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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-15
ADVERTISING DIRECTORY,

The following houses. whose advertisements
appear in the GAZETTE will be found reliable,
and are commended to the attention Of pur-
chasers:
AGRICULTURAL.
Herbert Bryant foot of Duke street.
BOOK AND STATIONERY.
Robt W French AZ a,,A419 King street
5. +. Dyson * Bro. sos Ning street.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
H. L. simpsons Sons agents for W L.
Douglas shoes.
BRICKS.
Alexandra Brick Works Hunting creek.
COAL AND WOOD.
J. r. Zimmerman foot of Queen street.
W. \. Smoot s; Co. Shoots wharf
CAKES AND CONNECTIONS.
D. Harry Appich. % King street.
George K. Hill X Co. PIG DID north Lee
street.
Henry Brengle 531 King street
CHINhWARE.
Z. j. Miller & Son. 81 King street.
DENTAL
L. s. Dental Association 18th and D streets
Washington.
FINANCIAL.
First National Bank, S. W cor Lee ana
Prince streets
Citizens National Bank, n. W. cor. Lee aud
Prince streets
Burke & Herbert, Ger. King and Fairfu
streets.
DRUGGISTS
F. s Leadbeater K sons, 1o5 1o7 south
Fairfax street.
wariicld * Hall corner Fairfax and Prince
streets
W. F Creighton < CO.. corner King and
Royal streets
Lunt & Allen, n. E. corner King and
Washington streets.
L. Stabler & Co, n. W. corner of King and
Washington streets.
DRY GOODS.
Woodward * Lothrop, 10th, 18th and
F streets, Washington.
J. f. Tackett. corner King and Pitt streets.
Isaac Elchberg, cnner King aud Royal
streets.
D Bcndheim. BIG King street.
A. i. Slaymaker 429 King street
J. L. Chapman 424 King street
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS.
J. & II. Aitcheson. 1l6 King street
W. S. Moore. south Union street
GROCERS * COMMISSION MERCHANTS
II. c. Wallace. 800 King street.
w. A. Johnson & Co., corner Cameron AMI
Royal streets
Robertson & Bro, corner King and Wash.
ington streets.
J. c. Milbun, north Royal street
W. A. Smoot * Co.. Shoots wharf
Charles King. 217-223 north Lee street.
q. VIM. Ramsey, cor. of King and ST. AsaF'
streets.
HARDWARE.
Jas. F. Carnn < Sons, 80 King street.
INSURANCE
Lawrence Stabler 1O1 King street
John D. Hooe lbs south Fairfax street
LUMBER.
Josiah Il. D. snoot & Son, 81 north Union
street
smoot & Co. % north Union street.
A1ERCHANTTAILORs.
Wm. Murray, 81 King street.
SURVEYORS.
H. c. Graves, 300 and 81 King street
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
II. Wildt, los north Royal street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-15
RAILROADS.
Mt. VERNON ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

Time Table in effect November 10, 1893.
CARS LEAVE
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
WRITING WITH MILK.

Novel Substitute for Ink, Available for
All Readers with Dirty Fingers.
In the course of trial in France last
year letter was read from . man
named Turpin, q chemist, under sem
tence Of five years imprisonment Us q
spy, giving directions to friend with
a view to establishing q secret CORE
spondence with him while in prison.
This led to an official inquiry on the
subject by the French authorities, and
some strange revelationswere obtained
from some Of the convicts.
1t appears, says Chambers Journal,
that when information has to be con-
veyed to prisoner, q formal letter,
containing apparently nothing but q
few trivial facts Of a personal nature,
is forwarded to the prison. This is read
by the governor, who stamps it, and
allows it to be handed on to the man
to whom it is addressed. The latter,
however, is aware that there is another
letter to be read within the lines, this
being written in milk, and being easily
decipherable on being rubbed over
with dirty finger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
FoREToLD NAPoLEoN'S FALL.

Discovery of Ola manuscripts Written BY .
Danish Astrologer Centuries Ago.
Some old manuscripts have just been
discovered in San Francisco OF wonder
full Importance. These manuscripts
are the production of one Peter Han
sen, q noted Danish astrologer, who
lived through the end of the sixteenth
and beginning of the seventeenth CEN
turiea He was q contemporary and
correspondent of Johann Kepler, the
great German astronomer, Basil and
other learned men of that time. He
was also nephew and pupil of the
celebrated Danish astronomer, Tycho
Brahe, and lived in Copenhagen in the
years 1894 to 1912. The discovered
Hansen manuscripts are in possession
of descendant, Olaf Linnberg, who,
however, knew nothing of their nature,
although believing them Of great inn
portancc. Mr.. Christian Andersen, an
accomplished Danish scholar, has ex-
amined these old papers and found
wonders in them
Part of these manuscripts are of the
greatest Importance to the American
people at the present time. But first it
will be well to show the value of these
calculations and predictions. The great
plague of 1664-1665 is clearly foretold,
with cumulative disaster on London,
indicating the great fire more than
half century in advance. Lilly bor
rowed from this. The French revolu-
tion and the rise and fall of Napoleon
are clearly predicted and with entire
precision in the designation Of years.
These are accompanied by charts and
diagrams, apparently of terrestrial and
celestial combination. On one of these
charts is heavy line from the French
frontier of Moscow. The fall of Ma
poleon is told with the force of Ian
guage of prophet. It says:
''The conqueror shall become naughty
and despotic, drunken with ambition,
leading his victorious hosts through
fire and blood as q glutton revels at
feast. Then shall he penetrate the
north for new conquests, passing be-
yond the lines of his auspicious star,
and two stars of evil omen confront
him. His victorious banner shall wither
like dry twigs in blast of fire. He
shall stagger back before hurricane
of destruction, tattered, bleeding and
torn, and fall PROSTATE to the earth.
Yet shall he rise again, in the furious
agony of dying giant, to sink forever,
as choking in a sea of blood"
Among the other predictions in these
old documents are the destruction Of
Lisbon by earthquake, the extinction
Of the papal temporal power, the
Franco-German conflict and other great
natural and political convulsions.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.


Te JoHS W. PLArT, his heirs or assigns:
iou are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum Of five hundred (5O0) dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
BEER TRAIL lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about twen'
y-two miles from ketchuIn. in Warm
sprlngs Greek mining district. Alturas
county, Idaho, as required by section z524.
Revised Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
iSr the years ending December 81, 1887, to
December 81, 1891: that your proportion OF
me .l; same is $3.50, being one-halt; and II
si!Aln ninety 90 days from the service OF
,Ss u,;s notice, or within ninety (9) days alter
; .us notice by publication You fail or re-
.rs .use to contribute your proportion OF such
expenditure as co-owner. your interest IN
una ,a,a claim will become the property of the
section 1924, FRANK ], LEMON.
Ae1Ghum.. Idaho. July %, 1892.
FIRST publication July 30. 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
UNEQUAL PUNISHMENT.

Different States Treat Criminals With va
rying Degrees Of Severity.
Probably few people are aware, says
the Springfield (Mass.) Union. of the
great difference in the severity of pun
ishment for the same crime which ex-
lists in different states, but the matter
has been fully discussed in paper by
Fred w. Wines, which was read at the
meeting of the National Prison associa-
ton at st. Paul. Mr.. Wines claims
that the existing penal system is un-
just in some respect in almost every
state, and the facts given in support
of his statement are decidedly interest
ing. In some states there is no capital
for murder, while in
others the death penalty is inflicted
for what in comparison are minor
crimes. II it is right to spare the life
of q man who commits q brutal MUIR
der in Michigan, it is certainly wrong
to hang q wretch who has been caught
setting fire to dwelling at night, as is
done in Montana. Nearly all the south
ern states punish arson with death.
and in some burglary is . capital
crime. In Missouri the punishment
FOR perjury is death, while in New
Connecticut and Ken
lucky the maximum sentence for per
Jury is Eve years. In Maine, Mississippi
and Iowa, however, the perjurer may
be sent to prison for life, while in Del
sware for the offense il justifiable by
ane. The severest punishment In
aicted In Delaware for incest is . fine
If one hundred dollars, in Virgins six
months in jail, and in Louisiana tho
leath penalty i exacted.
It Is clear that when the punishment
eor given crime varies from the exac-
ion Of small fine to hanging, great
ninstice Is done somewhere, aud 1t -
veil that men are studying the ques-
lion with . view to correcting the evil
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
UNFORTUNATE PERsIANs.
The Unhappy Lot of the Subjects Of II
Shah.


Shah.
According to reports recently made
by British consul in that country the
condition of the peasants of Persia
seems to be peculiarly an unhappy
one. He says: 'They inhabit mere
mud novels, without windows and
with hole in the center Of the roof to
let out the smoke, and the filthy state
of the villages is indescribable. AT
the end OF the winter they gener-
ally find their stock either ex-
hausted or running very low, and the
great festival Of Nauroz at hand.
Formerly the peasant knew that if his
stock failed, there was no hope Of re-
plenishing it. He would have to 60
without his Nauroz festivities. But
now he knows that week or two
before the festival the Russian. specu-
lators will appear on the scene and
offer the proprietor advances Of money
to SOW cotton for them, the seed of
which they provide, or buy up in ad-
vance the best part of his crop of
wheat. The ignorant peasant is led to
agree to barte<ing part of his share,
too, and when the harvest is over he
finds that he has not enough corn to
carry him through the winter. If the
proprietors and peasants resist the
temptations till the time of the actual
harvest the result is the same. The
wheat goes at half price, the peasant
finds after few weeks that he has not
enough to carry him through the win
ter, and, worst of all, there is no corn
left for towns like Meshed, with sew
enty thousand Inhabitants. Last year
the crop was q fair one, but so much
wheat was exported that the price of
bread was four times as high as safteran
abundant harvest when there was no
expectation"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
WEBsTER's LEGAL EARNINGS.


Little Leather-Covered Book That Gives
His Receipts.
One of our correspondents has been
SO lucky as to fall in with little
leather-covered book, like those Of
bank depositors, which contains Dam
iel Webster's autograph record Of his
legal receipts. This chronicle, says
the New York Evening Post, fills TWEEN
ty-eight pages and extends q little
more than from 1888 to 1886, inclusive.
The first entry, dated September in
the former year. is Of $50, and the
second is of $50, for retainers on the
New Hampshire circuit. The first fae
of 81, 900 was paid in May, 1884, by
Mrs. Badger. Services regarding Gil
ley's will commanded $500. The total
amount for the first year was footed up
as $13, 40, with the remark: 1'Septem-
Der 90, 1884, thus done and concluded"
A similar summing up appears at the
close Of each other year. The second
total is SIS, 1874; the third is $21, 793.
The first entry Of g., 900 was in 1885,
March 2; the first of 5000 December
in the same year. The last payment
was in respect to Florida land. The
largest single honorarium was $500.
In February Of the fourth year 8, 900 Is
set down as bestowed in case Of Trim.
ity church (New York;. In turning over
this record leading metropolitan and
even provincial lawyers are astonished
that Webster, already twenty years in
Boston, so undervalued his services.
he learned better at last. When Rob
ert C. Winthrop looked up the earliest
date he said: '"That's just the time
was ending my studies in Webster.s
Office, and the chirograph led him to
add that Webster never wrote firm
hand. Nobody has surveyed the relic
with more interest than DR.. o. w.
Holmes. Among other things he said
Had the influx been ten-fold, Web
ster's purse would have remained
empty still. Had its capacity received
like the sea, whatever entered there
would have run of like water from the
back Of duck"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
Genius Rewarded.

Congressman sometimes adopt queer
expedients to gain the good viii Of
their constituents. Years ago, MEM
Der from q western state was afraid
that his first term would be his last, as
he had not managed to make himself =
power in congress. While he was de-
batting what he should do, friend
said: "You live near the center Of the
United States, don't your ''Yes"
saThen, why don't you introduce bin
to have the capital moved to the prin-
cipal town in your districtT' The
congressman introduced the bill, and
the people Of his district at once con-
cluded he was . great man and sent
him back for another term. He REIN
trodnced the bill in the next congress,
and, although II wse promptly pigeon
holed in committees, his constituents
gave him third term, - reward for
his geniua
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

A pamphlet has been issued by Prof.
Litta, aSicilian statistician, who states
that twenty thousand Italians residing
in England, "of whom the vast major
ity are not robust, independent bread
winners, but children scarcely emerged
from infancy. hired from their parents,
or, more truly, sold by them, to
pirouette and gambol through the
European cities to the sound Of tam
BOURNE. or hurdy-gurdy, and BY the
compassion they excite to draw from
the thonghtless alms-giver the dole
from which their hard tas2kmasters earn
= proftable livelihood. OF these un-
desirable residents America has its
quota. With the rate Of taxation IN
Italy st twentyone dollars = head,
small wonder that her careless, indolent
people arc 70 ready to receive the
blood money Of the rapacious for
eiQuor.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
Notice of Forfeiture.

~ I. FULLY, his heirs and assigns:
ns,S n9u are hereby notified that have ex-
f."uea the sum of one hundred 1907 dol
'o labor and improvements upon the
=, YOUNG AMERICA
dist.;nln mining claim, situated in Little Smoky
orde, ds,t,, T. Alt1ras county, State of Idaho, In
visjons.o u 20 y aoid said premises under the pro.
ou;,uS ,uS United I States, being the amount -
iny iru na. 70 hold the same for the year end
ton sSseMoer ~ en 81, 1882; that your propor-
and LIZ = In, Inc same is $40. being ons-tenth;
service W %',hin mn ninety COY days from the
al AZ ., after tse this notice by publication YOU
Of smoh teluse to contribute your proportion
sablicaai;ess1 bisa expenditure. including rosts of
sil hsconn. your interest in said claim
I4e Ieo under the provisions Of said section
E~ JOHN GORMAN.
publication. Jnne IT, laeS.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
TO FIND TIE NORMAL CHILD.


Novel al va1sebls Work Now Being Car.
ried o. In WashlnxteA
A new kind a scientific work 10 be-
ing carried on In Washington, in which
the testing Of twenty-five thousand
school children, mentally, morally and
physicall is the preliminary step. DR..
Arthur Mcdonald Is conducting the
work, under the auspices OF the United
States bureau of education, and the re-
suits when arranged and tabulated aro
expected to throw valuable light upon
. number OF mooted questions concern
ing the race.
For example, writes correspondent
of the Boston Transcript, it is desired
to know whether boys of the laboring
class are less bright than the sons Of
the well-to-do. Are they rs well
nourished? In London not long ago in
vcstigation proved that the children of
laboring people in that metropolis were
better nourished-that is to say,
weighed more at the same age-than
those belonging to higher social strata,
the latter being fed on too much candy
and cake.
The work here being unfinished, con-
clusions cannot be stated. To begin
with, the height and sitting height Of
each child were taken. Long-bodied
races, generally speaking, are inferior.
1t is desired to know if long bodied In
dividuals are less clever or less strong
than the short bodied of the same race.
Are fong-bodied boys and girls apt to
be stupid? Long-headed children are
usually tall Tall people are most
often long g-headed. Tall races are SUI
perior. The question naturally fol-
lows: Are long-headed children super
ior mentally? When it is said that q
man has long head is there not sig
nidcance in the remark?
Are tall children then, superior? No
body knows as yet. These are among
the things which DR.. Mcdonald is try
ing to find out. In the classification
the eight thousand negro children in
Washington schools have been kept
separate so as to compare them with
white children. How do they compare
in respect to brightness, weight, phys
lca1 measurements, ETC.? The colored
child surpasses the white child up to
five years of age in mental develop
ment; then the white child goes ahead.
Comparisons of girls with boys natur-
ally follow. At the age of entering
wOmanhood girls weigh more than
boys; that age with city girls arrives
year earlier than with country girls.
Some more interesting compartive
data of the sexes have been already se-
cured. 1t was determined by success
sion OF simple, but conclusive, tests,
that girls felt pain more quickly than
boys, and DR.. Mcdonald is convinced
by this and other tests that the conclu-
sion that women are more sensitive to
pain than men is the correct one, al
though the opposite idea widely OBJ
tains. It is worth mentioning, by tho
way. that in every school there are
more bright girls than bright boys
Girls are more faithful in studying and
memorize more attentively. A girl will
not get impatient and throw her book
into corner as boy would ss
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13

and whether she is .smaid, wife or
widow" For all that is expressed by
the arrangement Of the locks In Japan.
The women sleep upon neck blocks,
carefully followed out 90 that the hair
may remain undisturbed- all night.
For ladies OF high degree these blocks
are beautifully lacquered and deco
rated. They generally have little
drawer into which the superduous
ornaments can be put at night.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
A Regiment Of Clillrea

The infant regiment with which the
youthful king Of Spain has been pro-
vided to amuse hamself was recruited
among the Miquelets Of st. Sebastian.
It has four hundred members, the limit
of age being from five to eight They
are equipped with real rifles, on a re-
duced scale, OF course, made expressly
in the royal factory, and they wear q
blue uniform and red cap. Everything
is complete pioneers, band and drum
mers. The corps Is divided into six
companies, each with its captain and.
subalterns, and the organisation Is ex-
aotly the Same % IN regiment q the
line.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
GENEROUS TO DE LEssEPs

10O oWS4 Couo1 OOk0B~0yU 61OVAosO0 1Ol
the Aged Engineer and His Family.
It is truly characteristic Of the warm
hearted and forgiving nature Of the
average Frenchman, says the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat, that not q word 01
protest should have been raised any
where against the grant by the Sues
Canal company of an annual allowance
of about twenty-four thousand dollars
to the De Lesseps family, even those
whose entire fortunes had been swal'
lowed up in the disastrous Panama en-.
terprise expressing their satisfaction
at the measures thus adopted to pre-.
serve their nlustrious compatriot from
want. Notwithstanding all reports tC
the contrary, the De Lesseps had
actually been reduced to penury, and
their situation was most precarious.
Not only all the shares which Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps possessed in the Suez
Canal company, but even his fees a.
director, the annuity assigned to him
personally by the company, and all the
money he had been able to lay aside,
were attached by the lquidators of the
Panama bankruptcy. The only re-
sources that remained at the disposal
of the countess were the house which
she owned in the Avenue Montaigne
and the Chateau de Ia Chesnaye, both
of which were more source Of ex-
pense than of economy, and were
mortgaged up to the very hilt besides.
With the object of averting all dam
ger of seizure by the creditors of the
count the allowance just granted by
the Suez company has been made in
favor of the countess and of the thir-
teen children of the count. The two
eldest of these are Charles and Victor,
who are the sons Of his first wife. OF
the eleven children Of the present
Countess de Lesseps three are serving
in the army, one is married to that
Count de Gontaut-Biron whose fnan-
cial difficulties were theme Of much
discussion in the Partisan press two
years ago, and the remainder are still
dependent on their father and mother
for care and maintenance. Meanwhile
the grand old Frenchman, now in his
eighty-eighth year, passes his exist
ence in q sort of semi-somnolent con-
OlClOu III Lie drm GUAR, WHICH uc Ou1y
leaves for his bed. He can no longer
walk, he has become stone deaf, and
when he is not gazing in silence at his
children he reads newspapers, care
being taken to select those which con-
tain no uncomplimentary references to
his name. Having lost all notion of
time. those placed before him are most
ly of dates four and five years ego,
when he was still in the heyday of his
glory, and when the press, still richly
by the Panama managers,
was never weary of referring to him
as ''the greatest and most illustrious
Of oil Frcnchmen." To this day
no one, not even the countess, can
say with any degree of certitude
whether he has any knowledge or
even inl<ling of the misfortunes that
have overtalsen himself and his son
Charles. At any rate, he has given no
evidence thereof, and there is gen.
eral disposition to hope that his once
grand intellect passed into its present
state in such manner as to
have spared him any such sorrow.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13


IN the course Of some slight repairs
at Little st. Maryh church, Cambridge.
England, tablet, which was son1e-
what obecured before, has been moyod
into proninent position on the north
wall, near the door. It Il in memory
OF Mr.. Godfrey Washington. . fellow
OF Psterhouse, who was vicar Of the
parish, and died In 172o. It Is sur
monnted BY his srms and crest, which
have more than = genealogical interest,
on aceount Of the tradition that the
American dag was derived from the
arms Of the Washington family; the
dhield barred, With three atars Ia chie4
cet1ain1y coutsins the piements that
a1o oounbtn6d II tle ssstaro 81
etripeA I. whf1e the hid - les1s Wh11A'
1p1xDs 49, erest, may hart - n1do4 -
aa9xsstian for the AmeTican Aag1e
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-03-03
Tbs spri, e Med cine.

Go be c7niinued.)