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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-23
WANTED---HOUSES,

WANTED-BY CLERK. TO BUY GROOM
secured. Address us ;h ST. ne Sc .:b2t'
NJ ANrED-rO KENT BY OCTOBER l. SEVEN
w eisht-room house. without Easement; give
cation ana. rent. Address c., 14j1 u st. u. W. IT.
WANTED - A BRICK HOUSE, SOUTHEAST,
w or Z rooms. Send particulars.
au.2s22t DAVID u. STONE. 500 1t. NV.
WANTED-AT ONCE, A BRICK HOUSE, WITH
w stable OF room tor one Will pay from 5000 10
eE3.OOy. DAVID d. STONE.
se2!-2t SO6 ct. NV.
WANTED-wE HAVE TENANTS FOR HOt sEs
w renting for from 32o to $40 per month. Iur-
cassrs Tor houses at p{iccs ranxinx fruln s.. 500
10.OOO. Last with U.s. WHITE Z kLsINEi !, Ulo y
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w houses tor sale rent ia the district should send
description uf and lowest cash ALSO FUR
NlSHED HOUSES am now having list prepared
for members OF Consesss which Will bs ready for cir
culation October j. b. b. DONALDSON,
SELF In 415 +. hoom J.
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
A SENSATION SPOILED.
And How an Attempt to Brighton the
Druggist Failed.

And How an Attempt to Brighton tho
Druggist Failed.
weary-loolting young woman camo
into Second avenue drug store when a
New York World reporter was waiting
for the shower to pass over and plain
lively said to the druggist:
81 have had another quarrel with
Mike, and I do not care to live any
longer!''
Eyes, just SO, just So" he replied, as
he briskly rubbed his hands together.
Anything can do for you to-day?"
81 think will take strychnino," she
slowly replied, as she cast her eyes
along the shelves.
Exactly, ma'aTn; finest strychninc in
New York. / suppose you want about
a dimes worth"
would arsenic be bctter?" she asked,
MS he held the jar in his hands.
mo better, but fully as good, ma'am.
have fine lot of arsenic on hand Just
now, and can warrant it full strength.
just make a ham sandwich and spread
on fifteen cents WORTH"
"Mcbbe," she drearily replied as he
waited, ''mcbbc rough on rats would be
better?"
Just as You think, ma'am. Give you
selection from two dozcle boxes, all
fresh stock only yesterday. It's little
slower than the other poisons, but per-
haps you won't mind that. Can be
sprinkled on bread and butter or take
i'll milk. One box, ma'am?"
He took down box and held it ready
to dump, and she looked around the
store, wiped tear out of her left eve
and asked:
GLOW long does it take paris green to
kill?"
"Not long, ma'am-only few hours.
Many prefer it to any other poison, as
they want to write a farewell letter
after taking it, can warrant my
stock is perfectly fresh and pure.
Should it fail to kill como right back
and your money will be refunded NV
object is to satisfy customers. Half q
pound, ma'am?"
She wiped her nose. Then she sighed.
Then she fishcd out two pennies from
her pocket, walked over to q chewing
gum machine and dropped them in, and
as she stuffed two sticks of gum into
her mouth she turned and said:
81 guess won't take any to-day, but
if Mike comes in tell himI was inuuir-
ing for poison"
Certainly certainly = with tho
greatest of pleasure. Nothing else to-
day? Please call again.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
rps AT COUNTRY HOUSES.

| Why m American Hostess Frowns Upon
the Imported Custom.
A hostess, whose influence with tho
| four hundred should certainly carry
weight, even outside that august body,
| has set the excellent fashion of refus-
ing to allow any servant in her employ
to accept tips from guests, says the IL
lustrated American. She argues, with
] great good sense, that the custom is not
| only Il burden and nuisance to visitors,
but is IN indirect imputation upon her
Hberaity as mistress. Paying every
domestic fair wages, she eXacts that
they serve strangers in tho house with
impartial courtesy, and, looking for no
favors, adopt an mir of uniform md
cheerful obligingness.
1t appears that this particular lady
had always been opposed to the ugly
English mode of remunerating maids
and men, but had succumbcd to the
popular method until an unfortunate
and embarrassing episode occurred at
her own country scat. She had been
entertaining charming girl of posi-
ton, whose means she knew to be linn
itcd When the weeks visit was over
cordial good-bys were exchanged and
the pretty visitor was driven to the
railroad station with her luggage and
there deposited to await the next train.
Late in the afternoon the ticket agent
from the station called and requested
private interview. With profound
astonishmcnt did tho kindly hostess
learn of all her girl guest had suffered
The man showed gold bangle and
ring which she recognized as the prop
erty OF her friend, and explained TINT
after a painful interview he had bcen
forced to take them in payment for the
young lady's railway fare. Ho said she
was nervous, and, after exchanging n
few words on the subject of rates, burst
into tears and proffcrcd her jewclry i'll
exchange for n ticket to New York. Of
course he was amazed and insisted on
trusting her for tho amount, but be-
tween her sobs she managed to explain
that the arrangement was final.
loo excited to think Of discretion,
she went on to say that only with diff
Guilty had sufficient money been raised
by the family ut home for this visit, and
only the day before another guest had
enlightened her on tho cXactions of tip
ping. As the establishment was large
one, with six maids and four men, her
little store of fifteen dollars disappeared
like mist, and unless the agent would
accept her trinlicts the case was hope
less. She added that in three instances
the servants had openly objected to tho
modest cxtr as offered, one insisting on
nothing less than -threc dollars for
services rendered Shocked beyond
measure, the indignant hostess straight
ened tho unfortunate affair out, had
very decisive interviews with her do
mestics in turn, and to-day she regards
1t as direct discourtesy to prefer
money to her employees.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Examination of n KIM.

The official report on the recent cy-
animation in scholarship of King Alex
ander, of Scrvia, is published in the
Roumanian Lloyd newspaper Ills
majesty, King Alexander" it SAYS,
passed tho annual examinations be-
tween June and June 20 in the follow
ing subjects: /, theology, taught by
Archimandrit Fermilyan; 9, geometry
and algebra, taught by Prof. Svcta
Stojkovics; 0, philosophy and chcmis-
try, by Prof. S. Nyroscvics; 4, military
history by Prof. Maj. Wlajics; s, his
tory of Servia, by Prof. L. Kovacscvics;
G, tactics, by Prof. Maj. Pavlovics; Z,
universal history, by Prof. Lovcsevics;
9, Latin, Prof. Gjorgjevics; 0, German,
Prof. Resuer; French, Prof. Margot;
English, Prof. Redics. His majesty
stood the examination in all subjects
cxccllcntly. There were present dur
ing the cXamina tions the royal regents,
his holiness, the metropolitan, the min
listers of war, worship and instruction,
the minister president, the president of
the state council and the undersigned
governor, Misl1ovics."
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
STONE FORESTS.
Petrifled Trocs Stnl Standing In Various
lf a Parts of the World.

Stone forests arc found in various
parts of the world. In many cases they
are hardened by some popularity of the
atmosphere, and are found standing
just as they were when clothed with
green foliage, thousands of years ago.
Tho Little Colorado river in Arizona,
says the st. Louis Republic, has long
been famous as locality for such finds;
at enc place more than one thousand
five hundred cords of solid stone tree
trunks, sections, limbs and logs were
found by the government surveyors.
Most of them were silicified; many
seven to ten feet in diameter and from
twenty to eighty feet in height. Gcolo-
gists say that the petrificd trees of the
Little Colorado were once covered with
mari over one thousand feet i'll depth.
Some of the trees have been changed to
jasper, and have assumed various hues;
others resemble opal, and, when broken
open, the core is often found lined with
crystals of the most beautiful tints
Louisiana and Ohio are also noted local
tiles for petrified trees. In the former
state, several years ago, in turning up
the ground, an ancient forest was I'M
earthed, and, in succession, two others
below the first. Scientists, Judging
from the state of the trees, say that at
least fifty Thousand years elapsed be-
tween the growth of the first and tho
last forest. In some parts of the island
of Antigua, one of the British lceward
group, there are some rcmarl1a bic OK
amples of stone forests. In Van Die
mans Land similar forests are known
to exist. Some of these are only partly
Silicified, while others are changed to
chnlccdony hard enough to cut glass.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Protection Against lightning.

Prof. Rowland has recently shown
the fallacy of many popular ideas on
the subject of protection against light
ming Recent scientific study has swept
away many of the old notions about
conductors. The method now considered
the best is to provide the buildings with
metal roofs with an ample number of
metal conductors reaching to the
ground, which will receive and carry
off the lightning. Copper is the best
material, but tin or iron will answer
the purpose, the placing of conductors
at the corners of buildings so that all
parts will DC equally protected being
advisable. Prof. Rowland considers that
all patented lightning-rods are of little
value beyond conducting rods that any
man can put up himself. The simple
underlying principle is that lightning
will follow the best conductor. In
speaking of the avoidance of danger in
n thunderstorm Prof. Rowland says
that an iron bedstead would probably
be about as safe refuge as could be
found during Il storm, providing the
ground connection was perfect.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
\ disappointed Nlmrod.

A San franciscan who had been hunt
ing in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe with
out bagging any game came upon u
mountainccr who was feeding Gagged
wildcat lie had caught the day before.
GLOW much will you take for that
beast?" he asked. The captor said
twenty dollars, and the money was
paid over. Now" said the nimrotl.
''tie Que end of u strong cord to that
tree and another 10 the cats neelS,
and then open the door of the eggs"
This was finally accomplished and the
fierce animal stood straining ut its
tother. The sportsman, WHO was
Watching the exercises fr om the in
terror Of tho cabin, c.sed his rifle
across the window Sill, took careful
aim, and bla:cd away. The wildcat
gave joyful yell AID disappeared into
tho forest. The bullet had cut the
Tppcl
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
ENeLlsHMAN AND AMERICAN
Their Differing Views Regarding tho
Presence OF Notables.

Their Differing Views Regarding tho
Presence OF Notables.
"My father was once travelling in
Europe and fell in with an English
banker and his family" says st.
Louis Globe-Dcmocrat gossiper. Tho
banker was a man of wealth, n uni
vcrsity graduate, fine scholar and in
every way refined, polished gentle
man. One morning while stopping at
Swiss hotel my father came down to
breakfast and found his friend in u
high state Of nervous excitement. He
could not eat anything, was fidgeting
in his chair and was evidently SO much
disturbed that my father asked what
was the matter. DO you see that gen.
tlcman at the end of tho table?' said
the Englisman, in an awc-strucls whis-
per; that Is the earl of Tyrone But
what is the matter with you?' was the
reply. Come, now said the English
man, you can't pretend that when SO
great man as that is Mt the Same
table with you you feel just as if some
nobody was thcrc?' I don't know about
that said my father. DO you that
man on the other side of the table?
That is ex-President Pierce, but can
eat my breakfast perfectly calmly, even
if he is here The Englishman started,
gasped and said nothing more, evident
~ regarding the Americans as "a variety
OF the human species entirely outside of
all ordinary rules"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Tho A1oonstono lIoax.

1t is said that the moonstone hoax
has made it's temperance. The
method is SO old and so we'll known
that it is Il wonder to jewelers. that it
has survived to this time. Tho hunter
for moonstoncs finds white and al
most transparent pebble. lie takes it
to lapidary who is conveniently near
by, who says it is very fine moon
stone, and that lie will polish and fin
ish it nicely for one dollar. The pebble
is left to be polished, and at the time
appointed the finder calls, pays the lap
diary the dollar and receives the genu-
inc moonstone which has cost the lapi-
Diary forty cents. The lapidary has
sixty cents profit, the finder has u real
moonstone and tho beach has the
pebble, which awaits picking up by
SO nc other dupe.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
COLOR-BLINDNESS.
A Queer Phase of This Disease Developed
In "a nailroader.


In "a nailroader.
An English engineer, forty years of
age, was recently dismissed from his
situation because he was unable to
correctly distinguish colors. DIR. NJ
Reich, who examined the man, and who
aftcrward published the results of his
examinations in n Russian paper, found
sight, focus and sensation of light nor
NAL, and discovered no disease by the
ophthalmoscope, yet the patient could
distinguish no colors when of dark
shade, and only yellow and blue when
of light shade. The patient assured
DIR. Reich that he had been able to dis
tinguish colors correctly and with con-
fidencc up tc the summer of 1889. IIo
said that through over-exertion and in
sufficicncy of sleep he had then suffered
from violent headache for two weeks,
and that afterward he saw everything
as if it were red. Tho latter symptom
had continued for three months, after
which time he had lost all sensation of
color. In the beginning of May, 1890,
he presented himself again, declaring
that he had perfectly regained the
power to distinguish colors. A thorough
examination, says the New York
Ledger, completely confirmed the as
surance given by the patient, who was
consequently again fit for service. Lr.
Reich believes that ''erythropsy" is due
to central mischief. The case seems to
show that sensation of color is per-
fectly independent of the physiological
function
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
SEEN FROM a BALLOON.
Picture OF Landscape Lying VERTICALLY
Beneath tho photographer.

Picture OF Landscape Lying VERTICALLY
Beneath the photographer.
An English scientist recently made
some interesting photographs of tbe
landscape lying vertically beneath him
during balloon ascent from the site of
the naval exhibition on the Thames.
The experiment, as described by one of
the party in Black and White, presents
features somewhat unusual i'm amateur
photographing, and tho resulting pic
lures are odd and interesting examples
of what might be not improperly
termed the ground plan" of a wide
prospect.
Tho scientific Instruments taken
along for making barometric and other
observations, and n kodak camera. wore
strapped to the side of the car, MS the
balloon rose mt mid-afternoon of a clear
day, with the Sky broken only by a few
clouds and with q gentle breeze blow
ing from the west. To the aeronaut as
cending directly upward there is no SEN
sation OF motion, the only indication of
his progress aloft being the rapid dim
mutton in size of familiar objects on
the ground and the constant widening
OF the field of view. On this OCCASION,
with the casting off of the stay rope
the balloon shot directly upward two
thousand feet, during which ascent the
first view, covering the grounds of the
naval exhibition, was taken vertically
downward from the car. At the height
of two-fifths of Il mile above the earth
persons on the ground seemed to be
mere moving spccls and groups of peo-
pie rcsemblcd swarms of ants The
grounds, the lake and the river up
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Struck tho Wrong One

A woman in Helena, Mont, was
struck by lightning the other day. 1t
banged her against the wall, iammcd
her into cupboard and knocked her
senseless, leaving on her skin the exact
pattern of tree that grew in the front
yard. She was not seriously hurt, and
when asked what she thought at tho
time, said she supposed her husband
was enforcing his usual method of dis
approving with her housekeeping. The
lightning always hits the wrong fellow.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
SUMNER SLEEP OF ANIMALS.
Tho Hot Season Spent In State of In
RCtlYitY.

Tho Hot Season Spont In n State of In
activity.
Many animals pass the cold season of
the year in sleep, while the similar
phenomenon of summer sleep is
known in serpents and crocodiles of
tropical regions. Even in the temperate
zones, it appears. there arc reptiles and
amphibious animals that spend the hot
days in sleep According to Dr. Franz
Werner, these animals will be seen in
July and August ine hoticeably fewer
numbers than during the spring; and
search will reveal them, in a condition
very similar to sleep, hidden under
stones, brush or leaves, or in the edges
of marshes and ponds. The frogs sit
huddlcd together and make no attempt
to flee. Lizards and snlamanders lie
almost motionless, with their tails over
their heads; and snakes are coilcd in,
spirals, with the head concealed. I'm
like that of the land animals, the sum
mer sleep of the water animals is not
always at the time of the greatest heat,
but occurs only when their usual dwell
ing place is dried up. Contrary to gen
cral supposition, reptiles do not always
thrive best in hot weather, but many,
such as lizards and snakes, succumb
very quickly under hot sun, and only
turtles can bear the exposure for any
considerable time. The summer sleep
of these animals varies with the char
nctcr of the hot season, and does not ap-
pear at all in animals kept in Il compar-
ativcly even temperature in captivity.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28

peared as tiny patches and the light
house and other edifices resembled toy
houses. A cricket match taking place
on the oval near Vauxhall bridge gave
the impression to the air voyagers of
white mice playing upon green loo
table.
AS the balloon floated above the Mid
dlesex side Millbanl1 penitentiary, with
its great array of regularly arranged
buildings presented the appearance Of
an octagonal implanted flower bed laid
out with unusual precision. Chaplain
common and the Crystal palace were
readily distinguishable; Hyde park, the
Serpcntine, Regents park, Hampstead
and Highgatc appeared as open spaces
that varied the monotony of the other
wise seemingly continuous mass of
brick and mortar constituting the house
walls of London. Except for few
openings of this character the city,
seen from aloft, presented the aspect
of a vast area of unbrolsen roof in mo-
notonous tints of slate and tile. Tho
stately houses of parliament looked
like working model, while the clock
tower could readily have been taken for
the slot for the reception of the penny
which sets the wheels in motion.
Above the Thames-which the bal
loon crossed several times, securing for
its passengers fine view of the port of
London and it's doclSs-ballast was
thrown out, and the airship rose to n
height of 1000 feet over Greenwich OBJ
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
WHY PEOPLE MARRY.
Some Qucor Reasons Advanced by Dir
ferent People.

Somo Quccr Reasons Advanced by Dir
fcrent People.
Though it is very common to rcproach
old bachelors with their celibacy, and
to pity old maids as if single blessed
ness were n misfortune, says London
Tid-Bits, yet many married people have
seen fit to offer apologies for having en-
tered into what some profnne wag has
called the ''holy bands of paddock"
One man says he got married to get a
housckeepcr, another to get rid of bad
company.
Many women declare they got mar
ried for the sake of home; few ac-
knowledge that their motive was to
get n husband. Goethe avcrred that he
got married in order to be respectable. !"
John Wilkes said he took wife ito
please his friends" Wycherly, who cs-
pouscd his housemaid, said he did it to
"spite his relations"
widow who married second hus-
band said she wanted somebody to con-
dole with her for the loss of her first.
Another, because she thought n we'd
ding would ''amuso the children" An
other, to get rid of inccssant importuni-
ty from n crowd of suitors.
Old maids who get married invariably
assure their friends that they thought
they could be more useful as wives
than rs spinsters. Nevertheless Ouilp
gives it as his opinion that nine -tenths
of all persons who marry, whether wild
ows or widowers, spinsters or bachelors,
do SO for the sake of getting married.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Pats Cl,aIlenre.

"1Vill any gentleman thread on the
tail nv me coat?" is derived from the
legcnd-probably aprocryphal--of old
Donnybrool< fair, describing tho con-
vcntionally pugnncious Irishman as
with 'caubecn" adorned with "dhud-
hccn" stuck in the band on his head,
and in his shirt sleeves twirling shille-
lagh.-with his right hand, while his
left trails his denudcd coat on tho
"ilurc" of tent after him, asserting
his disgust at the apparently peaceful
proclivities of his fellows, and shouting
the valiant challenge: "Pnst tin o'clock
and not blow shtrucls yet VIII any
gentleman oblige me by threading on
the tail av me coat?"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
FROM The MOON.
Appearance OF thd Earth as viewod from
tho Lunar World.

tho Lunar World.
II Is evident that to a lunar observer
the disk of earth appears to be equal to
about sixteen areas of the solar disk,
says tho New York Times. Tho solar
disk, as seen from earth, is on an aver
age equal TO the lunar disk seen from
the same point, for, in solar eclipse,
the disk of the moon covers the sun as
in an annular eclipse. Therefore the
apparent size of the bodies must aver
age about equal in size to terrestrial
observer. Again, the solar disk will
appear to the lunnr observer just equal
to what it seems to be when seen from
earth, because the distance from the
sun to the moon averages equal to the
distance from the sun to earth. Further
more, the diameter Of the earth is
equal to about four lunar diametcrs,
and of course the area of their disks
vary as tho square of their radii, and
this makes the terrestrial disk about
equal to sixteen lunar disks, and, Of
course, if the lunar disk is equal to the
solar disk at n given distance, then the
terrestrial disk will seem to be about
sixteen times as great at the same dis
tance.
This enormous disk of earth must be
blue in color to the lunar observer, be-
cause carth's atmosphere is blue, ana
all things seen through it seem blue.
Even interstcllar space seems blue
through this medium, and the unillum-
mated parts of the moon cannot be dis
tinguished from the space that abuts it.
Bright, direct and reflected light is not
affected appreciably by it's passage
through our atmosphere; therefore,
stars, moonlight and distant illumina-
tions are not noticcably blue from that
cause.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
Merit Wins.

WE desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DIR. Kings New Life Pills, Bucislon's
Arnica Salvc and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell
as well, or that have given su III univor-
sal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to
guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready to refund tho purchase price,
II satisfactory results do not follow
their use. These remedies have won
their great popularity purely on their
merits. Budwell, Christian s. Barbee
druggists.