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ana steamboat lines. secure rooms and tickets
at y, and o. Office, Fourteenth and Pennsyl-
Nhnla avenue, st. Marc Hotel, and Knox Tx
press, 6Oa Pennsylvanla avenue, who will also
check baggage from hotels and private resi.
dences, For further Information inquire nc
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NEW PUBLICfTTONS.
NEW BOOKS.

Men Of Invention and Industry.
Customs and Myths. Lang.
Wild Rock. wanderer.
out OF the Wreck. Douglass
History of n Mouthhl Of Bread. Mace.
The Mentors. Ayres.
Katherine. Vance,
Women Plumbing and Doctors.
Historical Reference Books
Egypt and Babylon. Rawlinson.
Elements OF Moral Science. Porter.
Dcldee; or The Iron Hand.
Tho wane of an Idea Colombi.
Life and Letters OF Bayard Taylor.
Three Visits to America. Emily Faithful
w. H. MORRISON,
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Chicago Grain Market.


BALTIMORE, Feb. 5.--Virginia is. consoli
dated, 3S; past due coupons, 35i5; new lO-lOs
-; now IS, 53S bid to-day.
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Fractions " ffths In proportion.
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NJ EUAUGHTEN.
General Passenger Agent
pALTiMoRE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

pALTIMoRE AND OHIO RAILROAD
sCHEDULE IN EFFECT SUNDAY, DEC. 81,
1884, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Leaye Washingion ion from station lon corner corn! NEW
For Chicago 300 q. m. and 1910 y. m. daily.
The 300 a. m. Is a hlst Limited Express to Pitts,
p m, Chicago next morning at o. No extra fare
is charged on this train for fast time.
Coaches and Paiaco H'sG sleeping W Cars rs to above
Limited Train 10 Cincinnati and st. Louis, arrly'
ing IN cincinnati next morning at $3.50, -. Louis
Si39 p m NO extra fare is charged on this train
For Pittsburg, at 900 a, M. with Parlor Car,
Detroit. with Sleeping Cars to Plttsburg.
, For baltimore on week days D, o: 10, b;4O, Ii5O,
trShjs S96 ESQ. $40. ItY $40 7'io t 7'i5 siSS'
% FOR rISH BSitimore on Sundays, 6,1o 7:3o, s.s5,
and 1000 o, M, 1i2o. 1880. 4;4O. $40, 7i0. 7il5,
$40 and 1880 D. IN,
ard points south, $40 y. IN. daily.
For Annapolis. 0:i0a m. and 1910 and 4:30
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baltimore, o, B;4O. $3.50 n. M, 1910 D. M, $3.50.
m, and 40 ado, 7ilS, and i0.3Gp. m. For sta
tions on Metropolitan Branch, 7!2b a. m. dily,
daily except sunday, ior. principal station on
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oPo 2or a. uns Tn and i4oP & m daily except sunday
DAY, and $50 p. m, daily
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day.
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a. IN. and $40 p. m. daily, except sunday.
= Trains leave baltimore for Washlngtonat 5;lO,
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D. o;5O, 7i3O, o, and 1880 p m, ,,a,,
:, All trains from Washington stop at Relay Sta
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For further Information apply at the Baltimore
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teenth street, where orders will be taken for bag
the city. q X. LORD, q. p A.
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THE sureSt and purest liuimcnt In tho market
is salvation Oil. 1t kills pain, Price, % cents
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Northwest, and southwest, Fast Express
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Through Pullman service to Louisville and
For tickets and Information apply at c. q q.
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VVNHE VIRGINIA MIDLAND HALFWAY.
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SOUTHWEST AND WEST.
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,o1o A. M-New orleans Mail. daily, making
close connections to all points south and south.
%est N,etlt Daily, except sunday, with q a o Ry.
and Washington TO Atlanta Pullman sleeping
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6:I6 p M.-Loulsvillo Fast Line. daily, via
Charlottesville, to Cincinnati, Louisville. and all
Western Points. Pullman Sleeping Cars from
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naly. TO al points south and southwest via Dan.
and % Atianta 70 New oriean8; % also "riGss rom
Washington. Via Charlotte and Columbia to
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trains leave Washington ut 0;lO u III. and 5;lO
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leave from B. d p station; SI cp,Nrrr. Arsr.
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GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING,
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The following have been furnished by Bate
man & Co., bankers, 1Al1 Il street, being tho
most active stocks In the New YORK exchange:
Oh, o. HIQh. Loln. (lsa. 8aLal.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-21

Good judges predict that mems fashions in
eve .ng dress will shortly undergo mighty
rev luton This is nothing less than a change
to the velvet coat, knee breaches, ruffles, long
sill, stockings and silver buckles of our an
cestois Speed the day! Anything ugliei
than gentlemans evening dress of the pres
enr day was never invented. That the new
II Drement makes progress is shown by the
following from The London World
Even the ebony black and obstinately per
sistent swallow-tail coat threatens to pass,
says the Paris correspondent of The London
World, "for the gentlemen of leisure are
gaining ground in their campaign in favor OF
color. The red coat and breeches were ac-
cepted last season in the ceremonial meetin g
of high society. This season variety is to be
obtained by the introduction of the blue coat
and brass buttons, white waistcoat and light
gray trousers, and powdered hair, which lat
ter detail will be considered eTtrd-piaR; and
by thebrown coat and brass buttons, shawl
pattern waistcoat, brown cloth breeches, gar
ters fastened with diamond buckle, and
square-toed, high-heeled shoes. The black
coat will be worn by the pschmteur only at
the theatre and in places where the uncalled.
for remarks of the cads might mar the sereii-
ity of the spectacle of contemporary calve2.
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New York Letter.


More depends upon singers eating than
one is apt to suppose. You constantly see
paragraphs in the papers how this prima
donna or that prima donna is 30 capricious
about her food. 1t is not caprice it Is ne
cessity. A prima donna could not sing on
u meal cooked as the average hotel furnishes
it. Her digestion must be looked after OF
her voice suffers. A good-natured laugh
passes over the face o. the country at Miss
kellogg's little tryinG-pan and alcohol
stove, but that little fryins-pan and alcohol
stove have made it possible for Miss ke!.
logg to sing after days journey, when
she would have no appetite Tor ordinary
hotel food. a chop or an egg, or bit OF
chicken, cooked as they are not cooked in
an ordinary hotel, give her nourshment,
and she must be nourishod to sing. lhs
voice is largely depend mt upon tho condi.
ton OF the stomach Patti knows this, and
she will take no risks She has her own
chef with her, and he prepares her food just
as she wants il. She is about to go to Bos-
ton, and she has just sent word to Col. Ma
pleson that she won't go unless her chef can
cook the dinner sh5 uaS on the train! VI
course, he cooks for her i'll Boston, but Ma
pleson thought she might partake Of one
meal not of his preparing; but she thinks
differently, SO her chef must don his cap
and white apron and cook her dinner aS tha
train speeds over the New EEgani land
scape Patti is right. She knows her own
stomach and what it requires, ana she Ii
going 10 cater TO ii. II she didn't she
wouldn't sing as we'll as she does.
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The Tail and Muscles of the Whale.

The power of this tremendous propulsory
apparatus is almost beyond conception. The
weight of full-grown whale may be appre-
ciated when the reader reflects that the
famous elephant Jumbo" would have to be
multiplied many times before his weight
would equal that of large whale Yet the
late Capt. Scott, Royal Navy, told me that
when on the quarter deck of his own ship he
repeatedly saw the whales leaping in mere
play so high out of the water that the horizon
was clearly visible under them. Now, Capt.
Scott lived to be nearly 100 years old, and
when he was in active service the quarter.
deck of a man -of-war was at least 30 feet
above the water; add to this meas
urement his own height The being
rather a tall man, and the reader can then
appreciate the terrific power Of the animals
tail. / may here mention that this habit OF
springing out of the water is called breach
ing" by whalers Besides the great muscular
apparatus which has just been mentioned, the
whale possesses another muscle which sur
rounds the body; it is scientifically and hap
PLY called the ''pannicutus cdrnoSuS"-oI
''heshy rag"-and is developed in various
ways according to the animal. 1t Is with
this muscle that the dog shakes his skin when
he comes out of the water. The hedgehog
has it very powerfully developed, in order
to enable it to coil itself into the spiky ball
with which we are so familiar. The manis
arma1iillo and echidna also possess it and
use it for a similar purpose. Man has
but very little of it, the chief vestiges
being the muscles Of the face, which
give to the human countenance it,
changing expressions. The whale wants ii
for two purposes He wants it to enable hin
to bend his body-a function easily observed
in the dolphins as they curve their graceful
course through the sea; but chiefly he need
it because 10y contracting it he can make his
body heavier than a corresponding bulk
water. This he has no difficulty in doing
and when he wishes to seek the surface he has
only to relax the pressure, when the body re
gains its original size and becomes lighter
than the proportionate bulk of water. By
means of this muscle the hippopotamus, the
elephant, and the seal can sink themselves
below the surface and rise again without
moving a limb. For want Of it man cannot
perform this feat and the best swimmer IL
the world would not be able to sink and rlst
again to the surface without moving hand OF
foot.-[Longman's Magazine.
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tho surface, experience seems TO show
that the deeper tho Baku people
bore the more copious is the supply. At any
rate the Bal1u firms are boring deeper every
year, and every year the fountains become
more terrific. The rule Is when cell Is
tapped to let the oil flow to the surface-H 1t
does fiow-until it ceases running, and then
to pump it. When the cell issucked dry the
engineers begin to bore again, and go ON Dor
ing until another one Is reached. This pro-
cess goes ON continually until some copious
supply is reached which is sufficient to last for
years. This, as in the case Of the Korokef
we'll, sometimes assumes q permanent char
acter. In America a depth Of 1000 feet
S thought nothing Of in boring for
oil; a man Is not particularly discour-
aged il he penetrates as far without
discovering petroleum. In Baku, how
ever, an engineer begins to look for it
at 100 feet, and no well has yet got lower
than So5. In 1888 two flowing wells in less
than month upheaved nearly 30, 900 gal
Ions of oil apiece from a depth Of 200 feet,
and when they were finally plugged to "cork
up" their supply for future use they were
still flowing at a rate Of about 10000 gallons
Of oil per diem. Nobel Brothers have got IA
such wells "corked up" because crude pc
troleum will not fetch more than few pence
ton at Baku just now. Yet the deepest OF
these IA basins, crammed with oil, is less
than 500 feet from the surface. In America
there are number of wells in the Bradford
region 1000 to 5000 feet deep, and one in
West Virginia which will soon be 5,0OO.|The
Region of Eternal Fire-Charles Marvin.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-21
FASHlONLETS.

The new Jersey jackets are e.aborately and
Enthusiastically trimmed with braid and en-
broidery
Spring yelvets come in all the new shades
of mastic. tan brick rel, Russian greel, and
gray and brown shades
The wild business of the friZzlei bang is
abated until now it is reduced to a modest
waved fringe on the forehead.
New silk jerseys are beautifully beaded
with jet in various designs and sometimes in
patterns covering the whole garment.
Some of the new cashmere gloves have The
LONG wrists embroidered in chain stitch on the
closed tops, with silk Of paler shade.
New spring wraps for dressy toilets are
covered with embroidery and jet beading,
trimmed with rutiles of lace, and are i'll
modified dolman mantle forms.
White hair is so fashionable that ladies are
ordering white wigs to wear at evening enter
tainments, or they Use powder to excess on
the puffs and loops Of their ever growing
higher and higher coiffueS.
Lace dresses over silk and satin with lace
flounces, are in fashion again Nothing could
be prettier. Lace over cream satin or surah
silk forms one of the brightest and prettiest
evening costumes Of the season.
The bonnets this spring promise to be SO
outlandish in shape that few women. even
elderly ones. will venture to wear them.
Hats will therefore be seen for street wear
more generally than ever.
\ lovely little lace pin for a. Easier gift
consists of a slender bar of gold, on which
is parched a tiny, plump little chicken, just
Matched, in yellow brilliants, with small
ruby for the visible eve, which, with a cun-
ming turn OF the head, seems to be gazing
at the gslden egg-shell from which it had
Just emerged, and which forms the bead OF
the pin.
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Facts OF Interest.

Mr.. Hoffman says that in various burial
places in Southern California and in the
islands of Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San
Miguel he has found instruments which he
believes were used for tattooing.
Saw mill waste is carbonized in hlns and
not in heaps at Boxholm, Sweden. The char
coal thus produced does well, when mixed with
some charcoal made from natural wood, for
forge fires, but is not SO well adapted for blast
furnaces.
A New England firm has introduced new
process for galvanizing wire. 1t is claimed
that by this new method thorough union OF
the coating with the body Of the wire is So
cured, and that in every case a smooth, firm
surface results.
Miquels experiments have shown that the
number of microbes in the air was always
proportionate to the density Of population.
In the society of arts lecture Dr. Poor has as
serted that epidemic influenza is certainly due
to an aerial poison, and that since the dis
covery of the basillus of phthisis consump
ton must be regarded as an infective dis
order.
Colored glass, writes specialist, is of two
kinds: One kind colored throughout the whole
substance and called pot metal, and the other
colored only on one side and generally called
coated glass. Red or ruby glass is almost in
variably coated glass; the other colored
glasses are generally pot metal, though they
are also made in coated glass. Enameled
colors in glass areproduced by the aid of fire.
Spain, Mr. Juan Gomez Hemas believes,
can soon not only make enough steel for home
consumption out of her easily worked non
phosphorus Bilbao ores and Asturias fuel, but
for the supply of the wants of England, Ger
many and Belgium. And there are several
reasons for believing that Mr.. Gomez Henas
does not take an over-sanguine view Of the
future of Spain as steel-making country.
Mr. Johnston reached height of 1875 feet
on Kilimanjaro, the great mountain of east
ern equatorial Africa, and at that elevation
found stones and snow, and experienced a
cold, driving mist. 1t appears that the cult
waited zone extends to an altitude Of $500
feet, and the zone of vegetation to height Of
$1,000. The account of his visit to this re-
markable mountain, as given in detail before
the Royal Geographical society, London, is
most interesting.
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He Had Got Down.
Wall Street News.

They were talking about the times and the
general Discrimination to buy large stocks or
make heavy investments, when bald
headed man edged into the crowd and said:
Gentlemen, we have been living beyond
our MEANS and we must get down to hard
pan and begin over again.
THAT may he all very true replied one
of the others, but who will beginr
IL have already begun said the bald
head, u was worth $4,000; bought
$50, 900 worth of city lots and started to
build S15, OOO mansion. The result is that
| am right down TO bed rock and re-dy 10
begin anew. Do any of you happen to know
a good opening for a dancing master
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SCIENCE ZPRocRESS
Curious Accident to a steamer.

Curious Accident TO steamer.
The Alaska Is the longest steamer on the
sea-, She Is also the most famous, perhaps.
Two or three vessels, the Oregon, the America
and the Alaska, claim each to be the fastest
steamers that cross the ocean. The exact
truth in the matter is not yet settled, how
ever. All three seem as near perfection, both
as to comfort and qualities Of speed, as
steamers can be made. Certainly the Alaska
Is as fast as any. Her quickest voyage from
New York to Queenstown was made in less
than week, the exact time being 6days, IS
hours and 81 minutes. The voyage from east
to west requires little longer time than that
from New York to Europe. The Alaska's
fastest time from Queenstown to New YORK
Is days, 81 hours and 40 minutes. She Is
called the Greyhound Of the Atlantic" This
winter has given the ocean steamers the
toughest weather they have encountered IN
years. Some few have been wrecked and lost
altogether. The staunchest have suffered
more or less damage from the fury of the
wind and wave There was terrific weather
during the last trip of the Alaska from Queens
town. In the midst of it the magnificent
ship broke her rudder, several days out of
New York. She drifted at the mercy of the
mad seas for some time, when fortunately
her aid The Alaska had kept steam up dur
ing all these anxious hours. She took the
little ship in tow, literally, and it being dashed
to her, served as a rudder The big ship
steamed and the little ship steered, and so the
two came into port together. So great was
the power of the huge ocean steamer that the
smaller vessel was brought into New York
day ahead of her own time. Besides this,
however, it is said the smaller ship received
$780, 900 for her services from the owners OF
the Alaska
1t was necessary to send to Europe for a
new rudder for this ocean greyhound. TWAS
shipped from the yards on the Clyde, and ar
rived in New York few days ago Meantime
it was thought best to haul the steamer upon
the dry docks at Brooklyn and give her
thorough examination, to see whether any
part of her had been strained or sprung by
the violent seas during this memorable voy-
age. This was accordingly done. She was
out of the water some 4S hours. The Alaska
is the largest ship that was ever upon dry
dock in America This brief account OF her
cannot fail to be of interest to our readers.
The illustration shows the mighty vessel as
she lay upon the Brooklyn dry docks
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-21

Florence Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle
The Italian theatres are The finest i'll tie
world. They are not so richly dec rated as
ours. they are not SO luxurious. but they are
Ear more roomy, more commodious, better
ventilated and less liable to catch firs. They
appear to b. modelled after or rather de-
veloped from the Roman amphitheatre. The
form is oval, not horseshoe shaped, like
ours. The oval form enables the stage to be
seen from every seat, which is not the case
with the horseshoe. The floor II the par.
uuet is the solid earth itself, covered with
garden gravel. This forms an exc Silent re-
ceptacle for cigar stumps, orange rinds and
the other debris of enthusiastic au licences,
and it may be easily removed with
q rake. Tue structure is usually OF
brick. with a minimum of woodwork.
A fire is next to impossible, and ii one
does occur the parquet, III which the seats
are wide apart, and where the aisles and
cross-passages are wids Vnl numerous, is an
excellent refuge while tho aud ence is filing
out of the house. The roof S ten feet above
the top of the walls, the intervening space
being left open for ventilation. One OF the
consequences of these arrangements Is that
there is no clos, or musty smell uJOut tie
house. | amnow describing the Arena Ma
tionale of Florence, but the other theatres
are much of the same type. The play was
an Italian version Of the Forgemaster''
lie Maitro dos Forges), play which l had
seen in London, Paris and elsewhere. The
acting was very good The price Of adms-
sion to the parquet, without seat, was 20
cents; with seat, 60 cents. For the same
performances and accommodation paid in
New York, 50; London. 81 %; Paris, 81 |,
it that actoLs are scarctr or money more
plentiful in these places'
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-21
The Oil Wells of the Caspian.

Many pumping wells have been worked fol-
wears without the level of the oil being low
cred in the slightest degree or the wells in
any way affected by discharges from adjoin
ing fountains, proceeding from greater OF
less depths The peninsula of Aspheron i
probably honeycombed with thousands of OIL
cells. One Of these cells has already given q
million and a half barrels of oil. and yet
the pump draws the oil as freely and
as readily to the surface as when the
basin was first tapped by the boring &c
years ago. The subterranean basins vary
considerably in size; but while well
filed cells are often found close IL
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-21

Like most of our transatlantic vessels, the
Alaska is owned in Europe. She belongs to
the Guion line, and in 1881 was built on the
river Clyde, in Scotland, headquarters OF the
world for ship construction She is 526 feet
in length, thus actually being nearly tenth
of mile long. She is a ship of 5000 tons,
and has boilers, with engines of IL 600 horse
power. Some idea of the force required to
propel her may be had from the announce
ment of the fact that the Alaska carries reg
ularly Is firemen and coal beavers, and III
assistant engineers. She is finished and fur
nished as no kings palace was in the old time,
and is lighted by electricity.