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Ex-Gov. Lloyd's Denial.

Various newspapers recently published q
story about the conviction Of an alleged SON Of
ex-Gov. Henry Lloyd Of Maryland as . swim
der, with further statement that Gov. Iaovd
died in 1886 Ex-Gov LLOYD presided over the
democratic state convention of MARYLAND ten
days ago and is alive. He is not yet FORTY wears
OF age, was not married until 1886. and his chill
dren, II any, are therefore at q very tender age.
Inc sWtndler 70 not known to Gov. LLOYD.
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At A SEASIDE RESORT.

Mr.. Bilbrine: what, only going to be here
one day2 Why, you ought to stay long enough
to take at least two baths.'
Miss Skatefield: Heaven knows need them
badly enough, but it Isn't polite for you to tell
me So"
Pitching horse shoes has become Q popular
amusement. This should crafty the mule who
is SO proficient in pastime that is very similar.
The only difference is that he uses mule shoes,
and pitches them harder and not 90 far.
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THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE DISTRICT COURTS WILL
NOT BE NTKRFKRED wIrH-FuLL OPINION IL
THE CASE DELIVERED THIS MoRNINa-THH
LEGAL FONTS DISCUSSED.
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TAKEN alone, showing that Congress did not
intend to invest the appraisers with absolute
power to determine the values of the land
condemned, subject simply to the approval
OF the President. The act expressly de-
clares that the court below shall have
power to hear and determine all matters
connected with the assessments for special
benefits, and to revise, correct amend and con-
firm such assessment, in whole or in part, and
to order new assessment in whole or in part.
And the provisions relating to the appraise-
ment OF values by persons appointed by the
court, to the payment of such values through
the taking Of possession under the order
OF the court. tend to show that there was no
purpose upon the part of Congress to withhold
from the owners Of the lands thus condemned
for public use all judicial protection whatever
In respect to the appraisement OF their prop
erty. The act makes it the duty Of the court
Ito ascertain and assess the value of
the land selected and condemned" II
Is true that the value Is to be ascertained
by means Of appraisers. But their duty is TO
return the appraisement to the court" This
sppraisement, being 80 returned, is only the
basis of the assessment which the court itself is
required to make. The value Of the lands can
not be properly said to be assessed
until the court confirms the apprsise-
ment. Without expressing any opinion a.
with the Constitution, commit to appraisers
the whole question Of just compensation for
lands taken for public use. with no power in
the court which appointed them, or in any
other court, by reviewing their action to keep
them within the bounds Of the law, It 70 sufii-
Gent to cay that the act Of September "a,
1880, il not Of that character.
Constituting, then, the act Of Congress - re-
curing the confirmation by the court Of the
appraisement of values, before titSe can vest in
the United States, ! am of the opinion that the
respondents are not entitled to Q writ of error
to review the order denying the motion TO dis
miss the petition filed BY the commits
sion. II Il not . final Judgment that
will sustain . writ Of error. Il IL
true thaA By fogeo & ~ cot q OoagreaA ~
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FOR SALE-PIANOS.

EOR SALE MAGNIFICENT ROSEWOOD
y square grand piano; nearly new; handsomely I'm
ished, richly carved legs and Tyre; full ~ ocaves;
grand scale rich tone and in perfect order every
way cost 500; prominent make be had for quick
cash for only $3.50, with handsome plush and
cover included. rare bargain. See ii once. Our
tull guarantee given.
THE PIANO EXCHANGE,
aus 913 Pennsylvania ave.
L,OR SALE - SECONDHAND PIANOS. ALL
Il thoroughly repaired, and will be sold cheap tor
cash easy monthly payments
jy6 PFElFFER CONLIFF. 516 18th st. ".
L'OR SALE-A GRAND FRIGHT NEARLY NEW,
l. having q cylinder top, patent muffier and excel
lent tone; cost S6UO new; will $50 easy
payments. HUGO WOkCH CO.,
feb..l-Gln Jl.l 9TH st. n W.
L FIVE DOLLARS MONTHLY
Gives you nne-toned square piano or handsome or.
o2o r q. SMITH, 1925 P.. ave-
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section of the act, caused map Of the lands
proposed to be taken for the park to be made,
filed and recorded in the public records Of the
District Being unable to agree with some Of
made by it to the Supreme Court Of the Dis
trict, by petition, in the name of the United
States, for the appraisement Of the values of
such lands as it had been unable to purchase. The
court, May 20, 1891, directed the petition to be
fled in General Term, and ordered that the
persons named as defendants respondents,
and all others interested or claiming to be in
terested in the lands described in the above
map, or any part thereof, as occupants or
otherwise, to appear in court on or be-
the prayer Of the petition should not be
granted; and why the court should not proceed
at that time as directed by the said act Of Con-
gress; the order to be published ard served
upon such Of the named defendants as should
be found in the District at least seven days be-
fore the date above specified.
Certain respondents appeared in court June
Is, 1891, and moved that the petition be dis
missed upon various grounds, each one of
which impeached the constitutionality of the
act Of Congress and the validity of any pro-
ceedings under it. These motions were over
ruled, the opinion Of the court being delivered
by Mr.. Justice Hsgner. Washington
Ldw Reporter, July Is. 1911 Sub
s s the ne same parties applied
This application was denied. Thereupon, thew
prayed, in open court, the allowance Of a writ
Of error returnable to the Supreme Court of
the United States, to review the Judgment of
the General Term overruling the motion to
dismiss the petition. This application was de-
MED. Some of the respondents prayed an APP
peal from the same order, and that application
was also denied.
The court then made an order appointing
James L. Norris, N. w. Burchell and George
J. Seufferle (whom it adjudged to be competent
and disinterested) a. commissioners to APP
praise the values OF the land, selected for the
park, with directions to return the appraise-
ment into court, and perform such other duties
- were imposed upon them By the act Of Sep
tsmber a, 1880.
This b The oass - disclosed b. ~ seooed
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THE WORK WHEN COMPLETED.

Two locomotive boilers, each 60-inch diameter,
twenty-fiv feet long Two engines to run the
plows, each 10xc0. running 100 revolutions per
minute, discharging through 400 feet in
length of 20-inch discharge pipe.
This pump has a capacity of ten cubic yards
per minute in stiff blue clay and o greater ca
pacity in other material. Three OF these n.y.
draulic dredges werep put on the work at various
times The material dredged in this way when
deposited an the aaos spread itself ont in low
conical heaps and gave good grades. When
the material was very soft it spread out quite
fiat. This method of dredging proved econom-
prepare the place Of deposit by constructing
embellishments around it. As these cmbank-
ments became in fact part Of the fill and were
cheaply constructed, the hydraulic method of
dredging was very satisfactory. The centric
ugal pump dredge was known as the McNee
dredge and has been used on other important
work, giving good satisfacti ton. As 1t deepens
the channel and deposits the material at any
distance required up to one mile at one opera
ton, it is by far the cheapest method that has
been employed. Many of these dredSes are
now In use in different sections of the country.
They are owned and operated by the Hydraulic
Dredging and Improvement Company of Phil
adelphia. Pa.
Another method was introduced at a later stage
o. the work and consisted in dredging the mate
rial into scows and conveying it to q pump op-
Grated on the pulsometer principle. This
pump was located near the margin of the fats
and set in a hole in the bed of the river The
dredged material was dumped into this hole.
from which it was sucked up by the pump and
forced into a chute which carried it out to the
place of deposit. The mode of operating the
pump was to fill large cylindrical tank with
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Olive schreiner at Cape Town.

FROM the LONDON star.
Miss Olive Schreiner, the South African nov
elist, is at present residing at Cape Town, where
she mingles very freely in society and is fire.
quently to be met at government house. Miss
Schreiner is quite young lady. rather below
the medium in height, with girlish form, dark
lustrous eyes and a profusion of brown hair.
Unlike most writers. she is brilliant in CONVEX
sation and will discuss without reserve the lead
ing topics Of the time. She is greatly interested
in public matters and is often present at the
debates in the Cape parliament. Although
THE Story of an African Farm" the book
which made her reputation. was published SO
far back as June, 1885, Miss Schreiner, with the
exception Of a few articles in the magazines,
has not since appeared in print. She has, how
ever, not been idle in the meanwhile but has
been assiduously writing and intends shortly to
come to Europe for the purpose of publishing
the more matured products Of her gifted and
richly stored mind. ---..
Miss Schreiner lives in pleasant rooms in
Cape Town. close to the house of parliament,
overlooking the private grounds of the goy-
ernor and the botanic gardens and command
ing magnificent view OF Table mountain. Shc
often seeks for q closer communion with ma
ture by retiring to the solitude OF Matches
fontain, a little village in the Karoo DESERT 800
miles up country. Miss Schreiner is a member
of highly intellectual family. One OF her
brothers is q barrister in leading practice at
Cape Town, another is a distinguished traveller
and scientist, while her sister has attained
great influence by lectures on temperance plat
forms.
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WHEELING IN EUROPE.
Washington Bicyclists in 0ut-of-the-
Way Places in France.
A FRENCH COUNTRY INN.
Trouble to Be Expected at q Foreign Customs
OMEGA Sea sickness Remedy Dutiab'e-
81. Mnlo-At the Table d'Hotc-Dinieulties
With the French Language.
Special Correspondents Of The Evening star

Special Correspondents Of The Evening Star.
PARIS August Is, 1891.
THERE IS NOTHING so STUPID AND
Il thick-headed as a stupid. thick-headed
official. and the prince Of them all is stupid,
thick-headed customs officer An American
landing at a European port had in his baggage
Q partially filed bottle of compounded remedy
for sea-sickness Other articles regarding
which there might have been some question as
to liability TO duty were passed and the sea-
sickness remedy seized upon by the vigilant
officers as something clearly and Enthusiastically
dutiable. ''You must pay duty on this, he
said. naming a sum far in excess ofthe original
cost. In that case. have no use for it. do
not want it, you understand / present 1t to
YOU" responded the victim But we cannot
receive it." said the officer. 'Then throw it
away suggested the unfortunate, becom-
ing somewhat annoyed. I'VE cannot throw it
away here" continued the memorable official
''but." reckoning TO a subordinate. lit may be
thrown into the river" The American natur-
so far as he was concerned and
was proceeding about his other af-
fairs. but the zealot had not yet run his course
''You must go with US to the river" he said So
in solemn procession to the river they went,
the subordinate first. bearing the bottle. then
the unhappy ''smuggler. lastly the watch dog
Of importatiOns- Now surely all necessary
formalities had been complied with and the
second division Of the procession wheeled to
counter march Here you must stay and see
that il is emptied in the river, commanded the
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RESERVOIR OUTLET.
steam, the pressure from which drove out any
material in the tank and raised it to the top OF
the chute into which it discharged By
means of shower bath the steam was then
condensed, which closed a valve in the dis
charge pipe and opened one in the suction.
The latter being buried in the dredgings which
were deposited over the end of it, and a vac
uum being produced by the condensation of
the steam in the tank an thrush of mud or
mud and water took place. soon filling the tank.
1t was then forced out as before. THIS method
OF dredging necessitated the construction of
long chutes. and as the material had to run
down by gravity the end into which the pump
discharged had to be high
The filling of the flats converted the old
Washington channel into an arm of the river.
closed at the upper end. into which some sew
age would necessarily go. To purify this a
tidal reservoir of about ITO acres WAS con-
structed just above Long bridge from which
about 25OOOO,OOO gallons of water would be
discharged daily into the head of the Washing
ton channel. The water is taken into the res
ervolr from the Virginia chunnel on the flood
tide and discharged into rhe Washington chan
mel on the ebb. To control this operation it
was necessary to construct. near Long
bridge, the reservoir outlet, which is provided
with gates that work automatically closing on
the flood and opening on the ebb tide. set
OF inlet gates. to work on the same principle
may also be needed.
Inc reservoir outlet 10 q masonry structure
consisting Of breast wall perforated by six
arched openings with two wing walls on the
upstream and two on the downstream side.
Each opening is ten feet wide and thirteen feet
to the crown of the arch, the bottom being six
feet below mean low tide. The discharge area
Is therefore $50 square feet at low tide and $40
square feet at ordinary high tide. The gates
when closed rest against miters at the bottom
and top, and when open set back into recess
In the side walls. They are bull. of wood and
plvoted at the heel SO as to make the friction
the least possible. No mechanism Is needed to
start the gates closing from their positions in
the recess of the masonry: the action of the
water does this automatically as soon as the
tide begins to run up stream.
Considerable difficulty was experienced in
securing a foundation for this structure. The
bed of the river here consists of very soft mud
to depth of fifty to sixty feet. then layers OF
sand OF varying thickness are encountered,
with layers of mud between. At depth OF
seventy-two to seventy-fve feet compact
layer of gravel is found. As any UNEQUAL set
Element would disarrange the gates it was
deemed necessary to drive piles to the latter
depth These were capped by two sets OF
grillage timbers. and the spaces between them
and for two feet below the heads of the piles.
were filled in with concrete
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Indian English.

From the London Daily News.
'Baboo- English" as it is contempt uously
called, affords occasional food for mirth among
us. but English papers appear to be not al
together barren Of like entertainment for the
BabOo mind. An Indian journal points out
that the rejoicing of an English clerical organ
over what it calls 1.-The welcome news from
India that three Bengal regiments have been
converted" together with its observation that
providence has indeed blessed our work.
comprises a double mistake. First, the
regiments referred to are not at Bengal. but
Madras regiments; and. secondly, Conversion
is in this case simply technical term implying
that the regiments referred to have been
abolished. Another home journal has, it
appears, described the late senapati as q
person whose civilization is still SO
rudimentary that he feeds on insects."
This mysterious charge having been in
vestigated by our Indian contemporary, it
turns out that its sole foundation was the fact
that the senapati was accustomed to chew be-
teis-that is. betel nuts. 1t was an accidental
misspelling in the Geographic message that
gave rise to what the English journal very
correctly described as IAN extraordinary story
from Manipur."
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STREET SCENE MI. ST. MICHEL
master of ceremonies. and the culprit was
Obliged to witness the Withdrawing of the cork
BY the subordinate. who then held the bottle
mouth downward until the last drop had
mingled with the stream Such is official zeal
In a violent fern
TROUBLE ABOUT A HARMLESS KODAK.
A kodak had evidently never before gone
through the St. Mslo customs house, and ours
became the prize of a burly officer. who after
feeling of il all over and weighing it in his hand
if to determine from the weight its probable
contents, was proceeding. in spite of our siren
uous entreaties. TO examine its inner workings
Before completing his fell work of destruction
we succeeded in inducing him to refer the mat
ter to headquarters. where we went preceded
by the kodaks captor, who bore the instru-
ment rather gingerly in his hands. for. don't
you know. small black box seems to convey to
the ignorant mind a suspicion of something
very dangerous-some high explosive perhaps
Luckily the powers at headquarters. after hear
ing our explanations. were convinced that the
black box was not contraband, and We regained
possession Of our property.
WHEN THE TIDE Is OUT.
st. Nalo when the tide is out is far from be-
ing the pretty picture that if is with the tide in
Built on q rocky peninsula, the very walls of
this ancient seaport. which furnished to the
list Of early American discoveries Jacques Car
low tide all is changed. and where the blue
waters rested. the eye finds naught but mud
and sand. sand and mud, dotted with fishing
and other craft left high and dry, leaning
heavily on propslest they topple ignominiously
PROSTATE on their sides. Somewhat similarly
situated is the village of Mont ST. Michel,
farther up the coast The rock upon which ii
stands, surrounded by ancient Notifications
and crowned with an imposing cathedral. now
undergoing the restoring process. becomes
at high tide an island accessible only by means
Of a causeway three-fourths of "A mile in length.
A Madame Poulard, an inhabitant of the vii
lage. acquired some years ago a reputation as a
maker Of omelettes, and the crooked, narrow
passage ways of streets of the place now con-
tain 50 MANY "Poulard' hotels all making
Poulard omelettes that were it not that a par
ticularly handsome young lady was among the
numerous runners who raced out the causeway
to meet US as soon our approach was noticed
We should have had difficulty indeed in select
ing the .Poulara' hotel to be enriched by our
patronage.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS
on the summit Of the rock we explored with
party Of French and English people. From
the obs. and abs. of the French contingent
there was much Of interest which our knowl-
edge Of French-at least the guides French
opened and several of US crept in and ratified
some old dog chains dismally. The ladies
shuddered and several newly married couples
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A Fortunate Chinese Raby,
rom the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
There is pretty baby in Chinatown who en-.
joys the proud distinction Of having been bap.
TIED in purple velvet brocaded dress i'm.
ported from Paris. Her name is suey Mey
Lau. She is the daughter of Tom Yin Kim
Lau. dealer in Chinese and Japanese curios.
Tho little one is ten months old. Her hand
some costume was made up in the Chinese con-
ventional style for babies-that is, with loose
blouse and wide trousers.
Little Suey Mey was baptized on Sunday last
in the Chinese Methodist Mission by the Rev.
+. j. Masters. pastor of the church of which
Suey Mey's parents are members. She has one
sister eight years old, who was baptized some
time ago. The number of Chinese babies who
have been christened in style similar to white
babies is surprisingly large. Chinese mothers
who have adopted the Christian faith carry
their babies to church as early as possible, and
Chinese parents often take their children with
them to the communion table Just as soon as
the little ones are old enough to be taught.
They are beautifully dressed, often in rich
silks, and the infant class In the Chinese Sun
day school looks literally like convention of
oriental dolls in all the colors OF the rainbow.
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requirements OF those markets. and viii Illus
trste In what their European competitors sur.
pass them. Ii will show BY actual "a mples What
Classes OF merchandise are most salable, what
patterns ana designs are most useful and pop
ular, the manner i'm which they should be
packed 10 Insure safe aud convenient transport
tauon IN the interior districts where there are
neither railways nor cart roads, and 20 avoid
'ne payment OF unnecessary customs duties
weight of packages
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pIBp's-EYE VIEW FROM THE MONUMENT.

Bird s-EYE VIEW FROM THE MONUMENT.
to distance Of several hundred feet and when
it did not spread itself, pump was used to
level it down. This method of deposit had
several disadvantages. 1t was expensive. The
amount OF material that could be dropped at
any particular point depended altogether or
its character. Soft mud spread out we'll, but
sandy or gravelly stuff did not. The material
had to be lifted through considerable vertical
height no less than three times-a wasteful ex-
penditure Of energy.
Another method was to dredge the material
from the river by means of a centrifugal pump
and force it ashore through pipes carried on
scows or pontoons. This work we show at the
top OF our front page, the material being deliv-
cred under pressure to a considerable distance.
The boat shown in the illustration is ITO feet
long; beam Of boat fifty feet. The rotary CEN
trifugal pump is eight feet in diameter and
twenty-one inches discharge. Two engines are
required to run the pump. each 22-inch cvlin-
der and 24-inch stroke. making $50 revolutions
per minute; steam, ninety pounds to the inch.