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q reach and reach but cannot grasp, sighs a certain poet. He must have been chasing his hat.-Tit-Bits.
 Mistress (engaging new servanD-I hope you know your place." Brigitte Brlttledish-Oh, ye, muml I axed your lasht gir-rl all about it.-Puck.
 The difference between "medd1ing' and '1nvestigation" is that you always investigate, while it is the other person who "meddles, "--Household Words
 The Usual Consequence.-Ass That actress ought to be a great suc- cess. She has a European reputation. Manager--Yes; and now she wants an American salary.-Puck.
 Trivvet-Miss Flop claims to have made a thousand refusals of marriage. Dicer-That's easily explained When young Callow asked her to marry him she replied, NO, thousand times, no. |" l-Tit-Bits
 She-One can judge the character of man by his opinion of women. He Yes? She-Yes. Now what kind of a man would you say always held women in the highest esteem? He-A bachelor, T
 "only think" explained Henderson, of them any uses to which paper is now put" T know" replied Bass; 1T was at the theater the others night and I was told it was all paper, And 1t was Q fine, substantial structure, too. '-Bos- ton Transcript.
 The little Boston boy was visiting the little New York boy, and a spelling match was one of their amusements. How do you spell muss?p asked the little New York boy. I-m-b-r-o-g- l-i-o," replied the little Boston bcy, and the little New York boy fainted.-Har- pers Bazar.
 An Eighth ward man in writing an article on "The Movement of Material Objects Without Physical Contact" His attention was called to the matter by seing an old tomato can move six inches to one side to get in front of a man learning to ride a bicycle Mime apolis Journal
 Determined Citizen-Surrender you (bang! bangD infamous scoundrel or (bangD I'll blow you (bang! babgD full of holes - Cool Burglar-Hold on! In the interest O Humanity 1 ask ye to wait a minute Humanity you beast? (bang)" "On account O. yer fam fly. Give 'em a chance t escape afore Se hit some of em (And he cbolly walk ed away to the time of the second pls- tol)-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The beadle in a ruralgdistrict in Perth shire had become too feeble to per- form his duties as minister's man and gravedigger and had to get an assist ant. The two did not agree well, but efter a few months Candy 6he beadle) died, and Tammas had to perform the last service for his late partner. The minister strolled up to Tammas as he was giving the finishing touches to the grave and casually remarked: Have you put Sandy weel down, Tammas?' T hev that, sir" said Tammas very decidedly; Sandy may get up, but he'll be among the hindmost" t"--San Francis co Argonaut.
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coon RoAps PAY nr11.

The legislature of this State has be- fore it the matter of good roads. Sev- eral bills have been introduced and the hearings held have shown that at last there is some real interest in Connecti- cut in matter that should long ago have had earnest and careful attention. The advantages of good roads are so many and so plain that it is astonishing that it has taken so long for the people of this country to begin to appreciate them. But a beginning has been made, and there will probably be rapid prog ress from now on. Connecticut should mot be behind in the procession.
 New Jersey was one of the first States to begin the systematic and intelligent of roads. It has richly paid her so far, and is sure to be still more profitable. In an address deliver ed at Union college the other day Colo mel Francis Vinton Greene said that it had been proved, not only by mechani- cal experiment, but by actual test, that
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 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, l6 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, l5 cents per line,
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own tionablel. and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts--0n two inches or more, one month and over, 10per cent; on four inches or more, one month and over. 15 per cent.
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District Of New Haven, ss. Probate Court, ,
Open Monday and Saturday Evening.

District of New Haven, ss Probate Court
 April 5, 1895. UPSTATE of ELIZA H. MERWIN, late of New IL Haven, in said district decease1. administrator, praying for power and au- thority to sell and convey certain real estate belonging said estate, as per application on flla morefully appears, it is
 ORDERED-,lha said application be heard and determined at Probate court to be held at New Haven in said district, on the 9th day noon, and that notice bo given of the pend- ency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing the same three times in some newspaper having circulation in said district
 LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND, apG St Judge.
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Some men are "business" An ad- vertisement in New York daily stated that "a one-legged man would learn of something to his advantage by calling at a certain address. A curious in dividual called and met the advertiser, 8 man who had lost his right leg. He said: "If I can find man who has lost the other leg and wears the same size shoe that do, we can whack up, and by buying our shoes together we would save considerable"
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as many people at present as are west ward bound through the Omaha gate way. At this rate probably three hum dred families are returning daily to that section of the country.
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.FASHION NOTES.
A GIImpse of Next snInmsr,s Girl.

Spring jackets of white broadcloth, made with irreproachable tailor finish and fastened with enormous ivory or white pearl buttons, are to be very swell for the street and may be worn with any shade of dress though not with a gown showing any elaboration of skirt. White broadcloth is not as extravagahi material as it would seem at first thought, It cleanses perfectly, spots are easily removed from it and at a
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District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court

Dlstriot of NOW HaVen, ss. Probate Uourt,(
 April D, 1885, lI New Haven, in said district, deceased. Upon the application of George l.. Warner, administrator, praying for power and au- thorty to sell and convey certain real estate belonging to said estate, as per application on file more fully appears. it isl
 ORDERED-Th said application be heard and determined at Probate Court to be held at New Haven. in said district on the llth day Of April A. D. 1885, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and thatnotice be given of the pen- dency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing tho same three times in some newspaper having circulation in said district.
 LIVINGSTON W. CLEAVELAND, ap6 3t Judge.
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Bismarck has reason to feel that he has been congratulated. He received between March 31 and April ? S,89O tele grams, 5O,OOO letters and 12O,OOO postal cards.
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Notice.

We cannot accept anonymous or return re- Sected communications. In all cases the name Of the writer will be required. not for puDllca- ton but as @ gIarante good faith.
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If other Missouri river bridges lead ing into Nebraska are being utilized in proportion to the Omaha structures by farmers entering the State overland, a surprising increase in population over anything previously known in that sec tion of the West is assured this spring. For nearly six weeks the Omaha bridge has poured a constant stream of people into the State bound for interior Ne braska points. The bridge tenders think at least one hundred wagons crowded with men, women and children have passed over that route and into Nebraska during the past month. There are bridges across the Missouri at Leav- enworth, Atchison, Rulo, Nebraska City
 Plattsmouth, Blair and Sioux City, and Eeports indicate they are used by almost
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-08

That our opinion of the color of an object is formed by our perceiving that certain constituents are absent in it, Is the conclusion reached by Herr vogel in a paper before the Berlin Physical society. Experimenting with oil lamps provided with pure red, green, and blue color screens, he found that when white light was rigidly excluded the observers lost all sense of color, and could distinguish only shades of black and white in objects in the room. A scale of coIors illumined by red light showed the reds as white or gray; when blue light was added the reds became yellow and could not be distinguished from the yellows on the scale.
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The secrets, of the old BouIanger con- spiracy are now being revealed. The Paris Figaro calculates that eight mill Mon francs-that is $1,6OO, ,OOO--were used up in the attempt to make General Boulanger dictator, so that he should hand over France to the Orleanists, That meant to have the Count of Paris king, Six hundred and five thousand dollars came from the Duchess d'Uzes, SS0o,0OO from the Count of Paris. Gen eral Boulanger died poor and an exile; and it is calculated that much of this money was paid to the press and much was absorbed by middlemen.
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Children sometimes hit the mark in their praying and preaching. little girl in Pittsburg, in saying her pray CTS the other night, was told to pray for her father and mother, who are both very i'll, and for one of the ser wants who had left her husband. She did as instructed, and concluded her petition with these words: And now, Q God, take good care of Yourself, be- cause if anything should hapen to You we would all go to pieces. Amen"
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FOR THE OFFICE.

Are you going to refurnish your office ? If so, call and see our line of DESKS, CHAIRS, Etc.
 lo4-l06 Orange Street.
 Open Monday and Saturday Evening.
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As a result of the recent session of the Populist legislature in North Carolina law has been placed upon the statute book which virtually prohibits mort gages in the State. This extraordinary law provides that "all conditional sales, mortgages, assignments or deeds in trust which are executed to secure any debt, obligation, note, or bond" are 'ab-. aolutely void" if the party owes any thing at the time of making either. It is said that 1t was not really intended by the Populists to pass this law, but that it was Stamped through" by the carelessness of a clerk.
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John E. Robinson of Richmond, Vir- ginfa, is having some of his punishment before his death. He shot and killed a man in a barroom fight, was tried and acquitted. Now he complains that the mother of the man killed comes daily to his place of business and, calling down the vengeance of heaven upon him, tragically points him out to her little grandson as the slayer of his fa- ther. Robinson asks the courts to take care of the woman, as he says the ner- vous strain is killing him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-02
RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Schedule In effect Jan. 6, 1885,


Schedule in effect jan 6, 1885,
Leave Washington from station corner of New
FL, cb,oo Jersey avenue ..s and G street ,,
, For Cincinnati st. Louis and Inaianapolis vesti-
For Pittsburg and Cleveland. express daily II ~
For Lexington and staunton. HES am.
Fer Ln1ay. Natural Bridge Roaness; Knoxville
For LuIay. 1880 pm. daily.
.7:ie I7:so 600 ss-minufes,. s:ss. 1850 1000
4S-minutes! am, xl2.0O. 1i2:o5. 1915, 1910
s ss .s - CSC s
7Is ssS es SS s ss
600 a6-mnqtes) 1905. $50. $500. I9:o0 1000.
For Annapolis. 7:1o and $50 am. 1918. 4:2s
,x Foe Frederick. b9:OO cll:25 am. bills. c4:ao.
For Boyd and way points. a7:o5 pm.
sis5S sss aD as Ss' a Boss5' ST.
5se Gp sss I s .ssspss q
sIGR fSy f sts0 sE% YORK AND
Fo ns nmpsssd With With fnssh Light N.
s cs3. G2;oo Dining Cab, 500 900 Dining Cart.
sGS 9ise m Sleeping Gar open at y SelGsk
Ing Car al, open foi PASSENGERS 1890 pm5.
noon sandays ~ an. 1 Zoo noon. an' i20
EI Except Sunday. Sunday Daily. Sunday only.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
left at ticket Offices, $40 Pennsylvania avenue NV,
New York avenue and 18th street, and At depot.
R. B. CAMPBELL. Gen Manaeer
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Rl6HTRACk.

No pushing, tripping, showing or tackling
Is allowed, and every such offense is count
ed a foul, which gives one point to the OPP
posing nine.
AS a goal counts but three points and a
foul one there is every incentive to avoid
rough play.
The players advance ball by tossing it
sto some member of their own nine.
The "forwards and "centers'' usually
toss the ball forward; but when it gets dan
gerously near his own goal, the goal keeper
often bats it with the open palm. 1t re-
quires a great deal of practice to put the
ball in the goal. Not alone must player
be skillful, he must be very lively.
Team play counts a great deal in basket
ball. The two forward and the home play
ers should always work together to get the
ball into the goal.
Those back guard the goal, and the CEN
ter players are supposed to get the ball and
pass it forward toward the home player
There is a good deal of SNAP to this
game, and usually it is played in two halves
of fifteen minutes each, with slight inter-
mission. When the goal is reached the
game goes right on.
One advantage of basket ball" is that it
can be played at all seasons. Tennis is
often played on covered courts as well as
in open air, but, at the most four can play.
Basket ball can be played by persons
whose physique is not of the robust type,
and it seems as safe and harmless as about
any other game of this kind.
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HOW TO PLAY BASKET BALL.
The New Indoor Sport That Has Won
PnnulnEitY.

The game of basket ball has achieved
considerable popularity among the athletic
clubs of the city. and successful tourna-
ment has been in progress for number of
weeks. The officers of the District League
are: President, Oscar P. Schmidt; vice
presidents, r. ]. Beall, jr.. Joseph A.
Burkart; secretary, John A. Heydler; treas
urer, James Martin.
The athletic clubs are represented at the
meetings by the following delegates: Co
lumbia Athletic Club. r. ]. Beall, jr., II. s.
Flynn, John T. Crossley; Carroll Institute
Joseph A. Burkart, Robert C. Howard,
Maurice A. Joyce; Washington Light In
fantry, John A. Heydler, Ernst Schafhirt,
H. McCabe; Washington Athletic Club.
James Martin, E. L. Wilkerson, Fred Itch
field.
The game can be played out Of doors in
a large field or in small gymnasium.
The name basket BALI is derived from
the fact that scores are made, not by
throwing the ball across the goal lines or
kicking it over the goal bar, as In foot ball,
but by tossing the ordinary association
foot ball into two moderately small baskets.
which are placed at either end of the field
or gymnasium and suspended several feet
above the heads of the players. IL
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule in effect January 10, 1895.
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylyani:

Schedule IN effect January 20 1895.
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania
AM.-Daily-Locaf for Danville Connects
as n w RE Sa wS
Ii;ol AM-peily-The UNITED STATES FAST
MAIL carries Pullman Buffet sleepers New YORK
and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char
man sleeper New Ye1t to Mortgomers with con
neetion for New Orleans connects a. Atlanta with
Pullman Sleeper for CHI birmingham Aia.' Memphis
1s 4:4S PMNDaiiy for charlottesville and through
sof rMp esy e5s ok sq HD
and Pullman Double Drawing Room Compartment
NsS St. DAY car co sess
washingtc n to ST Augustine without change;
WESTERN vESTfBUI.ED LIMITED. composed Of
Pu1Iman yestSuled a sl H and Dining Cars
phis "a Birminsham and Sex York to New Orleans leans
5 TSaIss o. $ %4saISsTox AND OHIO d.
VISION leave Washington 9:10 AN. daily. 4:a2
n Sa keun @ ans pf sas os sn
and 400 PM daily from Round HIN, and 1905
ton e:4$ An: 5:is AN. 2;ss Pm; and $50 P1:
sunday. and 1928 AN. daily from Chariottesviiie
Sleeping G,T and
nue.. and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta
ticn.
". a. GREEN. General Manager eastern systcm).
W. A. TURK. General Passenger Agent.
MO cHrApEAk nBo TN OH Go # H R.ss RRept
Train. Schedule es1s daily f effect sem GnSs ssat ss
Pr. 9Th and sts
Through the grandest scenery in America, with
the hsndsomest aud most complete solid train serv-
'es ss Sefr fISm and st. 1ou,s
special''-Sold vestibuled. newly Equipped. Flee
tric-lighted. Steam-heated Train. Pullnan's finest
sleeping cars WASHINGTON to Cincinnati; Indiannpo-
from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati. 500 am;
Indianapolis 40 am, and Chicago. $50 PM!
11:1o PM. DAHY;.-The famous "F. F. '. Lin.
ited'' A solid vestibuled train. with dining car
and Pullman Seepers for Cincinnati. Lexington and
Louisville, without change. Observation car from
Hinton: Arrives Cincinnati. $50 pm; Lexington,
connects in Union depot for all points.
1857 AM, EXCEPT SUNDAY.-For Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. Only rail line
2:25 PM. DAHY.-Express for Gordonsvflle
Charlottesville. waynesboro, staunton and princi.
pal Virginia points; daily except Sunday for Rich.
Pullman locations and tickets at commands Of.
fees. b1s and 1921 Pennsylvania avenue.
81. W. FULLER,
Oh General Passenger Agent.
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only one on exhibition in this part of the
country. Both elephants are in a decidedly
healthy condition and are noticeably fat
During its residence at the Zoo one of the
elephants has gained over three thousand
pounds. The warm weather of the past
few days probably set the big boa con-
strictor to thinking, for he has laid aside
his old winter clothes and come forth In
new and gorgeous spring suit of purple
with yellow spots, which presents a clean
and velvety appearance
The beavers will soon be given an oppor-
tunity to show what they can do in the
way Of building dams. At the foot of the
hill just back of the prairie dog village an
iron Enclosure has been constructed, through
which small stream courses on its way
to Rock creek. This Is to be the future
home of the beavers, and it Is an attractive
and valuable addition to the Zoo.
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the shoulders of the animal, who was then
dragged to the front of the cage. This
proceeding lowered somewhat the dignity
of Mr.. Tiger and he demonstrated in an
indignant tone. The monkeys in the cage
across the room peered through the bars
with glistenfng eyes. chronic. sleepy old
aliigator some feet away was sufficiently
awakened by the strange doing to open
his left eye In dreamy, inquring manner
and pair of leopards in a nearby cage
retired to the far corner thereof and shiy-
cred with fear. In fact every inhabitant
of the main animal house was wrought up
by the most unusual occurrence
BY dint. of strenuous efforts the paws Ct
the tiger were finally made to protrude
through the bars. To each paw was at
tached stout rope and these were made
fast to rings in the floor about ten feet
the tiger made repeated attempts to free
himself, with an accompaniment Of blood
curdling yells and Kisses. Although the
animal is member OF the royal Bengal
family on this occasion he was not treated
with the consideration generally accorded
nobility.
The instruments of Principal Keeper
Blackburne were not silver mounted. he
did not make use of rosaline or enameline
but placed the paws on block of wood
and with an ordinary cold chisel and heavy
mallet removed the offending claws with
out 1ndulgrg in frills or furbelows The
1ngrowing claws were found to be i'm
bedded in the flesh fully one inch When
removed the relief experienced by the ami
NAL was apparent He was released and
then devoted himself to licking the sore
eXtremftles but did not even reward his
benefactor with a look of gratitude The
leopards regained their composure, the
alligator closed his eyes, the monkeys
started a game of tag and once more all
was serene inside the animal house. But
outdoors there was a great to-do.
In the buffalo yard mighty strife was
on. 1t was the same old story-a woman
In the case, or, to be exact a heifer A
young bull was in the company of a young
heifer on the brow of the hill, when an old
bull. who has been the recognized head
@of the ranch Cor five years past, approached
the couple and evidently made q slurring
fsmarlk in the buffalo language This
aroused the ire CT the youngster and the
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Dangers of Travelling.

From Dagens Nyheter.
An English lady, who had mania for
hob-nobbing with the upper crust" sat In
the train opposite very neatly dressed
but quiet and reserved sort Of man, with
whom she engaged in conversation, in the
course Of which she observed that she had
seen the Countess Lemoine get into the
same train. To her intense delight, she
found that her travelling companion was
well acquainted with the countess and
could give many interesting particulars in
reference to her family and her circle of
friends. The lady became so deeply inter-
ested in the communications of her fellow
traveller, who appeared to be gentleman
moving in the best society. that she asked
him for his card and at the same time in
vited him to her next evening party. The
train stopped. The lady got out and stood
on the platform close behind the countess.
anxious to witness the familiar greetings
exchanged between the lady of rank and
her new-made acquaintance. But picture
her amazement when the countess, without
any ceremony, beckoned him to approach
and said:
James. see to the luggage, will you?"
Her aristocratic friend was nobody else
that the countess valet.