Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1891, Page 8

is G STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1891—-SIXTEEN PAGES. i , a eS | the effect and it is becoming to the juvenile money had been placed on the winners LUNCH AT TRE PENSION OFFICE. ” - Sasee QvEsTIO’. LIGHT AND GRACEFUL |= PLAYING THE RACES |E%*"2es"oc.%%0%31 povps FOR UNCLE SAM nl eo aa fe Insurance —_———___ s sccepts money so long as 18 A8 GOOD AS A PLAY TO VISIT THE DOCTOR MAKING F TNATIONS Some Fashionable Gowns for Sum- How It is Done at the Track and in Saatne itemise Most Wonderful Colleotion of ‘Pre-| soa i eo at Fis sSer teen ne, Bevrine he | A. ters i trace company un cooing mer Wear. the Pool Rooms, ce bale a hetss rinene ‘matter what horse historic Animals, defen han ching, bic’ ther’ could do might easily imagine oneself in the public |fairapplicant fora police to setae balan money, by reason of some tip which has fifteen feet or vo in length. question. He had been waiting @ long time TYPICAL SUMMERHATS. stampeded the betters, all runs to's horve that i e Plays end a newsboy with a bundle of and the fair one was still blushing and stam- BEATING THE BOOKMAKER winner, only small bets| 4N INTERESTING EXHIBITION. cnaheaen, — tyenae tm the | Papers ander his arm slouches about, | mering over the answer. Ail the questions as be and ve losses Specimens Sites ane “Sastaned offering the Washington and New York dailies. | to ber ancestry, what her parents und grata. thes misinicnd. "Wher tre race termi- 3 collection that is to be brought here for per~| pou geon by singly or in couples, both | parents had died of, the disemes ahe bed Styles of Dresses Worn at Fashionable Re Almost an Impossibility—Am Anslysation of | nates to the loss of the bookmaker large, bets | Gigantic Beasts of the Past—Reptiles One | manent exhibition. Of course they represent | women and men, the latter mostly with their |hereclf sutton s ae Gen ten te sorte—A Summer Dance Totlet—Juvenile Mle Methods and the Forventage tn Mie | 00 § Gn or elec need, Dy accitering bets, | Hundred Feet in Length and Flying Dragons (ettchnd pea gre “eae Seen ting | beteon. Some are going in one direotion and | time—from chenre infantum to chicken por — Millinery How to Wear Different Hats to Faver—Systom Betting May Win for the | This is why it takes £0. little enpital to conduct Estraordinary—Mines of Huge Fosalls in | thi, sonmed : epoch. That was the age when | some in another, but all are busily absorbed in | as to her general state of health, her hubite and Make Them Effective. ‘Better, but the Bookmaker is Sti Ahead. | a gambling scheme in which Profits are| the West. reptiles ran creation. They walked upon land, | thought or conversation. her physical characteristics @m.qeculiarities — large and the returns certain. . swam tae ee flew through the ‘air, 9 ftimbodt On one side of the plaza isa shop kept by | all these she had answered promptty and with concgeeie peas RES a HOW CAN THR PUBLIC WI’! RG EI See. Then are cme enstmammaledoS°"O-| Gen Weshiogten's mena living vsleiive, [eons vi > is tah nantes te Friston tor The Evening Star. (Copsriahted.} 66(CAN THE BOOKMAKERS BE BEATEN?" | The cold principlos of mathematics have been FG0R NEEKS FROM NOW WILL BE dare There were bird reptiles and reptilian | Ope Nemmingvon's, nearest living relative, | some explain codiorph pemer fond New Yorr, July 3, 1891. Pie sar st aa — eee Invoked to change the certainty of winning | 1 started for Washington the most extraor- | Di twenty-five feet—veritable deagous, of his country as to have excited murmurs of EGARD THE FIRST pe a | cacy and she velly es from the side of the bookmaker to that of the was crus ar rene fi dinary procession of animals ever seen on the | Others, fore feet in . Jongth, had pe ldies for | astonishment from all the crowned heads of | ® flash of indiguation shot ints her eves Pues threo fashion plates tn lated in the pool rooms or at the race trecks. | customer. There are a dozen systems which | face of the earth, upon which the ghosts of | swimming like a whale's. These latter lived in Europe. Following the example of the | was followed by a blush of ahewe theres thie article, if you Ninety-nine per cent of those who have asked | have been Piicapein) i . , bat all based ages and Forepaugh might gaze with as cel an is Share agen d poe ye renowned Prince of Bohemia, _cele- | power of speech fora moment and her eves = ‘i the question have answered it for themselves | on one principle familiar to all gamblers. It in | wi le-eved astonishment as ever the spectacle | *hore. “4 ~ ay pees in the story of the “Suicide | were turned down, while be Mi erallperiinr nn by deciding thas the public has no chance in | $0 double bets after gach lows, adding @ fixed | of their own united shows excited in the inne. | PIES which aro plontifully found todas, that | rated in the story of the i pa ee . books. amount for every race. Ultimately when a win- Headgear is an important feature of dress at ning bet oe the pi the long run against the ali times, and especially in summer, when they lived upon fish. One species dived to It is well known that there i comparatively They depict gowns such Great depths in the ocean, 9 cent minds of rural adolescence. In this won- as will be worn this toed ahoe nervously pounded the carpet. jous losses are recov- 4 was most rapa- hy, doctor,” she gasped, F ered, as well us the additional amount wagered, | erful parade will be gigantic reptiles as big | cious and predatory. Ithad. enormous eyes to t—I can't. Now, really, doctor she m9 —— aud hg een ae little honest horse racing in this country. | the latter reproventing ha pat winning. i 8 good sized houses, some of them 100 feet in aie nt deep — = — pg? } = oe and blushed month and next at the | souably permissible. mere head covering 2 tically these systems would win it k d qty an igator's. nother kind, with a@ iy and tugged at her finger nerv fashionable resorts of | had s primitive excise for its existence, but | Owners, Bookmakers, Jogkeys and the ey | guamatialty ea: tbe: eecmalans ease io. | eet pipe alan relia igars sive-foot | very ‘long. neck, inhabited the "shoals fe and touch though tough to | ment and then took aif m rane = thes - that has long since been lost sight of in its ob- | *€er8 of tracks ave rule are all out to get | consiten the option of refusing large bets. | “Pread of wings, huge birds with teeth, | and Proved upon the fishes of the “shal-| break. Hurry agitates their feet and bands. | given me on sv tents first birthday. 7 ‘tof Zraming. setting off or concesling the | the money that the outside public is willing to Practically however, the gai bling instinetin the | ™4mmals two or three times as great in size as | lows. The first serpents, too, belonged in the ofevening dance. They | face. The hat, whose wide brim is drawn down Crary in the game, and to barely summarize e | ja for prevently the gong will sound for half-pasi | hast have been ten soars age ins, R clock and the Tite town of more nl T ~ mm yOETs ngs most that. at's it, doctor; I am thirt: Abo 2,000 inhabitants under one roof will take | really Cea shiriytstt Muety —- There were many kinds of crocodiles fifty feet head low over his desk from snout to tail, whereas the bi ones thirty minutes’ rest from toil for the noon-| The doctor b. nt hi tide ‘meal. Soon the moment arrives, and | and began moving bis pen over the pa thw are not more than fifteen feet. During | immediately the public place becomes thronged | fare him, but there was no ink the same period lived the birds with teeth, | with people coming from © uarter. A | elephants, sharks as large as the hugest whales, other fishes clad in mighty plates of armor and countlows specimens more of equal strangeness and enormous dimensions, such as actually in- habited the world before man arrived in it. were drawn from actual garments on real per- fons and each will fig- ure in the wardrobe of | seme modish belle. The at the sides and held down by strings passing under the chin, always has and alwa: demureness and modesty to a visage. many women such demureness and such modesty is most bewitching coqu ‘Any style of hat that gives an oval frame to the man who plays horse races induces him to make plunge betw that absorb the capital on whiclt it is necessary to operate the system and his money goes along with that of the speculators who play each race for an independent win- ning. Secondly, a bookmaker has the privilege | #ea and grew to be foriy feet Jong. (They bad ike trigley, schemes and combinations that no poison, but were constrictors, like the boa. em Has fof, that purpose in the urge Of &, ge4son would be to compile a Occasionally a so-called “crab” like Loantaka will legitimately outfoot such “erack- band shook tn a convulave sort Sof the f i tion | of refusing a bet if he thinks the systein player | For nine years past the government has been | ies Niven wegen a few years a - pombe te geen = net . gore | - He then turned and said somethin, nun. cb reect caplet” unperts this euagestion |. tacks” as Tonay ond Tea Tray, a result unas | has doubled ‘up too often. digging up and putting together the skeletons | Bigses ese was the ““hesperornis,” which | com Jock about the tables on Jertone to t » Which greatly agitated her oie spy pa ia gltecC amply. Ai end cover ha pears public a large pile of money in the CAPITAL FOR THE SYSTEM PLAYER. | of these strange cvonturen and now the vast | tod six feet Ligh and had only radimentary | viands have been spread aud help themselves After waiting fora moment he resolutely recent Suburban, but such performances in | wink it did not iy. therefore, but was sim-| or are helped to what they want. Tbe | dipped hu pen te the in manensbtee striped pekin (yellow | any device covers the portion of cheek and - er The system player must have a capital of Genes Rae ene een ge] Fi trimmer and diver, subsisting on fish. | bill of fare is suftciently varied. Besides sand- | "Yt jut few ae ks, 3 2 white satin), | Neck from tip of ear to beneath the chiu. gives | Rive cases out of ten are prepwred in advance. | 9909 or @400. ‘That the bookmakers have no tional Museum. The whole of it | The “ichthyornix” was somiewiiat similar in ap- | wiches, pies, coffee and buttered biscuits there | ‘Tht heiy checked him and talked for few Ghaze and white satin), | the eame effect, because it further suggests the WHY THE PURLIC LOSE MongY. fears of these “chilly” players is evidenced by | would otcupy fully one-half of that institution's | Pekrance aud hubite, bat not mach larger than | are puddiage, ice cream, raspberries, red and | moments in an undertone, all the wie looking with @ white satin cein- | oval. Since that most dain’ tofawomar.| It is not, however, that racing is a dishon- & proposition publicly made by one of the pro- | building here, and “only a portion is to be |® Pigeon 1 Ty is supposed that these strange | black: ruddy cherries, cakes and various fancy | around nervously to see if any one was listen ture and crossing | the nape of haar bashapmee hegeorer td Corny conducted sport that necessarily causes | prietors of a Jackvon City pool room. During | immediately forwarded, the rest to follow as ming tear cana reraleplher gi de: payne ge Bg a pow tent SS a ing Sf the kav bole or had entered the room, scarfs in yellow velvet | hie, down reaching ues aed cat as high up | tte public to lose money almost uniformly. If the last Benning mecting a broken-down sport | *°°8 48 quarters have beon established by Con- pinecones coe ois Lat ak ee ee for npene | wnat anid, the lector, at the waist. The be- |away asseems pretty. Or course if modesty | race is set up in advance with the wole pur- | was selling Dr, Deliceee bores earn Port | greus for ite accommodation ception of the wea serpent. The turtl sion employes. Five cents fora pint of milk policy, Ne OH the application for a vette at the corsage is | again axsailx the wearer she can bang a semi- | pose of allowing two selected horses to come tem—probably the best in theory DIGGING FOR THE FossiLs, Pot ce forgotten, which attained « length of | is not dear, arfd a nickel will buy pretty much | "4 fittle while after the ladr gone the | transparent curtain over that pretty rounded | first and second respectively it is mani- e outsider is taught to win. The | The business of digging for these tremen- twenty feet and measured seven feet iu height. | anything else. from = plate of ice cream to «| doctor was fecling a Stan reporters peice pv al rae in plisse oe isos bit of neck and its curl or 40. But let us hope foot thas on, outader: who the a) ploking seller of the brochure challenged the book- | dous foals is earcied on protty much like any THE AGE OF Fisitns. 4 course any ingenious woman can Ae | modesty will not assnil ber in that way. Robbed | het 3 y | the id. bodied in thie maker to point out Low it was possible for an & it ideas embodied in Seber fouete to ber own requirement There are not large profits outsider to lose if ho played the system he venders, but the latter have no losses. e uple of bananas. for he closed his watch he shook his bend aclemrle of the shielding arched brim, the hat begins to | tc lay is money on the winner and! tetas eee Itis not oniy the age of reptiles, however, e nie enc wale paves. | and the least bit of a sign, which sounded like i i | tha lost of their customers run bi-weekly accounts, . “4 ATCT gontemediy of coquetry. When the | thereby draw down « good stake on his invest- | cording to direction and with the required | there are great deposits of them, into which | that is represented by the unparalleled collec- | ud if they do not pay, report is made to the | “Why. in ito beds ceked thee hipitaer oink brim flares from the face it becomes «| ment. The fact which gperates inst the | amount of capital. ‘The bookmaker simpiy re- | the scientific enthusiasts eagerly delve for | tion described. Before that came the epoch of division chief and the delinquent is made to ye J P challenge to attention instead of a shy | outsider and makes his money a gift to the | plied: relics of hs thousands of centuries old. some anxiet! | fishes, when the the world and had all deprecation of it, so much so that strings | bookmaker is that the odds placed ure heavily when they ran the world am all cre- ante up. . ‘hat looks very well on paper, but it will | One of thor cheoen hunting grounds is the re- ful i. "he replied, running bis fingers e t A, fuon pretty much to themselves. Of this era | Rather more than one-third of the em; loyes 0 f ri fing under, the chin sccm out of the | against him, and ins succession of bets the | never bankrupt tie bookmuters. Iwill give | gion betwece the, Hockice eich ie Werss | mote fovernment his gathered together | take their luncheon after this fashion in the | “'Vuktde nen ewes tins ty Wenn fusstion. Suche bat is daring, saucy, bold, | bookmaker will unquestionably get the cash | you #50 in cash for every man that you can | Mountains, Aj jo the upheaval of these | a vast quantity of fossil relics. The face of the building. Another third, chiefly women, bring | thing so terribly ont of the ls tt the roic, majestic, the temper and tempera- | played by the outsider. This is a mathematical | bring to my pool room who will play the | hills by ¥ geologic ation cut off the portion of | earth did not look then at all as itappears now. | their mid-day refreshments with them’ from | pent" iy ment of the wearer makes it. Directly the | certainty. Fie fo.8 nish with » bank roll to start with | wuat hed been sea between these ranges from | Most of wiut are uow called tre setten nto | home, while the rest go out to| “it's vanity, feminine vanity brim disappears or half droops the head cover- THE POOL ROOMS AT JACKSON CITY. of not lexs than $800." | the ocean and the water thus shut away formed | not been apheaved above. the oeoems nearly | small’ eating houses and dairies in the| ~Whge” $ ing grows coquettish, half demure. half pro-| In Washington there is no track betting e: That offer holds good yet, and any pool room | many big lakes. A typical one of this sort €x- | everywhere was sea, with comparatively smail | neighborb« or trouize resorts where | Then the doctor saw the look of anzicty cn seeenire gate lofty crown gives height and | cops during the oecasional meetings at Ben- | PTOPFiotor at Jackson City will duplicate it. | ated in Wromlug, and around 1¢ the mighty | laud masses elevated out of it. The atmos- | the’ mild” stimulation of nore may face. and, langhing, bastened te usintness and, if Dame Fashion saysso, “style.” | CP’ ‘s seeeenge a aril antediluvian mammals gathered in herds to | phere was hot, moist atu losded with carbonic ine bet fost a sedened to 0 are crown be- | Bing or Ivy City, but there isdaily—winter and be enjoyed. At best a half hour is but a brief | ment for the consolation of the inner man, | and at the end of it the busy townsfolk flock in crop the succulent and luxuriant vegetation of what was thena tropical climate in that re- | jon. They died natural deaths or became eid goa to. be un ante, Your pales tall | right, though it has quickened a little in the eathable. comesan ornament and not a covering. and by its adjustment and the decrees of fashion is or is not becoming. summer alike—e lary eculate in the In the waters number of betters who METEORS AND METEORITES. rooms at Jackson City on | TE MeG swam enormous armored fish, such as’ the “diniehth; strued by the average sporting man. If He said that they were loose specimens from a ind, in the ease of the Wyoming lake rcferréd to, subsequent which are found in enormous numbers, meas- ure more than six inches. Gen. Washington redivivns gazes over his to- , which was fifteen feet all mare e: “ the races run a§ the leading tracks in the coun- | 4 Mine of the Latter Discovered in Oregon— | tnired in ) mud when they went to drink remendous jawe and foun thet it inthe builds sapenty: the quetcangio. The its Sm eee co ant nee ‘con 8 toe A LACE TRIMMED Rar. try. Jackson City iy at tue Virginia terminus of Facts About Meteors. and the sediment slowly deposited in the | could have bitten a man in two uy ew as you | venders of food and goodies pack up their sp-| been examining for insurance’ for sites 3 the Long bridge, and is now more popularly Hiuter covered up their bones and pre orved | would a radish. Later on came sharks of the purtenanees and themselves disappear, lecv-| years and 1 have not’ k halt The present style of headgear is by all odds | known as Monte Carlo from the fast tons fare, HANDFUL OF SMALL METEORITES | them from decay. This sediment reached a | hoa tepe, which mast have been as much as | {ng the place of fountain’ well|2’dosm women to ences on™ coquettish, by reason of the close-lying brim, | roulette and hazard flourish in thesame buildings relented easy eet day at the office of | mile in thloknoss, holding between its lavers | seventy fuet’ In iongth at least’ The Meaert | cath none toe ta time being save | rompuy. Tean tela women’s cay fumetion the bits of airs. erratic and independent up- | in which odds are laid on the horses. So far as | the geological survey. in Washington from a | these ancient skeletons distributed like cur- | tooth of a man-eatet-of today is about tose | toe Jounging newsboy, to whom may prr-| Year or two, from experience. ma ie he] right points, the crisp fluffiness, the pointed = feign ag fe conearnet a, Ange pone man out in the northeast corner of Oregon. Fete reat ede the water. | long, while the teeth of these ancient sharks, | chance remain one or two papers of his stock. | j faces; but the average woman will miss ber own age by aboutten years, more or less—often there is any possible chance for the outaider to | beat the horses. it is afforded him in the pool rooms at Jackson City. But the outsider does nickel mine that he had discovered and he wanted | floods washed away much of the sediment pre- That was the golden rs age of the scaly tribe. them assayed, because there were vast quanti- | Viously deposited, leaving what are now called The giant reptiles that appeared on the scene O counter reflectingly cl ewing a quid of his own preferre: ost d brand and meditates like much more. No, it is not from any disposition tocheat the company; not one in hundred 7 { . : Xerxes on the perisbing of time, of events and | would think of that. It is just vanity and force “vad ‘lands”—picturesque with cliffs, in the subi ch wi —e' r ‘manage | thes morein the place he got them from. Minerul. | “24d picturesg i the smalinest or dope ears remarkable for | of men—eveu of thove who draw pensions, | or habit, its teaoue business, but 1 most encouraging succession of winning bets | first time in scientific history, amine of meteor- ramtate Fie sie cee aaa he Js offset by larger losses, ‘THE BOOKMAKERS’ EXPERIENCE. have been passed without injury through all the vertebre of the spinal column down as far as the beginning of the tail. All of these were wiped out of existence by the great cataclysm which upheaved the Rocky mountains, the Alps and the Himalayas and brought to a close the ““mesozoic epoch.” ‘Then came the age of ites has been «truck. It isnot surprising that the finder should suppose he had lighted upon sur- Ines‘ating that the pool rooms as Jackson | face indications of nickel, after a rude assay. City are squarely conducted, what is meant is | inasmuch as these projectiles from the heave that the boohmukers have but little informa- | though consistiug mostly of iron, contain tion as to how races will result that caunot be | QUAINT OLD DUTCH PEOPLE. Curious Manners and Customs Among the Early Settlers of Pennsylvania. ANY INTERESTING THINGS RESPECT- +" ing the Pennsylvanis Through such a region as this the scientific explorer travels, with his eyes as wide open for fossils as the gold hunter keeps his for the shining metal. It from the face of some rocky cliff he chances to see a bone project, exposed by the “Well, a woman who looks rather young for her years comes to be examined for policy She remembers when her parents and grand parents died, even to the day of the month. Sbe ‘can tell the date of the birth of allthe rest of the children in the family, and even the dates of A FRATHRRED DReEss. their baptism. She remem! usually a large percentage of the substance so | action of water that nas cat away the hillside, | mammals, at the end of which we are now, mau | raked up and put together by the bureau of the date of bet own irth —¥ eee deny obtained by the outsider who gives racing hia commonly used ax a metallic veneer. The | he sets a party of men to quarrying with drill, | being the last arrival on the scene. ethnology. In reality they are not Dutch at | That question she will struggle with and get Semmation. People whe Ie thelr money end | .2tul {9 question are about 65 per cent iron, | blast and pickax until whatever is there in the MONSTERS PASAING AWAY. all, but Germans, who came over from Rbenish | mad about for a long whiie and will then guess | berate their luck usually have» strong |! ek kat he valt, which | “8Y Of remains hay been taken out. Possibly conviction that they ‘have been out- | 30 percent nickel and the rest cobalt, whic! The age of monsters has pretty nearly passed away, only a few remaining. like the elephant | some great doposit of prehistoric monsicrs Bavaria mostly, being invited by Queen |#bout ten years out of the way. By that ® metal somewhat resembling nickel. | muy be struck in this way. in which case the | time I have figured pretty close to her Fageously and mysterioudy swindled, but if | last is . | Anne for purposes of colonization. They age. tues bad imude a mathematical caiculation in | The proportion of nickel is mcommonly large | find is kept ns. secret as Possible, being re- |and the whale. Small animals with plenty of |arrived by way of England and it | got betes haoenoe karen ra ee — advance ns to the possibility of wini | tecieatecriion. | garded by the discovorer as hie private mine, | tense will aiways survive stupid giants in the | chanced thete le rt of them settled in the | the age she says, but—and I make thie very ian turns of the brim and the open crown, display-| would have seen that the bookmak Dr, Day believes thet the Oregon man must | It he gave it awav rival palwontologista would | long run, because they require less food and | neighborhoods of Phlindelphia, Chester, Allen- that ing the hair it is su id to cove @ hat | advantage in odds which necessarily gave him | neve cone upon a gully into w rush to the spo it is ut ail the auimels fo: know better how to avoid danger. rong, if she is trying to Observe in | foy8) and whose brim turns up abruptly at the back and | @ large percentage ut all cash i laces el t pre it "ive iy, it we alt eitpuertibacy « their own study and gl: Prof. 0. C. Marsh, | illustration bow the doom of extinction has | Comireop geen supplied by ee ae | her ‘death otek that oahom of Tran slants or points in front has— | counter in exchange for ticke | meteorites had by the action of | Who directed the gathering of the government | fallen upon the giga paammals which | scendants. During their early dave in Amer. | the company will refuse to pay the ‘eortainly the Bhether the wearer will or no—a dash- | “perc ntage Look’ and not crovked work at | mefcorites had bee expanse of hillside where | collection referred to, bas such mines of his med over the earth by myriads only soshort | {°° many of them Bape Bh wg fone primitive | polic; The rate for one of thirty is rose-colored fan, upon which spangles of even | [1° devil-may-care effect. The hat that the tuck that keeps the bookmakers on the | they had fallen, tailed, | own ull over the west, from which he ean draw | @ time ego. comparatively speaking, as the be- conditions, often lodging in the forests, in | very much less than that for one of Bitty ana may be sewn. There is = mode of at | site’ roundly on the forehead, either brim- | winning side. piled up. ‘There is no di:ticulty in determining | to order ce most astonishing variety of gi Kinning, of the Eraent ora, called tho “vo- | 2s. aad'even tn belive ties. Lateron small | such ® mistake in years would nullity the peseag of pew ren to faible wire, {2% or like a sailor hat,’ is bound to| Twa PERCENTAGE AGAINST TRE BPTTER. the fact that the specimens discussed tie ures. He made the remark the uther | noxoic. There was the “dinocerss,” which | Locsts were evestea upon clearings, usually | policy. Thi ostrich tips with » most delicate invi llow | be jaunty and businesslike if ‘it ie worn at all) 4. stated the patronsof the bookmakers in | meteorite: much ats such bodies are nearly | day that there was one wall valley he knew of | lived in nerds about the lakes, as the deposits with two rooms, the windows being merely | She will say: ‘Now, let me see, Brother Sem in an artistic fashion, and yellow | ir ihe spirit of ite shape. The hat which, when | ‘ | aways compored uf just abont the sam | Where relics of the ancient mosasaur' show "big asan elephant, bat in appearance square openings with sliding boards on the | was twenty-eight his last birthday. Sister Jane may cy & bodice | tipped back, displays the Muff of front hair is | this city do little truck betting, as it iv only | wimare cou finite proportions, though wh | plentiful that, passing through it. re. | somewhere between the’ rhinoceros and the ts 3 mer y y confessedly a bid for aduriration of that fiu The leghorn hat will i modest and young looking so long flexible brim eo free and its low crown ie A man. | when there iva race meeting at Ivy City or at | Benning that they nave the opportunity to make | selections from personal ovservacion of the jorees. So far as the Washington patronage | f the turf extends it ix ly, he he skeietoux of sixof those mighty | hip lizards, each 80 feet in length, in wight at one time. | IMBEDDED IN THE Roce. ‘of pale biue satin, embroidered with white, and pattern on it in pale vellowand darker is my in pale blue satin, With flowers and leaves in pearls, one bas ever been abte to expl METEOWN AME CURIOUS THINGS, Meteors are very curious things. The ordi- inside for shutters. Furniture of all kinds | is ten years older; that's thirty-cight. was home-made. and every description of gar- | forty. | ment was manufactured by the women, Squir- | an: rel-nkin moccasins were considered a luxury | Let's. Wal Ben would be forty-six if be were alive, was just three years younger than L. that makes me—umker me yes, forty- potamus, with three pairs of horns on iis and huge — saber-like —tusky that into sheaths in the lower jaw. More ig yet was the “tinoceras,”” somewhat i Rad oe 987 ind the young girls when they went to charch | nit t coutiued to tue | nary ones, called “shooting” or “falling stars," | 1. vaty don fim | foo tea renee nnd pizteen feet long. Not | So wanday inorder to make thom lost se Inne | Now, that’s more like it, and I Gill out the ou an Sete i pete Mon Necenis (554. bat la atlitierkn, trimased’ juenty ox | manemetions ite pool roomé acroes the river. | mostly are consumed before they reach the |, Uatally these amazing fowile are found im- | jess improwise was the seg the tea et ts poosibls walked barefoct nth wiguin sight | blank sccordingis™ : Stile te cleoves and bodice trimming are of | Pit, Mat, '* ,tilitarian. trimmed | jaunty oF Practicully under theve circumstances the only | mony aye, Consumed hrough the | Pedied in solid rock. After they have been | ginnt sloth, as large as two elephante, which of- of the building before putting thems on. Newiy | ree oe ise Raines 6 Rs a” deown clone. euphasioes the eel |aeeremeen Plased open the outside better | ee toe be flotion eit nan ee ake the] roagily quarried out the eandutous or oper | ined y eee of eighteen feet and pro- | Overy farmer raised flax and tor the con- | pr nega Ses rertey Sern with Ginquwn. dete cesh | OF", “See” ant witha reidt—0 tan | ae Percentage. che regular patrons of | *tmosphere by friction with the air. Una any | 108UIS inciosing them is carefully chiseled | Cured the leaves on which it fed by seating it- | S10" erat hie een feat Dyes ware pre- Sectng and Knowing. Sdoramente few people have any Gen of the | © txce is plamp and young 0 closed; ood the Jackson City pool rooms are uot in | fine nigh oe Tiny soe. Ni) BTOFAES Of OME SE) Oa he Vonas She caliet ae papa self upon mmigy ; uches and uprooting | Quecd from the bark. of tncca ek frome Aaa | Pomme Reh Tien Sy eae at ae extent to wi i i 7 ! el fe havi ainst brace . | ten of them in an hour, while a practical ob y We ios ’ great trees. the “dinotherium” no com- |‘ | eminent lord | justice, wi ‘BION WOMES Wran Paste sEWrLe [seer pening 225 fg ersaierll | roe og a arpedl Tebeaetuligt tar’ | servoe Wl came’ ight or tric ua tent | poor yp H giro, Sr Mphoges ete teret air, | plete skeleton has been discovered, but it was Papelegs ere gs ghee ey ged nel | ing a right-of-way case, had before him a wit- “Thad to smile," said » well-known society | hides the face loosely in ite folds, letting the | nish ull {helt own information | to tr ae pelea Koto spares Puen Este! | Foot uiwlity ewtecermtiactastne tke are | doubtless the biz t land mammél thatever | urine “was employed, and this Irae carefully | ness—an old farmer—who was proceeding to Wowan, “on reading ina society paper that I | bair about bro e “ mers fur the purpose of ot alee | the tremendons journey the soar system in| packed for ship: When one of ‘these | roboses which hed long tus I ag | POUFed into large vessels until enough S| tell the jury that he had “knowed the path for hed worn ® new pearl necklace of fabulous | fg hog oe raped aren peepee rom propubn ta borean tenes tae one making toward an ca eancn wen io | ede ee ee betas cor Stank, tnsebures tue toot an the point of | “tmulated for the sporasqigg eos aig sixty yer, and my feyther tould I'as be heered price to the opera. It was supposed tobea| any het thet follows simply the lines of the | papers, and ail information upon which'a bet | the orth, and on such oceasions io display of eee 5 pH Aaetoe one . ry Pe hapa < po h teeth to the top of the head. The SOME ORIGINAL CUSTOMS. my grandfeyther zey 2 gift from some one or other, and the central | head, the close-drawn snivoth hair doing the | ter is supposed to base his judgment is posied | celesirial fireworks ix amc “MANY &s | of ele) tine size, had a head same, is trim, gentlemanly or |: huge horns. Qaite as re- Among these primitive people many very the wearer makes it. The hat with t original and surprising customs existed, none | within two | tire and with its parte in position, all ready for s-like, as | upon the viaekbourd for public inspection and | 10,000 moteors have been obse:¥ed mounting ina mussum.. ‘There wie't new ee “Stop!” said the judge: “we can't have any ineparent | perusal. | hours. | came off of a foreign princess’ crown. | hearsay evidence here! | inet he “sivathecinm,” @ beas: like an | “Not!” exclaimed Fi Giles. “Then ‘ ‘ | tile found in Wyoming the other day in sacha i ge F, of which were more curious than those which ‘Not cima armer Giles. rot cn rely fae ther aes ng inat will | brim, which, though drooping, lets the eyes 3 SEPT TE WE NORMATINE. st tee mace intecaeting smatoory) are the big | complete state, wnich us bees ‘asad the | Peaety pate ae te pig ops pend preg related to the process of courting. | No young |how dost know who thy feyther wus ‘cept by poopy aw hee a sudaads | Sereaeabenoere tea commune eae ce a arene Cee eae ene Semrnton Wille OO ene a's mans tcae explodes | fbrentosau Is (a6 68 test loax. st00d 15 | senso sprending cuss bekiok, ‘Among birds | mat was considered a dewirable ay op od ha aS ee tet Tee ove wry, pg wisn eae the possibilities rae a. | # own domicile and a correspondent at the | \"11* a detonation, and finally buries iteelf in | fet high when alive and weighed twe ctv tous. : owned a horse and buggy, #0 as to be 1 ug! ‘imided the judge chests full of Jewels, I want new things all g ten feet in ht, such as the narrow brim, which, from the hat's being | tack. By this meaus, it may be suggested, ex- ig! as the ground. Sometimes it explodes before | ©4st.in the rock from whi was taken wasn | able to take his wee | said: “In courts of le ce ily be det ‘ ng |S Aoashin be secured, by the | teaching the earth. "The gigutie, meteor | perfect Mold of one of iiveyeballerwita wuich i were the natommothand teeteebeneey | and 5. total = pees oe. ae ath what yon have coon with your eyse ond ’ i rd sharp line across the | clusive mformation eau be see e ng the earth, funtic meteor || aid of ono of Ht . . a rl Sr vint yon tave 9 Sertene in thems, Mocs it toa fase the tym evta them, Off well, and” makes n lance | Dookssabers nad wotked ngrinst in SobbS, eee | Eons Bi ah aoe eimai meteor TORE Luzon the world $00,000 years ano. |The act ‘rmalilios tine feet in | G4Y%, Saturday evening, was thought the pro- | Nothing more or ‘as @ matter of fact, itivnot done. The : _— | ; pro- | no} we - upward piquant, while the same glance toward telegraph | in 1803 and scattered ite material over seven | per time for making love, though the i- |, “Oh, that be blowed for « tale!” replied the the : 1 : length, and the saber-tootned tiger. larger than farmer. “I ha’ got # bile on the bark of at mates neck, athort body and’ a huge tail. In- the | | ful pastime wax apt to extend over the whole | farmer. got « bile on my Saree cane Satred, around, the face | instrament i im fall view andi heating. of ee ee distance from the | Same neighborhood bus elo een’ dlsecrerna eon wondere, of anal Mk ke teat eset | cf Bauday. Iamibachen She @iccancs toeeetes | wock, and I never seed ‘un, but 1 be prepared mocramatees Apt petentorig tains deen telegraph ‘operators are not lating | about sixty miles, and their rapidity of motion | tly auother reptilian monster called the | is ns those of the western lake beds, | BY the lover wax often too great for him to | to ew pda ye dane yong the part of the wit opt, the Soatnres of conse (eyes, nose and | at Jockson City's beck repens aad Y are at | varies froin ten to fifty miles a second. ‘The | “icerttops” which bad an enormous bony frill ars the government bas been engaged in |Feturn home the same night, the matter P P mouth) 1s austere, religious or childlike as tl liberty to stand about the instrumentsand read Thi y ck. 1 “ i , is | i rent of det it earth's rate of progross in its orbit ie niactoen | & Kot ite neck, Thin oorprisine | crcsvating thelr bones whichom neo was frequently compromised by his remain- | ness set in u torrent of bearswy evidence ubout wearer conveys it, but it can hardly be coquet- | what comes over the wire. If take ° 5 | development, measaring 6 feet across, was in- . an over until the next ‘dey, so as the footpath which obtained weight with the i F ve urea ts | en seme & some Ge earth * | tonded for the attacument of great muscles that | Rrclagucl ecesonan = 5° Begun Tl. Sueureas of bh heeemen the | Jury, albeit the judge told them it was not tes- tish. ‘These general rules of effoctdo not change, pee pg eset beesay ont 66 ts |e ee . ch, big | Were necessary for Lolding up the huge head. 2 : Sabbath. Owing to the fact that room was | timony of any Value, aud the farmer's party though fashion makes her own adaptation nee memiiven paste to be called shooting «tars if seen at | Phe animal, though tremendously massive, was A LETTER scanty ro A RAT. it was customary for him on such occa- | Won. only 30 feet long; but it was covered with plates | —+e+ —____ EXPENSES IN THE ROOM AXD at TRE TRacx. | Night, fall upon this planet every twenty-four a. sons to innocently sbare her couch. No thought of armor and had « sharp und horny beak, not of impropriety was connected with this, end BUILDING A LA JAPANESE. In room betting the outsider gets » little bet- | boUrs- | fo mention a hora op it aoseand nnother on | S°W T* Shenit Se Wetton When the Io. | ois RET mit en a mmr aaeini ter percentage for his money than when bet- . capes Lares tote | fofehead, the latter two anda bail iect in ean oa eee ae a = present day in remote ities, being known : The appearance of « really big meteorite is | lengih. EVER WRITE A LETTER TO ‘Two New Houses Which Have Occasioned | ting at the track. The reason is that the book- as “bundling.” . | Always an event worth recording. From time In Colorado have been found great deposits a rat?’ asked Dr. Newell, the folk-lorist ‘THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY. Surprise on Corcoran Street. mani rag. serrebbewngh wrens ag Bar PRPMSES gr voeters fovre] eatte yess slight | oral het Gres ata Roar eee | oe Sean rile, SThere teen's saperess| hein ce ceremony was usually ORCORAN STREET IS IN A STATE OF | pay $100 day for his privileges, | upon the earth and occasion a sensation. For | ¥ : | tion to the effect that, if it is desired to drive rats out of a house,the best plan is to address a formal note to them requesting them to leave. In doing this it is necessary that you shall be very careful to tell them ex- feet long and stood 40 feet high when ere: upon their hind logs. Iustead of browsing. ax did the brontosaur and triceratops, upon the | luxuriant aquatic vegetation around the lake borders, they fed upon the foliage of trees on surprise over the building enterprise of a ‘amount does not” includ lady, the wifo of naval officer and recently | Many minor | necessary eos Petocs en from Japan, who bought, » short time ngo, «| Sara writers at, the track. Wines the eto ee small three-cornered lot not far from New | much greater, got from @1 to #6 more. per dat per- formed at the clergyman’s residence, and it was he who furnished the refreshments. All household linen and bedding were supplied by the bride, the husband providing the house. example, on the evening of December 2, 1876, people in Kansas ww a bright ball of fire at about 8 o'clock, rising in the western sky near where the moon wus setting. It grew in bril- liancy ay it rose, drawing everybody out of | the mountain sides.” Likewise dit the “ugaane, | (28 m ex- | Care was taken never to carry an old broom Se caked Mk oe eae ates Tee, eee fences, Pe, Dee: | doors Seemingly ib pusesd’ orechend, tne | tet orth ee oe lephant, | Btls by what route "to go, so that ther mas | imo a" ‘new house lest bad took. foliees : space purchased that no one could | Few. fixtures being required at the track | bing into the southeast and taking about two | which had @ nipping beak like u turtle’, missive should be well buttered and three |{@ broom | must be new, and it ino how a dwelling could be | tuere an always | superabundance of | Iiinutes for ite ret wae teen to pass by | also walked erect, using ite buge tail for a sup- rere lt Glenelg ype goa auch a jet, | Was necessary that it should first be conveyed built upon it, but the new owner has aston | money ie aivided among "t iutgel arpa | the inhabitants of mr btichigner "Kentucky, | Re tnd towering to the eight of 40 or bo | rant as ‘writin torn colortetof ine | negoms a meadow. fastiity Ie was cates : ished and well nigh outraged the feelings of | To make the business profitable «very heey | Wisconsin, Ilnole, Michigan, | Keatuoky, | feet in all seriousness by owner of the | to “dance for fiax,” the m that the peso Guster by Slibccxtaly ca | pasos ls absorbed, somewhat larger than | diane, Ohio, Pennsylvania, und West TRE MESOZOIC EPOCH. pre which they "were desired to | higher the kicking the higher would be’ tee Lererpeoriepnednpine he lberarpemtd | wpe ty mates beam y eontlagrad Siitates after ite peomge, bore’ heey jo at® | In the mesozolc epoch, or “age of reptiles,” | Dieke rs oat pitteg Tare, sloeted, to) lng Paseage, were’ heard loud ex- plosions, like distant cannonading. thunder or the rattling of empty wagons over stony roads. + | Bo loud were these sounds that beasts were is generally | frightened. Over centra! Illinois the fire ball ph Com | was sean to break into fragments like a rocket, pool room proprietor has some expenses which when the creatures described lived, these and the bookmaker at the track met other similar herbivorous animals were the biggest of the beasts. One of them. the “at- Jantosaur,” was 100 feet long. its thigh bones, up two houses on the ground. Taking advantage of the law of the District, which permits three-foot extensions over side- walks, she has added to the available space by spectfully asked to leave my house before noon on the first of next month. If you should not do #0, you will be mach disturbed, because in that event I propose to tear down the Permit me to reter you to not incur. the barn of m: devote much attention furnishes the rte and charges onl; + 2 many of which have been found, measuring | friend, Mr. X. on the high Toad just half w mile from spring until autumr to the ‘of posagereneh nee varpai boast may LAE ihe pool room the salary lesa ac enone orien ices otras Seenga Tear Me eee ean are soe fort of here: Ue is, swell ftosked: with | herb, barks and a, supposed to posen floor by receiv operator. nce this is even miles broad. Ordinarily. such great meteors " ae > seeds were also Ty "3 Yi», ‘ ‘continuous all around. i = the | not to be an extravagant item. as these drop stones, of which sis or eight ench suing existence. Some went on all fours and Yours, in oem? S90 side adjacent to the next building. In this way had backbones that were mere sells filled with warm air from their lungs, which served them # floats while they walked in the gon, shallows in water deep enough to cover their backs, ex- tending their long necks to erop the vegetation a re. Of thissort was the cameraeaurus, eighty feet in length. Others had enormously long ‘hind legs, on which they were able to | neigh! ous fat Inia the ocean after seaweeds, and 2,000 too HOW THE PERCENTAGE 18 WORKED. Year are ‘big enough to find plages in the , about the percentage, the stealthy rob- | museums of the world. ‘The biggest one ever Leaukemon me the paulers =. tp a aus of iron and nel weighing the customer to that of the bookmaker. At | 1#200 pounds. the number of square feet on cach of these floors is about doubled, and one of the houses is made rather commodious structure. But the other one, which caps the apex of the angle, Jackson City there are three firms doing is simply @ marvel. ' ‘of the business, The space on the ground is about bi ‘divided atttos aa th to accommodate a an ein Som One tom of coal; bat above it a 90.63 by, | $1,000 if, there A SUMMER Daxce Toreer. “TT tell you of a little incident coming under Sey observation that relates to these imitation Jewels A young man that Iknow very well, Bad who looks to me for good sdvice occasion. 1 is po special event attracti were vided with no fewer than Saraah be ceeen to eagwied, cad naturally | th manne toes to includes ‘nine very Ordinasuy""aboat vais | for grlading ‘thts food, “Such was ihe mighty eR et mete & Present | comfortable and comparatively spacious apart- the public on nes hadroses ‘other species 7, shough le bas | tnente, besides © bath room, The walls are Teast lx races day. land, “riking Weather.” is like one great bey window itself. The kitchen is on the fourth floor, and_on the roof convenie: to avoid being kissed abe would bide ’ pon the Tt would seom asif euch monsters as are ‘Pease Are Very Swell though ahoorored, the tre voungnan poe nt ong yen lay their odds so above described need bave feared no living| “Anew servant of mine is colored female her was entitlod'to the osculatory priv. there is no ‘On the outside of the house yisaing on each foes, but in fact they were a common prey to| of much originality of mind,” said » well-| ilege. «dumb waiter runs up the four stories from ee eee Sr He greet numbers of frightfal carnivorous rep-| known physician toa Stam reporter. “Be. 4 Lone Toe pastes. the ground to the kitchen, so that the butcher, yo bets = tiles, emailer in sie but of tremendous activity | cently she bought» pair of shoes, with more| Among those old-time “Dutch” ebildren the grocer and the baker can stop in the alley, books show wine flerceness, which fed these unwisldly | regard for fashion than for comfort, ant they | were permitted to nurse at the mother's breast pat their goods aboard and shoot them sky- ‘the fixed per- vegotable-eating ‘Woot ‘tereido of ail, hurther. After limping about in them fors for a surprisingly long period. One instance “To codeine nique character of this in- See Eas. jaones eines tl tt Reredibiy arotone pe, | Sar o7 tno she aduuitted that sey needed | familiar to Dr. W. J. Hoffman, who compiled tee ome maling 8 corto alcove is cat ont of cach is pool room fener ngyan re bu Hn | hm nnn Fat parpy at rrrateags wig uly era" sige he French hart ering, bat come ely S'S ant lng Sarcastic ea cries Set | iho nd en oka pa |g eat Mn t it, and'then | | "Rt by suspending him in slings over the tage in favor of the whl pi Hy = ig ted «then [| “ " - se dent for ‘out the of the swelled Ce see certain awe ts repispound tg abe y deigned fr arin ou Course the vegebstle swelled act the tee or cat the tied were snicwianinaee eral; phew The upshot of it all was | for a food ten vg tame ere is no space there is no nesgssity and equally large was the “stegosaur,” which four hours Dinah ‘her footgeer of thal Dr. Hoffman cn, Sheen on 4 “They Seuss seTeediobay an imitation necklace. | “Tis Japances mebeed vt 2 is a nor. | for bookmaker to stand in with the crooks Fuae Manthed és armor plates from twe — fortble” ‘Bbe sald it ene eer, bean com~ and destroyed 1 by. burning, Eo believed it | to smpive 5 5 ty in Washington. How far it will spread re- | who affairs wheg employed known to have been the spirit of o cat, which | tween duiced at ie wedding us one of the handomest | 12 Neshington. How f ar ie eontney tan inte foversh dene weapon of ite fail, | om the old plantation. ‘The water does some by a of the this ber wore it for | armed nesr the end on sides with | damage to the leather, but liberal applications | Was U2der_the control of = Boctnieess. Srcreniesediien "wot speed, oe iran s ieee rend ot? | la ony wal men ogg pleas trike Crct alo, and ue af ia catenins | sear ste that rah Seunied” marky "growed ot “Gnmp’ weeds | -Dafs.e\ . article. are = Ad ‘asny gach dete <a young frend tad. | HRC —_——- Palma and sonspiot conddence in thelt Scitwetetetee Fe OT been secorded. There ts record of «widow | sition for one pele erin the French penid of the SOE vm te Tact a oe frm gl gd beck. Io et bard em whe, from a peddler upon “Now, Picture Gallery. ‘reserve fand carry as an brain provide whom she to ber af- | prize FEPICAL sUMOER MATH. Prom Le Pelerin. sapiens oo oars ih waar othe mighty pig ‘wea ton ied dneretiond The two pretty hens of little girls are topped | Pies parade ter myself, and ought to be | Sanoet ga Jase than is Latinst ry et en ae Shae ee Py eo had cooeed | SET, bee ‘With two typical summer hats, the shapes of | * S004 Judge. I tell you that is @ splendid | them, m eystem, ty pow yy wibelr jews crete cake and sont 18 t0 him. with confidence that it | rumpired fo toe Waieh give ample shade to the face. One has | Pit of work. that was over dealt to catch oyu, with which went about amelate be yo" done ite brim tarned ap behind, above the childishly | T don’t see it; still Tam delighted to come ‘THE ODDS ‘IN 74YOR OF THB BOOKMAEER. % She hinds Joking foe 34 . ibs baba‘te der fe: eee eee nee Gate Sele ectiha” is heey be Piorladine en dole each eer ‘be fc far fos wa he ete cee Pale Tapers 2 severe in ou fe! on race. ‘Laos, bus an abundunce of white gauze softens | “Excuse me, sir, but the picture is mine.” | manifget that on inany conasteg if tae pablig tae im marubeo sed shallows with moyen ‘deed be,