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RECTrALs AND INTERPRETATIONS
or his OWN
BALLADS, LEGENDS, AND FESTIVALS,

Corner Tenth and q gtroets northwest.
FRIDAY, EVENING, MAY l0-Poem~-Mo
logue--"rhe Science Of Home intprspersed with
MONDAY EVENING. NAY i0"SCIe6tiopa from
"Ball0ds,n legends" and "Festivals' published
aud unpuhl lshed.
WEDNESDAY 4 EVENING, MAY 2l--New poems
and request pro,gramme
Single admission reserved scat 90 cents; limited
number OF course tickets (rc5eryed), 81, No eNtra
charge for reserved seats ut Eies music store, a37
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S1lanirO--Gmnlupmtnt.

pY A RESPECTABLE WHITE GfRI.-A SIT
-Ab uHtiOu us nfgt-CAss cook; no washing or ron
Ing. Call vt No. 2O25 l. st. N. w. l.O
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Buslurss Garos.

Persons desiring 70 invest In Washington Property
or Loan Money on the same can by paying small
percentage on the amount Involved, got unu uhpIt-
JUDGED opinion TO the exact value ana chances FOR
Its improvement. ...... ,,...i...,
All matters "rtuiniug 70 the heAl lHlae hHaAlleAa
promptly attended TO-
INSURANCE placed IN the nest Companies
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Mlantr0---Rooms

DY Two GBNrLEMEN-2 on 3 UNFUR-
ID nished rooms. Address NJ, Republican onlce
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A FRONT ROOM, PLAINLY FURNISHED,
IA for 81, bet. 18th and 9th and and Il sts. for
the sumnier widow lady in office; one child. Ad-
dress WIDOW, Republican olice. 40
A COUPLE WITHOUT CHILDREN WANT
~, or uninrnished rooms; with gas and water
Office. 4-1O
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The largest Printing House In the CITY.
PrintnE ut All Descriptions Promptly ENecntedin
the Best style aud at Lowest Rates
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fnr Nfnl-.-HooIns.

rJHE DINING ROOM ATTACHED 70 11o1 G
81. or will rent same os an otice or cluo room'
7.tO
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19lani,o SrIp.

wv ANTED-A YOUNG CoLoRED MAN. TO
w work around barruum aud walt ON dining
room. Apply at 1904 PA. av. ~ w. 2-lO
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SllantrN---8o ousrs.

HoUsEs RANGING FROM $1,000 TO $4,000
IL In price In the n. and n. w section Of tho city
20 supply orders on hand II. II. 4, LEIPOLD, Real
Estate and Insurance, 1420 N Y.av 3l2
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lit the gas; how, 1 know not. I
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have referred to. OF wood steamers,
four we're added within the month. the
net tonnage being 53 only, while OF
iron sailing vessels. the 3 that were
added were of 5,521 tons net, and tho
wooden sailing vessels added were OF
1888 tons net. II is clear from these
figures that while the iron and steel
and wood steamers includad many of
very small tonnage river tugs and
similar vessels-the tonnage of the
sailing vessels was larger. Hence the
deduction is fair, that the vessels which
are now being built are small steamers
for special purposes, and large iron
sailing vessels. 1t is a fact that gives
ground for belief that there will be
soon revival in the demand for steam
ships, because the loss is going ON, and
practically the building of large steam
ships has for the present ceased. The
vessels which are idle must by and by
be called into requisition, and then We
shall find that there will be orders for
new ones to meet the loss that seems to
be increasing with The increase of the
fleet of steamers, and with the transfer OF
considerable part of the tonnage from
sailing vessels to steamers. Eng i1aeer
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BY MAnaAREr ErrINoE


They were tickling OF this glory of the land be-
yond thc ekies,
OF the hight ind OF the gladness 10 be found In
Par disc.
OF the flowers ever blooming, of the nover-ccas-
ing songs,
OF the wand rings through the golden streets Of
happy white-robed thrcngs:
And said rather, leaning costly back In his easy
chair.
Father always was master hand for comfort
every wherc):
What a joyful thing 'twould be to know that
when this life is DER.
One would strnghtway hear welcome from the
blessed shining shorel
And Isabelle, our oldest girl, glanced upward
from the reed
eho was laintug on n water-rg, and mur-
Inored, "Nes. indeed
And Marion, the next in age. moment dropped
her boo K.
And a "Yes. indeed!- responded. with most
ecstalic look.
But motaer, gray-h haired mother who had come
10 sweep the room.
With q patient smile on her thin face, leaned
lightly on her broom
Poor motlIecl no one ever thought how much
she had to do
Andsaid. n hope 1t Is not wrong TO agree with
But Sc. ms to me that whom die. before join
the best,
ldlike just for n little while to lie In my grave
and rest"
-HdIBe1'S Weekly.
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"reminiscences of Herzegovina.

There were about twenty-five of us,
and for eight days not one of us ate
anything except boiled mutton. Every
night sheep was killed; a fire kindled
inside tent to keep the blaze from the
watchful eyes of the Turk, past whose
stations we were running; and the flesh
of the sheep, before it had been an
hour dead, was cut into Jumps and
thrown into cauldron of boiling water.
After three days of this diet L could
stand it no longer, and for the next five
days l rode down the country without
tasting q bite of anything. L had a.
little rum-andwater, but that was all.
Hunger is the worst on the second day.
On the third day you cease to feel
hunger, and you begin to lose flesh,
but kept going. Splendid savages
were some of those insurgents; al
though some were perfect gentlemen,
others were magnificent brutes. Peko
Pavlovitch was one of the latter. He
could neither read nor write, stood
about six feet six inches, wore armor on
his body, and although personally most
courteous to me, was the purest savage
/ have ever seen in white skin. was
sitting beside him when a soldier came
with flag of truce from Moukhtar
Pasha asking for permission to send
victuals to the beleagured fortress of
Govansko. Peko Pavlovitch could not
read, but he looked at the paper while
the contentsswere being interpreted to
him. He then tore it into fragments,
fungShe pieces into the messengers
face, and waving his hand with q
savage expression declared, "That is
my answer" The messenger went
down stairs. Before he reached the
landing / heard a groan. The man
was killed. Another specimen of Pekos
mode of warfare which witnessed was
an unfortunate Turk, whose back Peko
had scored with his knife and ripped
off three long strips of skin with his
hands. The poor wretch was more
dead than alive.
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Sending a Kentnckian to Death.

The difficulty with some people to
comprehend the distinction between a
mandatory and an advisory railway
commission is very amusingly illus
trated in an anecdote related by very
witty member of the Kentucky bar. A
criminal Judge had before him hard
ened and notorious criminal, who had
been found guilty of crime for which
the penalty was death. The Judge, on
pronouncing sentence, told the pris-
oner it afforded him extreme pleasure
to pronounce upon him the severest
penalty of the law, and the Sheriff
would be directed to take him from the
Court House to the jail and thence, on
a given date, at given hour, to be
taken to the Jail yard and there be
hanged by the neck until he was dead,
dead, dead.
The Judge then asked the prisoner if
he had anything to say why the sentence
of death should not be pronounced
against him.
"Well, not much" said the prisoner,
with lmperturbable sang froid "All 1
have to say to the - court and every
body connected with it is that, if it af-
fords them any pleasure to have me
hanged till j am dead, dead, dead, then
this court and all connected with it may
just go to hell, hell, hell.
"Ahl" instantly exclaimed the Court,
sin the Courts case the order is manda-
tory, but in that of the prisoner it is
only advisory. Mr.. Sheriff, let the sen.
tence be executed. ~ Nashville Ameri-
can.
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he was greatly frightened at a gun
that / shot off one day at some SPAR
rows. He hid at once in the straw of
his cage, and never left it till the gun
was hung up again. After that had
only to touch the stock to make him
hide again, when nothing could be seen
in the straw except q pair Of sharp
eyes watching all my motions. Just a
touch of my finger or of q cane upon
the cock of the gun was enough to de-
on my watch chain little pistol. on
which percussion cap would make a
tolerably loud report. The monkey
had not yet found this out, and. sitting
on my knees, would amuse itself with
licking the silver barrel. One day, in
his presence, put percussion cap on
the nipple of the pistol. The monkey
observed my movements with great at
tention, but without seeming disturbed
by them. But when the cock, being
raised, made two clicks, Molly dropped
his eyebrows, while he continued sit
ting quietly. When the explosion took
place his fright was unbounded. Cry
ing loudly. and full Of anguish, he fed
from my knees, ran across several
rooms, leaped out of the window, chung
to q water-pipe, slid down to the street
and hid himself in ditch in q neighbor-
ing garden. His nervousness lasted
long while, and had to take off my
watch chain to appease him. From
that day he was in such fear Of the lit
tie pistol that to take hold of the chain
was enough to make him disappear in
the straw. But he very soon learned
by experience that the source of the
defamation was not in the chain. but in
the pistol, and could easily distinguish
it from the other APPENDICES of the
chain, of which he was not afraid at all.
The closer my fingers approached the
formidable object, the greater became
his anxiety, and with his eyes riveted
upon the instrument, and with tense
ears, he would dance continuously in
the cage, all ready to go under the
straw. He would assure himself before
hand, for greater security, that the
cage door was well shut; and one day,
when the bolt had not been pushed in,
he leaped out from the cage, which did
not seem safe enough for him, and
went and hid himself under the bed in
the next room. As 1 gradually removed
my hand from the pistol, would re-
ceiye chuckles of appreciation; and,
with his lips pushed forward and the
muscles of his ear moving by jerks, he
would manifest very great JOY
Popular Science Monthly.
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Mustard and Love.

"Why, darling" he said, as she drew
back from his proffered embrace,
what have done that you should
treat me so coldly? Have 1 offended
you in any way?"
"No, George" she replied, uneasily,
any love for you remains undiminished,
but tonight, dear, L cannot occupy my
accustomed seat. Do not ask me why.
Have perfect faith in me, George, and
some day, when we are married and
shall have grown old together, 1 may
tell you why L could not sit on your
knee tonight. But not now, not now"
But George wasn't satisfied. A
haunting fear came over him; he
dreaded he knew not what, and for
moment he wrestled nightly with his
despair.
Nay, dearest" he insisted. "You
must tell me why you thus act so
strangely. AS your future husband /
have a right to know. There should
be no secrets between us now"
"Ah, George" she said, blushing
painfully, "if you insist upon knowing
1 will tell you, but 1 hoped that you
would spare me. was out in the wet
to-day and caught q slight cold, and
and-and the doctor ordered a mustard
plaster on my back"
And just outside the birds slept
sweetly in the branches, and far below
the river flowed on sparkling in tho
moonlight.-Ne,o York World.
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Hog by name and hog by natur,
But Hodge by act of Legislator.
Bored with Whist.

Fashion and etiquette compel people
TO endure a great deal of discomfort.
A dozen persons will sit for hours at q
ceremonious dinner-table and watch the
courses come and go, long after their
appetite has been satisfied. Though
each has been bored. all assert that
they have had "a charming time" A
writer in Chambers Journal tells how
three distinguished gentlemen and a
princess were once bored at an aristo-
cratic game of whist:
On one occasion when Washington
Irving, Bancroft, and Everett were
chatting over diplomatic "reminiscences,
the last-named told how, after he and
the Neapolitan Ambassador had been
presented to her Majesty Queen Veto
ria, Lord Melbourne intimated that
they would be expected to join in a
game of whist with the Duchess of
Kent.
81 play very poor game, myself"
said Melbourne; gin fact, 1 scarcely
understand it, but the Duchess is very
fond of it."
And l." said the Neapolitan to Ever
EFT, lam very bad player, and should I
chance to be your Excellency's partner,
/ invoke your forbearance in advance. I"
TO which the American envoy replied
that he knew very little of the game
himself.
AS he put it, three dignified person
ages, chad in gorgeous attire, were
solemnly going to play a game none
perfectly understood, and for which
none of them cared in the least
Upon reaching the Duchess apart
ments the Ambassadors were formally
presented, and then, at her invitation,
sat down to play.
As soon as the cards were dealt a
lady-in-waiting placed herself at the
back Of the Duchess, and the latter
said:
"Your Excellencies must excuse me
if rely upon the advice of my friend
here, for 1 must. confess that / am a
very poor player"
This was almost too much for Ever
ett's gravity, gravity undisturbed for
the rest of the evening, since he found
playing whist under such conditions in
expressibly dull work.
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closed the door. But when. ] looked
upon her lying there, her white face
froze my very hearts blood.
"Oh, God be mercitHlY I tried to
whisper.
had q terrible fear of touching her.
was growing cold from head to foot.
l chung to chair for support.
Her eyes Enclosed; she looked mp
and, seeing me, tried to smile. She
moved her lips, but uttered no sound.
Then 1 saw her slowly drag herself
toward my feet, until she could reach
up and clasp my knee.
"Oh, Cod" 1 moaned, with frozen
tongue.
She smiled at me, though her eyes
were dimmed with death. Her lips
parted for one soft, signing syllable.
"Love -"
And she fell back and was still.
knew that she was dead-that had
murdered her instead of the coward
who had fled and left her to die. 1
could move now; all was over. My
pretty wife, my Mignon, lay dead at my
feet and could move.
l dared not bend as yet to lift her
I saw the bundle he had dropped. /
stopped and lifted tit was heavy. /
opened it with trembling hands and
looked stupidity mt the contents. Then
l began to shrek aloud for aid, for all
the world to come and know that she
was murdered.
They came in at my wild cries; they
lifted her tenderly, as / had had no
- - IL IL
from my hands-the sack of burglars
tools
And still 1 shrieked.
The blood-stained knife was on the
floor. They seemed to- think it had
been his.
Mignon was dead. They laid her
upon her bed, and crossed her hands
and set some candles on the table.
1 dared to look upon her now, she
lay as white and peaceful as a lily.
"Oh, Christi" / said IF / have
wholly wronged her?"
The night wore on. 1t was at day
break that / took from my pocket the
accursed letter which had spoken her
false. / stood before the window with
that letter in my hand. remembered
that it had no date. Why had 1 not
examined the envelope-the postmark
i would do so now.
could not speak, breathe without
great pain. When 1 realized what 1
had done, 1 cried loudly for death.
The postmark was old; the letter was
an old one, written to Mignon ere she
became my wife.
had slain blameles, one, an
angel.
1 stood staring out of the window.
1t was raining silently in the silent
street below. The gray dawn grew
grayer. Mignon was dead
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Freshmen and SOphOmOres.

A party of Sophomores in a we'll
known college last year visited, at
night dormitory where three Fresh
men slept, and, dragging them out of
bed, took them to the highroad and in
formed them that they must sing and
dance, one by one, until hidden to stop.
The ground was covered with snow,
and their victims wore only their night
shirts.
The first lad who was brought for
ward fought like tiger, and provoked
his toMnentors to make his punishment
longer than they had intended. The
second cried like girl, and begged for
mercy. His torture was prolonged
even more than the other. The third,
slight, erect boy, surrounded by O
dozen hurley young fellows, looked at
them with smile of contemptuous
amusement.
Il should Think" he said, quietly,
"you were too old for such childish
sport. L will neither sing nor dance.
You can, of course, do what you please
to me, being twenty to one. But
warn you that if you lay finger on
me, you shall be arrested and pun
iouCu O-IuOilOW ilhC O0hCl
who break the law"
II felt" said one of the students
afterward, "like very small boy stand
ing before q man"
The same feeling, and perhaps the
unexpected appeal to cold law, sobered
and daunted the Sophomores. At any
rate, the Freshman was permitted to
return unframed to his dormitory.
Very few men are called upon TO bear
any severer test than the Freshman
year usually proves to boy. 1t is or
dinarily his first release from the re-
straints of home. He feels his new
manhood, and is vain of it, while his
fellow students, in numberless tortur-
ing and cruel ways, seek to "take the
vanity out of him." Whether he bears
the ordeal like weak boy, or manly
man, depends very much on his home
training. If he has been taught to fear
public opinion, and to attach supreme
Importance to trifles, he will be misera-
BILE. If, on the other hand, he has
been given a character lofty enough to
look down on passing annoyances, he
will soon gain the respect even of his
tormentors. Youths Companion.
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A Change I'm Ship Building.

1t has not yet been generally noticed
that in the stagnation that has settled
upon the industry of ship building there
is change-probably atemporary one
in progress. The latest list of the
monthly additions to the registry of
British vessels shows that change. 1t
is evinced in the fact that the vessels
now being added to the registry are of
a very small tonnage compared to those
which were added q year ago. In
the month reported on last by the
registrar, so iron and steel steamers
were added TO tho registry of the
United Kingdom, but the net registered
tonnage of these was only %, 693 tons
not 500 tons each on the average, which
is far lelow that usual at the time We
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"You can't deceive me, Mr.. Jarphly,"
said Mrs. Jarphly, snappishly and en-
physically. 1T was after o'clock,
and wasn't asleep"
why, Amandy, you're badly mis-
taken" responded Mr.. JarphIy, in
conciliatory'voice. 1T wusn't more'n
half after IL"
"Now, Jarphly, don't you sit there
and falsify to me. I'm No fool if you
think / am"
"Amandy, never said you was, you
know 1 didn't. only say you're mis-
taken. my dear, for it was only II 80,
or mebbe twenty-five minutes to 10"
"Jarpbly, wot's the use of yom. sit
ting there and lying? Don't you think
/ could see the clock? 2"
We'll, Amandy, I've got nothing
more to say. If you'd rather believe q
95-cent nickel-plate nutmeg clock than
your own married husband, responded
Mr.. Jarphly, deeply injured
York Mail and Express.
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AN American microscopic, who has
been investigating the causes of certain
frantic movements of the common
house fly under the stimulant of strong
light, has discovered that tho fly is
often the victim of a disease of the
brain arising from the presence of
'myriads of minute insects. These
parasites, though perfect insects, are so
small that 10000 can be packed in a
fy's Uranium. The disease sometimes
becomes epidemic. and millions Of flies
perish of il in season.
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whats in . name?" asked the poet.
Mr.. William Algernon Day would have
answered. Everything
1t is not considered in accordance
with the laws of social etiquette to pun
on any ones name, but'the opportunity
is seldom allowed to pass. Mr.. Button
is introduced to a mixed company, and
some person is sure to ask jocularly :
Sutton, button, who's got the button ?"
Mr.. Penny is assailed with the inquiry,
"Is he bad penny returned?" Mr..
Goodenough is asked why he need not
be any better than he is. Mr.. Ham is
pleasantly reminded that he is rather
fresh" The victims of these names
smile and endure, but il becomes very
wearying-very.
Mr.. Day would gladly have exchanged
names with any oil those gentlemen. 1t
seemed to him that people were never
at q loss for pun on his cognomen.
1t took the most serious turn, however,
when he fell in love with Miss Van
Bergen, who had terrible younger
brother. This appalling infant saluted
him with the freedom of prospective re-
lationship. He was forever on hand with
his "Good Bay" Every Day." and
when forgetful for moment of the
combination he asked his charmer to
name the happy Day." q mufiied voice
responded from under the sofa:
Smother Dayl"
He made q point out of that source
of his misery, however, when he called
on his future father-in-law to ask for
the fair hand of his daughter. The
lover seized on the post-prandial hour
as the most felicitous for his purpose,
and found Herr Van Bergen seated in a
rocking-chair, fanked by sideboard
on which some generous Rhine wines
cleaned. 1t was raining, and the am
brosial locks of the young man Wore
gemmed with drops of soft water. The
pater did not recognize him.
MY name is Day." he stammered.
Zach and very wet Day you are,
mine friend"
mo, sir" answered the lover, stand
ing up to the rack like man, and
glancing parenthetically at the array Of
bottles, Pm very dry Day, just
now"
The old man roared, and they drank
each others health and toasted the flu
ture Mrs. Day.
At the wedding which soon followed
there was some embarrassment, caused
by the best man getting off his balance
and wishing them "many happy returns
of the Day." but all ended WELL and
nothing occurred to mar their felicity
until their first Sunday at church.
Then, by one of those strange coinci-
dents with which life abounds, the min
lister had chosen for his text the verse {:
Sufficient unto the Day is the evil
thereof" But this was not all. BY a
series of fatalities the choir sang:
On, happy Day, that fixed my choice,
And when they reached home the bride
declared she would not attend that
church again. She personally resented
the want of intuition which made such
plumbers possible.
Mr.. Day had heard of the man who
Hog by name and hog by natur,
But Hodge by act OF Legislator.
He at once made up his mind and never
ceased his efforts until he had reached
Legislative halls and had the prefix
o attached to his name. When a pun.
ster attempts to climb that amended
handle he is thrown every time. and a
happier family than the O'Days it
would be hard to find.-Mrs. NJ. l..
Ray1e, IN Detroit Free Press.
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A WOMAN has held the Office of Jus
tice of the Peace in one of the mount
ain towns of Kentucky for the last ten
years without legal authority.