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REAL ESTATE MATTERS. Orent Activity Among the Broken and Investors. FBEFABISO FOB TU COM 15 II1IOI-UI r. AS TO THE COST or 8TBEET EXTBXSIOS? A F1.EA IS FAVOB OF AIXBT OF THE COXmFLATXD The building sruon hss been prolonged this It is what is known as an open season, in consequence of the comparatively mild weather, the erection of buildings has been continued for some weeks past the osnal time. Some new boiMingshavs also been started, and so there is quite a good deal of oat-door work in progress.

The masons have continued at work on the tower and the walla of the Church of the Covenant, and the building will be ready in a few days to be clowed in. In its campanile, or bell-iower. this church edifice will be a departure from the prevailing style of church architecture in this city. The tower is square with rounded piers at the corner, and will rise to a height of some 190 feet In the msssive stone walls there will be only such openings as will serve to admit light The belfry will be quite elaborate and will consist of three tiers of arcaded openings. The light stone used is very effective, and the entire structure will be a pleasing addition to the architecture of the city.

A somewhat similar tower will be the main feature of the exterior of the new edifice which the First Baptist church congregation proposes to ereet at the southwest corner of 16th and streets. It is a square tower, rising to about the samo height, the plain walls, with only the small openings for light, being continned nearly to the top. where there is a belfry formed of a singls series of arcaded openings. Large arched windows will be in the face of the wall. Just below the belfry.

The architect Mr. W. Brace tirsy, has selected brick as the building material both for the church and the tower. Stone, however, will be owed for the foundation walls and in belt courses. In this design the brick will be used with good effect in imparting to the structure the characteristic grace and lightnese of the Italian school of architecture.

The edifice will, it is thought furnish another good example of the utility of brick in producing the best styles of architecture. Kichardson. the great architect employed brick almost exclusively in the reslization of two of his happiest designs in the line of house architecture, which he left in this city as monuments to his name. Some of the best examples of the various schools of modern architecture, as seen in this city, are worked out in brick. The new house which Mr.

S. H. Kauffmann is building on Massachusetts avenue, near 14th street is going to be an excellent illustration of the architectural effectiveness of this material. All the brick used here is manufactured in this vicinity and the industry has reached such a degree of excellence that when several years ago an architect desired to use in one house over one hundred different forms of brick he had no difficulty in getting a supply from a home company. Brick making is an industry which the capital city can point to with commendable pride, although it is generally supposed that this is a city without such adjuncts.

THE COST OF STREET EXTENSION. There is so much activity in suburban property that naturally great interest is taken in the subject of the extension of the city streets. As Congress has already passed an act requiring that all new subdivisions of land should be in conformity with the plan of the city, it is concluded that this will be followed by some legislation providing for the extension of all the city streets. A great deal of the land, especially that lying along the northern boundary of the city, is already sub divided according to the plan which suited those who happened to own the ground at the time of tne subdivision. The consequence is that the extension of the streets on their present lines would make it necessary to condemn for the public considerable private property.

There have betn various estimates maae as to the coet of carrying out such a general scheme. Mr. Jos. Paul, who has had large experience in the work of suburban subdivision, has prepared an estimate for the northwest streets which, while it does I not claim to be accurite. vet he thinks will I give a very good idea of wLat the undertaking would cost.

His figures are as follows: For the right of wav for North Capitol street 2d. 3d. 5th. and 1 6th streets. each; 8th street.

I 13th. 17th. 18th. and 19th streets. each; Vtb street.

10th. 11th. 12th. 15th. and I Total.

KhodcTsland avenue, VWmont avenne. Sew Jersey avenue. New Hampshire avenue. Connecticut avenue, e50.000. Total.

cross streets. 000. Grand total. Mr. Paul is iti favor of using the 91.000.000 surplus of the District money in the United States Treasury for this purpose, and if it be supplemented by the payment of the usual one-half by the Cnited States, as is the case in the other District expenditures, the work will be provided for.

EXTENSIVE COy TEM FLA TED. T. F. Schneider, the architect, has another extensive building enterprise under way. During the past year he completed two blocks of twenty houses on Corcoran street between 17th Hud lnth streets.

One-half the houses have been sold and the remaiuder are rented. He feels encouraged by his past success, he told a reporter, to continue the work of improvement. He has now just about cont luded the negotiations for the purchase of a half square of ground in the northwestM-ction. Next spring he purposes to be gin bail ling. and his present plans contemplate the expenditure of about The houses which he will build will be of a good class, and will sell, he expects, for from fclO.oOO to each.

Mr. Schneider began building on his own accoont several years ago, and each year he has found that the condition of the real estate market has warranted constantly increasing expenditures. A OOOD SCILDINO SEASOX. In talking with a reporter he said the coming season promised to be a very busy one with hira. I have already a large amount of work in my office," he added.

which will no doubt go on in the spring." He said he was pre- tring plans for a row of houses for a client 1 which would cost about Other ar-hitects. as well as real estate men, ente-tain the wm? opinion of the bright pros- pects for the future. THE VIEWS OF JXO. RHEBBAX AND COVFAXT. In the office of Jno.

Sherman A real estate brokers, a Stab reporter was informed that they were receiving numerous inquiries from people who were on the lookout for as well as for permanent homes. They have recently sold the large brick-and- i residence on Massachusetts avenue, near lNth street, to Mrs. Burnett, the authoress, The con iition of the real estate market is re- carded by this tirm as extremely favorable. I They note the fact that while daring the past year there has been less activity than usaal. still have remained unchanged.

This i thev consider as good evidence of the bed-rock founuatiou upon which Washington real eatate rests. WHAT D. D. 0TOHB THINES. Another real estate broker with whom a Stab reporter talked recently waa D.

D. Stone. He said that business was good with him and Le had no reason to find fault "We have enjoyed." he continued, "a period of business activity under a democratic administration, but I look forward to the coming change as likely to give a new stimulus to Washington real estate. There seems to be a great feeling of confidence among all classes, and that ia an important element in the successful prosecution of any As long as people are timid there is but little progress. The population is increasing so rapidly that the market for property of all kinda ia bound to be active.

There sre opportunities to-day for making money just as numerous and as good aa some we know about or have heard about in the past hen the city has reached the halfmillion mark in its growth we will look back to the present and its opportunities, perhaps with regret. What I wast to see is every one owning his own home. This city is called a e'e of residences. It should be as widely wn aa the city of homes. The chances that are offered here for persons of moderate means to secure homes for themselves are extremely favorable, and the large number who occupy their own homes is an evidence of fact The money invested in property Is largely the frugal savings of the people of moderate incomes.

The presence of such a class reduces the dangers arising from excessive speculation to a minimum. If such waa not the case we would not now be looking forward to the future with hope. The past ysar would have been filled with wrecks and disasters. Instead of that however, there has bo sacriflcs of property, and purchasers havs been able to carry their investments. has been no depreciation ia values such as has been witnessed in other parts of the country, following a period of activity as we have enjoyed.

I think that I aa perfectly Justified ia taking a cheerful view of the present situation and in looking forward to the future with confidence." AIUI IV BXFOBMBD AIIM The comments im Tma Stab ia flavor of the Mil rensntly ia the Room to hibit the erection of houses in alleys has drawn to the snbjeet considerable attention. Geo. K. Emmons, who hn built a pett many null houses, in talking with a Stab reporter. Mid that he thought it woold be a to prohibit the erection of boons in ''Oar squares," he went on, "many of them, are 150 and 300 feet deep.

It would be impossible to utilize the ground unless houses or saabln built on the rear portion. What would be beneficial wonld be a law authorizing the to pare, sewer, and pnt water is all alleys at the expense of the property. The alleys should be placed in a sanitary condition. Such improvements would change the moral atmosphere of the place. In my opinion an alley not leas than 90 feet wide, with pavement, sewer, water, and gas, would not be a nuisance.

If houses are not erected there stables will be, and I am sore I would rather have the house. I know a gentleman who owns a handsome house, and he is trying to buy the stable in the rear of his property, and if ne succeeds he proposes to turn it into a house. He don't like the stable and prefers the house. This will be found to be a very general preference. What is needed now is a reform in oar alley houses and in the sanitary condition of the alleys." TWO HBW HOUSES.

The erection of two new houses has been begun on street between 19th and 20th streets. They will be constructed of brick and stone. The feature of the front will be the oriel windows supported by heavy stone corbels. They will be three stones and will be finished handsomely in the interior. The owner is W.

K. Caw and tha architects Pitney and Bradford. Mr. Pitney in talking with a Stab mrfn said that he thought that tne indications were favorable for an active building season nsxt spring. "We have already a large amount of work in our office," he adaed, "which will no doubt go on when the season opens.

There are several men of means who have been talking about quite extensive building operations, and I think that there is no donbt that the investment will be made. Of course yon may consider this all mere talk, but then you know there must be something behind it. I am of the opinion that if the talking begins so early we will get down to business when the building season opens." Ridiculous, But Quite English, You Know? To the Editor of Tn Evraiaa Utab: To one who is under the impression that the highest type of horseback rider is in this country. native, or to the manner born, it is amusing to see the queer attitudee and grotesque motions of some imitation riders hereabouts. It certainly wonld harrow the soul of a plainsman cowboy, herder, vaquero, gentleman rider, whatever he may see a roundshouldered object on a horse, stirrups short, horizontal, arms akimbo, bobbing up and down with eccentric uncertainty, in imminent danger of tripping over at any surprise or unexpected movement along the road.

It may be considered good form, English and nobby, and just the thing, you leather boots, bob-tail hone, gold-headed cane-whip, and it is not to be mentioned the same day with good, easy, safe, graceful riding, such as may be seen almost anywhere in the country. It would be next to impossible for a rider, equipped and mounted as he is frequently seen here, to rescue a lady on a runaway horse: for instance, as graphically described by Capt. King in his story of "Dunraven Ranch." And yet. a gentleman rider should be prepared for any such emergency, and feel confident, if ever called upon to exert himself in that heroic way. The wentern man, almost standing in his stirrups, is in symmetry with his horse.

He rides with ease, is always sure of his seat, is not liable to disastrous surprise, does not tire his horse or himself, and what is pleasant to see. man and beast are in sympathy and accord, and understand each other, so to speak. I have seen a man dismount after a seventy-five mile ride between sunrise and sunset, neither horse nor rider greatly fatigued, and both next morning, after a nightof refreshment and rest, ready for further work. What wonld be left of a horse under a fancy mere flap with a by a man who has been bumping him like a piledriver for ten or twelve mortal hours? Not enough to sell. What would be left of the man? A pair of yellow-top boots, a stumpy whip, and a mass of disorganized muscles.

It is conceded, of course, thut a gentleman rider is not mounted for the work of a cowboy. But the boy aforesaid has the advantage of grace and confidence, and is infinitely superior in appearance as a rider. C. B. Aing and the Pope.

The King and the Pope together Have sent a letter to me; It is signed with a golden scepter, It in sealed with a golden key: The King me out of his eyesight; The Pope wants me out of his see. The King and the Pope together Have a hundred acres of land; I do not own the foot of ground On which my two feet stand; But the prettiest girl in the kingdom 8trolls with me on the sand. The King has a score of soldiei-9 Who wilJ light for him any day; The Pope has both priests and bishops Who for his soul will pray; I have only one Uttle sweetheart. But she'll kiss me when I say. The King must marry a lady exceedingly high degree; The I'ope has never a true love, So a Cardinal pours his tea; Very few stand round me at table.

But my sweetheart sits by me. And the King, with his golden scepter. The Pope, with Peter key. Can never unlock the one Uttle heart That is open only to me; For I am the lord of a realm, And 1 am the Pope of a see? In fact, I'm supreme in the kingdom That la sitting Just now on my knee. Henry Webs.

Old Coachman Bam. AX AMUS1SO STOUT OF A OKOKOIA COLORED MAM WHO WAS ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE. An Atlanta dispatch to the New York Timet says: There is only one colored man in the Qeorgia legislature. Samuel McNor. On going home yesterday Dr.

Wm. D. Hoyt was very mnch surprised to find a big colored nfan in his house talking to the female members of his family. He dia not know what to think of it as he walked into the room until one of the ladies remarked: "This is Sam; don't you know It then flashed across the phvsician's mind that the colored man was the old coachman of his wife's mother, in Liberty county, long before the war. 8am was born in 1S16.

and is therefore seventy-two years old. He told them all about how he was elected to the legislature and how he was getting along. Mrs. Stevens, who was his old owner, also asked him many questions about the old homestead. Dinner time came and there was somewhat of a predicament What should be done with the old negro? He was a member of the legislature, and it would not do to send him to the kitchen.

So the family ate dinner and gave the table to Sam. At supper time the same thing was repeated; the family first and then Sam. Dr. Hoyt thought that he ought to give the old man some present, but was afraid that he might insult him by offering something ordinarily given to the people of his race. During the evening the visitor seemed very much pleased with some improved rat-trape the doetor was setting.

So he presented him with one. Finally it was about time for the legislator to leave. As he was getting ready Sam said to Dr. Hoyt: "Doctor, hasn't you got an old coat you'd give me." The "old human nature" of the colored man came back to him, and he fort that he was a legislator drawing a salary of per day. Dr.

Hoyt was pleased to hear him ask the question, as he had been puzzled to know what to give him. The doctor looked over his cast-off clothing upstairs and found an old coat. Sam already nad on two coats. These were rather too tight He pulled off one and put on the coat received, with the oldeet one outside. The outside coat was several inches shorter than the one given him, bat that made no difference.

Wanted: A National Air. From the Musical Herald America is yet with a national air pomecsiug the besadth and dignity worthy of a great country. There are several tunn that by force of association have been adopted in liea of a melody worthy of the dignity. "Hail Colombia" is a weak and oolorlees production. "The Star Spangled Banner' Is suggeetive of a horse oarade in a circus.

"Xy Maryland" is an old German air of no striking merit. "My Country Tis of Thee" is adapted to the English national air "God Save the Queen." Then we have "Dixie," an old negro tone: "John Brown," an old camp-meeting effusion, and the inappropriate "Yankee Doodle." The time has now arrived for some of our native musician to devote their beet energies to the production of an air that shall be worthy of the occasion, and typical of this great nation. Wm at a to "American Notes and Queries," In one of the cellars of the Bathekeller, at Bremen, there are twelve large seeee ef wine, each can containing "the celebrated which wss deposited there in MM. One can of this wine, containing bottles, eeet MO rix dollars at that tiase. Taking all expenen into aoeoont and compounding the interest, a single glass, omoightho! a bottle, oost ahotftMMOO, or about M00 a drop." WOMEN WHO WORK.

about mm mw ni iuiou or tonmm oia amd orrn. The woman the type-writer is one of the familiar flguree of the day. too, i stenograph, or I graphophone, or a phonograph. If there is really each a thing in the world aa a woman-hater a walk through the business places or the government buildings in Washington most fill him with misery. Everywhere women seem to be getting on very well.

In stores one sees them standing behind counters or sitting at the cashier's desk. In offices of attorneys or real estate agents one will come across a woman clerk in some coiy.well-ecAened corner. A glance into windows of printing offices would show to the misogynist ths hated fair ones feeding and operating presses, folding sheets, and, in a few cases, even at work at the printer's case. There are women lawyers and doctors, women preachers and claim agents. In the government ouildings woman has made a conquest of much of the ground once occupied exclusively by male creatures.

Not only are there many women in office but new ones are constantly being appointed. WOMBS ABO CIVIL SKBVIOS. Some interesting facts relating to these appointments were learned by a 8tab reporter at the civil-eervioe rooms. As a rule, the appointing powers never appoint a woman to a clerkship above the 9900 class. If there is a place above that grade to be filled by appointment the Secretary calls for the names of the three highest males.

Such places are sometimes filled by promoting a woman already in a 9900 place ana then appointing a woman to the low grade. So a woman need hardly expect, under existing conditions, to be appointed at the start to an office above the 9900 class. The exceptions to the rule are those who pass examinations aa type-writers or stenographers. About one out of every three of those examined for appointment is a woman, andaboutone outof seven of those appointed is a woman. In other words, one-thira of the applicants are women and only one-seventh of the appointments go to women.

As a result, the list of women eligible for appointment, who have passed excellent examinations, is generally fuller than the list of men of high" standing in the examinations. Some department officials have discovered that they are likely to get in calling for a woman to fill a 9900 place a person of much higher qualifications than they would get when they call for a man to fill a 91,300 place. There still seems to be some prejudice against women clerks. One reason for this, a Star reporter was told, is that in an office where there are only men employed it is almost out of the question to appoint one woman. If one is appointed another must be appointed to keep nor company.

As this cannot always be done at once, the advance of women into new territory is slow. The civil-service reformer, to whom a Stab reporter talked, thought that one result of the civil-service law had been to secure female clerks of much higher qualifications than were obtained under the old rule, when the sympathies of appointing officers were appealed to in behalf of women applicants. The woman who gets an appointment now is almost always well fitted for her duties. IK THB TBBASUBY DEPARTMENT. "To Gen.

Francis E. Spinner, formerly treasurer of the United States, belongs the credit of having introduced ladies into the ranks of the government clerks," said an old Treasury official to a Star reporter the other day. "Previous to the war there had been no women employed in clerical capacities, except, perhaps, in occasional instances in one or two of the departments, when there would be a rush of work and women would be given copying to do at their homes. In 1861 the coin money of the government gave out, and there was an immediate necessity for some kind of a circulating medium to meet the demand for money. So Congress authorized the issue of legal tender notes, payable in gold on demand, the issue of which was begun in August of that year.

They were the original 'greenbacks' and I came into office the next day after their issue began. They were printed in sheets containing several notes each, and came to us from the bank note and engraving companies with iipaires for sigtiatflTCs. Hie nSthefo'f tlte assistant treasurer and register were then signed for their principals. The enormous demand for the money necessitated quick work on our part to get the notes signed and ready for issue, but it was found that it was a slow process signing end cutting the notes at the same time. They had to De cut apart with scissors and their edges trimmed.

Gen. Spinner thought over the matter and then suggested to Secretary Chase that a number of women be temporarily employed to cut the notes and to count them. He thought that it would be a good thing to give employment to these women who were deserving, and he also had an idea that their 1 familiarity with the scissors would probably I lead them to do quicker work. Ho tuey were employed, a number of them, and we went to work cutting and signing the notes. I remember well that scene.

There was a long table with a great stark of notes in sheets before each lady, and the scissors kept snipping and the notes dropping until the sheets lay piled into separated notes, which were rapidly signed and counted. Some of us men turned in to help the work along, and there was some lively cutting done. We cut and signed 960,000 000 worth of paper, and then Congress authorized another issue of a like amount, and also gave permanent employment to the women. Some of tnem are still employed in this office. From this start the gradual growth was toward the employment of in other branches of work, and now they are to be found in almost every office, doing in many casei the same work as men, although they are mostly engaged in counting or copying." ''Do you think that a woman is better adapted to the work of counting and handling money than men "No, I do not think that I am of that opinion.

The work of counting is not a merely mechanical one; it involves great mental work as well. The counter must not only see that the bundle of notes contains so many sheets, but also that it contains so much money, and that the notes run in consecutive order according to their numbers. It requires as much concentration of mind as deftness of fingers, and experts become so only by practice and application. There is a popular belief that women are employed in this department in handling money because of their special fitness for the work. I must say that I do not believe in it.

They are employed on that work more because of the custom of hiring women to count money than for any other reason." OKB Or THB CLBBXB During this conversation a lady entered the room with the air of long familiarity with the place. As she caught the drift of the officials' remarks she gradually assumed the look of a person with something to say, and only waiting for a chance to say it. Her opportunity came with a lull in the official's words, and she remarked: "Now I don't know about that. When we first started on the counting, in 1861, there were two men working with us at our table. They managed to get the easy notes, the 20's, 10's and 6's, and wo got the harder ones, and then they started out to race us, and I remember distinctly that we all beat them badly," andkhe nodded her head with the air of one who has Just delivered a convincing argument "Tee?" smiled the official.

"But who were thoee men?" and he waited for her answer with a good deal of memory in his eyes. "Well, there was Mr. So-and-so for one." "And if you could not beat old Bo-and-eo counting Fa discharge myself. Why," addressing the reporter, "he was an old farmer, who could not count a bushel of potatoes in four hours. Who was the he asked the original countess.

"Mr. What's-his-name," was the reply. "They both worked at our table, and both got the easy notes." "Well, a child should have been able to beat old What's-bis-name. He was old enough to have been retired long before, and ooula not count with any speed at alL Now how much I did you beat me, and John Jay Knox, and the rest of us other men who counted at that time?" he asked. "Why, you would not eompare us to your high-priced men, would youV" blushed the original countess, with a half acknowledgsaent Of defeat "We were not such very high-priced men then, if I remember rightly," was the reply, and the war was at an end.

In the appointment division of the Treasury the reporter waa informed that there are, all told, in the employ of the Treasury department in this city, including the bureau of enuring and printing and the auditors' The highest salary paid to a woman in the War department Is 91.400, reoeived by a clerk in the quartermaster-general's office. There are a few under LOO employee in the Ward partiMnt of whoa sixty are womwL mrm ooiima mm ail the tim? and while in the offloe is how for loach. Tlnnsnse at the practicing physician that they are stron in good health. Bttll there ire thoeei prose oair MaTnTk faJ" who been there ever eiaoe the bireaii wee I first started in 1862. ownta wetting division girts const the paper first when dry and then when damn and quires no littte skill to handle the sheets placed between wet cloths.

This is roocfplace for any woman of weak longs, for the wirtaat moisture induces colds nod pulmonarydSandexamining dirision the wsi females, ud a woman The greatest PrtatediSeets affirm sjisss. xrvesz is! sequently counted over and they come from the dry box. AseaShnotew security reoeives at least two printings, and of the nnmber of the ooonts which each sheet receives in this division alone. In the nombering division nearly all the employes are women. They work both the numbering and separating machines, and they also give the separated notes the last ooont before they are transmitted to the treasury department for sealing and issoe.

The soMrintendent of this division is also a woman, who has been long in the government service, and she, as well the soperintendent of the examining division, possesses extraordinary executive ability. In the binding division women operate the perforating machines, and in the snrface division women feed the presses, and in both these divisions there are female counters and exJF work aboTe warred to are those to which women are especially adapted. Men could not perform any ot their JfoAsoweU. With practice and female employes become experta, and some of their places could not well be filled, certainly not bv those who had not previoosly had similar teaming. A majority of the clerical work the bureao is also performed by women.

They keep the division reoords and acconnts, while in the office of the accoontant there one lady who is a skilled bookkeeper, and whose accuracy could not be sorpassed by the most expert male accountant Many'of the women in the bnreau could make more money in tome private bank-note establishment, and to some such inducements have many times been offered, but they prefer to remain in the service of the government, and there is no one who has attained to any prominent position but is proud of the steps which led to her advancement. Many of the women in the bureau have known better days; some have once been wealthy. None, however, boast of their "has been, but all are earnest, diligent, and faithful in their work. THE OOVXBJWXHT PXISTnfO orricx. Woman is no small factor in the work of the government printing office.

In huge workshop there are 800, and but few of them can boast of soft situations. At or before 8 clock on each working day the approaches to the office are crowded with the female workera. Old, middle-aged, and vonng mingle in one grand procession of industrious womanhood. The light-hearted maiden trips Jauntily along, a fancifully-decorated lonch-basket swinging in one hand. Her gait is more rapid I than that of the sad-facea woman who is bravely bearing life's burden alone, and whose seamed and ever-tired fingers the livelihood of half a dozen fatherless chilStill more slow in her movements is the-, old woman whose careworn features are crowned with hair of shining white.

She has seen the grave close over all that is dear, and staggering patiently along to her last resting place, keeping body and sonl together ontu that time shall come by earning a nv dollars a month from the government. Five minutes after the steam whistle has blown every one of the 800 women is at work. Their occupations are in no one exclusive portion of the are scattered all over it In the press-room, which is on the ground floor, women feed the presses with the tons of paper daily, for only a SuYput' the web. On the second floor a dozen females struggle for mechanical supremacy with 2a0 or 300 men, and they hold their own with a praiseworthy tenacity. AT THJE CASK.

They set type with an easy grace that would discount the nonchalant skill of a veteran tramp printer, and they smile at the results of their labor when pay-day comes aroond. Un der former administrations a number of women were employed in the -time-room" as compositors; that is, they worked for and received the regular wages of forty cents per hour. At present the force of "composi tresses" works by the piece, and each individual's remuneration depends entirely upon the skill possessed and upon the amount of "phat" that the copy-box yields up. But the female compositor is eccentric. Instead of celebrating pay-day by indulgence in strong and deep continues in the even tenor of her wav and on the following morning is at her case looking as bright, cheerful and pretty as ever, and thoroughly prepared to go on with whatever work may fall to her share.

8he never flirts during working hours, and but seldom indulges in that pleasantry anywhere. Take her for all and all the female compositor is a decided success. In the bindery, which is on the third floor woman has a large place, and on the fourth floor, where is situated the foldingroom, she reigns almost supreme. She' folds the printed sheets by hand and she attends to few machines that do a little folding now and then She gathers up the -signatures" and collates them: she stitches the volumes or watches a machine as it does the work for herher deft fingers are busy in a hundred ways Ihe numbering and paging machines are run the clean sheets of calendered paper are run into the ruling machines by her hands. And then, when the great orowd of toilers have ceased for the day and have gone home to rest, woman once more takes possession of the building, and for four or five hours -he 18 and sweeps until the floors are cleaner than the floors of any other printing office ever were.

THB PAT OP WOKKR in the government printing office is not excessive. The millionaires among the female sex in that institution are to be found among the "compositresses," for none of them make less than the regular men's per diem? and some of them make a good deal more. These, however, are the noteworthy exceptions. Most of those employed in the pressroom and bindery are paid at about the rate of 21 cents per while those who have charge of tables and sections draw per day. In the folding-room nearly all the labor performed is done by piece-work, and it is here that womanly ambition shows itself.

Nine-tenths of the women are continually racing with each other; not like amateurs, for a record, bat after the fashion of true revenue only. On an average the piece-hand earns as hoar emPloy? who paid by the LIGHTS AWD SHADOWS. Even soch a humdrum place as the printing office has its lights and shadows, its comedy and tragedy, and occasionally there are instances within its walls of courage and selfky women that are as worthy of immortality and praise as the deeds of fabled knight or legendary heroine. Girls, in the bloom of youth, toil on, month after month and year after year, to support a feeble parent, "Tl-P6 PS, two of them. A dozen opportunities for marriage have presented themselves, bat the first consideration has always been for the father or mother, so they are still single, bat happy in the consciousness of doty well done.

The percentage of those who do marry tmau. Once in a while a blnahing female willresign for the purpose of entering into the matrimonial condition, bat that is a rather rare occurrence. This may be accounted for by two causes, the principal of which eaa be foond in the fact that the majority of the women in the office are either widows or maiden ladies of a adTanced age. The seoond cause i which develops so rapidly in a girl who is earning her own living. She works only a reasonable noisber of hoars dav, for which she is fairly paid, and she generally does pretty much as she pleases when oflkse in the evening.

It is not for to prefer, for a while at least, to be her own THX PHPASTHTHTS. The views of the male Poet-Office department clerkson the subject of wdm as clerks are biased by their experience. Ia that respect they ye probably not unlike the employes of other departments Bat they are all, as lar as could be secured, moeh in favor of women clerks. They the lady that war of this affection ilyini Into matrimoap. Mr.

Viiaa, who happened to 1m Poetmaster-Oeasral atthat time, gave tha happy eomple his benediction anA retained them both in tha service. far ea known PoataaatarGeneral Dickinson haa adopts the policy of hia yradaoaaaor, and no doubt nU the empire of Im department ooald pair off their ibW teg ooaotaa permitted, without the eervioe loung a single one of tha praaent valued forceThat ia, marriage under the pneeat ened sjstom would not bo oonaldered a bar to tha farther emptoymeatof tha todiee, although if tha truth waa known the todiee, ia aasumiag the natriaaaaial yoke, prefer to eaet off that of the government Aa ia the oaae with the other the number of tody clerka ia into tha Poet-Offioe departieent hare aa important position ia Interior department This ia in fact tha result of their larce numbers aad ia part to their efficiency aa clerka. There are several todiee who reoeive the higheet salary paid to clerks in the government service, and there are a large number of who. aa far aa concerned, are way beyond the anal 91.000 limit. The examining oorpe of the patent office iacludea a number of ladiea, and of the fair sex may be found in positiona where the dutiee are exacting and require more then ordinary ability.

There ia a difference of opinion among the mala employee aa to the adviaability of the employment of women, but, nevertheless, they Increase ia The totter circumstance is attributed by aome to the superior ability of women in getting np the neceeaary "flooence. In spite ofthe civil aerrioe, it ia said that a great man's name ia still powerful in securing positions in the government service. Like the clerka, it ia said that the female clerka good, bad and indifferent, but the judgmfnt of some of the department officials is that the majority of female clerka do not belong to the first class. at to citt A woman's faoe pears out of the general delivery window and answers the inquiriee of people who oome for letters. This may give the impreaaion that the post-office ia run by women.

The fact is that only a small portion of the clerical force in the office ia composed of women. In the registry division there ia one bookkeeper, who is considered unusually expert. The postmaster's private secretary ia a young woman, who writes shorthand and operatea a typewriter. Down in what ia called the "miaceOaneous" division of the office are four women. All the rest of the employes of the offioe, clerks and letter-car riera, are men.

The clerks in the dispatching division have much hard physical labor to do. They have to stand for hours at their distributing cases. Letter-carriers also have a severe tax made upon their physique. Postmaater Rosa said to a reporter that he never had an application for a place aa letter-carrier from a woman. Some of the most important work in the city post-office, however, is done by women.

The little den, with its two windows looking out into the lobby, devoted to the "general delivery," is, aa stated, presided over by a woman. Much skill and quickness and good temper is required to conduct this service to the satisfaction of the public, the most crotchety part of which gets its letters at the general delivery. Inaide the office, out of the view of the public, surrounded by more books than a college professor, sits a keen-eyed woman, who supplies braina for the portion of the letter-writing public that either never had any brains or failed to use them when directing their of are constantly dumped upon this lady'a desk. Every postal car coming into Washington brings its packet, ana the clerks in the Waehwgton office are constantly adding to the heaps. These letters are not properly addressed.

Either the state ia left off, some post-office not down in the postal guide is given, or tome other error or omiision prevents their being transmitted through the mails. The railwav mail clerk never correcta an address. If a letter is addressed to a place not down in the guide the letter ia laid aside. All letters erroneously addressed are collected in a packet which is labeled "Nixes." This packet finds ita way to the desk of the tody vith the books. Sne haa a long ahelf full of directories of different citiea, piles of postal glides, bulletins and atlases, ana a head stored with a vast amount of information about the ott-of-the-way places of the world.

The cone to her to be read dressed. She quickly discovers the error in a large majority of them, and sends them on their way rejoicing with an amendment in red ink added to tie address. She haa to keep posted jn al the changes made in the names of eroaepost-offices and a hundred other facta. If cornea along that ahe cannot cure, it is indeed, and it is sent the office. At another near br who haa to keep are constantly change in their residencesTv going out of town want them; when they get home sure their are sent to their Constantly requests of this character are ing in and the task of keeping these straight is assigned to a woman.

IX THE DISTRICT SERVICE. The District government clerk goes through his routine without the cheering influence of woman's presence. There are no female clerks employed under the District Commissioners. No woman smiles officially in the District building on 1st street, or in the gloomy quarters of the police or health department. Tne six hundrea school teachers employed by the District are, however, nearly all women.

About the courts at the City hall no women hold official places, but women stenographers occasionally come into the court-room to report, and the echoes of the chambers are stirred by the shrill eloquence of women lawyers. In the recorder of deeds' office the copyists employed are mainly women. He waa Married. From the Lowell Citizen. The car jolts violently, and the stout tody ia thrown into Mr.

Fuddle's lap. Stout tody me, but the car Mr. Fuddle mention it, ma'am! Don't mention it I'm used to being aat on by women." An Indian Legend of Edea. From the Lswinton, Jourual. The early Indian tribes who inhabited Mount Desert believed that the Garden of Eden was situated at that spot, and.

according to their legenda, when the white man gave the name of Eden to one part of the island it waa only coming to its own again. Strange as it may seem, the primeval father of the Maine red man was a youth with golden hair and eyea like the hazelberry. tail and of great beauty. The Eve who came to him Just when hia loneliness was getting insupportable firat appeared coming through the clouds. Her firat exclamation at seeing him was the Indian for dear." She at once cut off his golden and began to weave them into a strong cord, growing larger aa proceeded.

At a suggestion from Monicho. the god of evil designs, the man took the cord fromher and bound ner with it, when ahe ceased growing, but did not atop working. The next thing she did was to bend down a tall, green stalk near her and Ather from it its golden seeds, which she made into bread, being thus the discoverer of Indian corn. The couple, after teaching their ohildren how to raise and use this grain, were translated to the constellation of the stars known as the sickle, whence they still watch over their earthly home. IS? Don't Eat HoUyberriea.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch. "Get out of that yon stupid boys! Don't you know that those berries are poisonous?" Those are the words which Mr. Dell, of John A. Murdoch's flower store, shouted to a lot of street urchins yesterday afternoon, who had been plucking the red fruit from some holly boshes that were displayed on the pavement. "I have been standing here during the last half hour neglecting my business inside, simply to prevent these youngsters from killing themselves," be added.

"Well, are thoee berries really poisonous?" "Yea, they are, although I do not think that they would do aay fatal harm. Bat there, look at that boy over against the tonpHpoit at the city hall! The boy haa been stealing berries here nearly the whole day, and now he has got a very bad stomach. Just look the way he to creeping along. I guess I had better fake the berries Tn, for fear that all the ia town may get sick, and that would be a calamity, especially if aa 'extra' were to coaae oat" The Bad of the wife? "How the world moves! There's Bessie Gray, an old chum of mine, a graduate of the mal school, haa just medical oo She will soon be able to write M. D.

her name. Women are coming to the froat I toll yon. Formerly wen taught aoth-I, BOOKS or TO an of tu dm TOHT8 SAOOHTSI. A Bl ef IMV MASTTOPHtCK: fML Ateop. Mitten, end OoMsasltfe.

Wttjwwat Uluewsrtcs Divm. Tart: Fwrtic TU OF THI FAB IA8T. By PnCITU. Lowbll. author of "CaoeOa," "A Kotmb Oonp d' KtaV' eto.

Itimoi SftlM, mw A VuklxM. Win. BaQantyne HOCBKHOLD HTKTORT OF TBI UNHID STATES ABD ITS FBOFLS: Far Toan? km? By bviu Bmurw. Mow Tart: ft Appteton On Both Stnnley'iid Kmin Safe. liuni.i bbwb ucmto ar tun uiitu if The Weat African Telegraph coapay in London has noeind tha following dispateh from St Thomas, dated Friday, p.m.: "I have jnat received information that Henry X.

Stanley, with Emin Pasha, haa arrived on the Aruwimi. The ia reliable. Farther details will follow (Signed) PiMon, Agent." When the above dispatch waa read by Mr. Goaohen in the houae of oohubods iaet night it waa received with chsars. Mr.

Ooachen stated that the government had not received any direct official confirming this report. Referring to the report that On. Grenfsll's next march would be againat Handoub, Mr. Ooachen stated that the government bad no news from Gen. Orenfell showing that it waa hia intention to undertake such a march.

In the 8tanlev Falls advicea it ia ate tod that Stanley wrote that Em in waa ia possession of vast stores of ivory and many oxen, and that he had an abundance of food. 8tanley intended to leave Bonyala at the end of August A dispatch to the from Zanzibar says: Tippoo Tib's, meaaengera came by way of Uguna, Ujiji and Unionyembe, with letters from Stanley dated to August 26. They confirm the other accounts that Stanley left Em in without Caaati and that both were perfectly welL The messengers will re torn direct to Tippoo Tib." In the houae of lorda last night Lord Salisbury declared absolutely that there would be no expedition into the Soudan, bnt that Soakim must not be abandoned. Is She Victim of Jack? AHOTHXB WOXAJt lOCKD XCIOUIO IX A LOXDOB run. The body of a woman, whose name is unknown, waa found Thursday morning in the streets of Poplar, a suburb of London.

She had been strangled. Some persons believe that her murderer is identical with the Whitechapel fiend. An empty vial lay beside the body of the woman, and the impression first formed was that the woman had committed suicide. At the coroner's inquest, however, the physicians who examined the body teetifled that there were no signs of poison in the stomach, and declared their belief that the woman had been murdered by strangulation. They said the condition of the body Justified this belief, and in addition to that there was a mark on the woman's neck which showed that a small cord had been tied tightly around it.

The woman was of low character. When the body waa found it waa still warm. It was lying in an open thoroughfare, and there is no possibility that the woman could have taken her own life. Refualnf to Talk of Sackvllle's coaaor. In the house of lords, yesterday, tha Earl of Dunraven aaked Lord Salisbury when the government intended to appoint a minister to succeed Lord Sackville at Washington.

Lord Salisbury replied: "I have told my noble friend privately that the correspondence on the subject of the minister to the United States ia incomplete, and that, therefore, in accordance with a uniform rule, I could say nothing. It haa always been a usage that the responsibility for all appointments rests with the executive while it is in the province of parliament to paas judgment on tnem after they have been made, bat not to require the government to give an opinion beforehand as to when they should be made. A Scene ia the llouae of Commons. CALLDtO BALFOUB A COWAJLD aXD I.lifc In the house of commons committee on the appropriation bill yesterday, Mr. Oorst being in the chair, Dr.

Tanner offered an amendment oppoaing a grant of to Captain Seagrave, an Iriah resident magistrate. Mr. Oorst ruled the amendment out of order. Dr. Clark, Mr.

Caldwell, and Mr. Tanner here proposed amend. ments to various parts of the bill, and Mr. Qgrst ruled them all out of order. Dr.

Tanner excua4ll protested. He said: "When we are here in committee of supply appropriating money to thief and a servant of the Irish secretary Balfour ougnt to be here and not be coward as he is." Mr. Oorst ordered Dr. coward." Dr. "I call him both a coward and a liar." hereupon moved that Dr.

Tanner The houae agreed, and Dr. Tanner chamber. X. Mr. McLane'a Kind Words for Fraaee.

HI POINTS OCT BOW TBB OOCBTBT Haa PBOOHES8ED TOWARD STABILITY SINCE 1830. At a dinner given in Paris last night in honor of Minister McLane, M. Cochery, in proposing the toast "America," said he hoped the cordial relations existing between France and the United States would always continue. Le Royer expressed regret at Mr. McLane'a expected retirement The minister's departure, tie said, would be a loss to France.

Mr. McLane. replying, spoke in praise of the republican institutions of France, and said he hoped she would eventually triumph ovei all her difficulties. He said he felt certain that his successor, whoever he might be, would ft lfill his duties to the satisfaction of all. and -d love France, but not more than the speaker himself did.

for that waa impossible. He reminded his hearers that at the age of fifteen he was student at the Bourbon college, and. with Lafayette, had taken part in the revolution of 1830. Last year he witnessed another replacing of President Orevy. That enabled him to sppreciate the progress that had been made in the intervening period.

He admired the difference in the method pursued, and since the country oould thus trsnquilly pass through such a crisis, they might rest assured for toe future. An Incident of the War. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, in noting the death of "Long John" Allen, an old-time actor, mentions the following incident in his career: John waa not in the army in war times, but he "rendered the state some eervioe." In 1863-3, while running his theater in Nsshville, hia loyalty to the north wae several times tested and his advice sought by the authorities. Just before the battle of Stone river it waa deemed essential to have a spy go into the Confederate lines, and John Allen was called upon to furnish some one and arrange the trip so that there should be no suspicion of ths person. He planned a brilliant schema.

Tha was "The SevaB Sisters," sad a star line Cash man. There was a drinking scene in the piese, and one night the actreas mentioned electrified every one by recklessly drinking ths health of Jeff Davta. Miss Cushman was at onoe arrested, tamed over to the provost guard, and ordered expelled from the union llnea. She went into the confederate camp, and there, it ia feared, beguiled by a handsome southsrn officer, she betrayed her secret Anyhow the fact that aha was a spy was discovered, aad shs waa ordered to be ahot by Gen. Hardee.

Before the sentence oonld be carried out the battle of Stone River UUU1U WO Wtswu vws wwvssx. assvwa waa fought and the female spy wae recaptured. She waa a pretty sick woman, however, almost soared to death. John Allen took eare of her aad started to briag her north, which did not meet the views of a certain district asm mander. John had tha beet of the argument however, whereupon the general ia concluded that he wanted John's thai hospital.

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la aad i SO recta to 92.60 pot pale, with Nt with CM Olaaa Gotafaa quaatiUea. Hundreds of patterns of Prssssd GLua Cologne with Prmil running tram 14 oeata tolla piece. Tow special attention laoaQad to let at Pltohaca, 26 centaapair. OxidisedPungenta.CntOlaaaPungeata,all kinds of Pungwts, of thai Imported Vaaea of Biaqueandl la pluah. Thermometers plain.

Thermometers for ocnamaatal work. Sharing Muga and Bnwhea, Mora of China, Shaving of porcelain, Oxidized-Handle Shaving Brushes, Ivory-Handle Shaving Brqabaa. BoneHandle Shaving Bruahea. Our atock of Plush Oooda, which comprises everything in thia line, ia the prettiest in the dty. We have the largeet variety aad the richaat tetpu that have rat been displayed.

We extend a oonlial invitation to each and every one to call and look at our Pluah Toilet Beta. Pluah Dreeslug Caaea, Pluah Infant Seta, Pluah Bruah and Comb Caaea fitted up with Oxidised Silver and Celluloid Oooda. Of Manicure Beta we have aoma beautiful petterna, in both Celluloid aud Oxidized Oooda. Alao, Whiap Brooms and Holdera, in Oxidlaad, Ivory and Bone Haadlea. UenUeinen'a Pluah Shaving Seta.

All at very lowpneee. Wo also have a fine selection of Puff Boxea. in Oxidlaad Silver, Celluloid, Porcelain and Metal. Perfume Standa and Odor Caaea, Plate Cilaas Mirrors la fact we have a little Mt of everything to make the folka happy at Chrietmaa. Wa hays COLOGXE8 and TOILET WATERS, by the Plat, Half Plat and Quarter Pint, or la aay quantity desired.

What ia more pleaeing than a nice buttle filled with choice Cologne for the loved onea at We alao have a full line of tlia beat Tripple Eitm ta, ia Ounce, Half Pint sod Plat Bottles. alao in Bulk in aay quantity to suit. Sachet Powders ia all the odors of the vary best Preach makes. We shall be vary busy, of couree. attending to the Holiday buyers, bat will be fully prepsird to take rood care of oar regular Drug and Medicine Bualneea.

aad oar usual low pnoea will ooatiaae. All PraacrlpUoaa will be prepared with our usual care aud prooiptneaa. Don't bus take the plaoe-lHE TEMPLE DKL'O STOKE, under Msansitr Temple, corner 9th and ate dO F. WILLIAMS 00, Proprietors. Bottles, Bottles.

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Special attention ia called to three varieties of bottles for covering. These bottles are handsomely made, the stoppsrs oat, and the price about half that uaually thagpd Price. 35c. per pair. TM re are 100 other styles of bottles that you buy at never before offered.

iJjfce of the other things you can buy at correct Manicure Caaea from $1.19 up to $15: Manicure Slid Bruah aad Mirror Casee combined, all styles, diver, and celluloid. The pricee from $1.49 Cigar Cases. Match Boxea. Odor Caaea, Extract Caaea, of aU kiwis. Shaving Caaea, Shaving Muga, Ladles' Traveling Caaea, Gentlemen's Traveling aeea, Brushes.

Pull Boxes, Puffa. Tortoise Shell Coin be. Comba of all kinds chamoia Skins, Chaiuoia for Decorating Jitta, Tellow, and Fawn Color Prioee from 6c. up. Of Perfumes you will find a complete stock.

aud's, Wright'a, Atkineon'a. Lund bo rg1 Hiker's, Colgate's, aad every well-known niantifac turer, is represented. 49c. is the pnoe quoted lor Luton's Extract until Christmas, Lovers of good Colugoe will find la the QUEEN A.KNE a delightful and lasting article, The fact that more than 150 gallons have been sold in Waaiungtoo in leaa than a year ia sufficient evidence of what the people think of it. Queen Anne Cologne is sold ia bulk at $1 per pint; alao ia handsome half-pint and ptnt botties at OOc.

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