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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-18

Little Alfonso XIII. king Of Spain
whose fifth birthday will be celebrated
next May. leads the most joyless life
Imaginable. He is sensitive and sickly.
He is frequently taken down with violent
attacks of collie. which last for days, and
shake his tiny, weak body into a condition
Of pitiable thinness. Consequently he Is
understood, white ana languid. He
passes only one TOUR daily in the open
air, and this by the side OF his mother in
the royal carriage. Occasionally ho Is
allowed to leave the carriage to walk in
the park sedately in the society of his
nurse, his English governess and the
Countess OF Peralta.
The people of Madrid say that the total
of the ages of these three companions is
100 years. The Countess of Peralta is at
leust ninety, and was the head governess
of little Alfonso's father very many years
before the miniature king was dreamed
OF. At all events il is certain that the
royal companions, with their 100 years,
frown on all royal capers, for the occa-
sional attempts of their puny charge TO
run or jump or throw stones are sup
pressed with military promptness.-
Chfcugo Herald.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-18
How to Entertain.


The people who keep up with society"
and know all the latest fads are compare
lively few. yet there are subjects every
one dislikes to betray ignorance by asking
about. just how to give a dinner or
luncheon from beginning to end, for in
stance, is a puzzle one does not care to
submit to a friend. Inc following hints
may therefore be useful and are interest
ing, as showing how a formal dinner is
carried through in New York;
Except in the very crush of the season,
two weeks ahead is quite time enough to
send out invitations Tor a dinner. Unless
it is a very grand affair, or you intend
giving a series, the invitations should be
written in the first person; a written in
viIation in the third person Is stilted and
not in good form. Eight O'Clock Is the
usual hour nowadays, although we fol-
low fast on English habits, and half-past
eight IL frequently named. Ten is O good
number for a dinner table, as it brings
the men and women In right order. Eight
is a bad number on this account, as you
will see by making a diagram of your
table. Fourteen Is also a right number;
sixteen again brings two ladies' and two
gentlemen together.
In arranging FOUR table there are only
a few essentials to remember. One is to
keep the decorations low; the high eperg-
nes Il lofty barriers between the guests
have happily quite gone out OF fashion.
If you wish to give a pink" or red"
dinner, the decorations should all be of
one color. the flowers, the shades for the
candles and the shade for the hanging
lamp.
Luckily for us, questions Of precedence
in this country are not de rigeur as on the
other side. and we are allowed to give the
seat of honor TO the right of the host and
hostess to those we wish TO distinguish.
The hostess invariably goes in last, and
the host leads the way with the lady he
honors. Before coffee is served the host
ess makes a sign To the lady on her hus-
bands right and rises. OF course ali the
men stand up. One Of them opens the
door and the ladies adjourn TO the draw
ing room n have their coffee and gossip
until the men appear after their smoke,
about half an hour afterward. Alt this
seems, of course, very obvious; but
English fashions have only become gen.
eral of late years. and the knowledge of
these little details is not as general as
one yyould SunDoSa
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-18

Where to Find the Pretty Blondes.
The blonde, il she is to be found in any
numbers, must be looked for outside Of
the nations metropolis The fair faced
aud light haired American woman of to-
day is rather a product Of the villages and
the country han of the eastern cities
where population Is densest. There are
blonde girls in abundance on the east side
OF New York. where the Germans congre-
gate; there are some, too. on Murray Hill.
of aristocratic lineage, and In Harlem,
where many Swedes live, there are mum :
bers OF light-haired girls, but altogether
they form a comparatively small percent-
age Of the city's Inhabitants. The real
stronghold of the blonde is in the west
aud northwest.
Where are many blondes in Minnesota
and the Dakotas, the offspring OF Scandf-
navian parents. and they abound in Ne
braska and southern Illinois, where
large colonies of Germans have settled.
There are multitudes OF fair haired girls
In eastern Pennsylvania. the daughters OF
the Pennsylvania Dutch, and in Della
ware, in Kentucky, in Baltimore and in
Philadelphia they are not rare. But very
generally in the cast, and especially in
the large cities. brunette women greatly
outnumber the BLONDES, ms they do in fact
the world oyer.-A. B. KdTdta ~ Epoch
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
Weighing Thought.
London Truth.


Professor Mosso, an Italian Psychologist,
may be said to have weighed thought. He
has shown by experiment that thinking
varies with the nature of the thought. Mosso
proved it by balancing a man in a horizontal
position SO delicately that when he began to
think the accession of blood to his head turned
the scale. When the subject was asleep
the thoughts or visions which came to him in
dreams were sufficient to sink his head below
his feet, and the same thing took place when
he was disturbed by slight sound or touch.
The balance even indicated when a person
was reading Italian and when Greek, the
greater mental exertion required for Greek
producing greater flow of blood to the head
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
JEST OFFICE ROOMS IN THE CITY.

tease me still about that? Haven't you for
given me yet ?"
''Forgiven you? ?'' Grid Thibaut ''Why
there was nothing to forgive, my dear child.
| knew well enough that you didn't do it on
purpose"
"And that is perfectly true'' said Jeanne,
without thinking, ''for it wasn't you / was
aiming at.''
"Aiming atn' said Thibaut, astounded.
''But if you"
"oh, good gracious r' said Jeanne Give
told you'll"
Consequently she told him all. Under her
breath and desperately ashamed, she owned
that she had been aiming at Marcel. "He-he
used to walk by every day." she said, "and l
used to look at him, and he never looked at
me-and used to wonder why-and l did
everything could-without doing anything,
you know, uncle-but he never honored me
with the smallest attention.! -
''The imbecile ~
''Wasn't he? Well, that day felt so mis-
erable, SO desperate, because he wouldn't
look, and all at once l saw him with you.
Then-oh, don't know what came over me,
but thought, 'Ah, you won't look at me y
And so-bang l turned the nozzle on him.
Only Only ! was so wrought up, so unhappy,
"That it was who got the ducking Upon
my word, Sapristi, if l had known that
sooner"
swell ?'' she said, looking at him boldly
with her mocking eyes.
swell ?' Well, indeed | shouldn't have
concerned myself about your marriage, made
moisellen
''You wouldn't g' she said, with look and
tone incredulous. $50 along, you dear old
uncle; don't know you You are too good
to make any one unhappy And, after ALL"
she said, so coaxingly that Thibaut felt himself
lost before she spoke, ''you guessed, probably,
that you would have in Jeanne a little niece
who would love you and take care of you
better than any other you could find anywhere,
didn't YOU ?i'
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Who now came stealing up, head down, on
timid, hesitating feet, but Jeanne, the culprit.
"Jeanne,'' in angry tones the father spoke,
twill you kindly look at this gentleman? VIII
you please to observe the result of your care
lessness ?"
She raised her eyes, the smallest suspicion
of a smile lowering about the corners of her
lips, when all of sudden she stood open
mouthed, in stupefed immovability. Her
pretty face was SO droll, all her little figure
was so charming, that with her rumpled hair,
her lowered linen garden dress with its slim
corsage, and her petticoat pulled up, revealing
two almost invisible little feet in the most
minute of slippers, that the victim and the inn
petuous nephew of the victim were disarmed
before word was spoken.
SPRAY, never mind, mademoiselle,n said the
uncle. beg you will not give the matter
second thought. 1t is not every day that one
has the honor of douche from so charminga
hose-carrier."
She blushed extremely, tried to speak--and
then, so irresistible desire to laugh took pos
session of her that she turned and fled for very
fear of bursting out laughing.
Now, somewhat recovering his self-posses-
sion, Monsieur Lemadie was at last able to
express his regrets in somewhat decent phrase.
1t then occurred to his hitherto bewildered
mind that he might at least offer the unfortu-
nate victim of the accident change of clothes,
and with such good-humored hospitality did
he insist that his offer, at first declined, was
finally accepted. Ten minutes afterward
Thibaut, Uncle Thibaut, completely dry, a
little squeezed together by his borrowed gar
ments, but thoroughly restored to spirits by a
couple of glasses of Marsala, took leave of the
Lemadie family.
"Come, let us hurry" said he to his nephew.
'Your mother will be wondering where we
are.''
They walked on without word for half
mile or so, when Thibaut broke out brusquely
'Do you know what l think? That's the sort
of young lady / should like to see you marry
Why, she's charming And as for the Mar
sala, only good father keeps such wine as
that.n
AS Marcel did not reply, he went on, "Why
Gasoline stoves, all sizes, at Moore & Co.'s,
80 and 312 Pennsylvania avenue southeast
Capitol Hill.
Ballantine's Pale Extra Beer cures the la
grippe.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
AN UNEXPECTED DOUCHE.
The Romance of q Garden Hose-From
the French of A. Erhard.
From the Figaro Illustre.

From the Figaro Illustre.
Toward the end of beautiful June day
Monsieur and Madame Lemade were seated
in their garden, before the mansion house,
and TRANQUILITY waiting for dinner. Monsieur
Lemadie was reading the newspaper, on which
from time to time he commented in sena-
torial voice, and Madame Lemadie was deeply
Interested in her work.
"Where can Jeanne be, | wonder?" said
Madame Lemadie, stretching her hand toward
her work basket and pulling thread of scar
let silk out of it's Uttered skeins. "Your
daughter ?" said Monsieur Lemadie. He
turned on his chair and looked out of the
corner of his eye toward the end of the garden.
There she is,' he said, ''nozzle in hand
watering the flowers
Scarcely had he spoken when there re-
sounded from the street sudden cry, accom-
panied by most formidable objurgation, and
these were instantly accompanied by the
furious remonstrances of second voice.
"What has happened" ?" cried Monsieur
Lemadie, throwing down his journal. "What
can be the matter?''
He rose to investigate. vigorous knock
at his gate, followed by two other alarming
strokes, made him hasten his steps. Opening
gentlemen, one young fellow of twenty-five,
the other stout and hearty gray-haired old
boy, of opulent mien, who, drenched from
head to foot, was vainly endeavoring to dry
himself with his pocket-handkerchief
The young man began to eXpostulate We
hemently, breaking out into exasperated re-
proaches. "What did they mean by inundat-
ing his uncle in this manner? And ON puI-
pose-to amuse themselves in his face
and with a head of water like that?"
Monsieur Lamadie stammered all kinds OF
excuses, hopping from one foot to another,
stupidity turning his straw hat about in his
fingers, and in a dunce-like voice repeating,
''I'm sure it must be very unpleasant
unpleasant p
'Unpleasant? l should think so % replied
the young man furiously, and, dry as bone
himself, was twice as vehement as his uncle
With growing irritation, he continued to apos-
trophize the poor wretch planted motionless
before him, speechless and sorry figure, cry
ing out that it was impossible to conceive pay
ing so little attention to people who might be
passing on the street, that it was perfect in
suit, returning with ever-renewed anger to the
iniquity of this sudden and formidable ava
lanche of water "No no, uncle, refuse tc
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

say nothing more about it," he cried. "Just
look at yourself See what state you are in |"
In fact, the uncle presented most lameuta-
BILE appearance. His collar was nothing but
shapeless pad of linen his black satin cravat,
all awry, was switched up on his neck, his silk
hat was scanned with glistening sears, which
bristled up here and there like monstrous cat
erpillars. His waistcoat and trousers stuck
fast to his stout and plentiful person, and from
the poor mans elbows, shoulders, and hips
there was regular June shower.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
Electric Belt Free.

To introduce it and obtain agents the under
signed firm will give away few of their $500
German Electric Belts invented by Prof. Van
der Weyde, Pres. of the New York Electrical
for Nervous Debility, Rheumatism, Loss of
Power etc. Address Electric Agency, p. o.
Box 17s, Brooklyn, n. Y. Write to them
to-day.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The largest and most complete stock of
furniture on Capitol Hill at the lowest rates
is to be found at Moore & Co.'s, $40 and 3l2
Pennsylvania avenue southeast
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Gas stoves, different sizes, at Moore & Co.'s,
3l0 and 3l2 Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
Capitol HILL
Ballantines Beer is the only beer that con-
tains no salicilic acid.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The "Leonard Refrigerator" has no equal
Sold by Moore q Co., 80 and 3l2 Pennsylva-
mia avenue southeast Capitol Hill.
Ballantines Pale Ext Beer cures the la
grippe
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Gasoline stoves, all sizes, at Moore & Co.'s,
80 and 312 Pennsylvania avenue southeast
Capitol HILL
Ballantine's Pale Extra Beer cures the la
grippe.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Don't buy a refrigerator until you have seen
"Leonard's''. Moore & Co., $40 and 3l2
Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Capitol Hill.
Read what Finley & Son have to say about
Ballantine's Pale Extra in this issue.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The next week, in company with his nephew,
he went to take the train. AS they walked
past the Lemadie grounds Thibaut suddenly
stopped and with a firm hand rang the bell.
At an impatient movement from Marcel he
turned toward that young man and said: ''If
this bores you, my dear boy, you can walk on,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
Wheat Demand and Supply

The countries that will have to i'm
port large quantities of wheat are ::
Great Britain, IG0,0O0,O00 bushels :;
France, 900OO000, and Belgium, Aus
tria, Germany, Italy, Holland and
Switzerland, the requirements rang
ing from l3000,OOO to 33,OOO,OOO
bushels. Besides these, Spain, Portu-
gal, Greece, Denmark and Scandinavia
will he importers in lesser quantities.
The chief exporting countries are
The United States, with an estimated
surplus this year of lj0,OOO,OOO; India
1000 900; Russia, G0,O00OOO; Hun.
gary and Southeastern Europe, So.
00O, 900; Turkey and Algeria, 2jOo0.
OOO, and a few other regions in lesse,
amounts.
The estimated requirement for thf
importing countries, above their own
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07

production, is 400 ,000000 bushels; the
surplus of countries exporting is near
ly as much. These figures are only
approximations, OF course; but such
as they are they indicate a remarka-
bly, close approach OF the actual de-
mand to the possible supply.
Besides this, rye, which may he and,
in Il considerable degree, is a substi-
tute, in European countries, for wheat,
is very light crop. Russia and Ger
many produce about two-thirds OF the
rye crop OF Europe, Russia about half !;
but the average production will be
comparatively small this year.
The grain gamblers may have diff
ticult job in controlling prices and
plundering the farmer this year, as
they generally succeed in doing very
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
NOW FOR A GLORIOUS HOLIDAY.
Sells Brothers Millionaire Amuse-
ment Alliance Coming.

On Wednesday next our old amuse-
ment friends, the popular Sells Broth
ers, are to again visit Olympia making
their twentieth consecutive annual
tour. The death of Adam Forepaugh
leaves them with but one managerial
rival in the field, which they have
now occupied longer than any other.
and public opinion will heartily in
dorse the assertion that in many re-
spects their merit is surprising. To
their credit be it recorded that, rich
and enterprising as they are, they
have sturdily refused to revolutionize
the show business" by the introduc-
ton of licentious and indecent spec
tacles, but keep within the legitimate
scope OF Geological and arenic displays,
and do not sacrifice the most popular
elements of tent exhibition to inno-
vations," which have usurped the
legitimate and belong properly to
Black Crook brass and nudity. This
makes their present enormous unity
of Hippodrome, Managerie, Circus,
Wild Moorish CarTan and Spectacular
Pilgrimage to Mecca; Tropical Aqua
rum, Aviary, Royal Japanese Troupe,
Arabian Nights Entertainment and
magnificent Free Street Parade al
together the best and most satisfac-
tory of its kind. 1t includes, more
over, many exceedingly rare and
interesting sights nowhere else ex-
hibited; such as the pair of huge
living Hippopotami, whole flock of
Ostriches, the Hairless Horse, and the
pair of Liliputian Cattle Among
scores OF the greatest performers also
appears Cyrene. the extraordinary
Spanish dancer in long skirts, whose
picturesque and emotional presenta
tions have made her the public craze
wherever she has appeared. There
are also lots of mirthful and funny
performances for the special benefit o
the little folks.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
BIG TREES AND CRoAKERS.
People Who Think a Timber Exhibit
Useless.

1t has been observed that whenever 4
Washington big tree is mentioned rs APP
prOpriate for an exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, some one is heard to remark that
California will show so much larger
big trees that it is foolish for Wash
ington to compete. That is just what
will be overcome at the Worlds Fair.
The people OF the whole country have
become familiar with fame OF Califor-
Mas big trees, Oregon's pine, Oregon
salmon and Oregon wheat, all at the
expense Of Washington's magnificent
resources, which have been masquerad-
ing under false colors. The Worlds
Fair affords an opportunity OF setting
this all straight. If California should
be given the palm for timber without
a struggle, how is the fact that she
consumes 2J0,O00,0OO feet Of Washing
ton lumber annually to be accounted
for? This State cannot show a mon
ster like one of the California red
woods, but we can show great speci-
mems OF the lumber that wins its way
into every available market.
Reports are now coming in from
almost every county in Western
Washington OF some big trees dis
covered for the Worlds Fair. The
most definite knowledge has been con-
tributed by Mr.. J. NJ. Saar, OF Sumas
City, who recently explored forest OF
big trees. They measured fir trees
from nine to fourteen feet in diameter,
six feet from the roots. and these
trees run from 300 to 400 feet in
height. A perfect spruce was also
found which measured fourteen feet
in diameter. Specimens like these,
with cedar trunks five feet square and
100 feet long, without a knot or
blemish-these are what will be shown
to attract the lumber makers to Wash
ington, and to help establish markets
in the East.
The Executive Committee Of the
Washington's Worlds Fair Commits
sion again emphasized the fact thai
all invitations to join with other new
or Northwestern States will be courte
ously but firmly declined. Severa
propositions have been brought before
the Commission, but since this nev
State has been so generous in its ap
preparation, the Commission is gOin!
to be careful to gain every advantag
of a grand exhibit of Washington re
sources, separate and distinct from al
: others.
A novel feature of the Washington
photograph exhibit will he the picture
> of cabins made by settlers without tn
aid of even a whip-saw. There ar
many cabins along Puget Sound mad
o of Shakes" split from cedar logs, an
II the cabins look as neat as if side
e with the finest rustic. These, wit
the old-fashioned log cabins, will max
8 an attractive group of scenes.
) Large quantities OF grain in til
u grass will be gathered in Easter
II Washington during the next few day.
e This will all be stored in the Stat
IL expositions until needed for til
e Worlds Fair. Thus it will serve {
e an exhibit now and be ready for IL.
IL at the big fair in Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
WHOLE NUM- BER 1919.

jars. Soak II hours in rather strong
brine then pour off the brine and rinse
in clear water. TO this number of Gu
cumbers use three quarts of pure cider
vinegar, one cupful OF sugar, one ounce
of whole cloves, one ounce of stick Gin
namon, one ounce of small, black pep
pers, little horse-radish, sliced few
small, red peppers. Scald the cucum-
bers in the vinegar. As soon rs the
vinegar is scalding hot, dip them out,
fill the cans, and then pour the vinegar
over them till the can is full Seal hot.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-08-07
A Railroad Round the World.

After lull ui -omo months ~ the
di-,u-.iun ut the great intefcontincntal
railway -,h,mr. thc subject - again
revived lN aumc 81 thc Eastern news
patsrs lun rrccui editorial the New
Work H,fahi,rt, confidently predicts
that IA, children ol lhs generation
viii lriorc they reach their twenty
hf-t birthday. ho making the circuit OF
the earth hN steam. riding II 900 miles
,| the ,uurnry in rullmAn palace car,
and thu remainder ut the distance
a, rl.- the Nilanllc hy steamer. With
q srmhancc e. originality ~ the idea,
NJ Charles Francis Adams j. named
a.. lho prophet IT this startling era III
railway construction, aud the line oi
travel l- marked uut upon the map "i
lhr wufld starting at Boston Tor
instance. Il will cross the continent
~ the nilrd states from some point
on The racihc Coast 1t will run north
Nnr through British Columbia and
Nla.kan Coast. whcn hy n sail oi few
hours across the narrow sea conncc.
tiun will bee made with thc Great Rus.
sian railway 1t It, terminus on tie
padefn shore uf siberia Thcucc the
| route 3. described ~ Il makes it, way
| through Asia into Europe. presenting
tu the prospective tourist transient
rlimp-e- ui - Petersburg Berlin,
Fan. aud London In his living jour
ntV around the word Ia this lie
/ scfiptiun the more immediate utility
of "A railway into Na.ka for the &C.
,rlnpmrnt of IT, mines and other
material resources ~ advocated and
believed ~ ~ measure commanding
the serious consideration of railway
~ cciot- ut the present day.
Hat ~ all that may hc said about
,hr world cucifcling route, there can
be- nothing original The route dC
srilel iu that oi the " Cosmopolitan
RaiiNay TIL. Is conception o
iorty y,ar- ago. and the prophet and
projectors ui the gigantic enterprise
l.. one ui the most distinguished citi
zen. oi Denver. Colorado. This rail
NAV. which has for So many year
hcrn regarded ~ the idle dream o
Bntrrnor Gilpn. has now become Tia
most siupcndou- problem Of the rail
. way age. nnd all the way from th
/ Cfar ut - Petersburg to the san,
, tun- of the leading journals of Amer
ica. thc national authorities and g.
r. highest professional minds OF the tw
. countries have been applied To il
solution The Cosmopolitan Rallwa
Ia. hccunc subject Of world wid
. fame. aud has progressed So far tha
\ all information the world needs ahou
h II j. embraced ~ books AMI maps an
drawings that have cost the Dcnv,
u author tens Of thousands Of dollars.