Show loii LEISURE acrus Sc rus ulvila awa lit manur beuning Eu ning the convivial clerk atlo giouse II 11 letter before the house of representatives was changed from the old ball that is now devoted to the reception and exhibition of statues of salesmen dal esmen the clerk of the house had an kofl ice in is now be document room in an adjoining apartment the clerk kept a barrel tap and not closely geardel gu ardeL it was usually put in at the drawn aftin a smaller to be conveniently used on the clerks 1 able and everybody who was so disposed was free to ue the liquor it did bot cost much ajr it was not taxed and could be bought for thirty or forty cents a gallon the free ase of it sometimes made even the clerk of the house frisky there was one clerk aho vho was famous for bis fize as well as bis originality and his thirst who after clicking glasses with friends the morning of a last day of a went to the door of the senate with a house bill that it was necessary should be passed the senate in session he was in formed and could not admit him lie le turned to hh room by and by he was interrupted as he was about pouring out a drain of whisky from a pitcher by a messenger from the senate making anxious inquiry for the bill drawing him belf up aa high as circumstances would permit and tossing kofl his be answered you go back to the senate and eny to the honorable body that I 1 am in ive session and cannot be interrupted queer acis of memory jamestown jv 1 amal the case of W J hibbard who sustained several paralytic strokes a few months ago in this city Is attracting tr attention ho has BO far recovered as to be able to go anywhere about the city at his pleasure he can converse intelligently oa any subject he was familiar with before hh sickness and remembers all his old friends but has not regained the faculty of recalling the names of bis most intimate friend although be knows as far aa circumstances cum stances with which he and bs different friends were associated perfectly well with whom he is conversing he understands and appreciates what his friends read to him and ayi convie readily with but slight impediment in bis speech about the read but he cannot read a word himself nor tell one letter of the alphabet from another yet lie can tell when ft newspaper is right side up he remembers distinctly having been able to read befaro he was tick and is troubled because ho cannot 10 lo so now he sera perfectly well the peculiarity being with the mind and not with the eight he conversed with a journal reporter an 3 related these peculiar facts ho hopes and is encouraged by bh to believe that if be continues to improve abo faculty to to suddenly coiro back to him at no distant day and lie bays it will be a happy time for him if it does so th be la A few evenings ago at the washington hiding academy was a woman of queenly build tall beautiful and graceful writes a washington of the philadelphia times she wore a rich coat of subdued ocolor trimmed with tiger fur surmounting her head of luxurious arburn hair was an engleh riding hat pointed front and back and trimmed with peacock feathers bhe was attended by her daughter an attractive girl in her teens the mother moved among the di sting belied men and women who had gathered to witness the competing ladies and gentlemen for pulses tori bib jumping empry one turned to admire that queenly form and everyone was interested te to know who the apparent stranger was at last so go the unending changes of washington life she was greeted by an ac quain tanco of a quarter of a century ago as mrs kate chase daughter ot Lincol ns secretary ury and chief justice of the united states this historic woman is now living quietly but comfortably in washington wih her two younger daughters while the eldest is fitting for the stage ficon fail talk talk j and now the reign of the more or less established torn of the regulation knife and fork is threatened no bo not alarmed though U is true we continue to incline strongly towards the idea of the Celea tiala it vs not chop sticks that damo fashion now menaces us with but elie does bint that she Is growing weary of the conventional knife and lork so far but one etalo of has been found and at a recent dinner iu new york one darrina society lady introduced fanciful daggers and email swords the handles of in crusted with gems in place of knives idealized pitchforks might he used fur tho other needful implement lauy and many are the table decorations to be introduced at the bobial season just about budding for the fragrance of ther holiday greens must itself before the exotic scented atmosphere of the ballroom fairly asserts itself there is a razo for highly ornamented table clothe and covers of silk plain and brocaded paneled with or velvet elaborately wrought with tincel threaten to supersede the enory damask that has lor long been the housekeepers pride the fanciful ideal go to the extent of draping the table with tulle thi out hid ti submit ti in a nim uptown up town iv Y un tbt barber alio wai a reporter of the isun in an up lown chop excused himself fir a moment yesterday and went away as barbers always have done just at the that they have filled every crevice in the customers face with lather this proved interesting however the barber waa boss i f ahe shop and had stopped to interview a maa who hat been gent around froni a bar bets agency to ill a vacancy in alie shop this dialogue and scene followed the meeting between the two boss where did you ever corli man ten yeara in SL nicholas then bullers then feyers bass do you always afar a dirty coplai alan no sir I 1 have been sick and out of work boa Is that why your shoes aint shined man yes sir moss please blow in my face I 1 mean breathe in my face the same as you have to in the customers face when you are at work the man obeyed boss never do I 1 cant have such breath in my shop man my oil right only ive been eating onions boss those will cost you a job then iet them be your last A mau who cata irions would ruin my business in six months A man with such a breath as I 1 think yours is would bankrupt me in six days a half dollar my man I 1 daht want you when the barber returned to the well soared wo have to be very particular in this business if I 1 saw one of my men put his band to his face in the shop I 1 would warn him tho first time our business depends on such little things as that A man who does not attend to the of his fingernails or who nears in front of his customers eyes a pair of soiled wristbands wrist bands or whoever ex ates or chews tobacco would drive away the cream of my trade in mighty quick order ex in Congi taa llamas ci y turns the next houe will contain three ex speakers nathaniel P banks nf massachusetts samuel J randall of and john G carlisle of kentucky not counting sunset cox who was elected speaker pro tern at the first session ot the forty fourth congress during the illness of speaker karr tho other surviving ex speakers are robert C of massachusetts thirtieth congress galusha A grow of pennsylvania thirty seventh coheres Co neres james G blain of maine forty first forty second and forty third congresses and J Warren Keifer of ohio forty seventh congress it will thus be seen that surviving ex speakers are more plentiful than ex presidente only rutherford B hayes being left the da factor if nut the da jure pos of that honor the single survival tur vival bioda counterpart in the case of vice presidents since han anibal hamlin is the only living ex vice president and in his case the latest news is that be ia bright and chipper and can cut a pigeon wing as deftly as ever although in hia eightieth year ex speaker galusha A grow was in the city a few days since looking well and hearty at the age of sixty six he was thirty seven years of age when choden speaker and general banks waa forty A boyei alij youths probably the magnificent state of the royal baby of spain surpasses that of any other infant of western lands but the retinue of the km geror of china shows how they do euch things in the east the list of his attendants atten danta was as follows eighty nurses twenty five fan bearers twenty five palanquin bearers ten bearers thirty physicians and surgeons seven cools twenty three assistant cooks fifty and fifty dressers to put on and take olf imperial clothes seventy five astrologers sixteen governors priests with thirty cooks and thirty doctors it u perhaps a wonder that kuang II 11 us emperor of china has lived to bo yeara old georges cotton Tra writ what shall we buy george for christna 1 1 I dont know something useful however just what I 1 think and then after three or four fioura hard work for the salt the two girls purchase a done in moire antique with lace trimmings anil a mother of pearl bootjack an 1 I would like my bill paid tau a tailor to an customer dodou not owe my ono anything aked the jector no sir I 1 am thank fill to eay I 1 do not then foa can a lord to wait was the answer as the customer walked iway julea awa ha talt of tin oni atil call jules verne the world renowned writer of fiction has contributed to the febuary number of the forum au article in which he describes journalism in 2889 the following extracts show his idea of a newspaper 1000 years from now years ago the earah chronicles subscription list contained but a few hundred thousand names and then mr fitz nopoleon bought it for a trifle and originated telephonic journalism instead of being printed the earth chronicle is every morning aboken to subscribers who in interesting with reporters statesmen and scientists learn the news of the day furthermore each subscriber aub scriber owns a phonograph and to this instrument he leaves the task of gathering the news whenever he happens not to be in a mood to listen directly himself aa for sera of single copies they can at a very trifling cost learn all that is in the paper of the day at any of the innumerable graphs set up nearly everywhere fitz napoleon Nap oleen smiths innovation galvanized the old in the course of a few years the number of subscribers grew to bo 85 and smiths wealth went on growing till now it reaches the almost unimaginable figures of this lucky hit has enabled him to erect his new building a vast edifice with four facades each feet in width over which proudly floats the hundred starred flap of the union thanks to the same lucky hit be is today king of indeed he would be king of all the american too if americans could ever accept a king you do not believe il well then look at the aries of all nations and our own two ministers themselves crowding about his door entreating his counsel begging for his approbation imploring the aid of his all powerful organ reckon up the number of scientists and artists that be supports of inventions that he has under his pay TUE this morning mr fritz napoleon editor of the earth chron icle awoke in a very bad humor his wife having left for france eight days ago he was feeling disconsolate in all the ten beare since their marriage this is the arst time that mrs edith smith the professional beauty has been so long absent from home two or three days usually fur her frequent trips to europe the cm thing that mr smith does is to connect his the wires of which communicate with his paris mansion the here is another of the great of science of our time the of speech is an otil atory the transmission of images by means burross connected by wires is a thing of but yesterday by this aid smith was able distinct ly to see his wife notwithstanding the distance that separated him from her mrs smith weary after the ball or the visit to the theater the preceding night is still abed though it is nearly noontide af paris she u asleep her head sunk in the lace covered pillows and bow at the call of imperative duly light hearted he springs from his bed and entered his mechanical dresser two minutes later the machine deposited him all dressed at the threshold ot his office the round of journalistic work was now begun piret he the hall of novel writers in one corner u A TELEPHONE through which hundred earth chronicle litterateurs in turn recount to the public in daily installments a hundred novels addressing one of theao authors who was waiting his turn keep on my dear archibald keep on said be since yesterday thanks to you there is a gain mr smith continues his round and entered the reporters hall here 1500 reporters in their re places facing an equal number of telephones are communicating ni to the subscribers the news world as gathered during the night besides his telephone each reporter as abo reader is aware has in front of him a set of communicators nica tors which enable him to corn wit bany desired line thus the not only hear the news but see the occur when an incident is described that is already past photo graphs of its main features are transmitted with tho narrative and there is no confusion withal the reporters item just like the different dif lerent stories and all the other component parts of the jurnal are automatically according to an ingenious system and reach the hearer in due succession furthermore the hearers aro free to lieten only to what specially concerns them they may at pleasure give attention to one editor and re fuse it to another A IN advertising diio next ball was an enormous enor moua gallery upward of feet in length devoted to atmospheric ad verti aing every one haa noticed these enormous reflected from the clouds BO larga thai they may be seen by the lations of whole cities or even of entire countries jn the chronicle building a thousand projectors are constantly engaged in displaying upon the clouds these mammoth advertisements when mr smith the editor to day entered the sky advertising department part ment he found the operators silting with folded amis at their motionless projectors project ora and inquired as to the cause of their inaction in response the man addressed dimply pointed to the alcy which was of a pure blue ye muttered mr smith a cloudless alcy too bad but to bo done shall we produce rain that we might do but is it of any use what we need is clouds not rain go said he addressing the head engineer go see mr samuel mark of the division of the department and tell him for me to po to wark in earnest en the Ut tiou of artificial it will never do fur ua to be always nt the mercy of cloudless skies fity aga cult fifty acan ago the population of the united states was only the census cnut the govern there slaves in all the states except maine massachusetts vermont and michigan iowa had sixteen slaved wisconsin eleven ohi three in diana nine illinois total in all the slates and territories vas 2486 fifty years ago the first railroad spike machine was put into use making fifty a minute forming both point and head henry burden of troy N Y was the inventor it ranked among the beat paving inventions of modern timen fitly years ago the whip party held ili first convention at harris burg pa nominating general william henry II arrison of ohio as president of the united stales fifty years ago joseph A adams for the first time made idea now embodied in the art of electrotyping by reproducing from wood cuts fifty years ago the first power loom for weaving carpets waa set in motion by E B bigelow of boston ten yards a day was its original capacity fifty years ago 1839 the first wheat was shipped from chicago amounting to 78 bushels it w i sent eastward by the lakes to auf falo fitly one years ago the first steam fire engine ever made was tested in new york it was invented by captain john ericsson fifty years ago the sirus and great western the first ocean steamship entered new york harbor on their return trip no 1 fifty years ago 1000 reformed drunkards marched io procession at the first anniversary of the washington society fifty years ago a law was enacted against dueling in tha district of columbia it grew wt of the cilley graves duel fifty years ago the cherokee indians were |