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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
A NEW wOMAN.s CLUB.
Has for Its Object the Revfving Of
Famous Baths.

Has for Its Object the Revfving of
Famous Baths.
From the PHILADELPHIA Record.
A new woman's club has Just been
founded in Paris called the Beauty Club"
The members are ladies of the best circles,
and the object of the club is nothing less
than the preservation of personal beauty
by means which are too expensive for an
individual, but might be provided by join
ing forces with others. AS a matter of
fact, the club is bath club. The baths
are prepared according to old and famous
recipes. For instance, one set will use
asses milk. as taken once by Queen Isa-
bella Of Bavaria Others prefer baths of
melon juice rose water or Mecca balsam
all OF which are believed to benefit the
skin. The Marie Antoinette bath consists
OF mixture of aromatic herbs and salt
thrown into water, while another compo-
sition includes sweet marjoram, thyme and
crushed rice and barley. Beautiful. wo-
men have always been more or less eccen-
trio in the choice of their baths The wife
OF Car Alexander the First of Russia
used every morning a small barrel of NAL
aga wine, which was poured into a small
silver tub, and she is said to have benefited
greatly by these libations. The ever-youth-
full Ninon de fEnclos used milk tepid rain
water, little soda, salt and three pounds
of honey, while Madame TaIlien who
played a prominent part during the first
revolution, took a bath of water and milk,
i'll which twenty pounds of crushed straw
berries and two pounds of crushed rasp-
berries were stirred.
All these baths are provided by the club
to its lady members at comparatively rea-
sonable rates, but famous Paris physician,
who was asked by an inquisitive member
as to the effect of the various recipes, was
cruel enough to reply that the result ex-
isted mainly only in the imagination of the
ladies themselves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL,
A SmOkelcss Fuel That Seems to BE
Gaining I'm Popularity.

- ShoheheSS uel In0t seems TO lie
Gaining I'm Popularity.
From the Chicago mter-Ocean.
In the future we may be importing masut
instead of exporting coal. Masut is a by
product in the distillation of raw petroleum.
1t is also manufactured from a CHEAP
brown coal found in Saxony. There has
been. until recently. great trouble in find
ing furnace suitable for burning it, Il
is now blown by steam into a special fur
mace, on the principle of the Lucgen eight,
and used without difficulty. 1t is 40 or 80
per cent cheaper than coal, and is 90 per
cent better as heat raiser. Steam can
be got up quicker and kept at higher
pressure and more work be done by The
machinery. From naval point of view
these are vitality important facts. No sign
of ship under full steam will be shown in
the sky, for maSut is a Smokeless fuel
Russia and Italy are using it in their
navies, and Germany has lately made
some valuable experiments At KieI, Will
helmshaven and Danzig are tanks from
which it can be pumped into ships. Its
specific gravity being so much less than
that of coal, a ships buoyancy is greatly
increased when the bunkers are filled with
1t. Heavier armor or cargoes can be car
ried. The heating capacity being greater
the ship can travel faster or farther Ii is
yet to be learned what Improvements the
Germans have introduced into their fur
naces and what are the disadvantages CT
masut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
A klOndfke Enthusiast
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.

FROM Inc st. Louis Globa-DamOcrat.
Mrs. Lewis w. Anderson, the wife Of q
Tacoma machinist, who went to Klondike
to seek his fortune, has received a letter
from him, in which he says gold is as free
as water there, and that the immense WELD
in three years will cause Wall street to
seek to demonetize the yellow metal. Mr..
Anderson says, in part:
1T is lucky thiLg I came. IF vo,, will
Just be brave, we will have all the money
in year we and our precious children will
want in two hfetimes. l have been here a
little more than two months, and have al
ready secured quarter interest in a claim
for which / have been offered S26OOO hut
out or winch | expect to make as my part
more than 100000 in the next wear This
for us, you know, is big thing. and vet
there are dozens of men who are making
ten times as much. When I arrived nv
money had almost given out
Il had only $3I, SO I worked ten days at
saving lumber, at SIS per day, to get a
start. Nothing like this has ever been
dust, is almost as plentiful as water There
are many hardships to be endured, but 1
expect to return to Tacoma next wear
safe and sound, with lots of money Tell
Henry that we will have to change cur
politics, because the Klondike will kill
Bryan and the silver question, and the
money power of Wall street will try to de-
monetiZe gold. The gold that will come
out of here inside of two or three years
will make Wall street more anxious to de-
monetize gold than it ever was to demone-
tie silver. Be sure and tell our friends to
come up as early as possible. Come via
Dyea, but would not advise them to come
sell out his grocery store at any price and
come"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
From the London Sketch.


For some time past there has been a sort
of dead heat between the two biggest bells
in the world, the one at the cathedral in
Moscow and the other at the unfinished pa
CODA of Mengoon. India, north Of Manda-
lay, across the river. If the former was the
bigger of the two, it was cracked, and
therefore useless a bell, while the latter,
though whole, had dragged its supports
down till it rested on the ground and would
not emit any sound. Now, however, it has
been resW ung, and can claim attention as
the biggest bell, in working Order in the
world.
Last year the Burmese community decid-
ed to have the bell raised, and mployed the
lrrawaddy Flotilla Company, limited, to do
the work. The rim of the bell was first
supported by huge balks of timber wedged
In all around, and tripod erected over it
to faSten the shackle to and keep it up
right. The old supports having been knock
ed away two large iron columns, % feet
high, cast by the waddy company, were
erected, with concrete foundations. A large
steel crosS-girder, with distributing girder
on the top of it, was then passed through
the shackle, and the bell was raised by
screw-jacks all round the wedges of timber
until the cross -girder could be placed on
the pillars and riveted in position. The
screw-jacks were then eased, and the bell
left swinging, with its lower rim about 2
feet 10 inches from the ground. The weight
Is ABOUT n1nety-eight tons, the circumfer
ence at the base being 81 1-2 feet and at the
top 20 feet. 1t averages over a foot in
thickness. The bell itself is over II feet
high. and the shackle, which was intended
for logs of timber, about II feet. The pin
In the shackle has a diameter of 16 inches
The bell was cast about the beginning of the
century by King Bodawpaya as an accom-
paniment to the huge pagoda which he
never finished. 1t is ssid to have been cast
on an island and RATED across. No proper
means yet exist for striking the bell. but
when hit with heavy piece of wood it
gives out a deep vibrating boom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
Hot Weather in Arizona.


II makes me laugh to hear Won neon1e
up here talk about heat" declared the
ARIZONA man. who happened here with the
ieaguers. Why, down with us I've seen If
LOT SIX weeks at a stretch when the thor
mometer never went below 1O4 at night
ana ranged from ia to ZIG in the dav. I've
taken the record on the sunny side OF an
ICE e, wagon fuilcof ice when it showed 102"
linen some OF the local politicians under
LOOK to draw the gentleman out.
Soulon work, could you?" asked one
Never worked so IN my life. You nm
uertake TO keep Waterbury watch wound
up, at the same time paying proper atten-
tloh TO an attack of the prickly heat and
guess you'll be as busy as a man fighting
humble bees.' '' ''e 'i''iis
it?" Ae poultry stano
Brought up to 1t. During the particular
hot spell speak of the crates were Moth
ing but incubators.. The little chicks would
mop OUT OF the boxes and go chasing around
on lhe grocery floors. We never had con
1oence IN an egg for more than twenty foi,r
,iours: ana chicken ranchers placed their
mems IN wire jackets with a rubber stamn
attachment so as to be sure of the date
VI course you hear from some districts
down there that the hens Law l1ard-boiIed
eggs, put there's nothing to it. The heat
makes the hatr curl on horses and cows
put they don't seem to mind it. It,s
stralght goods that In our really hot
weather we OCCASIONALLY have a barbecue
without building a fire."
Such weather must cause prest fat.,,+y
among the inhabitants
mats absurd on the face of 1t. It's i'm
possible to turn cold with the Thermometer
croWdlnS the top of the tube"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
EXCURSIONS.

The steamer Jane Moseley. the old stand
by of river excursionists. will make her
regular trips to Colonial Beach this evening
at $50 o'clock and tomorrow morning at
8 O'Clock sharp. From the time the boat
leaves here in the morning or evening as
the case may be, the trip is delightful to
degree and calculated to make one entirely
forget the heat and dust and glare of the
city left behind Upon the arrival at the
Beach salt water bathing. fishing Grabbing
and boating and sailing are furnished fer
the amusement of those who make the trip
These who take the boat this evening will
find every convenience at the Colonial
Beach Hotel upon their arrival there which
Will furnish excellent meals and accummo-
dations for the night The dinner served
at this hotel upon the arrival OF the boat
Sunday afternoon is one Of the best OBJ
tainable on the river. Those who make the
trip need not worry about carrying pro-
visions. as the hotel is situated near the
excursion wharf and in the direct way If
travel. rhe return trip both from the Sat-
urday night and Sunday morning eXcLr-
sions Is made about 10 O'Clock Sunday
night.
The trip to Piney Point on the steamer
Arrowsmith, which leaves this evening at
o'clock, is one Of the most pleasan. out
ings to be selected from those offered by
the Potomac river. Rouni-,rip tickets to
inns WSll-kHOWH summer resort, including
transportation on the boat. meals and room
at the hotel are sold. Sunday morning
there will be special concert IL the Point
by the Mt Pleasant Field Band while all
the other features OF ne place will be in
full running order for the benefit of those
who make the trip. The return home is
made by Sunday evening at 10 O'clock The
steamer Arrowsmith leaves every Monday
ana wednesday at $3.50 pm. for all the
popular watering places and summer re-
sorts on the Potomac river. and on. Satur-
day evening at u ciock for he same The
accommodations on the boat are first. class
and the ride down to the picturesque lower
Potomac IL wed worth considering In the
in'ttef OF short summer Outings.
Tho Virginia hills overlooking the poto-
mac are perhaps as pleasant u place for
picnic parties To spend the day rs any In
this Immediate locality. Those who ar,
fond OF music should spend the evening nj
Fort Mssr and hear the hand ooncorts.
while those who desire q longer ride In the
country may NO on tn Fails Church Tn.
most doAifsblr means 90 reaching these
places 70 Via the electric ears from Aaus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
HARTz MOUNTAIN. cAxARIEs.
The Majority Of the Sonxsters Come
From Milwaukee.

The Majority Of the Sonxsters Come
From Milwaukee.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Milwaukee supplies the United States
with the bulk Of the Hartz Mountain ca
naries, and there is no great crime in the
deception, for the Milwaukee bird is really
an improvement on the imported article,
having just as fine q voice and being much
harder.
Experience has shown that the imported
singer lcses the power Of transmitting his
voice to the young after passing through
an American winter. This is the case also
1t fs>said. with Tyrolean singers who come
to this country, their voices losing the pc
culiar yodling quality when they have
been here a year. The native canary is
hardfer than the imported ones, and, with
proper training, is every bit as good a
singer.
Before they are mated the hen birds are
Kept In separate cages in the music room.
carefully fed and made to listen to the mu-
sic of the singers and the machine used
In training their voices. In this way the
hen Is GRABBED to transmit the best musical
quality to her offspring The music room
IS large one. with a south exposure, and
Is kept with the same scrupulous neatness
as the breeding room. In the corner of
this room is the bird organ, and with it
the little birds are given their vocal train
ing.
When the machine is started the notes
emitted are wonderfully like the song Of
the untutored canary. These notes are
known to bird trainers by the term pfeiffen.
Gradually the whistle strikes on to a diff
ferent line. 1t is an improvement over the
pfeiften, and is called the klingel role. A
higher step still is called the klingel, and
a still higher step hohl klingel. Lastly
comes what is called hol rollen, and a bird
whose voice has been developed up to that
point Is worth $50 in the market any day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
Sport In Mediaeval English school.

From the Tablet
Probably the oldest English schools were
the London schools described by Fitzste-
phen, who wrote In a174 He gives In
teresting details Of the lighter moments of
schooltime. We hear of scholars, who on
certain privileged occasions, attacked their
schoolmasters fin epfgrams or other COM
positions in numbersIr using 'all that low
riba1dry we read of in the ancients."
though one is glad tor hear, without mem
tioning names" In addition to these ele-
giant exercises they had the more robust
sports of their time. On Shrove Tuesday
each boy brought his fighting cock to
school, and they had cock fights all the
morning in the school room, and after din
ner played foot ball in the fields of the
suburbs Every Sunday in Lent there was
a sham fight, some of the boys being
mounted, the rest on foot. At Easter they
played at the water quintain, while on
summer holidays they practiced at archery
leaping, wrestling and stone throwing. and
in winter slid, skated and went to bull bats
and hog fights No doubt the london
schools had their severer side and the life
was not quite such round of dissipation
as 1t reads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
ALASKA BRACELETS.
Hammered Out of Silver and Quaint
~ OrnamenteI.

~ Ornnmented.
Miss Scidmore In Harper's Bazaar.
Those aesthetic people of the northwest
coast of America who paint and carve ev-
cry object of their belongings, who paint
and literally carve their own bodies, were
wearing bracelets of twisted cedar bark,
bracelets of wood. bone, horn, bears claws,
birds beaks, :.eals' teeth, shells and cop
per when the white man found them. They
had ponderous wristlets hammered from
nuggets OF pure copper and inlaid with
abalone shell, and others of twisted copper
wires. They made iron bracelets as soon
as the traders brought them that metal,
and they learned to oxidiZe copper by heat,
until 1t resemb.ed iron. When the miner in
vaded the fur traders realm the Indians
began to receive actual money, to sell in
stead of to barter their furs. They have
never seemed to value or covet gold in its
just relation to silver, and they hoard the
white metal like Hindoos. One Tlinkit wo-
man amazed an official by bringing out
nine thousand and odd silver dollars to be
counted. They find the n etal dollar a more
convenient article to handle and store than
the blanket or beaver skin, which were the
fcfmer units Of value and the current coins
Half the silver coins that go into Alaska
are converted into bracelets. and the native
artisans used to carry out some of their
cleverest ideas in this SOFT easily worked
metal.
The first silver bracelets were broad bands
etched with the totems of their owners,
their rude heraldy ordered by as severe
and arbitrary rules as in any European
college of such arts. One finds the strange
ly conventfonalized raven, eagle, bear, wolf
and whale of the great clans most admir-
ably drawn and arranged on such broad
barbaric old wristlets. On one of these
two animals approach in profile from either
end. the bears combining In one exagger-
ated fuil face, with the stored skis, or
ceremonial hats. piled I'D in n crown or
column OF glory. On another the
one animal seems to he split In half below
the head and stretched around the curved
surface. II took whole dollar to make
such bracelets az these. and by custom the
si!vcrsmith was paid twice the value of the
coins used In this work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
Divorce on Queer Grouna..
From the St. Louis Globe.Democrat.

Fruni INC 81. 1puIs otobe-Deh0crat.
novel application for divorce was filed at
Denison. Tex, today. E. E. Baker states that
his wife is addicted to inordinate drinking
OF buttermilk; that II makes him sick, and
has prcyed upon hts mind TO such an ex-
tent that no Ii on the verge OF insanity.
and II In further alleged that she snores 70
same house with her. u 10 alleged that
Mrs. Baker consumes a gallon OF butter
milk al the three meals and ON rstiring a
Night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14
F1Oumt Vernon.
Arlington and
Alexandria.
"Ericsson LineExcursions''

Station. Pennsylvania and i3Ia street.
For schedule see r. X. column. this paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14

u matters little what Il IL that YOU wan,
WHISTLER o situation or n ssrvapt-~n
want al In Tho Star will reach the
psfson who can nii your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-14

By WATER FROM BALTIMORE.
To Philadelphia daylight trips, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. at $50 100
To Philadelphia and return tten days.. 50 IS
To Philadelphia and return 10y rail. ....... 81 20
To Cape Mag 0rom Philadelphia by rail-. 80. SO IS
To Cape May and return ttcn daysl. ........ 81 .
To Cape May and return tseasoai. 81 20
To Atiariic City ifrom Philadelphia 10y railD. 81 15
To Atlantic City and return ,eB daysp..-.. s.. IS
To Atlantic City and return tseasonl. 81. 90
To Asbury Park Ocean Grove, Long Branch. 81 90
To Ashiry Park, Ocean Grove, Long Branch
and return season1from Philadelphia by raipS6. 90
To New York tfrom Philadelphia 10y rail- 90
To New York and return televen days.. 90
Tickets sale lat the Office only for Albany,
Troy Saratoga Springs. NY; New Haven. Bridge
port Corr. Portland, VINEYARD Haven and Cottage
City. Me-. Boston. Fall River. Newport and to
points North.
Daily steamers Except Sundays from wharf.
Light and Pratt streets. at 3 pm Write for de-
scriptive pamphlet OF the route and the great fish,
ing grounds at Betterton. Tickets for sale &C
OFFICE ONLY. Music day steamers. Meals.
5oc State rooms. 81. 81 so and So extra For
further inforuatio ion apply write to
CLARENCE StlRIyEl;, Agent
my26-tf 2Oi Light ST.. Baltimore, Md.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
Eureka Echoes.

Eureka Jan. 80, 1S97.-There was
snow all day yesterday and part of last
evening, much to the joy of our Deo-
pie, water being at times here a very
scarce article.
Eureka is growing gradually and
building up on real merit, there hav-
ing never been a boom or newspaper
agitation to advertise this the best
mining camp in the state. In fact, we
want none, as the mines and mills ad-
vertise themselves by an annual out
put that is extremely healthy.
Mr.. M. E. Price of Goshen has just
completed a 2S-room lodging house at
a cost of $4,000 with all the necessary
fittings to make it first class through
out
Judge E. V. Higgins has just issued
an order for all claimants of land with
in the Eureka townsite to file a full
and complete description of the same
with the clerk of his court, with a
view of giving warranty deeds to own
ers of. property in our city. However,
this may be only precautionary meas
ure, as the mine owners intend fight
ing their case VS.. the city on new
grounds.
Society and business are both hav-
ing a temporary respite, but will soon
CATER February pay day. resume.
Our people are Disguised with the
Pickering of the legislature in the
election of a senator
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90
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
A Big Row Over Mrs. Bradley Mar
tins Bal MasQue.

New York, Jan. 30.-The bal masque
to be given by Mrs. Bradley-Martin at
the Waldorf on Feb. 10 continues to be
a fruitful theme of discussion among
all grades of society. No social event
of recent years at least, has given rise
to a 1.-THE of the animated and at times
virulent arguments on both sides of the
question. incidentally, Mrs. Mary Ell
len Lease, in a characteristic inter
view, has set the seal of her disap-
proval upon the affair.
Mrs Bradley Martin has received
dozens of threatening letters in con-
nection with the ball. Some of them
have been of so incendiary character
as to indicate that they were written
by anarchists. They have limited at all
sorts of violence if the ball is given and
in some of them dynamite bombs have
been mentioned.
The members of the labor organiza-
lions do not share the views of the
Rev. DR.. Rainsford with regard to the
ball. But the members of the Musical
Mutual Protective union are very much
agitated over a report that Mrs. Brad
Martin will engage the Marine
band of Washington to furnish the
promenade music, and that, conse-
quently, they are not to get a single
dollar of the great amount that that
lady is to spend.
Alexander Bremen, the president of
the union, expressed himself in en-
phatic language upon the subject yes
terday.
I'VE have as good musicians in our
union in New York as can be found
anywhere, even in the capitals of Eu-
rope, and they are all citizens and tax
payers here, and many of them have
families to support. The members of
the Marine band have an assured in
come from their pay, and are fed and
clothed and sheltered by the govern
ment, and do not urgently need the
money that they will get from the
ball.
Our union has on several occasions
protested to the president, the secre~
tary of war. and the secretary of the
navy against allowing military bands
to play for private parties, and thus
preventing our people from earning
money!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
Foreign Notes

There are no less than 5000 resident
Spaniards at Tangiers, Morocco.
An extraordinary find of French and
English armor, dating from the time
of the crusades, has just been made
at Constantinople.
The telegraph operators of Milan
have formally protested against the
employment of women as operators. on
the grounds that they are insufficiently
educated, lower wages and increase the
already excessive competition.
Mr.. Fortesque, the superintendent of
the library of the British museum, has
been the recipient of a unique testi-
monial, subscribed for by visitors to
the library. 1t took the form of an
Illuminated address. The border of the
first page has been copied from a
beautifully Illuminated manuscript in
the British museum, executed by an
Italian artist about 1890.
London is threatened with the loss of
the Crystal palace. which for nearly
two generations has been one of the
most popular and widely known centres
of amusement and of interest in the
vicinity of the metropolis. The concern
is hopelessly bankrupt, and, although
the government is manifesting an
anxiety to prevent it's destruction, yet
there seems to be no practical means
of preserving this memorial of the first
of the great international exhibitions
of the nineteenth century.