Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1881, Page 6

LUNCH AT THE DERBY. ‘The Imposi meredible Appetites rm ST a tncaliny Family, Arecent London letter thus amusingly de- scribes a scene at the Derby: We had gone early to get a good place, and in common with all others at about noon, and be- fore the races had begun, we commenced to un- pack the hampers and make preparations for Tuneheon. Our drag had been detached from the horses, and was then run by hand close to other vehicles; this had been done in the case of all,sothat we were all packed in like sardines. All about us were vehicles of ail sorts; and in each, ery mneh as when one | and sees that during | came out in a twinklin gets up in the morning night all the trees aow that to the general pabl very interesting in the eati nob; but yet L must not the least int x part of Close to us, so that we looked d down on it, was open earri in | man, hi ably, for she | the right the show. reetly which y kk in the tight It con- | w boxes of sard in 8e sisted of a wh a huge roun let y basket © bread. aa which to the nm ahundred, were ound belind the ev dently a reserve ready to be ordered into action at the proper mon and the work of fell to the family proper. One of the young |: of some twen alk iting the lanch es was a. spirituelle | her sisteravas r.and both were dressed rments and were s n diamonds stellations. I wat which was inthe sha y disappeared. The great of beet went down before the assault, offering a resistance searcely worthy the name. | The lobsters came ntly to the front, but the ‘ons was too much aceous band, and they went down | asides columns at Fredericksburg. | as annihilated, the pickles were wiped out, and rank after | allant botties of beer went in and shared the fate of the others. Nothing could stand inst the determined and unceasiffy at- tacks of the English storming column: I became especially interested in the heroic behavior of the younger of the two sisters. She was always in the van, in the thickest of the fight. Whenever she charged everything went | down before her, but it was after the edibles were disposed of that her reserved energies came into play. She had captured more than her share of the beer outposts, and then she volun- teered to assault the reserve of clarets. I think she swallowed from three to four quarts of beer during the meal, and then evidently being a little thirsty, she ordered some Bordeaux. Ina few minutes she absorbed a couple of fu'l classes of claret, and then, thinking perhaps that she needed something to drink, she swallowed a bottle of soda water. A moment or go later, it oectrred to her that she ought to have some- thing to drink: and then the pater fished out from under the seat an immense bottle, the clear- | ness and odor of whese contents when it was uncorked convinced me that it was genuine | old Bourbon. First she took half a glass of claret, which she filled up and drani then she filled up one and placed it conveniently by where she could reach it without difficulty and now, for the first time since the action be- gan, she ceased fri Her bugles had evi- dently sounded a recall, and she fell back from the pursuit and went into camp. That is to say, she brushed off the crumbs, shook out he akirts, pat on her gtoves, arranged her ope glass, scanned the field, and then seated herself await for the race ‘m to be sheer exaggeration: hing of the kind. “I waited t tly off with and report of the explosion of champazne cork. They nothing of the | She never flushe der the operation. e had settled herself for the rice she | Was as serene as if she had just launched of a “woasted strawberry.” It was the most tre- | mendous feat I ever saw: a sort of feat-and-} mouth transaction such as has but few if any paraileis, ——_—_+e-____ FRAUDS AT CHURCH FAIRS. Tables Stocked by Shopkecpers Who | Get Nime-tenths of the Profits. From the N. ¥. Sun. “What a beautifally arranged table and what handsome articles,” remarked @ lady to her escort at a fair im anup-townehurch. The table contained a fine array of fancy articles. There were siiver-mounted hand glasses, carved | dressing cases, lace neckwear, Jewelry and other goods. How the ladies in charze must | have worked to get so many nice things con- tributed. What a marked contrast this table Presents togsome of the others,” said the zen- | tleman. “It will bring the ehureh quite a fund | by itself." The couple moved on, anda gen- | tleman, who had heard tueir conversation, ap- proached and said: “You must excuse me, but I cannot help set- ting you rizht on the subject about which you were just speaking. That table which you io admire, and think will so benefit the church, | is what is called a commission table, and will | not obtain forthe church as much money as | many of the plainer ones. The goods are obtained from recuiar business houses at the current prices. What are sold are paid for, and | what are not sold are returned. All that the | | under favorable conditions. | All the luck a The moonless naked eye, and they rise serenely to View of Saturn. Rights that are passing are a grand gala season for the planets Saturn and Jupiter. They sre now superb objects to the the zenith in the early evening hours, and ate superb be- Yond the power of adequate description, when viewed throngh the telescope. We had a mag- nificent view of Saturn through the fine instra- ment of the found sorbedin the work of measuring the di of the planet's satellites, rings and dis! Seagrave observatory, where we the enthusiastic young astronomer ab- limensions ik. a work to which he has devoted the clear nights of sev- fature fame. The the sky cloudless, of the way, and perfect. From the the definitio dome of th have suddenly pushed out | vatory the planets looked with friendly eyes | Upon the observers who sought to draw them | nearer and increase their dimensiot «d | space-annihilating glass. The observatory, ex- | eral months with a zeal that augurs well for his ight was one of exceptional humblest as well as most aristocratic, luncheons | beauty, the atmosphere clear and serene, the moon safely out on almost ie obset ns in the epting for the click of the clock-work, was as silent as the st turned to a pale gold star beaming , When the telescope was from the in a second of time what transformation took p! into a sphere nearly as lace. The large as the full moon, and shone with an exceedin, brillianey t the eye could scarce without protection. ly endure cling the glow- ing orb were the bewitching rings, and dotted are ad six of the ei moons. Two in the field of vision were of them r onthe left of the planet, one and the others so near the it they looked like the tiniest golden q s, barely pere passing lovelines: x of aw conclu that we were looking compl ed in the scale of we ptible and that was all. The ‘3, the im- @, amaze- asi upon a system vast orlds than. ur little planet, but one-seven hundredth of its size, without a’ sh but one moon. After ha play as a wi tails. The golden sphere see dow of a ring, and owning aa : d_almost to | stand upright within the encircling ri only a small portion of the orb being seen beneath them. The coiorin that sometimes suffuses the west glow of twilight: the belis of cre was of the shade of liquid gold in the any hue crossed the disk with the lightness and grace of udding clond-bands. od out in bold relief, Kind of protecting embrace. perfect. The outer ring with ins, the division between ring, the dark ring, the bla planet and the six How mueh we w The he rings, t glorious ling the planet in a | the wi Every detail was | made of heavy sheet bra rings s slight mark- | there is a spiral stairway ‘he second hed that a | to sea, and at this M. BARTHOLDYs STATUE. A Lecatien for ‘Tribute to American From the New York Star, Noy. 234. For one year the statue of Liberty by Bar- tholdi, Just finished at the works of Gaget, Gauthier & Co., Paris, will stand on exhibition onthe heights of Montrouge, in that city. In the meantime, the American people, through their representatives, will prepare the pedestal for it on Bedloe’s Island, in this harbor. In a letter just received by Mr. Meunier of the Courrier des Etats Unis from the sculptor Bar- tholdi, that gentleman writes: : “My work is finished, and now all that re- mains is for America to do her share in the proper placing of the gift of France in the harbor of her great city.” _ At the time of the Centennial celebration M. Bartholdi advanced the idea of the statue. He gave his description of what it should be, and had placed in Madison square a cast of the hand and torch as it Nenu te on the heroic statue. His proposition was the subject of jest. Un- daunted, however, bythe ridicule his proposition evoked, and ignoring the disregard shown by the people of America, he went to work, and now is gratified with the success that has crowned his labors, and rejoices in the persist- ency which fought down sneers, ridicule and studied disregard. Among his own people, however, his desire that there should be given to the gréat republic, asa gift from France. a testimonial worthy of the two countries, kindied an enthusiasm which, spreading from city to town, fired him in his | Work as he set about the designing of the Statue of Liberty lighting the world to freedom. The great men of France sought the honor of being connected with the enterprise. Towns and cities | vied with each other in raising the funds, as they all desired to have a share in the national gift to America. INTERESTING LEADING AMERICANS. Through Mr. Richard Butler to whom Mr. Bartholdi came introduced by letter, Mr. Wm. M. Evyarts, Mr. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. +. W. Pin- chot and other gentlemen in this country were made to take an interest in the work. The site fixed upon for the placing of the statue was | Bedloe’s Island, in our harbor. It was agreed | upon that America should furnish the pedestal. According to M. Bartholdi’s description of the statue, fully carried out in the completion of . the figure is 100 feet in he ze. Within the figure leading up to the The dimensions are shown when it is | hea k space between the | stated that 100 people at one time can move | about in it, and look out from it milesand miles ‘ance the light of the it chance to wander into that | flaming torch held in the uplifted hand of the charming picture! The view we have described wnifying seven hundred times. low power, increasing the sening the siz Then we used a medium power, and then ended the observation with the same power used at first, satisfactory of all. the most o one can study the Saturnian system with- out a deep apres of the fasiiio i¢ Hand that brought i | @ vast world like this with its girdling wealth of moous. No one can study the on of the wisdom and power into being ri and turn- jan system as revealed in the telescope without the feeling that astronomy is the most fascinat- ing of all the sciences. No one who sees the surpassing picture for the first time forget the sensation aroused by the sig! will ever ht. These are golden opportunities for observing Saturn For four years to come the fings will open more widely and the planet approach nearer to perihelion. For four years to come Saturn will therefore be an object of exceeding interest when near opposition. After 1885 his rings will slowly close, and he will travel slowly away from the sun, until he sub-4 Were of an informal character. eand add a new wonder to the | figure can be seen. HOW THE PEDESTAL IS TO BE RAISED. Tn the year 1877, a committee was formed to make all the necessary preparations for locating | the statue. Mr. William M. Evarts was chosen and Mr. Pinchot treasurer. As it was seen that years would elapse before the statue could be completed,the committee did not think it proper to take any action, but merely contented them- selves with watching the progress of the work. | From estimates made, however, they obtained the probable cost of the pedestal, and settled | upon its size and dimensions. The pedestal on | which this grand gift will be placed will be 175 feet in height. It is estimated that the cost will be about $200,000. This money is to be collected from all sections, and for that purpose the com- mittee, now that the statue is completed, sent invitations to the prominent citizens of various cities to attend a meeting held last evening at the Union League Club rooms. WILLIAM M. EVARTS’ REMARKS. As there were not as many gentlemen present as was expected at the meeting the proceedings Hon. William sides into the dull, murky star that astronomers | M. Evarts, the president of the committee, re- have made omnious of evil to the human race. Before he returns to his present beaming aspect | after his perihelion passage nearly thi will pass, and nearly all who now rej irty years pice in his bright appearance will have passed beyond the gates that separate the mortal from the im- mortal.— Providence Journal. a The Story of a Stowawa, From Punch. talked before Of the hurricane and tempest, and the Sea and shot Fe Come, my lad, and sit beside me; we have often storms on When we read of deeds of daring,done for dear old England’ sake, have ¢ Wi Nelson's duty, and the ent of lite, in long’ procession, calmly y! their life. Pomps and pageants have their glory,in cathedral E seen an Marble emtigie rin To. Whilst you of Liverpool. love adventure, bid them gather 0 terprise of » fever'd din of battle, roll of drum, and sere: | Heroes pass fielding up but seldom of the mercantile ma- 1 Scli0u! li them of a hero, Captain Strachan Spite of storm and stress of weather, in a gale that ash’d the land, On the “Cyp took nis st He was not ther sailor, and he o1 the boast ‘That the ocean safer sheltered than the narvon coast. Hie'd a coed ship underneath him, and English form, So he sailed from out the Mersey in the and starm. rh screw steamer,there the Captain ten made wild Car- acrew of hurricane Was dead against him—with the tem- pest at its heigint, Fires expired, and rudders parted, in the middie ot the night Sails were torn and rent asunder. ‘Then he spoke With bated breath “Save yourselves, my ing to our deathi?? allant fellows! weare drift- Then they looked at one another, and they felt the awtul shock, ext UPON & TOCK. All Was miles of foam A louder crash than tempest, they were a ver now and hopeless; but aeross those They could hear the shouts of people,and could see the lights of home. “all Is over!” screamed the Captain. answered duty’s cal Save yourselves! I canuot help yout mercy on us all!” So they rushed about like madmen,seizin ar, and ro For the su est ray of hope— Then, amiist the wild confusion, at the dreaded | dawn of day, ‘You have God have ig belt,and lor knows Where life ts,these’s the faint- church receives is the commission given by the | From the hold of that doomed vessel crept a merchant. This commission sometimes reaches | ‘as high as 15 per cent, but more frequently does | Rot exceed 10 per cent. From this you can | easily see that if a commission table in an even- ing takes in £50. the pros only amounts to #5. | If Z10 is taken in at of the tables where the | goods are contributed. the church fares doubly aswell. Many iadies like to make a great show at their tables, and adopt the commission method. It is muen easier to get them this | way than to get them for nothing, or to per- sonally make up fancy articles. People are | attracted by the ureatest display, and, as in the | Present instance, the lady who has the com-| mission table ets vreater credit than the one | who has got her goods contributed, and who | has been to much more trouble. | “Fairs are usually gotten up fora religious | or charitable purpose and the money expended at them is not for the articles received, but for the benefit of the deserving object. When a} mran_ spends ten dollars at a commission table he thinks that his money is expended for this good | Whereas nine-tenths of it goes into The pockets of the wealthy merchant, who | really Owns the articles until they are seid.” | For the past three years the system of selling | goods on commission in fairs has _ steadily gained ground. Many merchants sell thous- ands of doilars worth of goods in this way. It | isconsidered a regular source of revenue, and | is courted by many firms, who, in addition to | Teceiving a fair price for their wares, also get | & very good advertisement. Frequently a piano | manufacturing firm give a $500 plano toa fair, Which is raMed for at #1. chanee, there being 500 chances. For this Piano the firm gets 250 | in cash and 250 ehances, to say nothing of-the advertisement. Other valuable artieles which are raffied for in large fairs are often obtained im this way. —-¢-—____ Gems, The rarest of all gems is not the diamond, Which follows after the ruby. This in its tarn allows precedence to the chrysoberyl—popularly known asthe cat's eye. The true stone comes from Ceylon, though Pliny knew of something similar under the name of zimilampis, found in the bed of the E pirates, Can we wonder, when we look at one of these singular produc- fons of nature, with its silvern streak in the center. and observe, as we move it ever 80 ightly, the mazie rays of varying light that Miumine its surface, that pee Wretched Stowaway! Who fe tell the saddened story of this it miserable Was 1 wild adventure stirred him,was he going to oy Was he thief, or buily’s victim, or a runaway from school, When he stole Liverpool No one lool paralyzing roar. All alone bi hat fatal passage trom the port of xed at him, or kicked him, ‘midst the felt the danger,and he saw the distant shi Over went the gallant fellows, when the ship was break! t, ny ing Last, And the Captiin with his lifebelt—he prepared to | follow last; But he gr “Who are you?” roared out the Captain. boy What stow’d away?” Wa boy neglected, with a face of ashy “Pm the There was searce another second left te think what he could do, For the fatal ship was sinking—Death was ready for the two. So the Captain called the outcast—as he faced the tempest wiid— his own Waist took the Iifebelt bound it round the child! “I can swim, my little fellow! make for land. Up, and to From kiss his hand. it—and he Take the belt, and save yourself!” The outcast humbly knelt. ‘With the lifebeit round his bédy then the urchin cleared the ship; Over went the gallant Captain, with a blessing on. Ss But the Murrteane howled louder than it ever howled before. As the Captain and the Stowaway were. making for the shore! ‘When you tell this lows at schoo! gehen erey to your playfel- ‘They will ask you of the hero, Captain Strachan of Liverpool. You must answer: They discovered, on the beach at break of day, Safe—the battered, breathing body of the little Stowaway; And they watehed the waves of wreckage and they searched the cruel shore @ But the man who tried to save the little outcast— ‘Was no more, When they speak of English heroes, tell this story where you ¢s can, the rast’ of the bra of mi Ten iecut ta tones oe with tears ahd Tell itout t tones of triumph or quickened breath, hood’s stronger far than storms, and Love is htier than Death!” HIANLAN’S CHALLENGE AccrPrEp. — Boyd, the a a8 Written to ferring to the time when it was expected to place the statue in position, said that “there was ample time, provided the committee set about the performance of their part of the work at once, to have all things in readiness.” “Tt was proposed,” he said, ‘‘as the most fit- ting time for the placing of the statue to await, the coming of the centennial anniversary of the signing of the treaty at Vers: in 1783, which made this country a free ai ependent na- tion.” Mr. Richard Butler, whose interest in the work since the day M. Bartholdi spok to him of the affair has been most earnest and thorough, read the letters received by him from the gen- tlemen to whom invitations had been sent to co-operate with the committee inthe work. He had visited Paris in 1878, and was delighted with the work. He spoke of the interest. which all the people of France took in the af Th the greatest and most honored of the citizens, sought to become identified with the enterprise. Senators and members of the go ernment look upon it asan honor, and gladly consented to serve on the committee appointed by France. Other gentlemen, referring to the amount of ised in France, gave as an instance of the liberality of the people that one gentleman gave to the sculptor Bartholdi $0,600 pounds of copper. It was hoped that the same spirit would be manifested in this country, when the people would be called upon to subscribe for the fi for the building of the pedestal—America’s part of the work in the great monument to liberty. ———_—+o+ ___ Selling Out a Menagerie. From the N.Y. Sun. Bolivar was a very sad elephant yesterday as he stood under the large tent at Van Amburgh &Co.’s winter quarters at Amenia. He glanced wistfully from the double-horned rhinoceros to one R. R. Thompson, who stood upon a high circus wagon proclaiming Bolivar’s virtues. Bolivar was sad because he thought he was about to be parted from his friend, the rhinoce- ros, who himself was much depressed. The Burmese cow was eyeing enviously the double- humped Bactrian camel, called by children and poets ‘the ship of the desert.” “Two dromeda- ries “which,” said a keeper in an explanatory tone, “they has but one hump, whereas most. folks believes they has two,” were hanging thei heads in decorous silence. The hyena laughed his mocking, sardonic laugh at the oryx and the hartebeest, and even went so far as to ridicule the Hay animal. Bolivar has been for many years the five-ton pet of Ven Amburgh & Co. They never pun- ished him when he strolled from his stall to the candy stand and consumed its contents in the absentee of the guileless vender. They merely called out, “ Johnson is coming,” and thén Boli- var hurried back to his stall. Johnson has been Bolivar’s keeper, and his insinuating manners have given him great influence over his child of India. These five tons of elephantine matter were greatly admired yesterday. Ad. Fore- paugh and. his son Addie regarded them with Tespect ; Johnny Forepaugh, O'Brien's agent, was lost in caleulations, while W. W. Cole, strik- ing an attitude in which he resembled Edwin Booth in “Hamlet,” muttered, “To buy or not to buy.” | Jim Bailey, Dan. Shelby, Doc Thayer, the ex-showman ; W. W. Stewart, Doc Riley, Sammy Booth, Oscar Hyatt, W. C. Coup, Wiz. ins. of Detroit ; Lewis Sells, Keleh, Gaylard & ryer. Hutchinson, Fuqua, Barnum’s horseman; Martin, the Robbinses, and Furzman were there, while Hyatt Frost and 0. J. Ferguson, who are Van Amburzh & Co., pervaded the tent. “Bolivar,” said Mr. Thompson, from the wa- gon, “is the largest elephant’ in this country. The only elephant that’s larger belongs to the Prince of Wales and is at the London Zoo. Bolivar will dance a waltz, balance himself on a | epg and stand ou two legs. What do you id for Bolivar, gentlemen?? ‘Five thousand dollars,” sang out Jake Reed, Ad. Forepaugh’s buyer. Bailey went him $100 better, and the bidding between the two con- tinued until Bolivar was knocked down to Fore- paugh at $7,100. “The double-horned thinuceros, gentlemen,” called out Mr. Thompson, “weighs 3,500 yunds, There’s none like him. ‘What's your bid, gen- tlemen?” Again the bidding was between Fore- pecse and Bailey, until the rhinoceros was nocked down to the former at €2,450. Most of the other animals were also bought by Ad. Forepaugh, whose purchases aggregated $17,500. The bids on the Burmese cow and the zebra were so low that these were not sold, and they _— ri la ere lings wae pe The ‘omedary broug! he rian camel is and the eh pee ‘en some of the wagon cages and wardrobe ‘Wagons were put op A large number of horses weresold to farmers oS athe neighborhood. The prices varied from Ail the animals except the were left on the ground. The shades of night had fallen, when two men emerged from the depot bearing & wooden slat box. “A horn moved violently to and fro between two of the slats, and a leg was kicking lustily at the nearest carrier. who walked alongside was poking his umbrella into the box, and stirring it around as one stirs soup ladle. “Is that the asked able dispaten | And when he has refused to row on any river | he strack ‘ad_as Hanlan’s representative in- : ‘Alas, poor rowed =o upon the to be de- president of the committee, Mr. Butler secretary | ‘The Noweat.a Out of Society: SUITS FOR THE SUITOR—PANCY VESTS AXD CLOSE FITTING GARMENTS RULE THR HOUR. From the New York Herald. At the present time a man of fashion must have a frock suit, a dress suit, a cutaway buit, a sack suit; a light overcoat, aheavy overcoat and astorm coat. His suits must be changed four or five tim year. The increase in the quan- tity of elegantly designed and expensively made garments in this country within the past few seer ae een eae ninety per cent.3 {Gentle- Many of these are In cameo, with diamond’ or other stone setting. A very rich charm is the aqui-marine stone about the size of a five-cent nickel, $100. Fossil trilo- bites are curiosities which are said to be ex- tremely ancient. They are dark grayish color. and one can discern the outlines of a shellfish in this dark mass. One of these trilobites is much sought after by gentlemen of wsthetic taste In charms there is a gold skull, with dia- mond or ruby eyes that will rolt about and competitors of Iroquois were a poor lot. The Doncaster St. Leger wasa dreadfully sensational shock, but the same excuse held good. But | when Foxhall, under the conditions and cai ing the weight he took up vanquished 7 horses and the cream of the English turf, Bend Or, Incendiary, Tristam, Lucy stone, Post Obit, Muriel, Philammon. master, then the heretofore greatest raciag peo- ple in the world awoke to the fact th was now a greater and all deceptive self-adula- tory excuses laid aside, the trae spirit of | the people came out in the expres-| sion of generous admiration and applause. | EURALGIA, NERVOUSNESS, SICK READACHR, NERVOUS HEADACHY, DYSPEPTIC HEADACHE, SLEEPLESSNESS, PARALYSIS AND DYSPEPSIA, TT I8 A FULLY ESTABLISHED FACT, BASED ON LARGE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE, AND THERE IS NO KIND OF DOUBT BUT THAT THESE DISEASES CAN BE CURED. Dr. C. W. BENSON'S Celery and Chamomile Pills are Prepared expresiy to cure Sick Headache, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Paralynis, Sleep: Jeamess and Indigestion or Dyspepaia, and will cure men who can afford it always wear the most ex- pensive materials trimmed in the most expensive manner. Fashionsare undergoing quite a change; no padding. or haircloth is used, coats being made soft to fit the form. This will not please thase with “narrow, ill-shaped shoulders, and. at first, they may rebel, but will eventually yield to the goddess; Gentlemen are emerging from the plain dark clothes worn so long to bright colorings now so fashionable in ladtes’ dress. Three different classes of goods are often seen in one suit, and the scarf or necktie ia of the most flaming hue. Moorish and Oriental colorings and designs are shown in the various styles of neckwear, and the fashionable vest is in bright and pretty tints. The prevailing style of vest is single breasted, without collar, closing high and cut short and straight across the bottom. Double breasted vests are not worn. Garments of all kinds have never been worn as high at the neck asnow. There is a.tendency to put flat braid on almost all classes ef goods except fancy suit- ings. Braids of various widths are used, the six and eight line being most in favor.’ The tight trousers are cut by all the fine trades in New York, and such athing as loose panta- loons is not known; but this is not the case in London, as the leading tailor there cuts the trousers as loose as were being worn here years ago. A NEW STYLISH SUIT. Fancy mixturs are in demand for frock suits, sack suits and overcoats. Light grey mixtures with smooth surface are used for dressy over- coats, and green also isin favor. The gener. tendency is for fine goods, yet Scotch suitings | are more popular than they have been for sey- | eral seasons past. Pin checksare still in fashion, | and some make them in cutaway coats to be worn with trousers and vests of one color For overcoats there are the Elysians, Shetlands, fur beavers and Montaignacs and many kinds of plain goods. Anexceedingly stylish suit has just been finished for a gentleman of small stature, of the following description:—The trousers and vests are of black eloth. The three- buttoned cutaway is in blue and black clieck. With this will be worn a black satin scarf to change with one of bluesatin. The overcoat | worn with the suit will be of light “livery” | color, lined with silk of the same hue, anda | velvet collar to match. The overcoat is cut in ingle breasted sack. The effect. is extremely stylish and appropriately worn by any dressy gentleman under forty. The entire suit, made of one kind of cloth. is only admissible for business purposes or for | travelling. The double breasted sack suit is cut witha light double breast and narrow lapel, with five buttons to close. It is shapely at the back and the sleeves are cut small and crooked. | (All sleeves, including overcoat sleevs, are cut thus.) The cuffs are stitched on about two inches deep and finished with one button. For aman five feet eight inches the fashionable length 1s from twenty-nine to thirty inches. These sack suits are usually made of fancy suitings. Young men who find the sack suit particularly becoming can still wear it made in three different kinds of goods—the coat of fur beaver, Elysians, or any kind of fashionable goods, the yest ‘of fancy cassimere, and the trousers of something in fancy striped material and cut tight. The double breasted pea jacket, with patch pockets, will be worn made in heavy overcoating, blue fur beaver being a favorite. qT are lined throughout with silk and trimmed with braid. They are extremely becoming to tall youag men, andwhen worn with a Derby hat are quite effective. FASHIONABLE OVERCOATS. A handsome style is the “surtout” coat. “It is a double-breasted frock, the sleeves quite tight and lapels faced with quilted silk, aud velvet collar. One of the most select styles is the single breasted sack ot Shetland beaver, cut rather short. It is handsome, made of rough combination goods, blue face with golden tinge, areally beautiful color. A coat made of this material for a very dressy gentleman is lined with heavy silk serge and finished with velvet collar. No matter how cold the weather is the | hionable young man must not feel it, for to produce the elegant effect the coat fronts should e turned back to show the rich silk facings and shly cut undercoat. for a top garment isthe loose oversack, by young “swells” and street, and will in many | take the place of the alster. The newest thing in the way of this latter coat is the frock ul with a short waist. Ail fancy shapes in ulsters are passe and but little used. A three button cutaway, rather short waist. with long skirts, the bac! y ance of a dress suit, is very fashionable. shoulders are made close to the body and shortened, the slee These coais are bound flat with silk lines wide. This makes a very good evening coat, although the double-breasted frock coat is the coat for receptions or dinner parties. The three button cutaway can be made of any class of goods that may please the faney—of diagonal cloths or gay colorings. It is used for street wear with fancy vest, and the fancy vest is also worn with the double-breasted frockeoats. Cutaway coats have been worn for some time past, but the shape at present is quite another style. ‘Trousers measure 17 knee and 17 around the bottom, but some of the toniest young men will have them as small as 15 inches. Th are made principally in striped goods. Fancy vest: | are again introduced, and some noted are ¢: tremely pretty. They are sure to become popu- lar with gentiemen who pay attention to dress during the winter. One recently made is of blue cassimere baraud, with a few red threads, and closed with large cornelian buttons. With a blue diagonal three buttoned cutaway and dark striped trousers it looked very nice. EVENING SUITS AND JEWELRY, The full dress suit has undergone material changes. The cloth now fashionable is a small, very fine wail diagonal, and a very fashionable coat must be lined with white watered silk. The trousers haye a black braid stitched on the side, no pockets, and are lined throughout with black silk.- The vest has but three buttons. There are two kinds of dress for wedding purposes—a fall di suit and a frock suit. If the bride is in full dress and the wedding in the eve- ning the groom should wear a black dress coat, black yest and trousers, white tie and ‘gloves, patent leather high gaiters, with plain kid tops. If the bride appears in dark dress the gloves should be of a delicate shade, not white, and the groom should wear a full dress suit, with black tie, and gloves of light color. For a morning wedding the bride would be dressed in dark colors, in which case the gen- tleman should appear in a dark frock suit, with @ plain dark tie or scarf, with gloves of light color and calf skin gaiters, with kid tops. Gen- tlemen have worn hats with Mae narrow brims for some time past; but this fali the introduc- tion of wide rimmed hats for the ladies has | made a change in men’s . The rims are much wider. and a bell crown with a wide rim, it is said, is Lae coming into fashion. The gypsy ring in hammered gold is the new- est style of finger ring for gentlemen, and the most popular stone is the cat’s eye. The emer- ald, ruby or diamond Is also set in this style. rings are rather out of fashion; they are not generally worn in winter, There are num- erous novelties in scarf pins, many of which are very valuable. An owl's head, made of Labra- dor spar, with diamond eyes, is very odd, and another new thing is the 0 quartz in heads and various other sl lammered gold ser- pents, forming a capital letter, are also new, and a gentleman may wear his initial on his scart If he so pleases. Another odd fashion is a half dozen pins, three silver and three gold, crossing each other and mounted on a long pin to wear on the scarf. 3 Something very new.are fresh water pearls in thelr natural shape, forming heads of animals, fishes, &c. These are Rot very expensive, yet it yy them. Among toes is impossible to curiosities Is a h bust, the exact like- almost in- pences credible that of iteel it it is true, and is now mounted ona gold ae be worn on the scarf Of some gentleman who may chance to see admire it. Plaques of ‘inds are still fashionable, and Cats, rabbits, mice and birds are all. itily enamelled to ap- ers as natural as A little gold basket akitten peeping out from under the a gold pipe has a 1s ® mouse is jumping 91 monkey grin ing an ak dress, a mouse in a ol bag, and a monkey shaving himself; many more oddities oe pee as hfe” Sod 1 Se mi boo scarf all oe and natural bunch of forget-m: enamel, forms a ¥ery WATCH CHAINS AND CHARMS, » ' ‘Fine double chains in platinum and gold com- Jaws that wiil va! and shut. A small hand glass with gold frame is a nobby charm, and tor sporting men there is a little gold box with two pretty dice. A jumping jack will keep his arms and legs swinging as long as you puil a little gold cord, and a novel charm is a lady’s bonnet, enamelledin blue and white. The newest thin, in pencils, which are now worn on one end of double chain,are those made of hammered gold. These are not only useful, but considered very stylish. Gentlemen now carry small watches. The latest style case is of hammered gold, with solid gold face and enamelled figures. zentie- men who wish to pay from $700 to #1.000 for a watch to present to a lady there are some wi cases entirely of diamonds; and shduld a lover's quarrel occur there is little danger of their suf- fering the bitter pang of having the watch re- turned. WEIGHE Sensational Year in the His- tory of the Turf. a IN. The Most SOME OF THE STARTLING EVENTS THAT HAVE MADE IT SO PUT TO THE SCALES—THE TH MENDOUS RACING ROOM ITSELF, AND THE EX- CITING PERFORMANCES ON AMERICAN TRACKS— THE ASTOUNDING VICTORIES ABROAD—CONVER- SION OF BRITISH PUBLIC OPINION—THE CRITICS XDED AND THE “SHINE TAKEN OUT OF THEM”—FOXHALL THE BEST THREE-YEAR-OLD IN THE WORLD, IF NOT THE BEST RACER THAT EVER STOOD ON IRON. From the Brooklyn Eag'e. With the racing at Jerome Park on election day there may be said to have closed a year un- paralleled in the history of the turf, for the number and importance of events decided, the interest taken in racing matters by the public, and the general boom as regards the noble Sport to which the thoroughbred by his game- ness, endurance and speed contributes. It has been an annus mirabilis, chiefly on account of the performances of horses bred in this country, and which, having crossed the Atlantic, have met and vanquished the greatest cracks of the world, the equine pride of England and of France. If, be- fore the event, any one should have prophesied that in one year two American horses would capture the Derby, the blue ribbon of the Eng- lish turf, the St. Leger, the white ribbon of the English turf, the grand prize of Paris, the Czare- witch, the Cambridgeshire and the Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot. these constituting the chief events contesfed in England and France, he would justly have been set down as horse mad. Yet Iroquois and Foxhall did just this, and it alone would mark the year as an unpa- ralled one in the history of horse racing. The Tuesday’s races at Jerome closed up the run- ning of the year appropriately. It had been a season of extraordinary events, as regards the quality of the struggtes made, and the closing day was EXPONENTIAL IN THIS RESPECT. As the opening of the season drew near, the nominations for the fixed events at the various Tace courses closed and the list of subscriptions came to be published, the size of the racing boom which had come on the country began dimly to be understood. The nominations for the ures at Saratoga were found to be nearly one thousand in number, or three times as many as at any previous year. Those for Jerome Park, Monmouth Park, Sheepshead Bay, Baltimore and Brighton Beach were pro- portionally almost as many and the same was rue of the asssociations in the western division. The season opened and very soon took on a very sensational aspect. The whole community seemed to go crazy over horses and the gambling mania affected nearly all classes and raged furi- ously not only among the regular habitues of the turf, but among hundreds of thousands who, before this year, had never seen a horse race. Women became betters and the pool rooms were crowded by the hoary headed and the youth ali Such crowds on the race track were, except in some few and notable occasions, neve! seen before. The quantity of racing was unpar= alleled. In the two Saratoga meetii were thirty-eight days of almost continuous racing. At Brighton Beach there were fifty-two. There were two formal meetings at Baltimore, two at Jerome Park, two at Monmouth Park and two at Sheepshead Bay. At Brighton Beach there was almost no let up from the beginning tothe end. Yet the crowds were constant and of a size never seen before. The season was MARKED BY STARTLING EY! The great Blackburn, deemed invincible and backed fora very mint of money, was vanquished by Glenmore and amultitude went broke. Hin- doo, justly regarded as the greatest three year old inthe world, started on the career of his second year and went on from conquering to conquest until the number of his consecutive victories amounted to eignteen, and until he too was regarded as invincible and then he suc- cumbed to his rival, Crickmore, whom he beaten before, but who now turned the tables on him ina way that broke hearts as well as bank accounts." The element of the sensational pervaded every day’s racing. The people went to the track every day expecting to see something extraordinary and were generally gratified in this respect. Warfield wins when not expected to do so, making great races. He fails when failure is thought impossible and when the money thatis piled on him as favorite would pay for a drove of such as he. Ina great four m heat race Elias Lawrence takes a heat from the tremendous Glenmore and half-maddens an immense crowd and then is distanced and broken down for good. Finishes are made of the most exciting character as regards the qual- ity of the contest and its closeness. Great fields of first-class ones are unexpectedly beaten by the rankest of outsiders. All kinds of strange things occur. The peerless Parole rolls up the grandest victories and then ignominously fails. Monitor goes off and disappoints everybody and then unexpectedly wins great races. Surprise breaks his neck. Edelweiss runs brilliant races, and then is injured and shot on thetrack. Check- mate, with great lumps of weight on him, runs a mile and three-quarters a second faster than it was ever run in the world before. Thora electri- fies the equine universe by running three milesin 534, the fastest on record, a second faster than ‘fen Broeck performed the feat, he a year older and carrying but five pounds more. ‘The final day, closing the season at Jerome and winding it up, so to speak, everywhere, was of a piece of the rest. It was eiection day and a bitter and important political contest was to be settled. The day was cold, cheerless, drizzling, foggy and too uncomfortable for anything. The tract was a mortar bed. Yet five thousand peo- ple and over let the ELECTION GO TO THE Docs, and went to Jerome Park. They faced the rain and the raw east wind. They packed the spe- cial trains to suffocation. A dense fog enveloped the scene. At one end of the grand stand the other could scarcely be seen. When the start was to be a furlong from the judges’ stand the starter was invisible, and so were the horses, and a relay of signal makers had to be stationed along the track from the starter’s stand to the timer’s stand to let the timer know when the horses were off. The only part of such a race visible was the horses eme! from a fog bank on the left to be swallowed up by the fog bank on the right, and finally to again at the finish, or perhaps dimt teen as they the binff and loop at the club house. five thou- saud people found their intense delight in all this, and endured the buffetings of the elements to see the outsider Viola startle body by his unexpected vic- tory aul the terride sjrugele at the finish as gon. ol eine winds, prove his ligree and his in his triumph over ue Lodge in the eleven-furlong race THE SENSATIONAL CHARACTER of the racing abroad, in which American horses took part and in which they were victors, can easily be imagined. There wasa revision of the “American Notes” begun when the war of se- cession opened John Bull's eyes to the im tance of the Yankee, whom he had been to di . The ¥ wasa and did cot breve teat eos BH true American type. Brother Jonathan di 3PSh0 sah cana nes This may be regarded as the crowning sensation of a year of sensations on the turf on both s | of the Atlantic, this conversion of British opin- | ion on the subject of American racehors 0 more now is heard the excuse, which was in John Buli’s mouth, when Trequois captu the Der- by, that after all it. was an EF: there were no Ameriean horses tory drove the British eritic out of tha fuge, Iroquois and horses @F else their ow an | rs were Britons. | UB. | Brother Gardner's Dissertation on the Perfectly Honest Man. “If IT should find a perfeckly honest man— honest in his expressions, honest in his dealings, sincere in his statements—I shouldn't like him,” er Gardner as the meeting was calied ie would be a lonesome ob aige. He would seek in vain for companions While I believe dat honesty am de bes’ policy, T doan’ look to see it practiced beyand a certain limit. When I trade mutes wida man I kinder like todoubt his word. Iwant tofeeldatheam keepin’ still "bout de ring-bones an’ spavins, "an dat de beast he says am jist turnin’ fo'teen y'ars will nebber see his twenty-first birthday no moar. It am monotonous to deal wid a maa who am per- feckly honest. If Tienda man money I want him to be honest ‘nuff to return it, but if he kin trade me a watch worth $3 fora gun worth seben I shall think none the less of him. were so sincere dat we whateber dey asserted we should he * argyments. When I gibi pect to pay it. When I ax a man ho. would like to trade his wheelbarrow far my doz I'm not gwine to inform him dat Cwsar ain all bark an’ no bite, an’ he am not ¢wine dat he borrowed dat wheelbarrow an’ forgot to return it. of his sto’ Ize i tell me in de night Ifa grocer leaves me in zwine to sot fur half an hour bes’ rrings an’ keep my hands in my pockets all de time. Yet. if dat same man sells me a pound of tea he expects me to ty an’ pass oif on him awhalf dollar wid a hole in it. “Continer, my frens, to believe dat honesty am de bes’ policy, but ‘doan’ expect too muc!: so-called honest men. You kin trust men wid your wallett who would borrow a pitchfork an’ nebber return it. You kin lead your hoss toa man who would cheat you blind in tradin’ ober- coats. You kin send home a pa’r of dead ducks at noon by a man who would steal your live ickens at midnight. When I lend my naybur Mocha coffee I like to wonder if he won't pay it back in Rio. When de ole woman buys caliker ona guarantee she rather hopes it will fade in de washin’. I solemnly believe dat de world am honest nuff jist as itam. When you gin your word stick to it if it busts de bank. When you do a job of work do it well. When you make a debt pay it. Any man who am mo” honest dan dat will want you to cuta penny in two to make out his shilling; he will ring you up at midnignt to return your mousetrap; he will take one shin- gle from your bunch an’ offer you de 100th part of what de bunch cost; he will borrow your boot- Jack an’ insist dat you borrow his washboard to offset it. We will now proceed to bizness.” TOO MUCH INSANITY. “They heah a letter from Ohio axin’ me if dis American nashun am not becomin’a nashun of lunaties,” said the President, while the janitor was fixing up the stove anew. “Dar am good reason to think so. When a Cabinet officer sells his honor fur money what shall we call it? When a Judge panders to de criminal class what shall we term it When honest, respectable men will turn poli huns an’ wallow inde mire fur de sake of securin’ office, kin you call it anythi -but lunacy? Men commit murder, and we dis- kiyer dat dey hey bin insane fur years. Men steal, rob an’ embezzle, an’ insanity has to b’ar de burden. I kin pick up dis ink bottle an’ walk over and crack ElderToots’ skull an’ plead insanity, and expect a jury to clear me. Pickles Smith kin waylay me as I go home to-night an’ rob me of #2 in silver, a recipe far saltingdown clams an’ a photograph of General Jackson landin’ from the Mayflower, an’ yit it he pleadsin- sanity he am sartin to go free. “Let me say to you dat I doan’ believe in in- sanity. De insane burglar who enters my cabin will miss de top of his head. De iunatic who draws a knife on me am gwine to get hurt. I keep a dog to bite the insane theives who want to plunder my garden. If I am drawn ona jury, I shall wote to send eber he robs I shall call ‘him a robber; when he kills, T shall cail it murder, an’ hold dat de jury who lets him off am entitled to thirty lashes apiece at de whippin’ post.” sel Ae Are Men’s Heads Growing Smalier. Allow me to draw the attention of your readers to a statement which is certainly strange, if true. An opinion is prevalent in the hat trade that the size of men’s heads has under- gone a decrease within the last thirty or forty years. The following statement has been given to me by a hatter whose name has attained a | pre-eminence of a duration of more than one ition. ‘*Five-and-thirty years ago,” he "when I was a young man, we used to hase hats for retail trade in the following 212114229934 93_981¢ inches. num- r........0—1—3—4—$ At the present time,” he adds, “I am selling hats in this ratio: Sizes... ..21—21}4 90 991493 9814 inches. Relative num- ber. 3—4—3—1—1—0.” A manufacturer writes: *‘I should say that heads generally are two sizes less than at the time you Tefer to. A head of more than twenty-four inches’ circumference is now quite a rarity, while we make thousands of hats for heads with a circumference of about twenty-one inches.” I have received similar statements from other members of the trade, both wholesale and retail, and therefore feel that no further apology is re- quired for bringing them under your notice. Accepting the statement quantum valeat, I have endeavored to ascertain whether I could find any explanation or confirmation thereof. I have not succeeded, and therefore venture to ask in- formation or opinions through your columns. The statement comes to me not only from men of experience in the trade, but from men of in- telligence and observation exercised beyond the limits of the shop or the factory. It is, I am in - formed, extensively believed among hatters; it may, nevertheless, be merely a general impres- sion. The diminution, it is said, is observed mostly among grooms and menof that class in the social scale. If this be really the case, the change should be noticeable also among sol- diers. The diminution is possibly more appar- ent than real, and may be traceable to alteration say purel ratio: any case, no matter how obstinate, if proporiy used. They are notacureall, but only for those special aise eases. 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DAUPHIN, Pres. Lowisiana State Lottery Co. _ New Ozurans, La., July 4. 1881, __ alt ILLARD HOTEL LOTTERY DRAWING, 47m FEBRUARY, 1882, OR MONEY REFUNDED. Lovrsvitee, Ky., November 10, 1881. Resolved, That the Board of Commissioners consent to Postponement of thed rawing of the Willard Hotel Lots , until the 14th day of Febraary, 1882, and that y Will not consent to any further postponement of tery, be ‘same. Rost. Mattony, Chsirman, By the above resolution this drawing uilist aud will had’ on en the day fixed, or money distributed back to ticket-holders, If ticketa are sold, before date fixed, the will be had, and ouch dra notice of same will be given firough the payers: LIST OF PRIZES: The Willard Hotel, with all ite Fixtures and Furniture. . #2 in the style of hair-cutting, or of wearing the Tater to Nature ee AN OUTLAW’S SWEETHEART. Bri ing Down a Bit of Coin with a ‘as She Rides at Full Speed. From the St. Louis Chronicle. The robbers used frequently to shoot at tar- gets in company with their sweethearts, in the n22-eokktfeblé