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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

NOTICE TO PEi'sIoNERS.-The Commissioner OF
Pensions has issued a circular letter with refer
ence TO the bili granting arrears of pensions,
approved by the President on Saturday last.
the benefits OF the DILL that they will not require
the assistance OF claim agent in obtaining the
amount due them. and that no claim gent will
he recognized III the matter. Under this bill a
private soldier who may have lost two limbs
Will be entitled it Is said to arrears of pensions
amounting to the sum of over Sl1 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

HORSE OWNERS, aTTEyTION!-Coi,
III lese Villa Farm IL miles above George
town On Tennaiiytown road, offers the best N
low price of Sl0 per month. First-cass
stables, with box stall for every horse I've fees.
Of grain daily. Veterinary attendance free, DR. II P
p. LORD residing on the place FOR further pa-ticu
lars enquire .. 6G6 l0Ih ct. nv.
nov2bSm L HOxLEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28
INTERESTING TO TAX-PAYERS.

The SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES having decided that the special assess
ments for the Improvement of streets and avenues
are valid and lexal "a all property holders who
sflll IN arrears, and against whose property tax lien
certificates have been issued, Will be compelled to
redeem the same, subject to such reduction the
revision now IN pros ress viii authorize.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS CAN NOW BE PAID
AT A DISCOUNT.
And al tax payers interested will find it OF advan-
tase II adjusting and settling their tax bills tc call on
WILLIAM DICKSON,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
22z F0Hr-ond-d-H Half st.,
jan9lm Three doors above Columbia Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

1HE RHODE ISLAND LEGISLATURE has been adj
Ssed by witty member TO advertise for some
thlng 10 do. The house has spent one day in
eulogHlng member detained at home by acci-
ueht, yet II refuses TO consider proposition for
an early adjournment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

D~ MATEEY CAYLUS' CAPSULES,
SS Used fer over IS years with great success by
sDe physicians of Paris, New York ana London, and
superior all oshers for The prompt OF al
of diseases, recent or of long standing.
Prepared By CLIN L Co. Paris. Sold every
where oct29t, ,thSs-1y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

The MINERS of the Philadelphia and Reading
railway company in Schuylkill county have
adopted an address to the COMPANY demandlng
payment or wages in lawful money! and If such
payment is not made by February IL they pro-
pose TO stop work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

The HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
to-day reported the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill. The bill has in
corporated in it the proposed new system of
the surveys of the public lands, recommended
by the National Academy OF Science The plan
i'll brief abOliSheS the three surveying parties
ROW known to the law, and fav0rs two, with a
director for one and superintendent for the
other, at a salary OF $4,000 per annum each.
The coast survey is also placed under the In
terror department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

TEE SECRETARY OF STATE and Mrs. Evarts
nave issued cards for the usual diplomatic
dnners-one TO be given Oh the first. and one
on the NTH OF February
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

WORCESTERSHIRE President to-day sent to
the Senate the following NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Field, register OF the land Office at st. CroiX
Falls, Wisconsin: Joel +. Mason, receiver of
public moneys at the same place; Henry Page,
Of Arkansas, agent for Indians South Ute
agency. Colorado: James Stout, of Idaho, re-
ceiver OF public moneys, Boise City, Idaho.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

SUBSCRIPTIONS to four per cent. loan to-day
were IS, ,S3G. .1GO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

ENGINEER MENoCAL EXOSERATED-The board
which assembled at the Wa shingtOn navy-yard
some days ago to examine into the charges
preferred against Civil Engineer A. G.. Menocal.
|. 5. n, have completed their report and sub
mitted it TO the Navy de partmant The report
eXonerates Mr.. Menocal of the charges pre-
ferfed. which came through the Workingmen' )
Assembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

FISHERY ARTICLES OF THE WASHINGTON
TREATY.-The Senate foreign relations commit
tee Will consider on Friday next the resolution
introduced in executive session of the Senate
last week, requesting the President to give no.
uce or the intention OF this government to abrO-
gate the Fishery articles OF the Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

REELECTION OF TAX on TOBACCO.-The Senate
finance committee this morning, by vote of
five against four decided to recommend reduc-
tiOn OF the tax On tobacco from the present rate
OF "a cents per pound 10 20 cents per pound. and
il was also decided 10 add TO the House bill a
provision TO admit free of customs duty all
licOrice paste and licOrfce rolls, these articles
being imported almost wholly for use in the
manufacture Of plug tobacco. The committee
took no action to-day in regard TO the taxes on
cigars and cigarettes and Snuff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

INVESTIGATING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
rURE--The House committee on agriculture
have been at work looking up the affairs of the
department OF agriculture, and claim that they
have Gen. LeDuc who has the manapement of
statistics and seeds in that branch of the exec
uliNe department In a corner. The committee
snow mat st3,oOt was appropriated by Con-
gIesS during the fiscal year l,U-'1S for the
purchase OF improved varieties of seeds, cereal
aud vegetable for distribution amongst respon-
slole farmers. TO be tested and reported unon.
The committee say they have satisfactory proof
that but s2o,00a of that amount was exDended
for the purpose intended, and they are at a loss
10 know what has become OF the balance They
charge that twenty bushels OF wheat sunDosed
40 have been foreign. were purchased at $40 a
ollshel. and OF this twelve bushels went TO a
prominent banker in this city. Gen. lie puc has
spent Il liberal amount OF money in bringing the
department up 10 its present efficiency and
says that he can account for every farthing dis
burSed. and more than that, he can show Inn
por1ant results therefr0m in the promotion OF
the egricuILural interests OF the country. His
experiments in sugar and tea have been at
tended with great success, he says and when
tie committee is through with their examsna-
tons he viii give them some facts 10 mediate
upon in connection vi, their investigations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

SENATOR CHRISTIANcY FOR MINISTER To
PEKU.-The President will appoint Senator
Christiancy minister 10 Peru in place OF Rich
ard Gibbs, who has held the Office since 1915
The appointment viii probably be made this
week, although it is not certain whether Mr.
Christlancy Will tender his resignation before
the end OF the session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

IMPROVED STUDENT LAMPS,
BRASS IND NICkLE PLATED,
AT REDUCED PRICES.
sGHAEFER'
1916 Serenth street n.,c.,
ial6tr Dealer in China. Glass and Plated Ware.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

RECOINAGE OF THE TRADE DoILARs.-The
House committee on coinage, weight, and
measures to-day agreed to report fayorably a
bill providing for the recoinage of the trade
dollar into standard silver dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

TIE l. :. STEAMER NANDAIIA. now at Bos-
ton. and the Marion. al New York both OF
which have just returned from the Eurornar
station, vii probably be ordered TO the North
Atlantic station. They are being put in readl-
eSS tUT SelViCe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-28

THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on WAR CLAIMS has
agreed TO recommend bill appropr!ating $4,000
for the relief Of William Dodds, Of Annapolis.
Md. DOddS was blacksmith and wheelwri ght
owning the lot on calvert street, in Annapolis
on which stood his shop and dwelling. When
Gehefdi Butler TOOK possession Of Annapolis, in
April, leGl, he built an extension OF the Anna
polls and Elhridge railroad to tiGewatG'. The
route pas cd over DOdd'S lot, within a few feet
OF bis shop and dwelling, which were thereby
rendered yalueleSs TO him. as he had ID move
his family and abandon his business. General
Butler favored The allowance
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
Trials of Newspaper Men.

One of the greatest trials of the news
paper profession is that its members are
compelled to see more of the shams of
the world than any other profession.
Through every newspaper Office, day after
day, 60 all the weaknesses of the world;
all the vanities that want to be pulled all
the revenges that want to be reaped; all
the dull speakers who want to be thought
eloquent; all the meanness that wants to
get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial
columns, in order to save the tax Of the
advertising columns all the men who want
to be set right who were never right; all
the, cracked Drained philosophers with
the nursery, aping the dress, the manners
and the flirtations of very vulgar class
of their elders. They apparently have no
mothers to teach them that every step
they take on this path diminishes their
chances Of happiness in the future. They
will find plenty of men to tlirt with
them, but the most dissolute man does
not choose the woman to marry, whose
heart has been the sport Of a dozen pas
sions or so-called friendships. -.
A young girl should be secluded under
her mothers protection as securely as
within the convent walls, and We are glad
to observe that among the highest classes
in this country, the old-fashioned rigor
in the seclusion of girls is again the rule.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
The Surveying Hoax.

There is practical joke which is quite
favorite with Partisan students. Fix
ing upon some thoroughfare where
bridge crosses the. Seine, two of them
take their station, the first on one side of
the river, the second on the other. Look
ing carefully around, they proceed to
take 4 measurements with cords and
surveyors, instruments, until on each side
quite crowd has gathered. Next, one
Of the students selects some verdant
youth who happens to be passing, and po-
litely asks: Would you kindly hold this
cord, sir? There is going to be govern
ment survey, Please retain the cord till
the, official comes, on no account drop it
tor an instant, as the measurement would
be lost" He then gives the other end
to second innocent young man, and the
way is efectually blocked. Meantime
his comrade across the bridge has repeat
ed the same performance. Caleches, car
riages, drays, all sorts Of vehicles, with
throngs Of foot passengers, have collected,
who are gravely told that they must wait,
as government survey is in progress.
BY this time the students, Of course, have
decamped, leaving the unluky holders of
the cord to manage the impatient crowd
as best they can. The affair usually ends
in the summoning a detachment of
policemen to. drive away these victimized
disturbers of the peace. This hoax,
though often practiced, is said to be al
ways successful
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
THE TASK.

Life's school has many tasks we all must learn
Lessons of faith and patience, hope and love !:
knowledge of bitter taste, and wisdom stern
OF fires, the temper Of our steel to prove;
Much Of forbearance gathering years must
@ teach sDgr .q.
And charity, with her angelic face, ;. -
Gentling the Judgment softcning the speech,
Gives time it; surcst aid and grief its grace.
Hardest of all the masters we must hear,
Experience, with cold eyes and measured voice
Bids us, who hold young lives supremacy dear,
Beware, ere moulding them to suit our choice !:
Warming: "The sky smiles blue, smooth shows
the path. 95er =. H.. r-,..-
Promise no sunshine, guide no wavering foot !;
The loveliest valley hides the reeds of death,
The poison turks deep in the fairest fruit"
Leave the young hearts to nature and to God,
Leave the young tendrils where they will to
Where violets blossom and white snowdrops
nod, fJs Et5... ~ :
Fall April dews, where Aprirs sunlight shine;
Gather the ripened corn, II yet some ears
Are left for faltering hand and patient care;
But for the darlings of decaying years, f'
Leave them alone, in all save love and prayer.
*#* Efs@ i. 4'aa -AU the Year RosI,sd.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
Bossing.

Mrs. Lizzie O'Brien Pollock, in COM
munication addressed to the Brooklyn
Eagle, says: 20, save me from that most
despicable specimen of humanity, boss
ed man! There is scared, Yes, my
dear, but !, don't mean it. look about him
that makes me turn away in disgust, and
wonder why he is man. This system of
bossing is the most serious obstacle to
happiness in married life, and to it we
owe half the divorces which 50 disgrace
this country and its people" F
However disagreeablc the sight Of a
"bossed man" may be, we are compelled
to tho conclusion that it is really very
essential that some men should be
"bossed." For there is one sight more
despicable and lamentable than 'bossed
man" and that is bossed woman a
woman that cringes like slave, and
trembles in the presenceof great puffy
bully calling himself gentleman q
woman wholhas tremblingly to beg fol
fifty cents to buy herself some buttons OF
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
GARDEN LORE.

Under the head of the "Garden Loren
40 London Florist has the following:
Every child who has gardening tools
Should learn by heart these gardening miles :
De who owns gardening spade H.
Should be able to dig the depth of its blade
De who owns gardening rake
Should know what to leave and what to take.
He who owns a gardening hoe
Must be sure how he means his strokes to 60
But he who owns a gardening fork
May make it do all the other tools work.
There is another side to the subject.
which the Prairie Farmer presents as be-
ing fully as important:
ne who owns or bOrrOWs tools
Should always heed these honest rules:
Polished tools keep bright and clear,
Day by day and year by year.
After using put them by,
Safely stored and always dry
When you borrow, safe return,
Ills lesson all should learn.
When you lend be sure to saw.
Keep them bright and safe I pray
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21

THERE died in Bedford, England "a short
time ago, John Howard, who was born in
the year that John Wesley died, and
whose desire had long been that he might
live to the age Of Wesley-a desire which
was gratifed, for he died at SO, the exact
period of Wesley's life. He was an iron
manufacturer, and had accumulated a large
fortune. He had been Mayor Of Bedford
four times, its senior magistrate for many
years, and for sixty-6ve years of his life
it was his custom to preach by appoint
ment. When 80 years Of age and obliged
to sit while he spoke, he would go seven
miles to fulfill an appointment. He has
son in Parliament, to whom his last
words were: "Don't be carried away b,
tide, but keep the end in view"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21

asking. But such men are never success
full. They live to be sure, and SO
Go the beasts of the field. The true farm
er IS ne who starts out with an object in
view, and gives the labor of both brain ano
muscle to achieve the who is not con-
tent to gather the natural product of noun
tain or valley, but, by care and culture,
improves in quality and increases in guam
MY every crop that he supervises With
q purpose steadily pursued, such one
can attain almost any desirable result,
even though it be apparently as difficult
as 70 gather grapes from thorns or figs
from thistles.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
2 THE OLD MANS IDYL.

BY the waters of life we sat together 80
Hand in hand in the golden DAYS 't-f
or the beautiful early summer weather So
When hours were anthems, and speech was
praise: :rl a. o., z.- g. =
When the heart kept time to the choral Of
birds, -" 100
And the birds kept time to the songs that
And trees with voices Holian. ~
BY the rivers Of life we walked together
and my darling unafraid; : :Ii'i
And lighter than any linnet's feather say
me burden OF being on us weighed; ,.r
A1d loves sweet miracles DER us threw
Nantes OF JOY outlasting time; -
ana up from the rosy mOrrOws grew olf
sound that seemed like a marriage chime.
IN the garden Of, life we roamed together.
ana Inc luscious apples were ripe and red.
ana no the Ianguid lilac and honeyed heather
i. swooned with the fragrance which they
Az she'd s-, - =. '''01
And under the trees the angels walked,
ana up IN the air q sense Of wings -.
Awed us sacredly while we talked -.--s
softly In tender communngs ~ 80 q
n the meadows Of life we strayed together,
watching the waving harvest grow;
And under the benison Of the Father. :g
Our hearts, like the lambs, skipped to and
/ ffc fro;s. '.,}rs, ~ $50
ana Inc cOWsllps, hearing our low replies,
brOldered fairer the emerald banks;
ana the glad tears shOne in the daisies eyes
And the timid violets glistened thanks. III
Who was with us and what was round US,
Neither myself nor my darling guessed,
only we knew that something crowned us
Out from the heavens with crowns of the
blessed. .v.- - 5-...-Eg
Only We knew that something bright
fingered lovingly where we stood,
Clothed with the incandescent light
VI something higher than humanhsod
o the riches love doth inherit!
On, the alchemy which doth change
Dress OF body and dregs of spirit
into sanctities rare strange! ~
MY hesh is feeble, and dry and old,
D., NY earnings beautiful hair is gray;
But our elixir and precions gold !
Laugh at the footsteps of decay.
Harms OF the world have come upon u.s.
Cups OF sorrow we yet shall drain:
but we have a secret which doth show MS
wonderful rainboWs through the rain.
And we hear the tread of the wears 90 by
And the sun is setting behind the hills.
But my darling Goes not fear to die
And am happy in what God wills.
so we sit by our household fires together
Dreaming the dreams of long ago,
Then it was balmy summer weather,
And now the valleys are laid in snow,
1cicles hang from the slippery caves,
The wind grows dit is growing late,
| We'll, we'll, we have garnered all our sheaves
L and my darling-and we wait
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21
Life in Brazil.

A lady sketches her life in Brazil in
Llpplncotts. She says the principle dish
at dinner in Pernambuco is fresh beef
and vegetables potatoes which come
from Portugal, gumbo, cabbage and two
or three bananas, all boiled together 1t
is very nice, and the blacks can make it
and cup of coffee to perfection. Every
thlng-truit, vegetables, fuel and cotton
Is brought into town on poor, miserable
horses, who live chiefly on mollasses and
water, preter1ing it to more solid food.
The owner drives his horse into the yard
early in the morning-for marketing is
over by nine o'clock-asks you twice as
much as you can make him take, and
finishing the bargain, grabs his beast by
the tail, puts his foot upon the animals
hind knee, mounts him and rides of.
The baker brings at five o'clock in the
morning bag filed with delicious breads
made OF Triste and American flour mixed.
Milk is sold in quart bottles for sixteen
cents each. The cook goes for the choicer
articles needed during the day; 'sthe
boy" which means negro servant Of
any age, betakes himself to the grocery
for the fuel for the day. A breakfast is
eaten at $50, beginning with little
fruit
The kitchen has door possibly win
dow, but no chimney; if the door is too
small to let out the smoke, hole is made
in the roof. There is brick oven in one
corner, table, chair, few saucepans,
bowls, plates, knives, and forks no strain
er, gridiron or modern utensil. The brick
oven is built solidly upon the tile floor,
and is used for washing and baking. A
horizontal iron plate is fastened to the
back of it, with five holes of different siz-
es for saucepans. It is very economical
arrangement, because the wood can be
used in accordance with the amount OF
heat required. The long sticks are
kindled and pushed forward under the
plate as far as there is need of it, and
pushed in as fast as it is burned. When
charcoal is used, one place is kindled,
or as many more as are required. There
are no towels; the sun does the drying:
the tile floors. the dishes and the native
are washed, but left to dry. Scorpions
and centipedes abound, but they are not
worse than snakes or bees A little am
monia or carbolic acid destroys all i'll
effects. And as the w1iter is anxious to
go back to this delightful place, it is evi-
dent that the fact of her having been
obliged to kill seven centipeeds in one
house does not seem to have left an insur-
.mOuntable prejudice in her mind
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-21

ONLY three of the cardinals whom
Gregory XVI created are now living, and
one of these-Cardinal Asquinie-i in
danger of losing his life. While taking
down a book from shelf of his library,
a short time ago, he fell and broke his
thigh-bone so that slight hopes have been
entertained of his recovery. He holds the
Office of Secretary of Briefs, and is rs
years old. At the same time it is learned
that Commentators Storbini, and one of
Leo Kills most devoted friends, is dying
from apoplexy. On the accession of his
friend to the papal throne he was made
Scalco Segreto, or private meatcarver to
His Holiness. 80 n /