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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-15

Dr.. Butler, at Fort supply, 1T. Miss Butler is
receiving much attention at her present post
and will shortly visit Fort Leavenworth before
returning here, about May LIST.
Miss EIse Butler 10 spending the winter IN
Charleston, where she had = gay season among
her kindred and friends She will return 70
her home here by the LIST Of April.
Mrs. Senator Paddock and MISS Paddock have
returned TO the city and are at the Portland.
Washington society people are not slow TO
adapt the latest fashion which interests Boston
ox New York, and now there il quite an up
hssval In fashionable circles over the latest
losen lad number of well-known ladies'
have interested themselves in the coming Ibsen
readings by Mrs. Ewing Winslow' who
is eonsidered high authority on the play, of
the Norwegian writer. The patronesses Of
these entertainments are Mrs Chief Jnstica
Fuller, Mrs. Romero, Mra Laughton. Ma
senator Mcpherson, Mira John Hay, Mrs. John
q. Bancroft, Mrs. W. s. Hildrup Mrs. Alonzo
Church, Mrs. Henry Z. Pellew, Mrs John Hem
dsrson and Mrs. Chas. Nordhof. The nrst
reading VIII be at the residence of Mrs.
Htidrup, Iowa circle. next Saturday after
noon The second reading will take place
on the 18th 1T the residence of Mrs Fuller
ls00 Massachusetts, avenue.
Mr.. and Mra Emanuel De Roy Of Pittsburg
snd their daughter Blanca left yesterday for
their home, after q week OF sightseeing in this
city. Mr.. De Roy was a delegate to the recent
Asshsr Shell Barrel convention
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fassett Of Ashtabula,
Ohis, are visiting their brother, Mr.. 8. u.
4aasstt At 1908 New Hampshire avenue.
Mr.. John St. Clair Of Philadslphia gave q
bon party 10 Miss Howard Of Vermont avenue
lass night 81 Albaugh's In the party were Miss
HsvArd hrs George Alfred Townsend, Miss
3aggS Mr.. Gvynn and Mr.. Lipscomb. A
ehAnpsgns supper at Chsmberlinfs foliowed.A
Aiss Nellie Bayne and Mr. VIM. T. Robey.
both OF Washington, were married "Wednesday
evening at the Parsonage Of the McKendree
church by the Rev. DR.. Richardson.
Ma Madeira has been called 10 kentucky BY
Shs serious nlnsss Of her daughter.
IL sssidsnes OF Mr.. and Ara d. d. Thomp-
IN vas the scene last evening Of . pleasant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-15

"Get thee behind me Satan" IL said by some
people because they feel Like they need little
pushing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
RANDOM SHOTS.

GENERAL GORDON, who is once again
prominent in the public eye, is a man oil
fine physique, who looks "every inch a
soldier" He has strong face, to which
scar just below the left eye-a SOU
venir of Antietam-a impressiveness,
He is said to be the most popular of tho
surviving Confederate Generals.
JUDGE CALVIN e. PRATT, of Brooklyn
and the State Supreme Court, led Q
regiment to the war, and carries in hi,
head bullet which he received in .he
ssvon days contest near Mechanicsvil!e
Va. The wound was believed to he ia.
tai at the time, but his excellent consti
tuition enabled him to pull through.
MAJOR WILLIAM II. UPHAm, OF Racine
Wis. is said to have been tine only sol
dier who ever took off his SKIRT in the
presence Of President Lincoln. He wa.
wounded in several places at Bull Run
captured and confined in Libby prison
for eight months without having hit
wounds dressed. After hearing hii
stoSy Lincoln asked TO see bh wounds
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30

dim light, and was afraid to close in on
me; but now, seeing his dog vince, he
seemed to be moved by pity for the
brute, and, STOPPING down, took him in
his arms. Then l said: Get out OF
this, you scoundrel, or ! will kill you
both!" Still the fellow did not speak,
but turned around and sneaked off, and
/ saw no more of him that night.
On my way to town, l called at the
police station and gave the alarm, al.
though could really swear to nothing
against the man, except an assault by
his dog. However, on hearing my de-
scription, the chief constable said at
once that this was fellow who was
wanted" for several lately committed
robberies. He was apprehended next
day in an adjacent village, and the con
stables surmise proved correct. When
the precious pair were brought in, i
went to the lookup to see them;
especially the dog, which 1 found to be
very fine bull-terrier, worthy of a
better master. His head was pretty
badly cut up by my knife, but he knew
and would have attacked me again al
sight, if he had not been restrained.
l learned afterward ttsat the man was
convicted of numerous crimes and sent
on a seven-year sentence to the peDi-
tentiary. My few wounds had been
properly cauterized Immediately after
the fracas, and never experienced any
i'll effect from them.-W. Thomson, in
n. Y. Ledger,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
He Took Things Literally.

When General Sheridan was in com
mand of the Military Department of the
Northwest at Chicago-as the story goes
he had as sort of door-tender and
factotum at his Office III the city, an
Irish corporal whose faithfulness was
not to be questioned, but who had a
way, sometimes troublesome, of taking
every thing exactly as it it was said.
One day gentleman called at tho
headquarters and asked:
"Is the General to be seen to-day?"
"Faix, / think he is that sorr," said
Corporal Michael.
"Then will step in, If you please"
The Corporal bowed the visitor into
the Generals ante-room. There was no
sign of Sheridan, but the visitor think.
ing that he had stepped out for q mo-
ment, and would presently return, sal
down TO wait.
He waited half an hour our more, and
then began to grow impatient. Finally
he returned to the Corporal at the door.
"See here, Corporal" said he, 81
thought you told me General Sheridan
was to be seen"
''And so he is, sorr-at Washington
said the Corporal, in a matter of fact
Way.-Youth's Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
A COMMENTED MAN.

Ambition, like cankeving worm,
Eats out the Joy of life;
In sweet coutontmont let me live,
Remote from care and strife.
Jay Gould and Sohn ID. Rockefeller
do not envy such, 70
4 only ask little wealth,
Two millions is not much.
Enough to buy house in town;
Another by the sea,
With good steam yacht OF my own.
Is quite enough for me;
don't object to heavy work,
I'm glad to toll and strife,
And cut coupons from Government bonds,
From eight o'clock till five.
The vulgar, loud huzzas OF fame
Are empty noise to me
But would write few good books
To cheer posterity.
I'd like to be Nations bard,
And sing Nations songs,
And, IL the throngs should shout my name,
can't control the throngs.
want but little here below
I'd like to be the mayor,
And go to Congress after that,
Before my hair is grayer.
Then II you want President,
And turn your eyes to me,
/ would not cheat your longing gaze,
A President I'd be.
And II you build monument
Above my lowly tomb
think I'd rest in calm content
And ask no further room.
A humble man I'd live and die,
Retired, glad, content
If you'd agree to take my son
And make him President.
S. w. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30

Even us I spoke, medium.sized
white bulldog, hitherto unseen, crep'
noiselessly from behind the fellow,
and sprang straight at re- throat In
an instant saw the whole murderous
schome, and realized my own imminent
danger. If the four-legged brute, OF o
breed which never lets go with life,
should fasten upon me, the two-legged
one could then pound me into the earth,
and rob or murder me at his leisure. He
had doubtless mistaken me for my
cousin, of whose strange habit as tc
carrying money about with him he had
probably heard. However, thanks to g
lifelong familiarity with dangers OF
evey kind, did not feel at all afraid
or "rattled," although the thought did
cross my mind that it would be o pity
If this brute should succeed in tramp
ling out my life, after / had safely
passed through so many risky ad'
ventures. ] met the first spring OF
the dog by driving the knife into his
left cheek and throwing him off; out
he came at me again like lightning,
and was again foiled in the same way.
His third spring was so exceedingly
swift that 1 nearly missed him, the
knife-blade merely Sitting one Of his
ears, and he' succeeded in getting a
hold on my right sleeve, and slightly
wounding my arm. Fortunately the
loose cloth gave way as / threw him of
once more, with q motion so violen'
that he rolled over and over on touch.
ing the ground. But he was evidently
pure-bred animal, and 'game" to the
backbone. Once again he dashed at
me, always aiming for my face; and
this time the knife entered his open
mouth, and the back of my hand, com.
ing into contact with his upper tusks,
received two deep cuts. This last
thrust was so severe that he could not
close his jaws on my hand, and he
dropped off, uttering, for the first time,
low whine of pain.
Since the beginning of the fight, and
up to this moment, not sound had
been uttered by the dog, the owner OF
myself. If the situation had not been
so serious, it would have been really
comical. The brawny ruffian stood in
grim silence, watching the efforts OF
his less ignoble companion, while / as
silently repelled his attacks. was toe
busy to speak or call out, and at that
hour no one could have heard me had
done so. This man evidently saw the
flashing of the bright knife-blade in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
THE BATTLE FIELD.
THE TWO OLD SOLDIERS.


You don't quite rcmemberf Ahi modest old
fellow?
Eth! Yes, we are gray and n little bit mellow;
But IL from the shade of yop sheltering thiclJct
Should creep forth the enemy's vigilant picket,
We'd prick up our ears, and wee ram down tho
cartridge,
And scent game that's different from squirrels
and partridge
Old fellowl
Thinkl-Aye, now you Se hit it-thcro had "been
some fghting,"
Old boy, where tho hnll.storm of bullets was
blighting
And deadly. One half of the company shot
there,
All heroes, whose blood has made sacred the
spot there
All! now you remember. Yes, Death uds do
lighted.
He'd held reception, and we'd been invited,
Old ioalowD
We rested that night on the field in our places;
The moonboams seemed trying to kiss the dead
faces
The names OF the dead with the names OF the
living;
And when called yours strange feeling came
DER me;
dreaded to look ut the thinned ranks before
Inct
Old fellow
called you-no answer, But who was that
crawling
Across the torn earth where the shot had been
falling?
Hes here" answered some one, and up you
cnmc dragging
Your poor, wounded limb; for you wouldn't be
tagging
At roll-call! I'm present." you answered, and
sank there,
The truest OF all true heroes in rank there,
Old fellow!
'I cared for youg Bless your old buttons
don't say it,
owe you much more, but never can pay 1t.
For we two were messmates. En- Yes, lis
warm weather,
And tears come from dust and tobacco to-
gether.
Come, let us go in. Harkl the children are
singing
Our grandchildren.- Time has been swift in
his wingng,
Old fellow!
u. c. Macy, in N. e. Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
ElREslpE FRAGMENTS.


Corn beef, pressed beef and ham
should be eaten cold, and should be
dressed with hard boiled eggs, parsley
or water-cress.
After butterirg the tin for q boiled
pudding, dust 1t with pounded bread
crumbs; baking pans can be treated with
-four in the same way and the cake will
never stick.
-Custard Pie Without Milk: Wet a
heaping tablespoonful of corn starch
with cold water, add boiling water till it
is as thick as thin cream, beat two eggs.
add three tablespoonfuls of sugar, put
in the cooked starch, beat we'll, flavor to
taste, and bake as usual. al.-Boston Bud
get.
Oatmeal Cookies: Three quarts flour;
two pounds steel-ground oatmeal; four
coffee cups sugar; one and three-quarter
cups lard; two ounces ginger; one ounce
soda dissolved in boiling water; molasses
to make stiff dough. This makes a
very large quantity and will keep any
length of time. e.-Housekeeper.
Boiled Rice: This is q dish very
few people understand cooking, but one
that is used extensively in the South,
and there considered indispensable as q
breakfast dish. Wash the rice thor
oughly three times, add little salt,
and to one cupful of rice, allow one pint
Of boiling water, cover close, and let
simmer slowly, until perfectly dry.
when each grain will stand alone; never
stir, or use cold water.-Good House,
keeping.
Veal Flukes: Chop some cooked
veal very fine; to it add half the guam
tity of cracker crumbs; to one pint of
the meat aaa cracker crumbs add one
egg, a little cayenne, a little grated nut
meg, one saltspoonful salt, one DESERT
spoonful lemon juice; mix we'll; take
about tablespoonful and form into
long, narrow rolls; roll in beaten egg
and cracker crumbs and fry in hot fat;
serve on a red napkin; garnish with
parsley and sliced lemon.-old Home
stead.
Blackberry Empress: Two cupfuls
milk, one egg, half a cupful of butter,
spoonful of baking-powder, and flour to
make thin batter. Place u layer in a
pudding-dish; cover with quart of
blackberries we'll covered with sugar
and few dabs of butter. Cover with
the remaining batter. Bake one hour;
serve, either hot or cold, with sweetened
cream. This is delicious and other fruit
may be used, if desira BILE. Ladies' Homo
Journal.
-Log-Cabin Peach Cobbler: Make one
quart and half of flour into smooth
paste by working into it three-fourths
of cupful of lard, one-half teaspoonful
of salt and sufficient water to mix it.
Pare and quarter the ripe peaches, cover
the bottom of a baking-dish with dough,
spread over this a layer of peaches and
bits of butter, season with grated nut
meg or cinnamon, and sprinkle over
each layer two tablespoonfuls of pow
dered sugar. Cut narrow strips of dough,
slightly twist them, and cross until you
have another layer; over this place
more fruit, and have the top layer OF
the log-cabin strips; then bake.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30


pened to notice that 1 had no pocket
knife with me, and so, on the impulse
of the moment, l stepped into shop
and bought one. Why, l hardly knew,
as had half-a-dozen at home, and had
no idea that l should want one before
my return. The one l now purchased
was an ordinary, ivory-handled, three
bladed knife. the largest blade being
three inches long. That same knife,
after q lapse of moro than thirteen
years, is in my pocket while | write. l
have never once lost it during all that
time.
arrived in Barrie on the five p. m.
train, and, after taking tea at very
good hotel, walked out about half mile
from town to call upon cousin whom l
had not seem for great many years.
This cousin now dead) was wealthy
lumberer, or rather square-timber man.
ufacturer and dealer. He had, and was
we'll known to have, the habit, very
unusual in business man, of always
carrying in his pocket "wad" of five
or six hundred dollars in bank bills;
and, although often reasoned with on
the subject, nothing could induce him
to abandon this curious custom. If the
amount of his ''wad" ever got below
five hundred dollars, he would imme-
diately replenish it. He said he always
felt better with money in his pocket.
Most anybody would. / spent very
pleasant evening with him, talking over
old times, ETC., and did not get away
until midnight. Now this gentleman's
house was on the crest of hill, with
garden and orchard extending down
the slope toward the town. Just at the
corner of the orchard there was hollow
or depression in the ground and, while
the sidewalks on either side of the road
were built on the original surface, the
causeway or road itself had been raised
to the extent of five feet or so.
As, quietly smoking cigar, slowly
walked along on one of these sidewalk3,
some one, apparently half drunk, sitting
in the deep shade of large tree on the
other side of the road hailed me in a
gruff, unsteady voice:
"S-s-say, mate, will you give fell
fellow match?"
Thinking this was probably some in
toXicated laborer, who was really suf-
fering for smoke, replied:
''Yes, come across and I'll give you
one"
mo, mate, 1 cau-can-can't git up.
You fetch it to me; that's goo-goo-
good man."
To this cool request 1 answered
rather sharply: ''IS you want a light,
some and get it, or go without"
Seeing that "Mohammed must 60
to the mountain" the fellow did get
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30

TO raise 1t to q sitting posture, and then
saw the gentle tender motion of child
ish hand wipe the coarse stains from
the dying soldiers face, saw her place
cantoen to his feverish lips, saw him
fold hor to his heart and then fall back
to earth, saw her stoop and kiss the
silent lips, and taking something from
his hand, silently drew back to the shell
tering cedar grove once more.
The soldiers called hor Little Lou"
but, like tho scenes and events of those
trying and soul-thrilling days, she too
lives, but in the memory of the pasta
faint, fantastic mith in the panorama of
tho great rebellion. Major Il. w. Hub
bell, in American Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
BEETS AS FOOD

For Milch Cows-InterestinG Experiments
Made at the Ohio Agricultural Expert
ment Station - A Comparison of tho
Efficiency of Commercial and Green
Manures on Wheat.
A bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station, now in press, gives
the results of an experiment in feeding
sugar beets to milch cows, made during
the past winter, together with sum-
mary of two similar experiments, one
made by the station in 1889 and one by
the farm department of the Ohio State
University in 1879.
In the last named experiment eight
cows were kept under test for eleven
weeks; in 1889, twelve cows for eight
weeks, and in 1890, twelve cows for nine
weeks the COWS in each case being
weighed daily, as we'll as their feed and
milk.
In each of the three experiments the
cows ate more hay and more total dry
matter when feeding on beets than on
other foods (hay, meal and bran in 1879,
corn silage in 1889 and 1s90) and in each
case more milk was given from the beets
than from the other foods, but it is not
yet demonstrated that the increase Of
ulllh NdS
For twelve years records have been
kept on the farm now occupied by the
station, which shows that the average
yield of beets over this period has been
nearly sixteen tons per acre, against an
annual yield of about fifty-ive bushels
OF shelled corn per acre.
But crop of fifty-fve bushels Of
shelled corn, with it's fodder, will con-
tain nearly twice as much dry matter as
sixteen tons of beets, and these experi-
ments indicate that whether fed dry, as
corn meal and dry fodder, or as corn
ensilage, the dry matter of the corn crop
will be found about as effective, pound
for pound, as the cry matter of the beet
crop
1t is possible to raise much more than
sixteen tons of beets to the acre. One
crop of two acres is reported at 37k
tons per acre, and smaller areas have
given still larger yields, but such crops
require very rich land and thorough cul-
ture. Whether it is possible to produce
a pound of dry matter in beets as eco
nomically as it can be done in corn ia
not yet definitely settled, but the proba-
| bilitie are against it.
COMMERCIAL AND GREEN MANURES FOR
WHEAT.
In an experiment made by the North
Carolina Experiment Station, a series of
plots was laid out in such manner that
one end of each plot should be on land
on which cow peas had been previously
| plowed under, and the other end on land
without peas. The whole was sown to-
| wheat, and kainit, acid phosphate and
cotton seed meal were applied to the
several plots, singly and in combination,
two plots being left without any for
| tilizer.
The result was that on the land which
had had no fertilizer the highest increase
of any OF the fertilized over the un-
7ertilized plots was four bushels per
acre (for 300 pounds cotton seed meal),
while on the green manured land the
Increase from the pea vines was from
six bushols at the least to fifteen bushels
per acre. averaging ten busheJa
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
WOLVES OF THE SEA.
How the Orca Grampus Tormenta
and Pursucs It's Prey.

anu IIS Ireys
AS if not satisfied with the harm il
can do alone, the orca secures the aid
of two or three of its fellows, and then
the little pack of monsters starts on an
expedition. Every thing is game to
them. II a school of dolphins come IN
sight, away go the fierce sea-wolves in
hot chase. The frightened dolphins
dash madly through the waves, urged
to their swiftest speed by terror; but
grimly the ravenous pursuers close
upon the flying quarry.
Perhaps a great Greenland whale may
cross the path of the marauders. Huge
as it is-the largest of created beings
it has no terrors for the bloodthirsty
pack. They dart about the giant with
lightning velocity; now in front, now
underneath, now on the sides; until the
bewildered monster, with lash of his
ponderous tail, turns his mighty head
downward and seeks the oceans bed.
Vain effort! His tormentors follow
him apparently with ferocious gloe. Up,
up again, rage and agony lending added
strength, till the surface is reached and
all that bulk of flesh shoots out OF
water and then falls with ponderous
crash, dashing the boiling waves
asunder. Still the agile foes are there
They leap over his head, high in tas
air, and dive under him. They rush al
him, here, there, and everywhere. He
opens his huge mouth to engulf them
They only mock at the danger, and
soon, wounded in hundred places
weakened and powerles5, tho whale
ccumbs.-John r. Coryell. in st
| Nicholas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30

Up and came toward me. So soon as he
gained the elevated causeway, and was
thus between me and the star-lit sky,
I saw that he was big, burly English
aavvy, and not at all drunk. Still, I
suspected nothing of evil intent; and
it was only an unaccountable impulse
which led me to take ont my knife and
aold it open in my right hand. When
the man came down the slope on my
side of the road, and was within three
.eet CT Inc, held out some matches in
my left hand, and said: "Heie's .
match II you want ono"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-30
MY LUCKY PURCHASE.
A Little Midnight Adventure in
Canada.

N the twenty
sixth day of Sep
tember, 1876, l
had occasion TO
visit the town of
Barrie, a very
pre- tty little
place situated
on Kempenfeldt
bay, Ontario,
sixty-six miles
north of Toron-
to. Strolli N G
along the main
T Ln
Telegram-herald., 1890-07-22
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Grand Rapids ia case he shat fail O. enter
tnto contrast lu accordance with his Brop0sAt,
sao4c hls said proposal 1c accFpIed Dt ta7
Board Of Pabllc Works
Aii proposals must BE- made upon blanks taat
VIII DC furnished upon application ~ tAe
ones oi the Beard.
bs order 0i The Beard.
JAMES \. DAVIS.
Attest: President.
fRED A. TwANLEY. Secretary.