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Literary Circles in Washington.

There Is more literary CLUBS IN this
than in any other city in the United
States. In the past year they have been
organized at an average rate OF two In
each week. The only thing necessary to
organize literary club is to select GER
tain lot of officers, file articles OF lncor-
poration, and pay the recorder of deeds
a fee of$l. The articles of incorporation
do not indicate what particular literary
matter the club intends to pursue. 1t Is
the same in all cases-a plain modest
literary club. Some of the parents have
been congratulating themselves on the
wonderful improvement of the young
men of the city, and are beginning to
feel that Washington could get a fall
now and then even with Boston In
literary wrestling match. 1t has trans
PRED that these literary clubs have gen
orally had their rooms in the rear OF, or
in a garrett over some bar-room. This
was to be commended; for it showed
that the membership were willing, in
their pursuit of the literary, to take any
ouarrers where they could more success
fully carry on their literary work. Some
developments in the police court in the
past weeks have Mortified the believers
in the literary. 1t was shown that the
ONLY thing done in these clubs was to
discuss the intricacies in the American
pastime known as poker. The member.
ship believed that by organizing prl-
waite club the police could not Interfere
in any way with the discussions and per-
formances of the club. They had been
told that private poker or any ether kind
of private card playing was MT viola,
ton of the law. But the police treated
it as simply an evasion, and, Sc
lecting club, raided it. The janitor
and some of the officers of the club were
arrested. The police court Judge dis
missed the case against them for the rea-
son, he said, that he was opposed to
punishing two or three persons for the
entire club. The officers then secured a
list of the members of the club, and have
obtained warrants for the arrest of them
all. The case will come up for trial next
week. The regular gamblers are sup
posed to be behind this raid. They
found that this club idea injured their
receipts, and they determined By the aid
of the police force to break it up.
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bad possession of the territory. The
frontal part of the forehead OF each skull
appears to have been tiattened after the
manner of some of the ancient Mexican
and the more recent Oregon "Flathead"
Indians. One of the skulls, that OF an
apparently young person, presents this
fiat feature more etrikingly than the
others. Another skull seems to have
received a fracture before the decease of
the person to whom it belonged and to
have grown firmly together again. In
view of these observations the inference
drawn is that the skeletons are all that
remain of bodies buried hundreds OF
years before white people settled here:
New England had its Indian tribes, and
history has told Of their habits and anti
guilty, but no history has shown that
Flatheads ever dwelt on the shores OF
Long Island sound. The theory of Flat
head occupancy of this soil before the
American Indian took possession is by
this discovery confirmed, and further
by the fact that recently, near the
same ground the same contractor
brought to light, besides bones.
several stone hatchets and clay pipe or
dish, the latter an article not made or
used by American Indians, but which
must have been brought here by tribes
from Mexico or the west. Dr.. Benjamin
Trumbell, in his history Of Connecticut,
relates that implements of foreign and
southwestern make. had been found
only in Kent, Linchfield county, the
point where possibly Indians first located.
but if the above Interpretation can be
accepted there had been indians of
tribes unknown to the historian along
the shores of the sound iurine long
periods before the Kent arrivals of which
he speaks. Rev. Samuel U.cntt, who is
writing of Stanford and Bridgeport, con-
siders the discovery of G, eat Importance,
and he will be thus enabled to incorpo-
rate facts of a novel and interesting
character.
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Snow In Switzerland.

Travellers in central Europe last week
were fortunate in one experience II not
in others, for they had the opportunity
of seeing the most remarkaole Wea aael
had closed warm and fine, but by the
last last d Of the month (september) snow
had set in over the whole of the Tyrol
and of Switzerland, with the exception
OF the north bank of the lake Of Geneva;
the passes were blocked, and o III e q
were swept away by the overflow OF the
rivers, the we'll known bridge at Thusia
being the first to 60. At Luce1ne' zu-
rich, and Geneva the snow lay two
inches deep, and the thermometer zen 70
/ degree above zero at night, and the q,
streets of every town and the banks .,
of dead swallows. On Friday last an
other change set in; the snow disap.
peared, and the weather is again bright
and fine.
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One hundred and five years ago Nicho-
las Thomas and Lucy Somes lived In
Mt. Desert and wanted to lie married.
There was no minister within eighty
miles, and 80 they married themselves.
On the town records, under the date OF
1880. is the contract which they drew up
and signed, agreeing, Gin the presence OF
God, the angels and these witnesses to
love. to cherish and nourish," and to
Glove. honor and obey" as husband and
wife so long as God should continue their
lives, DR.. W. B. Lapham, the antiquar-
ian, who contributes this contract to the
Maine Farmer, says that, although he
had heard of such transactions before,
this is the only one of the kind that he
ever found recorded.
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Sumach Gathering In Virginia.

Sumach gathering has grown into an
industry of considerable magnitude In
the Virginia mountains of late years.
The bush is most abundant on the rocky
and uncultivated mountain side, where
no crop of grain could be grown. Provi-
dence, it would seem, has especially de-
signed that the mountaineer should not
be forgotten in the universal economy
of nature, and that he should find sub
sistence ready at bis cabin door. The
season for picking the leaf is now clos
ing. 1t lasts about three months in the
year, beginningin the latter part OF June.
The first frost renders the leaves unit
for use. The product is hauled some
times as far rs fifty miles, often over
rough and stony roads, in the ancient
vehicles of the mountaineers, to some
mill or convenient shipping point. For
the dry and cured leaf they receive III
hundred weight. At this rate, al
though it is smaller, the pickers a!lege,
than the mill men could with justice
give, the gathering of this wild leaf is
much more profitable than raising grain
in the rich valleys, where drouths affilct
the farmers. The wife and children OF
the mountaineer assist him in gathering
the leaves, and little girl of 10 becomes
as dsxterous in stripping the bushes as
a grown man of %. Each can earn 81 a
day. Expert gatherers have been known
to strip off leaves which, when cured,
have weighed 500 pounds. One man
living at the top of the Blue Ridge, near
Manassas Cap, has picked this season
twenty tons and realized $40G. 1t Is i'm.
possible to estimate the amount OF COM
fort given these poor people by this
source of revenue. Their fathers, in ig-
norance of the wealth at their doors,
lived q precarious existence, chiefly by
hunting and fishing, and partly by rais,
ing on the thin soil little patches OF
buckwheat.
Most of the sumach gathered in VIZ
einia finds q market in the morocco fac
tories of Wilmington, Del. y Is used e
retain the rich coloring OF the Leather
impaired by the tanning properties o
the black oak bark The only nvA Q
the virgins sumach Is that imported
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Murder has been reduced to a fine art
in India. According to q recent writer,
a man who desires to take the life OF
another in that country procures small
cobra and places it within bamboo just
long enough to let the head protrude at
one end and the tail at the other
Armed with this deadly weapon the
murderer creeps softly to his enemy's
tent at dead of night, cuts hole In the
wall and introduces the bamboo; The
tortured reptile, careless upon whom 1t
wreaks its animosity, STRIFE its fangs
into the sleeper. Then it is Withdrawn
and the assassin steals silently away,
leaving the victim to die in few hours.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21
AGEORGIA LOCHINvAR.
Love and Philosophy In the South.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
A few days ago there vas to have oc.
CURED in an interior Georgia village the
wedding of &c year old widower and q
II wear old maiden. Friends OF both
parties had gathered from various places
in answer sent out, and the most extern.
sive and elaborate preparations were
made at the expense OF the prospective
groom, who possesses more ofthe worlds
goods than the average mortal. The
banquet table was spread, the parson
ready to tie the knot and anxious to take
his fee, end the groom himself, looking
almost young in his very best raiment,
smiled at the well dressed bridesmaids.
The occasion needed only one other fea-
ture to make it perfect one OF its kind
and that was the bride.
Finally she came. Clad in the raj
ment which, it is related, the prospec-
tive groom had given her, and sparkling
with Jewels that his money had bought,
she entered the room, graciously bestow-
ing her smiles right and left. The groom
was singled out for an especial mark OF
favor, after which the lady asked to be
excused for q moment and went out for
the ostensible Purpose of making her
final preparations. There was tempo
rary iull in the festivities as she passed
out of the door unattended, and then
the merriment-for was itnot festal oc.
casion?-broke out again. 1t was but
brief time that che was absent and tue
same happy smile was on her face when
she returned, but she returned not as she
had gone. By her side walked an even
happier looking parsonage than she-a
Young man, whom she introduced as bel
husband, and to whom she had been mar
ried at neighbours house but moment
or two before. ..,,
The feast went on with no perceptible
change, except that of grooms. There
was no objection on the part OF the high,
sould successful lover to having his rlva
pay for his marriage banquet, and the
bride, doubtless out of pure consldera
ton for the Tilted mans feelings, kindly
kept both his dress and bridal presents
Nav, such was the gentleness OF bel
heart that when the banquet was ovel
and dancing had begun it was the jiltet
lover with whom she danced last. AnG
he, doubtlessly approaching his marrow
escape and being truly grateful for 1t
gave no sign of regret or sorrow. 1t wa
the other man, he probably reasoned
upon whom the greatest trouble had fal
len. and there is no evidence to prov
that he was wrong.
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THE FRENCH FIREMAN.

The Sapeur.Pompfer ut Home In Paris.
New York Sun.
Over in Paris, when you see man with
red trousers, remarkably baegy, with q
little blue jacket tight enough for corset
and with big red belt to which a ring
is attached as though to tenable his
mother to hang him on limb, as some
squaws do with their papooses, you have
before you pompie! or sapeur-Pompier.
Those are the words used by French
men to express the meaning of our word
fireman." and it is to those gentlemen
with the wealth of trousers that the cit
liens of that benighted city confide the
work that is done by firemen over
here.
The best place in the world to study
the sapeur-pompier is around the big
fountain in the garden of the ,Tulleries.
That is also desirable resort for the
student who would learn the ways of the
herds of French infants, and of their
shepherdesses, the BONES, in spotless
bonnets and fantastic ribbons. Nothing
in the world presents better picture of
perfect happiness than pompier sitting
in the sun with an amiable bonnie be-
side him, unless it be the French baby,
who finds himself free to devour his toes
unmolested. That is the attitude in
which the pompier was always studio d
by the writer of this treatise, who
watched for four years and ran across
only one fire in Paris. A New York fire.
man will. perhaps exclaim on reading
this: .."Oh, to be q sapeur-pompler. y
But he would be wrong. A sapeur's life
may be long dream of bliss, a chain of
happiness whose links are untold bon
mes, each with ribbons more fantastic
than those of her predecessor, but then
it is an awfully economical dream of
bliss. The sapeur. pompier is soldier,
regularly enlisted, and chosen to be sa-
peur on account of his physical prowess
and agility. He must be a pompier
whether he wants to or not, and his
only consolation is that he receives as
compensation for the hard work which
he is supposed to perform the unusually
large pay of so or go centimes a day
Reducing his salary from the poetical
centime to the cold, hard cent. it is found
that the pompier gets 10 to IL cents q
day. This is not much, although it is
more than the average pay of French
soldiers, which runs from cents q day
up. The sapeur-pompier has to pay for
coffee, sugar, and tobacco out of this
Being fond of all three he has the sweet
conviction that his bonde, as she sits on
the bench in the Tulleries and VOWS un-
dying devotion, is not moved by any
base and unworthy motive. There is a
bright streak in the bonne's life, too,
when her sapeur presents her with a
ribbon reaching to her heels, for it
proves that devotion to her has caused
him to drink his coffee without sugar for
about month.
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Secreto of the Household.

New York Times
"Will you have piece of pie, Mr.:
Good mann" asked Bobby's mother OF
the minister.
Thanks; no." he replied.
twill you, Bobby" she inquired.
ssN-no, I guess moi" said Bobby rather
hesitat ngly.
prise. 81 thought all little boys were
fond of pie" he said. :,
"rhey are" replied Bobby. u could
eat that hull pie: but ma SAID u you
didn't take any mustn't, an she'd save
It for tomorrow"
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Aged sketons in Connecticut.

A Bridgeport Conn, } telegram of Nov.
9Th says: A day or two ago men who
are executing city contract for extend
ing Waldemere avenue, unearthed at
depth of six feet from the grounds sur
face eight skeletons, each in sitting
posture and in fair state of preserva-
ton. An examination of the bones
since their donation to the Bridgeport
historical and scientific societies by those
ve1sed in such matters makes it evident
that the burials took place before the
advent Of white men here and long be-
fore the American Indians themselves
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

Dan Wilson has been appinted sheriff
of Cloud county by Gov. Martin, to M
the vacancy caused By the death OF ).
D. Wilson.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-21

A negro and . native of japan are
among the freshmen Of Williams college
this year.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
vNg5z,. SUFFERING AND srAMMERING
No. CURED
BY pROFE5SO STtfBR3.

vAz~=ssTuTTERlNe AND srAMMEnNG
No. CURED
BY PROFESSOR STUBS.
@ nice Hours z to t0a. M, . toOp. m.
Err HOUSE, corner IA ST. nnd Pa. ave.
northwest.
Call ana sec certificates from prominent per.
sons In different aecione, a few Of which we
append:
Pr0fessop .ytuJ5s,
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for the great relief feel In beiug cured Of tao
stammering which ! was afficted with for
more than thirty years. now consider myself
completely cured. My own experience con
yinces me that your treatment Is entirely sue
cessful and scientifically correct would not
be deprived OF tho benefit VI your instructions
for 100000. Respectfully,
n. M. WILLIAMS, 20s Gold st.
BALTIMORE, FEBRUARY, 1884
This IS to certify that have FOR q number OF
years been troubled with an impeachment In
my speech, and have tfied and been treated
by good many doctors, but mono 80 success
ful 90 Professor Stubbs | can read nnd con
verse as well ns any Que. Would not take
NlUO,OOO Tor tho great benefit derived from
hie instruction, and refer every ono to him.
DIR. FRANK II. LUM5DEN,
Student nj Dental Dept, University OF Md.
give the above my hearty Endorsement.
am well aware OF tho great benefit that has
reeulted to him from his treatment by Pro.
lessor Stubhs.
II. ARTHUR HUNGERFoRp, D. DIS,
10 y. Eutaw a., BiltD, MI.
GEORGETOWN, D. O., February D, 1885.
This 10 10 certify that have been under the
instruction OF Professor Stubbs for several
days, and when adhering to and practlcing
his system am not troubled with any impedt-
ment IN my speech. I am confident his system
Is correct. have been stanimering for over
ilfteen years. ! would cheerfully recommend
all others similarly Riilictod TO him.
am, yours respectfully,
IL. Il. TALCOrT,
ONCE OF WIN. Tonnoy & Sons, Capital Mllls.
WASHINGTON, d. g., Jan. II, 1885.
/ have went under instructions OF Prof.
Stubbs. have practlced tho system taught
by him. II has relieved me OF tho impairment
IN my speech. am sntened that he possesses
Of etHmmerug.
am, very respectfully yours truly,
II. j. SCHULTZE,
GRAND STAND SEATS.
~ Secure your seats FOR any stand at once
Drentano Bros, Eleventh st, and Penna ave-
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ACCOMMODATING THE CROWDS.
Busy scenes nj the Hotels.

Turning nobody away yet" was the
patent reply Of the hotel men IN response
to CRiTfc reporters inquiries to-day.
One would scarcely believe Il, for every
nook and Granny in sight is filed chocls
full. There is surging mob in the corri-
doris Of and entrances leading to every no.
tel. A perfect }edlam of sound emanates
from each one of them. The greatest mob
seems to be at Wizards and the Ebbitt.
These arc headquarters for the general and
prqmiscuous crowds. At 10 o'clock this
morning IL required clbowing to get into
these hOstelries. Crowds stood about the
desks of the clerks and around registers so
that IL was next TO an impossibility to see
them.
Tho Arlington IS headquarters for New
York and the Riggs for some Western and
New England clubs of prominence, and
these, too, arc well filed with the moving
throngs.
A series Of yolls from portors, hackmen
and clerks arc already heard, like din. at
the hotels in the heart Of the city. The
hustle makes one weary and sets his brain
in a whirl of confusion.
OF course there is jam about the Ma
tional. SOutherners are there in force
That Is the rallying place, too, for the far
Western people. At the Metropolitan, ST.
Mare, 81. james and other hotels the de-
mands for accommodations and the crowds
that cluster are none the less than those
at other points. Still the response is
Turning nobody away yet
Rooms are secured, however, and have
been for several days only by personal APP
plication. Telegrsms and letters from I'M
known people are not answered.
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EAST WASHINGTON.

ARRESTED on SUSpICIoN.-About two
months ago Bert Rowe and James Kell of
East Washington left here for the South.
They got as far as Goldsboro, n. G., when
they separated, Kell returning to this city.
Rowe's relatives have not received any
word lfom him for several days. Yester-
day the father of young Rowe caused Kell's
arrest OH suspicion Of having murdered his
son while they were in the South together.
kell was locked up to await an investiga-
ton.
There are no circumstances leading to
tho belief that Rowe has been killed or in.
iured, except that he has not been heard
from. Detective Edelin, says the affair is
greatly exaggerated, and that little import
ance attaches to it.
MIR. ALBERT l.. MORGAN, formerly of
East Washington, but now resident of
Springfield Ohio, Is in the city visiting his
relatives. He will remain over and do tho
Inauguration.
Miss MAMIE HELLEN of New York is
visiting her uncle, Mr.. James Fitzpatrick.
BEN BUTLER has done great good in
The Tewkesbury Almshouse, but his work
will not DO complete till he orders good
supply. Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, tho
peoples remedy.
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district Tempcrance Alliance.

The District Temperance Alliance held a
meeting yesterday afternoon at Masonic
Temple. The object of the meeting was TO
protest against the bill recently passed by
the House of Representatives regulating
the sale of liquor in the District. Mr.. H.
r. Moulton presided, and Major Hall, f..
NJ. Bradley, and Hon. j. d. Clare of Ohio,
made short addresses. They ascribed the
evil arising from the inadequacy of the
liquor laws to the ineiliciency of the execu-
tive department of the District govern
duced by Mr.. +. NJ. Bradley, and adopted,
strongly denouncing the bill as IL passed
the House, as well as the undetermined
manner in which the friends of the bill
had worked it through, taking advantage
of night session when very few members
were present. An effort will be made to
defeat the bill in the Senate.
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DIED.

QuINTER,- on Sunday, March 1, at S q, m.
at his late residence, No. 1923 Vermont Ave-
nue., William ~ Quinter, IN the Both year OF
his age.
The friends OF the family are respectfully
Invited 10 attend the funeral from Hamllne NJ.
i Church at O'Clock on Tuesday, ID instant.
WRBB.-At her residence, In this city, on
sunday morning, the lat OF March, Charlotte
Ann, widow OF the late John Il. Webb, aged 80
years.
Funeral from All Souls Church, corner
Fourteenth and l. streets, at . o'clock y. M,
Tuesday the ID Instant. The friends OF the
family are invited 10 attend.
HEPBURN.-At her residence, 0I3 Mary
land avenue southwest on February %, Ann
II. Hepburn, wife OF tho late David Hepburn,
IN the SSth OF her age.
DUNOAN.-On Friday, February %, 1885,
al 80 a. M, Mrs. Mary A. Duncan, wife OF
DR.. l.. q. Duncan.
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AUCTION SALES.
by 1USCANsoN BRos, ''->'>>-N>' >'>'''>'
- Real Estate Auetloneers.

~ Real Estate Auctioneer5.
TRUSTEES SALE OF a THREE-sTORY AND
BASEMENT BRICK DWELLING.
BY Virtue OF a certain deed OF trust, bearing
date on the eighth (8tbl day Of september, A,
ID. 1850, and duly recorded In Liber No. 1919,
folio 16, 1t seq, one OF the land records OF
the Dletrlct OF Columbia, and at the request OF
the holder OF the note for said Indebtedness,
we shall sell at public auction, In front OF the
premises, on TUESDAY, the 10Th day OF March,
q. ID. 1850, at 4 o'clock p. M, tho follow
ING real estate, situate In the city OF Wash.
ineton, Dietrict Of Columbia, aud being the
western part OF lot numbered three 90 In tho
original subdivision OF square numbered ono
hundred and 1--WE 400, having a frontage OF
twenty l2O) feet on north II street, aud being
hn that part OF said lot which lies weat OF a
limo drawn north and south through the
centre OF said lot aud from tho south limo TO
the north line thereof, together with the I'm.
provements thereon, subject to n deed OF trust
duly recorded In Ltber No. 9Ol, folio 1913, OF
said land records, securing tho sum OF $1,000,
together with Interest thereon ut the rate OF
elk per cent. per annum, from December 80,
a. y. 1881.
Terms Of salc; Cash, 800 deposit required
thine OF sale, all conveyanciug at purchasers
cost. II terms OF sale are not complied with
In seven days from day OF sale tue trustees re-
serve tie right TO resell tho property at tho
risk aud cost ~ tho defaultlng purchasers.
GEORGE T.. EMMONS,
CHARLES i, PEARSON,
feii.cOd Trustees,
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