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pretty poll the craze.
-he PABBOT I* BECOMING THE
FASHIONABLE BIRD.
tf-omen Wfco Lika to Hear Polly
C’-atter and Staff—A Russian Count
esa-Four Interesting Women-The
Decline and FaU of the Ear-ring.
(Copyright.)
York, May c.—Tha phrase “mon
key and parrot time” requires modification.
dog and parrot times are more usual
D 'l quite as interesting. The parrot has
ade Der wa y into fashionable society with
out heading a subscription list to buy a
band-painted piano for the rector of “St.-
gusan-in-the-Woods” or working any “char
tv racket” or “literary scheme.” She has
r i asked Ward McAllister to dinner—
w s er than some otbfer outsiders who don’t
kaoW a menu card from a Russian samovar
__ yet s be is safely enough ensconced in the
magic circle to perpetrate a joke with equal
impunity if she cou think of one as comic
.at about the 400. Polly used to be the
old maid’s pet, but this spring she is the fad
of the fashionable.
The me dog doesn’t like it He rises on
his hind legs and waltzes about the room
with a grace that would command the ad
miration of Johann Strauss, ending with a
lamp over a riding whip held four or five
feet above the floor; but Miss Murray Hill
fl n <rs a sweetmeat into his mouth indiffer
ently and turns with real interest as Polly
cc'-ct-cs her head on one side and sings with
patronizing conde cension:
“He’s rather dunderheaded.
Still distinctly he’s a dear.” 1
The pug’s education hasn’t included “The
Gondoliers,” but he is quite capable of
thinking the canine equivalent of —
■lf I overtake her
I'il warrant I’ll make her
To shake in her aristocratical shoes 1”
And so we are constantly threatened
with the black browed visage of grim war
in the boudoir. Hostilities actually broke
out, I believe, one morning between Miss
May Callender’s terrier and her parrot, and
when the man servant and two maids who
were attracted by the ciamor of battle ar
rived on the scene, they found Black Dick
with one green feather in his mouth bark
ing with energy and determination, while
Polly, perched on the mantel, was hurling
“Wipe off your chin,” “Pull down your
vest,” and other such insulting remarks
against the foe.
Patti’s dogs got on well with her parrot,
chiefly. In my opinion, because she keeps
her parrot in a cage. Wtien one is living in
a hotel apartment it is not always advi-able
to give birds the run of it, though to do la
diva’s mocking birk and Mexican double
vellow head justice, they manage, even
when in confinement, to fling some portions
of their dinner about with considerable ac
curacy of aim.
“Are parrots like any other creatures?” I
asked the songstress.
“They are like apes,” she said, “and like
children.”
They are not like men and women evi
dently, for they can resist the irresistible.
At leist Patti’s parrot is insensible to
Patti’s charm. If Poll v doesn’t wish to
talk she won’t talk and her beak can’t be
unsealed ry any amount of wheedling. She
holds the voice at as high a figure as her
mistress holds the golden nobis that bring
in a fortune in an evening. It has been
given out that she should swear in Spanish
for my edification, but in spite of the most
tempting bits of banana she clung to her
perch in moody silence, her head sunk be
tween her shoulders like a grumpy old man,
without acknowledging the treat by a
syllable. “Pretty Polly, dear Polly, won’t
she speak for mam i a?” was cooed at her
in vain. Under the circumstances I feel
bound to remark that Patti’s mocking bird
is better tempered, being oven too solicitous
at times to do its share in the entertainment
of strangers.
That classic remark about the cracker is
not to be taken literally. What Polly reallv
wants, at least as one meets her at present
in society, is not a cracker an naturel, but
a cracker soaked in coffee. The wife of a
certain railroad magnate has a cockatoo
with a white body a paio brimstone crest
which is sometimes allowed to come to table
at the ead of dinner, when coffee is served.
The cracker dipped in the favorite beverage
is accepted and eaten with well-bred
composure, but if by design or accident the
treat is not forthcoming, thea the air be
comes blue and the atmosphere sulphurous
i with oaths. Parrots live, they say, 100
years, and this one must have belonged to
three successive generations of pirates to
have acquired suca fluency and unction. A
cracker will stop the tide at full flood. Lady
Washington—such is the Irony of fate and
the parrot’s name—breaking off in the
midst of a round-syllabled imprecation to
receive the dainty with a mincing “Thank
ye, mum; the saints bless ye!”
It’s funny what a penchant the most
pious people are developing in the present
parrot craze for birds that can swear.
There is one lady, the wife of the rector of
a fashionable church, who is known among
her intimates as a connoisseur of blasphem
ous birds. If she hears a parrot rip out an
oath she is sure to make an effort to com
pass i: s possession. 1 have heard of two in
stances lately in which women have traiuod
their own birds, on the grohnd that the
Dealers, if the educational process were left
to them, would “put in too much Sunday
school.” Polly sometimes expresses one’s
feelings conveniently in an emergency.
I heard a story toe otner day which the
T°ung lady who told it—she’s a Sunday
school teacher—vouched f>r as true. It
seems that a certain little boy in knicker
bockers whoso father is a pillar in one of the
big Moibodist churches, received the gift of
a parrot that could sing a stanza of "Shall
*' l Gather at the River V' Thinking to edif v
the household, he buttoned Poll v under his
jacket and saiuggl ;d her into the room at
family prayers. Tnc little boy was still on
his knees lu the most solemn part of the
service, wondering if there were anywhere
in the carpet a soft spot comfortable for
knees, when Polly, tired of being a dead
head in the enterprise, lifted up her voice
bet,hid the buttons and instead of the hymn
*hicb Lad thus far been her only utterance,
teganlo carol in a muffled voice:
“ Bobby Sbaftoe’s gone to sea.
Silver buckles on his knee.
He'll come dome and marry me,
l’retty Bobby Shafioe.”
It might have been worse, for a lady who
has experimented—l hope she won’t read
this shameless exposure—assures me that a
Pair t will learn two “cuss words” while it
is learning one of any other description.
r“" -‘uaria Brooks, the well-known artist,
keeps a little green and gold dwarf parrot
tu her studio. I don’t know whether this
h lrtl talks or not; it certaiuly dislikes
strangers, for it scolded furiously from its
Perch on Miss Brooks’ finger while I was
poking at the portrait of Dr. Morgan Dix.
J* wouldn’t make friends on any cousidera
n, and by and by it began to bite
Peevishly and-, had to go back into its cage.
' ,'’ s Amelia B. Edwards said of her par
li-ri I- 111 hated above all things a hideou3
‘® Egyptian idol which she numbered
Pm ® her treasures. A niece of ti.e late
er Cooper has a parrot whose bete noir
tato ltl "l | k°ue. The miuute any one
tmM U S tbe rece ‘ T er the parrot, to
ter H keeps U P BUctl a clatter and chat-
Thi at 10 kear a message is impossible.
s parrot is an accomplished bird and
to* J Un tke chromatic scale, It expects
awarded with* a fig. Once the
tennts ,as .? ot forthcoming, and for three
Idn Mereafter neither was the scale,
the ci> DOt . k,l °w a singing parrot in
:'Y which can compare with a bird that
wned ten years ago by Miss Hannah
Tear 'Tn on ’? inee dead, but who was for
BbonU De > Parker’s amanuensis. Miss
ai, n!° n 3 ootdd sing bars from s< v
a and (r, rus ' ant * not unmusically. It makes
i fi-J - UC9 in a iiarrot’s tones by whom it
How * au Kht, and this nno had caught the
to a child. A lady was exhibiting
Wii.c', t > a rot l '-’ 1 ® of months ago'a bird for
td “ LCgl “ *
A lady of fashion who had a parrot a lit- I
tie while ago has it no longer. She didn’t
take sufficient account of the tenacious j
memory of the bird, and was astounded
wnen a guest whom she wishod for reasons
to conciliate, but whom she did not like
entered her drawing-room, to hear 'Polly
break out impetuously, “The oil brute’
riow I detest that Mr. Johnson ! n
I arrots haven’t the be-t t ,-mpers in the
worli Mrs. Alice Sbaw, the musi -at
whistler, had a cockatoo that was fairly
vindictive and never forgot nor forgave a i
enemy. On the other hand, se me of the
paroquets have very affecciouato disposi
tions. Marie N'avins Blaine bad a little
one in her sick room for a time that whiled
away by its fanny ♦ricks many a weary
hour for the i ,valid. A e ,usin of Mrs.
Ogd in Goelet had the cleverest paroquet
1 ever beard of. It was equal to a wuolo
troupe of circus clowns, and when
her three children had tha measles
together it amused them all through their
couvalescence, playing hide and seek with
them in the most comical way 3 imaginable.
A little while ago this b rd came to a sorrv
end. It was very fond of a certain cold
cream preparation, which was usually
standing on its mistress’ toilet table for ap
plication after she had boen out in the wind.
Once or twice when the jar was loft uncov
ered it dipped as much of its bodv as was
conveniently possible inside, thou'fluttered
away to the corner of a picture frame or
some equally convenient situation to revel
in grease, and, with ail the unction of a
3-year-old sucking sugary fingers, to preen
its wings. After one of ihese debaucaes it
died, and they called it ziuc or some other
sort of poisoning.
Prices are steep now that parrots have
become fashionable. The singing birds cost
most, running as high as SSOO to SB3O.
Parrot perches are must gorgeous and are
becoming spectacular ornaments of apart
ments. The most wonderful bird I know
anything about does not belong to a lady of
fashion. Its cage hangs outside a little
junk shop and it picks up all the drifting
talk of the street and hails passers in most
piquant and seemingly intelligent fashion.
The best teloved bird shouts “Hurrah f r
the red, white and blue!” for the oenefit of
the grandchildren of a war hero.
A RUSSIAN COUNTESS.
The Countess Norraikow has beon telling
us things about Siberia this spring t hat are
vastly more interesting than the tales of the
St. Petersburg court told us by a Russian
princess last season. Tho countess is not
herself a Russian. She was a Canadian
girl and she married a Russian noble whose
experience in exile more than bears out all
that Keunau has been saying. The Count
Norrnikow was a lad of 17 or 18, uncon
nected with plots and guiltless of any
revolutionary knowledge when one
night he was dining with a Polish
countess, a friend of the family.
Suddenly there came a voice at the
door, “Open in the name of the czar.” It
was gendarmes and their leader laid his
hand on the shoulder of tho young nmn. In
vain he asked bis offense. “Go quietly, my
boy,” said the countess, “your friends will
not forget you.” He went’to the Petropav
losky fortress, and in a few months to Sibe
ria. There he remained over five years,
and never knew for what he had been ar
rested. Influence at courts released him,
and then he took the oath of the nihilists,
anxious to know something of a body, for a
supposed .sharing of whose secrets he had
suffered. A second time he was exiled
without having committed an overt act,
and after two more years as a
political in Siberia powerful friends a sec
ond time obtained bis pardon. Applying
for six months leave of absence to travel he
failed to return to Russia, and is in conse
quence proscribed. Shaken in health, his
fortune confiscated, ho and his wife are
still in constant communication, by means
of the underground railroad, with the lib
eral element in Russia, and he supplies her
with information, which she is using in an
endeavor to increase the interest felt in this
country in the exilp system.
The countess was reading some letters
just received from Paris, to which city they
had been forwarded Irom Petersburg, to a
group of listeners the other evening. The
letters were full of forebodings of calamities
to come. Friends had been arrested and
neighbors. Perhaps, said one writer, before
this reaches you I, too, shall be on my way
across the border. The impression received
was ti.at of general apprehension, unrest, a
looking fqrward to tioublous times. The
counters who is doing a good deal of writing
on Russian subjects, is a very prepossessing
woman, with fine eyes and short curly dark
hair. She entertains well, and usually has
good talkers at her receptions.
WORKING GIRLS’ SUMMER HOLIDAYS.
There is great sewing of sheets and stitch
ing of pillow-cases going on at every odd
minute among the toilers in factories and
behind counters, for the bedrooms of the
holiday houses owned by the working girls’
s cieties are being put in summer trim.
There is nothing pleasanter or more promis
ing in the city than this busy, happy
co-operation aud the success of the co
operators in having together what they
could not have separately. The tact and
judgment w hich Miss Urace Dodge has dis
played in thus showing the working girls
how to help themselves is worthy
of notice because it is unusual.
There are a number of “homes” at
the seaside and among the mountains now
set np for people who cannot afford to
spend much for summer vacations, but for
the most part they give point to the sigh
Mr. Howells puts in the mouth of Annie
Kilburn, “that only the poor seem to know
how to help tho poor.” Some of the houses
opened for tbe benefit of the Girls’ Friendly
societies had empty rooms all last summer
and I do not know of one of those for teach
ers and professional women whicu was not
shunned. Tha board is usually as much as
$4 a week which will secure a woman b ard
ou terms of perfect equality in plenty of
farmhouses. Why then should she Le a
beneficiary at a “h me?”
The Seidl Society has common sense
about such matters. This big organization,
whose head is Laura C. Holloway, proposes
to take a great many poor women to
Brighton Beach this summer. But instead
of having a committee and getting up big
excursions labelled “Chanty,” it will sim
ply distribute tickets to its members, wb >
will use them when they invite women in
need of a day’s outing to go to the beach
with them as their guests, in all privacy
and with due honor.
Mrs. Robert Hoe had a graceful way of
vacation giving iast year. She had a cot
tage at Sea Cliff and invited now a teacher,
now an invalid to C >me and visit her. Lor
work in the city I have heard of nothing
which has touched me more than the devo
tion of a little woma i, w ithout macn
money, who moved from comfortable quar
ters aud gave up a bread-winning occupa
tion to be among the tenement people and
open for neglected urchins a free kindergar
ten. She has a boy of her own, a lovely
child, and it is a picture for a painter to
see him rise from h s supper in tne plainly
furnished, baro-lonk : ng room, broad and
molasses in haad, but with tbe air of a
proud gentleman, to point out to a visitor
the drawings of a little blackboard as made
by “tbe street children.” One has to
give one’s self to give anything. This wo
man has also given her child.
THE DECADENCE OK THE EAR-RINGS.
There is a certain pleasure in watching
the decline and fall of ths ear-ring. If I
bad written “Looking Hack wad” I should
have inserted somewhere a reminiscence of
the last woman who bored holes in her
flsh to permit the fastening of an orna
ment. The attempt to revive tbe Jcreole,
or banging ear-rings has utterly failed. Tho
faintest suggestio i of weight attached to
the ear new displeases most well-bred
woman. Occasionally vouse a face of
such a shape that hanging ear
rings are temptingly becoming. >et
tie' Hooper, the pretty daugbtsr of Lucy
Hooper, the Paris correspondent wore
larce Creole ear-rings set with small pearls
at a recent reception, and they accented
her piquancy, but the hanging -ar-nng e.s
a ruie, is an abomination. Lve i the stud
ear-ring is less worn. Fine jewels are less
I often set in ear-rings and mauy which have
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
thus been us- and are going back to the jewel
lers to be reset as ( endants or in brooches.
It is not a usual thing now to see a debu
tante whose ears have been pierced, and !
matrons often use various little articles to
conceal the traces of the needle.
FOUR INTERESTING WOMEN.
Henrietta Russell, the Delsartean, carries
her art notions so far as to advoc ite inviting !
dinner guests of harmonizing complexions,
so as to tie able to spread the table with a
cloth which shall compose well with the
faces of all who sit down. She was elab
orating this plan to a foreign lady of rank
the other evening. “Indeed,” said her lis
tener, “in this democratic country I shan't
rest satisfie I until I’ve eaten off the top of
a barrel without any cloth at all.”
“A newspaper really makes the bast
cloth,” rejoined Mrs. Russe'.l, “for you can
fold it up and burn it and the crumbs.”
Which shows that oven a Delsartean is not
incapable of a comfortable Boheraianism.
Louise Lawson’s statue, ‘The Origin of
the Harp,” attracted considerable attention
at th- Leuox Lyceum exhibit in ai i of the
New York Woman’s Exchange. Miss Law
son’s father was long time a professor in the
Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and she
herself is a young and promising artist
whose studio in East Fifty-ninth street ia a
rendezvous of art-loving people.
Fraulein Id r B >the, late art instructor at
Wellesley, and who soiled from New York
last week to marry a German baron in
Posen, is a very attractive and vivacious
woman who will be missed at the girls’
college. She painted a fine portrait of Mrs.
Lucy Stone. Vassar professors seem sus
eep.ible to tbe darts of Cupid. There was
Miss Nunn, the protessor of biology, of
whom Uuxiey prophesied great things. She
married a Harvard professor. Then Alice
Freeman married another,and now Frauiein
Bothe will become Baroness von Voss of
Posen.
Speaking of college professors brings up
Dr. Emily Gregory, toe 0,,e woman in
structor at Barnard College, who is a slender,
brown haired e thusiast in charge of the
botanical laboratory up under the roof,
and who is a recognized authority in cer
tain departments of the science.
DOROTHY FLATS.
To this has it grown. It was single rooms
last year and the year before. The girl
bachelor flourishes like the green hay tree.
Tue Dorothy apartment, w.th parlor in
common and a bedroom apiece for three or
four chums, has expanded into fiats, where
the coziest housekeeping is carried on; two
girls to a flat and pretty tea things of old
Satsuma, picked up delightfully cheap at
auction sales. Some of them like it, some
yearn for masculine shoes aud overcoats to
pick up aud put away.
BERIBBONED PIANOS.
“I don’t like to play at Mrs. ’s,” said
a professional entertainer the other even
ing. “Her piano is covered with bric-a
brac and out of tune.” A cloth on a piano
dulls the resonance, and too many trifling
ornaments distract the player’s mind.
MRS. DIETZ CLYMER.
At the sessions of the Federation of
Women’s Clubs Mrs. Ella Dielz Clyruer was
a gracious and winning figure. She is an
excellent presiding officer.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
RICH “REDFERN” DESIGNS.
Something Entirely New In Costumes
for Ladies.
New York, May 3.—Although the cloth
and wool gown reigns a queen almost the
year around, and especially when it is an
achievement of the skilled tailor, stiil thero
always come a few short weeks when the
thoughts of woman-kind turn lovingly
towards something thinner aud less sub
stantial; something more in accordance
with ardent sunbeams aud south winds and
rose blooms. Then it is that India and
Shanghai silks, veilings and challies and
fine cotton stuffs hold brief sway over fickle
feminine fancy.
But howoverjdelicate the texture of these
gowns they may still have the subtle, in
definable "cachet” which stamps their fall
and winter kindred—as is proved by the
following model, just completed.
The fabric of this gown is India silk, of a
pinkish lilac tint which is a cross botweeu
prune and old rose; it is figured all over
with afl ral design in white and black.
Across tho foot of tbe skirt is a narrow
ruchlng, afld above this a border formed of
diagonal rows of black velvet. Tne collar
aud cuffs aro t; immed to correspond, aud
two narrow triaugles of velvet form a sort
of girdle from tha cop of the bias to the
point of the waist. The front of this gown
is a full, gathered witdh of dotted chaiuilly
net, with a deep ruffls at the bottom, edged
with velvet.
THE “TOREADOR” JACKET.
The Spanish bull fight and other things
appertaining to Spain exhibited at the
Paris exposition to the attending multitudes
are responsible in a groat measure for the
wonderful rapidity with which this little
jacket has gained the fancy of the fashion
able crowd. The pretty little model
will be male a feature for the
spring trade. The material employed is
a blue French military cloth, the loose
fronts being edged with officer’s gold mess
buttons, a unique and striking design of ele
gant hand-embroidery in black fancy mo
hair braid and twistel gold and blue Sou
tache on either side. The sleeves are slashed
inside from tbe wrist to the bend of the
arm, edged on each side by the n.ess but
tons. A round Spanish hat of black chip,
trimmed wita blue velvet and pompons,
completes tins original idea.
A CHARMING TEA GOWN ESPECIALLY
ADAPTED FOR THE SUMMER SEASON.
The main part of this beautiful robe is com
posed of sapphire blue Be.iguline, braided
across the bick and on the side panels,
with iridescent metallic braids in blue, gold,
and copper. Ornaments of the same with
friuge are upon the hips and around tbe
arm-holes, and form a girdle to confine the
loose folds of gold-colored “crepe do chine,”
of which the fronts are fashioned. This
crepe is embroidered iu Vandykes at the
bot om, and a bit of the embroidery makes
a pointed plastron below the high collar.
AN EAGLE FOUGHT BY A RAM.
An Interesting Contest That Attracted
Attention.
On Wednesday of last week, says a dis
patch to the Sun, while Farmer Benjamin
Staffer of Tunkhannock township, Monroe
county, was plowing on a side hill, an eagle
attracted his attention far up in the sky.
The big bird was hovering ovor a field on
the lowlands, where Farmer Staffer’s little
flock of sheep were confined, and in a short
time after t.e i.ad discovered it tho eagle
swooped down upon tho lot and attempted
to carry ' ff a helpless lamb that a owe had
fiven birth to only a littie while before.
ho mother sheep w its licking her lambkin,
and the e.irlo missed its aim and struck the
ewe, knocking her down.
B fore tho eagle had time to recover itself
a big Sou'hdown ram, the only oue in the
flock, backed off a few feet, aud then ran
swiftly toward the ponderous bird. Ho hit
The eagle in the breast and keeled it over,
instantly backing away for another butt,
the eaglo rallied quickly, aud when the r.mi
sailed toward it again with his bead
lowered, the savage bird bopped from the
ground,fastened is huge claws into the wool
of the spunky sheep’s neck, and begah to
beat the ram with its great wings. The ram
bloated loudly, and ran this way and that
until he had shaken the eagle off. The ugly
bird had a tuft of wool in each claw w, en
the ram got rid of it, but instead of souring
aw.,y it arose a few feet and then dar el at
the young lamb again. Tne ewe tried to
keep the eagle away by stamping, but the
apparently hungry bird paid" no attention
to the mother sheep, grabbing the helpless
lamb in one of its talons.
The old ram was still gritty. He gave
the eagle a tremendous butt in the side with
his hard head, and the determined bird lost
its balance but clung to the Jamb. Before
it cculd recover itself the ram pitched into
it again. He struck it under its right wing,
which was raised at the time, and the eagle
dropped the bleeding carcass of tho lamb
and caught the ram ia the long wool oa his
back.
Farmer Staffer, who had started frmi the
hillside Held the moment bo saw the eagle
swoop down, had witnessed every stage of
the fight, and he reached tho spot just after
the c-agle had sailed iu for tbe second time
to conquer the ram. He had caught up a
fence sake on the way, and with it he
whaled the eagle over the head and broke
its neck. By that time the rani’s wool wa3
pretty well mussed up, but the old fellow
was still full of figut, and when Fa raer
Sniffer unloosened the enormous talons and
tumbled the eagle o.er on its buck be gave
the bird another butt, and then walked to
ward a corner of tho field where the rest of
the flock were huddled together. The
lamb lay dead on the grass, and the timid
ewe stocid off several feet and gaze 1 upon
it. From tip to tip the big bird measured
eight feet and four inches.
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The crows are meeting a fatal reception in
some parts of Maine. A man from Yarmouth
Forsids recently called oa the selectmen of the
town with sixty-six crows' Leads, the result of
two days’ work with pans green.
PRETTY COUNTRY HOUSE
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Tbe estimates of cost given in these arti
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materials and labor. By comparing these
priors with local prices the intending
builder can fairly judge whether the esti
mates should be higher or lower for his
locality:
Excavations, per cubic yard $ 25
Hough stone work below grade laid up
complete.all materials furnished by con
tractor. per perch of 25 cubic feet.. 4 25
Stone wall finished above grade. 25c. per
foot, or per perch 8 25
Brick work laid In the wall, per M 15 00
Plastering, per yard >
Spruce timber, per 1000 feet 20 00
Hemlock timber, per 1000 feet 14 0)
Hemlock sheathing boards, per 1000 feet.. 150'
Pine shingles, per 1000 4 80
Pine flooring, merchantable, per 1000 feet. 2(100
Clear pine clapboards, per 100 fee!...... 25 00
Clear pine trim, reeded or moulded ?sxs in.
per linear foot 03
Novelty siding, per lOOu f et, 3000
Mouldings per square inch of section, per
100 lineal feet 65
Moulded base S inches high. % inch thick,
per linear foot 05
Glazed window sash, 2 ft. 7 in. by 5 ft. 6 in.
by 114 in.. t wo lights, per pair $2 00
Poors, four panels, moulded bath sides, 2
ft. 8 in by 7 ft. by 114 in., each 2 SO
Blinds will Average all round per window . t 50
Tinning, per square of ICO square feet 6 00
Painting, including materials and labor,
pier square yard, each coat 06
Carpenters’ labor, per day.. 3 00
Masons' and plasterers' labor, yer day 3 St)
cA? fo ’ 6 ' —'
PERSPECTIVE.
Following will be found a somewhat de
tailed description of the attractive country
bouse design illustrating this article:
General Dimensions—Width, including
veranda, 53 feet; depth, including veranda
and kitchen extension, 49 foot. Higbts of
stories —First story, 9 feet; second story,
8 feet, 6 inches; third story, 8 feet.
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FIRST FLOOR.
Exterior Materials—Foundation, store
piers; first story, shingles extending nearly
to grade and covering foundation s;
tower, dormers, gables, and roofs, shingles;
cresting and flniaLs, copper.
Interior Finish—Plastered throughout for
papering. Soft wood flooring, trim and
back stairs. Hard wood main staircase
from first to second story. All Interior
wood-work fi .fished with hard oil.
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SECOND FLOOR.
Colors—Shingles on side walls of first
story, tower and all dormers, brownish
stain. Shingles on roofs of all dormers,
tower and main house, dipped and brush
coated dark red. Well shingles of first
story v here covered by veranda and on
backs of veranda at chings, stained drab.
Trim and all cornices an 1 other moldings,
dark brown. Soffits of dormer roof pro
jections, drab. Outside doors fi ashed with
hard oil. Veranda floors and ceilings, oiled.
Sashes, red. All brickwork cleaned down
and oi cd. Copper cresting aud finlals left
natural color of metal.
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THIRD FLOOR.
Accommodations —The principal rooms
and their sizes, etc., are shown by the floor
plans. No cellar. Two rooms and hallway
finished in attic. Combine 1 front and back
stairway economizes space. Laundry with
three set tubs back of kitchen. Servants’
water clo et oflf rear porch. Open fireplaces
and wood mantels in parlor and dining
room.
Cost - —53,509, not including mantels,
range and heater.
Feasiolo Modifications—Hightsof stories,
sizes of ro rns. materials and colors may bo
changed. Cellar may be placed under a
part, or under whole, of house. Dressing
rooms and passage in second story front
may be united to form a bedroom. Plumb
ing, open fireplaces and sliding doors, may
tie omitted. Second story of kitchen ex
tension may bs omitted.
Father Damien.
Arthur P. F. Randolph in LipptncatVe.
To give one’s life is better than one’s aims;
To spend, be spent, beyond the gift of gold;
He wbo can live as veil as king bis psalms
Returns his tale it many a hundredfold:
A noble life that turned aside from fame
To serve tbe leper held in such despise.
To give a cup ot water “In HU Name,’’
At such a cost aud princely sacrifice:
A knight of Faith! whose courage was sublime.
Who never lalterei all the weary way,
But bore his cmv* until the even-time,
Th-u paused into tbe light of clearer day
To give into tbe keeping of bis King
Tbe little flock be bad been shepherding.
E. W. Cato, who lives five miles south of Tin
ney’s Grove. Kay county, Missouri, is tbe owner
stomaco of a striped-hoof deer that be killed
thirty years ago tn the state of Alabama.
COTTON COMPRRRS.
MORSE
COTTON COMPRESS,
THE most powerful and effective in the world,
exerts a pressure on the bale of 5,000,030
pounds
EIGHTY of them have been Introduced in tho
last ten years, which are now com pressing
OVER HALF THE AMERICAN CROP.
Several of those first emoted have pressed
over ONE AND A VITARTKR MILLION BALES
each. WITHOUT DEFECT OR APPRECIABLE
WEAR. Their immense weight and strength
have rendered them the ONLY DURABLE
S in use.
Sole Owners and Patentees,
s. B. STEERS & CO.,
Cotton Exchange, New Oriwii.
QUOi B&l M.
MIiItCIIANTS’
MAY WEEK.
HOTELS, hoarding houses and others enter
taining guests will do well to visit our
store before purchasing their groceries.
We Have the Stock.
Our Prices Are Low.
We Deliver Goods Promptly.
Best Hams and Strips,
Butter aud Lard,
Coffees and Teas.
Our Display of Shelf Goods in
Cans and Bottles Unexcelled
in this City.
Use Our Brands of Flour.
Try Us on Rice.
We Are Headquarters
for Baskets.
STRAUSS BROS.,
22 and 22!4 BARNARD STREET.
flour!
ALWAYS READY.
AL W AY S~RELI ABLE.
perfectly"healthful.
HECKER’S
SELF-RAISING
FLOUR
Will be found the
CHEAPEST AND BEST
for making the the most Superior
Bread. Biscuit, Light
Pastry, etc.
Ask your Grocer for it.
GEO.V. IIKCKKR&CO.
LIQUID GOLD.
.V S. ..W 'P
T/lfl LLIAMS* ...
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Beady for Instant, Use,
WILLIAMS' LIQUID GOLD insures the
splendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter where
applied, and it can be used by the most inexpe
rienced amateur. It was employed to decorate
the magnificent homes of W. H.VANDERBILT,
JAY GOULD, JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy and distinguished New Yorkers.
It Gilo* Thames, Wood, Silk, Metal. Pai-kr,
etc.. equal to Gold laf, and LADIEHan
find no more charming Art Work than gilding
with Williams' Liquid Gold.
Camels' Hair Brush in every box. PRICE $l.
Avoid trashy imitations. Sent dv mail on tti
r-EiPT or the prick. Circular free.
New York Chemical Mfo Oo„ 3 E. 4th st., N.Y.
Sold by DRUGGISTS and ART DEALERS.
COUIIOIfN
CH AS. A. COX
4i BAKKAKD 6T., SAVANNAH, UA*
IIANUFACTL'Rt* OF—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
—AND—
TIN ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
I intimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish MstaJLlla
faint.
Agent for Walter's Patent Tin Shlngiaa
PLUMhitK,
l a. McCarthy,
Barnard street,
(Under Knights of Pythias' Hall),
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
STEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY.
COTTON FACTORS.
Thomas F. Stlbus. William 8. Tisok.
STUBBSTISON.
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH. - GEORGIA
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
HARDWARE. ~
HOSE,
REELS,
SPRINKLERS,
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKES.
TILE.
FOR SALE BY
GARDEN
Edw i .i. Ijoveli^BeMPiS
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LOTTERY.'
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTIOnT
OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
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Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated by tho LerfslAturo, for Educa
tional and (liarliable purposes, and its fran
ch iso made a part of the present State Consti
tution, in by an OTrwb*!mincr popular rote.
Iu MUIMOr.I DRAWI\<B tak*-
Brml- Annually (Juno and December), and iU
UK AMI HI*6LK M’MISKK lIRAWIM**
lake place In each of the other ten month#
of the year, and are all drawn in public, at
the Academy of IVluslc, Aew Orleans, La,
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For Integrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Payment of Prizes.
At tested as follows:
do hereby certify that we eupemite the
arranaemen.lt for all the Monthly and Semi.
Annutil Drawtnye of The Louisiana State Lot
lery Company, and in person manage and con
trol the Inravingt thenuetvee, ant that the
same are conducted with hnneity , fairnet*.
ana tn good faith toward all parties, and we
the Company to we this certificate.
vSf braett miles of our signatures a torched, in
itiadvertuements.
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f ommtsslonera
Be the undersigned Ranks and Rankers wilt
pay all Prises drawn in The Louisiana State
lyolteries which may be presented at our coun
ters.
It. M. W V I.MM.RV, Pres. Loiilslvna Nat. Bk.
PIKKHK I W AtX. Pres. Mate Nat l Ilk j
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Ilk.
U’AHL IUJII.V, Pres. I’niou National Bank.
Grand Monthly Drawing
AttheAcademy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday, May 13, 1890.
Capital Prize $300,000.
100.000 Tiekets at #2O eaeh; Halves #|(fc
quarter* 1)3: Tenths Twentieth. *l.
LIST OF PHIZES.
i prize of $300,000 is *.inonoo
1 PRIZE OF 100,000 Is " 100 000
1 PRIZE OF 50,000 is 50 000
1 PRIZE OF 25.000 is 25 0(2
2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are 20 000
6 PRIZES OF 6.000 are I 25, JU
25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are
100 PRIZES OF 600 ore so'os>
200 PHIZES OF 800 are ." bo MO
MC PRIZES OF 200 are IOo'.OJO
SPPKOXISISTION PtIIZKS.
100 PrU'Sof SSOO are 850 000
100 Prizes of 300 are ’ 30 (Xh>
100 Prizes of 200 are 20 OUO
TEItKINAL PRIZES.
090 Prizes of 100 are 09.900
999 Prixes of 100 are 99,900
3.114 Prizes, amounting to 81.054.500
Note.— licKeis drawing Capital Prizes are not
entitled to Terminal Prizes.
AGENTS WANTED.
. tir* For Club Rat**, or any further In
formation dcHircd, write legibly to the under-
Bijmed, clearly statin* your residence, with
State, County, Street aud Number. More rapid
return mall delivery will be atmured by your
enclosing an Knvelope bearing your full addreatL
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. UAUPIIIM,
New Orleans, La..
orM. A. DAWPHIM,
Washington, I). V.
By ordinary letter containing Money Order
issued by all Express Companies, New York Ex
change, Draft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain
ing Currency to
NEW' OH LEANS NATIONAL HANK,
New Orleans, La.
•‘REMEMHEn, that the payment of Prizes
Is OP A KAN TEED BY FOLK NATIONAL
HANK’S of New Orleans, and tbe Tickets are
signed by tbe President of an Institution whose
chartered rights are recognized in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of all imitations or
anonymous schemes.”
ONE lIOLLAK is tho price of the smallest
nart or fraction of a Ticket IHHLEO BY US
In any Drawing. Anytldng in our name offered
for less than a Dollar is a swindle.
COFFER WORKERS.
IcMLLAI BROS.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. Q,
Turpentine Stills
AND FIXTURES.
General Copper Workers.
Repairing a Specialty.
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JEW£IsK\ .
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HAS A FINE SELECTION OF
Diamonds, Earrings, Finger
Rings and imonnted
Diamonds,
Which He Sells at Very Close Figures.
Also, FINE STERLING SILVER WARE in
elegant cases, and FINE TEA TABLES, genu
ine Vernis Martin, a beautiful thing for a wed
ding present.
18-KARAT PLAIN RING a specialty.
21 jBTJXjILi ST.
MACHINERY.
McDonough & Ballantyn^
IRON FOUNDERS,
Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths,
SULXUFACTtJKEKS OF
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS. SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
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