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the center OF the hand. The sparks have no
means OF escape except to enter the hand. With
. properly constructed toy pistol it is differ
enI Inc cap Is az inch or more from the
hand and the sparks can only escape in the di
rection OF the barrel The cost Of these pis-
tots Is but a few pens. and by buying them
the risk Of dang ,t is avoided
"sPREADEPs" AND SHOWERS"
In speaking of h, various kinds of fireworks
shat are being so this season the following
were among those mentioned: The electric
spresder candle > This is a large candle that
discharges SERIES Of stars Of a beautiful
green color fifty to sixty feet into the air
The ''silver showers" throws an entirely new
style Of stars, each star looking like rocket.
One OF the most amusing articles ever
offered Is the devil among the tailors" 1t
placed on the ground to fire and opens with
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A Lion Loose.
From the New York Sun.


One night, when old Dan Rice was exhibiting
his circus in an Ohio town it came on to rain
about the time the performance was over and
hundreds of people stuck to the tent for
shelter. Dan didn't want to be mean, but the
canvas must come down, and so he sent three
of the men through the crowd to whisper:
Don't get excited and make q rush, but
must inform you that the Numidian lion has
escaped from his cage. Please go out quietly"
The people went fast enough-all bus a few
unbelievers. These were farmer and his wife
aud five children, and he got them in a circle
in the ring and placed four or i've pickles.
three or four hard-boiled eggs and a paper Of
salt in his straw hat in the center. One OF the
men came up and inquired:
what are you doing here, old man?"
'sWaitin," was the reply.
didn't you know the lion was loose?"
''Yaas, heard EN- say 90. Is il trus2''
"Of course it is"
Irregular ion?"
yes"
Irregular Numidian hon?"
eyes"
"Healthy and fat?"
sYes."
"Waal, that's what we're waitin' fur. We're
q calculatin' to eat the burned critter sfore ne
leave, and I wish you'd hurry him up!"
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A Seven-Story Building Falls.

At Knoxville, Tenn, an immense seven
story double front building on Reser-
voir street fell yesterday morning with a crash.
No one was sleeping in the building and no
one was near to be hurt 1t was owned by II.
s. PAYNE, and had just been completed at a
cost OF $50, 900. Briscoe & Company, whole
week. They had a stock OF $500 900, which ia
buried in the ruins. If it does not rain they
will save IS per cent of their stock. Several
other buildings near were damaged In sums
Of from e500 to el,00Q
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however, be snapped on
pistols Of the proper
make without the least
danger. The kind of
pistols that have done so
much injury to youth
and sacrificed so many
lives are those that sell
for a penny apiece.
They are made cheaply,
as they must be because
there Is nearly a penny's
worth of iron in them,
and further than that
all that can be said is
that they are put to-
gether. The nipple on
which the cap is placed
is SO constructed that
when the trigger falls the
cap is exploded about
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RlDlcAL. when the news comes
by telegraph or mail Such things have very
frequently occurred and among the facts
OF nature, explain them as you may.
''You ask what would happen, supposing that
upon the appearance of such phantom as you
have descrbed-a phantom which actually
concealed objects behind it-you attempted to
walk through it. Well, it would probably
present no obstacle to your movement, and the
motion on your part would dissolve the
apparition. Nobody has ever got phantasm
in box like bug on pen, or put it in bot
tie for picked specimen Some of my
Smithsonian friends would require that sort of
evidence, but am satisfied that it will never
be forthcoming
FAVORABLE CONDITIONS.
"Phantasms of the living have, nevertheless,
been known to appear at every hour Of the day
and night. In my judgment darkness and
quiet are favorable to their production, and
therefore the majority of cases of the sort have
probably occurred during the night time Such
phantoms do sometimes come into contact with
the perciplent to the extent occa-
sionally OF touch as tangible as
this" And the doctor bore down
quite hard on The STAR writer's shoulder with
one hand. AT other times the contact is still
more forcible, to the extent OF blow leaving
bruise upon the body of the percipient. caus-
ing swooulng, or even occasiOning COM
plete insensIbility and perhaps materially
vidual for many months afterward.
Such phantasms are often untruthful. The
apparition of a drowning person may present
itself wholly through the fears solicitude of
an individual while the supposed drowning
man is perfectly safe. Not infrequently
phantoms of the lower animals, especially
OF domestic animals, as cats or dogs,
have been seen. If you will define the
soul as this astral body or what ST. Paul called
the spiritual body there is posi-
lively no known fact in physical or
psychical nature which should enable
you reasonably and logically to deny
the same to animals other than man.
Every Indian has his horse heaven, and have
seen dogs that thought had more soul and
cleaner ones than some men,"
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The Acorn's Entertainrfie Mt.

The well-known Acorn Club Of East WASH
inston entertained at their rooms in its usual
pleasant manner last night number of friends,
among whom was party Of Philadelphians.
Banjo solos, song and funny sayings were en-
gagged IN during the evenings entertainment,
after which a dne collation. was served in honor
Of the occasion =
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Washington. 1t is quite
within the limits o f
natural possibility. and
it has repeatedly &C.
CURED, that the visible
apparition of the drown
ing person, drenched,
sad, implorIng, shall be
thrown upon the mental
screen of that relative
thousands of miles away.
The percipient need not.
and in fact generally
does not, know of the
danger, and the fact that
it was a truth-teiling
phantomis only subse-
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RAILROADS.
RALTIMoRE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Id Schedule IN cfl 81 Inll, y ln,ln

RALTIMoRE AND OHIO RAILROAD
Leave washington ffom station corner 81 New y.r.,
For ch,c.ro 40 sssSss and s,rSsS ,,,.,
pres daily ii 80 M sSprc.s p So I'm A"''1 w
Ior Cincinnati, 81 Louis ana Indisnagol,s .rpr.s
fSr fi,t.eurv and cleveland. express dsny o 80
fcr Lexington and points IN the Shenandoah VALLEY
for M,ashe 2: and way stations. ts.SoPm
Tor bAlumore week DAYS. .O5. 8 90. g Is. . "a
Is minutes, a am. ~ 10 80 go a !. 80; i NJ 90
Ssa 10; - is SS;s. 3S 20 50 s'a 81 s
sS % t s:S and "A 80 sundays .os. 40
Tpnn i.sa, 600 o:iA ecu ESQ. Sis 1854
For Nay station. between washington and B.lti.
Ii 80 nm osn; s;so an, i5:lO SO 81 %
so. ! 80 p.m wv $3.50
sb Ss sa !S-sS 40 nsTGr' te5 Warrington ses a.y
100 aud 10; - am 100. Il 40. $50, 30
300 ioiiS 1iSG S aSS gS 81 iSS sSn.S
-, ~ ia ~ S.io "a 3 so lv:.1 1855 aH,
80 SO $50 10 10 io - and 90 IN M ''O"
sii: o. an iaoS s $50 5S R ss's su a1ss,
For Stations on the Metropolitan Branch. 10 so
g. 80 An. u ~ pm For Principal station. only.
Tor Eoekyille and Va, stations. t4.35p.m
5000 o6 "a sS .nd 1srms.s gy.9tS 20 90
TOT DN3as AUD intermediate stations. - 90
Churcn tram leaves Washington sunday at is
Pm stoIflne q ali stations CA Mctropollt.n Branca
fSr IT derrick. fo:S1 $3.50. $3.50. III 80 an
f,r LAgerstown. Ito 40 n m. and IS .3Opm
rains arrive from CHIC ~ daily ia m. and
t:lO u, m from CINCINNATI aud 81 Louis dA liz 3SO
pm. daily. Wv
NV YORK AND PHILADELPHIA DIVISION
ror Ne~ tork. Trenton. Newark. y J. aud llizah IN
81 90. $500. 40 co. 200 ain - 81
.ov and IL: 80 pm. Buffet Purlor Car. on all
~ mahs. sieepins Car the 10 so a. an opaa
OF Philadelphia = O5 ~ 90 80 90 80 90 mon
d. 90. Ga > aud lO:.,O I.In.
a. oa NcNArA, bel. Wilmington and Chester - .O5
40 80 pm. ~0' VIZ anu
For intermediAte points between R.lt,mor. an,
r1 n 100 and 81 20 am. ~ 30, = &C
q, Trains leave New York for Washington. 300
W., ,V AIN. 200. 80 90 pm and .I2:IS
Tram. leave rhnsdeiphis for Warrington. 40.
e:i33 siiS. 'll;So a.m- I'll 40, '4:3I IS 5a
for Atlantic City, 4 .O5 and 10 an. 1900 nom.
IO;oVsl enIidsSS, .u5 am aud ~ noon
lOR BAY ~ Dol
Week days 9:l5 An. 80. 30 pm Sundays
$50 am, 30. SID nm.
Leave Bay iAs,e week day., $50. \ 30 pm. sun
oay-. 500. 300 pm.
ti1cert su, day. 'Daily ssundAy only
baesage called Tor and CHECK from hotels ard
ticket offices. Ol9 and 1891 lenu. ave and At dcpot
-. ChAs. - SJl Ii, Gen. PAss. Acct
j. j. ODkLl~ Gen. MAnsger. t-lo
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ment and stand still with suspense. Such .
display Of mans mastery Of powerful and fran
A HoMgRrc SPECTACLE.

display Of mans mastery of powerful and fran
tic beasts il
HoMERrc SPECTACLE,
ana one which appeals to the original savage.
which We are told sleeps in every nature.
Apropos, an old lady Who sat behind me and
saw all there was to see. who missed no detail
and who never whimpered" until il was all
over, then arose and said in Q rssping. severe
voice: Well, such performance is q disgrace
10 our boasted civilizstion-it's no better than
spanish bull fight" which sentiments. as she
mad seen and presumably enjoyed all there was
IN II, did her, to my thinking, great credit aud
set her far above those who had ignorantly en-
loyedit, without having, like herself, the proper
aphorrence for it ALICE MAcGowAN.
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

SIEAAEh AhkOMSMlIh
FOB coAN. YocoMIco. NoMINI AND erRRI.
OMAN,
Touching at Colonial Beach.
Sails at pm. from 9TH St wharf and 5 pm. from
Alexandria on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS.
FOR COLONIAL BEACH AND COLToN's ON
SATURDAYS ~ 4 80 pm Home sunday nights.
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DARTIEs DESIRING BOOK BINDING OF ANY
II description will do well 20 cali before giving or
ders. ~ ,. q. hoD0ks Gal La. ave- NV, oTposi .
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FUN FOR THE FOURTH.
The Novelties Of the Year in the WAY
of Pyrotechnics.
WHY CRACKERS ARE DEAR.
s.spreadcrs., s'Whistlers'' and ssShow.
srs'-A Corner in Small Fireworks
The TOY PistOl-HOw Eirecracksrs Arc
Made I'm China.

JUDGING from what the
Wholesale dealers say
the amount of fireworks
to be sent up in smoke
this year will be much
larger than any pre-
vicus year. "The deal
ers," said the head Of
a firm engaged largely
in handling Fourth-of-
July fun in original pack
araa SARA nnrohaain0
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HOW THE STEERS ARE MANAeED-ToUeR WORK
FOR MEN AND PoSIEs-A woMAN's GRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF WILD scESx-A CONTEST OF
LUCK AND SKILL
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GHOSTS OF THE LIVING
Phantasms Of People Yet Alive and
Their Spectral Ways.
SPOOKS THAT WALK ABROAD.
Talk With DR.. Elliott COucs About the
Results Of Psychic Science-What APP
partitions Look Like, How They Act
and the Messages They Bring.

HE old style of ghost
has gone out Of fashion.
Nowadays psychical in
vestigators seem to be
more keenly interested
In finding out about the
specters of living per-
sons. Concerning this
latter class Of phantoms
DR.. Elliott Coues, the
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+ OR foTqMac RIyLk LAApihSs
Leaves .th-st. wharf ON hOADAls. 1hIkSDAYu
spo sAIukDAYsa al am kstuIaIlng TCLsDAis
lllDAls ana 81 kDAAs Pm. tOuch1ne AZ lsyef
Landings Nolini Creek. Va 81 Clements Bag
and leonxEdtown, Ad. Connects with u. ana " N at
She, EeTus. See schedule. JOHN h fADoE11. AgI
&. ". hIDlkl kGnE-er. h25
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DoToMxc RIVER LANDINGS.

L IEAMEE JOHN ". THOMPSON
Monday and frlcAy. At . q m = a. Nomini Cur
rlolnan and LeOnArdtONn. Tuesdays at 80 4.
lar rs Nonlnl CurTloman Leonardtowu. Ooan, knsAie
and Lodge. Fare. ntrt class. DOC second class 3c
reight lower than other routes lOr nfUrni-sluIl
tall elepnOne l5JO. Je.s-lm
M AENLAND AND VIRGINIA STEAM LOAF
M COllIGDys Steamer
"1IGERTm
Capt John A. ketcluln, Tor Baltimore and laldings
on the Potomac river livery Monday At O'CLOCK p.la
Apply ~
STEVENSON q BRO,
Teiepnone a45 ). le20-Jml sth 81. llArf.
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THE WESTERN CROPS.
Bright Prospects Reported From Many
Districts.

The following appears in this weeks Farm
ers' Review published in Chicago: The majority
of our correspondents In Kentucky, Iowa,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota report To-
cal showers sufficient for the immediate needs
OF growing crops IN those states. Every dry"
is the report from all parts of Illinois and Mis-
sour, as we'll as portions Of Indiana, Ohio and
Kansas. Good rains have fallen In many of
the previously droughty districts Of Nebraska
and corn shows marked improvement in conse-
quence. The condition of spring wheat remains
the same as last reported in Wisconsin and Min
nesota. Considerable Improvement has taken
place in Nebraska. In Iowa rust has caused
a decline in several counties that has lowered
the average for the State. The condition of
corn has not changed materially from the fair
average last reported in Illinois and Iowa.
Nebraska. Wisconsin and Minnesota cor
respondents report considerable improvement
Reports from all other states covered by our
bulletin show decline Of two to five points
Relative to oats Illinois reports show a slight
Improvement on the very low average as re-
ported. Minnesota and Iowa correspondents
report condition improving and prospects good
for an average crop. Reports from Michigan
and Wisconsin indicate considerable Decline
put the averages for those states are still high
In all other states the condition is very low and
apparently declining. From the present out
look Illinois and Missouri will harvest only
about one-half and Kentucky about ne-quarter
the usual crop of oats. for all Of which the
grain plant louise is responsible.
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BlSONIC FETE DAYS.
What the Antiquarian of 1000 Years
Hence Will Think Of the Present.

From the Buffalo Express.
Imagine a cultivated person from Hindostan,
or say the heart of Australia, a man who knew
the English language thoroughly, but who by
sad fate had never heard of a base ball game
sitting down to read a skillfully written ac-
count of great contest like that between the
Buffalos and the New Yorks on Friday. To
make the point palmer yet, imagine this
scholarly gentleman living 1000 years
hence, and as having dug up from the ruins of
Buffalo perfectly preserved newspaper of
the date of June II, 1890. In archaeological
ecstasy he seats himself amid the ruins of the
soldiers Misunderstanding just as they do
now-and proceeds to read:
'Giants jumped on. Buffalo wipes the
diamond with New York's pets. Buck
Ewing told the mighty pitcher to gather up his
loins and NOW down the >Bisons. =
When the Bisons put on clincher in the ninth
Buck took off his red overshirt. donned black
and white blazer and packed up the Giants
traps, vowing that he and Keefe would kill the
Bisons tomorrow. Crane soaked one
man. White was nailed between sec
ond and third" &c
Now, this naturally will puzzle the scholarly
gentleman; nor will he receive light from other
copies of other papers of the same period. He
Will read how one mighty man tanned the
air, )" how another ''died at third" and how
heNetdl NtrC sdCTluceu anna great rejoicing.
In his erudite history OF "The Ancient Ameri-
can Republics and the Causes Which Led to
Their Decay" We would find some such par a.
graph as this:
From the perfectly preserved record of
their sports 1t may be asserted without 9ualifi-
cation that the Americans were the most
brutalized and bloodthirsty people who ever
laid claim to any degree of enlightenment.
The arenlc sports of Rome were less debasing,
and showed far greater regard for human life
In the priceless Ancient Print collection made
by the author Is perfect record of one of the
Blsonic fete days. 1t is matter-of-fact in tone,
yet the old chronicler was gifted with rare
skill, for, like Homer, he pictures the most
thrilling events in the simplest language
Here, too, is indisputable proof that there
were giants in those days. They were SO lar ge
and savage that the spectators sat in iron Gag es
and the young men who did combat with the m,
sometimes riding, or possibly driving wild
bisons, braved death for victory. Often. at
these so-called games, the contestants in which
sought to pitch each other out of the arena,
the over-wrought men would often die while
running evidently pursuing or fleeing from
the giants.) Those who survived were often
sacrificed on a hot plate, while the populace
safe In their cages. would howl with blood
thirsty rage of delight.
Frequent illusions to 'soaking'-probabiy in
boiling oil-and to the contestants being
nailed show that these horrible diversions
combined the hazards of Roman arena with
the fiendish atrocities of the iuouisition"
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Bismarck Looking Younger.

A Berlin special July 9, says: A correspon-
dent writes that Prince Bismarck looks twenty
years younger than his pictures make him APP
pear. When advised to withdraw these libels
upon his person. the prince replied: "Oh, the
photos are all right; they show me as looked
when in Office. A few months Of laziness have
added ten years to my life. When asked his
views upon lettering the condition OF labor,
he said: Why, when was a boy only two
people in my native village possessed clocks
and all the rest used to go to them for the
time of day. Now every hostler wears a silver
watch. In my youth half the population went
barefoOted. now everybody wears shoes
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Address of the Congressional Committee
to Republican Editors.

Representative Belden of New York chair
man Of the republican congressional commit
tee. has issued the following address to the
republican editors Of the country:
The republican party in its several national
platforms has pledged the country that az one
OF its fundamental planks it would see to the
execution Of the provision Of the Constitution
which guarantees to every lawful voter in fed
eral elections his right to deposit his ballot and
have il counted for the candidate of his choice
That pledge, based on injustice involves
merely the exercise of an unquestionable con-
stltutionai right of every American citizen.
Nevertheless, the gravest election abuses in
large section OF our country have deprived
vast masses of their lawful franchise; have by
fraudulent agencies imposed an unlawful rep
resentation in the national House of Repre-
sentatives and have thus practically subverted
the Constitution in some of its most important
and valuable provisions. The strict enforce
ment OF this inalienable right is demanded as a
solemn duty.
mo question Of negro supremacy, no usur-
patton OF federal power is involved in the issue.
The national elections bill, which recently
passed the House, deals only with national cleo
tiOns. 1t does not NEEDLE, directly or indi-
rectly, with state elections, state officers or
state organizations The states are very prop.
eriy left to work out their own destiny through
their own agencies. Why, then. should the
bill not become a law? As declared by the
Hon. Vim. Mckinley in his recent speech in the
House: The passage of the federal election
bill is the supreme duty Of the hour The pas
sage cannot longer be reasonably evaded The
House, faithful and active in the fulflment of
party pledges. jealous in the performance of a
great public trust and undaunted by the dia-
bolIcal threats and assaults of the democratic
party, has promptly performed its duty by the
Passage OF tha bill. Now it only remains for
the republican majority in the Senate to emu
late the House ard permit the President, by his
signature, to rstIfy and register the will of the
nation Will the Senate promptly perform Ibis
imperative obligit OH?
The COMMITTEES is in possession of informa-
ton showing concentrated effort on the part
OF the democratic party to change the trend of
public thought by poisoning the minds OF the
people to the end that sentiment may be
manufactured that wolld deter Congress from
passing national election law at this session.
Ii Is believed that a favorable expression of
opinion at this juncture from the republican
press all along the line would be as foreible As
timely and would exert a VIII lesoms influence
and inspire legislators to the carrying out of
The party's pledge.
The House has performed its part of the
work to which the party was pledged Will
sou not do your duty in urging that the Senate
shall respond promptly by the passage of the
measure which the House deems essential alb
soiutey essential to the purity of the elections
OF It's own members?
''(SigneD J. J. BEIDEy"
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SWEPT BY A SIMEON.
Over Seven Hundred Lives Lost in An
Arabian Town.

Advices have been received in London that
. terrible cyclone or simeon, 30 frequent in
Arabia, prevailed in Muscat and in the adjacent
| country yesterday. 1t came almost without
warning, and at least seven hundred lives were
lost. 1t had Q circular rotary motion. While
everything was calm in the center the outside
air currents circulated at q tremendous
velocity. A violet-colored cloud. which
swooped down from the heavens in few sec
onds' time. was the first intimation the inhabi-
tants had Of the simeon. The dreaded visitor
was an eddy Of heated air, accompanied by
poisonous gases, which were instantly fatal.
Many Of the frightened people adopted the
only method OF preserving life against Its fear
iul Diast by lying prone upon the sand, cover
Ing their faces with their clothes and waiting
for the winds abatement
The wind abated in quarter Of an hour.
Then reports OF its work began to come in, and
IT. was found that great damage was done in the
city and surrounding country: Many houses,
demolished. The loss Of life was appalling. Re-
ports thus far received show that yer seven
hundred persons were killed by the simoon's
deadly breath and when all is know it is likely
that these figures will be greatly increased.
The city, which 10 also known Maskat, or
Muscat is reputed to be one of the hottest
places on the face Of the EARTH the thermom-
eter seldom recording less than 80 degrees in
the shade. 1t is the chief town Of the king
dom of Oman, in Arabia, and lies upon the
coast Of the Indian ocean in a hollow under
cliffs 400 or 500 feet high which shut it in
from view of the sea. 1t has an excellent
harbor and is favorably situated a center
Tor the commerce OF eastern Arabia. and is
the key to the entrance of the Persian gulf
Its population, including that of Muttra, three
miles distant. and the intervening villages, il
variously estimated at from Is, 900 to &C, 900.
The Cove of Muscat, AZ the harbor is called
is an inlet of the sea about three quarters of a
mile long, with half that width. The appear
ance Of the town is not prepossessing. Its
streets are narrow. filthy and crowded. The
people, mostly Mohammedan. are quiet easy
going people, who have never had the push or
industry to make much Roadway in the world
Epidemic fevers are common. In the town are
cathedral ruins, the sultan's palace, dirty
bazars and rows Of houses, many Of which have
fallen into decay