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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
PEARY'S SHIP SAILS.
The Falcon Leaves for Its Long Stay In
Arctic.

The Falcon Leaves for Its Long Stay In the
Arctic.
The Falcon, the ship Of Lieut. Peary, the
arctic explorer. sailed from her wharf in
Brooklyn at 6 O'Clock last evening. The first
calling point is Boston and after two DAYS il, that
port the Falcon will proceed to Portland, Me-.
where she is due next Friday, and where Lieut.
Peary, his wife, and Mrs. Cross Of Brooklyn,
her maid. will join the ship. St. Johns. N F.,
will be called at for coal and supplies and more
dogs will be taken on at Labrador
Godhaab. in southern Greenland, and
Upernavik. in northern Greenland, will be the
next points visited, and then the Falcon will
steam direct to Mccormick bay and Whale
sound, where the fianncl-lined house will be put
ashore and set up and all the cargo connected
with the lengthy sojourn among the foes will
be unloaded.
large number of persons visited the vessel
during the day.
Much dissatisfaction over wages is said to
exist among the crew, which, IL not remedied
Will make trouble in the coming arctic VOYAGE
The ship is well provisioned Among other
things, three tons Of pemmican, left over from
the last Greedy expedition, has been stored
away. Two loads Of provisions were contrib
uted by the Philadelphia Geographical So
ciety.
There are thirteen persons In the expedi-
ton party, viz, Lieut. Peary, Mrs. Peary. her
maid. Miss Cross, s. ]. Entrekin of West Ches-
ter. Pa Elvind Astrup Of Norway, DIR: Edwin
Vincent Of Springfield. ILL.,: J. ". Davidson Of
Austin, Mimi; E. b. Baldwin Of Nashville,
Geo. H. Carr Of Chicago, Hugh J. See Of Meri-
den. Conn. Geo. H. Clark OF Brookline Mass :
c. W. Stokes Of Philadelphia and Mr. Peary Q
colored servant, Matthew Henson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
Assistant Naval Constructors

-Four naval cadets who have been taking an
advanced course in naval construction in for
eign countries have been commissioned assist
ant naval constructors. They are Cadets H. G.
Smith, +. B. Zahm. H. G. Gilmore and r. NJ.
Watt. All four cadets were graduated at the
Naval Academy two wears ago in their class in
the order in which they arc commissioned in
the navy. and all have taken high honors ut the
foreign technical schools. Zahm and Watt
we're graduated at Glasgow this year. and Gil
more and Smith at Greenwich. Their places
abroad will be taken by Cadet Powelson who
was graduated in June, another cadet to be
selected, and two who will be instructed in
steam engineering for commissions in the engi-
neer corps.
These two cadets are the first to take course
in steam engineering, and upon their return
home will assist in planning engines for our
now warships. Cadets Joseph E. Mcdonald
and Homer J.. Ferguson of the class of 80. are
also undergoing instruction at Paris and Glas-
gov for the construction corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
DO Babies Eyes Grow.

From Jenness- Miller's Magazine
How big are "a young baby's eyes?" We
have heard il stated within the last day or two
that "a young baby's eye" is big as q grown
persons eye; that the eye does not grow rs the
body grows; that IT is the same size when ths
baby is born il is after the baby has grown
up to be man or woman; that il is born fun
size, is then as big il ever gets to be. This
statement has been submitted TO O number Of
experts on babies, who generally agree that "a
young baby's eve" grows as the body grows,
though not in the same ratio. But is il true?
Authorities are sometimes In error. Expert
witnesses frequently tangle themselves up in all
kinds OF contradictory statements OF facts; ex-
pert physicians do not reach the same concsu-
sions from scientifically the same basis Of reason
ing; expert cotton buyers oftentimes buy when
the slumps in the market prove that they
should have sold 1t may be that the baby ex-
perts whom we have questioned upon the sub
ject of baby ewes have spoken without due
consideration. We should like 20 have the puz-
zle settled. Do babies eyes grow? How big y
q young baby's eye?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03

She VIII Soon Have Her Test Trial of
Speed.

Speed.
The cruiser Montgomery, built by the Column
bisn iron works Of Baltimore, is the next candi-
date for race against time as a condition
precedent to her addition to the United States
navy. Her Official trial will be over the same
course in Long Island sound that was marked
out for the Detroit, her sister ship, and under
the same regulations. The Detroit beat all
records in the proportion Of premium won to
contract price, and she holds that record today.
The Montgomery has displacement Of
little abov. 2.000 tons, produced by a length on
LOAD line OF 257 feet. an extreme beam Of 81
aud mean draught Of 241S. Her engines are
OF the twfn-screw, triple-expansion, vertical,
inversed-cylinder, direct-acting type, in sepa-
rate compartments, the diameter of the low
termediate 80 inches and of the high pressure
81 inches, with a common stroke of Is inches
They are meant to furnish 5,400 collective in
dicated horse power at 1875 revolutions. The
three double-ended and two single-ended boilers
have working pressure OF 160 pounds. and the
total heating surface is 10. 966 square feet.
The main battery of the Montgomery will
consist of two 6-inch breech-loading rifles
mounted foreward and al, and eight 5-inch rapid
nre guns In sponsors on the broadside. The
secondary battery will contain six 6-pounder
and two ltpounder rapid-ire guns and two gat-
iings, and she has launching tubes for Howell
torpedoes. Her curved protective deck extends
throughout the length OF the ship, and there is
also cotfer dam for cellulose along the ma
chinery space. Her rig is that Of a two-masted
schooner, with about $500 feet Of canvas.
There is good reason in view of the Detroits
ID u knots, to think that, if she made that with
propeller injured at all the Montgomery may
approach nineteenknots. This would be a most
creditable speed in a vessel Of that displace-
ment when secured with no sacrifice whatever
of battery power or of living accommodations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
Supplies for st, Elizabeth.

The board appointed to make awards Of con-
tracts .or furnishing ice. lumber and fuel to the
Government Hospital for the Insane has re-
ported the following to be the Towers bidders
upon the respective articles aud recommends
that awards be made accordingly:
For white ash coal stove. Il. J. Kennedy at
s460 per ton; Cumberland coal, 1900 tons,
Geo. L. Sheriff at S2.S4; furnace coal. R. j.
Kennedy at $3.50; $50 cords wood, johnson
Bros. Mt SO. Is per cord.
The lowest bidders on lumber were w. T.
Galliher l. Bro, Church h Stephenson, A. P.
Swoyer Co., Libby Bittinger d Miller and
Grayson 4 Cain.
Lime and cement, Samuel NJ. Frazier; plas-
ter paris. Clark Bros; bricks, the Alfred
Richards Brick Company at 81. IS per thousand
All bids on ice we're rejected and authority is
asked to purchase it in open market The
lowest bid would make the ice cost g. 40 per
ton. while the same quality of ice is now being
bought in open market for Sc per ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON the body of dead i

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON the body Of dead in
FAINT was found near lexington.
Mr.. E. DANENHowER of this CITY delivered
the salutatory at the commencement Of Char
lotte Hall School.
ROBERT T. HoUaH, W. H. Hitler and Richard
Nixon have been admitted to the bar of the
Court in General Term.
On Saturday John Ross, a colored man of
sixty years, was taken suddenly ill on l. street
between New Hampshire avenue and 23d street
northwest and was sent to the Emergency Hos
pital.
The Rev. F. D. Power, pastor Of the Gar
field Memorial Church. yesterday afternoon
addressed the colored Y. NJ. C. A. at their new
assembly hail. No. 1907 llth street northwest.
where the meetings will be hereafter held
The North American Review for July has
been received from Mr. Robert Beall
Representative James Du Bots of this city,
Representative John Allen Of Mississippi, Mai.
Ben Butterworth. Robert p. Porter, Judge
Louis E. McComas and others have gone to
Elizabetntown, Tenn, to participate in the
Fourth OF July festivities to be held there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
Goodbye to Col. Casson,

The friends Of Col. Henry Casson, the late
chief clerk Of the Agricultural Department,
gave a banquet IN his honor on Saturday even
ing at Aman'I. 1t was IN occasion Of fare
wells. but still the company was a merry one.
Mr.. Saunders presided as POSTMASTER, and
ELECTED speeches from DR.. Wiley, Mr.. Hill. DR..
Salmon, Donald McCuaig. Prot. Harrington.
Mr.. Charleson, MI. Drew and others.
Those present were:,
Messrs. Bennett. Burch. Campbell, Cannon,
Charleson, Dodge. Drew. Dunwoody, Pagan, B.
F. Fuller. Galloway, Harrington, Hill, Hol-
comb, Hood, Howard. Capt. Jones, Kerr,
Lyles, McCuaig, Marx, Peters, Salisbury, Sal
mon, Saunders, Stiles, Thomas, Turner and
Wliey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
New SeNls for the Navy

The officials Of the Navy Department are not
satisfied with the seals now in use and new ones
are in process Of preparation. The present
seal is an antiquity, and according to the critics
represents an eagle that looks like goose,
mounted in an impossible attitude, on clumsy
anchor. The new designs are based on the
official State Department eagle, a conventional
bird. which grasps in his claws the anchor that
10 emblematic Of the navy, in place of the
olive branch and arrows carried by the official
eagle.
Around the rim of the seal proposed is car
ried tho legend: Navy Department, United
States of America"
The seal by impression is to be used only in
the impressinR Of papers needing certifcation
in the Secretary's Office, while in the bureau
there is TO be reduced copy of the department
seal used In print, to be completed by line for
the ordnance bureau, the bureau Of navigation
or such other Office as desires to Use it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03

From the 81. Louis Republic.
Our world is spinning through space AZ q
speed Of over 900 miles per minute. should
it come in collision with a globe Of equal size
going at the same rate Of speed, what would be
the result? The very best thinkers Of the age
tell us that heat enough would be generated by
the shock to transform both of the colliding
bodies into gigantic balls Of vapor many times
their present circumference. Some have
thought that in case the center OF the earth is
composed of solid and colder matter than is
the generally accepted belief this might not be
the case. but after searching all the leading au-
thorities must admit that cannot finda more
appropriate ''finis" than the following which IL
from an eminent scientist: ''Should such an
unheard-of event occur the heat generated
would be sufficient TO melt, boil and completely
vaporize a mass OF ice fully 200 times the bulk
of both the colliding worlds-in other words, IN
ice planet $50 900 miles in diameter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
Work Of the Torpedo Fleet

Word comes from Newport that the torpedo
fleet is this season to do practical work for tn Q
first time. The two boats comprising the fleet,
the Gushing and the Stiletto. are now for the
first time attached to the torpedo station.
They will be used in instructing the classes Of
naval officers who are to report there for en-
iightenment upon practical torpedo work. The
boats will fire from their own tubes torpedoes
at various speeds and conditions.
With the Gushing there will DO tests made of
the various colOrs Of paint used in making craft
OF war as hard ~ possible to sight at distances.
She will be expected to return to the harbor at
unannounced hours OF the night, and 1t will be
the duty Of the station officials to find her, II
possible, by the aid Of search lights as she en-
tiers. When one color is tried she will be painted
another and that tried. -Irl. tg
At present she is bottle green, color used in
the French navy. The boat is now making the
remarkable speed Of sixteen miles an hour un-
der 100 pounds of steam on one boiler without
showing flame from her stacks This is exert
ing but about one-third OF her power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
E,oped With All but the ola Man.

From the Kansas City Times.
John Massey Of Oklahoma city arrived IN
this city this morning and complained TO the
police that his wife, a married and 9 single
daughter hard clipped with two men. taking with
them 1915. all the money he had. He Dad
traced them here, and from letters in the post
Office was certain they must be here vet. He
watched the Office with Police Officer Coleman
for a few hours. when the daughters came
after the mail. He took charge Of the gir1s.
but they would not state the whereabouts OF
their mother and the two mon. The father
took the daughters home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
AN ERA OF TRANQUILITY.
Alexander Dumas Belief Concerning the
Earth's Near Destiny.

From the London Daily Telegraph.
long and highly interesting letter from NJ.
Alexander Dumas appears in q Paris contem-
porary. 1t is in reply to a request for ex-
preston Of opinion on the part OF the WELL
known htterateur on the new and at present
ill-defned movement in the great centers OF
learning among the rising generation on the
subject of Mysticism" and on the controversy
as to whether or no this movement is based
on . religious tendency. NJ. Dumas sums up
his opinions in the following interesting pro-
fession Of faith:
1.-The Power. whatever il may be, that ere
ated the world, which cannot believe created
itself, having up to now retained, while using
us as instruments, the privilege Of knowing
why it made us and what il does with us, this
Power appearing more and more determined 20
keep its secret believe, If 1 may be allowed
to speak freely, that humanity is beginning to
cease its efforts to penetrate this eternal mys-
terry. II has tried religions. which have proved
nothing. since they are all different; ii has con-
suited philosophers. who were equally unsuc-
cessful, since they were contradictory HUI
mainly is now going to endeavor to overcome
the difficulty alone by the simple use Of its
instinct and common sense, and rs il hes been
placed on earth without knowing why or how,
il is about to try TO be happy possible
with the means furnished by the earth itself"
The eminent academican foresees in the not
very remote future an era when. tine useless
search after the eternally hidden having ceased.
people will agree to live in peace with one
another. NJ. Dumas. who detects this tendency
even in facts which appear TO be most directly
opposed to il. concludes;
These ornaments Of all nations, these con-
tinual menaces. this resumption OF race oppres-
sion, evil signs. but not signs OF bad sugury.
They the last commissions Of what is going
TO disappear. The social body resembles the
human body, the malsdy being only a violent
effort of the organism to throw of q morbid
and noXious element. Those millions Of armed
men who are drilling every day, in view OF
war of general determination. have no hatred
toward those they may be called upon TO fight.
and none OF their leaders dare declare war. An
agreement is inevitable within n given time.
which will be shorter than we suppose. L do
not know whether il is because / am not much
longer for this life. and that the light from
over the horizon already affects NV vision. but
i do believe that our world is about to witness
the realization of the words. Love one an
otherr without inquiring whether 1t was Q man
or god who uttered them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
A WAITING MARKET TODAY
Wall Street Getting Ready for q Holt
day.
Conditions Still Uncertain and News
scarce-A Decline and . Quick
Recovery.

Special Dispatch Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, July 8, 1893.
The disinclination Of traders to carry stocks
over holiday, Saturdays bad bank statement
and the still uncertain condition of the money
market are responsible for today's inactivity
and further decline in prices. The
anxiety to take advantage Of Satur-
days high prices occasioned by the favorable
Interpretation Of the extra session of Congress
led to some spirited selling for both long and
short account. and in the absence Of many
prominent operators who have left town over
the holiday prices were permitted to drift back
toward lower level.
The opening quotations following the lead Of
London. which was h to 4 lower, showed con-
cessions from Saturdays closing Of from 4 to
u per cent the latter for Manhattan, which
opened a: 1881.
Lackawanna opened at 145Jx and declined to
1441S in the first two hours; St. Paul declined
q to 675s; Rock Island, y to 6994 Nashville,
Is to 6Ss4, Chicago Gas, q to 67s4, Sugar, a to
s251s, and Atchison, Is to 21a4.
After the noon hour the market was dull and
lifeless, but quotations, where. thee were any.
were better and prices gradually worked up
ward toward opening figures. The market is
what the street describes as waiting" one,
and news Of every description was hacking.
The retirement of the clearing house certifi-
Gates is expected to begin later in the week,
which would indicate a more confident feeling
in banking circles throughout the city The
clearing house statement for today showed ex-
changes, Sis. s33, $40; balances, 1866, 1884;
subtreasury credit balance. sl49, I40.
Call loans were made at 20 and IS per cent
and money accommodations, of course, 20 over
until Wednesday. Brown Bros. posted rates
for sterling exchange Mt 4s3a4S5.
Transactions In silver were very small only
two quotations being given out. viz, 721z and 70:
Exports Of wheat and flour last week were
unusually large, amounting to nearly four
million bushels $3.50, 900 in 1892 and 1850 900
in 1891. Such trade balances as this
gratifying statement will produce should lead
to the return OF very considerable proper
ton Of the s6s. OOO, 900 in gold shipped to
Europe since the LIST Of January.
In the las. half hour money dropped to az
per cent and the market steadied up some-
what. There no pressure to
sell stocks and buying orders were
scarce, but the general tone was better and in
many instances the early declines were re-
covered, and the closing prices varied but frac-
tionally from the opening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
For the Eyes of Our Ministers.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
Like every one else who advocates the cause
Of temperance, 1 fully appreciate the good the
clergy Of our city are laboring to do in the
cause, and l hope sincerely the following sug-
gestion may not in the slightest way wound the
feelings Of any one. Would it not be practicing
what our clergy advocate to abolish from the
communion table wine and substitute water?
God never mace two-thirds Of this great world
water if he did not wish us to use it and knew
our needs for the same. Even the slight taste
OF wine ut this sacred sacrament would create
an appetite for more in some persons, which
statement, am sure, will not seem absurd to
many who have struggled against touching it
only to fall a victim from taste. 1t is not I'M
common in most, il not all, denominations to
receive into the church children young as
twelve years, who have the privilege of commu-
MON every month or much oftener. Mothers
who would not allow their boys to touch wine
under any consideration at home seem to think
nothing Of their receiving it from their pastor,
but the appetite may be budded even in this
sacred place. am a member Of church. but
never while wine is used will i approach the
communion table. A few verses from poem.
entitled "Is 1t Nothing to You." convince me
that am not alone in this thought.
Isit nothing to yeu, @ Christians.
Rnd III, ins isis h1ed Sine is Is
Dwells Ia that bright wines flow,
That pleasure floats on the surface.
But danger is hiding belowf
Yes. still does the willy tempter
Whisper his oft-tod lie
Into the ears of his vi ctims,
''Yc shall not surely die,
I'VE may drink. for look at the righteous,
DO they not drink OF IL. tooy"
And the listeners fall as they listen
md is this nothing to you!
Will Won teach your focks voices
To utter the Ssvior's prayer
Lead us not into tenptation"-
And then lead and leave them there!
Tie path is slippery and treacherous,
Which they see You safely pursue;
But they may follow. and perish
And is this nothing to your
Ye called with holy calling,
The lights of tne world TO be.
To lift up the lamp Of the Gospel,
That others the path may see;
But II you bear ;t onward,
Leading the feeble astray
TIL they sink in hidden pitfalls,
What will your master sayt
"A MOTHER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03
SUMMER SESSIONS OF CONGRESS.

Washington More Comfortable and Health.
full Than Most Northern Cities.
Washington Special to the New York Tribune.
Some congressman talk as though they must
make great sacrifice in coming to Washington
to attend to their duties during the month Of
August, "to swelter" some of them say. The
truth is that the summer climate Of Washing
ton has been Professionally slandered for years
by persons who know least about it through
personal experience. 1t Is not SO hot here in
August as 1t is in many cities farther north,
and the effects Of the heat are even less ener-
waiting. The streets are broad and are cut
diagonally by many broad avenues. SO that the
temperature is modified by every breeze that
blows. and the nights of August are less OPP
pressive, as a rule, in Washington than in New
York Philadelphia, Cincinnati. Chicago or
st. Louis. Tho streets and avenues are well
shaded by trees and there are comparatively
few tall buildings to check the free circulation
of air. Moreover, Washington ranks high as o
healthful city. Within the last twenty years
the causes which produced disease Of malarial
type have been removed to n great extent,
and there is no longer just ground for serious
complaint on that score. On the whole. there
fore, the statesmen who are to come here to at
tend to their duties next month will find the
national capital salubrious and no hotter than
u large majority OF tue EOrtncrn cltles. Iney
may also be comforted and treasured by the
fact that other Congresses have been in session
here during the summer months without i'll
consequences TO the health Of the members.
Only three years ago the Fifty-frst Congress
in session through the months Of August
and September. The first session Of the Fiji
tieth Congress lasted from December l. 1887, to
October 20. 1885, The first session of the Forty
fourth Congress did not end until August Is.
In 1850, when Washington was only ragged,
unkempt town Of 10000 inhabitants or less,
without sewers or pavements or supply OF
pure water, while half its area was a malaria
breeding swamp and when a fetid canal ran
through the heart Of it. even then the Thirty
first Congress sat through the summer and did
not adjourn until September 80. Several of the
earlier Congresses also sat through the summer
months ami history does not record any I'M
usual or alarming mortality on that account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-03

Col. Harry Tiffany, the chief Of the social
statistics division. census Office, has accepted
position with the worlds fair and has gone to
Chicago. Before leaving the Office his associ-
ates presented him with a silver pitcher.
Rev. y. H Frailey left Saturday evening for
a weeks trip TO Piney Point.
W. S. Dimsdale of England is at the Shore
ham
W. G.. Grace Of England is at the Randall.
from Chicago. where he delivered an address
before the Columbian congress auxiliary on
''fhe Evolution of the American Railroad
System"
Mr.. Edward J. Taylor. who for some years
has been in charge of Brady's studio, has been
appointed assistant to the chief photographer
in the Office Of the supervising architect of the
treasury.