Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1890, Page 10

10 wow F NOTE. The Hospitalities Extended to Mrs. Grant by Mrs, Harrison. Far BETROTMAL oF BAYARD AND COUNT) LEOWENGAUPT—THE HOTSEMOLDOF MR.IUSTICE BREWRR—A WOMAN OF DISTINGUISHED LINEAGE | FROM THE KETSTONE STATE. The recent visit of Mrs. Grant to Washington asthe guest of Mr. Washington McLean was not only replete with the social honors due to the relict of one of the foremost occupants of the executive office, but it was also made nota- ble by the attentions shown her by Mra, Har- rison. No presiding lady ever recognized with more distinguished courtesy the propricties due to a former lady of the execative mansion than did Mrs. Harrison daring the sojoura of Mrs. Grant et the capital. At the reception to the diplo- matic corps on Tuesday night Mrs. Grant was au especially in’ guest and took precedence of eve: one. After the President and Mrs, Harrison took their places to receive the bril- liant throng of gnests the way wna opened to admit Mrs. Grant first. The distinguished guest, arrayed in a robe of somber hue. ¢1 d and was cord: received by the President. Them advancing toward Mrs. Harrison, who stood in the place she bad held for years, the two women greeied each other with womanly tenderness. ter sing s few moments in pleasant conversation Mra. G the line in queenly step. gracefully i: her head as she pnssed in of t the Vice President and each lady of the cabinet, and then took a piace behind the line, where she remained # short time receiving the atten- tions of the distinguisied persons assembled there and then retired from the building. THE PROPOSED LUNCHEON. In order to do formal honor to her predeces- sor among the presiding ladies of the exec- Btive mansion, as soon as Mrs. Grant made her first call of etiquette Mrs. Harrison made up a list of ladies to meet her at a luncheon. The invitations, written on a sheet of parchment paper 4x6 inches. with the national escutcheon embossed in gold at the top and inclosed in a suitable envelope. also bearing the national arms in gold, read as follows: Mrs. Harrison Fequests the picasure of Mrs. luncheon on Thursday, January sixteenth, at one o'clock, To mect Mrs. Grant. In making up the persounel of the guosts it was Mrs, Harrison's wish, as far as practicable, to inciude Jadies who were prominent in the official and social lite of the administrations of President Grant. This element was recognized in Mrs. MeCulloch, wife of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury; Mra. Cresswell, wife of the ex- Postmaster General, and Mrs, Chandler, widow of the Secretary of the Interior during that in public affairs, The rest of te dis- tinguished roll bore such well-known names as Mrs. McKee, the deughter of the President; Mrs, Graut, the honored guesi of the occasion: Mrs. Washington Mel. 5 Grant; Mrs. Jobo R. McLean, Mrs. Gen. Hazen and Mrs, Bugher. daughter of Mrs. McLean; Mrs. Logan, Mra. Morton. wife of the Vice President: Mrs. Biaine, Mrs. Windom, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Wanamaker, Mrs. Tracy, Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Rusk, ladies of the cabinet; Mrs. Carey. niece of the Secretary of War: Mrs. John Hay. Mrs. Senator Hale, Mra, Rep- resentative J. C. Breckinridge, Mrs. J. F. Mal- Jer, Mrs. Senator Edmunds, Mrs, J. W. Foster, Mrs. Howard White, daughter of Senator Saw- yer; Mrs. J. S. Clarkson. Mra, Senator Stan- ford, Miss Abigail Dodge, the guest of Mrs. Blame; Mrs. Col. Ernest, Countess Esterhaz?, Mra. J. M. Wilson and Mrs. Fabnley, her guest: Mrs. B. H. Warder, Mrs, Senator Frye. Mra, George B. Williau:s, Mrs. and Miss Ailen of In- diana, guests at the executive mansion; Lady Pauncefote, wife of the British minister; Madame Romero, wife of the Mexican minister: Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs, Justice Harlan, Mrs, Roosevelt and Mra. Representative Findlay of Maryland, a guest at the executive mansion, The arrangements made by Mrs. Harrison Were of acharacter to honor such a brilliant sasemblae of the noted women of the new re- gms at the cupital. Owing to the unexpected ath of Mr. Waiker Blaine and as a mark of sympathy by Mrs. Harrison the invitations were recalle; Mrs, Harrison and Mrs, Grant met several times during the visit of the latter and conversed upon things reiating to the do- Mestic administration aud official hospitalities of the executive mansion, Mrs. Harrison 1 ex- pectin Mrs. Russell Harrison next week to be it for the rest of the season. Mr. Rus- se! mis now in Mcutana, but is expected soon. THE BETROTHAL OF ELEANOR BAYARD, daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard,to Count Loew- enhaupt of Sweden has been announced. No date bas been fixed for the marriage, but it is understood that it will occur in the late sum- mer or autumn. The daughters of ex-Secre- tary Bayard are very pleasantly remembered in Washington in girihood and bellekood dur- ing the long years of their distinguished father’s public service, Thomas Francis Bayard was alwaysa delight- fal character in the poiite circles of official hfe here. In his courtly manuers and gentleness of converse he reflected the honorable lives of a mo line of ancestors im the affairs of the or! company In the family of ex-Secretary Bayard are five daughters, Mrs. Warren and Mivacs Annie, Florence, Louisa and Eleanor Bayard or Nellie as she is known in Washington as the debutante of the lastyearof the social reign of Mra. Cleveland. The fiance of Couut Leowenhaupt was educated at one of the best schouls in Bos- ton, where she resided with her sister, Mrs, Warren, and was a great favorite in the fushion- able circles at the capital during the season which closed the ascendancy of the democracy in social as well as oficial ufeirs, & COUNT LEOWENRAUPT, the groom-elect, belongs to one of the most ancient and noted families in the peaceful and Warlike affairs of the Scxndinavian peuinsula, He is not related, however, to Count Leowen- haupt, former secretary of the legation of Swe- den and Norway in the dipiomatic corps at Washington. The count. who is in his twen- ties, is @ young man of not only distinguished presence but of marked ability, nnd despite bis titles and tamily houors believes in fitug him- self fora useful won in life. Alter a own country be architecture in ment of the Hur- gsworth company at Wilming. - History tells the entertaming is mow studying marine the extensive estabiis! Jem & Hollin, ton, Delaware. Storr of Peter of the royal family of Rassia turuing bis back upon the sensuous intrigues and idle pleasures of court and castle + atady the art of ship bi of Holland. that he might of the ba into the spl eastern Europe. ling in the ship yards hit his cou: Who can but some day the fiance of the bright American girl may te the inswum: mthe favoring opportunity of circumstances to elevate his hardy countrymen to a high pluee in the { maritime glory. The tamuly circle at D ré, in the south- erm sabarbs of the Delawarean metropol, very happy in the directing care of ard, who is so well remembered as Miss. Mary Clymer. The Secretary is enjoying every cons- fort anda full measure of happiness, He has engaged in the practice of his profession in a tanner which is entirely congenial to his tastes. MRS. JOHN B, RODINSO: Among the distinguished ladies visiting the capital is the wife of State Senator Joun B. Kobinson of Media, Pa. Mr. Robin- fon will sneceed iepresentative Darlington i Congress from that district if anybody suc ceeds him in the uext turn of the wheel of litieal fortune. Mrs. Robinson was Miss Aizabeth W. Giipin, deagnier of Chester L. am of St. Louis, a mephew of ex-Mayor Gil. pin of Philads |p ad x-Attorney General Gupin of Pennsvivania and of close kin to Chief Justice Gilpin of Deinware. Tae Gilpin family trace their descent in unbroken line frow Sir Richard de Gayipin, who was granted Sbarouetey in Kentmere by King Joba of Magna Charta renown. Richard Gupin, ber paternal grandfather. was a pioueer in the iron industry of western Pennsylvania, dirs. Robinson was educaied in St. Louis and Was & great belle daring her maiden days. The Balt sister of dirs. Robinson is the wite of Spen- cer Ervin, a close friend of Postmaster General Wanamaker and the person who broght the Recent suit against the ding railroad direc- ‘ora, State Senator and dirs. Robinson have daughters, the eldest of whom is attending school iu Washington. An interest- ing historical event is revived by the presence of Senator Robinson. His grandfather, Wil- Kham Robiuson, jr., = prominent citizen of ia and Charles MacAlester Of Fhiladespuis, the father of Mrs. Lily Mac- Alesier Laugutoa of Washington, viee regent ef the Mount Vernon association, were com- ut Lyler to visit Europe Buissioned by Preside gad borrow $o,000.0W ior the government un- Ger the act of 141. They applied to all the Bouses at Loudon, the Hague and dollar, the credit Parts, but could not borrow « ‘ates being atsach @ low ebb. Oi the Cuiied su Tn their report they satu that they failed be- Cause they coud not guarantee the sap; o the individual states us well as the Cited States, Senator Kovinsou's grandfather lived to see the Op tg eroledier war to @ismember Union, burrow 9600,000,000 on ‘the credit of the goverameut, si JUSTICE BAEWER'S HOUSRMOLD. Among the ladies who were voiag the social © were the wife and daughter of the new associ- ate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Mrs, Brewer was Miss Louise R. Lan- don. She was born in Burlington, Vt. Her father, Hiram Landon, a carpenter, was highly r din the community. Her mother hav- ing died Miss Landon, at sixteen years of age, taade her home with her sister in Rushville. Ind.,and afterward removed with them to Leavenworth. It was there that she met David J. Brewer, then & United States commissioner, and in 1361 became his wife. In the rising career of her husband as judge on the county and state bench Mra. Brewer has kept pace with the extending requirements of her social duties. Her eldest daughter. Harriet, is the wife of A. P. Witmore, a prominent lawyer of Topeka, Kan. Her sccond danghter, eautiful blonde approaching the twenties, is in society and is the companion of her mother in her calls of etiquette and assists her in her drawing rooms. The two younger daughters, Fannie and Bessie, are at school. DeB.R.K. ———_+ee______ PRISONERS WHO GO HUNGRY. They are Not Sure of Their Dinner When They Get Arrested. A LACK OF UNIFORMITY IN PRACTICE IN DIFFERENT POLICE PRECINCTS—WHEN THEY ARE FED THEY ABE FED WELL—WHAT JUDGE MILLER SAYS ABOUT IT. Tue Star some days azo called attention to the fact that prisoners in the dungeons at the Police Court frequently complained that they had been without food for twenty hours, hav- ing received nothing to ea after falling into the hands of the police. A Stan reporter who looked into the matter found that it is fre- quently the case thata penniless prisoner does go hungry for twenty-four hours, as stated. Tvis may be due in part to the difference in jud- ment among men as to how long a ian can go without food and not suffer. Meals are served in all the police stations to prisoners, but not by any means to all the prisoners. The prisoner who spends a long time in a police station is the one who fares the best, for those who remain buy a short time are scidom fed unless they have money to send out for what they want. Some, however, are fortunate enough to have friends who bring them in packages of what the average prisoner terms “grab.” If there is more “grub” in the bundie than the Incky one wants he may divide it among the others who occupy the adjacent celia. In that way many of the prisoners are fed who otherwise would go hungry. NO UNIFORMITY. There *is;no uniform rule concerning the furnishing of meals to the prisoners, so that in one police precinct a prisoner might be ad judged “hungry” and given a meal, while in another precinct an opposite opinion might prevail. The meais furnished by the police are much better than the average prison meal. ‘They are not prepared in the station honse, but are procured from caterers who keep e lishments in the neighborhood of the v: rious stations, The meuls furnished composed of such viands asst and potatoes, bread, butter and coffee ft breakfast. Sometimes eggs or chops are served. For dinner beiied meat and vegetables are served, Sometimes, of course, even Use bill of re for diuner is changed. ‘The prisoners who e money in their possession ave never serve with anything to eat at the District's expense. If they have money enough they can send for anything they want. Ii is, perhaps, a singular thing that most of the prisoners who send for meais want steak, potatoes and coffee or oysters. ‘The meals served soners are handed into their cells to them and seldom are they given knives and forks. for the officers guard against giving them anything which they can use to pick a lock wi WHAT 18 SAID AT HEADQUARTERS. The officials at police headquarters say that the prisoners, while in the custody of the police, are furnished better meals than the average citizen gets. The officials say that the prisoners are properly fed while detained at the stations, and if there is any faalt to be fonnd itis while they are in custody of the Police Court, due prisoners, so the officials sa: nished two meals when kept ina allday and are furmshed with breakfast in the morning before goimg to court. Breakfa so they say, is furnished every morming exce, Monday, and then it is impossible to serve breakfast because the ‘Maria’ calls for them too early in the morning. Dinner, it was stated, is served about 4 o'clock im the afternoon, and all prisoners arrested after that hour have to go unfed until morning. THE COST OF THE MEALS, The meals furnished cost more than those furnished by almost any other city. In Wash- ington they cost 25 cents and in Georgetown cents, It is said that persons place themselves in the hands of the law in order to get a square mexl. There are huadreds ef persoua arrested during the course year who, the officials say, fare better in the hands of the law than they do under other circumstances, and some of them are frank enough to coufess it, There is a special provision in the appropria- tion act for the purpose of supplying meeis to prisoners in police stations and the average cost of the meals is about €120 per mouth or $1,500 per year, IN THE POLICE covRT, There should be some provision, the police Officials think, for feeding the prisoners in the Police Court. so the police officials say, and then there would be no ground for complaint. ~-But the ouly re:nedy,' satd one of the ofti- cials, “is the magistrate system. Then the prisoners wouid not satfer what looks to some people to be inhuman treatiaent,” A DIFFERENT story, are + are fur- ation house land then the spider, a STRANGE FACTS ABOUT SPIDERS, The Owner of the Finest Collection in This Country Talks About Them, WONDERFUL EVIDENCES OF INTELLIGENCE THAT THEY EXHIBIT—ALL SPIDERS ARE POISONOUS AND SOME ARE AGORESSIVE—EFFECTS OF THEIR BITES—AND HOW THEY SPIN THEIR WEBS. “The epider. you know, is not an insect. It belongs to one class ina group of creatures called ‘arthropods,’ which inclades three other classes also—tho crustaceans, sich as crabs and lobsters, the insects proper and the myriapods or centipedes, The spider's class, known as the ‘arachnidw,’ is divided into eight orders.” “Goodness me!" exclaimed Tur Srar writer, who was already becoming a trifle confused, Eight orders,” repeated Dr. George Marz of the entomological bureau in the Department of Agriculture, who owns the finest collection of spiders in this country. “The lowest order of the class is found in the ‘pentastoma,’ a worm-like creature that has been discovered in the eye of a rattlesnake, the liver of a negro and the intestines of adog. Next in the scale of development come the mites and ticks, not 80 essen biood-sueking as is popniarly supposed; they live on the juices of p narily and it is the exceptional one tha 3 an vpportunity fora taste of gore. Then follow the false scor- pioas, minute . Which live in mold and de: bove them by a step 1s the ferocious-look- ch are found im the . und are said to destroy nes by their bites, iS) ARE NEXT, cr which come the ‘pedipalpi,’ that have foreclaws to clutch with. Here is a pedipalpus in this bottle; yoa sce it is le-looking lobster-like anima ywhere, and qui It is called the ‘mule killer’ or rin the south, and though com- | poisonous it is in ‘The only weapons | ¢ a vinegary odor so | Penetrating that if you hold it your hand will | smeil of vinegar for half a day afterward, | Highest in the ranks of the arachnids are the | scorpions, Here is one xs long as your hand | that came over in the packing of a box from | the East Indies, Strange creatures are often brought into this country in that wa tarantulas come con bunches of bananzs from the We: the Isthmus ported with | The | and soutiiwe: herds of cattle som THE ‘DADDY L ” lozwood from scorpion carries and when he wis! $ to strike he snaps with it over his hicad, It is seldom that le misses what he aims at. poison of the stin | depends for its etfects largely upon climate an | the fears of the victim. Venomous sorts grow vigger and secrete p ries than in cold ones, . Surmise 48 wu authority than Dr, of the bee is as intense t of the cobra—the most fatal of all akes—making ailowance for the proportion of the quantities injected into the circulation with the | Juilging by its effects upon other crawli it would seem that spider | known, terpillar isshopper. b yA epider that is very | small indeed. will die immediately; then the spider gobbies the prey at leisure,” ALL SPIDERS VENOMOUS, Jl spiders are poisonous—that is to say, they secrete in their mandibles a powerful venom, whic in the ex bite is mity of the mandible when the ted, The most dangerous of all red dot on the rally feared. To t ebrated ‘katipo,’ Which the New Zealanders dread «0 much. It is very small, and accounts are given by the es of many human beings and beasts no case of de ow, which has very isfactorily proven by d person, the spider theretore, there is still a good of room for doubt. Spiders usi rua away from a human being; but oue family, known a8 the ‘jumping spiders,’ is very gressive, You have often seen the jumping | spider, It iy airy and kas three red spots on the rear of the back, One often finds it in huases and on warm wails; poiat your finger atitand it will jumpat the finger and bite. Prot. Otto Lagyer, forr ef the Depart- ment of Agriculture, has placed on record the case of his jittie girl who was bitten by an ‘aitus,’as this spider is called. She imme- distely went into a series of spasms and was quite alarmingly ill. The most striking symptom of severe spider bite is a rigidity like that of tetanus, or lockjaw.” HOW SPIDERS ARF PUT TOGETHER, “Flow is a spider constructed?” “The spider is distinguished from insects by avery important point of stracture. The in- sects have a head, a chest and an abdomen, but the spider has no head at all, scientifically speaking. In other words the ‘spider's head and chest are in one [Hosea The animal is cov- ered by a horny shell andis soft inside; it has 4 heart, liver, uerves, brain, intestines, arteries, veins and eight eyes. Also it porsesses eight les, or two more than insects have. Ninciy- five of every hundred spiders that you find in webs are females; the males are only about one-twentieth of the size of the femules any way, and the only object of their existence seems to be the continuation of their species in the distsff line. They do nothing in the world but loaf after coming of age. appear to eat nothing atall and soon die. While they are growing uy they act exactly like female spiders, ‘Ihe female bas at the end of her pos- terior extremity an elaborate spinning appara- tus, Six external spinuing organs there are, When a Stag reporter made inquiries at some of the stations concerning the meais furnished the prisoners he learned that the feeding was done very differently from what was thought by the officiais at headquarters. In the first piace none of the precincts visited made any effort to serve the prisoners breakfast in the morning before going to court. Neither did they pretend to furnish dinner to thoxe arrested late in the afternoon, So that a prisoner taken to such @ station late in the afternoon would not be furnished anything to eat by the District until atter his appearance at the Police Court, aud then not until his arrival at the jail or work- bouse in case of conviction, At one station an cidiver informed the re- porter that meais are scidom furuished except to such prisoners as are required to remain over Sunday or ere kept in the statio: before going to court, TWO CASES AT RANDOM. One day this week there were two colored females in the Police Court. One of them named Rose Green told a Star reportor that she was arrested before 10 o'clock the morning before che was brought that she was given nothing to eat while in the station except at night, whea she was given some supper. The other woman was Jennie Stevenson. who was arrested in Georgetown. It was about | the spider may retire and live insecurity. The 2 o'clock the day betore when she was locked | St important thing in which the spinner up. ‘The oiticers, she said, did not give her | Sows her intelligence is in getting the first anything to ent, but daring the night one of | lite that is is to start her web from one her friends sent her something. There are hun- | t0 another high in the air. dreds of just auch cases. as appear in police eirci rive at the work house the following day. Sométimes the Police Court does not until five or six o clock, and the prisoners uothing to eat while detained at the court. Au old officer, speaking toa Star reporter, | thread. which is taken by the current of air said he thought some arrangement conid be | aud floated off until it eutches where it ie dew made to provide the prisoners at the Police Court with sandwiches when ther day session of the court, Th colored boy who viaits extremeties to the twig where she has been sit- Fund sapplice the pcisoners wo ase ting, gives them all a twist 90 as to make them daily and supplies the for them with cakes, pies and other pastry, and another peddler, Only those, however, who have money can enjoy that luxury. WHAT JUDGE MILLER saYs, In speaking of the matter to a Star reporter Judge Miller said that no’ provision had ever been made for feeding the prisoners at court such as had been made for the police stations, man extra day | however, menns nothing; it is merely a vuigar to court. She said | Perfect sort is the geomotrical web; the second Colored ch | Seated on a twig 15 feet from the ground and canals cere each | desires to got a thread across from thut twig te breakfast, and when arrested in the afternoon | the branch of another twig 12 feet away, how they seldom get anything to eat antil they “ar. | '# she going to do it? I'll tell you. She knows ps’ force. When the breeze just suits her purpose, ye as to direction and strength, she raises her al @ Was & long | “ke the thread taut, and, spinning her entire an old man, furuishes them | #¢Fo8s the thread originally cast, spinning th sandwiches and other eatables at low figures, | TOP a8 she goes, until she fastens its other tubular in shape, into which open from ten to four hundred spinning glands, according to the variety of the «pider. Ench’ gland, all opet- ating together, spins a separate thread, and the spinner manipulates the threads by’ hoiding them between the ‘teeth’ of her comb-like claws, The poorly equipped spmner, as to glands, with only a few threads at her com- mand, waiks along with a thread always in her grasp, tocatch herself by if she tumbies, and captures her prey by jumping at it. But the good spinner trusts to tae web she hus built so artistically, and simply lies in wait for victims to tumble into ber trap.” SPIDERS’ INTELLIGENCE. “Does not the manner of building the web exhibit a remarkable instinct?’ “Well, [should say so. The term instinct, name for what is in reality inherited ex- perience. A spider kuows how to constract a web by reason of the fact that the art has been gradually acquired through the observation end experiment of thousands of generations of her ancestors, Weaving or spinning spiders make three kinds of webs, The first ana most consists of a lot of loose interwoven meshes of which is not made of sticky web, not being de- signed to be permanent for fly catching. Some- times Mistress Spider does not approve ot her work and tears it all apart, to begin anew. One way in which the weaver manifests her intelli- gence is by the judicious choic: places for her webs, | and proceeds to business, With the sixteen | Alls its celis tuilof spiders, The wasp of this | Variety cat is ejected through a little hole | spiders, so iar as I sm aware, is the so-called | spicous b; oe « D.C.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGFS, ge of the frame, de: oying the former spiral, je makes of A SPOT SHE I3 APT TO SELECT is & warm wall or the sunny side of a house where the flies like to settle. Or she will spin her snare before a bunch of bright flowers, which insects are apt to seek for their sweets, or she will place it in an opening like a broken window or among densely foliated bushes where there is a draft to carry victims into the trap. Sometimes a sp.der will spin 400 threads of some length in a bunch, break them all off together and let them fly with the wind in all directions, One or two out of the lot will catch across between available poiats and give the desired start tur the bridge. Then she fastens the extremities of the accidental bridge with new sticky threads—the other ones were dry— combs that she has to hold the threads sepa- rate, anda finger claw on each foot besides, Wherewith to fasten the threads, she can per- form her weaving operation with exceptional dexterity, The second horizontal bridge be- neath, is ordinarily made by going to a point a hort distance below the upper bridge on one side, fastening the thread on a convenient, pro- bere twig, climbing trom there to the upper ridge, running across it, then down the op- Posite side to the proper phice, and finally jwuling in the slack.” VAGABOND SPIDELS. “Do all spiders spin webs?” “No; some spiders are called vagabond Spiders for the reason that they do not spin webs. The most interesting sort of vagabond spider is the so-called trap door spider. which makes a box, often as big as your two fists. of earth comented into alarge by the spider’ own excretion. ‘The box ies a littie tray door at one end with a strong elastic thread to serve asaspring. ‘I clod of dirtand the door springs to so per- fectly—even in the case of those that hav en kept for years as curios—that you cannot se any trace of an openmg. Another vagabond | spider lives in a b with a little nest o1 2 in the ground top of the hole m email sticks and grass, There is a very curious weaving spider culled the ‘gossamer or spider. Ou a warm fall you wii! often find the air afloat with spiders’ webs and it you examine them you wiil find dozens of little spiders in the These gossamer spiders in pleasant autumn weather attach a thread to the ground and periuit the breeze to blow them vy off into the air, where they remain nded, At anchor, for di miles and miles trom aspot to which they ar anchored,” = a e SPIDERS’ Fora. “Fave spiders any cuemics/* Plenty of them, worst foes are wasps. A certain family of wasps—the sort that makes mud cells under the eaves of houses—always 1e3 @ spider often much heavier and bigger than i and first stings it ito insensibility. The spider thus stung 18 rendered | fensel ut not dead; it is put into a of coma which tasts fora long time, so that at the end of from one to three years the spi is still asleep, as it were, though living, Atter thus renderimg the epider helpless the wasp | lays anegg in its body; the egg hatches out | and tne young larva feeds on ihe body of the spider until it isready to go outand sce the world. This is n way of reproducing that kind of yasp, In South America monkeys eat spiders Mud here some mice do so also, as well as snakes, turties and birds, Spiders have ® way that is very curious of defending them- selves. If a wasp, for mstance, approaches to attack the spinner drops down to the grouud thread, like a shot, and plays ‘possum, Should it havea yellow or otherwise con- it takes care to fall with its dark colored belly upward, so that it may lie among the leaves or herbage unobserved,” USEFUL OF SPIDERS, “What are spiders good for?” Por ove thing, they eat all the insects they meet that they can conquer, including mosqui- toes and bedbugs. There are very few collec- tions of spiders in this country; the one at the national museum 1s a8 yet an embryo, There are probably 5,000 varieties of spiders in the United States. Ihave got together in my col- lection about 1,000 varieties. Some I have gathered myself personally, others I have ob- tained through correspondence with collectors and others still I have secnred by exchange. ‘Ihe method of gathering them adopted by col- lectors 1s with net and steve, Either the speci- men desired is seen aud a canvass net thrown over him or the leaf mould is taken up and sifted, A sieve full of leat mould will yield dozens of spiders every time. Another way 18 to knock the bushes so a# to shake the spiders all into the net.” HOW SPIDERS ARE KEPT. “Why do you keep all your 1,000 specimens in little bottles of alcohol? Would it not be more interesting to have them pianed, dry, and spread out on frames?” “It could not be done, Most spiders are soft, and when dry they have shrunk so as to be un. recognizable, ‘Their legs get so brittle as to break off by their own weight. So the only way to do isto keep them in spirits, which 1s just as satisfactory a plan from the scientific puint of view, In that manner a great number can be kept in very small compass, You seo, my 1,000 specimers take up no more room thu a little book case would. And, at a moment’s notice, I cau find by the label any variety Lam looking for, pull out the little frame that hoids the row of botiles containing the representa- tives of that variety and exhibit them in or- derly arrangement, “If it is desired to examine any parucular specimen clusely she is spuied out upon a little saucer and subjected to scru- tiny under the maguuying glass,” sen Irland it Mikla! or Great Ireland! To the Editor of THe Evextyo Stan: As an Irishman I prot. Itis wrong! It is unjust if not ungrateful! Imean the almost universal acquiescence in the gratuitous as- sumption just now by our “learned pundits,’ journalists and others that Columbus was the discoverer of America, It is true, probably unden ably 80, that “the Italio-Spanish voy- ager” did in 1492 discover Sau Saivador, one of the Batiama group of islands, but he did not sight the continent until 1498, So at least say all histurians of America—of all biographies of “the illustrious Genoese.” But original and laborious research during the last half cen- tury into the doiugs of prehistoric nations very clearly affirms that enterprising Irish voyazers early in the tenth century, sailing from Ireland westward aud landing on the shores of Amer- ica—on the continent, you'll observe—baptized it “Irland it Mikla!” or “Great Ireland!" (see, T. D'Arcy Magee’s Irish Settlers in North America.) “Vinland the Good,” be blowed. The Norse- men were comparatively leepy bones.” The “Norse Vikings” late in the tenih century led from Iceland on their American discov- eries; but even in iceland, as in their ven- tures to America, they were preceded by the enterprising and dariag Irish seadogs. (Bald- det all shapes aud sizes; the third kind is b seribed by its name, ‘sheet’ or ‘blanket,’ and a little tube-shaped attachment into which int Suppose that tho is how the wind is blowing and takes notice of its domen as high as possibie and emits a single sired. Then she pulls in the slack, so as to 300 or 400 threads together, she attaches their into @ rope, and starts with the rope to waik win's Prehistoric Nations.) Consequently “Irland it Mikia,” “Great freland,” was the earliest Christian name by which this continent was known, Nor is there any just of good réason why this great and important historical fact should now be ignored—surely none in favor of the Italian or the Castilian or Spain- iard. The Irish ingredient now constitutes, as + nest look like nothing but a | © THE EVER-HEALIHFUL SALAD. Salad Dressings and How to Compound Them, THE ANTIQUITY AND POPULARITY OF “GREEN RE REIGN OF THE BOILED SALAD— THE SALAD OF TODAY—MAKONNAISE DRESSING— AN ARRAY OF GASTRONOMIC DAINTIES, FP, as it is said, “asalad owes its excellence to the beauty of the maid who mixes it,” “it may be well,” observes Alice Crittenden, “for plain y_damsels to cultivate this ‘Mg art in its bighest de- gree.” Should this ad- p2 vice be followed a dish gl rs salad ne plus ultra could be had for a trifle 7" any day, and little Mister Cupid, so far as his services as a solicitor or mediatorial agent is concerned, would have to stand aside and see both his fortune and his fame trespassed upon. It goes without contradiction that there are plenty of pretty women in this section of the North American con- tinent who ed not bother themselves | about salads further than the eating and | enjoyment of them and Washington is not withuut its full complement of such, but boas at $10 ayard or fur capes at $50 apiece do not appeal nearly so directly or economically to | the admiration of aman as a something that | wiil please bis fancy by tickling his palate. no | matter how envious they mcy make other | women, Good, real good, salad propounders ses are rare, which would indicate soon as they become experts they are forand gobbled up into matrimonial vent. The young women folk of this doubtless greater connoisseurs than ir grandmothers he days of their girlhood, but it is doubtful if there f the ‘number of good young now proportionately 4s existed | Few there are now who cannot, cakes and confections with — the | consummate art of achet, but when it comes to a salad—weil, they would rather try a waltz and leave salad mixing to. their mothers or*the men, Many there are who contend, however, that as @ rule gentlemen excel in making salads lad dressing. for the reason that they are | more deliberate than the more impetuous sex. | They are content to mix the seasoning for a | eut time with the oi and vinegar and | t sand mix the salad after the dress- ing 1s poured upon it, ITS ANTIQUITY AND POPULARITY. The ancient Romans were great salad stuffers, ating descendants, es with liqaamen and nd Savyored them extensively with the ferons onion. Vor their salads of lettuces pauded a sauce of dates, pepper T. green-rue, nitre and cummin, to individual taste, and it is not much of a surprise that they were subjected to sturnal visions of snizzards and snap- ons. At first the salad closed the repast of oman noble, but later green food was en at the besiuning of a meal and the le tude of prancing uimares greatly curtailed. 4 sh of the seventeenth century also “d jads with great favor after a lon te, for in some earlicr times the lords an sof old Englund avoided the salad as in- digestible. ‘The peasant, who lived chiefly on saited food in winter, icarned from experience thai green food was remedial of eruptive dis- aud alter a winter of plain, course foods icomed the coming of May with its medicine for the million. Onions, sand chives ex- pelled ili humors from’ the system, the medi- cinal virtues of lettuce were aided by tarragon, dandelion leaves quickened the sluggish liver, rosemary strengthened the memory, and leavee of musk rose were regarded as a cure for dys pepsia, cooks then. make THE BOILED SALAD. It was in the seventeenth century that the boiled saiad was first concocted. The learned ed that boiled leaves were more di- Ww. A little old cook book by Jno. 1, in 1630, gives the following recipe for Parboil spinage and chop fine, set it rn dark place until the seeds sprout, keeping | water inthe plate conxtantly. Then bring to light. and when the shoots area inches | jong trim them off as wanted and add to any) salad with a plain dressing. PRETTY GREEN SALADS. A sharp little salad is made of watercresses | with cold, freshly boiled new beets. One of the nicest breakfast sainds is made of the ten- | der inner leaves of lettuce, with pep! &Tass, cresse and tiny French raddishes. ba. | cumbers and sliced new onions make a healthy | combination. Coid boiled string beans or caul- iflower are a host in themselves. A saiad maker should eames the soul of an artist. He | should know how to cunningly enhance the delicate beauty of pale green slices of cucumber | with the rich red of tomatoes, and to set both forth with a border of curled pars! and | eresses. What can be handsomer than a crim- Son tomato that has been robbed of its skin by | a Turkish bath and imbedded i ice until cool and firm, and then decorated with a great spoonful of mayonnaise, like a globule of am- as SALAD A LA RUSE. This is a particularly suitable salad for cold weather, The basis of it is a macedoine, or vegetable salad. For this cook separately in salted water cubes of carrots, beets, potatoes jand turnips; drain on a cloth and have also | “The judges have decided that, as boiled and drained some green peas, dice of green beans and small flowerets of caulislow- ers. The seascuing of this macedoine 1s @ simple French dressing, with chopped onion, siey und chervil scattered over the whole, | but for the saiad russe add to the dressing a | gill of melted meat jelly and garnish with strips of roasted game or poultry. red herring, anchovy, smoked salmon and Russian caviar The prudent housewife can arrange for thi salad two or three days betorehand by saving | in her ice chest small portions of the seve vegetables from various dinners, together with | bits of poultry and game. The other ingredi- ents can be purchased in the smallest quantities at any delicatessen, SOME CURIOUS SALADS, Aqueer little salad comes from Normandy. Pick over some garden cress, wash and drain in a wire basket; put in the salad bowl, and slice over it very thinly sour apples that have been peeled and cored.” Do not let your preju- dices deter you from trying this with a dinner, Say, of roast pig or roast fresh pork. Another curious salad is made in this wa’ Place some cold baked or boiled beans in the | salad dish, lay around a circle of the white parts of celery cut in very email bits, pour over | a French dressing and put very thin slices of | fried smoked bacon on top; garnish with a few of the tender inner leaves of lettuce and | sprinkle all with a spoonful of capers, | A French* salad which may prove a blessing | to those who have an antipathy to oil is made with cream im other greens it mixed salt, p pour over well and is made with cold cooked vegetables of every kind. The dr green mayonnaise or one to whic! of ravigote sauce has been added, SALADS WITHOUT OIL, Some persons object to the use of oil in salad dressing. Let such try this excellent way: Beat the yelks of two eggs, take half a cupful of milk, teaspoonful each of mustard, suit, butter, white sugar, half a teaspoonful of pepper. Put in a small saucepan in the top of the kettle and str regulariy. When cooked. to the consistency of cream add lalf a cuptal of vinegar, then mix in the well-beaten whites of the two egg: er it is taken from the kettle, Five minutes is ample time to make it, though 80 many ingredients are cuiled for, A CLOSING HINT. Upon the washing of green vegetables for salads much of their excellence depends. They should be shaken about without breaking in a large pan of cold water well salted, since the action of the salt will destroy all the minute » habitants of their fresh green coverts, and once dead they will sink to the bottom of the wat from sheer force of gravity. When the salad plants ure free from sand and insects they should be shaken without breaking their ,| threw them asic son wildly gesticulatine and tulating with the judges, Attila and ovh: a fained um the ® Wrangie. which seemed to concern tbe au’ ‘ tierty and bona fides of the chain. At events, Samson suddenly left the group, and seizing one of the chains commenced vo pull with might and maim at one of the hnks, whi he did not succeed im breaking. A Germ among the spectators shouted to him im bi own language, “You are at the wrong link. old man; not the doctored one: try the other end.” ‘Don't make such a noise,” said Capt. Molesworth. cannot work mson if you go on like that.” “I wil! not on," shouted Samson, “Ihave not fair plary I bave not fair play in this house,” the” gave the chain another tug and broke it ver in hie life.” form that feat.” Capt, Molesworth asked if ir. Addis was in the place, as th shed the chains examined. Some one suid be had been there recentiy, but had gone. The wrangling on the stage continued with more violence. 18 ended by Samson shouting: “Ivilinot go om any more,” and, gathering up his Capt, Molesworth and’ the judges argued with him, and explamed to him that be ought to proceed. But no, be remained, obdurate, More be would not do. By this time it was ll o'clock and the audience had become impatient. After more controversy, Capt. Molesworth stepped forward and said: Mr. Sam- fon will not give the lead, Mr. Sendow will per- form some tricks of hisown.” (More cheering. ] Then came some real feats of strength. Mr, Attila ordered a bar of steel, tipped with hage circular globes, weighing 160 px . to be brought upon the stage. Before dealing with this dead weight Sandow came to the middle of the stage, stood bolt upright, thea took hold of a full-grown man by the waist with his two hands, and lifted hun from lett t and from right to left without moving tion of his body save his arma Neat he the bar with the weights ino: lifted itstra.ght above his bead four times, letting it drop on esch occasion into his other arm. There was unbounded enthusiasm ov this, Sandow replaced the weights on t stage, and motioned to Samson to do wh he had done, but he ook his head. It ought to be said to Samson's credit that he cordially joined in the applause which this feat evoked, and said: “1 give Mr. Sandow credit for his strength. I know him for a long tim I know be is a strong man.” Sandow took t Weights in one band once more and, while hoid- ing tuem above bis head, iay down on the sta and then rose up again, holding the bar always in the same porition, More cheering, Again he motioned to Samson to do the same and again the latter declin A gentieman in the Stails arose and cr I will give 450 if Sem- son does the same,” but even this offer did pot tempt Sandow's opponent, who did not repiy, simply remamng on the stage as a spectator, Sandow suddenly produced a circl much the same kind as had been used viously, San J made a rush to get hold of ggie for two or three minut: Samson shouting ail the time, *Let me break the cham first, I want to break the chain dirst; ha, ha. be cannot brewk it.” | But it was not Sandow’s intention to break the chain in the way Samson supposed. Sendow put his arms behind his back aud the chain was utaround them near the shoulders. Thea nding down be seized the bar and weights with one hand and, as he lifted them above hig head, snapped the chain at the same time, Cheering more enthusiastic than ever. “Why does not Samson do that/" asked Sandow, more feats w d and, to wind up the contest, ‘4 5 ‘The decision of the judges is that Mr. Saudow has doue every ‘trick. ” Sendow is of German extraction, bailing from Konigeberg, where ius tather carries on a large business as a jeweler end dealer in precious Stones and metals, He is a fair (ype of an cated German student aud his elder brother is &@ professor at the University of Gottingen, In his early school days he was devoted to ail forms of gymnasiic exercises and athietics, but it was only some three years ago that he placed himself under the tutelage of “Attila” and studied the theory of scieutitic gymnastics and muscle development uuder that eminent pro- festor's guidance, tie then became an in- structor himself and gave lessons in the craft to many notable Enropean personages, including sundry ~royalt Personally he is a short leaves in a colander, a wire basket ora dry napkin until no moisture adhercs to them. Then they may be used at once or kept until wanted in a cool, dry when dishes can be concocted that wouid set the tongues of the chafing dish with coales and butter and ason it with cinuamon, ginger, sugar few parboyled currans: then cut hard eggs into quarters to garuish it withal and serve upon sippits.” About the middie of that century a reg- ular saiad war raged and divided families oue | against another. but near the close of the cen- tury, when coutlicting practices resulted in con- fusion, a Mr. Join Evelyn, a man of letters and a fastidious feeder.brought order out of chaotic condiuons by establishing a reg set of in- telligent rales und wholesome precepts. He declared that to cook a salad was to deprive it of its distinguishing atiributes, and that the proper sauce to be used Was au artiul mixture of mustard oil and vine cook who would servea saiad in a silver or pew- ter bowl as 4 culinary Linuy and held that the proper “saladicr” was and would always be a porcelain or earthenware platter. Had be | lived to see the pretty conceits in salad dishes of the present generation he would have died a happier man, THE SALAD OF TODAY. As tempting and relishing as was the salad of old it wasa different thing from any of the thousand and one conceptions of today. A Frenchman, weil versed in table lore, as the most of them are, will tell you tuata salad is the prince of the menu, while to an Italian it is j the divinity of an epicureans dream. The gourmand of either race isa king wien salads are suvjects, Americans have proved apt pupils and their ways are as varied as the raiads themselves, ranging all the way from an inspired concoction ot Deimonico to the tragal church lunch concomitant, in whieh corn- starch conceals itself bend pungent mustard, and oil, is notable for its absence. Of all the various ways of service there is not one pret tier or pleasauter or more temptil tuan the custom Which the modern house wite has of musing the sulad for dinner beiore one's very eyes at the table or allowing one to heip one’s self to the fresh, crisp lettuce. garnished with bright red tomatoes, and mix the two with the void deiicious mayunuuise to suit the taste, MAYONNAISE DRESSING, Itissaid that the French chef always adds the salt last in making mayonnaise because of some mysterious effectin the way of improve- ment. It is doubtful if there is any appreci- able difference. The one standard mayouuaise dressing with the regulation process ta die in the oil drop by drop scarcely needs. descrip: tgon. But why waste so much time and tem- per, the latter of which as Mark Twain once said, can be empléyed to better advantage in some other direction when, the oil can be put ina tablespoontul at a time by using an egg- whipper? Not only # this quicker than the old way, but the Consistency of the salad is much better, The yelk of the egg should be beaten a litue before the oil is putin and it is an improvement to beat up a teaspoonful of cream with it, The essential elements of snecess is to have everything cold—the bowl, the oil and the un- cooked Shane ot two eggs—for a simple mayon- naife, For the rest add half a teaspoontel of each of salt and mustard and a dash of cayenne, Beat these together slightly, then add half a will of oil, put under the beater and beat rapidly it has long constituted, the great component of “the grand Anglo-Saxon biood” of America, At least so claim some very respectable ethnol- ogists, Paddy’s blood in the native American constitutes his rich and enduring vitality, giving him character or intrepidity and fire Ab vim, ‘Thus, in ail our wars, trom our earliest us colonists with the Indians and French down to and including our “late unpleasantness,” Paddy's intrepidity, grit and genius, Paddy's blood, were rendered illustrious by his unsel- fish and loyal devotion to the cause of Amer- ica! As in the field, so in the cabinet, and in our balls of justice as in our literature, Can the [talian or Spaniard, or even “the venture- e ex- tremity upon the branch 12 feet away. And thus she has established her first rope that is the beginning of her web,” ANOTHER WAY OF DOING, “But suppose there is no wind?” “Then the problem is more complicated; but | putable? she knows how to solve it, She drops herself sud tm the absence of an appropriation he Jid | bY # thread from the first twig to the uot see how they were going to be fed. The | ®84 then runs across to the di given | °¢' Judge thought that if the prisoners were something to eat in us the police stations each morning before be brought to court the evil ground, ven legs, holding up one ing to cee the thread; she elimbe‘ap the other tree, and when vbe has reached the sj contemplated, she the slack some Norseman,”’ assert or sustain a similar or ‘sn equal claim? What has the Spaniard or Italian done for our “great American common- wealth?” What for its liberties or institutions? What for its intellectual, industrial or national developi progress or grandeur? But in what has tailed? Now, is not all this undisputed and indis- Why, then, or on what good or just can American or America ignore or eschew the grand historical fact that to the Irish,among Eu- ropeans, belong the earliest or or: discov- ery of this continent? ‘Honor to nim to honor is justly due!” Viva “Great Ireland!” for an instant; add another half giil of and & teaspoonful of vinegar and a touch of lemon juice and beat again tor an instant. The dress- ing should now be light in color and texture, thick and jelly like, aud entirely free from any greasy appearance. Coutinue to add oil and vinegar in proportion of three tablespoonfals of vinegar to every half pintof oil until the desired quantity of dressing is acquired. If the dressing becomess too thick adda little more vinegar or lemon juice. As a beater operates so rapidly care must be taken not to over beat it, Altogether it should be the work of but @ few minutes, When oil is not avail- able melted butter may be substituted. Lemon juice entirely is preferable to poor vinegar, AN ARRAY OF SALADS, Of the many varieties of food daily consumed mone are more important than a salad in season when rightly compounded. And there is noth- ing more uncompromisingly distast it may be Sr ra one badly prepared, salads should be used the game day they are made and are better if the dressing is kept on ice and not put on until just before ing. long before use tends to make it flabby, watery and insipid. The importance of none but the Best it condiments cannot be over esti- mated. Garnishing or decorating salads would be remedi: The prisoners, he said, | f8tens the thread PI in —— presents an opportunity for displaying usual: ii claw over claw, fetches it taut, She then eats iderable artistic taste and judgment. The their dinate ab the Jul or week hore noe the slack before going on with her labors, for | , M#bouchere’s Opinion of Browning. | Socr"hie, feiene wee will not be it now and then happens that the court does | the spider is a thorough economist. Having gy pecomeelgioen Manat appreciated if unattractiv ‘not adjourn until later in the day. drawn her first line between two points, she wae eee: surprised first | Wild flowers neatly arranged with alternate peoveinl cel coniatens Lorrcaget! rat booed parallel with straws en , | met Mr, repipeedess — party. Anything | tufts of — Fete Epon 5 ee warm The Secret of the Roses, 4 ning le | more unlike a poet genial, courteous, | weather, garnish ‘Truth! she makes a pretty picture Lage benno beidge, she drops a thread clever talker I never saw or cut from ts, turnips, pone ey om oh © perpendicular. Next she drops teo sobcy | Reard. But wae Mr, Browning a poet? I con. Borage is an excellent ingredient in nearly i breathe my heart's desire? udiculars, one on either side of the orig- | ess that I have never been able to get through | a1} table salads, Cover a To tat bana how I aspire! Tonto from the middle ye fect Shes eet perpendiouar’ she draws fad in every tive: | proses ay be at iotty od eaten wy | boule with ram cotton or henry, Soave in war we ever} an with a 3 Be aees she Oe hae anes tion until there are enough of them to run all re expressed 80 awkwardly, 80 obscurely, #0 soup plate and pour warm water over It ve not, for their around upon, Now, begin: at a point on | harshly and so crabbedly, 80 inharmonio: a ban of borage seeds in warm for story A mo sad. To me they speak the outside of this framework, she spins a spiral | and so unrythmically that I very much doubt | fifteen minutes, drain and work them into t he Bo salary next week! toward the cepter, and having reached the whether the author himself precisely knew cotton around the bottle as evenly as possible. Time, B.axroap, | center, she runs another spiral outward to the what he wanted to express, Place the plate with the bottle ina warm I gods waggling with a will. — sor AGAINST SAMSON, SANDOW A Contest for the Title of the Strongest Man in the Worid. BENDING RODS OF IRON WITH HANDS AND TEETH AND BURSTING IRON ROPES BY EXPANDING THE LUNGS—SAMSON'S TRICKS ALL DONE BY HIS YOUNG GEUMAN OPPONENT, From the London Telesray) Not until 11:30 o'clock Saturday night did the ar, with or without | CUrtain descend upon ihe stage at the Aquarium, | @2d the sieges shat at Spee a new-laid eggs. He furthermore denounced a| where for nearly two hours, amid continued | ¥tT®,™Uch discussed by the wtile scenes of excitement seldom witnessed in a place of entertainment, two rival Samsons con- tended for the title of “the strongest man in the world.” That distinction was assumed some weeks ago by Mr. Samson, He offered £500 to any one who could do the sume “tricks” as he Went through. The challenge was accepted by Eugene San- dow, a young German from Konigsberg. Capt. Molesworth, chairman of the Aquarium company, announced that the judges who bad been selected and who had consented to act were the marquis of Queensberry and Lord De Chiford, Then came the contest. Samson had his choice of “tricks.” Rus! to the wings he produced a number of iron rods, varying in thickness from five-eighths of an inch to an inch. Throwing them down on the stage with a bang, he intimated that he intended to bend one by striking it on his chest, straighten it by striking it on bis arm. bend it once more but perfectly built young man of twenty-two years ofuce, with a face of somewhat ancient Greek type, but with the clear blue eyes and curling ioir hair of the Teut When in evening dress there isnothing specially remark- able about this qmet-mannered, good-natured youth, but when he takes off his coat and “prepares for action” the extraordinary devel- opment of the arms, shoutd cles 18 marvelously strikiz ation to say that the sta Hercules” is not more powertuliy modele 3 the muscles stand out under a clear white skin in h gh relict, and suggest the gnarled roots of old trees. His development has been obtained entirely under “Attua's” system, which in- volves no epecial training diet, but a rigid ad- herence to ceriain systems of ligh: dur bell practice, After the contest was over Sandow aud his teacher visit and Were entertained at the Pelican club, where the system of teaching ed by at cogno- scenti, Among other feats it is claimed for Sandow that he can support a piano im the wir, while the redoubtable “Attila.” likewise ip mid air, discourses sweet music thereon, ai SCRAPS OF FASHION FANCIES. Small Talk About What Interests the Women Folk. A Late Repprscorr, bas a broad box plait on either side of the front extending from the shoulders to the edge of the shirt, widening from the waist down, aud siwilar p.aits on each side of the back, Tue Divipep on Bircrcarep Samet is ex- Periencing great popularity, Tee Jaranese Styce or Wrantvo Tae Harm with jeweled pins has not yet died out. Ir ts Quire tur Taine to have a derollete bodice of dark material untrimmed at the neck—a pretty ne In the tight shades ot evening gowns trimming is used, across his right leg. straighten it again on his arm, and finally bend it with his teeth. The last-named proposal seemed to strike Sendow Attila exchanged smiles, Samson selected the thinnest rod, bent it, striking it six tunes over his chest, and straightened it by the same number of blows on his forearm. He then proceeded to bend it by striking it on his right leg, but after two or three blows the rod broe in two, There werg cries that this was done on purpose thet Saudow migit not be able todo it with the same piece of iron, but the rival himself did not, judging from his demeanor, participate in this opiuion, Culmly he stood in his corner, while his friends in the audience were shouting advice at him, some in his native German, some in English. Taking a rod of the same size and shape he also bent it by blows over his chest. He next proceeded to straighten it on his arm, but he had much more trouble in this than had Samson, not on account of any lack of strength, but because, unlike his opponent, he had no gloves ou and the rod kept continual: slipping in his band) Sometimes the blow fell exactly where it was not wanted, bending it more instead of obliterating the curve. But he kept hammering on undauntedly. At last gentleman on the stage took off his kid glove aud gave it to Sandow, who put it on and soon completed his “trick.” it was easy to see that Samson's tem was rising. “Trick” two was of precisely the same character, only it was done with a rod slightly lounger and thicker. Samson bent it over the chest, arm aud leg and ae atened it again. Sandow did exactly the same, altho! it was quite plain that he hed not acquired knack of holding the rod so —s He straightened it, nevertheless, it down i i megs the ro thwack up to the audience to Trick" thre consisted of o xa consiste: a wire rope by expan the h pio pro- thirty it as lungs. Samson duced two, which he said consisted of strands of wire, intimating at the same time that he selected this number because he “did not vantto make it so hard for thees men.” The judges ‘ted one and ordered Samson to begin. He twisted it tightly around his chest and arter two trials broke it six or eight inches trom the end. The same rope 4 Rep oF Some Suape or of auy shade con- tinues a favorate color, Tar “Ficaro” Jacket, intended for the theatre or concert toilet, is not unlike the oid zouave in cut, but ite as tight asthe bodice. It is made entirely of steel. silver or gilt passa- menterie, with a high cadet collar and a mili- tary buckle at the belt. Fons Wert Never More rx Demawp, never so much worn, never 80 combined with another and applied on cloth, silk, velvet. plush or light evening fabrics as they are this winter. Tax Scppex Porviantry or rae Tantax Gan- MENTs arose fromthe Fife marriage. They ap- pear in gowns and cloaks, both in wool for day time and in silk or poplin for evening, A Fasmioxante Togve is of reddish brown veivet, the crown covered with holly berries and leaves, Tae “Meprers” Farts is very much in vogue and is supposed to be becoming to slender figures. Some oF THE Novetties rm Fans show tinted feathers arranged as orchids, tulips and in other flower effects. Tue Most Porvuan Trees or Exmnorerr . now employed in the decoration of dresses are the empire and renaissance, which are both expressed in floral desigus, but differ in that the former 1s limited to certain leaves and small flowers in straight rows, while in the arranged latter the blossoms and foliage are very much conventionali. scrolls and arabesques, tation of cowboy habili- ments, and is called “La Kobe Buffalo, Late Novertres tx Bopices.—A very beauti- fal idea of a bodice is of pink satin veiled wory bigh oa tae choshiors and enctec bigh on the isa very effective ii = § F i iE i == low and handed to.Sandow. In this feat the whole art ts draped with a wide consists in the i gy agg proce Prmeny ofa Yipee hong ES difference in this respect, In vain did eae al entire dow endeavor to get the proper twist. He | frontof the bodice and taken to the back could not secure the proper grip, and every and tied at the point of the basque. The mode! time he inflated his chest the twist gave way. a }, but the ides silence reigned m the audience, Samson | has been carried out in white and black. was jubilant—*‘iHe cannot do it; he rar eede The latest novelty in eens Saar and made appeal tothe judges. Sandow decoration of in —— en ere a the more to get ee roo i prope be- twist look he occasionally gave | fore embroidery is done that its lines may Lg Ninige Biome nchiee pepe gore gs) follow those of the \d there is some- ren ned pris eeagyy deri hittle embroidered affairs. which recently more one fed co tana ee geoning Sones Gras worn being of bisck satin decorated with vio i shouting ‘He cannot do it; Iclaim the | lets, trick,” he heaved his chest, there was a crack and the iron rope fell broken. (Great cheer ‘She's as beautiful as an : five a achain by pulling it asunder with the hands amie Here there was an interminable wrangle. Sam- J Sentow produted one’ of his ews wiles be ert yy ee All the audience sce was Sam- teeny