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

RICH AND BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF JAPANESE
PoRcELAISs, &C.-There is now on exhibition
at the art rooms Of Thomas bowling, 18th and
fennsylvanla avenue, one of the most brilliant
and attractive displays of modern Japanese
Porcelains and art objects that have been ex-
hlbited here IN a long time. The sale will take
place on Wednesday next at IL an and o. M.
and continue daily at those hours until every
piece Is sold. The sale is positively without
reserve, as the goods cannot be repacked-
Adrk
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Fine Butter, small tubs. 3O3 10th n. W. ms 2.

New Fashion Sheets for March free. At
the Domestic Sewing Machine Office, a X. m3-6
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PECULIAR To ITSELF.

That Hoods Sarsaparilla does possess curative
power Peculiar to Itself is conclusivey shown by the
wonderful cures it has effected unsurpassed in the
history of medicine This absolute merit possesses
by reason Of the fact that it is prepared by COM
BINATION, PROPORTION and PROCESS Peculiar to
Hoods Sarsaparila, known to other medicine and
by which the full medicinal power Of all the ingre-
dents used is retained. Hoods Sarsaparllla is q
highly concentrated extract of Sarsaparia, Dande-
Hon. Mandrake Dock. Juniper Berries, and other well
known vegetable remedies 1t has won its way to the
leading place among medicines by its own intrinsic
undisputed merit aud today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-03

Buy Your Coal. Coke and Wood from JOHN
CON BROTHERS, the leading firm In the Dis
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VISIT the Empire Carpet Cleaning Works,
fS1-635 Mass. ave. NV. Telephone 1872
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CITY ITEMS.
"Excelsior'' Brand Coffee os,

Best Coffee for the money in the District =.
Call for it at All eth or 2l0S l4th st. NV
it, NJ. 4 p. METzsER, The Live Grocervmen
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Why is it that people take Salvation dip
Answer: Because it is good and cheap. 25c.
Another Great Reduction i'm Sugars,
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company,
0Ul ana 5O3 9TH street, corner 9Th and T. north
west Best Granulated Sugar, 6IS cents. IN 10
10. lots only, to any one buying tea or coffee
from us.
p dS g0a wsns mRs perfect Coffee or Tea use A
beat
Check given with every CSC. worth of Tea,
Coffee. Baking Powder and Condensed Milk.
iZo-ot n. II. BOWMAN, Manager.
Excelsior" Brand Coffee, 2Sc lib. Try it.
Over 10000 Fine Hats, half usual prices
American Hat Co. 'sSpring Styles Fine Derbies.
IN large, small and Dunlap shapes, SOC TO Il. so.
Best Hat made, 81. 209 Pa. ave-, opp. Botanical
Gardens: Plain figures. One price.
f26-w.f, s&m-St"
Sunrise Chop Tea, 5Oc Id. Trial samples free.
Headache, Neuralgia. Dizziness, Nervous
ness, Spasms, Sleeplessness cured by Mr.. Miles
Nervine. Samples free at
EDWARD P. MERITS, IOl4 F St
Bailey's, $40 7th.-Sl Saw. 55c. Hatcbet &c
rogers Scissors, 55c. Pocket Knives 55c Planes
ooc. Plated Spoons. All warranted f27-5t
Flour.-Best Patent Process, s1.75 \. Sc 50
Dbl NJ. 4 p. METzGER, All z and 2lOs IA n.w.s
Buy a Machine With a Reputation!
Examine our New High Arm No. and notice
how Its rotary motion, silent and positive, con-
trasts with the rasping, heavy, uncertain action
OF shuttle machines. Office, 437 9Th NV.
fl9-lm WHEELER WILSON MF'G. Co.
Old Rye Whisky, 75c. at. METzGER's, All ~
For Cheap, Quick Fire
Buy Washington Gas Company's Coke
d7-3m JOHNSON Bros Agents.
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Why Is it that people take Salvation Oil?
Answer: Because it is good and cheap. 25c. 1
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In consequence of the gale outside large
number OF vessels have sought shelter in
Hampton Roads.
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HOODS SARSAPARILLA

has larger sale than any other similar preparation in
the country. If YOU have taken Hoods Sarss-
parilla try it this season.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has renewed my grip am 65
years OF age and was all run down and discouraged
have taken Hoods Sarsaparilla and looking myself
over find that much better. In fact quite chap
OF course the medicine will not discount my years
but it comes to it than anything else "-CHAS
b LONG. Shrewsbury, Mass.
HOODS SARSAPARILLA
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S5. Prepared only
by c. L HOOD CO, Apothecariss, Lowell. Mas.
100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR
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BooTH-MoDJEsKA.-Th will be the final
week Of the Booth engagement at the Holiday
Street theater, Baltimore, and the management
- pleased 70 announce the appearance of Nine.
Helena Modjeska, who has fully recovered from
her recent accident. Nine. Modjeska will ap-
pear al all the performances IN conjunction
with Mr.. Booth. The last two excursions will
take place on Wednesday and Friday nights.
..Richelieu" being given on the former and
''The Merchant Of Venice on the latter night.
Special trains will leave this week by Pennsyl-
vania railroad from 9th street depot at pm
sharp. Seats may still be secured at Miiler's
book store, $50 18th street.
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TIE SALE Of fine building lot on Sd stree,
west near Pennsylvania avenue, which Was &c
be sold last Thursday, owing to the weather
was postponed until tomorrow afternoon al
G:30 o'clock, to take place in front of the prem
ises. This Is one of the few remaining unim-
proved lots in that vicinity.
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Bailey's, $40 7th.-Sl Saw 55c Hatchet SIC,
Rogers Scissors, soc. Pocket Knives. 55c Planes,
5oc. Plated Spoons. Ali warranted f27-5t
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tlour.-Best Patent Process, BIS "A. SC. so
Dbl. NJ. z. METzGER, All and 2lOS IA n.w.s
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IMPORTANT SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
&c.-Tomorrow at 1880 o'clock at residence
No. l4f7 Massachusetts, avenue Auctioneel
Downing will sell a superior collection OF house
hold effects, objects OF art, &c. Parties fur
nishing would study their interest by giving
this sale their attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-03
Excelsior" Brand Coffee. CSC. lib. Try
Sunrise Chop Tea, SOC. Id. Trial samples free

Headache, Neuralgia. Dizziness, Nervous
ness, Spasms, Sleeplessness cured by Mr.. Miles
Nervine. Samples free at
1 EDWARD p. MERITS, lOl4 f St
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PROPOSALS

DRoPosAL--BIDs FOR ONE HUNDRED 600
Ions Cumberland Coal TO be delivs red at the
rover House Of the Georeetown and Tennsllytovn
railway compsny ~i be received st the office OF the
company, III street northwest, until MARCH
TENTH, 1890. The company reserves the righf 70
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CONDENSED LOCALS.

MASONIC HALI.-world's Fair.
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strI,HE WORLD DO MOvE."-REMEMBER THE
IL Terrestrial Clock" RAMSAY has cut The
prices; watches cleaned 81; hrst-c.ass MAIN sprTs
warranted one Year 81 all clock ana 3ewery work
LIZA II nv. nulS
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-13

A late bulletin of the Maryland Agri-
cultural Experiment Station gives a plan
for making domestic superphosphates
from the animal bones that accumulate
about the farm. 1t is as follows:
Crush the bones as thoroughly as pos
sible and provide a barrel of fresh
burned lime and three barrels of strong,
unleached hard ashes for every
barrel of crushed bone. Use as base,
or mixing hearth, a tight floor, or level
layer of loamy soil about six inches
thick, Upon this spread barrel of
ashes, in a similar layer. Then, in d
thinner layer, half barrel of bone;
scatter through the bone, to fill the
spaces, and spread upon it half barrel
of lime, pulyerized but not Stacked. On
this spread second barrel of ashes.
Wet this pile gradually with a sprinkler,
using about ten gallons of water, or
enough to moisten all but have none run
out. Add, in like manner, half barrel
of bone, a half barrel of lime, barrel of
ashes, and ten gallons more of water.
Over all scatter about one bushel of land
plaster, and cover the entire pile with
dry loan. Examine the pile once a
week, and ado water, if needed, to keep
all moist, but not wet. In four or FIVE
weeks shovel over and thoroughly mix,
moisten and pile. again, cover with soil
and little more plaster, and leave two
Or three weeks longer. If pieces of bone
then remain urdecompcsed, sift them
out to use in next compost, or add more
quick lime and ashes and giee further
time.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-13
FIFrY-FIRsT CONGRESS
senate.

4TH DAY-The joint resolution for the
issue of arms to North and South Dakota and
Nebraska was passel, after debate II was
amended to include Wyoming. The Force
bill came up as unfinished business and was
opposed by Mr.. Pugh. After an executive
session the Senate adjourned.
5TH DAY.-The session was almost entirely
occupied by discussion of the Force bill.
9Th DAY.-Mr Sherman introduced three
DIS and one amendment to a bill al OF which
were referred to the finance committee. The
new bills are: To amend the law relating TO
the refining and parting of bullion, to amend
the act authorizing the receipt OF gold con in
exchange for gold bars, and billauthorizing
the recoinage Of subsidiary coins of the United
States. The balance of the session was con-
sumed BY the election bill.
9TH DAY-The elertion bill was again be-
fore the Senate. Mr.. Hosr asked unanimous
consent TO have Friday next fixed for taking
the final vote on the bill, but Mr.. German en-
tered vigorous protest against the PROPOSE.
ton. Mr.. Gray concluded his speech against
the bill aud Mr.. Berry, of Arkansas obtained
the floor. After short executive session, the
Senate aj1urred.
sTH DAY.-Mr Plumb introduced bill TO
re luce the amount of United States bonds TO
be required OF banks and to replace their sur
rendered notes, and to provide for the free
coinage of silver. He also offered an amend
ment in the same terms to a bill now on the
calendar, SO that the matter can be brought
before the Senate independently of a report
from the Finance Committee. Mr.. Quay in
troduced bill to correct the clauses of the
tariff act relating to cables, cordage and Irvine.
Mr.. Adrich, from the Finance Committee,
reported the Tobacco Rebate bill, and asked
its consideration, but Mr.. Plumb objected and
il went on the calendar. The Force bill was
discussed, Messrs. Berry aud Daniel speaking
in opposition to the measure After an execu-
tive session the Senate adjourned.
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Vinegar Eels.

DR.. G. Lindner discusses the occur
renee of the .'eels' common in
weak or impure vinegar. The makes
and the femal,s respectively mea-
sure lii nm. and 1!-2i nm. in
length The worms move actively in a
fluid medium, creep slowly in thick con-
coctions, or coil together in complicated
knots They thrive well on diet of
egg, withstand even tolerably strong
vinegar, are killed at once by pure acetic
acid, are very slightly perturbed by arti-
fetal digestive cultures, live well on
fruits, bulbs. ETC. They flourish best be-
tween go degrees and SO degrees, are
killed by temperature over 107 de-
grees. or under the freezing point; on
light and air they are very slightly de-
pendent, but to drought very sensitive.
After desiccation for three or four hours
no revivitication even of the eggs was OBJ
served. The worms have great powers
of adaptation to the most diverse condi-
tons. Their natural home seems to be
in moist mud and in putridity, but they
are rare in drinking or running water.
That millions of germs float in the air is
a fable. How they get into the vinegar
is uncertain, but they probably insinuate
themselves at certain stages of its man.
ufacture In vinegar prepared from
wine by the quick process they are very
rare. The vinegar eels' are not ex-
actly dangerous, but it is at once safe
and more appetizlng to make sure either
that the vinegar IS of the better sort, or
at least boiled and filtered.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-13
raASspLANrrsa EvEReRrENs.

Evergreen trees, like pines, spruce and
hemlocks, are successfully transplanted
at almost any season of the year when
the ground is not frozen. The
percentage of loss is less if they be set
out in the spring than when transplanted
at other seasons. In the spring is the
most natural time for transplanting; the
plant is in its most dormant condition,
and thus the removal is attended with
the most promising results. In the spring
time the young trees get frmer roofing
before the upper growth begins. If set
out in the fall, the young trees are
weakened, aud are often deprived of
their sap and juices by the evaporation
induced by leaves and twigs, before the
roots take fresh hold upon the soil.
Actual contact with the soil through ma
tural growth is absolutely essential to
bringing the functions of the newly set
tree into action. In New Englar the
frost is usually out of the ground, and
the land in fit condition for transplant
ing from about the first to the middle of
May Couria-JouInal.
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How Trout Are Matched.

The Matching season begins in 0cto-
Der and ends in January. On the day
that was in tic harbor the first sweep
ing of the season took place. A big
female trout, heavy with eggs, ran up
into the spawning race, and accom-
ranied by her mate, nosed around the
gravel for suitable place to make
nest She will repeat this for week or
longer until such time as the superin-
tcudent deems sufficient, when she VII
be taken out of the water and stripped
Of her eggs by having her sides rubbed
by hand. Then the male will also be
stripped aud the eggs taken to the
hatchery and placed on tray with
wire sieve bottom. Here they will be
covered with water and let stand for
half an hour. After that they will be
washed and left in running water for
sixty days or longer, depending on the
temperature. Every day they will be
washed and the dead eggs removed.
Finally they will hatch out and the fry
will drop through the sieve into the
water. Each baby trout will have red
sack under his mouth almost rs big as
himself. This supplies him with food,
and, until it is absorbed, which takes
from thirty to forty days, he is not ready
Tor food. At length, after three months,
the trout is ready to be turned loose in
the rearing pond, where it will have
feed of chopped clans five times a day.
When the young fish, whether it be
trout or smelt, is ready to take food 1t
is ready for shipment to the stream where
it is to be planted. The babies are
shipped in five and ten gallon tin cans
under care of one of the uperintendents
Eve assistants.
This method of shipping and hatch
ing Is the same with all kinds of fish
that come into the hatchery except the
whitefsh aud tomcod. The eggs OF
these fishes are very light and were they
placed on the Matching tray they would
,e washed away by the running water.
Therefore they are Matched in glass jars,
ingeuiously fed with water through glass
tubes so that the contents are in continual
action.
The feeding of the fishes is one of the
important parts of the station work
One man is employed constantly getting
clans and chopping them into small bits.
sometimes the food is raw and often i
is boiled. The older trout only need oEe
feed day New York Herald.
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TREATMENT OF BONES,

One of the experiment stations gives
the following as to treating bones on the
farm: /. Bones put into a we'll kept,
moistened manure pile will themselves
gradually decay and disappear, enriching
the manure to that extent. 2. Raw bones
may be bodily buried in the soil around
the trees; if placed at sufficient depth
beyond the reach of the summers heat
and drought, the rooticts will cluster
around each piece, and in the course ola
few years consume it entirely. But it
will not do to have these root clusters
broken up by cultivation every season.
3. Bones may be packed in moist wood
ashes, best mixed witha little quicklime;
the mass kept moist but never dripping.
In few months the hardest bones will
be reduced to a fiue mush, which is as
effectuaI as supcrphosphate. "Concen-
tratcd lye' and soil may be used instead
OF ashes. In this process the nitrogen of
the bones is lost, going off in the form of
ammonia, the odor of which is very per-
ceptible in the tank used. For neither
of these processes should the bones be
burnt The burning of bones is an un-
qualified detrimcnt to their effectiveness,
which can only be undone by the use of
sulphuric acid. 4. Bones steamed for
three or four hours in boiler under
pressure of thirtyfye to fifty pounds,
can, after drying, be readily crushed in
an ordinary barley-crushing mill, and
thus be rendered more convenient for
use. Practically very little of the nitro.
gen (glue) of the bones need be thus lost.
Boston CRHiraior.
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House

4TH DAY.-The entire session was devoted
to consideration of the Pension Appropriation
bill in Committee OF the Whole Mr.. Cooper
OF Indiana, taking occasion to severely cell
sure the present management of the Pension
Bureau. Pending discussion the committee
rose and the House adjourned.
9TH DAY-The Senate joint resolution for
the issue of arms to the States Of North and
South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska, was
amended to include Montana, and passed. The
Pension Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee OF the Whole, reported to the
House amt passed. Adjourned.
9TH DAY-Mr. O'Neili, from the commit
tee on library, called up The Senate lint reso-
luton directing the President to request the
widow of Gen. [. S. Grant TO permit the re-
moveal fthe remains of her illustrious hus-
band to Arlington Cemetery lie said that the
joint resolution had passed theSenate inAugust
last, but had been delayed in the House. This
delay he considered as uncomplimentary to
Mrs. Grant and her family, who were simply
asked to consent to the proposition. The COM
mlttee having arisen, on motion of Mr.. Per-
kins the Senate bill was passed, with unim-
portant amendments, appropriating 100000
for the purchase of additional rati0ns for the
Sioux Indians.
7TH DAY.-The House passed a number of
District of Columbia bills. A bill was passed
inc CeCtttdlg VI Nhc treasury u
refund so much OF the tax collected on tobacco
which shall be in the hands of dealers and
manufacturers January LIST as was abo ,ished
by the recent tariff act. Mr.. Barine, of Ne
vada, asked unanimous consent for the pass
age of bill for the reecinage of deineed
subsidiary silver coin, making such coin legal
tender TO the amount of twenty dollars, and
providing that it shall constitute part Of the
legal reserve of national banks Mr. Cannon,
Of Illinois. objected, and the House, at five
O'Clock, adjourned.
STH DAY.-In the morning hour the House
resumed the consideration of the Plumb reso-
luton looking to the removal of the remains
of Gen. U. 5. Grant to Arlington. The debate
that followed consumed nearly the entire ses-
sion. At its conclusion the resolution was
defeated-yeas %, nays 154. The House then
proceeded, under the special order, to the dis
position of public building measures pre-
viously reported from committee of the whole.
Among the bills .sed were: Norfolk, Va,
Sl5o0Oci Reidsyillr, y. C., $2500o; Charles,
ton, S. c., increase $4,000; Savannah, Ca
S2500t0; Rome, Ga, $4,000. In all, 30 bills
were passed, involving the expenditure OF
A.5l0t %.
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ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE


JULES VERNE is the author of twenty four
novels.
J. P. EVANS, the only surviving brother of
George Eliot, has just died at the age of "A
years.
THE Sultan of Turkey is said to be fi,s-
tidious ePieure, always on the alert for gas
tronomic novelties.
JACQUES RENAUDIN, who fought with
Napoleon l., at jena Friedland, and Eylau,
has just died in Paris at the age of LOG,
CoNGREsSMAN-ELECr Sherman Hoar was
the model Cor the statue of John Harvard,
which stands in the delta at Cambridge.
Mr.. GLADsToNE'S nephew, Sir. John Glad
stone, owns distillery at Fasque which pro.
duces $1,000 gallons OF go d whiskey annual y.
THE Prince of Wales has drawn altogether
Sl6 $4,000 from the English treasury, and it
is estimated that his debts aggregate half as
much again.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE, of Eng
land, is nearly years old and rejoices i'll the
receipts of a comfortable salary of $4,000 a
year from the Grown.
NINE. ADAM, the noted woman editor of
Paris, dresses very simply. For real smpl.
city of dress, however, Nine. Adam cannot
compare with Nine Eve.
QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy is fond of
smoking, and is said to have declared that her
cigarette is more essential to her omfort than
anything else in life.
CoNGREssMAN-ELECr HALvoRsFx. of
Minnesota, is the first Succ, ssful Congress
sional nominee of the Prohibition party. He
was Endorsed by the Farmers Alliance
J. STANLEY Brown, who was Garfeld's
private secretary, and who married Mss
Molie Carrie d, has lately become private
secretary to Secretary Rusk, of the Agricul-
tural Department.
SENATOR PETTIGREw, Of South Dakota,
when asked by New York rep prter if he was
a candidate for the Vice. Presidency smiled
and said: Put me down as retIcent."
CCOUNI ToLsToI is described as wearing
usually only such coarse clothing as is worn
by the poor classes, His shirt is worn outside
of his trousers, in the fashion of the mouiik
and is gathered in to the waist by leather
belt.
john g. OTIS, the leader of the Alliance
Congressional delegation from Kansas. is a
graduate of Williams College and of Harvard
Law School, aud is native of Ruthland.
Vermont For the past twenty years he hes
been milkman in Topeka.
Barring BROTHERS was one of the few
financial concerns that stood The strain of the
bursting of the South Sea bubble in the latter
part OF the eighteenth century, when even the
Bank of England was shaky
ISAAC BLUXoME, the secretary OF the ceIe.
brated Californian Vigilance Committee of
1856, has just died. His official signature
was "33, Secretary" and was a sign Of dread
to the desperauoes who thronged San Fran.
cisco in that day. Luckily for him, his
personal identity with 1873, Secretary" was NOT
known, except by the members of the Vigil.
ance Committee. Bluxome's efforts were said
to be the means which saved Judge Terry
from the fury of the mob at the time of the
Brnderick duel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-13
what caused Him to Reform.

At q temperance meeting one of the
workers read story entitled, 4The
Little Shoes Did It, 1t was about q
man who had been reclaimed from the
vice of incompetence by seeing the
saloon-keeper's little child come into the
saloon, holding out her feet for the
father to look at her fine new shoes. II
made tina drunkard think OF his own
barefooted children at home, impover-
ished in order that the saloon-keeper's
child might be we'll shod, aud he quit
drink from that moment.
At the conclusion of the recital q
shabby, dissipated looking man in tie
back of one hall began to sob.
@Ah." said the reader from the plat
form, to the sobbing man, you have
been there yourself"
The weeping man, with his face
buried in his hands, nodded assent.
"And have you reformed?'
Another vigorous nod.
'sThen it was the little shoes OF the
saloon-keepsr's little girl that did it ?"
No. he replied, sadly; at was the
saloon-keeper's little boot He kicked
me outlS-1eras Siftings.