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HISTORIC HOX/SES Iff WASHIJVGTOJV.
Historic Washington will soon be
only a memory. One after another
the historic buildings of this town,
which have housed men entitled to
at least a small niche in the hall of
fame, are being torn down. The
next big square of ground whose
buildings are to be razed was where
no less a personage than the brilliant
and combative Henry Clay held his
peace, for in this block was his home
during his long and brilliant career
as a representative in Congress, then
as a senator, again as representative,
and yet again senator.
government in order to build the new
committee rooms for the United
States senate, to correspond with the
opposite side of the capitol. where
the committee rooms of the house are
being built. This block has a curious
mixture of old and modern architec
ture, and has not so many houses of
great interest, having been less built
up than the other side in early days.
Those houses which are of historic
interest, however, are fully a century
old, and in one or two cases there
is no record of when they were built.
By all odds the most interesting
i formerly called No. 225 “home.” It
was known many times as a fashion
able boarding house, which attracted
statesmen of all styles and kinds.
Somewhere in the early eighties, it
was the first Washington home of
Dr. John Witherspoon Scott, father
of the first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
who died within a month after his
daughter, in the White House.
Alter the death of William Brent,
No. 225 became the property of his
daughter Virginia, who had married
Robert S. Chilton of the state depart
ment. Mr. Chilton was. after his mar
HOUSES OF THE GRANGERS AND JUDGE CRANCH. THE CHILTON HOUSE.
Here also was the former home of
the distinguished son-in-law of Presi
dent John Adams, Judge Cranch of
the supreme court, who came from
Massachusetts, and it was here that
the president and his wife, Abigail
Adams, made many visits to their
daughter. Next door to them lived
Francis Granger of Suffield, Conn.,
postmaster general in the cabinet of
President William Henry Harrison,
and in the same house his distinguish
ed father haa lived before him,
Gideon Granger of Suffleld, postmas
ter general from 1801 to 1814, under
Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
This block of houses, which is
north of the Capitol, bounded by
Delaware avenue, B, C and First
streets, has been condemned by the
of these is the house which is known
as the Chilton house, No. 225 Dela
ware avenue. It is a tall, yellowish
gray brick house, perched upon the
top of a high bank like a bald eagle
on a rock, the grading of the street
long after it was built having left it
high and dry. and the owners hav
ing to add a basement, and afterward
terrace their front yard.
The house was built in 1809 on the
level of the street, by William Brent,
formerly of Virginia, at that time
clerk of the supreme court. His own
stately mansion was beside this
“new house,’’ this latter having been
put up for renting purposes. It was
in this house that Henry Clay, lived
in Washington. And he is not the
only personage known in history who
| riage, sent to Goderich, Canada, as
i our commercial agent and remained
! there for thirty years. From the time
of William Brent's death the house
was known a3 the Chilton house and
on their return from Canada Mr. and
Mrs. Chilton again took possession of
it, expecting to end their days there.
The house is more quaint and an
cient looking on the inside than on
the outside. The hall is wide and
roomy, according to the fashion of
the day and the magnificent idea of
hospitality, and the drawing rooms
are large, square rooms, with broad
window sills and high mantels. The
doors are finished with massive, shin
ing brass locks, screwed upon the
inner side, and finished by a huge
brass key with a ring at the end.
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Traveled Robin Brood.
W. S. Reed, M. D.. tells the story of
a robin who took possession of a pas
senger coach which had been left for
several weeks unused at East Thomp
son. on the Southbridge branch of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
railroad. The robin built her nest on
the framework of the trucks under the
body of the car. The bird had been
seen around the car by different em
ployes of the road, without their sus
pecting the presence of the nest until
the car was coupled on and hauled to
Southbridge. The mother followed the
train, and on its arrival brooded and
fed her young, which were just
hatched. She followed the train back
on its return trip to East Thompson,
where she again fed and housed the
young birds. On the second trip of
the train, in the afternoon, the bird
again followed her young to South
bridge and back to East Thompson,
where the car was sidetracked and
given into possession of the robin,
rent free, until her family were
grown. The distance traveled by the
bird in the two round trips was 8G
miles.—Christian Register.
A Glorious Mansion.
I praised the earth. In beauty #vn.
With garland* gay ot various green:
I praised the seas, whose ample field
Shane glorious as a silver shield:
And earth and ocean seemed to say,
"Our beauties are but for a day.”
I praised the sun. whose chariot rolled
On wheels of amber and of gold;
I praised the moon, whose softer eye
Gleamed sweetly through the summer
sky;
And moon and sun in answer said.
"Our days of light are numbered."
O God! O Good beyond compare!
If thus Thy meatior works are fair,
!f thus Thy bounties gild the span
ruined earth and sinful man.
How glorious must the mansion be
Where Thy redeemed shall dwell with
Thee!
—Reginald Heber.
Happiness Merely Comparative.
Happiness, iike beauty, is merely
comparative. If all women had flat
noses, like those of the belles of1
Africa we should find some flat noses
extremely beautiful and other flat
noses not at all presentable. A lone
widow with three children and one
small bed required her oldest boy to
sleep on a pile of straw in the corner.
One* bitter night the howling wind
coming through the cracks kept blow'
ing the straw’ away. The little fellow
shivered until blue in the face. His ■
hands were nearly frozen trying tc j
hold the straw’ in place. Finally the
mother rose and completely covering
her son with straw laid upon it an
old door which had been leaning
against the outer wall. ihe wind
then blue in vain, and a happy voice
came from the corner: “Mama, it
ain’t every boy that’s got a door.’’
JVOVEL STyLE OF HO\7SE BOAT.
HOUSEBOAT MADE. OF STREET CARS. •,
A fad for living in houseboats has
ttacked residents of Southern Cali
fornia. A pioneer in acquiring a home
on the water is J. J. Jenkins, former
ly of Pittsburg.
Mr. Jenkins created a novel house
fcoat. the demand for which has beerf
po great that it is impossible for the
invento- to Keep up with it. He de
rided to build for himself a house
boat on the bay at San Pedro, and in
fasting about for material saw some
abandoned cable cars, relics of the
days before the residents of Los An
geles were whized about on electric
cars. Lumber is high in Southern
California, and labor is even higher,
so Mr. Jenkins decided to convert
these old cars into houseboats.
Two cars were placed upon caulked
float and converted into the cosiest
sea homes. All around is a veranda.
Across the end of the cars is a tiny
kitchen, equipped with a stove, a sink
and other conveniences. The remain
der of the cars can be thrown into one
room or separated into dining room,
parlor,- sitting room and bedroom, in
which latter is a comfortable bed that
folds up in the '/all.
The dweller in the household on San
Pedro bay has many advantages. He
can go out on the veranda in the
morning, throw a line out and in a
short time have a good mess of fish;
or he can row ashore and gather
clams. He is never bothered by the
heat and the bay serves for a huge
• bathtub.
' Straw for Hat* 100 Years Ago.
In the early part of the last cen
tury there were fewer factories in this
country than now, and many things
were made by hand which to-day are
the work of machinery. This was es
pecially true of the braid for straw
bats. Rye straw was commonly used,
although wheat was also in demand.
But the rye straw had- longer stems
and was more easily handled.
In driving along the country roads,
in Massachusetts particularly, late in
the summer one would see great bun
dles of the straw hanging on the
fences to dry. When the sun and
wind had done their share of the
work. It was placed in casks where
sulphnr was burning until It was
bleached to a pale yellow. Then it
was split into narrow widths suitable
for braiding.—St. Nicholas.
No Coffee or Dessert in Japan.
Coffee is not popular in Japan.
M^ben guests arrive for a dinner party
Ui0v are received In an anteroom and
tamed lately served with tea and
before entering tb. banquet
hall. The cups in which the tea is
served are very small and of the
finest porcelain. They have no han
dles. but are passed on metal trays,
which take the form ef a leaf. The
tea is brewed directly in the little
cups, and served without sugar or
cream.
Dessert, so dear to the Occidental
housewife, is also unknown in Japan.
At formal dinners rice forms the last
course. It would be a breach of eti
quette to serve the little cakes which
come before dinner with the tea dur
ing the final course.
* New Zealand’s Exhibit.
The New Zealand exhibit in the
Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game,
at the world's fair, consists of a splen
did collection of trophies of the chase,
wild boar heads, a fine exhibit of
Kauri gum, from which varnish is
made, and an interesting display of
photographs and paintings of Maori
life in New Zealand.
Cost of Civil War Sea Fighting.
Our navy cost us during the Civil
War *300,000,000.
The River Styx News.
After being tied up for several
weeks the Stygian ferry resumed ope
rations yesterday, Capt. Charon had
gone out on a strike, but the shade ol
a Russian battleship came along and
started to steal the captain’s business
so he was forced to stop striking.
Ananias is telling a queer tale
about a horse he knew before he died.
It seems that the horse ate some in
fant food which was stored In the
barn, and thereafter it would roll out
of its stall in its sleep, try to get its
feet in its mouth, and whinnie a
strange sound that resembled “pa
pa,” “ma-ma.”
Alexander the Great and Lot’s wife
had, a narrow escape from going to
the bottom of the river Monday after
noon. They were out rowing, and
Alexander the Great, in a spirit of
fun, began to rock the boat. Almost
immediately it upset, and both people
were thrown into the Styx. Pompey
and Noah, in a new antoboat, rescued
them, but not before Lot’s wife was
almost dissolved in salty tears. She
says Alexander the great is too fresh
fo» ber. anyway.—Cleveland Leader
TWO DAGGERS WITH HISTORIES.
One for Which Senator Quay Would
Have Traded His.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was
a collector or Indian relics and took
great interest also in autographs,
coins and stamps. Often, though, he
ridiculed, good uaturedly, collectors’
hobbies.
He was showing a reporter his In
dian robes one day. The young man
took up a curious antique dagger that
lay on a buhl table.
“This dagger must be very old,” he
said. “Has it a history?’
“It has indeed,” said Senator Quay.
“It is the dagger fhat Macbeth
thought he saw. A descendant of
Macbeth gave it to me in Scotland
several years ago.”
Senator Quay smiled. “There is
only one dagger I would trade this
for, and that is a dagger that used to
hang on the wall in Alphonse Karr’s
study,” he said.
“Karr, in one of his stories, bad
poked a good deal of fun at a woman
named Colet. Mme. Colet, enraged at
being made a butt of. stabbed Karr.
He, on his recovery, hung the dagger
she had stabbed him with above liis
desk, with this inscription beneath it:
“ ‘Presented to Alphonse Karr—by
Mme. Colet—in the back.’”
MINISTER KNOCKED OUT ELDER
Disgraceful Scandal That Has Dis
rupted Pennsylvania Church.
Rev. Samuel P. Montgomery of
Pittsburg is among the best, known
United Presbyterian preachers in
western Pennsylvania. The reverend
gentleman has some mining stock
which he tried to unload on members
of bis flock. Elder Edward P. Heath
thought this was unclerieal in the ex
treme and he said so to Mr. Montgom
ery at a church meeting. The latter,
a muscular Christian. promptly
knocked the elder down. Mr. Heath
jumped up and the two clinched for a
moment, but the preacher landed once
more and the elder “went down and
out.” as they say at godless prize
fights. Next day Mr. Heath caused the
arrest of the pastor, who gave bail.
All of which has caused great scandal
and commotion among the faithful of
the congregation.
How to Rule a Husband.
When the writer was about to
marry, the wife of a well-known judge
gave her this advice:
“My dear, a woman needs the wis
dom of Solomon, the patience of Job
and the meekness of a dove to get
along with the best man that ever
lived. I have my third husban<j, all
good men. but all cranky at times.
When they are cranky, keep still;
when they fret, hold your tongue, and
always remember that it takes two to
make a quarrel.”
In writing to the dear old lady af
ter some years of experience at the
headquarters of an array, where I
was surrounded by some thirty-thou
sand men. I took occasion to say;
“The more I see of men the better
I like them; and as to quarreling, you
are quite right. I should like to add
that your admirable advice might per
haps be supplemented by adding: Ex
ercise tact, and spell it large.' Tact
will win nine times out of ten where
npen hostility and aggressiveness
fails.”
The response was:
“You are right; we are improving
with each generation.”—National
Magazine.
Old China as Table Decorations.
/Georgina, countess of Dudley, is said
to have been the first hostess who
grasped the possibilities of old pieces
of gold and silver as table decorations.
Old china lends itself to this pur
pose as readily, as was proved at the
dinner party given by Baron and Bar
oness Alphonse de Rothschild this
week in their fine mansion. Rue Saint
Florentin. The flowers were the price
less orchids for which the baron’s con
servatories at Ferrteres are celebrated,
and the golden and mauve tints'of the
exqusite blossoms were thrown into
harmonious relief by the pieces of
green Sevres china placed on the
table. A London hostess not long ago
made a sensation by decorating her
table entirely with La France roses
and using a dinner service of pink
Sevres, matching the flowers perfectly.
—Izondon Graphic.
Wise Man of the Trolley.
“Yes,” said the conductor, as he gave
the motorman the double ring, “I can
tell what day of the week it is by
the size of money these young fellows
have. Now, there is that kid in front
just gave me a flve-dollar note and
made me hustle for change. That’s
his salary. He’ll be walking down
town next Friday morning. 'That
young woman there, who just gave me
a dollar bill, had to look through a
pocketbook full of samples on Satur
day morning to find a nickel.”
“But this is Monday,” remarked the
observant patron, “and I saw a man
give you five cents just now. How do
you account for that?”
“Oh. that’s easy,” said the knight of
the cord; “he’s married.”—Baltimore
News.
Gen. Kuroki Half French. ,
Several French soldiers, survivors
of the Chinese expedition of 1856, are
responsible for the statement that Gen.
Kuroki, who is leading the Japanese
forces in Manchuria, is in reality half
French. His name, they say. is prop
erly spelled Curique. According to the
story of these soldiers, a French offi
cer, Capt. Curique, while serving in
China in 1856, married a Japanese girl.
A son was born to them, who was
given the Japanese name Kuroki, cor
responding to the French Curique.
This son is Gen. Kuroki. Capt. Cu
rique died last year in France. Until
the last he corresponded with his son,
who has since become famous.
When I was III.
He brought me flowers when I was ill.
And placed them where I saw them
bloom;
And all the while they used to fill
With perfume delicate my room.
I was a maiden, youn^ and fair.
And he had culture, rank and wealth;
The flowers, and his kindly care.
Helped lure me back to hope and
health.
But now that I am well and strong.
No more he comes—he passes by;
And. tho’ I would not do him wrong,
I wish that he had let me die.
—Thomas F. Porter in Boston Globe.
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AERIAL GLOBE THE LATEST FREAK.
The freak fever has broken loose
again, this time in the form of an
eating desire to give Chicago some
thing to take the place of the late
lamented Ferris wheel, its one time
promised stadium, its porcelain lined
subway and other beautiful things
that dreams are made of.
The man who Is responsible for thi3
proposed globe is bamuel M. Friede,
a Chicago inventor, who has spent the
greater part of his life inventing
things to give a calm and restive peo
ple thrills at so much per thrill. He
designed and built the airship tower
at Sans Souci Park. That freak works.
He says his globe will also work.
The aerial globe will cost $1,000,000
and will accommodate from 25,000 to
30.000 persons easily at one time, i
having a capacity six times that of the
Eiffel tower and ten times that of the
Ferris wheel.
The extreme height of the globe will
be 700 feet above the ground and will
be surmounted with a steel flagstaff
seventy feet higher. The base will
cover an area 1,200 feet in circumfer
ence. The base will'act as a giant
pedestal, which will rise to a height
of about 250 feet, directly upon which
will be built the globe, which will
measure 350 feet in diameter, or about
1.000 feet in circumference. About
the globe will he located the observa
tory towers, which will be about 100
feet high, making the entire structure
a total of about 700 feet.
The pedestal will be formed of eight
gigantic legs, slightly inclined upward,
holding the first large floor space,
called the aerial suspended roof gar
dens, at a distance of 110 feet above
the ground. \
This roof garden, octagonal in shape,
will be divided into four spaces—two
for restaurants and two for theaters.
One restaurant in the globe will be
located in the aerial coliseum, 314
feet above the ground, with a seating
capacity of 10.000 and a promenade
around the top of the seats 1.000 feet
in circumference. Windows will be
equipped with telescopes, where vis
itors will be enabled to look down and
around the city.
In the coliseum proper will be con
structed a large floor space about 600
feet in circumference and aixnit fifty
feet in width, with a race track around
the extreme end and three circ us rings
in the middle, one on each side of the
elevator shaft large enough to ac
commodate the largest circus perform
ances ever given. Under the coii
seum seats, with many open door*
leading to them, there will be a space
800 feet in circumference and fifty
feet wide, which will be used for ex
hibition of caged animais.
THE FRIEDE AERIAL GLOBE, A FREAK RESORT PLANNED FOR CHICAGO.
SUCCUMB TO CUPID’S WILES.
Female Clerks Not to Be Relied On,
Says* Employer.
It can hardly be credited that Cupid
should have any serious connection
with the dry goods business, yet a lo
cal firm experiences the greatest dif
ficulty in keeping competent assistants
on account of the interference of the
little blind god.
One of the managers of the dry
goods company said yesterday: "The
marrying habit seems to have gained
a permanent hold on this store. \ve
are constantly obliged to engage new
salesladies to fill the places of those
vho leave us to be married and con
duct homes of their own. This con
stant change cannot help affecting our
business to some extent, as customers
become attached to certain salesladies
and are tempted to change trading
places when a new etie is called to
wait on them.
"More than a score of young ladies
have been married from one depart
ment in the last eighteen months, and
in one of our advertisements for help
we felt obliged to make a stipulation
that applicants must promise to re
main unmarried at least one year.
This exaction has not served to pro
bib. t the evil, and our girls continue
to marry."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Hobbies of Holland's Queen.
The queen of Holland is an enthusi
astic farmer. A dairy has been estab
lished in connection with the royal
castle at Loo and it is run on quite
businesslike lines by its owner, large
quantities of butter and miik being
sold regularly from the dairy, which
is now self-supporting and profitable.
Another hobby of the young queen is
photography, and, like Queen Alex
andra and other distinguished ama
teurs. she is quite an expert with the
camera.
Iron Plant for Mexico.
Frontera. Mex., is to have a mil
lion-dollar plant for building steel,
iron and wooden vessels for river and
ocean navigation. A complete outfit
of machinery and tools has been or
dered from the United States.
CHARM OF MODULATED VOICE.
An Accomplishment That Is Not Hard
to Acquire.
One man has said: ‘Shut me up in
a dark room with a m’xed multitude
and I can pick out the gentlefolks by
their voices.” No matter what your
voice is, you can improve it by learn
ing to modulate it. High-pitched, stri
dent voices are sharply criticised, and
it is quite within our power to change
them.
In the comppas of every voice there
are three registers—the middle or
throat, the lower or chest, and the
upper or head. The use of the middle
pitch for talking is very desirable, but
the voice should be trained to slide up
and down, varying with the emotions
—low when the mood inclines toward
seriousness, and higher when it be
comes tingled with excitement. An
interesting speaker constantly changes
his pitch—not abruptly, out with ease
and skill—and the greater range one
has the more certain he is to get and
retain the pleased attention of listen
ers.
CROSSED SEA IN TINY BOAT.
THE COLUMBIA II., HER OWNER AND CHART OF HER VOYAGE.
It is generally supposed that one
who ventures into ocean solitudes in
a boat little more tfcan three times
longer than himself, and who, afte •
months of empty days and silent
nights, finally makes his way acros
the Atlantic, would have much to
say about the loneliness of such a
journey—of the tedium and of the un
easy sleep when ones eyes grov
heavy and the unguided cockleshell is
‘left to founder in some sudden squall
or be cut in two by some speeding
liner.
But Ludwig Eisenbaum says no. He
has just teturned from such a trip
across the Atlantic—one that was ex
tended to seventy-six days, and
throughout th£tt time, he says, he was
never lonesome for a minute.
“As for storms,” he said, “they are
frequently welcome, for then I could
take in sail, get my anchor out, crawl
into the little covered space w’hich I
“I figured it out this way. My boat
took up only nineteen feet of room,
called my cabin, close the hatch be
hind me and sleep contented.”
"But did you feel no uneasiness go
ing to sleep not knowing when you
might be drowned like a rat in a hole
by a sudden capsize or cut in two
by some other vessel?”
“No,” said the adventurous mariner
soberly. "I never thought of that. My
boat capsized with me once—in a
southeast gale—about ten o’clock in
the morning. I had got a sea anchor
over—a bit of wood shaped into a
triangle and covered with canvas, one
end loaded with lead so it would
stand upright in the water and act as
a drag, keeping the boat’s head to the
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SG&.
"But about going to sleep, and the
danger of being run down when no
one is keeping watch?”
"Well,” said Eisenbaum, soberly,
and the course I was traveling was
something like three thousKnd miles. I
calculated that if a ship did come my
way she would have to hit me plumb,
or I wouldn't care.”
"Then you had no collisions?"
"Yes, one with a whale. That was
early in the morning of October 1,
near Maderia. I had lashed the tiller
and was sound asleep when I was
awakened by the boat hitting some
thing and then seemingly trying to
stand on end. I crawfished out of
my cubby hole, and was almost swept
overboard by a sheet of water. That
whale had been asleep, same as I
was, and the boat had almost slid
over him before he woke up. For a
minute or two he slopped that tail
of his around in a way that almost
swamped the boat.”
Eisenbaum is forty-five years old,
Gorman born, but a naturalized
American. He says he undertook the
voyage for the glory and what would
come of it.
HI8 VOICE NOT GOLDEN.
Why Parepa Rosa Was Greater At
traction Than Mark Twa’n.
When Parepa Rosa was still charm
ing gold and banknotes out of the
pockets of her audiences she appeared
in concert in Hartford, and in the
same week, as it happened, in which
Mr. Clemens had delivered a lecture.
To hear Mark Twain people had paid
a dollar and a half for the best seat
in the house; to hear the diva meant
five dollars for a seat very far from
the best. So the local humorist was
moved to write to the committee in
charge of the two entertainments.
He pointed out the monetary par
tiality which had been shown, assert
ed that it was obviously unfair, and
closed with this: “If Mme. Rosa
makes her money so much faster than
I do mine merely because she sings,
let me tell you that I can sing my
self, and am open to engagements at
her terms.’*
And Mr. Clemens himself enjoys
telling ho^ promptly he received in
answer:
“A mere disturbance is not music."
AND HE A BOSTON MAN!
Theatrical Magnate Naively Ignorant
of Colonial History.
William Harris, the Boston theat
rical manager, while eminent in Ills
way, is not an authority on history,
especially Colonial history, as will ap
pear hereafter.
It will be remembered that Clyde
Fitch’s play “Major Andre,” which was
produced in New York last fall, was
anything but a glittering success. In
point of fact it ran just two weeks.
Some time after, Mr. Harris came to
New York and called on Frank Mc
Kee, who produced the play. In dis
cussing the melancholy fate of the
drama, Mr. Harris expressed the be
lief that Mr. McKee should have
known that it wouldn’t succeed.
“Those spy plays never do go with
the public,” he declared emphatically.
“Well," demanded Mr. McKee, “why
on earth didn’t you tell me it wouldn’t
go? You’d have saved me a good deal
of money.”
“How on earth was I to know it was
a spy play?” demanded the Bostonian
indignantly.—New York Times.
CENTER OF WOOL TRADE.
Distinction Admitted to Belong to
Bradford, England.
While large numbers of English
merchants are visiting the Louisiana
Purchase Exhibition many American
business men engaged in the manu
facturing dry goods trade are making
transatlantic voyages expressly to at
tend the exhibition recently opened at
Bradford. England.
That market holds the record as
the greatest wool center in the world.
Although limited in scope, being main
ly devoted to textile industries, so di
versified are the interests connected
therewith that thousands of whole
sale dealers as well as retail dealers
figure it as the chief attraction of a
European trip this year.
The display of wools comprehends
raw materials and yarns from which
such fabrics are produced. The dif
ferent processes employed In manu
facturing are shown in detail, from
the time the wool leaves the sheep
until It is made in the form of dress
goods and then converted into model
costumes.
