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The Evening critic., 1885-04-25
business on Capitol Hin.

southeast, has large stock of dry goods,
notions, sun umbrellas, ladies', gents and
cbildren's gauze underwear, which viii be
and mattlngs very cheap.
Residents OF Capitol Hill VIII do we'll by pay
Ing this establishment visit before purchas-
ing spring supplies.
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A NEW COMIC OPERA.
A SKETCH OF 1.-THE DEBUTANTE .
OR, TEE SOCIAL LADDER"

A Satire on the Army and Navy
Foibles of Washington Society Por-
trayed-The Craze for "Blue and
Brass" - A Fashionable Kettle
drum" and "Swell" German.
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CITY ITEMS.

ANY person desiring to purchase an elegant
medium.sized lre'proof safe, can get one at a
bargain by calling at the ONCE of THE CRITIC.
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ST. JAMES CHUnoH.-James Clark, Rector Of
St. James Church northeast, received for
Easter offerings $3.50, and this from small
membership OF about thirty-nve members
new chancel is TO be built at the east end of
the church, the altar removed to II, and seats
put in to accommodate the increasing congre.
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refrigerators, carpets and furniture sold on
weekly or monthly payments at Smiths,
413N. ]. avenue northwest.
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a panscea for rheumatism, neuralgia aud
colds also best cosmetic known, given by
DIR. H.. j.. Bovee, 14l7 street northwest.
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TURKISH BATHS, an infallible remedy
for chills and malaria, also best blood puri.
fer known, given by DR.. II. L. Bovee, 14l7
G street northwest.
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Turkish Baths,

Public speakers and singers find B. II.
Douglass sons' oapsicum Cough Drops
sure remedy for hoarsenees.
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Moody plaid suits to order sls. Hamburger's
READ James II. MoGills paint adv.
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THE death warrant for the execution Of John
LapgsteT, the murderer OF Policeman Fowler,
has been placed In the hands OF Warden
OrOcker,
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"Justh's Ola stand"

610 ID Of. n. W., buys gents secondhand
clothIng. Note by mail attended, 10.
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Millinery Department.

Preslded over by Nine. Roach. fornerIv
with Mrs. Palmer. Al the latest no yelties in
Aeadwear Tor Ladies', Misses and Otildren.
Special orders solicited.
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SPRING AND SUMMER HOSIERY
AT THE
Boston Dry Goods House

sale Of hdrens and Ladies' Cotton Lse Thread ard Silk Hose
specially prepared you variety
the best styles and qualities and invite critical feeling
qualities.
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The new perfume--see beautiful story book
at dIug'stores free. Eastman's Aloha Per-
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Choice.
EAST WASHINGTON,

Our Four-Button Outaway Suit In this style
our assortment is unlimited. Eiseman Bros,
Seventh and Il.
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For wines. ImpOrted and DOmeaIIc.

go to Chr. Xander, who has the finest of
all kinds. He is noted for selling the pure
article only. Try him, at OIL Seventh
street northwest
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READ James H. McGiil's paint adv.
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Aloha.

READ James II. MoeIlls nalnt adv.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
The Waste of Bullets.

Our readers have seen or heard the
statement that it takes soldiers weight
of lead to kill him in battle, and they
may have considered it to be merely a
rhetorical hyperbole, suggested by
the obvious fact that comparatively few
out of the whole number of shots in
war take effect. 1t seems, however,
that the assertion, which originated
proved by Cassendi, after careful
mathematical calculation, to be no eX-
aggeration, and, with all the improve
ments that have been made in muskets
and in the art of using them effectively,
it is still not far from the truth. AT the
battle of Solferino a comparison of the
number of shots fred on the Austrian
side with the number killed and
wounded on the part of the enemy
shows that seven hundred bullets were
expended for each man wounded, and
forty-two hundred for each Que killed.
Now, as the average weight of the ball
used was thirty grams, it must have re-
quired at least one hundred twenty-siX
Kilograms, or about two hundred
seventy-seven pounds of lead, to kill a
man. In the Franco-P russian war the
slaughter caused by the needle-gun
among the French shows how much
superior that firearm was to the Aus
trian carbine; but about thirteen
hundred shots were required then to
accomplish the destruction of single
soldier. 1t is found in practice that a
great majority of the wasted bullets
go over the heads of the enemy; hence
resort is sometimes had to the eX-
pedient of pressing down, by means OF
a staff, the muskets of platoon of men
about to fire, a sergeant being detailed
for the service. When the shots are
aimed at an isolated soldier, the chances
; against him are, of course, greater; but
even then the waste of lead is some
thing enormous. In the Franco-Prus
sian war, according to an officer who
witnessed the performance, French
company of chasseurs fired for quarter
of hour at German mounted sentr,
posted on hillock about three hundred
yards off. Full four hundred shoti
were fired before either man or horse
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Turn About.

General Custer and General Pierce
Young were messmates and classmates
and devoted friends at West Point. In
the war they were generals of cavalry
on opposing sides. One day General
Young was invited to breakfast at the
Hunter mansion, in Virginia. The
beautiful young ladies had prepared a
smoking breakfast, to which the gen.
eral was addressing himself with ardor,
when a shell burst through the house.
CHANGING through a window, he saw
Custer charging toward the house at
the head of his staff. Out of the win
dow Young went, calling to the young
ladies, " Tell Custer l leave this break
fast for him." Custer enjoyed it heart
lily, and looked forward with pleasure
to the dinner in the distance. In the
meantime Young, smarting over the
loss of his breakfast and his hasty re-
treat, drove the federal line back, and
by dinner time was in sight of the Hun
ter mansion again. Custer, who was
just sitting down to dinner, laughed and
said: "That's Pierce Young coming
back. ] knew he wouldn't leave me
here in peace. Here's my picture.
Give it to him, and tell him his old
classmate leaves his love, with this ex-
cellent dinner" And out of the win
dow he went, and away like a flash
while the Georgia general walked in
and sat down to dinner.-Neec York
Post
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Questions Answered.

II. M, Underhill. -Soldiers who con-
tracted disability in the war of the re-
bellion amounting to the loss of an
arm or leg are exempt from paying the
license required of peddlers.
E. B., Strafford.-A step-mother of a
soldier who died in the United States
military service is not entitled to pen
sion under the general pension laws !;
but several step-mothers have been
granted pensions by special acts of
congress.
A. j. g., Marshfeld. your name
is dropped from the pension roll you
can apply for restoration; and if you
can satisfy the pension Office that it
was wrongfully dropped, and that you
are still suffering from wounds received
or disease contracted in the line of
duty while a soldier, your pension
will be restored to you.
G.. w. D., Greensboro highest
war tax paid at one time by any town
in Vermont, if we recollect Alright, was
twelve dollars and fifty cents on dol
lar of the grand list. This sum was
paid by the town of Fayston, which
would make poll tax of twenty-five
dollars. If any town paid larger war
tax, we would be glad to be informed
of the fact.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
HindOO Women.

A recent issue of the Times of India
contains very remarkable letter, which
the editor vouches for as genuine and
unprompted. The writer, a Hindoo lady,
discusses the question of the social
status of Hindoo women and gives a
most pathetic description of their mis-
cradle condition. The wicked practice
of early marriage has, she declares, de-
stroyed the happiness of her life. She
adds: Without the least fault of mine,
| am doomed to seclusion. Every as
piration to rise above my ignorant sis
tiers is looked upon with suspicion and
interpreted in the most uncharitable
manner. Our law-givers. being men,
have painted themselves pure and no.
BILE, and laid every conceivable sin and
impurity at our door. If they are to be
trusted, we are set of unclean ami
mails, created for their special service I:
and they, by right divine, can maltreat
us at will. The treatment which SER
wants receive from European masters is
far better than that which falls to the
share of us Hindoo women. We are
treated worse than beasts. We are re-
garded as playthings. The loss of men
tai and physical freedom which girl
experiences the moment she steps into
her husbands house cannot be realized
by Englishmen, She must not sit or
speak in the presence of her father-in-
law or mother-in-law, or any elder
member of their family; she must get
up early, 90 to bed late, and work with
the servants" So the writer proceeds
through long catalogue of miseres.
She has no direct knowledge of the in
finitely worse lot of Hindoo widow
but she knows enough of its evil to
dread widowhood, even as change
from her present unhappy position. She
ends with powerful appeal to the lead
ers of the Hindoo community Hel
words may be commended to certain
native reformers who devote SO much
time and energy to political discussion
She says: If you succeed in bringing
about salutary reform in the position
of Hindoo women, then the spread OF
education, the development of arts ant
sciences, the production of an able
bodied, strong-minded race of men ant
women-in fact, the mental and materia
prosperity of India-will follow as {
matter of course, and India will rever
to her once proud position among thu
nations. "-London Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Bunyan in London.

In his later days Bunyan's figure
was tolerably familiar in London. He
preached regularly in Southwark an
open space near the Falcon-and peo-
pie thronged to hear him, so that he
could count upon regular congrega-
ton of some five hundred souls. John
Wesley's father heard him preach on
Newington Green. That he had many
friends in London is evident from the
number of people who attended his
funeral and from the handsome tomb
that soon after his death was built over
his grave. Twenty or thirty years ago
this tomb, which had fallen into decay,
was restored, but has already assumed
a time-worn, weather-worn appearance.
Stone probably perishes more quickly
in a London atmosphere than under
any other conditions, and, looking
round at the head-stones and tombs, it
is evident that at the end of fifty years
or so inscriptions, unless renewed in
the meantime, are mostly illegible,
while in country churchyards epitaphs
of the last century, or of even earlier
dates, are often easily to be deciphered.
-1U the Year Round.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
A Scared Veteran.

Among the applicants for help at the
county poor office, recently, was one
whose career has been extraordinary,
to say the least. Although his appear
ance was badly dilapidated, it could
easily be seen that he was a well-edu-
Gated man and one who had seen bet
ter days. In his pocket was an honor
able discharge from military service,
the paper showing that he had served
in the Eighth New York Heavy Artil-
lery during the war. Up to a few
months since l was in the Washington
hospital" said he, "but now am on the
way to Whitesboro, where l have a
wife and five children" In his state
ment he gave his name as Charles
Kingston, and said he had been
wounded twenty-three times in differ
ent engagements. In the back of his
head could be seen small metal plate
which was inserted in place of piece
of the skull at the Washington hospital.
His right arm was badly bent and hung
at his side, the bone having been shat
tered by gun-shot. In his forehead
was a socket where he had been struck
with musket and the skull fractured.
Most of the wounds were received in a
battle where the battery in which he
was working was captured. After hear
ing his story, Superintendent McGone-
gal gave him a pass toward home
Rochester Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Natures Riddles.

Chickens, two minutes after they have
left the egg, will follow with their eyes
the movements of crawling insects
and peck at them, judging distance
and direction with almost infallible ac-
curacy. They will instinctively appre-
ciate sounds, readily running toward an
invisible hen hidden in a box when
they hear her " CALI Some young
birds also have an innate, instructive
horror of the sight of a hawk and of
the sound of its voice. Swallows, tit
mice, tomtits and wrens, after having
been confined from birth, are capable
of flying successfully at once when lib
Grated on their wings having attained
the necessary growth to render fight
possible. The Duke of Argyll relates
some very interesting particulars about
the instincts of birds, especially of the
water ousel, the merganser and the
wild duck. Even as to the class of
beasts / find recorded: =" Five young
polecats were found comfortably i'm
bedded in the dry, withered grass, and
in side hole, of proper dimensions for
such larder, were forty frogs and two
toads-all alive, but merely capable of
sprawling little. On examination the
whole number, toads and all, proved to
have been purposely and deXterously
bitten through the brain" Evidently
the parent polecat had thus provided
the young with food which could be
kept perfectly fresh, because alive, and
yet was rendered quite unable to escape.
This singular instinct is like others
which are yet more fully developed
inc 11nc Of ,n1C 1n
instincts of which are so numerous,
wonderful and notorious that it will be,
probably, enough to refer to one or two
examples. The female carpenter bee,
in order to protect her eggs, eXcavates,
in some piece of wood, series of
chambers, in special order, with a view
to peculiar mode of exit for her young /;
but the young mother can have no con-
scious knowledge of the series of ac-
tions subsequently to ensue. The fe-
male of the wasp, spheT, affords an
other well-known, but very remarkable,
example of a complex instinct closely
related to that already mentioned in
the case of the polecat. The female
wasp has to provide fresh, living ami
NAL food for her progeny, which, when
it quits its egg, quits it in the form of
an almost helpless grub, utterly unable
to catch, retain or kill an active, strug-
Cling prey. Accordingly, the mother
insect has not only to provide and place
beside her eggs suitable living prey,
but so to treat it that it may be help
less, unresisting victim. That victim
may be mere caterpiller, or it may be
great, powerful grasshopper, or even
that most fierce, active and rapacious
of insect tyrants, fell and venomous
spider. Whichever it may be, the wasp
adroitly stings it at the spot which in
duces, or in the several spots which in
duce, complete paralysis as to mo-
ton, let us hope as to sensation also.
This done, the wasp entombs the help
less being with its own egg, and leaves
it for the support of the future grub
st. George Mirart, inthe Fortnightly Re
uie,C.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Up the Himalayas.

Boss and / assembled certainly to
twenty-five thousand seven hundred
feet, and neither there nor at any point
of the ascent did we feel any incon-
venience other than the natural loss of
breath consequent on every ascent.
Nor was the ascent mere uphill walk;
on the contrary, it presented quite as
many difficulties as any ordinary AL
pine peak, and on the rock occasionally
demanded very great exertions. 1t is
my deliberate opinion that any man in
sound health and fair training may
work and be capable of great muscular
eXertiOn with no more inconvenience
when the barometer stands at 10" than
when it marks 30'. AT any rate, we
could not detect any difference, while
all such symptoms as nausea, bleeding
at the nose, loss of sight, ETC., were
conspicuous only by their absence.
One organ, and one only, appeared to
be in trouble, and that was, curiously
enough, the heart, not the lungs. The
beating of the heart became very per-
ceptible, and when we attained a great
height, quite audible. 1t was also
slightly increased in pace, though not
oiiouSH W oauoo any SIodl ulSquleuuue.
For this reason l would recommend
any one DESTROYS of reaching great
heights to undergo preliminary medi-
cal examination, precaution which 1
took myself. Finally, l do not believe,
given the data of healthy man in
training, that the rarefied air will cause
any insuperable obstacle to the ascent
of even the highest peak in the world,
provided the actual difficulties are
superable. Good Words
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Head.StOnes for Soldiers, Graves.

The appropriation for furnishing
head-stones for graves of soldiers of the
late war is exhausted. Originally this
appropriation, which amounted to ST.
100000, was made for supplying the
graves of soldiers buried in national
cemeteries with durable head-stones.
Nearly all of these are of marble. When
this work was completed, about $780,
600 of the appropriation remained UNI
expended. This was reappropriated
for furnishing head-stones for graves
of soldiers buried in village and private
cemeteries. Two contracts were made
in 1S79-one with S. G.. Bridges of
Keokuk and one with d. w. Whitney
of New Y ork-at prices ranging, accord
ing to locality, from &1.99 to $500 per
stone. Under these contracts the con-
tractors furnished the marble, cut and
lettered the headstones, paid freight to
destinations and set them at the graves.
The trouble attending the completion
of these contracts led the war depart
ment to provide in subsequent contracts
that the applicants for the head-stones
should set them without expense to the
United States, the contractor preparing
the head-stones for shipment and the
government paying the freight to the
nearest railroad station to the grave.
The early contracts called for head
stone two inches thick, ten inches wide
and from thirty-six TO forty-two inches
in length. No base is furnished, the
intention being to have the maidstone
set directly in the ground, leaving six
teen inches above the surface. In the
later contracts the size of the head
stone has been increased. They cost on
an average about S4 each, to which is
to be added the expense of transporting
to destination. The applications have
continually increased, and many are
now on file at the office of national
cemeteries. Congress will be asked at
it's next session to make an additional
appropriation for continuing this work,
which request will undoubtedly be
granted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16

In mental habit he was true lineal
descendant of Sir Boyle Roche. Though
hardly calculated to satisfy a logical
mind, his expressions were often ex-
ceedingly picturesque and effective.
high rate of mortality then prevailing,
he remarked, "Bedad, there are people
dying who never died beforel" What
an admirable result was here obtained
by merely substituting the indicative for
the conditional mood--to put it from
the grammarian's point of view. Speak
ing of a neighbor who was a daring
rather than an expert mariner, he re-
lated how his yacht had "stuck fast
and loose in the mud" Again, at a
meeting of church wardens, when it
was debated whether the pew of gen.
tleman who had succeeded to revival
ism should be retained for him or not,
the doctor urged that it should, adding
as reason, "'Tis unbeknownst but
one of his ancestors might want it,
Perhaps for concentrated inaccuracy of
statement nothing can surpass the fol-
lowing sentence, which occurred in an
account of burglary given in an Irish
newspaper: "After fruitless search
all the money was recovered, except
one pair of boots" Surely Mr.. Mat
thew Arnold will not quarrel with the
lack of lucidity which gave this and the
following to the world: "Our most fa-
nous jig-dancer came by his death in a
faction fight at village fair. An in
quest was held, at which a verdict was
brought in that he met his death by the
visitation of God under suspicious cir
cumstances. "-The Spectator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
Ragged Soldiers.

"There is now at the top round of bust
ness success in this city a man who rarely
passes me without smile that has a
meaning only for me-" This came
from a business man justly proud of his
career as soldier. "My command"
he went on, was stationed at one
time at Dry Creek Junction, or at the
BlOck-house, about six miles north of
Nashville. The service was very wear
ing on clothes, and we were a little out
of the range of the quartermasters. |
made acquisitions for shoes, blouses and
trousers, as regularly as any officer in
the service, but the clothes and shoes
came in driblets. l would ask for thirty
pairs of trousers, for example, and they
would send me out from Nashville six.
Then the distribution of the six pairs of
trousers would precipitate almost riot
in the Block-house. l tried distributing
them by lot, but that was not salts
factory, and at last ! determined to
take the bull by the horns and give the
trousers to the men that / thought
needed them the most. In some way
the boys got an inkling of this, and one
day when five pairs of trousers came, in
answer to requisition for twenty-five,
the men made preparations to meet my
manGuvre. / ordered the company
mustered for inspection, my idea being
to take the men as they were, look
them carefully over, and give the
trousers out to the five men who were
most in need of them. They were a
dilapidated set at the best, but / was
not prepared for the appearance they
presented when they were in line. In
the few minutes given to preparation
those fellows had torn and ripped and
twisted their clothes until they were
all about alike on a dead level of
raggedness. My friend who had just
passed, and who has made fortune in
clothing since that time, was the ring
leader in this move, and when I started
out grumbling and ended in a hearty
laugh at the ridiculous spectacle pre-
scented, he came to the front with a
suggestion. He stated that he and
four or five others had made very
pleasant acquaintance with young
ladies of the neighborhood, and he
thought the other men of the company
should sacrifice themselves for those
who were in honor bound to call upon
the ladies. The credit of the army and
of this particular command, he insisted
depended very largely upon the men
who did the counting for the regiment.
1t didn't make so much difference with
the other fellows, but it did make a
great deal Of difference with him and
his fellows. l listened quietly to his
suggestions, and then ordered every
man to go to work at once and sew and
patch until he was in a presentable
condition, and l did not distribute any
of the trousers Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16
He was Most Thar"

During the march Of McClellan's
army up the Peninsula from Yorktown,
a tall Vermont soldier got separated
from his regiment and was trudging
along through the mud endeavoring to
overtake it. Finally, coming TO cross
ing, he was puzzled as to which road he
should take; but, on seeing one of the
" natives" his countenance lighted up
at the prospect of obtaining the de-
sired information, and he inquired
Where does this road lead to?' A" To
ILL.," was the surly answer of the
-" native" Well" drawled the Yer
monter, "judging by the lay of the
land and the appearance of the inhabit-
ants, kalkerlate Pm most thar"