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MeteOric Dust.

You all ofknow the shower of falling stones-the
August and November meteors; you know that
these are Jumps OF interplanetary matter career
ing through space, mostly doubtless round the
sun, but not aggregated together into planets
Cold Jumps of iron they mostly seem to be,
possibly fragments of some ancient world
possibly relics Of the old nebulous world
material, never yet aggregated into worlds
at all. For ages they may have been rushing
along, some almost isolated others crowded to-
gether. and SO they might rush on for millions
of years; but a larger body bears down upon
of the huge mass of planet; they are DETECTED
from their course Notwithstanding their pro-
digious speed, and few dip into its atmos-
phere. In an instant the terrific friction strips
off their outer coat, scrapes and rubs the surface
till it glows with white heat; streams of white
luminous trail, but the white-hot masses plunge
on, and one perhaps escapes to resume its
wanderings, disturbed little by its encounter,
but not destroyed; another may be rubbed
to fragments altogether; another may be heated
so rapidly and unequally as to explode; while
moderare veiocityomay be heated. indeed. . anS
violently scraped but not destroyed and may
imbed itself in the ground, to be dug up by
some peasant as a thunderbolt and to be pre-
served in some museum. The frayed particles of
such meteOrs must constitute no incOnsiderable
portion of terrestrial dust; and since it comes
from altogether eXtra-terreStral sources 1t is to
us of most intense interest. One other visitant
from other worlds we know of. and that is light,
I1lSHt Is iOuuu 10 DC cndTSeu Win Information,
though 1t took man many centuries to learn
how to read it-frst with the telescope, now with
the spectroscope, and next with who shall say
what still more potent revealer and analyZer Of
hidden truth. Meteoric dust may not be SO laden
with information as light is-certainly we have
not yet learned to read it. 1t is only within
the last few years that, at the instigaton of Sir
William Thomson, committee of Section A
of the British Association was appointed to con-
slider the question whether such dust could be
collected and detected at all. Under the
able and enegetic guidance of DR.. Schuster
this committee has done good work. and some
dust from the ice fields Of the Himalayas and
from Greenland has been definitely proved to
be meteOric,
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why Doctors Dpn't Catch Disease.

"Some men," remarked Captain Horton
"can move in the midst OF pestilence and MAS
mata, and never seem any the worse. "How,
for instance, do you doctors defend your for
tresse''
am glad You asked the question. We
defend the fortress first by using ordinary pre-
cautions. We will not, if possible, breathe more
Infected air than we can help. We will not be
stupidity rash. Depend upon it, my friend, that
when DIR. Abernethy kicked his foot through
the pane OF glass in his patients room, because
he couldn't get him TO have his window down.
the excellent physician was thinking as much
about his own safety as that of his patient
Secondly physicians know that they must live
by rule when attending cases during a. pest-
lence. The body must be kept up TO the health
standard In times of epidemic let every one
see TO himself, attend to every rule of health
live regularly, and keep the stomach most care
fully In order, and be abstinent There is
against invisible foes"
This living according to rule" said my
friend musingiy, lis a terribly hard thing TO
have 10 add AT least, am sure most people
find il So"
"Few people" 1 replied, "think of doing any.
thing OF the sort, until actual danger to life
stares them in the face. Some one else
believe has made a remark similar to this
before how, but IL Is worthy Of being repeated"
been thinking good deal lately nave
said
most of US err by eating more than is neces-
sary."
How rerY true that is, Horton! Why, in care
ful regulation OF diet-a diet that should in
cline TO the abstemious-we have one of the best
deiences against invisible foes of all kinds
his is one OF our posts and should be held at
hll risks, If care for life at an-and not for
LIE only, but comfort while we do exist. II is
TACT which all should bear in mind, that over
eating not only corrupts the blood, but destroys
nervous energy."-A Family Doctor, in CusseIs
Family Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28

New York Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer
Col Tom. Ochiltree, of Texas, has gone into
the theatrica business. His speciality is the
promotion OF the Baroness Nadia de Rotchkoff
as q new actress. She came to this country
from Russia nearly year ago with the deter
mination Of going on the stage here She found
the achievement far more difficult than she had
imagined. 1t would have been easy enough to
get together q cheap company and 60 to some
small and near town for debut, but that was
not the size Of her amb ition. She would appear
in a fashionable New York theater or none, and
for a while ii looked as though the latter alter
native would have to be accepted. But Col.
vowed that she would have a fair chance.
Wallack's theater was hired for matinee
Camille" was chosen for the play, first-rate
considerable advertising was done, and the
aggregate cost, including beautiful cos.
tunes for the star, has been carefully COM
figure when it is considered that there will
probably never be repetition of the expert
ment. The newspaper critics say this morning
that the baroness WAS ridiculous failure. She
was most unpromising novice, and they don't
admit that she has any histrionic merit what
ever; but she was handsome, though dsadvan-
tagged by the glare of footlights and a theatrical
makeup. on the stage She is quite charming.
Her height is medium and her build compact.
The outlines of her figure are pleasing and she
enhances Gr their qualities by artistic dressing
the windows OF Broadway stores. She would
have a round face but for a high forehead. which
Her complexion is light. after the Russian man.
ner, and her eyes are lilac-not OF the watery
variety, but tender and expressive. Her mouth
Is not too small and she smiles bewitchingly
With 1t. She speaks English with foreign ac-
cent and her gestures are coQuettish. Col
Ochiltree violently disagrees with the critics in
their estimation of the baroness ability TO act
Camille but his policy of membership for the
future is not divulged as yet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
ArtemuS Wards will.

From the Lewiston {Me) journal. March 2lst.
Among the archives in the vault of the Oxford
county probate court at Paris Hill is copy of
the will of Artemus Ward. Ward died in Eng
land of consumption, and his will was made
there. The copy is inscribed on two heavy
sheets of parchment about two feet square, in
the most elaborate style of the scrivener's art.
The copyist must have spent many hours in
fashioning the big capital letters of old English
text and the hourisheS which decorate the in
Strument. The parchment was sent to the Ok
ford county probate court in heavy tin box,
shaped like cigar case, only on larger scale,
being about nine inches long and three
inches wide. The box is secured by pad
lock, on which are stamped the British coat
OF arms and the letters ~. r. The
testament begins: This is the will of me,
Charles Ferrar Brown Ward, known as 'Arte-
mus Ward.''' The testator directs that his
body shall be buried in Waterford Upper VII
lage, but in a codicil changes the place of his
entombment to Waterford Lower Village. He
bequeathS his library to the best scholar in the
schools at Waterford Upper Village, and his
manuscripts to r. II. Stoddard and Charles
Dawson Stanley. After making several requests
to his mother and relatives, he gives the balance
of his property to found san asylum for worm
out printers" Horace Greeley to be the sole
trustee, and his receipt to be the only security
to be demanded of him. An Oxford county
man, referring TO the will. said: EITHER Arte-
mus intended that his will should be a post
norton joke or he was robbed; for upon his
death a very small property was found-hardly
enough to pay the minor requests, let alone
founding printers hospital"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28


From the National Review.
Opium forms the basis of innumerable reme-
dies, and very effective remedies, sold under
titles altogether reassuring and misleading
Nearly all soothing syrups and powders, for
example-"mothers blessings" and infants
curses-are really opiates. These are known
or suspected by most well-informed peo-
pie. What is less generally known is
that nine in ten of the popular
remedies for catarrh, bronchitis, cough
cold and asthma are also opates. So
powerful indeed is the effect of opium upon the
lining membrane of the lungs and air passages,
so difficult is it to find effective substitute,
that the efficacy, at least the certain and rapid
efficacy, of any specific remedy for cold whose
exact nature is not known affords strong ground
for suspecting the presence of opium. Many
chemists are culpaby y, almost criminally, reck-
less, and not few cul paby ignorant in this mat
ter. An experienced man bought from a fash
1onable West End shop a box OF cough lOZengeS,
pleasant to the taste and relieving a severe
cough with wonderful rapidity. Familiar with
the influence OF opium on the stomach and
spirits, he was sure before he had sucked halt
dozen of the lOZenges that he had taken q dose
powerful enough to affect his accustomed sys-
tenn, and strong enough to poison a child, and
do serious harm to a sensitive adult. Yet the
loZenges were sold without warning or indica-
ton OF their character; few people would have
taken any special precaution to keep them out
of the way of children, and the box, falling into
the hands of a needless or disObedient child,
might have poisoned a whole nursery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
The Law of Marriage in England.

The Law of Marriage I'm England.
From the London Standard February 26th.
The lord chancellor has reintroduced his
marriages Legalization BILL" the object of
which is to prevent certain formal defects from
invalidating marriage. It proposes to declare
that no marriage celebrated in the united king
dom in the past or in the future is to be deemed
to have been invalid "by reason only of any
want oflawful authority for the grant of any
license or certificate for the determination
thereof, or of any certificate of the publication
or proclamation of banns In order to such mar
f1age by any person acting as q public officer
entitled to grant or issue such license or certif-
cate; or of any want of lawful authority for the
solemnization of marriages in the building or
place where the same may have been SOL
emnized. or by the person officiating as min
lister Of religion or otherwise in the sOlemniza-
ton Of such marriage; or Of any irregularity in
or relating to the publication Of any banns or
notice actually published in any church or
registrars Office in order to such marriage"
However, the measure is not to apply where
the defect was known at the time to both the
man and the woman, but the burden Of proving
this knowledge is to rest on the person who
alleges it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
May Out-Arthur Mr.. Arthur.

From the Louisville Commercial
president Cleveland has perfectly lovely
eyes, remarked Louisville society belle yes
terday, who is just back from Washington.
"Indeed," said her listener.
eyes, and the prettiest teeth You ever saw.
They giisten like pearls, and he knows how to
show them, for he is always smiling in the most
fascinating manner imaginable. His cheeks
are rosy, too, and he has q bee-u-tifpl dimple In
his chin, to say nothing Of q superb moustache
and q hand as soft and white as q woman's. All
In all, he is q very handsome man, and just the
sort of fellow to keep. the women at his feet.
He knows his powers Of fascination well, and is
as vain as peacock. I don't mean that he il
vain in the ordinary way. Just the opposite.
His vanity Is OF the autocratic, dignthed sort
that is sometimes called selfrespect, and II
pleaseS rather than offends."
sis he easily impressed by women"
"Not q bit of 1t. tried him desperately at the
ball, but he wouldn't firt at all.
"But II he should ever come to Louisville, !"
added this most charming. young lady, soto
voce, "we'n bring him down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
Over.pressure I'm Schools,

From the New York Tribune.
The highest medical and educational authori.
ties in Germany and England are loud and per.
sistent in their warnings against physical harm
and nervous ailments caused by over-pressure
in public schools The danger is greatest in the
case of girls between twelve and fourteen wears
OF age, although it is not to be ignored In the
case of boys of the same age. It ought not TO
require much argument to convince practical
educators that entrance examinationsof ninety
per cent entail continuous overwork and ner.
vous excitement and imperil the health and
sanity Of girls Of that age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
The New Style Hats.
WHAT FASHIONABLE MEN WILL WEAR DURING
THE SPRING SEASON.

WHAT FASHIONABLE MEN WILL WEAR DURING
THE SPRING SEASON.
From the Philadelphia Times.
There will not be much change in the style
OF hats this season." said prominent Chestnut
street halter yesterday. "The high silk hats
are little higher and straighter-less of bell
shape and with a little lighter curl in the rim
slight deviation in the direction of square
crowns. One of the new things is a reddish
brown tan and q greenish gray, with q bronze
new styles show less change than they have in
many seasons. Tweed hats will be worn to
some extent, but there are many limitations.
The real tweed hats that come here are of
English make. These tweed hats are usually
worn on rainy days or for travelling The hiph
silk hat remains the most dreSsy article OF
headwear for gentlemen. The derby, however.
will be the most worn"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
MetamOrphOsed Into n Boy.

Ifoh the fhia0eiphla RECORD.
A subject, apparently a young girl Of fifteen,
appeared for clinical operation at Jefferson
Medical college a short time ago. The patient
wore short dresses, looked like young school
miss, and had the manners of girl. The
trouble with the patient an inability to
retain secretions of the kidneys. DIR. w. II.
Pancoast made an examination and discovered
two exceedingly interesting facts: First, that
his subject was not, as the parents had always
supposed, girl, but boy, and that he had
been born minus bladder. Or. Pancoast
explained all this 10 the class before which
the operation was performed, and then
proceeded to supply an artificial bladder, q
surgical feat first accomplished by DIR. Pam
coasts father many years ago and now not an
uncommon operation. The parents of the sup
posed girl, now transformed into n handsome
BOY, at first refused TO credit the facts related
by the doctor aud would not keep the subject in
boys attire, dressed in which the professor had
returned him to them. A further operation
was made at the request of the parents. This
was done last week and 80 fully developed other
organs that doubt was no longer possible. Now.
I'm addition to this metamorphosis, the lad has
been given boys name in exchange for the fe-
male one with which he was christened. Prof
Pancoast has recently also had another case of
somewhat the same nature, although not quite
SO interesting, the subject being a boy of four
years, who had always been supposed to be a
girl. The operation in each case was about the
same and both patients have recovered.
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Some Baltimore Writers.

FTOm the Literary World.
The sou tn has fully its share Of late of women
who support themselves by magazine and
story writing. Mrs. Charles Tieman, author of
the popular Homoselle" in the Round Robin
series, has finished another novel, called "Pro-
pinquity." She is a native of Richmond, Va,
has lived in Baltimore since the war, and has
written stories for Harper's' and the "Cen-
tury." Another Baltimore writer is Miss K NJ.
Roland, who has worked for nearly all the
southern magazines and for "Harper's." hrs.
Angela Crppen Davis, of Louisville, has been
writing southern character sketches for ten
years, and her work is much admired in the
south: She used to lecture, and now she has
realistic novel ready. James X. Randall, who
wrote Maryland, My Maryland" subsidized
into newspaper work at Atlanta, Ga, after his
one successful song, and has not since attempt
ed literature. He is now a Washington CORE
spondent, and has daughter named Maryland
after his song
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The Man Who Lived to be q Hundred
Because He Wanted to

Because He Wanted to
From the Saturday Review.
Cornaros regimen-which consisted Of eggs,
soup, bread, pancakes, and such like food, with
wine-was, as he tells us, intended for himself
alone. All people should live temporarily, but
the temperance of one man Is the excess Of
another. Cornaro's method is the simple one
that each man should find out for himself what
is the suitable quantity of food and drink for
himself and then live accordingly. The charm Of
Cornaro's narrative consists in the garrulous
naivete with which he sets forth his simple creed
three great evils-first, from flattery and cere-
monies; secondly, from the effect OF the
human life, have destroyed respectively social
sincerity; secondly, the religion Of the soul;
plaques he leaves to be dealt with by some
"gentili Spirit" who will Danish them from the
world; the third he undertakes to extirpate
himself, being convinced that Italy before his
death will return to her former "fair and holy
manners To this end he gives his own prac-
aim and spirit. His daily allowance of food was
three rolls the yelk of an egg, with meat and
soup, the whole weighing y ounces; his daily
occasion, after he had slightly increased the
quantities, he became in a few days "choleric
and melancholy" and soon fell into violent
to his former regimen. He never ate or drank to
the extent of his appetite; avoided extremes of
sleep. To keep clear of grief melancholy, hatred,
and other perturbations of the mind was also an
essential part of his system, though temperance
In eating and drinking will do much to counter
act mental troubles well as to nuetralize the
effects of bodily hardships. Once when powerful
enemies brought a suit against him he kept his
equanimity, and won his case in the end, while
his brother, who had led an irregular life, died
of anxiety while the case was still going on. If
men were but temperate as he was himself they
would live to be a hundred years old. He him.
self intended to do so, to die at last, not of
disease, but Of "pura resOfuZiOne." If he had had
good constitution to start with he would
reach 12O years instead of only 100. He did,
in fact, die very nearly at the age of 100, If he
did not surpass it, He is sure that, having on
earth led a life pleasing to God, he will by His
mercy enjoy the heavenly life after death.
Until he adopted the temperate life he never
ate "fanno brutto il monde" Even the deaths
OF relations and friends troubled him little, so
calm and equable had his temper become.
These and other doctrines to the same effect he
published in his first treatise, written when he
was at the age Of S3; three years later he
followed it up by a second, the "Compendio
della Vita Sobria;" five years later still he pub
lished third; and, finally, at the age of 95, he
brought, out his Lowing Exhortation,'' urging
his readers to do as he had done, and to enjoy
the happiness he had found. Not a little of it,
he tells us, was due to the fact that many of
them had followed his advice.
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The Mahdi's Military Resources.


From the London Standard.
The mahdis military resources include
1850 Egyptian regulars, who were originally
taken prisoners or deserted to the mahdis
camp. 1t is not known, even at English head
quarters in the Soudan, how many native
warriors have Joined Mohammed Achmed, but
he possesses ornaments for an almost unlim-
tied number.
Besides the arms and equipments of Hicks
and Baker Pasha's forces, which fell into the
hands of the enemy, the latter has an enor-
nous quantity of provisions and ammunition,
which the Egyptian government had stored In
SEMINAR, KOrdofan and Fachoda.
AS far back as two years ago the Egyptian
authorities at Cairo admitted that the nlahdi
had captured 80 field guns, Is, 900 Remington
rifles, and 5000, 600 cartridges. Since then the
garrisons of Berber, Shendy and Khartoum
have capitulated.
At Khartoum, also, the mahdi found vast
quantity of ammunition and 5000 to 5000
negro troops we'll armed. The rebel army is
also copiously supplied with siege artillery.
Both Sir Charles Wilson's and Lord Charles
BeresfOrd's steamers were fired upon by heavy
riverian batteries. There are large number
Of Turkish and Arab officers with the mahdi.
The black recruits are drilled by fugitives from
Arabs army, and the mahdis artillery is
worked by Turkish Topskis, who are held to be
the best marksmen in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-28
How to Measure Fields.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
During seeding time farmers often wish to
make an accurate estimate OF the amount Of
land in q field. The accompanying table has
been found useful and convenient for the pur.
pose, and may be cut out and preserved for future
reference:
yards wide by 96s long contains an acre.
10 yards wide by asa long contains an acre.
20 yards wide by 242 long contains an acre.
40 yards wide by 121 long contains ON acre.
20 yards wide by 691a long contains an acre.
80 yards wide by 6O12 long contains an acre.
so feet wide by 726 long contains an acre.
ITO feet wide by 397 long contains an acre.
$50 feet wide by 1853 long contains an acre.
22O feet wide by 1913 long contains an acre.
240 feet wide by 1871 long contains an acre.
40 feet wide by 80 long contains an acre.
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Shooting Wild Geese in Maryland
Waters.

The St Michael's Comet, Talbot county, Nd,
says: "Herring Island in Miles river has be-
come quite resort for wild geese and swan.
On Monday last Mr.. Joseph Jefferson and John
Eaton shot into a flock Of nine wild geese and
killed seven. Thursday Messrs. T. Porter and
]. Eaton killed two swan and one wild goose
on the island. One of the swan measured seven
feet one inch from tip to tip Of wing. Capt ].
swan and four wild geese, besides ducks, shoot
ing from sink box In Eastern bay. In shoot
ing geese at night q number are usually
wounded, and get away nom the gunners in the
darkness. They are generally picked MP in q
day or two by some OF the canoemen, who are
generally on the lookout for them. AZ one OF
our tongers was coming home a cold windy day
this week he espied crippled goose ON the hats,
and Immediately steered for it, but his boat
getting away, he jumped overheard tp to his
waist In the chilly waters. On reaching the
object of his desire his disgust may be IMAGINED
when he found that 1t was an old wooden decoy
goose flashing breast up"