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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08

The opera, "Claude Duval," presented by
Mr.. w. T. Carleton at Albaugh's Grand Opera
House last week, failed to excite the furore
which might have been expected from the adj
vance announcements but nevertheless 1t made
no unfavorable impression on the Washington
public. 1t Is an opera of some merit, its chief
fault being the lack of action on the part of the
principals. The choruses are quite strong and
furnish some charming music. Mr.. Csrleton's
company comprises many of the same people
seen here before with him. Miss JEANNE Win
ston is the only notable addition, and her work
during the week was well up to her usual
standard. Mr.. Carleton himself finds in Claude
Dual q part better adapted to show his capa-'
bilities than many in which he has appeared.
Mr.. j. X. Murray, whose beautiful voice has
but few equals on the comic-opera stage, had
more opportunities than heretofore to show
himself to good advantage, and the singing of
Mr.. Fred Huntley was also well received. In
addition to "Claude Duval' the company pre-
sented during the week 1.-THE Mikado,"
"Nanon, ''and "The Queens Lace Handker-
chief
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MERIT REWARDED.

Genius of the Eighteenth Century Bless
ing Humanity To-day.
For several years Mr.. R. H. Andrews, Of this
city, has been making medicines for the relief
and cure of dyspepsia, scrofula, general debl-
ity, kidney complaint, fever and ague, female
disorders, hemorrhoids rheumatism, neuralgia
and all nervous ailments The formulae from
which they were prepared have been in Mr..
Andrews's family for several generations, and he
was first irduced to put them up in the hope
that he might cure some personal friends who
seemed to be beyond the help of their physi-
clans. The success attending his efforts was
pleasant surprise to all acquainted with the cir
cumstances, and he was prevailed upon to put
the medicines up in small quantities for SALE
This was about six years ago. Persons who
were cured of their ailments recommended the
preparations to their personal friends, and many
who left the city took quantities with them TO
their homes. The result has been the creation of
demand for the goods beyond Mr. Andrews's
ability to supply, and few weeks ago stock
company was formed and chartered for the
purpose Of entering into the business of manu-
featuring medicines from the most successful
of these prescriptions The men interested
with Mr. Andrews in the enterprise are we'll
known citizens, some OF them having had sew
eral years. experience in the proprietary medi-
cine business. The capital stock has been
placed at 100000, $50, 600 of which is offered
for sale in shares of $50 dollars each, and NAV
be paid for on the instalment plan. An office
has been opened at 1921 L street northwest
where full particulars regarding the enterprise
may be obtained, and where stock subscriptions
are being received. Already the names of
large number of representative citizens of
Washington are on their books and success is
now assured. The laboratory will be located
at Takoma Park. Md, five miles from this
city, and building operations will commence
about the first of April. Such Industries as this
are benefit to any community, and the stock
OF the Grandfathers Remedies Company should
find ready takers among those of our citizens
who have money to invest.
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few weeks. The people engaged for the new
comedy will be from Mr.. Frohman's stock COM
pany at Proctor's Theatre New York.
Many companies seem to find the March winds
too much for them. At least half dozen sud-
denly closed their seasons the past week.
1.-THE Crystal Slipper" Company, numbering
lO0 people, will arrive by special train over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this afternoon.
Carroll johnson, a minstrel of genuine comic
talent, will star next season in farce-comedy
called "The Gossoon," by Edward e. Kidder.
The many friends of the Bostonan Opera
Company will be glad to learn that the recent
engagement of the troupe in Chicago was one of
the most successful ever played there.
"Thou Shall Not'' promises to sheolize the al
ready sulphurous atmosphere of the stage, and
will, no doubt get blue blazes when produced
DuhCop's Stage NeaDs is responsible for the above
The latest prodigy is Master Eddie, whom
Harry w. Williams has added to his own COM
pany. Master Eddie, though but seven years
old, is full-fedged prestidigitateur. and in va
riety of tricks is said to rival Hermann.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who will close her season
at Kansas City next week, is said to have lost
that is, her backer has lost-fully $4,000, but
having conquered Chicago she is satisfied. There
is a rumor afloat that she and her husband are
about to make up.
Mrs. Langtry is about due for an American
tour. She has lost large sum on her production
of Antony and Cleopatra" and her production
of Charles Coghlan's play of Lady Barter last
week was hissed. America is the only refuge for
bad actors and actresses.
The wife of Stuart Robson died last summer
The couple had lived happily together for
nearly thirty-four years. This fact has not de-
TERED the theatrical gossps from adding an
other pang to the comedians sorrow by clrcu-
lating the report that he is engaged to be mar
rled to lady of his company who is young
enough to be his grand daughter. A,simiiar re-
port was circulated last summer in respect to
Edwin Booth, who was announced to be on the
eve of marriage with the seyenteen-y old
daughter Of Lawrence Barrett.
e. II. Sothern was no doubt right in leaving
the Southern Hotel in st. Louis at 2 o'clock in
the morning. He is a member of one of the
most respectable organizations hailing from the
metropolis, and the clerk had no business to peep
over the transom. 1t has always been under
stood that actors should do as they please in the
hotels they honor by patronizing. even if it be
bowling through the corridors after midnigkt
or playing poker and drinking wine until day
break. Mr.. Sothern never drinks or howls. In
fact. he is an extraordinarily sedate young gen.
tleman, and the landlord should not have Kicked
up such a row because he went a-yisting little
after the time ordinary people make their calls.
-DunlOp'S NeaDS
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Notes of tIte stage.

Sydney Drew has joined Charles Frohman's g
stock company.
To the forces of the Crystal Slipper" Company
will be added on tomorrow night the celebrated
danseuse. Theodore Gilbert
The seats for the Bernhardt engagement in
Boston were sold at auction. The sum OF S3s
was paid for the first choice.
Francis Wilson will produce new opera by ].
CheeVer Goodwin and Wilson Morse at the
Broadway Theatre, New York, May "a.
''Mr Wilkinson's Widows is the title of Mr. Will
lam Gillettes new comedy which will have its
initial production at the National Theatre in a
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THE AMUSEMENT WORLD.
PLENTY OF GOOD ATTRACTIONS FOR
THE COMING WEEK.

Drama, Spectacle. Extravaganza, and Va
riety at the Different Houses-Lydia
Thompson Opens the New Academy of
Music-Stage Notes.
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Post Offices on Ocean Steamers.

A new feature Of the postal service will go
into operation on April l next, when sea post
Offices will be established on the German steam
ers plying between New York and Hamburg
and Bremen. Twelve clerks were yesterday
appointed for this service, and others will fol-
low as needed. Each ship will carry one
American and one German clerk who will dis
tribute as closely as possible all letters and
postal cards on shipboard. 1t is expected that
a larger saving in time will be made in the de-
livery of mail matter, not only at the American
and German ports, but inland as well.
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Alleged Labor outrages i'm virgtnia.

Attorney General Miller has informed the
Secretary of the Treasury that the alleged ILL
treatment of Hungarian laborers employed in
the construction of railroad near Pocahontas,
Va, is matter for State supervision only,
there being no Unitnd States law covering such
case. He says that he has, however, called
the attention of the State authorities to the re-
ported outrages and has also instructed the
United States attorney for that district to as
stst in an investigation of the matter.
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Electric Belt Free

Tointroduce it and obtain agents the lnder-
signed firm will give away few of their S5. 90
German Electric Belts invented by Prof. Van der
Meyde, Pres. of the New York Electrical Society.
u. 3: Pat: 257, ,o47,) positive cure for Nervous
Debility, Rheumatism, Loss of Power. etc. Ad-
dress Electric Agency, p; o. Box l7s, Brooklyn,
N. Y. Writeto them to-day.
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Iorthechecking of baggage to destinationfron,
hotels andresidences.
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j. X. WOnn General Passenger Agent
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A Good Appointment.

William Helm, of Wisconsin, clerk in the
Office OF Post Office Inspector King, with head
quarters in this city, has been appointed as
sistant superintendent of the free delivery
service.
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Raymond, Edwin Foy, Henry Norman, Joseph
Frankau, r. III. Carroll, and Joseph M. Doner.
Among other novelties Azella, "the flying
dancer" introduces her marvellous aerial feats,
which were the sensation Of London and Paris
last season.
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most strikingly beautiful pictures ever shown
upon the stage. 1t represents the four seasons
of the year, beginning with winter, and melting
gradually and almost impereeptibly into spring,
summer, and autumn. The costuming of the
piece is new throughout, and all the garments
worn are said to be of the most novel designs
and richest material. Many musical numbers
are strewn through the piece, and several of
them seem destined to be lastingly popular
There are three grand ballets composed by
SigRor Marchetti, and led by four premiere
dancers, including Madeline Morando, Clara
Neuman, Mile. Azella, and Aenrietta Rosche.
One ballet is participated in by dancers repre-
senting the characters of nursery fiction, Jack
and GILL;" "Little Miss Muffit," ''Little Bo-
Peep" '!Johnny HorIer," and the rest. The
ballet entitled, "La Carte D'Amour is genuine
novelty, and presents lot of pretty girls at
tired in the striking costumes OF the Directoire
period, and portraying by graceful action the
various phases of love. The company itself is
one of the strongest ever engaged in extrava-
ganza in this country, containing among its
members such well-known people as Louise
Montague, Ida Mule, Topsy Venn, Fanny
f holl, Annie Daere, Babette Rodney, Frankie
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With fish and oysters use the white wines of
the To-Kalon Wine Company. For sale at GA
Fourteenth street only.
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Spring styles now ready for inspection.
SNYDER & WooD,
Merchant Tailors,
423 Eleventh street northwest
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High, healthy, aud beautiful Is Derwood
Park. William f. Thomas, Twelfth and G.
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in covering themselves from crown to
sole with the most varied and star
Ting of painted designs. A Mang-
battu of especially fastidious tastes
shows his dudishness most remarkably in
his hairdress.
"With astounding care and the greatest
variety" says DR.. Junker, "they build
up on their heads these wonderful struc-
tures-most tedious and elaborate bits of
work, to which, however, the vain
young men OF the better classes patiently
submit. Everything that women of
civilized countries accomplished in this
particular, is far behind the marvellous
forms of those hair phenomena.
The head band, and accompaniment
of the style of elaborate headdress con-
sists of thin black cords wound tightly
around the forehead from the base OF
the nose to line three or four inches
above, and made fast to the back OF the
head. The head bands, as well as the
headdress of Maugbattu remains un-
disturbed usually for weeks in success
sion.
The bands are put on the heads OF
unweaned children, and have a per-
ceptible effect on the development OF
the skull. DR.. Junker saw many Mang-
batta children whose heads had thus
been rendered peaked to the extent OF
extreme deformity.
Experience, shows, however" says
DR.. Junker, "that such artificial NAL.
formations of the skull do not effect the
mental facilities so long as the top OF
the skull, and with it the brain, is al
lowed to develop unhindered in some
one direction. The Mangbatru tribes
prove the truth of this assertion, for
they stand without doubt on a muca
higher plane of life than many other
native people which do not use the
head bands"
Passaic City record., 1891-10-03

ported the condition of affairs beyond the
very defective range of vision possessed
by the glass-like jelly. The little fishes
found protection here, just as the pilot
fishes did consorting with the shark.
One of the most attractive pilots or
consorta is found up under tho physalia
or Portuguese man-of-war. The latter is
a floating community of zooids, left upon
the water by bubble, richly tinted with
pink and purple, from the upper surface
of which rises sail that can be furled
or drawn in or thrown to the breeze, as
the case may be. From the lower por-
ton extend long streamers or tentacles
OF an intense purple and virulent
poison; so powerful, in fact, that the
slightest touch is fatal to fishes OF large
size. Up among these poison darts live
q number of fishes of the exact hue OF the
tentacles-a remarkable case OF protec-
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together. Visiting them a short time
after, he found that in every case the
crab had hunted around and replaced
the anemone. Next an anemone was cutin
number of pieces after being separated
from the crab and placed with it in q
tank, whereupon the crustacean collected
the remnants of its companion and en-
deavored to fasten them upon its claw
and was holding them fast when found.
So 1T is evident in this case that while
the anemone may be the pilot or lookout
the crab is the one that most desires the
association.
In an entirely different part of the
animal kingdom, among the birds, we
find most remarkable pilot whose habits
are SO singular that for a long time the
stories related of some marvel lover; but
finally traveller investigated the subject,
and it was shown that the bird had well
earned its reputation.
The story first told to travellers in
Africa regarding the indicator albiros-
iris, as the bird is calico, was that ages
ago an ancestor of the bird had been
stung to death by bees. Its descendants
had sworn revenge, and wherever they
discovered bees nest and honey they
Immediately flew away to the camp of a
native or white and told him.
This would have been a marvellous
tale if true, but the actual facts are quite
wonderful enough. The bird is very
fond of honey, and being unable to get
it out of trees, flies to the natives and
pilots them to the store. One of the first
recorded observations of the birds
actions was made by Mr.. E. e. Sande-
man, an English naturalist. He noticed
a small gray bird with reddish beak
futtering about the wagon and was
astonished at seeing it dart almost into
the faces of the men, as if to attract at
tention. The natives explained that the
bird knew where was nest Of bees,
and wanted to pilot the men there 90 that
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they would give it share for its trouble.
Mr.. Sandeman determined to test SO re-
markable story, and as soon as the
camp had been made he took several
men with pals and hatchets and started
after the bird, which, now seeing thai
it was being followed, few to the next
tree, and then to the next, uttering its
singular cry all the while. For over
mile they followed the little pilot
through the toughest kind of country,
over rocks and brambles, as the bird did
not go by the paths and trails, and
were about giving up the chase
when the pilot stopped and clung
to the bark of tree until they
came up, then flew to another and back
again. The natives said that the honey
was near at hand, but hunt as carefully
as they would they could find no traces,
which seemed to exasperate the feathered
pilot that redoubled its cries, tapped its
wings violently, and finally alighted upon
a certain limb about which it had been
flying. The natives now began to ex-
anime this limb, and beneath it soon
found small hole plastered about with
mud. While they were looking out
came bee, justifying the remarkable
patience and intelligence of the bird. A
few blows of the hatchet laid open a
large cavity, in which was stored guam
tity of honey. The Kaffirs placed
part of the comb on the ground, and
and down flew the pilot to enjoy the
feast which it had earned by one of the
most extraordinary exhibitions on record
of what we must term intelligence. I
wish could say that the pilot always
carries hunters to such acceptable things
as honey, but the contrary is the case.
Drummond, the African traveller, was
led to large snake by one, ,and on another
occasion he followed the pilot from tree
to tree, over the brush and stubble, for
some distance, and finally when he be-
gan to look around for snake, or, per-
haps, leopard, the bird stopped, and
the follower, peering around, saw neither
of these, but one of his own Kaffirs fast
asleep beneath tree.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Passaic City record., 1891-10-03
Peaked-Headed People.

DR.. Junker, the African explorer, had
a good opportunity for studying the
fancies of the Mangbattu in matters of
personal adornment. They, like most
other tribes visited by him, made q
practice of tattooing the breast and Eelly
while leaving the face untouched. The
execution of the chosen patterns is in
each case matter of many years, and
every individual design represents an in
dividual period in the life of the tat
tooed person.
Men and women alike, in common
with many o.her tribes south of the
Welle. paint their bodies with the dark
juice of the gardenia and redwood pow
der mingled with fat. The favorites of
the princes employ most Of their leisure
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DRUNKENNESS IN FRANCE.

Drunkenness and its fell consequences seem
to be alarmingly on the increase in France,
if We may judge by the reports made to the
recent Congress of Mental Medicine at
Lyons. DR.. Paul GARNER, head physician
of the depot" special infirmary for lunatics.
by which all the latter have to pass, give
some striking statistics, and nobody is in a
better position to give them than he is.
During the triennial period, 1856 1888, the
number of individuals sent for examination
to this special infrmary'' was $3.50, of whom
S139 were recognized to be mentally
deranged Doth men and women), and sent
to various asylums. Or these numbers, the
percentage of cases due to alcohol has been,
in 1886, GA. of 24.91 per cent; and in 1888,
$50, or 1884 per cent. showing decided in
crease of alcoholism. Moreover, taking the
triennial period from 1874 up to the present,
the average number of cases of lunacy due
to drink during each period has progressed
at the following rate 367, 3S9, 454, 523, 729,
that is, it has nearly doubled within fifteen
years. Worst of all, alcoholism on the part
of women is rapidly overtaking that on the
part of the men. In the period 1873-76 there
were 81 cases. in that of 1S86-8S there were
l25.