Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-05-17

WOMEN sCtapS tuXctuct smeN sutu
Of money and come here firmly con-
WINGED that they have oaly to present
their 'papers" 10 be immediately in-
stalled IN . Government position.-
There are men who are too good natured
10 say disagreeable things; therefore,
instead Of telling the anxious applicant
for his good will he cannot do any thing
for her. he smiles blandly. says COM
Plimentary things. and thinks lit will
be all nght''-tells her to call next
week. II she has been modest and
unassuming he forgets her before she is
out of sight, and only remembers her
again when she appears according to
agreement. He again smiles sweetly.
says more pretty things, and assures
her he has been interesting himself in
her behalf. but 1.-The Secretary is away,
and nothing can be done now" but en-
treats her to have . ''little patience.
Day after day her face gets sadder. her
purse lighter, and her cherries room
in an upper story is exchanged for one
smaller and more cherries and higher
up yet. But one day she realizes the
cruel truth, and then The lesson is
not far to seek.-WasAiagton Capital.
Calamity Jane" is q Black Hills
character, who reminds one strongly Of
Bret Harte's heroines. As she sits
ast,ide her horse there is nothing in her
attire to distinguish her sex save her
small, neat-fitting CATERS and sweeping
raven locks. She wears buckskin
clothes, gayly beaded and fringed, and
broad-brimmed Spanish hat. She
comes from Virginia City, New, fam
lily Of respectability and intelligence.
Downing male attire in the mining re-
gions where no restraints were imposed
for such freaks, she took the road. and
has ever since been nomadic in her hab-
its-now with one Of hunting party,
then in mining stampede, again NOV
ing with freighting train. and il is said
she has rendered service as q scout.
She has had experience As . stage-dri-
yer, and can draw the reins over six
horses, and handles a revolver with the
dexterity and fires it as accurately as q
ranger. She is still in early woman.
hood, and her rough and dissipated ca
reer has not altogether "swept away the
lines where beauty fingers"
Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons, X.
c. B., who is mentioned in military cir
cles in England as the coming man"
in case of great European war. is a
young man for a British Lieutenant
General. He was born in 1921, served
for some years in Canada, and went
through the whole Danubian campaign
Of 1854 with Omar Pasha and the Tur-
kish army as British Commissioner
He served through the whole siege of
Sebastopol, and afterwards in Asia Mi
nor, at the passage of the lngur, drove
in the right wing of the Russian army,
and in the opinion of Omar Pasha de-
cided the victory Of the dav. He served
afterwards as British Commissioner on
the International Commission to decide
the co-Russian boundary in Asia. He
is therefore thoroughly familiar with the
seat Of war as well in Asia as in Eu-
rope. We advise some Of our neigh
bors who are afflicted with the war
map fever to apply to him for sketches.
Col. John A CockereIl writes as fol-
lowsto the Cincinnati Enquirer 1.-The
Society of Homeopathists, Of London,
announce that have discovered a sure
antidote for sea sickness. They call it
apomorphia, and few drops taken now
and then in water will, it is said, hold
the most uncertain stomach in place.
The society proposes TO place this Won
derful discovery on all the steamships
in order to test its efficacy. II Mr..
Bessemer, who spent half a lifetime
and cheerful fortune trying 10 invent
an anti-seasick ship, had quietly wait
ed for homeopathy TO solve the pro-
blem, he would have been a happier
man to-day. If apomorphia does the
work it is credited with doing, the ex-
cuse which many persons have for
keeping drunk on champagne, while
bounding on the seas, will be cruelty
swept away
1t seems to US probable at least that
the wrath Of the people of Washington,
which is said TO have sprung up because
of the late lecture here Of Frederick
Douglass, Esquire (as the american is
particular to call him) does not proceed
so much from the abuse he lavished
upon portion of the inhabitants Of
that city ss from the praises which he
awarded to another portion. The old
citizens Of the National Capitol could
perhaps survive the diatribes Of Doug
lass, but about this season of the year
the asphalt pavements OF the city that
remain get sticky and son, and any lau-
dations Of or compliments to Shepard
and his associates who instituted them
provoke naturally q sense of indignation
in Washington bosoms. This is, per-