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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
The Popular Stage Ornaments.


At present girls are raving only over Mantell
and Kelsey The many other handsome leading
men In New York are ignored II Is rather Gu
Yfous that both of these male professional beau
ties are manly and goOd-natured men, who do
not pose as 'mashers." and who have more
male than female friends Kelsey Is a cockney
sort of an Engllshman, who walks as though he
were always In great hurry, and who looks
precisely of the stage as he does on Mantell ia
In appearance by no means as picturesque of
the boards as on. / am told by one OF these
worshipers OF actors that girls don't rave over
OsmOnd Tearle because hisface is too red In the
street, and also on account Of the peculiar bulge
Of his eyes; that Handsome Jack" Barnes
legs are not straight; that his face is very COM
monplace and that his clothes don't fit him: that
Jack Nason's face is ANYTHING but characteris-
tic-in fact, Is decidedly muggy, aud that his
clothes also are Uniting, and that John Drew,
the leading man at Days theater, Is debarred
by his high degree Of eInaciatlon q prodigious
nose and queer eye, from being professional
beauty. Over such stars as Lawrence Barrett.
Edwin Booth. Billy Florence and John T. RAY
mond girls never rave. They are considered
old and embarrassing. To be the idol of femi-
nine New York 1t is necessary for q man, in the
FIRST place 10 play parts which require q diver
sined and fashionable assortment Of store
clothes q conventional mustache and figure
that aust not De robust or rugged, but simply
and wholly elegant" We have never vet mad
Q man who could step into MOntague's shoes
u Is sad. but ! doubt Ii 1t has retarded the
growth of the country to any appreciable
degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
Fingers TOO Long, So he Cut Them Off

A tramp with the middle finger of his left
hand wrapped In rag. applied at Mrs. Whites
residence, near Waverly, n. Y, and asked II he
might use an axe that stood by the chopping
block on the wood pile. On being given per-
mission he picked up the axe, and, placing the
middle finger of the right hand on the block,
chopped it off at the middle joint. He wrapped
up the stump in a rag like the one on his left
hand and walked away leaving the piece of
finger lying on the block. He was followed and
arrested. The finger on his left hand had been
recently cut off at the middle joint. He said
that they were too long. and had led him to
steal. and SO he cut them of. He was sent to
the Monroe county penitentiary under the tramp
act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
Increase of Can Ger.

From the Popular Science Monthly
If the data of the registrar generals reports
are correct, cancer is steadily increasing in Eng
land, and the rate of increase is augmenting
Thus, during the ten years 1S5o-59 the increase
In the number of deaths from this disease was
2,000, showing an average increase Of about 300;
from 1850 to 1869 the number of deaths was
S0.049, and the average annual increase 24S;and
from 1870 to 1879, Ill ,301 deaths occurred. with
an annual increase of 800. DR.. Charles Moore
attempted to show, in a book published In 1865
that cancer thrives with good living and that
it's increase was an accompaniment Of the i'm
proved economical condition and vitality Of the
British people. 1t abounds where the conditions
are ordinarily most favorable to health, and
more among the rich than among the poor. Ac-
cording to French observer. about ten per cent
OF the wealthy classes and per cent Of the
poorer classes are afflicted with cancer. The
disease. according to DR.. Crisp, also prevails
among animals, more frequently among flesh
eaters than among herb-eaters, ana among do
mesticated than among wild animals. 1t Is not
zymOtic or infectious, or conveyed In any way,
nor is It transmssible though the predisposi-
ton to it may be inherited but it begins de noud
in each individual whom 1t attacks. The only
efficient remedy for it is the surgical one, and
that should be applied at the earlier stages
the disease, while the affection is still local
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
Onions Instead Of Apples.

NewB
"You didn't know onions were getting popu-
lar among fruit-eaters, did you?" said an eighth
street fruit dealer Saturday.
"No. Well, it's fact. You'd think people
would be Disguised with the smell of a raw
onion, but the fact is that many people like the
odor and eat them with the same relish thew
would an apple. Why" said the dealer .'when
first went into the business nobody ever
thought of such thing as eating raw onion;
and dealer would no more have sold an onion
from stand than to have retailed potatoes.
Nowadays We think nothing of having man
ask Tor nice strong onion. and every dealer
and every fruit-stand In town keeps them In
stock. Funny, amt it,"
"And does the onion craze grow?"
"Grow7 Well, rather! Why. sir, II I've sold
one onion this morning. I've sold q dozen.
They bring from two to three cents apiece
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
Concerning Tastes and Flavers.
Grant Allen in Cornhil Magazine

Grant Allen. in Cornhll Magazine
Sweets and btters are really almost the ONLY
tastes proper almost the only ones discrim-
ated by the central and truly gustatory region
of the tongue and palate. Most so-called fla
workings will be found, ON strict examination, to
be nothing more than mixtures with those OF
certain smells, or else of pungent, salty or aka
line matters distinguished as such by the tin
Of the tongue. For instance. paradoxical as it
sounds to say SO, cinnamon has really no taste
at all, bat only SMELL Nobody will ever be-
lieve this on first hearing. but nothing on earth
is easier than to put it to thetest. Take small
piece of cinnamon, hold your nose tightly, rather
high up, between the thumb and finger, and
begin chewing it. You will find that it is abso-
lutely tasteless; you are merely chewing per-
fectly inspid bit of bark. Then let 90 your
nose. and you will find Immediately that It
tastes strongly, though in reality 1t Is only
the perfume from it that you now permit to
rise into the smelling chamber in the nose So,
again, cloves have only pungent taste and a
peculi ar smell, and the same Ia the case more
or less with almost all distinctive fiavorngs.
When you come to find of what they are made
up. they consist generally Of sweets or bitters.
intermixed with certain ethereal perfumes, or
with pungent or acid tastes, or with both or
several such together. In this way compare
lively small number of original clements vari-
ously combined, suffice to make up the whole
enormous mass of recOgnizably different tastes
and 6ayOrs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

The Philadelphia Times prints an account OF a
sparrow fight that took place last Sunday night
In the Chinese gambling house at No. 2I9 North
9Th street. 1t was the third fight of the kind
given at that place. Chong Wah keeps a Chi
nese store at No. 219, and Bun Sun Low has q
little tin sign out over the side door announcing
that there lisa Chinese restaurant inside. The
store is simply blind. and the restaurant is
only run as a cover to the real business Of the
place. which Is one of the most complete Chi
nese sporting houses in the United States. The
gambling room on the first floor. back. was
cleared of all the furniture and about IS China
men crowded about an old extension table
turned upside down. with the legs sawed of.
The atmosphere was sitting.
When Bun Sun Low nudged his way through
the crowd to the sparrow pit he had bird In
each hand. Their wings were cut and their
tails were cropped close. Their bills were almost
white where they had been sandpapered to make
their little beaks as sharp Us needles point.
The MOngOlian spectators watched the birds
and Bun Sun Low closely. One of the sparrows
had little piece of red ribbon wrapped around
its leg to distinguish it from the other. Hop
Chung Lung, who is one of the silent partners
Of the gambling house. then sized up the birds
with sporting mans eye. and offered to bet
ten ''plunks" (doIlars) that the bird with the
red ribbon on its right leg would kill the
other. There were no takers until Bun Sun
Low had dropped the birds in the pit. The
moment this was done the sparrow that had
no ribbon on it plunged at the other and
pecked a mouthful of feathers out of it's
head. This caused a chuckle all around. and
Charlie Lee. the 10th street laundryman. COW
cred Hop Chung Lungs ten "plunks" This
added fresh excitement to the fight. The bird
with the red leg was the gamest and made a
lunge at his antagonist, plucking out his left
eye. In another moment ne pecked the other
bird i'm the throat, and his needle pointed bill
did deadly work. The one-eyed bird toppled
over and fell on the sand dead
The excitement. although boisterous. was not
intense. Charlie Lee reluctantly handed over
the ten "plunks" he had lost, and Bun Sun Low
gathered up the dead bird and the victor Other
fights followed, and when the fourth brace had
fought for three or four minutes Chung Wah
told Bun Sun Low to stop the fight, and the
spectators were told the sport was over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
To Meet His Little Bride.
From the New York World, Sd.

Count Rosebud, who is shortly to marry the
widow of Gen. Tom Thumb. has been In New
York several days. He closed an engagement
in Washington and came to this city Saturday.
He is here to meet his dimnutive iancee and
arrange for the wedding. Just when the mar
riage will take place has not been decided. but
the ceremony will be performed in one of the
fashionable churches OF this city before long. Il
knew Mrs Tom Thumb several years before her
husband died" remarked the Count, and trav-
eled In her company last season. 1 came to
know her very we'll and she is q smart one, can
tell you. She has fine head tor business and
manages her own affairs very shrewdly. The
marriage will be public, and she will settle mat
tiers to suit herself.
'What shall we do after we are married. Oh,
we shall go to Europe to spend the summer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

Klotz, the lumber man OF Shasta, Cal. has q
big slab pile he has been accommodating for years,
which is to be fred on the night Of the Cd OF
March, In honor Of the Inauguration Of Presi-
seen 100 miles away.
There are seventy eight women studying
medicine In Paris, thirteen Of whom are Paris
ians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

The death is announced of DIR. Herbert Da-
vies, Of London. who originated the plan of
treating acute rheumatism by free blistering
He was the son Of that DR.. Thomas Davies who
introduced the stethoscope into English prac-
tice, having learned its use In Paris under Laen-
nee himself
The best drunkards are those who never taste
whisky. I have known men who have drank
barrels Of whisky, and yet could tSuthfuly say
they were ignorant Of Its taste. The genuine
drunkard absorbs whisky solely for its effect
the very smell Of 1t is really to him offensive.
Whenever you hear man say he likes the taste
Of whisky You can be sure be viii die . sober
paAn.-DGxoit Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
Feminine Bumblepuppy.


Did you ever see woman play whist7 No!
Well, she does 1t somewhat as follows: ooh,
dear, don't believe can ever get these cards
arranged-NOw, let me see, that one goes there,
and-Oh, dear. I've dropped one on the floor
Won't you pick 1t up?-Thanks let me
see-Oh, Is 1t my play7-Mercyl-Im sure
don't know which one to play-There, played
the wrong one. but never mind-Have got to
follow suit?-Well. If can't follow suit can
trump?-Oh, wish could have thrown away
on that trick-COuld l7-Oh, I'm 80 sorry-NoW
how stupid was didn't see 1t was my part.
ners ace when l trumped, but never mind. =
And so it goes on, and at the end Of the game
her partner generally has to stand the ridicule
Of the other side because he was 20 badly
beaten.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

Everybody living here, there or yonder, and en-
gagged In this, that the other occupation is sure
to be troubled sooner later with a cough or cold
which may lead 10 consumption The Red Star
Cough Cure is safe, sure cure for coughs colds
and other affections OF the throat and lungs It is
agreeable TO take IL contains opiates narcotics
or poisons 1t is purely vegetable II is perfectly
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Every bottle is accompanied by autograph certifi-
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land, guaranteeing absolute purify, harmlessness
and superior eNcdcy
Sold by Druggists and Dealers in Medicine
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and Spanish.
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The Kind Of Compression Required.

Ine Atnd Oh compression Required
From Bob Burdette.
He didn't know the Brooklyn girls very well,
being comparative stranger from Philadelphia,
but he timidly remarked that he wished he were
leather belt that he might clasp her waist.
sheturned upon him warning blue light glance
from her eloquent eyes: "Young man." she
said, SIT you couldn't squeeze harder and hold
on tighter than any belt that was ever fastened
with buckle, nobody has any use for you In
Brooklyn, I can tell you" with q Wild, bitter
CRY, he ned out into the black, black night.
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CIR Tar Brsr.

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How They Cure Hams In Virginia.
From the Country Gentleman.
Virginia hams, and notably the Smithfield
and East Virginia hams, are cured in the fol-
lowing way:
The hogs are left on the scaffOld till the ami
NAL heat is well out of the carcass and it has
become little stiff from cold, in order that 1t
may cut smoother and better than it does when
limp. Usually the pork is not cut till the next
morning after it is killed, but if the weather is
very cold, and it is feared that it will freeze
before morning. 1t is cut and sailed the same
day.
On being cut. the meat is Immediately sailed
and packed down in bulk, flesh side up, on the
floor of & platform made for the purpose On
packing it down each piece Is so laid that all
the blood that oOZes out of the meat will flow
away from it, and not remain in contact with
the flesh to faint it. This is one of the nice
points in our method Of curing bacon. namely,
to have the animal bleed freely when it is
killed. and not allow the pork to stand long in
the bloody water that always comes away from
pork tor short time after it is slaughtered
Hence we never use the brine, but always salt
the meat dry, and break bulk and resalt again
in short time. Care is taken to touch all the
joints and bones with plenty of salt, and to
sprinkle more salt the thick part OF the pieces
as they are packed down.
We use from bushel to bushel and a half
Of dry salt to a thousand pounds of pork, apply
ing the most on meat Of large size. Sometimes.
to give fine red color to the flesh of hams. a
little salpetre is rubbed on them but very often
nothing but the dry salt is applied till the meat
is ready to be smoked. At the expiration of 4
to 6 weeks depending on the size and the
weather the hams are taken up. washed clean
OF the salt (but this is often omitted). and mo-
lasses or moist brown sugar is smeared over the
flesh sides and red or black npDner annIied fraa
~ to give the meat good flavor, aud also to
keep off the bacon bug, the parent of the skip
per-" The red pepper should be dried in an
oven and then pounded fine in mortar Both
sorts of pepper may be taken together A gal
Ion of molasses or 10 pounds of sugar and 4
pounds Of black pepper or peck OF red in pod
are enough of these articles for 1000 weight of
hams. The pieces are then hung up and smoked
IN the usual way by kindling slight fire in the
middle of the room and keeping it smothered
with chips from the wood pile. But use only
green hickory or oak wood, as it imparts a
brighter color to the meat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04
BALTIMORE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Dr. JAMES A. STEUART. NJ D., Commits
S1oner OF Health, Baltimore. Maryland, has
issued the following certificate: Z" I find that
Red Star Cough cure contains no mineral
matter. poisons. op!ates or emetics; that &c
combines In a unique and effective manner
approved curative agencies which are relied
upon by the faculties OF the different schools
OF medicine, with other valuable vegetable
ingredients, which combination 10 my know
ledge has thus far not been used for this pur-
pose, and which in Its action happily sup
plants the objectionable and moi unfre-
Quently harmful features OF other cough
mixtures
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HORTICULTURAL IFORRgES.
100000 Orchid Inouse-G.ould,s
Palms-NOveyties i'm Plants.

From the New York Mail and Express
nat is the latest rage among the finest
specimens of plants?' asked a reporter of a
florist.
The orchids are, decidedly. They are COM
ing into favor on account Of their many shapes
ana varied shades of color. They are plants
which grow without any soil, being usually tied
10 block OF wood or a Cork suspended in the
air. They require nothing but water to nourish
them. The plants are very unattractiye, but
the mowers which grow OH them are beautiful
beyond comparison. They are parasites and
grow well in South America. In Europe one
large horticulturist, with acres of green houses,
employs fourteen German naturalists to do
nothing else but experiment with orchids and
produce new varieties. In the United States
the universal love for plants has not reached a
nlgh enough plane to justify such an enormous
expense. single specimen of the scarcer kind
costs 81. 600"
DO any private Conservatives grow them?"
yes Mrs. Pierrepont Morgan has green
mouse niied with the largest variety of orchids
specimens In the United States and among
private people not in the bushes perhaps in
the world. They could not be bought for q
hundred thousand dollars. She employs sew
erai naturalists and every three or four years
new specimens are produced. They grow
ho,t;S,I. "ohe"'oiJ, ouu ioi tna' ieasoh
them"
us it fact that most wealthy men who
ouild greenhouses fill them with their favorite
plant?"
with few exceptions such is the case. Mr..
Jay Geuld has a magnificent conservatory at
lrvlngton, which cost. they say. $3.50 600. His
mania Ia for palms. Every variety of palm in
the world is to be found there They are the
most valuable, too, In the world. John Hoey
mas a green house at his residence at Long
Branch His great speciality is to crafty the
curiosity of his friends every summer by ex-
NOTING to them over a million of plants
oedded In the open ground. He has the finest
collection of stove plants in the country. J. B.
Colgate has fine conservatory at IOnkers
His hobby is roses Of every variety. Charles
j. Osborne grows chrysanthemums. anemOncs
and rhododendrons at his summer residence at
Rye"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

THE CHARLES A. VOGELER COMPANY,
SOLE PRoPRIErORs,
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, L. s A.
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BALTIMORE CUSTOM HOUSE.

Colonel JOHN ii. suffer- Corresponding
Clerk Custom House and Past Department
commander Grand Army Republic writes.
"liav1ng myself personally suffered with a
cold and cough. and the children OF my family
having In like manner been troubled, used
The Red Star Cough Cure. found that few
doses In each case had the desired effect re
1Slndeed prompt, sure cure" harmless and
effective, and has none OF the bad effects OF
other cough mixtures on either the stomach
or SyStemn
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JOHN W. GARRETT,S GREAT FOR
TUNE.
The Lonely Life Of the Great Railroad
King, Whose Wife Was His Fast


King, whose Wife Was Hi. Fas,
Friend.
New York Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer
man OF business, having strong relations
with Baltimore, said to me yesterday at would
be an interesting matter for you to go into the
will of John W. Garrett"
Said |: ''How much did he leave?"
1.-THE estate amounts to S35, OO0, 00O," said my
friend. Nobody had the least idea Of it. 1t Is
the largest estate ever accumulated in Mary
land-very much more than that of Johns Hop
kins, and is three times greater than many peo-
pie considered it would be-"
"What is it invested in?" asked
"Che1y in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and its extensions and branches, and some of it
is in real estate
Said I: What do you desire to call my atten-
tiGn to in Mr.. CARROTS life2"
Ito its singular methods. He had hardly q
friend IN the world but his wife. He was at war
he stepped outside of his door he seemed to
enter the domain Of hostility. He was in con-
fct with the politicians, with the city of Balti-
more, with the Maryland legislature with the
authorities at Washington. with the city gov
eminent at Washington, with his contemporaries
OF all kinds. and with nearly all the parallel
railroads. After he had lost his wife there
seemed to be hardly spot for him to look for
shade and rest. Yet he turns out to have been
true to his purpose of riches. He saved himself
enormous commissions by keeping up banking
house of his own. which his sons controlled. Rob-
ert Garrett he designed to take executive charge
of his estate. and his other son. Henry, who
was man OF cultivation, too, he kept at the
head of the clearinghouse. In that banking
house all the transactions Of Mr.. Garrett were
concealed If he had operated through any
other house his secrets would have leaked
out. He has left Henry Garrett the head of
the house, worth slOOOO.OOO. His daughter
Mary Is the richest single woman in America
worth sl2. 900 600 it is believed. Robert Garrett is
worth S12,WO.OOO or more. Miss Garrett is
still young woman. not more than 26 or %,
should think. or thereabOuts. She has never
married, and did good deal of her fathers
correspondence and particular work. She is a
woman OF cultivation. and rumOr in Baltimore
has said that she is going to marry physician
there"