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The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

BRONSON ALCoTT suffers from a sort OF
aphasia, such as Emerson had in the last
years of his life, and can not find the words
be wishes to use. Aphasia, by the way,
doesn't trouble man when he jams his
thumb in a door.--Bost0n Post.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

when applied BY
the finger into the
nostrils, will be alb
sOrbed, enectually
cleansing the head
of catarrhal virus,
causing healthy Sc
cretions. Ii allays
Inflammation, pro-
tects the membrane
of the nasal pass
ages from addition.
al colds,
heals the sores and
restores taste aud
smell. A few appli-
cations relieve. A
thorough Treatment
pW positively cure,
Agreeable to usa
0 cents by mail or Is
0Wnun n V
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

AN improbable story is properly called {
believe it.-Pittsburgh telegraph.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

THE farmer makes hay while the son
shines behind a dry-goods counter
Rochester POst-ETpresS.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

IT is certain that a river can not ruI
dry.-N. o. Picdyune.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

IRIS rather funny, but most people begin
the day with the home stretch.-BoStoH
Star.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

rur artesian well throws mp its water
because It has q spring bottom'-N' ~
PicdUuue.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

A sEA-CAPTAIN is a good deal of vaga-
bond when he beats his way up harhor.
Boston Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

THE man who drinks nothing but cistern
water is the man who leaves well enough
alone.-N Y. Journal.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

A CAPTAIN who tied refractory sailors
to the capstan said it was the only way tc
ease their rancor.-BoSton Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

GENEROUS to a fault-The owner of said
fault. felt.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

EVEN the alphabet is ruralizing. Only
four letters remain in "Town."-N T.
News.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

No MATTER what your ailment is, Browns
Iron Bitters will surely benefit you. Try it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

$500 REV ARD will be paid for any case OF
chills that CHILLARINE will not cure. Try it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

THE Wall street sandwich-Bul1 on one
side. bear on the other, and a little lamb
in the middle.-BostoR Transcript
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

RANK injustice-Calling a man Captain
when he is a full-fedged Generally. 4.
Advertiser.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewer'
restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

Wells "Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for IL.
Complete, permanent cure. Corns, bunio Gs.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

LYONS Heel Stifeners keep new boots and
shoes straight. By shoe and hardware dealers.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

Buchu-paiba." Complete cure, all an
moving Kidney Diseases, irritation u.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

AMERICAN fats-Pancakes.- Cincinnati
TrQreler,
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

Trough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice,
flies, reaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin. loo.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic
Cures chills, fever, ague and weakness.
Colden's, no other, of Druggists.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30
What will it do?

wIsE's Axle Grease never gums.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30

ALL recommend wise's Axle Grease.
The Brookhaven leader., 1883-08-30
CArARRH HYS CREAM BALM

Sc Manchester Street. Manchester, y. H.
ga
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The Music at the Unveiling Of the
Statue.


The Music at the dwelling OF the
To the Editor Of TEE EVENING STAR:
This part of the program was not altogether
a success. 1t was performed as announced on
the ''order Of exercises" but how2 The two
features were, OF course, the ''HalIeuiah
Chorus" and 1.-THE Heavens are Telling" The
first should have been sung, the band accom-
panying. 1t was not intended BY Handel to be
anything but a glorious chorus, and such liber-
ties with high music are perhaps scarcely justi-
fable 1t is so difficult to separate from each bar
Of the music its accompanying words, and from
Simultaneous with the words king Of kings
aud Lord of lords" is to be expected an outburst
OF sound such as can hardly be produced by a
few comets. &c. The first part of ''The Heavens
are Telling" was taken too slowly, and the use
of q metrOnOme at or previous to rehearsal
would have afforded an easy escape from the
error. No one can fail to recognize the extreme
difilculty Of producing grand effects in open air
singing, but the main one-lOss Of volume on
account of air currents-may largely be ayerted
by increasing the number Of the singers. To pen-
eralize on Washington music would it not no
practicable for the several singing climbs tn
amalgamate in an orat0rio society. for in nn,tv
is strength. Five hundred active members
each paying S5 year, and a hundred honorary
members, lovers OF music but not performers
at $40 year. would annually provide 81 EO
which sum, together with the proceeds firm,
sale Of seats at public performances. would mea4
the expenses Of rent OF hall, nav of orchec4re
engagement of a first-class imported conflnctor
and the hive OF s0l0ists. We are musicaiiv
long way behind. :.
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and unbound, which serve to make up the at
traetive Elzeyir Library, varying in price from
Ito 50 cents, each, according to size and bind
ing ing Among, them may be named swayne's
.herodotus. TroI1ope's Commentaries of
Caesar, Collins Cicero" Pride's Highways Of
Literature" sBroderibb's "Demosthenes,r and
tavorite single poems by Burns Goldsmith,
George Eliot, Jean 1ngelow and other popular
books. and How to Use Them" Is the title
OF pleasantly written and tastefully printed
little volume. by Mr.. J. C. Van Dyke. which,
while it contains nothing new or startling, vet
gives many instructive and useful hints well
calculated TO be ofiservice to all persons inter-
ested In the use or care of books. Published
6y Fords, Howard & Hubert, and for sale by
Ballantyne q Son.
With the reopenng of the season for foreign
travel, Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have resumed
the publication Of their series of transatlantic
Novels" commencing with an exceptionally
clever and healthy story. entitled my Trivial
Life, In two parts. -"SpinsterhOod" and
.Meum and Tuum." Received through A.
BrentanO & Co.
1.-THE Admirafs Ward" by Mrs. Alexander.
constitutes the third number Of Henry Holt &
Co.'S cheap and attractive Offering for public
favor entitled the Leisure Moment Series"
when Is intended to furnish the best fiction Of
the day, IN cheap but readable form. For sale
by Robert Beall.
From Brentano's we have an interesting
pamphlet showing how to make yearly profit
of $500 with twelve hens, by new process tor
which, it is claimed, forty-fve diplomas and
medals have been awarded.
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THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC
RAILROAD
Progress OF Work ON the Double
Track.


The work Of laying the double track on the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad is now nearly
completed, and when the bridge work over the
Big Patuxent has been done the small number
of rails necessary will at once be laid. There is
some little ballasting yet unfinished, but this is
being rapidly pushed forward, and 1t is safe to
say that all will be completed by the LIST or May,
when it is contemplated to put the whole in
use. While the work on the additional track
has been in progress many Of the curves In the
line have been heightened and the track straight
ened. 1t is contemplated, when both tracks are
opened for business, to put on number Of ad-
ditional trsins-those between this city and
Philadelphia running through with one conduc-
tor and crew-and additional conveniences will
be afforded local travel
A number OF improvements are contemplated
along the line at various points, and it is not
improbable that switch with station house will
be put in at Jackson's woods camp ground.
where the Methodist Professionals propose to
erect church. Within few years there have
grown up on the line of the road Episcopal
churches at Bennings and Glendale, Methodist
Episcopal church at Bowie, an NJ. E. South
church at PatuXent, and as above stated, one ia
projected at JacksOn's.
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Dear Mothers Growing old.

Her eye Is not so lustrous,
Her voice has less OF cheer,
While In her hair, once dark as night,
The threads or gray appear.
And ahi am reminded,
When her face behold.
That, though she still Is beautiful,
Dear mothers growing Old.
her cheeks have lost their glory,
So like the blush OF morn:
Her smiles are flown that used to bless
The heart when SOrrow-worn.
And when I mark her step that
Was buoyant once and bold,
cannot help the thought, so sad,
That mothers growing old.
Turn back the years. o Father!
And make her young once moro,
just as my soul remembers her
In happy days of yore;
When at her side my life In
Full gladneSS did unfold,
An0I, little child. dreamed not
Dear mother would grow Old.
Beyond these hours so ficeting,
Beyond earth's tolls and tears,
In that sweet land hope to gain
Beyond these mortal years,
Nothing shall waste her pure life,
But beauty manifold,
With happiness, shall crown her lot,
And mOther'll meier grow old.
George Ne,celk Lopejoy.
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BRIGHT FANC1Es OF THE POETS.
Written for THE EVENING srAR.
The Man In the Moon.

The man In the moon,-how did he get there9
Is thought that has puzzled my brain
For many year. Jet frankly declare
That In ignorance still I remain
OF the why. and the wherefore, the how, and the
when,
He aspired to his station so high.
Ana left our fair planet, and good fellow mec.
Without cen parting goodbye"
Mayhaps his ambition Babel would rear,
In hope OF securing a name:
Perhaps he killed time building castles In air,
(Deiuded aspirant to fame!)
Perhaps,-but how vain my fmagininSs arei
wish he'd come down for day,
Why couldn't he Tide on some swift falling star,
And return, when he'd wish, his old wayf
o! II he'll but do 50, I'll question him well,
And learn all about him quite soon:
Then the wonderful tale, my children I'll tell,
Concerning the man In the moon. EAR
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Written for THE EVENING STAR.
The Coming OF the Goddess

Coy April comes, her fair face wreathed with
smiles,
down long vista, budding trees between;
the Quickening sunlight glints the grasses
green
AND brightens all the leafless forest afsles
A song-thrush there her onward way beguilee
AS light she treads with airy grace OF mien;
Upon her brow, the gracile woodland queen,
Behold a wreath--to hide her rogulsh wiles-
Or fresh arbutus plucked In bosky dell
Where yet the DRIFT lies white on dead leaves
brown.
About her azure eyes there fits no frown,
Yet should lover fail twere not so we'll,
For tears can mar sweet April's brightest day,
But II Love smiles she bushes into May.
CLINTON SCOLLARD
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What il FlirtatlOn1

What Is Irritation? Really,
How can / answer thatl
Yet when she smiles see its wiles.
And when he lifts hts hat
IT'S meeting in the ballroom,
TITS whirling In the dance;
With something hid beneath tho lid
Besides simple glance.
IT'S walking In the hallway.
IT'S resting on the stair;
IT'S bearded lips on finger tips
(If mamma Is not there).
TITS going out for ices,
TITS buttOning on glove;
IT'S lips that speak OF plays next week.
And eyes that talk OF love.
TITS tucking In carriage,
Ills asking for call;
IT'S lifted eyes and tender s.ghS
And that 1S-nO, not all
IT'S parting when It's over.
And one goes home to sleep:
IRA la, my friend. best Joys must end
But one goes home to weep.
Ella Wheeler TN Albany Times.
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Caution and socretiveness are good traits of
character. but they are carried almost too far By
the woman who writes o message on . postal
card, then wraps It In q sheet Of paper and en-
closes it In stamped envelope.-Losoel Citizen.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson says that In
temperance was greater at Harvard when he
was q student than 1t IL to-day; that Harvard ID
no worse now than the average Of American
colleges and not nearly as bad 90 European
ones.
After the wheat came up on Kentucky farm
q sleet storm covered the Held with ice Before
this melted . food swept over, and the ice.
rising to the surface Of the water. pulled every
blade Of wheat out Of the ground and carried It
aHay.
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COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
reputation OF the United ST ties, So 600 900; Dis
trfct of Columbia, $4,000; New York, 1900 coo:
Brooklyn $4,000
Population OF the District OF COMMUNICATIVE,
1o2 0t0: foreign. 1S.0O0: cOlnred 6OOO1 Protest.
ants, $4,000; RomaLi,ts % 600
. RoInanlst population to population of the United
States, tOS.'
Protestant cOmmun' C lntS to whole nopul alton
In the United States, 10 CT.
Protestant commandments 10 Protestant popula-
ton IN the United States, tO3.
Protestant communicates to whole pOpulat,on in
New York, TO l3H; Brooklyn, to 81; District Of
Columbia, to Al.
Protestant church members to Protestant poru-
lation in New York. to 81; Brooklyn, to 81; +:
District OF Columbia. to 80.
Baptists to entire population in New York. 1 TO
HethOdiSts 10 entire population In New York, 1
to IS; Brooklyn, to a; District Of Columbia, 1
TO a.
Episcopaians to entire population IN New York.
J to 50; Brooklyn, TO SO; District OF Columbia,
Presbyteriars to entire population in New York.
% ~
LuIherans to entire population in New York, to
1o4 brooklyn, 10 65; District OF Columbia to 90
C0ngreg afionaliStS to entire POPULATION In New
York TO 5x.; Brooklyn to 20; District OF Co
librarians to entire population In New York. I
1tO4ts.
Universalists 70 entire roruation In New York.
To 1888: Brooklyn, TO 40; District OF Column
bia, TO l.SOO.
swc.ienborglans to entire population In District
Hebrews to entire population In New York. 10
20 : ~
Protestant communicates to 5000. COO being the
entire population of New York and BROOKLYN and
1GSUCl1 suburban. to TO-
h9in3'tst population 10 entire population OF
New ! ork and Brooklyn, TO 81.
hosnsnists count all their abb, rents and not only
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Saturday Smiles.


The most dinicult arithmetic that man has
to face is when he tries to reconcile $50 salary
with ESQ wife.--EN1ck.
NO." said q New York belle who had Just
returned from q tour to Europe and Egypt;
"NO, didn't 60 to the Red Sea. Red, yOu
know. doesn't agree with my compleXion."-
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
"WOlDan's rights" exclaimed a Philadelphia
man when the eubject was broacled. What
more rights do they wanta My wife bosses me;
our daughters boss us both. and theservant gin
bosses the whole family. It's time the men were
allowed some rights. Philadelphia Nesrs.
The offspring OF q fashionable mamma climbed
to the top Of her Saratoga trunk and fell and
broke bis arm In three places. A fashionable
trunk nowadays b more dangerous than IN old
fashioned barn with shed attachments.-CAi-
cQgo Intx-Ocen
'What shall we do with our giris?" was the
subject OF q lecture delivered In Albany the
other evening. This 10 . hard one to answer.
It's rather late for oysters and little early for
Ice cream. You might take her to church Sum
day night and set up the soda water on the way
home.-Rochester Post Express.
"Eye-peeping" is now the favorite game Sor
evenings. Two holes are made In screen,
against which some person hidden behind
places his eyes, and the audience In front have
to guess to whom the eyes belong. This b au
very NICE but when a cross-eyed. counting old
dame, with eyes OF a faded green, IL put Ia b.
HAD the sc:een and tie guesser eays he thinks
they belong 10 Miss Somebody. who 10 belle,
he'll b. naf'c uncomfortable whenever he meets
he- to-. So.l Post.
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ssTlhe Eternal Now

Sometimes think II we had eyes to see
The beauties manifold around up here
we would not need TO sigh FOR falrer sphere,
But calmly wait the glory yet to be-
sometimes think the varied harmony
Around Us now, IL We had ears TO hear.
Would fremble into melodies so clear
Our souls would thrill In grateful ecstasy
sometimes feel IL all that love were known
Which lies like treasures hidden from the sight,
How JOY would deepen. burdens seem more light
on. where the wealth Of this world but our own,
Might we not walk with tranquil heart and brow
content and blessed In the "eternal now?"
Grace s. Wells
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Among My Books.

Among my books-what rest is there
From wasting woes! what balm for carei
II Ills appall or clouds hang low
And dropping dim the feeding show.
revel still In visions rare.
At will breathe the classic afr
The wanderingS OF L uses share:
or see the plume or Bdyard flow
Among my books.
Whatever face the world may wear
IL Mabel has no smile to spare,
For others let her beauty blow,
Such fayorS can well roregO:
Perchance forget the browning fair
Among my books.
Home Journal
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Over His Time.

From the Wall Street Daily News.
"Well, how is your brother doing In ST. LOUISE"
asked the first. as ne halted moment at the
door Of business house on the Bowery.
''Vhell, he doan' fail yet"
s'Seems to be doing good businessi"
"Seems dot vhay."
s'Well. hope he'll do first rate"
"Ih0pe 80, too, but dunno. He has been
dere tree months und d0an' fail yet, und can't
exactly make out What he means. Six weeks
vhas plenty Of time to bust oOp In q blaze like
st. Louis, und pay ten cents on der dollsr!"
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THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS STA.
TUS OF WASHINGTON.
An Interesting Exhibst.
coed SHOWING FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
An Interesting ExhibIt

APR!L IL zoos.
70 the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
very common impression prevails that the
national capital Is one of the most immoral of
the cities In the United States Not ooncurrng
IN that belief. have, at some cost Of time and
travel in our city Of such magnificent distances,
obtained from authentic sources the facts en-
bodied in the tables herewith. That compari-
son may be made with two other cities furnish
abstract from tables published In the New York
Times In July, 1882, which were received with
great interest by the moral and religious public,
and summaries republished extensively. with
cor 'ments, by the local press OF the country.
Respectfully, yours,
G.. BUCKINGHAM
RELIGIOUS STATISTICS OF THE DISTRICT OF CO.
LCMBIA.
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Against LOSSES BY
FIRE.
Recommendations of the Fire Board
and Chief Engineer for Protection Of
Property i'm North Washington and
Mount Pleasant.

The petition of H. II. Parmienta, James s.
Delanc, II. c. Hammer, VIM. A. Skinkle ct al.
asking that three c0mmodious cisterns be con-
structed and two fire alarm boxes placed at
appropriate points, and truck, properly
equipped. furnished for Mount Pleasant was
referred to the fire commissioners on the 23d of
March. 1t was by that board submitted tn
Chief Cronn. who on 7th April reported to the
IRE commissioners that 1--WE can lend them
without Inconvenience, if the requisite author
Ity DE granted, one nty-four-foOt ladder FIVE
buckets. two axes and three hooks If the
three cisternS were dug and the alarm boxes
!0ealed a special engine could be run out to
their relief But whatever we may do, short Of
carrying out the repeated suggestions of the
board To establish new company i'm the north
ern section of the city, will be little better than
makeshift"
The fire commissioners subsequently, made
report TO the District Commissioners, returning
the papers with report, in which tney say:
Cohsiderin9 the growing Importance Of Mount
Pleasant and its proximity to the metropolis
which Will doubtless absorb it in the course of a
lew years, the request of the residents there for
protection from fire is in our opinion reasona-
Ole and proper We therefore beg leave to re-
commend that there be included in the next an
nnai estimates OF the Commissioners OF the Dis
trct an item Tor the purchase of a hook and lad
der truck, TO be stationed at Mount Pleasant.
also. an item Tor the establishment of
new engine company in the extreme
northern part OF Washington. as heretofore
earnestly recommended in the annual reDorts of
the board The necessity for new engine com
pany III This almost unprotected section he
comes more pressing every year for buildings
many OF them very valuable are sprineinc up
In every direction at points too remote from tine
present engine houses to afford them much
security against destruction by fire. The pro-
posed new engine company would be near
enough TO Mt. Pleasant to suppress fire there
If sufficient supply of water should be fur
nished- IL would necessarily take some months
TO obtain and make available appropriations for
the objects named. In the meantime We re-
specsiuiiy suggest that the prayer Of the petit
TONERS FOR these cisterns and two fire alarm
boxes be granted as soon as possible, pro-
videa the expense thereof is not paid
from the limited fund of the fire de-
partment. If this is done a special engine could
oe run out In case Of fire. until more permanent
measures are adopted, as suggested BY the
cnsei engineer In his report herewith enclosed.
we uily recommend that the articles mentioned
Ia the chiefs report be turned over to such per-
sons as may be agreed upon by the District
Commissioners.
Leprosy caused l6 deaths In the United States
during the census year.
The sweetest harblnger of srrine TO the small,
boy Is not the croeus but the circus
The Minneapolis city council has raised he
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Toy pistol exploded in the hand of 11-year
0ld Howard u. Dougherty OF 6aS east 18th street
view I ork, severely decorating the hand. Lock.
JAW developed In afew days and the boy died.
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why He was Excluded from the
Werkingmen,s Assem blv-The Views
OF SO0no Of the WOrkinymen-What
tho W0rkinHmen Here Wams-Satls.
factory Condition Of Their Affair." ~
Present.
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This exceeds any previous cut BY about
500 1000 feet. All lumbermen say that the
crop OF the past winter has been extraordinarily
good, and far exceeds the estimates made at the
beginning Of the logging season.
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A Virginia physician saws he has nevcr kno,

Virginia physician says he has never known
an habituai consumer Of tobacco to have the ty-
phod fever.
The dude fastens his coat with button-hook.
Nazareth has just had telegraph office. the
nrst opened In the Holy Land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-21

Leprosy caused 10 deaths In the United State.
during the census year.
The sweetest harbinger ofsrring 10 the small,
DOy Is not the croeus but the circus.
The Minneapolis city council has raised he
license upon saloons, which has heretofore been
elO0. to 81 500
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The Rapid Destruction of the Forcsss
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 15.-The work of Min
neapolis lunbernien In the woods on the Upper
Mississippi and tributaries having been COM
pleted, the figures are given Of the winters cut
OF logs:
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The attendance the three first Sundays In No
NeInbtr last WAS equal to the meinb rship and
may be taken a fair average