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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-19

II "AS11N"1oN AAHht1 " C0MFAN1'
NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERS.-No ia hereby
given that on the first day of January, 1892 all out
standing eight per cent. bonds Of the WASHINGTON
MARKET COMPANY issued under the decd of trust
made by said Company May 1st 1875, will be paid by
said Company presentation of the same, with all
coupons not due, to p $. SMITH. Clerk, at the office
OF the Company in Center Market, in Washington d. c.
No interest of said bonds will be paid after Jan
uary LIST, 1882.
WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY
By NJ. G. EMERY, President.
Washington. October 29th 1881. dl l-eOdIOt
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DEsERTION OF NAVAL APPRENTICE Boys
Thirty boys have deserted from the flagship New
Hampshire of the United States naval training
squadron at atNewport, r. l.. during the past few
days,
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

~ L0.0. .F..MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HON
e-S or of the late JOHN F. HAvENNER, P.G.P., Pc.
and G. R., at Odd Fellows Hall. To- MORROW tues
day. EVENING" at 80 O'Clock. Unveiling OF Portrait
Eulogy and other interesting ceremonies Bring
family and friends. By order Of the COMMITTEES. IT.
- THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE wO-
t-S MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION for the
election of officers for the ensuing year will be held at
the Home 18th street between and streets TU E
DAY, December Goth. at pm. fun attendance Of
the members desired. By order OF the Board
1t MRS c. A. WEED, Secretary.
~ NOTICE.-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
t-S THE WASHINGTON TRAINING SCHOOL
FOR NURSES will be held in the Lecture Room of the
School in the Lehman Building l425 New York Avenue
I'd hoOr WEDNESDAY,, the 21st inst- at ~ pm.
The election Of officers and four trustees, and other
important business, to come up All members es-
peciaiy requested to attend.
By order of the Board.
]. NJ. TONER. MT President
JOS. TABER JOHNSON. NJ. D., Secretary. d19-2t
WASHINGTON, DC, December 1881
v-s To the Policy Holders Of the Mutual Fire In
suranee ComIany Of the district Of Columbia,
Your attention is respectfully invited by the under
signed members of the company to the following table,
showing the comparative salaries of the President and
Board OF Managers and the rates of interest charged
the policy holders their premium notes. for during
VearS sta
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-19

NEW FRArD.-A pittsburg Inspector has
brought to light new fraud. 1t appears that
one barrel OF genuine oysters can be so increased
In bulk by proper admiXture of lime and
water that it will sell for two barrels. The
Pttsburg dealers have not hesitated to add to
their profits 10y this scandalOus device. They
are to be Prosecuted
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DEsERTIONs FROM THE ARMY.-A general Or
der upon the subject Of desertion among en-
listed men has been issued by the War depart
ment and the attention of officers composing
general cOurtsmaTtial, is called to the necessity
for more careful and searching inquiry into the
cases of enlisted men brought before them on
trial, under charges of desertOn. AS desertiOn
is unauthorized absence accompanied by intent
not to return. the latter element should be fully
proved before a man is convicted. The order
says further: Enquiry into applications for
clemeDcy shows that some Judge advocates of
cOurts-nartial have habit of recommending
enlisted men charged with desertOn to plead
guilty and submit their case to the
merciful consideration of the court
when careful examination of all
the facts would have developed, at least. a
fair line of defense against that charge. This
practice is reprehGnsible in itself and indicates
failure on the part of an officer resorting to it
to appreciate the true functions of his office,
and department and subordinate commanders
should not only discourage it. but in every
proper way secure protection to the prisoner
from such ill-advsed counsel"
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PHOTOGRAPHER's TERRIBLE REvENGE.-At
Dallas. Texas, X. A. Chambers, merchant tailor.
was shot and killed Friday by Alfred Freeman
proprietor of a Photographic establishment
Sixteen buckshot entered his body. Criminal in
timacy between Chambers and Mrs. Freeman is
the cause of the deed. Freeman has been placed
under arrest
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;cSssfi,aisa o.. Second Hagr,l
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PIEROLA's FLIGHT FROM PERU.-Senor Elmore.
the Peruvian minister here, has received cable
advices from Lima informing him that ex-Dic-
that he had relinquished all claims to the presi-
dency of that country. Pierola's most intimate
friends. Senior ElmOre asserts, advised him to
take this patriotic step when they became con-
WINGED that the United States had decided to
assist Peru in re-establishing constitutional
government. With the departure of Pierola,
stable government. SenOr EllnOre says, is as
sured in Peru. His absence leaves Montero,
who had been proclaimed vice president by the
Peruvian congress, the acting president SO long
as President CalderOn is held prisoner by the
Chillans, and the Peruvians are in a much bet
ter position than ever before to secure an honor
able and lasting peace. This happy condition
OF affairs Senior EImore says. is mainly due to
the impartial and friendly attitude of the United
States government toward Peru.
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Up to this morning $50 bills and Joint reso-
lutions had been introduced in the House of
Representatives. Two or three hundred addi-
tiOnal were introduced to- lay.
The House to-day unanimously agreed to the
bill to give to Mrs Garfield the franking priyi-
lege during the balance of her natural life
Henry G. Mount and Robert ID. Weaver both
OF New York, have been appointed pages in the
House of Representatives
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
Monkey Shooting in. Gambia.

The mere fact of slaughtering monkeys
will probably not cause any great degree
of pleasure to any one aspiring to the
title of sportsman, though at the same
time man choosing to kill as many as
possible might yet not consider himself
altogether wanton in his sport, for the
monkeys may be termed vermin. They
are great nuisance to the agriculturist,
and cause much loss, especially III the
ground nut plantations, where they fre-
quently pick the seed out of the ground
almost as soon as it is planted. To shoot
the dog faced monkey is easy, but to
make bag is quiet another matter. You
may knock him out of tree, or you
may bowl him over on the ground, but
you will not find him on the spot where
you feel sure You saw him fall. Dead
or alive, his companions carry him of,
and pursuing monkeys on foot is not a
game which man is adapted to play sue
cessfully. The most likely way to secure
q specimen is to take little boat and
pull gently along close into the bank,
Just after sunset, at which time the mon
keys frequently collect in the branches
of trees overhanging the river; thus one
may be shot SO that he falls into the
| water, whence his friends are powerless
to rescue him. The great drawback to
this method of aquatic stalking is that in
the upper river, and especially at the
close Of the day, the mosquitoes fairly
swarm, coming down on one in clouds,
and making shooting matter of great
determination and endurance Certainly
it is very easy to say that such and such
game may be shot by lying out at night
and this necessitates an amount of ex.
posure against which most Europeans
are not proof, to say nothing of the at
tacks of the above pests, though they
may, to certain extent, be baked by
wearing over the hands and face bags
made Of some light material-leno, fol
instance. Perhaps at some future date
monkey skins may become of CONNER
cial value, and when they do the Gambis
will be able to flood the market, and the
ground nut growers will rejoice. LON
don Field.
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yarnish ON the Church Pens.

The seats had been newly vanished,
and, somehow, the varnish was not
right, as it was terrible sticky. You
know when you pull anything off of
sticky varnish it cracks. Well, the au-
dience had all got seated, when the min
lister got up to give out the hymn, and
as the basement of his trousers let loose
of the varnish of his chair there was o
noise like killing fly On the wall with
a palm-leaf fan. The minister looked
around at the chair to see If he was all
present, and that no guilty mans pants
had escaped, and read the hymn. The
choir rose with a sound of revelry, and
after the tenor had swallowed a lozenge,
and the bass had coughed up o piece of
frog, and the alto had hemmed and the
soprano had shook out her polonaise to
see if the varnish showed on the south
side, the audience began to rise.
One or two deacons got up first, with
sounds like picket firing in the distance
on the eve of battle, and then o few
more got up, and the rattling of the un-
yielding varnish sounded rs though the
fight was becoming more animated, and
then the whole audience got on its feet
at once with sound of rattling muskct-
nv. The choir sang "Hold the Fort. u
When the choir had concluded the peo-
pie sat down gingerly, the services were
short, and all went home praying for the
man that painted the seats.-Peck's
,V5In
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

FoR articles of rubber which have be-
come hard and brittle DR.. Pol recon-
mends the following treatment: I'M
merse the articles In . mixture OF water
Of ammonia one part and water two parts,
for time varying from few minutes to
an hour, according TO the circumstances
Of the case: When the mixture has act
cd enough on the rubber twill be found
10 have recovered all its elasticity,
smoothness and softness.
TIE royal engineers have tried the ef-
feet Of gun-cotton in bringing down two
old chimneys at the dock-yard extension
works, Chatham, England. The first
was demolished by placing a necklace
Of gun-cotton inside the chimney, the
total charge consisting Of about four and
o half pounds. The second was de
stroyed by placing six charges of the ex-
plosive in the center of the base of the
chimney, the total charge weighing
twenty EIGHT ounces. The experiment
was very successful. At the instant the
electric spark ignited the gun-cotton the
chimneys became wrecks.
AFTER tolerably exhaustive examina-
ton of the biography Of the subject, DIR.
Otto Kuntze maintains, but on ground
not quite satisfactory, that the gulf weed
consists Of many varieties or species Of
Sdrgasstm vuigarc, and that the plants
10 named in the lump are either dying
or dead and incapable Of reproduction.
There does not appear TO be any good
reason for assigning n definite and con-
slant area TO the Sargasso sea. Patches
Of weed occur more frequently in the re-
gion of calms, but sometimes there is
very little of the weed there. Winds
also affect the distribution of the patches
with regard TO each other and the posi-
hon of the whole mass Of weed. =
ATTENTION has been directed by M.
Moride TO q new kind Of food to which
the name nutricinc" has been given.
It's preparation In thus described: Raw
meat, from which bones and tendons
have been carefully excised, is passed
into suitable machines along with nitro
genized alimentary substances, such as
bread, TO absorb the water of the meat,
and, possibly, TO form new combinations
with Il. After the mass thus prepared
Is dried in q stove under a mild heat it is
pulverized and sifted. A powder of an
agreeable taste, and varying from yell
low 10 gray In color, is the result. When
albumen, fats, or g,rmmed water is add
ed to this powder solid cakes or cubes
may be broken up, as occasion may re-
qufre, for soups or sauces. This nutri-
cine Is admirably qualified to sustain
physical vigor, and it can be preserved
Tor any length of time il it is kept from
the deteriorating influence of an atmos-
phere charged with moisture and from
the action of heat.
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To Rid q Loft OF Rats.

Take a pint of common tar, half an
ounce of vitriol, and good handful Of
common salt mix them all well to-
gether in any old deep pan. Get some
pieces of paper, and put some of the
above mixture very thick on the paper,
and place enough of this into the holes
sufficient to stop them, and then let the
bricklayer make good after you, and i
you should find any of the holes opened
again, it is quite certain You had not
put in sufficient quantity.
For smoking rats out when they get
behind the wainscot Find out small
hole or crack, then take handful OF
common salt, and put it in at the hole or
crack, and pour upon the salt q spoon
full or two OF oil of vitriol, and this will
make such fumigation or smoke that
they cannot bear it Then stop the
hole or crevice again that the smoke
may not come out. Do this in two or
three places as near where you hear
they are as you can, and it will cause
them to forsake those places. This
method is very safe, as no damage can
possibly ensue to the wainscot from the
smoke.-V Vernain Catcher. l76S.
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The Cause OF Dr0ughts.

The question is often asked, why
droughts are more common latterly than
in former years. The main reason, we
concede, however, to be, because the
forests have been cut down. The effects
of forests upon the atmosphere are two
fold. They fill the air with dampness,
and again this dampness, when it is con-
densed into clouds, is attracted by the
forests. The roots of trees run deep into
the ground and absorb the moisture that
In contained in it q considerable depth
below the surface. This moisture, much
of it at least, is evaporated by the leaves,
and thus the air is loaded with water.
The amount of water that is drawn up
from the strata Of the earth lower down
than the roots Of ordinary cultivated
plants penetrate is enormous. This
water, II not drawn up by the roots OF
trees, would gradually make its way into
creeks and rivers, and ultimately into
the ocean. Cutting down the forests
has two other effects, both Of which re-
suit in decreasing the amount of rain.
Dry and parching winds are unimpeded
in their progress, and the result is that
they carry off the moisture which is in
the atmosphere. Another result is, that
small streams Of water have in many In.
stances been entirely annihilated, except
during the winter months. This has de
creased the volume of water in the creeks
and rivers, and consequently decreased
the attractive force for the clouds ant
the amount Of water evaporated from tn,
surface Of the earth in our particular
section.-COrtia,ld Standard.
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s2s6 95
Story About John B. Cough.

John B. Cough, who had faced over
eight thousand audiences, acknowledges
that on one occasion, and one only, he
encountered an embarrassment he could
not overcome. It was his own fault, he
saws. and proved sharp lesson he never
forgot. In his own words:
was engaged to address a large num-
ber of children in the afternoon, the
meeting to be held ON the lawn Of the
Baptist Church in Providence, r. /.
In the forenoon q friend met me and
said: =,
you have few?"
'No, I thank you"
"Do take half-dozen."
81 have nowhere to put them"
'TYou can put half dozen in your
pocket"
wore cap in those days, and I put
the cigars into it, and at the appointed
time 1 went to the meeting. / assembled
the platform and faced an audience OF
more than two thousand children. As it
was out-of-doors I kept my cap on for
fear of taking cold, and I forgot all
about the cigars. Toward the close OF
INV speech became more In earnest,
and after warning the boys against bad
company, bad habits, and the saloons, l
said:
"Now, boys, let us give three rousin1g
cheers for temperance and for cold
water. Now, then, three cheers. Hur-
rah!" -.
And. taking off my cap, I waved it
most vigorously, when away went the
cigars right into the midst OF the audi
ence. The remaining cheers were very
faint and were nearly drowned in the
laughter Of the crowd. I was mortified
and ashamed, and should have been re-
iieyed could 1 have sunk through the
platform out of sight, Myfeelings were
still more aggravated by boy coming
up to the steps of the platform with one
| OF those dreadful cigars, saying: "Here's
one of your cigars, Mr.. Cough.
Though 1 never afterward put cigars
in my cap or hat on going to a meeting.
/ am ashamed to say it was some time
after that before I gave up cigars alto
rether
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OHIO LEGISLATURE.


Mr. Hitchcock offered joint resolution pro-
viding for the printing of 1000 copies of the
journal of the State Board of Equalization.
Mr.. Beer introduced bill making relatives
of doctors and professors of colleges ineligible
as members of school boards.
The House amendment to Senator Horr's bill
authorizing the completion of the Lorain
County Court-house was agreed to, and tho
same is now law.
A bill requiring Superintendents Of Insane
Asylums to notify the Probate Judges of the
proper counties when patient escapes or dies,
or is discharged or returned, was passed.
Mr.. Carrans bill providing for the expense of
repaving streets, the paving Of which has been
paid foriby the abutting property owners, shall
be placed On the general tax list of all taxable
property in the corporation, was amended so as
to make the matter discretionary with the
Council, and that such portion of the remain
der of the improvement only as the Conncil
may deem just and reasonable. The bill
passed.
bill was introduced by Mr.. Atkins empow-
ering al Ganxts with authority to compel the
attendance of witnesses in any part OF the
State.
Mr.. Hitchcock offered resolution identical
with that of Mr.. Ray, passed in the House, for
. tri-weekly adjournment. which WAS passed.
A resolution requiring the Supervisor of Pub
Lie Printing to have the report of the Commits
sioners of Common Schools for 1880 bound in
muslin, was referred to the Committee on
Schools.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
A Kentucky Rabbit Story.

A father and son went. out into the
snow rabbit hunting. The snow meas
ured twelve inches in depth in some
places, and at no place was it less than
six. While strolling along signs unmis-
taxable led them to a hollow chunk not
more than three hundred yards away
from a negro cabin. The chunk was
crooked, short, and by no means over
heavy. The son threw it upon his shoul-
der and walked away to the cabin, where
he procured an AK, and in a few strokes
cut into the hollow. He inserted his
arm and took from the chunk two fine,
fat rabbits, and thinking that all, left
In the afternoon the old man who lived
in the cabin carried into his room one
section Of the chunk and threw it upon
the fire. After heating q while, and
when it had nearly burned through, two
bouncing fat fellows jumped out and
were captured in the room. They were
stewed, and furnished most enjoyable
meal for the old iarkey and his wife.
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Revenge Is Sweet

Gallagher is satisfied. The facts are
these: Gallagher was the president of a
dramatic club and wrote a piece for
than. It called for nine persons, and
everybody in the cast except Gallagher
considered that he or she had the worst
part and that il was made so ON purpose.
At first they didn't propose to play, but
finally decided TO do so and concocted
plan 10 punish Gallagher. He played the
hero, and in the first act said farewell
10 his mother and went off TO sea, and
when she parted with him she contrived
to wrench his head and scratch his nose
on pin fixed in the shoulder of her
dress for that purpose That eased heI
mind and disturbed his. But he submit
ted. In the next act he appeared ON
shipboard and had to be Knocked down
by the cruel captain, who hit him so
earnestly with q Delaying pin that il
nearly killed him. And then when he
headed the mutiny and cried TO the mutt
neers, "Follow meT' somebody opened
n trap and he ignominously fell through
II and got terribly guyed by the audi-
ence. He was awful mad, but deter
mined TO conquer in spite of the disaster,
and 30 came up and went on with the
play. In the third act he was to have
terrible combat with the villain of the
play and whip him. Mr.. Hencoop
Smythe played the part. He was salts
fed that he had the worst part of the
piece, and that Gallagher made it so to
spite him. Gallagher, as he clinched
him, cried: ''Villain, I'll beat your life
out In two seconds" But he didn't
The villain was the strongest man, and
the way he lathered Gallagher about the
stage was awful. When it came to the
point where the villain was to cry: Let
me upl I'm crushedl'' he had Gallagher
jammed under the table, and was beating
him with a chair-leg, and of course his
speech and Gallagher's reply: 81 will
not spare your lifel" sounded absurd.
Before the villain consented to be over
come, he had got the audience to shrek
ing with laughter, and had beaten Gal
lagher black and blue all over. Gal
lagher went home terribly enraged, and
the rest of the company were delighted.
Thepiece was TO be played the next night
and Gallagher reported himself too i'll to
appear. But he sent q substitute. That
substitute was prize-fghter, under an
assumed name. He hugged the mother
90, in the parting seen, that he nearly
killed her, and pulled her false hair off
accidentally. He threw the cruel captain
down the trap. He hurt all the othel
actors, and, In the fight with the villain
mopped the whole stage with him ant
hurled him clear through the back fat
The company and scenery were com
pletely wrecked, confusion reigned, ani
Gallagher sat in front and laughed til
he nearly died Revenge is sweetl-Bos
Lou PosE
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The Biting End.

"You did wrong to shoot that mans s
dog. You might have pushed him off
with the butt of your gun" said the Gal
weston recorder to man who was
charged with shooting a neighbor's
dog.
II would have done that, replied tho
prisoner, Elf the dog had come at me
tail first, but he came at me with his bit
ing end. "-G Galveston Ne,ps.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20

WE will give 800 reward for man
who, when he undertakes to make re-
ply in an article in the newspapers, has
never said, or been known to say: my
attention having boon called" etc., etc.
Is it possible that no public man ever
read newspaper, or, If reading, does
not discover his own name the very first
in q million ems of matter7 If there is
such fellow, let him be stuffed for q
monument to tho man who ever told o
e.-Rochester Democrats.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
Dared Not Tell HIN.

A New York citizen, says the Hour,
who, in his lifetime, had been by no
means distinguished for his public or
private virtues, departed for another
world. His disconsolsts widow received
. visit from o condoling friend, who
found her sadly sitting with her young
est in her lap. II am so dreadfully
sad" said the widow; "and even my
baby looks up in my face, and lisps,
Where's papa 2" "Ah," said the seven
year-old boy, playing about the poom,
''but you know, mamma, you don't dare
tell himr'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-20
GERTIE's GLOVE

Slips Of kid skin deity sewn,
scent as through her garden blown,
The tender hue that clothes her dove,
All these-and this Is Gertie's glove.
A glove but lately doffed. for look
IL keeps the happy shape it took
Warm from the touch What gave the glow
And where's the mold that shaped 1t cot
IL clasped the hand, 20 pure. 20 sleek,
Where Gertie rests a pensive cheek,
The han !, that when the light wind stirs,
Reproves those laughing LOCKE III hers.
Your fingers four, you little thumb
Were but you. in days to come,
I'd clasp and kiss an keep her-go!
And tell her that told you DO.