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The times., 1898-06-18
HOLY CROSS ACADEMY.
Many Scholarship Awards fOI
Bright Pupils.

The annual commencement of the
Academy of the Holy Cross took place
at the Lafayette Square Opera House
yesterday afternoon. The address to the
graduates was delivered by Rev. T. ].
Shahan. The theater was brilliantly deco
rated and the attendance was large.
The program was as, follows:
Marche Opera A .f. l.. Thome
Pianos Misses NJ O'Donnell, F. Ferry,
N. and A. McGrath; harp, Miss L.
Wilson
Chorus-''The Lord Now Victorious .Mascagni
Seherzo, Opera 81, No. 2.................. Chopin
Pianos-Misses H. Tourney. N Collins
Semi 'Miserere =. ............... Verdi
Symposium-Our Flag Observation-Disclosures.
red, Miss Frances Bland; the white,
Miss Mary Collins; the blue. Miss
Mary O'Donnell; its future, Miss
Helen Tourney.
Pianos-Msses E. Warthen, G. Harms
Chorus-"Song of the Vikings ........... .Faning
The Star of Empire, Seniors
Polonaise Thomas
Miss P Evans.
Ensemble Playing-Mazurka .............. .Tocaben
St. Angela's Musical Circle.
Yaledictory ...-:"...-:.....M Miss Helen Tourney
Comforting graduating gold medals and
Address to the graduates. 49,. Very Rev. T. j..
Shahan, d. d.
Distribution OF CeTtlficates.
Graduating medals and diplomas were
conferred upon the following young la
dies who have completed the academic
course of studies:
Miss Frances Bland. Lebanon, Mo-
Miss Mary Collins. Miss Jeanette Cooney.
Miss Ethel Marshall Hendershott, Miss
Mary Agnes O'Donnell and Miss Helen
Tourney.
In the senior and intermediate depart
ments certificates were awarded the fol-
lowing young ladies':
Misses Florence Perry, Agnes McGrath.
Mary McGrath Mary Mooney, Patrice
Egan, Jane Endres, Pearl Evans, Ruth
Hendershott. Elizabeth Hoover. Millie
Howison, Marion Marlowe, Kathryn To-
mey, Grace Woodburn, Lotta Wilson, May
Berberich, Grace Bingham, Alice Bing-
ham. May Carley, Helen Keane, Carrie
Moss. Maize McSweeney, Margaret Nc
Sweeney, Katherine Specht, Lillian Simp-
son, Ella Warthen, Amy Butler, Claire
Gillen, Florence Karns, Katie May, May
Madigan, Grace Moss, Mary Moss Mar
guerite O'Toole, Pansy Wilson, Berenice
Bailey, Miriam Bailey, Josephine Braen-
die, Celena Greene Agnes Hanley. Ed
garina Hastings, Evangelina Ruiz, Mer-
cedes Ruiz, Anna May OsToole, Ida War
then, Gertrude Whyte, Bernadette Con-
nor, Florence Dyer. Carmel Egan. Barba-
ra Handy, Ethel Karns.i Adele May, May
Moreland, Alice Smith.
Premiums for catechsm, arithmetic,
grammar. geography. reading. writing,
spelling. drawing. French and music
awarded in the minim-department torlit-
tie Misses Eleanore Aseihe, Anita AveiI-
he. Marie Adams, Carrie Bailey. Virginia
Bland, Mildred Cain, Marie Chapman.
Ganet Chamblin, May Conroy, Mar
The times., 1898-06-18
SOCIAL. AND PERSONAL.

ys.-SF Fs'E 90
Despite the Spring prophets who de-
clared that Washington society would
keep itself at home this season, the fash
ionable thoroughfares are already taking
on the rstagRation that comes of empty
pavements, grass grown terraces and
barred shutters and doors. Human nat
ure must have IT'S annual changes along
with the seasons and tides, and 1t will
take something more than war with bonn
harding attachments to frighten society
from its Summer by the sea.
Mrs Bates,7 Wife iof Col. A. E. Bates.
military attache In London, has closed
her Connecticut Avenue house and with
her daughters hasogoDe to the family cot
tage on the Massachusetts coast near
BuzZard's S Bay.
Another residence on Connecticut Ave-
nue. just closed IS that of ex-Representa-
tive Reyburn. who with his family are
now visiting in Pennsylvania but will later
go on to Cape May.
Long Branch bids fair this season to re-
vive the fashionable glory of it's past days
when it was the Summer headquarters of
the nation during the Administration of
President Grant "a. -,
Senator Murphy is among those. who
have taken cottages for the Summer at
this famous old resort.
The times., 1898-06-18
Extension of Sixteenth street.

Extension of SfXteenth Street,
Mr.. Mcmillan yesterday introduced a
bill in the Senate providing for the extern
sion of Sixteenth Street IN the District of
Columbia from Florida Avenue to Column
bia Road and from Columbia Road to
Piney Branch. Seven hundred thousand
is appropriated, one-haif of the sum to
paid out of the revenues of the District of
Columbia.
The times., 1898-06-18

Miss Marie Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, was
crowned with the highest honor for class
work at the commencement exercises,
Thursday, of the Academy at Frederick.
Md. She had the distinction of standing
at the head of her respective studies and
was awarded the gold honor medal there
for
The times., 1898-06-18

An entertainment by pupils of Reservoir
public school will take place this after
noon at p. m. at Peck Memorial Chapel
Twenty-eighth and NJ Streets, under the
direction of teachers Mr.. H. w. Draper
and Miss Gertrude NJ. Walsh. The pro-
gram will include choruses Mother Goose
ball and bean bag drill by primary grades
songs, reeitations and flag drill by the
older pupils,
The times., 1898-06-18

The Cosmopolitan Shakespeare Club
held its annual reception Tuesday even
ing at the home of Mrs. Jessie Pierson.
3l5 Fifth street southwest. The guests
were delightfully."- entertained by an ex-
cellently rendered program. which con-
sisted OF dramatic. musical and literary
selections, Among the guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Thompson. Mrs Dutrow and
Miss Dutrow Mr.. and Mrs. Patton. Mr..
and Mrs. Pierson. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney.
Mrs. Horne Mrs, Wilson. Mrs. Austin,
Mrs. Stanton. Mr.. Stanton and Miss Pat
ton. Prof. Townsend, Miss Townsend,
Miss Bennel, Mr.. Will Pierson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Armstrong Mrs. Forster, Mr.. c..
Church; Miss Isaacs and the Misses Violet
Pierson, Jessie Stanton, Anna Weiss,
Josephine Patton. sOifve Austin, Ada JEFF
frey and Alice Malone.
The times., 1898-06-18

Mrs. Robert skerrett has returned fror
visit TO Baltimore.
The times., 1898-06-18

Cards are out for the wedding of Miss
Amy Rogers Balch, of Baltimore. to Mr..
Malcolm Kenneth Gordon. of Washington.
The ceremony will be performed at the
Protestant Episcopal Church of St
Michael and ALI Angels, on July ). at 7:3O
D. m. t.t
The times., 1898-06-18

YOU can appreciate what modern enterprise when
this How ahead of all competition
pcngs What Wanamake Philadelphia
this establishment Washington representative
And nothing but the nvarabe giving than
others has duson The nnacIe.
The times., 1898-06-18

Mr.. Ounce f. Sanderson, of this city,
and Miss Ivy Jennings. formerly of Fred
edcksburg. Va. were married Wednes-
day. The wedding was pretty. but
quiet one, only the immediate relatives
and close friends of the young couple be-
ing present ON the happy occasion. In
the absence from the city of the Rev.
Arthur S. Johns, rector OF the parish, the
marriage service was rendered by the as
slstant rector, Rev. John NJ. E. Mckee.
The times., 1898-06-18

sI.25 baltimore md Return Win
b. q o.
Saturday and Sunday, June IS and ls.
valid for return until following Monday.
Tickets good going and returning on all
trains, including s5-minute flyers.
5eI5-5t-em
The times., 1898-06-18

One of the attractive weddings of the
week. WAS that Of Miss Mabel Louise
Pike. a niece of Mrs. Daniel Cameron. at
whose residence, on Yale Street. the event
took place. and Mr.. John B. Wilson, a
well-known young lawyer of Lafayette.
Ind u. The. ceremony. WAS performed by
Rev. Philip d. Baker. of Lafayette, Ind.
and was witnessed only -Dy relatives and
a few personal friends. The bride was
attired in white crepe de chine. trimmed
in rare lace, and carried a bouquet of
pink roses, tied with white moire. She
was attended by her cousin. Miss Ger
trude Ward, who was prettily dressed in
white organdie, and by Mr.. Clarence
Wilson, who served the groom as best
man. Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wilson, the groom's par
ents; Mrs. Emma L. Ferguson. Mrs. Hat
tie NJ. White, Miss Edith Smith, Miss Al
ice V. Tenly- Miss Jane d. Ludington
Miss Lillian Harper. Miss Julia Clifford,
Mr.. Harry MsEiWard. Mr.. Clarence S.
Schneider. Mr2 Ralph N. White. Mr.. How
ard Corcoran and Mr.. L. Terrell. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson will reside in Lafayette.
The times., 1898-06-18

Mrs. E. B. Barrow and family left yes
terday for their Summer place on the
Chesapeake Bay - 81
The times., 1898-06-18

Baron Herman, of the imperial Ger
man embassy, has taken mouse for th'
Summer at Chevy Chase.
The times., 1898-06-18
Ladies' Hosiery

Ladies Egyptian yarn 2-thread
hose, made with high spliced heels
and double soles. Hermsdorf black
and russet tan. A regu- ~,
lar I9c hose, to be sold NH
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ReRdIi,s ShakeKpeare.

II Mr.. Dana would sound tho toC>in and tell
men and women OF all grades OF life what
pleasure and profit they might secure by read
Ing Shakespeare's plays, he would be bene-
factor to his race.-M. L. II. In The Tribune.
Things that are better than pleas
ure, more valuable than profit, they
might thus secure. The soul would
be illuminated, the intellect broad
ened, the spiritual nature exalted,
the affections refined, the life digni-
fed, the whole Of the cherishable
powers of manhood or womauhood
inspired and augmented. The inf1u-
ence of Shakespeare genius is emo
bling. 1t pervadeth one and com
passeth all it dcalcth with tho visi-
BILE world and tho invisible, the right
and the wrong, the craft and the
stuff, the passions and the reason,
the images of form and their shad-
ows. the beautiful and the hateful,
the specters, the chimeras and what
ever else there be in sl.,ce, time or
fancy. We tell all men and women
that there is no other one like unto
Shakespeare. When he entereth the
mind and taketh possession of the
heart, there can be no place in the
thought OF in the habit for aught
that is mean. Charles A. Dana.
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What Sleep Ia scientifically.

The great German scientist, Herr
Rosenbaum, says that the anemic
condition of the brain is due to an
excess of water in the cells Of that
body-A sort OF water on the brain.
Sleep, according to his theory is es
pecially n matter of nervous action
the fatigue of the nerve cells which
communicate with the heart and
bring about n change in the circula.
ton. The nervous cells are full Of
water when sleep comes on, which
during sleep passes into the venous
blood as waste, while the nerve cells
receive nourishment from fresh ar
terial blood. When the process is en-.
tirely, over the sleeper s~akes, unless
he is disturbed sooner.
According to Rosenbaum's theory,
sleep is not only healthy because Of
the rest it gives the entire body, but
actually invigorating in itself. Those
who have imagined that slumber was
simply quiet and rest for an over
worked and fatigued mind or body
will be surprised to learn that the
scientists are divided in opinion as to
whether it is pressure on the brain,
similar to vertigo and other attacks
which produce inconsistencies, or
mild form OF hydrocephalus. New
Orleans Times Democrat.
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Church Directory,

reformed Church-Rev. G. A, Wh''m"ie
.as or, Services hi.weekly alternating
morning and evening. Services eoncs
day,7p. IN. Sunday Schooi p. m.
Guild each Lords Day 6 Bop. IN. other ser
vices announced from the pulpit
Lutheran Church Rev. A, Bredenbek, pas
tr, Services, Sunday 10 A. M. and 6,3o =.
Sunday School, 9. P. u Prayer Meet
pr, Wednesday, GAS p.
United Brethren Church-Rev +, {. Is
Castle Pastor. Regular Services by "p'
sppontmcnt from the pulpit.
Class Meeting every two weeks at ~ a. M
PRAYER Meeting every Thursday evening
Sunday School M.
Mite Society ) mimonthly. Wedn"s DAY
evening ut 8 o'clock, w. Nils Meeting
Montt " ut Parsonage.
Morayian Church: Rev. NJ F. Otrt'r, Pas
tor Sunday School every Snnday,9a;m m
Preaching services will be held every OH
Sunday ss heretofore. alternating morning
and evening at 10 ard $50 respectively
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev
VI. II. Courtney Pastor. Services every "ner'
nate ) nday at 10 A. N. and 7oo I.
SUNDAY School 1T 0 A. Il. Prayer meeting
cyery Wednesday evening nj 100 NJ.
81. Stephens Church, Protestant Episco'
,,l. Rev, Ernr Mctii|, Rector Ser.
vice. every SUNDAY u, 1880, Il. m, and
Ip. III.
Service on FRIDAYS at 3 p. IN.
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Aluminium Paint.

It is stated that aluminium, when
reduced to powder and mixed with q
solution in water Of gum lac, gives
metallic paint which covers well and
may be shaded with aniline colors
dissolved in water. The solution Of
gum lac is made by bringing to boil
Ing point a mixture of gum lac and
borax and all alkali such as soda or
ammoniac. The solution must con.
tain at least from Is to 30 per cent
Of gum lac. Aniline colors are add
ed to produce the shade desired, and
aluminium is added in sufficient
quantity to produce a paint suffi
ciently fluid for application with a
brush. The color is brilliant, very
durable and impermeable and may
be applied to metals, paper, wood
and wooden materials. 1t may be
rendered supple by the addition of a
small quantity of glycerin. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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Burial Armor and Shrouda.

The custom which still prevails Of
sewing up a corpse in flannel origi.
mated doubtless in the act of parlia
ment, 1s and 10 Charles II, which was
passed for the encouragement Of the
wooden trade and required all bodies
to be buried in woolen shrouds. Two
amending statutes were passed-167e
and 16s0-requiring at the funeral an
affidavit to be delivered to the priest
stating that the requirements Of the
law had been carried out; otherwise
penalties were incurred. These acts
were repealed by 81 George III, al
though long before that time the
penalties for noncompliance with
the law had ceased to be enforced.
During the operation of the acts for
burying in woolen the law was some
times evaded by covering the corpse
with hay or flowers notification OF
which is sometimes met with in the
parish registers.
Burial in armor was not at all un,
common in the middle ages, and was
considered O most honorable form Of
burial. Sir Walter Scott in The Lay
of the Last Minstrel" thus refers to it:
Seem'd all on fire that chapel proud,
Where Roslin's chiefs uncofin'd lie,
Each baron for a sable shroud
Sheathed in his iron panoply.
Westminster Gazette.
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Russian EtlQuctte.

II you invite a Russian to dinner,
make a point Of offering him before
he takes his seat at the table certain
hors d'nuvres, and above all do not
forget to accompany these with a
dram of spirits. The stronger the
latter the higher the Russian guest
will esteem his entertainer, who
must pour the cognac out himself,
not into liquor glass, but into a
bordeaux glass, and it is indispensa-
BILE that he should drain the entire
bumper to the health of his guest be-
fore the latter has time to put his
glass to his lips Each time you mako
a speech at dinner, or at any repast,
be careful to have your glass filled to
the brim before you begin speaking,
and the moment you have concluded
your remarks drain your glass to the
very last drop at gulp, since that if
the slightest heeltap remains it means
i'll the eyes of the Russians that your
remarks have been insincere. Petite
Republique Franchise.
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How to Get Warm.

It may not be generally known
that when exposed to severe cold a
feeling of warmth is readily created
by repeatedly filling the lungs to
their utmost extent in the following
manner: Throw the shoulders we'll
back and hold head well up. In
fate the lungs slowly, the air en-
tering entirely through the nose.
When the lungs are completely
filled, hold the breath for 10 seconds
or longer and then expel it quickly
through the mouth. After repeat
ing the exercise while one is chilly
feeling of warmth will be felt over
the entire body, even in the feet and
hands. 1t is worth while practieing
this exercise many times each day
and especially when in the open air.
Medical Journal.
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North Carolina Emcralds.

In Alexander connty, N. c.; the
farmers in blowing used to turn up
pretty grass green prisms which they
called ''green bolts" Professor W.
E. Holden identified them as emer-
aids, and in July, 1850, he started in
to mine for them: He got many EN-.
eralds, but also discovered another
kind of emerald green stone unknown
until then, which he named hidden
ite." 1t occurred in slender prismS.
Digging for it has since been carried
on very profitably IN that locality.
By larldaries IT is highly esteemed,
and it has found much use IN jew
elry. Seventy-four emeralds were
found in single pocket" but most
of them were too badly fiawed to
have much value. - Boston Tran
ScriDt.
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Londop,s Paupess and Criminals.

On Jan. i, 1891, the paupers IN
London numbered 1l2,547, and the
cost Of pauperism WAS in lss9-9o,
92,34O,000, the cost Of each pauper
being f2l los. Id.
The number of persons committed
for trial during lsS9-9o was 2,906,
while lO9,74S were convicted sum-
marily. The habitual offenders
known to the police not committed
during the year numbered 2,392. The
total represents percentage Of 81
to the whole population. The cost
of the police was fl,79o, 900, or els
l2s. Cd. per head of the incriminated
class. Industrial schools cost f20,-
652. Pail Mall Gazette.
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The Sea Horse.

One little animal q suppose it is
fish figures good deal in my work
the sea horse. Dried specimens
give you a poor idea of the things
alive. l went into ecstacies over
them. The first / saw at our old
aquarium, wnere they could be seen
and watched to great advantage.
They move their little tails like an
elephants trunk, and their inqulring
eyes, each moving independently of
the other, suggest that they know an
awful lot about the mystery of the
sea. They have formed a basis on
which l have constructed several
marine animals suitable for a mer-
maid and sea nymphs to ride aud
play with. h.--Scl1bner's Magazine.
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THURMONT Frederick County, Maryland, Thursday January s. 1893,
What We Owe to Fire.

It is worth while to note how few
Of the things, besides the fire on the
hearth, that 60 to make up modern
freside could ever have come into
being except through the agency OF
the fire. Trace the origin Of the
book you have been reading in your
cozy corner of the hearth. Speech
itself is partly growth and partly
IN invention. but were we not 50
familiar with them we should bow
our heads in awe in the presence of
these wondrous arbitrary characters
we call the letters Of the alphabet,
by means of which we represent
thought and speech, so that ideas are
preserved age after age. We look
at these characters and straightway
in our minds are reproduced the
speculations of. Plato, the poetical
imaginings Of Virgil or the teach
ings Of Jesus.
Through picture writing, hero
glyph, such figures as children play
with and call the rebus; by steps like
these-and the steps were many cen.
turies-the race climbed to the attain
ment of phonetic alphabet. Then
many centuries still passed by, until
at last, after the beneficent fire had
helped men s,nelt and shape the
stubborn iron the movable type was
invented, and all the thoughts Of the
world are the common property Of
any who will learn to read. Measure
the distance from the hut Of the bar
barian to tho fireside Of a modern
home, and you measure the total adj
vance that man has made in civiliza-
ton. --Rcv. NJ. J Savage in Peter
sons Magazine.
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A Remarkable Case OF Psychic Power.

A friend of mine who is quite well
known in literary circles, but who is
not willing that her name be given,
related TO me short time ago a
striking experience. She requested
a friend in whom she had great con
fidence and who possessed certain
degree of physic power to try and
see where she was and what she was
doing on a certain evening. The two
individuals were many hundred miles
apart The friend in striving to ac-
complish this feat fell into a pro
found trance, in which he was found
by friends, who thought him dead
and had him medically treated.
When he recovered, he wrote his
fricnsl, saying: "Atsuch an hour you
were in your room. A visitor was
announced He was person had
never seen, but ! will describe him
to you" He then gave detailed de-
ecription of the caller All the facts
were exactly as stated.-Arena.
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The Irish Woua ut the Bank.

An old woman of undeniable Celtic
origin entered down town savings
bank the other day and walked up to
the desk.
do you want to draw or depositT
asked the gentlemanly clerk.
Nav, Oi doan't. Oi want ter put
some in, was the reply.
The clerk pushed up the book for
her signature, and indicating the
place said, Sign on this line,
please
above it or below itl'
"Just above it.
me whole name9"
Eyes"
Before Oi was marriedl"
mo, just as it is now"
"Oi can't write. Boston Tran
script
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SATUkIlS FAMOUS klNGS.
A Phenomenon Unlike Anything Else In
the Whale Solar SyHtem.

a fhcuOmenOn mike HhythihE Five In
I'll" Whole Solar System.
Every one who has given the least
attention possible to astronomical
curioS knows that Saturn presents q
phenomenon to which there is moth
Ing analogous in the whole Of the
solar system--two broad, flat and
very thin rings being his constant at
tendants in his trips around the sun.
Galileo first noticed peculiarity in
the appearance of this ringed planet,
which he said appeared like large
body placed between two smaller
ones" Huygens first described the
rings and figured them for the bene-
fit of those not fortunate enough to
own a telescope.
The breadth Of these rings from the
outer diameter of the larger to the
inner edge of the smaller has been
computed at 49, 800 miles; total di-
ameter of the outer ring, 167 600
miles, and space of 10000 miles Is
supposed to intervene between the
inner edge OF the small ring and the
surface of the planet itself.
The composition of these rings, or,
rather, this system of rings-solne
authors mention three and even four,
although l have mentioned but two
in the opening, which seems to be
the number accorded by the majority
of writers-is simply matter OF con-
lecture. Some astronomers claim
that they are composed of material
similar to that of the planet itself,
while others are sure that they are
composed of numerous satellites
Cmoons) mingled with vaporous mat
ter travelling in planes
Maxwell says, THE rings must be
formed of separate particles moving
around the planet as independent
satellites" According to Otto Struve,
observations on the rings for & period
over 200 years prove beyond doubt
that they arc widening, and that the
lower edge of the inner one is slowly
but certainly approaching the body
Of the planet. Louis Republic.