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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-19
FREE NOVELTY PARADE!

Comprising the CONGRESS OF ALL NATIONS
having representative from every land and Cline
suIerbly costumed in pure native mode, msgnifi
Furnished Armors; heralts bearing banners high
aloft with unique and strange devices; Men-at-
Arms, Isges, Ladies, Knights, Cavaliers, etc The
entire tribe of indians, mouLted on pure Indian
Ponies. Will also participate in this all earth's
der moving spectacular street pageant; The ia
Ianese Troupe will form component part of this
great Holiday Festival, and may be seen seated In
he only genuine Royal English Coach. The State
Carriage Of Napoleon Ill. Cages, Dens. Animal
cared Elephants. gold bound Geological Palace on
wheels, containing fierce, untamed Lions and
Hyenas, are upon the highway seen, accompanied
by their keepers, dioramic and wonderful display
Of representative types OF the animal Kingdom
SEE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-19
chickering's is a Big Help.
INafrnif Erea Precr /

lDetTOlt FREE freSS.J
They were holding an outdoor ward meeting
the other night, and speaker had just COM
meGced to warm up to his Wolk, when stranger
with all his worldly .duds" in an Old sheepskin
ON his back, boots gone, hat going and dyed
1n-the-w DOL tramp air about him, halted on the
outskirts of the crowd The speech soon caught
MIN, and he began to applaud. At the end OF
every sentence he clapped his hands and roared
like fog horn. No matter whether the speaker
init EN- or not. the stranger never failed to
cone down with the applause. and he carried
gcod share OF the crowd with him. After the
speaker had finished, and while he was wiping
his heated brow, the tramp approached him and
said:
"That ere speech was one OF the best l ever
heard in all my life.'
"Ah? I'm glad it pleased YOU"
PLEASED NE! Why, it lifted me right Of'n
my feet! tell you, you're born orator, and
l Just wish could stay in this town and hear
you make speech every night
Yes, wish you could"
'But l can't am On my way west. l shall,
Gay. can feel the electricity Of it yet, and
on?' W 'f --''
Why, don't know you. Why should lend
you half dollay?"
"Oh come now-dont try to ride any high
horse over me. You know how loud holered
and you know as well as l do that IL | hadn't
put In my best ticks you'd have fallen as fiat as
shBgle! You are great orator, sir, and that
was great speech but If you don't know that
hollering is what does the business, you'd bet.
ter hang right up"
Tue orator pondered over the matter for a.
rev seconds, and then probably concluded that
the reasoning was sound, as he passed over the
money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-19
ON FRIDAY ENENIN1;. An.r,et an,l,
MONT FORGET.

The original EXCELSIOR TENT
MI No; A. F L. H. viii give her Sss0nd
POINT AUGUST rs, 1850, on the fast and COM
modious steamer Jane MOseley. Pro-. Pistorio's
Cornet and String Band engaged. Dancius. Tick
ets al saterooms for sale at Ducketts drug store
20 st. tnd Pa ave- J.. richer, ~ Hixh ST, George
town, and J. Alex. Edgar. northwest cor. sth aud
East Capitol sta. Tickets so cents; children be-
tween and IL % cents. Steamer leaves High st.
wharf. teorEetown, a. IN. sharp and 9TH 81 wharf
San. sharp. Tickets limited to 500. Street carg
VII be at rhe wharf on return Of Excursion.
auele-l7, 20, II, 23, pa
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EYOU VALUE YOUR EYESf&aHT. e,t
Il tnS best 81 GLASSES OF H. ~ cs
a1M H1Ebs the Optcian. Pa. ave,
o73 s0' apyk
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PICNICS, EXCURSIONS. Or

PICNICS, EXCURSIONS, DC.
RfFM sN,1TsEs1rRTs HE ,lrsS,eH.-okASD
MSNT; MONDAY. August 2s issn.
OF Snes ST. the sss 4 ri ps
wharf at so q. m. The steamer +. V. krrowsmith
~, Il ave Potomac Fer, Go. mari al u M re-
tarnii Al il p m shsrp. oonaectns Win car. to
all parts OF the city. Tickets 50 cents; children half
SELEoT EXCURSION TO NJ RsHALL
sasfht f FSfs. e tsskk;.f;s s 9 Sc
fnrpi.h,ns clothing to the poor the coming winter
%n VI TuESPA5h Avg "a 1885, on the ne steamer
The bcst leaves her wharf at 10 a. and and
?: M Tickets 50 cents. ausls ST.
THE ABM0WsM!TH.
PINEY POINT.
EHHEESSR sS.SEInsT 81 Hr WASH
lNa1oN A AiJS BkLTiMSEE ENouR-A ASH
children; Select. enjosabs s and h inc ss@N
SATURDAY. A sTNT .rsA.M..
under 10 Years free.
Nn,ic ard Dancing on the boat.
W. a. hGhT. wM DIoKsoN.N
Stol ring at Alexandria on each trip anis-St
EIRsT GRAND ARMY EXCURSION.
II in sid of the relief fund OF
On SATURDAY. Aug. 2lst, ID .xkk
ToRT MOS ROE. NORFOLK. and the OCEAN
The JsEe Nose ey will leave the wharf at 9th STRAIT
st6 p N returning TO the city on Monday next at
Ire tickets win be received also IN the Lady of
TIE Lale. which leaves ON FRIDAY. Aug 2Otl, at
6p. III.
Tickets for the round trip 81 so: Children from,
10 10 Years IS cents. and from 10 90 II years 81
Meals N the boat 70 cents
, icktts may be obtained from the members of th,
Oonmttee on hntertainnents-W. L Seville De-
rArfment Of the Interior: NJ. whivple Seroni An
dItcr's Office: W, A. Moore, GENERAL Land Ilf,ire
fee. .nr,S ~
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SARA BERNHARDT'S WARDROBE is not exciting
SO much attention here as the splendid QUALITY
or HoWEon's ice cream, at ST. a gallon, 10 cts
plate. 1lU4 18th st.
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Only $4,000 Tickets and S25O,OOO i'm
Prizes.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03

into her cage and rolled herself up into wretched ball in corner. She's sick" explained Mir. Mooney. q don't know, but 1 fear to lose her. I've been feedin' her on billed egg an port wine an billed milk an nutmeg, but devil the good it does her. She dances first-rate now, and if it wasn't for that I'd have her singin' the tra-la-loo inside of another week. To blazes with this climate, anyhowi Sure. it's no wondher people dies of pneumonia, when even poor monkeys gets it.
 How did she commence to talk?" asked the reporter.
 Il taught her. She used to squat in the windy there (the place is narrow room, which has been barber shop and has bulkhead window) listening to all she could hear and saying 1t afther. One day 1 heard her barkin' loike dog she heard. So I thought maybe she could learn to meow like a cat I thried 1t, and inside of week she had it all straight. Dye see that cage of cocka- toos there? pointing to a little back room, full of parrot cages, noise and smell. Well, there was one bird there l sold yesterday for $200 It could talk like Tombs lawyer-divel less. But one thing it used to do was to yell 'Hullo!' till you'd think it was a copper after clam pirate up dark alleyway. It was from him Kate learned that. She's learning to say 'oll, pshaw', from that macaw there in the next cage, but she's so bad to-day she isn't fit for any thing, poor divel."
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
TOM sCOTT,s VIEWS.
What He Thinks of the Railways of the
 Future.
N. Y. Tribune.

NY. Tribune
 Col. Scott received the Tribune core spondent at his house this afternoon, and to an inquiry concerning his health, re- piled:
 'I am little better than have been l was at the office as usual to day attend ing to my duties. 1 resign because l want to get rid of the arduous duties incident to such large corporation. l believe and my doctors tell me tbat with complete rest I can recover my health, and l follow their advee in resigning. l shall not go abroad, but shall take my rest here.
 "I read the Tribune this morning. see Mir. Reid speaks of me. He says that Texas Pacific was the mistake of my life. Tell him that Texas Pacific is to-day one of the best roads in the coun- try, with great future. It does not owe one dollar to anybody. The float ing debt which was necessay to raise to build 1t has all been paid off. The equipment debt, which is a very small one of $20,000 mile, is the only debt it has, and it is secured. 1t is also secured by land grants. The Texas Pacific is able to take care of itself. We are build ing 400 miles to Fl Paso, as you know. After that, 1t remains to be seen what will be done. In about year 1t will tap New Orleans so as to have port on the Gulf as well as the Atlantic seaboard. It is and will be great road When 1 was before Congress for subsidy, Mir. Reid's paper opposed me. That was all right. l am very glad we did not get it. We are better for having had to rely on our own resources. We applied for aid be- cause we thought that was an economical way 10 build road. l don't think so now. The Government should not grant aid to any road. It is mistake"
 Did the idea ever occur to you favor- ably of the government obtaining con- trol of the railroads of the country?"
 'It would be the greatest mistake possible both for the railroads and the government. The government could not run them. There are too many now. They must turn to and develop them selves. They are to-day just beginning to fulfill the promises made in 1875, especially Tn the West"
 Do you think the railroad future of the country will be unfavorably affected by the present tendency to centralization of power, the one man control?"
 Not in the least. The West must develop, and the increased production. which means increased business, must come last. With calm conservative ad- ministration of affairs for the next twenty years we must reach in railroad ing, as in everything else, an unex- ampled era of prosperity"
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
St. Augustine. Florida.

St. Augustine, Florida, has always been accounted the most ancient town in the Republic. While landing was made there by Spaniards as early as 1912, there was no settlement until 53 years later when fort was built, fixing it's age. to date, at 315. This honor of an- tiquty is nov disputed by a Western village, Tucson, Arizona. organized, it is claimed, as a pueblo or Spanish town site in l542, nearly 23 years earlier than the settlement of St. Augustine. It has ever since kept up it's right to the tract of land which is by Spanish law granted to an incorporated settlement. Now that Tucson has set up this clam, many other Western places will be sure to contend for the distinction of hoary age. No doubt, we shall hear within few weeks of such Damascuses as Chicago, Denver and Cheyenne discovering that a settlement was made by some white man or men in their immediate vicinity 800 or 500 years ago; and if that cannot be established as fact, it will be de- monstrlted in some occult manner that the settlement was certainly in l54l or l540. The West is content to be ahead without insisting on being very much ahead. It is very, very new, everybody knows; but its big cites can hardly per init hamlet like Tucson to bear off the palm for senility when they can manu- facture documents centuries old to con tradict any such assumption. We think that Chicago will be victorious; for while it is the youngest ard busiest and finest and most enterprising and most pro- gressive and most commercial and most exceptional and most wonderful, it can ill-aford not to be at the same time the most venerable.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
A New Vegetable.

The new vegetable introduced here by Gen. Sewell, and grown by kim from seeds imported from Italy, is really a very valuable addition to our horticul- tural products, and will, we hope, be largely cultivated hereafter by our gar deners. It is called he zuchini or Ital. ian vegetable marrow, aud the unani- nous opinion of those who have eaten them is that they are much superior to the eggplant and possess a deiieacy of flavor which will make them great ta- vorite with our vegetable loving people. who, we are sure, will hail with pleas ure their presence in large quantities in our markets. In appearance they are very much like cucumber, being, when mature, however, much larger than that delightful but dangerous vegetable, and producing most prohfcally in this cll- mate. They grow with surprising rapid ity, too being in that respect very much like Jacks bean stalk of nursery rhyme celebrity. and the General declares his belief that careful and patent watcher mlght see them grow" However that may be, we are satisfied that the zuchini will be a valuable addition to our market truck, and our people will some day thank the Democrat for calling it to theiI notice and recommending its cultivation on large scale.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
Trade Facilities in Mexico.


 In recent nervlew with some one unnamed, Hon. John w. Foster, late minister to Mexico, expressed the con- viction that railroads were necessary to the development of proper trade with Mexico, since Vera Cruz was not capable of accommodating such commerce as the resources of the country would iusti- fy. This is true in broad and pro- phetic sense, yet it is not altogether a fair statement of the case under existing circumstances. Vera Cruz is not to be disposed of quite so summarily as all this. It is the sea-board terminus of one of the finest railroads in the world, which railroad penetrates to the City of Mexi- co, 263 miles inland, with notifications to Jalapa and Puebla already completed, and with extensions stretching out to- ward the great mining center of Pachuca. This road runs through the magnificent agricultural regions of Cor doba and Orizaba; it is thoroughly equipped, and capable by proper man agement of expanding its facilities al- most indefinitely. We do not say that 1t is as ably managed as it might be. On the contrary, it struck us as wearing a very narrow and provincial air. The rates are infamousIy hlgE, both for pas sage and freight, the trains are run so slowly that it is exasperating, and the establishment generally gives you the idea of being as calmly and impenetra- ply blind to the comfort of the public as to the growing demands of commerce Nevertheless, the material is there, and it can be converted into a great artery of trade when popular opinion in Mexi- co shall insist mon chanUp
 Meanwhile, with very slight expendi- ture, Vera Cruz can be converted into a reasonably convenient port It is noth- ing more than town built upon the flat seashore. It is not harbor at all. But about half mile from land, and imme- diately in front, is an island upon which is an interesting and helpless old ruin which the Mexicans fondly considered a fortress. It is, in tact, the most feeble and decrepit of obsolete Notifications, and would be worse than useless for purposes of defense. There is deep wa ter within sixty feet or less of this edi- flee, and the thought that at once occurs to every American tourist is to convert fictitious fort into real engine of util- ity, turn it into large and handsome government warehouse, at which ships could load or unload, and then connect it with the shore by means of pier winch would be at once breakwater and viaduct. With these facilities Vera Cruz would become port of very respectable capacity, and the increase of business in very short while, would cover the expense involved. Freight could be handled at half the present ex- pense and in less than half the time, and commerce would soon seek point which it now avoids as far as possible.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
WHAT WE EAT.
Another Chapter on the AdulteratIon of
 Food.
Halls Journal of Health.

Halls Journal of Health.
 It is enough to shake our confidence in human nature to find that there are men who, for the sake of gain, will bring torture and death, not only to ther fellow beings, but upon meek, defenseless am- mals that patiently wear out their lives in our service.
 Not long s,nce an English paper an- nounced that in Manchester many horses had died after intense suffering. The cause of death was investigated, and it was found that the dealer who SUD- piled the food with which the horses had been fed had added quantity of plaster of paris to give it additional weight, and that this plaster with the food and water formed solid mass which completely obstructed the passage through the stomach and intestines. It is will known in our own country that there are manufacturers who sell clay for red pepper, alum for cream of tan tar, and who deal out destruction to little children in the form of candles made from glncos and kaoline, colored with vermillon. It is high time something was done to obate, if not to abolish, these abuses. Legislation seems power less to do so, and the only way appears to be to expose these fradulent practices and instruct the people how to escape them.
 The counterfeit which IS to-day doii:g the greatest and most widespread mis- chief is the substitution of alum for cream of tarter. In certain instances, alum, when taken into the stomach, has acted as poison, and many cases of death have occurred from it. It's repeated con- tact, even in small quantities, acts de. structively on mucous membranes, pro- ducing chronic irritation of the throat, stomach and intestinal canal. The most painful and obstinate cases of dyspepsia have been caused by the long continued use of food containing alum. We form erly advised people to procure pure ma terials and make their own bak- ing powders; but we found from experi- ence that this was impracticable, for the reason that it is more difficult to find pure cream of tarter, and still more difficult to combine the materials in the proper proportions, if we had them pure. We conclude, therefore. that the safest plan, and the moast economical, is to purchase baking powders that are made by reliable manufacturers. There are q few reliable concerns of this kind but recent investigations indicate that there are ten that adulterate their goods to one that sells pure article.
 We recen ly purchased in neighbor- ing city, for examination. one pound of loose baking powder-that is, not can- ned-and four cans of one pound each, of different makers, whose goods we knew nothing about. We found the package of loose baking powder com posed wholly of crude carbonate of soda or soda ash, and alum. Can No. was mixture of bi-caI bonate of soda, alum, tartaric acid and corn starch. No. was bI-carbonate of soda, alum aud flour. No. was bi-carcodate of soda, alum and trace of tartaric acid. No. was found perfectly pure, and had the ingre dients combined in proper proportions.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
The India Deficit.

The English public is now exercised over the discovery that India is behind hand about $20,000,000 on the expenses of the Afghan war. It was a strong point which Beaconsfeld's government made in defense of that questionable search after scientific frontier that it would cost England nothing. The India purse was said to be long enough to pay for venture undertaken in behalf of India, and the English people congratu- lated themselves that, whether the from tier of India needed rectifcation or not, the foray into Afghanistan had the merit of being at India's cost. But the first dispatch which Lord Harrington received from India announced that the expenditures for the Afghan war had exceeded tue estimates by about $20,- 100000, and that the Indian government is greatly embarrassed by reason of the deficiency. This information is some- thing which the English public did not expect. No intimation of the over expenditure leaked out during the cleo tions, and in the very aggressive cam paign of the Liberals there was no doubt expressed but what India had paid the exper ses of the unnecessary Afghan war. The Liberals attacked the war itself, but they supposed it was paid for. They freely condemned the misappropriation of the famine fund, but they did not know that that fund had proved insufIi- cient. It turns out, however, that the war expenditures have largely exceeded the estimate, and that the incoming Liberal government will have to lace a large deficit ia the Indian budget.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
Spiders as Big as Birds.
Leadyille (Col.) Chronicle.


 A short distance from Buena Vista is a cave inhabited by spiders which differ from other spiders in their enormous size, and are quite useful to the needy people of that region. The cave was discovered last September by party of sight-seers, and the spiders and their work were witnessed. On entering the cave, one is first struck by the funny looking webs. They are worked liTse other webs of spiders, but every fiber is ten times as large as the ones woven by ordinary spiders. On passing further into the cave the spiders are encounter ed. They are about the size of small birds, and make strange sound while weaving their web. Their webs are so tough and the tibers so large that 1t is almost an impossibility to break down q web. Some weeks ago, while looking at the cave, miner got to examining the webs. Their strands were about the size of a No. l2 thread, and he thought that they could be used for thread. Hav- needle in his possession, he broke of one of the strands and found that it fitted the needle. Sewing on a button to test the efficacy, he found it as strong as silk thread, and it answered his every purpose. Since then the people have flocked in and carried away hosts of the webs, but the spiders do not appear to object in the least. There is some talk among capitalists of starting a thread factory there and using the webs fol thread.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
RUssEIvIE POPE COUNTY ARKANSAS THURSDAY, JUNE

gets out his fshing-rod and bait and waves 1t around in the water until some unsuspecting fish comes up and seizes it, when the angler, snatching the bait out of the way. swallows the fish. The young ones present a more curious ap- pearance even .iian the adult. The fila ments on the head are more numerous, and are tree-like in shape, the pectoral fin IS much longer, and has long spines on it, and the fins at the side are very large in comparison to the body. The fishing frog is very rapacious and often swallows fish ss large and heavy as it. self, such is the compatibility ot it's stom- ach. It is not eaten, but when captured by fishermen, 1t is preserved because of the other fish often found in it's stom- ach, and which 1t is compelled to dis gorge by the simple process of holding it upside down. Many stories are told of the goose-fish and it's voracitv. It has been known to seize a codfsh as they were drawn from the water, and was with difficulty forced 10 quit its hold. The specimens we saw hauled on board the vessel were full of fish which
 they had swallowed on their journey in the trawl from depth of fifteen fathoms.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-06-03
- - = - Drinking Ice Water.
Blltimore Sur,

There is no more doubt that drinking ice water arrests digestion than there is that refrigerator would arrest perspira- ton. It drives from the stomach it's natural heart suspends the flow of ga tric juice and shocks and weakens the delicate organs with which it comes in contact. An able writer on human dis eases says: Habitual ice-water drinkers are usually very flabby about the region of the stomach. They complain that their food lies heavy on that patient organ, They taste their dinner for hours after it is bolted. They cultivate the use of stimulants to aid digestion, if they arc intelligent, they read upon food and what the physiologist has to say about 1t how long 1t takes cabbage and pork and beef and potatoes, and other meats and esculents to go through the process of assimilation. They roar at new bread, hot cakes and fried meat, imagining | these to have been the cause of their maladies. But the ice water goes down all the same, and finally friends are call | ed in to take a farewell look at one whom mysterious Providence has called to a cline where, as far as is knovp, ice water is not used The number ot -s, mortal beings who go hence, 10 return
 DO more, on account of an injudi@ous use of ice water, can hardly be estl' mated,