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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

the spots nearest his equator, the time
of single rotation would seem to be
little more than three and one-halt
weeks. So that it would actually seem
as though parts of the sun near his
equator turned round eight times in
four weeks, while in the same time the
parts of the spot zone nearest to the
poles went round only sereae times.
APPEARANCE OF SUN SPOTS.
The spots are not uniformly dark, but
are darkest at the centre. All around
the dark central part is what looks like
a sort of fringe, darker than the rest
of the suns surface, but not nearly so
dark as the central region.
The spots seem to be depressions be-
low the solar surface, the outer part
being the sloping sides of great saucer
shaped hollows.
But there are not always spots on the
sun. Sometimes for weeks in sue
cession no spots can be seen. 1t has
been found that spots increase and de-
crease in number in somewhat regu-
lar manner. From the time when there
are none the spots gradually increase
in number and in size. Then they be-
gin to get fewer aud fewer in number
until again the sun is without spots.
Then they begin to return, and so they
grow alternately more and less numer'
Gus. The period in which all the
changes are gone through, from time
when spots are most numerous to time
when they are again most numerous, i:
about eleven years.
THE CAUSE OF SUN SPOTS.
The cause of this periodic change Il
the state of the suns surface has no
yet been discovered. But the spot
themselves are supposed to be regions
where that surface has been intensely
disturbed. Generally the parts of ;
surface near a spot are brighter tina,
the rest, forming streaks and patches o
intense brilliancy, which the as
tronomers of Calico time called facut
from q Latin word signify torch
Much smaller bright patches, mere dot
in fact, of similar brightness are strewI
over the general surface of the sun
These are called the kilograms.
| But though they look very small, the,
are in reality of enormous size-cer
tainly not less than three hundred mile
in length and two hundred in breadth
1t is believed that nincty-nine parts gu
of hundred of the suns light and hea
comes from these immense and in
tensely luminous clouds.
When the moon comes between tn,
earth and the sun, she sometimes jus
hides the sun from view, and then WI
can see all around the dark body Of thu
eclipsing moon ruddy objects looking
like rosy mountains, clouds and flames
They were compared by those who hrs
discovered them to garnets round ;
brooch of jet These in reality belong
to the sun, and are vast masses of glow
ing gas, reaching twenty, thirty, forty
nay, sometimes even eighty thousanc
miles above his surface. Outside thes
again there can be seen during an eclips
a glory of light around the dark bod.
of the moon, called the corona. Thi
belongs to the sun, and is probabl,
caused by tiny bodies travelling in i'm
mense numbers dixie clouds of dust
around the sun and illuminated by hi
light. Richard 4. Proctor, IN Youths
Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
TENNYSON MADE a BARON.

Baron Alfred We're de We're,
OF me you win no new renown;
You thought to daze the country-folk
And cockneys when you came to town.
See Wordsworth, Shelley, Cowper, Burma,
Withdraw in scorn and sit retiredl
The last Ct some six hundred Earls
Is not place to be desired
Baron Alfred We're de We're,
We thought you proud to bear your name;
Your pride is yet no mate for ours,
Too proud to think title fame.
We hail the genius-not the lord;
We love the poets truer charms;
A simple singer with his dreams
Is worth ahundred cOatS-Of-armS
Baron Alfred We're de We're,
see you march, hear You say:
"Bow, bow, we lower middle classw
Is all the burden of your lay.
We held you first without peer,
And princely by our noble words
The Senior Wrangler of our bards
Is now the Wooden Spoon OF lords.
Baron Alfred We're de We're,
You put strange memories in my head;
For Just five decades now have flown
Since we all mourned young Arthur dead.
o, your wet eyes your low replies!
Our tears have mingled with your tear;
To think that all such agony
Should end in making you peerI
Baron Alfred We're de We're,
Our England has had poets too;
They sang some grand old songs of yore,
But never feucneu Sucn nights as you
Will Shakespeare was prince of bards,
Our Milton was king to hear,
But had their manners that repose
Which stamps the caste of We're de We're?
Baron Alfred We're de We're,
Robe, now your days are sere and spent?
The King of SnObs is at your door,
To trace your long (and deep descent.
A mans a man for IA that,
And rich on forty pounds year;
If rank be the true guinea-stamp
To win ParnaSsus-die peer!
Trust me, Baron We're de We're,
When mobiles eat their nObest words,
The grand old gardener and his wife
Smile ut the airs of poct-lords.
Howe er il be, it seems to me
Ills only noble to be good.
Plain souls are more than coronetS,
And simple lives than Baronhood.
know you, Baron We're de We're;
You pine among your halls and bays;
The jaded light OF your vain eyes
Is wealed with the food of praise.
In glowing fame, with boundess wealth
But sickening of Il vague disease,
You are so dead to simple things,
You needs must play such pranks as these
Alfred, Alfred We're de We're,
If time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no tOilers in our streets,
Nor any poor in all these lands?
o. teach the weak to strive anG hope,
Or teach the great to help the low,
Pray heaven for Il noble heart,
And let the foolish title 60
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

james Bishop died recently near
London, Eng, aged eighty-three, from
a fall from his caravan, in which he had
lived without interruption for the last
thirty-ive years. During this time his
wife gave birth in the caravan to
eighteen sons and two daughters, all of
whom were reared there. One of the
latter became the mother of Silina
Young, the female Blondin, who crossed
the Thames on a tight rope. The other
married a Snowman, and was mother
to twenty-four children, all of whom
were born and reared in caravan.
Bishop brought up his eighteen sons to
trades or the musical profession.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

"A Cleveland woman tried holding
a baby as collateral security for a board
bill. She took care of the child so that
its mother could work in store; when
the mother failed to pay the bill refused
to give it up, and the owner of the
property had to seek courts of law and
get a writ of habeas us.-Clereldnd
Leader,
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
SOUTH WASHINGTON.

The Masters and Pilots Protective Assocla-
ton Will meet again on Friday evening. An
informal meeting OF the executive committee
was held last night. 1t will be ready to report
on Friday evening.
There is good skating on the river opposite
the steamboat wharves outside the channel,
where there are many pieces OF broken ice. -
The supplies OF Police Station No. 1 are so
low that only the most urgent cases can be at
TO the station-houso with pltiful stories, but In
the majority OF cases they have 10 go away un-
satisfied.
August La Fontaine, who had been long
known In South Washington, was buried yes
terday afternoon, the funeral services taking
place at ST. Dominfc'B Church at o'clock,
Father Spinner ofIlciating. Many of Mr.. La
Fontaine's old friends were present.
The marriage OF Miss Kate McArdle, OF
grocer on Fourteenth street, near NJ north
west, occurred yesterday afternoon ut g
o'clock at st. Dominic's Church. Father Coll
performed the ceremony. The affair was a
very brilliant one, the dress OF tho bride being
extremely elegant, and large audience being
present.
Considerable comment was caused last even
ing in South Washington by an affair in which
young lady in respectable social circles and
dizzy masher were tho participants. II &C.
CURED on L street, between Sixth and Seventh
southwest, about O'Clock. The young lady
met the aforesaid masher, and In reply to the
latter's salutatioD, "Good evening"" applied
heavy horsewhip to his shoulders, asserting
that he had insulted her. He protested and
on him again. 81 assure you" he cried,
"your friend who introduced me said you were
unmarried" But she continued the thrash
Ing numerically. He was finally allowed TO go.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
PAT GALLIGHER'S CRIME.
His Terrible Cruelty 10 Mrs. Myers
Horse.


Patrick Gallagher, q herculean white man
with Vicious look, was behind the bars In
Judge SHELLS court to-day for cruelty TO anl-
mails. He had killed a valuable horse belong
ing TO Mrs. General Myer, OF No. 1927 street.
Mrs. Myer stated that she employed the de-
PENDANT as coachman last month, and that
early yesterday morn Ing ono OF her horses was
found dead In the stable. The horse was val
ued at about $500, and was we'll the previous
night.
DR.. Bushman, q veterinary surgeon, was
called as an expert. Witness was asked to
explain the nature OF the injuries inflicted on
the poor animal. lie said the only way he
could explain the injuries was by saying that
the horses skull was literally smashed and
his brains knocked out.
'Then there was more than ono blown" said
the Judge.
ooh. yes; two OF the horses legs were
broken, also, and he was covered with wounds"
was the answer.
VIM. Hanley, the footman, testified to hear.
Ing the defendant threaten to kill tho horse,
and to finding the crowbar and several billets
OF wood covered with blood, and blood marks
on the wall, caused by the horses head while
running around the stable.
Gallagher said that he wanted TO make a
statement, and took the stand and made very
thin statement. He said the horse had brain
disease, and In going out Seventeenth street
he was fearful that the carriage would so into
an excavation so he drove the team Into q tele.
graph polo to stop It. The conclusion threw
MIN of the box and injured him, and the horse
broke his head and two OF his legs. He un.
hitched him and drove the carriage home with
one horse. Then no won't back and hired q
man 10 haul the horse to the stable, and soe-
Ing that he was going TO die he killed the horse
TO put II out OF pain. Then he went on TO say
that he thought as much OF the horse as he
did OF his own children, and wept when the
horse died.
zone year In jail and nne OF $3.50, and In
default OF the iine one year additional" said
tho Court.
This is the heaviest penalty ever imposed In
such q case, but 1t was deserved.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
THE ToTAL-ABsTINENCE BANNER.
How IL is Held AIoft in Northeast
Washington.

In no part OF this city, perhaps, are the
people so thoroughly and earnestly engaged
in the cause OF temperance as In the northeast.
ern section. There are two flourlshing Good
Templar lodges, holding their regular weekly
meetings at the hall corner OF II and Ninth
streets northeast, besides the Gospel temper
ance meeting every Sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock, under the auspices OF tho Citizens
Temperance Association.
The good accomplished through the influ-
ence of these meetings 10 incalculable; scores
OF men OF oil ages, who were formerly addicted
TO the use OF Intoxicating liquors, have en-.
rolled themselves under the banner of temper.
ance and become earnest and jealous advocates
OF total abstinence.
In order TO still further advance the cause n
series OF public meetings were inaugurated
last evening, at the hall above referred to,
under tho auspices OF the Order OF Good Tenn.
plars. Mr.. Connor introduced tho speaker OF
the evening, Major Holden, OF Providence,
RI.
Tho Major is an able and forclblo speaker,
and the large and Intelligent audience mani
tested Its appreciation OF his address by re-
peated and hearty applause.
1t Is proposed 10 hold a meeting every even
ing this week, excepting Friday evening. This
evening Major Holden will be assisted In con.
Quoting the meeting by Mr.. Charlie Nye.
AS result OF last nights meeting over forty
signatures were obtained to Major Holden's
pledge, and before the campaign OF this weeA
Is closed IL is safe to predict that hundreds
Will have enrolled themselves under the ban
per OF "rotal Abstinence"
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

regular semi.monthly meeting OF the City
Council was held last night. In the Board OF
Aldermen the Committee on General Laws
submitted their report on the bill referred to
them Of the last regular meeting relative TO
petitionfng the General Assembly TO amend or
abrogate the charter OF the Alexandria Water
Company-for instance, that at the request OF
four or Blk property-owners In any section OF
the city the company shall be compelled TO OK
tend It's mains, and whenever, in the opinion
OF the Firo wardens OF the city, 1t shall be
necessary they shall replace the present small
mains by larger ones. After an hours debate
on The subject the bill was rejected by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas-Messrs. Strauss, Risheill
Herbert, Marbury, smoot and Ried-5. A petit.
ton was read from Mr.. b. Il. Baggott, praying
that the sum Of $S7 be refunded to him,
which amount he had been fined for conduct
Ing business In the market without license.
Mr.. b. having taken out a license, the prayer
OF the petitioner was granted.
There were but two prisoners at the station.
house this morning-Molly Curtis, for being
drunk and disorderly, and young man
named Lamb, charged with the same onense.
A meeting OF the Society of Physicians, of
this city, was hold at tho office OF DR.. Smith
last night, whom resolutions OF respect 10 the
memory OF the late DR.. NJ. III. Lewis were
adopted.
The steamer L. @. knight, which left New
York for this city on Sunday morning, Is now
at Quantico, but will be assisted to this city by
the steamer Thompson as soon as the Ice Will
permit.
All the ice-houses in and about the city are
being filled with ice from six to eight inches
thick, cut from the river and canal.
Bishop Randolph and Rev. J, j. Bullock were
in the city yesterday In attendance upon tho
funeral OF DR.. Lewis.
In the Corporation Court yesterday the jury
In tho case OF George Brown, colored, on trial
for perjury, rendered verdict OF not gniltgs
Tho last VIII and testament OF CathAriaa y. At-
we'll was recorded. .aEse
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
EAST WASHINGTON.

Tho Lieutenant at Police Station No. says
that no proposes TO discriminate I'm the food no
distributes TO tho poor in favor OF those who
need ~. Ho believes that thus he Will moro
faithfully carry out the wishes OF those who
nave contributed tho supplies. Notwithstand-
Ing Criticisms In communications TO the news.
papers OF discrimination he proposes 10 dis
eliminate In such way that idleness VIII NOT
BIO encouraged, but that tho needy shall DO re-
lioved, and these results can not DO obtained
by indiscriminate donations.
The police OF tho Eighth Precinct look after
on an average OF thirty families q day. They
ported TO them, and endeayor to dispense their
supplies where they Will do the most good.
Tho funeral OF Patrick Conslly took place
this afternoon from his lato residence, No. %
Fifth street northeast
The river on tho navy.yard has become n
popular place OF skating. crowds flock there
every afternoon and enjoy the ice, which is In
excellent condition.
There are number OF generous mon on tho
east side who have sent liberal donations d.
rectly 10 the station-houso and whose gifts
have not received tho public acknowledgment
due them. Those who contributed this morn.
ing arc Hudson & Sons, bakers, 40 loaves OF
bread; Mcdonald 4 Bros, bakers, % loaves:
John II. Miller, baker, 10 ioaves; while tho
other contributions were sent by Messre. Geo.
w. Mckee, who sent clothing, etc., and VIM.
II. Coleman, OF tho Star Market, Ninth street
northwest, who sent bread, potatoes and tur-
nipe. IL was said Mt the station-houpe that 75
loaves OF bread had been given out to-day.
The sailmakers have Just finished a set OF
sails for the Consolation, now at Norfolk. They
Will BIO sent In few days.
Estimates are now being made by tho super.
intondent OF the sail loft for tho sails for the
new boat, Dolphin.
Mrs. Lieutenant Foley, daughter OF Mfr. Hugh
Mccartney, OF the corner OF Sixth and East Cap
itol streets, is lying Ill at hor home in New
Bedford. Masa
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
WEST WASHINGTON.

The Georgetown Gasiight Company has do
mated another 800 bushels OF coke TO tho First
Subdivision OF Associated Charities, to be by
them distributed among the poor OF this sec
ton.
The scarcity OF corn has given It decided up.
ward tendency, and to-day It sold on Change
at 60 cents, an Increase OF cents In tho past
week. Wheat sold from $1.07 TO si.11 per
bushel.
onlcer Warwick, OF the Third Precinct, Is con.
fined TO his home on account OF sickness.
AZ the meeting last night OF tho Third Dis.
trfct Republicane, Logan Williams, James l..
Turner and Frank Herbert were elected dele
gates TO tho central committee. James d.
Russell and James II. Grey were elected alter
mates.
Tho annual meeting OF the Georgetown
Union was held last evening at It's rooms ON
Washington street. The reports OF tho retir-
Ing officers were received and much important
business concerning the course TO be pursued
during the coming year transacted.
The election OF officers resulted as
president II. b. Ring; recording sec
Rotary, VIM. Manogue; financial secretary,
John p. Moran: treasurer, Il. V. orutt; libra
rian, J. p. Gibbons; directors, VIM. Smith,
Thomas Muntz, It. j. Finney, g. W. Manogue
and ID. p. Morgan.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
THE STIFFNESS OF THE GRAVE
That Has Pervaded Smells Temple
VIII Soon he Broken

VIII SOOu III DEOAeus
"Its always n calm before Storm" OBJ.
served Bill as no came in this morning, pre-
sumably from the matinee. 81 moan that the
graveyard stiffness that pervaded tho sacred
precincts OF tho Temple to-day Indicated that
storm Of United States caseJ will burst upon
us when Mr.. Worthington gets his of1lce run
ming ana eends us prosecutor. You know
they have Deon saving up cases for week.
There wasn't any more jaw about who will
prosecute down there because that's settled"
"Did you hear anything new to-day about
thatT
"You know
Mr.. Randolph CoyIe
used to prosecute cases down there and hos a
friend OF mine, and he came in the courtroom
today and was so glad to see him because he
makos u lively, that Just jumped up aud
slapped him on the shoulder and said, 'Glad
TO see you, old boy; how are you? am glad
TO see you. Are you going to prosecutor
am not answering any questions this
one, too You know that lawyers arc so
technical. It's oil right, though. He looked
e eys r me fiy back cases and got few point
swell, didn't they have one nctg"
the programme was Patrick aaliighor. He
sido partner write that up seperate."
was MIR. Moore there to-day"
Eyes, he was on hand, but he didn't have
much 70 say. He only took the cases in court
were continued"
swell, what about them7"
"Noihing much, only an old colored woman
nainen Eliza Simms, who ought TO be
thinking about Passing In Her
Checks.
was In for robbing n trunk OF Mrs. Alonzo
Thomas. She came TO tho depot and sent her
trunk TO her friends on Capitol Hill; that is
she thought she did, but the man that drove
tho baggage wagon took II to ELIAS house,
where Sergeant Mulhall found II broken open,
and gold watch and chain, two rings, and
some more things were missing. She will be
tried
when Somebody IN Authorized to
Prosecute.
the case. Dock Ellis was charged with steal
ing dog two years ago, and he got or"
"District cases 2"
'You shall have them, and II It wasn't for
the good time that's coming pretty soon, when
they etart on the big docket, you could have
my resignation as reporter and I'd go In the
business OF Logging It with messages again.
Martha Stuart, an eccentric-looking colored
maiden, was behind the bars for disorderly
conduct and swearing at midnight. She made
HIS Honor believe that she went out
To See who she Night-DoctOrs Were
who were in her yard and as sho has always
been afraid OF such things, she got scared and
screamed, but she didn't scream, for she be-
longed TO church for eleven years and O half
The half year looked suspicious, because
that was too accurate. She got or, though.
John Eagan was proven TO BIO n vag, and got
all tho law aliows-three months-and he
looked like he wanted more"
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
Mr.. Bradley's Explanation is SUM.
Gent.

"See here" said Mr.. A. O. Bradley to CRITIC
reporter to-day, .'your paper is placing me In
false position"
SHOW Is that ?" was inquired.
"Why, 1t Gays that have been offered tho
position Of Assistant District Attorney by
Mr.. Worthington."
"Is that not SO?
''Certainly It Is not. don't think Mr..
Worthington has either offered or made an
appointment OF any kind YET for he has not
been confirmed himself. know that he has
made no offer 10 mo, and not word has been
said 10 me about the position"
"Would you accept II II offered ?"
81 could not drord to do II. My business
would not warrant me in leaving IL and taking
the ONCE, and think It best TO give my bust
II Tho nrafnrnnnn
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
A Good Cause of Complaint.

SIT is a good cause for complaint to have a
whole procession OF mammoth street cleaning
machines, drawn by u small cavalcade OF
horses, and kicking up a dust, soaring horses,
oDstrucling travel and raising general dis.
turbance along the busiest squares OF the Ave.
nue. at noon on q day like this" said n citizen
10 a reporter.
The reporter looked up the Avenue and
there, sure enough, were three or four OF tho
colossal machines, blocking tho Avenue rails.
Ing clouds OF dust and causing general confu-
aIns
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-23
WE WELCOME THEM ALL,
And They VIII Not be Disappointed
in the Capital City.

"Tho city IS lively to-day" said hotel
lounger to THE CRITIC. ave have got in town
little army OF little Indians from Carlisle
and Hampton with the school bands, composed
OF Indian musicians. We have the delegates
TO the Indian conventions the ministers who
came for the Garfield Church dedication; tho
tarifr tnkers by the score; tho Dakota delega.
lions, claiming admission as n State, and the
removal OF the capital; the advance arrivals
for the board OF trade convention and the Mis-
sissippi River convention and an invasion OF
yisitois, who are thronging the Capitol, the
White House and the Departments, IL Is
about the busiest day OF the winter thus far,
and prospects seem 10 brighten for hotel-keep'
ers, merchants, cab.drivers, and everybody
"Well, let them all come" suggested THE
CRITIC man. "Here Is where all National as
semblies should gather, especially when
Congress is In session. And they Will all go
away with tho very best impression OF the
Capital OF tho Nation, its splendid buildings
and monuments, It's well-paved streets and
magnificent distances, and last but not least,
Its hospitality. Do you know that Washington
Is famous for Its hospitality ?and have heard
strangers remark ON leaving the city that
they felt like quoting Burns with the change
OF single word:
when deaths dark stream ferry DER,
A day that surely Will come,
In Heaven itself I'll ask no more "a
Than lust o Washington welcopla.aAeks'