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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21
Fifteen Follies.

l.. To think that the more man
eats the fatter and stronger he VIII De
come.
2. To believe that the more hours
children study at school the faster they
learn.
3. To conclude that, if exercise is
healthful, the more violent and eX-
haustive it is the more good IS done.
4. To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.
5. To act on the presumption That
the smallest room in the house IS large
enough to sleep in.
6. To argue that whatever remedy
makes you feel Immediately better IS
"good for" the system without regard
to Interior effects.
z. To commit an act which is felt in
itself to be pre-, judicial, hoping that
somehow or other it may be done in
your case with impunity.
s. To advise another Go take a
remedy which you have tried on your
self, without making special inquiry
whether the conditions are alike.
9. To eat without an appetite. or to
10 eat dlLCA ~ los 1NSAA 0'ASAS
fed. merely to crafty the taste.
TO- TO eat hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief
time it is passing down the throat, at
the expense of whole night of dis
turbed sleep, and weary waking in
the morning.
IL. To remove a portion OF the
covering Immediately after exercise.
when the most stupid drayman knows
that if he does not put cover on his
horse the moment he ceases to work
in winter, he Will lose him in few
days by pneumonia.
II. To contend that because the
dirtiest children on the street or high
way are hearty or healthy, therefore 1t
is the healthiest to be dirty forgetting
that pure outdoor air in joyous, un-
restrained activities, is such a power
full agency of health that those who
live thus are well in spite OF rags and
filth.
13. To presume to repeat later in
life, without injury, the indiscretions,
exposures and intemperances which in
the flush of youth were practiced with
impunity.
IA. To believe that cold air is neces-
sarily more healthy than the con-
fined air of crowded vehicle. The lat
ter at most can only cause nausea,
while entering conveyance after
waking bIiskly and lowering the win
dow, will, by exposure TO draft, give
a cold inrallibly, or an sttack of pleur-
isy or pneumonia, which wiz cause
weeks or months OF suffering. if not
actually death within four days.
Is. To remember the Sabbath day
by working harder and later on Sat
urday than any other day OF the week
with a view to sleeping late next
morning and staying home all day tc
rest, conscience being quoted by the
plea of not feeling well.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21
Wanted 1t Strong.

President Grevy, of France, is great
coffee-drinker- when he can get coffee
fit to drink. Calling one day at q
country hotel for a cup, he asked (:
'sHave you any chiccoryg'' Yes, sir. "
" Bring me some" The landlord
brought small can full. SIS that all
you have?'' mo, sir; we have a little
more" "Well, let me have it, too .
Another can was brought. positive
", this is every grain you have?"
" Yes, sir Every well now go and
make me a cup of coffee"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21
Enshinn Notes.

Very wide brocaded satin sashes are
popular.
Crushed strawberry is no longer a
fashionable color.
White Danish kid gloves, decorated
with lilies of the valley. are worn by
bridesmaids.
Long shell or metal hairpins take
precedence of all other ornaments for
the couture.
English turbans and Fanchons di-
vide the popular favor of young ladies'
at the moment.
Red in moderate quantities give a
fine dash of bright color to black, gray,
pale blue and ecru dresses.
The plaid and checks of new ging-
hams come in admirable mixtures OF
all the new colors and shades.
Pansies of all colors and sizes on
grounds of various colors appear in
chene effects on some sash ribbons and
scarfs.
Violet, lilac, pansy, heliotrope, dahlia
and many other red tints of purple
are fashionable for silk and wool cos
times
White null fichus with wrought
edges in Irish point, or trimmed with
Valenciennes lace. are preferred In
warm weather to linen collars for
neckwear.
Pongee is liked for summer travel
ing dresses, and when not used for the
dress itself it is chosen for long cloak
with plated back and square sleeves
that entirely covers the dress beneath,
and makes it possible to use any dress
the wearer chooses for her journey.
Ecru is very much in fashion there
are very pretty costumes of ecru linen,
with the skirt trimmed all the way up
with flounces of linen richly embrold-
cred in open work the lower one is
some eight inches wide, from which
they gradually diminish in width to
the top.
The ecru nankeen, worn generation
ago, is seen again among the French
dresses imported for summer at the
seaside and mountain resorts. This
thick cotton fabric of clear buff shade
is made into very stylish dresses,
trimmed with China silks of dark
color and white or ecru embroidery on
muslin.
A great fancy has arisen for creating
a material with alternate rows of
ribbon and lace insertion of the same
breadth. A dinner dress is to be mad
with diagonal tunic and demi-sleeveS
of white satin ribbon and coffee colored
lace. the skirt and pannierS being
wholly composed of the lace in
floUnces, some waved and Others
plainly gathered.
The cotton dresses are most attract
tive says the American Queen. The
fact of their being made of cottoI
goods ought to suggest simplicity il
construction and an absence of decora
tive features. save those that are war
ranted to wash; but, on the contrary
these dresses are made most elaborately
and are lavishly trimmed. The ides
of either fabric or laces being laun
dered never enters the mind of tn,
modiste. and indeed there is no neces
sity that such thought should influ
ence the designer of these lovely robes
for with care one of cotton sateen O
foulard can be actually worn Gu
without needing to be done up. How
ever, when to Zoe worn by careles
persons, such dress should be simpl
made and trimmed with wash lace Q
Hamburg.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
a Com,binntion Desired.

Wanted-A wife who can handle broom,
To brush down the cobwebs and sweep up
the room;
To make decent bread that fellow can eat
Not the horrible compound you everywhere
meet;
Who knows how TO broil, to fry and to
roast
Make a good cup of tea and plat er of
toast:
A woman who washes, cooks, irons and
stitches,
And sews up the rips in a fellows old
brooches;
And makes her own garments-an item that
grows
Quite highly expensive, as every one knows
A common sense creature, and still with
mind
To teach and to guide-exalted, retinei;
sort of an angel and household combined.
Chicago Tribune.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21

The advertisement of the tattooed
Greek sailor now on exhibition says:
HE has on his body 100000 pune
lures. and it was all done by a female
savage The poor man lost a drop of
blood and shed tear for every pune
ture. and was the only one of twenty
four who survived the operation. The
woman who did the tattooing worked
six hours day for ninety days before
the task was completed
A mathematician of the Albany Er-
press figures as follows: "The woman
must have given him three and half
punctures a second, Then, if he los.
one drop of blood with every puncture,
he lost, estimating the usual number
of drops &c the pint, and taking pint
for pound. 1888 pounds. Or to put
it differently. just $50 gallons of blood,
or trifle over twenty barrels during
ninety days. Tears. don't weigh as
much as blood, so punching the two
together, the gentleman from Albania
must have lost five and half tons of
those fluids within three months
Every one Who has watched the
rain clouds in Florida on summer
day must have been struck by the fact
that they do not come on the wings of
the wind from some other region, and
scurry across the sky and over the
earth, accompanied by devastating
winds, but on the contrary they gather
in the clear sky with little movement
except an expansion on every side. and
pour out their rain, and disappear as
they came, in the dark blue sky.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21

People in New York city live fast
and die fast. The death-rate there
has reached 1854 per LOO persons
every year.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-21
Well Equipped.

SIS your railroad Wen ?, = 511..
Railroad president" W ~ 4 Z
/ should say it was. Splen .,sra.
ped, sir, splendidly. For lL .os 3
are our .irst mortgage seven m /.
second mortgage skies anu -,a9t 2
ment bonds, and our lana sd
and our common stock, az az
ferred stock, and the olgsotf.
debt Of any road in the 80, w 81
that isn't all, sir. VIC srsie
finest lobby that any cur 81
show a perfect dalsE, .t ~ 4
know of a road that 5 Is' no
than ours is, name it, 81 ,,,e,.
YOU please. boston ~"
Steve Holcomb, for man &.
torious Western gambler, e. b
down as pastor OF a nll's t,op
Louisville. lie draws III ILo
experience for warning
use in his sermons.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
RIAL ESTATE.

The following transfers OF real estate were
hled Tor record October with the Recorder
OF Deeds, as reported exclusively to THE CRITIC
by J.F. olmstead, 1i10 New York avenhe:
East Capitol street, north side, between
0fl, subdt u, 23xSO, Alberta Campbell II
John q. Slater; $1,000.
North Capitol etreet, north side, between
Thifd and four-and-a-half streets northwest
square 5i1 sublot 81, Eleanor T. Ellery to
Charles Sims; nominal.
q street, polth side, between Teuth and
Eleventh streets northwest, sublpt o, 2ixGO,
sublot j, 21xlOO, lot Q, 40 It. 1Ola In by
depth on northeast corner OF and Eleventh
ttreois, lot 4, 6Ox75, and on Tenth street, west
side, petween Pennsylyanla avenue and
street, eublot ., "a by depth, all In square
3dOj Y atreet, southeast corner Eleventh street
northwest, lots q, z and 8, square $50, 100 l.
i2Aoll2i also, on Eleventh street, east side.
between public epaco and street, part OF lot
D, nolth 81 In. by depth, same square;
Eleventh street, west side, between aud X
streets northwest, part OF lot Ii, north llx7O;
also north SIT. front on Eleventh street by so
OF lot j, and north 81 IT, on alley by 30 OF lot
2, rear Of Eleventh street, all on square 3l7
ian undivided INTEREST,", George Mason 70
sl,1OO.
Rcdfern street, west side, between Ninth
ana Tenth and o and r streets northwest,
square 3O0, sublot ~, oOxlOO, Charles H.
Burgess 70 VIM. c. DIX $1,000.
hlEHs street, south Side, between Thirteenth
ana Fourteenth streets northwest, square 23D,
tHLi'Ae US w ubi u huu toi square I'D, ~
II. ironti alec In same square, on Thirteenth
street, Wett side, between Riggs and Il strests
noithwesf eublOts 100, 1Ol aud 100, 5ixSO
67'lOo, VIM. y. PNtello 10 Alfred aud VIM. A.
Blchatdsi Sll,5O0.
Firth street, southeast corner OF II street
nofthweth square DIS, part OF subllt o, lSx7i,
Mhlthh butch 10 Mary \. Burch; nominal.
second street, Wcft sitt, betWeen q and
tuttlb nuiihWetL squire bSb, part % lot n,
norm 40 ~, In, mont by depth, James =. Ed
sSlT.GO.
Canal street southeast corner s southwest,
square OObi lot T,blNil5i Fstreot, northwest
corner tlItt southwest, lot 1 also street,
topth Side between tlrst aud Second streets
southwest LOT 2 ana 9 street, southwest cor.
IA in',hll In square BOTi Third street. east side
between 4 and 4 streets southwest square
boS, lol 3, 8Oxl2bi Second atrNot, southeast
corner southwest, square 0OO, lot X, 67AX
iu!i2i httrcei south side, bttgeon Wat ~ and
hall tlittls southwest square, O32, lot Z, T3A
Nloui water ttrcoi, botwopn a ana u streets
SOUTHWEST square 600, lot o. Water stgeet,
sollht a. corucr Hluthgest, east Ot square
O1Ii lotO' water street, bstgeeu V ana W
ttreets touthwett, east ~ south of square O67,
l9i "a Charles L. Barnes 70 jeanette Benslngeri
Thiiteenth street, south side bet Eoen Riggs
ma y ttr,tts northwest square 23O, suOlot
w, is %. trout by depth, Win. Il. Particle 20
MAD /. LucAley Apo; $1,000.
mhttachuftus avenue, eHat side, llbh sc.
Hont Seventh street northeast west side, 40
" lfnht ana l2l II. ON Is street, north slle
!S,22O square foet), square $50, part ~ lot !,
53400,
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
ONE OF THE VERY INNOCENT,


Who Keeps n Saloon, Hut Does Not
Know what Poker Is-A Heavy
Fine.
Herman openheimer, the proprietor OF tho
saloon at 1006 Pennsylvania avenue, was
tried In tho Police Court this morning for
allowing gaming table q be eet up on his
premises. Tho sentence In tho case was
severe one, and Judge Smell evidently intends
SSmss SR saRRs odSs % S9Ssios ssa
Tuesday night last he played poker in tue
defendante place. They got cards and chips
IN the room. He did not get them from open-
drinks. Witness and Mr.. Leach sat down 70
play game OF poker for money. They played
about one hour and witness won betseon s35
J. b. williams, OF zoos street, said no also
played poker at this place at the samo time
and he bought his checks from White. Mr..
j. NJ. Leach, OF No. 1903 Nineteenth street,
awell-dressed young white man, testified that
he was there and lost about $40. lie bought
his chips from White, who was "Danktng" the
game. He and White lust won't there t. play
for an hour. openheimer knew thoy were
playing poker.
Mr.. Darlington, tho defondants counsel,
claimed that his client did not know what
'"He is bound to know" said tho Court, "a
man IL bound TO know what IL going on in his
own house and he is responsible for what is
going on"
inc uefendant stated that no ms boon pro.
prietor OF this place for six months. He has
no knowledge OF the game OF "p0kor." Ho
| gave them no cards or chips. He thought
| they were playing for drinks.
The defense claimed that there was only ono
orense, and II did not make out the charge.
The Court called White TO the stand.
slow many games did you playa" no
asked
"One."
SLOW many games?"
"There was only one game" persisted the
witneee. 1--WE never played there before"
~ mean how many hands did you play
You got $40 out OF this man, you must have
played forty hands. know something about
poker"
"ohi" said the witness.
"0hl" Oh" repeated tho Court 'of course"
"Iguess we played over sixty hands,"
"Ihen you played sixty games. One hun
dred dollars flne and sixty days in jail. You
can't pull that sort OF wool over my eyes,"
An appeal was noted.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

When Rev. W. +. Graham the pastor OF the
COlored Baptist Church, was arralgned In tue
Mayors Court yesterday on tho charge OF abn-
eive language to Alice Ray, n member OF his
church, majority OF his congregat was
present. The girl refused TO prefer the charge
against Graham that he Was the father OF her
child, and said that the church would settle
that matter The only question she wanted 10
be settled In tho Mayors Court was whether
sho was "black wench" or not. The Mayor
stated that he was unable TO settle that ques-
tiOn and dismissed the case, which Will be
taken up by the church.
BERNARD Brooke, colored, for assaulting q
young white man, and Celia Chapman, colorod,
for disorderly conduct, were detained at tho
sintlon-house this morning for trial.
Mlss sAllle Hall, OF Danville, Va, is visiting
the Misses Jones, on Upper King street.
Mayor Beckham has issued an order that
no arrests be made on the flre grounds by the
police unless the Chief Engineer OF the Fire
Department be consulted. The two Are com.
panles VIII mold meetings tonight, ana II ia
supposed that difference, which has exlstei
for the Iast few days between the members IT
the companies and the officials VIII be- settled
satisfactorily, 0s this order coming from the
Mayor Is an ACKNOWLEDGMENT that the chief IA
supreme I'm time Of nre-tho question which
has caused the Dissatisfaction.
Mollie Lee was fined % by Mayor Beckham
yesterday for disorderly conduct.
Twenty-seyen geese have been captured
running at large by the police I'm the past 10
daye, and have been taken TO tho station
house. The owners have 10 pay 25 cents
apiece for their redemption.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
MR.. DICKSON DENIES
That He IN Engaged in ColOnizlng
Voters in Ohio OF Elsewhere.

william Dickson, esq, speaking OF the re.
ports circulated that he was at Philadelphia
and other places recently in the interest OF
colonizing voters for Ohio, stated to CRITIC
totq OF truth In them; that he had no informa-
tion that there was any colonizing going on
among the Democrats, except as charged by
he was interested In such disreputable bust
nees was as malicious as II was false. Mr..
Dickson believes that these rumors are printed
for the purpose OF detracting attention from
The actions OF Republicans, whom he alleges
are engaged In the same work.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
Bedding, DR.
Stand, 8O1 M
lection should be Made
Cash Prices Guaranteed.
Space, 3O8
THE THIEF GOES FREE,
And tho Receiver Gets tho Extent of
tho Law.

tho Law.
This morning In the Police Court Dennis
Brown, tho colored porter In Dalton & Strick.
lands ehoo tore, No. $50 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., was put on trial for robblug his employ
ere of several pairs of valuable shoes, aud
another colored man named George W.
cooper was charged with receiving stolen
goods--the shoes in question.
cooper was put on trial first.
MI, Dalton identified tho property recovered
by Lieutenant Arnold as hle. Ho says he has
beon systematically robbed.
Lieutenant Arnold testified to recovering the
stolen property In the store OF tho defendant
on Twelfth street, between B andC.
Donnie Brown, tho dishonest porter, stated
that he lives at No. 10t Ridge street. He had
been in tho employ OF Mr.. Dalton for ten
years. He admitted that he had stolen the
shoes from his employers store. Cooper
came TO him and said he wanted some Shoes
lie was not paid any regular price for them,
but got dollar or two at time from Cooper.
colonel w. A. Cook and MIR. O. Darlington ap.
peared for Cooper.
The witness denied that no was promised
Immunity for his testimony.
NO evidence was put In for tho defense.
Judge Smell imposed the severest penalty of
the law six months In jail. An appeal was
noted, and bail was fixed at $500. Counsel
complained that the bail was excessive.
This is serious offenso for parties ID com
bine 10 plumber their employers. 1 therefore
emphasize II by requiring n good and sum.
Client bond of $780," replied Judge Smell.
III the case OF tho porter, Brown, q collateral
OF $50 was allowed to be forfeited.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
An Autumn nay.

The golden rod with feathery plumes
Bends o'or the withartng grass below;
In meadows damp the frost weed blooms
And Close beside II sumachs glow;
Ihe white birch bends hof0re tho breeze
Ihht ruailes through the nodding trees
Ana scattered shOwera OF yellow l0ayeB,
That nutter 10 and fro.
IN meadow lands the gontlan blue
Looks forthwith ego OF heavenly hue,
And dusty bees drouo out their 10y
Throughout the sunny autumn day,
Half hid boneAih tho Willows shade
Tho brook runs slowly on It's way;
Along the banks, by soft winds sWayed,
Stand dropping ferns and grasses gray.
The golden sunDeams lightly fail
On meadows brown where brlars tall
Climb up above the messy wall,
O'ergrown with ivy gay.
on glowing fields and mountain brown
The autumn sun shinea brightly down;
Above, the blue eky blends O. greet
The gay world lying at It's feet.
--Ltszis y. Bake,
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09

AS Mrs. II. Iredell, OF No. 707 G street north.
wett, was passing along Thirteenth street, be-
tween and streets, last evening about 7
O'Clock, che was assaulted by negro who
Knocked her down, snatching her watch and
chain at the same moment, exclaimlng, "Im
Going TO have that watch" In her fall tue lady
chung 10 the watch, which, In the struggle was
pulled from the chain, and the thief, alarmed
at her cries for help, made on with the chain
ard pair OF eyeglasses attached, leaving tho
lady In possession OF tho watch considerably
damaged, and sho badly bruised by her fall.
In optic OF the early hour and her repeated
ctiee for holp no one responded nor was there
policeman TO bo seen. She describes her az
sailant ne n small, light-colored negro, Wearing
grey coat and stln derby hat OF dark color.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
Furniture,
At the Old
in the Market. No Sc
8O1 Market
A NICE CONSPIRACY
To Secure Democratic Votes ON TIA,
lInU La AlnIn

To Secure Democratic Votes on Tues-
dry in Ohio.
Thefollowing is copy Of secret aud con-
ndential circular Issued 20 all Ohio breWers
and distillcis. II was received here TO- lay
and shows determined effort to defeat Gen
crbl Robinson, who is alleged to DO a temper
arcc man.
CINCINNATI, Sept 80, 1851
DEAR SIN; Tho brewers Association 81 Gu.
ciunail recommend the following course FOR
the pending State election: We propose that
oil brewers In ohio shall have tickets printed
and distributed 70 all cuetomors aud friends
Tho names OF tho Republican candidates for
Secretary OF State and for Judge OF the Su-
pfemo Court shall be omitted, and In their
place shall be substituted tho names OF the
Democratic candidates for those onices.
on the rect o. the ticket, let every voter follow
bis own choice. Shortly before election day
lot us distribute these tickets, ana tho regular
Democratic ticket for use on election day. II
We want 70 elect Cleveland over Blatne-,he oe.
cret ally OF tue prohioitlonists-wo must car.
~ tho head OF our Democratic ticket in
ohio In october.
by resortlng 70 the Same political measure,
tho browera OF New York, at tho last state cleo
ton there, furnished similar tickets against a
prohibition candidate 20 all tho licensed 81.
loona, and defeated him by a change OF bi,-
GOO yotee. Your new ticket must have the fol.
lowing heading TO mako II legal: "Republlcln
state ticket, except for Secretary OF state aud
Judge OF supremo Court"
Very respectfully
HENRY MULuAusER,
GEORGE GERKT,
EMILE SCHNfITT,
MICHAEL SCftALLER,
JOHN OOETZ,
WM. Ross,
JOIIN q. BREECKMAN,
The E,roeUtive Committee II he Cincinnati
BrCtretS' Association.
The sIgners include well known Rapubll-
cans as we'll as Democrats, and they arc the
largest brewers In Ohio.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-09
WEST WASHINGTON.

Temperature ana condition OF water at z a.
M; Great Falls, temperature, 20; condition,
10. Receiving reservoir, temperature, IA;
condition at north connection, SO; condition at
south connection, 80. Distributing reservoir,
temperature, "a; condition at influent gate
house, 30: condition ut enluent gatehouse, SO.
Considerable complaint has been made by
pedestrians by tho habit OF some OF the NOR
chants In obstructing the sidewalk I'm front OF
their stores with dry.goOds boxes. If the bust
ness men would remove tho goods from the
boxes more promptly and thon remove the
boxes from the sidewalk they would give cause
Tor gratitude 10 many OF their customers.
Ioat LoudOn arrived with $500 bushels OF
wheat. No sales reported.
committee from tho Brotherhood OF St.
John, OF ST. Johns p. Il. Church, Is endoavor-
Ing 70 arrange with n committee from Christ
Church for establishing a FREQ library aud
reading-room 10 be managed by the two
parlshes Jointly during the coming winter.
Meesrp. Craig, jackson and Fred Sommer.
vile, all sportsmen, on 'possum hunt on
Iuerday night bagged II near Cabin John
Bridge.