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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-09

was invited to received the company, wore a
superb French dress with a train OF old gold col
ored satin The skirt Is of white satin brocaded
In gold and relieved with bows Of pale blue silk
and trimmings. The cotillon was led by Dr.
Ruth with Miss Storey. who was dressed in
maiden white. The governors of the assemblies
were present with their families and friends
They are Judge John Davis. Mr.. q. L. Ander-
sou, Col y. l. Anderson, 4ir. w. v. Il. Berry,
Miss Berry, Mr.. J. l. Carroll Mr. Henry {;
Edwardes, Sir Julian Pauncefote. Miss Paunce-
fote, Mr.. Z. &. Glover. Senator and Mrs.
Cameron and the Misses Cameron. Mr.. George
HELEN. Col Edward NcCauiey. Mr.. q. Ii. Poor,
Mr.. Wm- II. slack and Mr.. Clifford Richardson.
Tbs scene at Il O'Clock IN the hall was one of
the most brilliant il had ever witnessed
Miss Mary Rowan Jackson of Philadelphia is
visiting Mrs. Henry krogstad, l4O2 Massachu-
setts avenue.
Mrs. Georgia HuSsey Wilson and the Misses
Wilson will be- at home Friday afternoons after
O'Clock at their home. ZJ2i u street.
Mise Edith q. Campbell is slowly GONZALES.
cling after q severe attack OF bronchitis.
Mrs. q. Ulrich Kennedy will be at home to-
morrow, Is Lafayette square, and continue
Fridays as her day during the season.
Mrs. Lieutenant Commander Pendleton will
receive at the navy yard on Mondays in Janu.
AIRY.
Miss Marguerite Spalding Of VI street and
her guest, Miss Reed of California, who have
been spending the holidays at Miss Spalding',
home, have returned TO Wellesley college.
Mrs. Senator Bate and Miss Susie, who
remained in Nashville to attend the Hermitage
ball there last evening, will Join the Senator Al
the Ebbitt within a few days.
An enjoyable party was given last evening
to Miss Laura Phillips of 1881 sth street by
Miss Lucy Miller. Among those present were
Misses Berry, Kate Phillips Collins, Rosser, NJ
Phillips, l. Phillips, Miller and Messrs. Buck
ley, Whitmore, Taylor, Dern, K Phillips and S
Phillips.
The Eureka club met .. the residence o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-09
FOR RENT-ROONS.

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ei.ns = sprliS,r,. Ts city EYER oay suited ss
ROOM hENTiNG DIRECToK SIi I'll 81 dlS.sst.
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and Iowa circle. ja-cl
ISoR r Nr-ISo NEW YORK AyE.-Two THIRD.
81 S1.ls, nest sAs' large closets and u.e %
l.oR f.ENT-BRlGHr SHINY ROOMS NITU
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latA 81. NV. ,ss.-Ss!
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soinr.g urillsied suite " lo0Ins second asor;
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1870 49, u y. In gaS-;lts
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s,oh EGS I-HAND~ONE PAEioK FI.ook ANp
Second STORY MOONS. corner house. Win exceI. end
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southern ana u ,rtheru cNp sure heated hy latrnle
STU piti Erilv. also Nr a IIa a, uul. with ~
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.

Mr.. Harrison's administration has shown
pretty plainly that it does not lie awake of
nights thinking how it can securea stringent
application of the civil service laws. The
latitude allowed for the assessment o. clerks,
and the stimulation to partisan activity in
the late elections. reminded the beholder of
the Jay Hubbell era. The only offensive
partisan who has been subjected to the awful
displeasure and discipline of the admins
tration is the unhappy young lady clerk at
Washington postoffice who CHANGED to repeat
the indiscreet jest about Senator Quay's
mail going to the dead-letter Office
But the Democrats will now have
chance to discover whether they are any
more sincere than the Republican admins
tration in their civil service pledges. They
will have some patronage to bestow-not a
vast lot. but enough to show their temper.
1t will demonstrate whether or not they have
yet outgrown the JacksonIan idea that pub
lie offices are spoIIs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
AN AGE OF CANALS,

This is an age which is remarkable for the
number of canals which it is projecting and
building. And now the news comes of
another gigantic scheme, which, by canal
or ship railway, or both, American, En-
glish, and Montreal capitalists are planning
to connect Chicago and the Northwest,
via the Great Lakes and Georgian
Bay with the Atlantic Ocean, and thus
open up direct and speedy through
traffic with the interior of this continent
and Europe. Then there is our own Beaver
Valley canal from the Ohio to the lakes.
Also the canal from the upper Hudson to
Lake Champlain, for which preliminary
surveys are now being made. The work
which has been done on the Isthmus indi-
Gates that the waters of those two great
oceans will one of these days pave the way
for the commerce of the nations.
The push which characterizes these under
takings in the New World is also bestirring
the capitals and commercial centers of the
Old. 1t was recently announced that Paris
is to build snip canal to the Atlantic, by
which she hopes to again be a seaport and a
mistress of the seas. But among the most
interesting enterprises of this nature may
be mentioned the project now on foot
to connect Rome with the Mediterranean
by means of ship canal to start from St.
Pauls. outside the walls, and be built in a
direct line to the sea. 1t will be 1215 miles
long and terminate about 81 miles from the
mouth of the Tiber. According to our Con-
sui General, that part nearest the sea will
constitute an outer port about l, 300 feet in
breadth, and will be formed by two jetties,
at the extremity of one OF which will be a
Lighthouse, visible II miles at sea. The
depth of this harbor will be about &c
feet. The port proper will be about 4, 600
feet long by about 9, 900 feet wide, with uni
form depth of about So feet. The cost is esti-
mated at about S19, 500, 900. No aid is to be
| asked from the Government until the canal
is completed, when it is to take possession at
cost upon the payment of interest at 8 per
cent and 1 per cent amortization during
forty years. 1t will then become state
| property.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
IRELAND'S POTATOES.
Their Diseased Condition and the Govern
ment's Measures for Protection.

Their Diseased Condition and the Govern
ment's Measures for Protection.
From the London Illustrated News.l
There is good cause to hope and believe that
the diseased condition of the potatoes, conse-
quent on wet autumn weather this year, is
confined to certain northwestern districts of
Mayo, Donegal and Galway, where it may oc-
cason local distress. The Government relief
measures. including grants of food and of seed
potatoes, are accompanied by the publication
of few simple agricultural instructions.
which has been put in practice in some places
by official order, to serve as an example.
All deceased tubers, old sets. decayed and de-
caying stems, are removed from the ground and
burnt in heaps; the potatoes which are only
partly diseased are boiled, and while hot are
packed in barrels, or in otner tight vessels,
rammed down tight and covered with earth to
exclude the air; they will keep as food for pigs.
The sound potatoes are to be kept dry, in small
quantities together, carefully separated from
the soil in which the bad potatoes have grown.
Seed of different variety should be chosen for
the new planting. which should be done in dry
land early in February. or even January, while
low lands and bogs should be laid in ridges to
drain and become dry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
PIoUANT AND sAUCY.

Tramps are a good deal like lawyers.
After they are admitted 20 the Bar you often fnd
them slumbering peacefully on the Bench-Puek.
s'HIv wife is getting to be too extravagant,"
growIed Bodgers. Here she has gone and spent
s3 for new bonnet, when she knew 1 had ac-
cepted an invitation to go driving with PudgerS,
and it would cost me at least E5,-Hsl1castS
CLTOHlcLe,
Little Walter had been put to bed and his
mamma had returned to the sitting room, when \
stray COW began lowing near the house. ''Mam-
ma mammar' called the small man, excitedly,
''do you hear that cattle mewing?''-IOuths'
Companion.
Jennie" said a young lady, turning
away from the mirror and addressing a eompan4
ion, what would you do If you had q mustache
your lip?''
''IrI liked him would keep quiet. ~ was the de-
mure Feply.-Spdre Moments.
The nose OF small boy had been put out
of joint by the advent of baby brother with tre-
mendous lung power. ''Did little brother come
from Heaven, ma?'' he asked.
''Yes. dear"
lie listened to little brothers yeIIs and said
al don't blame the angels for bouncing him, do
you, ma?''-fotrHg VoHlaH's Journal
Miss RattIer-Well, Bobby, if YOU are q
watch next Christmas.
Bobby (disgusted)-New uothin' Iheard papa
tell mamma the other day that he'd let Santa
Claus have his old watch for me- He's the fellow
that get a new one!-Jel0eIers' Weekly.
Cousin Nell (ineulcating generosity
Surprising your chicken should lay nice egg,
Tommy: would you give IL TO me?
Tummy-No; I'D sell 1t to Barnum That chicks
4 rOOster.-Judge.
Major Crust-So you refuse me, Miss
Fondant?
Miss FL am very sorry. Major Crust, but your
aOn has Just proposed to me, and accepted him.
Major C.-GOOd gracious! You don't mean 10
say the boy has been such an ass.-EsOeast!s
Chronicle.
Badgering Attorney-Insanity runs in
your family, believe?
Long-suffering witness-Well, my grandfather
quit gathering rags to become q lawyer.-T0ToHto
Mail.
''Say, old man, I've just bought new
house on the Installment plan. You have to pay
$40 a month"
Have you paid the first instaIlment yet?''
NE That's wess L wanted 10 see you about
-6slo York SuA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

had in 1860 an even million inhabitants and
which had 100000 population in 1870 and
1,500,0 600 In 1880. In that case the correct
proportion of gain was 20 per cent for the
first decade and 25 per cent for the second.
But If the census of 1870 omitted so, 900 of
the population, it would reduce the ratio for
the previous decade to Is per cent and raise
the second to slightly more than 80 per cent.
The fractional percentages would vary
slightly, but not enough to vitiate for pur-
poses of comparison, the fact that the aver
age ratio of growth will be very close to half
of the sum of the two ratios.
Now let us see how this method of COM
parison affects the showing Of growth for
the Southern States. Taking the average of
the ratios for the two decades, from 1860 to
1880, we find that they compare with the
ratios disclosed by the last census, for the
decade between 1880 and 1890. as follows:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
THANKSGIVING,

Thanksgiving Day is approaching and the
Presidents proclamation, which appears TO-
day, put the official seal upon the fate OF
innumerable turkeys. The President finds
that the nation has abundant reason for
thanksgiving, and nobody will be inclined
to differ with him. Even though dis
appointment has come with November to
some, yet the returns show that the majority
are in position to rejoice, and in this
country the majority rules even in the Civ
ing of thanks. By Thanksgiving Day a
happy and united nation will be able to
show its gratitude in all the decorous and
pleasant ways our Chief Magistrate has
pointed out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
Inartistic Stage Devices.

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piaho "hHe 10 te,lins INC
aDou' ner n't'e ,, DiUtnei ue1an o .t,o
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MS own nnseie' MI " neAt'e1 80 I,:i,'- ~
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
MEN AND WOMEN.

Mr.. BARRETT WENDELL. the novelist, who
is also assistant professor of English at Ear
ward, has been dgvoting his summer sojourn at
Newcastle. N. e., to work on biography of
Cotton Mather,
REV. DR.. PAIKER, of London, knows the
best way 20 deal with anonymous letters. The
first thing he looks for in letter is the sigma
ture; if there be none. he does not read one
solitary word of che epistle.
THE historian of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America is Bishop William Stevens
Perry, of Iowa. He edits the journals of the
conventions of the church, and is the author of
several volumes of church history.
Miss ELIZABETH PEABODY, who first intro
duced into this country from Germany the kin
dergarten method of teaching the children, is
still living in Boston at the age of 81 years, and
retains much interest in educational matters.
LADY BROOKE, who was as Miss Maynard
known as one OF the greatest of English heir
esses, has perfected a scheme for teaching sew
ing to the chidren in her district which would
bear inspection from other intending philan-
thropists.
THE Hon. ]. W. LoNGLEY, Attorney Gen.
eral of Nova Scotia, says that reciprocal trade
with the United States is the most important
and vital issue between the Canadian parties
and upon which their next general election,
taking place OH, year hence, will be fought.
THE death of Lord Peterborough recalls the
rumors current years ago of his attachment to
the then unmarried Queen of England. She
was said to return his affection, and to be desl-
rous of making him her consort. His rank was
not considered high enough for this, and he
was sent to India, where he was atterward made
Governor General.
ALPHoNsE RARR, the novelist, whose death
at St. Raphael, the Mediterranean, has re-
Gently been chronicled, was an enthusiastic
florist and horticulturist. Over his door he had
written, "Alphonse Karr. Gardener" and for
the last 40 years he had almost ceased to write
Many of his experiences as a horticulturist
were embodied in his Voyage dutOur de mon
JGrdin.
WHEN President Harrison, the Rev. David
Swing and DR.. John Trembly. of Ohio, were
students in Miami College, Oxford, o., Pro-
fessor Stoddard's rain gauge was poured full of
water one night, in a storm, greatly to the as
constituent of that instructor next day. The
Chicago Times declares that while the other
two cOnspirators here named stood guard. the
grandson of "Tippecanoe" was on the roof ex-
ecutng this little project. Before the task was
finished there was an alarm, and Swing and
Trembly fed, while Mr.. Harrison, SO the story
goes, fattened himself against chimney and
stayed there until morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
GLADsTONE's AK.

The First Photograph OF the Statesman
With Ais Ak and Hard at Work.
From Spare Moments.l
A good many years ago, before Mr.. Glad
stones timber-felling propensities were at all
known to the public, met the correspondent
of an American journal in the Strand, who
was much excited over a copy of the first pho
tograph of Mr.. Gladstone in his shirt sleeves,
with his Ak in hand II the attitude of wood
man. which is now almost as well known as his
pose in Parliament.
The American was anxious to send the por-
trait to New York for publication, but thought
it was hoax, and was desirous to know if l
could give him any certainty on the III alter. L
suggested that he shoud get 4 magnlfyinG
glass. and see if the fOrefinger of the left hand
was missng-an observation which soon settled
his doubts
The loss of that finger was the worst result of
Mr.. Gladstone's early practice as sportsman.
The late Lord Derby was, think, the last of
our Prime Ministers who was q sportsman.
Lord Salisbury has. unfortunately for his
health, no outdoor amusement and is not fond
of walking. Even between Arlington street
and the foreign office he generally passes sh ut
up in his blue brougham.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
A SANITARY DISGRACE.
The Shocking Hygienic Condition of Some
New York City Primary Schools.

The Shocking Hygfenic COnd1tlon OF Some
New York City Primary Schools.
From Harper's Weekly.l
DR.. Chaplin. a member of the Committee on
Hygiene of the County Medical Society," has
recently made report upon the sanitary con-
dition of the primary departments of many of
the public schools in the city of New York
which reveals very disagreeable fac.s. He
found the class rooms overcrowded badly
lighted. badly ventilated and full of foul odors
In other words, he found precisely the state of
things that ought not to exist. He submitted
the following detailed statement:
school Z, 60 Chrystie street, 100 children,
This primary school is in three buildings, one
of which is an old roOkery formerly tenement
and another is part of an old factory In Hester
to any civilized community. The children come
from poor families, and they are given the
poorest and scantiest accommodations. On a
bright. sunshiny day II of the stuffy class rooms
were lighted by gas, which, with the poor
ventilation made the atmosphere almost un-
bearable. Foul air from the boys closets finds
access to the schoolroom through open windows
and pasSagewaYs connecting the closets with
the room above. Three back rooms on this
floor have been condemned on account of the
foul air and the general darkness but the
other rooms connecting with them, and in SUBJ
stantially the same condition, are crowded with
children"
Somebody is responsible for such wrong as
the report diSclOSeS, and ultimately the School
Department of the city must be held to ac-
count. There is no public work in which
necessary money can be so ill-spared as the
schools They should accommodate all the
children of school age, and their sanitary con-
dition should be the best. That such report
could be truthfully made of public schools in
New York is disgrace to the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
CENSUS COMPARISONS.

In discussing the criticisms that have been
made of the eleventh census, the New York
Press amplifies Mr.. Porter's argument with
regard to the inadequacy of the census of
1870 in the Southern States, and the result,
which, he claims, that it destroys the &C.
curacy Of any comparison Of the ratio
of growth with either the succeed
ing or preceding decades. The gst of the
argument is presented as follows:
The real cause Of the Southern States failing
TO reach anything like the rate of increase
shown in 1850 may be found in the following
somewhat startling table. which shows the rates
OF increase during the last three decades in
these States, and illustrates the imperfections
of the census of 1870 in a marked manner:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

One is matter for private taste or judg-
ment. The other is subject in which the
welfare and safety of the public are con-
cerned.
In iact, the statement of the danger as
made by the State Board of Health, would
warrant legislation to restrict the attend
ance at funerals, where diseases are conta-
gious, and to prescribe regulations for
guarding against the spread of the disease
by obituary honors. That is as clearly
within the province of legislation as other
methods of protecting the community
against the spread of such diseases, either
by quarantine or isolation. Probably, how
ever. when the matter is understood, the
public instinct of selfpreservation will be
sufficient TO work the reform that is recon.
mended by the Board.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

OF this the Press says: mo fair-minded
man can study the above table and say that
the census of 1870 was correct" The asser-
ton is measurably true; and is evidently
justified Of such States as South Carolina
and Louisiana. That the ratio of growth
during the decade of the war in the South
was more seriously checked than anywhere
else in the country is beyond dispute; but it
is also probably true that the ratios given in
the above table for most OF the Southern
States was below the actual growth, and
consequently increased the ratios shown at
the close of the succeeding decade. But
the supporters of this census do not see that
this argument works both ways. They
seem to imagine that because the faulty
census Of 1870 vitiates the ratios of gain for
both the preceding and succeeding decades,
therefore no comparison at all can be made
with the census taken at the close of the
third decade. In this they are entirely mis-
taken. No comparison can be made with
the ratio of either of the previous decades
taken by itself; but very fair comparison
can be made with the average ratios
The whole argument recognizes the accur-
acy of the enumerations of 1860 and 1880.
That fact being established, simple illus
tration will show how the comparison of
ratios is affected. Take community which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
One of Our Rulers.


7 TOLD her that She had my heart,
Ipromised her store
OF gold and diamonds and things
That women all adore.
But she turned up her pretty nose;
She said: MY empire, sir,
Cannot be bought with gauds or gold
So don't aspire, sir.
"My word is law" she further said,
II bow the knee to none.
be your wife? With trihing, sir,
I beg of you have done!
And so I left the naughty girl.
Without word or look;
And she still rules noble house.
Where she is hired to cooki
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
A INSTRUMENTATION AS TO FUNERALS.

The State Board OF Health is undertaking
an excellent work in the direction of sani-
rary reform by addressing a circular to
physicians urging them to discourage fu-
nerals to which friends and kindred are
generally admitted, where the death has
been caused by contagious disease. The
dread of certain classes OF contagious disease,
such as cholera, smallpox, typhus and yell
low fever, has resulted IN preventing large
attendance at the funerals in such cases.
But the State Board urges that there is also
danger in cases where death has been caused
by scarlet fever, diphtheria or measles, and
asserts that the public is to-day as much in
need OF education with regard to these dis
eases IS it was concerning smallpox two
hundred years ago.
This is subject concerning which the
State Board OF Health can speak with
authority. Its statement that there is a
danger to the public in widely attended fu-
erals OF sdch cases should be sufficient to
cause general attention to its recommend
atoms. There are many things about our
funerals which call for reform, the most
patent being devices for making them need
lessly expensive. But if either silly GUS
tom or misdirected sentiment make it neces-
sary tor people Of limited means 10 impov-
erish themselves in committing the bodies
of their dead to the grave, that is a much
less serious matter then when the same
aston or sentiment exposes a community to
vpread Of contagious and fatal disease.