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The Washington bee., 1899-04-08

its culture was secondary matter.
No one imagines. of course. that the
carnation mania is going to assume
any such proportions as that, but there
Is no guessing to what extreme fad
will be carried when richer New York
once takes hold of it.
When the Lawson carnation was ex-
hibited at the New York Florists Club
in March, 1898. no one could have for
told for it the distinction it has achiev-
ea. 1t scored ninety-eight points out of
possible hundred. which was con-
sidered good, but not remarkable.
The flower was exhibited by Mr..
Fisher. The specimens shown then
were only about three inches in
diameter. Since 7hen the flower has
been developed To four and four and
one-half inches. It's color is a beauti-
full cerise pink. 1t has Il sturdy stem
and most remarkable vitality. Some
of the cut flowers have kept perfectly
fresh for fifteen days.
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Time for Exercise

About mid-atUernoon is the best time
for gentle outdoor exercise. Early
morning exercise is as much TO be
avoided as early mental or physical
labor. because at that time vitality
is at its lowest ebb, and it needs stimu.
lation rather than further taxing; none
but the gentlest exercise should be
taken until the exhausted system has
been supplied with abundant nourish-
ment.
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old Conner Cents

1t is. estimated that there are 199,-
100000 old-style copper pennies some
where. Nobody knows what has be-
come of -em, except that once in a
while Il single specimen turns up in
change. y few years ago 4,5OO,OOO
bronze twO-cent pieces were set afloat.
Three million of them are still out
standing. but are never seen. A mill
ion of three-cPnt silver pieces are
scattered over the United States but
it is very seldom that one comes
across any of them. OF the 100000
one half-cent pieces. not one has been
returned to- the government for coin
age or is held by the treasury.
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A $4,000 CARNATIoN.
The Fabulous Sum That Has Been Paid
For This Flower

The Fabulous sum That Has Been Paid
For This Flower
The fuss made about this flower and
the eXtravagant prices offered for it
by New York and Chicago flower
fanciers has created a sort of carnation
mania, almost similar to the famous
tulip mania that turned the sedate,
steady going people of Holland upside
down in the seventeenth century.
Nothing in the history of flowers eve1
approached that. Holland, especially
in the vicinity of HARLEM, was then
and is now the home of the tulip bulb.
They are most sedulously cultivated
and form an important item in the ex-
port budget. AS d gambling mania, a
wild scramble of silly spectators, a
chinera that swallowed up entire for
tunes of the unlucky and ON the other
hand laid the foundation of great
Dutch fortunes that exist to-day, the
tulip mania rivals in history the South
Sea bubble of England. Men paid
fabulous sums for single bulb. Ad-
miration of the flower and interest in
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CITY BRIEFS.

Mrs. Smith Wormley, who fell down
stairs and injured herself is fast inn
proving.
A surprise party was rendered Mrs.
w. B. Johnson last evening by her
friends in the northeast. The party
started from the residence of DR.. e. ID.
Scott and not Mr.. l.. G.. Fletcher.
Mrs. Chas. Chestnut is in the city,
the guest Of her sister, Mrs. H. c.
Tyson.
Miss L. E. Scott has been confined
to her home with severe cold.
Miss Clara Smith will be married
some time in May.
Attorney Thomas l.. Jones won his
habeaS corpus Caseln the Criminal
Court last Thursday before Judge
Clabaugh. Mr.. Jones made good ar
gument. Attorney Frisby represented
the other side, both gentlemen hotly
contested the case.
Last week in the Police Court sew
eral white boys were fined ten dollars
for shooting crap. During the same
ed boys were caught shooting crap
and were fined twenty dollars.
Mr.. L. II. Peterson read very in
teresting paper before the Lyceum of
the Third Baptist church on last Sun
day afternoon. Also Miss Eva Grim
shaw, ION true womanhood. The
music was good.
OF course no negro soldiers were
killed i'm the late SpaniSh-American
war, hence none were buried at Ar
lington, Va, cn last Thursday. Had
any been killed certainly they would
have been buried there.
l he Misses Chestnut, daughters of
Charles Chestnut, the author and
court stenoerapher, of Cleveland,
Ohio, are in the city stopping with
Mrs. II C. Tyson. They were spend
ing the Easter holiday and will re-
turn to school in Massachusetts on the
18th inst.
! The Zenba Pleasure Club furnished a
very pleasant entertainment for their
friends on Thursday eve, March so, at
Miss Mamie Mulligan residence. The
program consisted of solos by Misses
| Agnes and Ida Lee; essays and reCita-
! tions, Miss Minnie Mulligan and Mrs.
Ruth Robinson, an Grafton by VIM. +.
Smoot Cf Anacostia, and Mr.. Nj. l..
| Robinson. Prominent among those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Docket,
Mr.. Pratt, Miss Georgia Muligan, Mrs.
Mary King, Miss Ada Spriggs, Miss
Grace BIRD. Mr.. Arthur Chew, Miss
Alberta Whiting, Messrs. !. Sampson,
S. q. Thompson, A. l.. Black, Amos
Beckett, Alexander Coleman and a
Most of others.
Capt. w. d. Matthews of Leaven-
worth, kans., national grand master of
the National Grand Lodge of Com
packs of n A, arrived in the city for
the purpose of visiting the NJ. w.
Grand Eureka lodge of the ID. c. and
also completing arrangements for the
| Fifty-second Grand Communication
and Jubilee that will be held in July.
He was received with the grand hon
ors. The captain showed letters re-
Ceived from prominent white and
colored masons wishing success.
The condition of the National Grand
Lodge is good. The grand master
then presented the Eureka Grand
lodge with charter, the captain has
visited a number of state grand lodges
meeting with much success. He leaves
today TO complete his visitationS
throughout the country.
The Washington bee., 1899-04-08
Porto Rican Hotels Arc Hot.

The best hotel in San Juan, Porto
Rico. charges 50 day, but the sleep
ing rooms all open into courts, have nc
outside windows and are to the last
extremely hot. Under Spanish law, in
towns where houses join. no outside
windows are allowed This is to avoid
the danger of dirt from the interior
blowing on to the adjacent roofs and
communicating the water. as all the
supply is collected from the rainfall
on the roofs and stored in cisterns.
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GrnMth of "a sfnrv-

As an example of how story grows
il is related that a report recently
reached Ottawa. Kan, 10 the effect that
the coal miners at Jacksonville had
found petritied snake 40 feet Ions
and nine inches in diameter. Prof
Yates of Ottawa college hurried to
RanSomville in fear that some other
fossil collector would get ahead OF
him and found that he alleged snake
was bit of petrifeG root Is inches
long and half inch iE circumference.
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An Immense Cnral Renf

The great barrier reef which fringes
the coast of Queensland north of Bris-
bane, in the direction of Torres straits.
must always rank among the wonders
OF the world. For 1900 miles the coral
'animalcuiae have raised a solid pro-
lection against the range of the ocean
swell at distance varying from 20 to
$50 miles from the shore.
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REAL ESTATE.
r. J. MARSHALL,
REAL ESTATE s. LOAN BROKER,
sos nth Street, \. w.

FOR SALE-Near New York avenue
and North Capital street, new, buff
brick residence, rooms, cellar and
bath, newly papered and decorated;
has all modern improvements and
conveniences: mirror mantelS, speak
ing tubes, electric bells, etc.
This property is nicely located in an
improving section of the city. The
new electric cars will pass within a
half block. This property, 5000, on
monthly payments about the same as
rent.
FOR SALE-In the northwest, very
desirably located, a dwelling and store
together, brick, large store room,
dining room and kitchen on the first
floor, 4 bedrooms and bath on second
floor, all modern improvements. Shell
wing and counters complete. Price,
s., 500, on very easy terms. This is an
investment worthy of immediate atten-
ton.
Many other we'll located properties
in different sections of the city for
sale on easy terms. Stop paying rent
and own your own home.
The Washington bee., 1899-04-08
Loss of Tm breIlas,

Every year 100000 umbrellas are
said TO be lost i'm Paris. According 10
these statistics. one person in every
four loses his umbrella. The police
say that ladies are much more careful
with such articles than men, for the
number of para>olS AIKEN to the lost
property office annually is only about
one hundred
The Washington bee., 1899-04-08

In this country placing the thumb to
the nose and extending the fingers is
a sign of derisiOn. Among certain hill
tribes in India it is the most expressive
manner of showing respect.
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French and German Armje,

Five and twenty years ago France
was able to put the same number Of
soldiers into the field as Germany.
Now the German military forces. or
rather the men of German nationality
capable of bearing arms, would out
number the French by a mIhiOn.
The Washington bee., 1899-04-08
a Peculiar Parr0F

In New Zealand species Of parrot
is found that. finding its food entirely
on the ground has lost the power OF
fight. 1t differs from the rest OF its
family only in this particular and in
being almost vOicelesS.
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Nutrition i'm Ovsters

A quart of oysters contains on the
average. about the same quantity of
nutritive substance as quart of milk
or a pound of very lean beef.
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LEGAL NOTICES
In re Estate of
No. S6aS

In re Estate OF
WIN, II. laElor No. S64S
deceased Administration Docket IS
Appiicaton having been made to the Supreme
Coutt Oh the Dlctrlct of Columbia holding a
sPe91al term for Orphans Court business, for
PROBATE OF a last will and testament and codicils,
ana ior letters OF administration with will an
nexed on said estate by Jupiter Taylor, pray
ing that Henry E. Baker be appointed as Ad-
'Oi -
1t is ordered this sth day of April, I 90, that
notice IS hereby gwen to Samuel Taylor...........
ana 10 all others concerned, to appear in said
court on Friday, the 18th day Of May, A. D. 1899,
al 10 CLOCK M, to show cause whv such ap-
shall be published in The Washington law.
Reporter and The Washington Bee once in each
OF three successive; weeks before the return day
therein mentioned--the first publication to be not
less than thirty days before said return day.
By the Court:
a. c. Bradley, Justice.
ATTEST: III. Nota McGIll, Register ofWilIs
Jno. X Lynch and d. B. McCary..
Attorneys for Applicant
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" Dl''''e> Enn assisted by Miss Fanny
AMI costa, tins season with the famous
P,,- world renowned Nav Howard
~ 'aS@nza Company are two OF
IN everest comedy sketch artists in
U1. '@''SS OF burlesque and vaude-
s-5. ihey present laughable alb
>r..' .,' ,'"t i iull OF mirth provoking
ir.,-, .-.... Mr. Flynn's part of the
c yea husband is a clever piece of
NM" 1.1, /, ..i work not easily surpassed,
i.r... Mss Fanny DE Costa i'm addi-
n.r ~ .'VinS a very pretty young wo-
l+r... !, pIeNdld Contralto singer and
o9-, actress. The company were
Nam Nernun'S Lyceum, Monday.
''''lv AprI. 10th.
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"a 5 r'N hume, the old reliable, 451
gboje1. northwest. Groceries by the
Cd sn5 15"ie and retail. All goods pack
0eirered free. Call and see
The Washington bee., 1899-04-08

Mrs. Smith Wormley, who fell down
stairs and injured herself is fast inn
proving.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
TOO MANY VICTUAiS.

1t has been said that the charces Of the
democratic party are usually enhanced
when conditions of extreme poverty af-
hict the people, and when the hard times
enables them TO max more or less head
way in the advocacy of their political
claims. The present Indications, how
ever, point to the speedy disruption of
the democratic p~arty-its evolution from
a congeries OF irnamed factions into
what may be Briefly designated as "a
busted commuEity"-and all on account,
not of poverty, but Of too man, v~ictuals.
The banquet question is really becoming
serious. MIR, Rryan refused to sit at the
same table in comnaamoration Of Jeher-
son, with thetNew York democrats who
refused to support him for the presid ncy,
in 1896, unless they reoanted. This they
refused to do, so an eighty cent dinner
will be given by his friends in that city,
while. the TammaEy wing Of the party
win feast at the rate Of so per plate.
But that does not end the trouble, The
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
they desired, without post-bellum attacks

they desired, without post-bellum attacks
upon their business interests.
The Inter Mountain believes that it
voices the feelings of every patriotic re-
publican voter in this city when it pro-
tests against interpreting the late cleo
ton as an attack upon any business in
terest in Butte. The Miner is certainly
in error in assuming that the municipal
campaign involved any such issue as the
championship of business rivalries in TINS
community. The republican voters cast
their ballots for good municipal govern
ment-only that and nothing more.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
A WOMAN AND A MOUSE.

Twas once so completely unnerved by a
mouse running Owe my face when I was
asleep, writes The ROaner in London
Lady, that l read with sympathy, if with
some establishment, in the Daily Mail of
a lady who committed suicide at Brighton
from arrangement" following On the
same thing. The extraordinary power a
mouse has over the nerves of a wonan
was known by the great knower of
humanity. In midsummer Nights
Dream we find:
You ladies, you whose hearts do quake
with fear
The smallest monStrouS mouse that
creeps on the floor"
And when the tiny monster creeps on
the face the result may be as deplorable
as it was at Brighton the other day.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

1t is reported that therremains of Lieut..
E.. S. French, who was killed in the Phil
ippires, will reach Helena the latter part
of the week and be inferred with military
horors next Sunday. Governor Smith
and staff will talk part, and doubtless the
attendance from all parts Of the state
will be large. +.
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A SKIFF WOULD DO.

II the Lord should send us another flood
III these mad political laws
To wipe from existence the men who cling
to their damnably sinful ways,
70 sweep from the earth every mortal
corrupt with the faint of political
slime,
Every wolf who parades in the guise of a
lamb in the field of political crime,
And only the pure should be taken o.
board and saved in the rescuing ark
To people the earth for another start, will
you pardon the pert remark
That the Noah assigned to the duty to
keep the pure population afloat
Till the sin-washing waters went down,
wouldn't need a very commodious
boat.
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FRESH AND SALT WATER.

7 A singular lake on Kildin Island, near
the coast of Russian Lapland, not far
from Kola, is composed of both fresh and
salt water. The Russian geographer, M.
Wennkow, recently sent a description of
the lake TO the Paris Academy. The
island is a paleoZoic rock separated from
the granite continent by an arm of the
sea. and upon it is a lake which seems
to be entirely hut off from he sea by a
strip of land, but there must he some sub
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communication, for the tides
OF the sea are noticed in the lake, though
IN much diminished effect. The lake con-
talns three different kinds of water. On
the surface it is fresh water, coming
from a few brooks and from the rainfall;
lower down 1T is salt water. and at the
bottom sea water, mixed with ~sulphurous
hydrogen gas. The lake harbors fresh
water animals On and near the surface
and salt water animals beneath. 5
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

The official report of Gen. Otis, pub
lished in today's Inter Mountain, will be
read with interest. 1t will make the heart
of every patriotic Montanian thrill with
pride to read of the unparalleled bravery
of the boys from this state. MOI a man
shirked the dangers which duty imposed.
All vert CALAMITY into the contest and
won enduring fame upon the field.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

Monticello club of Chicago for
a Jeffersonian banquet, inviting Mr..
Bryan and SMr. Altgeld and Mr.. Carter
Harrison to attend. But Mr.. Harrison,
as the democratic mayor of Chicaso,sd de-
clared that if Altgeld, his free silver
democratic opponent for<mayor in the
late objection, was to be present he would
remain away. That knocked the dinner
into smithereens. Instead of Mr.. Harri-
sons friends getting up a new dinner for
him, they simply notified Mr.. Bryan and
Mr,i~Altgeld that the dinner was off and
they need not come.
The drawing of the line "between the
two wings of the party. in New York has
been followed in Chicago, and in both
out'victuals or take what they can get. 1t
looks as if they are getting the worst of
it. A Jeffersonian banquet by the JEFF
ferson club of Helena, with the Clark men
on one side Of the table and the anti
Clark men on the other, with the motto
"united we fall, divided we stand" vow
en- in geraniums and sunhlowers over the
doorway, has not as yet been announced.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
FERN AND SAMOA.

AS0
The people of Germany are, by no
means, of one opinion concerning the
attitude their country hould assume in
it's relations with Samoa. Yesterdays
Inter unta dispatches contains a
letter received by a San Francisco Ger
man paper. written at Apia by one of
the chief German officials at that place,
giving what may be taken as the view
of the situation held by the German resi-
dents there, and, possibly, by not a few
others elsewhere.
1t will be noticed that the writer lays
about all the blame for the unpleasant
and unsatisfactory condition of affairs
there to the American and British resi-
dents and naval commanders at Apia.
Admiral Kautz is severely criticised,
even the Mafaafans %taunting him for his
weakness or cowardice. The English
also come in for a large share of abuse.
In fact, according to the German Off
cial, there is not a common point at
which the English, Americans and Ger
mans can meet, while the Mataafans are
at swords points with both the former.
The writer, in conclusion, gives it as his
opinion tina the only way to settle will
be to make a new deal all round, each
power sending new coEsu!s and new
commanders, who will act in harmony.
The suggestion may not be a bad one.
AS to the attitude of the German gov
itself, it may be truthfully said
that nothing could be more seemly or
more dignifed for a great power than
the action and the inaction which that
government has taken in the affairs of
prejudice was very easy to be aroused
on account of the great pr~eponderance
OF German industrial interests in parts
Of the island over those of Great Britain
and this country combined. Another
cause for disturbance was the part the
chief justice of Apia took in the klngship
imbrogIio without consulting either the
representatives OF England or of the
United States.
Ir all these trying and embarrassing
circumstance the demeanor of the Ger
man government has been blameless. It's
latest differences are unexceptionablo.
At the present time the German govern
mcnt is waiting for information. If the
German consul has issued an irritating
proclamation it will be ~disavowed. Ger
many will in every respect observe her
treaty obligations.
But all Germans are not proud of the
dignity and self-restraint shown by their
nation. There are those who insist, as
the San Francisco paper Apia CORE
pondent seems to insist. that the pre-
~ronderant interests OF Germany in
Samoa entitle her representatives or the
| ground to override any authoritative de-
cision which does not please them. The
! case of Admiral Diedricks at Manila is
a case in point. Germany officially adj
mitted that the admiral was guilty of
very bad manners, if nothing else. Many
German organs We're not pleased with
the admission. Blu all the same the
German government acted straightfor-
ward and dignifed in the matter and is
not now varying from the course it then
pursued. NJ dissenting German press
may. however, see things in a different
light before the Samoan difficulty shall
be adjusted.
THE REAL DIFFERENCE.
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Sir Thomas Pipton, the great British
millionaire, was the son Of poor Irish
parents. He began life as a cabin boy on
a coaster. When later he was promoted
to the second assistancy in a chambers
shop he was grateful for the privilege of
s~leeping under the counter.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

= Mackay was a comn1o pickman when
he struck it rich in the famou Comstock
lode; Lichtenstein, Yerkes and Belmont
We're paper boys; Armour and Goelet
worked in their early days for IS cents
per week, and thought themselves rich
on it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

John D. Rockefeller followed the pillow
on a mean little farm belonging to his
father. En- youth his great ambition was
to be a circus rider.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

The founder Of the Rothschilds was a
.pawnbroker in a dirty back street OF a
second-clasS German city. The descend
ants of his five sons and five daughters
by their aggregate wealth now sway the
money of the world. IL
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

TIL nursery of the Astor estates was a
small plot of land on Broadway, bought
by the fOunder of the family for $3.50.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11

Fifty years ago Andrew Carnegie was
earning $1.25 per week as a bobbin boy.
He emigrated to- America a pauper.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
WORLDS GREAT FORTUNES.

Jay Gould worked as a boy on a small
dairy farm, and afterward as a clerk in a
country store.
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DIR. NED. e. LEO HAGRNBURGER

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