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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-07
CH1ANN S SALE OF EALUABLE IPRoyEr

(NHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
DuEQF THE REAL ESTATE OF THE LATE
WILLIAM MCLEAN, AND LOCATED on RHODE
ISLAND AVENUE, IOWA CIRCLE AND FOUR
Ii66iEtNNuaH H ssIiEEET NohTHwEsT AND FL STREET
BY virtue Of decree passed in cause No 1o67s in
Equity in the supreme Court of the District of Column
bia, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale on the
of NOVEMBER, / sss, at FOUR O'CLOCK P NJ, Lots
fourteen q A., htteen Dob sixteen 90 and eighteen
QSG IN William McLeans subdivision in Square north
Of Square two hundred and (242) Lots four
teen q A. and fifteen Il 81 improved by large two
story Frame Cottage No. 1915 Rhode Island avenue
Lot eighteen QS) is improved by a Dwelling House.
proved
O'CLOCK P. NJ, sub lot twenty seven C27l in square
two hundred and seventy eight (27sD improved by
three-story and basement brick house, No. IL Iowa
On MONDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF NO
LEMBER, 1883, at FIVE O'CLOCK p. NJ, 1 shall offer
for sale on the premises part Of lot seventeen 40
by two story frame dwelling, No 342 street SOUTH
west and twosory frame dwelling the rear of the
lot The dimensions Of this lot Will be given at the
Terms Of sale: Onethird in cash. and the remainder
In equal at and two years from the day
OF sale, with interest at cent per annum secured
erty Sold or the purchaser may pay all cash Deposits
win be required at the time of the sale follows: ON
Circle 5000, and each of the other parcels 800
the terms are not complied with in ten days the
sale the property may be resod ten days public
The property will be sold free of 20 June 3D.
1855 except as TO sub lot eighteen 81 in square north
OF square two hundred and forty (242J the
on which are paid by the life tenant.
All conveyancing at the cost of the purchaser
WILLIAM H. ROBERTS, Trustee,
DUNcANsoN BROS, '''''A'' oni''
aAuctioneers n5--dSds
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The Invaluable Hotel Clerk.

From the New York Press
The American hotel clerk has been bitterly
assailed during the week by an Englishman
writing for the papers with more bitterness
than honesty. mo one ever appreciates him"
said the foreign buyer of a downtown COM
mercial house last night, "until he travels in
Europe. Half dozen good, wide-awake,
cheerful, and knowing hotel clerks from Amer
lea would make London life thousand times
more agreeable than it is at present to American
visitors, II they held the reins Of government
in English hotels. There is no one man in any
big hotel in Europe who can be depended upon
to attend to the minor details Of everyday
life as our clerks can here. If you want
anything done about your room YOU have
to see the housekeeper; If you wish
to ask for mail, you must 90 and
see the mailing clerk; if your luggage needs
attending to. you have to seek out the head
porter and the manager Of the hotel has no
conception at all Of the duty or whereabouts Of
the cashier. There are, in other words, so
many heads to the management of the big
English and European hotels that man Is
bewildered out of al reason and put to an end
less amount of trouble through irving to find
the right man. The great American institu-
ton OF the hotel clerk may have some draw
backs, but, taken all in all, he is q functionary
whom we can never spare. In about thirty
years he Will turn up in Europe, and then thew
VIII have to thank America for one more good
idea" e~~
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The Paradoxes of Science.

FROM BlackWood's Magazine.
The water which browns us, fluent stream,
can be walked upon as ice. The bullet which
when fired from a musket carries death, will
be harmless if ground to dust before being
fired. The capitalized part of the oil of roses,
SO graceful in its fragrance-a solid at ordinary
temperatures, though readily volatile-is a
compound substance, containing exactly the
same elements, and in exactly the same pro-
portions, as the gas with which we light our
streets. The tea which we daily drink, with
benefit and pleasure, produces palpitations,
nervous tremblings, and even paralysis, if taken
IN excess; yet the peculiar organic agent called
theme, to which tea owes its qualities, may be
taken by itself Gas theme, not as tea) without
any appreciable effect
The water which will allay our burning thirst
augments 1T when concealed into snow; so that
1t Is stated by explorers of the Arctic regions
that the natives prefer enduring the utmost
extremity OF thirst rather than attempt to re-
move 1t by eating snow" Yet if the snow be
melted 1t becomes drinkable water. Neverthe-
less, although, If melted before entering the
mouth 1t assuages thirst like other water, when
melted in the mouth it has the opposite effect.
To render this paradox more striking, we have
only to remember that ice, which melts more
slowly in the mouth, is very efficient in allaying
thirst %
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Sleep After q Meal.

THE BRAIN SHOULD REST WHILE THE STOMACH
DIGEsTs THE FOOD.
From the Westminster Review.
There is a widespread superstition, cherished
by great majority Of the people, that to sleep
Immediately after having taken food is to en-
danger health, to favor the onset of apoplexy,
&C., superstition based on the assumption
that during sleep the brain is normally con-
gested There is, no doubt, such a thing as
congestive sleep, but during normal sleep the
brain is an2mic. When a person has taken
fairly abundant lunch or dinner the stomach
demands a special influx of blood wherewith to
accomplish its work of digestion; no organ can
more easily comply with that demand than the
brain which, when in full activity, is suffused
But derivation of blood from the brain to
the stomach can only take place, except in
exceptionally full-blooded and vigorous per-
sons, on the condition that the cerebral func-
tions be Meanwhile partially or wholly suspend
ed. Hence many people after taking dinner
feel indisposed for mental action and not few
long for sleep. The already partially anemic
brain would fain yield up to the stomach still
further supply of blood and yield itself up to
refreshing Sleep. Doing SO it gains new
getically, and soon body and mind are again
equipped to continue in full force the battle of
life. But superstition, the child Of ignorance,
interve4es; declares that sleep during diges-
tlon is dangerous; admonlshes the would-be
sleepers to struggle against their perilous in
clination, and, though telling them that after
dinner they may sit awhile, assures them Of the
adage: After supper walk q mile"
The millions of its victims continue, there
fore, the strife to which it condemns them, and
ignore the suggestion offered to them by the
lower animals, who have always practiced the
lessons of sound physiology by always sleeping
after feeding whenever they are allowed to do
SO. Hence the human brain and the human
stomach Of such victims contend with each
other during the digestive process. The brain,
impelled by superstition, strives to work and
demands blood to work with, while the stom-
ach, stimulated by its contents, strives to carry
on its marvellous chemistry and demands an
ample supply Of blood for the purpose. The
result of the struggle is that neither is able to
do its work well. The brain is enfeebled by
being denied its natural rest during the diges-
tive process, and the healthy functions Of the
stomach degenerates into dyspepsia.
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How She Keeps Her Accounts.

From the New York Graphic
wonder If the coming woman will be able
to keep books. I don't believe it. You have
seen your wife making up her accounts, haven't
you? She sits down on a chair and spreads her
bills all over her lap, and she takes little book
up and opens 1t. 1t is a very little book. A
woman Is always economical in that respect
She Will pay go for hat, but she'll get two
bit account-book, two inches by three, for Is
cents, to keep the household figures in Well,
she takes out this book and she opens it and
scrutinizes it.
Let me see. I had 1886 last month, and l.
no-surely had more-no-there it is-S5.35.
Well, I've got to carry forward $685.; that's it.
No, 1t isn't; that was August. Let me see
September S10.15. 1 thought had more Now,
that's it, s10.15. Where's my pencil?" And she
puts the bills on the floor and goes to her room
TO get her pencil She comes back, picks up
all the bills and the book and begins again
Let me see, it was carry forward $425-no,
that was July, August, September-S1O.15
that's 1t" She tries to put down S10.15. The
pencil Is little bit of a stub and it won't make
mark; she puts the bills all down again and
thing at the pencil. She does not begin where
the last cut was made; she simply tries to
scrape the wood away at the point of
the lead and she gets little bit of it
clear. Then she sits down and takes up all
the bills and the book and begins all over
again. Let me see, S1015!' And she puts
the pencil to her mouth and makes a /; she re-
peats the operation and makes an 0, and so on
till she gets S10.15 down. BLESS me, that's
the wrong side" and she tries to rub it out
with her finger, and, failing that, she gets a
piece of bread and cleans it up sufficiently to
write in the place. Then she finds out she
can't write holding the book in her hand. She
takes the whole cabOOdle in her apron and
dumps it on the table, squares her elbows and
proceeds to business, and when she has got
everything down she finds she is Is cents out
She gently rubs her head with the stub of PEN
ell and thinks out S11 more she paid out and
Sl.l5 more she got from you.
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The Best Kind Of Wife.
From the Baltimore News.

from the Baltimore News
DO intellectual women make the best part
ners for life? Emerson says sit is not beauty
that inspires the deepest passion )" and Jean
Paul Richter declared that he would not lead
woman into the matrimonial moose whom IL
would not delight to hear him read the LEARNED
reviews OF Gottingen, or the universal German
library, when they sounded his praise, though
Stuart Mill regarded the institution Of mar
riage in its highest aim and aspect "a ga
union OF two persons of cultivated faculties
Identical in opinion and purposes. between
whom there exists that best kind Of EQUALITY.
similarity OF powers with reciprocal superiority
In them, 80 that one can enjoy the luxury Of
looking up to the other and can have alter
nately the pleasure of leading and beino lea
in the path of development" But other men
OF genius have thought differently on the snh-
lect. 1t Is an oft-quoted saying Of DIR. johnson
he has good dinner on the table Chan when his
wife talks Greek" Racine had an illiterate
wife and was accustomed to boastfullv decIsre
that she could not read any Of his traredies
Dufrssny married his washer-woman.
uoetnes wiie was woman Of mediocer ca
pacity. Heine said Of the woman he loved
.She has never read line Of my writings and
does not even know what q poet is" TRerese
Lavasseur, the last fame Of Rousseau. coujd
not tell the time Of day. "How many of the
wise and learned, /" says Thackeray, Shave mar.
r rl their cooks! Did not Lord Eldon, him
self the most prudent Of men, make Q runawav
match? Were not Achilles and Ajax both IA
love with their ssrvant-maids?" Seven him.
dred people sat up all night to see the beauti-
iui duchess OF Hamilton get in her carriaee
but would one in thousand lose Q VIM Oh
sleep to get q glimpse Of the learned wife Of
the Indian in Sanscrit on the vexed problems
Of life? f'''1ls
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The Dread of Death

Sir Lyon Playfair has written to Junius Henri
Brown the following letter in regard to the
latter's paper in the Forum for October or the
"Dread of Death:'
Dear sir: have read your article on death
with much interest. This subject has often
occupied my mind, and have been led to the
same conclusions. Having represented large
medical constituency (the University of Edin-
burg for seventeen years as a member of par
lament, naturally came in contact with the
most eminent medical men of England. Ihaye
put the question to most of them, Did you, in
your extensive practice, ever know a patient
they answered, No. One of these exceptions
was Sir Benjamin Brodie, who said he had seen
one case. The other was Sir Robert Christi
son, who also had seen one case, that Of a
young giri OF bad character who had q sudden
accident.
Il have known three friends who were par
TALLY devoured by wild beasts under appar-
entlv hopeless circumstances of escape. The
first was Livingstone, the great African trav-
eler, who was Knocked on his back by a lion,
which began to MUNICH his arm. He assured
me that he felt no fear or pain, and that his
only feeling was one Of intense curiosity as to
which part of his body the lion would take
next. The next was Rustem Pasha, now Turkish
ambassador in London. A bear attacked him,
arm and shoulder. He also assured me that
he had neither a sense Of pain nor of fear, but
that he felt excessively angry because the bear
grunted with so much satisfaction in
munching him. The third case is that of
Sir Edward Bradford, an Indian officer now
occupying a high position in the Indian
Office. He was seized in q solitary
place by tiger, which held him firmly behind
his shoulders with one paw, and then deiiber-
ately devoured the whole of his arm, beginning
at the end and ending at the shoulder. He was
positive, that he had no sensation of fear, and
thinks that he felt a little pain when the fangs
went through his hand, but is certain that he
felt none during the munching OF his arm.
Il was led to the same conclusions a. your
sell when attended the hospital as o medical
student, and thought YOU might like some
confirmation Of the views described in your in
teresting article in the Fovwn.."
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Tricks Of the Innocent Japs.


SOME OF THE METHODS THEY EMPLOY 10 TAKE
IN THE UNwARY TRAVELLER.
From the New York Herald
In the tricks that signalize most all trades
the "Japs" are by no means without their little
devices, and when it comes right down to an
appearance Of ingenious Innocence" these
artful Orientals can enact the role in a manner
that would completely eclipse even that of q
Maine prohibitionist.
OF the little devices they use to take in the
ordinary stranger. Of their overbearing polite
ness In all business transactions and their al
most chlldllke innocence apparently in all mat
tiers of barter and trade viii not speak.
will simply speak of two classes that the
foreigner first meets with on striking Yokoha-
ma or any other Japanese port. These are the
boatmen and the men who pull the 'jinrick-
shaws."
On landing at Yokohama the steamer anchors
about mile from shore, and most Of the trav-
cling to and from the ship is done in boats that
are worked something gOndolas These crowd
around the steamer in swarms, the boatmen Of
fering in very fair English to take you to shore
and back for six cents. l am now speaking of
passengers who only stop at Yokohama en- route
for some other port. I engaged one Of these
boatmen, who seemed to understand English
very well, shortly after my arrival at Yokohama
some few months ago, agreeing to pay him six
cents s, tor the round trip On my return hand
change, but he had forgotten his English since
leaving the ship.
mo savvy," said he.
'Here," said /, ~ gave you dollar, and you
owe me "a cents change" It was no use; no
amount Of argument could convince the Jap,
or make him understand what wanted, and,
singular enough, no other Jap could act as
interpreter. This, learned, was an old trick
of theirs.
Another trick was to lose an oar overheard
and charge 81 to jump over after it. My expe-
rience in this, a. in other matters, was similar
70 that Of every other stranger" on the ship.
Have the right change, l learned, or you'll
and the Jap agreed to .'tote' me about for 20
cents an hour. After / had ridden for about
i've minutes another Jap wanted TO help the
frst one by pushing the concern. didn't
want him, and said so; but a. couldn't by any
means, including profanity, make him under
stand this fact had to give in, and, what 10
more, bad four Of them attached to the cart
before had finished my ride.
remained two weeks ct Yokohama before
"caught on" for after thatB when another
man came up with ''pushee pushee" pro-
position signiAed assent and then quietly
got out and walked until the men had settled
the matter between them. A soon e my
" 'rickshaw" man saw that skneV the ropesh
was not further molested. - my right
gave them the correctamount in the first place.
boatman played the ssoar overheard" sct
with me the second time, but he didn't get his
~, - simply showed him arevolver, = had
been told to do by one Of the initiated. He
got the oar very quick whom he NV the weapon.
The bostmen, = 9 rule, are powerful fsllows,
aspsos.s. hey :.s ssss;a & ar re rsss
however, and Win always give IN ct the sight Of
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How Few Are Rich.

Ldward Atkinson, in November Forum.
1t is probable, to say the least, that fully
80 per cent of the whole body of the people
spend nearly all that they earn; of this 90 per
cent portion may, by setting aside a moderate
part OF their small earnings, become the own
ers OF house, or become depositors in a saw
ings bank. or insure their lives in a moderate
way. OF the remaining 10 per cent, part save
enough to protect themselves against want in
their later years, and a very small part NAV
become rich, and then need not work unless
they choose
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EVENING TwINKLEs.

In military circles the musket ID private
affair."
Some children shrink from being washed;
90 do flannel Shirts
The latest evidence Of grinding monopoly q
reported hand-organ trust.
''Oid Hutch" IL like the reliable member Of
church choir. He always watches his chants.
Gaines, Ga, claims to have veritable rain
tree which throws Of continuous mist like
rain.
The barber ought to have been a valuable
man yesterday. He il accustomed to work 81
the polls.
Some one says that drinking beer may
quench thirst, but that 1t will not refresh the
memory. The barkeeper will do that, how
A New York jeweler advertises amber neck.
laces Ito prevent Group in children" thus
working upon the superstition Of some
mothers.
1t may be Of interest to the Government
clerks to learn that the removal Of the tax On
lumber will not lessen the price of board in
this city.
The report comes from Semfohmor, W. T.,
that sardines are so plentiful whereabouts that
enough can be caught in a week to supply the
whole United States"
A Georgia woman who had been an invalid
for years says she has enjoyed perfect health
since the earthquake. Some women do need q
shaking up sometimes.
MIR. Filkenstein, of Newark, N j., Is playing
q Sdue VI chess Win MS cousin In AUSTRALIA
which has already lasted five years. They
make their moves by letter.
A letter was mailed at Pittsburg recently sd-
dressed to The Secretary of the Knavy De-
partment," and the intelligent postal clerk sent
it to the warden of the state penitentiary.
Pennsylvania towns in the vicinity Of Pitts
burg are being flooded with counterfeit silver
dollars. The counterfeit is said to be the finest
ever turned out of an illegal mint in this
country
A man in Pennsylvania has watch which
has been in use for more than one hundred
and ten years, and still keeps excellent time.
1t was made before the Waterbury article was
invented.
The viceroy Of Canton says that kerosene is
greater menace to the peace and prosperity
Of the Chinese empire than opium. II has
already burned up $40, 900 900 worth Of prop
erty, and he wants it banished.
The most magnificent thimble known is that
golden lotus bud and studded with diamonds
to form the name Of the young queen to whom
it was a bridal gift from the king.
A California widow had plans made for q
$50, 900 monument for her late departed, but
when the lawyers got through fighting over
the estate the widow was doing Homework at
50 week for the man who designed the mon
ument.
There is no significance in the fact that the
first play brought out in the late Lester Wal
lacks theater under the new management
bears the title Of HELD by the Enemy" for
Mr.. Palmer was one of Wallack's warmest
friends.
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AT THE SOUTH POLE.
Tho Dangers are Far Greater than IN
the North.

From the London Daily News.
happears 10 be probable that Professor Men,
mayr, Of the Hamburg Marine Observatory,
will succeed In getting South Polar expedi-
ton organised II might have been supposed
that until some greater measure Of success had
attended similar adventures in the Arctic
regions the most ardent advocate Of such
schemes would 5have doubted the wisdom Of
exposing human lives and treasure TO the risk
Of Antarctic seas. All the best authorities are
agreed that the difficulties to be encountered
in the South are much greater than in the
North, and the hideous stories which gained
currency after the return of the last Arctic ex-
petition might well have sickened the boldest
OF this generation sufficiently to deter them
from any assault upon the stronghold Of King
Winter in the South. In comparing the diff
culties Of Arctic end Antarctic adventure, Sir
Wyviile Thompson says:
ave can only anticipate disasters, multi
piled a hundredfoid, should the South pole
ever become a goal Of rivalry among nations"
For various reasons the great lone land under
the Southern Cross is more difficult of access
than the North. 1t is much colder there than
In the Arctic circle. There seems to be no
such warm currents as are to be found in the
North-such, for instance, as the Labrador
current, or that round the south coast of Spitz-
bergen. Such emanations from the torrid
regions OF the earth do much to mitigate the
rigors OF the Northern seas at certain points,
and bring about the most striking variations Of
temperature, breaking up the ice at certain
seasons, and opening the way to navigation far
beyond points otherwise attainable. Any en-
terprise of this kind will, of course be pushed
on during the summer NOTWITHSTANDING January,
February, and the early part of March, that
is. But even in the height of summer the
temperature of the air in Antarctic regions is
always below the freezing point Of sea water,
and bitter tempestuous winds and fogs and
binding snow-storms are all but incessant,
No Arctic explorer has ever gone beyond the
bounds Of vegetation. At least ichens and
seaweed have been found wherever Northern
navigators have penetrated, but in the awful
solitudes of the South Sir James Ross found
not the slightest trace Of vegetable life, either
on the land or in the sea, yet he never came
within less than 700 miles Of the south pole.
The magnetic pole has been approached within
$50 miles, and it seems possible that important
scientific results might be obtained by cover
ing that further distance; but even this is
doubtful