BIG HOUSEKEEPING.
TAKING CARE OF UNCLE
PROPERTY IN WASHINGTON.
How the White House, Capitol and
Departments Are Maintained A
Small Army of Watchman,
M
wavs ex-officio master
Mansion
reception
recep
:
Formerly the rahal «
Columbia sas al
ceremonies :
troducing the gu
tending to I
Frederick Dougl Ww
office its i HT
the fun
Public Gre
gine r corps ol
Ha
~ Lieutenant
assigned to assis
ever the
gentlemen accompanies h'm, to look
ter his comfort
family includes,
tary, who signs
hings nn
Pruden, who kecps
if the District of
tive
social matters
othe
18 Chosen
MINA
ttache
mee WLS
Wher
thes
af
rrison’s administration a naval a
J N
Parker,
President goes one of
and safety,
3 sy hig e ph
Desde nis private SOCre
his business letters
assistant
the
bills and
and two
oversees generally,
secretary,
records « ointments and
to Cong
carries al ress,
Sexecutive
(ne of
shursing
the
as ai
agent, paving lr alford and all
the WI
nt.
pte
On
other Government
House, ex
or about
Mr. Harrison
66 from
States,
1
an
an
ded
keep the surroun
looking pretty and
laborers do ch
dors
steps, «a
coppersamit 3
copper rool
jeak.
All of this bh
affairs of the
resentatives
Senate a1
They keep ho
selves in their respective
Capitol.
Each wing of the Capito
engineer, three
five firemen, to look
complicated system of
chinery required for heating,
ventilation, pumping of
the building, ete. Sixteen great revolv-
ing fans, the biggest of them 16 feet in
diameter and resembling
paddlie-wheel of a steamboat,
great structure with fresh a
suck through subterranean pas
stone towers 600 feet away that are open
to the sky and drink in the pure atmos
phere from far aloft. Standing in
of these tunnels
chief
and
a
assistant engineers
after the
ait vast
and ma
Hahting,
through
engines
wi
er
somewh it
supply the
which they
sages from
one
through which an arti
ficinl breeze rushes continually at the rate
of 26 miles an hour, one feels unpleas
antly chilled during the hottest hours of
a summer day. When the are
crowded, every member and spectator in
the House is provided with 60 ubic fect
of fresh air every minute,
The next most important building
owned by Uuncle Sam is the one occu
pied by the Departments of War, State
and Navy. According to a law passed
fn 1883 it is managed by a commission
composed of the secretaries in charge of
these three branches of the Government
service. They choose an executive offi
ger from the engineer corps of the Army
or Navy, who is appointed by the Presi
dent on their recommendation, That po-
sition is held at present by Chief Engi
peer Thomas Williamson, Congress ap-
propriates about $160,000 a year for the
management and maintenance of the
i 3
galleries
huge apartment house, The scale on
which the housekeeping is done may be
conceived from the fact that eighty char-
women are employed to do nothing but
scrub the floors of the corridors, They
work from four to six p. m., each week-
day, and get twenty dollars per month.
There are eight assistant engineers,
twenty-four firemen, ten elevator con.
ductors, and twenty laborers who wash
4
mer 8, ete,
The three departments are split. up
into bureaus and divisions, ead h of which |
1 who takes care
while the « xeoutive officer
that
rhted, re
For
ht
and 1
1 hit
INeKsSenger, of the
? keeps
! and sees the |
heated,
gunrded,
fifty-el
vatch
part of
must be patrolled ( ry
and nirht, and
of
clean
propel ly
wed and
he empl Hy .
i the corridors
i is
wmilding is
Pp Lire d,
this last
tL purgy
i
i
ventil
or
captain ol
Every
3 i
watehinen, a tho
two lieutenants,
Vi
tructure
nours the
S11
min is requ
butto
(ay
trie
which recor
"
ice on the
lid i
h
when they
ing thev go into every
the
way,
7 o'clock ead
window shades
they will
the
connecting doors
room and draw al
tly half
from the street,
ime closing all
acainst the
down ex 20 that
JK nice at
srecaution spread of pos i
ire
the building
furniture
l in
renews its own
fund provided for the pur
the latter
ie
nut
s11
ni
luding all carpets, but
Spring, sent to
the Au
He has the
every
and put down in inn by
Willi
f i cent
+ Interior
riments are run in
About 55,000
iy
Honeyv-Bearing Trees,
he traveler
of th
all
walks in the native
of India can eas
the x gin
! as they were probably practiced in
Europe i The shops
t
are usually open Kmen
who
quarters cities
study there industries in
MNS,
enn
be seen inside industries, pottery,
shoemaking, ir. armoring. jow
all £ 5
like Chitpore Strect,
ike pains to examin
methods workis
an
If
attentive iy the
shall be struck by the enormous function
by the lower limb. Whatever
industries, the Indian, squatting or
ground, works with his
as well with his hands: and it
might be said that all four of his limbs
are in exercise, The joiner,
for example, has no assistant to hold his
plank, but makes his great
that purpose, The shoemaker does not
employ a fixed clamp for the shoe on
which he but holds it in his
feet, which change position to suit his
convenience, while his nimble hands do
the sewing. The metal-worker holds
we t
of
sitting on the
fret fis
constant
tow serve
I% SOW De,
| cutting copper,
{| In the making of wooden combs I
have seen the comb held straight up by
{ the feet, while the workmen marked the
teeth with one hand and with the other
| directed the instrument that cut them.
| The wood turner directs the hand rest
with his great toes; so, generally, do
| Egyptian and Arabian turners, In
| smoothing twine or sewing s bridle the
| Indiune hold the article between the
| first and second toes. When the butcher
cuts his meat into small pieces, he holds
his knife between the first and second
toes, takes the meat in both hands, and
pulls it up across the knife. 1 have seen
a child Rnb a tree and hold a branch
between his toes. These are enough de-
concerning the constant, universal
of the . {Popular Science
Mo ithly,
fool,
AROUND THE HOUSE.
For pianos at the seashore, wh the
is apt to affect the instrument,
wndded key
iin on the boawl when
or shut It
the keyv-board,
dampness
it isa good idea to have a
i
ird cover to rem
thi piano 1 either open
i
made the ea
I may be ¢l
{ARE OF
wiaier
18 4 Powe riul
120r,
Potash,
golved i
best articles t
It is wise also
Mo lern Artificial Limbs,
Sterilized Milk.
from almost
His microbe
y those
¢ infants
Nature seems to have provided that no
: Yield 1 all Kas
van which acts externaily shail Have
effect internally, and vice versa
ike
be swallowed with impunity,
of the stomach presumably decomposing
it and rendering it harmless, Many ex
periments have been made to prove this,
he most deadly st YOuom «
the juice
one pers wm swallowed the whole of the
poison that could be obtained from four
Italian vipers without suffering any bad
In the same way the
poison found in the envenomed arrows
of South American Indians can be swal-
[New York Journal,
Facts About China.
The empire of China, according to the
Ostasintischer Lloyd, covering an area of
4,000,000 square Kilometers, now has a
about
Ho Nan, it declares, is the most thickly
ypulated province of the country, hav-
pos about 210 persons to the square kil
ometre, Shan-Tung follows Ho-Nan,
with 142 to the square kilometre, The
boundary territory of Thibet numbers
the least people of any district of the
empire, there beieg only three persons
to the square kilometre,
FOR THE LADIES,
Mrs. H
Lasyk 3 4}
& But she 1 than a
Hes
or
tages; whi an owner
extend for ses
lex throughout the
of hor and vehi
ries the United States mail,
1 modntaing, and she
OWNS SCO ira
11
oa A% Well as
Her husband died a fow years ago anid
took hold and managed and ex
tended business aforesaid. Mrs,
she
5
the
rom the Government,
at Washington, D. ., which vity she
often has oceasion to visit in connection
her mail contract, Recently she
had some correspondence with Post.
his method of awarding contracts, in
which she expressed herself in a manner
to attract the attention of the entire
Mrs. Langdon is reported to be ax good
a judge of stock as any man in the stage
She knows also the oportune
with the stage business, so as to make it
successful,
Her stage lines extend over some of
the ruggodest routes in the Sierras and
again serens plaing, like those about
Susanville, Plumas county has several
of Mrs, Langdon’s lines, Ske delivers
mails and passengers promptly, and by
of
and her ability in executing them has be-
noted for her pluci and enterprise,
| reason her skill
i
i
holds 1
{ nothing incom
Se 0
upon
nothing to pres
with carriage of
materials pale ye How
Late wraps ar
the $60 "
shoulder caw
The full
and falling
circular
and
in
length
gathe red
far
i
enough
price.
collar or yoke
below the waist {or ¢
style for general use,
Yokes, and trimmings to imitate yokes,
| are the favorites for cloth and silk cos.
Tames
adopted shows the top part of the waist,
and deep ruffle bordering the lace yoke.
| It is very becoming,
There is a reaction in favor of white
laces, and the pretty Venise, Malines,
Irish guipure, point de gene, and rose
point designs are largely employed for
rats, jnserted bands, yokes, frills,
sretelles, berthas and sleeve caps of
greater or less depths,
Rosettes of plaited ribbon in two
colors, loops o silk or velvet ribbon in
drooping rows, one above the other,
WY of silks formed of lined silk folds
braided in and out like strands of hair,
and puffs of silk between bends of velvet,
are all used to finish the bottoms of
skirts,
PONNSYLVANIA TT%
tomeof New
into
Many
and harm
on
arriving
vigor
assert
far surpassing
§ Yi KiaAVs
which th
rid prevall was nat
there were
herbs which, if tt
eX posure § ail. Ww
petit the clea:
jgrants from the
iropean weeds ha
pled themsel
to cleared land, and were
in
€ Wee
clad
call, few
1¢ 3 cd
{
:
the change
} 1
prepared to fi
ich forest tha
exposed to the sun and
other new i
the
Monthly.
or —I I. ns
Foolish Sheep.
A Colorado stockman
SO
conditions i
1LICes, Popa
says. thas
reason that no animal that walks on
four legs is as big a fool as a sheep.
Most animals can be relied on to aid
»
deliberately to
work to kill themselves, If caught
on the plains they will
drift before the wind, and die of
cold and exposure rather than go a
hundred yards to windward to obtain
shelter in their corral To drive
sheep against the wind is absolutely
impossible. 1 once lost over one
thousand head because 1 could not,
drive them to a corral not a hundred
feet away. In the corral they are
still more foolish. If a storm comes
up they all move “down wind” until
stopped by the fence. Then they will
climb over each other's backs until
they are heaped up ten feet high. Of
course all those at the bottom are
wmothered. Not one has sense enough
to seek shelter under the lee of the
fence, as a horse or dog would do.
set