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The daily critic., 1890-08-08


NEw PUBLICATIONS.
HARPERS' MAGAZINE.
August.
ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
Impressions of Berlin.
By TuEoDoHE CHID. With Illustrations by
T, De THUIsTRUP and CHARLES MEsTE.
Magellan and the Pacific.
By EDWARD EVERETT Hale. With nlustra-
tions from Old Prints and from a drawing
by A. r. WAuD.
Plantln-Moretus.
By ocTAyIA HESsEL. with Illustrations from
photographs By ]. MACS, Antwerp.
Street Life in India
By EDWARn loan WEEKS. With Illustrations
drawn By the author.
INTERESTING PAPERS,
Clusters Last Battle.
By CAFTAIs CHARLES Kso. With Map.
A Convent at Rome
BY DF. Francis PARKMAS.
Some Geology of Chicago
and Vicinity.
By ELlEs b. BAsTIE,
ENTERTAINING FICTION.
Port Tarascon:
The last Adventures Of the Ilustrious Tar
taFin. By ALPH0EsE DAUBET. Translated
by HEERY JAMES. Third Installmenfl
With Illustrations from drawings By
MTERAcHs R0ssI and MosTEsUE
The Uncle of an Angel.
A sumner Novelette,. BY THo4As A. Jas
yrER With illustrations drawn b. ". T.
sAEDLE1.
Lizzie BTubaker.
story. By Ina REnwooD FAIRFAX. with
Illustrations drawn by ALICE BARBER.
A Walk Up the Avenue.
a story b RIcuAHD HAHDHs DAVIS.
The Bathley Affair.
A story. By LUcT G. LHIR.
POETRY.
The World is Too Much
With Us.
A sonnet. By WuLIAM WORDSWORTH. With
three Illustrations drawn b ALFRED
PAHsoss
To an Apple Tree.
a Poem. b CoArEs EssET.
An Impression.
A Poem. 81 REssELI RoDD.
The Under Lie.
a Poem. b H4HHzE PHEsGoIE sFoFFoHD.
Westward.
A Poem. b joss TAHB.
Social Precedence.
From a Drawing b GEoHoE d M4UHIEH,
Editorial Departments.
THE EAsT CHAIH-By George william Curtis.
THE sIuBE- 81 william Dean EoWslia.
TaE DHAH EE-Bg Charles Dudley HaFneE.
HARPER & BROTHER,
NV EoRE
The daily critic., 1890-08-08
Midsummer
WIDE AWAKE



Grant Allen has q popular scientific paper
about The American water LILY. followed
by sThe queen Lily" b. Miss Harris. aRd
that by q legendary poem, water lilies, b
Frances i. Mace. The Amateur Photography
article has sans very curious ana beautiful
pictures. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremonl's vile
nd-Bay story,
The Hat Of the Postmaster,
IS notable ana notably toId. There are in
terestiug Installmeuts Of the serials, The
New Senior az AadoFer" and The Qaeat *
the whipping Boy Louise stockton has a
zlngulaTly suggestive sGame of the senses
ior young aud ala aud there are ~
Pagaa q Vacation Delights.
DLorhTop & Co, Publishers
BOSTON
The daily critic., 1890-08-08
rnrrArroNAn.
MISS AIKEN's SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
stamford, Conn,

Established in 1853. Prepares for college,
travel and home. The method by which the
mental faculties are educated will be found
in the second edition Of Miss Aiken's pam
phlet on concentrated Attention. now
ready. for sale at Brentano's, Union Square,
New YORK.
The daily critic., 1890-08-08
NEN PUBLICATIONS.
Princess Rosetta and the
Pop Corn Man,

With SIX pictures hy Garrett Is Many 3. VII
KIss' dellcately humorous contributions 70
The (Augusu
The daily critic., 1890-08-08

This subject and % bring about an era
IN which tlo dead man will be much
less an object of regard and considera-
NOn than thc assassin
The daily critic., 1890-08-08

JCHS WANANAKER says, in Fridays
Philadelphia Press "Ihgrc viii be the
liycllest sort OF to,do in womens' and
misses waists today Perhaps SO, John,
Tut IT'S 30 business Of yours, anyhow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26

Gained and took advantage Of the enforced
idieness of the crew to have his vessel scraped
and painted. While three of the men were
standing on planks slung over the side a huge
poulp rose from the water and threw one of its
arms around two of the sailors. whom it tore
away, together with the scaffolding on which
they stood With another arm it seized the
third man, who held on tightly to the rigging
and shouted for help. The shipmates sue
ceeded in rescuing him by cutting away the
monsters arm with axes and knives, but he
died the following night. The captain tried
to save the other two sailors by killing
the animal and drove several harpoons
into it. but they tore out Of its soft body and
the men were carried down by the poulp. This
story Is believed to be true one; at all events.
1t accords perfectly with established facts re-
lating to the octopus. The islanders of the
eastern seas have numerous traditions concern
Ing poulps which have embraced good-sized
ships and helped themselves to the sailors. On
the whole although these monsters are most
interesting to discuss, not even the most scien-
tihcal!y inclined person would be disposed to
encounter one, even for the sake Of solving the
mystery Of the sea SERPENT.
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MAKING MATCHES.
One Machine Can Cut Out Ten Million
Sticks In q Day.

From the woodworker.
The operation of making matches from q
pine log may be divided into four heads,
namely: Preparing the splints, dipping the
matches, box making and filling. When the
timber il brought into the cutting room Of the
factory it is seized upon by gang Of men,
who place 1t before circular saw, where IL ID
cut in blocks is inches long, which IL the
length OF seven matches. It 10 then free of
Its bark and taken to the turning lathe, where,
BY means Of . special form of fixed cutting
band running its entire length, q continuous
tool, the thickness Of the match il cut of.
As the block revolves and decreases in
diameter the knife advances and q band Of
veneer Of uniform thickness is obtained As
the veneer rolls of the knife il is met by eight
small knives, which cut it into seven separate
bands, each the size Of match. BY this one
operation seven long ribbons of wood, each
the length and thickness of a match, are OBJ
tanned. These are then broken into pieces six
feet long, the knotty parts removed, and they
are then fed into q machine, which acts and
looks like o straw chopper, which cut them
into single matches. Tho machine eats $50
bands at the same time, and o mechanical de-
vice pushes them forward the thickness OF Q
match at each stroke Of the cutter. This little
machine, with it, one sharp knife, can cut over
l0,O0Q, 600 matches dAy.
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That other enormous horror Of the sea, the
giant octopus, with which Victor Hugo mixed
up the great squid, is of the same family with
the latter beast-a soft and pulpy monster with
eight tentacles Of equal length radiating from
Its central mass and armed with suckers. Its
habit Is to Turk IN some dark GRANNY in the
depths waiting for an unwary victim 70 venture
within reach. With three or four OF its mighty
arms 1t clings fast to a rock, while with the re-
naming tentacles waving, gliding and feeling
about in the water IL keeps on the alert for
prey. A man coming within its reach-and
human beings are often its victims-is in
stsntly embraced. Instantaneousiy as the pull
OF trigger the pistons OF the hundreds
OF suckers on the tentacle are simulta-
neously drawn inward, the air il re-
moved from the pneumatic holders, q vacuum
being created in each. and the victim is so
completely pinioned that hardly q struggle is
possible. Men have been known to cut them
selves loose from this death grip, but the
other tentacles not occupied with clinging to
the rock are wrapped about the man, and he is
drawn into the close embrace OF the poulp to
be torn to pieces by its beak and absorbed
In his book on 1.-The French in Algiers'' Mr.
Clemens Laming writes:
1.-The soldiers we're in the habit Of bathing in
the sea every evening and from time to time
several Of them disappeared, no one knew how.
Dathlng was, In consequence, strictly forbid
zen .s, IN spite OF which several men went into
the water one evening. Suddenly one of them
screamed for help, and the others who rushed
70 his rescue found that an octopus had seized
him BY the leg. The soldiers killed the creature
and subsequently ate IL for revenge"
1t certain that the octopus will often attack
man. Capt Jean MagnuS Dens, merchant.
whus On average 70 China once, Was be.
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PRISONERS ARRESTED.
Three Plotters In Buffalo Charged With
q Deliberate Crime.

Mrs. Wade, who keeps boarding house on
East Market street. Buffalo. Mary Sylvia. aged
sixteen years, and her brother, John, aged
fourteen, have been arrested charged with
attempting TO poison Annie Silks, n disco
lutte woman, who lived with the children's
father. The boy confessed and said that
Mrs. Wade gave Mary money to get oxalic
acid, laudanum and whisky. She thon mixed the
poison and gave it to Mary to give to the Silks
woman. Mary went home for that purpose on
two occasions, but did not have nerve enough.
Then Mrs. Wade prompted the boy TO admin
lister the poison. He and a companion named
Johnnie Hayes took the poison TO the House
and Hayes gave il TO the Silks woman The
woman became very ILL., but recovered.
The girl Mary also made statement cor
roborating that OF her brother. Mrs. Wade
denies the stories told by the children ard saws
that the girl had told her that she intended 10
poison the Silks woman and that she had adj
vised her to be careful. Mrs. Wade alleges
that Mary tried to poison her SO as TO get
possession of her boarding house.
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ried off by the wrong train, OF the missing a
many trains and finally OF long tramp in tho
wrong direction after the right train had landed
him almost at the door OF the fshermen',
house.
After all the fuss the club made over him.
killing the fatted calf and all that sort OF thing
he was mean enough 20 take q snap shot with
his camera AZ the commissary colonel as he vas
giving the boatman a dollar and taking his fish.
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ONLY ONE DAILY MEAL FOR YEARS.
Kew. John Eberle Cured Himself OF
Disease by That Plan.

Rev. John J. Eberle, a well-known local
preacher OF Pottstown, Pa, has been living on
one meal day for thirty years and is in excel
lent health. He celebrated his sixty-seventh
birthday on Monday.
He says from his youth mp TO the age OF
thIrty-seven he was a constant sufferer from a
complication OF diseases and resolved to adopt
the one-meal-a-day custom 20 see IL his health
would be benefited by it. His bad health
gradually disappeared, and now he is a hale
aud wig orous old man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26

though the ignorant are accustomed to pooh
pooh such q notion. as they do everything
which does not come within the grasp OF their
understanding, the mass Of reliable testimony
in the sea serpent's favor isrecognized by those
who have studied the subject as well-nigh IN
eontrovertible. That some prodigious monster
Of actual fact has by its occasional appearance
afforded basis Of truth for what is SO gener-
ally supposed to be a myth has been entirely
demonstrated, and will be sufficiently shown
IN this article It remains to be determined
whether other monsters besides this, as big or
bigger, have . share in responsibility for the
stories.
1t is rather extraordinary that the monster
when seen is always referred to as the sea SER
pent, if there could not be more than
one such animal in existence. But surely II
one exists there must be Others else how would
its kind be perpetuated? 1t is hardly to be
supposed that the sea serpent has life of in
definite duration and that single specimen
has been astonishing the world at intervals for
thousands OF years, for 1t must be remembered
that observations concerning the beast have
been made a matter OF written history for at
least three thousand years. One finds in Nir-
girs "Eneid" a description of the manner In
which two sea serpents came out OF the ocean
ct the behest of an angry goddess and gobbled
mp LAGOON and his two sons. twining about
them with Shiny and hideous coils.
THE INDUSTRIOUS PLEs1osAURUs.
Two-thirds Of the earth's surface is covered
with water, the far depths Of which miles and
miles below the waves, have never been ap-
preached by the human explorer. Who can
say what frightful creatures. vast and formless
nightmares Of the deep, may lurk there in the
darkness of an aqueous night never illumined
by q suns ray? No one has any reason for
asserting that the enormous plesiosaurus Of the
oolithic age, skeletons of which are found at
this day, does not still survive in the unfath-
omed caves of ocean. This extraordinary
aquatic reptile, which resembled a gigantic
snake threaded through the body of a turtle.
having the head of lizard the teeth of a
crocodile, a neck thirty feet long like the body
Of a serpent, the ribs Of chameleon and the
paddles Of a whale, would answer very well to
the usual description given of the great sea
serpent. 1t is very likely. however, that the
monster which has given cause for a ma jority
Of such stories is one OF unquestioned existence
at the present time, although up to within a
very recent period science was not we'll ac-
quainted with it. nor was it known what mighty
proportions this ogre Of the ocean attains.
THE GIANT sQUID.
With this nionstrous animal, however the
fishermen Of the Indian ocean have been un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26
Discomfort IN CHILL.
Differences Between the President and
the Deputies of That Republic.

The political situation in Chill is very I'M
settled owing to the strong differences existing
between the president and the deputies over
the appointm ent Of an unacceptable cabinet,
and the president is determined not to call a
new one. One result is that a motion not TO
pass the customary bill to authorize the coll
lection Of taxes until the president appoints q
new cabinet has been made in the deputies
and will be carried.
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DIR. BURTSELL HEARS FROM ROME
Next Sunday Is His Last ms Pastor of the
Church Of the Epiphany, New York.

1t 10 learned that the Congregation Of the
Propaganda, which has completely and thor
oughly sustained Archbishop Corrigan at every
point in his contest with the Rev. DIR. Burtsell,
has written to DR.. Burtsell to that effect Not
only this, but the congregation has taken the
entire matter into its own hands. The Rev.
DR.. Burtseu Is removed from the Church OF the
Epiphany. Next Sunday is his last Sunday az
pastor OF that church, and on August / the
parish will be put in charge Of the Rev. DIR. p.
j. Prendergast, who will become its pastor.
The future OF the Rev. DIR. Burtsell 10 in the
hands Of the Sacred Congregation.
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE TRADE JoURNAL-rM-
PoRTERs AND THE M'KINLEY BILL-AsPHALr
PAYMENTS FOR THE METRopoLrs-A spIrEFUL
SERVANT GIRLS REVENGE.
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T THIS season Of the
year the sea serpent is
accustomed to turn up
at odd spots along the
Atlantic seaboard and
supply interesting sum-
mer reading for the
newspapers. There is
nothing that people are
more eager to hear
about than this mystery
lof the ocean-for one
treason. because science
readily admits the pos
sibility of such a crea-
lures existence. Al
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IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES.
Political Bitterness i'm the ssPurer Days
Of the Republic."

MORE PARTY ANIMosrTY AND PERSONAL vrTuPER-
ALTON THAN IN LATER YEARs-How 1.-THE
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY" WAS vILIFIED BY
HIS oPPoNESrs-Hrs srAScH DEFENDERS
COURTESY SUCCEEDS coARsEYEss
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Photographic Message to Gladstone.

Through aphonograph the other day Mr.. Glad
stone listened to remarks from Gen. sherman
and others given at recent assemblage at New
York and conveyed by Gel Gouraud to Europe.
Mrs. Gladstone accompanied Mr. Gladstone to
the exhibition, where many prominent persons
were in attendance. The addresses spoken
through the phonogrsph, together with many
letters regretting the absence of the senders
from the meeting in New York, we're read and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26

The iron foundry Of the Humphrey Machine
Company at Keene, N. H., was partly burned
Thursday night, with large stock Of valuable
patternA Loss el0.0 900; no insurance.
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THEY GO AFISHING.
The South Mountain Clubs Visit to the
Upper Potomac.

DIFFICULTIES N THE WAY OF GETTING A START
MUDDY WATER AND DYING BArr-THr PREsr-
DENTS MEssAoE-A NIsHAP TO Tux PHoroe-
aAPHER-THE CATCH.
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Shot Through the Heart.

Col VIM. II. Hustled. q prominent and IN
huential resident Of Brooklyn, sccidently shot
and killed himself Thursday afternoon at his
summer home in B-oadalbin. eight miles from
Amsterdam, n. Y. He was going ON an expedi-
ton to shoot frogs and was putting gun in .
wagon in his barn when ID was accidently dis
charged The charge passed through his heart
and killed him instantly. Col. Hustled, who 10
n millionaire, had an elegant country seat a
Broadalbin, and was principal owner In the
knitting mill a. Amsterdam.
Strike ON New York School Buildings.
The strike of workmen on the New York
public schools is extending, and il now in
cludos twenty-four Of the Rrammar schools.
Only Q few mcmahon men are st work on
thess The trouble may seriously interfere
with the opening Of the schools in the fall
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MONSTERS OF THE DEEP
Gigantic Horrors That Roam the
Dark Unfathomed Depths.
SWIMMING NIGHTMA ARES,

The Great Sea Serpent and What IL
Really 1"Giant Squads and Mighty
PouIps That Attack Man-Poisonous
Marine Monsters of the Pacific.
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The condition Of the Northwes. territory was
one demanding relief. The early settlers were
massacred by the Indians and appeals for help
were UNDECIDED. Washington asked for power
to raise troops. and after considerable delay,
during which the question Of relinquishing the
whole Northwest territory and making the
Ohio river our western boundry was debated
Washingtons persistence and influence pre-
| vailed. and they voted him, very reluctantly,
5000 men and some money.
AN OLD CITY OF WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER.
I was shown a copy of the Washington CARTE
Of September 81. 1896, few days ago. Hardly
more than Is inches square, it contained some
interesting matter, and to a washingso its
Advertisements were most attractive The
Washington lottery took up about half a col
umn and an advertisement for "a patient
sportsman to purchase ticket" was sugges-
tive. Mr.. Clotworthy Stephenson. who was a
contractor under the first commissioners who
| laid out the city. advertises his residence on +
street. next to the present Ebbitt. i remember
1t well, years after, just as he describes it-a
double frame house with porches on the first
and second floor, set back from the street. and
next it, on east side, was large brick house
built by Maj Joseph Wheaton. who was the
sergeant-at-arms OF the First Congress and re-
tanned the position for twenty-one years, COM
ing with Congress to Washington. He built
next to this house, advertised for sale in 1896
Mrs. Leslie advertises the Capital Hotel on
Capitol Hill and one or two advertisements Of
boarding and a runaway ''nigger," with the cut,
winch was once SO familiar, OF negro with a
bundle over her shoulder running This paper
was published by Benjamin Moore and was the
precursor OF the Ndtion0l Intellgencer. JIG
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That night at the lodge the vocalis. disap-
peared, and presently the sound of his voice
and the splash of his oars came floating over
the water, while the rest of the South Mountain
Fishing Club exchanged experiences under
solemn pledge Of truthfulness, and in other
ways put in the evening Of amusement and
profit.
This is o very harmonious club, but when the
vice president and the commissary colonel get
to matching stories against each other they are
liable to get personal in their remarks. They
are apt to look at q fact from two different
points of view, and in the absence of any yield
ing qualities on either side the controversy
cannot be expected TO end until some one pro-
poses to look at the bait. This proposition
usually closes the controversy for the time
Being. But even this failed that night. though
The STAR man lost nearly all his bait by exhib-
iting il so often. The vice president accused
the commissary colonel of talking so much that
no one could sleep. The commissary colonel
made q counter charge, and though they dis
puted over 1t with great warmth and earnest
ness until the boatman called all down to
breakfast, il was still unsettled which IL was
kept the rest awake.
FAIRLY GOOD CATCH.
II was In the next days fishing that the South
Mountain Fishing Club showed their resources
Muddy water and dying bait did not down
them. More than that, three boats going ont
the captain Of each declared that no other boat
should beat his, and 30 well did each keep his
promise that at the end of the day no boat had
In it more fish than was In each Of the Others.
As the boats were called to account for thsir
strings. each cried "Nine!" 80 you see there
were tweuty-seyen bass.
just - the day WAS done and the tackle was
being packed for the homeward Journey a
dusty and travelworn stranger appeared a the
door Of the house with camera under his arm
and weary look upon his face. The club
rushed to his arms; It was the toughest Official
He was taken into dinner and
" he disposed Of ham and fried chicken he
told doleful story Of how he had been car
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wAsHYN0roN'e ENx1frEs m coNonraa-

Recurring 70 the period Of the administra-
ton Of Gen. Washington the First Congress was
in very decided sntagonism toward his admin
istration. They embarrassed II in every way,
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-25
THE CLEVELAND OIL AND MINING
COMPANY.

DRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS, ROOM
L 3, Los Angeles Theater Building, No. 225
South Spring street, Los Angeles, California
Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of
the Directors, held on Friday, the I'd day of
August, 1889, an assessment of five ($5) dollars
per share was levied upon the capital stock of
the corporation; and bya subsequent resolution
OF the Board Of Directors adopted at meeting
held on Monday, the 10th day of May, 1890,
day, the 21st day of June, 1890, to H. B. Bald
win, secretary of the corporation, at its princi-
pal place OF business, room 3, Los Angeles
in the city of Los Angeles, California. Any
stock upon which this assessment shall remain
delinquent and advertised for sale at public
auction, and unless payment is made before,
will be sold on Tuesday, the 9Th day of July,
1890 to pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with costs of advertising and expenses of
sale H. B. BALDWIN,
Secretary G. o. & M Co., Room g. Los Angeles
Theater building, Los Angeles, California.
ma21-wed5t
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-25
NOTICE..

THE CLEVELAND OIL AND MINING CO.,
Il principal place of business, room 8, Los
Angeles theater building, No. 225 South Spring
street, Los Angeles, California.
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the directors, held on Tuesday, the Sd day of
June, $780, an assessment of six $4,000 dollars
per share was levied upon the capital stock of
1890,to II. B. Baldwin, ,secretary,at the principal
office of the company, room 3, Los Angeles
theater building, No 225 South Spring street,
in the city of Los Angeles. Any stock upon
which this assessment shall remain unpaid on
the 5th day of July. 1890, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auction, and
unless payment is made before, will be sold
Friday, the 22d day of July, 1890, to pay the
delinquent assessment, together with costs
advertising and expenses of sale.
H. b. BALDWIN, Secretary,
Room 3, Los Angeles theater, building, Los An
geleS, California. ie4-Ws-5t