Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-03
SATURDAY SALAD.

smoking tobacco on the streets. II will prob-
ably not pass, however. And if ought not Why
should man be allowed to befoul and poison
the air for those walking behind him. on the
streets. by the use of vile cigars pipes and
cigarettes. and the same privilege be withheld
from boy?
II is said of Gniteau that he never used
liquors or tobacco in any form, never played
| cards. and never saw a horse race If to this
string of virtues if could only have been added
that he died young,
In one or two English towns the experiment
has been successfully tried of using luminous
paint on portion Of the street letter boxes 10y
which means cot only can the mouth Of the
box. but also the inscription showing what
hours the mails are taken up. be easily seen in
the dark. This convenience is recommend Il to
| Postmaster Anger who seems to be on the
| alert Tor what will serve the public. IL is also
| respectfully suggested that that officer cause
! tablets to be affixed to all the letter boxes in
the city we'll as to those on some of the prin-
| ciple streets, indicating the hours when they
are emptied by the carriers The cost of this
| simple device would be nconsiderabie while its
advantage TO letter writers in remote parts of
the city would be very great.
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| Mr.. Macdonald, the New York sculptor. has
! been at Cleveland for several weeks past. en-
gagged in modelling a bust of the late President
Garfield. The papers of that city speak highly
almost too fervidly, one would think--of the
effort. SO far as it has progressed and predict
that II will be accepted by the country as the
| representative bust-portrait of its illustrious
subject. 1t is Mr.. MacDonalds purpose, we
hear, to execute it in marble. and afterwards to
make replicas i'm bronze. in which form he hopes
there will be considerable demand forit Should
this effort ultimately prove to be as fine work
of art as the artist bas relief.of Bryant he can
hardly be disappointed in this respect
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The capacity for Indulgence in Injuries ex-
hibited by a few of the successful journalists of
this country is popularity supposed to be some
thing quite phenomenal in its way But really
1t is nothing at all, when compared with the
lavish expenditures which occasionally mark
| the career of some of the more fortunate news
| paper proprietOrs in England. The owner of
the London Telegraph for illustration has re-
Gently purchased for his own occupancy the
estate formerly owned by the Duke of Suther-
! land, and later 10y the Duke of Westminster for
which be paid down 81 .000. 000 in cash Fancy
an American newspaper man buying a country
| place at figure like that!
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| The tactics displayed by the management Of
! the very short opera season vouchsafed to Wash
ington this week verged pretty closely upon the
| realms of sharp practice. Forcing lovers of
| music who wanted to hear Gerster to buy seats
| Tor both nights was virtually charging four dol
| lars for that luxury. since not many would
care to pay two dollars for a rendition of Trora-
! tore 10y an ordinary stock company Two dollars
| an evening is quite enough to pay for hearing
the star OF the company. and it would have
Deeh no great concession on her part to sing two
evenings to such audiences as Washington
| always gives to frst-class artists. But the
management seemed to know just how much
imposition our people would submit to- and he
won the stakes he PLAYED for. All the choice
seats We're sold early In the week.
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The Christmas cards for the current season do
not. as rule. show any artistic advance on the
designs for previous years, and in some respects
fall far below many that have gone before 1t
may be said. too. that some of those which are
reputed to have carried off handsome prizes are
10y no means the most appropriate i'm conception
or the best in execution 1t might also be added
| that the whole card business has assumed a
/ commercial magnitude out of all proportion to
! its service TO the public. whether considered as
factor in art education as an effort TO furnish
better substitute for the Old-faShioned and
/ perhaps homeiier keepsakes formerly in vogue
The outgrOwth of it may be described in brief
as triiie that costs too much to be thrown
away and is vet not valuable enough i'm any seuse
| to be carefully preserved. a good book or a
souvenir made by the giver has character and
| meaning altogether different.
So
How these fellows who cater TO the animal
appetites do get along, to he sure, Here is a
Philadelphia brewer going to marry Kellogg, of
melOdious memory, while New York tobacco
mist is the lucky dog that wins the heart and
! hand of her rival the divine Cary Just why
! how. ard how far there should be sympathetic
connection between lyric art and the manufac-
/ ture of beer and tobacco is not plain to the
uninitiated; but there must be some influence to
draw them together. which. if invisible. is still
| powerful. Can the fact that the makers and
vendors OF these articles are always able to carry
/ a lot of money to the marriage altar with their
other charms have any weight with prima
donnas. who are supposed to have a barrel or
| two of their own!
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In the way of minor Improvement no greater
change for the better has been made in the city
for long time than in closing up the roadways
through Mt Vernon Square, and converting
that gridironed space into park proper When
well set in grass and adorned with sufficient
shade and suitable shubbery. it will become a
most slightly place, and a credit to the city,
! which it never could have been under the old
| order of things. The only regret in connection
with the change lies in the circumstance that
! the present plan was not adopted in the first
! instance and the cost of laying down
unnecessary pavements thus saved to the city.
by the way, many persons still call this reSer-
walton shepherd Square," on account of the
manner in which it was rescued from private
occupancy for public use and it would not be
surprising if this should yet in time become its
| official designation.
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| Mr.. William II. Beard. the popular New York
painter of animals, is the subject of an article in
The Magazine Of Art for December, which gives
an excellent wood-cut likeness of the artist, with
reproductions of two of his well known. though
by no means his best pictures This sort of rec
ognition of an American artist by an English pc
riOdical is quite an innovation on the old order
of things. The compliment is. however. We'll
deserved. Mr.. Beard has probably no living
| equal in giving human expression and character
/ istics and especially in conveying the sense Of
| humor. to the face and actions ofQuadrupeds and
birds. 1t is doubtful if he was greatly eXcelled
| in these respects by Landseer. the great English
animal painter himself, and by him in perhaps
| only few picturesque of them being the oil
painting entitled 1.-The Travelled Monkey" That
effort doubtless stands unsurpassed in its way by
the work of any artist, dead or living. The Maya
zine of Arthas, by the way. added an American de-
partmenf TO its table Of contents feature which,
in connection with it's proposed series of papers
on American artists. will make it more of favor
ito than oyer with rpa1ara thio sido nf< bo