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The Washington times., 1894-04-21
ALMOST EVERYBODY GETS ONE.

Many popular notions have been suggested
in the columns of The TIMES. They have re-
lated to the better comfort of all of US in some
regard. They have awakened wide popular
responses. But the one most numerously re-
piled to is the simplest one of all, the one
which suggested that if every subscriber to
The TIMES secured enc more subscriber the
circulation of this paper would be doubled
a self-evident fact, but .one not fully appre-
ciated until it is turned over and thoroughly
looked at. The readers of THE TIMES are not
exposed, to be sure, to the apathy which
characterizes the relations of the readers of
other journals to the journals themselves;
they are pure business enterprises. There is
real enthusiasm back of THE TIMES, and its
thousands of readers caught the idea, this
simple. yet brilliant one, that the success of
this paper would be still more wonderful if
each one of its devoted readers were to secure
for it simply another subscriber.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
HIT-OR MISSES.


There is now fine chance for Mrs. Leslie
to discuss the value of quick second marriages
for ex-husbands.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania. is seri-
ously thought to be a candidate for President;
and why not?
Senator Sherman is said to be at work upon
book of political "reminiscences. 1t is doubt
full if he tells exactly how he beat Gov. For
aker the last time, however.
According to the Cleveland Plaindealer Col.
Breckenridge purposes to fight it out on this
lyin' il it takes all Summer.
Chicago boasts that she packed 12,000,0 600
hogs last year; and of course a great many
got away.
1t was very good and truthful of Mr..
Breckenridge to admit that he purposed max
ing an offensive congressional campaign.
Secretary Hoke Smith ought surely to join
the dance on board Mr.. Herbert's Dolphin.
z The Crisp quorum-counting rule is posi-
lively of no avail so long as the Washington
nine continues to play ball.
Some of the humorists consider Mark
Twain's failure a JOKE and some tell US that,
on the contrary, it is no more a joke than any
of his other jokes.
Between indorsing the Cleveland admins
tration and declaring for free silver it would
look as if the Oregon Democrats would have
to take to the woods or Pennoyer.
Lam (platform) Democrat. Thomas ].
Jarvis.
Congressman Straus is the latest to break
out against the office-seekers. CIr. Straus
has himself recently sought office success
fully.
Joe Hawley seems to have thought it neces-
sary to have US infer that the District militia
will fight.
The circulation of The TIMES is fairly jump
ing. Have you added one subscription to
YOUR own.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Tho GobIins WIN Get ,Em.

Mrs. King OF Manistique. Mich. having no
handbag, carried 1924 in her handkerchief,
handbag style. A highwayman relieved her
of the amount.
Toni amt got no close. and that's scuse
enuiT. God nose" was the written excuse
that Bedford Qnd.) mother sent to the
teacher for her boys absence from school.
A Maine farmer. who was in Lewiston lay
ing in his garden seeds, saw II train come in
from the direction of his home, and noticed
red spots on the locomotive wheels. He got
very much excited, and charged the engineer
with killing his cow.
The young men of farming settlement
about eight miles from Jacksonville, Fla,
never go to dance without TASKS of whisky
in their hip pockets. The result the other
night was fight, in which one of them was
dubbed over the head and another stabbed.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Odd Items from All About.


Dogs knowledge of the time of day is
astonishingly accurate.
Ii is proposed to utilize the telephone for
steering vessels in fogs.
T New Mexico sand storms have almost buried
several ancient Indian towns.
A firm at Marietta, Ga, buys old lead from
bullets collected on battleflelds.
Carnot will be the first president of the
present French republic to serve out his full
term.
check for f5.SS3, $50 on the bank of Eng.
land, in payment for the Kimberley diamond
mines, is said to be the largest ever drawn.
A French writer says Of the vultures OF
Africa that in flight they expend no force
either to sustain or guide themselves Their
only effort Is in balancing as they sail through
space. The same is true of all soaring birds.
Prof. Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin, has so far
solved the problem Of aerial navigation that
by means of artificial wings he has made a
flight from the top OF hill $50 feet high
across a ravine 200 feet wide, the whole dis
tance covered being 500 feet.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Hot Water in Slot Machines.

Automatic slot machines for the supply of
hot water were put up in the streets all over
Paris few months ago. but they have not
proved a success. Their purpose was the
supplying of hot water to people too poor to
afford a fire in their homes at all times. For
one cent the machine was supposed TO deliver
fourteen pints of water at n temperature OF
140 degrees Fahrenheit. But the machines
have mostly delivered cold water, and often
nothing whatever. The municipal council
has ordered the proprietors to put them in
order or remove them from the Streets
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
The Extensive Use of Hair Powder.

Hair powder was first introduced into
England by ballad singers at the fair at St.
Germaine in the year 1914, and it was long
before 1t became adopted as fashionable
ornament. In the beginning of the reign of
George l only two ladies of rank wore pow
der in their hair, and they were laughed at
for their singularity; and at the coronation
OF George II there were only two hair
dressers in London. The rapidity with which
dressing the hair and wearing powder in
creased is evident from the calculation made
by Pitt in 1875. when he proposed the hair
powder tax. II was then estimated that there
were then in Great Britain $1,000 hair
dressers: that the -four they consumed an
nually in hair powder was of the value OF
10000. .000 land the number Of persons wear
ing it amounted 10 eco. .000 so that. supposing
a tax of one guinea a head were laid on. il
would yield over S1.0O0,0 900 per annum. The
amount. however. fell far short of this sum.
and constantly decreased. In the first year
of the tax, 1875. it only produced $3.50, ,000
and in 1903 il had sunk TO S250,00
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Couldn't Have Been Miss Hendricks.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
There was a mistake in the dispatch from
Greensburg, Ind, as printed in THE TIMES, that
the only daughter of the late Vice President
Hendricks has Just been married, Mr. Hem
dricks never had daughter. He had but one
child, son, who died in infancy. But few even
of Mr.. Hendricks intimate friends even knew OF
the boy Among the thousands who knew Mr..
Hendricks it was generally believed that he was
childless. In one of his speeches the late Gov
ernor Morton, referring 10 Mr. Hendricks pacific
character, said that he would die anu leave no
child behind him." This offended Mr., Hendricks
and he became very bitter against the Governor
lie once accused the Governor of being so heart
of his only child. The friend to whom he said
this reported it to Governor Morton, who ex-
pressed sorrow and surprise, saying that he had
his reference was 20 political child" that as a
statesman Mr. Hendricks had never originated
anything. Ho0SIER.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Criticises Mr. Carter.

To the Editor Of The TINES:
Mr.. Carter, in your paper of the 18th inst, de-
MES the negro the right TO decide for himse.f
what opinions to hold on economic and public
questions. opposing confirmation Of Mir. Taylor
as Recorder simply for the reason that he is a
colored Democrat Fitness, competency. home
rule, etc. cuts no figure. Does Mr.. Carter not
know that Republican House, Senate and Pres
dent deprived the District of Columbia of home
rule for the avowed purpose of disfranchising
the negroes here?
If MIR Carter refuses TO shake hands with men
of our color who are in accord with the timid
steps for relief from taxation offered by the
Democrats, much the worse for him. am
with the Democrats against the continuation OF
war tariff in times OF peace. The war is over,
chattel slavery is abolished, but the Republicans
offer nothing towards the abolition of industrial
slavery.
The negro's personal! liberation was achieved
by the old abolitionists and the Democratic free
soilers In my own STATE of exas, with its aOO,-
COO Democratic majority. colored people possess
more W clth than in any other state, proving
that such party rule does not in!ure the mate
rial development of our race.
T T. C. NEWsON
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Britaiu'S Big ARMY.

ltrom the London Court JournaLl
The physique of the British army may not
perhaps be all that it ought to be, but SO far
as numbers are concerned our military forces
are in very satisfactory condition. In
case of need we could put into the field for
service at heme force of 332 900 men, ex-
elusive of the militia reserve. We have
1900 militia, 10, 900 yeomanry. and nearly
22S. 900 volunteers. The regular army num-
bers close upon 100000 of all ranks, and
these could on an emergency be supple
mented by sc, 900 reserve men and &c, 600 mill
tia reservists, making in all total OF 100000
men for service abroad. We have thus a
grand total of 662. 600 men available for ser
vice at home and abroad. At no time was
there so large force of enrolled men ready
to be called upon for service should occasion
arise
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
CHOOSING THE RING.

o jeweler, show me your daintiest ring!
Have you one that is fit for my darling to
wear?
A princess is she, though no daughter of king,
And her crown is the wealth of her gold
brown hair.
diamond? her eyes would out-splendor its
glow.
Too glaring and staring, by far, for my queen;
An opal. too tickle; and amethyst? no!
Her blue eyes are bluer than any I've seen.
rubyl her lips have outwitted us there,
No ruby would match with the red of their
wine;
beryR tits fair as the seas breast is fair,
But she is still fairer, this darling of mine.
topaz that caught from the sun as it ran
The gold and the glow of its glittering sheeni
1t should only be worn by masterful man,
And she is q womanly woman, my queen.
A pearR 1t is pure as the soul in her eyes,
And fair as the foam of the crested waves
curl,
1t is heavens own type of the peace above
price.
III wed my white lily Of love with pearl
MARJORIE M00RK
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Pictures for Everybody.

New York CorrespondenceAtantaC Constitution ]
There is photographer in this city who is
making money in very queer business. He
buys and collects photographs in all parts of
the country, and now has 100000 of them,
systematically classified according to age
bearded and smooth faces, and other dis
tinctive features.
Where does his profit come in?"
Thousands of people every year occasionally
need photograph to give friend or to re-
produce in a newspaper. They are in a
hurry, and only want one copy. All that they
have TO do is to visit this artist and in ten
minutes he can find pictures that faithfully
represent them. Nobody can tell the dif-
ference, and they could not be better suited If
they sat for their photographs.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
THE RICHEST MEN IN PRUSSIA.
A Man Worth $40 o0O0, 900 Heads the List
krupp Second, Rothschild Third.

A Man Worth SIC. 1000, 600 Heads the List
krupp Second, Rothschild Third.
The Prussian income tax, says the New
York Sun, enables the people to learn once
year how many millionaires they have in the
country The list for ls93-9i shows that the
richest man in Prussia has an income of
q, 600. 600. He lives in Dartmund, but his
name has not been made public.
krupp. the maker OF great guns, is next in
the list of Prussian millionaires. His annual
income is almost S2.0O0.000 Krupp's tax is
1000 a year; the Da,tmunders 100000.
Rothschild, in Frankfort on the Main. takes
third place with an income of Sl,2l0,OOO.
Before the death of Baron Bleichroeder. the
Berlin banker. whose income was $1,000, 600.
the capital had Tor years the third place on
millionaires' list. but now ii has poor fourth.
Its richest citizen draws an income of but
Sl,l00,000 Then comes Breslauer with
Sl,0s0.000 a Berliner with Sl,05l 600. another
Berliner with SS75.000.
The so-called thaler millionaires in Berlin
thaler is about IS cents-now number 426.
against 40 one year ago. In all Prussia
there are but 1882 persons whose incomes ex-
ceed S25.00O. Last year the number was
1881. Berlin has but twelve citizens whose
incomes exceed $3.50 600 year.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Changed Her Mind.

As German wedding procession was leav-
ing the brides house to go to church the
dress of the heroine of the occasion caught
to the knob of the door. which made big
rent in it. 1t was quickly mended, but the
heart of the bride palpitated at the evil omen.
Passing through the door OF the church the
dress again caught ON hook. That was too
much Of bad portent for the bride. She
turned abruptly and would not be held back.
Neither her family nor the bridegroom was
able to make an impression on her. She
would not run into life of bad luck with her
eyes opened. and the bereaved bridegroom
had to look for another bride.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
BUT WE CAN LICK THEM.

1t is doubtless true, as the dyspeptic blath-
erskite, Rudyard Kipling, says, that we are
nation of dyspeptics with no notion of COM
fort; that we grovel in the railway station
waiting room stage Of civilization, and feel
like one vast camp. But we are not "too
temporary" We are rather solid. We can
hit hard 1t is said that we did it in 1776 and
again in 1872 We can do it again-any time.
Personally and single-handed we can lick
Rudyard Kipling any moment. Collectively
we can lick the whole British empire, and
Rudyard Kipling and the whole British en-
pire know it. We could go out and do it be-
fore breakfast six days in the week, or seven,
II necessary.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Smiles Between sermons.

allow does your new Office boy do. Diek?"
'sDoes as he pleases. Cincinnati Tribune.
Doctor: "You cough more easily this morn
ing? Patient: Il ought to; practiced all
night. Halo.
Some men seem to think that to become an
gels it is only necessary to plead guilty.-Gal-
weston News.
''That's what I got for my palms, sobbed
the small boy as he swallowed dose of castor
Philadelphia Record.
Visitor: DO you regret the past? Convicted
counterfeiter: oh. no; it's what didn't pass
that feel bad about. .-Tid-B Bits.
Man Cin theater to woman in 'front.': Madam
paid S1.50 for this seat, and your hat
Woman Calmly: That hat cost S40.-Bostoa
Courier,
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
AYcar's Work of the Pasteur Institute.

IFFOII
The annals of the Pasteur Institute .or the
year 1898 have just been published. They
show that last year 1,64s persons were treated
for hydrophobia, and that only of them
died of that disease. OF the number men
toned, there were LAO French people and
It's foreigners. Among the foreigners. We're
43 Spaniards. 35 Greeks. % English. % Bel
gians, Is Egyptians, IA British subjects from
India. Swiss, 9 Dutch, and Portuguese.
Since N. Pasteur commenced to practice his
inoculations against hydrophobia IA, ,430 per-
sons have been treated by his method and 70
have died of the disease.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Tnccrtnin Ahout the Trains.

Northern Trayeler-why don't you put up
timetables in the station?
Southern Station Agent-What 70?
Northern Traveler-To show what time the
trains arrive.
Southern Station Agent (scornfully)-Howse
we Coin' TO make out q table shown what
time the trains get hyah till we see what time
they does get hy.ih?-Puck.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
What col. Duncan Mould DO.

TO the Editor OF THE IIIES:
The correct thing easily to be done is to move
to strike out the income tax, which would pass
"A TO A. Then add free coinage rider, by 46 to
40, pass in the House by 40 majority go to Cleve-
land to veto everything and smash his admins
tration SO you could not pick up the splinters.
II the country does not drift into anarchy and
civil there would be hope of accomplishing
some legislation actually for the benefit OF the
people. BLANToN DUNCAN.
Los Angeles, April a.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Going toBe Unto Date.

from the Indianapolis JournaLl
81 am going to make a great hit with my
next novel, said the golden-haired authoress,
"and don't you forget it."
whats the plot?''
"Oh, 1 don't really know yet, but there are
to be four chapters devoted to the sufferings
Of the hero from appendicitis"
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Pearl Smith. of pctoskex.

Pearl Smith, of Petoskey, Mich. is only II
years old, but when her little brother acci-
dentally cut of two of her fingers with an
ak she trimmed Off the finger stumps her
self, got him to tie a bandage about the arm
to prevent loss Of blood, and then calmly
walked of alone to the doctors office,
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Little Ellis and the Bees

Ellis Smeltz, a boy 2lS years old, punched
his fathers beehive in Marion, Ohio. The
bees sailed out to resent the attack. and in q
few moments he was stung all over the ex-
posed portions of his body. The bees got so
massed in his hair that they could not be re-
moved without cutting the hair off. He may
recover, but his condition is critical,
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Mrs Lease and the Masons.

back at Mrs. Lease the way they did Wink
-'She claimed to have seen an initiation by
peeping through sliding wicket at Lock
port didn't she?" Jinks-"Ye5. and now the
Locpkort Masons say that they haven't used a
sliding wicket for forty years. Puck.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
ONE DAY

Death came along one day
And asked his pay:
The life of child.
In this world, right and left
Parents are thus bereft
The child but smiled.
Shall we, too, smile,
And after while
Be reconciled,
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
To Make the Job Complete.

lFrom the Chicago Tribunel
81 wish you would see what Is the matter
with this" said the customer, handing his
watch across the showcase. .'It has stopped
Perhaps there's a hair tangled up in the bal
ance-wheel."
The jeweler opened it, screwed his eye
glass into place, and made the customary hor-
rible grimace at the helpless watch.
"a hair?' he said. There's lock of
'em.''
"Well give il a shampoo''
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Coxcy's Army Big Enough.

ITTUIII
There is a good deal of guying at Com
mander Coxev because he has failed to march
"a full 100000 men on Washington" But
the fact remains that he is likely to get there
with a bigger army than the authorities viii
know what to do with .rff
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Advertised in The Times.

lfioiH DiaihoI
At a sale of lots just out Of Washington,
D. C last week. more than fifty people who
went out on an afternoon train intending to
buy were disappointed. The lots had all been
soid-three hundred had been disposed of in
one day. Hard times? Money scarce? You
git out
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Had Kept 1t Too Long.

Husband During domestic difrerence)-
1 don't know how it is that you have such
bad temperi
Wife with whom patience had ceased to be
a virtue Its because I've kept it too long
far too long! No wonder it's bad!-Grip.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Surely Worth Reforming.

Mrs Lakeside (severely)-so you are going
to try the experiment of reforming young
Scapegoat after marriage. Is he worth REFORM
ing?
Marie (deprecatingly) We'll, he is worth .
quarter OF a million.--Vogue.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
WANTED. A MUSIC HALL.

Washington might have music hall the
finest in the country. There might be mu-
sical festival here every year that would sur
pass in interest those held in Cincinnati.
Washington is a music-lovlng city. 1t can
furnish larger chorus Of trained voices than
Cincinnati. This was evidenced by the mag
niflcent chorus at the Moody revival meetings.
Music hall, in Cincinnati, was the gift OF a
public-spirited citizen. Its organ Is one OF
the grandest in the country. The musical
festivals held there attract visitors from al
most every part of the country. They have
given Cincinnati a name abroad. In Europe
the Queen City is spoken Of rs the music-lov-
ing city of America.
Chicago has it's Auditorium, with its sea-
sons of grand opera, but grand opera can
never be popularized like the festivals.
Opera companies cannot travel with choruses
of 800 or 700 voices. indianapolis has a
music hall. the gift of a generous citizen. and
is following the lead of Cincinnati, and her
May festivals are already recognized among
the musical events OF the country. The aver
age sale of tickets is about 6,000 for each per-
formance. Indianapolis has less than half
the population of Washington. There is not
month in the year that thousands OF stran-
gers do not visit Washington. 10 them u
music festival would be an additional attrac-
tion.
Washington could count score or more OF
citizens who have found great wealth in the
enhancement of real estate. In all matters
of interest to the city they ha1 proved them
selves public spirited. ith IT one of them
could afford to give the city music hall that
would overmatch that ot Cincinnati. 1t
would be a monument to II m rs the art gal
lery is to Mr.. Corcoran. With music hall
and grand organ the music-loving people OF
the capital would soon organize a festival
with grander chorus than has ever been
heard in America.
Washington is proud, and rightfu!ly
proud, of her art gallery. Her parks, foun-
tains. and statuary are n source OF pride
They ought to be supplemented by magnih-
cent music hail. Washington is the most
beautiful city in the country. She is fast
rivaling those OF the old world. She can
readily be made the center of music, science,
literature and art. All that is needed to make
the city so is the united attention of her pub
lic-spirited citizens turned i'll the right direc-
ton.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
w,,, Emily soIdcue is Doing.

Emily Soldene, once a shining light in the
operattc world. has settled in Sydney She
recognized, after two or three heavy losses,
accepted an offer to write musical notices for
a second-rate daily.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Wanted His Name changed.

wayback Laughter has applied to the Mich
igan legislature to change his name, which he
declares to be ridiculous and provocative of
annoying amusement among persons who
hear It for the first time"
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
MANY ManyReyerses.

"well,'' said the collar to the cuffs, "do
you feel the effects of the general dullness?"
I'VE should say we did," replied the cuffs.
''We never met with SO many reverses in our
lives."1Judge.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
WASHINGTON, D. c., APRIL 21. 1894.
The Weather.

Forecast for District of Columbia, Mary
land. and Virginia, showers, clearing In the
morning; westerly winds, and cooler, except
in western portions OF Virginia.
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Not the Same TAYLOR.

To the Editor of The TINES:
Please notify your patrons that theJamesE Tay-
lor arrested for running q poker game at the
Lincoln hotel is not James E. Taylor OF the lay
lor Bros, vocal trio Of South Washington
JAMES L TAYLOR
The Washington times., 1894-04-21
Her Little Brother objected.

He-Your parents?
She-No; but my little brother is unaltera-
bly, opposed to our Observation-Disclosures
The Somerset reporter., 1894-07-26
Hofi Ses-JIidkinS

\ delightful social event in Athens
was the marriage ON saturday forenoon,
of John &, Hoffses To Miss Florence NJ.
daughter of Leroy .Iulkin>. The we'd
ding took place at the home of the bride.
The ceremony was performed 10y Rey.
Wilson Lermond. in the presence of
many relatives. The bride wore cream
lansdoWn. and carried white roses. Re
freshmentS were ser9ed after the ccre-
mony. The happy couple, accompanied
by friends drove In koNllegau aud took
the afternoon train. After brief "trip.
they will return Ia NatrrVilr where
they will make thcir home. The pre-
S"nts Were Very beautiful aud useful.
They have many friends. aud these rN-
tend them their most hearty cuugmtu.
latiuuS upon tins haply event.