SOME CRUMBS OF CULTURR.Thumb-marks to be IVd la Identifying

Travelers.* C*rr»1 ADOPTXD BT A RAILWAY.no-ore-m or tss DRc-te-Rtrosii mots hist.rwo-LsmtKD rioa n rostos.raisixo cion nncruTM.

.pedal Correspondence of Ta it tuxnn Stab.Boa ro*. March 7, 1880.

The Old Colony railway, having recentlysuffered to no amaU extent through thedepredations of an employe who stoletickets by the quantity and sold them ata big discount for his own emolument, isthinking seriously of adopting, as a msasureofprotection against such frauds, and likewise todefeat the irrepressible scalper, a plan long in.Me for other purposes by the Chinese. Thenotion has relation to the characteristic struc¬ture of the portion of the cuticle whioh corersthe ball of the thumb. Curiously enough, thethumb mark of one person is entirely like thatof any other, those of no two human creaturesiu all the world resembling one anotherin the lowt. So strongly individualare the little spiral grooves in theskin of the ball that the police authori ties ofthe >'iowery Land hare made it their practicetor ceuturies to identify criminals by taking im-pressious of their thumbs instead of photo¬graphing their faces. These are stored away,and if the delinquents are again caught offend¬ing against the law. other impressions affordmeans of comparison. The Chinese say thatconsidering the alteration made in the counte¬nance by bair and beard.and the readiness withwhich the features of the prisoners mav bedistorted before the camera, their method isdecidedly superior. By it, indeed, error isrendered impossible.The application *>f this device to railroad

tickets would not be so very difficult, it isthought. Oi course the point which the rsil-roads have been trying in so many ways to se¬cure, as a defense against scalpers and such, isthe identification of each ticket-holder with theoriginal buyer. This, if thoroughly accom-plished. would prevent the pasteboards being.old through brokers or thieves. Manyschemes have been already tried, such as se-curing each passenger's signature on the ticketwhen he buys it, to be duplicated when thecoupon is taken up by the conductor. But thisis too troublesome, and the same objection ap¬plies to other plans hithertoexperimented with.The thumb-mark, however, would offer no (lis-advantage of this kind worth mentioning. Eachperson when he buys a ticket.of necessity thiswould not apply to local and suburban traffic.will be aaked by the polite agent to press histhumb upon a corner of the cardboard, the sur¬face of wbich has bean prepared chemically soas to receive a clear impression. A duplicateimpression is made by the passenger alongsidethe first oue when the conductor calls for thefare. Thus each traveler u completely identi¬fied and the great choo-choo industry is pro¬tected most satisfactorily by Chinese invention.Only a very crude suggestion of the idea con¬templated is given here. With elaboration,when spplied to practice, it will become ex¬ceedingly simple, and if, as seems likely, theOld Colony road adopts it, it will doubtless betried by other companies, and may becomeuniversal eventually. Who knows?

*K»'S hik.ua is THE FUTURE.I'ealers in "men's outfitting goods1* seem to

think that the projected reform in eveningdresa for "gents" is destined to extend furtherthan is generally supposed by persons who haveleas acquaintance with the laws which governthe progress of fashion. Kuee-breeehee. black.ilk stockings, silver shoe-buckles and em¬broidered sua waistcoats, for alter dinner wear,may be regarded as already assured, now that thegilt-edged young men of Boston have endorsedthem. Ihe question now raised by the haber¬dashers and clothiers, who take a keen buslinesinterest in the prospective changes, is "\V hatnext?" The patterns already offered in shirt-bosoms for nextautumn are miracles of elaborateembroidery and kaleidoscopic coloring. Bed.blue, green and all the other tints of thesolar spectrum are employed ifith liberalityand even recklessness by ingenious designer'sfor trade journals in chromo-uthographic platesof gaudy linen chest coverings tor Uie comingSeason. Nor is linen the only material to beused for the purpose, pique and other more ex-

Cnaive fabrics being prescribed as more eu-eiy te Jrvtiutgr. Ail this is rather crude,

some men of taste assert, and the loudness of itwill doubtless become gradually modified. 'Ihemost pronounced of such garments are Ukely tobe worn exclusively by the imitation swells,who in their eagerness to achieve "style" inva¬riably run to excessive displav. It cannot besxpected. of course, that this decorative move¬ment in masculine dress is to attain successwithout a few incidental mistakes.The efforts of the "genu' furnishers" for

aext summer, so they say, will be chiefly di¬rected to the elaboration of beautiful conceitsin neglige and outing costumes. Silk sasheswill take the place of waistcoats for evening-dress during the heated term. Among thesuggestions lor next winter is ruffling for theshirt-bosom, with lace to be added the follow¬ing year, perhaps. The present fashions incollars and cuffs Lavs long distressed the evesof artiste who, although as a rule careless' oftheir own habiliments and even dirty, knowwhat is what as regards other folks' spparel.The neck and wrists, they declare, should berelieved by frills of something sort whichwould set off the hands and lace muchmore becomingly. In fact, however,they scarce approve of a single garmentnow in style for men. They say that the onlvtruly aesthetic hat of the present day is thecowboy s ti.e, affected by Mr. Buffalo BUL Thisthey would like to see adopted. Likewise, theovercoat is objected to, and in its place is sug¬gested a thing designed somewhat upon themodel of the scotch plaid, which protects the

» chest, back and stomach, but leaves the armsfree, lhere is no telling how far the new re¬form is destined to proceed, but it really wouldnot be surprising if the cycle of rashion shouldtake us back before long to the mode of theseventeenth century, wnen every perfumeddude iu silken hose, slashed doublet, trunksand feathers was a rainbow all by himself.

PloR OH WHEELS.Nowhere in the wide world does the railway

bog so flourish as in Boston. Not infrequently.alas! that it should be necessary to say it.thetoo-familiar animal wears petticoats. It isfound in astonish:ng numbers on the suburbantrams that bring half the business populationinto town, always striving to occupy as muchroom as possible, regardless of otner passen¬gers coimort. ihe cheek of this human va¬riety of porker is simply unspeakable. It af¬fords an ideal illustration of the peculiar wantof courtesy toward and consideration for his !fellow-beings which so markedly characterizesthe indigenous lankee. Here is en amusinguutauce in point, of which the writer was awitness only the other day. A good-naturedlooking westerner ui boots entered a car boundfor Koslmdale on the Brovideuce road it wasvery crowded, and people were standing up onall sides. Walking slowly through the aisle,he came at last upon a young woman reading anovel, who was occupying the whole of au ex¬tra bench, turned over, for the accommodationof a small pug dog that lay comfortably suooz-Uig upou a shawl. Ihe passengers who stoodabout were eyeing the spectacle with looks ofWdignatiou; but not one of them seemed tohave had me nerve to protest. The newcomer,however, was not lacking in that quality!'Madam." he said mildly, "1 would like to sitdown, if you nlenae."Ihe young female looked up at him from her

book with a cold and withering glare. "The.eat is engaged," shs replied with acidulatedaccents."By the dog?"'.lest""Has the dog a ticket?"(No answer.;"Oh. I'm ao sorry he hasn't a ticket," ssid

the man from the weet, "because T-ahsil haveto bounce him off the train."And with that he picked up Mr. Pug by the

back of the neck, gently tossed him throughthe open car-window, and calmly took '*** seatthus mad* vacant.The train had come to a pause at Roxbury.tatiou just a minute before, and wss only be¬

ginning to move off ae thie occurred. The dogalighted upou the ground uninjured and atonce scampered out of sight. Its mistrees, whobed not time to interfere, so quickly thething done, jumped to her feet with a screamOf surprise and would certainly have gone for thewool of her adversary had not the conductor atthat very instant thrust his hand at bar for herfare, lo the Utter, who had not seen theoccurrence, owing to the crowd, she m-At anhysterical appeal for redress, begging himat the aeme tune to step the engine, soher pet might be picked up. But another pas¬senger put in a word, upon which the officialsaid that she had been served quite right, andthat she might get off at the next station. Thisshs did; but whether she recovered her dog ornot is unknown to the historian. In the carshe left, however, there wse gladness and light¬ness of spirit since for onoe the railway pigbed bean known to get left

I*CURATOR CROWS.An lagenioos agricultural pereoa who lives

.o* very far from Boeton has hit upon a nswand decidedly profitable industry. Thar* hasreoently risen a is.il for crows' heads, hith¬erto dssmsd valueless, aad it is his purpose tosupply It Tea cents agieoe the eounty author-

estine birds, for whose destructive propensi-u#* ">. croP« bav« been fulleringseriously of late years. Under ordinary circum-stancee thu bounty would not leave a very largemargin of profit for the recipient. It costssomething, you see, to kill a crow. Thereta the ammunition, in the first place, which isexpensive, and one cannot coont npon (layingeven a single inky-feathered fowl fore*cu charge of thot and powder. Besides, thesportsman . time most be reckoned in the s*-eount. But the enterprising (peculator abovereferred to has devised a scheme by which amaximum percentage of fain ie to be aecuredwithout any riak worth apeaking of. He haaset op a chicken incubator of the moat improvedpattern, in which ia placed aa fast aa it is laidthe product of about 100 hen-crow* that havebeen trapped and coniined in company with

Serhapa a dozen cock-crow*. Within fifteenays the little creaturea are hatched, and a fort¬

night later they are ready to be decapitated.For be it understood the head of a crow-chickis worth Just aa much aa that of an adult of thespecies. At the uniform rate of ten for a dol¬lar, dead, they pay the producer excellently.In the way of food, while alive, the atockrequirea very little, yielding, under the cir¬cumstances described, a constant supply of eggaduring eight mouths of the year. It ia thuprolific quality of the crow that haa renderedit objectionable from the agricultural point ofview. Since the county was «> anxious to ob¬tain crows' heads, it must be considered fortu¬nate that the ingenious gentleman in questionshould have been able to till the requisitionso satisfactorily. Then, too, the feathers havebeen saleable for mourning hats, and occaaion-ally the carcasses have found a market withthe friends of defeated politicians.

PHILOSOPHY or APPLES.

One day laat week a certain Boston lady hadoccasion to aend a newly-acquired green-hornservant girl to the coruer grocery for a dozenapples."Be sure to get the beat you can," she added,

"and remember that the pretty onea are notUsually the finest. Those which look theworst outside are apt to be the sweetest-flav¬ored." .

The young woman trotted off confidentlywith the money in her fist, and returned withtwelve of the most deplorable rotten applesimaginable. .

They are the worst-lookin' onea I cudfind in the barrel, mum," she remarkedtriumphantly, -and so they ought to be thevery best of eatin'." Bene Bache.Written for The Evening Stab.A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN OF PERSIA.

An Afternoon Tea with a Princess InIvan.

IS THE 8CXKEB PALACE OF AN EASTERN PRINCE.RECEIVED B* BEACTITO. MAIDENS.THE PAR-AOON or PERSIAN BEAUTY 18 THE WIPE OF THEHEIB TO THE THRONE.HER APPEARANCE.

[Copyright 1889.]This world with all its pomp ia a small one,

and its people with all their circumstances veryclosely related.On the other aide of the globe ladiea sip their

tea and gossip, clad in crinoline and frizzes, as

here; they serve it with the "samovar" and thelemon.Vanitas! Yanitatum!Somewhere between the middle and the close

of the 19th century two American ladies strayedfat" from home as Persia, and on a certain

eventful morn in early summer they received a

gilt lettered billet-doux from royalty, biddiugthem (oh, thought of home,) to "four o'clocktea" at the palace.The -brother of the sun" had. at this time,u oura'a attendant sattelites adjourned

to the Shimran, a ridge of mountains some 12miles back from the capitalHere the Prince entertained hia roval

mother, one of the four orthod .x (if vou wulpardon the expression) wives of the shah. Theinvitation came in her name, although, as willhereafter be noted, there was a wile who wasthe uiost beautiful princess in Persia and thedaughter, as well as the ilaughter-in-law, of ashah. As the low carriage containing theguesta arrived within sight of the palace gatesa number of red-coated male attendants ap¬proached to act as escort,andonr Persian mirza(scribe) awaited us with an expression of somecousternation in his face.

"Allah!" he exclaimed. "I have just learnedthe prince (who spoke French), has been called Isudden]v to join the shah. Can madam relv

Persian, as there will be no interpreter?"This wan a dilemma foj one bnt two monthsin Iran. Aa in all crises in human life, how¬ever. (whether one rides the topmost crest ofthe wave or sinks to the deepest depths of itshollow), there seemed but one escape possible.ltornoeron/ The palace gates shut behindus with the clank of doom; the sympatheticMirza disappeared, and onlv two eunuchs nowescorted us down the marble stairway to thegonads, upon which the lovely summer palaceof Prince was shining in the sunlight, asmiling welcome. A group of fairy-like figuresnow appeared around a distant co'rner of thepalace, and came flocking nearer. Theeunuchs made a low obeisance and departed.The female attendants of the princess, for

they proved to be, came swarmiug aboutlike bee«. °

THE ATT1XDA5T8.It really seemed for a moment as if a troop

of flower-maidens must have stepped from outthe chalice of each blossom; but as they camenearer they were discovered to be only Persianwomen, and many of them no longer eithervoung or beautiful. Thsir dresses were ofbright colored silks and gauzes, short like aballet dancer s and with the same voluminousskirts, which swayed gracefully with the sway¬ing motion of the figure. They wore jacketsof rich broc ade and embroideries; their limbswere J>are and well rounded, and on their feetthey wore light sandals; over all. and throwncarelessly about the head and person, was a

Jt*u*y mantle, which they managed much as abe let dancer doss her scarf, half concealing.half disclosing the figure. The hair was bounduo or covered, with a white turban, and jew¬eled pins or nscklaces were strung about itThey mads the usual "salaam" and led usaround the main part of the palace. It wasconstructed partly of marble, principally ofadobe ornamented with lovely white stiico-work.

LIEE THE ALHAXBRA.Broad verandahs were upheld by a succes¬

sion of arches, supported by slender and grace¬ful columns. There was much that remindedone of the inner courts of the Alhambra. Thelawn back of this central building sloped downto an artificial pool of water, and upon it weretall chenur trees and parterres of flowers. Atone aide near the palace, where the ground wasquite level and much shaded, a table was spreadas if for a banquet. This was of course a con-cession to European customs, for Persian worn-en would never have entertained each other inthis style. Ihe table was concealed with anelaborately wrought cover of white silk and!'*iea* were dishes of gold and silver-there were fruits and sweets and crvstal di.hesfilled with the crimson seeds of the pomegran¬ate: there were small jewelled plates of pi»-tachi nuts and salted almonds. We were con¬ducted to some cushioned divans where rueswere spread over the grass, and there for thefirst time paused to take breath and realizethat, beautiful as was the place, it was not theKf . 1.we, com# to visit, nor was it IWhir .UK OUf curio<ity most centered.\V here, than, was the prince* or the queen,our gracious hostess? ^

They had waited just long enough to whetthe interest to the utmost, when the curtains toI.^ £frW,Ce10 1116 P*1*. were lifted, andtwo gracefully swaying female figures came

'OI* Pathway. The eWrn iifSw behind the mother and ittAstinn

now cured on ths fig£. & Zthey cam. nearer her d?ess was leen to beofdescription, and her figure, whichtor oriental beauty, was instinctwith a dignity and grace which was thoroughly

unP®*inf- The short skirts, which swayedwith each motion as she walked. ¦.» It# u_»,.iwoven cloth of gold; the jacket of purpU vel¬vet, embroidered with seed pearls and smalldiamonds, was buttonod with solitaire <La-

the psiucesb.The guests now roee and the attendant* fell

' Hb® feeted us most gra¬ciously, and as her face lighted we eaw it had alook of spirit and fins intelligence. The com-piexion was rich ia color like aa Italian's. The

ssra.'K.touch of henna between them, aa if to eoniuctand straighten them. Her long hair was stainsdwith henna, aa were her oval n«<i. jj WMboond with a silken scarf which covered itwhich wm fastened i« the

iTX acoeaaoriee^of .fiii Jj" accessories of this most wonderful" I®'.'* *° 'orgel the stately phraaee I|md been conning over to say to her. Atlength.in a sufficiently embenfemea manner, I repeated

an elaborate expreeaion often used at «nnwhereat the princess laughed a pleasantuuuUuch and said, "To* are well versed ia th!diplomaUolanguage;" and, as if to put meatones m rapport with the novel surroundingswith infinite tact she took my hand aad said, ina cordial unconstrained manner. "Let as walktoMther through the grounds; 'the prince hasSggSBas?'gssfltaSSsgsvariety eohx.

She (.?. ¦ *aeh a flower, and mm after allreturned to the divan*, where refreshment*were almost immediately served. By this timethe charming aavuir fairt of the hostess hadmad* os feei quite at home, and we were soongesticulating gaily and familiarly together.The hostess bad the tact to nee the most sim¬ple Persian expressions, such as we would belikely to hear daily among our servants or Per¬sian attendants. She bad the naive simplicityof a child in everything, even to our dresses,and expressed herself as frankly. The softgrey of my daughter's gown she objected toas too dull; and she wondered I did not dyeher golden hair with henna. "That, and par¬ticularly the eye-brows, would be so charming,"she said, ''if only darkened a little." Then sheasked about .Frunkeston." "Is it so far awaythat yon live?" Tell me how long in my Toch-trnvan would it take to travel there:" (Fancythe slow moving mule* traveling from Persiato America.) We replied, "Oh. there are greatseas between! You could not go in your toch-travHU, and if you did you might travel fromAoroo* till A'orvox come* again and not arrivethere.

I was as though one were talking <o sn intel¬ligent child about the distance to the fixedstars, she looked as puzzled in trying to com-

Eute so vast a space. When we tried to makoer understand that Frankestan won made upof different countries find was not composedwholly or chiefly of England and Russia, she

lost interest, but whenever of our enstoms, po¬litical or social, she listened attentively. "Ihave often thought," she said, as if in reverie,"1 would like to travel in many countries, asmy son and the shah have done, and see differ¬ent civilizations. How it must enlarge themind! We women of rank are shut up in ander-vons and hear little from without. X would liketo be able to study and learn miiny things, butAllah is good! Our lives arc like a pleasantstream which runs in a narrow valley. Iran isan old and great country; its shahs are wise;from their decree we cannot demur! And afterall tee are perhaps as as anyAll thewhile the wife of the prince.one of the mostsuperbly beautiful creatures we had ever seenin any country.». e.. a purely physical type ofbeauty, stood'silently neur.

SUTEUBLY BEAUTIFUL*She rarely spoke; her rich red lips had the

haughty curve of the khajar. she had fine fea¬tures, a richly tinted complexion, quite natural,and magnificent dark eyes, with long, curlinglashes. Her finely formed brow was shaded bya bung of slightly curled dark hair, and thegeneral effect, spite of the imposed deferenceof her manner, gave the impression of a womanof strong character and indomitable pride. Theprince had now providentially returned and es¬corted tt»e ladies to the music room of the pal¬ace. H<* desired his guests to play upon thepiano for him. I chose a well-known imitationof the banjo, which pleased him greatly; after¬ward. a more elaborate selection seemed onlyto amuse.

PERSIAN MUSIC.We now expressed a wish to hear some Per¬

sian airs, which the prince played very will¬ingly and effectively, though in the simplestmanner, trumming them on the piano withtwo or three gloved fingers (the prince worewhite cotton gloves during the visit.) of courseplaying solely by the ear. He also essayed,not badly, one or two Russian airs.The proud princess, his wife, could not sit in

his presence, nor could she ever sit if themother or guests were standing; therefore fromtime to time she disappeared in the adjoiningroom. Being the daughter of a shah the princecould marry no other wives (.a restriction, sothe gossips say, that wears heavily uponhim!) On the whole the impression givenbv this and other visits among Persianwomen of rank, was very favorable.Wholly uneducated in the western sense of theword."they are yet spirited, intelligent and ob¬serving. The most interesting and charmingwouihji we saw in Persia was undoubtedly theAni.^s Dowleh. the shah's favorite wife, but be¬cause of the seclusion with which he surroundsher, it would seem indelicate after experiene-ing in a special wav her generous and gracciulhospitality to allude to her more particularlyhere. The portraits given are of a queen muchmore often seen by foreigners, and a princessof the highest rank, w hose beauty is most re¬markable. This queen is possessed of consider¬able executive ability and is much given topleasant entertaining, often inviting Europeanladies of rank to the palace; therefore it is per¬haps to be inferred she is not avi-rse to beingpresented in a favorable wav to the public.

Mrs. 8. G. W. Besjamix.

THE NEW AQUARIUM.An Interesting Exhibition at the Flah-

Cuiiiniission Station.

The commissioner of fish and fisheries. Col.Marshall McDonuld. during the summer in¬vestigations at Wood's Uoll, in 1889, carried hisexperiments with the management of marineaquaria to a successful issue and he is now ap¬plying. in Washington, the principles estab¬lished on the coast in exhibiting a very largeseries of living unimals and plants from ourseas and fresh waters. Au extension has beenadded to the armory in the form of a glusa-roofed inclosure, containing 120 linear feet ofaquaria, the tanks measuring from 4 to 5 feetin length by 2 feet in height. The backs ofth* aquaria slope at an angle of 45 degrees.The fronts are glass, the backs an d ends soap-stone. These will be devoted to both marineand fresh-water life. The interior of the aqua¬rium annex is lined with paper, modeledand painted in imitation of a rock cavern.Light enters from above and passes throughthe fronts of the aquaria. The reservoir torsalt water is in the upper part of the buildingat an elevation of forty-two feet above thetanks. Water is delivered into the aquariathrough small glass tubes drawn out into finejets, and the fall give* it force enough to carrya finely comminuted spray of water mingledwith air to the bottom of the tanks and to keepup a continual circulation. The waste wateris conducted into a pond, which is coveredwith glass and contains numerous species ofmarine plants, especially Ulva, and other rapidoxygenators. In this way, exposed to the actionof sunlight and plants, the salt water is regene-rated before it is again pumped up into thereservoir. This is believed to be an entirelynew principle in the management of the aqua¬rium. A small Ericsson hot-air pump raisesthe water to the distributing reservoir. Bythis method of treatment the water supply canbe used indefinitely. Another method of'aerating the water where only hydrant pressureis employed is bv means of a modification ofthe Sprengel air pump.

coytents or tup. aquaria.The aquaria contain numerous marine algce,

conspicuous among them being the kelp,Lammnria, rock weed, Fuqus, the fleshy redHtuilxloHia temra. the green sea lettuce, Vlca-latissivM and clalhraia, and the slender Eiiiero-morpha. These species thrive under the pres¬ent system of management ana are very showv,while they also keep the water in good cona¬tion to sustain animal lite. Many specie* ofanimals live aud grow in these aquaria. Atpresent there are hydroids, anemones, barna¬cles, shrimp, lobsters, many kinds of crabs,periwinkles, whelks, scallops, clams, mussels,and oysters. The fishes include the muni-michogs, sculpins. flat fish, toad fish, cunner,tantog, gobies, blennies, sea robins, tomcod.sucking fish, mullet, *cup, and *ea bass. Allof thase are feeding regularly, look healthy,and are growing rapidly.The fresh water aquaria are supplied wflh

filtered water and numerous species of plant*ar* growing in them. The most importantgenera for ornament and decarboniziug thewater are Cabomba, MyriopUyUum, Sagittaria,A'ileda, Anacharts. Potanwqeton, Ludwigia,CaUxstrieh* and tiymphaa; a slender lily asd akind of wdd parsley ar* also used with good ef¬fect The*e aquaria accommodate a greatvariety of fishes besides some large Unios andseveral *pecie* of turtles. Among the fish**ar* th* carp, tench, ide and gold fish from th*carp ponds, th* spotted cat fish and other mem¬bers of the *am* family from the Ohio valley,representatives of th* living Ganoids, Lift(JotUnts and Amia, a half-dozen kind* of sunfishes, a* many darters, ten or a dos*n speoi**of minnows, erappi*, black baa*, wall-*ysdrik», pickaral ana a wonderful display of th*BabhonUa, including white fish, grayling,brown trout. Loch Levan trout, lak* trout,brook trout, rainbow trout and hybrid* b*-tw*u lak* aad brook trout.

TH* UKItm JAR*contain 1,000,000 *gg* of white fish, 80,000 land¬locked salmon, 16,000 brook trout, and 40,000lak* trout, th* laat r*oently hatched. Th*transformation of th* armory, or ooatralstation, is oomplete. Th* visitor now **** th*prot*s*e* of developing eggs, and, at th* *am*Urn*, many Interesting aquatic animal* ar*b*for* him anrronndedby condition* favorableto their healthy growth and development. In.oat* aquaria, however. th* fishes broughtfrom Ohio an attaok*d by infusoria and.nested parasite*, giving biologistoeuoppor¬tunity to study the life history of tb*aa form*and to experiment upon thateeatment of fl*h«**o affected. Tb* various kinds of apparatus«**d in taking, carrying, and batching eggsand transporting**** ar* displayed and prop-erly labaled. Th* wall* an adorned withlargo photographs *# fishing Ken** andnumerous drawing* in colors of flab** familiarto tb* angter aadth* flah oulturtat Thousand*of poopl* who know th* armory only a* a

LAND AND WATER MARCHES.C«L Btfelow Talks About tilt Trans

poftatioi of Troop*.lltiTTTl mxs or »tn»nii««J

AMD fIDIiriuyi 111 OIHCITT or »»"-

boado fob noma noon.vm m onrooi UTl THX lOTiXIAU,

CoL John Bigelow. jr., adjutant-general oftke national yard of the District, devoted hi*last lecture to officers of the national gu*rdlargely to mi interesting discumion of the sub¬ject of communication! and transportation. He..id: The Mixing of a relatively rapid line oftransportation may render all other lineswhich would otherwise be available to theenemy practically nselees to him and thus eon-vert a dangerously open country into adefensive obstacle. The principal communica¬tions of a theater of war may usually be classedunder the three heads of roads, water and rail.On a good road a good walker can easily do4 miles an hour, but this far exceeds the powersof a soldier moving as ono of a ma<* of menloaded down in the knapunrk and overcoat, a

fun *n<l about 100 rounds of ammunition,urthermore, the soldier on the completion of

his march does not find a comfortable bed audabundant dinner; he often has to go on out-P08t once, and perhaps every third orfourth night on guard; ne ordinarily sleeps onthe ground and has a spare and ill-cooked meal.Notwithstanding all this, however, bodies oftroops can. in cases of emergency, be marchedtor short distances at the rule of an ordinarypedestrian.Traveling on ordinary roads an army or a

force of infuntry, cavalry, and artillerywith its baggage makes on an average about 2miles an hour, and assuming it to observe theeieht-hour law of civil life, average* 16 miles?i comP»re this rate of traveling withthat by water, let us suppose an army embarkedon rufts and scows with neither steam nor sailto tow or to propel them. The rate of an ordi¬nary river current is 2 miles an hour, the sameas that of an army on a road. But while anarmv can tramp it on an average but eighthours out of twenty-four, a river

MAKCUES EVERY HOUB.day and night. In the time, therefore, that an

army makes a march of 16 miles on a road an

ordinary river current would have carried it*!. Thus the embarkation of an army to floatwith the cu» rent of an ordinary river "is equiv¬alent to making it literally indefatigable on themarch.Supposing an army on land to make a long

oa\ s march, or 20 miles in twenty-four hours,a fast river current would in the same timehave carried it 72 miles, or more than three-and-a-half times as far. A foot march of over 20miles in twenty-four hours is a forced march.

comes to the use of sail and steam,the kind of craft is so important and so vari¬able a factor that only the roughest estimatecan be made of the rate of travel. A fair aver¬age one for steam transports would be 12 milesan hour. For every ordinary day's march thatan army makes on foot it would make the equiv¬alent of eighteen such marches (miles) bysteamer.

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THAVEL BT BAIL.The rate of travel of railroad trains convey¬

ing troops may be taken at twenty miles anhour. Hence, in a single day such a trainwould make the equivalent of thirtv footmarches 1480 miles). In this comparison be¬tween foot marches on oue hand, and waterandrail marches on the other, no account is takenof time necessary for assembling troops at theplace of embarkation, collecting vessels androlling stock, fitting them up. preparing piers,platforms. Ac., cmburkiug and debarking, or.finally, of the time-intervals between the?eyeral conveyances as they leave the initialpoint. Nor, on the other hand, is any accounttaken of the davs of rest aud delays frombreakdowns, bad roads and other causes con¬nected with foot marching, which are obviatedor reduced to comparative unimportance inmarches by rail.

HOW IT IS CALCULATED.Where the number of troops to be moved

bears more than a certain proportion to thenumber of miles to be traveled, no time isgained bv the use of rail or water transporta¬tion* Sir Garnet Wolseiey estimates for Eng¬lish double line railways. 600 sabers and bayo¬nets with their propotion of guns and baggageas the maximum to the mile of distance to bemade that can be advantageously moved byrail. Probably the greatest feat of water trans¬portation on record is the transference, in1862, of General McClellan'* army from Wash¬ington to his base on the peninsula.

. On the 27th of Febrnary, Mr. Tucker, of theWar department was placed in charge of theundertaking, and commenced the collectionof the necessary transports."On the 5th of April be had transported to

Fort Monroe from Washington. Perryville. andAlexandria, a distance of 188 miles. 121.500 men.14.092 animals, 1,150 wagons. 44 batteries, 74ambulances, besides ponton bridges, telegraphmaterials aud the enormous quantity of equip¬age, Ac., required for au armv of such magni¬tude. The means by which this work was donewere: 113 steamers, 188 schooners, 88 b.irgesIt will be observed that it took exactly the samelength of time, twenty davs, to collcot thetransports, which it afterward took to embarkthe troops and move them."The movement of Gen. Emory's corps from

Fort Monroe to Washington in 1864 was accom¬plished in two davs, or one-tenth the time ittook to move McClellan's army the same di§-

But Eniorv'i corps numbered only13,000 men. about one-teuth as many as Mc¬Clellan's army, it moved, moreover, wholly insteamers, and when ordered to start was alreadyembarked, having Just arrived from Louisiana.

¦OW OBN. ¦CBOriBLO's OOBPS DID IT.During our civil war the use of water and

rail transportation attained proportions which,considering the distances moved over, havenever been surpassed. Promin. nt amomr thosemovements is that of the twenty-third cornscommanded by General Schofield, the presentmajor-general of the armv.

.?'nPfl tT,enty-t^d corps, Bfter fightingat Nashville in the midst of ice and snow inDecember, 1864. was, on the conclusion of thecampaign in the west, transferred from the val¬ley of the Tennessee to the banks of the Po¬tomac, moving bv river aud rail down the Ten¬nessee, up the Ohio, across the snow-coveredAlleghanies, a distance of 1,400 miles, aud inthe short space of eleven davs was encampedon the banks of the Potomac, then blocked upwith the ice of a most severe winter. Vesselswere collected to meet this corps, the obstaclesinterposed by the ice were overcome, andearly in February, the troops composing itwere fighting before Wilmington, on the coastof North Chrolina." [Keport of Secretary ofWar.] *

The principal factors in the transportation ofarmies by rail are:

1. The capacity of a train.2. The time necessary for loading.3. The time-interval between trams.4. The rate of running.6. The time necessary for unloading.6. The number of railroads available.A consideration, too, of some strategic Im¬

portance is the extra time required to assemblethe troops at the railroad stations or places ofembarkation, and, upon their debarkation, toredistribute them, or dispose of -them anewupon the strategic chess-board.In regard to the rate at which large bodiei of

troops can be moved on a double-track line ofrailroad. General Haupt, the superintendent of

to start at intervals of fifteen minutes, each earcarrying fifty men, ninety-six thousand menoonld be moved in twenty-fours to a distanceof two hnndred and fifty miles. The numbermov;.,d and the distance traveled per day are.unply questions of equipment and oelerity ofhandling. Some colonels could get a regiment

, HM\.car! 1,1 *.» minutes; others wocldwast# half a day aad derange the whole line."[Quoted from Lippitt's Field Service la War.]i >,? of °ener*1 Heupt's does notJacludothe baggage nor the horsee and artil¬lery.' The practicable rate of movement oflarge bodies of troope, with all theirmsnfa, variee considerably in different con®,trie* aad according to different authorities.This is duamalniy to a diffarenoe of tlme-

from teaminntee, aad of rate of running,which variee from flfteea to thirty miles aa

m OAFACTTT OF A KilLKOiD.Referring to the workiag of English rail¬

roads, Captaia Mauds of the royal engineer*says: "Where a uniform dispatoh of trainslastlag for twsnty-four or thirty-six boon is tobo expected, the time interval caa not be takenat Use than tea minutes, which woald allow1M trains beiag seat off is twenty-four hoar*,.m iycor

iotaonlv lfro'traias^tLe whole oonld1 be°"&ispatchedwithin tweaty-lve hoar*, aad allowing Avehoar* foe a Journey of 180 mile*, tt could bodelivered at a poiat at thai listsnni from it*headquarters within thirty bow*, always as¬suming a proper provision of platforms, 4c.to have beea laid down." WaUe ordiaariiy,la the transportation of snppliee,rapidity i* not so importaat a *o.ider-ation ee security, emergencies amyarise, sash aa break dowae ora eheage ti plaa or of objective, ia whieh tkerapid Irsnqniiesinn of supplies lean "

./ ".n. xamj uu rmror the CODOof armlae and their sojourning in im wn«district Without railroatk the siege of Puis,it is Mid, would have been an impossibility,onus mtntoa or arvxas at unwiM

¦ There are advantages, however, ia riran andrailroad* over ordinary road*, which anentirely independent of speed. which wouldinure to the army controlling and using them,though steamships and locomotives should gono faster than six mule teams, hirers and rail¬roads, as compared to ordinary roads, are con¬stantly and uniformly practicable, and rail andwater conveyances are far more durable thanwagons, tn other words much leaa apt to breakdown. Furthermore, they do not require any¬thing like so large a proportion of their capacityfor the transportation of their own wants ornecessities. On this account, as well as byreason of greater speed, rirers and railroadswill carry an invading army forward not onlyfaster but further from its baso thanordinary roads, and distant invasionswhich proved to be impracticable before theage of steam are now deemed perfectly practi¬cable. It is safe to ssv that Napoleon wouldnot have retreated from Moscow in 1812 had hehad railroad communication with France, andthat Sherman could not have reached Atlanta,subsisting his army, as he did. from Chatta¬nooga. but for the railroad 111 h'S rear.At an early stage of t!ia war our governmentshowed its appreciation of the military import¬

ance of railroads."Congresa, by act of January 31, 1862, "au¬

thorized the President, when in his judgmentthe public safety required it. to take possessionof any or all telegraphic lines, or any or allrailroad lines in the United States; all theirappendages and appurtenances, Ac. . . .

to place under military control all the officers,agents, employes, belonging to such lines. * *

so that they shall be considered a part of themilitary establishment of the United States,subject to all the restrictions imposed by therules and articles of war.' "

The same act imposed severe penalties onany person resisting or interfering in any man¬ner with the unrestrained use by the govern¬ment of such property, and provided further"that the transportation of troops, munitions ofwar. Ac., throughout the United States shall beunder the immediate control and supervisionof the Secretary of War, and such agents as hemay appoint."By order of the President of the United

Btates as commander of the army and navy,dated February 11, 1862. a -military directorand superintendent of railroads in the UnitedStates,' was appointed 'with power to enterupon, take possession of, hold and use all rail¬roads, engines, Ac.,' in i'act to carry out all theprovisions of the act referred to as far aa re¬gards railroads."This officer was under the direct orders of

the Secretary of War.;-This was the origin of the 'department of

military railroads of the United States.'"The military authorities called to their aid

the services of the most experienced railroadmen of the country, and a department grew upvastly more, extensive and important than anysupply department of the army."Such a department now forms part of the

military establishment of every great power inEui'^e excepting England."

THE SECURITY OF H1VXBS.While railroads are more vulnerable than

ordinary roads, rivers are lesa so. Hence, ushues of supply, rivers are generally to be pre¬ferred to railroads. It takes but a little com¬mon labor to make a break in a railroad, butto obstruct the navigation of a river is an oper¬ation of consideration skill and magnitude.The capacity of one of our large rivers fortransportation is limited only by the numberof vessels at baud.An ordinary Ohio river steamer, carrying

both passengers and freight, has a capacity ofabout LOO tons, 'lo supply un arm\ of 40.000men and 18.000 animals requires about 260 tousdaily, lit nee one such steamer would carrysupplies for such an army for nearly two days.The capacity of an ordinary box-car ia from 10to 15 tons of general stores. A simple calcula¬tion therefore will show that to forward theload of one large river steamer Ly rail wouldrequire from 33 to 60 cars, or suy, two trains of20 cars each.The Comte de Paris, the ablest historian,

thus far. of our late war. savs that wheneverthe Federals were supported by a river theirprogress was certain and their conquests deci¬sive; whilst the successes they obtained bv fol¬lowing a simple line of railway were aiw aygprecarious, new dangers springing up in theirrear in proportion as they advanced.

Unawam.We were altting, after waltilng,

On the stairs.Ha, before 1 could forbid it;Stole a rose, ere yet 1 missed It,And, as tenderly be kissed it.Swiftly in hi* pocket hid it.

Unawares.We were talking after waltzing.

On the stairs.I had said that be should rue it.And a lecture 1 intended,Wbicb 1 think he apprehended,1 was kissed before 1 knew it,

Unawares.

We were silent, after waltzing,On the stairs.

I had stormed with angry feeling.But be spoke love, never heeding.And my eyes fell neath his pleading,All my depth of love revealing,

I nawares..Boston Courier.

Saturday Smiles.This ought to be the most cheerful aeason of

the year. No man can borrow trouble when itsLent..A'. Y. World.

Crystallized perseverance.snowing twenty-four hours with a visible total of one-sixteenthof an inch..Hartford CouranL

Practical jokers are a very unprofitable lot.They never buy; their busineas is to seU..Jiodunter Pott.

It ia stated that Senator Evarta is ambitionsto become a judge. Should he ever hold thatposition convicts would inevitably get longaentencaa..Pittsburg Dispatch.The lata Edmund Quinoy of Boston, on hear¬

ing much of a popular novel, and being aakedif ne had read it. said: "No! I have been wait¬ing for it to blow over.".Boston Traveller.An Italian cook, a London exchange says, has

devised a new dish, "perfumed eggs." Eggswill supply their own perfume if left alone..PhilatU IpKia Ledger.Ex-Senator Riddleberger wants to b* col¬

lector of internal revenue for Virginia. Buthas Riddleberger proved himself competent tomanage internal affairs with discretion?.ArteYork World.The President's cabinet is composed of goodtimber. The democratic editor says it walnut

do, but be pines for a democratic commanderagain at the 'elm..jiorristoim Herald.To the unterrifled democracy ; There is no

law against booming Mr. Cleveland in 1892. butyou must remember that booms, like hotcakea,are better if made just when they are to beused.. W Umingtun (M.) A'etcs.At a Millville wedding a few eveninga ago the

officiating clergyman aaid: "What Ooa hasput aaunder, let no man join together." Theguest* began to titter and the reverend gentle¬man revised his remarks.. Woodstoun (AT. J.)Jiegisier.

It Makes All the Difference.A question with a precedent

lias data to decide it;A thing looks very different

It other folks have tried it

J^henerer yon wonder If patriotism pays, con¬sider Washington. V\ hen Drs. Starkey A Paten'aCompound Oxygen Treatment bad effected curesenough to establish the fact that here was, iatruth, a remedial agent on which aa invalidmight rely, then their principal trouble waa ended.1ake the matter home to your own needs. Yoaare 111, and feel like trying the Compound oxygenTreatment. IWeil, yoa need nothing more than encourage¬ment at thia juncture, and what oaa satisfy youhalf so well aa the following list of well-knownmen and women who have been cured by Drm.Starkey A Helen's Compound Oxygen Treatment:Host. Wa. D. Kbut, Member at Oongrees, Phila¬delphia.

R*v. Viorom l. OomuB, Editor Laver, Philadelphia.

E*t. CaaaLas W. CosauM, D. IL, Rochester, V.H.Hon. Wa. Pna Nixon, Iditor Inter Ooean, Chi-

.Iditor New loath,ham, Ala.JUDOl H. P. VmooitAJi, Quenemo, Kan.Mas. Mait A. Uraaaoax, Melroee,aetta.Jcdok H. S. Toouia, New Tort CUy.Ma K. C. Kmmht, Philadelphia.Hon. W. W. ScauTLBa, Eaetoa, Pa.Ma. Fain Suidall, Merchant, Philadelphia.Bnwau L. Wilson, KM Broadway, N. Y., JbPhiladelphia Photographer.Pidbua M. Ltom, wataaea, Hawaii,

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WILLIAM I. 1*1*1, fuutiR.

TOTAL IKOOM*. «T«r twaaty-*T* million dollars.BIIIITI TO POLICY BOLD***, nearly abni million dollar*.IXTEREST INCOME. orer Inpwout on *T*r«r* MtHMUBBW IXSCBAXC* WBITTKX. orer on hundred and twenty-fir* milium OoUKASSETS, om klMtr-lkm million dollar*.SURPLUS, byin sum Standard. thirty and a half million dollar*.IXSlHAXC* IB rOBC*. nearly four hundred aa< l*wt> million I I tail

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.. !MO,7JTOIIncreaae In Total Income ..S.54N.4M.T1la.I In Aaeeta. )0,«00jt0.flIncreaae In Insurance Writua lK.t7u.OS 00Increase is Inantnnoa in roiOi....*.......«.........M...»^..a..*...............*.«M.i.*........*..*t M.D80JW 00

RESULTS OF 44 YEARS.%

Received from Pollcy-hoidsre in Pretnhims. in forty-four years, 1R45-16&S(lM.Mn.WI SfPaid to Policy-holder* and their representatives 1117.Asset* held *a security for Policy-holders, January 1. lHSk» w;t «au. 1 KB .'>*Total amount i<aid Policy-holder* and now ixud aa security for their contra<-ta t - I u. 7o3.1 7SAMOUNT PAID AND HELD EXCEEDS AMOUNT RECEIVED S> I.'«»v.7s7i"jl7Received from Interest, RanU, ate., in forty -four year*. 1S4.V18SK r«l*,-VxVTi<4 h.<Dcsth losaua l«id in iorty-iour year*, 184o- lh(>8 4 t.0OU.THl ISINTEREST aXD REXTS EXCEEDS DEATH-LOSSES PAID «:vv'K.MtuTL4Dividends paid in forty-four years. 1H4.V1X8S #34. WH.i'72 W|Surplus over LiaLiUmea, under new state La*. Jan. 1, 1SSU 13.jo0.l"00 «¦<:Amount saved Policy-holder* from table rales.

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