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The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WTANTED-EVERYBOD TO KNOW THAT
w Rlce's Steam. Cleaning Works, 400 Maine
ave W. cleans carpets, renovates feathers,
steams mattresses and romakes them also, fur
est prices
NNTANTED- IT KNOWN THAT G. s. BUNDY
w Of 45S La ave, opp city Hall, IL Commits
sioner OF Deeds for all the States and Terri
tories.
NATANTED-OLD GOLD AND SILVER
w bought Tor cash by VIM, FREDERICK,
the manufacturing jeweler, 605 9TH st. opp Pat
ent Office.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Wicked Sam Joc.
fF NNN'
From NE Phliadelphla Yimes.

from me FhildQdpht0 ffDief,
Sam Joe, a Celestial lauudryman was yes
terday indicted for assault and battery on
pretty little 0-year-old Agnes Flanagan of l4l2
South Juniper street. Lee Toy of 900 Race
street and Magistrate Clarke are bail for tho
Oriental. On October i6, little Agnes went to
Sam Joo's laundry to get some collars and
cuffs for her father. Sam Joe told Agnes to
sit down until he flushed ironing II collar.
Agnes sat down and waited, When he
handed the bundle to Agnes he said
"You plettee glullee. Me lekec you. y
Then Sam Joe stopped down aud kissed
Agnes.
Agnes went home and told her mother.
Although kissing the child was all that was
charged against Sam Joe, the grand jury said
yesterday that "One Sam Joe did, with force
and arms, IN and upon said Agnes Flanagan
IN the peace of the said Commonwealth, did
there and then make nn assault upon her, said
Agnes Flanagan, aud did beat and ill-treat her
and other wrongs did do to her, the said Agnes
Flanagan, TO the great danger OF her, the said
Agnes Flanagan, contrary to the form
and act Of Assembly herein provided and
! against the peace and diguity Of the Common
wealth Of Pennsylvania
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Taken for a Fighter.


A good joke on young minister living
not many miles from Albany has just leaked
out as "confldential." He went up to Troy
the other night to call on friend, and while
they were on the street during the evening
the thought occurred to one Of them that II
would be good idea TO ''cut watermelon" )"
An Italians fruit stand was near by, and for
this they headed and got their melon. But
Of couse they did not want to carry it through
the streets to the friends house, so they oh
tained peanut-sack from the fruit dealer,
put the melon into 1t, and started up town,
each holding one side of the receptacle.
Turning a.corner, they met a group Of three
or four sporting men, one Of whom, upon
sighting the two suspicious-looking men,
said to the others in n glaring undertone:
"Wonder where they are going to fight theml''
The young divine felt very badly TO think he
was mistaken for a cock-ilghter.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
THE EXPOSITION .

The Three Americas Exposition was
the recipient of great boom yesterday
and last night, and the corners came in
west, over the land and over the seas. At
banquets and at business meeting the
cause was fed and nourished and 1t took
now life and sprung up as vine, with
its branches and tendrils reaching out,
INTERVIEWING and drawing together all the
countries and all the interests of the three
Americas. This Exposition will be unlike
any of its predecessors, in fact II will
have no predecessors for II is an Exposi-
tion unto itself. 1t will be an Exposition
of new things, of new states, of new
governments, of new peoples, of new
lands, of new productions, of new civili-
cation, of new arts, of new sciences, of
new literature.
1t will be the realization of a fairy
story which the children of the Fifteenth
Century. in their widest dreams of
fancy, could not imagine possible. They
dreamed wild dreams in the old days,
did those children of CASTLE and Arragon.
but no fancy was ever as this fact is, and
the world that has grown up in this
Western land in four hundred years has
stepped to the front and taken the leader
ship of that older world which for fifty
six centuries had Jagged in the march Of
progress. In this Capital of the New
World such an Exposition would fit III
keystone in the triumphal arch of the
Conquest of Peace, and certainly nc
more beautiful and appropriate place
could be chosen than the City of Wash
ington.
1t is an Exposition in which the local
feeling should give way to the national
and setting aside all claims of other cities
with one purpose, the Capital of the Ma
tion should be made the central point II
this grand aggregation of the countrie
of the Three Americas. The sentimen
Is with us in force. Now let the prac
tical business side of the question b.
taken up and with energy and perse
verance let the work be pushed to it
glorious accomplishment.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Excited over the white Caps.

The excitement about White Caps in South
ern Ohio, notably In Brown county, continues
and is kept alive by numerous and startling
rumors. The facts are, however, that only
two persons have been whipped yet, the last
victim being Adam Berkes, of Sardinia. But
notices written in red ink and bearing fright
full devices are plentiful. It is easy to see
that practical jokers can materially assist in
this business 1t is said that the authorities
will make extraordinary efforts to find and
punish whoever may be guilty of this crime.
just now u troublesome state OF affairs exists
in Clermont county, growing out of an effort
to drive colored children out of the schools.
Some children were forciby elected, and their
parents went before the grand jury and gave
testimony IN the matter Since then the
houses OF these colored people have been as
sailedlafter night with stones aud windows and
doors broken down. In some places the
colored children are guarded to and from
school, and an unwholesome feeling pervades
the neighbOrhood.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Tennyson's ,.Wnkinr Trance"

A Chicago dispatch says: "Spirltualsts here
are interested in letter written by Alfred
Tennyson, Englands poct-laureate, In 1874,
and which is first made public in a local news
paper to-day. In 1t the poet says: i have
never had any revelations through anesthetics,
but kind OF waking trance (this for lack Of a
better name), have frequently had, quite up
from boyhood, when | have been all alone.
This has often come upon me through repeat
ing my own name to myself silently, till, all
at once, as 1t were, out of the intensity of the
consciousness of individuality, the individual
ity itself seemed to dissolve and fade away
into boundless being; and this was not con-
fused state, but the clearest Of the clearest,
the surest Of the surest utterly beyond words,
where death was an almost laughable i'm
possibility, the loss of personality Qf 80 1t
werel seeming no extinction, but the only true
iIfn u
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
MARY ANDERsON's DANCING.
A Description of the Graceful stars
Terpsichorean Ability.


From he " Y. Times
When the music strikes into the open.
ing bars and the lines of dancers form
Mary Anderson is seen away at the rear
of the stage she and her lover the last
of the dancers, her 1.-the body swaying
to the rhythm of the melody, and every
movement expressive Of the Joy which
the presence of her lover and the outdoor
scene has lavished on her. The
lines are headed by D0rcds and
MopSG and their partners. MopSd, by
the way, is the plump and pleas
ing person Of Miss Tilbury, Lydia
Thompsons daughter. Her peals of
girlsh laughter which ring forth as she
becomes apparently entangled in the
simple figures of the dance, are exceed.
ingly characteristic of the scene, and
harmoniZe with the rural merriment of
the day.
Then there is a lull in the music, and
the dancers, running up the stage, dis
pose themselves in single line across.
with Mary Anderson and Prince Florfz6t
in the middle. An instant afterward
there is q wild and concerted rush toward
the footlights as toward the bottom of
the hill. PordHd'S sandles appear and
| disappear beneath her huttering gar.
ments with incredible swiftness, and the
! light Arabian silk of her skirts is fol-
lowed by the rapid and supple limbs be-
meath into momentary outlines Of
rounded loveliness.
She reached the footlights flushed and
painting. There is burst Of applause,
and rs it dies away the music of the
! dance again fills the theatre. The lines
of the dancers again form, and PerdHd
and FlOriseJ are the couple at the head.
With what eager and breathless atten-
| ton the audience follow every move
ment! Miss Anderson dances with the
most graceful abandon, seeming TO give
herself up without reserve to the mad
merriment of the dance. What is the
resounding march of HermioH6's dec
lamation to these blithe and trip.
ping pleasuresl What the climaXes OF
those impassioned speeches compared
with the Joyous chase which terminate:
the dance with Prince Fiorisel sprinting
toward the wings in pursuit of this lovely
peasant girl, as though he were n com
pettor in hundred yard dash on the
cinder path? Nothing at all. And full
handed thunders of applause demand the
DANCES repetition.
AS PoliXenes puts it, Miss Anderson
dances featly, and the skill and grace sh,
shows are understood to have been the re
suits of seven months study and practice
under the sagacous monition of Mis-!
d Egville of London, whose special tasl
there 1t is TO teach the women about to b,
presented at one of her majesty's drawing
rooms the proper way TO conduct them
selves ON so trying an occasion. The dancu
in "a Winters Tale" is, of course, nc
more historically correct than the cos
tunes or the scenes are. 1t it just a
impossible to date ga Winters Tale'' a
it is to ascribe period for "Thc Mid
summers Night Dream" Lorraine,
ballet master in London. who now ac
companies Miss Anderson, devised tn
dance. and the. music, quaint and o
ancient flavor as it is, was composed tw,
years ago, by Andrew Levy, the leade
of Mr.. Henry Irving's orchestra
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
An Der True Tale.

sob, my dear, kind husband, how thought
ful it was Of you 10 come all the way down
here 50 early in the morning for me-" said
Mary Freeman to a green-loolSing man at Bar
clay aud West streets, at 5:30 Sunday morn
ing. Mary folded her grcen-looking man n
her arms and ralned kisses upon his face and
neck, and then laid her head upon his manly
breast
"How're things at homefn she echoed as she
stole his watch,
The green-looking person pushed back his
coat lapel aud showed a pOliceman's shield.
lie asked Mary 10 return his watch He was
Policeman Ira b, Ryerson, Justice Patterson
sent Mary 10 the wOrkhOuse for six months
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Jay GouId,s wife's wealth.

From the Neiu York sun.
When Jay Gould married her who is now
his wife, she was possessor OF something like
$4,000. That was the capital with which he
worked at the outset. AS soon as he could do
so he separated her property from his own
and carried II along in separate Investments
altogether with her assent and generally at her
direction. Three years ago she demanded an
accounting from him. She jocosey declared
that she wouldn't trust him any longer ana
that she meant TO retire from Wall street
Gould had his bookkeepers figure up his wife's
interest exactly, and took all OF her stocks,
bonds and other securities off her hands at
their market value. The Weld OF this to her
was over S2,O00,0O0. She invested the money
in Government bond and other securities OF
undoubted solidity
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Squeezing the Nail Market.

Thomas G. Boyle & Co., the Pittsburg iron
brokers, on Monday purchased 10000 kegs of
nails. The purchase was made at Wheeling
Belare and other towns In that vicinity. The
large part Of the order is from parties in the
South, but part Of it will also go West A
little over week ago the same firm bought
5000 kegs Of nails, This, with the purchase
made Monday, comprises the big part of the
nails In stock at the present time and virtually
gives the firm complete control OF the nail
market. 1t may result 10 a small advance In
the price. 1t does not, however, seem proba-
BILE that this state OF affairs will continue long.
A large number OF the nail mills are now idle
and when the demand increases II is likely
that some OF the mills at least will start up.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
FOR RENT--ROOMS.

DOOMS FOR RENT ELEGANT APART
III ments for rent In u splendid new house at
l133 j. street northwest parlOr ur first foor
contains three superbly furuishod rooms; second
floor two splendidly arranged and also FUR
niShed; third floor, also two beautifully fur.
nished rooms; these rooms will be rented single
or EN- suite; suitable for Congressman or Sena-
tors; tins house Is newly completed and hand,
somoy furnished aud elegantly finished
Throughout I'm hard wood; heated by open CRATES
and s,oam; PROVIDE with private baths, afu
every convenience Tor comfort and ease. This
elegant newly finished mansion " In one OF the
finest locations in the city.
CNOR RENT-WELL FURNISHED SECOND
T. story front room; heat and gas; IN private
family; $40 per month. 1d13 l7lh street north
west.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

The entire circulation of the country, specie
and paper, on November l, is put at 81 1,407,-
81, ,66S.
1t is estimated that from 200 to 400 square
miles Of the great pine forests OF Georgia are
cleared every year.
Professor Roberts estimates that the value
Of coal wasted in smoke in the city of London
amounts to $23, 100000 annually.
The original Inventor OF the bell punch sold
his patent for $500, and the company purchas-
ing It made hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
out Of it.
In France and Germany a bankrupt is liable
to be punished by imprisonment II 1t is found
that his personal expenses have been exces-
sive, II he has lost large sums of money by
gambling or stock exchange operations, II he
has put accommodation notes Ia circulation TO
stave off failure, or If he has failed to keep
correct aud proper books.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Lovely woman; sensible Man.


Amelia Rives is essentially pocket Venus,
She is diminutiye In stature and sylph-like in
form, with bright, strNw-eolored hair, which
she ties in Psyche knot; soft violet eyes,
under sweeping coal-black lashes, and yeri-
table Cupids bow of mouth. She speaks
with slight Southern lisp, aud is a most
charming listener. She rides to hounds and
hes tbirty-one pet dogs, and has taught her
Scotch terrier TO sing Her husband, John
Armstrong Chanler is tall, lanliy aud boyish-
looking lie never attempts TO speak while
his wife has the floor
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
DEAL ESTATE BULLETIN

For a term OF % years, a valuable piece Of
business property on i st, bet 11th and 18th SITS
n W; rent $3.50 per month aud taxes; lessee 20
build on same.
For II term of % years, a valuable piece Of
business property on 11th st. near Pa ave n W;
rent st25 per month and taxes; lessee to build
on same
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Tongues of Ciergynen aud W omen.

f'pW Htt NeW iWN LFtOuHts
A young lady Of this city tells me that she
not long ago Joined an organization Of ladies
whose object was the sending out of clothing
and books to Western missionaries, especially
those engaged in missionary work among the
Indians. But, she says, she was soon obliged
to withdraw, because the ladies' tongues were
even more busy than their fingers. From the
beginning to the end of the meeting it was one
steady stream Of petty scandal and gossip,
from which no one escaped. The ladies, how
over. are not the only sinners in this respect.
The small talk OF number of clergymen,
when they get together is quite apt to run in
q line Of personal comment that is but little
removed from the gossip In which woman is
supposed TO take such delight.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Cannon Balls in Their Course.

TIOIt Ult IuTtt lHUItTFCUH NeDt6ItT,
The well-known photographer, Anchuetz, OF
LISA, has for some years been experimenting
with photographs of the flight of cannon balls
from the moment of their projection to their
striking the target or object aimed at Last
month, on the trying grounds Of the Gruson
Works, near Beckau, he demonstrated the
perfection Of his studies. lie succeeded ia OBJ
tanning remarkable and highly interesting re-
suits. His plates were submitted to the ex-
pert Prof DR.. Koenig of the Berlin University
who was perfectly able to make therefrom the
desired practical calculations. lie established
the fact that the projectile thus Photographic d
had a velocity of 400 metres second, and
that the duration of the light thrown on the
Photographic plate did not exceed the ten
thousandth part of a second.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
A Baby Swap.


FFODl We LdWTenct dhefIcdn.
A bright, 4-year-old Lawrence boy had en-
joyed the undivided affections Of father and
mother; u few days ago a baby sister came
into the household, and the attention which it
received inspired the brother with an idea
that he was being sadly neglected. One day
as both parents were admiriug the newcomer,
the boy suddenly burst out into the cxclama-
tion, "Nobody cares anything for me now "
and putting on his cap he ran out of the house.
Just then a neighbor came along with a small
dog, and accosting the youngster, jokingly
asked him If he would not like to exchange
the baby for the dog; instead of the antici-
pated indignant scornng Of the proposition
the little fellow, with frightening face, re-
sponded quickly; "Yes, and I've got dollar
that I'll give to boot "
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Pretty OId on the stare.

NFOW tht ~ J. sun.
People who see the English chorus girls as
they walk up aud down Broadway easily get
the impression that they are plumpy built
aud well rounded. They are proportionately
surprised when they see the same girls Ia the
theatre iu low neck dresses to find that their
busts are fiat and their arms rather thin The
secret OF the extraordinary metamorphosis
seems 10 lie In the fact that they are large
bOned aud dressed with design. Their ulsters
are big aud heavily padded, and the size Of
their shoulders increased by heavy furs. They
are much more tightly laced than American
women,
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Man Wants but Little Here Below.

FT0N UIe tOrsNcNit NtWS,
The man In pursuit Of health, If he has care
fully followed all the medical advice offered
him from professional quarters, has given up
meat, vegetables, milk, tea, coffee, fruit, to-
bacco and most OF his clothes. Now comes the
news that hats, by reason of their hard mar
gins, 'exercise a constructing influence round
the head, and compress the blood vessels Of
the scalp, with results Of the direst character,
OF a truth, man is much afflicted The hat
must pO
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Cries at the Football Match.

FIVW Ws y, u TOTlu,
The long college cry Of Yale was answered
with the terrific Nsiss, boom, ah-h-hp' Of
Princeton. The Yale "freshies" we're out in
force and kept up an uuceaslng din. Their
cry was very odd and IS worthy Of reproduc.
tion. II is the frog chorus, from Aristopha.
mes The leader OF these "fresuiesn would
stand up, give the signal, aud his cohorts
would roar "Brekity-keck, Breliity-keck, co.
Ak, wo-aup, wo-aup, Para-ballou, Y-a-lew It
was enough to scare any ordinary football
team into submission.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

THE New York Republicans have de-
cided to depose John J. O'Brien from
his leadership of the Eighth Assembly
district, for selling out to the enemy.
1t must be very serious case indeed
when the Republicans will give up a
man with name like that
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
A metropolitan Room. ,

WON nc Nelp ToW sun,
Kansas City Resident (on board train to
strongerl- sir we have reached the
metropolis OF the great and growing West at
last. We are In Kansas City. This is Eight
Hundred-and-Fortie street:
Stranger (peering out OF the window )-Well,
what Is that peculiar noise?
Kansas CITY Rcsidcnt-That, sir, is the croak-
ing Of frogs. Our climate mere will raise any
thing
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

The PRESIDENTS message in some
respects reminds the reader of "The
Quick or the Dead?" 1t is reminder
of condition, however, rather tina
theory.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
AUCTION SALES.
JlnoMAs BOWLING, AUor1oNEER.

Bv virtue Of chattc deed of trust dated
July 16, A. d. 1883. and recorded IN liber No.
1894 at folio 42S of the Land Records Of the
District of Columbia, and at the request Of the
pa ty secured thereby, We will sell AZ public
auction on Friday, THE SEVENTH DAY OF
DECEMBER, a. d, 1888, Al - O'CLOCK NJ,
at the salesrooms Of Thomas Bowling, auction
ecr corner 1th street and Pennsylvania ave,
all the undivided one.half partnership interest
OF Waldo NJ Tastct in the firm of Morsell &
Tastet.
Terms cash. FRED. w. JONES
H. II. BERGMANN,
Dec. .3.ed&ds. Trustees
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1NRUsTEEs' SALE or THE BRICK HOUSE
i NUMBERED 1881 NEW JERSEY AVE
NUE. N. w, WITH LOT AND APPUR-
TENANCES.


BY virtue of deed of trust, recorded In lber
No, SO3, folio 4O2, ct seq, Of the Land Records
of the District OF Columbia, and at tho request
Of the person thereby secured. 1 Will sell at
public auction, IN front of the premises on FRI
bay, DECEMBER z, A. ID. 1858, AT 4 O'CLOCK
j. NJ. parts of lots u and c, In Il. Caruss
subdivision of lot rumher seven (O. in square
number five hundred and ifty-nine $3.50, In the
city of ashington, ID. o., the said parts of said
lots being contiguous. and making together
lot fronting upon New Jersey avenue north
west, between X and l. streets, seventeen feet
one aud one.third inches, and running back with
that width about 100 feet TO an alley eighteen
feet In width. The lot IL improved by brick
house of rooms; has modern improvements,
and Is in good repair.
Terms of sale: One.thrd cash, balancein two
notes OF equal amount In six and twelve months,
with interest ut six per cent per annum, pay
able semi annually, secured upon the property,
or all cash, at the option Of the purchaser. A
deposit of 5000 will be required at the time of
sale; all convcyanclng and recording at the
purchasers cost. Terms Of sale TO be complied
with In ten days. -
ISAAC HENRY FORD, Trustee,
1927 Missouri Avenue.
WAITER y. WILLIAMS d CO.,
nov27.d&ds. Auctioneers.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

If SECRETARY WHITNEY could get
ships as complete and well conducted as
his late report, Columbia would be the
gem of the Ocean.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

For the accommodation OF their patrons the
Boston Variety Store, 705 707 and 700 Market
SPace, VIII remain open evenings during the
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05
Railroad Rates FIXED.

After session in Chicago. lasting twenty
two days, the Transcontinental Association
has finiGhed its labors aud adjourned A sys-
tenn Of graded rates was agreed upon on traffic
going to the Pacific Coast. The highest class
differental rate In favor of Chicago will he
three cents less than from New York, while
the lowest class will be ten cents less. St.
Louis rates will be niuety-six per cent, OF the
Chicago rate. Buffalo and Pittsburg are
twenty-nine cents less than New York on first
class, and five cents less on the lowest class.
Cincinnati, Toledo and Detroit are swenty-nye
cents less than New York on the highest class
and five cents less on the lowest class.
The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-05

Mrs. JAS. g. BLAINE, jr., has decided
to go on the stage. Somebody ought to
run stage over her worthless hus-
band