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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

COLUMBIA ACADEMY cling IN: craze ss;
One Of the sights Of Washington Cycling taught
a 12.O00-ft. floor. Competent instructors
Charges small. Music every evening. 2ed and 1
streets. J. HART BRITTAIN. Mgr. Take 4
street cars mh5-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

Encyclopedia Dictionary, defines 600
words sells here for $1,000 per set: in st.
Louis for $500 per set. STANDARD Diction-
ary' defines 301, S65 words and sells for
1880 everywhere. Sample pages. free. R.
A. Dinsmore, 62S G NV. 1ta
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We Remove Every Particle of Dust
make carpets bright as new-without
slightest injury-when we clean them.
Empire Carpet Cleaning Wks. ,631-5 Mass ay
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For Planked Sind and Sen Food.
OF all kinds go to Hotel Johnson Cafes La
dies entrance, 18th st. Stairway & elevator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

Largest assortment of Gas Ranges and
Gasoline Stoves in the city
A. EBERLY'S SONS us It'll at nv
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CITY ITEMS.

Lunches, Dinners and Receptions
are speciality at ''Maison Rauscher," Conn.
ave. and l. st. Finest ball room in the city
ard cozy 5 o'clock tea ROOM 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

Where is the woman who does not
like to have her baby fat and chubby
and cunning? And where is the wo-
man who does not like to have rosy
cheeks and plumpness herself?
SCOTS Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil is
for both, but its merit is peculiar to
ITSELF and its effect cannot be had
by using any substitute for it. s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

Finest oysters, Fish, Game, &c. Meals
la carte, Lunch and table d'hote Dinner
Entrance to ladies' and gents cafe, 18th
st. front; stairway and elevator. Lifetime
experience II
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Lighting Rods. Electric Light. jill. Kuehling

Not patent medicines. but honest Cor
dials-Me,listcn Wild Cherry. 15c.; Coca
Wine 6Oc.; Kols.fra Port. tajc. bottle; Stom-
ach Bitters. G0c.; Double lkummel Coo a.
CHR. XANDER'S. 800 18th ST
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Rocl<bridse Rye, Finest Made,
81 per gall; 81 quart bottle; 5Oc pint; 25c
sample bottle. LYNkHS. 404 9th st. NV
fe25-tu&stf
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Hotel johnson Cafes.

% per cent discount during opening. Week
April g. NAPLES TOILET CO., 1921 G. 1t
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Money to lend at and 6 per cent on real
estate. Frank T. Rawlings, 1905 Pa. ave.
Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

For strengthening and clearing the voice
Use BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCHES-
Il have commended them to friends who
were public speakers. and they have proved
extremely serviceable.@Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher. ap2-eo3t
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To the International Mathematical
Conference.

Conference.
Prof. Simon Newcomb and Dr. John S.
Billings have been designated by the Sec
rotary Of State to represent the United
States at the international b.bliograph:cal
conference, to be held in London at the
call of the Royal Society. Prof. Newcomb
will sail on the 18th Of April for London, g.
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LACE CURTAINS AND BLANKETS
Cleaned A. F BORNOT, 11O3 st.
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Opening Monday. % per cent off for one
week. NAPLES TOILET CO., 1921 G.
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Actually n Kicking. Tug Load
Every Few HOurs-NO Ice Used.
Delivered right at r. A. Golden's fish and
game stands, Center market-Large Live
Potomac Seine-caught Roe Shad,-, Boiling
Rock and White Perch. Don't miss this
chance to get these kind Of fish. Telephone
S44. ap1
Royal Headache Powders cure. Zoe.
mh5-m,w,f,s tf
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Mems Derby and Fedora Hats, latest
styles, 81, sl.5O and 81. Extra value. A. T.
Lewis, 42o eth st.
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Observation-Disclosures sticks everything 1Oc
mh5-t,f, stf
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GENTS SUITS CLEANED.
A. F. BORNOT. HOB G. st
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Estabrook's for best Photos. 1927 Pa. ave.
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Ivy list. Bus. College, Sth ard X, teaches
any one subject of it's course at 81 a month.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12

ner. 1t doesn't matter what it may be.
Directly the drawing is finished he wraps
it around the little cylinder at the top of
the machine; he presses n button, and in
that same instant, while the machines
r~evolve. the man in the newspaper room,
say 1000 miles away is reproducing that
sketch.
II can now say the instrument is ready
for use. You could handle it at once with
absolute certainty. Before I attempt
to put it on the market / shall try to re-
duce it to a portable size, so that the artist
sent to Chicago or st. Louis may carry
it In his pocket. dump it down on any
kind of telegraph table and transmit the
drawing with just as much ease and as
little ceremony as he would use in tele-
graphing a 2OO-word story.
"In less than four months from this
time the instrument in its portable form
will be ready for the market. We can
now use the instrument at 500 miles with
ease. at 1000 with reasonable accuracy,
and before / have finished I will try to
span the continent from Frisco to New
Ynrk"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
Peculiar Mishap ON a Railway

A very peculiar mishap to a f!uight
train has just come to the attention Of
the motive power department Of the
Panhandle In this city, and in it's de-
tails it assumes the nature Of q miracle
as strange as those of old. The train
was running at Il rapid rate between
Xenia and Trebeins, a distance of four
miles, when the trucks Of n Of the
cars gave way and jumped on to the
tracks Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton road, which runs parallel with
the Pennsylvania at that point. The
trucks lighted squarely on the rails
and continued running until they
smashed into the pilot Of a Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton engine running
in the opposite direction. The Pan
handle train evidently did not suffer
any Inconvenience owing to the loss Of
trucks, as 1t was not discovered until
Trebeins was reached, and then 1t was
found that the body Of the freight car
was held In position by the couplings
and had run two miles without any
wheels. The accident IL perhaps with
out parallel in annals Of railways, and
although absolutely rue and vouched
for by the motive power department
officials, 1t seems stranger than fiction.
Columbus, O., Press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
AS SENT BY WIRE.

AS SENT BY WIRE. system, in which the
transmission vas made along a sort of
pendulum. / had thought out and per-
fected the machine some years ago, when
the telephone came along and stopped me.
A business man desiring to give a practi-
cal description of a design In dry goods,
prints or in forms could make his mean
ing readily clearer over the telephone.
ut afterward occurred to me that the
perfection Of this little instrument might
benefit my friends. in the newspaper pro-
~fession, and it is for them that I have
designed it. ! want to say that no news
paper has or will have a monopoly in the
autotelagraph. / shall reserve the paten.
and sell the machines to any newspaper
that cares to buy it.
1.-The process is simple enough. The
artist makes his sketch in the usual man
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
NEW LAWS.
It IL Said Some Tariff Legislation
May Be Enacted.

It IL Said Some Tariff Legislation
May Be Enacted.
A Washington correspondent says that
it is assumed as one of the things very
likely to occur that there will be tariff
legislation without regard to currency re-
form enactments. Speculation upon this
point Is taking q form which leaves little
room for doubt that the matter has been
thoroughly discussed by the friends and
advisers of the President-elect and that
sufficient pledges have been given by free
silver Republican Senators to insure the
passage Of new revenue laws whenever
the word is given. As time progresses
the chances will increase for the enact
ment Of q new revenue law during the
short term of the present Congress, but It
will not do to assume this as one OF the
sure things.
The election returns from the several
territories are Of q character to blast
whatever hopes they may have enter
tanned Of being admitted into the sister
hood Of States during the life Of this or
the ffty-dfth Congress. No voting popu-
lation that 10 committed to free silver
can hope to receive any favors Of that
sort ut the hands Of . Congress that 10
committed to : gold standard.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
Seeking an Honest Opinion.

The right use Of wealth suggests
many sermons, and the influence Of
wealth upon happiness is almost as
fruitful a theme. A story told by the
friends Of an Oregon millionaire goes
to show that, after n has grown &C.
customed to a simple way Of life, the
possession of a fortune may involve
only sorrow and bitterness.
When his silver mines began to yield
more money than he knew how to
spend, Mr.. Blanks ambitious wife con
ceived the idea Of invading society.
Washington was chosen as the point
Of attack. Land was bought, archi-
tect and builder were set at work, and
a modern palace arose almost as
speedily as Aladdin's. Then began the
struggle to be fashionable, an effort in
which Nh. Blank found himself an III
willing participant. Balls and recep-
tons bored him. Late dinners agreed
with neither his head nor his stomach.
Even to please his two daughters, he
could not pretend a cordial friendship
for men who talked of nothing but
lawn tennis and the latest opera.
A CLEAN Of pleasure came to the old
prospector when, after a year, a for
mer partner visited Washington. It
seemed obscured when the old friend
asked to e the new house, but the
millionaire was too proud to shirk his
duty. Wearing a face of deepest
gloom he escorted the visitor upstairs
and down, the latter admiring and very
enthusiastic. The host said little or
nothing. In due course the inspection
was finished, and they reached the
hall.
swell, Tim, you can't say you amt
got everything you want" said the
visitor.
Eyes, I cam the millionaire answer.
ed somberly. Il want a parrot"
"A parrot!"
EYES,"
what furY"
ITO hang up here, so every time I
open the door he could say, Here
comes that old fool ag'in!"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
test win be received IN asspscials report %
Cnn1rpSs In nacnnnhoe sMs.AEs y.

test win be received II asspscial report O.
Congress in December.
The aggregate number Of domestic and
international money orders issued during
the year was 24,047, $40, amounting to
$1S5,953,254, and their payments and re-
payments were $~24,14O,S48, amounting
to SIT 1857, 507. There was an increase
OF over : per cent. in the whole number
OF money orders issued, showing growth
or the system and the total increase In
revenue from both the domestic and in
ternational business was $74.147. The
total amount of bills Of exchange result
ing from exchange during the year wal
S,101,709, and the balances received
from abroad for the same purpose were
$2O1, $40.
In the dead letter Office 1855, 1853 pieces
OF original mail matter were received,
about $33,8oO being inclosed, and 81 per
cent. of the money restored. Letters also
came containing drafts, checks, ETC., of
the apparent value of $955,O0 about 81
per cent. of this being returned to own
ers.
For the fiscal year ending June 30
1898, the report asks for appropriations
of $17,OOO,OOO for compensation of post
masters; $11,OOO,OOO for clerk hire allow
ances; $1,6OO,OOO to cover rent, fuel and
light at first, second and third class Of
fees; $4,000 for miscellaneous and Incl
dental items. including furniture; $751;
QUO for canceling machines: $4,000 for
advertising; $4,000 for postofice sup
plies, and $13,326,JOO for free delivery,
including salaries Of 1880 regular car
riors-
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12

correspondent at the other end, the
'image appearing ike an animated col
cred photograph" The distance GOV.
cred In the experiments shown was
only thirty feet, and it still remains
to be cen to what distance light will
travel over the wires.
There r in the United States, II IL
stated, 100000 machinists, 10000 tool
makers, 25,000 boiler-makers, 10000
rattern-makers, 10000 carpenters and
TONERS, 100000 masons and bricklayers,
10000 contractors and builders, $4,000
plumbers, gas and steam filters, 10000
stationary engineers and firemen,. 1OO,.
600 locomotive engineers and firemen.
10000 electric railway and light en-
ployes, $4,000 cabinet Makers, carvers
and woodworkers, $4,000 civil, mechan-
ical, electrical and mining engineers.
Thousands Of spectators witnessed
the unique spectacle Of the annual
blessing of the fisheries, which took
place at Folkestone, England, recently.
A procession, consisting Of surpliced
choirs and clergy. with cross and ban
ners, left st. Peters Church, and after
1t had made a detour of the fishing
quarter of the town, chanting the lit
any, a position was taken up overlook
ing the sea-. The vicar Of the parish
gave an appropriate address, and the
prayers were offered, asking a divine
blessing on the fishermen's calling.
Four ardent w. c. T. U. women as
tonished a Millbridge, Me-. police JUS
tice and caused excitement in his court
~ protesting against his allowing a
rumseller to so scot free, as they term
cd it, when they saw the accused walk
ing away in an apparently happy
frame of mind. The prisoner had been
bound owe for the fall term Of the
Supreme Court, but the women could
not be made to understand it, and they
marched out of court declaiming loudly
against liquor dealers, lawyers and jus
tees, whom they classed altogether.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
PosroFFlcE REPORT.
Facts and Figures of the Department
for the Year just Past.

- 0CtS duAu IlSu6Co Va VAC 1JCVuE SuICuG
for the Year just Past.
The annual report of Frank H. Jones,
First Assistant Postmaster General,
gives a review of a large part of the years
postal business of the Government and
makes numerous recommendations for
the improvement of the service. It shows
that during the last three fiscal years the
aggregate savings in the divisions of sal
aries and allowances of postmasters We're
S545, 094; in free delivery, $~2.314,415. and
postoflice supplies, $3.50 total, 3d.
27S,9S6. For that period there was an
aggregate reduction of 3,O3O,1 34 in the
number Of pieces of mail sent from post
Offices to the dead letter Office.
The total number Of presidential offices
July l last was 1861, of which 1859 were
first-class, 146 second-class and c,736
third-class. The aggregate gross receipts
at the first, second and third class offices
were $65, 2S2, 3G5 and the total salaries
Sc, 2O3,9C0. Since Nov. 2, 1894. there
have been 2,453 positions in the post
Offices added to the ella ssified service.
This leaves as the only positions at first
class postotficcs that are now excepted
from civil service examinations assistant
postmasters and principal cashiers: at
second-class Offices, assistant postmas-
tiers. Attention Is called to the fact that
Notwithstanding the increase in gross re-
ceipts the numerical increase in the force
was less than SO per cent. of previous
years.
During the rear twenty-nine stations
and 12O substations were established, and
one station and seven substati0ns were
discontinued, q net increase Of al sta
lions and substations. Fifty-fve post
r. ices of the second, third and fourth
lsses were discontinued during the
II, and fifty-four stations and substa-
were established to take their
De experiment Of free delivery in
Rive towns and villages cost the de-
znent $8,247, leaving an unexpended
Ince Of $1,753. Investigation showed
in q majority of the Offices the gross
eipts had decreased since the estab-
ment of the service, the department
compelled to send money to some
y for the payment Of the letter car
salaries. Congress did not appro-
B tor further permanent or expert.
y service. and the experiment was
D9arily discontinued with the close Of
lnscal year.
mere are sixty-three Offices which were
<3tled to the establishment Of the free
sery service during the fiscal year
"a June 80, 1896, but the service could
4 established ct more than ninsteen
without entailing . greater ex-
upon the limited appropriations for
Sprrent year than the m~alntenance
established service would permit.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12

any kind of q sketch
can be n In q
talk about his new
invention Mr.. Edi-
son said:
There is nothing
absolutely new in
this idea. It is SIM
ply a development
of the old Cassella
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
She Needed Air.

''She wants air! She wants ARR
yelled a man on the inside Of the crowd
that had gathered around the female
cycler.
whats the matter-wonan faint.
Cd" inquired a policeman, rushing up.
'Oh. no." replied the man; .sshe' has
only dismounted to pump more air in
her Observation-Disclosures North Ameri.
can.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12

A full line Of COINS, Caskets and Undertaken
Goods. The finest and cheapest not Of furniture
ever brought to the city. Can ana see my stock
before purchasing elsewhere.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
WILL SEND PICTURE ey WIRE.

Thomas A. Edison Talks About His
Latest Invention.
Thomas A. Edison has about perfected
his apparatus for transmitting pictures
by wire. BY the use of the instrument
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-11-12
Audience or Company

Audience or COlnpanyy
AT the end Of the first act you Are
killed. said the stage manager to the
new utility man.
ssBy whom? asked the histrion, anx-
iouoly.-Pittsburg Chronicle-TelegratA.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-08

Ptolmios Did Hawthorne foresee he
fate In store for the original hllda
when he made Miriam say to Kenyon,
There Is certainly providence or pur-
pose for HIlda. u for no ether human
creature
in time. true 10 her promise, Adallne
returned to her native land and welded
the lover OF her glrlhood. Shortly
after their marriage the husband be-
came professor OF rhetoric. while the
wife filled the chair Of modern Ian
guages at Antioch college. Then a
shadow fell lie became subject "a
oploptlc hts. The wife opened a school
in Boston. The combined cares Of
school and nursery began to tel at
length on the delicate organization. In
her blood was a faint OF insanity. This
thought preyed upon her weakened
condition. One night she slipped away
and committed suicide by ieaping into
the Sound from a Providence line
steamer.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-08
.How GOOD OF YOU

hts workman's clothes under a smart
overooal. and waited for his wife, who
presently appeared from her little
booth In the Rue nt-Honore. and
arm-ln-arm they returned TO their
humble home.
AT last a son was born, and was put
out TO nurse. The parents went to see
him once a fortnight But at the end
Of year the child died Of ccnvulslons.
The parents were. however, soon after
ward consoled by the birth Of little
Adrien. Having had such sad ex-
perlence. Clementine resolved TO bring
10 the child herself. and gave up her
little shop In order TO be able to at
tend to her baby. She took In work,
hut aid not make more than half Of
what she had previously earned. New
erihelcss she continued 70 dress we'll.
In vain did Tony work desperately; the
household became embarrassed and
steeped In debt when the child was
weaned. be was sent out during the
day 10 a ohildren's asylum, and the
mother. often unoccupied, became tired
Of her inactivity Just think OF the
moor husband. old before his time, worn
out With working Tor and worrying
about his glddy. pretty wife Of twenty.
threel
One evening when Tony entered the
house with the child whom he had
picked up at the asylum as he had
passed. he found an envelope on the
manteipleoe. from which, when h'
opened Il. fell Clomenune's weddinr
ring. In TIE letter she babe rood-W'
10 her husband and child and begged
their forgiveness.
The unialthml wife nes IN tie be-
ginning OF May. ~ The end q Joll
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-08

the threshold Of fame Story. whose
lamop,zble death was recently cabled
from Rome. It Is Yariously
asserted. sat In the romancers eye
when he created the character Of Ken
yon. Certainly this description Of Hils
da's lover iallies with that Of the brill
liant young American as he appeared
20 bis friends in those early student
days.
The sculptor had a face which when
time had done a little more for II would
offer a worthy subject for az good an
artist as himself. features finely cut
as II already marble, an ideal forehead,
deeply set eyes and mouth sensitive
and delicate"
II was the model OF Alkaline Shep-
herds hand that Kenyon took 80 ten
derby out OF the "old-fashioned ivory
Golfer" on the occasion Of Mlriam'i
visit 10 the sculptor's studio: "a small
beautifully shaped hand delicatell
seulp,ured In marble Such loving cart
and nice art had been laNishea hei'
that the palm really seemed 10 have
tenderness In H. very substance
Touching those lovely fngers-had th'
Jealous sculptor allowed you to touei
you could hardly believe that virgil
warmth would not steal from them int
your heart"
This hand. Il Is faid. guided Story u
the modelling OF the hand in his IA
nous statue OF Cleopatra. Repeats'
visits to the Metropolitan museum. d
whose vestibule the famous statue O
Cleopatra oonfronts the visitor, fai
however. to reveal any resemblance be
tween the de,icacy Of Hildas han
and the majestic symmetry an
strength Of the hand Of the last Of ih
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-01-08

1. No one should become a habitual
cyclist without medical authorization.
Before committing himself 10 an opin-
ion the medical man consulted will DO
well to examine the beginner on dis
mounting from the machine as well as
beforehand: there are certain cardiac
defects which only become recognize
BILE when the subject Is under the IN
iiuence OF excitement or fatigue. ..
A cyclist should az first be contented
With a moderate pace. not exceeding
twelve kilOmeters per hour labout
seven miles and a halO. A higher rate
Of speed should only be INDUCED in
after the rider has gone through a regu-
lar course Of training. II break In
tire practice occurs. lasting even few
DAYS the cyclist should recommends at
the slower rate. 3. The temptation to
70 quickly must b. controlled az far
as possible. A bicycle travels WE'LL
nigh Of its own accord. and {, Is very
hard 10 resist the ~dehrlum Of speed. 10
with a light machine on a good road.
and helped ever 80 Nttlo by the breeze
an amateur. even when only half
trained. can easiv achieve Ole tVcnty-
i've tilomeiors within the hour laieea
mileo and a haln. This is too much.
seeing that when doing from illrieea
to sixteen kilome,crs the riders pcile
rises 20 $50. Lancet