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Mark Twain and Radicals.

Commenting on the new illustrated edition of
1.-THE Innocents Abroad" the Pal Mall Gazette
says:
THE issue of this convenient and freely illus
strated edition of what is perhaps Mark Twain's
best known, if not his best, book seems to
demand word or two of notice. We have seen
Mark Twain called the modern Rabeais' and
the expression is curious instance or the reck-
lessness not to say the ignorance, of criticism
nowadays. Mark Twain is doubtless an amusing
writer. and his book is an amusing book, but
modern Rabelais' is. as his countrymen would
say. large order. This book is about a dozen
years old and already it will hardly bear
second. much less third, reading. Its burlesQue
is seen to be forced and conventional; its Jokes
mere newspaper cttches. dependent at the best Of
times on temporary vogue for any piquancy they
can have possessed. and for the most part as duh
ta=flay as yesterdays saltwater. Every point
is labored and worried till it will bear no more
Contrast this with the unQuenchahle flow of
Rabelaisian humor; the ever-new wealth of it
flung out as from kings treasury and thought
no more about; the abiding charm which has
outlasted three centuries the solid wisdom I'M
DERIVING the jest; the unabored fantasy. the
grave naturalness Of its extravaganza. There
are two points of parallel between Rabelais and
Mark Twain and no more. The one is that both
use deliberate eXaggeratiOn, and, so to speak,
multiplication, as source OF humOr; and the
other that both occasionally drop the mask and
speak for few minutes from the heart.
Nothing can be farther from our wish than to
speak disrespectfully of Mr.. Clemens. His
thorough healthiness of tone the absence of
humbug about him, the Outspoken cOndemna-
ton OF what he thinks wrong or absurd in his
own countrymen, the vigorous common sense
Of much that he writes. and occasionally the
real fun OF his extravaganza, makes one forgive
good deal of strained and stale jOking-nay,
even the hideous vulgarity of such things as
his version of The Seven Sleepers.' But Mr.
Clemens should pray to be saved from his
friends"
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Prince Krapotkine,. E.cape.

Prince krapotkine, who has recently arrived
In London from Switzerland, and who has &C
quired no little notoriety as one of the cham
piOns of nihilism, was not always a destructive;
but he took to conspiracy during the reign OF
the late Car. and was imprisoned in the dun
geOns of the fortress of Peter and Paul beneath
the Neva. Confinement in these dungeons for
any length of time means death. and after three
years Prince krapotkine was, after he had en-
dured terrible sutferings, removed to the in
Urinary above ground. AS he began to re-
cover he was allowed to take walking exercise
in the court yard between two soldiers. While
walking there one day the gates opened to let
in a cart, and he observed that this court ward
communicated with the street. He accordingly
determined to try and escape but it was four
months before another such opportunity pre-
sented itself He had contrived to let his friends
know that he was going to make the attempt.
and to ask that a carriage should be waiting
outside every day from IL to 4. At the end of
four months the gates again opened while he
was out He rushed from between the two sol
ders, and though they they tried to bayonet
him, he was able to get into the carriage and
drive off. The police were searching all the
suspected districts of St. Petersburg while Ne
was quietly dining with some friends in fash
lonable restaurant and the next day he was
able to leave in disguise for Germany.
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FINRUSTEE'S SALE OF HOUSES AND LOTS ON r
II SIkEEI, BETWEEN ELENENT AND

Il STREET,, BETNEEN ELENE \ L III AND
TWELFTH STREETS NORTHEAST.
BY virtue of decree o4 the Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia passed in the suit of John
Webster Mary Webster ct al No. 1853 Eanity In
Docket No. 90 will offer for SALE public auction in
front of the premises. SATURDAY, DECEMBER
SENENTEENIH, 1881, at FOUR O'CLOCK r. Nj,
the west half of lot numbered two CD in square
bered nine hundred and eighty three 1885, fronting
32) feet on street northeast in the city q
Washington, and running hack with that width to the
rear ilne of said lot, the being improved by two
two story frame dwelling houses known Nos. IIl4
and lll6 street northeast
The property will be sold in bulk two separate
lots, each with house thereon, to suit purchasers.
Terms Of sale prescribed by said decree: One third
OF the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the bal
ance in two equal instruments payable with interest
one and two years respectively from day OF sale for
which the notes of the purchaser secured by deed of
trust upon the premises Sold shall be leposit
of $50 on each piece of properly sold VIII be required
when the is bid off, Ali taxes, liens and assess
nents upon the premises due TO the day sale Will
paid out of the proceeds of sale Property TO be con
veyed upon ratification Of sale by the court All con-
veyancing at purchasers cost. If of sale be not
complied with in days from day Of sale. Trustee
reserves the right to resell the premises and
cost OF defauting purchaser upon five days public
tce OF such resale in some newspaper published in
Washington, DC.
CEAS. A. ELLIOT. Trustee
4OS 5th street northwest.
DUNCANSON BROS, Au.I;oueers.
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AUCTION SALES.

(SHARLES W. HANDY. Real Estate Agent.
AUCTION SALE OF DESIRABLE BUILDING OF
GARDENING LOTS AT TNloNIoNN, DC.
Nil se at public auction, in front of the premises.
on THCkSDtI, DECEMBER TWENTY -SEGOND,
1881. at THREE O'CLOCK M, Lots 3l4, 3D. ga
and 335; said lots being Harrison street. Opposite
Anacostia road.
Terms OF sale win be announced on day If sale.
di4-d&dbs ). +. CoIDNEII. Anct
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TOMORROW.
nUNCANSoN BROS. Auchoneers

FINE WALNUT AND OTHER FURNITURE, kc.,
BEING ENTIRE CONTENTS OF HOUSE No. "a
STREET. All CORNER OF FIRST STREET
NORTHWEST, AT AUCTION.
On FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER SIXTEEN,
commencing at Ten O'CLOCK, viii sell the entire
Household Furniture, &c, contained therein. and
partly enumerated a. follows:
-Four Walnut Bookcases, Walnut Desk, Walnut Mar
b.etop Tables, UIhotered Chars French Plate Msntel
Mirror, Rings Pxlntsngs, Walnut Wardruhes. Bed
steads Chairs fine Hair Mattresses. Wire Mattresses.
Sofa Bed, OAK Dining Chairs Walnut Marble top Side
board, Plated Ware, lace Curtains, Refrigerators,
Stoves, &C, &c. with other articles.
dat DiNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers.
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INSURANCE.

COLUMBIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
" 1872 STREET.
.ACSTEEs:
JOHN A. BAKER FRED'K b. MCGUIRE,
THOS. J. FISHER BRAINARD Ii. WARMER
EOBT 1. FLEMING. GEO. III. b. WHITE.
HM. NJ. GAIT, HENRY A. WILLARD.
C1iAS. &. GLOVER
HENRY A. WILLARD, President.
FREDERICK Il. MCGUIRE, Vice President.
H. K. WILLARD Secretary.
Insurance against all Loss by Fire at reasonable
rates. ly9-tm
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A UCTIoN SALE OF FORFEITED PLEDGES
JAMES GUILD a. son. AucTIoNEERs.

JAMES GUILD SON. AUCTIONEERS.
viii sell for ii. X. Fulton, at 1918 PENNSYLVANIA
nie northwest, on TIL lsSDAl and FRIDAY, DECEM-
Der FIFTEENTH and SIXTEENTH. large and val
uah!e collection 81 Forfeited Pledges. consisting Gold
and Silver Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, &c. Persons
holding tickets, the time Which having expired, viii
please take Notice. H. X. TIIlON. Broker.
JAMES GUILD SON, Auctioneers
y B--S Said sale will be continued MONDAY, DE-
CEMBER NINEi ZENITH at the same hours, and con-
tinue until all the lots sold. dl0-St'
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EONFRNMENT SALE OF UNSERyICEABLE MA
0TERiAt- BG ORDER OF THE INTERIOR DE-
PAkIMEST, AT AUCTION.

ON on , FklnAa. DIE BtR SiNIEENTH, 1881,
the Pension Office 18th street and Penna. ave-, north
west, and Sane Day at TWELVE O'CLOCK a.. st
Interior Department corner 9th and q streets north
west, We VIII sell quantity Of Carpets Chairs Tables.
Desks. Mating, sc, &c.
Terms cash, and goods to he removed Immediately
Dist DGNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers
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THIS EVENING.
THoMAs DOWNING. Aacnoneer.

FENliOMAS DOWNING. Aacrsoneer
CATALOGUE SALE or THREE PRIVATE LIBRA.
kilSI AMONG WHICH ARE MANY SCARE T.
AND NAit ABlE Y hith>, sislO. SOME CHOICE
ILLUSTRATED NORRIS. COPIES OF AIlIF-
Tons AND CHAMBERS CICI.OPEDIAS. ETC
ETC.
To I've sold at my suction rooms, southwest corner
PENIS; lNRnia avenue aud Eleventh street. MONDAY
EVENING. DECEMBER TWELFTH, and following
Evsn,nSs commencing each eycl.IIlg at SEWN AND
A-HAIF CLOCK.
Terms cash.
The ID L. are now ARRANGED ina my New BOOK Sales
room, where ladies and gentlemen can Il. seated ana
examine them at their leisure
dad THOMAS DONl ING arctinneer
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The Empress Eusenie in London.

The Empress Eugene, says London CORE
spondent, occupies furnished house. No. %
Princes gate, Hyde park, until such time as her
beautiful country chateau at Farnsborough shall
be ready. A la bonnie heure9 Here is a house in
which everyone is very much alive. indeed. The
imperial cOat-Of-arms. in all it's pristine splendor
emblaZOned on an elegant landau which stands
waiting to take the mistress for her drive: hand
some cabs rafting up with Lusy gentlemen
every other minute; an arriving victoria drawn
by two splendid bays, carrying two English
girls. who leave cards; Gen. Pietri, seated at an
upper window, writing away for dear life ap-
parently lost in the maZes of English house
keeping accounts. The first day of the en-
press installation the Prince of Wales called on
her, and stayed quite hall hour long time for
morning call. The house has no special archi-
tectural features, being merely one or a group
of tall, fve-story gray stone residences. But the
outlook is charming. The whole of HYDE park
stretches like a garden beneath the front WIN
dows and on these mild November days the
windows are wide open, as in summer
upon the misty air, an atmosphere
beautiful in itself, like richly tinted opal.
And, oh, housekeepers. You should just have
a look at Eugenie's parlOr curtains, and indeed.
those which adorn all the front windows of this
house. which she has made her temporary home.
Such lace! To have one curtain for ball dress
would be to be attired like princess of fairy
lace-looms. You get the practical hOusekeep-
ing side OF being all empress when you see such
costly curtains hung from basement to garnet
of the abode wherein she resides. Eugenie's
household is still conducted with considerable
state. Besides the gentlemen and ladies who
surround her and form a sort of remnant of
court. she has thirteen house servants. and
many others for the grounds and stables when
in her country homes. l understand she still
talks of removing ''her dead from Chiselhurst,
and erecting imperial monuments to them at
Marlborough. Her objection to the place of
their repose at Chiselhurst is based on the
Catholic dislike of northern exposure for the
dead, and her inability to purchase southern
lot from an obstinate landowner, who refused
to dispose of his ground to ian idOlator" and
would not even allow the queen to shake his
anti-ROmanist objections, has been the real
cause of her leaving Chiselhurst. 1 have met
her several times driving in the park Poor
Eugene! She is still a splendid looking woman,
and bears herself as if yet every inch queen.
though her throne has crumbied into dust, and
all her nearest and dearest have vanished to the
Cimmerlan shades.
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WALTER b. WILLIAMS 4 CO.. Auctiuneers.
SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE
SILyERPLATED WARE and RODGERS CUTLERY,
BY ORDER
TAUNTON SILVER-PLATE COMPANY
Consigned to US with Instructions b Sell
REGARDLESS OF COST OR VALUE.
On THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER FTP
TEENTH. at TEN O'CLOCK. r,suming Mt TWO
and SEyEN-AND-HALF O'CLOCK PM
And will continue from day tn day at the same hours
until the entire stock If closed ont SPACIOUS Sales
room, corner 10th and streets acing Pennsylvania
avenuel, which is especially udaIted the display IL
these elegant goods and to the and convenience
of visitors. Chairs will tie furnished the ladies' who are
respectfully invited. The stock embraces:
Breakfs~t Dinner Pickle and Sugar Csstors,
Ice i1tcherS Fitting Sets Tea Sets Us Cake Baseis
EleTenes, Fruit ana Berry Stands, Vases Toilet
Celery, Baking, Pudding and Butter Dishes, Soup and
Oyster Turcens,
Walters. CUPS, t'ctets. Ladies. Nut Picks. Napkin
Rnys.
CarYers Rogers and others Celebra.ed Triple and
Quadruple Plated Knives, Forks and Spoons
And general assortment of all the SUPERIOR goods
mace by these well known maIuf sctaTies.
Terms cash.
dl3-5t WALTER b. WILLIAMS 4 Co, Auct..
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PIANOS AND ORGANS.
WOOD AND COAL.

GEORGE CREYELING, WOOD AND COAL,
~ removed from 18th street wharf TO l4th street
wharf. Office 1922 l4th street Best Spruce Pine S.
best Bakers Pine, Sc: Oak, s. so: Hickory. s.. So
Sawed and Split Oak, 81 Pine, 81. 80. NIL Pm
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TURKISH BATHS.

NEW TURKISH BATH. lll7 q STREET OPpo-
~ site Rigs Housed; large pool; good ventilation;
ladies Monday and Friday; not open Sunday; open
from to 10. Saturdays 12 baths 81 ckets 81 so.
DIR. II. L. BO.EE. Electrician. 90
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EOLEY, Auciioneer.

PAWNBROhER'S SALE OF UNREDEFMED
PLEDGES
Commencing MONDAY DECEMBER TwFI Eth
1881 AT SfAtNp NJ. VIII sell NatioIisl Lean
nfhce, 1909 9Th street, and cnntne ing until every
Pledge Is disposed II, comprising
Cl.d end silver Watches,
Solid Geld and Plated Chans
Sets OF Coral and God Jewelry
Ans tlst Cameo ard lErsasHee Rings.
Musical INSTRUMENTS. RcNolyers.
Plate and Plated Ware,
A large assortment Of Cienfs Clothing and many
other articles too numerous to mention. dis-gt
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that monarch published an edict against boards,
and Elizabeth ordained that every beard of
above a fortnight's growth should pay an annual
tax of acknowledgements, a feature borrowed
by Peter the Great. who taxed the boards OF his
peasant subjects a cOpeck a year and charged
weather. ones a hundred rOubles. say so. On
the Continent. magistrates, grave burghers and
other worthy folk had long made a practice of
wearing 'beards of formal cut opposed to the
regnant cOur. fashion. whatever that happened
to be. and when the civil war broke out under
Charles l. the hair became the distinguishing
mark of the factions. The beard of the period
was worn sharply peaked in a triangular form,
and pastebOard cases were employed to cover
them during sleep; a man of fashion gave more
time to his beard than one does nowadays to
his hair. and even had his reader to beguile the
tedium Of arranging it. Taylor. the Water
Poet, gives it roundIy to the great vanity" of
boards in that tune. when barber eXultantly
cried, as he finished off the court preacher
There! I'll be hanged if any one of
taste listens to word of the sermon today"
The beard dwindled away to whiskers under
the Charieses, possibly because the wig mOnop-
olized the attention, and partly because of
continental fashions and went out with James
H. when an era of close shaving setin-in which
the popular epithet of contempt, by the way was
..beardIess boy" In private and public life, in
the army and navy, everybody shaved daily
and the rule Of the razor lasted till half a CEN
fury ago.
Napoleon shaved himself" said Talleyrand.
lone born to be king has some one to shave
him, but they who acquire Kingdoms shave
themselves" But when the Classcists fell before
the ROmanticists about 1880 the beard came in,
as it had under Francis I. and the Renaissance.
Nowhere could daring spirits assert so conspicu-
Ously their disregard of the conventional and
their desire Of innovation as in the matter Of
hair and beard, and the gathering on the first
night OF ssHernani" was a very nightmare Of lir-
sufeness. Artists, conspirators. Saint-Sime-
mans and phalaDsteFtans introduced the cuitns
of the beard, while grayer folk declared formut-
ton-chop whiskers. The beard came more slowly
into fashion In England Before James Ward
the Royal Academician, had the courage to LEI
his beard grow be felt compelled to publish
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PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED PROP
EETY ON f. STREET, BETWEEN SMITH AND
SEVENTH STREETS NORTHWEST Bling
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THOMAS BOWLING, Auctioneer.

4US OH street NORTHWEST
DUNCANSON BROS. AGGt3oneers. df -eo
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merly employed in his family, had asserted that
the assassination was talked over in the SEQ
vile family as long ago as last May. and giving
other details. indicating that the whole family
was Iii aconspiracy. The fact was said Mr. SEQ
Willie. that on Friday. the 1st of july his wife
and himself were in Wisconsin. and on that day
he received dispatch from client in Chicago
Mr.. p W. Gates, to Immediately go to Washing
ton on seine
When he arrived in Chicago. on Saturday
july 2d he saw some people crowded abOut A
bulletin beard. aud he heard it said the Presi-
Gent was shot. An hour afterwards he saw an
extra paper giving the name of the assassin
hen lie got into the car. on the way to Wash
ington, some ladies and gentlemen sat near him.
They had hardly taken their seats before they
commenced to discuss the assassination. One
gentleman said he had some facts about the
matter which few persons knew. There was a
mysterious person. he said. who came to the
house of Mr. ScOyille Thursday night, and said
to Miss Fanny. his daughter: You must tele-
graph ten YOUR father Immediately" The next
patch which he (Mr. Scoville) had received
This informant of the ladies went en- to say that
Mr.. Seoylie had started to Washington and no
doubt
OLD MAN sCOyILLE
was on that very train. Laughter The ladies
had piece OF information they could not well
retain. and all the way to Harrisburg they had
to repeat this story: Of course it grew every
time it was related until every person in the car
knew all about it. That was the story that had
grown into newspaper report. He came here
and having transacted his business paid visit
to the prisoner i'm jail he did not then
expect to enter the defence
WHY HE UNDERTOOK THE DEFENCE
After the death OF the President, Mr. Sco-
vile said, the district attorney telegraphed
him. saying Guiteau wanted him to defend him.
He believed his wife was the only person In the
world that then cared for the prisoner. It
might be said that he Chr. 8. had not the right
fsn ohildhoed, ~ ts1asvea Mn g u g oooe
The daily gazette., 1881-03-24

A travelling salesman, Dow by name
was in Minnesota during a recen
"cold snap" Being snow bound In
small village the only quarters he sould
find for the night were in bleak, half
furnished room, minus stove, but
plus two broken panes in the window.
Mr.. Dow accepted the situation, and,
chilled to the marrow, went to bed and
tell asleep. The next thing he was
conscious of was being carried down
stairs. He couldn't speak or move a
muscle, nor even realize what had hap
pened. Il appears that a "bliz8a' d''
had set in, the thermometer had fallen
to 4Uo below zero, and Mr.. Dow had
actually frozen stiff before the other
occupants of the house could break in-
to his room and get him out of it.
Fortunately, vigorous course oftreat
ment restored him to action, and he is
slowly but steadily recovering.
The daily gazette., 1881-03-24

they propose to do. The statement of
Mr.. Roberts of the Pennsylvania road,
does not agree with the proposed
operation of Mr.. Garrett. If Mr..
Garrett's road has contracted for the
use of the track for the P, w. s. b.
for the cars of the b. & o. for three
months, why could he not extend that
contractP Certainly President Rob"
erts does not talk as though there
was limit to the use of tire p, W. q
B. for the b. & D. On the contrary
President Roberts says there is no prob
ability of a new roa1 being built, which
we take it, means that be intends to
make IL to the interest of the b. & .. to
use the tracks of the p. w. q b. to
Philadelphia, and the tracks controlled
by the Pennsylvania FROM that city to
New York. The GAZETTE would be
glad to see the work on new road put
under contract.
The daily gazette., 1881-03-24
Mr.. BRADronp did not exbibit .,

Mr.. BRADFORD did not exhibit SO
much indignation when he heard OF
the great fraud perpetrated by his
party in 1870. 1t was all right to de-
fraud the Democrats out of one hur-
dred thousand offices to which they
were justly entitled, had the decision
OF the people at the polls been re-
spected. Nothing was more clearly
evident than that Mr.. Tilden was
fairly and honestly elected. But we
never heard thai Mr.. Bradford de-
nounced his being kept out of the
Presidency by fraud as "damnable
act" The Eleventh Ward bill may
be not to Mr.. Bradford's liking, but
there seems to be great lack of wis
dom in agentlemah undertaking to ar
rest the passage OF a bill to eularge the
limits of city by mere denunciation.
Some of the people in the section to
be added to the city now receive the
city water through pipes put in at the
city's expense and for which they
never paid fair proportion; others
have their children in city schools and
do not pay city taxes. The bill should
receive careful examination aad if it
,is found correct shou d not be rejected
Dy the Legislature simply because an
election held under 1t might result fav-
orably to Democrats. There has not
been change in the wards of the city
Tor twenty years when such a char e
was not made. The city was extended
over the marsh nearly two miles east
OF the city and to Edgmoor on the
north, and we see no great objection
70 extending its limits on the south
west. This, however, must rest in a
great measure with the people living
In the section to be enclosed. 1t is
however, that before two
years the proposed extension will be |
required; and if it is not done now,
and the next Legislature should be
controlled by the Republican party
that party will do it.