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let 'm* •*' - * 1 nor rut en-tre*T,
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l , her stirtine. though
t anif* !* went there;
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trr ®* ,a t ter mav repent there.
they' .. " _' n hrr'uUter neat,
Fett**-' hut not ton <lre-=y.
|< H** 1 , V r J..wn the street,
si I*• .rr her name waa “Bc*=:e.
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• >Mr name Pi eneeei
m <***; 'I L,, T " ntv or eighty,
Tr^T' K ’uVr-ev. ltetty.B*,
M: - Kat tie, Katie,
Klaine.
(r- ' l s t,,|.hie. Je*ie,
p in l-Vra. Mary Jane- ..
a®f u sure her name was nesi.e.
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£ : ;iaU*th but “f:cs*ie:
rw rhilftp* rmiM commau'l
f*e#T oun * * i Lime* *t** pleasure,
'• pretty !an*i
MKrtch & pretty little treasure,
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u ‘' L tv n4Uv* Jfaoatins.
~ON Tt'll llh ROMANCES.
. rnrerinz a Period or
** fifty Near*.
a iJ -hat lie must have been
ir who t'rst ventured to eat an
***** /rtainlv a tedder man he must
P** V ',j„ f' r .- undertook the task of
av , the Chicago ln*,vr
mt* History assures us that llanno,
, ’ thae>—ian General, was the first
,7 'umiliar acquaintance with
"km""'beasts." But ’he first iublic
.rained lions was given by
Vit'Gv. who. with il h J his
® ‘,. a ~.jr ■!’ tame lions harnessed
’. (>ar .... , iß ,| the arena of the amphi*
l *Betier nirlv lien-tamer was Andro-
Jlwho"- •t'-'v u.t- be*.‘n made familiar
j>jh*:t rendition in school
i('r, An in-ci'-s *a- a Greek slave,
kn. i,. nr fr'-m ’he orutal tyranny of
■ sought refuge in the
* .7". a one! vf. rest. Here he met
" m ..j; r r. u- lion, and, while pon-
Jj7-- o' th" *;u> 'tionabie advantage
Jb.'i m rnniimgaway from his master’s
J*"j n i..'j in r.'s iw. he noticed that the
e. l i in t<s> much pain to
~, r , nt tti v intrusion on his sylvan
Jj. , t r.iu!'iiig a ' loser examination,
k* min >a.v that the animal had been
—jj tiy a thorn in its toot, and, as it
M,; Bo’h'-'Uir demonstration, he pulled
btthoru "ut. Hi- lion testifying its grati-
various feline signs.
lonian • ' •• -.i-t U-.-ame good friends
ltfr:r It-rn-Iy retreat. Hut soon after
.• •:*.• was pursued, found and
jfr'f r ' ni".,' aw ay he was sentenced
ite thrown to the lions of the amphi-
I • ts-ast brought out tor this
k*. i w.i-a large lion, recently cap
jjs: ir. i'• r> ferocious. What was the
di.mrnt .( the spectators when the
m. iu-’-'.-oI of falling upon Androcles
it , aim limb from limb, fawned
900 ban. io-ked his hand, and then lay
ur.-.a • yat his leet? It was his grate*
de.n;~i::ion of the forest. Androcles,
ali:: - -t• *ry to the amazed audience,
(W;. : pardon and his liberty on the
pot. \\. not told that a circus man
n.'aired him to i*?rlnrm as
,-b-n km-'." at a large salary, hut it
■Mbigblv probable.
But t-r'iinihir nianifestatlons in Lu
i|o. niii~i eoiiie down to times quite
Hie:n. !:. • menagerie was a thing un-
Ion t r the middle ae'es. save for an
:;d t- i-: in the of
jfiltv. riw presentation ot three leoje
lii-tii Henry 111. in the Thirteenth cen
iryt. It., th- formation of the Tower
kM-ri.\ whieh was increased front
iaei time till it Oceanic a really excel-
Mt wild !eat show. In the tune of Ed
anllll. the tirst lion and lioness were
(dai.irj in the reign of Henry VI. the
■ce'if keejMT it the lmtis was created
Bth a:i all. war.ee of mv pence per day
ti-w; m: i ..-ast in hiseustndy. an office
tvivalpv enl.tr.'.-d .util it took in all the
■mils >.f the cohection. The Tower
wu: : •' i- I a:..out fifty years
r me animal* i.eiiiL' purchased by a
iieuUi'r named t russ, who tirst had
ten. ; n ar !.•• K veter 'Change,
ai'.hint'. t ~uth.-ieiit space, removed
hsi te *'trre\ ti.irdeus. Here fur many
*•> ;h. > formed a rival attraction to
st c>. lection ■; the lioyal Zoological
**'>. ini" win. i.. howetcr. they were
Miner td.
IV li'.ns eollected in the Tower
v; rain, it after reigning
JJ*rei.-:o : E :r- an I popular super*
tit. r. in.- ■.l ’-i fat • and condition
itwwteil..w :'a that myallv. Thus,
> t -'.after ,t. :!lii—• if George 11., Lord
JMitrti.'M wpite:
-It was greatly thotight that llis
p-v w "ulit hat., (litd. and for a very
: ' w *‘ l ' ’• *•• "M.-t Ison in the Tower,
**r ab'iit tin- K iii—**. age. died altout a
Waighi ago." Hit the King outwitted
super-*:vtimi am! the lion and lived
Gar* long'-i. The lion here re
la a. *u i 1 ver TO years of
at tb- tune • f It* death, and was the
Mta -t lived her. ..:i record. The usual
■ntn-o of lite for this !vast is thought
> ars, even in its wild
Theh" n : n T>J c To ver" were a great
to r .*ti.-s visiting London,
rtiinoc-t ri ' v 1 ’ tlie f ;lvor *fe hoax ol j
t" *.e the lions washed at
r io m tv. I ..ant —an operation
aar.lli *. \. was never thus
fv ~v' ! ! m''' : menagerie was that
nn*’ ?*•*;." was a house*
nirs ’ti . U 1 k h*r a half century or
rhn ; , ma: ‘ " riirlnallv a cobbler,
iL: M V"' sk - ;vma n , s career by ex-
V.L‘> -ar--.- Mj.tke which he had pur
t'lrnied his menagerie in ISOS.
wtion '• "‘ M " "th.T notable col*
il,-. fi tieM during the next ten
■ ' : * a,s and Ballard— and
Wk „ others.
srrtA' !* r ' ,r:i yan was near Salis
rVa". '\V lioness escaped from
EBeiT >ual occurrence this
east •v.'!'’- "> : !>ut this particular
ities. Z‘"i ‘ r *‘ if immortal by at
••ek nail 3 ' ■ k' l *' r mail coach. This)
at an inn near by to
Im.. * '■ >■ tiers, when the lioness
■ns an UJ / 1 the leaders. The
fin *ft>T il-irk !I c* Vl " k nl, y; and, as it
h: ar *' 14 ’-“ .error and contusion
Hk,,;;. 1 "•>' tremendous. When
f the , tr^ n i'f't'Vht and the mature
lis terror'vV”' a 'V E,aI was percelred,
i ssened. I Hogs were
- :eh loft the horses
ntrefti '• alter killing several,
Qs isjasLi -■ r a granary, whence she
•tfer.-am I ‘ l , I ' ,ut ,i: Acuity when her
letare *, an ' 3 r stored to her cage. A
■titri; ,' liriß ' lbe thrilling incx
isea it s f t ’ n at tke inn Wore
r ' ' • kll ’ "n as Winterslow
tkov* tr.;.m the city of Salis
“"v fam ®“ B 3ions - known
bskitr .‘ n ‘, •*.-.1. -e. Nero was much
•T b~c "malde and as tame as
, -■ In J“r. '*, a bet
■Cthf 5 ... gentlemen concern*
" - -i.itics of Nero caused
issad s.t : V' r n ,s f a **** between
A “ -ii-tlogs, who were to
btt. V;' t - 1 beasts,” in heats of
•fhi t .f !r, A and though the
s m "' n faiured from one to
' ’ ,';- v -' l ' at in the menagerie
k indreds could not gain
: ; t.'-ved a perfect “sell”
, 4 ‘ amiability of the lion.
* Jrat, ,; ,v : >u!d rjll a Jog over
■ dog* „ , klln a little, and
"ts tVv n rush at him as
* a ,na ke him tight, but it
* * ut last tbe patience of
?*t off in woru oul * aud they
1 '• >t * The excuse Mr.
Was , : -"'e can’t make
lf they won't?” But
*l' t v.-r 1 general feeling of indig-
'natter that the managlr
•Tour. ' ./'encounter, In which
Lffc ’d ' abave. was substituted
‘ • .the results were ouitc
*• kill’, i r c 7 ' tl *at faced the lion
cam. ' mangled, the last
*rat •' :n Wallace's mouth
’■teaiis, ■ :<no literally shaken
Womb well brought forward the first
nrofessional lion-tamer on record, who
was known as “Manchester Jack£ This
man’s performance antedated those of
Van Amburgh by but a few rears, and
there is no doubt that some of his best
tricks were copied from those of the
latter. There was naturally much rivalry
between the two lion kiegs when Van
Amburgh brought his trained lions, tigers
and leopards to England in 1836, and the
assertion has been made that Jack dared
the other to a trial or skill and courage
with bis beasts at Southampton, and that
the contest did not come ofT, owing to Van
Amburgh showing the white feather. But
the stcry is quite improbable, for the dar
ing 'if the latter performer has never been
surpassed.
■Lion-tamers are usually killed a dozen
times or more by rumor during their ca
reers, and yet, after all, they die in their
beds in a bout" he same proportion as other
men. For instance, Manchester Jack
was reported by the newspajiers as hav
ing come to his end in various ways, once
after the following unenviable fashion:
He was said to have been exhibiting the
feat, which Van Amburgh originated, of
j utting his bead in the lion’s mouth, and
to have been roused to a sense of his rash
ness by hearing the animal growl and
feeling its jaws closing upon his neck.
"i’oes he wisk his tail, Bill?” he is said
to have asked the keeper while in this
horrible situation. “Yes,” replied Bill.
••Then 1 am a dead man,” groaned
Jack.
moment afterward the snapping of
the lion’s jaws fulfilled his prophecy.
But this thrilling story is contradicted
by the fact that Manchester Jack left
the menagerie with a whole skin, and
for a number of years afterward kept an
inn at Tauton, where he died in 1865.
AVitb reference to this feat of putting
the head in the mouth of a lion or tiger, it
might lie said that, foolhardy as it seems,
we have been unable to find a single
authentic instance in which the beast has
improved the opportunity to remove such
a foolish head from its shoulders. It is
possible such instances may have occurr
ed,but in comparison to the many hundred
times the teat has been performed, they
seem to show that it is not really more
perilous than many similar performances,
it is an utterly objectless feat, only intro
duced because of the fascination which
terrible peril has to most audiences
When Van Amburgh was in England a
certain gentleman went to see him for a
hundred or more consecutive niabts, fol
lowing him from place to place, solely, he
said, because he was convinced that the
performer’s head would one day be bitten
off. and he did not want to miss the sight.
In the daring and triumph of Van Am
burgh this country has taken a special
interest, since he was generally known as
an American, and it was here that he won
bis first laurels, lie was a native ol Hol
land. however, but coming to this country
as a young man, always regarded himself
as ah American citizen. He was a very
handsome man, tali and well formed, and
when some years after his appearance in
England with his trained lions and tigers,
Sir Edwin Landseer painted him in the
midst of his tamed beasts, the picture at
tracted a great deal of attention, and
made Van Amburgh’s show the fashion
with the verv highest circles, even royaity
itself. The Duke of Wellington was an
ardent admirer of his performances, and
cultivated his acquaintance with interest.
“Were you ever afraid ” once asked
the Duke, when the lion king was a guest
at bis house.
“The first time that I am afraid, your
grace,” replied the lion-tamer, “or I fancy
that my pupils are no longer afraid of me,
I shall retire from the wild-beast line.’’
About 1847 Van Amburgh brought out a
magnificent black tiger, an animal pre
viously regarded as untamable. This
animat was introduced into Sue’s drama
of the Wandering Jew , which was then
creating a great sensation all over Europe,
and Van Amburgh personated the beast
tamer, “Morok,” througb whom, in the
i story, the Jesuits try to delay the old
I soldier, “Dagobert, ’ on his journey to
i Paris l>3' exposing iiis horse to the attack
i of a lerocious blaek panther.
Though he had been killed in the news
papers a half-dozen times or more, had
his back broken twice and his head once
bitten off by a tiger, Van Amburgh at
last retired umievoured from the arena,
and died quietly in his bed about the year
1870.
Carter was a lion-tamer who came into
prominence several years alter Van Am
burgh's tirst appearance in England. This
man had been a* “general utility'’ man in
Saunders' circus, when the necessity tor
a lion-king induced him to attempt the
dangerous but well paid task. He was
very successlul, and soon appeared at
Astlev’s, in a drama written especially
for him, as “Afghar,” -a lion-tamer, in
which part he drove a lion in harness and
carried on a mimic fight with a tiger.
Whether this Carter was the same lion
king that was attacked by bis animals
and so badly torn that he died in 1873, we
cannot say, but we think, from the lapse
ol time, these were probably two different
individuals.
A lion king well known to two hemis
heres was Crockett, whose mother had
been formerly known as Miss Cross, the
Nottinghamshire giantess. She was six
feet nine inches in height and proportion
ately large, but very handsome and pre
possessing. Crockett was a musician in
Sanger’s circus, but was suffering from a
weakness of the chest, which his perform
ance on the instrument increased. He
was offered the position of lion king prin
cipally because ot his handsome and im
posing appearance. He accepted it, and
displayed rare .courage and coolness, only
one instaaoe being given where his nerve
seemed to fail him.
One of the tame lions at Sanger’s used
to be taken out to personate the British
lion, lving at the foot of Hrittanniaduring
the show parades. One morning, the
tents having been pitched just outside the
town of Weymouth, when the keepers
went to take out Brittannia's docile at
tendant, they found all the five lions fight
ing furiously, their manes up, their eyes
dashing-, anil their shoulders all scratched
and bloodv. Not one of the keepers, even
Crockett, would dare to go into the cage.
But Mr. George Sanger, the proprietor,
seizing a whip, sprang in among the
beasts, drove the lions on one side, and
the lioness, who was the object of their
contention, on the other, and sep
arated them by boards quickly passed
into the cage for the purpose. Crockett
had by this time recovered his
nerve, and, an hour later, put these same
lions, in spite of their sullenness, through
their usual list of teats before a crowded
audience. Another instance is given
wherein Crockett’s nerve did not fail him
in the face of terrible peril. While Batty
was managing the circus at Astley’s the
six lions one day got loose through,
it was supposed, the intentional careless
ness of one ot the grooms, who had been
fined by the manager for neglect of
dutv. Before Crockett, who had been
sent for in hot haste, could reach
the theatre, the lions had killed
a keeper and half eaten him, and were
roaming about the auditorium, roaring to
get at the horses. Crockett went in
among them quite alone, with only a
switch in his hand, and in a few minutes
had safely caged them all, without re
ceiving a scratch. These lions were
afterwards sold to the American circus of
Howe ft Cushing, performing in England,
and Crockett came back with them to this
country, and traveled with them lor two
years at a salary of SIOO a week. One day,
when the circus was performing in this
city, he fell down while passing from the
dressing room to the ring, and died on the
spot, of heart disease, it was thought.
While Crockett was still traveling with
Sanger's circus is England, Hilton, the
mauager of a rival show, to counterbal
ance the former’s attractions, brought out
his daughter as a “lion queen.’’ She
made her first appearance in Stepney
fair, and the spectacle became so attrac
tive that other shows immediately adopt
ed it. Edmunds, the proprietor of one of
the three menageries into which the fa
mous collection ot Wombwell was divid
ed cm the death ot the original proprietor
in 1800. brought out Miss Chapman as a
rival to Miss Hilton, with his lions and
leopards. Miss Chapman was a lady of
fine nerve, and performed so successfully
that she was requested to give a special
appearance before the royal family. Her
success brought out a third lion queen,
Miss Helen Blight, whose career was
short and its end most painful. She was
performing at Greenwich fair one day,
when a tiger, showing some sullenness,
she very imprudently struck him with a
small whip which she carried. The en
raged beast immediately sprang at her
throat with a hoarse roar, and killed her
before she could be rescued. The excite
ment caused by this melancholy affair
caused the performance of “lion queens”
to be forbidden in England by the Lord
Chancellor, but they have since appeared
several times in this country.
Macomo was a negro lion-king, who be
come famous far and wide. He was one
of the most daring performers ever known,
and many stories are told of his remark
able pluck and fearlessness. He once en
tered a cage where two tigers were fight
ing furiously, and, armed with a whip,
attempted to separate them. Both beasts
turned upon him and tore him with their
sharp claws, but, covered with blood as
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1884.
he was, he continued to lash them with
his whip until they knew him for their
master, and cowered before him. This
was not the only occasion in which Ma
coma received wounds, the marks of
which he bore to the grave. All who saw
him perform believed that one day he
would be killed, but he seemed, like Van
Amburgh and Crockett, to bear a charmed
life, and he died a natural death in 1870.
It is worth noting that these three most
successful lion-kings were alike in one
particular—they all abstained wholly
from intoxicating liquors.
It is confessed by many a performer,
who ha 9 not been wise enough to follow
their example, that the use of strong
drink greatly increases the peril of their
performances. The temptation is great to
strengthen the nerves with a glass of
brandy, but the tendency of such stimu
lus is to make the performer reckless, and
inclined to do rash things while with the
beasts—often to strike them, which is a
most dangerous thing to do. This was
the case with the successor of Macomo,
who was an Irishman named McCarthy.
In 1862 he had his left arm so mangled by
the beasts—aroused, as he admitted after
ward, by a hasty blow—that he had to
have it amputated. He continued to per
form with the animals, for the fact of his
having but one arm added to his attrac
tiveness, and he was well paid. But he
could not abstain from liquor, and this,
with the recklessness induced by it, caused
his death.
He was giving at Bolton a sensational
performance called lion hunting, intro
duced by Macomo, which consists in
chasing the animals about the cage, the
performer armed with a sword and pistols,
and making the sport appear as much
like a real hunt as possible. It is known
that this exhibition excites the beast so
much that it is very dangerous. In this
case McCarthy had driven the animals
into a corner, and then he walked to the
centre of the cage and stamped his feet to
make them run past him again. His back
was turned to the beasts, and one of the
lions crept stealthily from the group and
-sprang upon him. The others followed,
and it was only after a long struggle on
the part of the keepers and the use ol
biows with hot irons that the torn and
mangled body of the dead pertormer could
be taken from the enraged beasts.
STOPPED BY A SEA BRAKE.
The Steamboat Florenee, at Fall Speed,
Halted within 20 Feet.
The steamboat Florence, running on the
Sea Beach route from pier No. 6, North
river, New York, has a novel appliance
for checkin e her headway. It is called a
sea brake. On each side oi the stern post
is hinged a great fin 9x9% feet, made of
boiler plate braced with angle iron. The
fins are arranged to fit into the run of the
vessel ordinarily, where they are secured
by ordinary catches, which are controlled
through lines leading to the pilot-house.
When these fins are closed they press
against springs, so that when the catches
are released the fins are thrown out from
the side of the-ship and are caught by the
water. If ttee vessel is under "headway
they are instantly thrown out UDtil they
stand at right angles to the keel. As they
assume this position they bring up agair.et
powerful springs.
“The effect of opposing 170 square feet
of boiler iron to the forward progress of
the vessel was well illustrated last Tues
day,” sail Capt. Simmons yesterday.
“We were running down past Gowanus
bay. On our port bow, some distance off,
was a lighter running in the same direc
tion. After it had passed by a big three
masted schooner lying at anchor, !t tacked
suddenly around the schooner and across
our bows. It shot out in front of us not
twenty feet away and we were running
about fourteen knots an hour, I was on
the upper deck and yelled fee the pilot,
who released the brakes. The steamer
was stopped so suddenly that some of the
passengers were staggered aud others al
most thrown from their seats, but they
were saved the necessity of taking to the
water through a collision. Not only was
the headway stopped, but she was actu
ally started astern, the engines having
been stopped. This was done by the ac-
Hod of the springs against which the fins
opened. They were compressed as the
fins took against the water, and then the
power of the springs forced them forward
a short distance and thus started her
astern. We at once closed the fins by
means of champ which run from the outer
edges of the tins in through hawser holes
and so to the engine-room. The fins can
be closed in thirty seconds.”
“Had you tested the fins before that
day?”
“Frequently. We have a device for au
tomatically tripping the fins. It Is simply
a spar rigged out from the bow at the
water line. It projects seventeen feet.
With that in place we have run at full
speed against logs and buoys. In every
instance the brakes were opened the mo
ment the outrigger struck the object, and
the headway was checked almost instantly
and then the vessel dropped astern. She
runs three hundred feet after the engines
are reversed if no brakes are used. If
naming in a fog we would put that out
rigger in place, and then we could with
perfect satety run into anything, for the
bow of the boat would never touch it.
“We can loosen either brake separately
and thus throw the vessel to one side if
occasion demands. 1 think that when
better known the brakes will be by law
applied to every ship afloat.”
A FISH ACROBAT.
How a Pike Caught Birds For Its Din
ner.
One warm afternoon a stroller, coming
to the borders of a small pond, threw him
self down beside a little tree that leaned
over the water, so that its lowest branches
were but ;> few feet above the surface.
While reclining in the shade and idly
watching the leaves that fell upon the
water and sailed away, the stroller sud
denly heard a chirping overhead and,
looking up, saw on a long limb two small
sparrows. Near them, fluttering in the
air, rising, falling and now alighting be
side them, was the mother bird. She was
evidently engaged in giving the fledge
lings their first lesson in flying. But the
young birds could not be induced to leave
their suopftrt; they merely raised their
little wings and followed their mother out
from the tree by edging along side by side
on the limb. As she renewed her efforte
the faster they went, until finally they
were out out on the very tip of the branch
overhanging the water, which reflected
their every movement.
For some time these motions of the
mother and young were kept up, and per
haps our observer sank into a doze, for he
suddenly became aware that one of the
birds bad disappeared, tbat a great splash
had occurred under the limb, and that the
mother bird had changed her cries to those
of alarm. But it was evident from the
mother bird’s actions that the little bird
had not flown away. The stroller con
cluded that it had fallen into the water
and he rose to see if he could recover it.
when there shot up from the water along,
slender fish, that quickly darted through
the air and snatched the remaining bird
from the limb, falling back into the pond
with a splash and a whisk of its tail. "This
startling leap astonished the observer, but
it qlso fully explained to him the disap
pearance of the other young bird.
The pike was evidently out hunting and,
spying the birds upon the limb, it had
carefully measured the distance and by
two vigorous jumps had captured them
both. The mother bird was both grieved
and dazed by the sudden calamity that
had befallen the fledgelings, and perhaps
fearing a similar fate for herselt she soon
flew away.
Guessed Her Age.
Miss Makeup, the new Sunday-school
teacher, had been telling little Sammie
that when she was a wee, tiny girl, she
used' to play with a little rnannie who
looked just like him.
The Superintendent’s bell rang and the
school came to order.
The lesson hour was soon reached.
“Johnny,” said Miss Makeup, “who
was the first man?”
“George Washington—first in war, first
In—”
“There, that will do.”
“Well, he was; i heard it at the min
strels.”
“Sammie, my little mannie, I’ll war
rant you fan tell who was the first man.”
Sammie looked ashamed, and only gig
gled.
“Come, Sammie, don't you know?”
“Yeth’m.”
“Well, then, tell me like a little man
nie.”
“It wath that little boy you uth to play
with, wathn't it?”
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THE PRESIDENT’S TABLE.
HOW THE STATE DINNERS ARE
PREPARED.
Elegant and Costly Kepasta Furnished
from the White House Kitchen—His
Shelf ot Choice Madeira—The Finest
Imported Cigars—The Culinary De
part Systematically Arranged.
Washington Star.
President Arthur has far surpassed all
his predecessors in the matter of enter
taining at the White House, and has set
an example of excellence and elegance in
table appointments which will be difficult
for his successors to follow without going
pretty deep into their pockets.
Since the President first entered the
White House he has entertained his guests
most hospitably, but it was not until the
last winter that he gave a series of state
dinners which excelled any similar occa
sion at the White House. Besides giving
the customary diplomatic, Cabinet and
judicial dinners, all the Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress, with their wives,
were Invited to sit at his table. Thus it
was that nine expensive and elegant re
pasts were served in the state dining
room, the guests in each instance num
bering from 36 to 54. They were very
elaborate and formal affairs, and Senator
Anthony, who is recognized authority in
such matters, pronounced them perfec
tion. The President is not particularly
given to “the repairs of the table” him
self, but he is very particular always to
have before him and his guests the best
the market affords. In former adminis
trations it was customary to give the
state dinners in a sort of picked-up style.
There were a steward and a cook, of
course, but when it became necessary to
give a dinner to the representatives of
foreign governments—critics from the best
tables of Europe—they were unequal to
to the task, and outside assistance was
always required. Thus it was that Jacobs
and Crutchett, of culinary fame, for years
superintended the preparation of the state
dinners. The cookiug was nearly all
done outside and carried to the White
House in big hand barrows. This way of
doing it looked too much like having vour
meais sent in; there was naturally hag
gling over the contracts and a danger of
imposition and unsuccessful dinners.
President Arthur determined that all
entertainments given at the White House
should be gotten up in his own household.
He secured as a steward Howard
Williams, who was for 12 years with Ros
coe Conkling, and whose ability as a man
ager fee well knew. Williams is a
colored man, of very fine personal ap
pearance, well educated, and has made a
triumph of his stewardship. The Presi
dent also recognized the fact that a
French cook is indispensable to a big din
ner. An old-time Virginia cook is good
enough for every day, and in many re
spects can’t be beaten, but only a French
man can devise the variety and the ex
tensive ornamentation necessary on state
occasions. Chef Fortin was brought from
New York to superintend the White
House kitchen, and receives a salary of
SI,BOO. He was cook for John -dacoli As
tor, Jay Gould and l'inard, in New York,
and is truly a chef.
Before President Arthur’s time uo more
than thirty-six people had ever been
seated at the table in the -State dining
room. The room would not permit ot an
extension of the table lengthwise, and a
very ingenious plan wa9 hit upon to in
crease its seating capacity. The original
width was retained in the centre, where
the President sits, opposite being the seat
of the hostess. From these points the
sides were given an outward curved
shape in either direction to the corners,
where the extreme width was reached,
something like an hour glass, By this
means room was obtained for fifty-four
persons, whose seats were so arranged
that they would all nearly face one
another. The way in which this large
number of guests are seated without con
fusion or mistakes is very simple. Each
gentleman upon arrival is presented with
an envelope containing a card, upon
which is written the name of the lady he
is to escort to the table. On the reverse of
the card is a diagram of the table, with
the seats numbered, commencing at the
entrance and running to the right. The
numbers of the seats they are to occupy
are checked upon the diagram, and know
ing that the lady is to sit on his right,
the proper places are generally found .at
once and without further guidance.
The series of dinners last season re
ferred to cost at least $lO per plate. In
nearly every instance there were fifty
guests at the table, so that the actual cost
of the nine dinners was about $5,000. This
was not the extent ol the President’s hos
pitality, however, for there were quite a
number of private dinners given during
the season to ,prominent persons or per
sonal friends. The following bill of fere
will serve as a sample of the dinners, be
ing the menu for the dinner given to the
diplomatic corps on Feb. 6 last, the guests
numbering fifty:
Huitres, en coqulllc—Chablis.
Consomme, ala d’Orleans—Sherry.
Hors d’uiuvre—Petites Timbales a‘la Nilseon.
Poisson—Filets Rouge t ala cardinal; olives.
Pommes Parisienne—Hockheimer.
Releve—Selle de Venaison, sauce cherand,
haricots verts, au Beurne—Grau Larse.
Entrees—Filet de Pintarde, supreme aux
truffes—Perior Jouet ft Cos. Terrapins ala
Maryland. Chaud froid d’oiseaux ala .Pi
nard.
Punch —a Tlmperial.
Rote—English pheasants au cresson—Cham
bertin.
Safede—Mayonnaise de celery.
Legumes—Aspcrge au branches, sauce hol
land&is.
Ramequins ala Parmesanc.
Entremets—Gros Baba au rhum.
Gelee—Rubance.
Glace—Tutti Frutti.
Gateaux—Sortis.
Cafe—Cognac, &c. The &c. meaning li
qut-ursof live kinds—Chartreuse, Maraschino,
Anisette, Curacoa, and Kirsch-Wasser.
By the above menu it will be seen that
there were over a dozen different kinds of
liquor with the dinner. When it is re
membered that the wines are estimated
at one-third the whole cost, it will be seen
that they form no small item of expense
in entertaining in what is called the
proper manner. President Ilayes, as is
well known, never had wine at his table.
He had a number of small state dinners
during his administration, and in each of
the last three years he gave a diplomatic
lunch. The guests were invited to meet
the diplomatic corps, and nearly a thou
sand family invitations were issued. The
refreshments consisted mainly of cold
dishes, such as salads, cold meats, etc.,
coffee, chocolate, cake, ice cream, etc.
Those who attended these lunches did not
consider them very elegant because of the
crowd and their push and greed. These
three entertainments were very expensive
on account of the number fed, though the
lact that there was no wine in the bill
lessened their cost considerably.
A Star reporter ran across Steward
Williams at the White House the other
day and asked to be shown through the
culinary department. The steward kind
ly accompanied him. There are two
kitchens, one much larger than the other,
with mammoth ranges and boilers. The
walls are hung with copper cooking uten
sils of every character, bright and in or
der. In the centre ol the big kitchen
stands a permanent zinc covered table,
at which most of the manipulating is
done. Chet Fortin, about as broad as
long, was standing at it hard at work.
He speaks English very well, and kindly
assisted in explaining the manner of do
ing business in his department.
“How much warning do they give you
when a state dinner is to be prepared?”
asked the reporter of Williams.
“About four days, to give us plenty of
time to get things in shape. Lots of prep
arations, too, are necessary. In the first
place the ornaments are to be made, and
the chef here likes to make an early start
in that branch.”
“What do you make them from?”
“Grease. Yes, we take old candles and
melt them over time and again and mold
figures, etc., of various designs. The
chef tells me that such ornamentation is
largely taking the place of flowers in Eu
rope, "particularly where flowers are
scarce. We endeavor always to have a
good supply of both, and the effect is very
satisfactory.”
The chef was busy with some broken
ornaments when the reporter entered.
These he melted and poured into a plaster
of paris mold. Placing this in a pan ol
ice water for a little while, it was opened
and an excellent Goddess of Liberty was
produced looking as well as many of her
marble sisters.
“You see,” continued the steward,
“such figures are made the centre pieces
for dishes of cold meats and the like,
which are usually served in a sort of
pyramid. One of the rules Is that no dish
must be served fiat. It must be raised up
in some way, and there are various plans
followed. A big base of rice is sometimes
made to raise the birds or meats or what
ever is to be served. Sometimes they are
well raised, and then are so well con
cealed by tallow ornaments and disguised
that it is" pretty hard to tell where to start
in. I have seen some of the Western
Congressmen, when such a dish is passed,
look all around it, kind of uncertain
where to strike, and then shake their
heads and let it pa9B. That is not saying
anything against the gentlemen. I
couldn’t do any better if I hadn’t seen
such dishes prepared time and again, for
they are very deceptive.”
“How do you go to work to prepare a
big dinner ?” asked the reporter.
“We get word that there is to be a
dinner for so many persons on such an
evening. I know that the dinner is to be
the best that can be prepared, and I go to
work accordingly to procure the best, not
only that the Washington market affords,
but that can be secured in New York,
where I telegraph for the choicest game
and other things that can be obtained.
The President gives carte blanche
and never grumbles at expeuse, so we
are never hampered. The Chef always
has an assistant on such occasions, and
they first go to work on the tallow orna
ments, and Mr. Pflster begins on the floral
ornaments. Great care must be taken in
ornamenting not to obstruct the view of
any of the guests, and, while floral de
signs are intended to be characteristic of
the occasion, they are either suspended so
that the guests can see under them or else
raised on pillars far enough apart not to
obstruct the view. At the judicial dinner
lasty ear the chief floral piece was a
temple ot justice, with the book of laws in
the interior. It taxes the ingenuity of all
of us to secure a variety, and, at the same
time, maintain excellence in all branches.
The menus must be entirely different.
Not a dish is brought on the table that ap
peared at the previous dinner, so you see
we have to keep scheming.”
“How many persons does it take to
serve a state dinner?” a9ked the reporter.
“If there are 50 persons at the table, or
a few more or less, it takes 12 servants.”
“Why so many?”
“Well, there are five services for every
course. By that I mean that five dishes
of everything are served at once. If the
course is fish, five plates of fish are served
simultaneously, and so on through the
dinner. This is to prevent delay. So you
see there are five of the servants engaged
in serving the main dish of the course,
each one helping about ten persons, and
five more follow with the vegetables or
the accompanying dish. Two more wait
ers are kept busy serving the wine which
belongs to the co’urse.”
“The whole dinner is prepared here in
the White House, is it not?”
“Everything but the ice cream; that we
get outside. Of course we haven’t a large
enough force of servants regularly in the
house to serve the dinner, and so have to
get outside assistance, but the dinners are
truly White House dinners.”
Outside the kitchen are two refrigera
tors, big enough for a mammoth hotel, but
they do not suffice, and anew one with
all the modern improvements is about to
be built. Mr. Williams has a comfortable
office in the basement, from which opens
the President’s wine cellar. The stock of
wines has not been replenished since the
season’s gayeties were over, but the
shelves are pretty well filled yet.
The attention of the Star reporter was
attracted by a letter which was tacked to
the shelf containing bottles of choice Ma
deira. He found that it was an auto
graph letter from the lamented Sam Ward
to the President, giving the history ol the
neighboring Madeira, which he had sent
to the President in 1881. The letter was
written in the famous epicure’s charac
teristic style. He went on to say that
during Sherman’s mavch to the sea the
Charleston Jockey Club buried their old
and choice Madeira wine, and thus saved
it. Some six years previous to the date
of the letter the wine was exhumed
and sold to a member of the house
of Baring & Cos., of London, and was
shipped to England. Through
ignorance of the proper treatment of such
wines it never recovered from the voyage,
and its owner grew sick of his purchase.
Learning three years later that the whole
lot was lor sale Mr. Ward and Jim Keene
purchased it, and by proper treatment
restored the pristine glory of the wine.
Mr. Ward presented several demijohns of
it to the President. Owing te the loss of
the original catalogue, the -exact age of
the wine could not be ascertained, but
mono of it was less than forty years old,
andmostof it over half a century. Mr.
Ward gave direction how it should be
bottled and stored, and subscribed him
self “Yours, affectionately, Uncle Bam.”
One shelf was devoted to cigars, and all
the boxes of various brands bore the cus
toms stamp. At the beginning of the
season enough cigars are purchased from
the New York importers to last for a good
while. The President never offers any but
imported cigars to his guests, and is as
hospitable with them as he is with his
wines.
Everything in the culinary department
is run upon a well arranged system, and
any demands made upon it by the Presi
dent will be responded to promptly and
satisfactorily. He never knows anything
about the details, but settles the bills
without a murmur, well satisfied, as he
cannot help being, with the way his
guests are entertained.
A New Haven Sunday Eighty Years Ago.
Manhattan for August.
Thus a sense of duty induced them to
violate the law themselves in order to
compel its observance by others. The
death like dullness and absolute privation
of sound which prevailed throughout the
day can hardly be imagined. The labor
of eating dinners, prepared on the pre
vious Saturday, seemed to be looked
on as a lamentable necessity, and, though
such noises as coughing and sneezing
were excused if quite spontaneous, it was
directly forbidden to induce them by tak
ing snuff, or carelessly letting your liquor
go the wrong way. I know not whether
the chattering ot a man’s teeth in an ague
fit would have been considered reprehensi
ble, but in the case ot your hands becom
ing dirty, 1 am persuaded that it would
have been held more correct to let them re
main so than to resort to the labor of using
soap, water and towel. Under the influ
ence of this mournful contrast to the
pleasurable tranquillity or the light
hearted, innocent gaiety of a European
Sunday I really conceive myself ab
stracted from the world, or rather like the
personage in one of the Arabian tales who
wandered into a petrified city and in the
midst of human habitations beheld no
sign of life. But while every noise was
totally suppressed indoors, what does my
reader suppose he would hear or ob
serve were he to take his seat
with me at one of the inn windows
and survey the streets? For the
most part he would hear nothing, for when
the inhabitants were allowed to issue
from their doors they stole about the high
ways like so many sprites or like the mys
terious heroes in Mrs. RadclitPs romances,
so light were their movements and their
steps so inaudible. The principal object
in sight would be those guardians of the
peace already mentioned, looking like a
detachment of Cromwell’s body-guard
as they marched to and fro with the
utmost precision and solemnity, arrayed
in the square-cut garments which be
tokened their office. Perhaps, at last,
some luckless pig would waddle forth
from an avenue upon a muddy research.
Alas, his first grunt of triumph, as he
lighted upon some spoil, would serve as a
signal to his enemies, one of whonf
would secure him on the in
stant, drive him ignominously home
to his sty and there execute retributive
justice for his pagan disregard of sacred
ordinances by forthwith dispatching him.
Or should some caitiff dog, or even
thoughtless puppy, in profligate contempt
of the law, begin frolicking and barking
in the road, he would be summarily shot
upon the spot. Or perhaps some gentle
man cat, amorously disposed, would
be so as to commence
an ill-timed under the
gutter of his tabby, the vigilant
street-keepers, attracted by the sound,
would rush to the place, and at the mo
ment perhaps when a tender response was
awakening in the bosom and throat of
Grimalkin, and the passionate duetto of
the hapless pair rising to a climax, both
would be assailed with a battery of staff
and stones to the interruption of their
loves and great peril of their lives.
Careful What She Ate.
“Will you have a plate of cream, dear?”
he asked.
“No, thank you; I very rarely eat it,”
she sweetly replied.
“Well, do try a dish of strawberries,
won’t you, pet?” he continued.
“No, Alfred, they are so high-priced,
and I really care but little for them,” she
answered.
“I’m so sorry.” he said, with an insane
desire to plunge his head into a butter
tub. “Now, you must, indeed, you shall,
take a glass of soda.”
“You’ll have to excuse me, but I only
care to saunter along with you, my dear,”
6he replied.
He could resist no longer.
“Will you—will you—be* my darling,
ducky, wifey, my sweetest?” he ex
claimed.
They were married that month. Late in
August, when she had bankrupted him on
ice cream and 10-cent California pears, he
sadly remarked:
“I thought you did not care for these
things, Maud? You didn’t appear to be
fore we were married.”
“Oh, yes, I remember the time you re
fer to, Mr. Smith. I was a trifle careful
what I ate just then,” she answered, and
Mr, Smith buried himself in reflection.
BIOGRAPHY OP THE OYSTER.
Leaves from a Naturalist's Note Book.
Ernest Ingersoli in Current.
Nothing is of more consequence to the
people who live on the coast of Long
Island Sound than the oyster and its cul
tivation; and all intelligent people in this
region are interested to know as much of
his habits as it is possible to ascertain.
From his youth up the oyster’s part in
the struggle for place and sustenance
which engrosses almost the whole atten
tion of the animal world, is entirely one of
self-defense. He maintains a strong In
ertia, closes the ports of his fortress,
makes no sallies, and defies the adversary
to harm him by any means short of de
molishing his walls. That achieved, he
has no further means of resistance and
quietly submits to his fate.
To the enjoyment, in troublous times, ot
this otium cum dignitate he is entitled by
a venturous youth, passed amid the dan
gers of the deep, where foes without num
ber lie in wait for tender innocents.
To begin ab avo, the eggs of American
oysters are not held under cover of the
parent shells until they hatch, as is the
case with the European ovster, but are
discharged by the mother unfertilized into
the water, where, first of all, they must
await the cbauce of accidental impregna
tion, which, moreover, must come within
a very short time if it is to come at all.
Enormous is the multitude of these eggs.
Dr. Brooks estimates that 10,000,000 is the
average yield irom each individual, and
that as ’many as 60,000,000 may be pro
duced by a single mother oyster. This
prodigious supply is needed to counter
balance the risks they are destined to run.
Says Prof. J. A. Ryder:
“So numerous and effective are the ad
verse conditions which surround the mil
lions of eggs matured by a single female
that only the most trifling fraction ever
develop. The egg of the oyster being ex
ceedingly small, and heavier than water,
immediately falls to the bottom upon
being set free by the parent. Should the
bottom be oozy or composed of sediment,
its chances of development are meagre
indeed. Irrecoverably buried, the eggs
do not, in all probability, have the chance
to begin to develop at all.”
Nevertheless, a few escape and hatch
out. Thereupon begins a series of trials
for the life of each embryo, so severe that
it has scarcely one chance in a million of
surviving.
These embry*s, when first hatched, rise
to the surface of the water and swim
there a few hours, after which they begin
to sink, but two or three days may elapse
before they are prepared to become sta
tionary. This is the period of their great
est peril. Invisible motes, dancing a
whirligig career just beneath the surface,
the gay young oysters are endangered by
the open jaws of every marine creature
larger than themselves, and thousands
ma" sometimes perish in a single mouth
ful.’
They run a constant risk from the
weather, also. During bis study of them
on the Chesapeake, Dr. Brooks found
that any sudden cold wind, or a fall iu
the temperature, such as occurred several
times during his experiments though
made in midsummer—would kill every
embryo in his care. How widespread
must be the destruction from such causes
in the open estuaries. Of the 10,000,000
eggs shed by one parent, perhaps half a
dozen may survive to be graduated from
this play-day into the settling-down stage,
which begins the third period of an oys
ter’s life. How inscrutable would be this
fearful waste of potential life, if we were
compelled to think ot it as fore-ordered by
the settled determination of a Creator’s
fiat; a scheme of reproduction unswayed
and unswervable by any altering circum
stances.
Up to this point nature has left the
young oyster unshielded, so far as can be
seen. There is no protection for him
whatever against the liability to be
destroyed- -if, perchance, he ever succeeds
in getting born—not only through the vo
racity by a host of marine animals from
sponges up to the “leviathan,” but also
by comparatively slight changes in the
air or water. We can fancy him quoting
the melancholy old soliloquy :
“If so soon I’m to be done for,
I wonder why I was begun for.”
Nature has seemed to say: Let them go
it! I will provide so many that, if one in
1,000,000 lives through, it will be enough
to preserve its race from extinction.
Thus, as it were, young oysters uncount
able are cast into the ocean to be scram
bled for by a host of fishes and small fry.
But when the minority that have es
caped destruction between the Scylla of
ill-tempered water and the Ckarybdis of
hungry mouths, are ready to affix them
selves to some solid basis where they may
remain stationary through life, then na
ture begins to help them. Heretofore she
has trusted in luck and the power of num
bers. Now that the ranks are perilously
thinned she gives the remnant of oyster
waifs that persists, the rudiments of
what will become an armor for their pro
tection, perceivable as yet only by the
trained eye of the microseopist, for a hun
dred of these embryos, side by side, would
measure no more than an inch.
The hours of the infant oyster’s swim
ming are now over. The embryo sinks
slowly to the bottom. If it alights upon
ooze or a slimy surface it smqthers or dies
in the vain attempt to get foothold. If,
luckily, it strikes the cleaner surface of
an old reef of dead shells, a rock, a peb
ble, or lately submerged stick, then the
pinhead of jelly attaches itself to a spot
whence it will rove no more.
Even before this time of becoming sta
tionary, microscopists can detect in the
simple organization of the little creation
the rudiments of the armor of defense.
These consist ol a crust of two pieces,
lying on each side of the body and joined
over the vitals by a hinge which permits
a slight movement; from them will de
velop the future “shells.” Small as it is,
now that it has fixed itself for all time,
the little oyster must begin to breathe as
its parents did before it. “Like them, its
gills soon grow as little filaments covered
with eilia, which cause a tiny current of
water to pass in and out of the shell.
The reader’s imagination may be here al
lowed to estimate the feeble strength of
that little current which is of such vital
importance to the tiny oyster, and the
ease with which it may be stopped by a
very slight accumulation of dirt.”
This liability to smothering is the first
of his obstacles. Escaping it, he Increases
in size rapidly, but bis ranks are thinned
by crabs and various small mollusks.
Become large enough for us to find him
without the help of lenses, he seems
merely a whitish, horny flake on the sur
face of his support, like the nail on the
little finger or a babe. From now until
the shells get to be the size of a nickel
coin, and begin to look rough, the oyster
man calls him a “blister”—an expressive
term.
If the affixture of the infant oyster is
made in the midst of a cluster of others,
his only opportunity for growth is straight
upward by additions around the edges,
but most extensively at the “nib” or point
of the shell opposite the hinge; while the
older part continually hardens and thick
ens until the maximum is reached. In
this situation both halves of the shell will
increase at about an equal rate and be
come very similar, as one sees them in
those long, narrow forms of wild oysters
from the surface of reefs, which are
termed by the fishermen “ strap ” or
“stick-up” or—in the .South —“coon” oys
ters.
When, on the other hand, the bivalve
attaches himself—accidentally, of course,
for, so far as we can see, this is a matter
in which the oyster exercises no choice—
where he is not in close contact with
others, and has room to grow in any and
all directions, then the shells become
more and more unequal. That one un
derneath, as the creature lies on its side,
is soon seen to be getting greatly the ad
vantage in size and strength; consequent
ly, by the time adult proportions are
reached, the lower valve often broadly
overlaps the upper valve, which shuts
down into it as completely as the lesser
mandible of a duck fits into the concavity
of the more capacious sther part of the
beak. When an oyster is opened to be
eaten raw, it is this “deep” lower shell
that serves as a convenient dish upon
which to offer it, while the thinner upper
one is thrown away.
These heavy shells, it is needless to
point out, are a provision for the animal’s
defense. Nature can no longer trust to
numbers or minuteness or invisibility to
save her oysters. If she cares to preserve
any as breeders of future generations, she
must take better care of tbem than here
tofore. She does not require them to go
abroad in pursuit of food, but undertakes
by a simple apparatus for inducing cur
rents of water that it shall be brought to
them in a never-ceasing supply without
other exertion on their part than to open
their mouths and sleepily let the nutritious
streams course their way into and out of
the digestive cavity of the body, where
an automatic action of the stomach ab
stracts the food and rejects the superflu
ous water.
With this fixed location and passive
method of subsistence, oysters manifestly
would have no occasion or opportunity to
make use of weapons either for active
offense or tor resistance. Nevertheless,
nature does not choose to leave them ex-
posed to their foes in a fleshy mass, pro
tected, il at all, only by stinging or bit
ter qualities which might make them
noxious to the taste, such as are possessed
by the unarmed hydroids and actinians.
The only alternative apparently is to give
them a stout armor. This is the service
which the heavy shells perform in oyster
life. That it is only partly eflectual a
short acquaintance with the subject suf
fices to show—a fact that seems to me to
argue strongly against the validity of the
view—one I am zlad to say less prevalent
now than formerly—that this matter was
arranged with precision from the begin
ning, and must necessarily be the most
perfect that could be devised.
I have said that when the oyster at
taches itself by the rounded su’rfaee of
one valve and grows in a sidewise position,
a9 it is very likely to do in regions where
the bottom' is disturbed by constant rak
ing, the lower valve becomes far stouter
and broader than the upper; but at the
same time the form is more symmetrical,
rounded and less inclined to show a posi
tive twist with advancing age (many
foreign relatives of this raollusk are far
more irregular in form than ours) than is
observable where oysters grow long and
thin in the midst of dense clusters.
Protected by these shells, anchored im
movably, the adult oyster sets at defiance
the great majority of enemies which it
would have good reason to fear were it
naked. Its egg-stage and embryonic ca
reer were beset with perils which it had
no means to guard against, and escaped
wholly by chance. During its young life
it was at risk of being eaten by a large
number of creeping things and swimming
things, against whose predatory teeth its
then new tests were an insufficient safe
guard. But now, in adult age, with feet
well planted, muscles strong to hold its
doors closed against intrusion, and a
triple-plated, rough-coated shield of lime
stone over its head, the foes able to pre
vail against it are reduced from a whole
sea full to a small catalogue of carniver
ous fishes, mollusks, crabs and star fishes
—the last most destructive of all.
A CHINESE BELLE.
A Hard Avis Even in tlie Land of the
Heathen Chinee.
A Chinese belle is a curiosity to China
men, as well as to Chriistians. Eveu her
own country-women look upon her with
as much wonder as admiration. One
reason of this is her rarity. Belle in
China are rare birds of rare plumage. No
ordinary community can afford the lux
ury of possessing more than one or two
such dazzling charmers. As speech with
the male sex is of course forbidden her,
her features, eyes, cheeks and silent lips
must all be eloquent. Her skin must
have great firmness of texture to endure
the continual coatings of white paste and
Vermillion paint which the law ot her
being enjoin. Her feet must not exceed
three inches in length, or one inch in
breadth. The finger-nails of her last three
fingers must be as long as their fingers.
These last two points are the especial
glory oi Chinese tashion. Her daily life
does’ not differ much from that of a lady of
fashion in the days of Pepys or the
younger Walpole. Suspicious of the
morning mists, she never rises before
noon. Breakfast is served in her own
room bv her servants. This languid meal
over, she begins the serious business of
her life. Hair by hair, supported by three
or four hair-dressers, she attacks the
tangled locks in whose adornment she
finds her chief pride. Both mistress and
maids labor for three or four hours, with
snatches of rest, and, thoroughly ex
hausted by their task at 6 o’clock, sit
down to their dinner. Each province has
its separate method of dressing the hair,
eighteen in all, and the fashion of a wo
man’s hair betrays her residence. The
handsomest coiffure is worn by the women
of Khan Lu, that boasts the beautiful
cities of Soo Chow and Shanghai.
Strangely enough, the belle is the only
woman in China who has a shadow of
freedom. She is allowed to go to theatres,
and even to pay visits, with far less
surveillance than her less lavored sisters.
There is something in the black patch
that she wears next her left temple, or by
the corner of her mouth, that checks any
attempt at impropriety. A belle, of
course, never walks, and rarely waddles,
but is almost always borne in a sedan
chair. She is an adept in the language of
the eyes, and through those silent win
dows can signal more persuasive argu
ments than fame with her hundred
Miss Lotta, who held a mortgage on the
Park Theatre, Boston, has foreclosed,
owing to the present impecuniosity of
Messrs. Abbey and Schoeffel, and the
property is now absolutely hers. The
managers named will be permitted to
lease the theatre and take charge ofi the
entertainments.
tlrrorrwc garo.
HEADQUARTERS
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FLY FANS.
—FOR—
Preserve Jars, Kerosene Stoves,
Cream Freezers, Water Filters.
JAS. S. SILVA.
Slltrto.
GERMAINES
NEW AND IMPROVED
EMPIRE STATE SHIRT.
THE only $1 Shirt sold with all the latest
improvements. A trial Is all that is re
quired to convince its superiority. Atl sizes,
from 12% to 17%.
I have also a fiUl line of
BOYS’ SHIRTS,
Made from Wamsutta Shirting and best Irish
Linen, from 12 to 13%, at 75c. each.
A good assortment of Ught weight
BLACK COODS,
In all newest Fabrics, with a full line of
COURTAULD’S CRAPE and VEILS.
All which will be sold as low as they can be
purchased.
GMAMsliw STORE,
132 Broughton street (next to Furbcr’s).
asooa iUatcr, sir.
MIKE T. QUINAN.
MANUFACTURER and Bottler of Belfast
Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Soda, Sarsapa
rilla and Mineral Waters generally, ts now
prepared to supply any demand. Mv goods,
being prepared from chemically pure water
and extracts,defy competition. Having ample
facilities for fiUing country orders, I only ask
a trial from those doing business out of town to
demonstrate what I can do in shippingprompt
ly. Syrups of all kinds furnished. Orders
from physicians for highly charged Siphons
for sick patients filled at any hour of the day
or night.
Day—Factory, 110 and 112 Broughton street.
Night—Residence, 8€ Trough ton street.
Soda stands using fountains wiU save money
by ordering from me.
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A FRESH SUPPLY JUST RECEIVED AND
FOR SALE BY
OSCEOLA BUTLER-
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B. F. Mena & Cos.
Great Reductions
TO CLOSE OUT
ter Goods!
DRESS GOODS!
Hosiery!
UNDERWEAR!
LINEN DAMASKS!
AND OTHER HOODS
At Great Reductions.
B.F.McKENNA&CO.
(Slotting.
ALLOW D8 TO SAY TO THE PUBLIC, As
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS ARE
NOW MADE, AND THE PEOPLE’S MINDS
ARE AT REST ON THAT SUBJECT, WE HAVE
SOME CLOTHING FOB MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS
AND CHILDREN LEFT, WHICH WE ARE
ANXIOUS TO DISPOSE OF, AND ARK MAK
ING GREAT REDUCTIONS IN PRICES.
WE ARE NOT SEEKING OFFICE, NOR
HAVE ANY AXES TO GRIND, BUT OUR
AIM IS TO IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE OF
PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM CLOTHING
THAT FITS WELL, AND MADE UP IN THE
LATEST STYLES, AT THE VERY LOWEST
PRICES.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
FURNISHING GOODS!
REDUCTIONS IN PRICKS IS THE ORDER
OF THE DAY WITH US.
COME AT ONCE, AND LET US FIT YOU
OUT, SO YOU WILL BE IN A CONDITION
TO APPEAR BEFORE THE PUBLIC IN THE
HEATED CONTEST BEFORE US.
REDUCTIONS! REDUCTIONS!
* IN PRICES.
Chas. Logan & Cos.,
THE SAVANNAH
Clothing & Hat Store,
lUatrtjra anD
Great Reduction in Prices
—OF—
WATCHES and JEWELRY
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
LADIES’ Gold Watches, key-winders, S2O,
reduced to sl6.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, key winders, $25,
reduced to S2O.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, stem winders, S3B, re
duced to S3O.
Ladies’ Gold Watches, stem winders, $56, re
duced to S4B.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, s3s, reduced to
S3O.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, $35, reduced to
S2B.
Ladies’ Gold Watch Chains, $55, reduced to
$43.
Gents’ Cameo Rings, $lO and sl2, reduced to
$8 and SS.
Diamond Ear Rings and Diamond Finger
Rings at a bargain.
Silver-Plated Ware reduced 20 per cent.
Gold Pens and Gold Pencils very cheap.
Fine French Clocks very much reduced.
This is a Fine Chance for Buying Fine
Goods at Low Figures.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
Gold and Silver Bacale Bracelets,
Gold and Silver Bangles made to order.
Solid Sterling Silverware,
COLD HEAD CANES.
I SELL the best quality of goods only, and
at the lowest prices.
AGENT FOR
lalmJMes.
F. H. MEYER,
120 Broughton Street,
FLY TRAPS.
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