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her big house is offered for sale for some
thing less than 100000. Mrs. Waite has
also been here this winter, and there are
number of other noted widows who spend
part of every winter at Washington.
A number Of wealthy widows either live
in Washington or spend part of every win
ter here. Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver, who
has made millions out of patent medicines,
occasionally visits Washington, and she al
ways has several fortunes in diamonds in
her trunk. Mrs. Frank Leslie is now and
then seen at White House reception with
diamonds in her ears as big as hazel nuts and
Mrs. Alexander Ray is another millionaire
widow who lives here. Mrs. Hutchinson,
the wife OF the man who made so much
money in selling sealskin, has residence
at the Capital Mrs. Walsh, formerly of st.
Louis, spends many of her winters in Wash
ington. She is worth at least a quarter of a
million and has good income. She is the
daughter of Ex-Governor Shannon, of Ohio,
who was once Minister to Mexico, and she
was years ago one of the bellies of the West.
The Duke Alexis paid her considerable at
tention when he was in this country and he
called her one of the most beautiful women
of America. MISS GRUNDY, JR.
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drank several bottles of catsup for the cay
enne pepper that was in the condiment. It
didn't cut much of a figure as a substitute
for whisky, but it helped little to fill the
aching void, but it Is not to be recommended
in large doses even as palliative because
the after effects are decidedly more vocifer-
ous than halcyon. In that same hospital
on another occasion one of the boys helped
himself to dose that was worse than the
catsup in its immediate effect, though the
final result was more satisfactory. The vic
tim was a bright young Pittsburger, who
was too fond of conviviality while here, but
who is now doing well in San Francisco,
where he is keeping as straight as yard OF
pump water. In his cups he was bois-
terous, and his hospital terms usually began
in the barred room commonly called the
cell or brig.
This time he arrived at night to find an
other delinquent ahead of him in the cell.
The first prisoner had thrown himself on
the bed dressed just as he was when cap
tured BY Officer David Hanna, who took
him in the act of drinking the punch that
he fed from the hospital to procure. 1t was
intended to punish him by several days
close confinement, and so his toilet articles
had been brought from his room to the brig.
When the second man arrived the punch
was getting in its work and No. was
asleep. That nap was rudely disturbed.
OF sudden pandemonium appeared to
have broken loose in that cell. A yell that
ratified the foundation stones brought the
sleeper in a single jump from the bed to the
middle of the floor. Rattling the bars Of
the iron door the second fellow stood. Be-
tween yells he spat out large mouthfuls of a
milky substance, and at each expectoration
he seemed to become wilder.
A DOSE OF CAMPHoRATED CHALK.
"Hurry, Sister, hurry" he cried. "I'm
poisoned. I'm splitting up my stomach"
In less time than it takes to tell it several
Sisters and a couple of orderlies were in the
cell.
"what have you taken9" they asked in
some alarm.
ooh, what's in that bottle over there on
the tablet" weakly asked the frightened
man.
"That's camphorated chalk, my tooth
powder" his fellow prisoner replied.
'That's what ails me. thought it was
seltzer aperient and I took terrible big
dose of it. When I found it was not
aperient and I began to spit chalk thought
1 was poisoned and it scared the life out of
me-"
Everyone felt relieved, the prisoners were
each given a bracer, and white-winged
peace took possession of the premises until
morning
The sad side of this subject have no in
tention of touching upon at this time. Few
readers will be entirely innocent of the hor-
rors attendant upon the habit which grows
into the disease, alcoholism. It is now
recognized az disease, and physicians are
beginning to treat it as such.
"Well, as disease isn't it curable?" you
ask.
'I answer yes," but not by medicine.
There is but one remedy for any one who
has ever been a drunkard.
"And that is?"
'Total abstinence. DIDIMUs.
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Cash Store Prices,

Gents laundried shirts 4Sc; unlaundried,
double front and back, 3Sc, dornet and
fannelette 29c, 39c and 4Sc; silk stripes 9Sc
Pongee drapery 42c and up; ladies' white
skirts embroidered Soc, with 3-inch en-
broidery Toe, with 6-inch embroidery csc,
and all with cluster tucks at 12kc; dress
goods in summer shades of gray at 7Lc;
Turkey red table linen at 19c; all linen
table covers 49c up; Turkey red covers 500
up; toilet quilts SOC up; ladies' vests 7c;
26x54 inch smyrna rugs 81 4S; all linen
tabling at 19c to 81 80; apron check ging-
hams 5Ac; indigo blue challies sc; satines
Sc; 24-inch black gros grain silks s9c up;
black silk warp Henrietta 69c, eight yards to
dress pattern; chenille covers 69c up.
THORNTON Bros.
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Washington. Calumet Place commands a
view of the whole citv and the surrounding
country for miles. 1t is roomy two-story
brick, with hall running through its CEN
ter so wide that you could turn a wagon
load of hay around in it without touching
the walls. Immense rooms open into this
hall from either side, and these are packed
with relics of General Logan, and with the
evidences Of Mrs. Logan's and the Generals
taste. The two planned the furnishing of
the house together. General Logan did
great deal of the carpentry work in recon-
structing it according to their ideas, and he
aided his wife in selecting and arranging
the furniture. Every room contains many
"reminiscences Of him, and Mrs. Logan says
that she would not be happy away from
Washington on this account. When they
took the house it was battered and worn.
The big rooms each looked as large as q
barn, and il did not seem possible that any
thing less than lifetime or fortune could
make il habitable.
A CHANGE ALMOST MIRACULOUS.
Good taste, hard work and q moderate
amount Of money gave it one of the trans
formations that are said to have come from
Aladdin's lamp. The wide doors were COW
cred with portiers made Of Navajo blankets
of red and blue, which Mrs. Logan and the
General bought from the Zuni Indians
They scattered some mahogany seats through
the wide hall and hung upon its walls In
dian relics and old srmor with some of the
Generals weapons During his whole life
General Logan had received presents Of
canes, and had kept these until he had a
barrel full. A curious little basket was
bought for these, and they formed one of
the curiosities Of the drawing room.
Every piece Of furniture has its history
and in the dining room they put table that
Charles Carroll Of Carrollton once owned
and in their bed room they had a lamp
which burned the midnight oil for Henry
Clay when be played whist or planned out
his Presidential campaigns One of the
sofas had belonged to slidell and In the bed
room IN which the General died there was q
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her so famous then. 1t was for her, 1 am
told, that her father anxiously desired that
he might be President of the United States.
She had the qualities which would have
made her a more remarkable mistress of the
White House than any this country has
ever had, and her father would have made
a magnificent President Mrs. Sprague is
a woman of fine literary ability, and un-
derstand that she is now engaged in writing
life of her father. She has her fathers
diary containing his memoranda which he
jotted down every night before he went to
bed, and she has private correspondence
and letters which contain a great amount
of unwritten history. She is working very
care ully and very slowly on the work, and
she veriies all her statements as she goes
along. Mrs. Chase has her children with
her at Washington. Ethel Chase Sprague
is one Of the noted horsewomen of the Cap
ital, and she is very bright society belle.
She has taste for the stage, and, like her
two sisters, is possessed of more than or
dinary intellectual ability.
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dressing table and bureau which came from
President Buchanan's home in Pennsylvan-
ia. In one of the parlors there was couch
which General Logan constructed himself
upon which he loved to lie after hard day
in the Senate and in the corners of the room
were flags and banners each of which had
story which both Mrs. Logan and the Cen
eral could tell. The most of this furniture
stands to-day in the same places it did when
General Logan was alive.
ATTRACTIVE TO THE SOLDIERS.
There are perhaps few more portraits of
Logan upon the walls, and at one end of the
double parlors there has been built the memo
rial hall, in which Mrs. Logan has collected
the mementoes of her husband. 1t is per-
feet museum of Logan history, and one who
can read between the lines can here see the
history of the late war. I will not attempt
TO describe it save that it is one of the most
interesting places to the soldiers who visit
Washington, an nod Grand Army man ever
comes to the Capital without calling upon
Mrs. Logan. chatted with Mrs. Logan
the other day about the Generals book, and
she told me the General wrote it more with
a view to inculcating patriotic ideas than to
make money. She said large number of
copies had been sold and her profits on each
were 40 cents. She has, you know, a pen
sion of s., 600 year from the Government,
and though General Logan did not leave a
large amount of money, still his widow is
by no means in want, and she lives very
nicely here.
One of the finest houses of the Capital
is now being built on the corner of Six
teenth and K streets and the widow of Sem
ator Zach Chandler is the builder. Mrs.
Chandler is the motner-in-law of Senator
Eugene Hale and it is probable that the
Senator and his wife will live with her
when her mansion is completed. The
ground upon which this house is being
built cost So per square foot and the cost of
the house 1 doubt not will run close to
500, 900. Zach Chandler, however, lett a
fortune, and his widow was a millionaire.
The most of the money that Eugene Hale
owns comes from his wife, and the family is
as we'll off as could be desired. l was talk
ing one day with one of the millionaire Sen
ators. and he told me that when a man had
$40. 900 wear it did not make much differ
ence whether he had any more or not.
doubt not that Mrs. Zach Chandler is in
this condition. A million at 4 per cent
will, you know, bring in SAC, 900.
KATE CHASE sPRAGUE.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is widow in
one sense if not in another. She was di-
vorced from her husband years ago and she
has spent good part of her life since then
in Paris. During the past two years she
has lived at Washington and she is now re-
siding at Edgewood, the country seat which
her father bought some time before his
death. She promises to make lot of
money out of this estate. The city is grow
ing out toward it. A part of it has been
divided up into lots and it has Quadrupled
in value within the past three years.
Kate Chase is just as bright now as she
was when she presided over her fathers
mansion here at Washington, and she ex-
hibits the same qualities to-day that made
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A Census
EnunneratOr'S
Story,

After a careful investigation
and rigid cross-examination
among the best dressed men of
Pittsburg, ! submit the follow
ing questions and answers to
the Supervisor of the Census.
Question-Where have you
been buying your clothing pre-
viously1
Answer - At high-priced
tailors, factory shop tailors and
ready-made clothing stores.
Questionable they all give
general satisfaction?
Answer-They did not. The
first-class tailors overcharged
me; the cheap tailors gave me
poor quality and bad trim
mings, and the ready-made
stuff never held their proper
shape.
Question-Well, what course
have you pursued2
Answer-I made a bee-line
for the Misfit Clothing Parlors,
at $40 Smithfeld street. and
bought a genuine merchant
tailor-made suit for ONE
HALF of the original cost to
make. They have given me
entire satisfaction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27

From o. D. Lewis, solicitor of patents,
Office No. 131 Fifth avenue, next door to
Evening Leader building: John G. Beck
field, Allegheny, gas engine; per T. Berg,
Braddock, Pa. apparatus for charging
furnaces; David Carlin, Pittsburg, sand
core making machine; W. S. Colwell, Pitts
burg, Pa, triple therm1c motor; Junius
Kennedy, Latrobe, Pa, "tire rolling ma
chine; George w. Langdon, Mercer, Pa,
bread cutter; Thomas Midgly, Beaver
Falls. Pa, wire cable; Thomas s. Minniss,
Meadville, Pa, combined head rest and
cane'.; Richard Mooney, Sharon, Pa,
"whee;" Adam Simon, PIttsburg, tnut
lock-; George Westinghouse. Jr., Pittsburg,
brake cylinder head; John G. Lyon, Pitts
burg, inkstand cores. United States and all
foreign patents procured; over 20 years in
the patent business exclusively.
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The jackson ventiIariug Crate

Is pronounced to be the most complete of
any in the market You can heat either
one or two floors economically by using
them, beside gaining all the healthful sani-
tary advantages they possess. Plain and
ornamental CRATES are in our catalogue.
Call and see them.
JAMES G. THOMPSON,
su $40 Liberty avenue.
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No Other Equal to ChamberlaIn's.

During the summer of 1888 used three
25 cent bottles of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy in my fam
lily in eases of the fux with much success,
and cheert1lly recommend that every fam
lily keep it in their house. as believe there
is no other preparation that will equal it.
T. NJ. Modglin, J. P, Allen Springs, Pope
Co., Illinois. wsu
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FOR a finely cut, neat-ftting suit leave
your order with Walter Anderson, 700
Smithfeld street, whose stock of English
suitings and Scotch tweeds is the finest in
the market; imported exclusively for his
trade Su
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All for Sj.

One large crayon portrait, worth. ......$5 90
One handsome frame, worth. h.......... 90
One dozen best cabinet photos, worth. 2 30
One panel picture, worth. ........... 70
All for S. until further notice; also cabinet
photos at 81 per dozen. LIES GALLERY,
10 and IL Sixth street. TTsu
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settled, it is probable that Mrs. Randall
will spend much of her time here.

settled, it is probable that Mrs. Randall
will spend much of her time here.
OTHER NOTED WIDOWS.
Mrs. Mollie Garfield Brown has bought a
lot on Kalorama Heights, and am told
that she will erect fine house upon it. 1t
is reported here that Mrs. Garfield will then
come to Washington to live with her
daughter, and she will certainly spend many
OF her winters here. She is well-to-do
through the fund raised for her at the time
OF General Garfeld's death, and she has her
$1,000 year as Presidents widow. MIS-
General Grant did think of buying house
in Washington, and there was prospect
last fall that she would buy the house which
Edwin NJ. Stanton used to own facing
Franklin square. She concluded to walt
for a year or so, however, and she has re-
mained during the most OF the winter at her
New York house. Mrs. Stanley Matthews
spent part of the winter here this year, and
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81 70 to. Niagara Falls and return;
Toronto. So 20; good days; under direc-
tions of Smoky City Lodge No. 392, Z. of p,
on Thursday. August 2, $50 p. n, via P. s.
I. q. B. n
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PURE beer is refreshing and stimulating.
Wainwright's leads in public favor. Order
by postal or telephone 5525.
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Pittsburs and Lake Erie r. r,

Lake Chautauqua and return, tickets
good Is DAYS, S.. On sale Tuesdays, Fri
days and Saturdays. Thsu
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SPECIAL bargains throughout our entire
dress goods department this week.
TTssu HUGUS & HACKE,
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Spring Styles.

The largest stock of vestings, suitings and
trouserings at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood st. su
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DIVIDEND PAYING STOCK
For Careful Iuvesfors.

An incorporated manufacturing company
with complete new works in operation
making special line of goods. without COM
petition has concluded to increase its cap
ital stock from S75, 900 to S125, 900 in order
to double its products. The goods made are
sold on short time at large profit, and out
put OF the works can be doubled with in
creased capital provided. The managers
are good business men, and their experience
justifies the assertion that quarterly divi-
dends can be paid from the earnings of the
company equal to, if not greater, than any
Plttsburg corporation is now paying. The
S5O, 900 of new stock may be subscribed Tor
in lots from five shares upward, but an
active man with capital to take the entire
block or greater portion OF it, to whom
good position will be given, is preferred as
a buyer. Full opportunities for an investi-
CATION may be had at this Office.
CHARLES SOMERS & Co.,
Telephone 1913. 313 Wood street.
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SPECIALITY dress trimmings. REFINING
s. WILps, 710 Penn ave-, PittsburG
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LAKE cHAUTAUQUA AND RETURN, ss
Via Allegheny Valley r. r.. Each Tuesday.
Friday and Saturday During July and

Train leaves Union station at $50 A. NJ.
and S:45 P. NJ. Pullman parlor buffet cars
on day trains and Pullman palace sleeping
on night trains.
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ATLANTIC CITY.
Third Popular Excursion of the Season to
Atlantic City

Atlantic City
Via the picturesque B. & o. r. R., via
Washington, D. c.. Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, on Thursday, July 81, 1890; tickets
good for ten days, and good to stop off at
Washington, D. c., returning. Rate for
the round trip, $40. Special trains with
Pullman parlor and sleeping cars will leave
B. &, o. R. R. depot at A. NJ. and 900 PM.
For detailed information address or apply to
e. D. SMITH.
Division Pass. Agent, Pittsburg, Pa.
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GOLD filled Elgin watches, warranted,
S20. NJ. G. COHEN, b33 Smithfeld st.
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Special Bargains for Summer.
One lot ladies' striped waists at 60 cts; Is
fine garnet surah silk waists 81 3S each,
wor th Sc 75, at Rosenbaum s. Co.'s.
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CATsUP FOB THE NERVES.

recall vividly night in q city hospital
when our supplies had been cut Of, and We
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1890-06-13
Reis i'm Brazil.

Hotels are few and ill-conducted in
Brazilian coast towns, but there are
excellent French and German restaur-
ants in Bahia and Pernambuco. When
one has the bill to settle he finds that
the score runs into the thousands. The
basis of currency is an imaginary unit.
the reis, 1000 of which make milreis,
worth apart from exchange. about so
cents. The lowest nickel coin is 100
reis, worth cents. Below these are
copper coins, 20 reis, being equivalent
to l cent. If one dimes with friend
at restaurant the score will amount
to Z. 800 reis-a result startling to the
uninitiated. When real-estate trans
actions are conducted the figures rise
into the millions, and when trade
statistics are computed billions and
trillions are brought in. Reversing
the process, one pays 1000 reis to
boatman to go ashore from a steamer,
1,0O0 reis or milreis for q bottle of
beer and some cheese. 500 reis to a
guide for pilotage through public
building, POO reis for ride on street.
car, 100 reis for d turn on the lift from
the upper to the lower turn, and an
other 100 reis for having his boots
BACKED
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1890-06-13
Gen, Crook as = Huntsmau.

Gen. Crook was very fond of hunt
ing" said Lieut.. Kennon. "and was
one of the best shots l ever saw. When
he was young officer he always did
the hunting for his mess. In those
days sometimes the mess bills exceed
ed the officers salaries, and l have
heard Gen. Crook tell how they made
him caterer, and by his intimate knowl-
edge of the Indians economical meth
DDS of cooking and his luck at hunting
the mess was soon able to declare divi-
dends. l have been with him on many
hunting trips, and never saw better
or steidier shot. Sage hens are not
the easiest game to bag, and yet have
seen him repeatedly drop bird out of
a flock with each barrel; not only that,
he would kill a chicken every time.
His eye was SO quick that while aim
ing he could select the chicks instan-
taneously. With all his experience
and trials Gen. Crook was as simple as
a child. He, was straightforward and
truthful, and had no patience with con-
cealment or trickery. He never broke
his word to white man or rcd man.
Washington Star.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1890-06-13
The Typical Maiden AUNT.

Two elderly ladies. living alone on
Selden avenue. are very proud OF
certain 5-year-old nephew of theirs,
says the Detroit Tribune. and when
ever he deisns to visit them they
lose their individuality and are his de-
voted slaves while he remains ia the
house.
The other day, when he returned
home from a morning call upon his
relatives. he brought with him as SOU
venirs of his visit Il great paper bag
filled with hickory nuts, every one OF
which had been neatly cracked by their
aged fingers. and besides these he bore
a massive. old-fashioned solid silver
teapot and heavy, cut-glass salt-cellar
which had happened to please the in
FAINT fancy. He displayed his spoils to
his parents, and his father said to his
mother after the inspection: Il believe
those sisters of mine would climb up
on the roof and get down the top brick
of the chimney for the little imp ii he
limited that he wanted it"
The remark was intended for her
ears alone. but Hopeful caught it. new
ertheless. and as soon as he had bolted
his dinner he put on his hat, overcoat.
tippet, and leggins and started off up
street.
About an hour afterward one of the
aunts rushed up to the house in state
of great excitement. AS soon as she
had caught her breath she explained
that '.our little boy" had just been to
their house, and with tears in his eyes
begged for the top brick in the CHM
ney, and she and her sister feared
that the dear child's mind had been af-
fected.
'.Well, what did you do about it?" the
mother asked as her tender eyes filled
with moisture and she bit her lips till
they almost bled.
do about it? Why, the poor boy
cried so for it. and we knew that he
couldn't hurt himself with it. that we
opened the scuttle, pulled ladder up
on the roof, and sister went up and got
it for him. We didn't do anything
wrong. did we?"
The small boys prayer at bedtime
included this sentences: please, God,
bless my dear auntiss and make them
love their relatives just little more" )"