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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-13

The last parade Of the encampment az
Pfttsburg occurred yesterday afternoon,
when the Union ex-prisoners Of war turned
out 1000 strong. every state in the Union
having one or more representatives in the
ranks. John II. Hancock was marshal
James Atwell. adjutant general, and VIM.
McKelvey. chief of staff. The ex-prisoners
were escorted by the fourteenth and eigh-
teenth regiments, n. @. r., with a thousand
men and officers. The boys brieades. num-
bering 400 were also I'm line.
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WILL FIGHT AT ANY TINE.
COrbetfs Last Words to His COlOres
RlYal.

Pugilist Corbett has given out a statement
regarding Jackson's refusal to fight him.
He gives the names OF men who would be
satisfactory to him as referee. He says:
Now, IL this man wants to fight, l will
name the men satisfactory to me: p. J.
Donohue. John Kelly or AL Smith Of New
York. John Duffy of New Orleans and
George Siler of Chicago. Any Of them will
be satisfactory to me. I want TO put this
fellow on record. Does he dare to insinuate
that any Of these men would stoop to give
him the worst of it? He talks about fight
ing In three months. when he knows that
the club has shown him that 1t Is fmpossf-
Bile for them to bring II OF in that time
and he himself stated in the presence Of
twenty witnesses in New York city two
weeks ago that he would not fight inside Of
six months. II he Is 80 anxious to fight me-
why don't he come where I am and he can
get all the night he wants at twenty-four
hours notice. or I will meet him secretly
at once in any place he names and show
him up plainly. .
In conclusion, Mr.. Peter jackson, I tell
you plainly that I will fight you privately
or openly In one week. one month"; two
months or three months time, fer as much
money as you can raise. purse or no purse
In club. on q barge. in q hack, In q room
anywhere In America"
Jackson's Forfeit Taken Down.
The $4,000 forfeit which Peter jackson
had posted with VIII ]. Davis for a fight
with Corbett was taken down at Chicago
yesterday.
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Mr.. Harrington withdraws.

II. b. Harrington. who was nominated for
Congress In the twentieth Ohio district by
the populists and democrats has re-
signed both nominations. Harrington was
requested to resign the populist nomina ton
by members of that party, and voluntarily
withdrew from the other in a letter. in
which he states that he accepted the fusion
nomination for harmony ard reform, but
finds that the former does not exist.
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Earned runs-P1ttsburg, D; Washington, g. Two
base hits-Beckley. Stencil, Bierbauer, Hartman
Sheibeck. Haddock. Three-base hits -Sheibeck
Joyce. Home run-Smith. Stolen bases--Smith
Joyce, Hadd0ck. Double plays-Bierbauer, Steere
and Beckley: Gumbert, Hartman and Beckley
Hasamaear and Cartwright. Hit by pitched ball
Donovan. Struck out-By Gumbert, l. Wild pitch
-Haddock. Time-TwO hours. Umpire-McQuaid.
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DRUNKENNESS OR THE LIQUOR HABIT Posi-.
lively cured BY administering DIR. Haines, Col.
den SPECIFIC Al be given in a cup OF coffee
or tea, in food. without the knowledge of the
patient. It is absolutely harniless, and Will
effect a permanent and speedy cure. whether
the patient 10 q moderate drinker or an aIco-
holic wreck. 1t has been given In Thousands of
cases. and in every instance perfect cure has
followed It never fails. The system once im-
pregnated with the SPECIFIC, 1t becomes an utter
impossibiiisy for the liquor appetite 70 exist
Particulars free. To be had Of r. 8. WILLIAMS
A CO.. 9th and sts. NV: =. r. WARE under
Ebbitt House. Washington. myl2-tu, Ii, s6ms
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Unwise Investnents An P.Als~ssx

Vnse InVestoents IN Publicity.
Frou Progress.
No business man would think NJ M.
cepting 20 inches for q yard. or nine err.
for a dozen. or ten ounces for a pound. or
three quarts for q gallon, yet an buytns
publicity many never think OF stickine
out for ten hundred subscribers for every
thousand OF circulation claimed.
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I'VE count on your presence to give eclat
to this little family fete.'
P.S-A generous hospitality will be offer
ed to clients who get too ''ironclad" de,
too drunk to leave).
The permission Ito enter the interior of
the obelisk" is much more likely catch.
The Obelisk of Luxor is that splendid Egyp-
tian mOnolith presented in 1851 by Mohamet
Ali to King Louis Philippe. 1t stands in the
blcodily historic Place de la Concorde, al
most on the spot of the revolutionary gull
lOtine. 1t is a solid spire of red stone, very
thick and high. AT one side of it's pedestal,
protected by railing, there is a little door,
which only opens into small room for the
care of the neighboring beautiful fountain.
The tickets Ito visit the interior are at
tached to a blank form in exact imitation
OF those issued by the minister of public in
struction and fine arts. The habit of the
government to admit the eVer-changing
population of sight Seers to certain places
OF interest only on the presentation OF such
tickets obtained free on written applica-
tom adds to the reality of the hoax.
Ministry of public monuments of Paris
Uhere Is no government department with
this exact name).
Monsieur-ln accordance with your re-
quest. etc, etc, you are allowed to visit the
interior of the obelisk of the Place de la
Concorde. In case you cannot use this
card yourself. pray see that two other per-
sons may profit by it,
The ticket adds the words: ITO be given
to the guardian before entering" English,
German and American tourists walk up to
the policeman nearest at hand and offer the
ticket. Pointing to the solid shaft they say:
I'VE wish TO visit the interior"
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"All fish up to one pound In weight and
all weighing over a pound must be put back
in the fountains.
ut is forbidden to sit on your neighbour
lap"
The shooting license gives you the right
to hunt wherever you please-"after hav-
ing warned the chief of service of the Paris
Central Markets pavilion of Poultry and
Wild Fowl, at least two days beforehand"
in order that the latter may send on the
game necessary for your triumphal return
hOmeward." Then follows the prefectoral
decree. as given out by the mayor of the
township.
THE bearer is forbidden to hunt on the
highways, roads. fields. marshes, rivers
ponds, woods. or any other place belonging
to third parties or to himself.
In order not to frighten away the game
he is forbidden to use explosives"
In the long tumble of pretended rules
which follow, burlesques of actual regula-
tons, which are quite long and compli-
Gated, full scope is given to the !ong-wind-
ed juggling in words with which the French
delight. The French language is at once
narrow and infinitely cultivated-a mass Of
conventional phrases and yet full of fine
gradations. Actually it is much more bar
rem than the English bat at least it
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responds to every shade of thought which
the French can have and fits the French
soul like a glove. The commoncst ueoyle
ind delight in the nice use of words, in
language Tor its own sake. They roll a
phrase around their tongue like moiasses
candy. linen the language is incompar-
ably rich in puns. The curious old names
or persons, streets, towns and departments
assist ingenious jugglers in words to give
ridiculous twists of meaning
Some of these April fool notices would
almost puzzle a Frenchman who vas
professional student of his own language
They mix up old words that have an an
clent history with new slang that must
also nave started in some story of nOUa-
days. The Certificate of Drunkaris First
Grade is an example. 1t gathers together
a good number of the thirty names rev
and old, which the French have applied to
hard drinking.
The certificate is made out in the rauoa
of the pochard-the habitual. Cood-for-
nothing, lazy, pleasure-loving drinkcr. Some
say the name is derived from an oil wine
measure, which the drunkard emoriad in
quantities. The ard in drunkard IL also
an auSumentative. Others say the title
comes from the word ''pochon"-.he knock
in the face. which sooner or later disfglIres
the cOuntenance of the hard drinker
Whether from cups or knocks the title Is
bestowed by a large diploma surrounded
by rude cOlored prints of it's subject fright
ening ladies on the street, sleeping on the
ground and being ridiculed by his sober
companions.
k-without-Thirst., King. first of the
name" bestows the diploma, with greeting
to all the various classes of his subjects
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Ter is siXty-tnree; Mr. Stewart. slxty-seven;
Mr Allen, forty-seven. and Mr. Kyle, .forty.
II Is but seldom that a Senator is sue
ceeded by man older than himself. The
order OF succession is rather the other way,
ana thus the case OF Senator Wilson, who
Is 10 retire from the Senate a year hence,
Mheh ne VIII be slXty-seven years old. is
remarkable. Representative Gear, who has
dHeady been selected for the post, will be
seventy when he takes the oath of office or
tnree years older than his predecessor. Just
lhe reverse Is the case Of senator Hunton
VINO VIII be succeeded on the same date by
MI. Martin, who was elected during the
past winter. Mr.. Martin is forty-six years
OF age, and Will therefore be forty-seven
years Old when he takes his seat. Mr.
hunton VIII then be seVenty-one thus
making way Tor man TWENTY-FIVE wears
younger than himself
Senator Hill is seven years younger than
his senatorial junior. Mr. Murphy who is
hfty-eight. Mr. German is well preserved
at hity-hve, and Mr.. Hale does not show
the hity eight years that have passed over
has head. Taken altogether, Time plays some
mighty funny tricks with the Solons. He
sweeps Vigorously here and touches lightly
there. He and fame seem to have Joined in
a partnership to produce some strange re-
suits, and the Congressional Directory is a
most unphilosophical publication in conse-
Quence
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friends of the bottle" These are the
polvrots-those who are in the last stages
from lmoIblrg' polvres, which might come
from peppers, but is said to be g. Old meas
ure for brandy, something more than a gill
OF the HCuor. Then there are the free
lckers, which is plain. The "loupeurs
sCuhd something like our own ''loaIers''-
4 word We are supposed to have picked up
IN America from the German verb to tramp
about-Qaufen). But the French word orig
II ally meant the lepers, whose sickness
drove them hither and thither without
chance OF employment or human aSSOcia-
Ton. This Is a curious derivation tor u
Fame now given to a drunken tramp. With
IN the last lew years there was notorious
camp de Ia Loupe, Il verltable tramps' den,
close 10 the forutcationS by one of the
gates of Paris. The wine sacks need 40
explanation, except to say that tAeir wives
are called in French slang fish cushions"
farrot suffers and 'swallowers Of YER
ilSflS are, OF course, drinkers Of aDsinthe--
the alcoholic green drug which is driving
CUT VINE in France. Drinkers Of bowel
tWlster (bad brandy remind one of the
ale IN the English country inn, wnIch IS de
ScrlDeu IN Tom Brown as whistle belly
vengeance" Pillars of the saloon, no
ceurs (whose whole existence is a pro-
lonsed wedding feasO. spree-ers, junketers,
thlrsterS, are people plain enough to I'M
ders tand. Bat it requires a peculiar kind of
learning to know that the ''rigolbocheurs"
are the admirers of poor RigUlboche, who
years ago spent her youth and beauty IN
laughing and dancing and otherwise anus
ing this class of men in the public halls of
Farls. Her own name was play on the
Word Tor tipping, with reference to the
smll>s and songs that are the result
me one who receives this drunkards GER
tlhcate is declared t. be a good and brave
sot an excellent drainer of pint bottles
He Is one who has never missed his chance
to get feather in his cap" an allusion to
the church beadles of old days, who were
notorious drinkers, and wore a plume in
their official hats. To make himself a pom
pom or punper-ln,' a soldiers word; to
set a cooking" the common word for a
drunk Of which the higher degree in re-
publican France Of today is called senate
rial, while the highest is presidential He
mas never been known Ito leave a bottle
for a 'cotillon which is now a dance,
but was once little coat--a petticoat pre-
cisely. And he would periodically die by
his cannons (the name which is also given
+ the necks of bottles and jugs rather
than surrender.
This is ii fair sample of French humor or
of the French lack of hUmor. where all the
attention is given to turning and twisting.
curious words. Sometimes, however the
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on travelling. Just as they send boys out
Tor "strap oiP' in American towns. these
Frenchmen start out innocents to find the
huile de coteret, until it dawns upon them
that oil is never extracted from dry blocks
of frewood. The libraries stationery
shops sell colo-ed pasteboard fish, with
sharp hooks in their mouths. to be attached
to promenaders' coat-tails; and signs of
81 am incapable Il am betrayed" In
quire Within" and II am drunk" enliven
even the dull streets of the most secluded
villages
These are the elementary tricks. The
libraries will sell you more elaborate
catches, all the way from pasteboard gold
coins to fool your friends with, to rent
receipts and a whole line of papers very
like our comic valentines, only in form
they have the look of genuine documents
One is a written letter to be sent to a
young lady, and it makes a lot of fun in
lower, middle-class families.
'MademoiselIe: Excuse my holiness and
bear no grudge against me for the too great
haste L am in TO inform you of my inten-
saw you for the first time You have
pleased me. 1 have made inquiries about
you, and, having found the answers excel
lent, L am coming TO ask If you will con-
Sent to join your destiny with mine / send
You herewith my portrait. If you find me
to Your taste, answer Immediately, because
am dying of love for YOU
When the young lady turns the page she
nndS the picture of hog.
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the government service. In the dead letter
office the most expert translators of bad
writing are women, and it would surprise
you to know that the Treasury Department
has d woman lawyer who prepares the
briefs for internal revenue matters and
who could probably make more outside of
the department by practicing law than she
gets by acting a law clerk within it.
There are number of women editors in
the service here at Washington. The Off
cial records of the war of the rebellion are
TO certain extent gotten up by women,
and in the Navy Department you find wo-
men who are making maps and tracing
charts for our ships in different parts of
the world. and in the government printing
office there are women typesetters, women
stitchers and press feeders.
Everyone has heard Of the pretty girls
of the treasury, but YOU find beautiful
maidens in all of these government depart
mentS. Secretary Smith directs the handi-
work of 900 girls, and Col. Lamont has
company of IA amazOnS in his Department
of War. Postmaster General Bissell has
hundreds of maidens Tn Ter him, and in the
government printing Ctiice there are more
than 1000 women. Many OF these come of
the best families of the country Mo- a few
are the daughters of noted generals, gov
errors of states, Senators and Representa-
tives, and now and then you find a relative
of a President or a cabinet minister The
majority of them are women of good eiu-
cation, and with but few exceptions they
are educated and refined ladies' They re-
Ceive salaries ranging from SI20 to 81 800
year, and a large number of them support
families. Many of them are widows, not
few are old maids, and -hou sands are
sweet, mdrriageable young women, who
have too much sense 10 change sure liv-
ing under Uncle Sam TO d prospective one
in company with some good -fo--n othing
man. The best of them are, however open
to engagements, and not a few of the most
notable marriages of Washington in the
past have been in connection with gov
eminent clerks. Attorney General Brew
ster, who had the ugliest face which ever
entered q government department at Wash
ingtcn, got his wife, whose features were
Nenus-like in their beauty, in a govern
ment department here She was the daugh-
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prepaid if sent by friendly jokers. collect
II sent by malicious folks and enemies. At
the other extreme. the confectione-s do
special trade in beautiful. Hfelike sugar
fish for gentlemen to send to the ladies, as
q kind of valentine.
April 1 is full of tricks and catches every
where in France. In Norman villages they
send young people looking for John Collins
only his name is Monsieur Petit-Jean.
HE is waiting for you at the post office"
There the postmaster answers, Inquire at
the hotel" Madame. at the desk, sends the
searcher into the cafe. The garcons grave
ly talk it over, disputing the whereabouts
Of NJ. Petit-Jean, and then direct him to
the charcuterie pork butcher's). o. the
epicerie (grocer's). or to the Bureau de
Tabac (shop of the government tobacco
monopoly, at any of which he win be sent
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1t is in unconscious touches like Il have
made inquiries about you" that the Ameri-
can in France picks up here and there lit
tie by little, an understanding of the radical
difference between the French WAYS and
his own. The essence of this April fool is
that the girl should believe the letter to he
serious until she turns the page The
French girl does not feel fnsuIted n q
young man COOlly writes to her II have
made inquiries about your character and
find it good before he actually knows
her
There is a good trade in invitations and
free tickets to impossible or ridiculous en-
tert2inments, and jOkers even go into rhe
newspaper advertising columns to announce
impossible bargains. wants and personals
The following. in the regulation form of
such announcements. is to be sent by mail:
''Brasserie du Chat-qui-Tete,
''Ruc du NieuX Pont, %
CVieux POnt means the ''oId bridge" and
n such a street existed No. 22 would be in
the middle of the river Seine.)
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an AK or spade, but that he would not
aid him In digging his own grave in enc
of Uncle Sans official cemeteries. Post
master General Bissell told me rot long ego
that he did not consider the government
departments a good place for young men,
and there is no doubt but that an enter
prsing, energetic young fellow had better
keep away from the government service
The hours are short and all the tendencies
are to laZiness and gooi-for-nothingness. A
man has to have very positive qualities in
order not to be turned into a machine and
all the tendencies are TO eXtravagancies in
living Washington is a city of rich young
men and place in which hearty every
man lives up to his income. 1t is city
containing many installment houses, and /
know of society women as well govern
ment clerks who buy the dresses which
they wear at our fashionable receptions
on instalments, and who Lave not always
paid for them by the time they are nearly
worn out. The business houses Of Wash
ington expect people 10 MN bills, and they
have their settlements iV6t after the gov
eminent pay days at the 18Th or the last
of the month. Comparatively few of the
government clerks save money and only the
tewest try to make any money out of that
which they do save.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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who works for the government can laugh
at fate and finances.
AS to wages, there is no question
about the salary; that is fixed nv tue gov
eminent. and as long you are in Uncle
sam employ 1t cannot be raised or lower
Ell by the officials just abo!e You. Every
TWO weeks you 20 to the pay office of Tie de-
partment in which you are working aud
your money is handed over ID You in crisp
new greenbacks, or sometimes i'll gold. If
you are good man your job is pretty sure
TO continue, and a great number of these
clerks nave been in the service for years:
some, indeed, have spent Il lifetime there,
and there is one old clerk here who has
been drawing salary for sXtJ years from
Uncle Sam. There are others Sho have
worked from forty TO fifty years. and the
number who have been in from one 10 -four
years runs well up into the thousands. The
number who have been just Ten years in
the service is more than seven hundred. and
there are hundreds more who have been in
from twelve to fifteen years. \ great many
clerks have been twenty years or more in
the service, and the tenure of government
office is by no means as unCcrtl.l as is
generally supposed. The surely OF holding
a position increases every year, and the
civil service rules are being 50 extended that
only the chiefs will finally he dismissed At
the close of an administration.
Salaries.
AS to salaries. in proportion to the
amount of work done and its character,
they are as high as those of any laborers
of the world. Uncle Sans factories are
run on big salary basis. and the CLASH
fled service get. as a rule, from $500 to
81 800 a year The chiefs get $1,000 and up
ward, and there are fat places in nearly every
department which command s., 600, $1,000 and
5000. The Department OF Justice. for in
stance. has three offices which bring between
$1,000 and 5000, and the assistant attor-
ney generals each receive much as a
CCngreS sman. In the department of Ag-
riculture there are a number of good 81 900
places. The Post Office Department has
many high-salaried places, and there are a
number of soft spots connected with the
White House. The best positions in
point of certainty of tenure, are those con-
nected with the State, War and Navy de-
partments. The clerks of the State Depart
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The officer has mis- answer ready-he
sticks to the truth. It's full"
when will it DE empty?
The policeman shrugS his shoulders. Il
don't know"
OF the same nature is the official permits
sion Ito visit the interior OF the telephone
tubes of Paris" 1t resembles the real tick
cts given for visiting the sewers and the
ca tacombS.
From all these mock permSsions and no.
tons a great deal of solid informa ton con-
corning French life. politics and law might
be CLEANED, by the way. For instance. two
of the most elaborate April fool hoaxes are
stamped "Permis de Peche'' (fshing Ii
license). In this country no one may shoot
cense from the general government. 1t is
and costs the sportsman five dollars a sea-
son. With this in hand You may tramp
down any mans woods and fields, provided
he has not put up a written notice to the
contrary. In the hoax the minister of pub
lie monuments authorizes Monsieur So-and-
so. in accordance with his request No.
iI603.s to fish in the basins of the luminous
fountains on the Champ de Mars. These
are the electrically lighted and colored foun-
tains which still play on fine nights in the
old exposition grounds.
observation-disclosures is free from 10 PM
to am.
1T is expressly forbidden to sit on the
grass surrounding the fountains. Fisher
men should keep away at least ten yards
ut is forbidden to take off ones shoes
and battle the feet under the pretext of en-
ticing the fish.
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His Attitude.
From Truth.


Tramp Ito philanthropisO-"Sr, I am
one of the unemployed, and you could place
me in a position 1 should very much like
to occupy"
MISUNDERSTANDING, my good man
what is the rosition?"
Tramp-"That of owing you dollar until
the next time l meet you"