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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-04
Funerals in japan.

Correspondence New Orleans Times Democrat
If it were evening you might see Japanese
funeral procession. The funerals here are al
ways conducted at sunset, in accordance with
a superstition that is rather beautiful than
otherwise. The procession is headed by priests
and company Of musicians, who play upon
samisens and beat tom-toms. The coffin is a
wooden tub in which the deceased is squatting
as he has lived, with his feet tucked under him
There is this difference, however, the face of
the dead manis looking toward the north where
as this position is religiously avoided by the
living Japanese. Indeed. the points of the COM
pass are frequently marked on the ceilings of
sleeping-rooms that the sleeper may arrange
his mats so as to avoid this unfavOrable position
The wealthy class are buried in earthern jars in
stead OF wooden tubs. but the mode of arrange
ment is the same. These pecuar-shaped cOf-
fins do not take up the space required by Ameri-
can caskets, and burial need not be so large
One priest in the procession carries an oblOng
tablet, containing the 'dead name'' of the
deceased, and another bears the precious lotus
blossom. 1fyOu follow the cortege you will
find your way into surprisingly well-kept ceme-
terry, with headstOnes all erect and fresh flowers
strewn upon most of the graves. Litanies are
chanted and the body is lowered into shallow
grave lined with cement. Then life-sized pink
lotus plant Is placed upon the fresh mound, a
lacquer tray of bowls of tea or sake, beans and
sweetmeats provided near by, and you walk
away from the spot strangely moved by the
solemn, unfamiliar spectacle.
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BROOKvILLE,s DOUBLE MURDER
A Possible Clue to q Possible Muir.
derer i'm Long Island City.

From the New York Times Dec ID
There lie still no solution to the mystery sur
rounding the murder of Mrs. and Miss Maybee
at Bro0kville, L. l., on Nov. II. Six detectives
are still at work on the case. OF the parties ar
rested on suspicion ofcomplicity in the crime, all
but j. Doyle, the tramp have been discharged
from custody. Doyle is held under q charge of
vagrancy. The theory upon which the detect
ives are working is that revenge, as we'll as q
hope of gain by robbery. prompted the COM
mission of the crime. Revenge is supp osed to
be factor. because. had robbery been the only
motive. the robber could easily have ac-
complished this while the women were in
the barn and before an alarm could have
been given by blind and crippled Mr.. Maybee
A statement just made public by the cashier
and a waiter at Miller's hotel restaurant in Long
Island City leads some to believe they have dis
covered a vague. but possible. clue to the MUIR
derer. These men state that at about O'Clock
on the Sunday morning following the murder a
rOug'l-loOlSing man. whose appearance seemed
to indicate that he had travelled all night ordered
breakfast in the restaurant. According to them
he had an unprepossessing face and thick
disleveed sandy hair. and wore broad
brimmed hat and dark clothes. He
seemed to try to avoid the gaze of those
in the room, holding down his head. and when
during his meal reference was made to the ac-
count Of the murder in TIE morning papers. he
exhibited great uneasiness and shortly left the
restaurant without finishing his breakfast
When paying for his meal at the desk he showed
some anxiety to conceal his features. The men
in the restaurant say they had an idea of notify
ing the police. but before this could be done
the man had disappeared and Is supposed to
have taken the ferry tor 7th street New York
detective has been Investigating this clue to-
day. but so far has failed to discover any traces
OF the man after he left the restaurant.
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"Ned Isuntiine,s,, Home.

From the Buffalo Courier.
The wildwood home OF Col F. q. C. Judson,
better known as Ned Buntline." in the Adiron-
dacks, is one of the attractions of that famous
region. The house, if it may be dignified by
that name, is constructed of logs in the most
primitive style, and contains but two rooms. 1t
stands near Eagle lake, at the foot of Blue
mountain AS far back as 1886 Ned Buntline"
invaded the wilderness and built his little log
cabin In the heart Of the woods. At that time
he was slave to intemperance. and recognized
the fact that his safety lay in flight from the
busy haunts of men. He succeeded In clearing
little farm, and when the cabin attained the
appearance of home he presented it with a
mistress in the form of young and handsome
wife. The furniture was of the simplest de-
script!on, and the pair were dependent upon
their labor for the necessaries Of life, but not
withstanding these drawbacks they lived hap
PLY, and Ned Buntline" produced volume after
volume of thrilling lakewood stories.
The war of the rebellion called the author
from his wildwood haunt, and he did not retu n
until long and arduOus service had elevated
him to the rank Of colonel. In the meantime
his wife and only child died. and they were laid
to rest near the cabin. Four cedar trees mark
their lonely graves. 'Ned Buntline' is now
lecturing on temperance down among the Cats
kill mountains, and the Adirondack home has
passed into the hands OF strangers. 1t has
many visitors each year who look upon the
graves beneath the cedars and try to imagine
the sort of life the little family led The
thought of the brave wife who willingly aban-
doned home and friends to help her husband
in his battle against his appetite is invariably
source OF sadness
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Three women were tried last week for the
murder of a woman in Glasgow. They were
sisters. and their victim was their sister law
There had been an old feud between them and this
eliminated in an attack by the ssterly trio on
their unfortunate relative at time when she
had a child in her arms This is the description
of the assault as worded in the Indictment:
"They seized her by the hair of the head,
dragged her down upon the ground struck her
with their fists. kicked her on the breasts, belly.
and legs. and otherwise abused her. by all of
which she was mortay injured and died imme-
diatey afterward. At the trial nothing was
proved to eainsay this view of the assault. but
the advocate depute' accepted the plea of
culpable homicide from two of the prisoners,
and of simple assault from the third, because
mo letlal weapon had been used" The two
were sentenced to years imprisonment. and
the third to three months. The previous day
the same Judge sentenced young man to eight
years penal servitudc for scratching hand
bag with AZ. 234d. in it from woman in the
street." No wonder that modern burglars,
instead of suggesting your money or your
life" take the one with as little conjunction as
the other.
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Photography and Acoustics.
rom the Cornhill Magazine


Till recently, no one ever dreamed of applying
photography to acoustics but it is now possible
to photograph sound, or, speaking more accu-
rately. sound vibrations, and Prof. BOlzmann is
now announced as the discoverer of what at
first might well be regarded with incred-
ulity. The sound vibrations are communicated
to a thin platinum plate, and the movements OF
the plate, after being magnifed by a solar mi
croscope, are reflected on to screen, and pho
tOgraphed by rapidly drawing sensitive plate
across the image. Every letter when pronounced
gives separate and distinct IMPRESSION each
vowel showing regular undulatOry vibrations,
while the cOnsOnants give curves and lines of
very varied forms. The uses of an arrangement
like this may be innumerable. We can almost
imagine that when the process Is perfected,
caves choppers and spies will have very easy
time. and need to run no risks in order to obtain
secret information; small instrument secretly
placed in room. and acting automatically. NAV
copy down every word spoken nay, it is far
from chimerical to expect that photography
may one day take the place of shorthand re-
DOrterS
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A Bride Imprisoned.

A newly-married couple going east on the
Union Pacific train. last week, created little
excitement for time. The lady had gone to
the ladies' dressing room to arrange her toilet.
Upon entering she closed the door, and when
prepared to return to her seat was surprised to
discover that she could not unlock the door.
The train was making about twenty miles an
hour, and of course the prisoner was unable to
make her voice heard above the roar of the
cars. In the course Of an hour the
groom became uneasy and proceeded to
hunt up the missing bride. He was norri-
fed upon learning that she was locked in.
The conductor was appealed to. but he could
not get the door unlocked; as the bolt had in
some way become fastened. He informed the
excited husband that as soon as the train
reached the next station they would have an
employe enter through the window and unlock
the door. STOPPING down to the key-hole, the
fond husband called out to his imprisoned bride
to BE composed. dear; we will have the door
opened at the next station. and it will be only
four minutes" Upon reaching the station the
door was unlocked and the lady liberated and
restored to her husband. He acted as though
the hour of her imprisonment was the longest
one Of his life
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Swiss SuperstitiOn.
From the London News.

From the London News
An extraordinary instance Of superstition is
reported from the Swiss village of ST. Fiden, in
the canton of st. Gall. The keeper of the ceme-
terry remarked that one particular tombstone
was thrown to the ground every night, though
he put it back in the perpendicular position
every morning. The Inhabitants OF the village,
who are very credulous, believed that 1t must be
the work of "spirits, but the solution of the
mystery was, as may be imagined, a natural
one. 1t appears that three men living in the
village had formed an association for the pur-
pose of "raising' money after recipe
which they had discovered in work on
sorcery by Albertus Mangus. They believed
that by throwing down tombstone at midnight
several times In succession, depositing under it
80 5-franc pieces, and reciting certain incanta-
lions, the 50 pieces would be converted into
5000 600 francs. After hiding the money thew
retired to hut away from the village, and re-
manned there for week without clothes, eat
ing nothing but bread and drinking nothing but
water. This they thought would propitiate
1.-THE spirit Hfsis." Two Of the three men were
discovered In this hut In state of semi-starva-
ton, but the third, being of a more practical
turn finding that the miraculous multiplication
was not effected, quietly took up the 80 pieces
OF silver and disappeared with them His
two companions still believe that the miracle
VIII take place If they continue their incanta-
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Brother Jasper's Church Divided

The Rev. John Jasper. colored, of the Sixth
Mount Zion Baptist church, in Richmond Va,
made famous by his ''sun- do-move' sermon,
is in trouble. Some weeks ago a division &C.
CURED in his congregation, resulting in number
of members forming the Union Baptist church.
Brother Jasper in a sermon last Friday night,
denounced these boilers as corrupt and Jealous
of him by reason of the fame gained by his sun
sermon. Saturday at convention of members
Of the colored churches it was resolved to with
draw the hand of fellowship from Brother
Jasper. resolution was also adopted advising
the Union Baptist church 'to keep the door of
refuge open so long as the iron laws of Rome
exist in the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist church,
so that all who are in good standing may es-
cape the fangs of the emperor by coming out
ana Joining the Union Baptist church without
letter" Mr.. Jasper defes them and says he
can run his church alone
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The Origin Of Album.
From the Boston Globe

From the Boston Globe.
l see that one of those industrious German
writer's, always hunting the why's and where
fores OF things in general, has discovered the
origin of the word album" The writer points
out that in the middle ages the parchment in
common use was of two kinds-the Spanish
Italian and the German-French-and that the
main difference between these varieties lay in
the method of their preparation. The German
French could be written upon on both sides,
face was available. The smooth, white side of
this latter was called ''album," to distinguish
it from the stained exterior; and as the Spanish
Italian parchment, being stOuter and cheaper
than the other, was generally used for volumes
intended as repositories for scraps and literary
collections, the meaning of the word "album"
broadened out into its modern Specification.
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The All-Conquering WheelbarrOvy.

From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The col!iding of herdic coach with wheel
barrow in one of our public thoroughfares, in
which the herdc was resolved into kindliL q
wood and the horse canddatcd for Wards bone
yard, shows that the wheelbarrow is to all other
vehicles what the horse-fy is to all animals, and
that there is death and destruction in both. No
doubt the man who invented the wheelbarrow
had grudge against every other man. The
wheelbarrOw pushed on the crowded sidewalk
has its terrors to pedestrians.
Thunder mixed with hail
Hail mixed with fire. must rend the Egyptian sky
And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls"
This indirect reference to the modern wheel
barrow, ''devourng where it rolls" is we'll Illus
trated in the accident that occurred to the above
mentioned herdic and to the horses attached
thereto. The wheelbarrOw in the hands of an
unskilled man is more to be dreaded than the
plague.
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TIyeE,ty.fosr EgoHr Watches.

From the Nv Ycr1 Tribune.
The new time standard adopted on November
Is is being followed 10y the Introduction of
twenty-fOur hour watch dials. The American
watch company OF Waltham has issued notice
that il is manufacturing these dials I'm such
shape - Will permit of their being substituted
tor Any OF the ordinarily divided watch dials on
their watches. At Edwin a. Thralrs, No 1
Maiden Lane. one of the new dials NAV be seen.
The hOars from II TO ~ are placed close to the
outer circumference of the dial the figures from
TO II being within smaller circumference.
Thus just above the figure | Is the figure 13
above vac figure the figure a. and so on The
ordinary distinctions between day and night
VIII sufficiently indicate to- the observer unless
he has been on prolonged spree. whether the
time Indicated is o'clock in the morning or Is
O'Clock which would be equivalent to D. m.
according TO the present method of registering
time
Most Of the orders for these new STYLE watches
have thus far come from railroad companies. Il
regard them" said Mr.. Thrall. las the precur-
sors a a more radical change that is not far dis
tant. We shall soon have m general use
watches with the hours marked from to 81. in
which the hour hand makes only one complete
revolution in fwenty-f0ur hours. In most
watches the only change necessary to effect this
Will DE New dial and an alteration i'm the min
ute p!niOn and the hour wheel Meanwhile
these compromise dials serve to make the
chaDee gradual and EASY"
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Capt. Noah Fairbank. who commanded the
first steamboat in Virginia waters died at Fred
eflcAspurg' Va, Saturday, at the age Of 81 years.
Elections on the question of "license" or mo
license" were held Saturday in the towns of Ma
rion, Wimsboro' and Ogdensburg, s. c., result
ing in each instance in overwhelming victories
for the prohibition party.
buoy made to whistle by the action of the
waves Is popular marine signal. A boy made
10 stop MS whistle by the vigorous wave of q
matronly hand would be more popular still
Hartford Post.
Mrs. Thurman, widow OF Cairo. Nv told
Samuel Clay, aged sixty-five, who PROPOSED
marriage, that he was too gray He dyed his
hair faithfully and then resumed his suit. Int
she married younger man, and Clay then drank
the baiy-dyc ard will die.
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Women Who Tell Their AGES.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The common objection among womankind to
letting their ages be known is not shared by the
ladies of Japan, who actually display the facts
as to their age in the arrangement of their hair
Girls from to Is wear therha!r intcrlaced with
red Grape describing a half-crcle round the
head, the forehead being left free with a curl at
each side. From Is to 80 the hair is dressed
very high on the forehead and put up at the
back in the shane of fan or butterfly with in
teracings OF silver cord and q decoration of col
Ored balls Beyond 80 woman twists her hair
round shell pin placed horizontally at the back
OF the head. Widows also designate themselves
and whether or not they desire to marry again
One may compare with this remarkable hirsute
honesty of the Japanese story told in of the
American papers of the reluctance of American
women to adopt any such candid policy. A the
atriciil manager was producing farce in which
one OF the characters was to be a bald woman
and it so happened that the actress who was
cast for the part had no hair on the top of her
head. But instead of avang herself of this
natural advantage she wore wig over the bare
spot, and laid thereon some palpably false bald
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A Political Trial i'm South Carolina.

THE RIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO STAND
ASIDE JURORS FOR THEIR POLITICS.
In the United States court in Columbia, s. c..
Saturday, before Judges Bond and Bryan, in the
case OF j. H. Mitchell, charged with interfering
United States marshal at the election for Con-
gress in Charleston in 1882, the question of the
right of the government to stand aside Jurors
was argued by Gen. Youmans and COL John
Haskell for the defense, and District Attorney
Melton and Emory Speer for the government.
Judge Bond decided that the government had
the right in a court in that state Judge Bryan
dissenting. The jury was sworn after nine white
democrats had been stood aside by the prosecu-
tion. 1t is supposed to be made up of all green
hackers and republicans, with one. negro The
trial will proceed to-day.
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A Semi.Official Organ Of Rome Oh,
the Catholic Church Of the United
States.

The Moniteur de Rome, the semi-ofllcial organ
of the Vatican, often inspired directly by Car
dinal Jacobini, secretary of state publishes a
long editorial on the future of the Catholic
church in the United States, eulogizing the lib
eral Christian spirit which allows such rapid de-
velopment to the Catholicism of the American
republic. The editorial continues as follows:
''In a few weeks her bishops will assemble in a
national plenary council. 1t will be the most i'm
pOrtant assembly OF the kind yet in the United
States The bishops of the New Rome come here to
prepare subject for discussion at this approach
Ing national council and to get strength and advice
from the Holy See. In this solemn assembly the
Catholic church OF the United States will affirm us
legal existence teristence j'idiQle) and tighten
the bonds OF the hierarchy agreeably to principles
laid down in the Council of Trent. Thus there is
opening new guarantee OF the prosperity and
progress to be given to the Catholicism OF the
United States"
The article concluded with flattering refer
ence to the American episcopate.
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Gambling in New Orleans.

From the Chicago Herald.
Here the gambling houses are licensed. On
Royal street, within stretch Of two blocks,
eighteen keno, faro or other games of chance
flourish The police protect them. The pro-
prietors pay 500 month for official federation.
The gamblers are not only recognized, but they
are patronized by the police, who do not hesitate
to play keno, Spanish monte and other games
while wearing uniform and being supposedly on
duty. On Sunday afternoon, on the corner of
Customhouse aVd Franklin streets, it is COM
mon thing to see policemen playing Spanish
monte with negroes and the lowest class of
whites. On Canal street, a few blocks from the
station of the Louisville and Nashville railway,
monte houses run day and night. At O'Clock
in the morning the writer has seen member Of
the New Orleans police dealing the game to a
room crowded with colored roustabouts. The
officer was on duty at the time. He has pre-
prietary interest in the game, and his profits
from this disgraceful connection are verg large.
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Shot and Killed by His Father.

James Boyd shot and killed his son Alfred,
aged II years. Saturday afternoon, at his home
in Cumminsville, Ohio. Boyd is huckster, 40
years of age Returning home Saturday after
noon, he found his son playing marbles on the
common. He reproached him for not working,
and then roughly caught the boy by the collar
and dragged him home. distance of 100 yards
On reaching the porch door the boy struggled,
and, catching hold Of the door. refused to enter
His father then drew revolver and deliberately
shot his son through the chest. Boyd was i'm
medately arrested
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The Rape of tlle Lock Story.

Miss Burwell, the schoolgirl of Newport who
reported that one braid of her hair had been cut
Off in the street and the other while at home
asleep is now believed to have committed the
acts herself to gain notoriety. A jantOr of the
school-building where the girl attended has been
discharged by the school committee for having
written obscene letters to her. No evidence has
come to light to show that the girl has ever re-
sented the questionable attentions shown her
by the jantOr, and no one believes that he so
tar forgot himself as to cut off her braids.