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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05
Prepesed New Telephone Compaax.

A new telephone company, TO be known ~
the Emmner Improved Telephone company,
is about to be Incorporated here TO put In opera-
ton the late patents issued TO Julius Emmner.
OF this city. The proposed capital is y, 900 900
and the officers will be ]. N. Tyner, president.
f. ID. Wright, vice president and attorney; Ju-
Illus Emmner, the inventor, secretary and cleo
trician, and ). ID. Newcombe, treasurer. The
directors will include James Council, w. II.
Mohler, W. =. Chandler, Joseph III. Kelly, John
Dunn Julius Baumgartcn, e. 5. Moore, j. j.
Fuller and ]. A. Little.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

"A NEW PENSION ORDER.-The commissioner
Q! pensions has issued On order that from and
aiter the first OF January next claimants shall
o oe required, before pension agents withhold
any pOruon OF the attorneys fee certified by
atnuaVlt stating with reasonable detail the
LINE and manner of payment. The order fur
10 make the atiidavit in the form prescribed,
anu In the opinion OF the pension agent q rea-
sOnaole doubt exists as to the fact OF such prior
ayment, that the fact shall be certified to the
commissioner OF pensions for his consideration
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Rear Admiral ENGLISH.
REPORT THAT HE HAS BEEN ORDERED

HOME
1t Is reported that Rear Admiral English,
commanding the south Atlantic station, has
been directed to return home at once, and it is
that his presence is required in con-
nection with his management Of the affairs OF
the bureau of equipment and recruiting before
he was sent to sea. No information on the
subject can be obtained at the Navy depart
ment. The officials there say If any such order
the only who knows OF it. Admiral English is
to be retired In February. and as his flagship,
The Lancaster, has to make an extended voyage
to the coast Of Africa, he was directed some
time ago to transfer his flag to the Nipsic, in
order that he might not be too far away when
the time arrived for his retirement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05
For Prevention Of Land Frauds.
COMMISSIONERS SPARKS AND HIS RECOMMENDA

FOR prevention OF Land Frauds.
SPARKS AND HIS RECOMMENDA.
TONS.
The commissioner OF the general land Office,
Mr.. SPARKS, in his annual report states that
when he took charge of the Office he found that
the entire machinery was devoted to fraudu-
lently copveying away the public lands, and that
the eflhe was a mere fundamentally in the
hands q surveying rings He recommends
tbs paS41oe OF an act making false and fraudu-
lent retufns Of public surveys, and of surveys
q pfiyafs land claims, offenses punishable by
lines Aud Imprisonment. The repeal of the
timber scultnre law apd the desert land act is
urged. aAd the m0diA&atiOn of the act relating
recomhiends the sboItshment Of the free sys-
tenn TOR eutry OF puhlic lands. and the substifl-
ton Of fixed salaries to registrars. Presumption
and commuted homestead entries are almost
mends that q law be passed AUTHORIZING the
commissioner to appoint agents to take testi-
mony under oath, and that an adequate appro-
priation be made to carry 1t into effect. He
suggests that II the public lands are to be kept
for actual inhabitancy the comm utation feature
should be abolished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

SNOW ON THE CARs.-When the western ex.
press train on the Baltimore and Ohio RAILROAD
arrived In this city at 1:l5 O'Clock to-day, al
the cars were covered with snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05
The Oklahoma Boomers.

THE INTRUDERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
The Interior department has received, through
the War department., the following telegram
from Gen. Schofield, dated Chicago. december
Sd: "Gen. Miles telegraphs that Major Sumner
reports from Fort Reno that instructions regard
ing Oklahoma have been carried out, aud that
all the intruders have been removed, and that
the cattle men with their herds are on the
mOye.n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

move"
Navy Department Book keeping.
EXPERT CALHOUN FINISHES HIS wORK-NEw
METHODS Observation-Disclosures AMONG
THE CLERKS.
Mr.. Calhoun, the expert accountant from
New York, who was specially engaged by Sec
rotary Whitney in April to examine the &C
counts and the system of doing business in the
Navy department, has completed his task, and,
having made his final report to the Secretary.
has returned to his private business in New
York. Mr.. CalhOun's duties were OF a two-fOld
character.to reorganize the bookkeeping sys-
condition of accounts and manner of doing
business of the various bureaus. The Secretary
dations made by Mr.. Calhoun in the e @atter Of
conducting the business OF the department, but
has as yet taken no action upon his final re-
port.
THE PROPOSED CHANGES
in the system OF bookkeeping will probably be
adopted by degrees. At any rate. no one has
yet been specially appointed to take charge Of
the bookkeeping of the department.. The
books have simply been turned over to the de-
Irregularities in the different bureaus for which
any official is to be held responsible has not
transpired. The general looseness and irrespon-
arc set forth in the report of the Secretary Of
the Navy. 1t Is assumed that the investigations
OF Mr.. Calhoun led to such discoveries, and that
the only remedy to prevent their recurrence
under consideration Is
GENERAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE DEPART
MENT
as recommended to the President by the Secre-
tary. The Investigations Of Mr.. Calhoun were
supplemented by the examinations of the Nc
Gala board, who reported upon the clerical
days ago of Mr.. A. w. Fletcher, Mr.. Calhoun's
assistant, to be chief clerk OF the bureau Of
equipment and recruiting, and the transfer of
Mr.. Henriques, the former chief clerk, to q
fourth-class clerkship, made vacant by the APP
pointment of Mr.. Particle to a cOnsulship, are
regarded in the department rs the first steps in
carrying out the Recommendations OF the Nc
Gala board. The Secretary had not made any
clerical changes before and feeling 0f uneasi-
tell where the axe may fall. There are several
clerical vacancies still remaining, which can be
niled, however, without harm TO the present
clerica; force
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05
Latest Returns fro0 TIE Parlio0ootaFy
Eleet1o0D IN Great Britain

LONDON, Dec. 5.-The returns nom the pariia
mentary elections received up to O'Clock this
afternoon show that the liberals still have .
slight majority over the tories and nattonalists
thus far elected. The figures up TO that hour
showed the return Of 307 liberals, 242 conserve
tivex and e. nationalist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05
King MILAN Not So Bellicose.

HIS PEOPLE CLAMORING kOR WAX, But THE
KING NOT ENTHUSIASTIC.
King Milan has retired from the command
OF the Servia2 army in favor Of Col. HarvatO-
vich. The people are clamoring for war, in
order to regain their prestige, but King Milan
is doubtful Of the success OF the Seryian arms
In case hostilities continue. Prince Alexander
demands an indemnity OF 42,OOO.OOO francs.
to pay, hoping that Austria's support Of Servta
will compel Alexander 70 make peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

IHE GREAT TELEPHoSE CASE-It was the in.
tention of the officials of the Interior depart-
ment who sat in the great telephone case to
meet ana hold a conference last evening upon
sne oIleh which have been submitted by the
COUNSEL representing the various companies.
OwlnRs h0wever, to the andispdsition of Secre-
tsary lamar The conferences Was not held. Mr..
Lamar Was not at the depRktment this morn
ing ,g and ~ is thought that no conference will
pe postponed until next we4G. The impression
seems 70 be that the AttOfliey General will be
the Bell patents,
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Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY-Internal
revenue, 1898, All; customs s414.666.


The Navy department is informed of the ar.
riVai OF tho Omaha at Singapore.
historic INSCRIPTION IN THE NEW PEN
sion BUILDING. A correspondent Of The
oFAR calls attention to the inscription on the
which Is set in the wall on the right of the
suuIn entrance to the new pension building,
winch gives, with other offices of the govern
raS IN the year 1883, the name of Geo. F.
S Su,nanos as "Vice President of tho United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

BALTIMORE DoCToRs COMING 10 THIS CITY,
The ply siciaus from Baltimore who will attend
the thirteenth annual meeting OF the American
Health Association, which begins In this city
next tuesday, are DR.. Steuaft. com missioner Of
health; DR.. John Morris, Dr.. C. w. Chancellor,
secretary Of the state board OF health; DR.. W.
Chew, Van Bibber and DR.. George II. Robe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

MRS. HENDRICKS ACKNowLEDGMENTs-
When Col. Wilson. the commissioner OF public
buildings and grounds, returned from Indian
apois, he delivered to the President Mrs. Hen
drlcks' acknowledgement OF his autograph letter
and or the message and flowers sent by Miss
Cleveland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

Whittier college, NJ salem, Iowa, was total,
destroyed by me yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

PETITION OF THE DISMISSED NAVAL CADET.
H. A. Wiley, the cadet who was dismissed from
the Annapolis aesidemy for hazing, has, through
his lawyers, HHdebrant& Morrison of this city,
sent TO the President petition pro ying for re-
versal OF the sentence OF dismissal. In his petit
tlon ne relates the crcum stances of the alleged
naZing OF l.. S. briggs and claims that he did not
maitreat him In any way, but simply asked for
saGisaction tor having previously annoyed him
fWileyl and his companions outside the grounds.
ne claims that he was not liable to dismissal,
LOT l)Tiggs at the time did not belong TO the ma
val academy, but was an outsider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

The MEXICAN BOUNDARY.-The Secretary
OF State and Mr.. Romero, the Mexican minis
ter, to-day signed an agreement between the
United States and Mexico extending the time
two countries west OF the Rio Grande for eigh.
teen months from to-day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

O--l.s ave, n, and 18th sts-PubIc worship at
IL q 10. and $3.50 ~. sermons by the Rev. HEN1X
l. REX, D., Of Bushkill, Pa. Sunday school at $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-05

C-xs UNION METHODIST EPISCOPAL
- %, Church. 10Th st.. near Pennsylvania av, :,
Kew CHARLES w. BALDWIN, MISUNDERSTANDING
sermon and holy communion IL a. M SUNDAY scn"n11
y AIN and pm. lnfant baptism pm Young
Peoples meeting 6:3O Preaching 1850. PrsvaSs
meeting wednesday 7:3O. All are welcomed. Ssats
S&>e0
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
A Fat Ladys AImana,

A vile scoffer at certain types of fe
-snre1ErrgIy
Beauty" Fortunately, our Washington
ladies are sufficiently oscetic, as well as
aesthetic, and in no danger of falling
into the gross habits of many people.
The following is the brute's compiIa-
ton.
At twelve. Plump, fat and ruddy.
Weight, seventy pounds.
At sixteen. Plumper, fatter, exuber-
ant and bursting bud. Weight. 1870
pounds.
At twenty. A blossom bloomed, exu-
berant. Weight, 100.
At twenty-five. A full blown Juno.
Massive, statuesque. Approaching he
roic size. Imposing. Begins to find
partitioned- off car seats too small.
Wedges when she sits down. Very
exuberant. Weight, $3.50 pounds.
At thirty. Matronly. Imposing still,
but the finer contour OF form swallowed
up slightly in adipose. Magnificent but
barrel like.
At thirty-fve. Large. Too large,
Complexion brick red. Double chin.
Short Of breath. Weight, 200 pounds.
At forty. Gone. Remains of once
magnificent woman. Vast remains. I'm
posing ruins. More double chin Walk,
waddle. Sad. Weight, 22O pounds
- Washington Hdtchet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
The Lona.neaded Lion.

A craven image of lion which stood
around doing nothing in particular, once
gained q wide reputation for wisdom
simply because it was never heard to say
anything and always looked very
thoughtful. A number of monkeys and
parrots, who spent all their time in chat
tering nonsense, became so impressed
with the gravity of the lion that they
made it car. Then the monkeys and
parrots commenced to have lawsuits and
differences. which they referred to the
lion, asking it to arbitrate. But the new
czar merely looked wise and preserved a
silence so thick that you could have
chopped it up with an axe
They chaffed the lion, and called it
names, but threats and entreaties were
alike useless. The new car looked very
wise, but wouldn't utter syllable, so
the monkeys and the parrots went away
disgusted. After they had disappeared,
the lion gave large wink, and said: q
know my business. Those fellows put
me on the throne because of my highly
intellectual appearance; now they think
Tn going to talk and show how much
l don't know, do they9 oh, no, not
this czar; smother czar.
This fable teaches US that no one can
tell how little man knows as long as he
keeps his mouth shut. Rambler.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
A curiousIx coIorea ORANGE.

Messrs. AngeIovich & Co., fruit deal
ers, exhibited vegetable curiosity in the
way of an orange, of Louisiana produc-
ton, which was on one side of beauti-
full yellow color, and on the other covered
with the brownish rust which is occa-
sionalIy seen on the orfnges from some
localities. The skin of this orange was
as exactly divided between the two colors
of yellow and brown as if it had been
done by the incest adjustment Of art.
The line Of separation was most plainly
marked, the colors not blending nor run
ming into each other, as is usually the
case with the blotched oranges.
This rusty brown coloring is said to
be due to the attacks Of a microscopically
minute insect which operates only on
the outer surface of the skin, and does
not in the least affect the interior Of the
fruit. It is a somewhat curious fact that
the oranges indigenous to India and
China are of this bIownish color, all the
light yellow color, smooth skinned or
angcs having originally come from Amer
lea, whence they were introduced into
other countries. .-Neo Orleans Picayune-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
Bla Nuansts " anId.

In the winter Of 40 the writer Or this
saw and handled the largest piece of
GOLD that had yet been found in Cali
fornia- It weighed twenty-five pounds
and nine ounces, and was estimated. bv
carefully weighing in water and other
wise, to contain about five pounds Of
quartz, the rest being pure gold. The
finder sold it for $5, 900 and it was subse-
quently sold in San Francisco for $40, 900.
It was found at Sonora, then known as
the Sonorian Camp, in Tuolumne county,
on the headwaters Of Woods Creek, by
lazy old Mexican 'greaser,' who was
roofing or ''coyoteing" about in holes Or
pits that the whites and others had dug
out or abandoned in the outskirts of the
town. AS soon as he found it he washed
it off, took it to the nearest "monte''
bank and lost $500 on it as soon as he
could conveniently. Naturally when
the 'sgame'' got such a good hold on
the ''chunk" they did not let 20, but
kept the old fellow drunk for day Or
two, or till they owned it in full, allow
ing him S., 900 for it. In this connec-
tion the Grass Valley Union prints the
following information
'Louis Blanding says the generally
accepted statement that the largest mug
get ever found in California was worth
a little more than $21, 900 is an erroneous
one. He says that J. J. Finney, old
Virginia, found piece Of gold about
six miles from Downieville, Sierra
county, on the 21st of August, 1857, that
weighed 5000 ounces. The gold Of
that vicinity was worth SIS an ounce,
which would make the value Of the mug
get some $50, 900. This would make
the Finney nugget the largest piece Of
pure gold ever discovered, So far a. ac-
counts 60. Heretofore the Australian
nugget, found in the BalIarat gold fields,
has been considered the largest. It was
valued at $50, 900. Finney, or odd vir-
when the great silver discoveries were
first made there, and from him the town
of Virginia took its name. The man
who discovered the largest nugget in the
California mines and gave his name to
the richest mining camp in the world,
died in extreme poverty. - Virginia
City (NsO. Enterprise.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
After walking about for little while

After walking about for little while
we went through long calisthenic exer-
else of bows and with warmest thanks
to our kird host and hostess, slowed
ourselves away in jinrikishas, and rode
of to our homes.
Thrs of course is not description Of
an ordinary dinner in Japan. Indeed it
was very extraordinary one given in
honor of party of Americans about to
return to the United States. The COM
mon people dine with very little formal
ity. Bread, beef, milk and butter are
unknown 10 them. They live principal
" on rice, fish, and vegetables, served
in very simple fashion; and they eat sos
rapidly that dyspepsia is even more com
mon in Japan than in America.-M J.
HoldroOk, IN Vide Asoake.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
A Musical Instrument Of Pebbles.

A French musician has succeeded in,
making musical instrument of pebbles.
It's we'll known that there are certain
pebbles which, if struck with another
stone, give forth pure, clear tone; but
they are very rare, and the maker was
obliged to wait thirty years before his
search was rewarded by his securing
twenty-six pebbles epresenting the tones
and semi tones of two octaves. He sus-
pended these pebbles over sounding
board, and has placed this instrument on
exhibition in Paris. The most peculiar
thing about those musical pebbles is that
the tone is independent Of their size.
Thus, in the instrument, the pebble
which emits the deepest tone weighs
four pounds, the one next to it eight
pounds, that following one pound, and
SO on, quite irregularly. These pebbles
must be struck at a certain place; and if
they break the fragment emit no tone at
all.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26

the business. One Of the large mixers
in the establishment visited came from
Cannstatt, in Germany. The others were
of Canadian make None are yet made
in the United States.
Another machine for what is called
patented bread" was seen in operation.
The dough, after proving, was put into
a hopper and passed through large
rollers, which made it into a fiat mass,
as if for pie-crust, but considerably
thicker. Then it passed under a stamper,
which cutit outin squares about ten inches
by five. When running full speed
and fed with fresh dough all the time.
about forty loayes minute can be cut
by the machine Then the square pieces
are taken and rolled round, the edges
touching and forming the bottom of
the loaf. They are next put in pans,
and proved the same as the other loaves
all made by hand. The ovens are fred
up every day about o'clock and kept
going about twelve or thirteen hours, the
process Of baking being continuously
kept up during the whole time
After the baking the bread is taken
into the large room in the centre of the
building, put in the little carts on wheels
already described and hoisted BY means
Of elevators to the delivery room above.
There were three steam elevators and six
hand elevators for use in case the ma
chinery gave way. They take up none
Of the working room, having no ratings
or supports, and when not in use each
one being level with and forming part
of the floor.
The main delivery room was sixty-sey-
en- feet by 100, though the whole floor is
used for details of the delivery. Long
lines of carts stood ready for the morn
ing work, several of them on large
raised platform, where they were being
washed.
The work never stops, Sundays or hol-
idays. night or day. Some part of the
business is always being DONE The
yeast room is like a small brewery. The
busiest time is at o'clock IN the morn
ing, when the full force of men are at
work. The drivers are all in with their
carts ready for the morning loads and the
bakers have not yet left.
More bread is sold in summer than in
winter, but the actual amount eaten is
less. The reason is that more is wasted
in summer. The hot weather causes the
bread to get stale quicker.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
The paIiohts q Handing.

The Detroit Iri5uns says that ''peo-
Die who have been conscientiousIy op-
posed to capital punishment by hanging
because of the needless suffering it was
supposed to entail upon the victim Of
the laws vengeance, will doubtless find
their convictions on the subject consid-
erably shaken if they read the exten-
siveIy published descriptions of an ex-
pertinent made by courageous English
investigator
s'This deliver into the curious phases
of existence had long been possessed Of
a desire to realize the sensations pro-
duced BY hanging. He induced some
sympathetic friends to assist him in bis
Iaudable experimentation, and accord
ingly he was strung up to a convenient
rafter in barn with regulation hang
mans moose about his neck.
ssThe sensations that followed he de-
scribes ecstatic and pleasurable in the
extreme. He fancied he was buoyantly
floating without exertion upon sea Of
oil, tinted with all the radiant colors Of
the rainbow. He saw in transport Of
indescribable delight that the new world
to which he had been transported was
'tmore beautiful than poets dream
A lovely island Of glorious emerald color
rose from out the bosom Of the oleagin-
GUS sea, from which came burst Of the
most delicious harmony-music Of the
divinest sweetness. AS he approached
the shore troops Of beautiful female be-
ings came joyously down to meet him on
the golden strands. Then he opened his
eyes and found his co-Investigators Wig
orously engaged in pounding him in the
back, bouncing him up and down on the
hard floor, and otherwise endeavoring to
lure him back to the prosaic details Of
mundane existence. That he was some
what annoyed at being 50 hastily sum
moned from his oily bath and the com
panionship of the island beauties has nc
influence upon the sociological value ol
the case. The experiment was made and
the fact fully established that there \
nothing in life half SO enjoyable az being
thoroughly hung"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
..Iha Iuns the OId Cow pied on

In Scotland and the north Of Ireland
this saying is very common in the
mouths Of the peasantry, though all who
use it may not understand its origin. 1t
arose out Of an old song
There was an old man, and he had an old
COW,
And he had nothing to give her;
So he took out his fiddle and played her
tune
Consider, good COW. consider;
This is no time Of year for the grass to grow,
Consider, good COW, consider
The old COW died Of hunger, and
when any grotesquely melancholy song
or tune is uttered the north country peo-
pie say, ''That is the tune the old COW
died of."-London Agriculturas Gazette.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-11-26
NUMBER IA.

have similar tastes, desires, Or needs.
One Of these is quasi-political. ana IL
probably the largest society in the world.
The strength and activity Of these or
CARNATIONS was shown in the Tai-Ping
rebellion, when, without telegraph, ana
practically no mail service, thousands Of
men revolted in a few days and the en-
peror was compelled to call in Chinese
Gordon and ], 900 European soldiers to
crush the insurrection. When Ameri-
cans understand and know our people
and customs this anti Chinese agitation
will die out altogether.