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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-20

" NJ. c. A LECTURE COURSE
THE HUNGARIAN Gypsy BAND
VIII Give
GRAND FAREWELL CONCERT
AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
| SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH "a, AT 8
O'CLOCK.
The success of these artists the leading cities Of
the north and west assure entertainment of
excellence and merit Tickets sale AT Ellis Music
store Reserved Seats, 75c General admission. DOC.
RoTHERMELs WONDERFUL sEANCEs IN
tn TUESDAY, at D. Also SATURDAY NOON at
SIS 11th st. mh2O6ts
nIME MUSEUM.
GRAND CHANGE OF BILL.
| Rv. IH.UnRsDAI, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY;
| ing Drama of
WIDE AWAKE,
| MN, fnu OF Spenald Speciaities and songs
Nine New Variety Acts A Great Show.
| Next Week-The Great LEONzO BROTHERS and
their Wonderful Trained Dogs. mhlY
= NATIONAL THEATER -
NIGHT Concert by the NIGHT
HUNGARIAN GYPSY BAND.
| - Lower floor. 80 cents.
MARCH No extra charge for secured MARCH
| 81 Dress Circle and Gallery % cents 81
No secured seats First come first served.
Box office for sale of tickets now open. mills
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-20

TAUNTON SILyER-PLATE Cos SALE.-Messrs
Walter Il. Williams * Co., will make closing
sale of silverplated ware, manteI clocks,
trOIzes, etc, this evening, at $50 o'clock, al
their salesrooms, corner OF 10th street and Penn.
syIyania avenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
An Estimate of Matthew Arnold.
rk Commercial Advertiser.

new 1Ork GOmnerClhf huFertiseF.
Matthew Arnold has written to friend here
from the continent. where he is investigating
educational institutions and methods in his ca
pacity of government inspector Of schools, that
he is coming 0ver again in May to spend the
summer socially He takes pains to say that
he will not engage in lecturing tour though
he may, he adds. lecture once in New
York. Boston and Philadelphia. Those
who remember his lectures here, and they have
not probably forgotten their peculiar character.
will not, we are sure be DESTROYS to attend any
more of them. The two he delivered at Chick
erina Hall were very poor. No American OF
any reputation would have had the hardihood to
address such discourses to an intelligent audi
ence anywhere, last of all in the capital
of the country. They were extremely common
place, devoid of a fresh idea or vigorous
thought. And yet many imagined they must be
good though they could not perceive it, because
they came from Matthew Arnold the eminent
apostle of culture. They did Arnold much harm
with those who had been bis admirers; and, IL he
is wise, he will not give us any more lectures,
particularly of that kind. He is vastly over
rated but many who incline to look favorably on
anything and everything English failed to find
it out until face to face with the man. Arnold
should, for the sake of his fame, remain assidu
ousy at home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
A Singular Fact.
National Republican

National Republican.
BY the inexorable logic OK statistics 1t |
proven that an insurance policy Of ample propof
tions, applied to building increases Its cor
bustibility about 200 per cent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
Spring and Summer Wraps.

New York Evening Post.
The nantes for spring and summer wear are
mostly short The prevailing characteristic is
their being considerably shorter at the back than
the front, as illustrated by the still very popular
sBattenberg" model or the yet shorter one
known as the "Contessa.n Materials for these
may be of satin broche, Sicilienne, Lyons satin
or velvet for spring and for summer. The va
riety Of wrap fabrics is almost imitless, the in
voice including new grena9ine fabrics in canvas
patterns frise effects upon silk bunting, velvet
brocaded gauzes, and elegant grenadine brooches,
superlatiye in quality and design, and appalling
in price. Besides these, are nets in all patterns
of Spanish, Venetian, thread, Chantily, Escurial,
Flemish, etc., to match lace edges both black
and white. These are made into jackets to be
worn hot days over skirts of lace, en-
broidered muslin, summer silk, surah, sateen
and foulard. These fit just closely and are
decorated with pleatings of lace alone, set
on in a double and sometimes in triple rows.
They are worn over underwaists cut halflow in
the neck, with short cap sleeves. The shapes of
the graceful spring wraps for elderly ladies are
quite long in front; the sleeves form peplum
point at the upper part of the armsize. The back
is little shorter, and has q deep center seam
carrying it TO the waist A double ruche of
black lace surrounds the threat and is carried
down the sides and around the lower edges of
the fronts where it heads frill lace. the half
loose sleeves trimmed to match. Rich jet drops.
balls aud other pendants are mingled with the
pleatings OF lace, and handsome ornaments of
the same fasten tho wrap down in front
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21

Washington Critic.
During Lent the ladies who occupied theater
boxes and dresses four or Ave sizes too short In
the waist viii put themselves .uader- cover ADA
occupy seats In the parQuetta-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Autumn Planting.

The advantages OF painting deciduous
trees and shrubs during the autumn arr
80 great that we would invite their care
full consideration.
TRANSFORMING makes inevitable the
cutting o, disrnptlon of "a large portion
of the roots. These cannot throw out
new fbres and grow again until the
broken roots become callused. This
process requires sore time, and if it is
not completed before the spring drouth
comes, tt ere is great danger that the
plant will Ell her die or have a struggle
for lite during the heats of the first
summer. If planted late in the autumn
the broken roots will have abundant
time during tie winter to become cal.
fused, and will thus be ready to throw
out fbers in HE spring and to withstand
its dry weather. IMPLANTED early in the
autumn, in October, the broken roots
will not only have time to form ca llus,
but may throw out small fbres which
will permanently establish the tree or
shrub and make it safe against the cold
of the following winter, or the heat and
drouth of the ensuing spring and sum-
mer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Most Excellent.

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Trial Bottles Free at L, r. Kirk S
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Potatoes.
nler.

"Potatoes will be raised, IN the
future. in large tracts more and more, :"
says 7. B. Terry in the Ohio Farmer.
"There are men this year who have
hundreds Of acres. With the smooth.
ing harrow and planter and digger, and
other tools, they can handle such large
fields without any trouble. Particular
" is this true on the mellow soil of the
West Now whether this is wise or
not, it will be done, and the railroads
will move the potatoes to city markets
at low figures. Machinery has enabled
the big farmers of the West to make
wheat almost drug. If it wasn't for
the wine-bnder wheat would bring 81
to-day, Mr. Terry thinks. Look at the
low price. of Timmothy seed. 1t is
raised by the thousands of acres on
some farms, and harvested with binder
and thrashed with huge steam thrash
ers. So tools will work revolution in
potato raising. Unless farmer can
raise enough to afford the tools, his
profit will soon be about the same that
it is on rs cent wheat"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Whe Farm,
FARM MISCELLANY.

Keep see l-corn, squashes, tube rose
bulbs, Gamma roots in warm, dry places.
When the editor of the Garden, Mr.
E. FL. Libby, visited Dr.. JAbez Fisher
vineyari, recently, he specially noticed
the thrift Of the vines, their freedom
from disease aud the high quality OF
the fruit. DR.. Fisher attributes this re
suit largely t" the fact that he now uses
only chemical fertilizers, which supply
all the food Of every sort that the vines
need for the varied wants of stem, leaf
and fruit In the former use of stable
manures, Dr. Fisher found that they
produced srrong vines, with but little
fruit, and that rust aud mlldew Were
common.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Mrs. Slocum's Brahmas.
Continued from last aceeh.l

Continued from last aceeh.)
From Prairie Farmer.
But the rooster question was not so
firmly settled as Mrs Slocum supposed.
The very next day she read poultry
article about the Dangers Of In Breed.
ing" and she Immediately began to fear
that if she bred from rooster that
might possibly be full brother to at
least one Of the pullets, the chicks
would be lame, halt, blind and idiotic.
She worried over the problem a Who'll,
day and night, and then wrote to Squire
Town about it. He replied: "You need
not be afraid that any harm will result
from that mating. The pullets you
bought of me were from different
yard, and not closely related to the
chickens you raised; and there is only
one chance in ten that your rooster aud
the pullet you raised are full brother
and sister. The danger of iu.breeding
is greatly over-estimated.' Mrs. Slo-
cum felt better, and when few days
later she found one Of the common null
lets cuddled down over a wooden nest
egg after the other fowls were on the
roost, she had another one Of her "per-
tec!y happy" etreaks. A movable lath
partition was put up across one end of
the Brahma's house, which made a
room where the sitters would sit undis.
turbed by the other fowls. The nest
was carefully made and the pullet care
fully moved after dark, according to
directions whi,h Mrs. Slocum found in
her poultry paper. At first Jake was a
little inclined to be skeptical about the
success of that experiment, but the pull
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Large Posters

Public Sale Bills
nrinted in handsome styles, and at
short notice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Live Agricultural Newspaper.

Although the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN has been
GREATLY ENLARGED. the terms continue as he.
low when paid strckly in advance ONE Cory
one year. So. SO; Four COPIES, $40, and an
additional copy for the year free to the sender of
the Club; Ten Copies, $40, and additional
copy for the year free to the sender of the Club.
EJ-An NEW Subscribers for 1887, paying in
advance now, WILL RFCEIvR THE PAPER WEEKLY,
from OUR RECEIPT of the remittance, to January
LIST, 1887, WITHOUT CHARGE.
SS-SPEoIMEN COPIES FREE. Address
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ALBANY, NY.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
READ THIS
TWICE.!

In addition to our premiums of music
and "Mikado" cards, we have Just is
sued beautiful panel picture, in colors
IA rs. smile r. production of one Of
the Paris salon paintings for 1884, en-
titled Two Sisters tits perfectGcnl
and well worthy place on the wall
OF any of the patrons of Dobbins Electric
Soap. We have copyrighted it. and it
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than ourselves. The edition is limited
and will be issued gratis to readers of
this paper in the following manner on.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
-A= nEsT OF Tu~
AGRICULTURAL WEEKJIES,

THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN ls the LIE DING JOUR
NAL of American Agriculture. In amount Ind prac-
tcal value Of Contents. in extent and ability of
Correspondence. in quality of paper and style Of
publication. it occupies the FIRST RANK. 1t Is
believed to have superior in either of the three
chief divisions of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-11-19
Farm Crops and Processes,
Horticulture g. Fruit-Crowine,

livestock and Oairyina,
while it also includes all minor departments OF
rural interest. such the Poultry Yard, Entomol-
ogy. Bookkeeping. Greenhouse and Grapery, veter-
iuary Replies. Farm Questions and Answers Fire.
side Reading, Domestic Ecor omy. and summary
of the News of the Week. It's MARKET REPORTS
are unusually complete. and much attention is
paid to the Prospects of the Crops, as throwing
light upon one OF the most important of all ques-
tions-When to Buy and When to Sell 1t is liber
ally Illustrated. and is intended to supply in a
continually increasing degree, and in the best
sense of the term a
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

The steamer Britannia had to put back
to Liverpool Thursday, owing to an acci-
dent to shaft.
Senator Stanford presented petition
from California against the reduction of
the duty on chrome iron.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks left Indian
apolis yesterday for an extended trip TO
California and the Pacific coast.
1t is now thought probable that the pro-
ject of the English Cabinet to buy out the
Irish landlords will be withdrawn.
Sullivan, the slogger, is not popular in
Canada, the newspapers applying to him
such eplthets as international nuisance "
Congress has been petitioned to take i'm
mediate action in the matter of the distri-
button OF the portion of the Geneva award
due to California claimants.
There is the greatest activity in the
British Foreign Office. Gladstone spent
considerable time there yesterday confer
ring with Earl Rosebery, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs.
Alderman Fullgraf was arrested in New
York yesterday morning, on q bench war
rant, on charge of bribery in connection
with the passage of the Broadway Surface
Railroad franchise.
Leading French newspapers take a
gloomy view of the situation in the East
Two French ironclads have been ordered
placed in readiness for immediate dispatch
to the Mediterranean.
1t is reported that Russia has notified the
powers of her intention to occupy Bulgaria
in the event of Prince Alexanderis final re-
fusel TO accept the Governorship OF Rou-
melia for five years only.
A thunderbolt struck East st. Louis
Thursday in the shape of indictments
against nearly all of the prominent city
officials and politicians, charging them
with corruption and criminal acts.
Secretary Whitney says there is no truth
in the public statement that British con-
structors and officers are interested financi-
ally in the construction of the new vessels
to be built for the American navy.
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet
yesterday adopted the first clause of the
Polish bill, placing 100 600 600 marks at the
disposal of the Government for establish
ing German colonies in West Prussia and
Posen.
The richest silver ore. i'll largest bodies
ever discovered in the United States, has
been struck in the Iron Hill mine at Dead
wood, ID. I. Much of it assays 1900
ounces TO the ton A 5-foot breast has been
opened.
The New York Grand Jury has returned
indictments for bribery against Aldermen
Kirk and Pearson. Kirk was released on
S25, 600 bail and Pearson was required to
furnish the same bond, which he is as yet
unable to do.
The bark Praecis, which arrived at Gal
weston Thursday, from Port Natal, Africa
brought thirty-six ostrict:es, imported by
c. j. Sketchley, of Los Angeles, Cal, for
breeding purposes. The birds are very
large, ranging ten feet in hight
a S. counterfeit greenback national
bank-note has been discovered, purporting
to be an issue of the Central National Bank
of Norwalk, Conn. and giving the charter
number of the bank as 404. This bank has
never issued a note of the series of 1882
and its charter number is 2,342.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
The Mexican President and the Killing
of Captain Crawford.
INTEREST.BEARING NOTES.

The list OF the beetles Oh the American
continent numbers 9,490 species.
The tin deposits of New South Wales are
estimated by the Colonial geologists to
cover an area of 5, ,440, 600 acres at least.
The famous cedars of Lebanon are taken
care of by the authorities. There are 397
of them-twenty-one more than in 1910,
and 373 more than in 1878, when they were
counted by the German botanist, Ramvolff.
There is nothing so delightful as the
hearing or the speaking of truth. For this
reason there is no conversation so agreea-
bic as that of the man of integrity, who
hears without any intention to betray, and
speaks without any intention to deceive
[Plato.
The principle OF telescopes was described
by Roger Bacon about 1850, and Leonard
Digges who died about 1878, is said to have
arranged glasses SO that he could see very
distant objects. Calico constructed tele-
scopes IN 1909, and discovered Jupiter's sat
elites in 1910.
G. Q. D. which has become ineorpor-
ated into mercantile phraseology, was in
vented in Boston quarter of century
ago by Henry Damon, who sold many
boots and shoes subject to payment upon
delivery. The express order, collection
on delivery" was then thus abbreviated.
Professor A. Landmark. chief director of
the Norwegian fisheries, asserts that under
favorable conditions salmon NAV some
times jump sixteen feet perpendicular. and
that when the fish's leap is foot or two
short of the hight of a waterfall it often
succeeds in completing the ascent by dex-
ferrous use of the tail.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
LAUNDRY EXPERIENCE.
Pat Doyle's First and Last Wash, and
what Came of it.

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~ w onJo4 o,' ~ "aS So
st1..od 1a',,,dr,, not tha,,,,d II ~
s .eT d iio. a 'lo'.'Iii9 .l iiiiies
oIi IN Sr ailu .aiS 'ii'' ie0 " 'he
0oitdpse " nts hu; praliess h,,s i;4.,o
,o.IS 40, La ,.s ou' Iie'le hiioM Mteuse VI
iaunIerils, .nr nE ln9 youns illan hau Plehty Oh
PI?n aoou. Htan, a,i4 was Ioiliiue1I tlias
oy niiuis eApeileiice9 netp ne couiu oulid
up suou lIaue' AiteI httiils up place
WIN lne necessary appliahces lor turning
q 1u, hLs.-ciass I.s7t Mofh' anu auVertlslhg lor
heip, he sat GOWN IN ms Once 10 await de-
.seioPinehts, niea,iWIiile 9Suflng up the
i immense pfoiits ne would soon pe making
py WashiilS me collars, Guns ana shirts OF
ms hosts OF friends WMie muslng thus
the door was opened by man whose salu-
ta.ioh 2i sood morn sur, be you the man
What advertised 1or help? lett no DOUBT OF
ms ms i,auonailty' Yes, L M the man, sad
,he laundryman, did you ever WORK IN a
iaunur! inaade ana, sur IT'S meseli
tiat Wurreked IN landhry peioore TINS
an fat Doyles S no llar. wen, SAID the
iaundryman, come around tomorrow and
II give you triai. Early the next morn
ing fat was on hand ready ior WORK. Many
oi the launaryman trends; wiShlng 10
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03
MORNING, APRIL 3, 1886

effects but it will not help consnmptive
patients troubled with harrassing coughs.
nor aiiay pain. Thus it seems to be but a
SPECIFIC Tor ordinary insomnia.
1t was stated at the Electrical Convention
IN baltimore that the 10 al investment for
electrical lighting in this country amounts
to $4,000, 600.
Astronomers predict that bright comet
Will be visible just before sunrise during
the latter part of May Il is the comet OF
lSe6' recently discovered BY Professor
Barnard
1t is said that shingles can be made fire.
proof by setting the butts into trough of
water in which half bushel each of lime
ana salt and six pounds Of potash have
been dissolved.
The schools of Austria have been forbid
den using paper ruled in square or diagonal
lines, as such paper has been found to in
Jure the eyesight. In future only paper
PLAIN or ruled straight across will be used.
An interesting field for scientific re.
search has been opened by Professor S. z.
Langley, who has discovered that the heat
radlated from the soil is of an almost totally
dliferent quality from that which comes
from the sun.
IL appears that there are now inhabited
caye-dwellings in Saxony They are dug
IN sandstone hill, have different rooms,
dark and light. as well as chimneys, win
dows and doors, and are said TO be very
dry and habtable
Brown Sequard, the French physiologist.
has demonstrated that for several weeks
after death, or during the persistence of the
rigid condition which Immediately follows
the cessation of life, the muscles of an an
imal undergo slowalternate contractions and
elongations and he reaches the startling
conclusion that the muscles in rigor morris
are not dead, but are still endowed with
vital powers being, however in a certain
chemical condition which is antecedent
and preparatory to final death.
Cork may be put to many uses, but one
OF the most ingenious is to check the recoil
Of guns after discharge. An eminent firm
OF English engineers is making expert
ments with view of bringing the theory
to practical issue. The carriage is in the
form of two pistons, connected with the
gun by two rods. The pistons are filled
with cork and water. and the recoil of the
gun forces the rods back and so compresses
the cork, the water assisting to check the
recoil. The great expanding properties of
the cork in turn force the gun forward.
and so bring it again into the loading posi-
ton
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03

etc, from the counter, he deposited the
whole lot in the washing machine, never
stopping TO mark the goods, for said Pat
Faith an livery man knows his own col
lars, shure, so what's the use of markin'
thin? ?" Thinking it would save time, he
concluded that he would do the whole job
at once, and straightway proceeded to dump
the entire contents of a starch box in with
the goods. To this he added soap enough
for about ten ordinary washings. and fol-
lowed it up with two bottles of bluing. Pats
friend had told him TO use enough acid 10
- fix the color III lhe goods" and this he
did most eficctuaiy by emptying the con-
tents of a jar of acid in the washer He
then started the machine, and, lightning q
pipe, squatted himself in the easiest chair
the place afforded, thinking to himself
how aisy it is to be landhryman." Sew
eral customers came in during the morning
with bundles cf work, and each received
the same answer to their inquiries of
" When will it be done?' for in every in
stance Pat told them they could have the
work the next day, and, untying the bun
dies. proceeded To mix them in with the
rest of the goods i'll the washer. About 3
o'clock p NJ. the proprietor returned and
found Pat in the ACT Of pouring couple of
quarts of vinegar into the machine. When
asked what he was doing that for he ex-
planned: Shure. its souring the goods, |
arm, an be gorra, rOthin' bates vinegar fur
sourness.' The iaundryman, supposing
that Pat understood his business, accepted
the explanation, and asked Pat how long
before the wash would be ready to take out
of the machine. Well, sur, thin clothes
was purity dirty, but [ guess they're clane
be this tonne, and Pat proceeded to open
the machine. The sight that met the eyes
of both Pat and the laundryman was
enough to drive any man crazy. You
couldn't tell Il shirt from a pocket hand
kcrchief, and the whole mass of goods
looked more like pulp than articles of ap
parel. And blue why even the wood
work of the washer was stained a magnifi-
cent azure color. Pat had not only fixed
the color" but the goods as well. 1t was
his first and last wash. 1t took about all
the laundrymans spare cash to settle with
his customers, and a couple of days there
after the following advertisement appeared
in the papers For sale-A laundry out
fit, entirely new. viii be sold at a bargain,
as the proprietor is going South for his
health. Address Sickman, q Blank street
city" As for Pat, when his friends asked
him about his experience in the laundry
business, he explained matters by saying:
It's tha shmell of tha acid what made me
sick, togedder wild tha whirlin' of tha ma
shine, an it's blue am whiniver | tink of
tha day 1 ivir wint into landhry. - Troy
Laundry Journal.