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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-12
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EPPs's COCOA
BREAKFAST.

govern tire operations Of digestion and nutrition and
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Seyvfce Gazette.
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tn hslt-pound TINS BY gfocsss. labeled thuss
JAMES EPPs 90. Hemoopsshie Chmists.
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Chevalier de Tsvsrs, the Austro- Hungarian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-12

Mr.. and Mrs. W. l. Curtis to the friends of
their little daughter. Elsie. 1t made gay pic
ture to see all these little maids and lads en-
joying every thing devised for their amusement
There was excellent music, the smooth floor OF
two large rooms to dance over, a bewildering
supper table, to which the happy guests
marched in well-paired couples, and host and
hostess who enjoyed the occasion much as
George and Eleroy. There were all sorts
Of dainties at the supper TO tempt
the juvenile appetite as well to de-
velop their artistic perceptions, since
the ices came on In shapes OF all known and
unknown flowers, animals and birds, and there
were pretty souvenirs to carry home, feather
birds and butterflies Among the little guests
were the baby soas of Mrs. Samuel Shellabarser
and Mr.. and Mrs. Mccartney. Miss Errold
Brown, Miss Annie Early. Miss Sally Holmes.
Miss Edith Holmes, Miss Jean Crocraft, Miss
Esther Smith, Miss Annie Keyser, Miss Hattie
Ward, little Mise Halford, Master Lacey,
Charlie Bradley, Cuthbert Brown and Russell
Train. Among the grown-up folks who looked
on were Mr. Sevellon Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. De
Castro, Miss Holmes and Miss Lacey.
Mrs. Hobson's guests yesterday afternoon
invited to listen to Mrs. Charles Waldo Rich
ards recitals were well entertained. Mira
Richards versatility, flexible voice and her un-
usual success in dialect interpretations held
her audiences attention from the first selection
to the last one. Her selections varied from the
humorous to the pathetic and again to the SEN
timental Mrs. Richards in on the eve of her
departure for England. In her audience yes
terday we're the Vice President and the Misses
Morton, the bishop OF Albany and Mrs. Doane,
Lady Pauncefote and daughters, Col and Mrs.
Jno. Hay, Mr.. and Mrs Beliamy Storer.
Anderson, Mrs. Phi sheridan. Mrs. VOL.
colt, Mr.. and the Misses Letter, Mrs. Halli-
day, Senator and Mrs. Dolph. Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Herbert. Mrs. Cropper. Mrs. Lodge.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mr.. Kasson and Mr..
John Carter.
Tho marriage Of Representative Hemphiil
and Miss Elizabeth Henry is setfor December ~.
Mrs Cultivate gave luncheon yesterday OF
fourteen covers, the guest Of honor being Mrs.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
Instructinx q Dentist.

A dentist, who has an office on State
street, tells the following story, which
certainly must be true, because the
dentist says it is. During the recent
cold spell. which was calculated to
develop the latent possibilities of rheu-
matism, neuralgia and.toothache, a COL
ored man, accompanied by his wife,
found their way inside of his office. The
wife's face was hidden by wrappings and
it was easy to guess the object of their
visit. When asked what they wished
done, the husband said: BOSS it am
this way, my Car'line here. she's got
toothache in one of her teeth. Now.
she amt ve'y strong woman. and las
time she took gas it was lille too much
for'er. Now dom think you bettah
give her gas dis time, but gasoline and
not too much of that" Toothache is
not considered laughing matter but
the dentist laughed about it that time
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
The Wandering Albatross.

The biggest of all really powerful
flying birds are, l believe, the wan
dering albatrosses and the South Amer
lean condor-for the roc l reject OUT
right as worthy only of the most
restricted Arabian and nocturnal
ornithology. Seen on the wing, or
even with the wings expanded, both
these great existing birds have most
majestic and colossal appearance. But
feathers in such cases are very decept-
i've; they make fine birds out OF very
small bodies. For example, our we'll
known little English swift which looks
SO imposing in flight as it passes over
head with pinions poised, is hardly as
big when plucked as a mans top
thump joint and weighs only half an
ounce. So, too, the albatross, though
its expanse of wing is said to exceed
that of any other known bird, amount
ing sometimes to nearly ten feet from
tip to tip does not average in weight
more than fifteen pounds, which Is
just exactly the poulterer's state
ment for my last family Christmas
turkey. AS for the condor, while he
spans from wing to wing some eight
feet, his length from beak to tail is
only three and half, and l doubt i
he would pluck into anything CORE
spending to his magnificent outer show
though am bound to admit that
have never personally tried the un
pleasant experiment.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
The VestIbule Car is Safe.

The improvement in palace and
drawing room cars in the last two or
three years has been very great, as l
learned in talking with railroad man
who is here from the west to buy cars.
The most notable feature in their inn
provement," said he, lis their greater
strength and safety. 1t is next to i'm
possible for passengers to be hurt in
one of the modern vestibule trains, no
matter what accident may happen
short of rolling down an embankment.
being pitched off bridge or into
water. The vestibule ends OF cars are
so strong that in an accident l went
through the other day, where train
running nearly fifty miles an hour
dashed into a freight train on side
track, not passenger was ever
scratched. There was big fat mar
crossing from one car into another
who was in the middle of the vestibul'
when the train struck, and he was thu
least shaken up of any one. The nov
framework under the cars is made o
STEEL and the lighting and heating ap
paratus makes it impossible TO injur'
passengers by burning. New Yorl
Press.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
QUAINT TIMEKEEPERS.
Description OF Torch OF Candle-Trcs ,
Nuts, Incense sticks, Etc.

Description OF . Torch OF CandIe-Trce
Nuts, Incense sticks. Etc.
Join me in the search for the sim
plest timekeeper in the world. When
it is found Professor Langley of the
Smithsonian Institute promises to place
by the side of it an instrument that
will record the one hundred thOusandth
part of second, to show how we have
advanced in measuring time.
One OF the simplest timekeepers OF
which know is used by the Marquesas
islanders of the South Pacific. The
natives wash the kernels OF the candle
tree nuts and string them on the mid
rib Of palm leaf, forming the torch
used everywhere in Polynesia.
The torch is propped up and the top
kernal lighted. It burns with clear
beautiful flame, and when consumed
lights the next nuts below in success
sion. As all the kernels are Of the
same size, and being equally oily, they
will burn a certain number of minutes,
the Marquesas natives are said to tie
bits of bark cloth at the intervals along
the string to make divisions OF time by
the number of nuts burned.
This will call to mind the candle
clock of good King Alfred, who divid-
ed the day into three parts, for Sleep
ing, for recreation and prayer, by
means of measured candles. At one
period in the Middle Ages this way of
keeping time was quite common. The
night was divided into three candles,
and events were spoken OF as hap
pening in the first, second or third
candles of the night, as the case might
be.
In a European museum there is a
very rare clock lamp in which the
passage Of time is shown by the lower
ing of the oil in graduated glass
reservoir as the lamp burns.
Perhaps the Dutchman's pipe will
| figure in this competition. In the
story of ''Hans Brinker; or The Silver
Skates" remember the skipper of an
iceboat was asked how long it would
| take to go to some town, and replied
1.-Two pipes and one-half." This would
be a long time, judging from the size
of Dutch pipes.
Chinese doctors mark off the inter.
walls at which medicine is to be taker
by bending an incense stick, lighting
it, and telling the patient to take the
medicine when the fire reaches the
bend. Another queer clock is a cocoa
nut shell, pierced with a small hole.
This is foated on water, and sinks ir
a stated time. perhaps an hour. This
is used by the Malays. In India {
copper bowl takes the place of thu
| cOaOanut.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07

Experiments on the frost resist ng
power of natural and artificial building
stones have been made with twenty
one different kinds of natural building
stones, three to six test pieces of each
being used. The tensile strength, dry
end wet, their capacity for absorbing
water, their alteration in volume.
tensile strength. and behaviour toward
water after freezing and thawing
twenty-five times and their specific
gravity were determined. Out OF this
number OF samples, ranging from lime
stone to sandstone, only six were found
to resist repeated freezing. viz: One
OF dolomite, one OF diorite and four
sandstones. Four other samples were
found to resist freezing fairly. but no,
absolutely; but of forty-one samples OF
artificial stones similarly tested, only
, three were found thoroughly unaffect-
led, while eight proved fairly resistant.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
Had Felt That Way Sometimes.

..Have you never thought, Mr.. Ca
hOkia," exclaimed the soulful Boston
girl, 'that the inharmony Of litigious
and palestine natures is due to the di-
versity of view points from which they
inspect the eidolons of the realm Of
mentality rather than to any inherent
aloofness in the diverse pneumatOlogic
structures themselves, and that a homo
geneity OF psychic impressions might
he attained by sempiternal efforts TO
approximate as to viewpoints"
..Er-yes. l don't know but l have.
Miss Howjames," replied the young
man from St. Louis, helplessly, "but il
had it right bad I'd call doctor. "-
Chicago Tribune.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
A Startling AstronO mlcal Fact.

Prof. Charles A. Young, the eminent
Princeton astronomer, recently sat
chatting in the court of the palace.
One of his listeners could not refrain
from asking him in an off-hand way:
What is to you the most wonder
full and startling fact of astronomy"
The fact that your great Lick
telescope reveals about 100, 900, 900 of
stars, and that every one of them is
sun, theoretically and by analogy
giving light and heat to his planets.
You know the Lick telescope reveals
stars so small that it would require
80, 900 of them to be visible to the
naked eye San Francisco Examiner
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
TOOK HIM FOR A CANNlBAL.
An English Dinner Party Mortified b!
Burton, the Com median.

Dining in England with a very
straight laced set of people in the
country, who. he fancied, considered
him as something little short of an
ogre, Burton met several very young
ladies', and he made up his mind to
horrify them. He commenced CIV.
ing narrative of an imaginary ship
wreck on the Red Sea- or the Blue
Nile, remote from all human habitation
or help.
After describing how they all suffered
from the pangs of hunger, and the
wolfish glances they began to cast on
one another from time to time, as tho
days wore on, and no relief came
dropping his voice to mysterious
whisper almost under his breath, he
added:
"'The cabin boy was young and fat
and looked very tender, and on him
more than on any other, such look;
were cast, until"
Here he paused, looked around Of
the strange and startled faces OF hi:
auditors, in which horror was depicted
and then abruptly ended, as though
dismissing disagreeable memory. .
but these are not stories to be tcld
at a cheerful dinner party in Christian
country, and l had best say no more
Let us turn to some more cheerful sub
ject."
OF course he was pressed to continue
and complete his story, but stubbornll
refused, leaving his hearers in mos
unsatisfactory state Of mind as to tn
denouement of the unfinished nara
tive.
Burton told me he was thorough
convinced by the startled looks cas-
upon him by the younger ladies tha
he and his tougher comrades in tn
shipwreck had roasted and eaten thu
cabin boy, whose tenderness he had
eulogized. They seemed to have D
doubt that he was a cannibal, In fat
as we'll as in intention.-E. De Leon
Memoirs.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
Had Cause to.

eyes" said Boggs unthinkingly, in
conversation with the company who
were making a call on himself and
Mrs. Boggs, Il can remember events
of long ago as if they were but yester.
day. When l think of my boyhood
days-of my escapades in school, of
many of my youthful and later actions,
and how l got married, can't help
smiling and thinking how many foolish
things I've DONE"
And Boggs wondered why his wife
treated him so coolly after the visitors
had gone.-Boston Herald.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
Manhattan Sold for s25.

According to popular tradition the
Island of Manhattan was sold in 1924
for the sum of $25. The conclusion
one would naturally jump to would be
that. in the light Of subsequent events,
the sum was ridiculously small price.
But let US suppose that $25 had been
placed out at per cent interest in the
year 1924 and had been allowed to
compound up to the year 1884, how
much would it then have amounted to!
Something in the neighbOrhood OF 81
600, 900. 900. Is the Island of Manhat.
tan worth much more than that to-day
Pharmaceutical Era.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
AMERICANS AS DISCOVERIES.
Excavations Among the Lost Cities OF the
Old World.

Old World.
Americans have not been prominent
in old world archaeological exPlor-
ations and Investigations; and only
within comparatively recent time has
there been the sort OF interest In that
field of science a people OF our import
ance should evince. Just why the
government of the United States has
made no attempt to further the work
privately undertaken or encouraged by
our colleges and scholars need not be
asked. Practical matters have kept
our public men thoroughly occupied.
We are yet rather young, and our
politics are too chaotic to permit the
fostering and promotion Of projects not
intimately related to our national
development.
1t is the more gratifying. therefore,
to sense of pride in the educational,
scientific and aesthetic conditions OF the
United States that an American is fore
most in the excavation of treasures of
one of the oldest Of the lost cities. The
very great success of Professor Charles
Waldestein among the ruins of Eretria,
where he has recovered precious
jewels, gold, vases, diadems, etc, as
we'll as defined the ruins of buildings
and tombs, promises to be profoundly
interesting to scientists, Eretria having
been in the height of its glory one OF
the richest and most powerful of the
maritime states of Greece.
The origin of the city, like most OF
those that were of great antiquity.
was legendary, but it seems to be ac-
cepted as a fact in history that the city
considerably antedated the Trojan war,
as it contributed to the support of that
famous affair that modern iconOclasts
have made an attempt to prove was al
together an Homeric fiction. Long
after that sack of Troy Eretria was {
hourishing state, but its fatal error
was in giving assistance to the Ionit
States in their revolt from Persia
The Persians vented their wrath b,
razing the city to the ground, hardl!
leaving one stone above another. Tina
was as long ago as 400, B. c.; but tn
city was rebuilded subsequently littl
south of the old site, and through
these $500 years the ruins of the oil
city have gathered the dust and sol
that American zeal is now removing
to afford the world knowing glimps
of the restored past. Professo
Waldstein's work is being watched in
tently by all European countries a
well as by our own.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
MERIT WINS.
Sensible and Pertinent Criticism OF mons
Methods.

Methods.
In the year OF 2000 no man, whether
lover or husband, may hope to win inc
favor of maid or wife save by desert.
While the poet justly experimenting the
ideal proprieties, has always persisted
in representing man at the feet OF
woman. woman has been in fact the
pensioner of man. Nationalism will
Justify the poet and satisfy the eternal
fitness of things by bringing him 10 MS
marrow bones in earnest. But, indeed,
we NAV be sure that in the year OF
1000 he will need no compulsion to as
sumo that attitude.
1t implies no disloyalty to the wom-
anhood of to-day to believe that the
personal dignity and moral freedom,
unknown before to her sex, when Will
be the birthright OF woman IN the
twentieth century cannot fail to react
most favorably upon herself. ennobllne
her graces. clothing with a majesty
her beauty; and making her every waJ
more worthy than ever before OF the
reverence and devotion OF man.
There Is announcer itHl Pioiooi'AA y
tragic aspect Of the relations OF the
sexes which by no means may DC
passed over in considering what ma
tionalism will do for womanhood. The
same economical pressure which brings
the mass of women into relation o
dependence upon men, rendered NOR
or less tolerable according to the de
gree of mutual affection, reduces
great multitude of women. who ar
not fortunate enough to find adequat
masculine support, to form OF SLAYER
more morally degrading than any other
and more complete in its indignity.
The most ancient form of bondage
which has grown up with the race an
1i5, rrishes to-day in the face OF civiliza
ton and Christendom as widely an
: vigorously as ever, which no wisdo1
of the economist, no zeal of the philar
throphist has ever availed to diminilsf
nationalism by the necessary operatio
of its fundamental principle, will 6
t once and forever extirpate.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-07
BEAUTIFUL IN PHYSIQUE.
Descriptions Of the Typical Daughter Of
AristOcratic England.

AristOcratlc England.
To female anglomaniacs the follow
ing description of the typical English
girl will be interesting, although per-
haps disheartening, for who can hope
to initiate it?
The aristocratic English girl has a
face of remarkable shape. The better
her position, according to Burke's
peerage, the longer is her countenance.
An expert might distinguish an Hon.
Miss from a Lady Mary, daughter of a
hundred Earls, and Lady Mary again
from Her Grace, by the simple process
of measurement. The face is not oval,
it is merely elongated, and the chin is
apt to be pointed. The more marked
this characteristic in the individual,
the more certainly is the hair pinn ed
high on the head. fitting the stiff sailor
hat down over her eyes and exaggerat'
ing the northeast to the southwest
diagonal.
I'm evening dress a bunch of plume'
or tall pin is thrust into the hair upor
the very crown, producing the same
effect. The eyes are rather long ant
often, in proportion, narrow, the necl
extensive and made much of by tn
tight, high dress collar.
can English girls shoulders ar
broad and square, arms long, wais
long, general effect in the tailor cow
angular, only partially redeemed b.
the clear red and white complexion ant
| general air of health and well-being
No other woman in Europe has he
physique, but measured from Gree
standards, she is far from beautiful.