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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03
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FOR THE NEXT EIGHT MoNTHs THE MOST
USEFUL OUTsIDE GARMENT A MAN CAN
HAVE Is SPRING OvERCOAT. NOT A
MONTH. HARDLY A WEEK DURING ALL
THIS TIME, BUT 1T WILL BE NEEDED.
IN AN ADVERTISEMENT IT Is IMPOSSIBLE
TO ENUMERATE ALL THE STYLES AND
QUALITIES. BUT WE MAKE SPECIAL MEN.
TON OF SOME NEW STYLES OF CAss1MEREs,
ALLwoOL. DOUBLE ANDTwIsr AT s12; SILK
FACED. $3.50.
FROM THESE UP THROUGH ALL THE
GRADES TO FINE IMPORTED GOODS, LINED
ALL THROUGH WITH PURE SILK. WEAVE
THESE IN VARIOUS CoLoRs, SHADES AND
MIXTURE, AND WE THINK THEY ARE THE
FINEST AND BEST READY-MADE COATS
EVER SHOWN HERE. THEY ARE AS FINE
AND AS GOOD AS ANY CUSTOM" COATS. AND
COST SIS TO $40 LESS
FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN THE COVERT
OR ENGLISH "TOP COAT" Is VERY STYLISH,
WE ARE HAVING A NUMBER OF EXCLUSIVE
STYLES MADE Up. WE CALL SPECIAL AT
TENTIoN TODAY TO OUR LINE OPENED ON
SATURDAY AT $12.5O. WHICH WE FEEL SAFE
IN ASSERTING. ARE THE HANDsoMEsr,AND
MOST GENTEEL COATS EVER SOLD IN WASH
NGToN AT THAT PRICE. LOOK AT THEM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

and will offer them for sale Monday March 1st 1t
prices which must take them of at once
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

The NATIONAL DIME MUSEUM formerly the
Theater Comi9ue, was opened Monday hight
WITH many cur1oSitIes in the lower hail white
In the theater proper a varied and arnusinfs
program OF specially features was given. There
are performances every afternoon and evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

LAST WEEK of the great slaughter sale OF
books at Walter Il. Williams 4 Cos. Bargains
in choice books.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES. - Marriage licenses
have been issued by the clerk OF the court 10
FREDERICK Tyler and Ellen HILL Walter E New
rnau and Elizabeth j. Golden; Vincent DuvaIl
peper, Va, and Frank C. English: ". j. iesman
and Mary =. Good, both of Montgomery
county, Md; John L. Lewis and Ann T. Young.
NJ v. Iinuey and y. \. O'Breen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

63 Per Gallon. CSC. Quart BOTTLE. No.
Rye Whisky, best in the world for the money
Orders by mail. McGee's, 9th, near st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03
SCOTS Emulsion Of Pure
COD LIVER OIL, WITH HYPoPHosPHITES
It's Use in Lung Troubles.

DR.. HIRAM CADoRErro, of Jacksonville, Fla.
says: II have for the last ten months prescribed
your Emulsion to patients suffering from lung
troubles, and they seem to be greatly benefited
by its use" co
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

ART NoTIcE.-The art sale at Scott's Art
Gallery, Willard hail, will be continued this
evening at o'clock, at which time some OF the
best examples in the collection will be offered
Among the most notable we mention the works
OF Thomas Moran and Edward Moran, Deko-
Tar Brussels. Geo. AxMdeld and many Others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

DfSoRDERLY HACKAEN FINFD.-Yesterdax-
afternoon, while the hacks were STANDING in
the neighoorhood OF 9Th street and Virginia
avenue southeast, preparatory TO attending the
funeral OF Mrs Isaac Childs several OF he hacE
men crank freely from bottle OF whisky and
tvoof them who became Observation-Disclosures
Q1lnn ana 6eorse Brennaugh-were arrested
On OF The men fought the officer and tore on
his badge. This morning, in the Police Conrf
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1t Comes Only n Week After Mardf

Restaurants should look to their interest
and buy Oysters CLANS, Crabs, ETC., from n
White d Co., strictly wholesale. No plate or
half-Sheu business on the premises 3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-03

GLCED TO THE GROUND. Moses Foote. a
coiored driver a+Fhe horse bazaar on Louisiana
avenue, was before the Police Cour. TODAY
charged with recklessiy driving "a horse over
.hr- Daniel j. MGlfs.it, VINO live, in South Wash
ington. Mr.. Mofi4tt testified that he attends,
the oaZar saturday and started across the
track, wher- he saw the horse coming at a fast
rate OF speed Il got glued TO the ground" said
the witness. 81 could not stir. / seemed para
iyzed- witness thought the driver should have
turned his horse, buJ he GId not, and witness
was Knocked down. The judge said: THE
driver possibly thought that you would get out
% the way. and did not know you were glued 10
the ground; that was your misfortune The
case Was dismissed.
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NM Won BRAsprs Mop1srE
Formerly with Lord d Taylor, New York:
VIM. Barr & Co. ~. Louis Mo.
Suits made at the shortest notice superior fitting
reasonable prices, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Evening Dresses. Bridal TroSseaus specially.
d12 go 14th St, between and X.
A NTON FISCHER's
IA DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT
AND DYE WORKS,
COG ST.
Thr.y-five Years Experience.
LADIES EVENING DRESSESA SPECIALITY
Gloves perfectly cleaned
Made up all wool Dresses dyed; Specially aGood
Mourning Black
Gents Clothes Dyed, Cleaned and Repaired Neat
and Reasonable. Telephone call-143-2. dI
MISS ANNIE K HUMPHREY
Vl 430 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST
Makes COrsets to oroer in every style and material.
and guarantees perfect at and comfort
HER SPECIALTIES ARE
French Handmade Undertaking, Merno Underweae
and finest imported Hosiery.
Patent Shoulder Braces, and al Dress Reform Goods
French Corsets and Bustles.
Children's Corsets and q 81 Corset miss H.hoWu
make) that for the price Is unsurpassed.
N.R-French. German and Spanish spoken. rnr14
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HHV HWZHF UFeSSm6keF,
| the latest fashion publication, containing 900
styles for ladies and children. Price 20 cents
By mail, 25 cents. At OPPENHEIMER's
52S 9th street northwest
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WHALING GIVES 5000 BoNDs FOR HIS APP
PEARASCE.-Yhe case OF James NJ " haIfno the
man who was arrested last THURSDAY and
Charged in the Police Court with false pre-
lenses. whereby he obtained certain railroad
bonds from Mrs Martha Stanard. as mentioned
IN The STAR, was called for trial in the Police
touft This morning, Prosecuting Attorney
Lavender appearing for the government and
Charles > Moore and y. =. Williams tor the de-
fendant. Counsel tor defendant stated that
they would waive an examination, and the
case was sent To the grand jury. The dcteud-
ant gave bonds il the sum of -, 600 Tor MS APP
pe1-ance.
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PIANOS AND ORGANS.

Il RAKAUER AND C. d PEAsE 4 CO..
IN Pianos Burdett Organs The bestsE
reasonableprice Pianos Rent. tuning rel SfS
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
Cresfs nr americans,

Since a well-known heraldic stationel
and engraver of London has established
o branch in this city the demand for
coats-of-arms, notices, crests, family
pedigrees and genealogical arborculture
has become a fashionable craze among
many who have more money than brains.
Those who have no family worth men,
tioning have suddenly acquired a strong
interest in their ancestry, and wen those
whose forefathers, centuries AFRO, were
proud to belong to the family that recog:
nized ''the lion of the tribe of Judah"
as its national emblem are now seeking
for more modern insignia with which to
decorate their s%ilyerware. In brief, no
bodies are trying to be somebodies, and
large sums Of money are being spent to
crafty uncuItured vanity and Ignorance.
Aided by this imported adjunct to
family distinction the ambitious New
Yorker may have his coat-of-arms fem
blazoned' ON veIlum for as many dollars
as itwould cost him shillings in England.
If he desires a crest he can get it at the
same proportionate figure, but if he
wishes a genealogical tree the expense
is increased by the time required in
searching out another family pedigree of
the same name. Should a motto be
wanted he can choose his own and have
it done into genuine Latin for a small
amount. In any case the once-honored
family Bible, with its record of births,
deaths and marriages, is threatened with
extinction .-New York Commercial.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
4 Ceye, Captr,,e Of Tsteves.

James Andrews was charged with
stealing meat from his master, Mr.. Chap
man, q butcher on the Mile End road,
London. There is nothing extraordinary
in this, but the method of detection was
something new in the way Of thief-catch-
ing. Mr.. Chapman hid himself in a box
and watched the accused, who was hi
assistant. He found that he gave away
large quantities of meat to different par.
ties, who presumably paid him certain
amounts afterwards for doing so. Mr..
Chapman arranged an electric light at
the top of his house, the wire Of which
was connected with the box. Two con-
stables were placed outside and when
ever one Of the thieves came in and wa
served Chapman switched on his electrit
light as the. thief went out the door
The constables in this way captured thief
after thief until somebody gave their &C
eompllce, Andrews, q hint, and when he
tried to escape Chapman blazed N the
full force Of the light and he wa gath.
cred in.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
An Under Water Boat.

A boat has already been invented, and
is actually in existence, which can sink
below the surface of the water at will
and travel many miles entirely out of
sight; and many keen and fertile brains
are at work perfecting the horrible in
vention. Such a vessel, on sighting a
hostile feet o. vessel, would Immediately
dive down and make for her foe unseen,
and absolutely impervious to attack.
Her enemy can not tell where she is, OF
when she may blow her to pieces. She
has absolutely no means Of defense.
Flight is her only esource The difficult
ty the underwater boat has to contend
with is that of seeing through the water.
Even now there are signs of the solution
of the problem, but even if it is not over
come the boat can rise to the surface
when she likes, take a fresh observation
of her enemy's whereabouts, and dive
down again preparatory 10 the final blow.
A few such boats would nc more terrible
to a hostile feet than M whole row of
ironclad forts. They Would be an in
tangible, haunting darBer that would
demoralize the stoutest Nheart.-AN the
Year Round.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
Mud Fishes.

The South American and African mud
fishes live in streams where the water
dries up in the hot season, and were 1t
not for some such provision, they would
soon become extinct. When the water
gives signs of failing, they descend into
the mud, and encasing themselves in
balls lined with soma secretion, patient
ly await the coming of the waters again.
For some months they exist IN thls sash-
ion, Theoretically sealed up, as 1t We're,
and in some cases in Africa they have
been deprived of water for two seasons.
party of travellers once encamped
over such a dried-up pond in Africa, that
gave little evidence of ever having held
water. Soon after a terrific rain-storm
came on, filling the place so that they
were obliged to move to a higher loca-
ton. One of the men returning, how
ever, for some reason, in wading to the
side of the camp, found, to his amaze
ment, thai the water was alive with
fishes. Opinion wa divided as to their
origin; part of the men thought 1T was {
case of spontaneous generation, while the
majority felt positive that they had rain
ed down. The truth was, that the rain
had soaked into the imprisoned mud-hsh-
es, releasing them from their baked cells,
and surrounding them once more with
| water.
The a%ir-bladders of these fishes are di-
vided into compartments, and have all
the requisites of a true lung, and they are
as truly amphibians as the frogs and
| toads.
Other amphibians have different meth.
DDS of withstanding the drought. Thus
the Hassar, when the water begins to
dry up in the pools and streams, does
not encase itself in a mud ball, but leaves
the heated and fast disappearing liquid,
starts overland in search of a better sup
ply.
On the coast of China, and in various
other localities, is found a fish that is so
lively on dry land that it is as difficult to
capture as a frog or toad, leaping along
| the rocks from stone to stone, and where
it is particularly 81 ppery, avoiding Its
human pursuers-Yo nth's Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
As a Mother.
A sudden, piercing wall of pain,

A sudden, piercing wall of pain,
A rush of pattering feet,
In blind, impetuous haste to gain
The mothers solace sweet
A comforter, who stills the cry
With kiss and soothing song,
sYoun feel all better bye and bye,
Hush, dear, twill not ache long"
And soon the magic word and kiss
Distil their healing balm;
The sobbing, frightened outcries cease
The spell has wrought its charm.
The restless darling slips away,
His trouble quickly flown;
But while his voice rings out i'll play,
The mother sits alone.
Her busy needle falls unsought,
AS come, in shadowy train,
Dim messengers, with haunting thought
OF grief, and loss, and pain;
OF anxious hopes too long deferred,
OF gold, proved only dross,
Mysterious depths Of anguish stirred
Lifeas unseen, crushing cross.
The mother bows in grief alone,
With heart no longer strong,
While throbs life's mournful undertone:
."How long, Q Lord, how longN
When 10! the heavens new radiance shed
As falls this blest decree:
"Behold, as thou hast comforted,
: The T ord r,,ilI <.npafnrt thee u
Georgia A. Reck, in Good Housekeeping.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
Perpetuatly "on the Botl.n

Coffee is brought every morning to you
when at a Mexican hotel, while you re-
main in it. It is only to the departing
guest that it is denied. At eight o'clock,
the walters begin to bestir themselves,
bringing trays to every room, as soon as
they are rung for, with cups and saucers,
and all the requisites for coffee. You
can have boiled eggs if you like. Then,
enter Francisco with huge tin pots; sim
Infamous streams of coffee and boiled
milk fill mp the cup with their equal ex-
cellence. Sometimes Francisco comes
from a restaurant a couple of squares
away. but he runs, and the coffee is not
cold.
Very well, so much for boiled milk in
Mexico. Ny party came home by rail,
over the Mexican Central to El Paso,
and then by Atchison and Topeka, and
SO on, back to our little New England.
On the terrors of railway restaurants be-
tween the City of Mexico an our boun-
dary 1 will not here dwell, the strange
food, the bad service, the clumsy boxes
which served as dining rooms. For this
paper / have only to say about these GASES
in the Mexican desert, that there was al
ways excellent coffee, and milk perpet
ually "on the boil" and to be had at Z
moments notice.-Goo Housekeeping.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
Not T.O-night, George.

Darling, / rise to a question OF
privilege" said George, as he left his
seat and approached Miranda's chair.
."Notto-night, George, and she shrunk
back from him.
"Ah, Miranda, do not say those cruel
words. Give me but n kiss!"
"Refect, George-oh, reflect, | would
save you from an awful experience"
Darling, | can not accept your noble
sacrifice. Why not tonight"
"If | yielded, it would drive you from
my side forever. No, George, no." and
the gold in her front teeth glistened, as
she whispered with intense dramatic eff,
feet, Il ate onions tonight at the curfew
hour. n-T3d-bits.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17

Nashville, at that time a vast military
camp, l felt badly enough. I could not
go South, and / could not get a pass to
go North. One night l went to the
theatre. During one of the scenes there
was a buzz, and people stood up to look
at a man in the dress circle just above
my head. Finally l rose, as somebody
said:
ssHc is the most successful guerilla and
spy on the Union side"
Istood up until my face was on a level
with the railing of the dress circle.
1t was a wonder that l didn't faint!
Looking calmly, mockingly, into my
| eyes was the handsomest man | ever saw.
He was dressed in a glittering uniform,
and wore diamonds. That clear cut,
dark face, those burning eyes, the slight
scar under the left ear-there could be
no mistake.
Iseizcd my overcoat and rushed out of
the door just in time to hear the alleged
Senorita Lopez say in a voice like a
bugle:
s'Arrest that man."
A wave of darkness came over me.
An officer caught me by the arm. felt
that | was lost. If the senorita was not
only a man, but an enemy, I had no mer-
cy to hope for.
There was a sudden tumult, a wild cry
of fire, and then q crowd surgcd down
the stairway. When l picked myself up
the officer who had arrested me lay on
the sidewalk with a fractured skull. |
limped quietly away, and took the out
going train for Louisville. | had no
passport and trusted to luck.
"Passes, gentlemen" shouted a sleepy
lieutenant, as he passed through the car.
I kept my head bowed down, with my
hat over my eyes.
'see here, show your pass" said the
officer.
A gruff man behind me spoke up and
said:
"You don't want to see it twice. He
showed it to you a minute ago"
"Beg pardon" said the soldier, slight
ly confused. He w,nt on, and l was
safe at last.
I have never seen the s~eenorita since,
and / have no desire ever to meet her, or
rather him, again. He would have had
me shot as a spy beyond a doubt if it had
not been for my lucky escape at the
theatre.-Atiaata (Ga.) Constitution.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
OBDOrfuuitiPS in M3.ricc.

For men with small capitals for invest
ment in lands Mexico is not the country,
writes a correspondent of the Boston
Herald. For some time to come syndi
Gates and large capitalists will continue
to purchase big tracts, and agriculture
will be carried on in that way. Not un
til some time will small tracts be availa
BILE. There is a field here always former
with useful specialties. First-class me.
chanics who can afford a trip here tc
look over the ground might well come,
and people with odd knacks which are
worth money. For example a young
Portuguese came here recently on a ven.
ture. His only art was a rare ability tc
paint on silk. This seemed a mighty
poor capital to invest here, but he got an
introduction into wealthy families, and
has now a good income from teaching
the senoritas his novel and beautiful art.
The Mexicans love decoration and the
decorative art. Some young people are
doing well here as tutors of English in
rich families, for English is Il fashionable
rage, and the senoritas like to be able tc
say a few charming things in the Ian.
guage of shakespeare. 1t is quite the
elegant thing to be able to say good by"
and chow do you do?" in English, and
the zeal with which some Young Mexican
ladies pursue English is worthy of the
Boston girls craze on German.
Cafe keeping here is profitable; and,
asRwe have an American barber shop and
American bar-rooms, it seems quite feast
BILE to make money out of an American
cafe, where one could get buckwheat
cakes, pumpkin pie good pumpkins
grow here), tish-balIs and other Yankee
dishes. An elderly Englishman here has
made money out of a regular Johnny Bull
eating house, where one can get roast
beef and plum pudding and ale ad lib.
The French have their cafe, with their
own cooking, but the American tourist
finds little that is familiar to him here.
A genuine American restaurant, run by a
live and energetic man, would pay well.
The growing taste for American light
carriages suggests the idea that an Amer
lean livery stable would be a profitable
venture. Rent noed not be high and la
Dor would be very cheap, and l think
that the youth of Mexico would patron
ize literally a good stable where fine
teams for display. on the Paseo could be
had. There are not many good carriage
roads here, but there is an opportunity to
rent out phaetons, buggies, etc. 1t
would be a decided novelty here. And
why not a livery stable as we'll as the
present roller skating rink, where the
juenesse doree of Mexico go to bark their
shins and crack their crowns. The de-
spised roller skating rink is succeeding
here, and down in Vera Cruz they regard
their rink as a most delightfully."- fashion
able place of entertainment.
Another American novelty which is
paying handsomely here is the circus, per,
manently established near where the in
QUESTION used to bother people with lit.
tie iron arrangements for extracting in.
formation.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17

Last year the Signal and Weather Blu
reau announced that special weather pre-
dictions would be telegraphed to any
place, provided the residents thereof
would provide a set of flag signals and
make arrangements to notify the neigh
borhood with them Of the predicted
changes in the weather. The people of
q large number of towns aud villages, es-
p~ecially on the sea and lake coasts. act
ing upon the suggestion, bought the
necessary flags and made the necessary
arrangements. Recently the Second Con-
troller decided that no kilograms could
be paid for out of appropriations for the
observation and report of storms Except
for reports at stations" Under this de.
cision the Signal and Weather Bureau
has discontinued the special kilograms tc
particular places, combining its announce.
ments to the regular general bulletins.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17
Teaching Deaf Mutes TO Speak.

Deaf mutes may be taught to speak
and to understand a~rticulate speech by
merely watching the motion Of the vocal
organs. This method is by no mean
novel. as it has long been practiced in
some of the schools of Europe, ana the
earliest attempts to teach the deaf and
dumb to speak appear to have been as
successful as those in modern times. 1t
is recorded in history that a deaf man
was taught to pronounce words and SEN
fences by an English Bishop in the year
685, and from that time isolated cases of
the same sort are mentioned till the Inter
part of the eighteenth century, when a
school for teaching of articulate speech
to mutes was started in Germany. The
method of this teaching is very simple.
It consists merely in training the pupil,
by initiating the position and action of the
vocal organs of the teacher, to utter artic-
ulate sounds. This, it is found, is not a
very difficult task for the pupil, but it is
extremely tedious, requiring long and
unintermitting practice, and the greatest
patience on the part of the teacher. In
Germany this art of lip-teaching has been
much more successful than it has ever
been in England or America, perhaps be-
cause the German language is more adapt
ed than the English to acquired speech
on this plan. It seems to be generally
admitted, however, by all schools that
have tiled this method of instruction,
that though it is often highly successful
in special cases by the help of much in
dividual teaching, it cannot be used to
any effect in large institutions where class
instruction is absolutely necessary. An
other system, however, has been intro
duced of late years into English and
| American schools. It is called visible
speech, and was invented by A. Melville
Bell, a professor of vocal physiology in
England, about 1848. It consists Of q
species of phonetic writing, based not
upon sounds but upon the action of the
vocal organs in producing them. The
characters Of this universal alphabet re-
veal to the eye the position of these or
gans in the formation Of any sound which
the human mouth can utter. In 1859
this alphabet was first applied in Eng
land to the instruction of deaf mutes
and in 1879 il was introduced by PROBES
sor Abraham Bell, the son Of the invent
or, into the Clark Institution at North
ampton, Massachusetts, where it is now
the only system Of articulation teaching
used. Professor Bell 500 after opened a
school for instructing teachers IN this syys-
tenn in Boston, which, we think, is still
| carried on.-Inter-O Ocean.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-04-17

The National Museum has recently
placed on exhibition a collection Of rel
les possessed of more than ordinary in
tcrest. 1t includes the original draft OF
the Declaration of Independence drawn
up at Philadelphia July 8, 1776. The
signature Of John Hancock, President OF
The Continental Congress, is attached to
a document giving Washington full com.
mand of the troops, with all the powert
of commanding general, Dec. "a, 1776.
Another revolutionary document is one
signed by Washington himself in 1888,
giving a private his honorable dismissal
from the army.