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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15
An Angelic Creature.

For once in the history of the Union Depot its
roof has sheltered a woman who knew just
where she wanted to go, the train she was to
take, the hour Tor departure, the fare, and the
time for arrival She appeared to be about forty
five years OF age, and she had fiat feet, peaked
nose, and a voice which didn't admit of any
argument. No notice might have been taken of
her among the scores OF Others had she not In
CURED the way to the waiting room, and added,
THANK ye though it's your business to answer
all questions! That's all want to ask of you,
and you can continue your promenade?"
Going out on the train?" queried the officer.
''Would lug a big carpet bag down here and
stand around In the coldif wasn'tg" She sharply
answered.
''Golng South, 'spose?" he quelled, as she
moved away.
"'Spose away, them" she snapped, as she
lifted her satchel. Entering the ladies' waiting
room she found the seats all taken. A portly
man, reading paper and taking heap OF com
fort, occupied one of the seats, and halting be-
fore him, she dropped her satchel with an awful
thud, and said:
"Now, you get right outer here! This place
Is for ladies and you are great big, fat man
and OTTER be ashamed Of yourself for crowdlng
In among usl"
"I-ah-ah-!" he began, when she inter-
rupted-
"Then stand up! Ny legs are tired walking
down here, and Pm not going to stand around
while you sit down."
"Certafnly-allow me-ah-yes!" he STAN
meIed, as he rose up and gave her the seat.
'1hat's more man-like" she growled, as she
settled down, ''but 1t seems to me that If 1 was
YOU III Ieel SoTJ " Sneak1nS IN mere! The more
1 see OF fat men, the worse hate EN-"
The fat man had wife and two children in
there, but he wasn't a minute getting through
the GOOr. For the next fifteen minutes the old
lady sat very erect and stared around her, and
then she started out to get her ticket, Juggling
her satchel on her hip. A bootblack espied her
and called out:
"shen 1 carry yer baggage wagon, Aunt
Sary?"
"Boy!" she replied as she dropped the satchel
and reached for his collar. al haven't got any
baggage wagon, and in the next place I'm not
Aunt Sary to anybody! II you want your heels
Jerked over the roof OF this depot you just give
me the least Of SasS"
"'Scuse me, but don't pinch so hard" said the
boy, and he Squirmed out of her clutch and re-
treated safe distance to look at her and rejoice
that he was not her son.
She walked up to the ticket window put down
q lot of silver, and said:
Il want ticket to Jackson, and don't want
any talk about 1t! 1 know why Pm going
how long want TO stay, and who I'm going to
See.n
Fer ticket was handed her without word
and as she passed on to the gate she said to the
official there:
"'Tend right to your business! There is no
occasion for your asking where Pm going or if
I've got ticket"
'Fass on, madam" he replied.
"Dont try to fiatter me! I" she called back
sYour business is to see that passengers git on
the right train, and the less you madam around
the better it will be for yOu.n-[DetroM Free
Press,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

"CoME Sir, TURN AROUND. Will. Yo-er said
the conductor of street car In san Francisco
TO young gentleman on the front platform
VINO was leaning against the dash-rail and look
ing INTO me car '.What fOr?" inquired the
astonlshed passenger; Il am very comfortable
as SIT Yes but it is In violation OF the rules
OF this road for any one riding upon the forward
platform TO look fnto the car, and you must face
about the other way or else shall be likely TO
get discharged" responded the conductor. ..Oh,
very We'll them" said the passenger Il will 70
obilge you; but that is the most absurd rule |
ever yet heard OF on street railroad" and he
turned towards the horses. The conductor re-
tlred 10 The rear platform, and the driver. with
loud laugh, exclaimed: Il guess that conductor
must be crazy. don't know OF any such rule:
put MS glrl Is inside the car, and perhaps, sir
he thought you Were staring at hertz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

N-Dr. Aher Warner, of Niles, Mich, has a
child sick with the measles, and insists that the
contagton came from hogs that are yarded In
large numbers by drovers near his residence
The drovers defy the city authorities and sew
eral suits are already in progress to test the val
1dity OF ordinances and the power Of the board
OF health.
~ Saginaw, Aich., witnessed the meeting,
the other day, OF father and son, after separa-
OF age and the son a staiwart farmer Of 81. The
separation dated from the Millerism excitement
and was caused by 1t; and the old man who has
long years wandered the world alone, now
learns that the wife Of his youth has renowned
M!lierlsm and become the wife OF another man.
~ ~ an attempt will soon be made In the
western states to propagate German CARP which
weight OF 10 lbs. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15
A Pretty Picture.

The SparrowS were twittering in the trees
and and the TN ,, dav was growing old. Town Gossip
was walking down one OF DetrOit'S beautiful
avenues ON lovely afternoon last week. In
'front.' OF an 1Vy-wreathed doorway sat an old
LADY knitting,knitting with those long,
brightly polished needles that most of us have
childish memories OF. Framing the wrnkled
face, soft and fair, even with its burrows, was
wealth Of gray hair its many coils, so silyery
In its whiteness, giving evidence of having been
raven ringlets In the long ago Above her over
the doorway twined the Ivy. And it was grow
Ing old. The leaves were putting off the Waxen
green and taking on that Undesirable shade
that Is found nowhere except in autumn
leaves.
The venerable dame and the day and the year
and the IVY were growing old together.
The needles moved faster with the waning
light and the SparrowS in the crimson foliage OF
the park chtrped louder. An Irresistible i'm
pulse to speak to the old lady came upon me.
and down thesteps into the street carrying her
doll. Her curls had fallen over her eyes and
she stumbled and fell had her in my arms In
an instant. The smile that revealed her pretty
dimples and snow-white teeth told me that she
was neither hurt nor frightened.
"What is your name, little one?"
"Hayent any name? Is that aunty on the
"No, ats dan,ma"
"Well, what does grandma call your"
too" p'''''
"But what does mamma call your"
off, N'-' ~
"Gone away of where?"
''To see papa"
"And where is papa?"
cup dere."
And she pointed to the sky rosy with the SUM-
sets glow.
"When did mamma go9"
"'E snow was on e'drOund, and SIC went In
sleigh wiVout any bells on e horses, an danma
c,ed."
And then Town Gossip knew who the little
stockings were for and why the needles flew SO
faSt-( Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

Captain j. w. Jennings, of the White Star
steamship Adriatic, when asked whether Il was
a common thing to encounter iccbcrgs in the Vi
cinity OF the Banks OF Newfoundland at this
season OF the year, replied that, on the con
traiy, 1t was very uncommon. He said that h,
saw an iceberg in latitude forty -eght degrees
longitude forty-eight degrees on the 18th OF
June These huge masses of Ice, he said, are
formed away up in the Arctic region. O)1
10 l,ao miles away, during the winter
me following summer they become
uetacilcu from the mother pack and
come Hoating southwark with the
Arctic current, which flows at the rate of about
ohe-haif 10 three-quarters OF a nile an hour IL
takes lhem al winter To reach the banks where
they arrive about March, and from that time
until the lst OF July they are frequently en-
countered; They sometimes strike shallow
water and are knocked about along the edge OF
the banks until they pass by and proceed on
tneir Journey south. They continue onward
until they meet the Gulf stream which Will
take them down to latitude ~ degrees. and
longitude 45 degrees TO 80 degrees. where the
warmer temperature OF the water rots them
and they break to pieces, melt away and disar-
pear sometimes they are kept playing abOi
for several days between the Arctic current an 4
the Gulf Stream.-[N. y. Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15
Rough 1t.

1t is great mistake to hold out to pupils the
promise that comparative idleneSS or genteel
study and advanced scholarship. Rather should
labor profitable and intelligent, but still labor
be presented as the reward OF good conduct In
school. we need missionaries to preach the
gospel or truth and Temperatures; not less Is our
need OF apostles to preach the gospel Of hard
work. 1t is In hard work, not In idleness that
happiness Is found; and It is very strange that
teachers fail to impress this truth on the minds
OF their pupils, but hold up to them false pic
lures of a life Of 1dlenesS Parents are as silly
and misleading as teachers in this matter. 81
want him to stay in school so that he will not
have to dig as his father has to-" cries the mis-
guided and misguiding mother, little knowing
That such talk dinned into boys ears tends to
honest, hard-wOrking father as 1t Is possible
imagine; and the teacher listens and humor
such conceit, instead Of advising the woman :
father. No boy who graduates from the high
school should fail to learn trade, II he has
taste for mechanics His term Of schooling / !
and in the shop his education viii VIII ten o much
more than 1t would behind counter or over a
ledger Let us preach the beauty aud potency
OF honest, hard, manual labor for decade, and
be perfect till we have facilities for turning thu
activity of children into regular and Legitimate
channels, nor will our code of ethics Be COM
plete till the virtue OF hard work is made the
axis OF our system. Then will true motive and
rational effort radiate from the center and
happiness and prosperity line the periphery.
CIvH-SERvICE REFORM: IN. Duval, haveyou
nothing to do?" 'sFinished my work. Sir"
"Finished your work, Sir? But you oughn't to
have finished your work, sir. In public Office
public servant In this era of civil Service reform
should never have finished his work, sir. Look
at that excellent young man there who has
copied the same document seven times over on
the very best cream-laid, wire-wove, extra-sup-
crime Of1cial paper, rather than do nothing. lie
has no idea Of drawing the salary Of idleneSS-
OF robbing the public treasury"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

THE SUICIDES OF CONNECTICUT-Itf is singu-
lar, but not by any means unaccountable, fact
that OF the numerous murders that haves been
recently brought to light, very large majority
OF them are women, and are usually acc0mpa-
MED by the agency OF arsenic. Some of them
may and doubtless have been occasioned by in
tereSted parties; but from the known proclivtttes
OF arsenic eating, which Is INDUCED In In some
Inc The COMPLEXION. and other means of adding
to physical attraction, 1t Is not at all unlikely
that they have committed suicide unintention-
ally, and generally, no doubt, from the cumuia-
the system.5N T. Netos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

1 The ladies Of Mono county, Cal, thought
they had scored one when Miss Addie L. Irish
was elected school superintendent OF that
county. Now the female suffragists shake with
rage because their late standard bearer has ap-
pointed male deputy, and, worse than all, has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

wish my name puDllShed.-[M0tte ANDERSON,
bloomington, III.
Is developing many uses for table linen and tow
els outside of their legitimate line. Cream
tinted table linen, such as sells for 65 or IS cents
per yard, Is bought for window curtains and en-
broidered on one side In the design woven on the
linen. This embroidery is done In colors, either
in satin stitch or In easy outline stitches known
uses are infinite. Turkish towels, in stripes of
dark colors alternating with red or blue, are en-
brotdered or banded with flannel for rugs while
white towels are embroidered more or less elab-
yerted also into small table covers by sewing two
together down the middle and finishing with a
border OF opera flannel and more or less elabor-
ate embroidery.
REMOVING HAIR.-Here is a common sense
recipe for removing superf1uOus hair, the only
RractcaDte u sSupp9se I0r h
Spread thin coating OF black wax {shOemaker')
on thin, pliable strip of leather. Put the
leather wax side on the hair from beneath the
remaining there q minute, jerk it on suddenly
the opposite way from which it was laid on
that is, back toward the nose. Every hair viii
be brought out on the wax, II the wax is not too
soft. II too soft, 1t can be hardened by melt
ing rosin into it. The natural oil Of the skin
should be washed OF with soapy water be-
get wax Of right consistency, viii make
every trial perfect success II wax is too hard
lt VIII be left on the lip, as 1t Will If too soft
70 hold 1t firm while the plaster Is being jerked
OH After successful operation Of this kind it
VIII be months before any sign OF hair Is visible
and when it comes out again it comes out
smaller.
To Color FADED HAIR SwTrCd.-To color
1aded nair switch dark brown: OF black tea take
small handful, boil the strength out and strain:
put In very small piece OF c0pperas, and dip In
and hang out to dry; wash in clean soap suds;d0
not put In too much copperas, as It win rot the
hair; Just enough to set the color. II not dark
enough dip In again; let 1t stay In few minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15

November 10, 1879.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-15
FASHION NOTES.

Very small figures, checks and
stripes on white grounds, are the feature
in the new spring calicoes and per.
Gales.
A pretty site" for the throat is
made of India null trimmed with Bret
on lace and ornamented with spray of
scarlet geranium.
The new bows consist of double
series of graduated loops, very long,
and of ribbon double the width of that
formerly used.
The spring hats and bonnets, it is
said, will be much larger than those at
present worn, though they will still re.
tain their picturesque character.
The prettiest evening dresses for
young ladies are of soft white wooden
barege or gasoline made over white silk
and trimmed with white satin pipings
and crimped fringe.
"A novelty in feminine adornment con-
sists of artificial eyebrows which are ad-
justed by means of thin adhesive to
English invention.
For street wear, under all circum-
stances, very simple dress, although it
be little shabby, is preferable to one
more elaoorately draped and trimmed
that has lost its freshness.
The new street bonnet is of soft felt
trimmed with velvet across the crown,
and mass of small, undyed feathers
fastened at the right and surmounted
by an aigrette and bow of the velvet.
Opera scarfs three yards long, and
more than half yard wide, are now
popular in Paris for winding around the
hair and throat. The newest opera
cloaks, eveloping the whole person, are
of thick, soft camel's hair, with hood.
1t is definitely settled that short
dresses will be retained for street wear
during the coming season, and that the
the skirts will rather more than clear
the ground---in fact show the tip and
heel of very dainty and high-heeled
boot.
"A detestable fashion is that of
plastering fiat curls down upon the
forehead with pomades. 1t is becom-
ing to very few faces, is uncleanly, and
takes all the natural lightness and
brightness out of the front hair, which,
well arranged, does so much to heighten
the charm or modify the defects of the
face.
-Nightingales are coming in. No
premature coming of the sweet song
sters of the spring, but timely arrival
of comfortable warm bed-wraps, called
after the lady who invented them, for
the wants of the sick-room. AS needle
work they take the place of stockings in
fashionable drawing rooms, or may
either be developed into works of art or
retain their original simplicity. Two
and half yards of flannel can at pinch
be converted into a bed-wrap in two and
half minutes. No cutting, no shaping
being required, you Qadies generally
fold the flannel together and tack the
two sides by the selvage about quarter
of a yard from the double end. This
forms the hood of an elegant bernouse.
You have only then to fold back the two
lower corners and tack again-tack, l
am told, is the correct word-and you
have the cuffs through which the hands
are slipped-aud the thing is DONE
London World.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-15
An Extraordinary Meteor.

Nearly all the inhabitants of Traverse
City were awakened from sleep about
half-past two o'clock Tuesday morning
by deafening report followed soon
after by rattling of glass and a general
shaking of the buildings. The cause of
this commotion appears to have been a
meteor that passed over the town at the
time. We have seen three or four diff
ferent persons who were eye-witnesses
of it and they seen to agree substantially
in the statement that it came from the
east or little south of east and passed
over tho town in a westerly course.
When little beyond the town a dozen
or more pieces were thrown off in APP
pearance the size of mans fist. In
color it was bright fire red. 1t rapid
ly approached the horizon and between
four and five minutes after its disap-
pearance from view a report like heavy
thunder and the shock of the explosion
came. Mr.. S. r. Bassett, who lives on
the shore of Carp Lake, informs us that
he was awakened by terrific explosion
and that he found the next morning a
place on the lake where it apparently
struck the ice and went into the lake.
He says the ice was solid and between
twelve and fourteen inches thick, and
that it was all driven downward into
the lake, making hole about fifty feet
across. We have not heard from To-
calities very far away yet, but at May
field and Williamsburg we are told the
shock was felt very perceptibly.- y.-Ira-
UerSe Ban Mich J Ed0le.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-15
School and Church.

The Seventh-day Adventists are
about to erect church in Dallas, Texas.
The students of the Illinois Indus
trial University have organized a SPELL
ing-reform association which is approx
ed by the regent and faculty.
Of the Western colleges, the Uni
versity of Michigan has 1858 students,
the University of Wooster, 400, Oberlin,
LOIS. Ohio Wesleyan University, 40,
and Iowa State University, 275.
Miss Ada Heather Bigg is a young
lady who was one of the recent COM
petitors for the Ricardo scholarship in
political economy at University College,
London. The examiners, Professors
Fawcett and Jevons, specially commend
ed her.
Superintendent Cox, of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, says that of all forms of
educational waste, the common method
of studying our mother-tongue is about
the worst. Pupils are graduated from
our high schools, and afterwards from
college, and at both places do not learn
so much English as would equip we'll
nurtured boy of IA.
-" Cramming" in the public schools
was somewhat severely discussed last
week by the Ministerial Association of
Dayton, Ohio. Several members
agreed that children should not spend
so much time in study out of school
hours, and it was suggested that the
clergymen should shortly, in connection
with the physicians of the city, give the
subject more careful consideration.
The Maine Legislature is about to
inquire into the expediency of abolish
ing the free high schools of that State.
1t is argued that these schools are need
ed to keep up the supply of teachers for
the public schools, as the two normal
schools are said to be little more than
costly failures. The Portland Argus re-
ports that only one in 20 of the 1000
teachers in the common schools were
graduates of these normal schools.
AT the recent meeting of the Ohio
Collegiate Association, Professor De
Wolf, of Western Reserve College, de-
plored the low standard of many insti-
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-15

come home. knew nothing of cfphers that
had been passing between him and others,
and could not have translated them. With
regard to Florida, never saw one of the tel
did not know-I was not informed-that
to Illegally ~ebe ebsainiDR is cert,eases @ aesaff 81
the Returning Board. Some time Mr.. Marble
called and told me in a casual kind of way
about the corruption of the Returning Board
of Florida. l never saw any of these dis
patches relating to Florida either in cipher
or translation. In regard to the Oregon Sis;
patches, did not know they came in cipher
until after the meeting of the committee to
Investigate them. Some of the dispatches
Park 1 don't know that any of these dis,
patches were ever received there.
q. When did you first hear of the Florida
toned the circumstance after he had returned
from Florida: He gave me no details and
made no inquiries.
Q. Did you make any inquiries from your
nephew about these corrupt propositions to
buy and sell9 A ! did not.
q. Then you had no interest in it? A. Only
q. (by Mr.. Reed). Governor, you learned
from Cooper, and could have learn
fa had ensagea mat nsps
nected with the obtaining of cleo
toral votes in North and south Carolina. Did
toms relations to the National ComInittse7
A. thought the best way to act in the matter
was to stopit. l thought the same thing of
Q: You nave said If yon had any idea of in
fueneing these Boards yenally the last per-
son YOU would have chosen would have been
Col Pelton. Why did yoti not deem 1t proper
to call Cooper's or Hewitts attention to the
matters lest Pelton might compromise the
first place supposed they had full knowledge
and would Bs able to take care that
nothing wrong should be done. Civil
law doesn't recognize purposes until they
are embodied in actions. The Church puDi
ishes the purposes of criminals even If they
time was fttll If minors of fraudulent Re-
turning Boards. IdeGlate before God and my
country that the votes of L6iisfsna and
Florida were bought meaning by Reputlii
cansi. / would scorn and condemn my
righteous title If the Democratic party mad
secuted my seat by fraud. Under
no circumstances did enter into any compe-
fheuts: There fievef wis an hour nor minute
that entertained such thought. To the peo-
pie who, as Delisve, 6leeted me President of
the United States-.O fOuf millions of eiE-
zens who were defrauded-I owed It to
proclaim that would not yield one jot or tit
from this stIbTersion of the electoral system
and of free government, resolved would
enter into no auction for the purchase OF
Chairman suppressedj / was resolved that
would continue to protest against the
wrong by which the people were defrauded
out of their rights.
George W. Smith; Mr.. Tilden's private
secretafy; -as called to testify regarding his
knowledge of the cipher dispatches, but
swore that he knew nothing st all about
them.
The committee adjourned to meet in
Washington