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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-07
LOST AND FOUND

Il OST-In coming from Trinity Church, George
- town, TO Montgomery street, Georgetown, d.
o.. RUSSIAN LEATHER P0CKETBOOK con.
tanning some change in silver, car tickets, and an
oval diamond ring. A suitable reward paid il re-
turned to 81 W ashington street, Georgetown. It,
OST-Last night, 9th inst In the vicinity of 18th
street or National Theater, Large
Black HEWFOUEDLAND DOG; answersAx
TO the meme Of Rolla. Five dollars reward-
will be paid for his return to IO9 street north.
west. ljsn7-3t'l JOS. PRATHER.
GS0 REWARD.-Lost, on Monday, (5th,) near
1CO the residence of Col. Stgreaves on + st
lear 18Th RING. set with three diamonds in cir.
ce Return to 1907 ii ST., bet. nth and 18th. loot
l OST-On Monday, January 5th, between al aud
IL p. m, on 7th ST. Get, between and streets
northwest, a large red and white HORSE PLAID
BLANK EFT. The finder will be literally rewarded
by leayil z it with Mr.. G.. W. CISSELL, $50 7th
street northwest. an6-3tr
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numbers
The Usage Landslide Kansas Settlers
Jubilating.

A special dispatch dated Parsons,
Kan, Aug. %, says: "The decision Of
United States Circuit Court Judges
Miller and Dillon, giving the Usage
ceded lands to the settlers, created the
widest enthusiasm. The Hon. M. w.
Reynolds, who first called public atten-
ton through magazine and newspaper
articles to the enormous wickedness Of
the attempt to gobble the homes Of
10000 settlers by the great railway cor
porations, yesterday received dispatch
from United States District Attorney
Peck announcing the result of the de-
cision. The fact being communicated
to the public by an extra, the people to-
day have been pouring into the city to
learn further of the grand news. To-
night the town is full and high cele-
bration is in progress. The people are
wild with excitement. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Judge Parkhurst, M.
w. Reynolds, Col. Willard Davis, and
others. The land policy of land COM
mission, good now, whereby the NJ, X.
and T., and L., l.. and Ct. roads lose
50, 900, 900, was severely criticised, and
the settlers congratulated upon their
triumph. The purity, integrity and
publicity of the judiciary have been the
theme of the great conflict and great
compliment by all the speakers. The
settlers are happy tonight for the first
time in years in the fact of having actual
possession of their homes"
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Illinois Wealth.

The Springfield correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe has been figuring up
the assessment returns from the various
counties, and making tables of compari-
son of the present assessment with that
for former years. The returns from all
the counties have been received by the
Auditor, except those from Madison and
Monroe counties. Taking those at the
figures returned last year, the total as
sessment this year is $l,O93, go, III,
against 81, 1914, 221, $50 in 1873, being a
falling off of over one hundred million
dollars ($1OO, 451, 37D. This is not a
result of shrinkage in values, but OF a
generally lower assessment. Neither of
the totals above mentioned include rail
road property nor the capital stock as
sessments which were made by the State
Board. These items last year amounted
to $S5, 507, $50.
by comparing the returns for the
present year with those of the past five
years, it is found that there has been
steady increase in the average OF corn,
and a falling off in that of wheat, until
the present year. The returns did not
give the number of acres in oats until
1 Q7o.
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A German Family Fatten and Eat
Dog.

We have no doubt but many of our
readers will be shocked at the above
heading, and grow sick at the very
thought of eating dog meat, but who
would, at the same time, sit down to
table and relish the flesh of the swine,
which animal is the filthiest in the en-
tire catalogue.
From a neighbor of the family who
live in the western part of the city, and
who live upon the flesh of the canine,
we are told the following
For some time past German family
have had securely chained large bull
dog. Every day the animal has been
fed as much as the scanty means of the
family would allow. One day last week
the canine was slaughtered and since
then the family has been living high.
The meat of the dog has been carefully
sailed down in order to keep during the
warm weather. The family say that the
husband and father is in good health.
and that he requires this class of food
TO give him strength and vitality. But
we are informed that poverty is the
real cause. While dogs are so numer-
Gus in our city, they are undoubtedly
cheaper than any other kind of meat.
except when in the shape of bologna
Fort Scott Sentinel.
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The Need OF RepOse.

"Repose," says a writer, is the
secret of power in persons, pictures,
statutes, architecture, books, and ma
ture, as if it were means of retaining
as well as disclosing life, and health de-
mands frequent pause to restore the
balance of the system and keep up per-
feet circulations. The night, if spent in
healthy sleep, after proper evening
hours, reduces the worlds chaos and
we are new every morning. Who does
not know the magic of brief pause in
the midst of the worst confusion? A
calm of five minutes will invite back
our vagrant ideas and powers. SO the
home should be like hush and lull-
ably in this headlong, whirling, noisy,
furious, and distracted world of the
nineteenth century, nook apart from
the thoroughfare-a grot or bower I'M
der thu sky, where the beautiful spirits
of the air will hover and dance. It's at
mosphere should be little oriental and
cheering, as if exhalted from peoples
and balsams.
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berries. When our baskets are full. we
come back to little rocky cove, with
thick woods behind it, where we eat our
lunch. h ~ ~ iHL
The place seems made on purpose for
us. There is one fiat rock just high
enough for table and near it are low
messy seats for Fred and me, and one
very messy one, like kind of throne,
for mother.
In winter our island life is rather
lonely. The water in the harbor begins
to freeze over about Christmas and
then there is no more going to town till
the ice makes bridge for us.
Sometimes it is seven or eight weeks
before the ice is safe to travel over.
When the ice gets strong, one OF the
Indians comes out with dog-sledge,
and brings the mail and, to pay us for
our long waiting, we havo two numbers
of "The Nursery" at once.-The NurS-
cru.
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Pith and Point.
A GOOD thing to keep-Cool.

"A tOOD IllinS W hCSP-OOOis
SOMETHING about dogs-Fleas.
MONEY makes the mare go, but pluck
makes Chicago.
ENGAGED in "taking stock "-Mer-
chants and Indians.
ALL is but lip wisdom that wants ex-
perience.-.Sir Philip Sidney.
A cANN1BAL's epitaph-Write me as
one who loves his fellow-man.
"KATE, 1 understand you hava ac-
cepted situation as governess. Rather
than that, would marry a widower
with six children" Yes, dear Sophie,
and so would L, but where is the Wild
over ?"
SALT LAKE has been victimized by
Snowman, who announced that he
would cause human body to appear
and disappear before the audience"
He appeared, got their money, and dis
appeared. He filed the programme.
A LONDON correspondent writes that
$50 universal is the custom here of
taking wine in goodly quantities for
dinner that even ladies grow red in the
face at the table, and some of them
waddle little when they leave it," The
little ducks
A CHICAGO gentleman recently sent to
Treasurer Spinner small quantity of
paper pulp, with note stating that it
was the remains of ten-cent stamp
which his little boy chewed up, and
which he contributed to "help pay the
public debt"
AN impulsive brother, praying in a
revival meeting in New York State, not
long ago, burst out, so, Lord, / feel
like giving every poor man In this
place barrel of flour and barrel of
pork and barrel of salt and a barrel
of pepper-O, that's too much pepper"
A FOUR YEAR-oLD at East Poultney re-
Gently went to blacksmiths to see his
fathers horse shod, and watched closely
the work of shoeing until the black
smith commenced pairing the horses
hoofs, when, thinking this was wrong,
he said earnestly, "My pa don't want
this horse made any smaller. :"
VERY SAD.-A Michigan lady writes
to the JVoman's Journal to say that
the women in her neighborhood are so
benighted that they care nothing about
voting and all that sort of thing, but
Just keep at their homework like mere
machines. She adds "We have no
lecturers or speakers, and meetings of
no kind have as yet been limited at in
this locality or for twenty miles around,
so far as l can learn"
IT is related of George Clark, the
celebrated negro minstrel, that, being
examined as witness, he was severely
Intercepted by the attorney, who
wished to break down his evidence.
"You are in the negro minstrel bust
ness, L believe ?" inquired the lawyer.
Yes, sir" was the prompt reply.
"Isn't that rather low calling?" de-
manded the lawyer. CT don't know
but what it is, sir" replied the min
strel "but it is so much better than
my fathers that am rather proud of
it" "What was your fathers calling ?"
He was a lawyer" replied Clark, in
tone of regret that put the audience in
q roar.
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Moth err and Daughter i'm France.

A writer on French Girls " says
Many a girl in France has never slept
outside of her mothers chamber until
she leaves it to be married, and, at the
worst, she is no farther off than the
next room, with the room door open
between. Such unceasing neighbor-
hood brings about an action which may
be not only intellectual and moral but
possibly physical and magnetic, too.
Hence it is that French women exercise
such singular power over their girls
and that the girls so generally become
an exact reproduction of the mother,
under whose constant eye they have
grown to womanhood. Between the
transparent frankness of the child's ma
ture and the indefatigable proximity of
the parent, we get the explanation of
the regular transmission of those types
of character which seem to remain I'M
varied in so many families of the upper
class, and which may almost be said to
belong to them as their names do. The
same qualities and the same defects are
reproduced amoAg the old nobility from
generation to generation. When q wife
comes in from another origin, she may
try, perhaps, to introduce new elements
but they get effaced, or, at all events,
weakened by the old traditions with
which they have to contend, SO that tie
main features of the house continue to
be recognizable, the child appropriates
them and hands them off again when
she, in turn. becomes a mother"
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Pussy's Class.

s'Now children" said Puss, Ms she shook her head
"It ia ii ne your morning Lesson was said"
So her kittens drew near with footsteps slow,
And sat down before her, all in row.
- Attention, class - said the cat mamma
And tell me quick where your noses are !"
At this All the kittens shifted the air,
As though il were allied with perfume rare.
81 Now, what do you say when you want drink p
The kittens waited moment to think,
And then the answer came clear and loud
You ought to have heard how those kittens meow'd
Very we'll Ills the same, with a sharper tone,
When you want a hsh or a bit of bone.
Now, what do you say when children good ,"
Aud the kittens purred as soft as they could.
"And what do you do when children are bad?
When they tease and pull?" Each kitty looked sad,
HPooh :" said their mother. That isn't enough
You must use your claws when children rough.
"And where are your claws? No, no, my dear -
Gas she took up paw. See! they're hidden
here
Then all the kittens crowded about
TO see their sharp little claws brought out.
They felt quite sure they should never need
To use such weapOns-oh no. indeed!
But their wise mamma gave pussy's pShGW :"
And boxed their ears with her softest paw
L" Now spfiSss ! as hard you cam" she said
Bat every kitten hung down its head.
- Sptisss / say cried the mother cat;
But they said, 40, nanny, we can't do that"
Then 90 and play" said the fond mamma;
Z" What sweet little idiots kittens are
Ali well l was once the same, suppose "
And she looked very wise and rubbed her nose.
-St. Ncho.GS fer September.
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How Johnny Ate His Breakfast.


Johnny sat in his high chair at the
breakfasts table, with napkin pinned
around his neck. Before him was his
cup of bread and milk, his little spoon
and knife and fork, and his tin A B G
plate on which lay some buttered toast,
and mashed potato, and beefsteak cut
fine. But Johnny was full of fun and
noise he didn't want to eat just yet !;
he wanted TO drum against the table
with his feet he wanted to slide out of
his chair f; he wanted to reach all over
the table, and to put his fork into papa s
coffee.
Come, come ! eat your nice break
fast, Johnny y said papa. But Johnny
didn't want to. Time enough yet for
all that. Just now he was busy pound
ing the salt cellar with a napkin ring.
Pretty noise pretty noise % he
exclaimed joyously, and away went the
napkin ring over his head as climax.
Napkin ring napkin rim !" he be-
gan to call out then, until somebody
picked it up again for him, and after
that he was busy for a long time trying
to make his fork stand up in it.
Meanwhile the others were finishing
their breakfast, and the nice toast and
beefsteak were getting cold, but Johnny
didn't realize and didn't care. He
wished they would give him the castor
to play with, and let him shake the
pepper-box.
At last mamma thought she must in
terfere. Ought she to have scolded her
little boy and hurried him ? She did
not want to make great black cloud
sweep across his happy little sky, but
she did want him to eat his breakfast.
80 what do you suppose she did? She
took the little fork and spoon, and played
they were errand-boys.
The fork took up a bit of toast and
raped against the plate.
Who's there, and what do you
want ?" asked mamma.
"I'm little Master Fork" was the
answer "and I've come to put piece
of toast in Johnny Bennet's mouth"
go, then, walk right in p' said
mamma.
Johnny looked and laughed, and
opened his little rosy mouth wide, so
Master Fork could put the toast in.
Then the spoon raped on the cup.
Who's that ?" said mamma.
I'm little Master Spoon"
90, how do you do? And what do
yOu want ?"
"Ive come to put some bread an d
milk in Johnny Bennet's mouth"
Walk right up, then, said mamma /;
and Johnny opened his mouth wider
than before, and thought 1t was such
fun to have Master Spoon bring him
bread and milk.
Then Master Fork trotted back and
forth and raped every time he came
with bit of beefsteak, or toast or po-
tato and whenever he stopped to rest,
lit tie Master Spoon started up and
brought bread and milk.
1t was very entertaining. Johnny sat
still and behaved beautifully, only he
laughed every time he saw a mouthful
coming. By-and-by the toast was all
gone, and then so was the beefsteak.
and next there was no mashed potato.
Finally there was not even an atom of
bread and milk left in the cup, and
Master Spoon and Master Fork lay down
to rest.
Johnny had eaten his breakfast.
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Island-I,ife.

Iwonder if any readers of the I" Nurs-
cry" besides Fred and me, live in q
lighthouse. Our lighthouse is on an
island, twelve miles from the south
shore of Lake Superior, and fifteen
miles from the nearest town.
The shore of the island, nearly all the
way around it, rises straight up from the
waters edge about fifteen feet but on
the south side, where we live, there is a
wide sandy beach, that makes a good
playground. We often find pretty
stones, striped and spotted, and some
times agates, of his beach.
In summer many fishermen come
here, and we go out with them to see
them lift their nets. Some of the fish.
ermen are Chippewa Indians, who come
in birch canoes.
A little way from this island there is
another, which is small and low, with a
stony beach. Here focks of gulls have
their nesting place and once every Nav
we go there to gather the eggs. Some
times the gulls make nice nests of sticks
and grass, and sometimes they lay their
eggs right among the stones.
Our other best day is in August. We
sail away, about four miles, to large
island called Pressure Isle, to pick blue
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book proving that life is q mutation of
matter, like Moleschott, and treatise
showing that the, life of a man CORE
spends with what ne eats and drinks,
like Vogt; and with these he raised
himself upon the tips of his toes, and
asked
Sam any bigger now?'
Then appeared Reason and Common
Sense, and placed themselves at his
side, and they lowered high above him,
and said:
No, you are not.
Then Tobias studied jurisprudence.
and cameralistics, and international
law, and politica! economy, and geogra-
ply, and statistics, and whatever else
is essential to qualify diplomat, and
then was appointed Minister to a for
eign power, and he stood upon the bal
cony of the embassy and demanded
Am l any bigger now?"
side, and Tobias suddenly appeared to
himself and to everybody else mere
pigmy.
Tobias had nearly given up in de-
spair, when, by pure accident, he be-
came King.
He built himself a throne which
was loftier than all the thrones in the
world.
Upon this throne he seated himself,
and gazed down upon the legions who
surrounded it, and they appeared to him
enthusiastically small and insignificant,
and he exclaimed with an air of conf
dence that was touching
I" I'll bet anything that am bigger
now I"
Then came Science, and Art, and His
tory, and Civilization, and Reason, and
Common Sense, and Liberty, and Prog
ress, and many other grand and start
ling apparitions that raised their fronts
unto the heavens, and stood opposite
the throne.
Then Tobias saw perfectly well that
he was as small as ever, and thenceforth
was silent.
Little Tobias still lives.
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The rooster stalks on the managers ledge,
He has tail like scimstars edge,
A marshal's plume on his afghan neck,
An admiral's stride on his quarter deck;
He rules the roost and he walks the bay
With dreadful cold and Turkish way,
Two broadsides fires with his rapid wings
This sultan proud, Of q line Of kings
One cultural laugh, four blasts Of horn,
Five rusty syllsbles rouse the morn!
The Saxon lambs in their wooden tabs
Are playing school with the a, b, abs;
A,e! I, OF All the cattle spell
TIL they make the blatant novels tell,
And balf-lsugh whinny fills the stalls
When down in the rack the clover falls.
A dove Ia waltzing around his mate
Two chevrons black on his wings of slate,
And showing of with a wooing note
The satin shine Of his golden throat
1t is Ovid's cart Of Love retold
In binding fine of blue and gold
All, the buxom girls that helped the boys,
As they stripped the husks with rustling fold
From eight-rowed corn as yellow as gold,
BY the candle-light in pumpkins bowls,
And the CLEANS that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lanterns tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;
BY the rarer hight in girlish eyes
As dark as wells, or as blue as skies.
hear the laugh when the ear is red,
/ see the blush with the forfeit paid,
The cedar cakes with the ancient twisr,
The cider cup that the girls have kissed,
And see the fiddler through the dusk
As he twangs the ghost OF Money Musk"
The boys and girls in double row
Wait face to face till the magic bow
Shall whip the tune from the violin,
And the merry pulse of the feet begin.
Scribner's for September.
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BETWEEN the years 1860 and 1870 the
population of the United States in
creased % per cent, while the increase
in the number of church sittings was
only IL per cent. At first blush this
looks as if the church accommodations
rapidly enough to supply the needs of
the people F; but the Rev. Nj. M. Ct.
Dana, writing in the COngregationalist,
calls attention to the fact that in many
portions of the Eastern and Middle
States there has hitherto been a surplus
of church sittings, and gives figures to
show that the greatest relative increase
during the last decade occurred in the
newer States, where the unsupplied
want was necessarily greatest. The fol-
lowing are his figures
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good name and fair fame of the nation
is dear to it, to protect these people in
their human and political rights, and in
their persons, property and homes, and
TO provide for and secure them in the
enjoyment of all educational advantages
and privileges.
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A similar comparison as to the num-
Der of domestic animals in the State
shows very healthy increase i'll all
kinds except sheep. The decline in the
price of wool in 1868 found many farm
ers with large focks which were worse
than useless, and caused heavy losses.
At that time there were about $500, 900
sheep in the State. Since then the
fiocks have been steadily reduced in
numbers
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To CoRREsPoNpEyTs.

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Our Foreign Trade.

The best barometer of the state of
trade in the United States is that afford
ed by the imports of foreign goods.
Measured by this test the prostration
of business, though severe, is less so
than it was in the periods following
1857 and 1887. For the periods of ten
months ended April 30, in the years
1872, 3, and 4, the values of the for
eign commodities imported into the
United States have been as follows |:
1872, 1921, 1913, O06; 1878, $3.50, 567, 400 !;
1874, $495, 304, 1916. The decrease from
1873 is only eleUen per cent. In the
year ended June 80, 1856, the imports
were 1914, $50, $40 in 1857, $3.50, $780,
141 and in 1858, $3.50 613, $50. The
decrease of 1858 from 1857 was nearly
ta0enty-taco per cent. For the first ten
months OF the fiscal year the values of
certain leading classes of manufactured
goods have been as follows:
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THE London Times dispatch from
India says the prospects of the crops are
most favorable, Notwithstanding the re-
cent floods.
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Total . s97 ,sl3,6O6 slas, 77s sla5, 7Ol, 4Gs
From the above table 1t appears that
in the year following the panic in the
fall of 1857 there was falling off of
nearly thirty per cent. in the value of
the imports of dry goods and the manu-
features of iron and steel. In the ten
months dating from July 1, 1873, the
falling off has been only tDenty. four
per cent in the same articles. If the
figures for the entire twelve months
were to be had, the percentage of de-
crease would be found to be still
smaller. -Ne1U York Trtbnne.