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Sole Agents for the Albany Venetian
Blind.

W. ii, Houghton Manufacturing Company
are the agents for the Albany Venetian blinds
We arc prepared to furnish the ALBANY
blinds in any wood, natural finish or stained
TO match. On Jobs Of any size we gladly send
sample blind for inspection. We guarantee
carefully selected woods, kiln dried and thor
oughly, carefully and properly finished. Our
finish IL uneXcelled.
W. Ii. HoUGHToN MANUFACTURING Co,
1918 and 1920 street northwest.
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Bear In Mind

the frock and sack suits in serge, ohey-
lot and cashmere materials we advertise
$40, $3.50, 1880 and SIS. Eiseman
Bros, Seventh and T..
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Women are said to be very easy sub.
jects for hypnotism, especially those past
40 years of age. Little women with black
eyes, abundant black HAIR and thick eye
D DaHwS or are T@ 0S ones and nervous yS
women are seldom brought under the
hypnotic influence. Delicate langushing
women, especially those with some
chrome malady, submit instantly to the
mysterious influences of this weird art.
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CITY SPECIALS.
The National Safe Deposit Company OF
Washington,

Corner Fifteenth street and New York avenue
Storage for silverware, iowelry, laces, fine
goods and valuables of all kinds. Charges
moderate. Safe deposit boxes for rent at the
very lowest rates.
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OVER THE NUTS AND WINE.
The Latest Obituary Novelty.

Three of my little ones,
With their pattcring feet,
With the prophets of old,
Tread the golden street.
-Fhiladellh,d Ledaer.
He-Lifc with me has been failure.
She-lOu must have had and wasted some
opportunities.
fc-No; have spent half my life raising
whiskers to conceal my youth, and the other
half dycinS them to conceal my agc.-MBHS6yS
Weekly.
A question asked during the examination of
a witness In contested will case in Ulster
Surrogate's Court recently was: "Was this
conversation on the subjects of his money and
family excessively eXcessive?n The witness
answered: Ten or fifteen times day
Kingston Freeman.
"Mizpah,n she said softly as he was about to
leave.
see him. '-NeW York HeT0ld.
Undertaken Morris (absent.mlndedy. a. he
helps his newly-wed daughter off to the sta
iion)-Driyc slow, James, and straight to
Greenwood Cemetery.-Pack.
speaker addressing the teachers institute
at ROsoburg dilated upon the "cterna mind
meaning the human mind. Eternal means ever
lasting, indestructiblc. There are many evil
dcnces that the human mind Is perishable
article and that it is found in more or less
decayed state even in some educators
(Ote9o0) capital Journal
An cxpcctant bride at Keysport, n. j., was
just about to take her carriage for the church
yesterday when she received note from the
groom asking for postponement of the cere-
mOny as his wedding suit was such misdt he
could not make a ereditable appearance. The
brides friends are inclined TO regard the match
as a mislit
Sioux City Evangelist, who was formerly
lot gaNra IL N ttsa in tul a
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A question asked during the examination Of
witness in a contested will case in Ulster
Surrogates Court recently was: "Was this
conversation on the subjects of his money and
family excessively eXcessive?" The witness
answered: Ten or fifteen times q day
Kingston Freeman.
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Undertaken Morris (absent-mlndcdly. a. he
helps his newly.wed daughter off to the sta
iiOn)-Drive slow, James, and straight to
Greenwood Cemetery. PNck
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"Mizpah,N she said softly as he was about to
leave.
"No," he said firmly. Sim not afraid; shall
see him. '--NeW York HeTuiG.
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PALTiMoRE q ONO RAILROAD.
schoduio in efroot MAY 10, 1891.

Schedule In effect May 10, 1891.
Leave Washington from station corner OF New
Jersey avenue and g street.
FoH CHICAGO and Northwest, Vestlbuled Lin =
tied express trains 11.30a. M, $40 p. m. daily.
For CINCINNATI, ~ Louis and indianapolis,
Vcstbuled Limited $3.50, express 1t.3O p. m.
FoR PiTTsBpRe and Cleveland, express daily
$3.50 a. m. ana 8 10 p. m.
Fon lExIt GToN and points in the Shenandoah
FoR WINCHESTER and way stations rs. 80 D. m.
For LURAY, HS. d5 u. m.
For BALTIMORE, week days, d05, 8 90, 6.s5, 7sa,
73O, 600 i5.minutcs), $50, $50, 1000, Is min
utcs), 1926, 4,2S, All, 455 (5.10, 4S-minutes),
5@535 6.2O, g25, 73O, $50, 800, 100c, II 80 and
1i.35 p NJ Sundays, 4.O55, 7.sO 500, 45-min-
utcs), $3.50, $50 Q000 d5-minutes), i.55 a. M,
100, 2.05, 245, 3.25, Adj, 455 (5t0, d5-min-
utesl. SEQ 6.S5, 40 $50, 900 lilo, II .3J. p. m.
For ANNAPOLIS, 7.20 and $50 q. M, 1910 and
SIP. m. Sundays, $50 a. m, 4.3l p. IN.
p. m.
Fon HAeERsTowN, tlO.4Oa a. m. and $3.50 p. m.
ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK AND
PHILADELPHIA.
FoR PHILADELPHIA, New York, Boston and the
East daily, 4.Uo 500 1000, Dining Carl, ii.55
am, 40 (5.10 Dining Carr, $3.50, IN SOP. m.
:, Sleeping Car, open at 1000 o'clock)
Bufrei Parlor Cars on all day trains.
FOR BOSTON, *2.45 p. M, with Pullman Bunet
Sleeping Car running through 10 Boston
without change, via Poughkcepsie Bridge,
landing passengers in u. " Al. station 1T
For ATLANTIC CITY, 405. 1000 and 1855 a. m.
Sundays, 4.0j and IL SO a. M,
For time OF suburban trains see time tablez
TO be had OF all ticket agents.
tExcept Sunday. *Daily. SUNDAY only.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Company ON
orders left ut ticket offices, $40 and 1851 Penn
sylvania avenue, and at Depot.
j. II. ODELL, CHAS. o. SCULL,
Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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He-Lifc with me has been q failure.
She-lOu must have had and wasted some
opportunities.
whiskers TO conceal my youth, and the other
half dyeins them to conceal my agc.-MRHS6y'S
Weekly.
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A speaker addressing the teachers institute
AT ROsoburg dilated upon the "cternal mind
meaning me human NINA, ~ Etelhal means ever
dcnces that the human mind Is a perishable
article and that II is found in more or less
deCayed state even In some educators. -iSQ!em
ILrfnnnl EnnifnI .LnlllnnL
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Three of my little ones,
With their pattcring feet,
With the prophets of old,
Tread the golden street.
-Rilddeipht0 Lecturer
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Continues Daily WI june i.
Owing TO the change which viii occur On orr
firm on June 1T, we are compelled 90 sactidco
our large stock OF clothing. The Inventory
shows SiG0,O00 worth Of Meme, Boys and
(hfldrausa
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An cxpectant bride at Keysport, n. j., was
just about to take her carriage for the church
yesterday when she received n note from the
groom asking for postpOnement of the cere-
monv as his wedding suit was such misit he
could not make a ereditable appearance. The
brides friends are inclined to regard the match
as a miSlt.
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THE HYGlENlC ICE COMPANY,
OFFeI. ale NNrH SrsrCr ". W.
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oLD-TIME cARIcATuRE.
The Ancient Egyptian TOmbs by N
Means Devoid OF HumOF.


The Ancient Egyptian Tombs by No
Means Devoid OF HumOP.
Caricature was known from q very
early period, little broad sonnet times
and full of satire, but telling and origi-
nal In q papyrus Of the nineteenth
dynasty, now in the Turin Museum,
amusing scenes are depicted in the love
affairs of a shaven priest and song
stress of the Temple of Ammon, while
in the same papyrus are sketched comic
groups of animal life. In the first scene
a lion, crocodile and an ape are giving
a vocal and instrumental concert. Next
comes an ass, dressed, armed and
sceptered like a Pharaoh. With ma
jestic swagger he receives the gifts pre-
sented to him by cat of5high degree,
to whom bull acts as proud conductor.
A lion and gazelle are playing at
draughts, hippopOtamus is perched in
a tree, and hawk has climbed into the
tree by means of ladder, and tries to
dislodge him. A Pharaoh in the shape
of a rat, drawn in a chariot by prancing
greyhounds, is proceeding to storm a
fort garrisoned by cats, the latter hav-
ing no arms but teeth and claws, where
as the rats have battle-axes, shields and
bows and arrows. The artists idea
seems to have been the defeat of tho
cats by the animals upon which they
prey; or, if we look for deeper mean
ing, the successful revolt of the op-
pressed upon the oppressor.
In a papyrus in the British Museum a
flock of geese are being driven by cat
and q herd of goats by two wolves, with
crooks and wallet; one of the wolves is
playing a double flute. A drawing on
a tile in the New York Museum repre-
sents quite in the Caldicott style) cat
dressed as an Egyptian lady of fashion,
seated languidly in a chair, slipping
wine out of a small bowl, and being
famed and offered dainties by an abiect-
looking tom cat with his tail between
his legs.
On the walls of tomb at Thebes be-
longing to a priest of Ammon the love
of caricature is INDUCED in even in the
sacred subject of a funeral One of the
boats following in the mournful process
sion across the Nile to the sacred me-
tropolis has grounded, and in being
pushed off the bank, strikes a smaller
one laden with sacerdotal offerings of
cakes, fruits, etc. The table on which
these dainties are arranged has upset,
and the good things are falling like
hail-storm on the heads of the aston
tshed rowers underneath.
The more we learn of the habits of
the ancient Egyptians the less we cher
tsh the old impression of their being a
gloomy people OF serious character. HUI
man nature five thousand years ago was
much the same as it is to-day. altered
simply by climate and custom, and the
Oldest papyrus in the world, now in the
National Library in Paris, written 1850
B. c., contains series of maxims which
we Of to-day might take to heart
Parents Review.
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MYSTIC NUMBERS.
Peculiar Superstitions Regarding Certs
Numerals.

Peculiar Superstitions Regarding Certain
Numerals.
Sacred numbers are always odd.
Hence may arise the modern supersti-
ton among gam blers that there is luck
in odd numbers But among the ancient
heathens, also, even numbers were
Stunned, because each can be divided
into two, number that Pythagoras and
others denounced as the symbol of
death and dissolution and evil augury
generally.
The antique worship of mystic num-
bers still shows its after effect in vari-
Gus popular superstition. For instance,
the seventh son of seventh son
Called in French a marcou) is reputed
to possess singular powers Of heal
ing, and even intelligent people still
hold to the fallacy that young animals
born blind will open their eyes on the
ninth day. The truth is that the blind
ness period of puppies varies from 10 to
16 days, and that of kittens from to
IL.
The frequent assertion that ''colds"
will run their course in 9 days is
equally erroneous. A slight catarrh,
characterized by all its unmistakable
symptoms, may come and depart in
three times "a hours, while chronic
colds" are often as persistent as their
cause, and may worry whole family
from Christmas to the season of open
windows. Country experts in the phe-
nomena of rabies are apt to assure the
victim OF swapping cur that the bite
of mad dog will show its effects on
the seventh day, after which
time sometimes extended to the
ninth daY'O the dread of evil conse-
quences may be dismissed; but the truth
is that the virus OF hydrophobia may re-
main latent for more than five years.
The old idea that man changed his
body entirely every seven years Is part
of the same general fallacy. Medieval
Psychologists were fon1 of noting that
seven months is the least in which
child may be born and live, that the
teeth spring out in the seventh month
and are renewed in the seventh year;
that he becomes youth at twice seven,
at four times seven he is in full posses
sion of his strength, at five times is TT
ted for the business of the world. at six
times seven he becomes grave and wise,
or never; at seven times is at his apogee;
at eight times seven in his first climac-
teric, andat nine times seven in his grand
climacteric.- Minneapolis Tribune.
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WOMEN IN ENGLAND.
Julian Ralph Don't blame Ny Lord Z.
MARRYING n Yankee Girl

Julian Ralph Don't blame Ny Lord for
Marrying Yankee Girl.
word may be in place here about
the English women. They are very
little like the better moiety of Ameri-
cans. They appear to have the most
bountiful health, and they certainly do
possess the loveliest compilations imag-
Unable. The Indian females of Alaska,
who cover their faces with thick black
mixture of SCOT and grease, in order to
preserve their beauty, may have the
most perfect compilations, as they
boast, but until there is other evidence
than their assertion. the palm certainly
must go to the English. Even in White
chapel, or among the peasant or fisher
girls, you will see cheeks like the
sides of peaches, while among the Lon
don beauties the faces are like ivory
suffused with the tidge of rose leaves.
We bake our faces in overheated houses
at least six months in the year, and il
we expose them, it is to violent heat or
sudden changes. They live at home in
such discomfort that the best way to get
warm has been for ages to get out of
doors and walk. The consequence is
that they are born with fondness for
the open air and open-air exercise,
and always in climate moist and
productive of the most superb
animal and vegetable development
But it seems to me that the
finest English women fall far short of
our mark. Big, bony, heavy women
too tall and big and heavy-they carry
shoulders as disproportionately wide as
the sails of windmill, and then pinch
their waists to degree our women
never approached. They lack the grace
full, opulent curves of the perfect
woman. l never fully realized this until
l went to France. where the women are
often goddesses. Then / knew that
had not seen in all England a half
dozen such women as abound in Amer
lea and Paris. 1t was not until l went
to Paris that / realized the fact that
English women lack not only rounding
outlines. but that they fail of being
stylish, and that they are wanting in
gracefulness. As for the English young
girl, or miss" she is next door to |.
chrysalis, without wit or spirit, or orig
inality, individuality or independence;
an appendage to her parent, a dead
weight upon whatever company she is
led into; a pulseless milky-eyed, ami
mated identity; she lives. she moves,
she has her beiug-that is all. Nobody
can blame an English nobleman for
marrying an American girl if he can; of
that am convinced. Julian Ralph, in
Harper's Weekly.
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How AmerIo,ns .Do. Euro,..

More than three-quarters of the
Americans who go to Europe" said Mr..
Wiseacre, had better stay at home.
1t IL not worth their while to waste
time and money like fools. They go to
London and put up a. hotel very much
like the hotels in New York, and meet
few people who are of the same stripe
as their own set in New York, and walk
through few streets or squares of the
kind they have seen in New York
Then they rush to Paris, put up at
hotel like the hotels in London, and
see few people and streets like those
of London. Then they hasten to some
other city. where they go through the
same dull routine, after which thew
come back here and babble about life
abroad. though they might just as we'll
have gone from one hotel to another in
New York. There are plenty of strange
and wonderful things to be seen in Eu-
rope by tourist who knows how to
look for them. but few of our Americans
who have been there can tell about any
thing that differs much from things in
New York. IN Y Letter.
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An astounding piece of vandalism
IL reported to be in progress in Egypt,
With the connivance OF the native off,
cisls. Three gangs of workmen, under
two local sheiks, are daily extracting
blocks from the lower courses of the
two largest pyramids of Gizeh. These
are broken up on the spot and carried
away on csmel-back for Building pur-
poseA
-Tne camera u becoming, as no doubt
the phoncgrsph will soon become.
recognized accessory of any historic
scene. The browning incident of the
Moltke celebration was presentation
to him by the emperor, standing amidst
. galaxy of fellow-sovereigns, generals
and statesmen The emperor concluded
by asking the count to accept a new
marshaps baton of silver magnifcsntly
inlaid with stars and crowns of rubies
and diamonds. Count Molkte could
only ind 3 few brief and incoherent
words Of reply, but be took the emper-
or's hand and imprinted on it long and
fervent kiss A photographers in at
tendance seized the moment, and the
negative will he developed by Professor
von Werner's brush INTO grand historic
picture.
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The strangast of Pet.

On small island in the middle of
the South Pacific lives a planter, the
only white man on the island-whioh is
full of brown-skinned folks-who cuts
and dries the meat of cocoanut, which
he sells to trading vessels. When any
stranger stops at his island, he gives
him of the best that the island affords,
he will get up great concerts and dances
of the islanders; above all, he will take
them out to see his pet. which is, per-
haps, the largest and oldest animal that
was ever petted by any man. This pet
is sperm whale nearly seventy feet
long. He came through the narrow en-
trance into the little harbor, which is
walled in by coral reef, when quite
small, and remained until he mad grown
so large that he could not get out if he
wanted to. The great creature comes
up to be fed when the planter blows his
horn, and after his meal of barrel of
chopped meat or fish, performs some
wondrous and amusing tricks, appar-
emily knowing what is expected of him.
Minneapolis Tribune.
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hunting in the royal forest of Ram
bouillet and the three or four adjacent
woods The love of society and
sport does not prevent the Duchesse
from having very serious religious
and political convictions. She is a
fervent Catholic and a Monarchist
When she gave her 3, 900. 900 francs
(9120, 000) to General Boulanger to use
in the interests of the Comte de Paris
she did it to serve no personal aim, but
because she believes that the ascent of
the heirs of the Orleans dynasty to the
throne would unite France and recon-
Gle all parties. Boulanger's charming
manners fascinated his noble hostess,
when she received at her house in Paris
He begged her to see the Comte de
Paris, and to tell him that he (Bou-
langer) dreamed of the French as a
united people; that monarchy was the
common ground on which this union of
the nation could be effected; and that
the Comte de Paris appeared to him the
destined sovereign. The Duchess met
the Prince at Coblentz, and offered
for Boulangist campaign in favor
The Comte hesitated, finally accepted,
and suggested the names of gentlemen
to form an advising committee for the
spending of the money. At parting he
presented the Duchesse with bouquet
of white roses de France, surrounded by
pink carnations, BouIanger's flower
From that moment the campaign began
in earnest
The Duchesse Dues won over, If not
the cordial, yet the active cooperation
of Louise Michel for Boulangism. The
wife of the first peer of France and the
petroleuse had met by the bedside of a
sick woman of the people. The patient
died, and Louise Michel wrote to the
Duchesse: Madame, our poor friend is
dead. l looked among her few
belongings for keepsake for .you;
l chose this little piece of braided
embroidery. Accept it, Some days
after the Duchesse called upon
Louise Michel in her extraordinary
home at Levallois, where forsaken ami
mails are received, and where the poor
are welcomed with kind words and fed
with bread. From that day the mystic
preacher of anarchy and the good"
aristocrat became friends. When Bou-
LANCER presented himself for election
on the 9th of January, 1889, Louise
Michel wrote to the Duchesse: 81 do
not love your Boulanger, but for your
sake l will not attack him. On the con-
trarY, he will have the SURFACES of my
friends. -Louise Michel
The Duchesse Dues is too brave
woman to escape from the consequences
OF her actions She stands by what she
has done. She is a conspirator, actu-
ated only by the conviction that France
would be happier under an hereditary
government Queen.
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AN AvENGlNo ARMY.
A Procession of Voters Well Calculated t
Make the Old Parties Tremhle.


A Procession of voters Wen Calculated to
Make the Old Parties Tremble.
Five hundred thousand votes were
polled in the order of the knights of
Labor, and Independent political action
received ten for to one against At the
general assembly held at Denver, Col,
committee was appointed, consisting
OF Powderly, Beaumont and Wright, to
confer with other organizations and
issue the call. The general assembly
of the Farmers Mutual Benefit Associ-
alton, held at Springfield, Ill, passed
resolutions to cooperate. This great
call will be signed officially by the
leaders of over S,500,00 organized
producers. Never in the history of
mankind has such thing occurred. In
that vast body are some of the deepest
thinkers, the finest orators and most
talented journalists in the land The
old parties now, more than ever. will
try to get in their work. The Golfers of
the tax-eating, usury-collecting, rent
gathering and labor-grinding class will
be turned out to crush the movement.
The leaders will now, more than ever.
be ridiculed; in the words of
Murat Halstead, they will be
lot of cumming demagogues. The
New York Sun will soon begin to
think that the air is full of shay
seed" Keep it from coming? No,
never! There is nothing under heaven
or on top of any other foreign country
that can ward off the cyclone. Like
the avalanche on the mountain side. the
further it goes the stronger it becomes.
Are the people ready? All, yes! Twen-
ty years of idleness for labor; hundreds
of thousands of miles tramped millions
bummed; homeless and friendless; saw
age and desperate; yes, it is time! With
their once happy and contented homes
the base for modern system of land
lOrdism; their production controlled by
the money power until they hardly re-
ceive 40 per cent. of contamination
price; their backs, bellies and almost
their very breath taxed; the farmers
are ready. Who, then, are not ready?
Those who speculate in the life blood of
their brother man. What need to name
them? You who are not ready had better
get out of the way. Fellow-laborer, who
is on the fence, fall in! The banner of
liberty is flying! ''Old Guard" to the
front! Long have you waited. Grang-
ers, Knights of Labor, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, Patrons of Industry, Farmers
Alliance, Farmers Mutual Benefit AS
sociations, Union Labor men, Nationals,
Trade Unionists, Wheelets! Come,
come all! Ye gods, what procession!
Now will come the light of hope to
those who have stood in the breach.
What care heroes who fought at Lex
ington and Bunker Hill if they only
live to see Yorktown? Brother farmer
and laborer, we are to-day fighting a
British power hundred times stronger
and more unmerciful than ever King
George was in 1776 We elect men to
Congress and other positions of trust
who, if they had lived during revolu-
tionary days, and were guilty of acts
one-half as much in the interests of the
Lombard street (London) money power,
as some of those fellows have been,
they would have graced the trees along
side the British spy, Andre.-Tiller and
TOiler