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The Washington times., 1894-05-28
1T HELPS ALONG A THIRST,

Saloon Keepers Accordingly Encourage
Salt Sticks" and Their Queer yender.
A queer looking old man, carrying large
basket in one hand and a cane in the other
hand, can be seen any day plodding his way
along the German section OF the east side,
where he has become a well-known figure,
says the New York Herald. He travels from
one saloon to another selling "salt sticks" !"
which is his means OF livlihood.
For nearly twenty-five years he has been a
conspicuous figure on the east side. and from
the profits derived by selling these "salt
sticks" he has been enabled to support a
large family. He does a good business be-
cause of his genial nature. He always has a
kind word for everybody.
This industry OF making ''salt sticks is
practiced by but q few bakers who dispose
of them to these merchants cheap. and who
in turn sell them for cents apiece or or
cents. While the ''sat stick" or salzstange.
as the Germsns call it. is unknown in the
American cafe il is and has been for number
OF years quite the thing with the German
saloons There Was at one time quite a num-
Der OF these .'sait stick" merchants, but of
late they have dwindled down to few, among
them being the old man who was one of tie
first in the field.
The ''salt stick is a long piece of baked
dough besprinkled with salt, which, while it
makes it very tasty, also makes one very
thirsty, thus beneiting the saloon keeper,
whose customers are compelled to satisfy
their thirst with more beer. But this does
not serve TO lessen the popularity OF the ''salt
STICKS" German pinochle PLAYERS while
playing their game and drinking their beer
eat them with relish. No game Of cards is
complete without them.
They form very tasty morsel when eaten
with piece of cheese. For this purpose they
are cut in half and the cheese placed between
them. They are called ''salt stick sand
wiches," and they are a great appetizer for
beer
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
lie Was u Hustler.


On Brush street car the other evening
were young colored man and his girl, and
they not only held each cther's hand as they
rode, but the young man slipped his arm
about her waist and didn't seem to care q
copper for the winks and smiles OF the other
passengers. After time n white man got up
and passed out on the platform and beckoned
the young man TO come out. The latter hesi-
tated to leave IA good thing even for a minute,
but finally did so and was asked:
"Young man, do you love that girl?'
"Yes, sab. does" he promptly replied.
"And she loves you9"
''She do, sah.''
"How long have you known her?"
"Bcut an hour"
"Isn't that falling in love pretty rapidly?"
"Yes, sab, but dat's de way does. Doan'
take me ober ten minutes to fall in love wild
anybody. We hain't like white folks bout
dat"
.How long does 1t take you to fall out
again?
The young man looked into the car and
saw that another colored man who had been
standing by the front door had taken his
girls hand in his. and their heads were
humping together in the most affectionate
manner. he took this in at glance.
''How long. sab? How long? Why, Jest
bout ten seconds, sah, and de ten seconds
hev expired
And he dropped of the car and went off in
the darkness, whistling a tune without a
quaver OF sadness in it.-Detroit Free Press.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
How He Wore His Shoes

"Ill bet any one in the party Col. Jack
Gambill said 10 a group of acquaintance
one day, THAT did something when a grow
ing boy out in old Tennessee that has never
been done by any one before or since"
''What was that, colonel"
II wore out my first pair of shoes without
both feet being shod at the same time"
Explain
"You see. it was this way. Shoes were a
novelty to me. The shoemaker was slow and
was impatient, as all boys are, for new
thing. He finished one Of tie shoes on r
Saturday and told me 1 would have to wait
another week for its fellow. l couldn't stand
that, SO / took the one shoe ard wore it to
such an extent that when l went for the other
! had to leave the first one for repairs. 1t
went on this way week after week. and some-
how never could bring that pair of shoes
together on my feet. The family was too
poor to think of buying me an additional
pair. Odd thing, wasn't it, to have one foot
in leather and padding the hocf with the
other? Boys'll do queer things sometimes. -
San Fancisco Call.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
HITS-OR MISSES.

Slurs have been cast at Buttz. No one has
yet had the cruelty to call him a cigarette
| butt
The Post says editorialiy that ''the end is
approaching" and before reading what fol-
| lows it may be safely hazarded that it refers
to the end OF the world or the end of the tariff
debate. If the latter the Post exhibits large
amount of temerity.
Did Col. Dodge imagine that Mr.. Stewart
was friend of Cleveland?
The New York Sun says that one David B.
Hill has monopoly on Democratic princi-
ciples, which suggests the query who will be
the other end OF the ticket.
The Coast and Geo detic Survey is going to
compute the exact size of the earth. When
it has completed this task it might take few
years rest, number not material, and then
begin to figure carefully on the length and
bredth and depth OF the tariff situation.
Governor Flower scared the New York
Republicans in his speech. and it is not
thought that they considered it very full CT
flowers.
A telegram from Connecticut says that the
Senator has had its head stove in. Unfortu-
nately the Senator is vessel.
The rumor is unfortunately not true that
Governor Waite has ridden into Cripple Creek
over his horses bride and been drowned.
The official announcement is made that the
Dockery commission of "experts" have left
here for the Investigation of the New York
custom house, which is pleasant for US, but
hard on New York.
Even money the Washington baseball team
will not break its last weeks record this sea-
son.
Lillian Russell says that Perugini beat her,
but a suspicion seems to lurk around that
nevertheless he will not come out ahead.
The latest story of the Lillian Russell ad-
vertising bureau is to the effect that she has
been sued for the clothes on her back. 1t
can't be that she thinks the divorce racket
over worked.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
Give Black a Rest.

A physician recently advised a woman who
had been wearing black for number OF
years and who was not in good health to
dress III lighter colors, says the New York
Times. He illustrated his meaning by telling
her to cover two plants, one with black. the
other with light colored cloth, and alter a
while to observe the difference in their ap-
pearance. The plant covered with black
would be pale and siekly, while the other was
fiourishing and green. There has been a pre-
vailing idea for a street costume nothing is
in as good taste as black, or very dark blue,
which is almost black. Undoubtedly the
more quiet and unobtrusive street costume
is the better it suits the refined taste. but
there are quiet, pretty shades of brown, lawn.
and gray and other shades Of blue than the
darkest, which. in Summer particularly, make
better walking or street dress than dark
colors. as the dust does not show so quickly
on them; also, these colors not only look
cooler, but one really feels cooler in them.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
Novelties for the Table,

Novelties for the table. sometimes useful
and again only ornamental, seem endless. But
the latest is SO useful an adjunct that it seems
surprising that it has just appeared, says the
New York Mail and Express. II is a serving
basket, and is used for removing the soiied
knives and forks at the end Of each course. A
rubber pai is provided, which does away with
the arnoyins CHATTER of the cutlery.
Round. Amos; fat dishes are now used for
berries. The fruit is served on these unhulled,
the green stems forming pretty background
10 tie brilliant colors OF the berries.
The tasrapia fork IS another addition to the
list o! table novelties. 1t is about the length
OF an oyster fo-4i, but the prongs are broad
al! flat. Essentially Yankee is the pie fork.
Ths is long and slender. possessing three
prongs, the .ki:d having thinned edge like
4 biade. GGese forks come in sets OF twelve.
with a pie knife and litter, making in all a
graceful and useful adjunct to the pastry
course
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
4 lauC!l In Church.

Funny things happen In church sometimes.
The other evening Rev. Mr. Maiden, who is
conducting revival at the Baptist church.
was exhorting sinners to come forward and
be prayed for at the close of the evening
service. pew had been reserved for those
SO inclined right in front of the pulpit. The
exhortation had continued for some few min
utes, and no one had responded, when the
door softly opened, and State Treasurer Lon
V. Stephens entered. He glanced around
and observing the vacant bench walked
slowly down the aisle and sat down. As he
did so the voice of the revivalist rang out:
"And even the rich man hearkened unto
the voice of the Lord"
There was a litter in the congregation
which neither the minister nor MIR. Stephens
understood. Pastor Johnson. who was on
the platform, turned several shades Of red
and when he exclaimed: He doesn't mean
you, Brother Stephens. He doesn't mean
you," the suppressed litter broke out into a
laugh. There was not much solemnity about
the conclusion of the service that evening"
Jefferson City (Mo.) Tribune.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
LABOR IN ENGLIsE POLITICS.

Advices from London state that John
Burns, the well-known English labor leader
and member of Parliament. has been offered
q seat In the Cabinet.
This is shrewd move of Premier Rose
berry to secure the labor vote in the next
general elections.
1t is also announced that should the coun-
try at the next election confirm the Liberal
party's lease Of power the ministry will be
reorganized, and that II will contain at least
two representatives.
So far Mr.. Burns has declined the proffered
honor, wishing to occupy an entirely inde-
pendent position.
1t is altogether probable that the next time
the people have an opportunity to express
Themselves through the ballot boxes there
will be a substantial increase in the number
OF members representing labor interests, and
that it will be a very difficult matter to con-
struct a Cabinet which will command the con-
fidence of the country without substantial
recognition Of the labor element.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
sEvENrY-rwo DAYS AND ENERGETIC

Seventy-two days ago The TIMES made Its
first appearance. The venture was the out
come Of the combined and energetic efforts OF
the wage-earners of the District OF Columbia
1t was q success at its start, and 1t has never
gone backward.
It has to-day bonahde circulation exceeded
by but one OF its three contemporaries in
Washington. This is an upd;sputable fact.
and the Star pressrom, where the paper is run
of, is open every morning that the truth may
be known.
Advertisers have sought the columns Of
THE TIMES, and have reaped as they have
sown; because the owners and patrons Of this
journal are a unity in helping those who help
the paper.
The TIMES is first in giving the news
good, pure, reliable. It Is subservient to no
one man, nor to no corporation. 1t has no
occasion to fear any influence. 1t is honest,
bright, aggressive.
1t will continue to be the unrelenting en-
envy of tyrany, and oppressivein every form.
1t will give the news, publish facts as they
are found, and will always support the inter
ests of the people who are its chief support
ers
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
A countryman's Suggestion.

countryman who boarded the nreboat
New Yorker at her berth at the Battery the
other day was interested to observe the COM
pleteness of her equipment for fighting fire
along the river front. Her powerful pumps
and ingenious arrangements for directing the
streams upon burning buildings or into the
holds of vessels filed him with admiration.
Then he asked the engineer TO show him the
workings OF the seareh-!ight. He took it for
granted that there was one. and was amazed
to learn that there was no electrical plant at
ell on the boat. This would appear to be
curious deficiency IN a boat Otherwise per-
fectly appointed. and il is difficult TO see how
so obvious a need could have been overlooked
in the building of the New Yorker. The
countrymans discovery has led to discus
sion OF the need OF search-light, and may
lead to its Introduction on the boat. 1t is ad-
mitted that such light would be OF the
greatest value to the New Yorker in finding
its way at night about among the crowded
and tangled slips. 1t would. moreover, make
it possible to direct powerful light upon the
fronts Of warehouses; to the very great as
sistance OF the tlremen. Electric lights on
the boat would also be supplied in place of
the old-fashioned oil lamps that are now in
use.-New York Sun.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
OTHER PEOPLES HITS.

The assistant in the Harvard observatory
has recently discovered four new variable
stars. Soubrettes, probably.-Cbicago Times.
The trip around the world can be made
now in forty days, at an expense OF $500. A
trip around Toledo has often cost that much
Toledo Blade.
Women's clubs seem to be growing. The
broomstick used to be large enough.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Gov. Waite should be lanced. He ought to
have his thirst for gore satiEtled in some way
Toledo Blade.
All the gold in the world could be put in a
room twenty-four feet each way, it is said.
That Is probably the room in which Mr.. Cor
bett is willing to meet Mr.. Jackson alone =
Chicago Times.
II the Senate committee wants to get infor-
nation from newspaper correspondents it
should read the newspapers.-Cieveland
Plaindealer.
1t is slightly confusing to hear Col. Tom
Ochiltree spoken of as the "famous Texan OF
New York "-Chicaco Tribune.
Pennsylvania has recently experienced the
heaviest flood since Galusha Grow ran ior
Congress.-Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
THINGS STANTON FoRcBrs.
They Must Be in Packages and Valuable
and Then He Can Lose Them.

They Must Be in Packages and Valuable,
and Then He Can Lose Them.
Walter Stanton, of Coffin Stanton, bank
ers, at 72 Broadway, becomes absent-minded
when he carries jewelry around in package,
and is likely to leave it anywhere. He has
done that ON two occasions, but each time has
been fortunate enough to get the jewelry
back. He lives at Hillsdale, N. J.. and on
Saturday night left q package containing
some jewelry in a New Jersey and New York
passenger train. The conductor, James @.
Blauvelt, of Hackensack, found the package.
and turned 1t over to General Manager Has
brouck ut Jersey City on his return trip.
Blauvelt was called into the Office yesterday
morning and presented with s25. Several
years ago Mr.. Stanton dropped packet Of
uncut diamonds on an elevated road station.
He reported the matter to Superintendent
Byrnes The diamonds were valued at sew
eral thousand dollars. Within an hour he
received word from Superintendent Byrnes
that the diamonds had been found. A poor
man, who had no employment, had picked
them up and taken them to headquarters.
Mr.. Stanton had already offered reward Of
$500, but when he found that tho destitute
finder wanted to buy little shop he made
the reward $500, and the man is prospering
In business to-day.-New York Sun.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
parrish Idea Of Order.

The Danish peasantry has notable love oi
order and symmetry in household arrange
ment. placing their furniture wherever posi-
bic in pairs and il exactly corresponding po-
sitons. Cne Old peasant who had accumu-
lnted q Lite money. and had been prevailed
upon to buy his caughter piano, seriously
considered Luyins another TO place against
the opposite wall. says the Philadelphia
Times. Their nc,lsteads consists of great
boxes, generally painted red or green. and
heape,i with leather beds. between which
they ins.naate themselves Winter and Sum-
,nes. II unab.e to afford so many feathers,
the under bed IS o. straw, and receives so lit
lie attention that mice build their nests in 1t
and race back and forth squeezing shr;lly
W .thout disturbing the stolid peasants SUM
lets. The Le,i"ing is not washed oftener than
once or twice = wear.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
ECCLESIASTICAL ECHOES.

John Sheepshanks, the bishop Of Norwich
England. suggests the Shakespearean ques-
ton, whats in a name?"
There are critics who affirm that many oi
the so-calied religious weeklies are altogether
too secular.
At least three prominent clergymen OF New
York are known to distribute their salaries
| among charitable institutions.
Sensational preachers who bring sinners to
repentance that is real and permanent are
few and far between.
So much literature and talk about church
unity is, at least. spiritually suggestive and
significant at this time.
Those who .'join the church, for social pro-
motion and advancement rarely develop into
exemplary Christians.
The greatest OF all religious problems con-
tinues to be how best to reach the class OF
people who ''never go to church."
The loud laugh displays the vacant mind,
and oftentimes the boisterous ''amen' locates
the hypocrite.
Most charming examples of Christian cour-
tesy are attentions to shabby stranger shown
into ''orr pew"
Operate choirs are not always the ones
with which the harp playing angels are COM
pleteiy in tune.
II is a pleasant popularity of the so-called
''hncst" preachers that they always deliver
the shortest sermons.
Bells in city churches continue to be CON-
piainei Of by those who must have lost all
ecclesiastical sentiment
The pompous and coniescending sexton in
fashionable city churches is not vet, unfor-
tunately, an extinct species.
DIR. Greer, rector of st. Bartholomew's. the
new chaplain of the Seventh regiment, will
make his initial parade Decoration Day
There is always curiosity to know how
men VINO take up the collection contribute
themselves.
A tlippant maiden says that in the matter Of
sleeves the Episcopal bishops are in the
heigh: of fashion.
1t continues problem Of considerable per-
plexity how TO make unendowed churches
successfully free.
longed financial depression has not materially
lessened church receipts.
In the matter of new hymnals the Episco-
palians, with four to choose from, have an
embarrassment of riches"
Donation parties that eat up nll there Is in
the parsonage and as an equivalent leave
bag OF -four and a corn-starch pudding are
yet in vogue in rural districts.
The archdeacon OF Westchester. Dr. Van
Kleeck. will have been rector OF Grace church.
White Plains a quarter Of a century in May
next year.
1t is said the archbishop of Canterbury, DIR.
Benson, is not wholly pleased with parts of
his sons novel. ''Dodo," now so much reud
and criticised.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
cZAR WANTS THE PATRONAGE.
Alexander Issues a Ukase Affecting the
Power of Appointment.

Alexander Issues a Ukase Affecting the
Power Of Appointment.
LONDON, May GA special dispatch from
St. Petersburg says: The most important re-
form OF retrogressive and centralizing char
acter yet executed by the present Gar in the
administration is announced in an imperial
ukase bearing date of May 49,
The ukase has struck the entire Russian
official world with CONSERVATION. Nobody
had an inkling of the intention of the Gar.
The ukase deprives all the ministers, gov
ernors. and other high dignitaries of the
power they have hitherto freely exercised of
appointing and dismissing their official sub
ordinates of all classes, and establishes. under
the Cars direct supervision the special
committee Of control, which existed for q few
years under Gar Nicholas.
After November 10 the questions OF ap-
pointments and dismissals must be referred
to this committee. 1t is not known what
really caused the issue Of the ukase, but it is
rumored that it is connected with the recent
arrests Of many minor officials in the differ
ent departments, although the ukase itself
only assigns the lrregularity and illegality of
certain appointments and promotions as the
reason.
1t is also reported that the ministers were
greatly perturbed wnen informed that the
ukase had been issued. The new Minister
of Justice wrote a report to the Czar in regard
TO the decree. and received a sharp answer
for his pains.
The ministers who regarded the action OF
the Gar as sign of mistrust. met the COM
mittee of control and talked Of resigning
This reform will have two consequences.
Favoritism in regard to the promotion, will
be rendered impossible. and minor officials
will be delighted to know that they cannot be
discharged through the mere arbitrary cap
rice of their superiors.
News of political arrests come from every
direction. Tne police have not been so active
in years. About 200 students who were at
tending the ST. Petersburg University have
been each arrested or expelled from the insti-
tuition, while all the others are leaving the
city in fear that their turn may come next. 1t
is reported that thirty persons have already
been barisked to Siberia.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
Caught Giass-sheiled Crab.

IFrom fhe San Francisco Examiner.
Bottled crab is the iG.est reward of patient
fishing on the water front. George Hide
brand, yonng fisherman. hauled one up
from the bottom of the bay yesterday. and it
is now in the possession OF some scientific
longshoremen, who ire puzzled as much over
it as they are about the phantom ship Flying
Dutchman. The fisherman dropped his
hoopnet of the end of Meigg's wharf. The
tide carried the net down the bay as far as
the short rope would allow it, and in hauling
1t up il dragged alosy the bottom. The re-
ward Of the haul was an ordinary pint flask,
and the disguised fisherman was about to
throw it back into the water when something
moving inside it caught his eye Mud had
settled In the bottle, and when it had been
washed out he found that the bottle contained
a crab about the size Of an ordinary poker
chip. and when its claws were stretched out
it reached across the widest part of the flask.
The crab had fattened. and was apparently in
q healthy condition.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
How Bridget Prepared Crabs

lFrom the New ] Ork Herald
Bridget, her Harlem mistress always said,
was "willing," but she did not understand
American cookery.
Her mistress sent home half dozen live
hard shell crabs one day and had left word
that they were to be prepared for dinner.
When the lady entered the kitchen on her re-
turn home she found Bridget in tears and
with her hands and arms tied up. Two empty
green crab shells were on the table, three of
the crabs were mutilated and dead. and the
last one Bridget was preparing to attack.
'!Tve downed them all explained Bridget.
"but that last devil in the corner, and he's a
fighter
.what are you doing to them?" gasped the
mistress.
Cleaning them, ma'am. There's two Of
them cleaned" pointing to the empty shells.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28

WONDERS will never cease. A man has
been found who is willing TO voluntarily re-
linquish an office to which he had been de-
been regularly installed. His name is John
J. Kenny, and he is the present county clerk
of Richmond county, New York. Mr.. Kenny
is Democrat in politics, and his Republican
opponent contested his claim to the Office,
and the incumbent concluded, after careful
examination and in the preparation of his
brief for the trial, that he was not honestly
elected, and therefore concluded to turn over
the office to his competitor without further
opposition and without the formality Of a
trial.
The Washington times., 1894-05-28
Rnn1efS Must Re Odd

A bonnet. in order to gain distinction this
season, must be eouspicuously odd. 1t is
then it is t:ie recipient of the favor of fashion,
able women. Actual beauty is in nowise a
necessity. says tke New York World. A little
Frencn iornet. which lives up to its reputa-
tion of br'uS an odd creation, is made of gold
passcmenterie, interwoven with pearls. Two
white satin rvsettes are perched in front, with
/, sonber and smaller rosette OF black satin
in the center From this two rhinestone
spikes emauate, their glistenirg prongs made
more brilliant by two Gauzy wings OF black
chiffon a:lsilS in the background. The tie
strings are vi Hurrow black velvet.