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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-05

@-THE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED
until unit THURsDAY, the 31st day Of January, A. d.
1915, at II O'CLOCK m, IN front OF the premises,
1an1s e EH 4. + R0 GIHEAfSSslLER' }Trustees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-05

Messrs. 8. GoldStein & Co. warrant all "
goods as represented and every article usually E5A1
found IN a St-class jewery store can be OBJ {ES&
The stock of Silver plated Ware is fine and va
lied w
This sale is caused by dissolution of copartner-
ship. DUSCANSON BROS
hfalI-ot AuctiOneerS.
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AUCTION SALES.

THIS EVENIHG.
THoMAs BOWLING, Auctioueer.
CLOSING WEEK.
s sAaSSuEEFAA6GFUkEEs; SALE SALE
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81 III : E k k-Ft FEB WF44kkE
AND
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store corner OF 18th and F streets, "'"''A'
e eSSkcokAS B BTiEBIsS.
I mmedissIyy Opposite the 2. s. Treasury,
A. A. 10 a. m. on TUEsDAY, february2
the evening y and eoatinains
''s T e $3; - SsSf i S.
s sHt7sEEkFFtArEo % WskE
AND
TaRIE CTTLE EBY
Tea Sets. Walters and Salvers Card and Cake
BaSketS, FRUIT Stands, Berry Dishes Bouquet
Hoioers, asses, Spoon Holders, Syrup Dishes,
nluSs anatdoDittS, Ice and Water Pitchers, Water
Sefs, Dinner, Breakfast and p rckie Casters Wine
seg ssnd Kings Table Des
soup. oyster, Gravy and Cream Ladies, Butter.
Pie and Cake Knives.
ALSO LARGE LINES OF
Si!NER-PLATED TABLE CUTLERY,
SlLN ER-PLATED TABLE CUTLERY.
THESE goods are warranted irst-class, new and
lion or limi', Offering great inducements to deal
ets. notel, keelers. saloon keepers, and private
iamlileS VINO intend purchasing Silver or fine Ia
bic Cutlery.
LADIES INVITED TO ATTEND THE SALE
LADIES INVITED TO ATTEND THE SALE.
SALES ON EACH DAY AT 10 A. NJ, $50
2. M. and 7:3O o CLOCK IN
THE EVENING.
Sale positive, by order of JOHN H. SWAIN
Treasurer of the Taunton SIlver-Plate Company
FELIX'S THOS DOWIJSC Anrt
1EREMPTORY AND CLOSING SALE
ENTIRE STOCK OF JEWELRY, WATCHES
AND III AMONDS.
AT SO PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
(UIder Metropolitan HnteD.
EVERY EVENING AT O'CLOCK.
Messrs. 8. Goldstein & Co. warrant all ~
goods as represented. and every article usually E5A1
I'm hn ,t,
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JOHNSON BROTHERS,
- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEAL ERS

desire to call the attept ton OF the public to the
fact that now have on hand the largest and best
selected stock OF COAL AND WOOD In the Dis
trct; that facilities for doing business not
surpassed by any firm In the same line In the United
States; that our Kindling Wood Factory is the
largest south OF New York; and, indeed, our ap-
pointmezts for doing . Coal and Wood Business
are complete in every particular.
,24S lbs. TO the ton our invariable standard.
Best Varieties NJ Lowest Market Prices.
Main ofhce:-Dspot, Mill and Wharves foot 18th.
18th and streets southwest.
Onces:-l2D2 p, 1112 9Th and 14lS 7th streets
northwest. 1anlS-T
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A tOAI.: COAL!
WOOD! WOOD
Having unsurpassed facilities for handling Coal
and Wood now offer IL 70 the public at bottom
figures.
Having completed our Steam Saw Mil, we are
selling sawed and split Wood, and Bundng Kin
ding Wood at greatly reduced prices.
Coal received almost daily by rail: 9 24O FUNDS
To the ton always furnished.
Il. NJ. MILLER 4 son,
Principal Once, Depot, and Mil, AZ street and
Virginia avenue S.w. 2ranCh Office with A. W.
Hon, $50 Pennsylvania avenue NV. Branch
NaTh Ii AMI - STREETS ID. w. 1pLk.I
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, These goods are warranted frst-class new and
tion or limi', Offering great Inducements to deal
ers. MOTEL keerers. saloon keepers, and private
BILE Cutlery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-05

L j. STELLWAGES.
Ls Real Estate Auctioneer, SIS eth street.
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6-THE ABOVE SALE IS FURTHER POST
PONED until THURSDAY, the S1st day of Janu.
ary A. u. 1878 in front of the premises at O. cl'
pm. WIN. z. CHANDLER, (Tr,,toos
i18 e. A. ROLLINS, irustees'
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FREE AGAIS.-C. G.. Scraflord, charged v
a forgery committed in Kansas who had 10
delivered for eXtraditiOn by the authOritie'
Peru. arrived at Panama i'm charge oG w
Clayton. United States Vice Consul ri Cal
but was released at Panama by the Presid
OF Columbia Oh the ground that no eXtradi,
treaty existed with the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-05

ENTIRE STOCK OF JEWELRY. WATCHES
AND DIAMONDS.
AT $40 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
IULder Metropolitan HnteD,
EVERY EVENING AT O'CLOCK
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16

Z0o family, but it was ascertained that horse
meat was quite as palatable to their rapa-
cious palstes and ever clamorlng stomachs as
fresh beef, aud now street car companies, by
way of encouraging their motive power %
greater enduTancs and longer service, hold
out to breaking-up negs the certainty of be-
ing deyOurcd 10y the hons and tigers If they
fall by the way. The use of horse meat has
reduced the expenses OF the commissary de-
partment three thousand dollars year. The
cost of sustaining the herbivorous animals de-
ponds upon tine price OF hay. The rhinoceros
is the most greedy of all his fellow -boarders.
He will eat anything almost, and desires no
limit in quantity. OF hay or grass he insists
upon two hundred and Fifty pounds a day,
and half bushel OF potatoes to him Is as the
meager dish of Strawberries that appears on
the human boarders' Sunday table early in
May. His keeper estimates ten tons of pea
nuts as being the most moderate quantity OF
his last four years experience. The rhinoC
eros costs to board ten dollars and fifty cents
a week, year IN ana year out. The large ell
ephant eats up about one dollar and a quar-
ter's worth of food per day. The leopard
and jaguar cost about ten cents per day to
feed, and the giraffe calls for daily expen-
diture of sixty cents. The monkeys demand
and obtain varied diet. All is fish that
that comes to their net, but mashed potatoes,
apples, nuts and onions give rise to the loud
est gatherings of JOY. They have hungry
tooth for a bird, too, and woe to the feath
cred sonDster who comes into their trap
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
list March, 1925.
Hpav nf Ricaav -
wh,s,Ier,s Tbeor,es of Art

Mr.. James Whistler, the distinguished ar
tist-an American of long residence in Eng
land-has very curious art theories. He Is
quoted as insisting that as music Is the poe
try of sound, SO is painting the poetry of
sight; and that the subJect-matter has moth
ing to do with harmony of sound or of color
1.-The great musician knew this" he urges.
Beethoven and the rest wrote music-sim-
ply music; symphony In this key, concerto or
sonata in that. On + and G they constructed
celestial harmonies-as harmonies, as COM
bInatlons, evolved from the chords of T or
u and their minor correlatives. This is pure
music, as distinguished from airs-common-
place and vulgar in themselves, but inter-
estlng from their associations, as for instance,
Yankee Doodle or PdTtdHt pour la SYrie
Art should be independent of all clap trap
should stand alone and appeal to the artis-
TIC sense of eye or ear, without conioundinp
this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as
devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like.
All these have no kind Of connection with
art; and that is why insist on calling my
works arrangements and harmonies. There,
hanging opposite my bed, the picture of my
mother, exhibited at the Royal academy as
an Arrangement in Gray and Black Now
that is what it is To me 1t Is interesting as
picture of my mother; but what can or
ought the public 10 care about the identity of
the portrait? 1t must stand OF fall on its
merits as an arrangement; and it very near
ly fell-that's fact" hr. Whistler was
serves some of his American tastes. It Is said
Of him, in regard to his pleasant Sunday
breakfasts, that, ''the most courteous and
yiyacious of men, he is only dogmatist on
one subject-he insists on his guests eating
buckWheat cakes.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
A Dog and a Cobra.

Mr.. G. cambridge, civil surgeon, Swattara,
favors the Times, of India, with the follow
ing account of an encounter between a dog
and a cobra: On the twenty-second ultimo,
while we were sitting outside after dinner,
my wife felt something moving against her
feet and jumped up from her chair. AT the
same moment our terrier, lying close by, saw
and flew at the object, which, by its kissing,
at once declared itself to be a snake. While
called for lights and sticks the reptile re-
treated into the hollow of an adjacent tree.
against which is a fernery, and Missed so
loudly that my servants and | were deceived
into thinking the noise to be that of cat
After prodding into the recess of the rookery
with sticks for several minutes, the loud hiss
ing being continued the while. the snake sud-
denly came out before my servant, and stood
erect upon the stonework with expanded
hood. At this moment the dog, who all along
had been trying by barking violently to dis
lodge the animal, rushed twice at least and
dragged it down upon the ground from the
rookery. | beat off the dog and hit the
snake two blows with a piece of split bam-
boo seven feet long and quite supple, held
near one end. Very little injury could have
been inflicted upon the snake by these blows,
which were made quite at random; and while
it was writing vigorously and before | could
strike it again the dog carried it away, and
was found d few minutes afterward forty
yards off worrying the reptile, which he held
by the threat and mad killed. The cobra, the
head of which | have preserved, was three
feet seven inches long, with distinct spec
taces and perfect fangs. The dog is alive
and was not the least ill after the encounter.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
The Value of the Earth Worm.

Encyclopedia B,ittdnica: The common
earth worm, though apt to be dispised and
trodden on, IS really useful creature in its
way. Mr.. Knapp describes it as the natural
manure of the soil, consuming on the surface
the softer part of decayed vegetable matters,
and conveying downward the more woody
fbers, which there molder and fertilize. They
perforate the earth in all directions. thus
rendering it permeable by air. According to
Mr.. Darwin's mode of expressions, they give
a kind of under tlllage to the land, perform
ing the same below ground that the spade
does above for the garden, and the pillow for
arabic soil. 1t is, In consequence chiefly of
the natural operations of worms that fields
which have been overspread with lime, burnt
mari, or cinders, become in process OF time
covered by fnely-divided soil, fitted for the
support of vegetation. This result, though
usually attributed by farmers TO the work
ing down" of these materials, is really due to
the action of the earth worms. as may be seen
in the innumerable casts of which the initial
soil consists. These are obviously produced
by the digestive proceedings of the worms,
which take into their intestinal canal a large
quantity of soil in which they feed and bur
row, and then reject in the form of so-called
casts. ''ln this Manner" says Mr. Darwin,
"a field MANFRED with mari has been covered
in the course of eighty years with a bed of
earth averaging fifteen inches in thickness"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
The Mobammedau at Home.

The traveller who desires to see the Moham-
medan at home cannot do better than to seek
him at Cairo, and he finds in the narrow,
picturesque streets of the old parts OF the
town scenes of interest, he may seek In vain
elsewhere. When he energies into the mod
ern quarters the change Is remarkable.
Though all the tyranny of the Turks has not
sufficed to alter the lndelible characteristics
of the place, and though the wide squares,
the fountains, the gardens, the arcades, the
watered roads, the rows of villas have half
French look; the people who crowd every
thoroughfare are as unlike anything European
as they can be. Here long string of groan-
ing camels, led by Bedouin In a white ca
pote, carries loads of green clover or long
fagots of sugar-cane. There, half dozen
blue-gowned women squat idly in the middle
of the roadway. A brown-sklnned boy
walks about with no clothing on his long,
lean limbs, or lady smothered In volumlnous
face covered with a transparent white veil,
and her knees nearly as high as her chin. A
bullock-cart with small wheels, which creak
horribly at every turn, goes past with its
cargo of treacle jars. Hundreds of donkey
boys lie IN wait for a fare; myriads of half
clothed children play laziiy In thetgutters;
turbaned Arabs smoke long pipes, and con-
verse energetIcally at the corners, and every
now and then pair of running footmep, in
shirts and wide short trousers, shout to clear
the way for carriage In which, behind half
drawn blinds, some fine lady of the vice-regal
harem takes the air. She is accompanied,
perhaps, by little boy in European dress,
and by governess or nurse whose bonnet
and French costume contrast strangely with
the yelled figure opposite
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
BISHOP M'COsKRY .
His Final and Absolute Retirement In
Disgrace.

Detroit correspondence Chicago Tribune:
The evidence accumulated by the standing
committee. once the scandal had got wind,
was something startling, and when the bishop
came back and announced himself through
Mr.. Romeyn, ready for examination, the COM
mittee declared that nothing but the regular
course Of a trial could be contemplated. Mr..
Romeyn was shown some of the proof, and
he was startled. He went to the bishop with
his newly acquired knowledge, and told him
that the case was not one that could be de-
Tended. The terms Of the committee were
simple. They had no desire, as the bishop
supposed, to defend him. They were not, as
he supposed. though intimate friends, with
whom he had grown up since childhood
some of them, at least-sympathiZers who
would 60 any length t. cover up his sins,
after the Plymouth church style, but rather
stern men, who had the courage to make the
church itself more of a cause than the man.
They had proofs before them which fully con-
WINGED them that the charges were well sup
ported, and they took the ground that their
duty laid wholly with the church.
Mr.. Romeyn was informed that the commit
tee would appear before any investigating
committee in the character of a corporate
prosecutor. The bishop then asked conces-
sions, but these were refused. All that the
committee would accept was an unconditional
resignation, not only of the bisilopric of De-
troit, but of every clerical function in short,
the stepping down and ont of the ministerial
office in its every degree by the bishop. This,
after one days delay, the bishop decided up
on. His resignation, placed in the hands of
Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, is absolute. 1t is
an absolute confession, in the form it takes,
of all the charges which have been made,
and it is startling enough to take the breath
away from all who have up to the present
time been the defenders of the bishop. This
is the last we shall see or hear of M'CoskrsT.
1t is probable that he will sail for Europe
shortly, and there end his days in obscurity.
He has, unhappily, wrought much harm to
religion in Michigan-harm which would
have been a thousandfold magnifed had the
standing committee not mad the courage and
energy to take the scandal up in all its hideous
magnitude and dispose of it at once and for
ever.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16

attempts to reacclimstize cricket, football,
golf or rackets in the continental countries,
where they once iourished, have failed. The
Frenchman or Italian will not risk his shins
TO be scored by a hockey-stick the young
German, who belongs to turnUerein, and
does gymnastic on scientific principles. cannot
see the beauty of fielding out" all day in a
broiling sun; neither Russian nor Austrian
will ever take kindly to polo, though
both have nimble ponies and wide plains
which would do capitally for the sport. As
for rowing, which is practiced after fashion
in France, under the name of canotage, 1t is
rather an excuse for summer-day outings
with young ladies than a serious exercise for
wind and muscle. The French have no ma
tional style of rowing, and the days are not
nigh when picked crew from the University
of Paris will offer to meet Oxford or Cam
bridge on the Thames. This lamentable de-
cline in continental athleticism offers DO rea-
son why Englishmen should be put out of
conceit with their manly pursuits; it should,
on the contrary, urge them to continue as
they are doing. After ALL an athletic race is
a master race; and there need be no talk of
British decadence so long as hundred Eng
liah school-boys, taken at hazard, might
safely be matched, for strength and endur-
ance, against like number from any foreign
schools. The time spent In handling bats
and oars is not wasted.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16

Paris correspondence New York World:
The Japanese are selling off their wares with
great rapidity. Already half of the costly
bronzes and porcelains in that department are
ticketed sold, and that in spite of the fact
that the prices are simply terrific, from six
hundred to twelve hundred dollars being
asked for the choicer pieces. Unlike many
of the other departments, where you look in
vain for person to give you information as
to prices, or to take an order, the canny Japs
have man always at hand to answer ques-
tons, and to inscribe your name if you wish
to purchase. This business-hke arrangement,
combined with the fact that Chinese and Jap
anese wares, and especially the latter, are all
the rage just now, has had much to do with
the readiness wherewith their things have
been sold. The Japanese commissioners and
statesmen, black-coated, stove-pipe hated,
aud in all respects gotten up like Europeans,
are not half So interesting to look at as are
the Chinese in their blue petticoats, baggy
green plush trousers, clumsy shoes, and long
pigtails. The French workmen of the exhi-
bition delight in chattering French to their
Chinese comrades, who laugh and chatter
back again with monkey-like gayety and We
hemence. The Chinese department is GER
tainly the most brilliant in the whole exhibi-
ton. The showcases themselves are one mass
Of carving and one blaze of gold.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
AN Air Ship that Rises, Sinks or
Swims in Air at the VIII of the DC


A special dispatch to the New York Tri6-
une, from Hartford, Connecticut, of June
18th, contains the following description of a
marvellous invention: The first successful ex-
hibition, it is believed, ever gwen of flying
machine comfortable by an aeronaut without
the use of ballast or the waste of gas, was
given here this afternoon, in the presence of
a large assemblage. The machine is the in
vention of Prof. E. F. Richtel, of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, who, after seven years of exper
imenting, has solved the problem which has
so long defed inventors and scientists. Those
who witnessed the exhibition believe that the
right principle is found, and that aerial navl-
cation is only question of time. Richtel's
machine differs from ali previous inventions.
1t embraces a balloon of a horizontal, cylin
drical shape, only twenty by twelve feet,
holding three thousand feet Of gas, from
which, suspended by cords, Is narrow frame
work of hollow steel rods as long as the bal
loon, and pointed at either end. The opera
tor sits in his seat at the center of the frame
work and turns crank, which revolves a
ur-bladed air-propeller, inclined horizon
tally Immediately beneath his seat, by which
the balloon is elevated or depressed at pleas
ure-the propeller having raising power of
six pounds. At one end of the framework is
another air-propeller, inclined vertically, by
which the balloon may be propelled against
the resistance OF Il slight breeze, and also
steered, the wheel being of the steer
ing propeller model. With the op-
orator on board the entire weight slight
ly exceeds the lifting power of the gas
IN the balloon, but this deficiency is sup
piled by the propeller under the seat. Al
though the conditions were unfavorable this
afternoon, it being rainy, the exhibitor was
eminently successful, rising to one hundred
feet. The operator power of rising or low
ering was shown. Then he went off east
ward one hundred rods, turned around twice,
and, at a signal from the inventor, started
back against slight breeze blowing, and
landed in the exhibition grounds amid ap-
plause. After showing immediately over the
heads of tue spectators the ease with which
the machine navigated in any direction, the
exhibition was terminated by heavy thun-
der-storm. Prof Richtel's claims appear to
be well based-that is, the machine will keep
moving in the air until the operator wants to
descend. is wholly independent of ballast
and suffers no waste of gas. Consequently,
the machine will float for an extended jour-
ney, is capable of reaching favorable air cur
rents without loss of power, and of coming to
the ground when desired. Two machines
have been ordered for exhibition purposes at
Nioo,oro Ellis
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16
How we Treat Our Brains.

Popular Science Monthly: Almost daily
am in contention with parents and guardians,
schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, clergy
men and professors, youths and maldens,
boys and gIIls, concerning the right way Of
building up the young brain, OF rlpenlng the
adult brain, and of preserving the brain In
age. Grievously i'll do take in hand to
deal with this debate member, and well Is 1t
that innate development overruns our schemes
and brings the variety of natural good out OF
the monotony of human folly. 1t is dimly
felt by society that the reign of bone and
muscle is over, and that the reign Of brain
and nerve Is taking its place. Even the Glib
eonites now have the hydraulic ram and the
steam telling machine; the specialized gen.
eral of forces tights in his tent by click Of
battery and wire, and his lieutenant holsts
an iron-clad by the touch OF two buttons up
on his waistcoat; the patient earth torgets
the tread of horse and OK, aud Is plowed by
steam; and ere long, no doubt our minis
tiers will wind sermons out of barrei-organS,
and our morning egg will be broken Tor us
by a wafer Of dynamite. Hence it comes
that all classes are for ''education!" The
village grocer's son goes to Theological
college," and sits up by night over his Ell
dences with green tea In his blood and
wet cloth about his brows. The gardeners
daughter pulls roses no more, and has be-
come a pupIl-teacher; she Is chlorotlc at six
teen, and spirited at twenty. The
country parson' s son goes to a civil service or
a naval ''coach, is plucked in his teens, and
is left to begin life again with an exhausted
brain and an incurable megrim; nay, even
the sons of peers are putting on the armor of
light, and are deserving the field for the count
ing house. To meet this demand, colleges
of all kinds and degrees spring up-middle-
class seminaries, theological colleges, col
leges of science, university boards-even the
old universities themselves are stirring from
their scholarly ease, are sending out mission
aries in partibuS, and are crammIng the
youth of twenty counties in the art of making
most show with least learning. All this, n
a way, no doubt, must be and should be; but
so sudden a volte-face cannot be made with
out wrench, and it is my desire now to see
where the STRAIN will tell, and how to per-
form our social evolution with the least in