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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-10
NEW DRY GOODS. NEW CARPET rs.


oct1-tr CARTER'S. 5iI Market SPACE.
NEW DRY GOODS. NEW CARPETS.
viii open next week another Immense stock OF
DRY GOODS AND CARPETS,
beautiful patterns and new designs. Dress Goods
frcm l21e cents up Fine Novelties. Blars and
Colored Cgshmeres and Silks 800 pairs ef Bank
els ifcm " up Most attractive stock OF beautiful
Carpets ever offered, from 30 cen'sup.
se,es-tr M. oW@s "; BuRDErTE CO.,
Nov Is THE TINE ard LUTTRxLL a
~ NlNE'S the place to buy Ssssonabe DRY
0U,IS cheap We sell for CASH ONLY, and viii
Lot be undersoli.
One case OF Blankets 81 IS, worth 81 Is; one
case Blankets, very heavy, So SO, worth "a ono
case blsI ket', very heavy I'd large. 81 So worth
al 81 one case yard vice Cot, &C.. lid everg whers
at g. Black snd CORD Cashmere. cheap: Blk Six
cheap: Fall Dress Goods Just received: Underwear
for men, ladies' and children; Unlaundrioi Shirts
AZ 6O anc 3D.; Lanndried S1irts made FOR u.s. at
tl.G5; tulI line Curta n Lace just In.
LUTTRELL g. WINE
seq ~ 1880 Pd. are, cor. 2Oths'.
NLOSING OlT-A LARGE LOT or
~ frst class 4-ply Linen Collars az 81 per rozen:
the same as is usually sold At S2. 80 and Is PSF
dozen. Fine ply Linen Cuffs, 26c. pair. Heavy
Canton Flannel DrSsers Co., pair. Fancy Per-
cafe SHIRTS, ready 10 put o. good sty les and per-
fectiy last coors, for only 75c. For fine Percale
en.- Is, 75c. ready to put on, at
MK6INNIss'
Branch Shirt Factory.
seple-tr ,,,aV II street n.sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-10

EOk RENT--By ThO1. j. MYERS, Eeal Estate
a Agent. 1915 st. NV.
ere Frame, rs. 7l2 Z3l street,
frame Hrouse S0S i4tn St. 2. W.. lors.. mod. imps
S-SioIy frame. O1S street northwest, roOms
4-stcry Brick. 496 18th ST.. IA rooms, mod. imps
S-ssory Brick. 14I4 street northwest, IA rooms
omcs hOoms IN Nay Building, corner 7th and T.
streets northwest. Aug0-9w~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-10

NV OND HAND SUIT q better and chespsr
md It'll streets nv. II. Boyer GOD pfioo0 hid
Tor 1TSt-cleD eeo01d-hAn0 Cl0fhinGs NQto6 bY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-10
Cl5,OOO FOR 81.
- $4,000 FOR 81.
$4,000 FOR 81,
IN THE

'hAch DHa"s OClOueE AO.
DON'T OVI RLOOK THE OPPORTU NIFTY.
Read the Scheme and grasp this opportunity-it
may be a wheel of fortune to you. sOms one W i'll
get the pi1ze, and you may be the lucky one.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10
uea The little folks arc having

Nsa.The little folks arc having
4 hard time in maternal aspira-
tions. Minnie Warren, the wife
of the dwarf Major Newell, and
sister of Tom Thumbs spouse, died
in childbirth few days ago. The
child died when born. Only a
few days before, at st. LOUIS
Mrs. w. II. Bristol, better known
as Fannie Burdctte, who is ont
thirty 1.-TWO inches high, or eight
inches shorter than Minnie Warren,
gave birth to a child that weighed
eight pounds, the mother herself
weighing but fifty. The child had
to be sacrificed, however, to save
the mother. The little lad Us hus'
band is six feet high and weighs
l45 pounds.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10

The quarantine business against
New Orleans is still progressing;
since our last issue, Vicksburg,
New iberia, Honma, Bayou Sara,
Morgan City, Camptc, Little Rock.
Greeaville, Delta and host OF 9th
er small towns have thought it
necessary to establish guarantees,
10 most cases however. excepting
groceries Of all kind, also whiskey
and tob,cco 1t appears that every
little town or village imagines to
have the right to stop interstate
and even foreign commerce, as
through trains are, after the Mo.
bile example not allowed to pass
at many points. This action 's
clearly unconstitutional as it Ger
tainly aims at regulating trade up
on national highways. Let any
town or village. if it choose draw
sanitary line around the railroad
or isolate itself from the passing OF
steamboats,, but there surely exists
no right either to stop travel or
freight t1afic between the states, or
to deny TO a portion of the interior
country the right to send their pro-
ducts to tide water by any OF the
national highways of commerce in
general use. All decisions OF the
higher courts heretofore rendered
clearly show that no individual
state has the right to leglslate fol
another State, though each state
has q tight 10 protect its OWE limit:
by quarantine regulations aga'ns
disease being imported from anoth
er State, it still has no power no.
right to say, that the next Stat
adjoining and others cont'guou
shall 80 protect themselves, conse
quently the right Of local quaran
tine exists, only under such regala
tons as will permit the throug
travel as we'll as through frelgh
business from one State to another
provided tine cars or other trans
portation media do no not stop a
the place quarantined to either Ian
passengers or discharge freight G
for any other purpose. I
Price Current.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10
NOVEL THEORY FOR PRE-
VENTION OF SU N
STROKE.

Saws the Syracuse Journal we
give the following specific for sun
stroke, which may save from illness
or death many whose occupations
com pell them to be in tho field or
in the street About year ago
saw in q newspaper an account OF a
case Of sunstroke written by the
party himself. After suffering .
long time from the attack, and
having to considerable degree
recovered, he experienced consider
able suffering even from the raves
of the moon, This led HIM to re-
feet that it was not altogether the
heat Of the sun that produced
prostration. After much research
he discovered that the injury came
from tho chemical ray. and not
from the heat ray. He was guided
to this by observing the fact that
a photogra ph could not be taken
through hollow glass. Accord
iugly he lined his hat with two
Innings -one Of orange~yellow to
arrest LEC CuCtuiCoI AoJS e
of green to arrest the heat ray.
Thus prepared, he wett where
the rays o: the sun were most in
tense with perfect immunity. 1t is
we'll known that the negro is sell
dom sunstruck. The color of the
skin over the skull being of the Or
ange-yellow, may assist in accounts
ing for tn, fact. l practiced npon
the suggestion all last summer
lined my hat with green and or
ange-yellow paper, and had conh'
dcnce enough in the truth Of the the,
DRY to neglect my umbrella, which
had never done before. l men
toned it to many. who tried it al
so, and in many cases that came
under my observation they uni
formly asserted that the Oppressive
heat of the sun upon the heed wa
much relieved.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10

nw- sMoshy deserves great cred,
it for his sacrifices in the cause oil
the Union, says Grant. Grant can
carry all the States Hayes did,
says Mosby.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10

Why will you suffer with shaking
Chill or a burning Fever, doses OF Gu
ban Tonic, the, Great West Indies Fever
and Aguo Remedy, will stop the Chills
and Fever, while ono bottle will cure
hem up for years Try it.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-10

! Leaves New Orleans
Ercry Wednesday a"d Saturday at +. A.:
FOR BAYOU SARA & COAST LANDINGS.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
What Next ?

We copy a portion of an article by
bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, in the
New York Ledger:
But, when the invention of Mr.. Bell S
telephone was announced to us the
other day. who could have dreamed
that close upon its heels would follow
the talking phonograph?" And what
IS the phonograph? A little continuance
that may be put INTO candle box and
sent of by express away Off to your
friends III distant part of the world
and then made tC tell them just what
you have spoken into the mouth or
rather the ear of the machine. 1t may
not be opened for fifty years, but it will
then repeat with the same accuracy
every word that You have said, in the
same tore and with the same accent.
The editor of the Scientific american
says: "Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently
came into our office, placed a little ma
chine on our desk, turned a crank, and
the machine inquired as to our health,
asked how we liked the photograph
informed us that il was very we'll, and
bid us a cordial good night. These
remarks were not only perfectly audible
to ourselves, but to dozen or more
persons gathered around" In closing,
he adds: 1--WE have already pointed
out the startling possibility of the vioces
of the dead being reheard through this
device, and there is no doubt that its
capabilities are equal to other results
just as astonishing. When it becomes
possible, as doubtless it will be, to mag
Nifty the sound, the voices of such
singers as Parepa and Titiens will not
die with them, but will remain as long
as the metal in which they may be en-
bodied will last. The witness in court
will find his own testimony repeated by
machine, confronting him on cross-ex-
amination--the testator will also repeat
his last will and testament into the ma
chine. SO that it will be reproduced in
a way that will leave DO question as to
his devising capacities or sanity. 1t is
already possible, by ingenious optical
contrivances, to throw stereoscopic pho
tographs of people on screens in full
view of the audience. Add the talking
monographs, to counterfeit their voices
and it will be difficult to carry the illu
sion of real presence much further.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
The Steam Engine.

Prof. Il. III. Thurston delivered n very
interesting lecture at Cooper Union,
the subject being The Growth of the
Steam Engine 1t was illustrated by
the stereoscope. The Professor, after
referring to the steam engine as the
most remarkable discovery of the age,
recalled tho history of the fisherman
and the genii in the arabian Nights, ;"
and stated that he believed by the genii
was meant the power of steam, which
was known fully two thousand years
ago, and which, possibly, tho discover
err surrounded with this mystery that
later he might recall the story as evil
dence of his discovery. During the time
of Alexander the Great one of the great
est scientists, Hero, gave description
of an apparatus in which steam could
be utilized, which is known ~ Hero's
engine. The first application of the
steam principle was by him, where it
was used to open the doors OF the altar
when the sacrifcial fires were put out.
For 1900 years we lose all trace Of the
steam engine, but after the wars of tho
middle ages in 1601 an Italian writer
published work descriptive Of an en-
CINE, a picture of which he exhibited in
It's imperfect state on the canvas. The
lecturer proceeded to illustrate later dis
coyeries, including the engine of the
Marquis Of Worcester, Captain Slavery
and Papni The engine of the two
last named were about 100 introduced
in the mines of Great Britain and were
in use as late as Watts death. Among
the other engines illustrated and de-
scribed were Watts, Viton's, Smeaton' $
and Hornblower's. To Watt he gave
the honor Of the discovery of all the i'm
proyements made in the last century,
some of which are still in use.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
A Wonderful Spe cilnen.

His attire would have excited the en-
pidity of a soap fat man. AMI Just as he
stood he would have afforded trst-class
raw material for working up in a soap
factory. lie was the greasiest looking
man ever seen in Austin since the man
fell into barrel of lard oil up at the
Manhattan mill. Likewise he was oily
tongued, but there was a tired, far away
look in his eye, and an unsteady motion
to his legs that denoted him an out-and-
out old bum. He Wake into the sa-
loon and employed himself in examin-
ing the mineral cabinet. After close
scrutiny of the contents of the cabinet,
he turned to the bar-keeper and said {:
you've got some powerful rick rock in
thar" Yes" CURLY replied the bar
keeper, in Il tone which plainly indicat-
ed that IN that in that little word was
wrapped up and concealed the sentence,
"Iou don't get no drink out of me, YOU
dog-goned old stiff" eyes, continued
the greasy man, powerful rich; but up
to my cabin I've got the all-fredest
richest and most peculiarist piece you
ever seed in all your life. | brung it
from Arizony; digged it myself, and
wouldn't take most nothing for it,
The bartender is an enthusiastic col
lector of specimens, and he picked up
his ears and was all attention, while the
man was telling of his marvellous piece
of ore. He had lived in this country
long enough to understand that n man 5
attire is not always sure indication to
his financial condition, and that it fire.
quently happens that men presenting Il
ragged and dirty appearance have a
considerable amount of coin slowed in
their clothes, or buried under the cabin
or deposited in banks, and he thought
it would not cost great deal to be po-
lite to the stranger, and perhaps he
could wheedle him out of that wonder
full specimen. Setting bottle out on
the bar, and smiling his sweetest smile,
he said: Come up stranger and have
smile"
The stranger grasped the bottle, up
turned it, and took smile about two
inches deep. When he had swallowed
the smile and wiped his mouth on his
coat sleeve. the bartender asked him
what he called his specimen. and would
he not bring it down sometime and let
linn see it.
ITS very rare stuff, said the strang
er. The experts down to Arizona call
it chloride of sodium, and | gave n
small piece to fellow who has a res
taurant below here, but I'll bring my
piece down and give it to you to-mor
row."
Tomorrow has not yet come, but
since the barkeeper has learned that
chloride of sodium is only common
salt, he has bought a new pick handle
IND built signal service station in
which to lay for the man who was going
to give him that specimen. A0stm
Rereiifc.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
A Country Editors WAY.

The sayings and doings of the
country editor are not so notable
nowadays as in the old times
When rural papers were rarely conduct
ed on cash basis. and the plants of
the worried fellow on the tripod who
accepted cordwood or dried pumpkins
or almost anything eatable or salooblo
Tor SUBSCRIPTIONS, were frequent and
painful and Tree. Men il desperate
straits are afflicted with strange whim-
sizes, and the expressions of those dis
gusted literary lights were often strik-
ingly original and exceedingly GRO
tesque. Now, however, things are dif.
ferent, and rarely does the country ed.
itor excel in his old speciality. 4 re.
cent ease in Kentucky, where an editor
spoke right out" is, therefore ex.
ceptionably notable. He was WALKING
recently upon the street, enioying tbe
balmy spring atmosphere, and wonder
ing whether, in the year to come his
paper would be established upon pay
ing basis, when he became aware of n
sudden giggling and tittering behind
him. lie turned and saw the source of
the merrlment. Two well.dressed
ladies, prominent in the town, were in
his rear and laughing heartily. Much
to the poor editors surprise their atten.
ton seemed especially directed to some
peculiarly about his exterior. Then
he OWNED, with n thrill of mortitica-
ton, the cause of their amusement
Much twisting and writhing, while
grinding out mental productions, seated
in a hard bottomed chair, had told upon
the frall texture of his pantaloons, and
the cloth finally yielded. The editors
wife-good thrifty woman-had repair
ed the damage as best she could; but.
because new cloth matches poorly with
the old, the evidences of her handiwork
were all too plainly visible. Hence the
cruel laughter of the ladies behind the
country editor. The poor man fed to
his office in shame. Then his manhood
asserted itself, aud he sat down upon
the patch and wrote something for the
paper. His next issue contained this
paragraph:
GAS we walked past couple of ladies
ON the street the other day, one of them,
so We are informed, observed large
patch on our pants, and made merry
over the discovery. Well, we do wear
old clothes, it is true; but we might
treat ourselves to better ones if the hus-
band of the woman we refer to would
come to the Office and pay us Sl9, which
he has been owing for a long timo for
subscription and job work"
Doubtless" said logical old En-
glish clergyman, God might have
made better berry than the strawberry,
but, doubtless God never did" Doubt
less some country editor might make a
point more neatly, but. doubtless. none
ever did. If that little bill of SlS was
not settled up within u week after the
appearance of his paper, then their is
no virtue in pungency. And the occur
renee is n recent and literal one. ST.
LoUis Republicaa.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
ORION OF THE ROOSTER IN PoLITICs

ORION OF THE ROOSTER IN P0LITICS.
The Cincinnati Enquirer explains the
origin Of the "rooster" in politics. 1t
says: 1t was not SO late period as
1910; the year Of the "log cabin, ""hard
cider ;" and "coon skin" campaign which
resulted in the election of General Har-
rison, that he first made his appearance.
Indiana then had her State elections in
August The editor of the Indianaopo-
lis Seminal was j. w. Chapman. In
those days locomotiou was slow, and it
required days and even weeks to get
the returns from the back counties.
1t so happened that in some particular
county in Indiana, the Democrats made
a gain over previous elections. An en-
thusiastic Democrat wrote to friend
in indianapolis the news, and not know
ing Mr.. Chapman, the editor of the
Sentinel, personally. requested his
friend to communicate the facts to him
adding these insignificant words, Tell
Chapman to crow" Catching the in
SEPARATION Of his second hand correspond
eut. Chapman did "crow" in his paper,
and as the business of Growing" is
usually done by the chanticleer. he
brought out one OF those tine large
birds at the head Of his columns.
This was the first rooster ever placed
in Democratic victory. As the gener
al results Of that election were against
us, it was matter Of derision for the
Wing papers, when any Wing victory
was obtained, to add these words, Tell
Chapman to crow" This assisted to
tx the matter in the popular mind, and
to Nationalist the emblem. No better
one could have been adopted. Tho
rooster is probably the most brave and
gallant Of birds. He is never conquer
cd as long as he has life.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. One hun
bred and ten years ago there was not a
single white man in Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana or Illinois. When what is the
most tlourishing part of America was
as little known rs the country around
the mysterious mountains of the moon.
1t was not until 176G that Boone left
his home in North Carolina to become
the first settler in Kentucky. The first
pioneers of Ohio did not settle until
twenty years after that time. A hun
dred years ago Canada belonged to
France, and the population did not ex-
coed million and a half of people. A
hundred years ago the great Ere derick
of Prussia was performing those grand
exploits which have made him immor-
tai in military annals, and with his lit
tie army was sustaining n single handed
contest with Russia, Austria and France,
the three great powers of Europe COM
bined. Washington was modest Nir-
ginia Colonel, and the great events in
the history Of the two worlds, in which
these great but dissimilar men took
leading parts, were then scarcely fore
Swallowed. A hundred years ago the
United States were the most royal part
of the British Empire, and on the polit-
zeal horizon no speck indicated the
struggle which, within n score of years
thereafter, established the great repub-
lie of the world. A hundred years ago
there were but four newspapers in
America. Steam engines had not been
imagined, and railroads and telegraphs
had not entered into tie remotest con-
csption of man. When we come to
look back at it through the vista of his
tory we find to the century just passed
has been allotted more important events,
in their bearing upon the happiness Of
the world, than almost any other which
had elasped since the creation.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28
An Old.Time Minnesota Hotel

rode to the first class hotel it was q
covered frame on stills, and barely par.
titioned off inside with laths. Every
one washed from the same tin dish and
wiped upon the same towel the fare was
tough steak and tougher biscuit; the
beds were mere boxes on legs, and fill
ed with course meadow hay. No doors to
the rooms nor nails to hang IA coat; no
stand nor even chair to put lamp on
but mine host just dropped some grease
from his dip upon the floor, into which
he inserted his candle, and babe me
make myself comfortable. Now | had
hired the private room at an extra
price, with an understanding that it was
to be all my own for the night, and of
coarse the only safety for money WAS to
put to bed. So you may imagine my
serenity whenat II midnight in bounced
straggler in long boots; the landlord
had sent him up, he said, as mine was
the only bed with but one in it In
the morning found that forty persons
had been lying right across the long en-
try between the rooms, with here and
there blanket among them, and they
snored as | walked over them. After
breakfast the landlord told us all to
come out and square the house into
place-it had been moved on it's bed in
the night by the wind. Leaning long
rail as lever, we all bore our weight
upon it, and the tirst-class hotel came
into place again. But now, mark me,
that place is county seat. has court
house and other fine buildings, with
churches, two newspapers. and really
more than one "irstcl hotel. And
this is a sample of hundreds of places
on the prairies PASSPORT SeRhaei.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28

AN English paper gives the origin OF
the word damn" 1t says the oath Ia
a corruption of the French exclamation
dame" This may be so, but we al
ways thought ths word damn" origin
ated by a man going out into the yard
an hour after shutdown and being alb
ruptly caught under the chin by .
clothes line. Norristown Herald.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28

SITTING BULL never perpetrated but
one Joke. That was one day last au-
tumn. when he sat down on cluster
of clover. in which there fingered the
humble bee of all humble bees. The
petulant insect prodded the warrior
with sting that marked one hundred
and ninety degrees in the coolest place,
and with q nightly howl the chieftian
rose up in the air and felt around for
his tormentor. Now is the winter Of
our discomfort" no said. holding the
writing bee up in his thumb and
finger. "this is tho Indians hummer. "
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-28

THR Louisville Corier-Joar"ai tells
Of a Kentucky NAN who is pretty fond
of his bitters and who was seen last
week with with blue ribbon pinned
an his coat. A friend inquired. Have
YOU Joined the Murphys. Judge?" Not
exactly" he replied, II only wear this
in the hope that some one will ask me
"a take a drink under the Impression
hat III refuse