text: £22 » - - -J!W»KV - t^N. Tn-m-n^t lg>. i.Tr^ 1^ 7 ™.-..<H t-W' 1KMB* Hu man N ature Is Exceedingly Peculiar. Some men are honest, some men believe they are honest, others make believe they are honest. We find it pays to be honest with our customers. We never deceive anyone in our advertisements, and the consequence is we often hear the expression, “We saw it advertised at Passe's and we know it’s so.” Read This Ad Carefully and Then Come Monday and See for Yourself [COLORED DRESS GOODS. 29c^H 1000 yards 40, 42 and 46 inch wide all wool silk finished Henriettas, all in desirable colors, such as tans, grays, browns, slates and reds, none in the lot worth less than 50c, some 75c and 90c, all at one price Monday, 29 CENTS. NOVELTY DRESS GOODS, 29c. 650 yards fancy all wool Novelty Suiting, every one this season’s production, cheapest ones have been 50c and some a good deal more, all at one price, 29 CENTS. FRENCH ORGANDIES, 29c. 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Shirt waists for ladies at 49c, 75c, 99c, and $1.49, guaranteed to fit. Ladies' muslin drawers, 10c. Ladies' night robes, 39c. Full line of best goods in all kinds of ladies' muslin underwear at lower prices than you'll expect. flu The Geo. Passe Co., ft Hs 1008 FIRST A VENUE. SS sag "" Babe skin soap, 19.J for two cakes. ■■ [U] Eutterm lk soap, 3c. |M| || All lengths best quality cast steel shears 6r scissors, 19c. Njg [U All lengths best drets hoges, with 3 yards of casing. 10c. |M ■ ■ Box of goo.l quality of paper and envelops, containiug 24 ■■ I sheets of paper and 24 envelops, 9c. |g All colors best too yards spool silk, 5c. gl All colors in 4 yard velveteen dress binding, 5c. jj| Cuilain poles with brass fixtures, 10c. oH Yard and a half square Chenille table covers, 49c. jjj I Special in Ribbons. fy| 100 pieces choice all silk ribbon;, all 2 inches wide and UU over, and none worth less than 25c a yard, all colors, and all at M one price, 10c. Im Fifty Trimmed Hats, all hive been $2 and over. Your y choice for 98c. * Ladies’ and Gents’ Initial Handkerchiefs, would u be cheap at 25c. Your choice for 10c. jl Closing Out Gents’Furnishing Goods in shirt;, in Hi collars and cuffs, in suspenders and in neckwear. If you want ■« anything we’ve got in this l.ne come and make us an offer, Fy we’ll sell. m M The Geo. Passe Company i Jfl I0OS FIRST AVENUE. U STORIES OF THREE WOMEN Miss Winnie Davis’ Surprising Memory for Faces—Mrs. Cleveland’s Collection of Letters—About Mrs. Olney. Miss Winnie Davis has a surprising memory for faces anil names, says live Atlanta Constitution. While she was receiving the people at the depot Monday afternoon, she frequently interrupted Colonel West's introduction by saying: "No introduction is necessary—we have met before." And in many cases, the meeting had occurred three or four years before and was quite casual. Major Frank Callaway stepped up to shake the hand of the daughter of the Confederacy. Colonel West started to introduce the young Georgian, but Miss Davis interrupted him and extended her hand: "We have met before." There was a mutual smile, and Major Callaway added in his gallant manner: "You, at Athens." It was in Major Callaway's school days. He was prominent in society, baseball, military, athletics, and study. Miss Davis went over to Athens and a German was given in her honor. The young men of the university passed in review before her and were introduced by the chancellor. Callaway passed and was presented in his turn. He decided that he would like a second introduction, and "taking up his post at the rear of the line," he came around again. The chancellor had forgotten the first introduction and presented the young man. Miss Davis looked at him wonderingly. "I think we met a few moments ago?" inquiringly. The junior blushed. "My twin brother, I suppose— he’s just been here." he stammered. "Oh! how interesting. I could never distinguish you one from the other. I am glad to have met you." Several times during the evening he met Miss Davis. and each time she would inquire in a jolly tone: Which one—Mr. Callaway or his twin brother?” And this was the only doubt in her mind when she met Major Callaway at the depot Monday afternoon. Mrs. Cleveland’s Collodion of Letters. In the matter of letters from people of prominence all over the United States, Mrs. Cleveland has about as valuable a collection as is to be found. Probably after the close of the present administration, Mrs. Cleveland will carry into execution long cherished plans and have all these letters compiled into a series of volumes. Many of the letters, says the Chicago Tribune, date back to when it first came to be whispered that she was to wed the president. Then there are the letters received with the wedding presents, that of themselves make a valued collection of autographs. Some idea of the extent to which a personal correspondence can accumulate in this respect is told by Mrs. Cleveland in regard to her experience during the years of the first Cleveland administration. Those of the letters received that were of purely personal character from her friends were always kept until finally six immense Saratoga trunks were filled. When preparations for the removal of the president and his wife to New York were started, Mrs. Cleveland found a task that could not be delegated to any clerk or maid. It took a week, and when the task was completed, the lot had been reduced to one trunkful. A Chat With Mrs. Richard Olney. The home of the attorney-general is now in quite an upset condition, for the family are preparing for their move north for the summer, and trunks, big and heavy with straps, are standing about in the lower hall ready for the baggage man’s attention. Mr. Olney and his family expect to pass the hot term in their cool New England home, and it is not likely that the capital will see anything more of them before fall. The house which is at present occupied by the Olneys is the one which was formerly the home of Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of the ex-congressman from Ohio. Before this, the Olneys lived in a large new brick in the outskirts of the city on the very edge of Massachusetts avenue, but this was evidently too far out for the taste of the attorney-general. So a few months ago, about the middle of April, he moved all his family into the yellow brick which stands at the corner of Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth street. Mrs. Olney has with her Mrs. M not, her daughter, whose husband died in Boston about fifteen months ago. Mrs. Olney is a slender young woman, and the proud mother of a son, who is the apple of his grandfather’s eye, young Frank Minot, who is as sturdy and as independent a specimen of young America as can be found in a day's journey. One rarely passes the Olney home without seeing the boy playing before the door with his little cart in tow, while his nurse is hovering near with watchful care. Mrs. Olney is a very young woman to be a grandmother, for her hair is still bright. Her manner, says the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, is cordial and pleasant, and there are few ladies in official circles who are more popular  in Massachusetts is that our houses are better protected against the cold than those of Washington. Of course, our cold winters are much longer than those of the capital, but then we do not mind it so much, because we are so well prepared. I never felt the cold more keenly in my life than I did during the cold spell of last February.” The Olney home is a very quiet one, and the attorney-general spends most of his evenings in studying the cases which have absorbed his attention during the day. He is fond of a game of tennis, and enjoys nothing more than to see a team hard at work in a ball game. Some say that it is not to the taste of Mr. Olney to give up a business that brought him an income of about $59,009 a year as an attorney for a railroad, but it cannot be denied but that he is the very man for the place. Coin and the Philosopher. The Washington News says: As the Philosopher was taking his customary morning walk, in search of an appetite and a cheap breakfast, he met near the Jaffa gate Mr. Coin, and recognizing the great services of that eminent financier, he bowed low with his hat under his arm, the handsome young Napoleon acknowledging the salute in a graceful and agreeable manner. The philosopher suggested that it would be a pleasure to have Mr. Coin's company. They entered the vodka dispensary, at the corner of Appian Way and Euclid avenue. While the gorgeously-attired serf was concocting a beverage of delectable fragrance, the Philosopher fished out from his pocket the last silver dollar, and thus addressed, the brilliant and irresistible Keely of Finance. "That, Mr. Coin, is a dollar of the daddies." "Was," said Coin; "it isn't now. The demonetization of silver in 1873—that terrible crime against the people destroyed the parity of gold and silver and now silver is relegated to the rear. If congress would pass the proper legislation, silver would regain its position as the money metal of the world, and we might be happy yet." "Does not the use of gold and silver in the arts and for other purposes influence the value of those metals?" "Not at all," said the expounder of esoteric finance; “the value of gold and silver depends on their use as money. The law declares 25.8 grains of gold a dollar. That is all right. Now, the law should make 412.6 grains of silver a dollar; that would make it so, regardless of the value of silver as a commodity. "But," said the philosopher, "would that fully and effectually remove the whole cause of the present financial stringency?" "No," answered Mr. Coin, "we need more money than we should then have." The distant follower of Diogenes then looked at the ceiling through the bottom of his glass, closing the one the while, and asked: "Why wouldn't it be better if legislation determines the value of silver, to legislate an equal value per ounce for gold and silver—make them exactly on a par? The idea of 16 to 1 is an admission that the value of silver is measured by gold. Why not put silver up to 1 to 1? Then they will be on a parity, with nothing plebian or poverty-stricken about silver, and give us more money." "That is a new idea and a good one," said Coin. "I will immediately go home and rewrite the 'Financial School' on that basis." CENTRAL BEER HALL. The best and coolest beer in the city. Six glasses for 25c. At 1816 1st avenue. 4 27 eod tf SKIES IN JUNE. The Planetary Aspect—Phases of Planets—The Motions of Planets—Direct and Retrograde Motions. The moon's phases during the month of June are: Fun on the 6th, last quarter on the 14th, new on the 22nd, first quarter on the 29th. It will be in apogee on the 13th, and perigee on the 24th. The sun, which on the 1st of the month will be 22 degrees, 3 minutes and 54 seconds north of the equator, moves slowly northward and will reach the most northern limit, the summer solstice, Friday, the 21st of June, when its maximum declination will be 23 degrees, 27 minutes and 18 seconds. It then will assume its southern course, moving at first very slowly. The average length of the day, that is from sunrise to sunset, will be fourteen hours and forty-two minutes. In clear nights, during the evening hours of May, persons whose sense of the beautiful extends to the worlds above will have noticed two stars close together in the southwest portions of the sky and shining with a brilliancy which could not fail to engage their attention and excite their admiration. In fact, the two most brilliant planets, Jupiter and Venus, were in as close a proximity as we can expect to witness in long intervals. During the month of June, they will still remain somewhat near each other, but their distance from each other will gradually increase, as Venus, in consequence of its nearness to the sun, will change its position among the stars far more rapidly than distant Jupiter. Both planets are in the constellation Gemini, Venus setting a little after 10 o'clock and Jupiter about 8:30. The planet Mars, the third in that brilliant trio of evening stars, is in Cancer, and will set about 10 o'clock. Saturn, also an evening star, at present is in Virgo, and Uranus in Libra. The latter can scarcely be seen with the unaided eye. Since the planets Venus and Mercury are in within the orbit of the earth, for which reason they are called inferior planets, they present phases like the moon, just according to their relative position to the earth and sun. It is supposed here that Venus is brightest when she is at inferior conjunction, that is, between the earth and the sun, and consequently nearest the former, for in this position she is six times as large as when she is at superior conjunction, that is, on the opposite side of the sun. This would, however, be a false conclusion, for near her inferior conjunction the illuminated portion of her disc is too small. At her superior conjunction she is brightest at an elongation of about 40 degrees, her phase then being about the same as that of the moon three days from the new moon. Of the superior planets Mars is the only one which presents a noticeable phase, this being, however, only like that of the horizon. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are far too distant to exhibit anything resembling a phase. We should make ourselves guilty of an unpardonable omission by not mentioning something concerning the motion of the planets, that not infrequently causes some perplexity in the minds of those who are not in the habit of contemplating scientific causes and effects and their connection, or are not sufficiently trained in mathematical reasoning. It may rationally be supposed that everyone who presents to the most ordinary education knows that all the planets of our solar system move about the sun in fixed orbits and periods. This motion, however, is observed from a body, our earth, that is itself moving, whereby certain effects are produced that are often more or less puzzling to the ordinary thinker. We must therefore assume real from apparent motion. Let us, for instance, take an inferior planet like Venus or Mercury. At superior conjunction it will appear to move in its true direction, but at eastern elongation it will appear to be stationary, since for a short time it travels toward the earth, then it will appear to travel in an opposite direction, or, in other words, present retrograde motion. When it has reached its westerly elongation it will again appear stationary, after which it resumes its direct motion. As to the superior planets, we also observe, both these direct and retrograde motions. The reader will realize these apparent motions by supposing two bodies traveling at different rates and in the same direction on the circumferences of two concentric circles. Could the planets be viewed from the sun they would be seen to advance from west to east at their respective velocities, and none would ever appeal as moving from east to west. It cannot cause any astonishment that anterior to the establishment of the Copperan system so much confusion prevailed in regard to the true explanation of planetary motion, and that all that artificial system of cycles and epicycles, at which we cannot look now without a smile of contempt and pity, could for so long a time and so successfully be imposed upon an ill-instructed and credulous world and received as an uncontested, though scarcely plausible, truth. The establishment of the Copperan system of astronomy gave a new impulse to the more thorough study of this noble science, and may be considered as the dawn of a new era of brilliant achievements of the sciences which have proved such in expressible blessings to mankind. In the history of civilization, scientific researches and their results must ever be regarded as factors inferior to no other, what narrow-minded men may say to the contrary, notwithstanding. Y Auriga, Venus and Gemini, which will set in the coins of the month, the last of the winter constellations will disappear from the sky. Arcturus, the principal star in the constellation Booter, is on the meridian about 9 o'clock in the evening. On account of the brilliancy of Arcturus, which is the brightest fixed star in the northern hemisphere, Booter is brought into striking prominence. A reddish tinge produces a resemblance between Arcturus and the planet Mars. The Lion has passed the meridian and is on its downward path. Arcturus forms with Denebola in the Lion and Splea, the principal star in Virgo, a large equilateral triangle. We here reiterate a remark formerly made by us, viz., that forming well-known and sufficiently simple geometric figures out of the stars greatly assists the mertiory in tracing the stars and constellations on the celestial map. Other constellations that will reach the meridian in the hours before midnight are Libra, Corona Borealis, Ophiuchus and Caries Minor. Libra, which contains no star of the first magnitude, and only two of the second, is not a conspicuous constellation, but nibl may be distinguished without difficulty by the isolated situation of these two stars. Corona Borealis will attract attention, even of persons who are acquainted with its name, by its striking semi-circular shape. Near it, the constellation Hercules extends over a large space, easily to be recognized by a large quadrilateral and a trinole, and is of special interest to us by the fact of our solar system sailing toward it. Looking toward the southeast, we again see the most beautiful of all summer constellations, Scorpio, with its kite-like form, and the red star Antares of the first magnitude. Between it and Hercules wind themselves two large constellations, the Serpent and the Serpent-Bearer, or Ophiuchus. The head of the Serpent is near Corona and marked by a small triangle, whilst the head of Ophiuchus is near the head of Hercules. Cygnus and Aquila are rising above the eastern horizon. In the northeast Lyra, with bright Vega, is climbing up and approaching the meridian. On these constellations, we shall speak more at length in a future article. TOWN HAD REFORMED. There Had Not Been a Hanging in Two Weeks. From the San Francisco Post: A noted evangelist, having stayed over in one of those southwest towns where the hotel keeper depends upon the disconnection of trains for a livelihood, fell into the following talk with the landlord: "You’ve got a good town here, haven't you?" he said. "We think so," replied the host, diplomatically. "Business seems to be lively." "Yes, we're enjoying a boom." "It appears to be improving rapidly." "That’s what." "You don’t have any lynchings here?" Do you?” "Not like we used to." "I’ve heard that it was once very bad in that line." "Well, yes; we used to have a hanging now and then, but it's been a mighty long time now since we had one." “When was the last one?" The landlord studied a moment and counted on his fingers. "I ain't sure," he said at last, "but I think it will be two weeks day after tomorrow." We are agents for the largest and best wine producers in California. We are prepared to fill your orders for Clarendon from 50 cents to $1.25 per gallon. Port and Sherry wines from 75 cents to $1.50 per gallon. These wines are guaranteed to be strictly pure, having been tested by the medical fraternity and recommended as a fine tonic for invalids. Special inducements to parties buying by the barrel, delivered free of charge in any part of the city. We are prepared to bottle these wines at a small expense. We also keep on hand the best brands of old Cognac brandy and whisky and a general line of fine liquors at reasonable prices. Give us a call. M. & A. WISE Corner Morris Avenue and Twentieth Street. 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