Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-23
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| Walters Of Butte at Willards this morning.
| You can easily perceive. therefore. that a
pretty lively campaign will precede the
| election. It is pretty hard to tell now just
how things viii turn out 1t ali depends on
| Marcus DAILY. People may talk as they
please about the chances OF this or that
party in Montana, but no party stands a
ghost Of a chance for success unless DAILY
| favors its victory or keeps his hands en-
| tirely out of the contest. In the latter
| event the result is always doubtful with
| the chances democratic in case there is no
| family squabble going on. i am inclined to
believe from present appearances that Daily
| will throw his influence in favor OF the re-
puplicans this year. If this is done you
| needn't be surprised very much to see VII
bur +. Sanders and Thomas ]. Carter take
| their seats In the upper branch OF Con-
gress."
They were talking Of the weather this
morning at the National when John Rid
out. the well known lawyer. happened to
come along to keep an engagement with
| an out-of-town client The coterie had been
INDUCING In congratulations over the de-
lghtfui rain that had come to break the
/ drouth and the conversation had turned
/ upon the instruments Used to keep q record
Of meteorological events.
| Your talk reminds me OF q mighty fun
ny incident" said Mr.. Ridout Several
| years ago lived up near the Capitol ana
| next door TO me resided a gentleman who
| Was connected with the coast survey He
| was quite a scientist In a weather wise
| way and pursued the study of meteoroloey
| Tor his own amusement On the roof OF
his house he erected A small weather bu-
| reau, equipped with eutoma tic recording
| instruments among which was q wind
gauge OF the approved style, consisting of
| four hollow hemispheres, attached TO the
| ends OF slender bars, which, in turn, were
4 upright "A hE-
| revolved on a pivot and worked a series
| or wheels that recorded the velocity OF the
wind one evening the scientist went up
| TO look at the weather record and came
| down very much excited. He sail there had
| been most remarkable local disturbance
| in our immediate ne!ghborhcod. aad that
| Tor short while during the Afternoon the
wind had blown with remarkab able velocity
| that had increased and diminished in a way
| altogether amazing. He couldn't understand
1t at al, and We were very much exercised
| over the occurrence until we discovered the
| cause some days later. II appeared that
the boys living in the house on the other
| side OF the doctor mad gone up on their
| roof to fly a kite and noticing the slowly
revolving hemispheres on the doctors wind
! gauge, has amused themselves by whirilng
| them around as fast as they could After
tnat the amateur weather observer kept
a discreet silence when the state of the at
| mosphere was mentioned"
! The fads followed by the so-called fash
ionable girls are fairly bewildering," said
Augustus Kennedy Of Camden at the Riggs
House this morning. zone OF these maidens
! created veritable sensation at one of the
leading hotels in Atlantic City last week
| New York girls Of the society sort don't
usually affect Atlantic CRY in the summer
time, but this one is from Gotham. and she
has been cutting a pretty wide swathe In
quiet sort Of a way. She knows and as
NHf at pifh Ia ..a.a,
she never displayed any tendency toward the
robustness OF latter day bellies until the
night in question. Then she came sailing
Into the dining room dressed in a lovely
gown OF some color indescriba BILE by an IN
Initiated man, and every one looked az her
1t WASH the dress that attracted attention
or the way her hair was fixed or the mas
sive silver belt that encirclei her healthy
looking waist All eyes were turned ~ a
juggling mass of bones that hung from two
or three chains attached 10 her eir1le
lEey We're wish bones. You never saw any
THING like II in your life. A South African
cennibal deCked out with ossifei nleUen-
tees of very pleasant missionary meals
could not have created more remarks ut a
1Sahda barbecue. There were all sorts ofwlsh
bones ana every one OF them was mounted
with some precious metal One extremely
tiny affair that 1 afterward heard was the
wish bone of humming bird. was entirely
inciosed with gold and held little diamond
spark at its end. Where the girl got all
these bones and what was her object IN
wearing them was beyond my comprehen-
sion, but i afterward heard that the COL
iectlnS OF the wish bones Of various birds Is
| now quite mania among the girls in upper
tendon. and that the rarer the bird that the
| bone Is gotten from the more valuable the
| collection becomes.
| L believe / am one Of the luckiest ANA
teur photographers living" said Samuel
Fowler of Hagerstown at willard's on Sat-
/ urday night The incident 1 am going 70
relate may sound very much Ike a fish
story. but here is a speaking proof Of its
truth" Mr.. Fowler thereupon exhibited an
unmcunted photograph, evidently an en-
larged print, or a fish leaping to catch a fiy
Il took that picture my SELF he continued
while the singular reproduction was being
examined. Il gave up being a base bali
fan two or three years ago and adopted
| photography as a mania, and everywhere
| go l take my. camera with me- 1t is a
small affair, but the lenses are the best /
| ever saw. A couple months ago / was
hshing In the Potomac near Weverton from
| rock near the river bank. and had my
| instrument by my side. l had been using
| live bait with poor success ana concluded
| that l would try fly. At the third cast q
bass made break for the fly. but missed
| IL saw hlm slight distance OF station
| arys below the surface, and the idea struck
me that IL 1 trained the camera on the
| spot and made a successful cast | might
| The fish. The Goddess of Fortune must have
| been towering over me at that time for 4
put the suggestion into practical execution,
and the picture you See here is the result
| don't suppose there is such another ore in
| the world
| "A good many Of the railroads are sert-
| ously considering the use Of the telephone
| In place Of the telegraph for the transmis-
| sion Of train ORDERS" said s. Il. Hunter. a
| western railroad man. at wormley's this
| morning. ''On the Pennsylvania, Lehigh
| Valley and the New York Central tele-
phones are now In use for this purpose be-
tween many Of the principal stations and
| are found to be q great Improvement over
/ the telegraph. The great difficulty that has
| appeared to have interposed itself against
| the use Of the telephone for sending train
orders has been the fact that under such n
system there remains no written record of
| the orders transmitted or received. and rail-
| road employees are not considered infallsb,e
| enough for the companies to trust to their
| memories OF what they said or what they
| heard 1t has been suggested, however, that
| such a record can be as easily kept when
| telephones are used when teiegraphic In
| struments tick out the dispatches. The plan
/ q IN hav tha ord