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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-13
FOR SALE-LOTS.

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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
AN ANTIQUE CAMEO.
Rare and Expensive Gems Just Procured
 by an American Collector.

Rare and Expensive Gems Just Procured
 by an American Collector.
 One of the most important accessions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art made this fall is the addition which Maxwell Sommerville, of Philadelphia, has just made to his collection of gems there. This is a beautiful antique cameo of Jupiter Egiochus, preserved from the first century. It was brought by NIr. Sommerville, who has just re- turned from Europe, and placed by him in the case among his collection. He considers it the crowning piece of his splendid assortment of gems. The cameo has long been desired by the French Government for the Louvre, and negotiations for it's purchase were in progress, but MT. Sommerville secured it at cost, it is said, of more than S5O,O00
 The head is engraved on a piece of chrysOpraSe as large as mans hand. The stone is of the finest texture, and is of itself one of the rareSt pieces of the size known. It is of the close of the epoch of Marcus Aurelius, or the earlier years of Commodus. The style is Graeco-Roman, but exceptional for that period. Dr. Hall, the curator of the museum, in speaking of the gem, said it was one wEich arch@ologists and glyptologists have cause to regard as un- attainable.
 Ut is" he added, "a cameo of chryso- prase of India. It was first made known to the learned world in 1887, through the Gazette Archeologique, though nearly a century ago it formed part of a famous English collection. The sub ject is Jupiter Hgiochus, wearing the Dodonean oak leaf wreath; treatment so rare that only one other representa- tion of it is known in art, and only two Homeric lines authenticate the joining of the attributes together. For size, vigor of treatment, rarity of subject, proof of the identity of the sCone as to material and place of origin by it's precious maculations, as well as for the high estimate put upon the immense gem by savants and glyptologists, and fame in the learned journals, this gem has no peer. ."-N. Y. Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
SMOKELESS POWDER.
The Subject Discussed by General Benet,
 Chief Of Ordnance.

The Subject Discussed by General Benet,
 Chief Of Ordnance.
 The subject of smokeless powder for military uses occupies considerable space in the annual report of Brigadier General Benet, Chief of Ordnance, to the Secretary of War. He says:
 ''In the absence of suitable small arms powder there has been no sub stantial pr Ogress in the matter of a small-caliber rifle beyond what has been heretofore reported, except in the nega- tive gain resulting in the apparent abandonment, or tendency that way, abroad of all powders but the sO-called smokeless. This change, involving the return to a grained powder, is, if per manent, an appreciable gain for all in economy and efficiency of the product in the manufacture of Small-arm cart ridges, and may have been brought about as much from the difficulty of Ob- taining uniform and satisfactory results in the way of velOcities and pressures with the compressed powders as from the more valuable properties of the SmokeleSS. No American has yet Sub- mitted for trial a smokelesS powder, and experiment with compressed powders has shown the same eccentricity as de- veloped abroad tending to destroy conf deEoe in the final production of a serv- iceable compressed pOwder-cartridge. All effort official or otherwise, to date to obtain smokeless powder has been abortive, and American powder-makers and chemists have not yet awakened to the lucrative opportunity presented to them. There is reason to believe, from an application made to an officer of the (Ordinance) department more than ten years ago, that smokeless pow derS originated, like many other inven- tions, in America, only to be brought to the attention of the world in foreign countries, although in this instance the person concerned met with encourage ment, of which he did not avail himself.
 ''In view of the present status of the powder question, it is not deemed ex- pedient to produce a small caliber rife for compressed-pOwder cartridges. Such a rife, however excellent in itself, would be inferior to foreign arms using smoke less powder, and consequently unsatis factory to the army and the country at large. It is believed, however, that all the elements entering into the problem, except the powder, are ready for use the moment this powder is obtained.
 "A 3O-caliber rod-bayOnet Springfield rifle has been made, and a rod-bayonet, 3O-cal1ber magazine arm is now in prog ress ot construction in anticipation of the final acquisition of the much-needed powder, so that no time may be lost in presenting for trial both single-loading and magazine small-caliber rifles. "--- Washington Letter,
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
CONNUBIAl BONDS.
How They Can Be Severed in the Province
 of Victoria. Australia.

Ol NICGOIldy AA
 An Australian colonist recently caused co be inserted in the newspapers the toI- lowing brief announcement: Mot nay ing heard of my wife for the past ten years, intend to marry again. John Leary, Post-Office, Geelong." A hus- band who has waited whole decade Tn the hope that his errant spouse may turn up hardly appears open to the charge of being short-tempered, but un- less the laws of the colony of Victoria already include a statute of limltatl ons applicable to matters connubial and covering the case of MT. Leary, It would seem that that gentleman IS at length prepared to run the risk of com mitting bigamy rather than continue any longer in the condition of single blessedness. Probably the above an nouncement is to be explained by measure now before the Parliament of Victoria, andwhich will in all probability shortly become law. This is the so- called Divorce Law Amendment bill, by which, in that portion of the British Elm pire, the dissolution of the marriage tie is to be greatly facilitated. By this  measure a divorce may be granted on various grounds not hitherto admitted as justifying so extreme remedy. Desertion or habitual drunkenness, with neglect or cruelty on the part of either husband or wife, will hencefOrth enable either to obtain divorce neensG ct HorO. If either commits violent as sault on the other, or is convicted of crime, the injured party may, in either case, demand not a mere judicial separation, but final and complete dis solution of the marriage. Legislation of this sort is calculated to shock not a few people of this country, but there can be no doubt that the public feeling is overwhelmingly in it's favor in Vic toria. Indeed, on the passing of the act, a rush of discontented husbands and wives, anxious to avail themselves of it, is anticipated from the other colonies, and 9 clause has accordingly been inserted rendering it necessary that married per sons must have been domiciled in the country for two years at least before their petitions for divorce can be enter. tained. Standard.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
|" "THAT JIM"
How He was Caught at One of His Many
 Thieving Tricks.

How He was Caught at One of His Many
 Thieving Tricks.
 five lost my pepper-pOt," said Debo- rah, looking sharply about the kitchen. ''I wonder if you've been up to any of your tricks, Jim?'
 Jim gave no answer, except a toss of the head, as he slowly walked across the kitchen; but Deborah's quick ears caught little chuckle as he went out the door.
 'I'll give it to you some day, you young rascal, if you carry away my things!' went on Deborah, shaking her fist at the little fellow.
 Whats the matter, Deborah?" asked her mistress, coming into the kitchen.
 ''Oh, it's that Jim! He's always up to mischief. It comes natural to that zip swish sort to be tricky and sneaky, and there's no such thing as gettin' 'em out of it."
 'If it's natural to them we ought to make some allowance for it" said Mrs. Graham, with a smile, as she helped Deborah to hunt for the missing pepper pot.
 'sNo use a-harborin' such, seems to me- said Deborah.
 Maybe so," said Mrs. Graham, ''but none of us, somehow, seem to have the heart to drive him away"
 ''I Ihaver' said Deborah, very decided ly. ''Look-a-there nova everlastin' teaser'
 The two watched Jim as, with rOguish twinkle in his small black eyes, he made his way to where old Carlo was taking his morning nap under the lilac bush, and gave him a sudden poke. The dog raised his head with a grOwl, but Jim stood at a little distance, with grave and innocent look at something on the ground.
 Carlo settled down again, and, quick as lightning, Jim gave him another poke. Up jumped Carlo, with savage look at his tormentOr; but Jim stood in the same place half asleep, and Carlo lay down again with Q long-drawn sigh. Jim kept it up until the poor dog went to find quieter place.
 i've seen him do that dozen times" said Deborah, laughing, and l know he's hidden my pepper-pot. Why, it ain't so long since 1 read a story about one O that set-must "a been first cousin to Jim I reckOn-that stole a elegant breastpin, and it was laid to poor young girl that worked in the family. She was disgraced and turned off, and ever so long after it was found out that that cree tur'd been the thief. I've no use for such!'
 And so every member of the family could have declared, but no one would be the one to say that Jim must 20. In the course of a long drive over country roads, through a heavy storm, the farmer had found Jim drenehed and half starved. Qf course
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
PITH AND POINT.

Nothing grumbles so loud as forced charity.
 The only thing which beats good wife is bad husband.
 You can not do good or evil to oth- CTS without doing good or evil to your self.
 Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves, who are out of favor with all lothers.-Shakspeare.
 The trouble with a man covering up his tracks is that he makes new ones in doing it.-Atchison 0cbe.
 The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do we'll; and doing well whatever you do.-Long- fellow.
 Virtue wants more admirers, wis dom more supplicants, truth more real friends, and honesty more practitioners. Rochester Budget.
 It is always sign of poverty of mind where men are ever aiming to be great, for they who are really great never seem to know it.
 It is a wonder that the world grows better. We come into it with the faults of our ancestors, and go out leaving add ed faults for our descendants.
 It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost any body may prevent
 No man can be rule for all other men in any thing. Dispositions are diff ferent, circumstances are varied, and these must modify every life, and give it character distinctively it's own.
 q wonder why Providence made fools?'' said Binks. "Weu, wisdom would have no value were it not for them," was Jinks' sage repfy.-Merchant Tray eler.
 Jars concealed are half reconciled; while 'tis double task to stop the breach at home and mems mouths abroad. To this end good husband never publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to do penance be- fore all that are present, after which many study revenge rather than re- formation.-Euller.
 In our pursuit of things in this world we usually prevent enjoyment by ex- pectation; we anticipate our own hap piness and eat out the heart and sweet ness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them, so that when we come to possess them they do not answer the expectation nor satisfy the desires which we raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.
 It is, perhaps, natural to wish for the better times which, we have reason to believe, are to come hereafter, though if one can not be happy among the bless ings the world now affords him, it is diff ficult to imagine what would satisfy him. As for those good old times, they are getting to be pretty well discredited, even by those who believe that in cer- tain particulars the former days were better than these.-United Presbyterian.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
OurLittIe Red Rooster.

One spring not long -. Fe had hen that matched quite a Dl d of little chicks, some speckled, some brown, some white. When they were few days old the mother hen became so sick that she could not scratch for her fluffy little brood. In the flock of big chickens was a little red rooster, which had al- ways been a selfish fellow. He would drive all the others away from their food and eat it himself, and we called him mean and greedy. He was getting pretty old, too. But the meanest crea- lures have some redeeming qualities, if one can only find them out. So with this little red rooster; when he found by some sort of instinct that the mother hen was unable to care for her little chicks, he took entire charge of them; stood by them in danger and never let them go hungry. At night he marched them to roost and staid with them. They grew and thrived under his watchtul care until they could care for themselves. Now among these wards of his there proved to be several bullets. When they were old enough to look around for nests, in which to lay their nice white eggs, the faithful little rooster followed them As they sat on the nest he would settle himself near and remain until Miss Pullet announced with furious cackle that new egg was in the nest. He lived to be quite old, and by his kindness to the little family he had voluntarily taken charge of, he won the kindly interest of the entire household. He was sick several times and we nurse him back to health. But at last he died. This is every bit true story. American Agriculturist.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
THE COLLEGE GRADUATE.

He can give the laws of SOlon He can draw the flag of Colon, He can write a Babylonian I O U; He can make a writ in German, He can draft Turkish tirman; But the English common law he never knew He can write his name in Spanish, He can make a speech in Danish, And recite such Sanscrit as would turn your
 brain;
 The Mualakat Arabic
 He can sean in feet syllable; But he couldn't tell old Shakespeare from
 Mark Twain.
 He can fathom all the mystery Of old Ethiopic history; He can name one thousand Morse Kings
 more or less.
 He can mark the Roman bOundries, And describe the Aztec fOundricS; But has never seen the "statutes of U. S." He can trace the radius Vector, With a geometric sector, And can give the moons diameter in feet; He can analyZe the arum, Classify the COptic carum; But he can not tell a cabbage from beet.
 Philadelphia Republic.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
OUR YOUNG READERS.
TWO LITTLE COUSINS.

Two little cousins were Johnny Wing And Mary Merriweather; And they talked of almost every thing, And tley always played together Down by the pond and up in the hay, And out where the men were moving, They wandered many merry day, With cheeks that were red and glowing But they came to Marys mother one day With discontented faces: And asked: Twill we always have to stay In such common, homely places? eve are tired of being JoAnny Wing And Mary Merriweather- We want to be Queen and King, And live in state together!' "Why, then" she replied, ''the very best
 thing,
 If little help we can borrow, Will be to play you are Queen and King We will try to begin tomorrow" Then mammals fingers grew busy indeed, To prepare for grand ovation; And the neighbors were bidden to come with speed
 To witness the coronation. She made them crowns of paper of gold, And a throne with a crimson cover, AnI dressed them in robes that were fold on fold
 Of tinsel and lace all over She placed on his chubby finger ring, And in Mary hair q feather; You would never have guessed it was Johnny Wing
 And Mary Merriweather. There never were hearts more glad and gay Than theirs, when their uncle crowned them;
 There never were monarchs more proue than they.
 When the'r subjects kPeit around them. 'Iong live the Queen. Long live the King! Long reign they both together"' Cried fat and jolly miller Wing, And farmer Merriweather. Then all of their friends such homage paid, And gave them respect so, duly. They quite forgot that they only played, And thought they were reigniug truly. Then they sat in the parlor hours each day, While other chil jr-n were playing And they bowed and smiled in the stateliest way,
 At the dull things people were saying. Ard both oftheir papas were nobles great, Who came with others beside, And they sat and talked of affairs of state, Till the children nearly cried. Soft all went on from day to day, Til of sitting around they were tired; They were weary of clothes so stiff and gay, And they dreaded 10 be admired. They rode in a carriage till they were sick; They hated the company fine; And they wished for a bowl of bread and milk,
 When asked upon dainties to dine. Well, Mary's mother came in one day With scme royal guests from the lawn; And Your Majesties she was going to say, But the King and Queen were gone. The splendid coat, the shining gown, In a corner were thrown aside; A vacant throne and broken crown Were the only things she sped. But G; lco dress and an old straw hat In the wood yard soon were seen; "And what" she cried do you mean by that,
 And where are the King and Queen?' Then the answer came from Mary's lips AS they stood with downcast eyes: ''Why. Johnny is going 10 pick up chips, And am to make mud pies. ''We are tired of being Queen and King, We are going to quit together; We want to be just Johnny Wing, And Mary M MeIriweather"
 Anna R Henderson, in Wide Awake.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
EDITORIAL ENTERPRISE.
How a Wide-Awake Newspaper Man
 Feathered His Own Nest.

How a Wide-Awake Newspaper Man
 Feathered His Own Nest.
 Suppose" said the city editor to the young man with checked trousers who applied for situation as a reporter, ''you go out and write up an account of this funeral.''
 The new reporter started forth, and in the course of time handed in the fol- lowing:
 ''The funeral of MT. Silas Jones was grand but solemn affair. There was profusion of flowers from Briggs, the florists, and any quantity of rich mourning dresses, most of which were from Smith & Go. s dry goods store. The long, somber process sion composed of carriages from Robin sons livery stable, headed by the hearse belonging to Jenkins, the undertaken in charge, moved toward the last resting place over the smooth road that had so recently been regarded by Brown & Sons, contractors. The ceremony in the cemetery was impressive and in every way satisfactory"
 The report was very much garbled by the city editor, but the reporter is wear ing flowers, receiving boxes from Smith & Co.,, and taking frequent carriage rides, just the same.-Merchant Tray eler.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
A MOTHERS HEROISM.
How Good Woman Sacrificed Her Life
 to Assist Her Son.

How Good Woman Sacrificed Her Life
 to Assist Her Son.
 A friend relates to me a case of female hero:sm, of quite recent date, which somewhat reminds me of a much older case, in which Mrs. Disraei was the heroine. In the Quartier Latin of Vienna, the quarter around the Wiener Allgemeines Krankenhaus, there lived an aged widow and her only son, a medical student. They were so poor that the mother was obliged to sew almost day and night, and the son gave lessons, which occupied the time nec- essary for his studies in order to enter university life.
 On the Continent poor students are as frequent to be found as in Scotland, and in Vienna they form the majority A good number of mere boys may be seen running about from one end of the city to the other, giving lessons whilst they are themselves still pupils at the gyna- nasium (the continental grammar schooD, and of the university students at least two-thirds are defraying the e1- penses of their 5udies out of their own earnings. This works satisfactoril v so long as the minor examinations hav3 to be passed, but when the students have the Dol1tor-EXamen or the StaatS- Examen before them, assistance be- comes necessary, as studying hard and cramming others have proved to be iD- compatible. In such cases, the poo. mother or the sister, perhaps a seam- stress or dresSmaker, or may be the bride-elect, who is also dependent oE needle-work, will for months strain her eyes and work her fingers to the bone to allow the candidate, who is the pride of the family, and may in days to come be it's support, to devote himself entirely to his books to prepare for his examina. tion.
 The son of this poor widow was such 8 candidate, and whilst he was diligently applying himself to his studies, the final examination being very near, the mothec deprived herself of the pleasure ef even seeing him. One evening the poor old woman pricke1 her finger with her needle. Soon her hand became swollen and the woma1 sought medical advice at a hospital. There she was told the finger must be amputated and she insisted upon the operation be- ing performed at once, so that the ac- cident might be concealed from her son Twenty-four hours later the whole hand was gangrenous and had to be taken off Not whisper of this misfortune was allowed to reach her sons ears.
 At last the examination day for the doctors degree arrived. The young man left for the university after taking a nasty farewell of his mother, and he had hardly quilted the house before the doctors arrived to amputate the arm of the silent old sufferer. It was an ad- vanced hour of the day when the son came home radiant with joy to tell his mother that their days of anxiety and want were at an end; that he had passed with honors, and that it would now be his turn to provide for his parent. But the one to whom he intended to con- municate his joy was no more. Even the last operation was made too late, and blood poisoning was the consequence of her endeavors to hide her pains from her studious son Vienna Cor, Londog Standard
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28

A citizen of this place was presiding over the deliberations of meeting ana things were not going to suit him. He finally delivered the following opinion: According to parliamentary law, 1t re- ouires a two-thirds vote to carry that motion. and the chair decides that there are not that many here" The meeting at once adjourned. That settled it. Atchison (Kas.) Champion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28
A Subseuuent Discovery.

Archie de Veu Cealously)-Who was that scare-crow you just met on the stairs?
 Mabel Blossom - That was an old friend of mine.
 Archie de Veu-Ah! indeed (sarcas- ticaiIy), was he the ugliest man you could find?
 Mabel Blossom (sweetly)-Yes; but that was before l met you, Apcbie.- Time,
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-28

When man sets out to do business he should figure on the probable gain or loss. A Yankee goes over to Canada, passes forged checks to the amount of about S4OO and is sent to prison for thirty years. If he can figure out any profit in this he should give the public his balance sheet.-Detroit Free Press.