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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-08-01
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Louisiana State Lottery COmpany.

incorporated By the legislature for Educational and
Cnartable purposes, and It's franchise mads part 81
ne present State Constitution In 1873 By OysrEha
Ing popular vote.
Hts MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place
Semi.Annually June and Deeember). and
aus GHAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS
take place in each of the other ten months OF
the year, and are all drawn in public, at the
Academy Of Music, New Orleans, La.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-08-01

81 have reasons TO believe that have been
benefited by this treatment, and commend il to
those whose nervous systems need to be invig1
Grated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
An Applicant for Charity.

George W. Childs' applicants for charity are
almost endless in number, says the New York
Sun, and the devices they resort to display an
amount Of ingenuity which, if directed toward
honest labor, would probably win success. The
other morning a man walked into Mr.. Childs'
Office, with his hair artistically disarranged and
an appearance Of long-drawn misery on his
countenance.
"Mr Childs," he said, shortly, and with an
air OF utter desperation, "Fm an embezzler
and a thief"
''Dear me-" said the philanthropist, looking
over his spectacles calmly at his visitor.
"My family" continued the man, twill be
disgraced and will be ruined for life unless
can get q, 600 by o'clock. am the cashier
Of certain bank In this city, as you would
know IL your memory for faces is good since
we have met several times in the course of
business arrangements"
Mr.. Childs looked the man over carefully and
decided that he had never met him before A
relation Of this fact did not seem to disturb the
alleged cashier to any large extent He poured
out torrent of eloquence in which he pic
tured the awful disgrace which was about to
fall upon his family, the misery which his ex-
posture would entail on everybody, and wound
up by saying that if the 2,000 were not forth
coming at once he would commit suicide Mr.
Childs said he was very sorry, but it would be
impossible for him to assist his unknown appli-
cant. Then the man, after fully digesting the
fact that he had failed, arose, and with bitter
smile left the room. 1t was one of the many
schemes which the impecunious endeavor to
work with the aged philanthropist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Glut in the Coal Market,

TALK or GENERAL SUPPRESSION AT THE MINES.
A Philadelphia special to the Baltimore
American says: Talk of a general suspension Of
coal mining operations for q week is beginning
to be heard among operators here. The market
is glutted. On January there were 652,0OO
tons Of anthracite coal at tidewater points, the
estimated stock now is 1,100,0 900 tons, the
greatest amount on hand at one time in the
history Of the trade. This does not include the
stock Of the Delaware and Hudson canal COM
pany at Honesdale, which is quite large. nor
the very considerable quantity piled up at Buff
falo by the Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna and
Reading companies. The production keeps up
at the rate of CSC, 600 tons week, but not half
of it is sold, the greater portion being thrown
on the large and increasing piles at tidewater.
1t Is pretty certain that small operators who
have their capital locked up In unstable coal
will take advantage of the first indication Of a
demand to unload at the best prices obtainable,
leaving the large companies to get out as best
they may. To prevent this apparently inevita-
BILE break, officials of some of the large produc-
ing companies are urging general suspension
Lehigh coal and navigation company will stop
operations at most Of its collieries next week,
partly with this object in view and partly to
make repairs.
Trade is everywhere reported a. dull. Yes.
sci freight rates to Boston have declined to
CLIPS per ton, but there Ia little business for
them. The contract for supplying sc, 900 tons
of pea coal to the Philadelphia water works has
been awarded to the Lehigh navigation COM
paid last year. The Reading company is push
ing work on its four new colleries, and efforts
will be made to get them in operation some
time this fall,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
The Worlds Great Race.
IT rs THE EQUITABLE THING THAT THE BEST MAN
SHOULD WIN

IT rs THE EQUITABLE THING THAT THE BEST MAN
SHOULD WIN.
Bishop Potter in Scribner's Magazine.
Nothing is clearer than that rivalry and COM
petition are not merely actual but inevitable
elements of human life. And therefore is it
our wisdom not to pretend that they do not
exist, and even less to pretend that there is
something so naughty in them that they ought
not to exist, and, least of all, to pretend that
though they are naughty, they are nevertheless
necessary, and we must compete and strive and
struggle to excel and outwit our neighbor Just
as hard as we can, only taking care, il possible.
not to let anybody see what we are doing or
suspect in US the competitive spirit. In a word,
this Is just one of those questions which wants
to be ventilated with strong breeze of candid
and courageous common sense, and there can
be no filter moment for opening the windows
and letting such breeze blow through than
just now.
Let us understand, then, that competitions
strife to excel, nay, If you choose, downright
rivalry-has Just and rightful place in the
plan of any human life. A prize-fehter ia
probably the most disgusting spectacle on
earth, but it has in it just one moment which
very nearly approaches the sublime; and that
Is when the combatants shake hands with each
other and exchange that salutation as old as
the classic arena, may the best man win"
or course it is possible to suppose such thing
as life without rivalries and competitions, and
to look forward to a time when, amid other
conditions, they will be at once needless and
incongruous, but in such life as ours is now
IN life, that is to say, which so plainly has
discipline and education for its end-to take
all rivalry and competition out of it would be
wholesome agencies for the ennobling Of human
character
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
John Bull Owns Up.
THE AMERICAN GIRL Is THE GIRL OF THE prR1c


THE AMERICAN GIRL rs THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
From the London Queen.
The, London Daily Telegraph says It may
fairly be acknowledged that the american
girl is the girl Of the period. What she may
become in the future nobody can tell At
present her destiny seems superb. Her father
finds silver strikes oil, kills pigs by the million
or raises corn by the square mile. She is pretty,
can talk well, does not know what Difference or
diffidence means and enters Europe full of
money. 'If he but shakes travelling cloak.
down our Appian roll the scudi," said Mrs.
Brownings Roman of John Bull. II is still
truer OF the little girl whom Uncle Sam does
his best to spoil by unlimited tenderness and
innumerable cheques As q result of her
beauty, her smartness or her wealth-some-
Italian princes and English dukes at her feet,
and can capture ooronets at her will Some
times, as Mr.. Henry James and Mr.. Howells
point out she Is not SO eager for these orna-
ments as might be expected. For the truth
must be told-marriage does not seem to the
fair American what it still means to the ma
jority OF English women. Whether we call it
a virtue or a fault, she can do without il.
French women, their countrymen say, are
not blameless as wives, but perfect as mothers.
Young American ladies of culture do not greatly
desire, it is said either to be wives or mothers.
1t is well then, that they should come to English
soil to find out for themselves the attractive.
ness of English nurseries and homes. They
Will learn here that no queen in society has 90
true throne as the wife and mother who mixes
love with rule; and even il in future years the
slender Yankee belle is hidden behind the
ampler beauty Of the English matron, we NAV
still hear from her lips the wit and shrewd-
and the rapid repartee that proclaim her origi-
nal nationality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Havre-de-Grace Has a Ghost.

A Havre-de-Grace special to the Baltimore
American says: For the past several weeks a
masked person has been seen in the neighbor-
hood of the Salvation army barracks, on Stokes
street. One night last week one of the city
councilmen, who lives in that neighborhood,
was followed home, and when he turned to see
what was wanted large knife was drawn on
him, and, 1t was said, he took for home. The
ghost has become the terror Of the neighbor-
hood among children and women, and the bows
have armed themselves with revolvers deter
mined to find out who it is and what it wants.
Last night it was seen and some one fred at it.
but the shot was lodged and the ball struck a
colored woman, injuring her severely. The
ghost escaped, but whoever it may be win be
hly dealt with if caught.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Stays and the Heart.
INJURIOUS EFFEcTs OF TIaHT CLOTHING DUR

INJURIOUS EFFEcTs OF rraHT CLOTHING puRINo
Dr.. d. A. Sargent In scribner's Magazine,
In order to ascertain the influence of tight
clothing upon the action Of the heart during
exercise dozen young women consented this
summer to run $40 yards in their loose gymna-
SUM garments and then to run the same dis
lance with corsets on. The running time was
two minutes and thirty seconds for each per-
son at each trial, and in order that there should
be no cardiac excitement or depression follow
ing the first test the second trial was made the
following day. Before beginning the running
the average heart impulse was 81 beats to the
minute; after running the above-named dis
lance the heart impulse was l52 beats 10 the
minute; the average natural waist girth being
Is inches. The next day corsets were worn
during the exercise, and the average girth of
waist was reduced to "a inches. The same dis
lance was run In the same time By all and inn
mediately afterward the average heat impulse
was found 70 be 16s beats per minute. When I
state that should feel myself justified in adj
yising an athlete not 70 enter Q running or row
ing race whose heart impulse was 160 beats per
minute after . little exercise, even though
there were not the slightest evidence Of disease,
one can form some idea Of the wear and tear on
this important organ, and the physiological
loss entailed upon the system In women who
force IL 70 labor for over half their lives under
snch disadvantage as the tight corset i'm
poseA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Queer Ways I'm Vienna.
From Chambers Journal.


Nothing except the linen, plate, china, and
glass is ever served twice at the Austrian court
tables, but the full meaning Of this cannot well
be graspsd by anybody who has not seen the
system at work. Some Of the servants have az
their perquisites the bottles which have
come up to the dining room but have not been
uncorked; others the uncorked bottles, and
others again the wine that remains in the
glasses. Therefore it is the interest Of one set
of servants TO keep the glasses full of another
set to draw as many corks as possible. while
parting with as little wine as they can and of a
third set to draw corks sparingly. The result
Is that often a great deal of unseemly whisper
ing and nudging goes on at the sideboards.
As regards the food. too. there are different
orders Of claimants for perquisitss, one man
having vested interest in the joints. another
IN the poultry, third in the sweet dishes, and
SO on Then there are the men to whom the
wax candles belong, and these naturally make
rush TO blow out the candles the moment the
last guest has walked out of the room.
Altogether, this system Of perquisites causes
the imperial banquets to be served in double
quick time. so thai the longest Of them seldom
lasts beyond three-quarters Of an hour. The
emperor's dining hour is o'clock; but il is
etiquette for the guests to arrive q clear half
hour beforehand After dinner coffee and
cigars are served in q smoking room; the en-
Peror fingers about quarter Of an hour, and
the guests separate soon after $50.
But another curious result Of the perquisite
system is this, that the court servants make
open traffic Of the imperial leavings. Incredible
as IL may sound, there il a basement corridor
in the palace which is like bazar full of shops.
Here not only the keepers Of small hotels and
restaurants, but the cooks of many ladies be-
longing TO the second-class official world, come
10 buy cold meats, pastry, sweetmeats, wines
and candles. There Is one sort of Tokay which
can only be bought from the court servants, as
none Is made except for the emperor; IL Is to
be presumed, however, that the uncorked bot
ties OF champagne and other fine wines are
generally sold by the dozen, and they must
form q very substantial perquisite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
The Kaiser and the Berlin Students.

he ACCUSES THEM OF IRRELI0roN, IMMORTALITY
AND DANGEROUS POLITICAL LEANINas
The celebration Of the emperor's birthday
on Monday will be opened by the trumpeters
OF the guards, after reveille, playing hymn
from the cupola of the palace chapel A salute
Of 1O1 guns will be fred at noon. The imperial
family will attend service in the palace chapel
in the morning and in the dom in the after
noon. Some Of the students of the university
proposed to arrange a torchlight procession,
but the emperor intimated that he did no!
desire any public manifestation. A section of
the students, irritated by remarks which the
emperor recently addressed to Rector Geb-
hardt, propose to hold hostile demonstration
in front of the palace.
Prof. Gebhardt says that the emperor Sc
vereiy commented upon the immoral life of
the students and their tendency toward ire
ligion. His majesty said that a majority of
the students professed progressist doctrines,
and were encouraged therein by democratic
professors. He further complained that the
growth Of the Jewish element in the university
was among the principal agents Of the pro-
gressist propaganda. He finished by denouncine
the practice of duelling, saying, "Your students
should frequent churches, rather than beer
shops and fencing saloons"
This admonition staggered Prof. Gebhardt.
who does not appear to have been capable OF
making reply. The police have been warned
OF the discomfort among the students and are
taking precautions to prevent their assembling
near the palace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Senator Quay Down in Florida.

Jacksonville Special to the New York Tribune JAM 20
special from Sanford says that Senator
Quay passed through there this forenoon, bound
for the Indian river. Several attempts were
made to interview him, but the doughty
Pennsylvania said that he had come to
Florida to fish and hunt, and not to talk
politics. The party go to the lower part Of
Indian river, on the east coast, and where the
most famous hunting grounds of the state are
As E. A. Gunby, the Original" Florida Harrison
delegate, lives at Orlando, only twenty-five
miles from Sanford, it is said that much
curiosity was manifested when it was learned
afterward that the Senator made many in
quiries about Gunby. Gunby and Jno. E.
Hartridge (democra) are the two aspirants for
the United States judgeship left vacant by the
death of Judge Settle, and It is said that Gunby
will be appointed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
The Prince and the Poets Page.

1rom 1ne LONDON 6loOe.
About Lord Tennyson's well-known horror Of
publicity 1t is told that once, when walking in
his own grounds. he was informed that some
enterprising tourist was looking down on him
from tree almost over his head. The enthu-
siast was soon brought down fro m his coign Q
vantage. The laureate, however, secured q
page-boy to keep of all such Intruder in The
future, 10 being too short-sighted TO notice
them. Soon after this youth had begun hil
duties IL happened that the Prince Of Wale1
walked over from Osborne to zee Mr.. Tenny.
son. Arriving at the poets house at Fresh
water, he asked the boy whether Mr.. Tennysou
was m. The boy, thinking he smelled . rat
HIM" said II. r. e., that the Prince Of Wales
wishes 70 see him." The knowing youth there.
upon, not to be caught, said: ''You don't take
me to be so green a. that2'' and to emphasise
his remark he placed his thumb to his nose and
spread his fingers out" The Prince, however
had parleyed sufficiently, 30 taking the youna
hopeful BY the collar he placed him asids end
walked into the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
nUNoANsoN BROS, Aucnoneer..
PROPOSALS.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY
~ ine, 10 be opened at HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK
on FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY FIRST, 1883
at Room 81, Atlantic Building, for the following priv
eges in connection with the coming inauguration Of
President elect Harrison:
l. The privilege of the of the various reserva-
tons fronting Pennsylvania avenue from 9TH street
TO the Capitol and of erecting thereon stands for
seats-the stands to conform to all the requirements
the inspector of Buildings TO strength, and all
the requirements of the Committee Street Decora-
ton IN connection with its task Of street deconton-
and 20 effect no permanent damage 20 the or
shrubbery the stands To be removed before March To-
and all DAMAGE, II any, 70 grounds made good the
satisfaction OF this Committee Reservations 20 be bid
Tor separately by numbers, shown plats nj my
ofhee upon blanks prepared for that purpose which
Will be furnished Plats giving the dimensions
several reservations will be shown my Office and any
other Information given that may be desired.
2 The exclusive privilege of selling flowers in the
Pension Once Building and that portion of the
rounding grounds troled 10y this committee on the
evening Of March next
Each bid 70 be accompanied by certified check for
sum equal TO twenty five per cent of the amount Of
the bid 10 be returned IL the same be accepted
The right 70 reject ali bids waive defects
Is hereby reserved, HENRY A. WILLARD.
Chairman Of Com. on Parks and Reseryations
Washington ID. C., Jan. z, 1852. a2o-4t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
A Needed Dining Reform.

From the Boston Globe.
There needs be new fashion set in the
matter of the important public banquets that
crowd each other so closely at this time of the
year. 1t is too much to ask Of mortal man to
sit through seven hours of continuous eating.
drinking, smoking, and speech-making. Yet
this marvellous feat of physical endurance is
often attempted by large companies Of other
wise rational men, and is actually performed
by the heroic handful who stay till the last ora
torical gun is fred. Those brave men, for ex-
ample, who remained in the vendome BANQUET
hall to hear the last speech at the Merchants
association dinner the other night had actually
been in attendance eight hours-from D. M.
to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. break. And such long
sieges OF eating and eloquence are by no means
exceptional.
The individual participants Of these long
drawn-out occasions are heard to grumble. and
in large numbers they fly the festive board be-
fore the speaking is half over; but what is
wanted is some courageous club president who
will boldly inaugurate the reform Of taking a
short recess of, say, fifteen or twenty minutes
in the middle Of one Of these eight-hour ''feasts
Of reason" II the dinner begins at s pm.
and the speaking is intended to last till mid
night an interruption Of fifteen minutes at
o'clock would give all present chance to
stretch their legs and inhale q few whiffs of
fresh air while the banquet hall was being
ventilated. The quarter Of an hour thus lost
would be more than made up in the increased
relish with which everybody, whether speaker
or listener, would resume the program.
Not few of our prominent citizens have
been physically Frustrated by these protracted
public dinners. 1t is customary to attribute
such cases entirely to the rich food and the
other Injuries Of such occasions, but the strain
of seven or eight hours continuous sitting in
close, ill-ventilated, smoke-enveloped rooms il
OF itself enough to account for them. Which
and initiate the custom Of short recess mid,
way In its long annual program?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
The Story Of q Horse.

From the Kingston Freeman,
1t is not often that dealer in horses gets
caught, but case in point shows how Rond-
out dealer was brought up with round turn.
A man named Goodwin, Of Palenville, came to
this city to purchase horse. Entering mart
in Abel street. the following CONVEX sation took
place:
81 want to buy horse"
Good have got just the kind Of animal
that will suit you.
"Trot him out"
from Palenville instantly recognized the beast.
He had purchased 1t in Montreal, Canada. four
teen years ago. At that time the age Of the
morse was given as six years. He had owned il
twelve years and then sold it to man who had
It Two years, thus making its age twenty years.
winnie IN Goodwins possession the animal had
acquired the habit of chewing tobacco,
There" said the dealer "Re's q daisy"
"How old is heY" inquired Goodwin.
seven years.. He Is as sound az Spanish
gold dollar and can turn mile in less than
three minutes"
"Are you sure the horsa a on,v sevan va.,.
old?n
Certain sure. know the man that raised
him."
"Give me chew Of tobacco, win you9' said
Goodwin. Receiving II he handed the tobacco
TO the dealer with the remark: "Just see il that
horse viii chew"
To the surprise of the horsemsn the animal
chewed the quid with evident pleasure and
whinnied for more.
do you know this horse?" he asked.
wen, ought TO, replied Goodwin. asbeing
as owned him twelve years. He was six years
oio when bought him, and another man had
"Come ont and take drink said the
my life." -- =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28

ANOTHER ENocH ARpES.-A New Haven
special to the Philadelphia Times says: VIII
lam Nash, now temporarily residing in this
city, figures IN . romantic story as an Enoch
county, New York, in 1863. He lived but a
short time with his wife, when he left her to
JOIN the Union forces during the war. His wife
vent TO live with some relative in Waterbury,
Conn. Since the war he has drifted about the
country. Last Wednesday he went to Water
bury TO see his bride of quarter Of century
ago. She had married in the meanlime, and i
me mother Of several grown-up children, one
Of whom 10 also married and Q mother. She
had been enjoying conjugal life for twenty
year, never suspecting that her first husband
him, and now refuses 10 have anything TO 40
with him. She has consulted counsel, and win
bring suit for divorce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
Hfppolyte's Diplomacy,
THE ALLEGED REASON WHY HE DOES NOT I
PORT-AU-PRINCE BY ASSAULT

THE ALLEGED REASON WHY HE DOES NOT TAKE
PoRr-AU-PRINCE BY ASSAULT.
MIR. Frederick Ellie, merchant from Cape
Haytien, who arrived in New York Saturday in
the wensleydale from that port, says that Hip
polyte's reason for not taking Port-au-Prince
by assault is purely political. The assault
would cost great loss of life and this would
make HipPolyte unpopular and probably cause
his own defeat in the election that would fol-
low. Besides. Mr. Ellie says, il the Hippolyte
party comes into power Just now it will have
TO pay the claim for indemnity made by the
United States and Germany. Meantime Hip
polyte is buying all the ships he can get hold
Of and remaining quiet at Mirabelais, feeling
confident that bankruptcy will hasten Legi-
times downfall.