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al rich as Creosote, and though all 1 ever
cot from It we're notices of assessments, it .
vas paving concern, for I always had to
nav 'em; and to lose my stock in this way
IS case of the most fragrant congratula-
tion.'' :,
She ran down here like melancholy old
wooden clock, and kept running down until
two reefs had to be taken in the back OF her
black bombazine gown, and nervous pros
tratiop was so imminent that DIR. Clavlcie.
her physician, having exhausted all his
suecifcs, decided, after an inspiring suck Of
his cane and a dubious shake of his watch
seal. that change of cline and scene was
necessary to restore her status quo. This,
he very kindly explained to her, meant that
If the abnormal ascendency could be sub
ordinated to the natural idiosyncrasies,
healthy eouilibrium would be restored, and
An inyiporated sVstem would be the result.
This was q settler in more senses than one,
and the conclusion reached that she must
go. But where, was the question? Frog
Run" at Beanville, seemed to be the pest
place Of any, as she had first opened her
ewes in that enchanting locality, and a. the
| tiRun" boasted of but one scattering house,
| ouiet was assured. 1t was at the run"
that Paul Partington had found her many
| wears before-P. P, of the "Bloody Sew
snth's of 1872, so called from the fact of its
| never having seen a fight, in which Paul
| had won the chevron of corporal by his
heroic exertion, in getting up company
lunches on training days-and of whom he
was won't to say, to those who asked him
where his amiable wife came from, "she
| came by the Run" This is preserved in
Beanville as the only original joke ever
perpetrated in the town.
Here at the "Run," where she could hear
the meetin' house bell at BeanVille, she
vepetated during two summer months, and
here the few friends who knew where she
was visited her, besides q country doctor,
with a pair of saddle-bags, who came every
day to pour the latest news into her ears, out
of paper three days old-assuring her that
news. like beefsteak, was better if kept over
| a few days-and pouring into her mouth the
vile decoctions OF drugs that dated from the
days of Esculapius. avoiding, by not curing
her. the chance of being struck by lightning
as his old predecessor was, for which read
the fable. She sat out under the "am bigu
ous'' trees. as she would call them, and Ike
by the same authority, 6shed for frogs anc
turtles in the ''limping" waters that flowed
Contagious"
One day there came visitor to the Run
a voune mana sallor-mate OF the brll
seven Pollies, of Rivertown, who was !
relative of Mrs. Partington. 1t was 5
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A LEARNED REsTAURATEUR.
M. Thoyson's Titles to Fame-ThInss he
Has Written.

m. Thoyson's Titles to Fame-Things ne
Has Written.
Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph.1
Considerable fame has already been meted
out to M. Rarel, a Parnassian bOniiace, who
keeps an inn in Normandy, and whose
pleasing poetical compositions have re-
ceiyed the "Hall mark" Of the French
Academy. Unknown, however, as yet, save
to a small circle of literary people and
students, is NJ. Eugene Thoyson, who has
recently distinguished himself as
hagiological historian, having pro-
duced q book on Saint Mathurln
which is a perfect mine Of ICON
ographic erudition. By profession NJ.
Thoyson is restaurateur, and keeps i've
storied establishment on the outer Doule-
wards. wherein humble hvmeneal parties
find all-round refreshment on their wedding
morns, and dance in spacious salons pour
noces to the sounds of the fiddle and the
flute. NJ. Thoyson's collateral pursuits,
and his sound knowledge of the classics
both Greek and Latin-ydo not prevent him
from keeping what is vulgularly described
as an eye to number one, ana no matter
how immersed he may be in hagiolog1caI
lore, he finds time to cater admirably Tor
his numerous guests.
| M. Thoyson, besides his compendious and
undoubtedly valuable volume on Saint
Mathurin, has written various monographs
on his native region of the Gatlnais, in the
northwest of France, and there is nothing
to prevent him from receiving in time a
laureate's crown and money prize from the
Academy, like the bardic boniiace OF La
Belle Normandie Writers of sensational
| fiction could not do better in the meantime
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uNBLEAcHED DRIED FRUITS.
Public Opinion on the Practice Has Been
Entirely Wrong.

Entirely Wrong.
American Agriculturist.1
The bleaching of evaporated dried fruits
has become quite general. This is surpris-
ing. as no good reason can be given for the
practice. 1t always Injuries the natural
favor of the fruit. By bleaching all varieties
look alike. If of natural color, the quality
can be better judged. The chief, if not
the only, argument in favor of bleaching
fruit is, its superior whiteness, some dealers,
cooks and consumers appearing to think
more of color than of quality. By some
means the New York Board of Health was
led to give an opinion that bleaching was
not injurious, but that does not alter the
fact that it does impair the natural flavor of
fruits.
when bleaching became craze, one
eyapora.or company evidently did it be-
cause others had, and the early boom in
price for such white fruit led nearly all to
do it. Now that reason and common sense
have begun to return on the subject, it is
hoped that public opinion will cause the
practice to cease as suddenly as 1t began.
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Seven Pollies will sail in two weeks, and
YOU can slip away as easy rs rolling on
log, if you have ever tried that. There are
other passengers going, and if we don't all
give you a. high old ti.+e then my names
not 81 Pelton."
Mrs. Partington was astonished, and she
pondered the proposition, especially the
part where her rolling of log was sug-
gested, at which figure she had silently de-
INJURED.
''I don't like steamships" said she.
."Bless you," he replied, call the steam
there is on the Seven Pollies Is what comes
from the cooks kettle" Why she is going
to carry 40 horses"
"Well, that Is commodious," said she,
land are they impaired into spans?"
"They are generally impaired" he said,
''before they get there
.'Well, / do declare, said she, ST feel
predisposed to try it, and Isaac needs re-
coopering as well as myself. Come here,
dear, and tell US how you would like to go
to the West Indies in q vessel with 40 horses
detached?',
Ike had come in as they were talking,
and was amusing himselfb by putting good
sized spotted turtle into the sahor's hat and
encouraging its efforts to escape over the
side. the reptile tipping the hat over upon
| the floor with bang.
Bully" was his response to the inquiry.
q The conversation was continued until she
determined that it was best to accept the
| offer to join the Seven Pollies, so well pro
vided with horses, and enjoy trip to the
| equator. Thus it was that on certain
| pleasant morning, Mrs. Partington and Ike,
the latter astride Of trunk, on behind the
| carriage, was driven down the wharf, beside
| which lay the good brig Seven Pollies,
ready to cast off her fasts, and proceed tc
| sea-
Mrs. Partington's first thought was about
the horses.
"There they are, suntie, said 81 helping
her to alight, "on the deck yonder. Z"
"Well. why arn't they hitched on?"
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sAcRED PLANT IN ENGLAND.
The KistletOe Has History Running Back
TO the Druids.

The MIstletOe Has a History Running Back
TO the Druids.
Mistletoe is one of those plants called
PARASITES. The mistletoe is gray, thread
like plant, and you will sometimes see it
about the streets for sale at Christmas time,
for, like the holly. it is Christmas plant,
saws a writer in "Little Men and Women. F"
There are many different kinds Of mistle-
toe but that which grows on the oak is the
most famous in English history.
In England, although the people think
great deal of having the mistletoe Of the oak
fo deck their houses at Christmas, II is not
allowed in the churches.
Many. many hundred years ago the
mistletoe was a sacred plant in England.
The people did not worship the one true
Goo. but they believed in several evil spir-
its and these spirits they worshiped and
tried TO please. For these spirits they sci
apart the oak trees.
The priests were called Druids, and they
built their affairs in oak groves. There they
prayed and sang their hymns of praise.
Dressed in long, white robes, these Druids
marched in procession in the oak trees, and
cut off the mistletoe with knives Of gold.
After saving q prayer over it, they cut it IN
short pieces and gave it as New Years
gift among the people, who kept 1t care
fully.
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Pelton. of Onion Corner, who had run away
to sea years before, after pushing his father
down through the barn floor scuttle into
potato bin, and, contrary to all predictions,
had 'prospered and been forgiven as all pros
perous people should be. BE had not come
to see Mrs. Partington on this occasion, but
the one with whom she was stopping, rela-
tiyeIy nearer, and he was surprised and
nIeased to see her there.
"HeIlo, auntie," said he. shaking her
hand as If it were a marlinspike, didn't
expect to see you here. How are ytu?
isI don't know, dear" she replied; "what
with the spine in my back and the nell
roloey in my head, this tronble, and that,
and the aches and pains coutemptuous,
Am not very we'll myself The doctor said
I must 90 away to recover my equalabra-
ham. and heaven alone knows what the end
will be-" -
"Sorry you are 50 poorly, auntie, " said ne,
a. he threw his glazed hat into chair.
He was no long-tail-eoated, soft-hatted
sailor. such as we almost never see, nova
days. but real hearty bluejacket with
wide trousers and turned-over collar. and
looked as fresh and breezy as the ocean he
| sailed; his open, honest face was an atone
ment for past irregularity, and Mrs Part
| inpton "took to him'' at once, reading him
through her penetrating spectaeles, which
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beamed upon him with concentrated kind

beamsd upon him with concentrated kind
ness. -,
'The sea Is what you want" said he, lay
ing his hand on her shoulder as II 1t were
tackle block.
s'I should like to see better" said she,
smiling upon him, land my spectacles are
hardly strong enough; but am going 10 get
me some parabolical glasses that are saio 70
be very pernicious to the eyes.
ssI mean the sea-s-e-a-the ocean," he
replied, enjoying her mistake. Now, why
not 90 off with me to the West Indies? The
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D1spOsISG OF KIcKERS' LETTERS,
Complaints of Dissatisfied Railway Patron
Put 10 n Novel Use.

Complaints of Dissatisfied Railway Patrons
Put 10 n Novel Use.
New York Sun.l
A newspaper man went to interview the
superintendent of one of the elevated roads
few days ago with lot of letters COM
planning that the cars on the road were too
cold.
'sYou'Il save me lot of trouble if you'll
let me have those letters" said the superin-
tendent, reaching into his desk and taking
out a package Of documents.
"How is that?"
sWhy here is a bundle Of complaints We
have received about the cars being kept too
warm. If you'll let me have yours can
send the cold letters to the hot writers and
the hot letters, to the cold writers, and 50
make all the growlers answer each other. "
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tint. and the woodwork and mantels are OF
pearl white. The dining room is on the
Ground floor and its walls are hung with
crimson tapestry, and the chairs are up
holstered in red leather. The sideboard is
of old oak and the whole house is adorned
with the pictures and brie-a-brac which
Secretary Blaine picked up in Europe.
This house and lot is worth now at least
SlOO. 900. and the lot would bring $50, ,00O
under the hammer. Still it was once
SOLD FOR A JACKAsS,
and It was Henry Clay who sold it. 1t is
lust across the street from the White House,
and CLAY had often refused to sell 1t. One
day. however, old Commodore Rogers came
home from tie Mediterranean with his ma
val vessel full of live stock which be picked
up abroad. One of CLAWS hobbies was stock
farming, and Rogers cargo included one
fine Andalusian jackass. Clay saw 1t and
wanted it. The Commodore refused to sell,
but at last said, laughingly:
"You can have him for your lot opposite
the White House"
Ozone" said Clay, and the animal was
shipped off to Kentucky. Commodore Rog-
ers built a big four-story brick on the
ground. and this brick has been the scene of
many Washington festiyity. Init Blaine
will entertain this winter, and in it Seward
dined the diplomats when he was Secretary
| OF State.
The Wanamaker front door is also an
| historic one and this mansion has been a
| Cabinet house for a number of administra-
tions It was in it that President Arthur
called on Tillie Frelinghuysen and gave rise
to the report that there was to be soon a
marriage in the White House. 1t was in
this that Mrs. Whitney held her grand re-
ceptions, and the gorgeous paintings of her
ballroom have given place to the works of
art purchased by the Postmaster General.
This house will be open during the coming
season, and 1t has been 50 refurntshed that
it will be grander than ever.
THE SILENT SENATOR'S HOME.
Senator Matt Quay keeps house on ]
street, beyond Wanamaker's. Plumb, ol
Kansas, boards Henry B. Payne occupies
a rented house on Vermont avenue, and just
next to him Allison, of Iowa, lives in the
house which came to him through the death
OF his wife. Senator Mitchell, OF Oregon,
has rented fine mansion on Connection
avenue, and Dolph is living in his old guar
ters near the White House. Manderson, o.
Nebraska, has rented the big double brich
which Fafwell, of Chicago, had last season
He has taken it for term of years, and hal
furnished il to the Queens taste. Hereto
fore he had lived in fats, and he now ha
one of the best houses in Washington, ant
in the most fashionable part OF the city.
just above him are two fine white stonI
houses, which belong to CONGRESSMAN
Bayne. OF Pittsburg. These houses ar
worth about $3o, 900 apiece, and Tom Bayn'
lives in the bigger Of them, while tn
smaller is rented to General Anson 9. Nc
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Cook, of New York. Senator Hoar, OF
Massachusetts, is living near the White
House. Mcmillan, OF Michigan, mas
bought an $50. 900 mansion on Vermont
avenue, and George Gray, Of DelaWare'
lives just above the Shoreham, where Stew
art, Of Nevada, boards.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Letter, paws him S11, 600 year and does not
ure Il more than four months out of the
twelve. Mr.. Letter is here this winter and
bis family are making the money fly.
Across the street from this is Senator Stew
srtss castle. for which the Chinese Legation
nav him rent of $40. coo year, and which
ne Nevada Senator says he owns butcanLot
afford to live in. understand that he
would ike to sell 1t, and that his price is
Sos 600 cash. One hundred thousand dol
iars seems big thing to pay for house.
But washington has dozens Of such man
rione and big transfers are made every
week. see advertised to-day the residence
or Stanley Matthews. The price asked is
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a story that she had eloped-but only to
very few was the secret of her where
abouts impaired; which secret, the
possessor was pledged, by herself, to
keep 'sinvulnerable. It was thus kept
but it was hard to meet the frequent de-
mand for information regarding her from
all sorts of people. Ike, too, was missing,
which involved the matter IN deeper mys-
terry. The fact was that Mrs. Partington
had been threatened with operation of
mind" to use her own phrase (meaning
aberration), caused by the failure of the
Nip and Tuck Railroad, in which her two
shares came to grief.
SIT is coincidence in my life," she said ,
"that cannot be digested, because am no I
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rh.r,re eo. o.. Of IAe HabI..

Washington Star.1
Time was when poets and ''the eood"died
Young. Now they write PHILOSOPHY" and
touch Azrael at or about so.
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prefers to 90 back 70 MS olu hisOottS
Quarters in this hotel. Room ana
board at the National and MetroPolitan lL1
haseis sosr from $50 per month upward per
person, and the Metropolitan, Nauonal ana
Hamilton hotels are among the COED but net
dear hotels of Washington.
BIG BOARD BILLS.
Tt coSts more at the hotels nearer the
White House and Frank Hiseock, Gil
Pierce. Platt, of Connecticut; Washburn, OF
Minnesota, and Squire, OF Washington,
who are at the Arlington, have board bills
which run we'll up into the hundreds Of dol
lars a month. Frank Hiscock rattles around
in the rooms so long filed with the
greatness of Charles Sumner and his front
windows look out upon the'White House
toward which his eyes are ambitiously
turned. Senator Farwel lives in Morton's
big fat, The Shorehsm, where the cheapest
quarters are 81, 200 year, while Dixon, OF
Rhode Island, stops at the Arno nat on
Sixteenth street, and Paddock, ,of Neoraska,
has his old quarters at the Portland, just
onposite Bob Schenck's residence. Bate,
Of Tennessee, and Joe Blackburn, of Ken
tuckv. have comfortable quarters at the Eb-
bitt House.
Nearly all the Senators keep house. Sen
ator Hearst is boarding at Welcker's, but
he had bought the big brick house near
Blaine's which Secretary Fairchild occu-
pied last year, and he is building big ad-
dition to it. Mrs. Hearst is one of the most
noted entertainers of Washington, and
neither expense nor care is being spared in
the making of her house beautiful one.
Senator Sawyer, who has for years lived in
the house which Jefferson Davis occupied
when he was here in Washington, has
stopped paying,rent and hasbuilt magnih.
cent brown stone mansion within stones
throw of the Dupont circle. It is worth al
least $50, 600 and Sawyer's millions viii
keep it in fine style. There are fine houses
all around it.
EDMUNDs' DoNJoN KEEP.
In block near by Senator Edmund
hides his exclusiveness in his iron-barreC
donion keep. His house is a red pressed
brick with a copper-plated bay window
which has riYets as big around as a trad
dollar. Edmunds' Office is on the grounr
floor near the buffers pantry and his par
lors and library are above. The house
worth about S5O, 900, and the-lot on which
is built cost the Senator S14, 900 some year
ago.
Just above it is BIsine's barn-like palace
for which the rich retired merchant, MI
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Ss7. 800, which is less than the value of the
ground and the improvements. Near oy
this is the home of the late Senator Yrlee'
which Is one of the finest houses In wash
ington, and which was decorated BY t1e
famous painter. Lafarge. This is for sale
at S1O0. 600. and Senator Palmer, now Min
lister to Spain, is asking $125,OOO for his
Washington house.
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FORCE AIDS FINEssE.

kind. But he does il, and drives across the
country with his money and his new ac-
duaintances.
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it need carpet OF bank notes in order to
pay the sum demanded for them. At the
head of il ex-senator Henderson, of st.
Louis, has built grand brown stone castle,
and this is about ready for occupancy. 1t
has turrets and towers, balconies and cozy
hooks, and it must have cost in the neigh
borhood of 100000 to build it. 1t has
large lot about it on the side of the hill, and
its windows give view of all of Washing
ton and miles of the Potomac Valley. Just
above it is Joaquin Miller's log cabin.
HISTORIC MANsIoNG.
A number of the Senators live in historic
quarters. Senator Cameron paid SCI, 900
some years ago for the old Ogle Tayloe man
sion on Lafayette Square. 1t is three
story brick of dirty yellow with an iron
portico running along the second story above
an English basement The front door is
painted olive green and the lower story con-
tAins the Office of the Senator and his recep-
ton room. The parlors are on the second
floor and the house is nicely furnished. In
this house have been entertained all OF the
Presidents since the days of Andrew Jack
son, and Winfield Scott and Martin Van
Buren have often put their legs under the
mahogany in its dining room. One day
when General Scott was dining here viO-
lent hailstorm occurred, smashing the win
dows and bringing down Jumps of ice the
size of hickory nuts. These hailstones were
brought into the table and Scott, as he
dropped one of them into his wineglass, said
Ladies, we will cool our champagne with
celestial ice. ("
Just below this houss.of Cameron s is the
home of Secretary Blainel De rents the
house, but he has refnFnished and repaiuted
It. You enter the ground floor from the
lgR I1EGsst.TTes.est. ..s-, through ugh an
A II ! 1.=Itl and you find the
g 940 q r. II paIlSrs on the sec.
. &zTTmSlI S ing room is fur
3#47EEH#HE3 4-4a#4#stHs II u nished in salmon
-S@5L 1-=-
@8{@ 1sL1szHan
&se@-%
| s.--,o- Er5vn,t1ds DozSo1 ReeD
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IKE AND HIS MOTHER
Come Out Of Their Mysterious Re-
tirement Into Public Life.
MRS. PARTINGTON'S TRIP ABROAD.
Her Psrplsxitiss. Predlcaments and Predi'
lections
BEFORE AND AETER RER RETURN
rwErrrnH ron THE DISPATCH
CHAPTER 1.

HE sudden disappear
ance Of Mrs. Partington
from public view for a
number of years excited
considerable in terest,
first and last, and great
curiosity was expressed
as to where she had hid
herself-some invidious
l.v;rn sof an fn7t
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RUINED By REAL ESTATE.

Ex-Secretary Of the Navy Rooeson was
ruined bv owning big house In Masnlng
ton and his mansion on Sixteenth street
has been on the market for long time at
somewhere between $4,000 and S1o0. .00O-
Within the last few days the "for sale" sign
house has been sold. Just below this is the
beautiful home OF the late Senator Pendle-
tor. which will probably be for sale on &C
count OF the Senator's death, and across the
street is the great red brick whicn Wlnoom
hn;It and in which Blaine wrote the greater
part Of his book. This has been sUld for q
GOOD round sum. Next door to Pendleton
Is Senator Cameron's old house, which has
enough rooms for summer notel, anc
banker, for Se5, ,OOO Morgan expected to
cut a swell in it, but he died the same year
he bought it, and his widow owoccuplesi II.
Sixteenth street is the wide avenue lead
ing from the White House north to the
boundary. It is one Of the most iashlon-
able streets of Washington, and lots upon
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STATESMEN HOMES
Where Our Senators and Rep
reSentatiVeS Live.
DON OAMERON'S HOUSE.
Secretary Blaine's Residence on
Henry Clay's Old Lot
v-cFNA Tnp uENDERS0N'S CASTLE
DON CAMERON's HOUSE.
EX-SENATOR HENDERsOE'S CASTLE

tooHREsroNDENcE OF TIE DIsrkTcH.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., December 2S.
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Castle Henderson.

prefers to 60 back to his old historic
Quarters in this hotel. Rnom and
board at the National and Metropolitan
hot.is oosr f-arn $50 per month upward per
person, and the Metropolitan, National and
Hsmiiton hotels are annong the'gOed but net
dear hotels of w Washington.
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VERY one
of the noted
hou es of
Was hington
will b e
thrown open
next week.
On the LIST of
January the
p m pous 8
Was hington
butler will