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washington letter from our regular correspondent washington d.c jan 29 1881 preparations for the inaugural fete on the ith of march are fast approaching completion and its spectacular and fes tive fcit a us have been fully arranged an unusually large number of visitors is expected at the capitol bent not only on witnessing ihc inaugural ceremonies but also ou seeing the i y its animate and inanimate lions and lionesses it may be of interest to sonic of your renders to know about hotel and boarding house accommodations in washington ', and i will write briefly on this subject in their interest — the leaders not the hotels . and boarding houses comfortable and respectable board and lodging can bc had ; litre for **_■'! per day at various boarding houses and at some few hotels the ho j t«-ls that furnish board and lodging at 1 , per day are of course not such as are called first class but for those who are compelled to economize a comfortable 1 i bed and wholesome food can be had for . that price no city of its population has ss many , and such good boarding houses as washington a large majority of the government employes live iu board , ing houses and many of them have rooms which can be secured for a short time by transient visitors at a price of not more ! than one dollar iter day for bed and board it will be impossible in the space of this letter to give the exact location of these places aud for ihose who desire to come to the citv and vet feel it necessary to practice economy it will be well to write to some friend or acquaintance who will meet them at the station and direct them ! to sm-li daces as are well known to every i resilient of washington lt will be difl't j cult to procure cheap accommodations long in advance for the reason that those who have furnished rooms to let are anx ious to rent them lor a longer lime thau they will be wanted by transient visitors and will nol be willing to risk ihc possi ble loss tif rental for a longer period by pre-engaging them for the brief interval of lhe inauguration if the weather shall be line the number of visitors will doubt less be bilge but 1 understand lhat ilie military organizations whieh it is said will aggregate 23,000 men will go into temporary encampment ami will not iniuii i.jcmsclvc upon the quarters of civilians and j have no doubt there will lie ample accommodation lor all who will come washington hotels are numerous and good and those who are able to pay higher prices will doubtless go to them there seems to be a lull in cabinet prognostication we are so close upon lhe time oi accurate knowledge tiiat po litical prophets an not so much disposed io risk their guesses as they were a month ago li is said lhat mr u.u field will come io the cily week after next and then doubtless there will be a boisterous revi val of political gossip t a a stang.-r's mistake a few days ago a western merchant who wanted to do sonic sight seeing aud buy his fall stock at the same time en tered a dry good jobbing house on 15io.ul way new ork and accosted the fust person he met with : are you the pro prietor here not exactly the proprie tor,1 was the reply at the present i am ailing as shipping clerk but i am cutting my cauls for a partnership next year by organizing noon prayer meetings in the basement ' the stranger passed on to a very im portant looking personage with a dia mond pin and asked : are you the head of lhe house v well no i can't say as i am at pres ent but i have hopes ofa partnership in january i'm only one of the travellers just now . but i'm laying for a 200 pew in an up town church and that will mean a quarter interest here in less than six mouths.1 the next man had his feet up his hat back and a twenty-live cent scgar iu his mouth and looked so solid that j he stran ger i-aid you must run this establishment)4 me . well i may run it very soou at present i'm the bookkeeper but i'm ex pecting to get into a church choir with lhe old man's darling and become au equal part ner here the stranger was determined not to make another mistake he walked around till lie found a man with his coat off and busy with a case of goods and siiid to him : the porters are kept pretty busy in here i sec yes was the brief reply i.ut i suppose you are planning to in vent a gospil hymn book and sing the old man out of an eighth interest aren't you well no not exactly was thc quiet reply i'iii the old man himself and all that the stranger said after a long minute spent in looking the mer ehant over was well iluru my but tons whin you see a man take off hisj hat to you it is a sign that lie respects ' you ; but when he is seen divesting himself of his coat you can make up , vour mind that he intends you shall respect him ! miscellaneous curious industries thc work ofthe staff of officers appoint ed by the superintendent of the census to collect statistics relating to the industries and manufactures of xew york city is says the evening post now approaching comple tion and will show in the opinion of mr ! charles e hill the gentleman in charge of it a very satisfactory growth since 1870 in the course of the investigation by mr | hill's deputies some singular industries ; were brought to light it was found for instance that sonic use was made of old shoes but exactly what use was hard to find out large numbers of old shoes were sold by rag pickers to certain men who dis posed of them at a good price it is well known that bits of old leather make the commercial article known as prussian blue but only few firms manufacture it and the new call for old shoes was evidently for some other purpose in new york city and brooklyn about three million pairs of old shoes are thrown away every year form erly old shoes were plentiful in the gutters of certain neighborhoods now it appears that they are sought after as choice prizes in the rag picker's line by dint of perse vering inquiry it was discovered that the old shoes were used for three purposes first iill shoes not completely worn out are patched greased and after being otherwise regenerated sold to men who deal in such wares some persons wear one shoe much more than the other these dealers find mates for shoes whose original mates are past hope secondly the shoes not worth patching up are cut into pieces the good hits are used for patching other shoes and the worthless bits the soles and cracked uppers are converted into jamacia rum hy a process known only to thc manufactur ers it is said th.it they are boiled in pure spirits and allowed to stand fora few weeks the product far surpassing the jamaica rum made with essences burnt sugar and spirits a gentleman who doubted the truth of this story stopped recently at a low grog shop in the neighborhood of the factory spoken ofand inquired if they had any rum from old shoes no said the bai keeper wc dont't keep it much now the druggists who want a pure article all sell it and the price has gone up but wc have had it and we can get you some if you want it how many old shoes to a gallon of rum could not be ascertained it has been noticed by some deputies lhat while manufacturers are quite willing to put a valuation upon their manufactured pro duct they hesitate about stating the value of the raw material and even return the schedule with the space for the value of raw material left blank in one instance a man ufacturer of tomato catsup returned a re port giving the value of his manufactured at 18,000 and the value of the raw material is nothing his explanation was as follows every year in the coming season he sends to all the wholesale houses which make a business of canning tomatoes clean tubs with the understanding that the women who trim and peel shall throw the skins and par ings into these tubs every day the tubs arc removed the stuff in them ground up fer mented flavored and sold as tomato catsup to the extent of 18,000 another singular and decidedly pernicious business is the manufacture on a large scale of cheap candies from white earth or terra alba mixed with a little sugar and glucose the deputy who investigated the confec tionery business reports that seventy-five percentum of some candies is composed ot these substances and such candy notably gum drops contain still less sugar the effect of white earth upon the stomachs ol the unfortunate children who buy these candies is yet to be determined by future autopsies what is called a line brand of castile soap has been found to be composed chiefly of this white earth and grease but the evil effects of such an imposture are trifling compared to the results of turning children's stomachs into inhibit ure pottery works among the new industries which have sprung into existence during the last few years is the system of finishing in this city foreign goods imported in an unfinished condition foreign articles composed of several parts are now largely finished in this citv the parts calling for hand labor being imported while those calling for machine work are made here in this way heavy duties are saved although the articles arc snid as imported goods new york is getting uneasy about her commercial interests philadel phia has made inroads on her traffic baltimore has diverted a large por tion of the grain norfolk has vastly increased in the export business but more than all chicago's commercial importance is looming up beyond all anticipations it is now realized that her mammoth elevators arc but 4,045 miles from liverpool via montreal and 4,442 miles via new york — news it obs andrew jackson it is said went out of the white house after eight years service as president with nine ty dollars in his pocket vve do not recall that he asked to be put on the retired list at half pay for life — news £ observer effects of strong drink on the j_iver the family physician tells us that when alcohol is introduced into the stomach in the ordinary way it nearly all passes through the liver undiluted spirits ai-emuch more injurious than when mixed with water and produce greater irritation alcohol con sumed as wine or beer is far less destructive to the liver than when taken iu the form of anient spirits a hot climate intensifies all the vicious effects of alcohol ilie symptoms of cirrhosi of the liver are in the early stages often obscure but later they are sufficiently well marked at first the lifer gets slight ly enlarged and the patient suffers from pain in the right side indigestion wind and cos tive bowels he is occasionally feverish bis skin is het and dry and he has a peculiar unhealthy sallow look wliioji be probably fails to notice but which is sufficiently ob vious to his friends the necessity of mak ing a change in his habits is forced upon his attention and for a week or two he is under the doctor's orders and not feeling able to drink any more he consents to follow a re stricted diet and to take a course of purga tives soon the most prominent symptoms are relieved he fancies himself well again and quickly returns to his old habits gradu ally however he notices that he is getting thinner and weaker and occasionally he has a good deal of pain in the side he is nerv ous nnd out of sorts he has no longer the pluck lie used to have his friends notice it and then be gradually becomes awaie of himself lie finds that he is not lit for busi ness and he is afraid to sec people the patient has occasional attacks of diarrhea his appetite fails and the emaciation and debility increase ile tries all kinds of treatment but never sticks to one long at a time he consults every one of any note in london but derives little if any benefit from their advice he would give up the drink if he could but he can't his self-re liance is gone the alcohol has stolen away his will and he is utterly incapable of giv ing up the dangerous fascination he will take an oath today that he will never touch another drop of spirits and will probably break it to-morrow sometimes he wishes that some one would lock him up in an asy lum or that by some chance or other he could have six months imprisonment hut he never feels able to put himself under re straint after a time the liver gets smaller and this instead of being a good sign in h bad one for it is contracting he would willingly enough consent to knock off drink now but it is too late lhe mischeif is done the liver is in a slate of cirrhosis and no medicine can restore it to its natural condi tion is there an remedy for this horrible complaint . yes one tcetotalism — absolute abstinence from alcoholic liquors of all kinds this remedy must bc applied early if he waits till his liver has undergone seri ous organic change it is too late no half measures will suffice he must giveup drink of all kinds if he dues this he will recov er but if h goes n n i,;s ,.],] m an ear ly and painful death is the inevitable con sequence the habit of self-control if there is one habit which above all oth ers is deserving of cultivation it is that of self-control in fact it includes so much that is of value and importance in life that it may almost bc said that in proportion to it ' power does the man obtain his manhood and the woman her womanhood the abil ity to identify self with the highest parts of our nature and to bring all the lower parts into subjection or rather to draw them all upwird into harmony with the best t hat we know is the central power which supplies vitality to all tne rest how to develope this in the child nicy well absorb the energy of every parent how tocultivatc it in him self may well employ the wisdom and en thusiasm of every youth yet it is no mys terious or complicated path that leads to this goal the habit of self-control is but the accumulation of continued acts of self denial for a worthy object it is but the re peated authority ofthe reason over the im pulses of the judgment aver the inclinations of thc sense of duty over the desires he who has acquired this habit who can gov ern himself intelligently wiihout painful effort and without any fear of revolt from his appetites and passions has within him the source of all real power and of all true happiness thc force and energy wliich he has put forth day by day and hour by hour i not exhausted nor even diminished ; on the contrary it has increased by use and has become stronger and keener hy exer cise and although it has already complet ed its work in the past it is still his well tried true and powerful weapon for future conflicts in higher regions — philadelphia ledger up to friday last 981 tickets have been purchased at goldsboro fur col ored nieii who during the past month had been employed in the eastern portion of the state to go south and work on farms and in the turpentine business — newbcm nut shell the memphis avalanche says : ten years ago the present site of uirniing liam ala was a cotton field now it is a brisk manufacturing town with a population of 6,000 and bright prospects for the future so much for the manufacturing industries viirecoguized qualities in charcoal among the numerous and varied properties possessed by charcoal there is one-one too ot the most wonderful which does not seem to be adequately recognized probably from its being imperfectly known except to physicists it is that of being able to con dense and store away in its jk)res manv times its own bulk of certain gaseous bodies which it retains thus compressed in an oth erwise unaltered condition and from which they can be withdrawn ss required as from a reservoir that eminent scientist m saussure un took thc task of a systematic examination of the anbject with a result which will prove surprising to the general reader op erating with blocks of fine boxwood char coal freshly burnt he found that simply placing such blocks in contact with certain gases they absorbed them in the following proportions ammonia 90 volumes hydrochloric acid gas 85 " sulphurous acid 65 " sulphurated hydrogen . . 5 » nitrous oxide laughing gas . 40 ■• carbonic acid i ._ carbonic oxide 940 « oxygen 9 05 ._ nitrogen y jg __ carbureted hydrogen .... 5 " hydrogen ..... ' 1 t _ -• c 1*0 it is this enormous absortive power that renders of so much value a comparatively slight sprinkling of charcoal over dead ani mal matter as a preventive of the escape of the edors arising from decomposition a dead dog having been placed in a box in the warm laboratory of an eminent chemist and covered with charcoal to the depth of between two and three inches could not be discovered to have emitted any smell dur ing several months after which time an ex amination showed that nothing of the ani mal remained but the bones and a small por tion of the skin to the large excess of oxy gen over the nitrogen in the atmosphere which according to the above table was absorbed by the charcoal and which thus rendered harmless the noxious vapors given off by the carcass as they were being absorb ed is doubtless owing to the fact above stated and the further fact of the charcoal never becoming saturated a reader of the scientific american who has been trying certain experiments of the value of charcoal as a convenient means of storiug oxygen reports favorably as to the results in a box or case containing one cubic foot of charcoal may be stored with out mechanical compression a little over nine cubic feet of oxygen representing a mechanical pressure of a hundred and twen ty-six pounds on the square inch from the store thus preserved the oxygen can be drawn by a small hand pump prom the fact of the charcoal absorbing oxygen in so much greater proportion than nitrogen we have here a means of utilizing its discriminative powers of selection in ob taining unlimited supplies of oxygen from the atmosphere whieli contains nitrogen live times in excess of its oxygen or twenty per cent whereas by the separating or selec tive powers ofthe charcoal the mixed gases capable of being extracted from it contain over sixty per cent of oxygen it only suf ficcs to withdraw this now highly oxygen ized air into another vessel of charcoal by the further exposure to which the propor tion of oxygen will be increased to a still greater extent this indicates a most feasi ble means by which atmospheric air can be decomposed in such a way as to provide a cheap supply of oxygen one cannot readily recognize thc fact wliich is nevertheless true that the condens ing powei of charcoal as applied to am monia is equal to what would be obtained by subjecting this gas to a pressure of near ly one thousand two hundred and sixty pounds on thesijuare inch playing dead from the carson nev appeal a gentleman who took a trip into tho country yesterday when on the plain a mile from any house noticed a cat a huge one almost as large as a fair-sized dog it was lying upon the ground its feet uppermost in such a way that he had uo doubt that it had fallen a victim to some vicious dog around it feeding unsuspectingly was a flock of small birds the apparently lifeless cat was within range of the vision of the observer for some time and just as he was thinking how much easier it would be for the ani mal to feign death and catch a bird by deciving it was astonished to see the cat suddenly roll over and grab one of tbe feathered tribe that was very near the other birds hew off a hundred yards or so and alighted the c.it only made one or two mouthful of the game and then crept around to the windward of the birds laid itself out again and once more suc cessfully played the dead dodge the gentleman drove away without seeing how many birds it took to satisfy a fight is reported to have occur red in the baptist church pulaski county ky last sunday in which knives were used one man was fatally cut the row was started by thp deacons attempting to sit in the same pews with the ladies whom they had brought tliere whiph is contrary to rule the truth pay a few days ago a train over one of the railroads running we.st ranoveracow just ix-yond the grand trhnk junction the matter wa reported at headqnarters but th owner ofthe mangled bovine was not j he:!;,l of until tuesday last when he en t i i the pre-sident's office aud remarked i guess we'd better settle np now for that cow ah ! you owned that <»»* killed by oue of our trains in xovember did you v i expect i did and what did yoa fnlue her at v the man scratched bis head hitched around on his chair anil onally replied : well i dunu my umwr-in-law said i had the company tighter'n blazes aud he told me to say she was a new milch eow and uv atmoges nt t7t yes but my wife said i had better say that the cow was not worth over s.'av yes well how was it v that's where the stick comes in you see i want all she was worth and yet i j dou't want to swindle anybody fact is she was an old cow dry as a bone and worth about 815 for boarding-house beef yet she was took away kinder sudden and it made a bad muss around the place and i reckon you might add a little ex tra let us say 25 that's plenty i spose 1 mi»ht have had fifty just as well as not but i didn't want to lie about it no never tell a lie oh i wouldn't have lied cause 1 know you sent a man out there to get all the facts in the case replied the man as he received an order on the treasurer for his cheek detroit free press scenes at jackson's inauguration mr webster writing from washington says : i never saw such a crowd here before persona have come five hundred miles to see general jackson judge story writes : after the ceremony was over the president went to the palace to receive company and there he was visit ed by immense crowds of all sorts of peo ple from the highest and most polished down to the most vulgar and gross in the nation i never saw such a mixture the reign of king mob seemed triumphant i was glad to escape from the scene as soon as possible no doubt story was glad to escajk he was a bitter opponent of jackson and it was not to be expected that he could enjoy these festivities yy*'iic 7/<ic lachrymac a profusion of refreshments writes a participant had been provided orange pnnch was made by barrels full but as the waiters open ed the doors to bring it out a rush was made the glasses broken the pails of li quor upset and the most painful confusion prevailed to such a painful degree was this carried that wine and ice-cream could not be brought out to the ladies and tubs of punch were taken from the lower story into the garden to lead off the crowd from the rooms men with boots on heavy with mud stood ou tbe damask-satin hairs iu their eagerness to a look at the president — letter in the washington star a gentleman passed up the road this week from raleigh where he had spent some days and mingled more or less wiih the members of tho legislature he thinks they won't pass any law looking to prohibition we heard of one poor fellow down there who says the scheme iu just calculated and intended to kill he says if he voted for it it would kill him if be voted against it it would kill aud if he dodged that would kill him and he did not know what to do that is about what ails tho most of them whils they talk about the constitutionality or legality of the people voting on the ques tion they are afraid if they pass the law for absolute prohibition the people will pass them into private life and if they submit the quest ion to the people they are afraid they will vote away their supply of whiskey what a dilenia w ester n ca rolin ia n . only married six months a census taker whose name wc were requested not to disclose related the following as un incident iu his ex perience while taking the recent enu meration in liis district what does your husband do asked the census man he ain't doin nothin at this time ofthe year replied the young wife is he a pauper asked the census man she blushed scarlet to the ears law no she exclaimed some what indignantly we ain't been married more'n six months a cincinnati paper overs that women dress too hastily this clearly is sarkasm or else the edi tor never sat for two mortal hours in a hired cutter waiting for angelina to be down in a moment — cats kill recorder , stories out of the whole clod it is of bo nse for an eastern man to try to tell a big story when thore is a western man about when i was a young je low said colonel b an eastern man we live , in pennsylvania the farm had been j well wooded and the stumps were pretty thick bot we put thc com in among them and managed to raise a fair crop the next season i did my share of the plowing we had a sulky plow and i sat in the seat and manage the horses four as hand some bays as ever a man drew rein oter one day i found a stump right in my way i hh!,,l („ *■,;„.;. j out so i just sai.l a word to the team j and if you wil believe it they just j walked that plow right through that ; stump ss though it had been crea.n cheese not a soul expressed surprise but major s a western man who had beenaquiet listener remarked quietly it's curious that i had a similar experience myself once my mother always made our clothss in those days as well as tlie cloth they were made of the old lady was awful proud of her homespun said it was the strongest cloth in tlie siate one day i had just plowed through a white oak stump ia tho way vou speak of colonel but it was a liitle too quick for me it came together before i was out of tiie way and nip ped my trousers i fe|t mean 1 can tell you but i put the string on the ponies and if you'll believe it they just snaked the stump nut root and all something had to give vou know sand-bags for the sick-room the new york post tells its readers that one of the most conven ient artieles to be used in a sick-room isa sand-bag get some clean tine sand dry it thoroughly in a kettle on the stove make a bag about eight inches square of flannel till it with the dry sand sew the opening care fully together and cover the bag with cotton or linen cloth this will prevent the sand from sifting out an 1 will also enable yau to heat the bag quickly by placing itju the oven or even on the top of the stove after once using this you will never again attempt to warm the feet or hands of a sick person jwith a bottle of hot water or a brick the sand holds the heat a long time and thc bag can be tucked up to the back without hurting tin invalid it is a good plan to make two or three ofthe bags and keep them ready for use laws for the million a note dated on sunday is void if a note be lo.-t or stolen it does not release the maker he must pay it an endorser of a note is exempt from liability if not served with no tice of its dishonor within twenty-four hours of its non-payment each individual in partnership is responsible for the whole amount of the debts of the lirm except in cases of special partnership ignorance of the law excuses no one an agreement without considera tion is void signatures iu lead pencil arc good in law a receipt for money is not legally conclusive contracts made on sunday cannot be enforced a contract made with a minor is voidable a contract made with a lunatic is void checks or drafts must be presented for payment without unreasonable de lay a member of the new ¥"< ii house from chatauqua d us i ilk queer ll has introduced a bill req ; i r i i • r all sul - stances sold as buttw and not a dairy product made from < ream ai d milk to be plainly marked and branded imitation butter and com pel i al hotels restaurant lunch counters aad boarding houses using such articles to post conspicuously in their places can'.i bearing these word imitation but ter ocr ved here — news & o0 '■::.', ko 17