngand recording will be at coat of t>ufcba-ser. If terms are not compiled with In eight men. 207 Pennsylvania ave n.w. nih'Jwi' AUBURN HOUSE."' 'ill'tVPENNSYLVANIA x\, eve. several liandfime Rooms now vacant, with first-class Board, for transient or parmapeot. Table boarders desired. M r*. NEWTON. mh'^>-ly* Z7 P RAO UF M-ANH ION, CORNER 6TH AND X sts. n.w., for rent, with Board; several larg* pire? ant Rooms: also, two or three small Rooma: ireofllenl boarders accommodated mh'23-2w? MrsTo o" Howards house, 476 pfijrrfl srlvania ave., one square from dtfc street dtpftt, omtoslte National Hotel. Established 16 y?Mt First-' Iksf board and rooms $ft to S10 par wee?. Transient fl to f2 per day. Table and Vds superior. Temi Aance house. L C. HOW ARD. mliVlm* Proprietrres. AROE. AIRY ROOMS FOR RENT AT 314 A^5 J 816 Indiana ave. Also. Boarding fcr tbtAf month*, at #16 per month. Advauc- uarm?aK i MrU-tly required. T~HE LOCHIEL HOUSE, fl"12 6TH *T M and tlie la Pierre, south west comer of lOth aad J st*. n.w., are the beat conducted tfc'XrdlHf bouMS A 1 the cut}'. Table tirst-class; pltsasaoV rotMna Tarn* M moderate. ocTT t^rpHE TREMONT.'-THIS HiilSE HA#BEQ| I 1 painted and repapered, and In +W J I In first-class order It is the cools* a?dmnMd*N|h. I ble place to board In the vily. Term*, $9U. 9f9 I and >46 per month. I Gtrhat (jix?iiro Out Sal? I OF FINK BOOTS AND BHOBI I At SIXSHK1HER A BRO.'S, 80b 7th streat I This sale win continue a short flma only Ut| I rareftilly at the Extraordinary Bargains ws olftr 9 the fcllowlr* weU-known makers In L*dl?' Vtaaa. I Cousin's finest Cur. Kid, bahd^ewod, Uk, M M4 f ,<B cou f5, we will sell you now at $H 79. Coualn's finest Str. Goat, haitd-aest ed. whtafc are sold elsew here at ?4.60, our price now f&M. I Cousin's fine Cur. Kid, butt., which sail at fU*. wa tell now at f2.7t*. I Cousin's Misses Shoes at the same low figure* About 300 pair* Ladles' Fine Ktd Butt., erery pairaf I a hich Is worth 93. are now seUlnc at ft. Our Burt's Men Show. In butt., lam aad Oilbw ttwt a ere and 96, are now claaln* at 98.7A These shoes are superior to custom mrflt| I We ask those that want to save money to eoree m I parly as possible, as our Mock Is now nomptsts Wl M uave all aues aud widths, therefore call at once at /1 ?mm a brojt. I in* W? 7tti stresA He D.JBaRR. IMPORTER AND TAILOR, I 1111 PENNSYLVANIA AVKKUK. 8 P R I NO O O O D I RECEIVED AND OPEN FOR lXSPKCTKW I I BkU 1111 NuarlvMlB svasa, I