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Evening star., 1895-11-01
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales-regular call-12 o'clock m.-Columbia Rail-
Bank. 10 at 81. American Graphophone, 100 at 34.
After eros,o1 eaiimCapI,al pba, Traction; q. at s. $50
asked. {. S Is, 1925, i2aA bid, 12aa asked. {.
District Of Columbia Bonds.-2O- year fund IS, 1O4
bid. so-year fund Is; gold; lI2H bid. Water stock
currency lis bid. 8 65s, funding currency, ll2 bid
Slas. registered. 2-IOs, 100 bid.
1IiEi bid lis asked. Metropolitan Railroad IS.
io5 bid Belt Railroad M IS, so bid, s. asked Eek
Railroad 6s, 10 bid, lily asked. Washington Gas
Company ss series a 11s bid bid Wash,ns,on Gas
tric Light conv. 5s, ls5 bid. Chesapeake and Po-
can Security and Trust IS. F. and A. Io2 bid. los
asked; American Security and Trust IS, A: and o.,
lst es. III hid: Washington Market Company imp.
es; IL bid washington Market Company ext. Is,
Washington Light Infantry LIST 6s, 100 bid
National Bank X so Of f. Washington $50
sS sa sd hrnt $40 sfa sss bid as''GRsas1
and Mechanics, lS0 bid. Second, 100 bid; l4o
asked cnpa s ls' b wsss End SS S e
asked. Traders, lo5 bid, lo6 asked Lincoln 81
bid, 102 asked. Ohio, 81 bid
Safe Deposit and Trust Comparies.-National Safe
Deposit and Trust, 1io asked Washington Loan
and Trust iIs bid american Security and Trust
''T Railroad Stocks,-capltal Traction Company, so
Columbia 80 bid. Belt, 30 asked. lexington. 30
asked. Georgetown and Tennally town. 80 asked.
Gas and Eleo trio Light Stocks.-Washington Gas,
As bid. Al asked. Georgetown Gas, As bid. 81
asked. U. s. Electric Light, 134% hid 1885, asked.
Insurance Stocks.-Firemen's, "a bid. Franklin,
40 bid. 45 asked. Metropolitan. 20 bid. Corcoran.
so bid. Potomac, 6s bid. Arlington. ~ bid l3o
10 asked Columbia, u bid, 1917 asked. Riggs.
7a bid, sh asked. Peoples, 5% bid, SIS asked;
Lincoln, "a bid, asked Commercial AZ bid, os
esked
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title 1o7
bid, 1l6 asked. Columbia Title Z bid asked
Washington Title, asked. District Title, bid.
- asked.
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylvania, 81 bid 80 asked
Cbesapeake and Potomac so bid. American Graph
ophone, 3H bid, 3as asked. Pneumatic Gun Car
NiSceiIaneons stocks Washington Market, II bid.
Great Falls lee s125 bid. 1876 asked. Lincoln Hall,
65 bid 95 asked. Mergenthaier Linotype, 10 Did,
225 asked.
sEx div.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
Report of the Commission of Which Col
Ludlow Was Chairman
Good Reason to Believe 1t Finds the
Project Feasible and Worthy
of Execution.

The Nicaragua canal commission, through
Colonel Ludlow, its chairman, today submit
ted to the President, through Secretary
Olney, it's report upon the examination of
the route of the canal directed by Congress
made by November 1, so that the commits
sion took advantage of the last moment of
grace.
Although the report itself will probably be
withheld from the public until Congress
meets. there is good reason for the belief
that generally it finds the canal project en-
tirely feasible and worthy of execution and
while 1t is probable that some changes have
been suggested in the line of the projected
canal, these do not affect the question of
expediency in any material degree.
Work of the Commission.
%he work done by the commission in the
brief space of time allotted is almost phe-
ncmenal considering the magnitude of the
project. The members were required to
take fully equipped surveying party to
Nicaragua, examine every foot of the pro-
jected line, cast about to ascertain the
character of the adjacent country with a
view to improving upon the line projected,
II that were possible, to inspect the Pana-
ma canal and form judgment upon the
enduring qualities of earthworks exposed
to heavy tropical rains, and finally to COM
pile all of their measurements and informa-
ticn and prepare estimates of cost. This
latter branch of the work, which was car
r;ed on in New York, was really the most
e> acting and laborious part of the whole
work, and it has required unremitting toll,
day AMI night, to complete the report with
in the allotted time.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
BIDDY'S CLOTHESPIN LEG
An Interesting Demonstration Con-
cernfng Heredity In the Ovipara.

An Interesting Demonstration Con-
cernfnR Heredity In the Ovipara.
From the Punxsutawney Spirit.
Il was down in Indiana county the other
day and stopped ar farm house for din
ner," remarked a man. AFTER dinner I
sat down on the porch to take a smoke.
awkward way, and 1 said to the farmers
wife:
Madam, what is the matter with that
hem?
That hen,' said she, is lame. 1t has an
artificial leg
Oh it has, has it?
Yes. You know there was some very
cold weather last winter, and one night the
hen froze her leg off. 1 pitied her
nursed her and doctored her up, and she
finally got well. But she couldn't walk on
one leg. So 1 just stuck clothes pin on
the stump of her leg, tied a string around
it to hold 1t on, and she does very well with
it,
Well, WELL I said, if that isn't stranger
Yes replied the good lady, with a
smile, but that isn't the strange part of it.
Nor
".No, indeed, The strange par. of if ham
pened afterward, and one would scarcely
believe it IL one hadn't seen 1t with ones
own eyes This spring that hen with the
clothes-pin leg wanted to hatch 1 didn't
think she could. 'Fraid she'd break the
eggs with her stump But l kind o. pitied
her, cause she was a cripple and I nut
thirteen eggs under her. She stuck right
to her business for three weeks and never
broke an egg-hatched out every chicken
Well 1 said, that is not so remarka-
le'
mo replied the woman, that was not
so very odd, but that isn't it. The funny
part of 1T was that every one of those little
chickens had a wooden Iegr"
Evening star., 1895-11-01


Before a Japanese moves he has nothing
to consider. He simply leaves the place he
dislikes and goes to the place he wishes,
without any trouble. There is nothing to
prevent him. Poverty is not an obstacle
but stimulus. Impedimenta he has none,
or only such as he can dispose of in a few
minutes. Distances have no Significance
for him. Nature has given him perfect feet
that can spring him over fifty miles day
without pain; stomach whose chemistry
can extract ample nourishment from food
on which no European could live; and a
constitution that scorns heat, cold and
damp alike, because still unimpaired by u,l-
healthy clothing, by superf1uous comforts,
by the habit of seeking warmth from
CRATES and stoves and by the habit of wear
ing leather shoes. If he desire to travel
1000 miles he can get ready for his journey
in five minutes. His whole outfit need not
cost 75 cents; and all his baggage can be
put into a handerkerchief On $40 he can
travel for year without work. or he
travel simply on his ability to work, or he
can travel as a pilgrim.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
AN UNHEALTHY FOOD.
Potatoes Discussed From a Literary,
Scientific and Culinary Point of View.

Potatoes Discussed From a Literary,
Scientific and Culinary Point of View.
From the Ladies' Home Journal.
to as a food is not nearly so valuable as
we have ey generally esteemed it to be.
1t is quite deficient in nitrogen, and as a
sole diet is therefore unsuitable. 1t is hard to
digest and therefore should be partaken of
very sparingly by all save those who live
active lives out of doors. The
potato provokes our great national ailment,
dyspepsia, and the sooner the consumption
of the mealy tubers begins the sooner will
the dread fangs of the dyspepsia appear.
DR.. Edison in rejoinder to Mr.. Speed
writes: l must quite agree with Mr.. Speed
in his condemnation of the potato. 1 am
sorry to have to say anything against the
humble tuber. but the truth, especially
when it is scientific, and more especially
no one can at all times eat the potato with
the assurance that it will do him no harm.
The practice of feeding potatoes
to infants and young children cannot be too
severely condemned. A potato diet may
not kill them outright at once, but 1t is
certain to injure their digestive organs per-
manently and effectually, so as to make
their lives burden to themselves and those
who are brought in contact with them. DR..
Edison also contends that the potato is very
deficient in nutritive qualities and has less
value article of food than most other
vegetables and cereals.
Mrs. Rorer writes: 1 am not a potato
tatoes should be served only with strongly
concentrated nitrogenous food, such as
roasted beef, or. for the vegetarian, with
beans, peas or lentilS.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
THE YOUNG WILL CASE.
Testimony Showing the Dead Man
Disliked the COntesting Brother.

Testimony Showing the Dead Man
DisIfEed the COntesting Brother.
In the case in which the will of the late
James E. Young. who died October 10, 1892
Is being contested by Thos. E. Young. a
brother, the Introduction of testimony on
behalf Of the contestant was concluded to-
day. The testimony. for the most parts
was similar to that reported in yesterdays
Star, tending to show that the deceased
was of unsound mind.
On behalf of the beneficiaries under the
will, the dispositions of the late John M.
Young, brother of the testator. who died
last February, and who was the executor
under the will, as well as beneficiary, and
that of Mrs. Margaret Gaddis, a sister,
were made to the jury. These depositiohs
related to the last illness of the testator,
and the hostility which is claimed to have
existed between him and the brother who
is contesting the will, and who was not
made beneficiary.
The benenc.aries next called as witness
Edward H. Wilson. who wrote the tesla
tors will. He stated that he went to the
house at the request of DR.. Young, ana
reached there in the evening. The dead
man dictated the contents of the will. and
when Dr. Young suggested to the SICK man
that he make his brother. Thos. f. Young,
a beneficiary the testator referred to MIN III
abusive language, and declared tnat ne
would not. The testator was unable TO slsn
the will the evening it was written. ana
witness returned the next afternoon. Wheh
the sick man signed 1t by making ms marx.
At both visits the sick mans mind. the VIII
ness believed, was perfectly clear.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
American Agents Of London Houses
Buy Moderately.
PANAMA ROAD and PACIFIC MAIL
Effect Of the Closing of Sugar
Refneries.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, November 1.-Opening
prices this morning were irregular, but in
the main steady around last nights closing
figures. Although the London market was
closed for the celebration of All Saints day.
local representatives of foreign houses
were moderate purchasers of the more
prominent international issues in anticipa-
tion of a higher market next week The
holiday will enable brokers to adjust their
mining operations, and may dispose of the
fears recently pronounced in this con-
nection. The market for sterling and con-
tinental bills was dull but firm around top
rates, the supply OF all classes of bills be-
ing extremely narrow.
The official announcement that the Pam
anna Railroad Company had determined
not to enter into any contract with ths
Pacific Mail Steamship Company for the
joint operation of the road resulted in lib
eral sales of the latter for both accounts.
Opening figures reflected a decline of IA
per cent and from this level 1-2 per cent
was subtracted before the pressure was re-
lieved. A sharp recovery followed a pro-
fessional covering movement.
Sugar felt the effects of further reduc-
tion in nearly all grades of refined, and the
announcement that the Philadelphia refin-
cries would be closed for several days to
make repairs. The latter announcement
was not unexpected at this time, its effect
being particularly desirable to the manage
ment, but otherwise of no significance. The
company has already in warehouses enough
to supply the trade, and can close up an
occasional refinery in order that Congress
may be convinced of the unfairness of fur
ther legislative interference.
Interests recently noticed among the sellers
of Tennessee Coal and Iron were credited
with buying back long stock today, and as
surances of a more accurate estimate Of
the stocks value were again renewed.
The slightest halt in the demand, how
ever, invariably resulted in fractional con-
cessions.
The character of the trading in railway
shares was somewhat improved, the buying
by commission houses being a significant
feature of small volume of business
The publication of New York CentraPs
statement for the quarter ending September
80 showing an increase of s224,O In sur
plus against deficit of $4,000 for the
same period last year. should have a good
effect on the foreign market, as well as the
local one. The returns from the leading
railway systems of the country furnish lit
tie encouragement to the believers in lower
prices.
Disinterestedness may prevail for some
time to come but the purchaser who Is
willing to wait a reasonable time for
profits is not likely to be disappointed.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
SEEKING ANOTHER SITE.
Secretary Herbert's influence Causes
Change I'm Garbage Plans.

secretary Herberts influence Causes
Change I'm Garbage Plans.
The letter of Secretary Herbert relative
to the location of the garbage crematory.
an account of which was printed in The
Star of yesterday, had the effect of stop
ping further movements in that direction,
and there seems no doubt that the Com
missioners will compel the garbage con-
tractor to look elsewhere for site.
In this connection it will be interesting
to note that the 26th of October last the
Commissioners, replying to a letter from
Messrs. Tyler & Rutherford, who repre-
sented a number of interested property own
ers and citizens in the neighborhood, said
THE Commissioners have given
the matter careful consideration, and see
no good reason to make a change in the
locati which they had approved before
they received your letter."
This morning the representative of the
Smith crematory. in company with Con-
tractor Warfeld, had conference with the
Commissioners on the subject, and it is un-
derstcod he was told to look elsewhere for
another site, as the Commissioners had de-
cided not to allow its construction on
square 63.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
Money and Authorship.

a
There is now an author before the public
whose writings have wide audience, but
who has been recently told by the critics
that his work is deteriorating. This is true,
and it is not strange that it should be so.
He is a man who as writer shows the
highest art in his work, and his earlier
books demonstrate this fact beyond a
doubt. But he has come under the influ-
e1ce of the dollar, and now writes what is
called Ito order" Not long ago a maga-
zine editor approached this author for his
next work, and found him just starting
upon it.
Il would like it," said the editor.
What will you pay for it?" was the
authors first question.
How long will it probably be?' inquired
the editor.
"Oh, 1 can make it just as long or as
short as you want it, said the obliging
author. Then he added: 1T depends upon
the price. l can make a 40,OUO-word story
of it if you like, and then 1t will cost you
S6OOO Or, 1 can spin it out to 10000 words
and that is really what l ought to have
to let the story tell itself; but then 1 will
want $500 for it, OF course, if you can't
pay more than $4,000, L can Srim it accord
ingly."
The real question of the story itself did
not enter into the question. 1t was simply
a matter of price. You paid so much and
you got so much. If you paid little more
you received a little more. 1t was Anthony
Trollope over again.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
Baltimore Markets,

BALTIMORE, November Flour steady un-
ehanged-receipts, 7,549 barrels; shipments, 116
month, 66a66h: December, 66Na67: May. 7Ih
asked; steamer No. red, 63a6SA A-recepts, 1858
bushels; stock, 555, 7s1 bushels sales. $4,000 bush
grade, 64a67. Corn easy-spot, 37l4a371a; month";
new and old, 34$a34a.; year, 33aa34: January
ceipts 269O2 bushels; stock. 2s5 42s bushels: sales
1900 bushels southern white corn, 341aa37; do
yellow, 34l1a36E. Oats, mixed firm, white quiet
No, white western, 24Aa24h No. 2 mixed. %
bd-reeeipts 12,6S1 bushels; stock, 2oO177 bushels
49a western-receipts, 1929 bushels; stock TO- 143
bushels: Hay frnl,choice timothy sl5 5oa$l6.Oo
Grain freissts steady with not much activity @ nn
pounds. Butter and eggs steady, unchanged. Cheese
hrm, unchanged.
Evening star., 1895-11-01

Engagement of the Opera House Mt
Little Rock.

AUSTIN. Texas, November 1-George
Walker, lessee of the Little Rock Opera
House. who is in this city, this morning re-
ccived telegram from VIM. Brady. under
date of Arlington Springs. Ark, asking for
the use of the Opera House at Little Rock
for this afternoon for training purposes be-
hind closed doors.
Walker granted the request, and says
that he thinks that this is a scheme to pull
the big fight off in the opera house this
afternoon in private.
HOT SPRINGS. Ark, November l.
Tommy Ryan and Billy Smith, with their
hackers, got together this morning weigh
ed in and claimed the $1,000 forfeit money
put up by the Florida Athletic Club when
they made contract to bring off the mid
dle-weight contest.
A rumor was current this morning that
the Maher-ODoHnell tight for Monday
night had been declared off because of
some bubble about the division of the
purse and side money. AS far as the prin-
cipals and their hackers are concerned. the
tght Will occur Monday as announced. The
agreement entered into yesterday provided
that the winner take all, and there has been
no change of heart in either side as to the
Harness of this provision.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Panic-Stricken
Earthquake. !.
HOUSES ROCKED In THE ETERNAL CITY
Prisoners Were Terrified and Tried
to Escape.
VATICAN BUILDINGS SHAKEN

ROME, November IA severe and pro-
Iorged earthquake shock was felt here at
IS this morning. Many houses swayed
badly, walls we're cracked. pictures and
other articles fell from the walls and other
places, people ran panic-stricken into the
streets and serious disaster was for a
time apprehended. Happily, the first shock
seems to have ended the subterraneous
disturbances. and the frightened inhabi-
tants returned to their homes So far as is
known no serious damage was done. An
inspection of the public buildings will be
rIade 10 determine the extent of the in
juries. if any, that have been sustained.
Some idea of the alarm created may be
gathered from the fact that a prison was
50 badly 5haken that the terrified prisoners
hroke out into open revolt and tried to es-
cape from the building. The situation be-
came SO serious that the troops from
neighboring barrack were hastily summon
ed. and 1t was not until they had surround
ed and taken possession of the prison that
order was restored The inmates were
driven rack at the point of the tayonet to
their cells.
The vatican buildings were severely
shaken, but the pope was perfectly tran
quiz throughout the disturbance. The
thoughts of his holiness were not for him
self. but for other people in danger. He
sent to the nearest police depot to inquire
II there had been any loss of life or serious
damage to property, and mis- holiness was
much relieved when he was informed that
the damage dcne was slight and that no
loss of life had bean reported.
The series of shocks lasted about eleven
seconds. Two clocks in the observatory
were stopped and the old tower of the Ro-
man College was cracked.
Earthquake shocks were also felt at
Rccca di Papa, but although the people
were thrown into panic, 10 serious dam
age was done.
Evening star., 1895-11-01

From Exchange.
Says former surgeon in the confederate
army: Il remember General Malone as he
appeared before Petersburg in 1864. He was
already famous throughout the army for
his fighting qualities and his temper. My
duty took me frequently past his headquar-
ters, and one morning I saw him pacing up
and down In front of his tent while negro
sat in the doorway gorging himself with a
fresh pan of biscuit. l turned to an officer
and asked the meaning of this strange per-
formance. Then came the explanation that
the negro had baked pan of sour biscuit
for breakfast, and Malone, by way of an
object lesson, had set the cook to eat all of
his own product The negro ate as fast as
possible, and Malone kept up his patrol un-
til the last biscuit disappeared. The per-
formance was characteristic of the man."
Evening star., 1895-11-01
DIsORDERLY STUDENTS EJECTED.
They Tried to Break Up q Theatrical
Performance.

CHICAGO. November Fifty students of
the Northwestern University, at Evanston,
Wis, were elected from the Chicago Opera
House last night, after the first act for
raising such disturbance that the curtain
had to be rung down. More than 100 of
them occupied seats in the balcony, and
when member of the MERRY World' COM
pany walked on the stage carrying crooked
stick about which was tied the colors of
the university. 1t was more than the stu
dents could stand. and they Immediately let
out their college yell. And they continued
to do this despite the efforts of several po-
lice officers and the warnings of the man
ager of the house. Hats, canes, overcoats
andgverious other articles were thrown into
the air, only 10 fab on the heads of those be-
low. and the whole scene became one of pan
demonluni.
The curtain was rung down, and the stu
dentslMere warned that II the scene was re-
peated they would be elected. Then the cur
tain went up again. and it no sooner did so
than the tumut began with renewed vigor.
AT the end of the act fifty of the students
were put out.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
HAPPY LEO VOGT.
He Wins n Pony and Cart by His In
dustry ind Enterprise.

He Wins n Pony and Cart by His In
dustry md Enterprise.
The prize pony and cart offered several
weeks ago by Parker, Bridget G Co., the
7th street clothiers, to the boy or girl under
sixteen years of age who would send the
largest number of customers to their es3ab-
hshment during the month of October have
been awarded to Leo Vogt of GOT E street
northwest. The decision was reached last
evening. when the coupons turned in by
nearly $50 little ones were counted by the
members of the firm in the presence of three
local newspaper men. 1t was found that
Leo Vogt had far outdistanced all COM
petitors, and he was made supremely happy
by being informed of the fact
During the time the contest was In
progress the diminutive turnout was daily
driven about the streets and watched with
longing eyes by thousands Of boys and girls
All the competitors worked hard for the
pony.Sand it Is a matter of regret to Messrs.
Parker, Bridget & Co. that similar outfit
could not be presented to each to repay them
for their earnest endeavors.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
Diet and Dentistry.
From the New York World.

A dentist of Boston within the past year
has had come to him for professional treat
ment four Swedish girls, who have been
serving as domestics in families where lit
tie attention is paid to proper selection of
food, the palate being pleased rather than
the body fed. The teeth in each of these
young women were really crumbling away
And why? In their native country, where
the Swedish bread is baked at intervals
during the year and hung on poles to dry
and harden, the teeth had had their proper
exercise. But when these girls became sub
ject to american civilization" and were
obliged to eat the pap and pastry in homes
where more time is devoted to catering to
the taste than to finding out the needs of
the body, the masticatng of food was no
longer a necessity, and the teeth, finding
they were of no mere service, decided to
take themselves out of the Way.
Evening star., 1895-11-01

Paris Letter to Newark News.
Bicy coming here will be wise to
bring their American wheels with them
They will regret it if they don't. 1 don't
care what make it is, every wheel made in
America Is better than the best made here
or in England. 1 an speaking from actual
experience, not hearSay And my expe-
rience is not compared with my recollection
of riding in America, for ex-Congressman
Cable brought his wheel with him. After
getting completely tagged out. pumping the
best make in England and France, 1 have
regained my breath in few moments after
having swapped machines with Gable. Other
Americans who have travelled here on BIZ
cycles say the same thing. Moreover. BIZ
cycles made in Europe, despite their in
feriority, cost just as much as those made
in America.