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works Of various kinds yet the distinctive
feature is the fambeau. In its general appear
ance the fambeau resembles a torch except
that It is made entirely Of tin. The handle IL
about feet long, which is enlarged and
rounded into jar like receptacle at the top.
This receptacle has three wicks projecting
from the closed top and bending toward each
other. There are three separate compartments
IN the top. The first contains the oil, which
feeds the wicks The second contains yellow
infiammable powder called lycopodum. The
third is an air chamber. A small tube extends
from a mouthpiece in the handle mp into the
powder compartment, and from the top of the
compartment q tube extends up TO a level with
the point where the three wicks come to-
gether. When the fambeau Is in use the wicks
are all lighted, and then, at given signal,
each man in the club applies his mouth
beau and gives hearty puff. This sends
the powder up through the tube. when it comes
in contact with the lighted wicks and is ignited,
creating a great fame which, under the pres
the height of 20 feet. The effect produced at
night by sixty or seventy solid columns OF fire
shooting up into the air is grand and impress
sive, and when il is combined with the skillful
evolutions of trained body Of men the spec
tacle is a novel one.
Rig CRACKERS.
In addition to the fambeails the clubs fred
off cannon fire crackers, roman candles and
whistling bombs. The latter whistle like q
small steam engine and then so off with a
loud report. In certain evolutions torches
showing colored lights were displayed. The
clubs in their drill marched and counter
marched in open order. They marched in
sections and countermarched to right and left
IN sections. The captain commanding marches
on the left at the head of the column, the
first lieutenant in the rear of the center Of the
first platoon and the second lieutenant in the
rear Of the center of the second platoon.
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Features Of Life I'm Thibet.

FROM the New York Suns Cable letter.
A Chinese traveller has been telling of his ex-
periences and the things he has seen in Thibet
and his tale is printed to-day in London. He
has beheld the cloud piercing temples of Jade
gold, and other precious materials At Shassa
there are four temples in which the Dalai
Lama lives. In Interior Thibet the Teshu
Lama rejoices In the possession of three
temples. One Is q nine-storied pagoda, con-
tanning statue Of buddha. The Chinese travel
clines one to believe that he has seen the New
York Tribune building. These two distinguished
Lamas are most useful citizens, as they can
tell all about the future or the past, foretell
births and deaths though that seems q rather
useless occupation, and are very much believed
in. The Thibetan salutes his superior by I'M
covering his head and sticking out his tongue
three times. The country, supposing that this
travelled Chinese is truthful, is the hottest
kind of place for the wicked. When q man
is arrested his limbs are tied together and
he is thrown into Q dark room, in which
he is tried. He is almost always SEN
fenced to death. If the natives have any
shooting match for the drinks on hand he is
tied to pillar and used as q target for mus
kets and bows. If not, he is put into cave
death by these willing executioners, or else
presented to cannibal savages of one part of
the country to eat him. Burial Is an uncom-
Portable operation. The body of dead man is
put into leather bag and hung up TO dry for
seven days in his own house, while the priests,
whose business must not be q very agreeable
one, walk around, chanting. After that the re-
mains are taken to some mountain peak and
buried in two fashions. The flesh u cut up
into slices and given to dogs to eat The truth
full Chinese declares that they call this earth
interment. They then grind up the bones
into pills, which they feed to eagles, and this
is called sky interment There is very little
business for the doctors, because sick men, no
matter what ails them, are smeared ell over
with butter and put out in the hot sun for bet
ter or worse. Il 5F- 81
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LOOKING OUT FOR CROOKS.
Preparations Against Robbery--Arrests
of Many Suspicious Persons.

Careful preparations were made by Major
Moore, chief Of police, to protect the citizens
and strangers and their property from the
crowd Of pickpockets and crooks of oil kinds
that always flock to a city on any pub
lie occasion. Besides the large force of specials
the detective corps was supplemented by
detectives from other cities, and every effort
was made to apprehend suspicious persons as
soon as their presence in the city was dis
covered. All known criminals were, of course
arrested as soon as seen andcompelled toleave the
city, but this class of criminals is being SO con-
stantly recruited and the crowds of strangers
have been so great that many have naturally es-
capped detection. So far, however, the losses
reported have been less than at any previous
Inauguration, and this reflects credit upon the
authorities and those who have assisted them
ALLEGED CROOKS BROUGHT IN
Detectives Mahon and Raft, assisted by out
side detectives, brought in Saturday afternoon
Hugh Thomas, Frank Williamson, John Skel-
ton, Charles A. Albright, John Widdes and
Harry Block.
Sunday morning Detective Mahon arrested
James Burke, James Curtin and James Fitz-
patrick and locked them up as suspicious
characters.
Detectives Raft aud Mahon brought in Sun
day morning, James O'Neill, James
Kelly, James Wells, Thomas Moore
ana Johnny Belllnger, the last three arrested
by Detectives Wheeler and visiting detectives.
.Reddy" Riley, an alleged crook, was brought
in by Pinkerton's detectives
Detectives Lane, Furlong and Cooper brought
in an alleged notorious burglar, named John
Hughes, and Charles Mcclure, said to be a
''snide" jewelry man.
Sunday night Detectives Henderson, Butler
and Gallagher, Of Pinkerton's force, brought in
three suspicious characters named John
White, c. s. Spencer and F. Duger
Thos. Cooper, said to be a colored Philadel-
phia pickpocket, was arrested Sunday night by
Detective Carter for attempting to pick the
pocket of gentleman named Lundy.
Detective III. B. Tobin of New York, brought
in Andy McAleer, reported to be a burglar and
safe man, and Detective Burke, Of st. Louis,
and Detective Jack Ambrose, of Cincinnati,
arrested P. McDevitt, also said to be burglar.
Detectives Mattingly. and Tobin arrested
Soon" Leary, said to be noted crook, yesterday
on the Avenue, near 9th street.
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A Spotted Plague in Kentucky.
RAvAGEs OF A DISEASE WHICH PUZZLES DOCTORS
IN WEBSTER COUNTY.

RAvAGEs OF A DISEASE WHICH PUZZLES DOCTORS
IN WEBSTER COUNTY.
Marion, KY, special to the New York Tribune,
March 2: In the last six weeks brief kilograms
have been sent from this point, outlining the
ravages of a mysterious disease that is depopu-
lating Webster county. For the last ten days
the malady has assumed the proportions of a
plague. The residents of the county are fee
ing for safety. Up To- the present time l25
deaths have occurred, due directly to the
malady. The terror has become general,
and although the physicians assert that the dis
ease is not contagious, they are puzzled by its
prevalence Clay and Dixon are the two lead
ing towns in the county. They are situated on
hills, and between them flows a small stream
called Grab Orchard creek, on each side Of
which Is q wide stretch of bottom land. The
disease is said to have originated in the slabs.
sawdust and refuse matter dumped from
Yates sawmill into the creek. From the first
the malady assumed an epidemic form, and all
the families along the Crab Orchard creek have
lost one or more members. Then they fed to
the higher ground, and the terror was so great
place. Not day has passed for two months
without one or more deaths.
physician describes the effects on one of
his patients. Harvey Ascher, boy, living near
Free Union, became suddenly sick. There was
q slight chill, followed by a high fever. This
subsidized in sixteen hours. and the muscles of
the patients neck became rigid. contracting
and drawing back the head in q painful posi-
ton. A peculiar eruption next showed itself,
giving him spotted appearance. In thirty
SIX hours he died Of collapse, his neck drawn
back, and the muscles 90 tense that it was with
difaculty the body could be Strengthened
Relief measures are being taken. Mass-meet-
ings have been held in the towns Of Dixon and
Clay, and q general order for disinfection has
been issued Tobacco ID burned in huge bon
fires, and is thought 10 be apreventive. The
schools Of the county have ali been dismissed,
and even divixe worship is neglected Appeals
have been made TO the governor for assistanoe,
but 20 Ter no reply has been made. Intelligent
uhysicians and uurses are pee6od a once.
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Robert Elsmere on the Front Platform.

From the New York Truth.
The recent strike of the car drivers and con-
ductors brought TO the front some queer speci-
mems Of humanity. There is always in New
York reserve of impoverished noblemen, i'm
pecunious college professors and discharged
editors Of the Herald waiting for something to
turn up that will enable them to earn an hon.
est penny. When the cars were deserted by
their drivers and conductors some of these
men fell into their places eagerly, and I was
much surprised while riding on 4th avenue
car to be accosted by roughly clad fellow with
the remark, Il beg your pardon, sir, but did
not meet you in the class of SO at Harvard?"
and coming up to me afterward on the
front of another car the driver said TO me as he
bit off piece Of plug tobacco, "Egad, sir,
Plautus was right when he said that TO handle a
scepter was not as difficult as to handle the rib
bons. It's easier to turn Greek hexameter
than it is to turn this break" looked at the
man in amazement, and just then the conduc-
tor came to the front platform, and in a sub
dued voice said to the driver, II say, profess
sor. can't you let impotence add wings to your
speed2 that fellow behind is crowding me-" A
friend of mine told me the next day that Esd
street conductor opened discussion with him
on "Robert Elsmere," and ventured the re-
mark that ii would give a strong impetus TO the
underlying agnosticism of the times. To which
my friend assented as he received his change.
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MARY WESTINGHOUSE GRAVE.
Unauthorized Statements as to the Sale
of the Ground I'm Which 1t is Located.

Unauthorized Statements as to the Sale
of the Ground I'm Which 1t is Located.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, March As much
publicity has been given through the press to
an advertisement of real estate firm of this
city fredericksburg, Ya.) offering for sale at
public auction IN Washington, D. c., on March
5th, the twelve-acre lot on which stands the
to Mary, the mother of Washington,
and the impression has obtained that
it is proposed to sell the grave
and the monument erected over it to
her memory, I desire to state, as the owner of
said 12-acre lot, that never owned, or claimed
to own, said grave and unfinished
monument, and the attempt to produce
the impression that the purchaser
Of said 12-acre lot would acquire any right or
title to said grave and monument, is wholly un-
authorized and is calculated to place me in a
false light. would further state the proposed
auction of the lot is wholly unauthorized.
G. w. SHEPARD.
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Daring Hotel Robbery.

One Of the most daring and successful sneak
jobs ever perpetrated in this city took place at
Wizards hotel Sunday afternoon about 2
o'clock. The thief grabbeda package, contain
ing between 81 900 and q, 200, which had been
placed there during the day as receipts from
the sale of inaugural ball tickets. 1t took .
man Of consummate skill and GOODNESS to walk
behind hotel counter while several clerks
were there at work and accomplish his object
without being detected. The lobby was filled
with people, and the clerks w(e kept constantly
busy, thereby giving shrewd crook the oppor-
tunity he was looking for: The thief got away
and there is no clew to his whereabouts. The
loss falls upon Col Staples.
The thief no doubt quit the city, as the
crooks in this line of business generally jump
out Of town as soon as they make haul
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A NEW HOME-RULE SCHEME.
Proposal by a Tory Member Which
Gladstone Approves.

A London cable special of March 4, says:
fresh departure in the home-rule con-
troversy is possible. John Arid, the
famous contractor and tory member from
Paddington, colleague and friend Of Lord
Randolph Churchill, writes to the Times
suggesting, in the interest of the country's
business, the appointment of small committee
commanding the confidence of all parties to
agree on just steps toward meeting Ireland's
demand for local government. have inter-
viewed Arid and Gladstone this morning
theron. Arid says his letter was quite
spontaneous, but he is convinced it expresses
the views Of large section of the tory party;
that the tory leaders say Ireland shall have
local government when the country is quiet
that Balfour says coercion has quoted it, and
therefore why not meet Parnelrs moderate
attitude by taking the first step. Gladstone
says he will watch the development of the
movement with friendly interest. He has al
ways hoped the tories would settle the ques-
ton. He will be careful to throw no OBJ
stacles in their way. He also holds that the
Irish party is perfectly freerto meet the tory
advances,
THEIR FIRST DUTY BEING TO IRELAND,
not to the liberal party. He considers that any
liberal Intervention by himself or his friends
would be mischievous, but fears the tories will
find an insuperable obstacle between them and
concession in the liberal unionists. Mr. Glad
stone seemed in excellent health. though
anxious, owing to the serious illness of
his eldest son. l was much impressed with
his statesmsnlike view of Ards proposal
He showed no petty partisan feeling, only
patriotic desire to end the controversy, which,
he said, like the corn-law agitation was wasting
precious years of the country's life. Ards
scheme may come to nothing, but it is interest
ing as showing the reaction in Parnelrs favor
caused by Pigottism
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A LOng-Llved Misrepresentation.

~ hOWaru IN N L freS6.
began my dispatch: "The President-elect
(Lincoln, 1851, is safe in the city of Washing
ton" and followed with the record of Mr..
Lincoln's departure Gin disguise" The ques-
ton in my mind was what disguise Mr. Lincoln
or any other man, could obtain in the little
town Of Harrisburg at o'clock in the evening,
in the year of our Lord 1861. I knew that his
chief attendant was Col. Sumner, of the army
who wore a long military cloak. So in my
minds eye, / saw the President-elect arrayed
in Summers long military cloak. knew, too.
that Mr.. Lincoln carried a small travelling cap,
but there was nothing very picturesque about
that, so called tia Scotch" travelling cap, and
with the same minds eve saw that jauntily
placed upon his dear old head
Under ordinary circumstances a mans ap-
parel would have but little to do with such
significant action as this of the President-elect
of the United States, literally evading, eluding
conspiracy and possible assassination; so. with
jaunty thoughtlessness, that became part and
parcel of the record, and to this day thousands
are ready to swear that Mr.. Lincoln not only
sneaked out of Harrisburg, but went dis
guised in a Scotch cap and a long military
cloak. The fact is that he wore his ordinary
hat and top coat, without the faintest attempt
at disguise.
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No Food Waste in Paris.

From the Raven de- Dsux Mondss. ,sa -
In the large lyceums and schools boys are
generally very wssteful; they win throw away
half the bread they get for lunch, tread upon
it, kick II into the gutter, ink IL, &c. None of
these fragments are lost Theservants sellthem
10 certain dealers who are!called boulansers en-
yieux, and turn their aequisitions to rood
account. They hrst pick out III the tolersble
pieces, which they heat in an oven and then rssp
clean Thus prepared, these bits reappear
in the market = the shape Of toast for soup.
Most Of the ooutons cut into lozenees sI'd
served ON the tables Of the rich, with spinach.
have no other origin. A. for the dirty crumbs
and refuse LETT after the picking, they ere
pounded In . mortar and sold TO butchcrs -
chapelure, with which they cover their cutlets
and knuckles Of ham. he really Althy rs
mainder, which \ too bad even for ehapslurs,
Il blackeued over . Are, pounded, and then
mixsd up with honey, aromatissd with few
drops Of essence Of peppermint This = cold
- an opiAts for he toothschs.
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Beer for the workingmen

From the Albany Journal. ~
II II perhaps not GENERALLY known thst in
many establishments in Albany workinsmen
demand the privilege .of bringing beer into the
factories sfog consumption at the noon hour,
and in 81 least one establishment bear Is paid
for BY the proprietors. In this connection few
are svare that In Ill the lithographis estabiiah-
rnents Of this country, where the work 10
iAtion requires Che proprietors to furnish beer
a. Q part Of the employer wages In the mann
moth autographs department. Of the Judqs, ct
New York. for instance, where 600 meK afe
employed, each one receives, undsr Ne terms
Of his coniract With his employers, three pfnts
over seven barrels ere thus consumed daily.
An effort was made q one time 70 - e : -
form could not be instituted "a tkie matter.
but such serious trouble Wa throotsnod thnS
Il bad - be Abandoned No lager, no work.
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Another Evil Of ssMiddleman'' School
Purchases.

To the Editor of TIE EVENING STAR:
Ireceived printed copy Of the official testi-
mony offered before the Taulbee investigating
committee this afternoon, intending to review
the same for the purpose Of placing the entire
matter in its proper light before the commu-
nifty. Opening the pamphlet at random, 1 came
across the sworn statement of ex- Commissioner
West, who testifies on page AZ, line As, that
flames A. Ia lor is not q citizen Of the United
States"
This Taylor is the middleman who apparently
purchased the 9Th street southeast site of Mr..
Francis Dawson and Immediately transferred il
it to the District at an advance Of 25 per cent
Now. under the act passed by the Forty ninth
Congress and amended at the first session of
the Fiftieth, an alien cannot hold title to any
real estate in the District Of Columbia, conse-
quently cannot pass title, therefore his deed Of
conveyance to the District, approved by the
office of the attorney Of the District is invalid
and the title to the ground, upon which mean
while . school building has been erected. ia
still legally vested in the former owner, Mr..
George Francis Dawson n. l. WKILxR.
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The silent Boy.

From ne Bosson Courier.
''Curious boy, that Of your" said ons father
to another; ssalwsys SILENT never hear him
speak sxsept vhsn he = spoken TO-"
- ssHe = . very silent boy" wss ths reply. "His
mother end have frequently noticed IL and
talksd ever II We encourage hin in every
way 10 Be sociahls, but without sEscA After
= lev worda he rehpses into GDsnoo and sits
lookine = Il he werssburied in profound nedi-
tation. don't kks 70 zee boy ef hi - thas
SH@1 III urs yeu I would cure lin Of
Inst habit"
ssAy, but bovF
ss1fske : haxbor of him. ss
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Sale OF Hotel Probertx.

John A. Prescott, the real estate agent, has
sold the St Charles hotel property at the north
east corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Sd
street. The purchaser has plans under con-
sideration for . handsome Improvement Of this
property. agfE - = =.
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ess'ta Allowing . Fair Discount.
From ths Detroit Pres Pfess fiit'a -tisss iias
A newsboy who had been up stairway On
Grisvold strset the other afternoon got { tall
coming down and reached The landing Al
spread out and much the verss for wear. He
WAS shout - sssups vail vhsa q -Usntlsman
stepped into The door and said:
s.Hold on boy-how much'1l Jon takss"
mot ~ ho1ler2"
syes." 81. -,
las, but being It's cash down and nobody
huGhod - me-, ven 'say - cent?. Thankes,
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Electricity for Phthisis.

From the Lancet.
DIR. Libermann. of strasburg, proposes new
treatment for phthisis, based upon some en-
tirely original views. concerning the etiology of
this disease. At one of the congresses for the
advancement Of science, few years since. the
treatment of phthisis by electricity was brought
/ forward, and since then several experimenters
have continued their researches. some having
in view the catalytic action of the galvanic
current, and more particularly the
utilization of its influence over the
vaso-motors; others employing static cleo
tricity electric baths or as a generator of
ozone for inhalation. DIR. Libermann employs
the continuous current, but upon totally differ
ent theoretical grounds. He maintains that
pulmonary phthisis is due 10 a lesion of the
pneumogastric nerves. caused by a cold in pre-
disposed subjects. According TO DIR. Liber-
mann, the first stage Of the disease, that of
congestion of the pneumogastric, is always ac-
companied by paralysis Of one or both vocal
cords. In the second period, military granula-
tions appear in the larynx, lungs and elsewhere
With the third stage that OF proliferation of
the connective tissue Of the affected nerves.
come dyspnoea and hsemoptysis. The last
stage of phthisis corresponds TO the destruc-
ton Of the myeline from fatty degenera-
ton. OF course DIR. Libermann denies
the specifcity of the bacillus, which, he SAYS,
may be found in simple bronchitis and in ca
tarrhal pneumonia. During the first period
described, and which is evidenced by changes
in the voice, paralysis of the vocal cords,
and pain upon pressure Of the pneumogastric
nerves, even when there has been haemoptysis
and an inherited tendency 20 consumption eK-
lists, the galvanic current is a treatment Of
great promise. The positive pole is placed
about half an inch above the clayicle, on the
inner edge of the sterno-mastoid, over the
painful nerve; the negative over the nerve just
below the inferior msxilla. The current should
not exceed 5or milliamperes or last more than
M IN hot eorfe affa tad al M
should be treated, with an interval Of ten
minutes between the applications. The voltai-
sation, says DIR. Libermann, should be prac-
ticed twice day. In the course of fortnight
the changes in the voice disappear, as also the
haemoptysis. The vocal cords recover their
tonicity, which is an evidence Of the restoration
to the normal pneumogastrics. In more adj
vanced cases, cod-liver oil with creasote and
phosphate of lime are given, and haemoptysis
checked by is perchloride Of iron spray. The
haemoptysis, the cough, and the night sweats
are also treated by short douches OF hot water,
followed by short cold shower-bsth-
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