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Evening star., 1886-10-18
THE MASSACHUsErrS AVENUE EX.
TENSION.
The Project to be Carried Through
Benefits to be Assessed Against Prop.

Commissioner Wheatley, speaking to-day of
the proposed Massachusetts avenue extension,
said that the Commissioners proposed to put it
through beyond doubt, and not permit the
objection OF any individual property owner to
prevent an Improvement of such general i'm
portance The only property owners on the
line OF the proposed extension who had not
consented to the project he said, were the
Lovett heirs, who own the kalorama
property, and Evan Lyons. In the
case of Mr.. Lyons, who owns a
small strip OF ground affected by the proposed
extension, the Commissioners had received no
word from him whatever as to whether he
would consent or object. The Commissioners
do not think there VIII be any embarrassment
In the way OF purchasing the property by con-
demnation, because there is no appropriation
for the purpose. The law authorizing con-
demnations Tor county road purposes and pre-
scribing the method of empaneling jury and
recording the verdict directs that .in making
their decision the jury shall take in 10 consider
alton the benefit such road may be to each
owner by increasing the value of his land
accordinyiy. This ss is section ion :as asi Revised
statutes for the District. The jury, as Mr..
against the District, and benefits against the
property-owner. THE benefits said Mr. Wheat
ley, with twinkle in his eye, might more
than balance the damages"
All OF the Commissioners favor the proposed
extension as great improvement. ''There is
another important avenue" said Mr.. Wheatley,
and that is Connecticut avenue You can see
on the map what a beautiful country 1t would
open If continued, not, perhaps, in its present
line, but turning east towards the Columbia
road and extended over TO Woodiey lane. We
nave not money enough this year, however, to
DO that" For the 18TH street extension, which
Is about to be made, the property owners along
the route have decided the ground TO the Dis
trict.
Bids were opened at the Commissioners Office
this afternoon for improving the proposed eX-
tension of Massachusetts avenue from 22d
street to Rock creek. The length of road TO be
improved in this section is $500 ieet. 1t is
timated that there are SO, SOO cubic yards of
ordinary excavation, 800 of rock excavation
and 200 for culverts. The roadbed will be
thirty-two feet in embankIHent aud fifty feet in
excavation.
THE BIDDERS ON THE WORK
were H. L. Atchison, G. Peterson, ]. L. Lyons,
NJ. Shea and Andrew Gleason. The bids
ranged for excavation from 16s4 cents per yard,
by Andrew Gleason, TO 23 cents,by III. l.. Atchi-
son; tor rock excavation, from 80 cents, by
Atchison, 10 $500 by NJ. Shea; ior excavation
for culverts, tr.iin II cents, 10y j. h. Lyons, to
$l.2O, by Andrew Gleason; for concrete
masonry, from So by Andrew Gleason, 10
$500. by Atchison; tor brick masonry, from
30. by NJ. Shea, to S12, by u. Peterson; for H.
lnch pipe, from IL cents, 10y u. Peterson, to 80
cents, by NJ. Shea, and tor trap paving. from 75
cents, by j. +. Lyons, to Sl.5O, by NJ. shea.
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V,NIGHTH ANNIVEKsARY AND RECEPTION.
IL ERiEN LSHIP LODGE, No .. LON,
at NATIONAL RIFLES ARMOkY,
FRIDAY EYE MING. Oct % 1856
III usc by Third Artillery Band omega Uniformed
Legion and Drum Corps. ana Eureka Lodge. No 5. of
baltimore. Will be received At Il q o. depot. and
escorted TO Armory.
Doors open at !. In Dancing nm. ricket ad-
Inltting gentieinan aud ladies, oVc. Oci5-7t
1DIIVATE DANCING Lessons TAUGHT BY A
by s:mp.ined method Address Miss A. C. star
Office. oci-:,,xS
A ,APITAL CYCLI. Co. lio6 NEW YORK AVE
~ Iricyeies, Tandem and -ociabies for rent by the
hour day week, or month Tricyeles $40 per month
Ladies' - cents each hour seosA I'm
v)ANORAMA Or BATTLE OF BULL run
II 18th 81, Two blocks soath OF PENNSYLVANIA AVA
ne most Realistic Battle scene painted
Lighted at night by $40 eject Iic lights
Open from am to 10 pm.
AitI3isslOD. 30 Children under ras-.
eehtS oh Suhoays h3ii psse je24
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Gals Branch 1922 l4th 81 iiw. Mrs LUCY 1.
HUNTER and MTA h l. RICHARDS seos
% bisrKIr TE sIrssME ~ aSiEs2. SoufT Nc Of IT TnE
THE UNITED STATES
In the mat OF tn condemnation Of land for Con-
gressionai Library-Distrlct Court No s33 Doc. /.
Upon consideration Of the petition of Kebecca A.
Blaine and Josephine u. Hicks filed herein Claiming
the sum OF fourteen thousand nine hundred and nIue
tile jury herein the value Of parcels g. f. s. and g.
In square I II Ia by the Court this 9th day of Octo-
ber SS6. ON motion OF A. Lambert proctor for The
petitioners. ordered that the unknown heirs Of John
Shu and all persons claiming adversely to the said
Eebecca A. Blaine and Josephine H. Hicks. show cause
prayer OF the said petilioners pra, ing that the sum
aoresaid be awarded to them. should not be granted
Provided copy Of this order be published every day
tober In some newspaper printed aud published in
the District OF CoiumD.a
ByMA. CLANCY. Asst. CLERK. oss-io:
fl-xr<s POOLE q BROOK 4, 037 LOUISIANA
lA1 ave. n.w., Offer 10 the trade ind families the
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EXCURSIONS, PICNICS. ETC

EACUhSIONS PICN1CS, ETC.
IYG FUR GREAT FALLS AND CABIN JoIN
l. BklDG E--SIeain Packet ENCkI~IOk viii
sasikc her regular trip To tTeat FaliS on st ND,Y
WEDNEs>D4,N aud FRI DA Y. at $50 clock from her
whaIt High D.. and Canal. tieoT siown- Boat can te
chartered Apply to the Captain oc.r.,ws
AUAkSHALL HALL
Steamer W. W. CORCORAN
Wiz make daily excursions Marshall Tiar ana
GlymOnt leavIg at 10 In, arriving al Washington
st 4 pm The Old Manor House at Marshall liaIi
fitted up with elegant reception TOR ladies and
gentlemen, and meals eSi a la Frut milk
Ee. ice cream and lunch supplied excursioaslx
Pare tor TOuDdirip - cents
On Sundays the Boat make two tYir,s sfs-.
Shall IiaII !eaNllg n lC and 80 p.nn returning
81 al4c . T. IA Pare Round trip .s5c.
Steamer '-M. W Ctjl;tUHAN, anon
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13S 18th st. n.
REAL ESTATE, LOAN AND INSURANCE.
BROKERS'.
Property bought sold and exchanged. Particular
attehlOn given to the renting houses and collection
OF T*uis. Loans negotiated. Investments Carefully
made insurance placed in responsible compan MES
References:
w. W. CORCORAN. RIGGS & CO. oc7.lm
Evening star., 1886-10-18

pANJO BANJO. BANJO..
ID Quickly and cOrrecily Taught, by simple method.
IL ore quarter. only 81. 1 guarantee The most
musical person to play perfect each and every
lesson or charge. Parlors open from Until 10
oEoRtiE- DRAEG Err, III u
All communications promptly answered oclS-Zt*
Evening star., 1886-10-18

DINE fis MISEuM s;Ils,r po.0,, =. o.. poon,.
Every Afternoon and Night this week
The t'reat Boston Theater success
CUNDEAINED To DEATH,
with the same three great stars in the cast:
ANNIE LOUISE ANES.
r. J. DILLON and CHAS. kENT,
great play fall of thrilling interest
a dollar performance for a dime.
seats reserved ior any performance during the week
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PeriIs of the City Baby.

The question arises, What is it in
cities that is So hostile to infant life?
The subject is complex one, and in
its analysis we must consider the vary
ing conditions surrounding the differ
ent classes Distinctions of rank are as
definitely marked among infants as
among adults. There is none of the
democracy which obtains in the coun-
try. We have the infant of aristocracy,
the infant of the middle classes, the in
FAINT of the poor, the infant dependent
upon charity. Each of these inherits an
environment peculiar to itself; its house,
its nursery and sleeping apartment, its
nurses and attendants, who solve the
problems of its food and raiment.
Take the matter of inheritance, not of
money or lands, but of constitution.
The extreme classes found in the city
and not in the. country, the very wealthy
and the very poor, are likely to bestow
ON their offspring latent tendency to
disease. The ultra-fashionable mother,
the self-indulgent father, hand down to
their children overwrought nervous sys-
TENS and weak physical powers, which
result in early death. or more often
life of protracted feebleness. In the
lowest classes the untoward effects upon
the children of poverty, intemperance,
and moral obliquity are incalculable.
The city infants belonging to the middle
classes often suffer because of the strug-
gle of their parents to maintain a foot
hold in society. and to mount the steps
in social life which will bring them to
distinction. 1t would be a long discus
sion to enter into all the questions of
heredity which influence to fate of
child. They are vital questions, how
ever, which require the utmost delicacy
in handling, but which are of tran
scending Importance to the individual
and to the race. Very little of the COM
mon sense which prevails in preserving
and rearing choice stock exists in rela-
ton to the human animal. If by chance
the infant is well-born-that is, has the
germ of constitution which will un-
fold untainted by scrofula or epilepsy,
or any other foul disease which will rob
it of a healthy mental and physical
development as life unrolls before it
such inheritance is unequaled. DR.. Ire
land has shown the effects of heredity
as seen in tracing through three hun
dred and fifty years the health history
of the house of Spain. The children,
though born to kingdom and crown,
were cursed with an hereditary ner-
vous taint which sometimes passed
over a generation only to appear again
in various forms and intensities as epi-
lepsy, hypochondria,m melancholia, mania
and imbecility, till at length it extin-
griished the direct royal line.-Grace
Peckbana. IN Popular Science Monthly
for March.
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After-Dinner Poems.

Not much, perhaps. is to be antici-
pated from an after-dinner poem. Its
office is very nearly the same as that of
the bouquets and garlands which adorn
festival These are expected to look
bright and smell sweet for few hours,
and then to drop to pieces and be
swept away with the other litter of the
banquet. A great deal of very cheap
and trivial verse is produced for such
occasions, and hae done it's duty wefl
enough If it has made its ten or fifteen
minutes pass pleasantly. Sometimes it
will bear showing up in the newspaper
of the next morning, but if it is to be
read in cold blood 1t must have some
thing workmanlike in its construction.
A few easily taken puns, new or old, a
few local illusions, patriotic senti-
ment, a little judicious fattery of the
company, will do well enough, if put
together with a very moderate amount
OF skill. to keep in good humor an audi
ence already in the tranquil stage of
digestion and the amiably receptive con-
dition which goes with it.
But there is no reason why one should
not write the verses which are to be re-
cited or sung after a feast, or for any
other occasional object. just as well as
if they were suggested by daisy, or a
mouse, or q bed of daffodils, or the read
ing of Chapman's Homer, or stumbling
over broken statue, as Burns, Words
worth. Shelley, Keats, have done. The
accidental cause is not the main thing;
it is the imaginative, or fanciful, or
witty treatment of it which we care for.
-OliUer Wendell Holmes, in March At
lantic
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Modern ROmanticism.

A marked feature of modern romantics
ism Is love OF the past, that passionate
regret for by-gone fashions which
prompts the attempt to patch the new
garment of to-day with the old cloth of
former wear. The feeling which, early
in this- is-aas1fr,v5-,-f fe<,.ad- as,sisss;e-.-in
medieval lore, and loved to present the
old chivalrics in novel and song, is the
same which inspires the practical an
achronisms of recent time, which in En-
gland seeks to reproduce the old ecclesi--
astical sanctities, which astonishes
American cities with mimicry of
Gothic architecture; the same which
forty years ago restored the long-disused
beard, which now ransacks secondhand
furniture stores and remote farmhouses
for claw-footed tables and brass-handled
bureaus, which drags from the lumber
room the obsolete spinning-wheel, which
rejoices in many-eornered dwelling
houses with diminutive window panes-i
the more unshapely the better, because
the more picturesque. A mania, inno-
cent enough in these manifestations, but
in its essence identical with that which
inspired the knight of La Mancha, the
typical example for all generations of
romanticism gone wild.
1t would be unjust, however, to main
tain that the reaching back after old
things is the sum of romanticism, as if
what we so name were mere conserva-
tism or reactionism. This worship of
the past is only an accidental manifesto
ton of q principle whose most compre-
hensive term is aspiration; a noble dis
content and disdain of the present,
which, in the absence of creative genius,
of power to originate new forms, seeks
relief in the past from the weary COM
monplace of the day.
The essence of romanticism is aspira-
ton. Whether it look backward or for
ward, there is in it spirit of adventures:
as much of it in the crusaders who
sought a sepulchre in the east as in the
Spanish navigators who sought an FL
dorado in the west; as much in the arc
tic explorers who would force a way
through eternal frost as in the Knights
of the Holy Grail; as much in the nine
teenth century as in the twelfth, in Carl
baldi and Gordon as in Godfrey and
Tancred.
The romantic schools of German and
English literature were transient phases
already outgrown, but the principle of
romanticism in literature is immortal.
it is the spirit asserting itself through
the form. Classicism gives us perfec-
ton of form, romanticism fullness of
spirit. Both are essential, seldom found
united, but both must combine to con-
stitute masterpiece of literary art
Frederick Henry Hedge in March At,
lQntic
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Ignition of Wood by Steam.

The Scientific american has opened
its columns to a discussion about the ig-
milton of wood by steam or steam-pipea
which seems likely to be very useful. In
a recent number one of the many people
who do not believe that wood can be
set on fire by any steam not superheated,
writes to ask why the wooden tagging
which is placed around locomotive boil
ers, and then covered with a sheet-iron
Jacket" does not take fire. Although
locomotive boilers usually contain steam
at pressure of more than one hundred
and twenty pounds to the square inch,
the laggings rarely show any signs of
charring. even after years of use. If the
seams of the sheet-iron jacket get loose,
as sometimes happens, sparks from the
smokestack may get in and set the lag
gings on fire, and such accidents have
sometimes occurred from the water get
ting low in the boiler, so as to expose
the crown-sheet to the action of the fire,
but there is no instance of any scorching,
the writer thinks, from boilers in their
ordinary condition. As thousands Of
locomotive engineers and master me-
chanics must know something of this
matter. it is to be hoped that more COM
munications may follow on the sub
iect
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Completely Crushed.

A Frankfort gentleman was called to
Washington on business that kept him
there for a week or two, during which
he stopped at one of the best hotels and
mingled in the best society. His friends
observed on his return a marked change
in his bearing, the greater particularly
in his dress. the higher polish of his silk
hat and boots, and other evidences of
his better keep while on his visit to the
capital city. A change was also noticed
by his family in his more fastidious hat
ting, etc. The next day at dinner, upon
being asked if he would take soup,
lingering his eyeglasses as if he were
about to read a bill of fare, he in
quired:
is it St. Julien or Mulligatawney?"
Its bean soup, sir, and plenty good
enough for you at that, SIR" was the re-
sponse from the other end of the table.
Since then he has resumed his home
airs and is metaphorically roosting
Overwhelmingly YeO1nan.
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swindlers as BibIe-Distributors.

The ubiquitous swindler has evolved
q new plan by which to swindle the
honest farmer. A chap in clerical broad
cloth and white choker enters farm
house and asks for lodging or dinner,
as the case may be. During his stay he
announces himself to be a travelling
Bible-distributor in the service of re-
ligious institution, and he generally goes
so far as to present to the family hand
some Bible from well-filled valise. He
is careful to say that his society requires
its distributing members TO pay their
own way, and exhibits vouchers there
for. After partaking of the good folks
hospitality he prepares to leave, and
asks for his bin. He is generally told
no charge is made, but he calls atten-i
ton to 1.-THE rules" and insists on pay,
ing % cents per meal Then he mildly
requires a receipt on his blank form, ''a
voucher. You know" and he gets the
farmer to sign it In ninety days there
is a notice from a neighboring bank to
the pious farmer to call and pay the
note for S126.20 which it bought and
which bears the farmers signature
Madison Wis Journal.
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sunset Cox at the plow.

In a private letter to the editor of the
Syracuse Courier Mr.. 8. S. Cox relates
in his characteristic style his experience
at plowing in Turkey: 'Mrs. Cox
drove me out mean a coachman did
upon the grand hills and into the
superb valleys that suburb this CITY,
There are, be it known. fine farms and
gardens plenty upon these hills. From
them one may overlook Asia and almost
Africa Well, we saw a man, q full
breasted, well-turbaned Turk, with a
goad and sash of endless length, driving
two noble oxen--descendants of the OK
which forded here with Europa many
centuries ago; worthy to be sacrificed
to Jove. who had retired behind Olym-
pus seventy miles away-when I took
the plow-handle! There was only one
handle. Ceres smiled seriouslyi'
haw'd and gee'd the oxen, but they did
not understand the lingo of Ohio cattle
Box and Cox is an old farce. but OK and
Cox-well, brought out of that field
more mud than Cincinnatus did when
he left. the only share he took stock in,
and made Rome howl for him as a
patriot and q Cult Ny shoeblack
charged me five piastres extra for the
sod l did not turn up, except on my
boots! And this from the farmers
friend, just from the seiatic court, and
in view of an Asciatic, who regarded
my effort with earthly gravity, Serieuse-
ment, there are splendid drives about
here. Indeed, some say the Turks them
selves will have drive! The war
seems imminent-1st March. The
armistice lasts till then. The Serbs are
mad cause they were licked; the Rus
slams mad because they did not help the
Prince lick them; and the Turk looks
on and says: 'Kismetr He will have
to leave some time"
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The Snow Flower of the Sierra.

Upon the affairs of the upper air
The heights whereon no other hower-shape
grows,
A glorious fairy plant of crimson hue
Blossoms amid dreary waste of SHOWS.
On those eternal peaks where winter reigns
And cold and frosts their icy splendors shed,
Like drops of blood on pallid banks of snow,
This hyacinthe blossom lifts its head.
A pyramid of tiny tongues of flame
Darting from out the riffs of dazzling white
strange, bright phantom born Of ice and
fire,
Flushing pale wastes with CLEANS of Grim
son light.
Plucked from its frozen bed, the wondrous
flower,
Which blossoms alone upon the heights sub
lime,
will weep its life away in icy tears
Ere it can reach a softer, SUMMER cline.
'Tis said that when holy man of old.
Bearing the cross on sacred mission bent,
Beheld upon the mountains snowy crest
This blood-red hower-his pious fancy lent.
A charm miraculous, and kneeling there
In alteration, on the mountain side,
With heavenward gaze, and hands appraised in
prayer:
"Sangre de Cristo'-blood of Christine
criedl
Sarah ]. Pettinos in San Francisco Bulletin.
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heard his girls play upon the instru-
ment, he enjoyed himself so much that
he entirely forgot all about his club,
wine and cigars.
And on the evening of the concert
when his little Mary took the prize, and
he was complimented on her beauty
and talent, there was not in all that
great city happier man than our once
injured MIR. Brown. On his way home
he said to his wife:
'Jane! am very thankful for one
thing"
And what is that, dearP" asked his
wife, suspecting, but not willing to un-
derstand.
''Why, bless my heart, woman! Can't
you guess? 1t Is that bought our girls
that piano"
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Paper is about to monopolize another
branch of industry, which is no less a
one than the making of gentlemen's s
head gear. By new process of man
ipulation, hats more serviceable and
finer than anything now in the market
are made of wood pulp. They are i'm
pervious to water and not wanting in
hexibility. 1t is believed that felt hats
will have to take a back seat as soon as
these new hats can be placed on the
market in sufficient numbers to supply
the demand. They are certain to reVO-
lutionize the hatters' trade, as they can
be nodded into any shape or style de-
sired, and colored to meet the taste of
the public. They can be made to repre-
sent glossy or nappy appearance.
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The Queen has received a present.
from the United States of quarto vol
ume, bound in sealskin, with Innings of
damask satin, and hand-painted ins
scription. The work is regarded as {.
triumph of American book binding, and
copies have been presented to the Ger
man Emperor, and to the Emperor of
Russia. The Queens copy has been
placed in the library at Windsor Castle.
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missioner declares that this was by no
means an exceptional case, but says that
similar sights are to be seen every day
In hundreds of tenement-houses in New
York. The want, misery, and degrada-
ton of these women are reported to be,
utterly beyond description-and almost
beyond conception Chicago Times.
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OF Mr.. Briggs, who was member of
the last parliament, but was not re-
elected, it is told that his one great
speech was made in opposition to the
Napoleon memorial in Westminster
Abbey. He came in that night in full
evening dress, and waxed eloquent oyer
his subject lis there not" he de-
manded, ''some eminent Englishman
who might more fifty take a place in
the national abbeyp' Whereupon
"Briggs! Briggs roared the house
with one voice, and the speech was
ended. )
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Mrs. Harris of Dubuque believes thor
oughly in dreams A handsome span
of horses, buggy and harness were to be
disposed of by lottery, and she dreamed
that ticket No rs drew the team. The
next day she bought ticket No. rs, and
when the lottery was drawn her dream
came true,
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Business Cards.

j. lei. DUSSELL,
"a English and German. Office over FIAth's
Cl0ehing Store, Phenix Block, Ravenna,
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s1perior facilities for making collections in
sN uarts of the United States. Ofice over
Eir6t National Bank. Garrettsville, Ohio.
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Cd. UNGEIL.
\. W. MAXSON.

A TTORNEK AT Law and Notary
~ Public. Ofdce In over Mrs. Smiths Milli-
err etores Mantaa Station. Ohio. b4a-tf.