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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-03
A THREATENED OUTRAGE.
Criticising the Architecture of. the
San Francisco.

Criticising the Architecture of. the
San Francisco.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Apparently our post Office site job is going
to be capped by the construction of an ar
chitectural monstrosity. The supervising
architect or the treasury refuses to allow
the public to see the plans for the new
puiidins upon which millions are to be ex-
pended by the taxpayers of the country,
on the ground that there would be criti-
csms which would make trouble by neces-
Stating changes. OF course that means
that the plans are not fit to bear public in
spection.
We have feared this from the start. and
nc eAPIessed our fears some months ago.
hhe oiuce OF the supervising architect of
the treasury Is a machine shop, in which
ueslSnS are ground out like boards from a
saw miii The supervising architect him
SER py the very conditions of his service is
necessarily incompetent The character of
ms WORK moves every intelligent architect
III the country to language unfit for publi-
G T.1nn;ii ms government building at the
Moiiu ialr was one of the two great
Diemishes of the exhibition the other being
,he remaining conspicuous example of no.
, ,llicai architecture-the monstrosity erected
~ me state OF Illinois. Recognizing the
1enclehcies or his office in artistic matters
congress passed az law authorizing the
government TO avail itself of private talent
III lne construction, of important public
buildings. This law, was nullified bv the
Treasury Department., which insulted the
architects who had made the worlds fair a
vision of beauty, and expressed its complete
Satisfaction With tha work of It's official de-
sign factory. Consequently the country is
doomed to go on paying the price of palaces
Tor the contempt of the artistic world until
Congress takes more peremptory action.
Such action should certainly be insisted
upon in the San Francisco case. We have
waited long enough for our post office to be
able to wait little longer. For a building
that is to be one of the chief architectural
! monuments of the city we have a right to
demand decent design, and If the official
architect laureate of the treasury cannot
give 1t to us. as he probably cannot, we have
a right to get 1t outside. Congress should
make an appropriation for the building at
its next session, and should insert a proviso
| requiring the work of preparing plans to be
thrown open to the qualified architects or
the country. 1t is the duty of our delega-
| ton to keep up disturbance until this Is
ACCOMPLISHED.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

Schedule In effect June 9, 1894.
Leave Washington from station corner OF New
Jersey avenue and street
For Chicago and Northwest, vestibuIed Limited
express trains, les an. 500 pm: "a
For Pittsbnre and Cleveland express daily lI:iS
For Lexington and stauntou HIS am
For Turay. Natural Bridge Roanoke S'' Rnorvlll.,
m: daily. sleeping cars through
For Baltimors, week days. 1870. 500, s;ss,
. mnntesl am. 1890. 1908. l2:is. 1870
IS 30 s;ss 1870 GO; $50 sis 200 sIi:sS
!aao 800 q minu,esl. s:2s I:si. I5:oS. 6:i0.
o For Annapolis s ITO iHop sDd $50 aS. pies and
For Frederick. sii:i5 m. cl:I5. s4:so. as:ae
For Haeerstovn. a11:1s am. and as:so pm.
For Boyd and way points. b9:40 pm
mof ase ss and b sGsts paoS
For Washington Junction and way points, cs:oo,
principal station. pn " $50 Also pm
~ r,u.,.,., fHnhGEi Tli no.,.0 .r, -.
east. daily. 400 500 1000 am eG sun Dining
Carl, 1890 Dining Carr. 500 sos Dining Carl,
500 q1:so pm. Sleeping Car. open at 1000
BUFFET rarlor Cars on all day trsin..
Except SUNDAY Daily. Sunday only.
rnrs,r. called for Dns ch ss1ps from hotels and
left. at ticket otices eis snd 1881 Pa ave. and
R. B. CAMPBELL cHAs, 0. sCrLL
au2 Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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WHAT DOLLAR BILLS WEIGH.
/ Guessing Contest In Which Several
Gained n Knowledge of Gravity.

From the New York Herald
Several customers were chatting In
Lafayette avenue grocery store one even
ing recently when the grocer pointed to
half barrel of small beans and asked how
many of them 1t would require to make
bushel.
Various estimates were offered. One man
recklessly put the number down at $1,000,
which occasioned a laugh from all the
others, who had guessed a much lesser
quantity, ranging all the way from 5000
to 10000.
"Well, gentlemen" remarked the grocer.
''you are all wrong. There are approx
mately 10000 beans in q bushel."
No one was inclined to believe him until
he showed them that II took sixty beans,
selected at random, to weigh half an ounce.
The rest of the calculation was simple.
Now, then" SAID one Of the party,
"since We are engaged in guessing con-
tests, how many dollar bills would it take
to weigh as much as a silver dollarT'
One said one hundred, another said sew
enty-flve, while the grocer, who knew all
about beans. put the figures at three hun
dred.
"AI wrong" remarked the man. TT
takes just twenty-five" This was proven
to be the case by experiment.
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RAILROADS.
soyThLit.S HALLWAY.

Schedule in effect October u, 1894.
All trains arrive snd leave at PenIsy Nania Pas
sepgsr Station, Washington, ID. 9.
500 am. daily-Local for Danyille and inter-
mediate stations, and connects at Lynchburg with
the Norfolk and Western railroad westward, daily,
Gay.
,il:o1 Am, THE GREAT SOUTHERN, FAST
MAu.:-Daily, operates Pullman Buffet Sleepers,
New York and Washington via Charlotte and Co
iumoia to Savannah and Jacksonville. uniting at
Snarlotte with Sleeper for Augusta, also carries
through Pullman Buffet Sleeper New York to Mont
neSts at Atlanta for birmingham, Ala, Columbus
and Greenville, Miss.
$50 p.m..Daily for Orange and intermediate
STATIONS and through train FOR Front Royal and
1913 SmH&As sHhffRs SSSda KID SOUTHWEST
Elm EEsrIBUIED LIMITED, composed Of Pull
T Nesubuled Seepers and Dining Cars, runs via
I anhe, ana Columbia to Augusta, Savannah,
Pem nork to Tampa and to Augusta. Also Opera:sa
Atiantan sleeper New York to New Orleans via
Vic Sa1 snd montgomery. New York TO Asheyiils
, nna SansDury' Washington Memphis, via Dirm-
namerx' sDd Dining Car Greensboro to Mont
s1 dnMHAii ms on WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIV.
n M H dars washington at 9:10 am, daily, 4:S2
p Pill 9aly, except Sunday and 6:33 ID M Sunday
Heyndo nor Hoand Hill and 1893 pun. daily. for
S S:U pm, daily, from Round Hnl, and 1858 a. m,
oa,Iy, except Sunday, from Herndon only
Ihro9Xn trains from the south arrive Washing.
.on nIS am, 220 pm: and $50 pm. Manas-
$40 Am daily from Orange.
=, tickets, Sleeping Car reservations and informa-
,ion furnished at offices Oil and 1900 Pennsyva-
Dia avenue, and az Passenger Station. Pennsylva-
w. ID. GREEN. Gen. Man.
, w. A TURK, Gen. Pass. Agt.
L. 0. BROWN. Gen. Agt Pass. Dept. ocS
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Several Species of Insects Are Not
Easily Killed by DecapitatfOn.

From the st. Louis Republic.
Most persons of an observing turn of
mind are aware of the fact that there are
several species of insects that will continue
to live without seeming inconvenience for
some time after decapitation, exact knowl-
edge of the length Of time which the va
rious species of insects would survive such
mutllation being somewhat vague.
Prof Conestrini once undertook a series
of experiments with a view Of determin-
ing that and other facts In relation to the
wonderful vitality of such creatures. In
each case the head was smoothly removed
with a pair of thin-bladed forceps, and
when spontaneous movements of wings
and legs ceased he employed sundry irri-
tating devices, such las prlcking, squeezing
and blowing tobacco smoke over the in
sect. AS result of these experiments he
ascertained that members of the beetle
family at once showed signs of suffering,
while such as the ants. bees, wasps, etc,
remained for hours unaffected. Some which
seemed stunned from the effects of the
operation recovered after time and con-
tinued to live and enjoy headless exis-
tence for several days. Butterflies and
moths seemed but little affected by the
guillotining process and the common files
(diptera) appeared to regard the operation
as a huge joke.
1.-THE common house fly" says our expert
meuter, appeared to be in full possession
Of his senses (rather paradoxical, when. In
all proba the canary had swallowed
head, sense and alp thirty hours after
ward"
The bodies of some species Of butterflies
survived as long as eighteen days after the
head had been removed but the head itself
seldom showed signs of life longer than six
hours after decapitation. In the general
summary of these huge experiments we are
informed that the last signs of life were
manifested either in the middle or last
pair of legs and that the myriopods show
q rod
wholly Indifferent to the loss of their
heads"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-03

Two BOOk-Writing Ladies' Who Have
Found Them Sympathetic Helpers.

Two BOOl<-Writing Ladies Who Have
Found Them Sympathetic Helpers.
From the New York Sun.
John Strange Winter Is not a man, as
most people know. But she thanks her hus-
band, Mr.. Arthur Stannard Of London, for
the assistance he has given her on the
literary hillside. OF late Mr.. Stannar6 has
been obliged to give up his own business
to manage the very lucrative magazine
named after his wife. 'If my husband had
not said my stories were good, / could
never have continued Them" she says. MY
husband and Ruskin were my helpers"
George Eliot, years old. thanked her hus-
band George Lewes, and her friend, Her
bert Spencer, for their criticisms. which as
sisted her over the knotty points of novel
planning. And when, just before her death,
she learned that Mr.. Lewes had shielded
her from the adverse critics who were so
plentiful with blame when she first started
out, she revered his memory more than
ever To her second husband Mr.. Cross,
she said: II would never without Mr..
Lewes have been a writer Of even a little
meritw
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Of the hazel might bs made very profitable
in the state Of Washington, where climatic
conditions resemble those OF England.
Chestnuts and Pine Nuts.
The chestnuts of Europe America and
Japan are of three distinct species. Those
Of Europe were originally introduced into
Greece from Asia Minor. The number Of
chestnut trees under cultivation in the
United States is increasing every year.
In California ART several orchards Of 200
to 300 trees. mostly tof the Japanese and
European varieties.'f There are large
orchards also in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan Michigan, Pennsylyania, Tennessee nss ana
has LOCO grated trees. H. M. Engle OF
Marietta. Pa, has twenty acres OF chest
The dwarf chestnut known as the ''chin-
quapin," Is moreior LESS abundant on sandy
knobs and hillsides along the Atlantic sea-
board. from Delaware to northern Florida
and westward across Pennsylvania to east
ern Texas. The fruit is small, but very
sweet and delicious. Some valuable varte-
ties may yet be found. Experiments In
grating European and Japanese chestnuts
upon the chinQuapin have been very sue
cessful.
1t has been thought that the pine nuts"
which grow so plentifully on the Pacific
slope Of the United States and In Colorado
rev Mexico and Arizona, might be raised
prohtably under cultivation. They are not
seen In eastern markets, but are sold and
eaten in California cities like peanuts
Some of them are of good size for dessert
or confectionery purposes, and in quality
and flavor are SO excellent that their in
PRODUCTION would quickly obtain for them
a general popularity. They are mostly har-
vested by Indians. who heat the cones till
they open, the nuts being roasted In the
process. A flour is made from them by the
piggers.
Most horse chcstnuts are not only not
edible but are actually poisonous, causing
death when used as food by man or ether
animals. However, the variety known as
the sweet buckeye" and a dwarf species
or the Pacific coast may be eaten. To rem
der the California nut edible the Indians
pulverize 1t and wash it with water to re-
move the bitter principle after which they
make 1t into bread.
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An Enslishmnn Who Turned Fakir
From the Pail Mall Gazette

An Enslishmnn Who Turned Fakir.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
singular case of a European turning
fakir or Hindu holy mainland that in the
most European station In India-has just
been brought to light. At Bishop Cotton
School, at Simla, there was once an En-
glish boy named Charles de Reusselte. He
got into some boyish scrape, and to avoid
the consequences, absconded Search prov
ed abortive. and nothing more was heard
Of the fugitive. II appears now that he
had wandered no farther away than Mount
Takkho. Just above. There he had taken
refuge with the fakir Of a native temple.
He became first the holy mans acclyte
and eventually his successor. His Identity
with the runaway schooiooy was entirely
lost, and the sanctity Of his life made him
an exceedingly influential parsonage. Mean
time Charles de Reusselte had become en-
titled to q large fortune. and was being
advertised and sought for far and wide
without success. One day a correspondent
of the Lucknow Gazette. who CHANGED TO
be at Simla, fell in with the fakr, and
either discovered his secret or had 1t COM
municated to him. But the heir manifested
no desire to claim his inheritance. On the
contrary, he assured the correspondent that
he should never revert to II e religion his
fathers, nor ever return to civilization. He
was quite happy where he was. There. at
all events, he 10 still.
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Luncheon Menus for Young Students.
From the New York Evening Post.
The following luncheon menus for young
students are of interest. because they ere
models In a way, as they combine In the
proper proportion the proteid. fat, carbohy-
drates and calorics of food. They represent
the luncheons served to the young women
of the Boston Normal School Of Gympas-
tics by the New England Kitchen, and sug-
gest to mothers various healthful combina-
lions that please the taste, and that are
inexpensive. The first luncheon consisted
of beef broth, two rolls, gingerbread and
butter; the second, of baked beans, brown
bread, one roll, butter and an orange; the
third was Of escalloped meat, rolls, butter
and apple sauce, and the next day came
vegetable soup, rolls. butter and apricot
sauce, and on the last school day in the
week, potato soup. rolls, butter and two
baked apples. Other combinations were
pea soup. rolls, butter and apple cake;
beef hash, rolls, butter and apple sauce;
oyster soup, rolls, butter and prune sauce;
beef croquettes, potato rolls, butter and
baked apples; fish chowder, rolls, butter
and orange; tomato soup, rolls butter and
doughnuts and escalloped fish, rolls, but
ter and baked apples. Mrs Ellen Richards,
who has given much attention to suitable
food for all classes of school children,
thinks that, both for the sake of the sound
body and mind they should have a good
nutritious, light luncheon in the middle of
the morning, when they leave home at
or before 8 o'clock, not to return before
1870 or 2.
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A Lovers Stratagem.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
What a prosperous world this would be
IL young men would apply their wits as
industriously TO affairs of business as they
do in emergencies where the fair sex Is
concerned! This thought was suggested by
the story of a young insurance man who
went out for a moonlight drive one evening
last week. At his side In the conveyance
was handsome young woman. They drove
through the western part of the city, and
concluded to go through the beautiful ave-
nues of Western Park. But when they
reached the gate the guard stopped them
with the command that they must stay out
or have lights in the lamps on their con-
veyance. There was no store near, and
they were about to give up the idea of a
delightful drive under the shady trees, when
in utter desperation the young man drew
forth d silk handkerchief coiled 1t up and
lit one end, after putting II In the lamp.
The guard did not notice the trick, and
they passed through the gate. The hand
kerchief quickly burned out, leaving them In
the dirk and in the park.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY.
Schedule In effect May Is, 1894.


Trains leave daily from Union station B and
Pr. eth and SITS.
Through the rrandest scenery In America, with
the handsoInest and most complete solid train
fee west from Washington.
2:25 PM DAUy.-'Cinciunati and 81 Louie
Special'-Solid Vestihuled newly F1uinped F1ec,
tric-ghted Steam heated Train. Pullman'I nnest
sleeping cars Washington IN Cincinnati, lndanapo-
lis and ST. louis without change. Dining Car
from Washington. Arrives Cincinnati. 500 AM
indianapolis las An. and Chicago. $3.50 pm;
1f:1O PM DIUv-Tre famor. IF. r. v. Linn
tied" A solid vestihnled train. with dining
and Pullman sleepers for Cincinnati. Leyinston and
louisville, without rhan~" prl'nan sleeper 20
Virginia Hot Springs week DAYS. arriving 80
am Observation car FROM Hinton. Arrives Gin
cinnati, $3.50 m: Lexington. 300 pm: Louis
vile $40 p m; Ind,anapolis. 1i;15 pm; Chicago
7:90 am, and 81. T,orif, 80 an; connects IL
Union depot for all points.
1887 AM. ENCFPT SUNDAY For Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk ONLY rail line
2:25 pm pAUY.--Express for Gordonsyils.
Charlottesville. waypssboro' Staunton and princi-
pal Virginia points: daily except Sunday for Rich
mond.
ices bIs and 1921 Pennsylvania avenue
W FULLER.
nyS General Passenger Agent.
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Originally From the System Used by
Frederick the Great.
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE MANUAL
Something About Drill Systems in
This Country and Abroad.
TO SUIT THE NEW RIFLE
Written for The Evening Star.

appointed by Secre-
tary Lamont to make
changes In the pres
ent infantry tactics
will have to alter the
manual OF arms to
suit the new Krag-
Jorgensen rifle. In
this new tirearm the
protruding bolt which
locks a n d unlocks
the chamber Is so
placed beside I h e
trigger guard ( h a t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-03
Written for The Evening Star.

pected nut bulletin
of the Department of
Agriculture, pre-
pared by the division
of pomology, is near
ly ready for the pub
lie printer, though no
copies of 1t will be
distributed for at
least q year. 1t is
q remarkably inter-
esting publication,
throwing light upon
The possibilities of q
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STEAMER "WAKEFIEID -

- ,,,,d., w,dnosdsv ana az sa M Ierry wnaL
for river landings, TO Colonial Beach: thence 10
Wicomco river, Coltons and Nominl creek. On
all above landings and LeoDardtown and
81. Clement bay wharves. Returning on Tuesday,
THURSDAY and Sunday , lsee sehedsel;, .,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-03

LII THE WOhLD
has read of the de-
lights of Washington
as a winter residence,
but ny does no one
ever write of it's
charms as a summer
habitat? = for they
are certainly very
many, especially to
those who desire to
visit and make a
thorough study of
the nations capital,
but can do so at no
other season.
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

STEAMER 4. v. ARRowSMITH,
For Lower Potomac River Landings.
On Monday and Wednesday at. 3 100 pm.
Returning Arrive Wednesday and Friday morn.
ings, and Sunday about 10 pm. u w. RIDLEY,
General Manager See schedule. se2sf
NEW PALACE STEAMER HARRY RANDALL,
Leaves River View wharf, It'll street, Sunday,
Tuesday aud Thursday, at Z Am. landing at all
Chapel Point and C,ional Beach. Returning on
Mondays, wednesdays and Fridays, pm. Passen.
ger Observation-Disclosures hrst-class. Freight received
until hour OF sailing. Telephone, lies.
y. A. REED Co., II. :. RANDALL.
GEO. o. CARPINTER, Den. Agt.,
ty26-tf Washington. ID. Q.
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DAILY LINE BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D. q,
FORTRESS MONROE AND
NORFOLK, VA.
The new and powerful Iron Palace Steamers
WASHINGTON AND NORFOLK.
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The Advantages Of This City De-
picted by a New Yorker.
ENJOYING THE COMFORTS OF LIFE
Some Mistaken Notions About the
Hot Weather Here.
A LEIS URELY VISIT

Hr,tten Exclusively for The Evening Star.
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SOUTH BOUND.

Leave Washington daily at pm. from foot Of
7th Ut. wharf, arrive at Fortress Monroe at $50
an. neat day. Arrive at Norfolk at 1880 an,
where railroad connections made for all points
south aud southwest.
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Leave Norfolk daily at 6:lo pm. Leave Fortress
Monroe ct 7:10 pm Arrive At Washington ~
Tickets on sale at 5l3. 6ie 1881 and 1921 Feun-
sylvnna ave-, and G15 18th 1T. NV.
Ask for tickets via line.
mo. CALLAHAN,
anix-tf Geo. SuYs
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An Important Industry Rather
Neglected in This Country.
SOME OF TIE POPULAR VARIETIES
The Preparation Of Almonds and
Other Nuts for the Market.
WHERE THEY COME FROM

LONG = Elk
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-01-10

in which to meet the Governments obligations. He also went on to show that the Mckinley bill was passed in 1890, after the campaign of 1888, during which no such thing as an increase in taxation was ad- vocated by either party, aud that the Mckinley bill was, therefore, in the nature of surprise to the American people, and that it was passed in order to repay the pro tectcd plutoerats who had made lib eral contributions to the Republican campaign fund
 After these preliminaries, which made his RepubIice hearers feel somewhat uncomfortable, he ad- dressed himself to the details of his bill and clearly demonstrated that he had thoroughly mastered the sit uation. He took up the free wool schedule, and illustrated the effect of the Mckinley bill by showing that the poor woman who sewed for a liy- ing had to pay tax of 300 per cent. for the wooden dress she wears. He also asserted his belief that if ifeyery feature of the bill were abandoned or reversed. if we could simply carry through q bill putting wool on the free list, and reducing the tax on woolen goods. d great benefcent rev lutionafy step would have been taken in tariff reform that would justify all the efforts we have put forth. Mr. Wilson then paid his repeets to the convention of woolen manufacturers of this country called to meet in New York today to protest against the Wilson bill, whom he character ized as the protytgpes of the s.Ea- glish landlords against whom, when the famine was staying it's tehs of thousands, Ireland made a protest for taxing food The whole speech was characterized wish intense vieor aud earnestness, and demonstrated the fact that Speaker Crisp had made 10 mistake in placing him at the head of the Ways and Means Committee. It is Q valuable contri- button to the political literature of the day, which to be appreciated must be read, and was as thorough a presentation of the subject from 6 Democratic standpoint as could have been made.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-01-10
aInitel. of Cna.cIence.

GONZALES. Tex. Jan lo.-Great ex- citement was created here in the grand jury rom when Jesse Newman, 3 young farmer. who was before that aus gust body undergoing his catechism, refused to answer some of the qaes- tions Freoeande3. He was ordered be- fore Judge Shooner, who asked him why he would not answer 6he qaes- tions. He said: Since my religious conversion I have been trying to fol- low the golden rale. as ye would that men should de unto you. do ye even so to them. and, therefore refuse to answer the questions The judge en- deavored to persuade him to answer, but Newman persisted in maintaining silence. He was thereuRon committed to jail until he consents to give the re Guifed answers