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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25
Washington Architecture.
brooklyn Eagle.l

Talking to the supervising architect Of ths
treasury the other day, said: II presume
if you leave Office on the 4th of March y0u
will stay in Washington, where there il .
constant demand for fine residences, nd
where the profession OF an architect musa be
profitablep The gentleman was sufficisstly
condsscending to pity my ignorance On this
point. Said he: at is true that more hand
some residences are put up in WashhKtou
than in almost any other city in the country
But the designs are not planned here AJl-
iosaires who come to Washington t. live
engage talent in the cities where they have
thrivsd and made money. There H. more
eccentricity displayed in the architectural
designs of Washington houses than have
seen anywhere else.
Take a certain New York architset, for
instance, who has planned many Of our
houses. He is a thorough-going disciple Of
Oscar Wilde. He builds house the archi-
tectural beauty Of which is Of 50 delicate Q
kind that the ordinary observer cannot $50
it. Eccentricity in design has run mad
Millionaires want something odd, and they
are willing to pay enormous prices to get it
From my own standpoint there Is moro
idiocy displayed in modern architecture than
there is in print, a good deal"
Naming Ine n.~y.
Merchant Traveler.l
A certain punster in Cincinnati, Interested
in the street car lines of the city, recently 70
ceived an addition to his family, and .
friend met him two or three days after
wards
@Hello," was the greeting, stranger at
your house, l hear"
@Yes," was the reply.
@Boy or grill"
Girl; I'm right sorry, too, for / wanted .
boy SO could cali him oscar
1Don't let that disturb you" remarked thai
otbsr wretch, lust call her Car1ins"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25

Josh Billings: Those people who are all.
wuss hooking for perfskshun in this world
generally compromise for . ssckond or
thira,Sata arikls before they git thru
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25
Suspended Animation.
ICor. Detroit Free Press. |


It Il an event in man b life to stand on
the platform Of one Of the grip cars that
crosses Brooklyn bridge The experience Is
oil tho moro pleasureabls because passengers
are positively forbidden to stand there, and
tho conductors can not be bribed for any
reasonable sum, AZ Is the case in some coun-
tries 1t requires considerable diplomacy to
remain thezs and not get peremptorily
ordered inside. The car has neither horses
nor engine. A wire rspe pulls it along.
At first you 20 bstwss walls with the rat
u 8 vehicles On - sIds, and high sbovs
yoa a ths othsr foot pangax WIN -
or gss On H. bridgs proper you ssA -
through hstwesn ths tias IL blue waHsFO
parsntly mils below. A went over tAs
0r paasd abovs ~ slsndr tip Il ~ tall
- mast a gFsat oosan shln Il Was Ike
Standing on your head in spaca You could
look down that mast from tho top to the
Dat deck, and all the cordage seemed set in
The most fantastic way. The men ON deck
were represented by hats apparently NOV
ing round of their own volition. Then we
ran over big steamer and looked down its
tunnels. Next a.
~Pieass step inside, sir. Nobody d al
lowed to stand on the platform"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25
TIE GLOBE REPUBLIC SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1885

.,., s.Iu wang US a Small cnarm carved out
of an alligators tooth, and set with a small,
but perfect, diamond.
'I do this carving myself he said; Git is q
speciality, and this little charm, small as 10
is is worth S75.
do you sell many OF them," q, ked.
ayes, have frequent orders" was his re-
ply, land the trade for these things is very
great. You perhaps noticed the parties who
were in here you entered"
We had noticed bald-hsadsd man with
his hat in his hand, a short, stout gentleman
with a pleasant countenance, Q beautiful
girl in dainty costume, and 9 young man,
perhaps II or 20 equally high-bred and
well dressed
Those parties" said the shopkespsr under
his breath, represent sl00,0O0,OO0. One Of
them is -, Of California, the other -,
Of New Jersey. Their yacht is out here,
and they are doing the gulf lsisursly. They
have been dealing with me to the amount Of
several hundreds. The young lady gave me
q beautiful design for a charm to be attached
to a ring, which will be worth quite q good
deal of money, and they have ordered birds
and shells and scals-work enough to ill
moderate sized cabinet l send it all on
board tomorrow"
NOT being mlilfOnalreS, our purchases were
modest, according to our means, but of
course, after that, what could we do but buyi
One little box, in which reposed a butterfly,
light as air, for a brooch, and two smaller
butterflies for earrings, to present to dear
friend, cost the small price Of IS, and, as a
thing of beauty. will be a Joy forever-a
small price, surely, for so long possession
Here, at the Keys, a famous business Is car
ried on-that Of sponge gathering. The
cedar wood, after which the place is named,
is also an important interest, as it Is used for
making pencils. Recently new industry
has been started and large tracts near are
being planted with cocoanut trees, which
grow we'll in the vicinity Of salt water
The fisheries do a thriving trade and
the salt-wate mullet Is famous all over
Florida as the delicacy Of the season. Mine
host of the hotel had managed TO find . room
for us, large enough for tho whole party,
provided they had been willing to sleep on
tables of which there were several for pri-
vate dining purposes. 1t was a jolly even
ing at the hotel. Africa, a huge negro,
made hat full Of money initiating aIliga-
tors, steam engines, dogs fighting, gongs,
bells, whistles, for every now and then the
millionaires, who seemed to enjoy the sport
heartily from their perch on the staircase,
sent down handful of silver mixed largely
with copper coin, at which the sable per-
former redoubled his efforts. Early In the
morning We started away wiser perhaps,
surely happier for our brief visit to the gull
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25
A PianO-Selling Dodge.


A clerk In the counting room OF promi-
mont New York paper told me an ingenious
scheme the other day which l imagine has
never bean exposed A respectfully dressed
and prosperous looking woman came into
the onice - she owned 1t, and was rather
proud OF the fact. slammed down
an advertisement with the requisite
change on the counter, and smiled affably
upon the clerk still another" asked the
clerk, brightly. still another, )" repeated
the woman This time It's beauty, too
Coms 70 me you Know, when you want one"
she smiled again and dratted out OF the
room
for tnree years. SAID the cierk, that
woman mas mad an advertisement In the
paper every DAY announcing that she has
Tor sac st ner residence q piano mat VIII 60
at bargain. Inc advertisement invariably
stases tnat the instrument mas only been In
use weak and Is In every respect as good a.
new' out that sudden reverses In fortune and
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25
OVER THE SEA BY SAIL.
Opportunities for Long Ocean Trips BY
Those who are Not in . Hurry.

Opportunities for Long Ocean Trips BY
Those who are Not in . Hurry.
New York SUM-
"Do you often send out passengers on sail.
ing vessels" was asked of a shipping agent
"Yes, it is q common thing to send out one
or two passengers on every vessel"
How long do the voyages generally lastl"
@Anywhere from two weeks to eight
months. 1t depends upon how far you 60
and the weather you meet with. What
would be ordinarily two weeks journey
may take two months II you have hard
luck. The trip to Shanghai takes about
eight months"
"How much would that costP
ave have charged $3.50, but prices are
down now. 1t takes from three to four
months to go to New Zealand or Australia,
and the price is $3.50, but guess you could
get there for $500"
what amusement is there on the voyagep
"Well, the captains are generally pretty
good sort Of fellows, and then there is shark
fishing and reading. There was one passen-
ger who insisted on taking a billiard table
with him We told him it would not be level
during the whole voyage, and he only gave
it up at the last moment"
Ntuiuu q paSS5h3ci tuIu III dLIu wOIA
with the crew for exercisep
Hardly, unless on occasions of great
emergency. He must be one thing or the
other out and out He can't be bolh q sailor
and a passenger, as it would spoil discipline
"What kind Of people are yosr passsn-
ersf
They are frequently dissipatsd young
men whom their families send away in the
hope that they will reform il kept out Of the
invariably get drunk when we reach . har-
Dor, so it doesn't seem to do them much
good Other passengers are invalids who
take the trip for their health. Last year q
boy II years old was just aboard one Of our
vessels bound for Australia He was pro-
vided with all sorts Of dainties and his fam
lily made great to-do over him when the
ship sailed. He died when she was two
months out, and was buried at sea-"
"What is the fare at seal"
@The fare is pretty good. 1t consists
Of potted and canned goods, -four, and pota-
toes and other vegetables. The latter, how
ever, rarely last as long as two months. 1t is
much better than the fare was few years
ago. Then the great staple was salt pork
and hard tack. Very little -four was used
then, but now the captains live about a.
well as any one else"
"How about getting back when you land
at ships destinationP
you can generally find some other vesss
returning. The captains are glad Of corr
pany, as it makes their life less tedious"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
Farmers on the Baltic.

A more beautiful farming country
does not exist than that along the SOUTH
ern shore of the Baltic. No fences mark
the boundaries of the fertile farms which
stretch away over the rolling hills to the
distant horizon, all aglow with yellow
grain. At intervals a clump Of trees
often seen intensely dark against the
ripe grain shows where a farmhouse
stands, and giant wind-mills swing their
sails on the highest hill-tops. The high
way, a finely-built chaussee, leads
straight across the country, only -urv-
ing to pass through some village. Noun
tain ash, birch and cherry trees border
the road in an unbroken rank. In the
bitches and by the roadside glow count
less varieties of wild dowers-a perfect
paradise for the botanist. From the
| highest hill the eye meets to the south a
l. succession of grain-fields. Tothe north,
beyond the soft undulations of the cul-
tivated hills, the Baltic shimmers in the
strong sunlight, a narrow line, sharp al
the horizon. The dimensions of the
brick barns prove the accustomed mag.
| nitude of the harvest; the luxury of the
farmers houses tells of inherited sue
cess.-Hdrper's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
4 U FOR EASTER.

Sweet is the story in the Gospels told,
Fapuiliar to our ears, yet never old,
How Mary fastened, in the dawning gray
OF that first, precious, far-of Easter Day,
Unto She garden and rocklhewn tomb.
The form She pictured lying cold and low;
But found the imprisoning stone was rolled
And angels sat where late the savior's body
lay.
What wondrous tidings fell upon her ear!
1.-The Lord we seek is riseu-He is not heref'
Joy strove with grief and fear in her sur
And tears of mingled feeling filed her eyes.
Was Christ, then, gone? Oh but for one more
OF that revered, beloved countenance!
Weeping, she fingered in the gardens gloom;
She heard her name, and trembling turned to
see
No longer pale with pain, but, in the light u
OF the fair morning, glad, serene and bright.
With quick thanksgiving for a boon SO
sweet
'Master!" she cried. and, falling at His feet,
In silence she adored; but when He said:
$50 tell my brethren" at His bidding sped,
And wrought, in bringing His disciples
The earliest service for the risen Lord.
The centuries stretch between her life and
Yet as to-day we wreathe the cross with
flowers,
She in our solemn gladness bears a part,
AND we claim kindred with her loving heart;
For saints in earth and HEAVIER rejoice as
one
At the glad rising of the Easter sun.
And still the Lord, through each of us His
friends,
A loving message to His brethren sends;
Be ours to hearken to the tender tone
With swift obedience as Mary's own.
With flower and song our risen King we
greet;
o, not with tardy or reluctant feet
BE ours to do His errands, or fulfil
The daily, common bidding of His will.
While with us yet we have the poor, the
weak,
The fallen to reclaim, the lost to seek,
Tit sick to cheer, the ignorant to teach,
Bruised hearts to heal with kindly deed and
speech,
How rich in service any life may prove
Which in Christ's stead fulnls His ministry of
o, Lowell strike deeper roots our hearts
Within;
O'ergrow the weeds Of selRshness and sin;
And be myself our fragrant Offering made
Our perfect flower upon the altar laid.
What purer, sweeter tribute can we bring,
This Resurrection Day, to Christ our Lord
and King?
Boston Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
FARM AND EmEsipF.

1t is not q good plan to allow cat.
tie and swine to run together.-Prairie
Farmer.
Economy in feeding, and in all the
operations of the farm, ever if only a
very little is saved by each one, would
add greatly to u National and individ-
ual wealth.
"A nice cake for dessert is made of
three tablespoonful of flour, three table,
%spoonfuls of sugar, the yelks of fou.
eggs and two tablespoonful of milk;
mix smoothly and add the whites of the
four eggs beaten to a stiff froth and the
juice. of half a small lemon. Baka in a
buttered pan in a hot oven.-Boston
Budget.
Give to the cows none but the best
and purest food. With no other stoGk
is this so essential, for the reason that
it has been fully demonstrated by COM
petent authorities that the milk is a
| very prolific source of transmitting dis
ease germs from impure food, and
especially from impure water.-N. E.
| Farmer. =
For a lemon rice pudding, take
two-thirds of a cup of rice. boiled and
cooled, add the ~well-beaten yelks of
three eggs, salt. a teaspoonful of butter,
three tablespoonful of sugar and the
| grated rind of two lemons. with milk
| enough to make very moist. , Bake
forty-five minutes. Use whites of eggs
and juice of lemons for frosting, and
brown.-E1chdnge.
Baked Eggs: Take five eggs and
put the yelks in a bowl and stir with a
little salt and pepper. The whites
should be beaten to a stiff froth, and ii
there are more whites than yelks, the
| dish is so much better. After the whites
are stiff as can be, pour the yelks over
| them and mix lightly with a spoon,
then turn all instantly into a hot baking
| dish with a little melted butter in the
bottom and bake Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
A French scientist has been study.
ing the effects of alt itude upon vegeta,
ton, and concludes that for each aug
mentation of about one hundred yards
there will be, as a general average. :
re%tardation of four days; that is, Other
circumstances being equal. a crop
planted at the sea level will appear
above ground four days before a similar
crop planted 800 feet above it.
Slightly soiled white wooden arti
cles. knitted or crocheted, may be made
to look as well as new if they are care
fully rubbed in flour. Cover them will
flour and rub gently, as if washing
until the flour becomes dark. Shak,
out the article and rub in clean flou
until all soil is removed. Shake wei
and hang in the wind until no atom. o
flour remains in the wool. Of cours,
one would not care to cleanse in thi
way articles that are next to tn
body, but for shawls, capes and heat
coverings flour answers admirably
N. Y. Post.
The happy owner of a COW cal
always provide some dish for desser
upon short notice. Here are direction
for a .'trifle:" Cut several slices q
sponge cake into small pieces of regula
shape, say an inch square; put then
into a deep china bowl, cover with
rich boiled custard, reserving the white
of the eggs to whip for the top, or
the cow produces cream, use the white
of the eggs in the custard and whip
pint of cream for the top of the bowl
flavor with vanilla and sweeten slightly
add the sugar while whipping tn
cream.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
DIGESTION.
The Opinion of a Noted Writer on Healt
Topics.

The Opinion of a Noted Writer on Health
Topics.
Biliousness is a sort of respectable
cover for piggishness. Reader, are you
bilious? Let me prescribe for you.
First, on getting up and going to bed
drink plenty of cold water. Eat for
breakfast, until the bilious attack passes,
a little stale bread, say one slice, and a
piece half as large as your hand of
boiled lean beef or mutton. If the
weather is warm, take instead a little
cracked wheat or oatmeal porridge.
For dinner take about the same thing.
Go without supper. Exercise freely in
the open air, producing perspiration,
once or twice a day. In a few days
your biliousness is all gone. This re-
suit will come, eve though the bilious
ness is one of the spring sort, and one
with which you have, from year to year,
been much afflicted. Herb drinks,
bitter drink, lager beer, ale, whisky,
and a dozen other spring medicines are
simply barbarous.
1 had a friend, a lawyer, who once or
twice a month had an attack of bilious
headache, and sometimes was obliged
to ask the postponement of an impor-
tant suit. At length, tired and dis
| gusted he came to me and asked if
nothing could be done, for really it was
getting to be the torment of his life. ]
told him how to Eat and drink and ex-
e%rcise, and promised him if he would
follow my prescription he should never
have another bilious sick headache. My
prophecy proved true as to two or three
years, but after a time he got back into
the ale, strong coffee, sausage, buck
wheat cakes, hot rolls, melted butter,
and other denominations, and of course
his old headaches. But he knew the
remedy, and when it became too hard
ton. and has failed to obtain
relief.
A great many persons seem to be
quite willing to suffer a constant depres-
sion of spirits, constant indigestion, with
its innumerable torments-entirely will
ing to suffer all this for the momentary
pleasure of slipping down their throat:
something which tastes good. 1 car
think of nothing else which'so striking
ly exhibits mans undeveloped condition
Is it not funny to see a dyspeptic whose
life is one of unbroken torture, who
wishes himself dead, who never has
good nights sleep and eve a singl,
happy, social hour, whose whole life i
a failure, both as to enjoyment and use
fulness, but who, three times a day
shovels into his stomach a quantity o
greasy, hot, -indigestible trash, to keel
up the flame, producing and reproduc
ing the suffering?-Dr. Dio Lewis, in N
Y, Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02

patients. Gertrude felt that mysterious.
attraction toward her that sometimes
draws us to strangers. Her prayer-book
was lying on the pillow, and the lady
the form of a visiting card fell to the floor
| and she involuntarily read the name:
"Mrs. Frederick Vernon, New York"
Her face flushed with pleasure as she
eagerly inquired, "Do you know Mrs. ver-
non?"
"That is my name," Gertrude answered.
Sand did you live in New York, and did
you get the Governor Of Michigan to par
don a1 a tP prisoner rs, some n years ago. snswsrea ;,
bewilderment, Though 1 ont understand
how you know anything about it"
.'Why, I am Mrs. Eaton, Jim Eaton's
wife, and 1 have written and written to
you, and tried to find you, and now I am SO
is your husbands"
"It is a long story of misfortune n sor-
row." Gertrude answered. We were
without a dollar in the world when We
were both. taken sick and brought here,
but they could not let US be together"
81 am so glad I ave found you! And
almost glad that you are in trouble, that l
may nave the chance of offering comfort.
one great deed of Kindness"
A few hours later MIR. and Mrs. Vernon
were installed as honored guests in the
home of the cations. The strangers whom
they had once befriended could now repay
the obligation ten-fold. Easter was a fes-
tival day after all. The turn in tho long
lane had come at last.
With beautiful surroundings and two de-
voted nurses Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon would
have been very ungrateful not to recover.
During these days of convalescence, ac-
counts of mutual experience were ex-
changed till all was told. Prison life had
proved a blessing in disguise. In his soli-
tary hours the convict had invented a
piece of machinery that had already en-
riched him, and he was now at the head of
a large .manufactury, employing hun
dreds Of workmen. To share all
their good fortune with their bene.
factors of long ago afforded these
grateful people the most intense delight.
A few months later the two women in
stituted the Charity already described. So,
through their affection came comfort for
hundreds of the poor, the sick, the sorrow
full. They were neither of them willing to
restrict their ministrations to any one class,
but they said: s far as we can We will
help those in need"
AS Easter had brought them great bless
ings they observe the time as a inc of
memorial, making special efforts to bestow
happiness on all their benficiaries. Last
year on Easter evening whenG Gertrude and
her husband were reviewing the past she
said:
81 am quite content, dear, to have had
my life just what it has been, for it is only
by passing through great trials that we
can understand the needs and wants of
others, and be patient with all their fail
ings. 1 was much touched by an idea in
the sermon to-day, something like this:
In the account of the Great Day, when the
multitude of the redeemed stand before the
Judge of all the earth, only one throng is
specified: These are they which came out
of great tribulation. '"-FrdRcis 4. Conant
in Chicago Adudnce.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
SPRING DRESSES.
Some of the Striking Features of the Late
styles of Dress.

Some of the Striking Features of the Late
styles of Dress.
The first importations of dresses for
the spring and summer months show
more changes in small details than in
their general outlines. The very bouff-
ant effect now popular is retained, and
even increased; the back drapery is very
full, and may be either straight or
punched up; and the basque is short,
with high darts that give a full bust and
make the waist look slender. The full
tournure in many new skirts is made
entirely by the small cushion pad sewed
to the belt. without the use of steels
across the skirt lower down, as the
latter break the straight effect of the
box-pleated back breadths. Flounces
as trimmings are fast giving place to
flat folds, tucks, braidiDg, passemen-
terie, and, above all, to the various new
laces of wool, silk, thread, or tinsel,
which are laid smoothly on the front and
side breadths of the skirt, forming
merely a border, or else covering these
breadths as far as they are visible below
the drapery that crosses them at the
top. The wool guipure laces known as
Angora laces are now seen not merely
in trimming widths, but in skirt FONTS
that are half a yard or three-fourtRs .:
a yard in depth, with a scalloped lower
edge and plain selvedge at the top.
These are used over wool fabrics of fine
and sheer quality, and will be the
fashionable ''transparents," just 4 as
beaded lace fronts have been over the
silks and satins that are now being re-
placed by wool goods even for very
dressy costumes. Sometimes this fiat
lace front is of the color of the wool
dress, and sometimes it is in contrast
with it; thus white wool guipure will be
worn over pale blue, pink, and lavender
cashmere or albatross cloth for after.
noon dresses; c~ream-colored wool lace
will trim brown woolens of darker tone
reseda cashmere will have reseda lace
and black bison cloths will have black
Angora lace, which may be made mors
gay by placing bright poppy red WOO
under the lace, and thus displaying te
advantage its open pattern. HARPER:
Baydr.