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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

The .PIRArEs" AT FORD's-Gilbert and Sulli-
vans PIRATES OF PenZance' viii be given at FordS
opera House tonight, by strong company OF
amateurs, as testimonial to Mrs Josephine Logan.
The cast will include Misses Evans, Crawford Reid
Lewis. Dorner. and MesSrS. Pearson. Pugh, Hay
Wh1pple, Miller. Gait, Lapham, and others TO
morrow night "Pinafore" will be revived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

Mother swans Worm Syrup.
Infalible, tasteess, harmless, catbartic; for few
1shness, restlesSneSS, worms, constipation. 25c :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

Oyster Arrivals Daily.
621 street northwest, hard and sof, crabs Ivnn
haven oysters, Cherrystone OYSTER New York
oysters, Frogs, Little Neck clans and Cams Fam
flies, Hotels and Restaurants suppleS. Young
snapper terrapinS. at Whites
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

Established 1870 m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

Two-SroRY BRICK House WITH COOP LOT At
ACcTIoN-Attentfon Is called 10 chancery sale by
mos D. Fisher Co., real estate auctioneers, To-
fseS, OF valuable lot on New Hampshire avenue,
near street northwest Improved by small
brick dwelling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

Eurs Received on Storage.
Guaranteed against damage by moth annnre.
Inn B. II. STINEMEIZ & Son, 1237 Penna.ave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-09

CoLoRRp ROUGH SESTEScED-Yesterday after
noon POundm2ster Einsiein captured several cows
on The commons near the jail, which were taken
away rroIn him by crowd or cOIDred rOllghS
Nathan Gross one of the gang, arrested by the
cursed and threatened the poundrnasJer When
searched at the station a pistol was found on him
In the Police Court this morning he was charged
WIN threats. profanity and carrying pistol He
PLEADED guilty, and was sentenced TO give bonds In
deiauit OF which six months In jail for the threats
sSo or ~ days Tor the pistol and s. or Is days for
the profanity.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Thomas Nast's Troubles.

New \ ork Cor. Chicago News.
'' TIL: Mast. is in the dumps. The
true inwardne IS of Nast's trouble with
George William Curtis, editor of Har-
per's Weekly, has never come to light,
but certain it is that the worlds great
est cartoonist finds no place for his
sketches in the paper his genius made
famous. His contract with the Harpers
is for $4,000 year for life. and he
draws 80, 500 every quarter with unfal-
tering regularity. I understand that he
sends his sketches to Harpers promptly
every Monday afternoon, and they are
promptly put in dark pigeon-hole.
The Harpers will not use them, nor will
they give up the contract, aud hence
Artist Mast is in queer position. He
is now acting as secretary of the Mann
Boudoir Car company, with an Office on
Cortlandt street, near Broadway. His
friends say he is unhappy and aging
very fast. Funny, isn't it, that man
with $4,000 a year for life should be
unhappy. If some people had the
earth, and it fenced in with barb-wire,
they would still be unhappy.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Paris Payements.

[Cor. ST. Louis Globe Democrat.l
The paving of the streets of Paris is
like everything else here, work of art.
Noisy stone pavements are few. The
principal thoroughfares are paved with
either wood or asphalt. In the summer
time an army of men are placed at short
intervals plying the hose, thus keeping
the dust, the chief ingredient of the OBJ
noxious mud, subdued. AS soon as the
rains begin the regiment changes
" arms" and brooms a,e the order of
the day. What dust has BY some mira
Gle escaped the inundations of the hose
and is joyously forming with the rain,
that dreaded chemical compound SO
prevalent in almost al cities, is ruth
lessly swept into the:gutter and carried
away in carts. just where I have never
been able to find out. However. little
does escape the fury of the broom, and
that little by the aid of unfeeling cab
men, is spread over an indescribable
amount of surface. A shrill cry of
"gar-n-r-r" by the unfeeling one, q
jump from under the horses hells by
the victim. and the bellies snowy skirts,
as we'll as the mirror-like boots of the
self-satisfied dandy, undergo sad
metamorphosis.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
The Quicksiiver Industry.
Exchange. I


Of late years California has supplied
more than half of the quicksilver con-
sumed in the world. Only two eoun-
tries of Europe produce it in sufficient
quantities to deserve mention III COM
mercial report-Spain and Austria.
The Spanish mines are located near the
town of Almaden, province of Mancha,
and yield about four-fifths of the entire
production of Europe, while the Aus
trian mines, located near Idria, and the
minor mines mentioned, produce the
other one-fifth.
Quicksilver is carried and shipped in
wrought iron TASKS of twenty-five
pounds, containing seventy-five pounds
of the metal. Prices throughout Eu-
rope are always given in English money,
and the quotations invariably refer to
the TASKS described.
The consumption OF quicksilver in
the world has averaged $4,000 TASKS
per year. The principle uses to which
quicksilver is applied are: Meteoro-
logical and other scientific instruments.
chemical preparations; looking
glasses and mirrors.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Havana by Night.
New York Telegram. I


New and strange were the sights I
saw as | passed, O. Ia Haroun al Ras-
child, through this city at night, with it's
Moorish buildings. Traders piled their
wares under the gas lights, and Nubians
and mulattoes, creoles and Chinese
passed by. The creoles proper are the
children of Spanish parents born here
and their descendants, but the creoles as
generally understood in the United
States are q mixed race of black and
white. Scanty indeed was the raiment
of the poorer classes, black and white,
and the feminine element of the negroes
were especially liberal in the display of
their persons But one gets used to it
and excuses much on the ground of
heat.
Artists need not go to Algiers to find
mulatto girls for subjects. They are
here in abundance, with all the voluptu-
GUS play of form, the fierce, wild desert
in their uncurbed glances, the deep,
dark skin set off by the armlets and
bangles of gold And here, too. are
the little Spanish boys that Murillo
loved to paint, with their close cropped
shapely heads, their clear olive skin,
bare legged and artistically tattered
garments and the glances half piteous
and half humorous in their speaking
eyes. And behold! Take off your hat
and bow low, for there passes you the
living realization in noble face and car
riage. with no little of the spiritual ex-
preston in the features, of many q
virgin that the great Spanish masters
hand has set on immortal canvas
while these courtyards, surely, that We
whirl past, with their branching palms
and spouting fountains, and marble col
umns and massive stairways winding
under tiers of terraces, are his also.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
RICH MEMS CLOTHES.
could and Field as DUDE
OF Hild Degree.

OF aiild Degree.
New York journal.
The other day a reporter Invited q
distinguished haberds7Aer to give him
some information. on -Ae dress yaga-
RES of his custoUegs. Il said "Wm.
b. Vanderbilt, Hke tls-najority of mon
in civilized communities, wears neck
ties, but he sticks to the same scarf q
long time His collars, however, are
changed every day. He pays from So
to $40 each for his shirts, except those
for ordinary wear, which, it is said, he
buys very cheap, at prices ranging from
55 cents to 81. While deprecating the
great railway king for patronizing the
cheap-shirt trade, we must admire his
economy. Henever wears a dickey. and
his underwear, including half-hose, is
silk, with an occasional change to bal
briggan by way of variety. In the
matter OF jeWelry William Is exceed
ing1y simple. He would not be ashamed
to fasten his cuffs with pair of un-
bleached bone collar buttons.
Every eccentric in his dress is Cyrus
w. Field. His outer garments, espe-
cially in the winter time, are remarkable
for their bad fit. Particularly true is
this of his overcoat. He has it finished
off with fur collar. He revels in WE'LL
worn gloves. Fields linen is of the
finest quality, and be INDUCES in gold
studs of. phenomenal proportions. His
fayorite collar is stand-up all around,
and his tie straight end. which he ad-
justs very carelessly. Field, if he
wished, would make frst-class dude.
but he lacks style about the leg..
''Jay Gould dresses with taste and
without ostentation. His shirts are we'll
made and fit like glove. He has a
weakness for fancy underwear, but adj
heres to the plainest kind of suspend
ers. Just at present he affects pair
Of white pique braces, which are very
becoming to his style of beauty Jay
was the first man to appear in the
street with the new style of scarf
called the Teck. He puts on new
one, generally black, every day. lie
once remarked that the separable style
cutf- button had saved twenty years of
his life.
'Russell Sage is so erratic in his
style of dress that it is rather difficult
to describe. He dotes on fine goods,
especially in fancy handkerchiefs. The
fancier they are the better he likes
them. | had one woven to his order,
bearing a picture representing bull
chasing bear dressed in red uniform.
| have often had occasion to note the
perfection with which Sage fastens his
long black tie.
Sidney Dillon's great weakness is
socks. He dotes4 4sfancy half-hose. I
always keep a good supply of pink and
yellow effects for him.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
@--77a77~7------
Grant on Exhibition.

l4NoW AOth 1<oLUtf.I
Speaking of men worth looking at.
Gen Grant has been on view in the
Academy of Design. The occasion was
the opening of an art exhibition in aid
of the Bartholdi statue OF liberty fund.
This 150-foot woman of bronze needs
pedestal as high as herself to stand On.
Frenchmen's contributions are making
her, and she will arrive here next
spring. Americans have been persist
emily importuned to provide the money
for completing the base, and this show
is one of the means to that end Hun
dreds of rare art objects have been
loaned, and Grant was asked to be a
living curiosity, long enough to formally
open the exhibition. A fashionable
crowd gazed at him interestedly. He
lives among us New Yorkers, it is true,
but he does not ordinarily &C labeled,
and his personality is not striking
enough to cause general recognition.
AS he appeared in the Academy, there
was not trace of his military training
visible. He was always rather short,
and an increase of fat has rounded his
shoulders. His hair and beard have be-
come very gray, and he wears both
trimmed closely. The invitations to the
ceremony had enioined the gues to
come in evening dress, but Grants cos
tune had neither civilian nor soldierIy
fashionableness. His coat was not q
swallow-tail, nor even the double
breasted frock OF morning occasions,
but one of those long -skirted, smooth
broadc1otb things that Inevitably n,aka
man look rural. It sagged in front,
because left unbuttoned, and it strained
across the back of his neck % that a
ridge of his heshiness bulged over the
collar. He provided entertainment for
eyes only, except to the few ears that
were within two yards of the little plat
form on which he stood while making
very brief speech. His utterance was
SO low as to be wholly inaudible to the
rest of the assemblage.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Foreign Emigration Figures.

The North German Gazette quotes
some official Italian statistics to show
that, despite the lamentations of the
Liberals as to the formidable dimen-
sions of the emigration from Germany,
the empire in reality is better off in this
respect than most other European
states, in proportion to its population.
Taking the figure of population at 100,-
900, Norway, within the last five years,
sent away the highest number of emf
grants-yiz, 963, Sweden 615, Great
Britain 587, Denmark BIT, Portugal
800, Switzerland 252, Germany Seventh
on the list) 251, Italy 148, Austria 40,
and France 10. From these figures it
is also deduced that the maximum of
emigration in each of these countries
was generally attained in the same year.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Railroad Promlnence.

new I Ork COF. E1One6r treSS.
did you ever observe" said gen
tleman this week, who keeps sharp
eye on the newspapers, show favored
railroad men are in the columns of the
daily papers from New York to San
Francisco? There is no paper of prom
inence that gives less than one to two
columns daily to railroad affairs. In
the little paragraphs with which these
close the names of officials of various
roads appear from day to day in con-
nection often with most trivial matters.
Take it here in st. Paul, for instance.
Isuppose there are possibly 100railroad
men drawing salaries ranging from
81, 500 to $4,000, whose names get into
print at least once q week the year
round. There are 10000 men equally
important in one way and another, who
are lucky if their names average one
newspaper appearance in year. I
really doubt if it is justice or good
management to shut 50 large class of
people as farmers, for instance. out of
the daily and weekly papers for the
sake of so much unimportant railroad
news
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
The Cost OF Royalty.

lCHICdgU ITIOlIIIe,
Mr.. Molloy's book, "Courtship Below
Stairs; or, The History of England
Under the Last Georges, has made a
sensation. And its large sale may be
taken as proof of Mr.. Bradlaugh's as
sertion in Paris that the English re-
public is surely coming. It has set one
clever accountant thinking and investi-
eating With the result that he has
ascertained that the house of Hanover,
its mistresses, panderers, debauchees,
and PROGRESSES, have cost England
more money than has been spent on it's
public schools since the death of Queen
Anne.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08

IVA. kJ0A y 0kiStSN0 SdA0ttfSaGsl
It is an archaic community, that in
which we find ourselves. Each lover
has his lass; and though the Mexican
girl is ever faithful, ever true in word
and in deed, to Ter love, yet the Mexi-
can man is not true, true neither in sem
timent nor in his acting. He is born
fiirt, firt of the most disorderly kind.
He fiirts with any and every body-be-
fore the eyes of his betrothed and be-
hind her back but woe to her should
she repay her lover and her husband in
the same coin. Il am as jealous as Q
dog will some great hulking fellow
declare without shame, and should any
one firt with you / would cut his
throat" And would he? Yes, if he
were weak, inofensive mortal, he
would: but otherwise, no. With all
his jealousies, all his little faults, the
Mexican is gentleman in the cour-
teous meaning of the word. But he is
jealous OF the 4gringo," jealous of his
fair skin, light hair and blue eyes
jealous because he knows that his dark
featured country-women admire the fair
stranger, and for this reason is very
careful to guard them against forming
any Friendships not that her parents
would let her get in SO close proximity
as to prove dangerous.
And what life is that which the
Mexican girl leads. She has no aims,
no amb' ton. When she arrives at
marriageuble age she marries, and
then she becomes a slave to her hus-
band, to her children and to the house.
She attends church once or twice q
week, and. if very religious, goes every
day. She even loses the desire to look
pretty, even forgets to put powder on
her face, and her waist forgets the
much-needed pressure OF the corset. In
fact, there is no place for her in the gen.
eral hustle. She can emerge again
from her retirement when she has
daughters old enough to need her as
duenna. But alas, now she is forgotten.
She is bedraggled, dirty and limp,
crushed and broken.
Her husband is q free man. Heaca-
rouses with the rest of them. He firts
with the young girls, and comes home,
perhaps, intoxicated and warlike. But
she is uncomplaining. He haunts it in
shiny broadcloth, small boots big col
lars and big head of hair. She in dirty,
old, patched gown, worn-out shoes, and,
perhaps, stockingless. There is little
of poetry, little of pleasantness, little OF
the intercourse that improves and cul.
tivates in the ordinary Mexican house
hold And the woman is not inferior
she is superior. She it is who will
endeavor to make things look CHEEKY
when the aspect Is gloomy. But will
she ever take her place as mans help.
meet. as his enual2
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
The white House.

The White House was first built in
1892, at a cost of $33O,0o0 1t was not
occupied until 1900. 1t was rebuilt in
1873 It's porticos were not finished un-
til 1929. Altogether, it is computed to
have cost, for building, rebuilding and
furnishing, about 81. .7G0,0 600. The whole
structure has frontage of 10 feet aud
a depth OF 68 feet, and its vestibule is
5Ox40 feet. The garden and park.
which enclose the mansion occupy
twenty acres. The cabinet room, 40x30
feet, is on the second floor. The White
House was modelled after the palace OF
the duke of Leicester.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
The Hymn He Wanted.

They say that at prayer meeting in
Westield, Mass, the other night, good
brother rose and said he wanted to
hear sung that beautiful hymn, Split
Doors" Every one looked at every.
body else in perplexity moment, and
then quick witted sister struck ur
"Gates Ajar,' which was what the good
brother wanted
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.


Over and over again.
No matter which way turn,
always find in the book Of life
Some lesson have to learn.
must take my turn at the mill
must grind out the golden grain:
/ must work at my task with 9 resolute will.
Oyer and over again
The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again
The ponderous mill wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not In vain;
And blessing failing us once or twice
May come Il we try again.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
zone .Wetr or .nry..
ICl,icago Herald.

South Carolina has alocal option law
which applies to incorporated cities,
towns and villages. When a place votes
in favor of prohibition it is said to have
gone dry and when another votes for
license it is said to have gone ''wet."
More than twice as many towns have
gone dry" as have gone wet
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Early Louisiana ..Gombo.v


The old colored nurse, the creole
NANNY" was the ideal servants
good cook, thorough nurse. second
mother to the children, but teaching
them to prattle horrible jargon,
sometimes called "gombo, and again,
screole. " The negro lingo of Virginia
is classical compared with the iargon of
the creole negro. Whether it was that
French was o language too difficult for
their tongues, or whether it was due to
the presence of SO many negroe brutes,
wild negroes of African birth, In the
colony, cannot be said; tits only known
that they spoke distinct patois
another language from their masters,
made up of about equal parts of French
and African words, and absolutely in
comprehensive to an ordinary French
man.
The whole gibberish contained but
few hundred words and was without
tense, mood, or grammar. One word
did duty for a hundred, aud the very
animals and trees were without distinct
i've titles, because the language was not
rich enough to give them names.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Eeather Cloth.I

4 aew kind of cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make one square me-
tire of light and very warm water
proof cloth, which can be dyed in all
shades.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Bright and. Gladstone.

A1ACLdIlS6I
John Bright makes notes and head
ings of his speeches, and with great
care writes down and commits to mem
ory all the important passages. Glad
stone merely lots down facts and fig
ures, and for expression trusts entirely
to the moment.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Easily Pleased.
[Courier-Journal. |

Washington Irving once told a
mother to teach her daughters to be-
easily pleased. Since then, indging
from the sort of beaux the girls pick
cut, it would seem that nearly every
mothers daughter has been taught to
be easily pleased.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Amber Fields.

The area of amber fields of Prussia
is nearly. fifty miles long by ten in
breadth, and it is reckoned that every
twelve square feet of surface will pro-
duce pound, the value of which ranges
from Sd up "a sterling.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
A World Government OF Canals and
Cables.
TDemorest,s Magazine.

DemoreSt's Magazine.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps has re-
Gently delivered lecture before what
is called the Five Academies, in which
he enunciates an epoch-making idea.
He insisted that the maritime highways
should no longer be subjected to the
vicissitudes of the active politics of gov
ernments. Seas, straits, bosphoruses,
and maritime canals must be freely OPEN
at all times, irrespective of all interna-
tional conflict. He said that the con-
struction of the Suez canal and the
eventual construction of the Panama
canal have effected the introduction Of
a new principle, which is more impor-
tant even than the execution of the
works-namely, a vast association of
the capital of the world, which conduced
to the solidarity of the interests of all
nations.
What a chance is here for our Ameri-
can government. Why should not this
great peaceful republic call meeting
of all nations to act upon the subject of
canals and cables? These ought to be
owned and controlled by international
commissions in which every commercial
naGlOn SnOulQ nave representative.
War ships or armies should be kept
away from international. canals, and
should not be allowed to vex the, COM
merce of the world The cables should
not be owned by private persons any
more than the te1egraphs on the land,
but should be put in the control of all
the nations of the earth in the interests
of international commerce These steps
would be an entering wedge to put a
stop to international wars.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
a .High O,d Tlne.,,
[Philad, ,lnhia Call. /

Mercy on me! Edith, do stop that
horrid slang." Why, have not used
any slang. You know I never do. =
You did just now Surely you must
be mistaken. /" 81 am not, for with my
own ears / heard You say something
just now about "a high old time" "Oh,
is that all? I was referring to Mrs
Whim's new purchase, an antique clock
worth $780,"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
Got It Mixed.
Exchange. !

Waxahachie, Texas, school children
heard of the Cause insurrection and
got it mixed with the resurrection.
They told their teacher that the negroes
had rose from the dead to kill the
white people down at Cause"